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1 Political Atheist  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 11:57:40am

Quite so. Sad thing is everything he covers is done better than the MSM. “Drive by Media” is a phrase coined by a jerk. But even that jerk can clearly see the lack of depth in coverage.

2 jamesfirecat  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 11:58:50am

John Stewart does more with 13 min of his show that isn’t devoted to interviews or commercials than most news stations can do in 24 hours…

3 DaddyG  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:02:04pm

Every time the opposition leader nodded her head and agreed with the obvious sarcasm I was reminded of a stepford wife.

I kept thinking “can she really be this stupid?” and the voice in my head would always answer. “Yes, yes she can.”

4 iossarian  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:08:30pm

re: #2 jamesfirecat

John Stewart does more with 13 min of his show that isn’t devoted to interviews or commercials than most news stations can do in 24 hours…

The time/content thing is not coincidental. If you’re doing 24 hour news, you need a lot of filler, and outrageous outrage fits the bill nicely.

5 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:09:05pm

SHE KNOWS!

6 countrockulot  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:09:24pm

Fox News: “ACORN! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: “ACORN!”
Fox News: “Van Jones! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: “Van Jones kind of, I guess”
Fox News: “New Black Panther Party! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: …
Fox News: “Sherry Sherrod! (black people are scarWHOOPS!”
Mainstream media: “Hey wait a minute! Is it possible Fox News is making up stories just to push the idea that …”
Fox News: “Ground Zero Mosque! (muslims are scary)”
Mainstream media: Ground Zero Mosque!

The media: Charlie Brown to Fox News’s Lucy.

7 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:09:51pm

re: #3 DaddyG

Every time the opposition leader nodded her head and agreed with the obvious sarcasm I was reminded of a stepford wife.

I kept thinking “can she really be this stupid?” and the voice in my head would always answer. “Yes, yes she can.”

The look on his face when she asked “Do you think we’re fools?” was priceless.

8 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:10:18pm

re: #6 countrockulot

Fox News: “ACORN! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: “ACORN!”
Fox News: “Van Jones! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: “Van Jones kind of, I guess”
Fox News: “New Black Panther Party! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: …
Fox News: “Sherry Sherrod! (black people are scarWHOOPS!”
Mainstream media: “Hey wait a minute! Is it possible Fox News is making up stories just to push the idea that …”
Fox News: “Ground Zero Mosque! (muslims are scary)”
Mainstream media: Ground Zero Mosque!

The media: Charlie Brown to Fox News’s Lucy.

You need to post more.

9 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:10:24pm

Heh.
Comatose Cell.

10 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:10:58pm

re: #7 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The look on his face when she asked “Do you think we’re fools?” was priceless.

Oliver and Cenac have been favorites for a while now, but Mandvi can be great when he wants to be.

11 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:11:39pm

Is she for real???
Mothership???
HUH?!

12 HappyWarrior  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:12:26pm

Aasif Mandavi was awesome in that.

13 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:13:02pm

re: #4 iossarian

The time/content thing is not coincidental. If you’re doing 24 hour news, you need a lot of filler, and outrageous outrage fits the bill nicely.

Knowing who your favorite celebrity is fucking this week is an important part of our national dialog.

14 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:14:12pm

We know all about the terrorist network. We googled it.

/facepalm

15 reloadingisnotahobby  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:14:43pm

re: #6 countrockulot
Standing O!!

16 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:15:22pm

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

We know all about the terrorist network. We googled it.

/facepalm

I laughed when she said that…

17 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:15:59pm

re: #11 Varek Raith

Is she for real???
Mothership???
HUH?!

Yeah, as I recall Crazy Pam has been publishing conspiracy theories about them for a while. She even had some inaudible tapes of little girls who claim they were beaten and held hostage in the mosque.

