It’s almost like I’m lying in wait for the latest bullshit “scandal” awaiting the Democratic candidate to follow the chimp into the offal…I mean, Oval office. After all, we’ve come off a week when the vein-popping McCain has evened the race with the dem fav Obama, owing presumably to the corroborative testimony of Betray-ous and Crock-o’-shit before Congress, to the effect that more dead guys piling up in Iraq is a) a good thing, b)an acceptable thing, or 3) and expected thing, take your choice. And since McCain is the daddy of the surge, is it any wonder that the sheeple have collectively scratched their butts, poured a Bud, and said “See? It’s working…sort of!”?
Meanwhile, Osama…I mean OBAMA, apparently has stepped on his d**k again with some throwaway comment about Pennsylvania blue collars voting against their personal interest in favor of the guns & gays gruel served up heartily by the Repug christo/fascist propaganda fear machine. Perhaps he could have nuanced it a little better, but his point was clear: in times of economic crisis, regular folks turn to that whichever gives them comfort.
On cue, Hillary seized upon the moment, reminiscing about the time Daddy first showed her how to obliterate a squirrel with a 4-10 shotgun, and her abiding faith in the Almighty. Also on cue, Barack spun his apology tires trying to explain the obvious. But too little, too late. Blue Collar Reagan Democrats revolt! Can Obama connect with the working drones as they hose down their motor boats in anticipation of perch and trout season? Will Hillary pull a Kerry and contrive a photo-op with a pellet-riddled migratory bird? Will McCain’s increasingly expansive grin actually cause his face to explode? Will Obama repudiate, reject, AND denounce his latest gaff and gin up his gun/god cred by spraying duck pins at the Allentown Park-and-Bowl with bird shot? An increasingly bored electorate awaits the answer.
odd thing is, Obama didnt say anything in this bit- a youtube can be found of it on Sullivans & Im sure a lot other places- that I aint heard for decades, from people-rural folks, folks like me who do actual work for a livin, who didnt spend much time in school. Heard it, over the years, in Vermont, Wi, Az, & SoCal….since the Viet War bills started coming due during Carter (paid for with inflated dollars) & the dismantling of useful State programs starting with Reagan.WHATS what so strange about this: the only people flapping about in manufactured outrage are ACTUAL elites, like Hilbat, who helped bring this about.
nope, the guy scored points with me by stating the obvious here. He keeps it up, I might actually like him.
But I DO expect some contrived Hilbat pic with a firearm. Speakin of which: Obama beats her soundly in states with high levels of firearms ownership.
A disclaimer: Im not a Obama “supporter, I know squat about the guy. Im just hopin he does the lest amount of damage, out of the 3…
Comment by mutt — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
It sure is one big clusterfuck-orama. I am watching as the Democrats burn down their own Rome. It will be amazing if the Republicans DON’T win in November. McCain will take us the rest of the way down the toilet and we have no one to blame except ourselves and the non existent main stream media. Gas is officially $4 a gallon and we have allowed our military to be stretched to beyond the breaking point. America, if attacked, would be unable to defend itself. Oh sure, it looks bad now but wait until McCain and his VP Condi have been at the helm for a year or two. This is not going to be pretty… Not at all.
Comment by Down The Street Pam — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
I have made my choice to back Barack HUSSEIN Obama I have this visualized picture of OB at his presidential inauguration placing his hand on the Koran as he is sworn into office. He will have the bling bling around his neck similar to Mr. T back in the day the code in the bling to the Lukid faction in Israel will be that the only diamond studded JEWelry is a star of David. The first words out of OB’s mouth will be declaring ebonics as our national langue. Then holding up the victory of bush’s war in Iraq, the treasure from Iraq saddam hussein’s golden rifle then OB proclaims we “da badest mother f$KKERS on earth”. Ob then looks to his right nods his head then Don Cornelius starts winding the LP’s announces the DC soul train is now boarding. Everyone in the crowd raise a 40 ounce in one hand and a joint in the other hand as OB starts getting a national freak on.
Comment by Jesse east county — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
The point I am getting at is this if George W. Bush was a black man with his record of failures a black person would never be elected president again. Barack Obama has forgotten more then the idiot in white house has ever known. Barack Obama has shown more leadership qualities then both Clintons’, McKKKan, and both bushs’ combined. The question surrounding Barack Obama will he get the United States out of the landfill and back on track. Only Barack knows what his true motivations are yet he has chosen to step out on to this tight rope yet George W Bush is no reference point to be measured from George W bush is insignificant as a Human Being. If Barack Obama chooses to follow the DLC path then do not expect much from him if he decides to serve We The People then he could be one of 3 true democrats in the last 48 years to hold that office.
