Foxy lady
I’m sick of Palin, but given the nature of this blog, this probably merits some discussion.
January 11, 2010 2:03 pm
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Hoot-Smalley
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218 Responses
beltane - January 11, 2010 | 2:05 pm · Link
I fear for Sully’s mental health. With Palin having her own show, I don’t see how he’ll manage to write about anything else.
James Hare - January 11, 2010 | 2:05 pm · Link
I think we all anticipated this move. Who is going to be the first to use the phrase “fox on Fox?”
Mark - January 11, 2010 | 2:06 pm · Link
At least it is sure to generate blogfodder.
Remember November - January 11, 2010 | 2:06 pm · Link
depends on what her “contributions” contribute.
DougJ - January 11, 2010 | 2:07 pm · Link
I am also worried about Andrew Sullivan.
GregB - January 11, 2010 | 2:07 pm · Link
Puck Falin.
I’m more interested in the newest faux controversy about Surgeon General Regina Benjamin.
Apparently she’s overweight and that excludes her from being the nation’s top doctor.
I certainly can’t recall any similar firestorm about the trim, fit and svelte nominee C. Everett Koop.
-G
cleek - January 11, 2010 | 2:08 pm · Link
sub-mediocrity has triumphed.
scav - January 11, 2010 | 2:09 pm · Link
A Pox on Talks Box Fox on Fox!
theylivebynight - January 11, 2010 | 2:09 pm · Link
meh
handy - January 11, 2010 | 2:09 pm · Link
Honestly, she’s no worse than Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck and all the other assorted gasbags there. This is a network after all that hired a convicted felon and a traitor as pundits.
DougJ - January 11, 2010 | 2:09 pm · Link
Apparently she’s overweight and that excludes her from being the nation’s top doctor.
Does this mean another three months of the At Pack discussing obesity? It probably does.
I pray that they don’t somehow lure Fallows into it.
beltane - January 11, 2010 | 2:09 pm · Link
@GregB: The Regina Benjamin/Fatgate controversy is several months old. Have they already decided to recycle it?
licensed to kill time - January 11, 2010 | 2:09 pm · Link
Mental image of Dana Carvey dancing to Foxy Lady
Schwiiing!
russell - January 11, 2010 | 2:10 pm · Link
It’s the perfect gig for her.
Bubblegum Tate - January 11, 2010 | 2:10 pm · Link
And we move one step closer to this becoming reality.
jeffreyw - January 11, 2010 | 2:11 pm · Link
Will she use the teleprompter? Or will she just say to those fancy pants knowitalls the she just gonna do it live?
Zam - January 11, 2010 | 2:11 pm · Link
I am seriously contemplating suicide, or at least moving to an area of the world with no contact to the modern world. I mean look how much attention she got for her fucking facebook messages, this is gonna be ridiculous. Every single day she is going to make a nonsensical statement that is a jab at dems and liberals for not being real people. Then on the following show she will probably be defending her remarks with a handful of references to trig, and complaining about sully. If I have listen to her fucking story about how she thought about aborting trig but didn’t because she isn’t liberal I’m gonna become uncontrollably violent.
handy - January 11, 2010 | 2:12 pm · Link
@Bubblegum Tate:
Hey I think I see Luke Wilson with a career in that pic.
zed - January 11, 2010 | 2:12 pm · Link
At the end of the campaign, my father predicted she’d go on to be a talk radio host. Not there yet, but this is setting the stage to be sure. Amazing how predictable the GOP is.
Brian J - January 11, 2010 | 2:12 pm · Link
I think one thing is pretty certain: the editors at any of Murdoch’s papers are breathing a huge sigh of relief now that they won’t have to edit any sort of column from Palin. Can you imagine being the poor bastard who has to meet with her to try to salvage her insane ramblings?
Michael D. - January 11, 2010 | 2:12 pm · Link
Fox News has not appeared on my television in nearly 7 years. I have the parental controls set so that if I accidentally go to that channel, I’ll need tp punch in a passcode (that I don’t even remember.)
Not that this is a problem. I only watch HD, and Fox News doesn’t broadcast in HD (at least not on Comcast in Atlanta – so I would rarely be down in the 2-digit channels anyway.
They can have Sarah Palin. The longer she spends there, the shorter the amount of time she’ll spend anywhere else where I can actually see her.
Stooleo - January 11, 2010 | 2:13 pm · Link
Maybe Sully will get invited to her show..
Zifnab - January 11, 2010 | 2:14 pm · Link
@handy: Better, in a way. At least they were hired for being professional media-savvy shills. They’ve all got extensive media backgrounds and a well-honed performance.
Sticking Princess Sarah on her own show when she can’t make it through a Katie Couric interview – a pedantic and scripted event if ever there was one – should be good times for all. I look forward to hearing how FOX News producers made poor Palin look bad. And I can’t wait to find out if she uses a teleprompter.
Chad N Freude - January 11, 2010 | 2:17 pm · Link
@James Hare:
Rick Santorum.
El Cid - January 11, 2010 | 2:17 pm · Link
I think she’ll be more of a deductor than a contributor.
Punchy - January 11, 2010 | 2:18 pm · Link
Is she doing this topless?
Zam - January 11, 2010 | 2:18 pm · Link
That is so full of win.
I myself never watch Fox, but am seriously worried with how much attention her show will get throughout the media. If her facebook is any indication all of cable news and at least 80% of print media will be all Palin all the time.
SpotWeld - January 11, 2010 | 2:18 pm · Link
Okay.. let’s boil down the facts. Agree or not, Palin was the Gov of AK and the GOP canidate for VP. Therefore she probably does have opinion relevant to a good range of topics. (i.e. Polical decision driven by events in AK, or VP presidential campaigns. )
But for the most part, who cares! I have to admit though, this is the same media culture that keeps dredging up Newt G. as somehow relevant and that sits there and blinks when the most insane utterances are dropped by polticians.
I’d be okay with Palin if I had any hope that there would be a commentator who would at some point say “Now Ms. Palin, could you explain what you mean by that.” or “Ms. Palin I’m sorry, you’re entitled to your opinion, but the facts just of the matter are very much different.”
