What can I say that makes this any better than it already is?
Consider this an open thread.
by John Cole| 52 Comments
This post is in: Republican Stupidity, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To
What can I say that makes this any better than it already is?
Consider this an open thread.
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Zifnab
Mother of god, is this really going to become a daily affair? How can she keep up?
LiberalTarian
Arg. You promised to read those morons so I wouldn’t have to.
I just HATE to give her website any traffic.
OK, I’m holding my nose and going in.
[arg!!! the stupid! it burns!!!]
Tim (the other one)
Soros told Hunter to endorse Huckabee. I just know it !
4tehlulz
Hunter’s just trolling for lulz. MM just made it worthwhile for him.
The Grand Panjandrum
Hunter is angling to get his buddy the Dukester a pardon if Huckabee gets elected.
Kilgore Trout
I prefer this story as rendered in the URL: “hunter-endorses-huckheads-explode”.
Jake
Maybe she’s making sure her OUTRAGE(C) muscles stay toned. She wouldn’t want to be flabby come 1.20.2009.
Dennis - SGMM
They call it Huckmentum. Huck is out of money at the moment but, when Hunter’s eight supporters open their wallets he’ll be flush I tell ya’. On to Super Tuesday!
J sub D
That extra .03% should put that ignorant, hillbilly, whackjob preacher over the top.
Sirkowski
What is it with these people? A lot of them are still depressed that Fred Thompson gave up, even though he could barely go over 10%. Another says if Hunter had given his support to Fred, Fred could have won the primaries… HUNTER COULDN’T EVEN GET 1%!!!
KC
I wonder what the Huckster thinks of the FISA debate? Should all non-Christian voters have their phones tapped by the government? Could be terrorists, ya know.
Incertus (Brian)
I don’t mind giving Malkin the hits when it’s for sweet sweet candy like that.
Haltelcere
Hey! Stop disrespecting hillbillies! Hope is darn near in flatland country. Country bumpkin or redneck would be more appropriate.
The Briscoe Kid
Related Malkinfreude:
Michelle’s favorite ex-gay got caught trying to set up a tryst with a man who pretended to be a closeted marine recruiter.
http://gawker.com/347229/former-gay-terrorized-by-current-gay
The Other Andrew
Accusing Huckabee of being an “ethno-panderer” = hilarious, given Hunter’s reliance on xenophobia.
Pb
The Briscoe Kid,
ROFL. Don’t miss the follow up link in the comments over there.
Tlaloc
Let me taste your anguished tears of frustration, Michelle. So yummy.
Jen
Well, he *is* an ethno-panderer, if South Carolina Redneck is an ethnic group…
Surabaya Stew
Thanks for making my day; after 12 hours of work, coming home pissed and exhausted, I am feeling so happy and refreshed after reading that Malkinian shit-eruption! Thanks for taking time and sanity out from your life to wade through the right-wing muck to find this gem of self-delusion and hatred.
Peter Johnson
You have to admit, this was surprising. Not a Huck or a Hunter fan here, but it’s a little strange that an uber-hawk like Duncan would endorse a crypto-pacificist like Huckleberry Hound. No?
Jen
What *do* these words mean? Ethno-panderer, I like, because it makes me think of a panda where the black and white stripes are kind of blurred.
If you mean, it’s weird because Huck doesn’t have a position as to what type of flesh-eating bacteria he would stock the 2,000 mile border moat with, then yes. Kind of weird.
maxbaer (not the original)
My, the comments over there were sweet schadenfreude. If the Hollywood Idle endorses the Huckster, then Malkin better run the number for the suicide hotline.
Jeffro
January 24, 2008
Guest Commentary
Ah, a new year, a fresh start, another chance for telecom corporations, their lobbyists, the President and Vice-President, and their bought-and-paid-for allies in Congress to try again for amnesty from prosecution. Folks, don’t you wish you had that kind of firepower going for you the next time you break a law?
After all, all these corporations did was help American intelligence agencies illegally spy on American citizens’ phone and e-mail conversations in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Those poor companies! The Bush/Cheney Administration asked them to spy on Americans – beginning before 9/11, mind you – and the telecoms simply had no choice! We don’t really expect them to be liable for breaking the law, do we?
