On Press the Meat this week, Michael Steele gets a permission slip from Rush Limbaugh to visit the show, as long as he sticks to Rush’s script. Also on, the DNC’s Tim Kaine, and a roundtable with the Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haass, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, Wall Street Journal’s Piggy Peggy Noonan, and the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein.
Over at CBS’s Faze the Nation, it’s creepy downstate NY congressman Peter King, the ACLU’s Anthony Romero, CBS’s John Dickerson, and Joan Biskupic of USA Today (what, nobody from People MAgazine was available?).
On Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace hosts a “fair and balanced” debate between Richard McBrien and Frank Pavone, on whether Notre Dame should stoop to honoring abortion rights advocate Barack Obama. For you high and mighty Catholics out there, might I suggest that you quit buggering altar boys (and covering up the buggery) before you cast stones at others?
As for Notre Dame in general, I have two things to say to you:
First, FUCK YOU and your use of an Irish American as your mascot, thereby both dehumanizing Irishmen, and perpetuating the racial stereotype that the Irish are thick-skulled ignorant brutish fighters. I ought to kick your asses.
Second, you lost to Syracuse – at Notre Dame in front of Touchdown fucking Jesus in football last year. Yeah, Syracuse, who lost to Akron at home last year (no offense to Kevin or the Zips). Suck on that, you assholes.
Also on Fux, Senator Mitch McConnell steps out of his closet, and “Power Player of the Week” Patty Stonesifer, chair of the Smithsonian Board of Regents. And to Patty, I have one thing to say: pay your goddamn summer interns, bitch.
On the Goebbels network, George Snufalufagus hosts a “debate” between Krazy Jon Kyl and Jim Webb, on whether or the US is safer under Obama. Hmm. Let’s see, Bush/Cheney, under whose reign more Americans were killed as a result of terrorist attacks than all other presidential administrations combined vs. Obama, who is actually not – yet- despised by most of the world. Tough call.
Then it’s a roundtable with George :jerk: Will, James “cupie doll” Carville, the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, Political wizard Steve Schmidt (senior adviser to John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign), and the spawn of evil, Liz Cheney.
On CNN, India’s version of the Chuckie Doll, Fareed Zakaria, hosts former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates discusses the war in Afghanistan with consummate journalist Katie Couric, Steve Kroft talks to AIG’s Ed Liddy, and Morley Safer talks to somebody named Anna Wintour, who is apparently famous for her sunglasses, though I’m proud to say I haven’t a clue as to who the hell she is.
Have a good one, y’all.
:jesus: Greetings from the Land of Lake Wobegon :cat:
A bit chilly, but otherwise sunny & beautiful here in Minneapolis :cold:
Have been here visiting Daughters & Grandbabies for a week & will be heading back to NY tomorrow. Worst part about going back is driving through/around Chicago :blues:
PJ — I’ll give Notre Dame the one finger salute :fu: for you as I drive by there.
Have a great day Bloggies — :nixon:
Seeya soon, PJ – :love:
Oh, you’ve been gone? I knew something was different around here. Just couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
Uhoh, PJ. You’re in big trouble from someone with “raging” as part of her name. Better apologize. :no:
Trust me, if she didn’t have a sense of humor, I’d have been dead years ago.
Donald Rumsfeld, a man not know for his religious fervor, composed cover sheets for a daily presidential report on the progress of the war. Imposed on pictures of the Iraq war were bible quotes.
I’m sure our bible warrior, Chimpy, thought them inspirational. Had they been published it would have added fuel to the fear of Muslims that the US was conducting a religious war.
Slide show here.
On FUXNEWS this morning they had somebody subbing for Juan Williams who looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Jennifer (Mc)Loven from AP was her name. And then they had Nina (Morning Drain) Easton on for Mara who essentially torpedoed any semblance of balance. This was the highly refined essence of Fox at its ultimate purity.
Warmer today here in Minneapolis.
Nice photos from Lincoln, today.
mornin gang.
i put together some bluegrass tunes for dads remembrance next saturday. you might enjoy them:
http://www3.telus.net/Art-Adventures/09Dad'sObit-tune/
Second, you lost to Syracuse – at Notre Dame in front of Touchdown fucking Jesus in football last year. Yeah, Syracuse, who lost to Akron at home last year (no offense to Kevin or the Zips).
None taken. It was killing me last season to not mention it at the time. But I’ve been an alum long enough to know that you gloat over Zips victories at your peril, because the afterglow usually dies away by the next game.
