This made my day:
On MSNBC’s “Hardball” yesterday, Dean sounded like the presidential candidate of yore, as he lashed an alleged “culture of corruption” in the Republican Party, said GOP leaders are putting money “in their own pockets,” and added that “I don’t think it’s very credible” that Vice President Cheney was not aware of the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity. During his broadside, he bemoaned how Bush’s “MO” is to “discredit your opponents and attack them personally.”
In one eyebrow-raising moment, Dean invoked a crude phrase usually reserved for the locker room when urging Bush to make public Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’s White House records. “I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can’t play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it’s called,” he said.
Bwahaha. What could he possibly have meant to say?
Vlad
The Mears pick is kind of a big Fuck You to the dignity of the court, so maybe Dean got exactly what he was looking for.
Mr Furious
I saw that too—I have no idea where he was going with that one…
Slide
Damn, Dean seems to always manages to say something that distracts from the message he is trying to get across. Hide the fuckin salami? Jesus Howard.
John S.
The DNC needs to get one of those Talking Points Ken dolls and send it to the Japanese for some reverse engineeering. Then, they can take the technology and implant it into Dean, who could desperately use some re-wiring to stay on message.
Geek, Esq.
What, no Bill Clinton jokes yet?
Jack Arthur
I think it was a reference to the Gannon/Bush Affair. Dean was attempting to reinsert (!) this important topic back into the body politic. One can understand the groans coming from the right. They’ve felt that pain before.
danelectro
hahahahahahaha! i love howard dean, but really, wtf is that about?
Doug
Probably just going for hide the ball, but that’s kinda funny. I (heart) Howard Dean.
Steve
I’m quite confident that if Dean hadn’t uttered a malapropism, not a single person would be quoting his talking point today. You can’t necessarily win.
gorillagogo
Perhaps Dean was trying to reiterate the unfortunate ‘Bush packing’ phrase from a few days ago but got confused.
Dave Ruddell
Maybe he was going for keep-away? I really have no idea.
“Playing hide the salami” is one of my fav phrases though.
Jack Roy
Dude, I so wish he’d been elected, now.
“Hide the ball,” obviously.
Shygetz
Maybe he was just highlighting the fact that Miers is a 60-year old, never-been-married evangelical Christian. Apparently, to get a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court from Bush, it is important not to play hide the salami.
Wyrmwood
What Howard was referring to was an actually college prank where someone moves out of a dorm or apartment and hides smelly salami in secret places so that, in a couple of days, it starts to smell really rotten.
I think that was the actual point he was trying to make… that things hidden could begin really stink after awhile.
KC
Well, that settles it for me. For today, Dean kicks ass. Too bad more politicians can’t talk like that (not that Dean’s getting praised for it at headquarters).
Bob Davis
I like salami. All kinds of salami: Italian salami, Jewish salami, even German salami sometimes if I’m particularly hungry. People who hide their salami from me are not my friends when I have a particular need for salami.
ppGaz
We just had an embarassing and idiotic pep rally for the war conducted by a boneheaded president … and we want to talk about Dean and a salami joke?
News flash: Dean is not the guy running the country over a cliff at the moment.
Get a fucking clue.
Kimmitt
Yeah, hide the ball, obviously.
Gratefulcub
He always slips up and says something worthy of ridicule. So does the president.
But….Dean’s interview sounded like the beginning of a democratic strategy/agenda/plan/backbone starting to emerge.
1) These guys are corrupt, not just Delay and Frist or the leakers, there are others that aren’t on the news: Abramof, Safavian, the entire Ohio GOP
2) We have to get out of iraq. What’s our plan? We wouldn’t be there. But we are, and there are several alternatives, we need to pick the best one that includes getting the troops out of iraq (Not immediately, but soon)
3) Fiscal Liberals are better than these Fiscal Conservatives
4) Did I mention Delay, Frist, Abramoff, Safavian, Ohio, Scooter and Turdblossom? Did I mention Blunt seems to be as dirty as Delay?
5)YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHHHH!
Gratefulcub
Edwards was much better with Jon Stewart.
I heart John Edwards
Harry Atkinson
New Newsweek Poll shows Bushies popularity rising to an extraordinary 40%!
A grateful nation shows its love of this great president.
angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/9272
slide
A phrase you are going to be hearing a lot of till the midterm elections, “Culture of Corruption”.
The Dems have to get on message. They have to hammer that home every fuckin time they open their mouth. They have to shove the corruption of the GOP down their greedy little throats. Some may be reticent because of their own ethical “lapses” lets say, but the are being handed a huge gift here and if they dont’ run with it they deserve to lose.
Another Jeff
Yeah, slide, i eagerly await Democrats here in Philly talking about a culture of corruption.
jobiuspublius
ROFLMAO. Or whatever it’s called. You see it was a reductio ad absurdum, or whatever it’s called.
Dean has a certain Mr. Magoo quality about him. Can you imagine him trudging past the water kooler, donut in mouth, coffee in hand:
jobiuspublius
Dean for President: He doesn’t hide the salami.
DEAN WINS POTUS: NO MORE SALAMI FOR US
jobiuspublius
DEAN WINS POTUS: SALAMII REJOICE IN THE STREETS
jobiuspublius
Go west young man.
Mike
ppGaz Says:
“We just had an embarassing and idiotic pep rally for the war conducted by a boneheaded president … and we want to talk about Dean and a salami joke?
News flash: Dean is not the guy running the country over a cliff at the moment.
Get a fucking clue.”
No. He’s the guy many of you clowns WOULD have elected if given the chance.
Get a fucking clue.
Jim Allen
Re: No. He’s the guy many of you clowns WOULD have elected if given the chance.”
“Many”? He wasn’t exactly kicking ass and taking names in the Dem primaries, was he?
FYI, we did get a clue.
Rusty Shackleford
Howard Dean rocks!
Jack Roy
He’s the guy many of you clowns WOULD have elected if given the chance
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Howard Dean rocks!
And once again, the blogosphere proves that while it’s strong enough to tear down the weightiest institutions, it is too weak to hold onto a single topic of conversation.
ppGaz
So the war really doesn’t matter, as long as the snark thing is working for you?
Welcome to Balloon-Juice, where all truth is not just political, it’s political IN YOUR FACE.
Fucking pathetic piece of shit post, Mike. Are you in high school? Grow up.
Mr. Snitch!
Truth doesn’t just hurt, it REALLY hurts, huh?
Kimmitt
Heh, watching Bush supporters attack some guy for a malapropism is beyond surreal.
goonie bird
He could always start ranting at the mike just like HITLER did or do a cruschev and bang his shoe on the podium