And really, that’s half the problem: we have NO idea of the extent of their lawbreaking. Presidents Bush and Cheney are claiming “executive privilege” and the telecoms ain’t talking. With the amnesty that’s coming up for a vote, not only would the telecoms be immune from lawsuits for violating their customers’ – American citizens’ – Constitutional rights, we’d never know just what they did and are still doing today.
This should be open-and-shut. If telecom companies allowed the Bush Administration access to American citizens’ phone conversations and e-mails in violation of the FISA law (which, contrary to Republican propaganda, DOES allow for wiretapping of any foreign/al-Qaeda suspects wherever they are), those customers should be liable for damages. But here’s White House spokesman Tony Fratto’s response:
“We’re exactly three weeks away from the date when terrorists can be free to make phone calls without fear of being surveilled by U.S. intelligence agencies”.
It’s a terrific scare tactic, but dead wrong. No one thinks that U.S. intelligence agencies should be denied surveillance capabilities. No one. FISA already provides multiple opportunities to listen in on suspected terrorists, sometimes even after the surveillance has already happened!
The sole issue here is whether outlaw telecoms should be given a pass on their behavior. And since President Bush has said he’ll veto any FISA legislation unless it includes telecom amnesty, it’s clear that he’s ready to sacrifice American readiness in order to cover up for the big telecom companies and their illegal actions. They did him a favor – for reasons only Bush and Cheney could and should have to explain – and now the telecoms expect to be exempt from paying the price for breaking the law.
As if this issue couldn’t be more clear, it was recently revealed that these supposedly patriotic telecom companies actually stopped their surveillance(!) when the federal government was too lazy or incompetent(!!) to pay their bills for these taps(!!!). Could their motivations be any clearer? The Bush/Cheney is all for terrorist surveillance – but can’t get their act together to pay the bills. The telecoms are all for helping this surveillance – but only if they get paid. And both parties just conveniently ignore this little thing called the Constitution, along with the even more explicit FISA law.
If the President, Vice President, and rich telecom executives won’t honor the law in this country, American citizens have an obligation to make them do so. The only way to do this is if Congress refuses to provide telecoms with amnesty for their lawbreaking. We are a nation of laws, not fear-mongering and lies that try to twist our patriotism into something wholly un-American.
Senator Chris Dodd and a handful of allies in Congress are determined that no amnesty for telecoms will pass. He has threatened a filibuster over the matter. His own Democratic majority leader, Harry Reid, has set up major roadblocks for that filibuster to succeed. (Reid, along with WV Senator Jay Rockefeller, is a major recipient of telecom companies’ political donations). Dodd will go ahead with his filibuster…where this country goes from there, no one knows.
Please help end this farce and help this country get back to the rule of law. Contact Senator Dodd at (202) 224-2823 and let him know you have his back against telecom amnesty. Better yet, contact our own two Delaware senators, Joe Biden (202) 224-5042 and Tom Carper (202) 224-2441 and let them know that they MUST stand by Senator Dodd in preserving our Constitutional rights. Only then, with telecom amnesty defeated, will we ever know what the Bush/Cheney administration did to subvert Americans’ privacy, the FISA law, and the Constitution over the past seven years.
(Sorry – more important matters intruded and I fired off a big ol’ letter to the editor)
-Jeffro
Chuck Butcher
I just like hearing the shrieks.
Dreggas
Speaking of horrible shrieking monsters, go see Cloverfield.
TheFountainHead
I still have a nasty cold, but that cleared my sinuses….
Sparky
The way Michelle writes it, it looks as if The Huck’s endorsing himself–
““I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” Huckabee said in a statement. “Of the remaining candidates …”
Which really gets weird when you put that with the next paragraph–
““Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee’s candidacy that compels my endorsement,” he added. “Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. ”
Michelle thinks Mike talks about himself in the third person–oh, and The Huck is totally thinking that this Mike Huckabee is a really cool frood who knows where his towel is.
The original quote from CNN–
““I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” Hunter said in a statement. “Of the remaining candidates … ”
Michelle can’t even cut and paste properly…
D-Chance.
The man-monster on Mars… that pose, I’ve seen it before. Looks similar to the “Bigfoot lumbering through the forest” film.
