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Mission incomprehensible
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Stephen Colbert’s barbed harpoons got all the attention at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. But that was inside the banquet hall.
Outside, in the corridors of the Washington Hilton, two men named Mike stalked George Clooney, watched Henry Kissinger’s back and, well, if there was excessive alcohol consumption, it came much later.
Mikes Luckovich and Peters, editorial cartoonists for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dayton Daily News, respectively, arrived early for the big Newsweek cocktail party before the dinner. Both were carrying the tools of their favorite prank: a phone cord borrowed from their hotel phones and dark glasses. Luckovich takes up the story:
George Clooney came in with his father, so I talked to him briefly. George Clooney was like the main celebrity at the dinner, so the room quickly filled up with people, various media, politicians and others that I didn’t recognize. It was getting hot, so Mike and I left the cocktail party and went outside.
People were still coming in, so Mike and I put our dark glasses on and put the phone cords in our ears and then snaked them behind and into our jackets. And we stood outside and pretended we were security.
We were on each side of the door, and we kept having to remind each other not to smile. The party was winding down and the dinner was getting close to starting. When George Clooney and his father left, Mike and I got right in behind them and pretended we were their security. We still had our dark glasses and the phone cords in our ears.
So we were going down the hallway toward the dinner, and Clooney and his father and numerous hangers-on turned into this curtained room. Mike and I went in, but the real security kicked us out after about 10 seconds.
People heading toward the dinner all saw George Clooney go into this room, so there was a mass of people outside this curtained area, so Mike and I stood outside the opening and pretended that we were security and continued to remain unsmiling. We were waiting for Clooney to come out; we were going to follow him again. But Henry Kissinger walked out. He said to Mike and me, “Can you take me to the security area?” (You had to go through a metal detector to get to the dinner.)
So we said, “Certainly, sir.” So we became Henry Kissinger’s security. It was just the two of us, right behind Kissinger, right at his back. He’s walking down this hallway to get to the metal detector to go into the banquet hall, and a crowd surrounded him and began taking his picture. So after a few seconds, I yelled out, “No more photos!” in a very authoritative voice, and everyone stopped taking photos.
Here’s this goof — I’m wearing tortoise-shell sunglasses and a phone cord out my ear, and they’re thinking, “OK, that’s his security.” So we continued to walk and we got up to the metal detector, and Kissinger went through it and proceeded into the banquet hall. We let Henry go and then went on to the next thing. We pretended we were security at the metal detector — telling people they had to take their shoes off and stuff like that.
Nobody did, believe it or not.
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Comments
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this
Mission Incomprehensible? What is incomprehensible is WHY this was ever published? Perhaps I missed the redeeming features here. But I’ve been out of grammar school too long to enjoy this level of commentary.
By Tim Benson
May 8, 2006 09:54 AM | Link to this
I’m surprised Mike Peters didn’t disappear into a phone booth and return in his infamous Superman suit. Hard to believe so many famous people could be so easily duped by two Pulitzer prize winners posing as security. That is a funny story.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this
Sounds like you and Mike had a great time Mike. I like the cartoons in color.
If I saw the Colbert classic live, they would of heard me on tv howling with laughter.
Of course, the wingnuts thought it was not funny. Every single one of them. Go figure.
By Craig
May 8, 2006 10:10 AM | Link to this
1.) Hey Dusty, lighten up. This is funny stuff!!! 2.) Question for Mike & Mike; were you guys actually invited to this gig (which I find difficult to believe), or did you just decide to show up incognito and try your luck? 3.) Ashton Kucher will be looking for you guys for his next episode of “Punked”.
By GI Joe
May 8, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this
From prior toon,
Ah Danish, another reach around. So, you too would like to go back to ‘Nam and set things right like Andy then?
Let’s go! We should finally rout those dirty Commie pinkos. The liberals kept us from winning before when victory was in our grasp but now we have the will and the power and the high-tech smart bombs. The American pinkos can’t stop us now, so let’s go for it. Let’s win in ‘Nam in 2006; now we have the power so let’s go!
By finch
May 8, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this
It makes one wonder about the level of protection provided by the Secret Service at an event attended by the President when two cartoonists can use props like sunglasses and hotel phone cords to pose as security and not get arrested.
Other than that observation, this is a really funny story!
By Bryan
May 8, 2006 10:44 AM | Link to this
Great story Mike. I am impressed you didn’t smile or break out laughing. That had to be tough.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this
GI Joe,
You may be correct. I hear the CIA is so p** they are getting IP addresses from the NSA of the 32% W faithful posting on blogs and they are going to send them to Iraq to finish the job.
Poor wingnuts will actually have to backup their BS.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this
Like I said yesterday, this would have been even funnier and more cute had someone made an attempt on Kissinger’s life. It’s just like a responsible adult to play games with the safety and security of other people.
I’m pretty sure if you try something like this in the airport, it will get you a seat in the county jail. Or shot to death by law enforcement.
The “wingnuts” don’t find this funny because it’s not funny. This is the same stupid juvenile ignorance as your wrong way Lasseter and the same thing that got your British subway fake suicide bomber blown away.
It’s all just a big game, ain’t it?
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this
Getalife,
Good you don’t have to worry about being shippped to Iraq.
If they send anybody to Iraq it won’t be the people who “cute ‘n’run”.
Why send anybody who is retreating before they get there?
By getalife
May 8, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this
Dusty,
Exactly, I for one can’t wait for pictures or videos of wingnuts in Iraq.
Too bad the troops will be redeployed.
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this
Only GI Joe would want to drag his burdensome garbage around with him. Wanted to make sure everyone on the new toon could have a look-see at his stupidity.
Do you think he takes it everywhere with him? I’m betting he does.
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this
That is freaking hilarious. Wow. I’m impressed. Good job Mike. Funny as hell.
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 11:14 AM | Link to this
Getalife,
You’ve already got pictures of “wingnuts” in Iraq. They are known as the American Military.
Too bad you are in retreat. I guess you are like that guy who stood with his back to Rumsfeld. Keep your back to the whole picture and call it support.
Terrorists appreciate your support.
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 11:17 AM | Link to this
Dusty, when did you get kicked out of grammar school again?
By @@
May 8, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this
The funniest thing about Mike’s story is that “George Clooney” was the main celebrity at the dinner. George Clooney?
I’ve engaged in many a spoof in my life, so I won’t be casting stones today.
By finch
May 8, 2006 11:26 AM | Link to this
If the Secret Service had confronted the Mikes, they would, at the very worst, have missed Colbert’s monologue.
They didn’t have guns or fake IDs, and never said they were security… no grounds for arrest!
