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By Mike Luckovich | Friday, October 27, 2006, 07:55 PM

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By George

October 27, 2006 10:18 PM | Link to this

Is that Bush in the tank? Halloween at Darth Cheney’s place must be a really lively affair.

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By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!

October 28, 2006 07:31 AM | Link to this

Come on Georgia Girl, try to think beyond the childish here. “Is Bush in the tank” doesn’t even make any damn sense.

You really are a liberal.

The whole reason for this cartoon is because of Lynn Cheney’s humiliating slap down of Wolf Blitzer on CNN, to blunt the damage to the pinko nation that she caused, democrat party lapdog stooges like luckovich have to come out and smear Cheney.

If this cartoon boy wasn’t such a handmaiden to Howard Dean, he would have drawn Al Qaeda terrorists instead of kids and this cartoon wouldn’t suck.

By George

October 30, 2006 08:01 AM | Link to this

Andy

Most of the stuff you post defies any logic so what is the difference?

Well maybe on your home wingnut planet your postings make sense but here on Earth it just looks like you are in disparate need of medication.

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By Republicans Would Rather LIE Than Tell the truth

October 30, 2006 08:13 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 69 people were killed or found dead in Iraq on Monday, including 33 bombing victims of an attack on laborers lined up to find a days work in Baghdad’s Sadr city Shiite slum. The U.S. military announced the death of the 100th service member killed in combat this month.

Yeh, the insurrgents are still in their ‘last throes’ aren’t they? Just one more example of the LIES that Republicans have been caught telling ! ! ! How many have they NOT been caught at ? ? ?

By Brian Curtis

October 30, 2006 08:15 AM | Link to this

Good cartoon. Good reminder that we’ve got an acknowledged criminal and traitor in the White House.

But he’s a Republican, so that makes it okay. And at least he’s just drowning young boys, instead of molesting them.

By Republican Incompetence

October 30, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Nearly one of every 25 weapons the military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing, a government audit said Sunday.

Now we learn that 1 in 25 weapons that America supplied to Iraq security forces is missing. You can bet that they are now in the hands of insurrgents. King George and the Republicans demonstarte their TOTAL lack of competence , once again ! ! !

By Republican Incompetence

October 30, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s prime minister and President Bush agreed to accelerate efforts to build up Iraqi security forces during a teleconference on Saturday that capped a week of public tensions between the two governments.

Anybody wonder why the Chimperor and his lapdog, al-Malarki, weren’t ‘accelerating’ efforts to build up Iraqi security forces until a week before mid-term elections. They’ve had goin’ on 4 years now to ‘get serious’ haven’t they? This is just more evidence that Republicans are USING our troops and the Iraq misadventure to manipulate the American voter ! ! !

By Republicans Apologists Make Me Wanna Puke

October 30, 2006 08:32 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Michael J. Fox laughed off criticism of his appearance in recent political ads in support of embryonic stem cell research, but said his mother was not as amused.

First Coulter spits in the faces of the widows of 9/11 victims, then Limbaugh makes fun of Michael J. Foxes seizure activity. Does THIS make YOU proud to be associated with Republican apologists in any way shape or form ? ? ?

By Dusty

October 30, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this

HO hum,

Another day of Luckovich lovers, Bush haters, Cheney conspirators, propaganda bobbing and personal insults to people who are unknown by those who speak. The Liberal Luckovich Halloween will start a day early and will continue ‘til the lights go out. Anything constructive? Naaaawwwww! Who has time for that?

As Jim Wooten suggested in his blog, keep family matters out of politics. Act decent! And try to do the same on blogs. No name calling and personal insults! Wait for Halloween, you goblins of little glory. Be different! Be bold! Be an American! (No applause, please.)

By Political Foreskin

October 30, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this

Cartoon could have been called the “Baptism of Fire”.

I would never have thought of bobbing for apples. I wasn’t aware that it was even a Halloween tradition. I’ve definitely got to read more.

I mean look at the logistical problem with that joke: Trick or treaters would bob for apples if there was candy next door and everywhere you look? This had to be some sort of fall festival thing, which would preclude trick or treaters. I would have rejected this joke, mike, even though it worked.

At first glance, it did seem that bobbing for apples contained a cultural harmony with trick or treating, but upon later relflection you realize that it doesn’t.

I like to think about jokes and let the nuances resonate in my mind (when they work). I like jokes that resonate real good. I like it when I like things that resonate. I like resonating things when I think about them real good. I dont like this joke. It didn’t resonate. I dont like jokes where the nuances dont resonate, mike. I dont like them real good.

By Republican False Secuirty

October 30, 2006 08:46 AM | Link to this

Relations between the US and Mexico today took a turn for the worse after George Bush signed legislation for a 700-mile border fence to counter illegal immigration into the US.

The move was universally condemned by Mexican leaders. Vicente Fox, the country’s president, told reporters that the fence would not stop millions of Mexicans from heading north in search of jobs. “It is an embarrassment for the United States,” Mr Fox said.