18 elbruce  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:16:49pm

With all this “send the right message” and “emboldening” talk, it’d be simpler to just let Al Qaeda decide our elections. I mean, since their opinion is more important than ours… ///

19 reloadingisnotahobby  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:16:59pm

re: #16 Varek Raith
I always wanted to be an Astronaut….
All this time, all I had to was Goggle it??/

20 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:17:38pm

re: #19 reloadingisnotahobby

I always wanted to be an Astronaut…
All this time, all I had to was Goggle it??/

Apparently.
WHY WEREN’T WE TOLD OF THIS?!?!

21 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:18:08pm

re: #17 Killgore Trout

Yeah, as I recall Crazy Pam has been publishing conspiracy theories about them for a while. She even had some inaudible tapes of little girls who claim they were beaten and held hostage in the mosque.


Correction: Crazy pam wrote that about a mosque in Nashville.

22 elbruce  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:18:37pm

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

We know all about the terrorist network. We googled it.

/facepalm

Yes, everything you can find on the Googles is 100% factually correct… somebody oughtta send her a link to The Onion.

23 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:19:22pm

It is a shame that the brutal irony of this report is lost on so many people who really need to get it.

24 elbruce  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:20:08pm

I was “beaten and held hostage” in 1st grade. Or at least, that was my opinion of it at the time. It’s called Catholic school.

25 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:21:02pm

re: #22 elbruce

Yes, everything you can find on the Googles is 100% factually correct… somebody oughtta send her a link to The Onion.

I love how the internet has significantly raised the level discourse for some and dropped it in the toilet for others.

26 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:21:06pm

re: #24 elbruce

I was “beaten and held hostage” in 1st grade. Or at least, that was my opinion of it at the time. It’s called Catholic school.

Did you lie in wait for the “man in white” on your first birthday?

:)

27 elbruce  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:23:26pm

re: #23 ralphieboy

It is a shame that the brutal irony of this report is lost on so many people who really need to get it.

The Irony of Satire
Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report

Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert’s political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements.


Do not misunderestimate them.

28 MrSilverDragon  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:23:32pm

re: #20 Varek Raith

Apparently.
WHY WEREN’T WE TOLD OF THIS?!?!

Because too many people wanted to be ninjas, and it scared the gubmint.

29 Spider Mensch  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:23:53pm

re: #24 elbruce

I was “beaten and held hostage” in 1st grade. Or at least, that was my opinion of it at the time. It’s called Catholic school.

yeah..me too..lol..by these crazy old women dressed in long black robes with beads and crosses hanging off of them. all in black I tells ya, except for some white boarder around their faces..it was frightening!! lasted about 11 years too.

30 Gus  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:24:34pm

The Rapture Ready masses will stop at nothing to instigate a holy war.

31 darthstar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:24:59pm

re: #29 Spider Mensch

yeah..me too..lol..by these crazy old women dressed in long black robes with beads and crosses hanging off of them. all in black I tells ya, except for some white boarder around their faces..it was frightening!! lasted about 11 years too.

I had the hots for Sister Mary Martin…but I think she and Sister Eileen had something going.

32 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:25:57pm

re: #27 elbruce

The Irony of Satire
Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report


Do not misunderestimate them.

Holy over-analysis, Batman!

33 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:26:11pm

re: #31 darthstar

I had the hots for Sister Mary Martin…but I think she and Sister Eileen had something going.

But Father Flannigan always had time for you, right?

34 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:27:39pm

re: #24 elbruce

I was “beaten and held hostage” in 1st grade. Or at least, that was my opinion of it at the time. It’s called Catholic school.


I went to a public school but attended Sunday school cathechism lessons for First Holy Communion.

I remember when the Monsignior came to visit the class and our teacher got down on her knees to kiss his ring.

There was something about it that rankled my notions of what America and Democrracy were all about at the tender age of eight, and I was never able to resolve that Church’s hierarchy with my views of how we are supposed to treat each other.

35 Gus  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:28:31pm

re: #11 Varek Raith

Is she for real???
Mothership???
HUH?!

Yep. Here’s some she said over at CBN:

Cardoza-Moore believes the purpose is clear in middle Tennessee.

“You have Bible book publishers, you have Christian book publishers, you have Christian music headquartered here…So this is where the Gospel message goes out. And the radical Islamic extremists have stated that they’re still fighting the Crusaders—and they see this as the capital of the Crusaders.”