Fact people, if you’re going to shop out your opinion to hacks please, please be rock solid on the facts.
scav - January 11, 2010 | 2:18 pm · Link
@Zifnab: come come, I don’t think our random word generators are truly up to it yet.
Do not Mox!
Fox on Fox Pops Co##
Got Rox?
Tox Box!
[help, I need an intervention]
Chad N Freude - January 11, 2010 | 2:19 pm · Link
@Zifnab: She’s not going to do this as a solo act. She’ll have at least one, maybe two or three, veteran Fox anchors/commentators to support her. No Couric-ing allowed.
Linkmeister - January 11, 2010 | 2:20 pm · Link
On the bright side, one more person has now gotten a job in this economy! It’s part-time, so she’ll be considered underemployed for U6 purposes, but still.
Won’t you all think of her children?
Michael D. - January 11, 2010 | 2:20 pm · Link
@SpotWeld:
I agree with that.
handy - January 11, 2010 | 2:21 pm · Link
@Zifnab:
I think it really depends on how they use her. And really, people don’t give her enough credit for her ability to babble nonsense but in a way that doesn’t sound crazy. Her delivery is actually quite good (no really—just block out the content of her words and I think you’d see what I’m getting at). In the end, she’ll get the viewers.
Daddy-O - January 11, 2010 | 2:21 pm · Link
Don’t worry…
She’ll quit this FOX show, before one year.
And: Don’t worry about her running for President, either. Because, as the last neocon President once said: “Presidentin’s hard.” Especially RUNNING for President, a two-year ordeal for any challenger.
She’ll never do it, but she’ll keep you guessing as long as she can.
scav - January 11, 2010 | 2:21 pm · Link
Then again, miss turkey backdrop? This may just be Dog smiling again on his most favored son Jon S.
Chad N Freude - January 11, 2010 | 2:21 pm · Link
@SpotWeld:
There won’t be any of this. See @Chad N Freude:
Chad N Freude - January 11, 2010 | 2:22 pm · Link
@handy: It would be nice if she finished sentences.
ruemara - January 11, 2010 | 2:22 pm · Link
I found it to be a natural pairing, like toilets and crap.
Daddy-O - January 11, 2010 | 2:23 pm · Link
Here’s a fact, Spotweld:
Sarah Palin is HOT. She is EYE CANDY, especially to Tea Baggers and base Republicans.
So she’s qualified. At least, she’s as qualified as Dana Perino.
DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio - January 11, 2010 | 2:23 pm · Link
Sarah Palin is now the peer of Greta Van Susteren.
While I love this idea, because it is so fucking cheesy and delicious in its cheesy deliciousness and delicious cheesiness, I haz sad.
Sad, because I don’t think the exposure she will get will help her become the GOP nominee for president in 2012, and I was so looking forward to that.
Mike E - January 11, 2010 | 2:23 pm · Link
@Zam:
Chill—she’s only gonna read sports scores.
JenJen - January 11, 2010 | 2:24 pm · Link
There’s a great topic trending on Twitter: #sarahpalinshow
One of my many entries? “I Dream Of Cheeney”
handy - January 11, 2010 | 2:24 pm · Link
@Chad N Freude:
Agreed, but like you said, she’s going to have cover, so it really doesn’t matter either way as far as Fox is concerned.
Pasquinade - January 11, 2010 | 2:26 pm · Link
Maybe Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter can share a commentary spot on those foreskin and anal bombs.
SpotWeld - January 11, 2010 | 2:26 pm · Link
So basically it’s going to be Kukla Fran and Ollie, but with O’Reilly, Palin and Beck?
jrg - January 11, 2010 | 2:27 pm · Link
Fox should hire her on for the “The 1/2 Hour News Hour”, but tell her that it’s a full hour. That way they will still get enough footage when she quits 25 minutes in.
Zam - January 11, 2010 | 2:27 pm · Link
So now that I’ve calmed down a little, I see that this isn’t even a full time thing or even a weekly gig. It’s looks like it’s gonna be whenever the hell she feels like it. Can she go full out on anything besides insinuating democrats are terrorists and hate special needs babies?
Northern Observer - January 11, 2010 | 2:33 pm · Link
I think it is great news because it nails her politically coffin shut a little tighter. It is ok for pols to have been media personalities in the distant past, but recent media figures are not well percieved as aspirants to President.
nightshift66 - January 11, 2010 | 2:34 pm · Link
DougJ,
I disagree with your premise that this, or anything Ms. Palin does, merits discussion.
Pasquinade - January 11, 2010 | 2:34 pm · Link
Live feed feed of Twitter: #sarahpalinshow
http://www.google.com/search?h.....&aqi=
Resigning Women
“Welcome to the first night of the Sarah Palin Show. Sarah is off tonight…”
DougJ - January 11, 2010 | 2:35 pm · Link
“I Dream Of Cheeney”
I like it!
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 2:36 pm · Link
handy:
That she has moderately large-ish breasts?
.
Mike E - January 11, 2010 | 2:38 pm · Link
@Mike E:
Corrected.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ - January 11, 2010 | 2:39 pm · Link
Why is everybody looking at the downside? I’m thinking that her show on Nov 3rd, 2012 when she has to talk about current politics right after teh Kenyan Menace pulls off another hitjob on the GOP is going to be dvr material for the ages. It will be right up there with Karl Rove telling Brit Hume that McCain has to win Ohio right before FOX called Ohio for Obama on election night 2008.
NickM - January 11, 2010 | 2:39 pm · Link
Maybe this will backfire. After awhile, maybe even the Villagers will get tired of barking on her command, and find something new to do. Yes, the nutters will continue to watch, but maybe the rest of us won’t be made to pay attention to her antics. Or is that wishful thinking? (SATSQ candidate?)
Zam - January 11, 2010 | 2:40 pm · Link
@Mike E: Lol, how much you wanna be that she only puts together an episode every time someone says something she takes as an insult. It will likely end up her forum for attacking Levi.
Punchy - January 11, 2010 | 2:40 pm · Link
@JGabriel: She does? I never noticed that before.