Well, there it is. Bush’s good buddy, Vicente Fox, says that the fence ain’t gonna stop HIM from sending millions of ‘guest workers’ into America ! ! !

How successful does anyone really think this COLLOSAL waste of taxpayer dollars will be if the GOVERNMENT of Mexico has already annonunced that it will thwart any efforts at fencing. The only way to plug the hemmorage of illegal aliens across our border is to seize all assets of any company caught exploiting these CRIMES and you can bet your sweet bippy that King George and the Republican elite aren’t about to do it ! ! !

By getalife

October 30, 2006 08:50 AM | Link to this

“And the question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is not that damned many.” Dick Cheney 1992

How about 100 for October Dick?

By @@

October 30, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

@@: ml, I’d like to ask you a question about your newest cartoon release.

ml: O.K. @@, shoot.

@@: Can you tell us, with all certainty, that baloney floats?

ml: Would that be all-beef baloney, or baloney with pork by-products? Because you know during these troubling times, we have to acknowledge Muslim terrorist sensitivities. They don’t eat pork.

@@: Oh, I don’t think you can say that with all certainty ml. I think they might.

ml: Glub…Glub!!!!

By Stop Republicans From USING Our Troops

October 30, 2006 08:55 AM | Link to this

Iraq Veterans Against the War

By Political Foreskin

October 30, 2006 09:12 AM | Link to this

Dusty, your observations are intrinsic to your station in life. You became that which you most despised: an Oprah watching, ocher-bellied, mediocre okra. A veg.

There are nuances of meaning that you fail to grasp in any of Wooten’s columns, and most of Luckovich’s cartoons.

Worse, you cant seem to express yourself proper. A good man’s got to know his own limitations.

Potted plants R people 2.

We’re all rooting for you to flower, and while some people do talk to their plants, try 2stfu.

By We're Going To Raise..... Your......Taxes!!!!!

October 30, 2006 09:35 AM | Link to this

One example is his disdain for women in military service. When his 1979 article “Women Can’t Fight” and its impact on the treatment of women at the United States Naval Academy became a major campaign issue, Mr. Webb, democrat, Virginia, quickly countered with claims that when serving as Secretary of the Navy he “opened up more billets” (e.g. military specialties) to women than any of his predecessors. What he fails to note in heralding this accomplishment was that it occurred under duress.-WashingtonTimes

Well, well, I just happen to have some excerpts from “Women Can’t Fight” right here:

“Many women appear to be having problems with their sexuality…What kind of woman would seek out the Academy routine?” (pg. 282, “Women Can’t Fight,” Washingtonian Magazine, November 1979)

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Slapdown:

Aside from using questions culled from talking points on the Jim Webb scandal provided to a CNN associate producer by the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, Blitzer, — without checking out the veracity of the talking points — quizzed Cheney about the techniques used against suspected terrorists and her views on the Bush Administration. Cheney had been invited to discuss her new children’s book, but came prepared to battle Blitzer, and more than held her own.-AmericanSpectator

Wolf got blitzed.

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Safest cities in America- St. Louis #371, most dangerous, Atlanta #355, Baghdad #256.

We would not want to understate in any way the enormous sacrifices that have been made in Iraq. The current war is serious. But it is not as costly as our earlier struggles. In constant dollars, Vietnam, Korea, and World War II were all more expensive — and the cost is further diluted by America’s ever increasing population. The per capita cost of World War II for the 133 million Americans alive at the time was $24,262 in 2006 dollars. The per capita cost for the Korean conflict was $2,695 and for Vietnam, $2,621 — {{{{{{more than

By We're Going To Raise..... Your......Taxes!!!!!

October 30, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this

Let’s talk briefly about the fact that all four of the black candidates who ran for significant statewide offices as Republicans were minimized and painted as turn coats or traitors by the liberal press. Ken Blackwell of Ohio, Keith Butler of Michigan, Michael Steele of Maryland, and Lynn Swann of Pennsylvania all had to fight for both local and national press coverage of their historic candidacies.-TownHall

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Even funnyman David Letterman let what one must now presume to be his funny mask slip to reveal nothing more than another angry liberal baby boomer brimming with contempt as he spoke with his guest (guest!!!) Bill O’Reilly, the only remotely humorous thing said being “bonehead.” Letterman has journeyed one long way from the heart of Indiana. Then there was the appalled tone of ABC’s Kentucky-bred Diane Sawyer as she discussed the Limbaugh-Fox dustup, replete with the clucking disapproval of a now very liberal lady who lunches with the likeminded of Manhattan. In the War of the Boomers, what conservative boomers like Rush Limbaugh, Patricia Heaton, John Bolton, Rick Santorum, Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush and a boatload of others (think Condi) have going for them that drives mean-spirited critics like a Janet Charlton, Neil Gabler, Diane Sawyer, or Alec Baldwin to such foaming furies is this: they don’t give a damn. -AmericanSpectator

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All is not well in Appeasementville:

MARSEILLE, France — France’s interior minister sent riot police to patrol the southern port city of Marseille on Sunday after a group of marauding teenagers torched a bus, gravely burning a young woman. French police braced for violence this weekend, the anniversary of last year’s riots in poor neighborhoods where immigrants from former French colonies in Africa live with their French-born children on the fringes of society.-Fox”News”

Where will the French cut and run to?