Comment by Jesse east county — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
” Everyone in the crowd raise a 40 ounce in one hand and a joint in the other hand as OB starts getting a national freak on.”…
funny you should say that. Last inauguration I was at I as throwin rocks & tomatoes at Nixons & Agnews limos. We had beer & jays then, too, I remember…..
Comment by mutt — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
The reverend Wright issue is total bullshit Wright did NOTHING wrong, the way Barack Obama handled that issue was impressive from start to finish Barack Obama has the potential raise the office of President to something We The People can all be proud of again.
Comment by Jesse east county — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
“Can Obama connect with the working drones as they hose down their motor boats in anticipation of perch and trout season?”
Well sure he can Stacy!
Long as it ain’t California fishermen.
Oh lord, please let him ask for orange juice instead of talking to the fishermen. We get that, & he can’t fix the fishery problem.
Comment by nunya — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Glad Stacy is honest enough to have fun with the Osama v. Obama name similarity. I do it all the time, for fun, but figure some day I will be limited from good employment, education, financing, driver’s license, because of my un-PC follies. But interchanging Obama for Osama is no different than the many high ranking politicos and military brass that keep saying Iran when they mean Iraq, and Iraq when it should be Iran. Makes you wonder if it is on purpose in this case.
This past weekend has been fairly quiet on the coverage of the presidential sweepstakes. There’s been the enormous coverage of some teen beating another teen girl, captured on bad video and made into a major news story.
Last week it was disclosed CBS may start outsourcing their news reporting to CNN. This is like saying the Strategic Air Command is going to outsource our nuke patrols to Russia (with Bangalore India’s call center doing tech support for the B-52 nuke launch codes). Sadly, more news outlets may be trending this way (consolidation for cost cutting) and we’ll end up with nothing much different than having all the alleged choices in major media, this time all under one happy call sign like CNBS. I think that covers CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MS-NBC, CNBC. The only remainder is the NeoCon News Network called Fox News, and since they have the most patriotic robots, puppets, parrots, doing their perpetual & escalating war parades, hopefully the CNBS will take a slightly polarized position on news.
McCain should have persuaded Rice to come on-board…he would have been getting Obama and Hillary in one demographic package, she would have been running the new wars while Dr. Strange-McCain is helping Carlyle deal-dos or golfing. But Rice says she is going back to Stanford to teach, so I think McCain better come up with something soon, as should Hillary and Obama…they all seem in trouble (alas so do we).
Comment by Darren — Sunday, April 13, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
“On cue, Hillary seized upon the moment, reminiscing about the time Daddy first showed her how to obliterate a squirrel with a 4-10 shotgun, ”
In a spirit of healing bipartisanship, can we hope the Hilbat & Deadeye Dick go hunting together? and, re: fishing. Wasnt your comrade host NY Myke promising to turn loose the Tuna Fleet if he got elected mayor, under the theory that fishing produces more fish? Or something- even for NY Myke, it was impossible to follow that one….faith based fishing?
Well, its rocks & tomatoes for either Hil or Mcnuts inaug, or a forty & a jay if its Obama…….
Comment by mutt — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 8:34 am
I think McCain will choose Mitt Romney for his running mate, although it would have been wonderful if Condie said yes. She has to be one of the most hated people on earth and it would have insured a democratic win. However, if Romney is the running mate, it will make it much more difficult for we lberals. Remember everyone, eyes on the prize, vote democratic for congress too, not just president!
The Enough rally yesterday was a bit of a dissapointment. We got more middle fingers and thumbs down than we’ve seen in a long time. Maybe it was the heat.
Comment by Lorelei — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 8:37 am
I’m sorry, BUT, wus I the only one to stumble into the shit pile called CNN with their “Forum” on what the fuck O’Bomb and Klint had to say about their belief in the imaginary guy in the sky and how they could grovel at the feet of the complete idiots who do. Hell, I thought wev’e had enough crap piled on us, Holy Shit isn’t eight years enough? Hey folks It’s 21st century not the 12th, Remember-progression not regerssion!
Comment by knifemaster — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 11:10 am
Saw George polishing up the Pope-mobil yesterday, that ought to be a fun visit. any one see Bill Mahr Friday? There’s a guy who’s got his shit together Re: Talking snakes, Anybody?