/googles “Palin junk”
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 2:40 pm · Link
@DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio:
I wonder if Van Susteren, Coulter, Ingraham, et. al., ever look at Palin’s success and think, “Jesus, why did I bother with getting the law degree? She’s not even blonde.”
.
Zam - January 11, 2010 | 2:42 pm · Link
@NickM: I desperately want to think they will get tired, but after spending days discussing her tweets and facebook posts it seems unlikely.
Bubblegum Tate - January 11, 2010 | 2:43 pm · Link
@Pasquinade:
“America’s Most Daunted” FTW!
Joshua Norton - January 11, 2010 | 2:45 pm · Link
Ah yes. Fox Noise. Leading the Culture Wars completely unarmed.
Chris - January 11, 2010 | 2:47 pm · Link
Damnnnnn Jimi is turnin over in his grave
LOL Man you guys been turnin up your game with these blog post names. DougJ FTW!
JenJen - January 11, 2010 | 2:49 pm · Link
@DougJ: Also: “It’s Me Or The Wolf”, “Parks and Procreation” and “Project Run-Away.”
Sadly, I could do this all day.
Svensker - January 11, 2010 | 2:49 pm · Link
@Zam:
Yes. Time to get beamed up to the mother ship. This planet sucks.
Darryl - January 11, 2010 | 2:52 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time: Dana Carvey….man, I forgot about that guy. I used to wonder how he ever got any work as a comedian, since he was so unfunny.
Mike E - January 11, 2010 | 2:53 pm · Link
@Zam:
Gotta start a pool on when she quits! Put me down for “when Todd files.”
Joshua Norton - January 11, 2010 | 2:54 pm · Link
Fox News recently told me that 234% of the country hated Obama.
Then it tried to sell me a camo snuggie.
Zifnab - January 11, 2010 | 2:55 pm · Link
@handy:
Also.
Poopyman - January 11, 2010 | 2:55 pm · Link
She probably realized that everything she says is broadcast on Fox anyway, and
askeddemanded to be paid for it.Or, maybe she just decided to go back to sports reporting. She is going to Fox Sports, right?
Right?
Brachiator - January 11, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
Could be worse. NBC could have put her on to replace Leno.
Is this some kind of reference to “water sports?”
matoko_chan - January 11, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
Like I said before, Palin gives old white guyz wood.
And that is a shrinking demographic.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ - January 11, 2010 | 2:57 pm · Link
@JenJen:
“American Idle”
Pasquinade - January 11, 2010 | 2:58 pm · Link
Authors of “Game Change,” book says the stress of vaulting onto the national stage caused Palin to have wild mood swings.
“One minute, Palin would be her perky self; the next she would fall into a strange blue funk,” the authors write.
The morning of her ill-fated CBS interview with Katie Couric, Palin – “her eyes glassy and dead” – was unresponsive to attempts to prep her as she was being made up.
“As they were about to set off to meet Couric, Palin announced ‘I hate this makeup’ – smearing it off her face, messing up her hair, complaining she looked fat,” the book relates.
Palin went on to give answers to Couric that were so incoherent the interview permanently damaged her.
Palin went into a tailspin. She stopped eating or sleeping, and drank only a half a can of diet soda a day, recounts the book written by John Heilemann of New York magazine and Mark Halperin of Time magazine.
“When her aides tried to quiz her she would routinely shut down – chin on her chest, arms folded, eyes cast to the floor, speechless and motionless, lost in what those around her described as a kind of catatonic stupor,” the book says.
“If I had known everything I know now, I would not have done this,” the book quotes Palin as saying.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....eved_.html
Mike E - January 11, 2010 | 2:59 pm · Link
@matoko_chan:
Pleez don’t mention Electile Dysfunction—2000 is still a sore subject with me!
licensed to kill time - January 11, 2010 | 3:00 pm · Link
@Darryl: I mainly remember him from Wayne’s World and as Church Lady on the old SNL; he also did a good George H.W. Bush impression.
Whenever you see a clip of Palin on Fox (you know it’s inevitable) just imagine good ol’ boys all over ‘Murka doing the Foxy Lady Schwing and you’ll feel much better. At least I will.
Zam - January 11, 2010 | 3:00 pm · Link
@Mike E: If you mean for divorce, I’ll let you have it. I just know she would use the show as a place to play out the divorce in public. Going on daily to attack him for being an evil liberal who hates women.
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 3:01 pm · Link
I dunno. I think this might get me to tune into FOXNews for the very first time.
Well, that might be an exaggeration.
Let’s try this again…
I dunno. I think I’ll be watching the clips on C&L the next morning and laughing my ass off at whatever stupid shit spills from her dead brain.
Yes. That’s more like it.
Joshua Norton - January 11, 2010 | 3:03 pm · Link
Well that and the whole manic depressive thing she has going for her. C’mon Sarah – don’t bogart all the lithium.
Notorious P.A.T. - January 11, 2010 | 3:04 pm · Link
@scav:
Haha )
zmulls - January 11, 2010 | 3:05 pm · Link
Do we think the barracuda will jump the shark?
Ash Can - January 11, 2010 | 3:06 pm · Link
Palin and Fox are a perfect fit. I’m just surprised it didn’t happen sooner. Maybe it just took this long for Palin or her agent to extort a big enough paycheck out of the Fox brass.
I’m sure her gig will involve little more than her reading prepared (and therefore lucid) material off a teleprompter. I hope, though, that there will be at least a little bit of extemporaneous speech. I can just imagine the Fox studio idiots asking her a question about the essay she just read and then forcing themselves to smile and nod through three straight minutes of “Well that’s because you and I, we’re real Americans, just like our great President George Bush was, and we don’t let liberals tear us down with their Ivy League resumes of just facts and no values like working class Main Street and the private sector and then we have to be always vigilant against our enemies who just want to blow up our airplanes and are always watching our every move and as my own family reflects are in our very homes at any given time and it just shows the pure evil of socialism. Too. Also.”