36 darthstar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:28:45pm

re: #33 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

But Father Flannigan always had time for you, right?

I’m still dealing with the trauma of not having any priest or nun hit on me.

37 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:29:30pm

re: #35 Gus 802

Yep. Here’s some she said over at CBN:

She sounds like a Crusader herself.

38 Spider Mensch  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:29:32pm

re: #31 darthstar

I had the hots for Sister Mary Martin…but I think she and Sister Eileen had something going.

I can remember those occasional windy early fall days..still a little warm out…once in awhile when they were marching us around outside.. the wind would blow those robes or habbits or shrouds or whatever they called their grim reaper like attire..and you’d actually get a glimpse that underneath the robes on the few younger nuns…there was actually a female form hiding under all that black. why she’s built like mommy! but of course we knew they didn’t have any hair underneath those head pieces )))) sothey really weren’t like mommy…

39 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:30:37pm

re: #36 darthstar

I’m still dealing with the trauma of not having any priest or nun hit on me.

some kids have all the luck…

40 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:30:54pm

re: #37 Varek Raith

She sounds like a Crusader herself.

They’re like those Japanese soldiers they kept finding years after the war.

The crusades are over, you can move on.

41 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:32:02pm

re: #36 darthstar

I’m still dealing with the trauma of not having any priest or nun hit on me.

I know the feeling. Like “why wasn’t I good enough?”

42 elbruce  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:32:54pm

re: #36 darthstar

I’m still dealing with the trauma of not having any priest or nun hit on me.

I was an altar boy and a boy scout. Got me nowhere…

43 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:33:40pm

re: #42 elbruce

I was an altar boy and a boy scout. Got me nowhere…

I bet your slot car was crap.

44 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:34:14pm

re: #43 JasonA

I bet your slot car was crap.

That’s low, man.
Low.
/

45 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:34:48pm

re: #32 Varek Raith

Holy over-analysis, Batman!

Communial Reinforcement

Communal reinforcement is the process by which a claim becomes a strong belief through repeated assertion by members of a community. The process is independent of whether the claim has been properly researched or is supported by empirical data significant enough to warrant belief by reasonable people. Often, the mass media contribute to the process by uncritically supporting the claims. More often, however, the mass media provide tacit support for untested and unsupported claims by saying nothing skeptical about even the most outlandish of claims.

Communal reinforcement explains how entire nations can pass on ineffable gibberish from generation to generation. It also explains how testimonials reinforced by other testimonials within the community of therapists, sociologists, psychologists, theologians, politicians, talk show hosts, etc., can supplant and be more powerful than scientific studies or accurate gathering of data by disinterested parties.

Communal reinforcement explains, in part, why about half of all American adults deny evolution occurred and believe that God created the universe in six days,* made the first man and woman out of clay, and a snake talked the woman into disobeying an order from God thereby causing all our problems. It also explains how otherwise rational and intelligent people can be persuaded to accept such stories as true when they are provided by a comforting community in a time of great emotional need. Every cult leader knows the value of communal reinforcement combined with isolating cult members from contrary ideas.

46 darthstar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:36:29pm

Sorry to OT so soon, but I can’t stop laughing at this diary (sad as it is that it’s actually based on a real advertisement, and not a parody piece)

Want a raise? Wash your vagina.

image of the ad in question for those who won’t visit dKos

47 spikester  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:36:42pm

re: #36 darthstar
please don’t say “priest” and “hit on me”in the same sentence

48 Targetpractice  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:38:22pm

re: #42 elbruce

I was an altar boy and a boy scout. Got me nowhere…

You think that’s bad? I went through the modern public school system and then months of college, and never once got indoctrinated or had gay professors try to recruit me.

I feel jipped.

//

49 Taqyia2Me  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:38:38pm

Be careful Lizards, there are probably a few Catholic school abuse surviving Lizards registered here.

