“I resent the fact that the Democrats are making fun of the Tea Party, and likewise, I don’t like the Republicans making fun of Democrats. Basically, shut up; don’t tell me what’s wrong with the other party. Tell me what you’re going to do for me, then I’ll let you know who I’m going to vote for,” he told us. “This is why America is like me – sometimes Republicans get in, sometimes Democrats get in. As soon as one messes up, we throw them out. Watch what’s going to happen this election.”
Hear, hear! Throw all the bums out!
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The Confluence 
This Parker Spitzer show is on the oversensationalized side. Meh.
90% of the show is about how stupid Sarah Palin is.
and TImothy Geithner
Why not? It’s the only reason Kathleen Parker is even on CNN.
Finally! Something worth watching. They are interviewing Liz Warren.
yup, yup
I don’t watch teevee news. It’s against my religion.
Honk.
Hear! Hear!
oh brother Aaron Sorkin… apologizing for Obama
“Sarah Palin is an idiot.”
–Aaron Sorkin
and mean.
“And Democrats may have moved to the center but the Republicans have moved into an insane asylum.”
I dunno. I think both of them are just doing what it takes to get money and reelected. Governing is just a side thought
The Republicans are 2% more crazy.
Fuck Aaron Sorkin!
And the pony he rode in on!
but his daddy fought in the big one!
“The Democrats may have moved to the center, but the Republicans have moved into a mental institution. So I’ll take the Democrats.”
–Aaron Sorkin
“The rightwing may have moved to the batshit fringe, but the progressives have moved to the right of Nixon.”
–Wonk the Vote
LOL CNN is really channeling MSNBC tonight. “Make it dumber, dumb it down.”
CNN is always dumber than MSNBC actually. and more boring. MSNBC and Fox are horrible, but CNN tries to straddle the worst of both worlds, and it’s just a lot of over the top hype that’s trying too hard but doesn’t bring any viewership. CNN is the go-to channel for when a famous person dies, that’s their bread and butter.
Well, we’ll just see about that when Larry King leaves.
True, but the Sarah Palin fashion thing and bringing up The Hoff is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. THis thing has cheesy production values and is also shooting for those stupid KO pop culture references, it’s the most embarassing thing they’ve done in a while that doesn’t involve Rick Sanchez.
as much as Larry King looks like the crypt keeper and was really unprepared with his interviews in recent years, he was one of the last shreds of constancy left on CNN. Bringing in a British tabloid veteran just shows CNN is as shameless infotainment as the rest of them.
The got rid of the guy responsible for that and Parker/Spitzer
I actually wonder if they got rid of Jonathan Klein because of the Michael Ware stuff I posted about.
Probably more ratings related. CNN just keeps on losing ratings. Did you read The New York Magazine today? He was actually considering getting Olbermann away from MSNBC just to goose ratings. I’ve been reading that Fox considers Glenn Beck to be empty calories because he show doesn’t bring in any money. Advertisers find him to be poison.
He should have taken Piers, Elliot, and Kathleen with him to the unemployment line.
I’m sure it was ratings related, but I just think it’s convenient that CNN fires its president at the same time Ware says they failed to report a possible war crime.
No shit! The center of what . I’m sorry but I want to say Reagan’s @ss! Excuse me if I offend anyone here.
Here comes the FAIR and BALANCED part … every one a panel has to say something nice about Sarah and already the teaser is talking about her leather jacket …
These people really need to get out of New York and Washington DC or they are NEVER going to get ANYTHING!
this show is terrible.
Aaron Sorkin, like the West Wing guy? I mean, it was pretty obvious during the last season that he was all O-happy, but DAMN.
yep Sandra, that Aaron Sorkin. He said poor O can’t control the reaction to him the way he can with his characters, the implication being that’s why poor O is having such a hard time.
He’s textbook prog dude. Just looking at him, it’s obvious that being ok looking, when he got rich and successful overnight he was a dick to everyone (confirmed by a quick glance at the theatre boards). Then he writes a show with a hawkish but intellectual center right hero (and okay, endearing and adorable but that’s mostly Martin Sheen) to show how he’s hooked in to the zeitgeist no bleeding heart realpolitik is where it’s at, invite me on talk shows and take me seriously, then he goes goony for O and feels part of something! Like we can trust in each other and become our best selves without actually have to do anything. He hits every cliche in the book.