And I agree one million percent that Notre Dame “supporters” should be less concerned about what women do with their bodies and more concerned about what priests do with boys’ bodies. So there.
And the ethnic stereotype about people of Irish descent constantly fighting is completely false. We usually stop around the time we black out from all the drinking.
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Well, here’s all I got.
Friday night I went to the late show at Cobb’s :cake: with some old friends. I claimed my tickets earlier and Marc was standing outside the front door being accosted by three younger blondes who did not seem his type so I interrupted to say hello and relay the messages and greetings from here. He said hey and was happy the pj (not e-mail) sandbox is still going.
Great show! Paul Gilmartin opened, supposedly a friend of Marc who introduced him. He was actually more political than Maron that night though not especially edgy. It was a pleasant 15 minute warm up. He was immediately followed by Marc who seemed a lot more relaxed than most of the previous shows I have seen. I think him working with Janeane is a good fit and a comfort zone for him. They seem to have a lot of camaraderie and respect for each other and in some ways they let their sets relate to each other. JG seems to request that he do certain bits and then she works off of them. Marc’s set was fairly personal, not a lot of Mishna talk and some new stuff and old. I am not as good as roxie so I can’t give you a transcript but between BRL and the CDs I was familiar with a lot of the material. It is very interesting to see the variations of the delivery and the tangents he can go on.
This was the first time I have ever seen Janeane and she most impressive. Like Marc, her set was very personal, kind of an update of where her life is for now. She comes across as warm, honest and friendly, probably much to the chagrin of her haters and detractors. She was not overtly political either but she did take on some issues and the idiots who try to demonize her. Then again she would launch into stuff about hygiene, her wardrobe, her age and her boyfriend of 10 years. A little more than Maron, she was very engaged with the audience which can be suicidal in the hands of more amateur comedy practitioners.
So after seeing the show Friday I was not at all upset that I was going back Saturday night for a paid admission. I met a couple of couples from the Seder side who had come from central CA and NYC for the show. Gilmartin took on a completely different presentation, taking on the persona of a conservative repug congressman and taking audience questions. I enjoyed that a lot more than the previous night. While he was on Marc was wandering through the club or hanging out in the wings watching. His set was a lot like the night before but much of it delivered perched on a tall chair. Janeane did much of the same as well but like Marc, her delivery was varied and audience engagement was different from the previous night.
The marquee of the club only had Janeane’s name on it and something about being from “24”. It kind of surprised me but I did not ask about it. One of the Seder folks was bearing gifts so we went over to the velvet rope after the show and Marc retrieved Janeane to accept her presents and sign some books. It was pretty hectic and it was nice of Maron to go get her and nice that she came out. You could tell she was very amped up from the set.
One thing I noticed was that both Marc and Janeane being in their mid 40s are starting to feel some of that age thing creeping up on them. I can only tell them just wait for another 10 years to go by.
I mentioned the problem with CD and he said he had not had any feedback of any problems. Could it have been something from the MP3 conversion?
Marc should be live on BRL tomorrow with Eric Bogosian.
Thanks for the recap, Vernon. Goodness knows, that’s about as close I’ll come to seeing their show. I think Richard Gilmartin is “Senator Richard Martin,” linked over there on the right, under Funny Stuff (or here: http://www.askarepublican.com/Welcome.html). He was on the MM Show, as I recall, which is when I put the link up.
That’s him. I forgot about that.
So, you guys remember that Senator that referred to the internet as “a series of interconnected tubes” ? well, that term has become a catch phrase amongst the young folk when they are making fun of people who don’t know anything about the internets. :nana:
Thanks for the review Vern, I’ll probably never get to see him here in phoenix either. Nothing ever comes to Phoenix. :fustrate:
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RG – safe travels!
Greetings from OK. (insert tornado emo) Spent last week in DC. Think I saw BO (could there be more than one dog on the property?) and definitely saw the organic garden (it has really grown!) and think I saw the girls heading off to school. Hectic week, but excellent conference. Returning to OK, it was surreal: do I really live here? Anyway, had some great dinners in DC.
mr. fk on the border between Afghanistan and and Pakistan. I’m not so thrilled with this move.
Vern, thanks for the update. Think mm will come to Okie land? (insert tornado emo)
re the Irish heretics: Watched Obama’s speech at ND. He is so smart. I loved how he handled the AZ snub – hilarious!
Lastly, can you imagine the uproar if we replaced all but one of the US Supreme Court justices with women? (Most of you men here, I know, wouldn’t care. I’m talking about the Limpburger types.)
What the hell, they all wear dresses anyway.