And since neither is a reporter, for all we know ml just made this up!
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this
Rushncap,
I got kicked out of grammar school again when I protested against letting an adult idiot named Rushncap into first grade.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this
So if a lib would endanger the life of a dignitary by taking out his security detail just so they can score some stupid political stunt, what else would they lie about?
It just reinforces the real truth about all of the falsehoods, make believe BS and outright lies these pinkos have told about Bush the last 5 years, doesn’t it?
How far will these libs go to “discredit” Bush. Would they endanger the country with out concern? Of course they will, they do it everyday. Look at how Benedick finch immediately latched on to the anti Bush theme, cartoon boy recklessly endangering the security of innocent people, Benedick sees an opportunity to blame Bush.
It’s sick. And disgusting.
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this
Funny stuff, Mike. It’s too bad so many people fail to understand the nature of satire. When an editorial cartoonist goes against your political beliefs and takes on your heroes, just roll your eyes back and move on. Sooner or later, he’ll pounce on the other side about something. Of course, you might have to wait until your heroes go down in flames and the other guys are on top, but that too is the nature of the beast. If you are looking for ‘fair and balanced’, you’ll just have to look elsewhere. That isn’t what editorial cartoons are about.
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this
Don’t lose heart, Dusty. One day you’ll get your grade school diploma. Probably by mail. But still, you can frame it in macaroni and hang it on your fridge.
Oh, and andy, next time a terrorist attacks Henry Kissinger (of all people) we’ll let you know. It’s called sense of humor. Ask mommy about it.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this
G.I. Joe,
Since you brought your post around, I’ll bring my response around too. It’s quite apropos to the new cartoon scenario:
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this
G.I. Joe,
I’m pointing out that Leftists are wrong about everything, so there is no reason to listen to them now.
So many millions dead at the feet of their heroes. So many dreams crushed. So little remorse. So few second thoughts.
But hey, you just stick to your college humor websites, and we’ll let the adults handle foreign policy.
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 11:40 AM | Link to this
One gripe, Mike. It’s NICK. NICK CLOONEY. He’s one of the classiest guys to ever grace a TV newsroom. Far more than just George’s dad. He is also living proof of why George may well be the most grounded, down to earth superstar of all time. Like me, they are Kentucky boys, so I can’t pretend to be fair and balanced. Of course, NICK’S sister and George’s aunt is the late Rosemary Clooney who along with Peggy Lee and Anita O’Day was one of the greatest white female jazz singers-ever. We Kentuckians have many sources of pride. I’m glad the Clooneys are among them.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this
As usual, the wignuts missed it and finch nails it again.
Nobody did, believe it or not.
Not!
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this
rushnsap: Why don’t you ask your mommy about Robert Kennedy or maybe Martin Luther King? The “of all people” don’t never get targeted in the land of the pinko, do they?
By nazis were dittoheads too
May 8, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this
I recall vividly how the hateful right via Rush repeatedly accused the dems & the media of not having a sense of humor while they compared Chelsea Clinton to a dog.
Personally, I think spoofing the airs on display at the correspondent’s dinner, where nobody was in any danger at any time, is much funnier than slandering a teenage girl’s looks.
By Liberal Texas Democrat
May 8, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this
One of the more benign ways of revealing a fallacy is through humor. The fallacy revealed here is that everyone can be protected from everything at all times. Er, excuse me, but isn’t that a conservative mantra … The ‘govmint’ can’t protect everyone from everything everything?
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this
Oh yes, Danish, your “adults” are doing a bang-up job of foreign policy. Wonderful! Let’s see… one unnecessary invation. Check. One quagmire with thousands of Americans and tens of thousand Arabs dead. Check. Pis-sed off every ally save one. Check. One giant humanitarian crisis in Africa basically ignored since we’re way over-extended. Check. Gotten the whole Muslim world, not just isolated pockets of it, to hate us ferverently. Check. Got rid of the Taliban. Check. Well, so one is good. The rest are disasters. Christ, if this is how “adults” run foreign policy, we definitely need to start scouting the nearest kindergarten.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this
Listen to these little silly pinko apologists. If these two as-sholes had gotten blown away by the Secret Service who do you think the drive by media would be blaming for it? It sure wouldn’t be cartoon boy’s dead as-s. Some poor herioc secret service agent would be taking the blame for it.
And who could have blamed the secret service, why would anyone expect them to waste a bunch of time trying to figure out why these two dumba-sses were attempting to breach security? It would have been their duty to kill them.
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this
Hahaha, li’l andy. Yes, there are terrorists out there just dying to get at good ol’ Henry. That guy needs security about as much as Carrot Top. Probably less, in fact. I can see someone wanting to kill a prop comic. Lighten up, li’l andy. Enjoy life a bit. Smell the roses, not just your diaper.
By gadem
May 8, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this
Get, I don’t think that they will print pictures of the wingnuts with p-i-s-s running down there leg…
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this
Rushncap,
You started this silly conversation.
Maybe you should draw cartoons and be smart like Luckovich. At least he makes money being silly. That is more than you can say in the first grade.
Do us a favor and go to recess.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this
First we draw a cartoon of an airborne vehicle being piloted into an occupied multi story building and then we try to breach the secret service security of an event attended by the President of the United States. Sounds like Patrick Kennedy is not the only lib drug user who needs to check into rehab.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this
Obligatory cartoon and prank comment:
Henceforth, when I think of M.L., I will think of this image
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 12:05 PM | Link to this
I can’t do what Luckovich does. Very few people can, which is why he has won the Pulitzer twice. It’s called talent. I don’t have his. I am contributing to our society in other ways. But hey, it’s a great division of labor, Dusty. Mike draws award-winning, and often hilarious and brilliant, cartoons. You sit here and whine about them. To each his own. But I have a feeling I know whose contributions are more valuable and will be appreciated for longer.
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 12:09 PM | Link to this
You know, it’s a shame this site doesn’t have any righties with a sense of humor like William F. Buckley, for example. At its best, political discourse reflects human nature. Sure, there’s seriousness and contention, but there is also respect, manners, tolerance and a wry appreciation of the human comedy. That’s what the correspondent’s dinner is all about. Mike and Mike did a great job. Not just in the well-thought-out goof, but in the spirit in which it was executed.
Hell, it might even be a way for the nerdiest among us to get past the velvet rope every so often.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this
gadem,
Andy’s diaper will come in handy.
Attention wingnuts, Mike story may not be true:
Nobody did, believe it or not.
By finch
May 8, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this
Danish,
Now THAT’S funny!
“Elwood Blues: It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s night and we’re wearing sunglasses. Jake Blues: Hit it!”
