December 05, 2007
Video Round-up

I'm tardy in getting to this but the below clip from the Onion News Network is great, especially the part about John Edwards (including one well-placed profanity):


Poll: Mitt Romney Is Candidate Most Voters Want To Get Into Bar Fight With

In other video news, Jenna Bush got some notice for calling her Pops while taping the Ellen DeGeneres show:

I mention that video because it inspired a wonderful case of profanity-laden BDS over at the Slog. Note in particular the quintuple-word insult (in italics) directed at Bush toward the end of the post.

Why on God's Green Earth is the word "professional" included in that insult? I'm delightfully mystified.

Posted by Eric Earling at December 05, 2007 06:49 PM | Email This
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1. OT and a day late:

"Apparently, Mr. Chávez was reluctant to accept the final count, but the military knew that the opposition students held the tally sheets from all the polling stations. When it became clear that there was no way to fudge the results, Mr. Chávez conceded defeat, though the margin of his loss is still being debated." WSJ editorial, 12/4/07

Can folks in Washington do what the students did?

Just askin'

Posted by: starbird on December 5, 2007 07:13 PM
2. Too bad he didn't hire Dean Logan to count the votes.

Posted by: Michele on December 5, 2007 08:25 PM
3. Re: The Slog's reaction to Jenna.

As far as I am concerned, we can't get enough of the BDS crazed Nutroots left. The more these people show their real stripes, the less chance that any Democrat has of being taken seriously. It's only going to take one good BDS meltdown, at the right highly visible moment, to sink HIllary or Obama.

These people are animals that can't contain themselves. They go so far beyon argumentation that its sick. They've taken President Bush's ineptitude and convoluted it in their minds to a place worse than Hitler or whatever you can imagine as the worst evil that world has ever know. It takes a truly special fool to get to the full BDS mental state. And we get to meet so many of them right here in our own Seattle.


Posted by: Jeff B. on December 5, 2007 08:37 PM
4. Please tell me you didn't just refer to The Stranger as professional...

The Stranger is written by a bunch of nitwits who refused to grow up and somehow figured out a way to get someone to pay them for remaining children.

Not that I don't read their paper every now and then, I liked knowing what was going on in the music scene and film world as much as the next guy, but referring to them as "professionals" begs the question: "Professionals at what?"

Posted by: cliffs on December 5, 2007 08:41 PM
5. Cliffs-
Don't be a dumb*ss. For once Earling makes sense and you go and screw it up. Read the post he sends us to and you will see that no, he doesn't call the Stranger professional. He is referring to something said on the Stranger blog, that's why the word is in quote marks (" " those are quote marks for your future reference).

Re: The Slog's post - I think it's about as good as it can get. They poster is pissed off becuase Ellen made him see Bush as a real person. The horror! Sucks when your vision of the world and reality collide.

Posted by: BigDawg on December 5, 2007 09:06 PM
6. Speaking of videos, did you see that Pudge made it into the Weekly Standard for his "You Forgot Ron Paul" song?

Check it out:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/432dygie.asp

Posted by: Michelle on December 5, 2007 10:04 PM
7. Running somewhere inbetween "Project Runway liveblogging" and a picture of Dan Savage wearing a giant styrofoam dog muzzle, there's really not any pretense of professionalism here. As for the "professional" bit, I can only assume it's somehow related to Olympic qualifications. It's important to distinguish between the semi-professional bigot fascist turds and the bigot fascist turds with sponsorship deals.

Posted by: Benjamin Johnstone-Anderson on December 6, 2007 12:02 AM
8. Now HERE's a video!

Eric Cantor's tribute to the Democratic Congress

Pass it around!

Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on December 6, 2007 08:35 AM
9. bush, jr.....nice guy....worst president ever.

Posted by: dinesh on December 6, 2007 09:39 AM
10. thanks dinesh, I won't vote for him.

maybe you should consider doing the same.

Posted by: thecomputerguy on December 6, 2007 10:06 AM
11. Sorry, dinesh, but you would have to have BDS to think that--perhaps you didn't live through the Jimmy Carter presidency. Carter was easily the worst president of the last 50 years. I wouldn't presume to try to compare to presidents earlier than that such as Warren G. Harding.

Posted by: Bill H on December 6, 2007 12:26 PM
12. thanks dinesh, I won't vote for him.

maybe you should consider doing the same.

Posted by: thecomputerguy on December 6, 2007 12:39 PM
13. thecomputerguy: too bad you didn't think that way in 2000 or 2004--perhaps the country wouldn't be so screwed.

bill h: non-partisan historians will differ with that established credo. wait until jan 2009 when they look for hallmarks of this admin--wrong on iraq, wrong on the deficit, wrong on putin, wrong on musharaff, where's osama?, wrong on climate change, wrong on homeland security.

this economy is hurting far more than the dow lets on. the middle class was sold out big time over the last 7 years (of course, the middle class was complicit in this process).

Posted by: dinesh on December 6, 2007 02:55 PM
14. Dinesh--"wrong on climate change"--there are over 19,000 American scientists who disagree with your tiny "consensus" on this one!

Global Warming Petition

Posted by: Bill H on December 6, 2007 03:06 PM
15. dinesh, pardon me, but I didn't get the memo- "The U.S. is Screwed". Please pass it on. Total news to me. My life is a whole lot better now than it was in the Clinton era. Yours isn't?

Posted by: swatter on December 6, 2007 03:13 PM
16. oh, i forgot--wrong on torture, wrong on the geneva convention, wrong on the constitution.

swatter: my life is certainly better than it was 10 years ago, largely b/c i've grown older and become more established professionally. i attribute this to neither party or its leader/president.

that said, 6 years of republicans running up a major deficit has me concerned about future taxes and the strength of the dollar versus other currencies. some of my best performing investments over the last 2 years are mutual funds in countries other than our own.

mind you, i don't take much comfort in dems. i think that we, as a nation, have drifted away from some core principles that transcend party lines. immediate gratification, deficit spending (on a personal as well as governmental level) are just a couple of traits we seem to overlook, tolerate, or otherwise accept.

Posted by: dinesh on December 6, 2007 04:01 PM
17. bill h:

what i mean when i say climate change is that we, as a people, cannot continue to consume fossil fuels at our current rate without consequence. those consequences may still be debated, i am not interested in hashing that out here. rather, i prefer to focus on the "inputs", and those are increasing destabilizing. just as you can't consumer cheeseburgers and sodas all day long and expect to remain healthy, nor can we consume energy at our current rate without consequence.

bush was wrong on this issue--if nothing else, by ignoring it, he let the opposite agenda get out ahead, only to ultimately 'embrace' that agenda when the momentum overtook his position.

bush, jr. has screwed everything he touched as a professional matter. he failed upwards, this last time at our expense, literally.


Posted by: dinesh on December 6, 2007 04:08 PM
18. dinesh, personally I had opted out of the IRS ratrace. It seemed the more I earned the more the government took and it wasn't worth it to play, so I scaled back the business.

Since I reentered the ratrace, I feel comfortable with the money I am making for the effort I have to put in. Without the tax cuts, it wouldn't be worth the effort. I hope the tax cuts continue.

And I agree with fossil fuel discussion since eventually they will run out. It is better to start exploring other options, but we still need the fossil fuels.

As for overspending by the Rs, it would have been double that with the Ds, so take some solace there. And I just love the Senatorial leadership, except I thought Kay Bailey should have been selected over LaMar.

Posted by: swatter on December 6, 2007 04:49 PM
19. Now that was funny. Who says the SP crowd doesn't have a sense of humor.

Posted by: Unkl Witz on December 6, 2007 07:34 PM
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