Comment by knifemaster — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 11:16 am
yeah, caught Mahr. Hes a leading source of global smarming, but hes got these pope creeps figured. I was hopin Clark would get more time, but usually the guest pinhead gets the most words in.
im past ready for an Athiest Revival……
Comment by mutt — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Okay I need to weigh in on this. I felt like calling in today but was afraid I would swear on air and then Jorge’ would have to be ready with the dump button. I have already about had it with “bittergate”. I come from a working class family in a small town in Pennsylvania(the town of Lititz in Lancaster county for those of you inclined to use the google), my father(a registered democrat) has guns and hunts, my grandfather(a registered republican who hates Bush) has guns and hunts and so far I’m trying to figure out where Obama could be wrong. My father has seen his good friends in factories and on construction sites lose their jobs over the past two decades, you’re goddamn right he’s bitter. Luckily my dad’s job is secure, for now, and it looks like he’ll reach retirement. The only thing Barack is guilty of here and it’s something we’re all guilty of is stereotyping. He told a brutal truth and now the GOP goons are wetting their chicken hawk panties figuring out how to pursue this elitest narrative. How the republican party, the party of Wall Street and Big Oil, is going to paint a guy who once turned down six figures to make close to minimum wage as a community organizer into some sort of latte sipping snob elite. Anyone who buys this shit should have to burn their voter registration card. Here’s some news: all the candidates for president, and when I say all the candidates I mean all of them that were still running last December, on both sides are multi-millionaires. As much as I would love to have some Joe Six Pack union leader from Akron Ohio run for president let’s face it: it’s not going to happen. The closest thing to that was John Edwards and even he’s loaded. One multi-millionaire calling another multi-millionaire an elite is just ridiculous. Hillary Clinton boozing it up in a dive bar? Cut me break. What next, will she turn up at the Liar’s Club and shoot tequilla with Stacy? Come on. That’s almost as good as the Chimp clearing brush in Bum Fuck Texas with his hat and big truck. Anyone who sees Bush as anything other than a silver spoon mentally challenged legacy boy is delusional. The people who are offended by Barack’s remarks, and let’s face it he could have worded them better, are just looking to be offended. Grow up. When I was in the Navy I did not take offense to people labelling us as drunks, sometimes it was true. Obama was simply being too honest when other candidates may have spun. This is not a scandal. Ordering torture, especially well after the 18the century when most other civilized nations stopped? That’s a scandal. Wearing diapers and buying hookers while espousing family values? That’s a scandal. Brunette call girls named Kristen? That’s a scandal. Bitter is not a scandal. Settle down. Sorry for rambling on…
Comment by Justin — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
Obama would ask his AG to “immediately review” potential of crimes in Bush White House
Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race — and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.
Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to “immediately review the information that’s already there” and determine if an inquiry is warranted — but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as “a partisan witch hunt.” However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because “nobody is above the law.”
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Barack_on_torture.html
I am going to vote for Obama a couple times if he is real about this matter. Why is everyone so catious about “but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide.” There will be no divide in this country if you lock these criminals along with their family members, nothing to worry about. We have lived through nearly eight years of insantiy because they did not lock them up in 1992 do not make the same mistake as clinton did by letting the same people walk!!! We would never had that PNAC group if the would have followed the law in the first place.
Comment by Jesse east county — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
After all, we’ve come off a week when the vein-popping McCain has evened the race with the dem fav Obama, owing presumably to the corroborative testimony of Betray-ous and Crock-o’-shit before Congress, to the effect that more dead guys piling up in Iraq is a) a good thing, b)an acceptable thing, or 3) and expected thing, take your choice. And since McCain is the daddy of the surge, is it any wonder that the sheeple have collectively scratched their butts, poured a Bud, and said “See? It’s working…sort of!”?
Stacy, I know you are talking about national trends, but it always looks worse through the local political lens. It is depressing living here in the heart of Reagan country. But, it’s not the whole nation. We are in the thick of it. It’s still true that only idiots support this war. Don’t let the myriad Support the Troops decals fool you. McCain is betting the farm. Are Americans really that stupid? If we can just get the youth vote out (for the first time in history,) we may win this one.
Comment by Flying Junior — Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 11:08 pm
justin, Jesse East, & Flying Junior: THANKS.
Nice to hear you guys go off, and great news re; prosecutions.
I spent yesterday afternoon on the tarmac at Gillespie Field, holdin a flag, watching a mother get her boy home in a damn box.
Words friggin fail me at these things, they truly do. gutless, corrupt swine……….
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 7:30 am
AH! AH! THE $64 billion question—-”Are Americans Really That Stupid?” WE SHALL SEE!!!!!
Comment by knifemaster — Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 9:34 am
Hi Mutt: How many of these ceremonies have you attended? Do the family members ever talk to you? What do they think?