By Jan Houston
May 8, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this
I thought it funny, in a Hunter S. Thompson-kind-of-way. Is that ok to say? anyway, I thought it WAS funny!!!
By getalife
May 8, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this
Jan,
You can say anything, the only rule here is freedom of speech.
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 12:23 PM | Link to this
gadem,
Why don’t you, Rushncap and N-GA forget about urinary tract references? I know you think it is funny, humorous, delightful,charming, comic,etc.
IT IS NOT FUNNY. Grow up. Adults acting like children are not funny.
You are adults, aren’t you?
By Andy's Mom
May 8, 2006 12:29 PM | Link to this
Now come on people. Its not like I let my Andy sit around all day with a dirty diaper. And its not like Andy wears a diaper all the time. He usually only wears it while he is here on this blog, he doesn’t like to leave at times. Now if you would all kindly excuse me, I have a diaper to change.
By First Grade Teacher
May 8, 2006 12:39 PM | Link to this
Dear Ms. Dusty,
Don’t be too mean to poor Rushncap
He gets teased about those glasses all the time, he doesn’t need meanies like you picking on him too.
You’re a hater! And a bully! Impeach Bush!
Sincerely,
Teach
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 12:40 PM | Link to this
How do any of you hateful racist liberals know if my Mother is still alive? Or does your hate prevent you from caring?
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this
Rushncap,
You are right. I don’t have any talent at drawing cartoons to make fun of other people, even for politics or money.
My profession does not include making the “jollies” at other people’s expense. Not a single trophy.
Sometimes we aid in saving a life but hey, that’s not important. Keep ‘em laughing.
Keep dumping it out, Rushncap. We all have free speech. But I won’t waste mine replying to you. That should make you happy.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this
Rushncap,
As a contribution to society, why don’t you place a call to the Russians, Germans and French. Ask them to send some troops to Darfur. Between the three countries they should be able to marshall some good numbers of troops. The U.N. will supply them with blue helmets.
We are kind of busy right now.
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 01:03 PM | Link to this
Thanks for a great story, Mike. The Colbert event was rich. As Americans we can all rejoice that we live in such a great country where freedom of speech is alive and well. The scandals continue. An aide to Rep. Nye has plead guilty to bribery.We’re watching “Hooker Scandal #2, breathlessly awaiting the courageous Patrick Fitzgerald next move on Rove. Another day in Bush-World where living on credit is “Mission Accomplished”.
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this
First Grade Teach,dear one,
I am sorry about being so mean to Rushncap. The glasses don’t bother me much but the drooling gets really annoying.
But didn’t you hear? Bush is the best president since George Washington. Better get updated there. You might have to sit in the corner yourself.
Give this little gift to Rushncap. It’s a new pacifier.
With sweetest sincerity,
Dusty
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this
Wow, what an avalanche of posts. Taking advantage of my lunch time, huh?
Dusty — adults with a sense of humor are still adults. Being a humorless sourpuss does not make you all growed-up. It just makes you boring. Oh, and considering that you keep typing to me, your grandiose “I won’t waste my speech replying to you” is, well, totally false. Face it bud, logic ain’t your strength. Go back to “saving lives”, and save your breath.
Yes, Danish, I know we’re busy right now. Kiind of like a man who steps in dog-doo is busy cleaning it off for the next hour. And it’s that Idiot-in-Chief’s fault we’re busy. The French and the Germans certainly should be helping, I’m not letting them off the hook. Congratulations, we’re no better than the French. Happy?
Oh, and Dusty, you’re right. You really don’t have talent for humor. I’m assuming your 1:06 post was a stab at it. Keep your day job. Leave comedy to people who have talent. Like Colbert and Mike and Jon Steward and Chris Rock.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 01:32 PM | Link to this
Liberals say oil companies are responsible for today’s high price of gasoline. But, actually, it is the liberals who are responsible. Over the past thirty years, extreme-left liberals have successfully shut down new energy production in the United States. Hyping technologically outdated concerns over coastal oil spills, they have won bans on new oil drilling in the very promising outer continental shelf. Excessive and high-cost regulation has effectively shut down new drilling on the continental inland as well. Ditto for new oil from extensive deposits of oil shale and tar sands in the western U.S. and Canada. And let’s not forget drilling in the all-ice-covered, mostly dark, virtually uninhabitable tundra in the far north of Alaska. Liberals have stopped that, too.
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this
rushncap: We all need a good laugh, now and then.
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 01:54 PM | Link to this
Oh I don’t know rushncap. The dog crap that you put out for folks to step in is pretty easy for the conservatives to clean up here.
They use their intelligence, hit post and your only an unpleasant smell.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 01:56 PM | Link to this
Rushcap,
Humor from you? If I laugh it isn’t because you said anything that was intentionally funny.
We have troops all over the world you inusfferable moron, not just in Iraq.
Where are the coalition of the bribed? If Darfur is not to their liking , maybe they’d like to spend some time in a place like South Korea. The food is terrible though. Tant pis.
BTW, you’re not even right about the Taliban. They surrendered, but they are popping up again, like whack-a-moles. So we could use some more help in Afghanistan too.
I have an idea! Let the French try to find Bin Laden. They have Inspector Clouseau!
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 01:58 PM | Link to this
And Daniel is the toilet paper that gets discarded.
By GI Joe
May 8, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this
Heck if the liberals are strong enough to stop the oil companies cold (Hate 1:32), let’s vote them back into power! The conservatives sure haven’t had the guts to stand up to ‘em.
By finch
May 8, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this
” May 8 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush called on Sudan to give clear backing to United Nations peacekeepers for Darfur and said he is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the world body tomorrow to seek a resolution on speeding up their deployment.”
” Bush said the U.S. goal is the safe return of refugees to their homes, and he urged Congress to approve more money for Darfur aid.”
Q: List the smiilaries and differences between Iraq and Sudan.
A: Both are Muslim. Neither possesses WMDs. Both have seen the deaths of 300,000 people at the hands of despotic regimes. Neither have posed an imminent threat to the US.
But the US is proposing humanitarian relief for Sudan. The US invaded Iraq. Osama bin Laden was a guest of Sudan for 5 years. Osama has never been to Iraq.
Where’s Osama?
By getalife
May 8, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this
Daniel,
This is a list to try to keep yp with all the scandals
It grows daily.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this
Discounted Liberals,
This morning on Fox and Friends they opened the phone lines to its audience to give them an opportunity to relate what they think was Bush’s best or worst day.
One lib who got through was very Rushncap-esque. His brilliant comment was:
Bush has never had a good day in office. And Brian, I think you’re a racist!