50 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:38:52pm

re: #46 darthstar

Sorry to OT so soon, but I can’t stop laughing at this diary (sad as it is that it’s actually based on a real advertisement, and not a parody piece)

Want a raise? Wash your vagina.

image of the ad in question for those who won’t visit dKos

My keyboard and monitor came this close to tasting coffee after I read this:

Remember the sandalwood-scented balls.

51 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:40:02pm

re: #50 JasonA

My keyboard and monitor came this close to tasting coffee after I read this:

Remember the sandalwood-scented balls.

And for some reason, Ron Burgundy came to mind.

52 MrSilverDragon  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:40:18pm

re: #48 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

…I went through the modern public school system and then months of college, and never once got indoctrinated…

That’s what they want you to think. They’re crafty!

53 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:40:21pm

re: #50 JasonA

My keyboard and monitor came this close to tasting coffee after I read this:

Remember the sandalwood-scented balls.

Good grief.
Do they not have editors?
Someone to say, hey, this ad is funny as shit for all the wrong reasons?
XD

54 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:40:31pm

re: #49 Taqyia2Me

Be careful Lizards, there are probably a few Catholic school abuse surviving Lizards registered here.

For what it’s worth, if anything, we aren’t making light of it. It’s just how we deal with this.

55 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:47:56pm

re: #35 Gus 802

Yep. Here’s some she said over at CBN:

From that link:

No Public Debate

Cardoza-Moore told CBN News that Rutherford County commissioners pushed through the mega-mosque with no public debate or input.

Can you imagine the insane amount of unhinged outrage that would generate from this same crowd should some county commissioner somewhere suggest that the building of a Christian mega-church should be subject to public debate/input/opinion? The cries of persecution would be deafening.

56 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:48:21pm

re: #38 Spider Mensch

I can remember those occasional windy early fall days..still a little warm out…once in awhile when they were marching us around outside.. the wind would blow those robes or habbits or shrouds or whatever they called their grim reaper like attire..and you’d actually get a glimpse that underneath the robes on the few younger nuns…there was actually a female form hiding under all that black. why she’s built like mommy! but of course we knew they didn’t have any hair underneath those head pieces ))) sothey really weren’t like mommy…


Nuns don’t dress like that any more.

But Muslim women do…(queue the scary music)

57 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:48:33pm

The world needs more funny people in charge. No one with a sense of humor would name a PAC “Women4Ball” if they were trying to take it seriously.

58 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:49:46pm

re: #57 JasonA

The world needs more funny people in charge. No one with a sense of humor would name a PAC “Women4Ball” if they were trying to take it seriously.

Crikey!
Lol.

59 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:50:17pm

re: #46 darthstar

Sorry to OT so soon, but I can’t stop laughing at this diary (sad as it is that it’s actually based on a real advertisement, and not a parody piece)

Want a raise? Wash your vagina.

image of the ad in question for those who won’t visit dKos

Something something pornstar something.

60 spikester  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:51:03pm

re: #56 Alouette

Youtube Video
61 MrSilverDragon  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:51:03pm

re: #57 JasonA

The world needs more funny people in charge. No one with a sense of humor would name a PAC “Women4Ball” if they were trying to take it seriously.

The mental images alone are enough to get me rolling in hysterics. Fabulous!

62 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:53:13pm

re: #46 darthstar

Sorry to OT so soon, but I can’t stop laughing at this diary (sad as it is that it’s actually based on a real advertisement, and not a parody piece)

Want a raise? Wash your vagina.

image of the ad in question for those who won’t visit dKos

Why are they advertising in “Woman’s Day”? Career gals don’t read that. That is a checkout-line magazine for post-menopausal grannies. Even stay-at-home moms prefer “Redbook.”

63 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:53:52pm

re: #25 JasonA

I love how the internet has significantly raised the level discourse for some and dropped it in the toilet for others.

Water seeks it’s own level. Same applies to sewage, I suppose.

64 Kronocide  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:54:50pm

OT: Been staying down in Newcastle, Australia for a week. Coincedentally I finished Climate Cover Up while I was here: read it 2/3 through 3 months ago and never finished it, restarted from the beginning.