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Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!

By Dusty

October 30, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

Oh dear, PoFo,

Now you’ve gotten all rude and ugly (same ol’ same ol’). This was the day to be NICE, remember?

I do not escape the nuisance nuances of Luckovich and his faithful fido PoFo.

I see him using military coffins for “satire”, our elected president with rabbit ears, our troops as torturers (Pot & Kettle), our brilliant Vice-Pres. as a Halloween prankster. The nuances are noxious.

But have no fear, PoFo. Your support of the devious is perfectly obvious.

By the way, since I don’t know, what does stfu mean exactly?

By Cindy

October 30, 2006 10:00 AM | Link to this

Very funny toon, Mike. I do remember bobbing for apples as a child with school friends before going trick or treating, so this toon is not out of sync to me.

Top Republicans from Using OUR Troops, Don’t you know those guys are unpatriotic? They are endangering our troops! They are aiding the enemy! They are sissys. They are chickhawks. There aren’t that many of them anyway. There neocons, I beat you to the punch.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

By rushncap

October 30, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this

@@, what does your Washington Post story about the CNN video have to do with, well, anything? Not only does the link make no sense as far as the Cheney/torture cartoon goes, but it does not seem to have much to do with anything else either.

And Dusty, no one applauds your posts save for a few faithful idiots who consider ball-in-crotch to be both the highest form of comedy and a suitable interrogation technique (looking your way, RW).

By SarahConnah

October 30, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

May I suggest a new Halloween tradition for Repugs…”Bobbing for french fries.”

Curtsie!

By Dusty

October 30, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

And now enters the Great Rushncap, always a little less pleasant than the city dump.

I see you are your usual delightful self, full of compliments. No applause?? Awww, I thought I could count on you. What a disappointment. Well, try not to mention too many of your little “gutterisms” today. There are ladies present!!

By @@

October 30, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this

rushncap: My post? It’s all about CNN supporting terrorist propoganda and Lynn Cheney’s “baloney” comment regarding a Webbciting on her book, “Sisters” put forth by CNN’s Wolf in sheeps clothing Blitzer.

Now please rushncap, I’m busy knitting a “headscarf” for you. I dropped a stitch or two, but you’re likely not to notice.

By rushncap

October 30, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this

Errr, so showing reality is “terrorist propoganda”? Sounds like a conservative campaign slogan if I’ve ever heard one.

So let me get this straight, @@: we know American soldiers are dying. We know they are being killed by, among other ways, snipers. Not only do WE know this, but everyone knows this. However, showing a video of these snipers is “propoganda”. I’m sorry, @@, but if showing the truth hurts you so much, maybe you should avoid watching TV and stick to right wing blogs. According to them Iraq is the second coming of the Garden of Eden.

There are ladies present, Dusty? Where? Save for @@, who is a lady here? Surely you don’t mean li’l andy??

By Brian Curtis

October 30, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

Dusty: The Pot & Kettle cartoon was an excellent. Any U.S. troops who engage in abuse of prisoners deserve a LOT more than mockery.

But I guess that’s a form of patriotism you’ll never understand….

By Brian Curtis

October 30, 2006 11:02 AM | Link to this

Oops, “an excellent ONE.” Typo.

By @@

October 30, 2006 11:14 AM | Link to this

rushncap: By your own admission, WE all know what’s going on in Iraq so what purpose did the terrorist sniper video serve other than to promote terrorist propoganda and reward their efforts in killing our soldiers?

I, for one, find it insulting that CNN feels the need to enlighten ME on what I already know. Would you like to join ME and make that a WE who have had OUR intelligence insulted by CNN or do you want to go solo into their seedy underworld of justification?

By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!

October 30, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

By Georgie Girl October 30, 2006 08:15 AM OK Andy, what is the war party spin on this?BAGHDAD, (AP) — A bomb tore through food stalls and kiosks in a sprawling Shiite slum Monday, killing at least 31 people, while the U.S. military announced the death of the 100th servicemember in Iraq this month. The 6:15 a.m. explosion in Sadr City targeted poor Shiites who gather there each morning hoping to be hired as construction workers. At least 51 people were wounded, said police Maj. Hashim al-Yasiri.

That the rag tag band of religious murdering terrorists in Iraq are achieving what they set out to do. They killed a crowd of DEFENSELESS innocent people knowing full well that the panty waist pinko feminist left in America would shriek like a bunch of scurillious little sissies, much like what you’re doing.

And I’m sure that the terrorists are praying in mosques all across the Middle East that the democrats win on November 7th.

You welcome the support, don’t you?

By Something's Fishy...