By Zookeeper
May 8, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this
The GOP is dragging its’ dick in the dirt, again!
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 02:08 PM | Link to this
Oooh, “insufferable moron”, eh, Danish? Been looking all over the dictionary for those words? Not bad, not bad.
And yes, we do have troops all over the world. They’re just not dying on a daily basis there. But, hey, as long as you get to put a little bumper sticker on your SUV that says that you support them, it’s ok for them to die.
I have no idea what this “coalition of the bribed” that you just made up is, so I really can’t answer. But I do wonder how you know that food in South Korean is “terrible”. Have you been there? I’ve had Korean food in America, and it’s quite delicious.
And yes, I’m right about Taliban. They did get removed from power. I like your “whack-a-mole” analogy, though. It’s cute… as long as it’s not YOUR son staring at the business end of an AK-47 brandished by one of those moles. But hey, it’s the bumper sticker that counts!
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this
Question to rushncap from Buy Danish:
As a contribution to society, why don’t you place a call to the Russians, Germans and French
Answer form that bastion of petulance…err I mean rushncap:
The French and the Germans certainly should be helping, I’m not letting them off the hook.
rushncap,
Could you provide a little information on the good works the Russians are doing in Darfur since you have excluded them from your critique?
Does anyone else know why the squirrel whisperer is back?
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this
finch,
Does the answer to your silly riddle have anything to do with Kevin Bacon?
By getalife
May 8, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this
Oops, yp=up
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this
The reason I’m “excluding Russians” from my critique is because I would not wish the Russian military upon anyone, including the Sudanese. Secondly, Russia has enough problems of its own to deal with right now. It’s really in no position to provide help to someone half way across the globe.
Do you always stick like gum to minor, minute details, RW? Is this your tactic? Ignore the point and nitpick tiny little areas? Is this because you know you would lose the argument if you actually dared to take it on?
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 02:22 PM | Link to this
To sum up rushncap’s intelligence:
Paragraph 1: Insult BD’s intelligence and then proceed to display his lack thereof.
Paragraph 2: Surrender national security if anyone is going to get hurt.
Paragraph 3: Once again show my lack of intelligence, but tell them what I like to eat.
Paragraph 4: Repeat paragraph 2.
Astounding!!!
By Zookeeper
May 8, 2006 02:23 PM | Link to this
Who says conservatives don’t know how to get it on?
Check out the lip-lock this GOP babe is putting on that tire!
By JimB
May 8, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this
That is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.. As a guy who loves practical jokes I have to give the phone cord and glasses an A+
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 02:26 PM | Link to this
Discounted, don’t you have some bathrooms to clean?
By Zookeeper
May 8, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this
The GOP likes to hubba, hubba but they ain’t all that particular when it comes to babes.
Oops!
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
You’re awfully testy today even by your miserable standards. Take a cue from your hero, stick a phone cord in your ear and go try to breach security somewhere.
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish, I didn’t get to see it but what did Brian do? Let me guess…gave him an “OoooKay” while rolling his eyes. “Let’s hope the next call is worth our time”?
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 02:38 PM | Link to this
rushncap, The only bathroom I see that needs cleaning is the one your standing in. You’re p-issing all over the place. Bad aim? Can’t you control yourself?
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this
zookeeper: You got one of an Elephant mounting a donkey and screwing it like a dog? That would be more like American politics than what you’ve shared with us so far.
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 02:42 PM | Link to this
RW, what, getting your a$s spanked by me again doesn’t feel so hot?
Discount, go away.
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 02:43 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
Do you know any good jokes that I can borrow? I wanted to spread a little sunshine here. Dispel my sourpuss reputation before I leave for the afternoon.
But, alas, I don’t know any good jokes. I called the Red Cross but they were fresh out.
So here I am. Ready to go and no joke. Help!!
By getalife
May 8, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this
RW,
Don’t tell me you fell for that too?
By getalife
May 8, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
Here is one:
Nobody did, believe it or not.
That is the punch line in case you missed it.
[Here is another one] (http://getalifes.blogspot.com/)
That link contains the Colbert classic.
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 02:51 PM | Link to this
rushncap, I’ve been inspired by Mike’s cartoon today. I’m making you my target audience. Sit back and enjoy the show. I’m gonna.
By Zookeeper
May 8, 2006 02:54 PM | Link to this
Hate, Big Bad Elephant would squash donkey. Be damned if I clean it up! Also, donkeys have more taste (I like mine with ketchup)!
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this
zzzzzzzookeeper: Big Bad Elephant did squash donkey.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 03:00 PM | Link to this
This is what I’m talking about:
Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday in an interview to Reuters that “the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map,” Army Radio reported.
That’s the spirit!
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this
Errr getalife,
I think I must have missed something. Couldn’t find the joke.
Maybe I better wait on Buy Danish or RW.
Thanks, anyway.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this
This is what I’m talking about:
15. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 365,011, down 6.7 percent’
That’s the spirit!
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this
rushncap, Help me out with my set up here. Are you male or female?
By getalife
May 8, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
They did not get it either, I guess you have to have a sense of humor to get it.
Your mindset dictates your sense of humor.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 03:15 PM | Link to this
The wacky world of the UN:
Group: U.N. Peacekeepers Trading Food for Sex
How many of you libs are thinking about joining the UN now, come on, fess up..
By Dusty
May 8, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Who is they?
Hard to have a mindset on something invisible. I couldn’t find what you were talking about.
Oh, a Colbert Classic?? Nevermind. I like jokes that are funny. See ya later.
By gadem
May 8, 2006 03:47 PM | Link to this
That is a good question, where is Osama? ANdy do you know?
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this
Dusty,
I couldn’t find what getalife was talking about either. He is very fond of that italicized phrase today, but I haven’t a clue what it refers to. Must be very “inside”.
Rushncap,
I know about the food in Korea because I heard all about it from my brother who served there, in the Signal Corps. Ha!
The Coaltion of the Bribed are Germany, France and Russia - the 3 countries that benefited from the largesse of Saddam Hussein’s kickbacks from the oil-for-food program. And those bribes are why they opposed the Iraq War. They have run out of excuses as to why they can’t or won’t fight.
The Taliban were defeated but they are on the comeback trail. These Islomfascists are relentless - they don’t give up. And people like you make it easier for them to win the media war. That must be the good works you perform.
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this
Look around the Internet, gang. It’s beginning to look like Patrick Fitzgerald has the goods on Rove. If he does, this is all beginning to look very Watergatish. At this pace, We may have a springtime next year on a par with Senator Sam’s heyday. Wouldn’t that be fun? In the meantime, picking the cast of characters equivalent of those of Watergate has the potential for the party game of the year, don’t you think? I’ll bet Bush is already practicing his departing wave from the helipad.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 03:53 PM | Link to this
getalife,
Very few telephone providers will put modular cords on guest room phones because they do disappear. So odds are the Washington Hilton didn’t have cords they could have taken anyway.