There is a major coal seam inland in the Hunter Valley, supposedly 300 years worth of coal. On a high day, when I visited downtown Newcastle, the coal ships run thirty deep waiting to load up. Yesterday I only saw 10. I love big ships and think that part of it is cool. Thinking about all that stored up carbon being released tempers that. From the research I’ve looked at most of this coal goes to the China steel industry who have long range contracts.

Caught between the depressing feeling we’re screwed and the anger of the wholesale scam perpetuated upon us by the denial lobby, my wife told me she wants to have children. Our future weights heavily on whether I have children, I am worried that they will see war and a much different world if I don’t in my waning years.

65 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:55:29pm

OT:

I owe an apology for something I carelessly typed last night.

Mandy, I apologize for my remark. It was off-the-cuff and stupid, and I’m sorry.

66 MrSilverDragon  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:56:18pm

re: #62 Alouette

Why are they advertising in “Woman’s Day”? Career gals don’t read that. That is a checkout-line magazine for post-menopausal grannies. Even stay-at-home moms prefer “Redbook.”

Well, I’d think it would apply to women of all ages. Don’t you think that even post-menopausal grannies want to feel fresh too? I’d think so!

(am I just digging myself deeper and deeper here?)

67 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:56:59pm

I’m sad now.
Satoshi Kon died.
:(

68 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:58:42pm

re: #66 MrSilverDragon

Well, I’d think it would apply to women of all ages. Don’t you think that even post-menopausal grannies want to feel fresh too? I’d think so!

(am I just digging myself deeper and deeper here?)

Well, the ad is directed at career women, and recommends using their product in order to gain the confidence to ask for that coveted raise.

How does that apply to post-menopausal grannies? What they are hoping for is viagra for the old man.

69 darthstar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:58:42pm

re: #67 Varek Raith

I’m sad now.
Satoshi Kon died.
:(

He finally mastered the art of the frozen expression.

70 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 12:59:54pm

re: #68 Alouette

Well, the ad is directed at career women, and recommends using their product in order to gain the confidence to ask for that coveted raise.

How does that apply to post-menopausal grannies? What they are hoping for is viagra for the old man.

I have to leave now.

71 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:00:16pm

re: #46 darthstar

Sorry to OT so soon, but I can’t stop laughing at this diary (sad as it is that it’s actually based on a real advertisement, and not a parody piece)

Want a raise? Wash your vagina.

image of the ad in question for those who won’t visit dKos

OMG.
1st thing on the list: Throw a packet of feminine cleansing cloths into your handbag.
Item #2 - Have a good breakfast.

ROFL!
That’s too funny.

72 MrSilverDragon  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:00:47pm

re: #70 JasonA

I have to leave now.

Out of viagra?

73 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:01:45pm

re: #72 MrSilverDragon

Out of viagra?

I suspect he fell to the floor in a fit of laughter.

74 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:01:53pm

re: #71 reine.de.tout

OMG.
1st thing on the list: Throw a packet of feminine cleansing cloths into your handbag.
Item #2 - Have a good breakfast.

ROFL!
That’s too funny.

Who eats a good breakfast anymore?

75 tradewind  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:02:51pm

Gotta be the stress: they’re eating their young.
[Link: thehill.com…]

76 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:02:52pm

I think comedy news is now the real news.

Seriously: we have one hundred thousand or so news outlets putting on the “I’m a serious person, and this is the news” face on a 24-hour basis, yet the only ones who get to the heart of the matter are the comedians.

Maybe that’s because human beings and their activities are essentially humorous, sub specie aeternitatis. I don’t know. But I do know that I want to have drinks with Jon Stuart Leibowitz.

77 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:03:26pm

re: #68 Alouette

How does that apply to post-menopausal grannies? What they are hoping for is viagra for the old man.

Maybe the P.M. grannies should hang with a younger crowd?

78 tradewind  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:03:42pm

re: #71 reine.de.tout
LOL, he’s a little off on his anatomy.
At least I hope it was a he…./

79 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:04:45pm

re: #71 reine.de.tout

OMG.
1st thing on the list: Throw a packet of feminine cleansing cloths into your handbag.
Item #2 - Have a good breakfast.