Appears to be a crude photoshop; but NASA claims “rock formation”, and Richie Hogeland screams “COVER-UP!”, so…
The Other Steve
South Carolina Redneck are protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
STEVEinSC
Hmm, wonder where those toned muscles are? Might be worth a try, come 1.20.2009.
Jen
I am reminded of a very old Onion “man on the street” Q & A regarding whether or not SC should fly the rebel flag. Answer:
I’d be ashamed to be from South Carolina. Now, what’s this about a flag?
(Here in NC, we have the minority of the country to look down on, but boy howdy do we sure look down on SC. I mean, this was a state idiotic enough to amend their constitution to require airplane bottles of booze be used in bars. As a TEMPERANCE measure. I know, they’ve re-amended it, but the retardation remains.)
Garrigus Carraig
Since I do not live among them, I’m still surprised the Republican rank-and-file are so dumb about all this. Do they really not know how weak their field is? What do they expect Hillary or Obama to do that’s so horrible? Fail to promote corporate welfare? Neglect their duties to spy on them? Forget to cut taxes for the überwealthy?
Also, is there any hope for this country? Seriously. Is there any way out? I don’t see a way out. OK, back to work.
STEVEinSC
This is as incoherent a post as I have ever seen.
Grumpy Code Monkey
You know, that can be read in several different ways, most of them ending in “ew.”
Pulling for Huckabee/Keyes 2008!
Zifnab
That movie kicked ass.
Also, I hope Hunter is bringing Huckabee a dump truck full of money, because Huckabee is just about broke.
Jen
Heehehehehehe Stevearino! Now mount your “spirited” defense of airplane bottles!
STEVEinSC
I’d rather try out Malkin’s toned outrage muscles.
Jen
…and we have a winner for most repulsive.
Punchy
/scratches chin….re-reads….scratches chin again…
Jen
Here Punch.
Evidently the Onion rather likes doing these:
Cyrus
Yeah. Who else is Hunter going to endorse? Aren’t Giuliani, Romney and McCain all pretty bad from a nativist’s point of view because their position on immigration is the pro-big business one? And Tancredo’s already out of the race. The options were Huckabee, and with him at least they can get a theocracy so it wouldn’t be a total loss, or R0n Paul.
They believe that Hillary is the most left-wing of the Democratic candidates and Obama is a Manchurian candidate. Google “Liberality” some time. It predates Obama’s fame and Hillary’s candidacy, but it’s still instructive.
D. Pantload
This populism that’s driving Huckabee’s campaign forward is a menace. The hoi polloi should stick to venting their frustrations at the liberal elites. This business of allowing them to direct their ire at conservative authority figures is bound, sooner or later, to make them forget their place.
To all those Huckawannabees out there: you are the footsoldiers of the conservative movement. That means you’re supposed to do what your Generals tell you to, dammit.
Dreggas
Yes, Yes it did. So did Dragonlance: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight. I watched that last night :D
Zifnab
Who the what?! Where? When? How often? OMFG, I think my pants just exploded.
Dreggas
See Here
Bubblegum Tate
Ha! Yeah, I remember that about NC: “Sure, we’ve got our embarrassing, rednecky aspects, but at least we’re not South Carolina! WTF is wrong with that state?”
Then I went with my friend to visit his sister and her husband in SC. Saw the airplane bottles, saw a church commercial on TV in which a stand-in Jesus was put in the electric chair (I’m still trying to figure that one out), and saw a lot of the ol’ stars-n-bars. And all those SC jokes started making a lot of sense.
Garrigus Carraig
That just shattered me into little pieces. Thanks goddammit. Why oh why do I click the links?
Strangely, Conservapedia is silent on Liberality. They are also silent on Rev. Gary Aldridge.
Tony J
For those who can’t be arsed clicking on Malkin’s site, here’s some of the highlights from the comment section.
And
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. And to think that I usually avoid wingnut blogs like the plague.
Peter Johnson
What, pray tell, is so repulsive about that? Michelle’s attractive and in good shape.
Zifnab
I’D HIT THAT!
Dreggas
I hear there is this nice place in the middle of a desert, it’s supposedly an Oasis, they say it was called Babylon once…
Dreggas
But wouldn’t you feel dirty in the morning?