That doesn’t mean rushncap can’t go out and pretend he is ml. Why are you trying to take all his fun away from him? He’s going to have to do something to keep him from clicking his heels together and saying, “There were no nukes in the nineties…there were no nukes in the nineties…”
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this
Please, knock off the ‘link to this’ junk. If you can’t express it yourself, why are you here? As hard as the ‘me too’ crowd may find it to believe, most of us have better thnigs to do than follow their stupid links. Grown-ups read their source material and express their own opinions-NOT SOMEONE ELSE’S. My ex-father-in-law was always waving some clipped out article at people telling them to read it. That was insufferably boring-just like this link b.s.
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this
Danish, certainly some countries benefitted financially from Hussein. Of course America benefits from dictators all the time, you don’t seem to mind. Or do you think that China is the land of candy rivers and lollypop forrests? The problem was that American companies were not benefitting enough. If they were, Saddam would still be there. And by the way, you have it a bit wrong. They have not run out of excuses why they would not fight. Bush and your ilk have run out of excuses why we DO fight. WMDs? Nope. Al Queda? Nope again. Ummmm, he looks kinda funny? That one seems to work on you.
And we’re letting them win the media war? Oh really? Well, pray tell, name every U.S. newspaper and media outlet that supports the Taliban. Hell, I’ll make it easier for you. Name one. Just one. Then tell me how many people have died in this war. Because I can tell you how many people died in the real war.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this
Rushncap,
HELP WANTED. Germans, French, Russians welcome to apply:
Southern Afghanistan is swarming with Taliban ahead of U.S. pullout
“The Taliban and Al-Qaida are everywhere,” a shopkeeper, Haji Saifullah, told the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan…
The fact that U.S. troops are pulling out of southern Afghanistan in the coming months and handing matters over to NATO peacekeepers — who have repeatedly said that they are not going to fight terrorists — has given a boost to the insurgents and increased the fears of Afghans.
It’s a long, hard slog. It would be nice if you could set your sights on the real enemy instead of spending all your time dick*ing around with imaginary villains in the White House.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 04:09 PM | Link to this
JoRo aka squirrel whisperer,
Didn’t you just say we should “look around the internet”? Besides I would rather read a link than to read your misguided opinion of what you read but won’t show.
That’s how people that talk to little woodland creatures end up thinking that Joe Wilson outing his own wife, getting her a seven figure book deal in the process, come to believe they can bring down a Presidency.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 04:11 PM | Link to this
RW,
Is it just me, or is that nutty JoRo talking to himself again?
Andy,
Thanks for the links. They beat JoRo’s IgnoRants anyday.
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this
So Danish, I assume you’re too cowardly to admit that my question shut you up? Should I ask again? Or have I humiliated you enough for one day? Oh, why not, I’ll ask again: name just one U.S. media outlet that supports the Taliban.
I’ll wait. In vain. Because you’re lying, as always.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this
Buy Danish,
rushncap wouldn’t understand that undermining the war effort props up our enemies which certainly include the Taliban. If he did he would realize you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a US newspaper that supports the Taliban.
By Zookeeper
May 8, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this
Donkeys doing their part in the war on terror!
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this
JoRo,
If sometimes you feel like a nut, this is for [you]. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-franken/sometimes-you-feel-like-ab12372.html)
Fascinating stuff on the really important issues of the day from a fellow Leftie.
Rushncap,
There you go again fighting imaginary demons. I should send you my kid’s old Dragonball Z action figures. You could do what he used to do when he was in pre-school and have them fight eachother in imaginary battles.
What question did I not answer (not that I’m obligated to pay you any notice at all)?
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
On a blog this tedious you are hyperventilating after 12 minutes? Why don’t you spark up your social life by becoming ambidextrous? Maybe it will calm you down.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this
Look at what this article says, Joey, look at what it says! READ IT!!:
Iran says no to girly sportsmen- Iran’s hardline Islamic regime has had enough of footballers with long hair and plucked eyebrows. “I will ban athletes with an effeminate look,” the head of the country’s Physical Education Organisation, Mohammad Ali-Abadi said, told the Etemad-Melli newspaper. “It is really disgraceful for Iran that young people step onto fields wearing make-up,” the top official fumed. “When a man enters the field with dyed hair and groomed eyebrows he is disrespecting society.”
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this
Well, RW, why don’t you swing that cat and name 1 U.S. newspaper that supports Taliban? Why? Oh, right, because you’re lying. As always. No wonder you and Danish get along so well. Both are lying sacks of… well, you know what.
And you obviously have no idea what “ambidextrous” and “hyperventilate” mean, since your 4:29 message makes no logical sense. You should spend more time with a dictionary. And a wet nurse.
By Liberal Lucy
May 8, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this
Aww rushncap, calm down. I’ve got some Black Goat Bulgogi for you, your favorite!
Newsweak did a nice little article on desecrating the Koran that helped cause a stir in Afghanistan. That was nice, huh?
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this
So rushncap is a guy who likes to “spank”? Is he “SpankMonkey” or is he “Spanking His Own Monkey”? I’m trying to get this straight.
By Mission Accomplished
May 8, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this
More Iraqi civilians were killed in Baghdad during the first three months of this year than at any time since the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime — at least 3,800, many of them found hogtied and shot execution-style.
Others were strangled, electrocuted, stabbed, garroted or hanged. Some died in bombings. Many bore signs of torture such as bruises, drill holes, burn marks, gouged eyes or severed limbs.
By RE
May 8, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this
RW, I got the ambidextrous thing, it was kinda funny
For clarification, maybe you should have told him to get a bottle of hand lotion and become ambidexrtrous, but your way was more subtle
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
Ah shucks!! That was so nice of you to prove my point so quickly. I bet normal people can figure out what I meant at 4:29.
Try looking up yale+taliban in your spare time and see what you find.
By Midori
May 8, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this
This place reminds me of Mike Malloy’s rant last week about a right wing caller that voted for Bush twice and agrees that he’s a lame duck and lousy president.
Mike put that moron in his place when he asked Mike what plan does the democrats offer?
After a few choice words and then cutting the wingnut off, Mike came back with something like this:
Cracks me up when republicans say that the democrats have no plans. They put a monkey in the drivers seat of a sports car and the monkey drives through town running red lights, running over rose bushes, hitting cars, drives through the side of a Walmart destroying thousands of dollars of merchandise and killing 15 people. Then they look to democrats to figure out how to clean their mess up!