Pasquinade - January 11, 2010 | 3:07 pm · Link
Nip/Tuck: Fending Off Menopause
My Name Is Sarah
thomas - January 11, 2010 | 3:11 pm · Link
@Chad N Freude:
Santorum for the win
maus - January 11, 2010 | 3:14 pm · Link
Can we as progressives (or at least as non-idiotconservatives) band together and ignore her?
Nothing would drive her more angry than to not have the extra marketshare from us watching her “to see what she says next” and to not have anyone care about or report on what she’s saying.
Sure, the media’s going to repeat everything she says as if we care, but at least we can turn it off whenever her mug comes on screen.
Ash Can - January 11, 2010 | 3:15 pm · Link
@nightshift66:
You have a point. Meriting mockery, on the other hand…
@matoko_chan:
In more ways than one, I’m sure.
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 3:17 pm · Link
@Joshua Norton:
As someone of about the same general age as Sarah Serendipity, I’m gonna venture that menopause might also be part of the problem if we’re talking mood swings.
As someone whose brother has bipolar disorder, let me be the first to tell you that he is waaaaaaaaaaay more rational most of the time than Sarah is all the time.
Joshua Norton - January 11, 2010 | 3:17 pm · Link
@maus: I can’t even find Fox News on my cable remote. I removed it years ago. What ever she says will be rebroadcast ad nauseum on the “liberal” talk shows. In fact, wingnutz get more coverage on those shows than they get on Fox in real time. It drives me bughouse.
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
Palin’s official statement:
The report adds:
Great, Palin is bringing back the offensive “Real America” rhetoric. The show sounds like a cross between “Touched by an Angel” and “Triumph of the Will”.
Just what America needs: a two-digit IQ Riefenstahl.
.
Dee Loralei - January 11, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
@SpotWeld:
They already have Ollie North, so if they can get Fran Townsend from CNN then Fox could give us ” Kooky, Fran and Ollie”.
Demo Woman - January 11, 2010 | 3:22 pm · Link
Sarah told Steve Schmidt that it was God’s plan for her to run for VP. Obviously, God wanted her to lose also.
I guess it’s God’s plan for her to become a contributor to Fox news. Fox news won’t unleash her though. They will not allow her to answer questions and she can only comment on prepared scripts.
God works in mysterious ways.
Joshua Norton - January 11, 2010 | 3:23 pm · Link
Wait. Management? She’s going to be running things? Oh please make it so. Murdock just isn’t losing money fast enough.
Egypt Steve - January 11, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
This is actually excellent news. Put her on teevee and tape the drivel tsunami. The evidence of clinical insanity will be undeniable. I am sure John Stewart is secretly behind this, because he will be able to lay off two or three writers and just run Palin clips for half of his freakin show.
FlipYrWhig - January 11, 2010 | 3:27 pm · Link
Have you guys seen the old video of Palin (as Sarah Heath) doing the sports report on Anchorage TV? She does a lot of the same stuff for which she has become famous in politics, including really obvious bullshitting when she doesn’t know the answer to something (specifically, in the clip I saw, college basketball).
jl - January 11, 2010 | 3:27 pm · Link
Hey, wait a minute, is this Palin-Fox gig another DougJ spoof?
Punchy - January 11, 2010 | 3:28 pm · Link
Breaking: Mark MacGuire just admitted to taking steroids. Yup, I’m about as surprised as a moose in a Dairy Queen buying Dilly Bars.
FlipYrWhig - January 11, 2010 | 3:29 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
Has anyone else seen that magazine Guideposts?
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 3:29 pm · Link
@Punchy:
Damn. You beat me to it. Does this mean he purjured himself in front of Congress?
licensed to kill time - January 11, 2010 | 3:30 pm · Link
Don’t forget Common Sense Conservatism. Sarah could be the Common Sense Conservative Crone on Fox.
Wendy - January 11, 2010 | 3:34 pm · Link
@EgyptSteve, you read my mind. I can’t wait to see the Daily Show tonite!
“drivel tsunami”...love it!
Davis X. Machina - January 11, 2010 | 3:35 pm · Link
God wanted her to lose, but to cover the spread.
Which she failed to do.
jl - January 11, 2010 | 3:39 pm · Link
@Punchy: I have little mental list of die-hard McGwire supporters, and also a mental list of their excuses.
I will revisit the issue with them, in a very appropriate, nonconfrontational and sensitive way (Dude, were YOU totally totally totally PWNED! TO THE MAX! or What?, you know, something low-key and understanding like that)
robertdsc - January 11, 2010 | 3:44 pm · Link
The Times picked a good picture of her. Otherwise, meh.
Ash Can - January 11, 2010 | 3:45 pm · Link
@geg6:
What, McGwire’s a Republican too?
GregB - January 11, 2010 | 3:45 pm · Link
Maybe the first question that can be posed to Fux News latest media darling.
Mrs. Palin, you recently called Levi Johnston a porn star for his nude modeling photo shoot in Playgirl Magazine.
Do you think that your Republican Party has a porn star running for the US Senate in Massachusetts because that candidate, Scott Brown, posed nude in Cosmpolitan Magazine.
Discuss.
-G
Mike Kay - January 11, 2010 | 3:46 pm · Link
Can’t wait for her exclusive
Stripper exposehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DdDEoc1rI
BGK - January 11, 2010 | 3:47 pm · Link
Christ am I glad my father didn’t live to see this.
GregB - January 11, 2010 | 3:47 pm · Link
Dee,
They already have hired Cokie Roberts for that role.
-G
General Winfield Stuck - January 11, 2010 | 3:48 pm · Link
Palin is no Roxxxxy.
So many questions.
“She can’t vacuum, she can’t cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean,” Douglas Hines
Why yes, I think we do.
Pasquinade - January 11, 2010 | 3:49 pm · Link
Where’d they find her? Well, on the Internet, as it happens. “McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, spotted Sarah Palin while searching the Internet for possible female vice presidential candidates.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.c.....=achenblog
Mike Kay - January 11, 2010 | 3:49 pm · Link
@Dee Loralei:
Ding! Ding! Ding! – We have a Winner!