This makes me think of The Good Wife, I’d rather watch a show focusing on, what’s her name, Sima?
I really like the Good Wife, but have fallen behind on all scripted tv and need to take time to catch up. Archie Panjabi–who plays Kalinda– won the Emmy for supporting actress!
Me too. My TV was destroyed by lighting, but I can see a TV from my desk (and change the channel if no one’s watching it, ha ;)). Go Archie Panjabi!
I saw Kiss at Selland Arena in Fresno in 1977
1996. Civic in Omaha.
One of their “Final” final tours.
LOL
Loudest show I’ve ever been to.
Cheap Trick was the opening act. I was 17 and not long out of Sunday School. We were walking in and the medics were carrying some unconscious guy out.
We went inside and found a place to stand. Some biker next to me lit a joint, handed it to me and said “This is the best.”
Good times, good times.
Funniest Kiss line ever from some movie my daughter made me watch (Role Models):
No, I like to rock n’ roll all night and *part* of every day. I usually have errands… I can only rock from like 1-3.
My brother used to make that joke.
One of the great 70’s bands, led by Irish frontman Phil Lynott:
Wow. Could they pack the guests any closer together? It looks like an uncool episode of Red Eye.
I only saw the last part, but I nearly fell out of my chair. Should Spitzer really ask people about their guilty pleasures?
Lol He’s just wayyy too perky, I think America wants to seem him sober and chastened. 😉
B-I-N-G-O
You know, I used to have a lot of respect for Paul Krugman, but he has just pissed me off one time too many.
So they are all raycist klansmen, huh? Bullshit. You, Mr. Krugman, are a pompous, self-important, ivory-tower elitist ass, whose head is so far up Obama’s butt that you are suffering from hypoxia and delirium. I am not even a damn conservative, and I find myself rooting for these people just to shut up the big fat arrogant finger-wagging pontificators like yourself. Keep it up, assholes, and I’ll pull a straight R lever in November, just for the joy of seeing the NYT editorial board crap their trousers in dismay.
Flame away, but that is how I feel right now. I am SICK of perfectly normal everyday people being called raycists and neanderthals. And I am on the fucking edge of voting against any group that persists in that characterization, regardless of what else I may agree with them on. They’ll be lucky if I sit this one out or vote Green, because the left is pissing me off just that much. If I go into the booth this angry, no telling what I’ll do.
Got so mad I forgot my link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opinion/04krugman.html
HONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
honk honk!
Krugman can’t see straight when it comes to the Ds and the Rs. I value his economic posts and I think he was better at the D vs. ostensible D analysis, I but avoid his analysis on D vs. R. He’s either too entrenched in the mainstream or hasn’t had that epiphany yet that the D and the R are just two rhetorical flavors for the corporations to maximize the ways in which they can get their agenda met.
It is hard for me to imagine that the D’s are really this stupid. I mean, I’m a freaking liberal and they are disgusting ME with their treatment of the tea-partiers.
I have family members and neighbors who are part of that movement. And not a single damn one of them are raycist, or selfish jerks, or crazy ideologues. What they are is deeply disappointed in and distrustful of their govt, and for DAMN GOOD REASON.
All the Dems needed to do was just a little bit of good governance. Just some transparency, and responsibility, and serious attention to fixing what was wrong instead of grabbing power for power’s sake, and gloating and rewarding cronies, and geefully patting themselves on the back for “We WON, screw you!” while the country drowned.
If they had DONE that, then a lot of those friends and neighbors and family members of mine would have shifted left most willingly. I know them. They are not rigid people. Hell, several of them voted for Obama!
Instead, the Dems are just jeering and writing off these people, walling them off behind accusations of raycism, or stupidity, of fringiness and wacko-ness, just so they don’t have to face the truth that they have FAILED them miserably. And instead of alleviating their distrust of govt, they have reinforced it with a vengeance.
The left is CREATING a whole swathe of the population that will never trust or listen to them again. Ever. Under any circumstances. And it didn’t have to be that way.. Its just so damn sad.
“Your friends and family are racists” isn’t quite as bad as “You’re a racist.”
But it’s close.
It definitely casts a wider net.
Yeah, it looks like the Dems capitalized on the nation’s disgust with Bush……….by coming into power and proving “Hey, we can screw you over just as badly as he did, except we will also call you raycist hillbillies while we do it!”.