October 30, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this

HEY - We’re Going To Raise….. Your……Taxes!!!!!

“The New York Times, as part of its ongoing series on class in America, published a large chart on the distribution of all of Bush’s tax cuts (including his current proposal to extend his tax cuts indefinitely). The numbers are amazing. The top .1 percent of taxpayers—145,000 taxpayers—receive 15.2 percent of all these tax cuts. (These folks make over $1.6 million a year). The top 1 percent—1.4 million taxpayers who bag over $383,000 a year—pocket 30.6 percent of the trillions of dollars in so-called ‘tax relief.’ (Is it ‘relief’ when you give millionaires $100,000 or more each year in tax cuts?) Looking at the other end of the ladder, we see that the bottom 60 percent—those 87 million people making less than $44,000 a year collect 15.1 percent of Bush’s tax cuts, averaging a little over $300 a year in annual tax savings.”

Why are you fighting so hard to save your $300.00?

By getalife

October 30, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

@@,

They showed this on CNN too:

By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!

October 30, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this

By rushncap October 30, 2006 10:55 AM However, showing a video of these snipers is “propoganda”.

This has a real simple answer, just what you’d expect rushncrap to miss:

We watched CNN for days and saw images of that terrible day. … the twin towers from pictures and film footage, because it was “too painful” to see them.

“Too painful,” eh?

By getalife

October 30, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

I find it pathetic to take bribes (tax cuts) to sell out your country.

Traitors.

By The Vent

October 30, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this

Given another two years of unchecked power, the Republicans currently in office will succeed in destroying conservatism for a generation. Ronald Reagan had a vision. Bush has illusions.

By RE

October 30, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this

Oh, don’t get andy started on tax cuts, he is convinced no one making under 100k/year pays anything in taxes anyway.

By rushncap

October 30, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this

So, again @@, you feel “insulted” that CNN dares to show the truth. That is a rather startling admission. You’d make a great Bush cabinet member, maybe you should apply.

And no, I don’t believe truth is propoganda. Nor do I believe that showing a video is a “reward” to anyone. I think killing our soldiers is reward enough for them. I have a sneaking suspicion they don’t watch CNN anyways.

So, once and for all, @@. I have a question. Do you favor showing reality of war on the news, yes or no? Or do you favor showing only positive things about war? It’s a simple question, which you will almost certainly dodge.

By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!

October 30, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this

By Something’s Empty, My Head!… October 30, 2006 11:16 AM HEY - We’re Going To Raise….. Your……Taxes!!!!! “The New York Times, as part of its ongoing series on class in America, published a large chart on the distribution of all of Bush’s tax cuts (including his current proposal to extend his tax cuts indefinitely).

Lower taxes beget more business beget more tax revenue beget less taxes owed by those that create the most beget Lower taxes beget more business beget more tax revenue beget less taxes owed by those that create the most beget Lower taxes beget more business beget more tax revenue beget less taxes owed by those that create the most beget Lower taxes beget more business beget more tax revenue beget less taxes owed by those that create the most beget.

Idiot.

Why would a sissy a-ss socialist even try to lecture us on taxes and revenues.

Shouldn’t you like get a job and pay taxes first?

Or does living off of other people’s money make you an “expert” and ——->make you want more?<———

By RE

October 30, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

Lets get this correct, the RNC uses actual Bin Laden propaganda film clips in it’s ads

But over here people are up in arms at CNN? The RNC is promoting Bin Ladens propaganda

By Midori

October 30, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this

Something’s Fishy,

because he’s a blithering idiot?

By Jesus

October 30, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By nuff-said

October 30, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

You don’t work. Who are you to tell anybody anything? Another fat republican on the take. No good for this blog, no good for America.

By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!

October 30, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

Whitney and Bobby need drug money!!:

Whitney Houston’s back looking her best

Come on Atlanta Urinal, let’s get out there and drum up some business for our hometown crackheads.

By Fence Jumper

October 30, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this

Remember: James Webb said those things when he was a Republican.

By brother_unknown

October 30, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this

Bush’s parrot is asleep on his perch; Bush is at his desk staring vacantly into space. Suddenly, the parrot wakes up and cries, ‘Here comes Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense.’ Bush stops working. What goes on? Then the door opens and it’s Rumsfeld. So Bush and Rumsfeld start to talk, but the bird interrupts. ‘Here come Condoleezza Rice, minister of propaganda.’ And, lo and behold, a minute later, it’s true. Bush tells what’s going on, but Rumsfeld and Rice think he’s kidding. ‘Ah, go on, George, it’s a trick, you’re giving the bird a signal.’ ‘No, no,’ Bush says. ‘This bird somehow knows who’s coming, and I’ll prove it to you. We’ll hide in the closet, where the bird can’t see me, and wait for the next visitor.’ So there they are, in the closet, and the bird starts up again. But this time it just trembles and hides its head under its wing and squawks. After a minute, the door opens, and it’s the Vice-President. He looks around, thinks the office is empty, and goes away. ‘All right, people,’ the parrot says, ‘it’s safe to come out now. Cheney is gone.’ aaaaa5.blogspot.com

By Midori

October 30, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

RE,

Here’s some real funny political ads, courtesy of SNL

I am quite surprised we haven’t seen the real thing, courtesy of the RNC.