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 3:56 pm · Link
@jl:
Ha! Me, too! I am also looking forward with relish to rubbing their noses in this. Especially my ex. Asshole.
machine - January 11, 2010 | 3:58 pm · Link
Palin’s new gig: “Pallin’ around with error-ists”
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon) - January 11, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
Sponsored, I would imagine, by Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator
!
Sly - January 11, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
This needs to be McCain’s epitaph.
handy - January 11, 2010 | 4:02 pm · Link
@Ash Can:
Probably. A lot of pro athletes seem to be.
bob h - January 11, 2010 | 4:10 pm · Link
You have to hand it to her: she has parlayed a totally empty head and only slightly above average looks into serious $.
I see this as a good thing; the more this preposterous woman stays in the public eye, the more ridiculous the Republicans look.
valdivia - January 11, 2010 | 4:14 pm · Link
I am hoping her time at Fox will give us enough tape to hang her if she ever decides to run.
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 4:14 pm · Link
@bob h:
I’m thinking of trying to get a gig like this on FOX. I, too, am a well-preserved middle aged woman with slightly above average looks (or so I’ve been told). I can play dumb if the money is right and I have enough teabaggers around me here in Western PA to be able to hit all the right notes to tickle their fancies. Plus, my boobs are waaaaaaaaaaay bigger and I’ve never had ANY kids, let alone 5.
Think I have a shot?
Ash Can - January 11, 2010 | 4:14 pm · Link
@Sly: It should be the epitaph of the entire party. From beginning to end, no one anywhere in that campaign exhibited any common sense, any willingness to do homework or take responsibility, or even a modicum of respect for either the political process or the voters. There’s plenty of blame to go around.
grey_hawk - January 11, 2010 | 4:17 pm · Link
@JenJen:
“The Runaway Snide”
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 4:17 pm · Link
@Ash Can:
What I found most astonishing in the 60 Minutes segment last night was Schmidt. He acted all indignant and outraged like he got taken or something. And seemed to feel people will agree with him and feel sorry for poor ol’ Steve.
He came off looking like an incompetent idiot who didn’t do his homework. Which, of course, he is.
Punchy - January 11, 2010 | 4:20 pm · Link
I think we need pictures.
valdivia - January 11, 2010 | 4:21 pm · Link
@JenJen:
all excellent, keep it up! We need the lols.
Leelee for Obama - January 11, 2010 | 4:23 pm · Link
@Punchy: Yeah, I just now recovered enough from my shock to see if you guys had heard the REAL NEWS! Is nothing sacred? Cripes, the next thing they’ll be telling me is that nice young golfer from Florida has been cheating on his wife! Oh, wait…..
ThatLeftTurnInABQ - January 11, 2010 | 4:24 pm · Link
@Ash Can:
It is worth remembering that if only 3.5% of the voters who actually turned out for the election had choosen R instead of choosing D, there would be a lot more than just blame going around right now.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 4:25 pm · Link
Hm. Checks internals....Nope. Still don’t give a fuck about Palin.
Mike Kay - January 11, 2010 | 4:26 pm · Link
@geg6:
Photos. Plus measurements required!
General Winfield Stuck - January 11, 2010 | 4:27 pm · Link
@geg6:
don’t know. But your resume is intriguing. But could stand a little mo detail.
Violet - January 11, 2010 | 4:28 pm · Link
Breaking: Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol. Now that’s real news.
Sarah Palin….yeah right she’ll be “hosting a series” from time to time. She’ll just do a voiceover or read what she’s given. Sarah doesn’t do work.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 4:29 pm · Link
@geg6: I was thinking of it, too. I’m younger, Asian, and I have bigger boobs, too. Plus, I have tattoos and no kids, so I can be considered ‘wild’. And, I can be pretty damn persuasive when I talk. Maybe you and I could pair up and do a topless segment. What says you?
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 4:32 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
I’m in. When they see my hair, they’ll call both of us “Wild Child.”
General Winfield Stuck - January 11, 2010 | 4:33 pm · Link
@Violet:
Oh Drat!! Just when I was gettin’ over Kate and what’s the fuck his name breaking up. What’s next. Bringing back Leno?
Simon Cowell on Survivor might mend me broke heart.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 4:33 pm · Link
@geg6: My hair reaches my ass, so I can strategically cover all my naughty bits. Oooh, this is gonna be fun!
Joshua Norton - January 11, 2010 | 4:33 pm · Link
A former GF told me that you could tell McGwire was on steroids because he had a “cute bubble butt”. Congress should have called on her to testify. She could have cleared it all up for them in no time.
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 4:34 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
Ha! The contrast will awesome. My hair is about an inch to an inch and a half. Butch as all hell.
wasabi gasp - January 11, 2010 | 4:34 pm · Link
If this is God’s plan, it’s pretty fucking good. America gets a flat on the desolate highway and what does he do, give us a magic hippie and a never ending can of fix-a-flat? Nope. He sends a machine gun and a unicycle to figure this shit out for ourselves. LOL, Lord.
licensed to kill time - January 11, 2010 | 4:36 pm · Link
@Pasquinade:
The other thing from this link is the description of the emergency financial meeting McCain “called” during the campaign and Obama’s mastery of said meeting:
Jeez, if Bush was thinking like that…
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
...so screwed, we would be.
Violet - January 11, 2010 | 4:36 pm · Link
@General Winfield Stuck: They’d have to pay Simon Cowell $100 million to get him on Survivor. And he still wouldn’t do it. He’s bringing “The X Factor” to the US. He owns the show, so even more money for him.
And I know, OMG! American Idol! John and Kate! Late night wars! Look, shiny objects! But that’s what people really seem to be interested in.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 4:37 pm · Link
@geg6: Ooooh! Then we can subtly play to the butch/femme stereotypes as well. That’ll draw in the male viewers! We will be hot.
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 4:40 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
I think we should send them a treatment and ask for a meeting. If no one else, I’m guessing we’d pull in large viewing audience of the male BJers.
kommrade reproductive vigor - January 11, 2010 | 4:41 pm · Link
I’m not getting excited about the pearls of dimdom she’ll spit everywhere because I doubt the show will make it to production. But I L-O-V-E the idea of this woman driving everyone at Faux News up a wall.