ROFL!
That’s too funny.

And #7:
Don’t let the conversation get personal.

OMG.
I’m laughing so hard I”m crying.

80 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:05:45pm

re: #79 reine.de.tout

And #7:
Don’t let the conversation get personal.

OMG.
I’m laughing so hard I”m crying.

#3:
Leave early. YOu don’t want to be late on a day when someone’s thinking about your performance.

OK, that’s all.
jeez.

81 darthstar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:06:12pm

re: #79 reine.de.tout

And #7:
Don’t let the conversation get personal.

OMG.
I’m laughing so hard I”m crying.

It had me in tears, too…I had to facebook it.

82 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:07:06pm

re: #77 Slumbering Behemoth

Maybe the P.M. grannies should hang with a younger crowd?

I’ve got a neighbor who’s my age (mid-fifties); her husband is 35.
She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED at the cradle-robbing.

83 Kragar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:08:37pm

re: #82 reine.de.tout

I’ve got a neighbor who’s my age (mid-fifties); her husband is 35.
She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED at the cradle-robbing.

I hope she takes approriate action and tells her to fuck off?

My wife is 8 years older than me.

84 prairiefire  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:08:39pm

re: #82 reine.de.tout

I’ve got a neighbor who’s my age (mid-fifties); her husband is 35.
She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED at the cradle-robbing.

If she can keep up with the night life, all the more power to her.

85 What, me worry?  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:09:48pm

Been having some computer problems so I only have infrequent access.

I’m sorry I missed the Ken Mehlman thread, but I wanted to post this in his honor.

Youtube Video

Many years ago, my supervisor called me into her office. We were actually personal friends (and oddly enough, she’s gay), but anyway, when I got there, she said to me, “I want you to read this e-mail and tell me if you think it’s for real.”

It was from Ken Mehlman’s office. The night before, Whoopi Goldberg said something publicly against Bush. I don’t remember if it was an award’s show or something, but there was some scuttlebutt about it that morning. Anyway, the e-mail referred to Whoopi’s statement and said that anyone making any statements against President Bush would be subject to fine or imprisonment or both and that it was against the law to speak against the president. The e-mail was extremely threatening. I shit you not.

I told her it must be a scam. That no one politically connected in any way would say something so stupid. Even Bush’s people had to know that. I suggested forwarding the email to our IT guy and see if he could track the headers. “He’ll know where it came from,” I told her.

It came from Mehlman’s campaign office. Mehlman’s signature was on that e-mail. I never forgot that about him.

86 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:11:26pm

re: #82 reine.de.tout

I’ve got a neighbor who’s my age (mid-fifties); her husband is 35.
She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED at the cradle-robbing.

More power to ‘em, I say. Their marriage ain’t nobody’s freaking business but their own.

87 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:12:55pm

re: #82 reine.de.tout

I’ve got a neighbor who’s my age (mid-fifties); her husband is 35.
She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED at the cradle-robbing.

Whoa. Does she have a bunch of money, or is she just really, really hot?

88 Walter L. Newton  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:14:38pm

re: #87 Alouette

Whoa. Does she have a bunch of money, or is she just really, really hot?

How about maybe, just maybe, they are in love? (I know, strange concept, I love how money or looks HAS to be behind a relationship that doesn’t fit the Hollywood norm).

89 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:15:34pm

re: #81 darthstar

It had me in tears, too…I had to facebook it.

I just did, too.

90 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:15:54pm

Pamela Geller, still looking for the Nirth Certifikit…..
Pam Geller: “We have no paperwork on Obama … you can’t find anything”


From the August 24 edition of Salem Radio’s The Mike Gallagher Show:


She also has the gall to mention Rathergate.

91 darthstar  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:16:25pm

re: #89 reine.de.tout

You’ve got my email…feel free to ‘friend me’

92 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:16:55pm

re: #87 Alouette

Whoa. Does she have a bunch of money, or is she just really, really hot?