That caller seems to post regularly on this blog.
BTW - Why are all the cool guys named, “Mike”?
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this
Shucks, I messed up my 4:26 link for JoRo who hates links.
Here
Heavy stuff.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this
RW,
I vote for subtle.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this
Mission Accomplished: More Iraqi civilians were killed in Baghdad during the first three months of this year than at any time since the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime
Al Qaeda has been busy, haven’t they?
By Zookeeper
May 8, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this
Dead Cats solve the energy crisis!
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this
I like Mike! Thanks Midori, but shouldn’t that reckless driving rant be on the previous thread?
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this
Yes, RW, I got your brilliant masturbation dig. Sorry, I’m a bit rusty in that area, I’ve not heard anyone use that since jr. high school. I forgot how far I had to come down to be on your level.
Also, how’s about that newspaper supporting Taliban? Still nothing? No?
P.S. “Yale” is not a newspaper. It’s a university.
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this
rushncap wants to be rough & tough so he probably wouldn’t want to use hand lotion.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 05:07 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
I’m a bit rusty in that area
I’d have that checked.
Yale’s admission of a Taliban spokesman with a fourth grade education has never been written about in a newspaper? I’m shocked, shocked, besides I already told the board you wouldn’t understand.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this
Check out the brain on Blair.
Too bad, he figured out W was insane a little too late.
Here is a clue, when someone said God tells them to kill, it should throw up a red flag.
By Discounted Liberals
May 8, 2006 05:15 PM | Link to this
RW, Excellent! And information to boot.
By @@
May 8, 2006 05:16 PM | Link to this
A bunch of old cowboys! I think my favorite is Cowboy JackL.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 05:18 PM | Link to this
Rushncap,
I found your lame question. Somehow I missed the whole post - must have been it’s proximity to JoRo’s Rant.
It’s very simple really, and I already gave you the answer. Just imagine that the MSM and you are on the same team:
It’s a long, hard slog. It would be nice if you could set your sights on the real enemy instead of spending all your time dicking around with imaginary villains in the White House.*
Add to that a mindset that lets former Taliban Ambassadors go to Yale and we have a big problem, which makes victory far more difficult in what may be the most important war we ever fight.
Coincidentally, I just started reading the Bookseller of Kabul. Nice non-fiction followup to The Kite Runner. It’s more than ironic that the guy who spoke for the guys, who burned all the books, blasted away all the ancient art and statues, threw the booksellers in jail, and the women in burkhas, now gets a shot at Yale.
I have a new phrase for this sort of dangerously misguided liberalism:
Inappropriate compassion.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 05:18 PM | Link to this
An excellent read:
Having failed to detect the 9/11 plot and predicted that the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a “slam dunk” certainty, the CIA has been in blame-shifting mode since 2001. Amazingly, it authorized the head of its most important counterterrorism group, the unit responsible for targeting al Qaeda, to write a book attacking the Iraq war and the Bush administration’s foreign policy. That analyst, Michael Scheuer, who published Imperial Hubris anonymously, later acknowledged publicly that “as long as the book was being used to bash the president, [the CIA] gave me carte blanche to talk to the media.”
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 05:20 PM | Link to this
—- I’m a bit rusty in that area
I’d have that checked. —-
My god. Have I really reduced you, someone I assume is either a grown man or a teenager with some serious angst problems to poop and crotch jokes? Are you serious? Is “I’m rubber you’re glue” coming next? Does it take this little to literally reduce you to a child?
—- Yale’s admission of a Taliban spokesman with a fourth grade education has never been written about in a newspaper? —-
So… by your logic if a newspaper writes about an organization it supports that organization? Wow. You, sir, and I mean this with complete and utter sincerety, are a total moron. This is not an exageration. You are, functionally, an idiot. I mean, there is no other interpretation for what you are saying. You are not a liar, because someone who knows enough to realize that what you typed was a total lie also knows enough to realize that no one in their right mind would buy it. So the only explanation is that you’re a retard. For your sake I hope you’re good at music.
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 05:21 PM | Link to this
midori: Great post. We all need a good laugh. Mike is brilliant. Life is good. To those following “Hooker Scandal #1” Jeff Gannon came out over the weekend. Can anyone tell us how a male prostitute got into the White House press corps? To those on “Hooker Scandal #2”. Is there a link to Porter Goss leaving CIA and Delay leaving Congress?
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this
No, Danish, you did not answer my question. I asked for a single U.S. media outlet that supports Taliban. You refused to answer that question. Which is an admission that there is not a single main-stream media outlet in this country supports Taliban. No matter what you’re shrieking about, not a one.
And what does Yale’s Taliban have to do with anything? I also don’t see you crying too hard about all those Nazi rocket scientists the U.S. grabbed after WWII and set up in America in cushy research jobs. No, no great moral tragedy there, huh? Is that because they helped us build weapons? I mean, hey, what’s a few million exterminated Jews between friends when a rocket you helped design can wipe out a small country or a large city. Is my logic correct here?
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 05:37 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
I bet your remedial coloring classes were a joy to be in.
BTW—-I don’t think you can literally reduce someone to a child. You can look it up in the dictionary you seem to hate so much today.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this
#3 for Daniel
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this
I looked up literally in Miriam-Webster. I used the term correctly. Read for yourself. Any more questions?
I ask again, what U.S. publication supports the Taliban? Since you claim that there are lots (unless you don’t know what your own “dead cat” idiom means), it should be very easy to name one single, measly publication or media outlet. Go ahead, RW, we’re all waiting with bated breath for you to back up at least one of your crazy rant statements.
By RE
May 8, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this
Following RWs logic…
NYT supports cancer
NRO supports genocide
Fox News supports brush fires
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
gal: We couldn’t make-up these names. Kyle “Dusty” Foggo. Ray McGovern, that great American patriot, said Goss had packed the CIA with right-wing loyalists. Brown-nosers lacking any apparent skill. “Good riddance to bad rubbish”.
By Dizty
May 8, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this
Go USA! Woo Hoo!
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this
rushncap,
I stand corrected on the word literally and I mean that literally. No wonder you moonbats use that word all the time. It means whatever you want it to.
It’s the nuance, goofball. I thought that was supposed to be one of your strengths..sheesh.