Or at least that’s what he told his wife when she walked in on him. He also explained he had his pants off because he was hot.
OniHanzo - January 11, 2010 | 4:41 pm · Link
She couldn’t possibly be safer from the slings and arrows of reality working at Fox News. ‘Bout as insulating and protective as it gets.
Wingnut welfare at its finest.
ericvsthem - January 11, 2010 | 4:41 pm · Link
@JenJen: Lost, also.
MikeJ - January 11, 2010 | 4:43 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
Subtle? I was with ya up to there.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 4:44 pm · Link
@geg6: And some of the female BJers, too. Seriously. “Two liberal chicks topless dishing today’s politics.” Who wouldn’t want to watch it? It can be called, Top to Bottom. And, I can see Canada from my house. That has to be a bonus, right?
@MikeJ: Or not so subtly. We’ll see what FOX has to say about it.
@JGabriel: I LOVE it! You’re hired as the publicity guy!
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 4:46 pm · Link
geg6:
asiangrrlMN:
I predict a Balloon Juice charity calendar, followed by a Hollywood comedy based on the making of the calendar, to be entitled, Juice Balloons.
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Leelee for Obama - January 11, 2010 | 4:48 pm · Link
Must. Go. In. Lexicon.
jeffreyw - January 11, 2010 | 4:50 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN: Need an agent?
Darryl - January 11, 2010 | 4:51 pm · Link
She’s never going to run. She likes the adoration, and money, but not actual work.
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 4:51 pm · Link
Damn it. Another of the greats passes on: Eric Rohmer dead at 89.
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asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 4:54 pm · Link
@jeffreyw: Sure! The more the merrier. Er….
And, geg6 and I will need a photographer for the mock-ups. Anybody interested?
@Darryl: I completely agree. Running for prez is hard fucking work. Plus, she would actually have to leave the comfy confines of her secure little world, and, you know, actually say something of substance. No fucking way.
geg6 - January 11, 2010 | 4:55 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
I can see West Virginia AND Ohio from mine. Ohio doesn’t mean much in this context, but John Cole should be afraid. Very, very afraid.
Top to Bottom...I like it.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 4:57 pm · Link
@geg6: You can see Cole mopping his bathroom nekkid from your house? PICTURES! Damn. We really should send in a treatment. I bet we would at least get a response. I mean, we’re topical and topless. We’re from different generations and races and situations. It would be hot!
Plus, we’re liberals, which means that we actually know how to be funny and snarky. We can invite different BJers onto the show every week. Maybe we should send it to Comedy Central!
Keith G - January 11, 2010 | 4:58 pm · Link
I am so fucking happy. Every once in a while I come across something that is so funny, that is washes away all worry and I am left with a warm glow.
I noted that the daily caller had a bit about Ezra Klein. So despite my desire not to give Carlson any clicks, I checked it out. Ezra had a few sentences giving a rational and airtight defense of Reid. I knew the comment section would be good so I clicked through and was immediately rewarded.
How do people this fucking stupid, remember to breathe?
Anyway, I am still laughing.
Pasquinade - January 11, 2010 | 4:59 pm · Link
A FReeper posted this:
Chad N Freude - January 11, 2010 | 5:06 pm · Link
This from the Tweets:
(Love it, wish I’d thought of it.)
Darryl - January 11, 2010 | 5:06 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
It’s little-remembered, but Fox News tried to do a Daily Show ripoff. It was simply terrible and was cancelled somewhere around a dozen episodes.
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 5:07 pm · Link
Darryl:
Palin does seem to have intensely disliked the campaign trail. I can’t really imagine her running again either.
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Dork - January 11, 2010 | 5:08 pm · Link
Raises hand excitedly, Horshack-style.
J. Michael Neal - January 11, 2010 | 5:09 pm · Link
@geg6:
No. No offense, but people really need to pay more attention if they are going to criticize others for defending him. McGwire very studiously avoided answering the question when it was asked of him. His response was, “I’m not here to talk about the past.” Ergo, there’s nothing that even vaguely resembles perjury. Had a Congressman wanted to pin him down, and then held him in contempt for refusing to answer, then maybe. Of course, I thought Congress holding hearings on the matter was ridiculous to begin with.
Then again, I also think that the whole controversy is ridiculous. The impulse to be outraged about a generation of players because some of them took steroids while venerating a generation of players (like Mantle and Aaron), almost all of whom took amphetamines, is beyond dumb. If you are morally offended by illegal, unhealthy, performance enhancing drugs, great, but have the honesty to be morally outraged by all of them. Don’t pick and choose.
As for me, I’m all in favor of doing what we can to get rid of them, though I oppose going all WADA on the subject and demanding that athletes give up all right to privacy. I just also think that baseball has a very long tradition of doing whatever it takes to get an edge, and I’m not going to put steroids into the category of things that mean we should start rejecting someone’s accomplishments or shunning them.
And no NFL fan should even open their mouth on the subject, unless they really think that there are that many 320 lb men in the world who can run a 5.0 second 40-yard dash on natural body chemistry.
J. Michael Neal - January 11, 2010 | 5:12 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
No you can’t. My porch is higher than yours, and I can’t even see Duluth.
tavella - January 11, 2010 | 5:14 pm · Link
Palin won’t end up in talk radio; that actually requires work. Coming up with something to talk about for an hour every day in a reasonably compelling manner is difficult. Talk show hostess, or more likely some kind of roundtable spot where others can shore up her weaknesses is more likely.
S. cerevisiae - January 11, 2010 | 5:16 pm · Link
OK, y’all are talking about definite must see TV, much more entertaining than anything on Faux.
Put the topless hot political hour on Sunday after the bobbleheads and before the football pregame. Ratings gold!
Punchy - January 11, 2010 | 5:17 pm · Link
They drug test in the NFL. Are you really trying to tell us that hundreds of O and D linemen can ALL beat the tests? Gimmie a fuckin break.
jeffreyw - January 11, 2010 | 5:19 pm · Link
I love this place.