By LMAO

October 30, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this

WGRYT, what are the numbers for the conservative papers??????????

The conservative Atlanta paper for instance, how’s it doing????? LMAO.

What conservative newspaper is alive and kicking @ss on its liberal rival???

Conservatism is dying………..LMAO

By Fence Sitter

October 30, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this

By Fence Jumper October 30, 2006 11:41 AM Remember: James Webb said those things when he was a Republican

I agree, when you become a democrat they give you a lobotomy so that you can’t think anymore.

By Fence Jumper

October 30, 2006 11:58 AM | Link to this

That man is better off lobotimized than having such Republican attitudes.

By bon scott

October 30, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

A Marine officer’s letter home from Baghdad, with its frank description of life in “Dante’s inferno,” has been circulating through generals’ in-boxes. We publish it here with the author’s approval

You can bet the Pentagon knows about this letter. The writer loves being a Marine, and thinks the Marines in Iraq are the best. But the war? SNAFU. Totally totally SNAFU.

Most Profound Man in Iraq — an unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied “Yes, you.”

Get that, neocons?? The deaths of scores of Iraqis daily aren’t the work of foreign “outside agitators”. It’s Iraqis killing Iraqis. That’s called a civil war.

Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O’Reilly.

Be a patriot. Vote the Bush GOP war machine out November 7th.

By Paul

October 30, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this

Dusty at 8:33 Good observation.

Political Foreskin at 9:12 comment on Dusty 8:33 “Worse, you cant seem to express yourself proper. A good man’s got to know his own limitations”

That would be “express yourself properly.”

Nothing personal, in the Jon Stewart sense. Sometimes it’s just too good to pass up.

By We're Gonna.....Raise......Your......Taxes!!!!

October 30, 2006 12:01 PM | Link to this

By LMAO October 30, 2006 11:45 AM WGRYT, what are the numbers for the conservative papers??????????

We communicate via the radio, idiot.

Ask “air america” about that.

By candide

October 30, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

Yes, Cheney is evil. At least that is obvious. What is not so obvious to millions of deluded Americans is that the Republican party is the party of Fascistic super-nationalism, selfish greed, blatant racism, and arrogant posturing. It deserves to be junked in its entirety.

By Dusty

October 30, 2006 12:03 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Did you actually post I think killing our soldiers is reward enough for them.? Yes, you did.

And yes, there are ladies present and I shall remain one by not calling you the names most suitable to people like you.

Lay off @@. You are not fit to be in her company. She is a patriot.

By Midori

October 30, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

Lynne Cheney’s Anger Management Problem

Move over, Naomi. Step aside, Hillary. The new queen of mean is Lynne Cheney.

Today, in a face-off with Wolf Blitzer worthy of inclusion in the Gender Stereotypes Hall of Fame, the nation’s second lady used exactly the kind of rhetoric that led Republicans to cast Senator Clinton as (in Maureen Dowd’s summary) “an angry woman, a she-monster melding images of Medea, the Furies, harpies, and a knife-wielding Glenn Close in ‘Fatal Attraction.’”

Mrs. Veep was bitter about John King’s “Broken Government” special on CNN. “A terrible distortion!” she lectured. She was petulant when Wolf cited VPOTUS’s recent kind words for waterboarding. “A complete distortion!” she fumed. She was p** when Wolf cited sapphic soft porn from her novel, Sisters. Lesbians? Rape? Brothels? “Lies, baloney” she seethed through clenched teeth. If there’d been a gun handy, Wolf might be spending the weekend picking buckshot out of his face.

By Midori

October 30, 2006 12:07 PM | Link to this

I can’t wait for the right to defend Lynne Cheney’s appearance on CNN. Every quality that Republicans demonized in Hillary will be lionized in Lynne. Witchy? B***? Don’t be ridiculous — she’s displaying righteous indignation. Rage? Hysteria? Oh, no, that’s standing your ground. And hey, she was set up: the booker said she’d be talking about her children’s book.

I have no idea how this will play out in the Virginia Senate race, or in any other campaign. No one does. But you can count on the Republican noise machine to claim that this confrontation will help them. That’s their master narrative: everything, no matter what, helps them. If people understand that Cheney is for torture, that’s a plus: it’s ballsy, it rallies the base and it draws a contrast with the terrorist-lovin’ pussies. If Cheney’s wife takes on CNN, that’s perfect: attacking the liberal media never fails to GOTV

By Paul

October 30, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this

Dusty at 8:33 Good observation.

Political Foreskin at 9:12 comment on Dusty 8:33 “Worse, you cant seem to express yourself proper. A good man’s got to know his own limitations”

That would be “express yourself properly.”

