I'm hoping that Mr. Erickson will continue to generate this kind of exposure.

Or we could just put a bunch of guys in boxes and see what the f*** happens!

I saw this last night. Snoop and Larry King, hehe!

Chronic and Backpain, now thats funny.

I was quite comfortable not knowing about Mr. Erickson. Damn.

re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Chronic and Backpain, now thats funny.

I liked "different tokes" the best personally...

Maybe CNN needed a replacement for Glen Beck?

"CNN, we're just here for the buffet."

re: #7 pingjockey

Maybe CNN needed a replacement for Glen Beck?

Can't they just, I don't know, report the news or something?

re: #8 jaunte

"CNN, we're just here for the buffet."

Hmmm, that reminds me, a strip club around here has an all you can eat cheeseburger lunch.

re: #9 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Can't they just, I don't know, report the news or something?

'No Commercial Potential'
- Frank Zappa

Anyone see the Snoop & Larry interview? Snoop's cornbread. Hilarious.

re: #9 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

That'd be too easy.

re: #10 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Hmmm, that reminds me, a strip club around here has an all you can eat cheeseburger lunch.

Remember Gulf War one? All the Boats and ships were pulling out of Dock..
I had CNN on 24/7...
How the mighty have fallen

CNN's business rationale:

"Erick's a perfect fit for John King, USA, because not only is he an agenda-setter whose words are closely watched in Washington, but as a person who still lives in small-town America, Erick is in touch with the very people John hopes to reach," said Sam Feist, CNN political director and vice president of Washington-based programming. "With Erick's exceptional knowledge of politics, as well as his role as a conservative opinion leader, he will add an important voice to CNN's ideologically diverse group of political contributors."
[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

Jon Stewart was apparently missing from the list of 25 centrist commentators, because he definitely gets the skewering and lambasting quite right and isn't afraid to take shots at the left and right.

re: #9 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Can't they just, I don't know, report the news or something?

Would you sit through a multi-segment story on bauxite tariffs, when there was a story on the other channel about a blogger calling a Supreme Court Justice a child molester? I make no judgments, I'm Just Asking Questions®...

"I'm here for the buffet."

hahahahahaha

re: #16 lawhawk

He was on there.

Sigh...

re: #16 lawhawk

Jon Stewart was apparently missing from the list of 25 centrist commentators, because he definitely gets the skewering and lambasting quite right and isn't afraid to take shots at the left and right.

He was there!

Erickson: I’ll ‘pull out my wife’s shotgun’ if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.

ERICKSON: This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my property. They can’t do that. They don’t have the legal right, and yet they’re trying.

re: #10 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Hmmm, that reminds me, a strip club around here has an all you can eat cheeseburger lunch.

I can haz?!

re: #17 The Sanity Inspector

Would you sit through a multi-segment story on bauxite tariffs, when there was a story on the other channel about a blogger calling a Supreme Court Justice a child molester? I make no judgments, I'm Just Asking Questions®...

Neither.

re: #22 Killgore Trout

Erickson: I’ll ‘pull out my wife’s shotgun’ if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.

Let's see how the tough guy deals with the SWAT...

re: #22 Killgore Trout

Erickson: I’ll ‘pull out my wife’s shotgun’ if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.

Why his wife's? Are there reasons he use his own shotgun? Quit hiding behind your old lady's firearm!

That Erickson guy is some loon, Jesus Christ...

re: #23 Mad Al-Jaffee

I can haz?!

I can haz pole dancerz?

re: #22 Killgore Trout

Erickson: I’ll ‘pull out my wife’s shotgun’ if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.

Luckily we can see that being on CNN is not going to stop EE from bringing the rightwing crazy.

re: #14 HoosierHoops

Remember Gulf War one? All the Boats and ships were pulling out of Dock..
I had CNN on 24/7...
How the mighty have fallen

Yes, PG-1 was a godsend for their ratings. I think that's when weather reports started getting so breathless and tech-heavy, too.

“Barb, preliminary geostationary sat-intel reports that the cold front is approaching a target-rich environment in the upper suburban perimeter. Have we received any word on the deployment of the electric line crews and snow plows? And how about the civilian population?”

“Tom, convoys of road clearance vehicles were reported near the area an hour ago, our time. We already have confirmed reports with senior Georgia Power officials that it is indeed cold and wet out here. We are receiving reports of isolated incidents of food-hoarding moms and cell-phoning dads hydroplaning the family Navigator. We stress that such freeze-related occurrences are rare, so far, but there could be more later. We know they have the capability.”

re: #26 jamesfirecat

Why his wife's? Are there reasons he use his own shotgun? Quit hiding behind your old lady's firearm!

Good point. Maybe he has a felony or something in his past. I don't know anything about him.

re: #16 lawhawk

I stand corrected; he was there - glad that they got it right.

re: #22 Killgore Trout

Erickson: I’ll ‘pull out my wife’s shotgun’ if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.