She’s cute, bubbly, outgoing -
He’s very quiet, serious - she’s actually older in age, but he acts like the paw-paw. And they seem to be crazy about each other.

93 What, me worry?  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:17:04pm

re: #82 reine.de.tout

I’ve got a neighbor who’s my age (mid-fifties); her husband is 35.
She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED at the cradle-robbing.

hehe You go girl.

My mom’s having this problem. She’s looking for an eligible senior (over 65) but they all want 50 year olds. And they get them. It’s a double standard for men and I think it sucks.

94 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:19:06pm

re: #91 darthstar

You’ve got my email…feel free to ‘friend me’

Sent.

95 tradewind  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:19:51pm

re: #1 Rightwingconspirator
The job’s somewhat easier when the lede has a built-in disclaimer.
‘It’s satire, you can’t hold me to facts ‘.
Whichever side of an issue you’re on, if Stewart nails the opposing view, you’re gonna be happy.
When he skewers Obama, he always seems especially brilliant./

96 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:20:08pm

re: #86 Slumbering Behemoth

More power to ‘em, I say. Their marriage ain’t nobody’s freaking business but their own.

Oh, absolutely!
I like ‘em both a lot.
But we have one neighbor who is horrified …

97 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:20:12pm

For the gaming geeks: Portal 2 Wheatley Footage
I won’t watch for fear of spoilers but some of you might want to see it.

98 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:21:59pm

re: #83 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I hope she takes approriate action and tells her to fuck off?

My wife is 8 years older than me.

They’re a perfect match.
The neighbor only gossips to my husband, for some reason. Probably ‘cause I don’t much talk to anybody, and he won’t shut up.

99 tradewind  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:22:02pm

re: #82 reine.de.tout

She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED sooo jealous at the cradle-robbing.


FTFY/

100 MandyManners  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:22:20pm

re: #65 Cato the Elder

OT:

I owe an apology for something I carelessly typed last night.

Mandy, I apologize for my remark. It was off-the-cuff and stupid, and I’m sorry.

Huh?

101 tradewind  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:22:46pm

re: #96 reine.de.tout
….that she’s not getting some of that action./

102 What, me worry?  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:25:35pm

re: #98 reine.de.tout

They’re a perfect match.
The neighbor only gossips to my husband, for some reason. Probably ‘cause I don’t much talk to anybody, and he won’t shut up.

Women live longer than men, so if a woman marries someone younger, you’ll have better luck staying together longer.

Makes more sense biologically really.

103 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:27:08pm

Let us now go back in time, to the days of yore, when synagogues were viewed with no little suspicion whenever a gaggle of Jews wanted to build a new one in, say, Sheboygan.

Jewish interviewer, addressing the Spokesjew for the proposed new synagogue and community center and school on the hallowed ground of Wisconsin: “So, you’re saying that the kitchen will not include facilities for making Christian children into matzoh-ball soup? Tee-hee, tell me another one.”

Spokesjew: “What in the name of gehennah are you talking about?”

Interviewer: “Oh, come on. You and I should not pretend we don’t know about the seekrit laws of the Talmud.”

Spokesjew: “I’m sorry, why do you keep winking and nudging me? I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

Interviewer: “You know, a few good Jews like you could really spoil things for the rest of us. This is the worst synagogue I’ve ever seen in my whole life!”

104 prairiefire  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:29:46pm

re: #98 reine.de.tout

Hey, I just sent you a friend request on Facebook. Thanks!

105 iossarian  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:30:26pm

re: #93 marjoriemoon

hehe You go girl.

My mom’s having this problem. She’s looking for an eligible senior (over 65) but they all want 50 year olds. And they get them. It’s a double standard for men and I think it sucks.

Takes two to tango. Why don’t the hot 50 year-old women hook up with 50-year old men?

Highbrow magazine personal ads are full of “50 yr old vivacious blonde seeks financially comfortable older man”.

106 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:31:51pm

re: #104 prairiefire

Hey, I just sent you a friend request on Facebook. Thanks!