Nothing personal, in the Jon Stewart sense. Sometimes it’s just too good to pass up.

By What A Freaking Revelation From Oddball Gay Finch

October 30, 2006 12:09 PM | Link to this

By bon scott October 30, 2006 12:00 PM A Marine officer’s letter home from Baghdad, with its frank description of life in “Dante’s inferno,” has been circulating through generals’ in-boxes. We publish it here with the author’s approval

A soldier bitc-hing about being in a war zone!!!

Why, that’s never happened before!!!!

Finchie must be a prophet.

By Talking Points Alert!!!

October 30, 2006 12:14 PM | Link to this

By Midori October 30, 2006 12:07 PM I can’t wait for the right to defend Lynne Cheney’s appearance on CNN.

Did you think all that up by yourself, Midori?

Even considering that everyone knows Wolfie barked up the wrong tree and got his a-ss handed to him.

That’s not bitc-hy, that’s called being right.

You libs know nothing about that.

By Paul

October 30, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this

We’re gonna at 12:01

I don’t believe we can “ask Air America.” They keep dropping stations, filing for bankruptcy (after contracting to pay Al Franken millions - gee, wonder if he’s gonna pay taxes at the pre-tax cut rate?). I’d ask Air America listeners but I can’t find any. Maybe that’s why they went bankrupt. Or maybe George Soros finally pulled the plug.

By Dusty

October 30, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this

Brian Curtis,

Yes, “Pot & Kettle” was so offensive AJC changed the title to try and offset the numerous objections.

You know as well as I do that the Military Code of Justice does not allow torture. That a FEW of our military are now serving jail sentences for breaking those rules.

We don’t chop off heads and desecrate bodies like our enemies. If you want to imply that we do, I will disagree with you and with Luckovich. Now who is it you support?

By LMAO

October 30, 2006 12:16 PM | Link to this

Top 25- Wall St Journal -1.9, Orange County Register down 3.7 (both are conservative)

BTW, online newspaper readership and advertising revenue is soaring. Guess who dominates there? (Hint: AJC.com is number 4.)

By Midori

October 30, 2006 12:18 PM | Link to this

Talking Points Alert, AKA Andy the Drunk,

I rarely come on this blog on the weekends, but I saw where you hacked the blog on Saturday, crowing about how Lynne Cheney “showed them”.

When I ran across that article, it put things so well in perspective, and then and there I decided to post it as a counter to your drunken, DT ravaged logic.

By Midori

October 30, 2006 12:22 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I can’t begin to tell you just how stupid and ignorant you sound at your 12:01.

Pathetic.

Simply pathetic.

By Ditzty

October 30, 2006 12:24 PM | Link to this

Paul that was totally unfair, besides that, its “express yourselve properly”. Idiot.

Now,go say the Pledge. Reaffirm yourselve.

By Paul

October 30, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

G’morning, Midori! Welcome back after the weekend.

What was ignorant? Giving a nod to Dusty’s for call to “act decent”?” Or were you upset as I made a fun correction to Political Foreskin (who seems to have a bit of a sense of humor) regarding “express yourself properly” (he wrote “proper”) and I did not do the same with Dusty’s construct (“act decent” vs “act decently”). I took Dusty’s style as a rather telegraphic slang, while PF’s was in a corrective context.

By Paul

October 30, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

Ditzy at 12:24 who are you, really? I believe I can guess…

Totally unfair? I believe the authors understood the context.

Oh, and, “its” is really “it’s” (contraction of “it” and “is”) - not “its” (possessive).

“yourselve” should really, really be “yourself” in both instances.

“Idiot”? After that comment? :)

By We're Going To Raise..... Your......Taxes!!!!!

October 30, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this

By LMAO October 30, 2006 12:16 PM Top 25- Wall St Journal -1.9, Orange County Register down 3.7 (both are conservative)

Why are you posting the 2 lowest readership losing numbers? My post at 12:06 is not hidden from everybody but you, this may come as a surprise to you. They can see the pinko times losing 8% and 7.3%

Are you a “closeted” Conservative?

By Dusty

October 30, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I am getting out of here while I can do so PROPERLY. Probably I might become improperly incorrect so I best leave while I am ahead or with a head or SOMETHING!!

Keep ‘em “on course” if there is one.

By @@

October 30, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

rushncap: I have no problem with the truth both good and bad. However, I’ll forego the need to know, what I already know if, at the same time, it puts our troops in jeopardy by glorifying the terrorists’ actions against them.

So I guess you don’t mind an assault on your intelligence by CNN? I see it as the terrorists’ assault on your intelligence, as well. CNN fell for it and I guess you did too, which would make you a convenience supporting their justification.

Me, a lady compared to Dusty? There’s no truth in that statement rushncap. I revelled in the moment when Cheney told Senator Leahy to “F” himself. Dusty has a unique way of delivering the same message in a more lady-like fashion.

I’ll be leaving for awhile, my dog has something wrong with his “left” eye. It looks painful. His left-sided vision is probably distorted. His right eye is working great though.