I tried to open the PDF of the law they linked to at Thinkprogress but it wouldn't work.

Anyone else try?

re: #14 HoosierHoops

CNN did themselves proud with that coverage. Gulf War 1 made this liberal a liberal hawk. Also, the Bosnian War. The Gulf War 2, I could not understand the blind support for Bush's CIC abilities. Not at all.

Speaking of strip clubs and lap dances:

There was a lot of fauxtrage yesterday from the family-values types (including Sarah Pile-On) about the Young Eagles and their outing in L.A.

For the record, I would like to state that I have never been to a strip club. But I have been invited dozens of times, and to my best recollection every invitation has come from some guy who would define himself as a conservative, if not a social one. Young, upwardly mobile, married-with-kids family guys, to be specific. I can't recall ever having one of my Prog friends say, "Dude, let's finish this doobie and then hit the titty bars!"

Maybe it's because most Progs hang out in mixed-gender groups instead of little "woot-woot" boys-only sports cliques, are comfortable with their sexuality, know what real live grrrls look and feel like, and don't think they have to pay for the experience.

Or am I just imagining things again?

re: #35 Cato the Elder

I agree, Cato. When I worked at EA, all the guys who wanted to go out to the strip clubs were the provincial guys from down on the peninsula who tended to be pretty conservative.

The 'liberals' tended to want to go out to actual bars and pick up actual women/men.

re: #35 Cato the Elder

Yep./ Actually the last time I went to a strip club was in '94 when my younger brother got married. Bachelor party. In San Diego, while I was a single sailor I used to be a connesuier(sp) of the local strip clubs. But I was 20 something and single!

going up thread

re: #36 Obdicut

I agree, Cato. When I worked at EA, all the guys who wanted to go out to the strip clubs were the provincial guys from down on the peninsula who tended to be pretty conservative.

The 'liberals' tended to want to go out to actual bars and pick up actual women/men.

T-shirt: "I went to an expensive titty bar, and all I got was a big wet load in my undies!"

re: #35 Cato the Elder

Speaking of strip clubs and lap dances:

There was a lot of fauxtrage yesterday from the family-values types (including Sarah Pile-On) about the Young Eagles and their outing in L.A.

For the record, I would like to state that I have never been to a strip club. But I have been invited dozens of times, and to my best recollection every invitation has come from some guy who would define himself as a conservative, if not a social one. Young, upwardly mobile, married-with-kids family guys, to be specific. I can't recall ever having one of my Prog friends say, "Dude, let's finish this doobie and then hit the titty bars!"

Maybe it's because most Progs hang out in mixed-gender groups instead of little "woot-woot" boys-only sports cliques, are comfortable with their sexuality, know what real live grrrls look and feel like, and don't think they have to pay for the experience.

Or am I just imagining things again?

There's both a certain correlation and certainly a correlation. Progs also have a more liberal (saner) attitude towards sex, where conservative types are often more...repressed and/or repressive. Sex can be taboo - and all taboos are made to be broken, whereas for the liberal types sex is just part of the overall landscape. These are of course broad generalizations with notable exceptions, but no, I don't think you're imagining things again.

By the way, do you still get it on with the Palin blow-up Doll? We haven't heard about her for a while - especially since you've been doing so much heavy breathing around Mandy :-)

Just curious: is there a reason for softening Erickson's remark about Souter with an asterisk, or is that just to make the blog SFW?

CNN shows losing half their viewers?

has anyone checked to see if they're just dozing off?

I remember a simpler time when you tuned into the Weather Channel and got weather. Then we had the Fearless Forcasters standing on some beach that was destined for ruin. Then they realized the trepidation that a big snowstorm brings, standing in front of the cameras and just about saying "And we're all GONNA DIE". Then you got "Storm Stories" with children re-enacting the almost life ending tornado/hurricane/etc. and the parents oblivious to the fear rising in their children's eyes. Prozac anyone? Now CNN has bought into the noise and hired a guy who for the most part is just what they wanted. Just what they wanted. Bad crazy indeed.

Hi all - long time reader, first time commentator (thanks LGF!)

I've got to say that there are times - increasingly more frequent - when I have to wonder where the sanity clause is these days. If it wasn't for Jon S, Bill M, and LGF, one could be forgiven for thinking maybe the CIA DID put LSD in the water supply of certain people/states once upon a time, and they all gre up to be broadcasters and politicians. Shotguns for the census takers? What next? Alerts on FOX for the squadrons of black helicopters coming soon to fly us all to FEMA camps? Is it just a measure of how low people can sink for ratings and the advertiser dollar or are these looney-tunes memes really believed by upright-walking bipedal homo sapiens? The mind boggles...