Between the Bush years and Obama, is it any wonder that people are in a SCREW GOVT IN GENERAL mood? I mean, jesus, it’s pretty understandable. What is not understandable is the D’s reinforcing that feeling rather than defusing it. When you have a populace who is seeing govt as the enemy, it isn’t exactly smart to go around talking to and about them as if they were your enemy.
I am their enemy! That goes for both legacy parties. But right now I’m more pissed at the ones in power spouting their shit.
The Democrats’ strategy seems to be going hard negative. I think poking the mama grizzly, as it were, is going to turn out very badly,
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20101004/APC0101/10040484/Women-could-sway-elections
It looks like us women here, sorry guys, have some power. Too bad for the Democrats as they’re too stupid to figure out you don’t bite the one that birthed you!
I also read this!
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/10/04/Number-of-women-in-Congress-likely-to-fall/UPI-24621286207103/
And I thought Bush was taking women back to the fifties. Leave it to a Democrats to screw this thing up!
More of the women are Democrats and they will do down with this sinking ship!
I am so with you. You dare me to vote R, do you? Well, watch this, you jackasses.
you are channeling Daily Howler (Bob Somerby). As Bob says, the race card is all that the so-called liberals have got now.
honkety honk honk!
WORD.
You mean the Gene Simmons who told Terry Gross that if she really wanted to understand him, she’d have to welcome him with open legs? That Febe Simmons?
Damn, if only someone I respect had said that.
Like I watch television?
Are we supposed to do background checks on everybody?
No, it’s just a notorious interview. I can’t decide if he’s really the lecherous jerk or was playing an elaborate practical joke on Gross. A bit if both, I suspect.
He’s right about the political situation, of course, but the interview will probably undercut his message.
What’s wrong with lecherous jerks?
Are you trying to pick a fight?
I mean no disrespect.
I can’t believe I just typed that.
BTW, you know me better than that. You pretty much can do what you want around here. I know where to find you if you f#%% up.
That wasn’t my real address. That’s the one I give to creditors.
Though to be fair Terry Gross comes off as one of those liberals whose mind is so wide open that her brains have fallen out. I remember the interview she did with Stephen King where he said he had to reevaluate his writing career early when he found himself writing the obligatory two naked women scene in a tacky champagne glass bathtub and she completely missed the ironic humor. I mean, isn’t that kind if thing commonplace?
Anyways, she’s a twit.
I heard that interview. He was so faux-hip full of himself. I could never have imagined Terry Gross insulting an interview subject but even she had to call him obnoxious to his face.
Can I ask so was what Gene said to Terry sexism or am I doing what myiq once stated to another commentator, confusing sex with sexism. If he said that to you Riverdaughter, how would you react? I mean did Terry say something to offend him?
Read what RD said:
If that doesn’t satisfy your curiosity, try teh google.
From Wikipedia:
me three.
1987 – Shoreline Ampitheater:
If you were my neighbor and had a really loud stereo playing your taste in music into my house day in and day out, I would have to have you killed.
You wouldn’t be the first woman to try.
You mean that song wasn’t written for “Dangerous Catch”?
A redneck anthem:
You posted that just to poke a stick at dakinikat, didn’t you? ;D
I just cannot take County Western music in ANY form. It huts my ears.
I used to hate country music when I was younger and its all anyone would play during choir practice breaks. But it’s kinda hard to live here forever and not let some of it grow on you, Lol
I don’t like it as a genre, but I sometimes like individual songs. I feel pretty much the same way about Rap.
Don’t move to Calgary.
Oh, man, you do not want to go there
roflmao!!!
Oops. I forgot that one does not serve up a slow pitch to the lecherous clown.
He already says I’m too troll-tolerate.You have no idea.
good songs are eternal
Another awesome 70’s band:
Where do Obots think the music they listen to came from, anyway?
iTunes.
I always thought Spinal tap borrowed from this band. I’ll have to ask Harry next time I see him.
Just for DK:
thank you! Any roots music is okay. You can do blue grass all you want!!!
When I was a kid, we used to go every summer to Coney Grove bluegrass festival in Georgia. My uncle Luke played banjo, and most of his friends played one thing or another. We’d camp out for a week, and the kids just ran wild. I heard better music around various campfires than I heard onstage. And I saw 6-year olds on stage who could freaking PLAY a damn fiddle.