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this
When asked Ray McGovern said Goss would leave for Florida on Thursday to return on Tuesday! However, he did a great job on Thursday morning and Wednesday. That is when he wasn’t at the Watergate Hotel.
rushncap: I’m not holding my breath! They never answer the frikkin question.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this
When illegal aliens are deported from the interior United States in even moderate numbers — and they begin returning to their cities and villages throughout the world to tell their self-inflicted sob stories — a new message will go out with them: we’re serious now. Wait your turn, fill out your applications, undergo your background checks and behave — because we are not going to tolerate this crap anymore.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 06:05 PM | Link to this
Can anyone tell us how a male prostitute got into the White House press corps?
Daniel,
Why don’t you ask Barney Frank (D) Mass. He can tell you all about how these things work.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this
RE,
I didn’t realize you lacked the ability to read as well. (Not to mention JoRo is really not going to like your last post).
If you look up those search terms, yale+taliban, you will be able to find a vast array of stories that will give you a hint as to how that paper wants to portray the Taliban. (They may really hate them, that wasn’t my point to begin with as anyone that can read can look up ^ ^ ^ there and see)
So it isn’t that they wrote about the story that indicates their support for the Taliban it is a helpful hint as to how one might look it up to see how they view the Taliban when they aren’t in the obvious 9/11 mindset.
Is rushncap’s learning disability rubbing off on people around here?
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this
I also don’t see you crying too hard about all those Nazi rocket scientists the U.S. grabbed after WWII and set up in America in cushy research jobs blah blah blah
Rushncap,
What are you ranting about? This is a totally irrelevant diversion from the subject at hand, which is your demand that I answer another question -
I said, The Taliban were defeated but they are on the comeback trail. These Islomfascists are relentless - they don’t give up. And people like you make it easier for them to win the media war. That must be the good works you perform.
Your Demand: I asked for a single U.S. media outlet that supports Taliban.
My Final Response: You’ll have to do that research yourself, because I never said that they did. You can help people out without actively supporting them. Like the jury at the Moussaouia trial who felt sorry for him because he had a mean daddy et al.
That ^is also a hint about the relevance of the Taliban at Yale. It goes to the liberal state of mind.
By Midori
May 8, 2006 06:15 PM | Link to this
Why don’t you ask Barney Frank (D) Mass. He can tell you all about how these things work.
typical. just so typical.
Barney Frank is a self-admitted homosexual.
So, now he knows all of the homosexuals in Washington?
That’s like saying I know all of the black people in Atlanta.
typical. so very, very typical.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 06:15 PM | Link to this
Thanks Daniel,
I’ve missed the visual of you screaming, “ANSWER THE FRIKKIN QUESTION”, lately.
Buy Danish,
Can you imagine the outrage if the Bush administration started saying which media outlets could and could not have access to the press room?
By Midori
May 8, 2006 06:17 PM | Link to this
does that mean that Rush knows all the drug abusers in the U.S., too?
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 06:18 PM | Link to this
No, RW, the word “literally” means what the dictionary says it means. If you are having trouble dealing with that fact, well… sucks to be you.
Since you obviously cannot back up your statement about newspapers and Taliban, I will stop asking you. No need to beat a dead horse into the ground. You made a fool of yourself, everyone saw it, let’s move on and give you a chance to make a fool of yourself elsewhere.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 06:33 PM | Link to this
Yes rushncap,
I made a fool out of myself by not saying what you accused me of saying. Interesting orbit you float around in.
Maybe since you occupy your very own dimension there really weren’t any loose nukes in the 90’s where you reside.
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 06:35 PM | Link to this
Dusty: Well, no, I won’t ask Frank. The Press gets into the White House Press Corps only through the White House. Someone there had to have approved Gannon. Let’s see. Someone in the White House caters to male prostitutes. Gannon wants a little fun. So, his “friend” gets him into the WH Press Corps. Now, who in the WH was frequenting a male prostitute?
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 06:43 PM | Link to this
OK. Maybe I was wrong. Links are an honest way for these knee-jerk wingnuts to let us know where they get their ideas. Alas, it also makes it painfully clear they have no ideas of their own. By the way, here’s the vision and the message of the Democratic party. “WE’RE NOT THE REPUBLICANS!”. I think that will be sufficient.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 06:48 PM | Link to this
It is getting to the point where only paid posters are still making excuses for this administration.
I can’t keep up with all the scandals and nobody is that stupid.
Time to come clean on this blog. How many wingnuts here are paid to post?
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 06:53 PM | Link to this
Most republicans I know admit: 1) Bush is a disaster, 2) They never expected it would get this bad, 3) They had no idea Bush would “Borrow and Spend” his way to 9 trillion in debt, 4) They had no inclinkling it could get so corrupt, 5) They have no clue how we’re going to get out of this mess, 6) They won’t vote Demo., but they’ll stay home on election day.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 06:55 PM | Link to this
Joey: Well of course you would much prefer to operate in the absence of any proof to back up your arguments, that is understandable, considering they are mostly lies and fakery.
It’s not about what Bush says that matters to the flabbergasted son in law, no, it’s all about what he wanted to hear Bush say.
By Midori
May 8, 2006 06:56 PM | Link to this
Getalife: they are either paid, stubborn or retarded.
Or all of the above.
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this
I don’t think they are paid to post, getalife. Even the Bush administration is not that ineffective. They’re just lonely people with too much time on their hands. Just run through this blog for any of Mike’s cartoons. It’s the same people glued to this site night and day, hour after hour. Those of us on the other side of the fence come and go. We have lives. The NYTimes forums used to be much more direct like this one. When the invasion plans were gearing up, there was considerable debate as you might imagine. There were some Bush supporters who seemed like sincere adults, and it was fun carrying on real debate. There were others, however, whose responses were what I call Peewee Herman debating techniques. In additon, they would take on obviously phony personna in a pitiful effort to strengthen their arguments. It was all too easy to expose them as not the kind of people they pretended to be. I think most of these alleged wingnuts are really Bart Simpson wannabes-only they couldn’t be funny if someone put a gun to their heads.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this
Midori,
They have to be paid to shame themselves like they do.
Just like the GOP, money over country.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 07:02 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Barney Frank’s boyfriend ran a male “escort service” out of their apartment. That is the link to the prostitutes.
Okey dokey?
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 07:03 PM | Link to this
Look at this Blow’Reilly continue his bender against the free market:
The question, of course, is why did both political parties and five presidents neglect alternative energy and border security? And the answer is simple: Big Business did not want those things. And in America, Big Business is more important to most politicians than the folks are because Big Business gives cash to politicians to fund their reelection campaigns.
You got that? Big business hasn’t created all of our household wealth and made us the strongest nation in the world, no, it’s only contribution has been to provide a few senators with some illicit spending money.
Never mind that this putz, this groper, charges the highest advertising rates in cable, what is he trying to prove? Does he think the socialists will tune into his show?