Comment by Lorelei — Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
I actually allowed myself a small measure of optimism reading an Obama administration would pursue criminal prosecution of cheney admin malfactors, grafters, and war criminals. A tiny, fragile bubble of hope. Then Stacy had to dash it from my hands and crush & stomp it with his flipflops. wah wah wah. sigh. snivel……
Then I went back & reread the link above & this smacked me between the eyes, eyes which had been cruelly opened by stacys flipflops- THIS is how these spineless bastards will avoid any heavy lifting-sayeth Obama:
“So this is an area where I would want to exercise judgment — I would want to find out directly from my Attorney General — having pursued, having looked at what’s out there right now — are there possibilities of genuine crimes as opposed to really bad policies. And I think it’s important– one of the things we’ve got to figure out in our political culture generally is distinguishing betyween really dumb policies and policies that rise to the level of criminal activity.”
THATS how they will avoid it, while spouting the usual crap- “reach across the aisle, put this behind us, prosecuting war criminals never clothed a single chiiilllld, build a better tommorrow, “etc.
no. Nothing will be done. ill be happy to be proven wrong.
A couple decades ago, buried away under tons of concrete & steel in the Marion supermax, my old friend Ray Levassuer wrote of the contragate pardons. As the Nixon/viet Nam pardons/putting behind us set the stage for the murderous wars we pushed in Central America and the arming and bankrolling of Saddam , THOSE pardons set the stage for this horror show. read what Ray wrote then & see if it dont ring true now…..
http://home.earthlink.net/~neoludd/analysis.html
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
duh. correct address:
http://home.earthlink.net/~neoludd/analysis.htm
Comment by mutt — Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Telling Repugs to “calm down”
A note to Repubs,
Dear Repubs: None of this matters
You can calm down about “bitter” or “Wright” or whatever.
The Democratic Party will sweep the Congress by a wide margin and win the Presidency anyway in November.
Your pResident and Tom Delay have fucked our country and have placed your Republican Party in the minority, for a long time to come.
—
Comment by SHRED — Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 4:53 am
We’ll need a wall from Ca. to Texas just to have one long nough to line all these creeps up against……check out this vid. Note ALL these rats have jumped ship, and aint a one got skin in the game, but they sure stuffed thier pockets…..
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TPMTV: STUPIDEST GUY ON EARTH SPEAKS OUT
The President bears the greatest responsibility for the catastrophe of the Iraq war. He was the key decision maker at every point. And he’s fundamentally accountable. But if you look into the innards of the process that led to war there is probably no one who was either responsible for or involved with more of the bad decisions, more of the conscious decisions or horrible ideas than Doug Feith.
You’d think someone like that would be keeping a low profile. But in fact he’s got a new book out explaining how Iraq was a great idea, how nothing was his fault and sticking it to his enemies. Trainwreck is an overused term, but in today’s episode of TPMtv we look at some choice moments from Feith’s book release media tour where he explains how you’ve got the whole thing all wrong …
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ go here for the vid, & scroll down to the date/time above.
Comment by mutt — Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
Stace:
Yes, according to the “elistist” of cooking dictionaries, “The New Food Lover’s Companion” by Sharon Tyler Herbst, rocket science on ‘arugula’ is that it is a “bitterish”, aromatic salad green with a peppery mustard flavor … popular with Italians but American palates finding the flavor too assertive …” It kind of says much about American sensibilities in general—huh? I mean those New York smug “mediocre” types, that do not specialize in elitism, probably have to get their bitterness by drinking Angostura bitters in their Manhattans—unlike those hicks of Pennsylvania that mostly drink their no-homo drinks straight!
After all, what the heck would a New York Times lackey drinking the wormwood of vermouth know about elitism anyway? I mean you have to read Ocean Beach’s “Peoples’ Organic Foods Co-op News”, 2008 April edition, to learn that arugula has eight times as much calcium as iceberg lettuce (and no insult to their very informative source of “real” information)!
But such a factoid being neither here nor there, I thought there might be OK if a few people at least aspired toward a constructive kind of elitism in our land of homogeneity (as opposed to those mere concocted conceits of elitism from some corners of newspeak punditry).
So having a half ass hair’s of conceit to aspire toward elitism myself, I vote that it would be good if our culture really did have at least a few personages of elite skill and knowledge when it came to awareness on issues of true significance—save what the conspiracy infrastructure tries to feed us as quality phyto-chemicals from those brassy brassicas like Swiss chard and other “San Francisco” feeder lot embellishments. Hell now I know that all I have to do is honker down a Canadian whiskey or three to fit the bill?
Whoever it was that once said: “Life is a long lesson in humiliation” may have been right? Damn, say it ain’t so!