Back later.

By Ditzty

October 30, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

““yourselve” should really, really be “yourself” in both instances.

But it wasn’t myselve, and that was my first post today.

By bon scott

October 30, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this

By drunken Andy - October 30, 2006 12:01 PM - WGRYT, what are the numbers for the conservative papers?????????? We communicate via the radio, idiot.

This is because most conservatives can’t read more than a paragraph at a time without getting really confused. Hence, no newspapers.

By Andy supports pederasts like Foley - October 30, 2006 12:09 PM - A soldier bitc-hing about being in a war zone!!! Why, that’s never happened before!!!!

No Andy, you drunken twit. It’s a Marine (NOT a soldier) criticizing the logic of the Iraq war, and the intelligence of idiots (like O’Reilly and you) who still buy the lie that Iraq is this breeding ground for foreign Islamic terrorists and extremists.

Buy you a drink?

Vote the Bush GOP out Novenver 7.

By Something's Fishy...

October 30, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this

i’ll give up the tax cut our family gets…. to ensure your kids get a real education

i suspect you long for some “sissy @ss” and are incapable of all that begettinq.

i pay taxes and wages, you moron.

By @@

October 30, 2006 12:55 PM | Link to this

Has anybody ever heard a drunk try to say the word “November”?

It kinda sounds like “Novenver” when they say it.

By Midori

October 30, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

Bon Scott,

he’s a disgusting little creature, isn’t he?

Now watch him come back and call both of us “gay”. Right after that, he’ll make an allusion to my “broom”. Probably envisioning the tip of it all brown and gooey.

The thoughts that goes thru that guy’s mind.

He really needs to ease up on the booze and the meth.

By Paul

October 30, 2006 12:58 PM | Link to this

Hey Dusty at 12:46 - after your plea for something constructive I was rather hoping for an expansion of the tax cut thread (turns into fun with number, class warfare or an inability to accept that maybe, just maybe, some people make over a few hundred thousand a year because of hard work and they just might want to decide how to spend it, rather than have a politician pay off a special interest group) or another interesting thread, but you’re correct, is is going on lunch time.

And I try to avoid anything with “course,” such as “on course” or “stay the course,” of course.

Ditzy at 12:02 - your first post? Now you have me wondering. “Yourselve” is an okay spelling. We must be sensitive to the elves.

By We're Going To Raise..... Your......Taxes!!!!!

October 30, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

By Something’s Fishy… October 30, 2006 12:52 PM i’ll give up the tax cut our family gets…. to ensure your kids get a real education

You can write a freaking check to the government anytime you want, idiot, no one is stopping you.

Why don’t you go work a toll booth in your spare time, government lover, I’ll bet you get off taking those quarters from everybody?

Little punk a-ss scold.

P.S. I know what you mean by “real” “education” and I’m not screwing my children’s minds up like yours is.

With all that filth.

By We're Going To Raise..... Your......Taxes!!!!!

October 30, 2006 01:17 PM | Link to this

By Hag Witch October 30, 2006 12:56 PM Oddball Gay Finchie, he’s a disgusting little creature, isn’t he?

I don’t know if anyone who takes the sweet innocent words of Lynn Cheney and fears them for shining light on the filthy maggot infested agenda of the left, should be calling anyone disgusting.

By Midori

October 30, 2006 01:25 PM | Link to this

ooooo

gone from “f*” to “hag”

nice evolution there, drunken sot.

done with that broom yet?

By Midori

October 30, 2006 01:26 PM | Link to this

“innocent words of Lynn Cheney”

now I see where your “hag” reference comes from.

I’ll agree with you on that — she definitely is a hag witch, you drunken buffoon.

By FoxNews

October 30, 2006 01:27 PM | Link to this

Todays Headlines……….

World War Three Memories Linger. Month long Israeli/Lebanon spat still painful.

Christmas Under Attack. Employee says “Happy Halloween” to customer standing under store Christmas decoration.

Blonde girl missing

Life Alert! There were 733,993,462,048,555 potential lifes murdered by mast0rbation today! We can beat it. No more masterbacide.

Terror Alert: Election Cycle-Code Red. Hide under beds.

Gay Alert: Election Cycle-Code Pink. NJ Supreme Court Judge dead/retire prayer fest this weekend.

Beaner Alert: 724 Mexicans crossed the border today. 355,822 ytd.

Did Harold call?

(FoxNews-A Conservative Media Outlet-Air and Alanced)

By Paul

October 30, 2006 01:30 PM | Link to this

RE 1:24: Caught just a few minutes of Diane Rehm on NPR this morning - discussing “electronic voting.” One guy said, hey, never a “documented” case of any irregularities. Turned out he was the marketing director for Diebold! The other guys were with a couple of related sites/institutes, another guy was a computer science prof from Princeton University. I may have to listen to the archive this afternoon - maybe some more info than the usual rehash.

By We're Going To Raise..... Your......Taxes!!!!!