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 07:06 PM | Link to this
I pose the same question getalife has… to you pinkos. How many of you libs work for the AJC?
By Daniel
May 8, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this
gal: Here’s #4. Neil Volz a former Chief of Staff to Bob Nye, R Ohio just plead guilty to conspiracy to vribe extending over four years! After he left Nye’s office he went to work for (Guess who?) Jack Abramoff. Great post, by the way. I am quite certain the knucklehead posts seen here could only be bought and paid for. Real people don’t act like that.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 07:11 PM | Link to this
I will give them this, if paid they did their job.
By Buy Danish
May 8, 2006 07:15 PM | Link to this
JoRo,
You are amazing. How did you know that my lifelong dream is to be Bart Simpson?
Or it was, until I dumped Bart for Cartman.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 07:16 PM | Link to this
getalife,
What’s the matter, did Crazy Howie’s check bounce? Between you and the squirrel whisperer you certainly seem to want a lot of voices silenced. We already know that you moonbats will say any loony thing that pops into your heads, so you should thank us for protecting your sanity and showing you the light.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 07:17 PM | Link to this
Daniel,
Yes, the Abramoff scandal is still out there. It is unbelievable and it keeps rolling. Wow. We are witnessing crazy times.
They are delaying deployment for the troops, so there is good news.
By getalife
May 8, 2006 07:18 PM | Link to this
Andy,
I don’t and you?
By getalife
May 8, 2006 07:24 PM | Link to this
RW,
What light?
I do not get paid to post and you?
By rushncap
May 8, 2006 07:27 PM | Link to this
I give up. RW is stubborn and dumb. There is no point to talking to him.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 07:34 PM | Link to this
getalife: I will accept whatever the AJC has to offer. With whom do I negotiate?
Mark your calenders, note the time, for Andy finally doesn’t agree with something Grandmaster Bush has to say:
The—and my attitude is, is that in order to reform these programs, we’re going to need a bipartisan solution. And so the idea is to get people at the table. They didn’t come to the table last time. This time, I’m going to try to get them to the table.
To hell with “them.” We don’t need no stinking pinkos. Just shove it down their throats.
By RW-(the original)
May 8, 2006 07:37 PM | Link to this
getalife,
A thousand points of light is all about volunteering your OWN time and resources to help your fellow man. Feel free to consider me a point of light as I point out the fallacies of the left.
(Just between you and me I don’t think rushncap is ready for the light, I’ll use 7:27 as a clue)
By getalife
May 8, 2006 07:43 PM | Link to this
Andy,
I don’t know, I guess you do not read well.
Its cool if you are paid, you got to do what you got to do to put food on the table.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 07:48 PM | Link to this
Eating thier own:
Nancy Pelosi, Super-Genius- The House minority leader answers the GOP’s prayers. By John Dickerson, Slate
Then, as if to kill her plans in the same interview in which she was hatching them, Pelosi announced that her new Democratic majority would also launch a series of investigations reaching all the way back into the first months of the Bush administration. Across the country, vulnerable Republican candidates are saying thank you to Pelosi. The GOP congressional majorities may now be secure.
Look at the moonbats blinking…
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 07:52 PM | Link to this
My money is on the last two adjectives, Midori. Only the s-word is stupid.
By The AJC Promotes Hate And Racism
May 8, 2006 08:05 PM | Link to this
Why would you ever doubt anything I have to say:
Murdoch’s surprise decision to raise money for Clinton in July, on behalf of NEWS CORP., parent company of FOXNEWS and the NEW YORK POST, underlines a dramatic turn of relations between Murdoch and Clinton, who in 1998 coined the phrase “vast rightwing conspiracy” to denounce critics of her husband.
By Midori
May 8, 2006 08:10 PM | Link to this
Joe,
I love to see how the numb nuts gang up in attacking you on this blog.
The “s” word, indeed.
They are attacking the wrong person.
I don’t recall you lying to them.
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 08:42 PM | Link to this
We can get them to stop, Midori. If we just keep intimidating them by telling them how stupid they are, pretty soon they will leave and we can finally have this blog to ourselves. They have tried to prove us wrong by providing evidence so until they leave we have to constantly discredit their sources and keep telling them they are too stupid to debate us. Debate is the wrong word because these backward clods don’t have any skills or knowledge. They aren’t like your expert understanding of the true ways of the world or my unmatched skills at the turn of a phrase and my extraordinary wit. Just keep telling them to leave so we don’t have to use these amazing skills of ours on them and we can use them to impress each other. Freedom of speech should only apply to people smart enough to know the truth anyway.
By hewhoasks
May 8, 2006 08:56 PM | Link to this
Loved the story, Mike. I think I recall it was you, Dave Barry, and some 3rd guy who did the telephone-cord-security-guy bit at the RNC.
By rustylynn
May 8, 2006 09:38 PM | Link to this
Any seen today’s AP report on declining newspaper subscriptions? Looks like readers are still dropping the AJC like hot potatoes. They are still taking the second largest hit among major papers. I guess this is especially bad for most of the left wingers in here as I suspect they work for the AJC.
By Midori
May 8, 2006 09:42 PM | Link to this
LOL
That 8:42 is a real knee-slapper.
You morons are like a dog with a bone.
By Joe Roman
May 8, 2006 10:09 PM | Link to this
I didn’t write the 8:42, and I don’t much care for someone appropriating my name. Still, I don’t have any problem with what they said. Drawing the Bush diehards out and showing up their lack of foundation is easy, maybe too easy. The only thing that keeps me at it is the dubious pleasure I take in the way they paint themselves into corners and then change the subject while they wait for the paint to dry. Unfortunately, watching pain dry is boring. Please try to stay true to my point of view, ye who borrows my name. Just for guideline purposes, I am a third way Clinton Democrat, for want of a better term. I differ only in that I firmly believe we should start pulling our troops out of Iraq tomorrow. What about the Iraqis? Screw ‘em!. If that policy was good enough for the South Vietnamese, it’s good enough for them. Our bottom line should be protecting American lives-namely our troops. Mess with the wingnuts, whoever uses my name, but please don’t be childish about it. OK? Bye, y’all!
By @@
May 8, 2006 10:39 PM | Link to this
Dang Andy, you shocked me with your 5:18 post (link). It’s something I’m compelled to research. Thanks.
I heard early on that there were a lot of positions in the CIA filled by Clinton’s friends and associates. It bothered me at the time. I always wondered why Bush didn’t clean house then. But, if he had, I can only imagine the accusations.
For those of you who will say I’m Clinton bashing, I’m not calling his motives into question here. It’s just scary to think that something is going on in the CIA.