Billy Bobbert of Oaky Doakee
Comment by Billy Bobbert of Oaky Doakee — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 9:22 am
Mr. Taylor:
Perhaps it’s the way the planets have aligned themselves? I mean I just find it incredible, that low and behold, I stumble across that infamous slanger “cred” in one of my daily reads!
Check out Ben Yagoda’s “When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse”, ‘Introduction’ first paragraph:
“… leaving aside the fact that it would have lent a faint aura of hipness to a book otherwise sorely lacking in street cred, Pimp My Ride illustrates a deep and wonderful truth about the parts of speech: they change like the dickens.”
Well, well well! Here we have one of those “elitist” college professors from the Eastern establishment (University of Delaware not Pennsylvania) giving us that incredulous “cred” crap like some mere bowling ball word dropping to the gutter. Maybe we should kill non-senser nouns as well?
Pool Hall Paulson
Comment by Pool Hall Paulson — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
“Debate moderators abuse the public trust every time they ask trivial questions about gaffes and ‘gotchas’ that
only political insidersnobody cares about. Enough with the distractions—ABC and other networks must focus on issues that affect people’s daily lives.”Ha Ha, and I thought it was only Stacy that was hung up on this stuff! Did you hear those moderators in the debabe last night? What idiots and what a cheat of the American people who would like to hear talk about real issues. The above came from a Moveon email. THe modifications were mine.
Comment by Virginia M — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
I’m at work and I can’t listen but I would love to hear what Stacy is saying about the debates.
Comment by Virginia M — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
http://www.enetrics.com/html-tutorial/text-fmts/strikethrough/index.php5
Anyone want to play with this? It comes in handy on this bell-less and whistle-less site.
Enjoy!
Comment by Virginia M — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Shred: I pray you are right about November. Turnout will determine who wins. If it’s low, we’re stuck with McCain for four years.
If enough people come out, then there is a chance that either Clinton or Obama can win.
Wednesday’s debate was an atrocity — shame on Charles Gibson and political lackey extraordinaire George S., who should be fired by taking his questions from right-wing tool Sean Hannity.
What a disgrace our MSM has become … I just hope Americans will be smarter this time around — unless they want more misery.
Comment by Vriendje — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
who should be fired by taking his questions from right-wing tool Sean Hannity.
Indeed! Have all American media people come down with the same dreaded disease? Why do they settle for (or feel compelled to) echo each other? Just look at Stacy’s post here. It is as though it were Clinton and Obama’s fault that all these people are focusing on this trivia?
Comment by Virginia M — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
I have listened to Rush in the twice in the past few weeks and BOTH times the show was shilling overtly for the oil companies. Did you guys know that the price of oil and gas is actually the same as it was in 1980? Was the dittoheads do.
LOL
Comment by Virginia M — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
Stacy Taylor:
At the beginning of the week you asked your audience about if and how they felt about torture—not exactly the most enthusiastic of subjects.
However if you read the Union-Tribune section A from back to front (often the most appropriate way to read it) then you might have found it newsworthy to mention the Thursday story on page A8 “Records reveal U.S. assaulted Afghan detainees” story.
Here is an actual instance in which the mainstream media has actually acknowledged that some U.S. gulag camps have tortured to the point of death—rather than dwelling on the notion of whether water boarding lite is torture—as red herring issue that reverberates back to the idiots that still insist bin laden had something to do with 9-11. Well the MSM was not exactly straight-forward about whether it was in fact murder—but the death is acknowledged with the various caprice words one would come to expect from the Associated Press.
Sometimes there is more in the fish wrap than the paper gets credit—that is if people can get beyond the Powers-That-Be ruse to establish their political contenders.
Signed,
The unasso cia ted.
P.S. I thought Billy Borbert’s comments worthy of mention on your talk show?
Comment by Unassociated — Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
Hey Stacy, I was listening to your show yesterday while you were asking for folks who watched the Clinton/Obama debate. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would watch it. The reality of the situation is that this was their 21st debate and they’ve covered everything over and over again. Both candidates are now overexposed and in position for a bad case of media burn. There’s really nothing left except the stupid stuff. Too bad we all had to move our primaries up. The extended campaigning isn’t good for candidates, delegates, the media and the public who chooses to watch or read. Perhaps we’ll learn a lesson from this debacle and move the primary elections back to June.
Comment by Lorelei — Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 8:42 am
Oh I hate this software! I just lost my post and to add to it had to have the snarky “Answer the question!” rebuke. Well, listen here software: There is no question. “Please and 2 and 2″ is not a question. So there.
Comment by Virginia M — Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
I think the thing had an electronic hiccup or something…it used to tell me 2 plus 3 wasnt 5, things like that.
Comment by mutt — Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 8:07 pm