October 30, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this

By REbot October 30, 2006 01:24 PM ever notice voting “irreglarities” always seem to favor the GOP?

“News” headline: Chicago city voters found to have voted 8-10 times for the same candidate.

See how easy that was?

Now, tell me if it’s fake or not.

Point being, the libs are trying to create an impression of irregularities because they know they are going to lose again and they want to hold it up in court.

Answer your question, REbot?

By RE

October 30, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this

Ahhh, I see. It is only an impression of irregularities, they did not actually occur.

Where was that Chicago headline from?

By rushncap

October 30, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this

Well, @@, I’m glad the right eye of your dog works great. I think it’s the only species for which that side works well.

CNN is not insulting my intelligence by showing the truth, and never will. You are insulting my intelligence by implying that I should remain more ignorant out of some made-up “patriotism”. Neither you nor your right-wing cohorts have demonstrated how showing the truth of the situation “helps” the terrorists. What, you think they will give up because they don’t get CNN air time? Are you nuts?? These people were INVADED by a foreign power whom they believe to be opposed to their deeply-held religious views. And you think CNN is what’s responsible for their resistance? @@, for your sake I hope you’re not as deluded as you sound, you just desperately are hoping that things had turned out better, and think that maybe in the process of convincing me of this lie you will convince yourself. Sorry. Delusion, no matter how calming and reassuring, cannot help. We screwed up. Big time. All of us screwed up by electing that Moron-in-Chief, and we are all, collectively, bearing the fruits of our own folly. And if it takes a CNN video to remind us of that, so be it. American boys are dying. So are Iraqi boys and girls. No matter how tightly you shut your eyes, no matter how closely you seal your ears, no matter how vehemently you attack the messengers, you will not alter the truth. You have 2 options: face up to it, or turn into li’l andy. For you there is yet hope.

Oh, and I’m sure your dog is 10 times the “lady” Dusty is.

By rushncap

October 30, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this

Dusty, @@ can take care of herself. And you will “remain a lady” in much the same sense as Bill Gates will remain a homeless drunk.

I did say “killing our soldiers is reward enough for them”. Yes, I did. What, am I wrong? You got an issue with that? Sorry, honey, truth, she stings.

By Proud Liberal Pinko

October 30, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this

In business, companies measure the worth of a particular investment by examining the return on investment (ROI). I have a few questions, in light of today’s tragic tally of 100 American’s KIA in Iraq during the month of October (and October is not over yet).

Is the ROI worth the outlay? If so, what is that return? And, why is it worth it? If you had it to do it all over again, would you make the same investment?

I’ve been arguing for a great long while that the Iraq conflagration is indeed not and never has been worth the outlay (counted in taxpayer dollars exhausted, US troops KIA, US troops wounded & maimed and Iraqi citizen deaths, etc…). I need some help understanding how anyone can justify the great expense. Can someone from the other side explain why the war in Iraq is worth the outlay.

By Paul

October 30, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

rushncap, RW(the original): the news CNN reported regardless of the danger would be the news they reported from Iraq before the war; wait, CNN said they didn’t report some “bad” news from Iraq so they could continue to have access from Saddam. No wonder Ted can’t make up his mind what side he’s on.

By rushncap

October 30, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

So what exactly does your link prove, RW? That CNN was conscientious enough to not report something that could lead people to get hurt? OK, thanks.

You, or anyone else for that matter, has yet to show ANY link between what’s shown on CNN and the insurgency. Do you think that it will go away if we stop reporting on it? Maybe if we have 24 hour long readings of “My Pet Goat” on TV all the world’s problems will be solved, eh?

The video puts no one in immediate danger due to its release… strike that. It does put someone in danger. It puts the Bush administration and the Republicans in Congress in danger. And that, after all, is all you care about. Dying soldiers or dying civilians matter to you only insofar as it leads to Republicans getting elected. So if someone dies and that helps Republicans (i.e. 9/11/2001 videos) that’s “responsible” journalism. If it hurts them (i.e. 9/12/2001-10/30/2006 videos) it’s “irresponsible”. Sorry bud. No can do there.

By getalife

October 30, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

Watching Lynne, it is easy to see why Dick is such a Dick.

No wonder he loves torture. Lots of evil and hatred with the Cheneys.

By RW-(the original)

October 30, 2006 02:11 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

The link proves you are a hypocrite, but you prove that on a daily basis so in that regard I guess it proves nothing.

Sorry I don’t have time to join your circular firing squad today, there are voters to call.

By Paul

October 30, 2006 02:14 PM | Link to this

rushncap: does this mean you’ll now say nice things about Bill O’Reilly, because, if I remember correctly, he last week defended (or at least said he understood the reasons) releasing the video?

By rushncap

October 30, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this

Actually, Paul, the part of the article that is available for free makes no reference to “not reporting bad news because they wanted access from Saddam”. So you either have access to the full article, or your’re just pulling it out of your well-fed @rse. Which is it?

By getalife

October 30, 2006 02:18 PM | Link to this

My costume will scare you