I started playing piano when I was less than three. My kids tried every instrument possible. I used to conduct a bell choir and teach piano when I was pregnant with my oldest. Even in the womb, she’d get active around the music. If you are raised around music, you learn really young and that’s the best time to learn. It’s like becoming bilingual. You learn best when you’re curious and when you want to try new things.
His accent is SOOOOOOOOOOO painful to listen to
Then, just look at his face, cher.
i’ve wired the Doopsies so many times I can’t even count.
This one’s extra special for DK:
Hey darlin! I’m the one who got put through college on sales of f150s,250s, and 350s ….
You moving on to Toby Keith next?
Anyone has noticed this?
Valerie Jarrett on Morning Joe (around 3:40),
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789#39498288
(paraphrased from audio)
So people are attending community colleges to work at McDonald’s?
If I’m going country, I’m going old school:
Old school?
That one brings back memories. “Couples skate…couples skate only…”
I love that song.
Okay, I’ll change genres:
I grew up listening to this:
Ha! I’ll see your Ferlin Husky and raise you a Happy Goodman Family. *shudder*
I grew up listening to this:
Gator got yer granny!
It was always a secret goal of mine to be a “wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin’ woman.”
sorry, didn’t realize the embed was disabled
this embed works.. but it’s not live
MSNBC disses clowns.
No joke! Illiterate clown triumphs in election
Load up the clown car, we’re going on a road trip!
Lol
Now this is bee-yoo-tiful music:
yup, agree there
And a wonderful film too.
This is just awesome:
I was just about to put up a Natalie Merchant song next..
That’s the good stuff.
love her lots!
TDS is beating on Rick the Prick
I love Natalie Merchant–drew me right in. My all time favorite in an oldie from Tigerlily–‘know this child will be able’. Not sure if that is the title. It always reminds me of my youngest daughter.
thank you–she’s great isn’t she?
My favorite! Lovely and incredibly talented woman. The lead guitarist, Jennifer Turner, in there is also great.
Ah, but when it comes to sheer drama (murder, adultery, etc.) you can’t beat the old folk ballads.
“How do you like my featherbed and how do you like my sheets? And how do you like my lady who lies in your arms asleep…?”
“I’m not a witch.” I bet that’s the first time that sentence has appeared in a political ad.
That’s a pretty safe bet.
If it were me, I would have said, “I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you say that I am, god will give you blood to drink.” Which explains why I have no future in politics.
That ad worked in a way. She sure looks younger than her age though.
Standard disclaimer: I wouldn’t vote for O’Donnell.
but putting on my political analysis hat, that ad is effective at making the people hyperventilating over her look small.
ot–funny story–when that Natalie Merchant song, Wonder, came out it made me teary because it reminded me of my youngest daughter. She was so alert and composed when she was born that several doctors came in to look at her. Well, I told her that the song reminded me of her and she said, ‘Mom, it’s about a retarded child.’ Well–I didn’t know that. Anyway, I feel old sometimes.
And I still love that song.
It’s raining clown news today. They’re going after O’Donnell because her father used to be a clown? Or, not? Is this a satire or for real?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/send-in-the-clowns-and-the-truth-squad/
More at the link.
I’d vote for O’Donnell if I lived in DE. It’s not like she’s going to be president.
Normally I’d figure this was a satire, but with the way the progressives have been going nuts to dig up anything on her, the parody of the O’Donnell coverage seems on par with the reality.
Perusing the comments on NYT, one commenter says Stinque is parodying the birthers with this.
that does appear to be the case looking at this
http://www.stinque.com/2010/10/03/stinque-launches-bozogate-billboard-campaign/
I’d say it’s a bit of both, and 100% the idiot Dems would try to make an issue of it if they thought it would get them anywhere. One of the commenters wants to comb the AFTRA rolls, because if her dad had small TV roles even apart from Bozo, he’d be in there, and if he isn’t, it’s a lie! And, he was born in Oklahoma before it was a state and we’ve never seen the long form of his bc!
Asshats.
Even though they’re trying to parody the birthers, without the “where’s the bozo certificate” line this Bozo-gate stuff mimics the coverage of O’Donnell itself.
Yep. not everyone is even aware it’s a parody, and they’re pushing the same underlying memes, and the Dems would have no trouble using it if they thought it would work.
I just posted something about this up above. I can’t believe the stupidity of the Dems. This is just making them look like idiots and it will help the Republicans.
Here’s a link to Stinque…
http://www.stinque.com/
The Rs and Ds are a turn off. There are better Mud Wrestlings