Buddy does too.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 5:19 pm · Link
@J. Michael Neal: Can so! If I squint really hard.
@S. cerevisiae: Or, we could do it on a bobblehead show. That would give ‘em something to bobble about!
@jeffreyw: And I love Buddy and the rest of your crew. They all look so happy.
J. Michael Neal - January 11, 2010 | 5:22 pm · Link
@Punchy:
Not all of them. Shawn Merriman got busted. So do others, on occasion. In general, though, I suspect that most of them do get away with it. The same is true in a number of Olympic sports, too.
Do you really think that there are that many human beings that can naturally get that large and that fast?
jeffreyw - January 11, 2010 | 5:22 pm · Link
Preview of coming attraction.
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 5:23 pm · Link
Dork:
Dude, you’re dating yourself. I’m pretty sure asianGrrrl, ferinstance, is too young to catch that reference to mid-70’s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Aw, fuck. Now I’ve dated myself.
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asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 5:25 pm · Link
@jeffreyw: Tease.
@JGabriel: Heh. I got the reference, but I am too young, thankyewverymuch.
GReynoldsCT00 - January 11, 2010 | 5:25 pm · Link
@jeffreyw:
fondue???
General Winfield Stuck - January 11, 2010 | 5:26 pm · Link
@jeffreyw:
Charlie loves it here too. Though he can’t figure out why that tree branch is stuck in that pot. (it’s a bird perch for feeders)
GReynoldsCT00 - January 11, 2010 | 5:27 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
Heh, Palin is like a female Barbarino… Wha?
Mike Kay - January 11, 2010 | 5:27 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
Being confronted with her gross knowledge deficit during the debate prep must have been a bitter come down.
Like when Miss Teen South Carolina was asked about maps, and she embarrassed herself beyond belief. Here was Palin who had enormously inflated ego, based of her looks, being deflated in the most humiliating fashion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Chuck Butcher - January 11, 2010 | 5:28 pm · Link
@scav:
I thought Fauxy Sarah worked.
Punchy - January 11, 2010 | 5:28 pm · Link
Yes, that’s why they’re paid a ton of money.
[32 (teams) x 20 lineman per team (complete guess)] / 300 million = 0.000213% of the population. So yes, I think there enough of those freakily large, fast peeps naturally. Literally, better than 1 in a half-million
lizzy - January 11, 2010 | 5:29 pm · Link
I’ve been listening to all the hysteria about Harry Reid’s remark regarding Obama since Saturday. Does anyone think for one minute that had Sarah looked and talked like Janet Napalitano that McCain would have chosen her??? Seriously people…..
Violet - January 11, 2010 | 5:29 pm · Link
Sarah Palin wants a job where she gets a title, people worship her and wait on her, she does virtually no work and she keeps herself in the public eye just enough to keep her name out there and keep her fans asking for more.
So whatever her new role at Fox is, the above is how she’ll fit in and what she’ll do. The scary thing is, that’s exactly how she’d treat the job of President. Forget the working part. She’d just show up and expect her staff to have done all the work.
J. Michael Neal - January 11, 2010 | 5:31 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
That’s the Buick two doors down, not Canada.
Pasquinade - January 11, 2010 | 5:34 pm · Link
@Violet
You’ve defined Palin exactly.
When she was mayor of Wasilla – a town of 6,000 people – she hired an administrator to do the work for about $50,000/year.
J. Michael Neal - January 11, 2010 | 5:35 pm · Link
@Punchy: All I can say is that your faith in the ability of the NFL’s drug testers is very touching. Naive as all fucking hell, but touching.
0whole1 - January 11, 2010 | 5:36 pm · Link
@tavella:
Either what you said, or something that allows herself to read off a teleprompter like a meat puppet.
Apologies. Queen of the meat puppets.
So….envision a fireside chat-type situation, alternating between Morena Baccarin-in-V “everything in pleasant” stylin’s, and Hitler addressing the mob.
A hot Hitler.
.....Um…..
Nevermind.
Comrade Mary - January 11, 2010 | 5:37 pm · Link
Oh, God. They were just covering this on Hardball, which prompted this priceless Tweetyism:
“She can’t be a pundit! She doesn’t know anything!”
It doesn’t seem to have hindered his career, has it? (OK, to be fair, he knows a few things, like what appeasement is and isn’t.)
0whole1 - January 11, 2010 | 5:40 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
> I predict a Balloon Juice charity calendar, followed by a Hollywood comedy based on the making of the calendar, to be entitled, Juice Balloons.
Um….yes? Twice?
Shawn in ShowMe - January 11, 2010 | 5:41 pm · Link
Even with help, be it supplements or illegal substances, there ain’t that many 320 lb men in the world who can run a 5.0 second 40-yard dash—maybe a dozen. Out of a population of 6.5 billion, that’s practically none.
jeffreyw - January 11, 2010 | 5:47 pm · Link
Soup’s on!
Paris - January 11, 2010 | 5:48 pm · Link
“Sarah Palin to Contribute to Fox News” should concern Michele Malkin or Coulter. They can’t keep all of them. Someone needs to go. She probably would be a god Fox and Friends host, at least until she quits.
SpotWeld - January 11, 2010 | 5:55 pm · Link
Plain, Coulter, Malkin…
Only one way to decide.
Construct the pundit Thunderdome
JGabriel - January 11, 2010 | 5:57 pm · Link
Comrade Mary:
“Damn you! I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!”
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maus - January 11, 2010 | 5:57 pm · Link
@Paris: Fox gets enough viewers that it can do what it wants…
until Comcast decides to turn MSNBC into a basic cable channel and destroys Fox, ratingswise. Tons of bars and establishments leave Fox on because of its availability.
But even still, it wouldn’t be the first time Fox propped up their more effective propaganda wings at the expense of profitability.