OK. I haven’t gotten it yet. I use a different e-mail for FB than I do for other stuff.

107 Winny Spencer  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:35:49pm

re: #97 Killgore Trout

On the subject, tomorrow I will play Mafia II. Yes, I am stoked.

108 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:37:14pm

re: #93 marjoriemoon

hehe You go girl.

My mom’s having this problem. She’s looking for an eligible senior (over 65) but they all want 50 year olds. And they get them. It’s a double standard for men and I think it sucks.

I told Zedushka that I will never marry again if he should pass on before I do. I’m getting a cat. Much less trouble than another old man.

109 DaddyG  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:43:20pm

re: #27 elbruce The Daily Show and Colbert Report really mean a lot more when you can laugh at yourself.

110 DaddyG  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:44:00pm

re: #90 Killgore Trout

Pamela Geller, still looking for the Nirth Certifikit…
Pam Geller: “We have no paperwork on Obama … you can’t find anything”


She also has the gall to mention Rathergate.


Aha! Absence of evidence means guilt! The aliens really did land at area 51.

111 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 1:55:59pm

re: #96 reine.de.tout

Oh, absolutely!
I like ‘em both a lot.
But we have one neighbor who is horrified …

Lemme guess. That one neighbor is either bitterly single or unhappily married. Am I close?

112 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 2:36:45pm

re: #111 Slumbering Behemoth

Lemme guess. That one neighbor is either bitterly single or unhappily married. Am I close?

Widowed.
And not really bitter … just very old fashioned, I guess.

113 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 3:07:15pm

re: #6 countrockulot

Fox News: “ACORN! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: “ACORN!”
Fox News: “Van Jones! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: “Van Jones kind of, I guess”
Fox News: “New Black Panther Party! (black people are scary)”
Mainstream media: …
Fox News: “Sherry Sherrod! (black people are scarWHOOPS!”
Mainstream media: “Hey wait a minute! Is it possible Fox News is making up stories just to push the idea that …”
Fox News: “Ground Zero Mosque! (muslims are scary)”
Mainstream media: Ground Zero Mosque!

The media: Charlie Brown to Fox News’s Lucy.

epic

114 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 3:08:24pm

re: #85 marjoriemoon

Been having some computer problems so I only have infrequent access.

I’m sorry I missed the Ken Mehlman thread, but I wanted to post this in his honor.


[Video]Many years ago, my supervisor called me into her office. We were actually personal friends (and oddly enough, she’s gay), but anyway, when I got there, she said to me, “I want you to read this e-mail and tell me if you think it’s for real.”

It was from Ken Mehlman’s office. The night before, Whoopi Goldberg said something publicly against Bush. I don’t remember if it was an award’s show or something, but there was some scuttlebutt about it that morning. Anyway, the e-mail referred to Whoopi’s statement and said that anyone making any statements against President Bush would be subject to fine or imprisonment or both and that it was against the law to speak against the president. The e-mail was extremely threatening. I shit you not.

I told her it must be a scam. That no one politically connected in any way would say something so stupid. Even Bush’s people had to know that. I suggested forwarding the email to our IT guy and see if he could track the headers. “He’ll know where it came from,” I told her.

It came from Mehlman’s campaign office. Mehlman’s signature was on that e-mail. I never forgot that about him.

wow

quoted for scary

115 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 3:11:29pm

re: #82 reine.de.tout

I’ve got a neighbor who’s my age (mid-fifties); her husband is 35.
She catches hell from one of the other ladies in the neighborhood, who is SHOCKED at the cradle-robbing.

A couple who are friends of mine and my parents, they’re great because they’re precisely in between my scene and my parents’ scene, I can joke with them about cartoons and internet memes, and my parents play cards with them and go out a lot, the lady is late 50’s, the guy is my age (mid 30s) and they’re just so precisely matched it’s uncanny.

116 ClaudeMonet  Thu, Aug 26, 2010 11:58:53pm

re: #36 darthstar

I’m still dealing with the trauma of not having any priest or nun hit on me.

That you can now remember.


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