Svensker - January 11, 2010 | 5:57 pm · Link
@jeffreyw:
Cream of cheddar with bacon? Yummmmm!
john b - January 11, 2010 | 5:57 pm · Link
might she not just be a “special political correspondent” or somesuch? brought in to do coverage of elections etc. (or whenever it’s convenient for her to be on, really)
jeffreyw - January 11, 2010 | 6:07 pm · Link
@Svensker: Well I call it cream of potato with cheddar just going by the proportions. YMMV
Chuck Butcher - January 11, 2010 | 6:09 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
You ladies put your clothes back on – at least in my imagination…
fer cripes sake
Brachiator - January 11, 2010 | 6:10 pm · Link
@Violet:
I’d pay good money to see Cowell as a Fox commentator. The snark would burn the house down.
keestadoll - January 11, 2010 | 6:26 pm · Link
It is my sincerest wish that we, the august BJ commentariat, NOT contribute to Fox’s/O’Reilly’s (her premiere show on 1/12)/PigVommit Fox Opinion Show X’s ratings and ad dollars by watching her spew her Campbell’s Chunky Soup verbal bilge. If you must watch (since I get the car crash guilty pleasure endemic to we, United States Americans), catch the highlight footage that will surely be posted and refreshed hourly on Kos.
So there.
mai naem - January 11, 2010 | 6:30 pm · Link
I will tune in to Fox for Sarah, a couple of times anyway. Also too, is Tina Fey going to have to come back to SNL to do Princess Sarah skits?
Can’t wait till Bill Kristol starts talking about Yemen and she makes a comment about Steve Schmidt not being a Yes Man. This just has massive fail written all over it. I mean hell this idiot is the daughter of a HS Science teacher and she was making snarky comments about government funded fruit fly research. Sara thought that when the sales tax revenue increased in Wasilla because of increase in population,sales etc. , that the sales tax rate had increased.
Wonder how much of a wardrobe allowance the grifter’s going to get from Faux?
Kobie - January 11, 2010 | 7:27 pm · Link
So basically, Caribou Barbie gets two-plus years of campaign advertising before she announces her candidacy.
asiangrrlMN - January 11, 2010 | 7:49 pm · Link
@General Winfield Stuck: Charlie is such a cutie.
@jeffreyw: Now that I am back in the States, I’m jealous again of your food pr0n.
@Chuck Butcher:
Seriously? Hm. First time I’ve been asked to put my clothes back ON!
SiubhanDuinne - January 11, 2010 | 8:16 pm · Link
Okay, guys? We’re 200 posts in; I’ve managed to read through about 75 of them but at this point I am sobbing with laughter and am not sure I can manage the remaining 125. Could some nice person just summarize #s 76-200, or alternatively select the finest be-sure-not-to-miss-this-one for me? Because srsly I don’t think I can get through the evening otherwise. Kthxbai.
SiubhanDuinne - January 11, 2010 | 8:20 pm · Link
I just have to say, Melissa Harris-Lacewell is awesome. She’s on Countdown (again Lawrence O’Donnell is subbing for Keith, be still my heart).
Ken - January 11, 2010 | 8:31 pm · Link
They’re a bunch of ignorant whores over at Fox, what’s one more?
Ken - January 11, 2010 | 8:32 pm · Link
They are a bunch of ignoramuses at FOX, what’s one more?
DougL - January 11, 2010 | 8:32 pm · Link
VPFNCILF!SiubhanDuinne - January 11, 2010 | 8:51 pm · Link
Fair warning, I’m up to #140 now and I’m still weeping with mirth. This thread is Keeper Win.
Chuck Butcher - January 11, 2010 | 9:00 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
In search of peace of mind, donchano?
john b - January 11, 2010 | 9:11 pm · Link
her?
/arrested.development
SiubhanDuinne - January 11, 2010 | 9:16 pm · Link
Whew! (Mops brow.) Finally made it through all the comments, but jeez, I don’t think I’ve LOL’d so much at a single thread since the Night of the Laughing Helicopters.
Chuck Butcher - January 11, 2010 | 9:19 pm · Link
@Chuck Butcher:
I’ve re-thought this stance, now I want to be the photog…
I’m soooooo confused…
and I’m older than 14.
Nutella - January 11, 2010 | 10:15 pm · Link
NYT says Palin ‘retired as the governor of Alaska’.
NYT lies.
But I’m surprised it took so long to get this deal with Fox done. I thought it was already in the bag when she quit. Maybe she’s been trying for higher pay.
SiubhanDuinne - January 11, 2010 | 10:25 pm · Link
@Nutella (btw, what happened to the toast?)
I’ve been trying (okay, I haven’t really been trying very hard) to find out what Fox is paying her for this details-as-yet-unspecified gig. Has anyone heard the $$ terms of her Foxtract?
Chuck Butcher - January 11, 2010 | 10:31 pm · Link
@Nutella:
I mentioned this to NYT in their comments, pointlessly probably.
Nutella - January 11, 2010 | 10:37 pm · Link
@SiubhanDuinne:
NutellaOnToast is somebody else!
I prefer peanut butter on toast, myself.
asiangrrlMN - January 12, 2010 | 12:08 am · Link
@Chuck Butcher: Heh. Put in an application, and geg6 and I will get back to you.
@SiubhanDuinne: That is still the ultimate litmus test, though, of hilarity. I’m still pissed at myself for bailing early.
Chuck Butcher - January 12, 2010 | 12:22 am · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
Does a Harley sweeten the pot? Blue. 110 CID V twin.
asiangrrlMN - January 12, 2010 | 12:37 am · Link
@Chuck Butcher: You’re hired! And, you have Gus! Double bonus.
Platonicspoof - January 12, 2010 | 1:33 am · Link
On the right hand side of the Media Decoder page it lists five Recent Posts.
The comment numbers at this point for the four not-Palin posts are six, two, twenty and seven.
Comments for the Palin joins Fox entertainment were turned off at
six hundred ninety seven.
Even though, e.g., 95% of the first 25 comments for the NYT article were negative (that’s as far as I’m reading), Fox won’t care if people laugh at her, her contribution will be to bring in the circus freak / anti-circus freak crowds.
SiubhanDuinne - January 12, 2010 | 8:34 am · Link
@Nutella: My apologies. I just assumed . . . and you know what they say about that . . . .