Archive for the ‘Hoot-Smalley’ Category
It’s just emotion that’s taking me over
I am really digging the Santorum surge. What sucks about Romney is that he when he says something dumb, the wingers shake their heads and say “that was dumb”. When Santo says something dumb—like that women shouldn’t serve in combat because they’re too emotional—you get stuff like this: It is not a gaffe at all. [...]
February 10, 2012
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DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
103 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Hoot-Smalley
Fool for a client
One step forward, two steps back (via): Yesterday, ThinkProgress exclusively reported Ari Fleischer’s involvement — dating back at least to December — with the Komen Foundation, including issues related to Planned Parenthood. Tonight, the Washington Post reports that Komen is now publicly confirming that Fleischer, a prominent right-wing pundit and former press secretary for George [...]
February 5, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 59 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Self-deportation
I loved John’s post last night: I’ve been having a ball this week with the Komen shit-show. Not just because it was such a hideous blunder and there was so much hourly incompetence to chronicle, but because GOD DAMNED IT FEELS GOOD TO BE ON THE OFFENSIVE. But the truth is, we’re not really on [...]
February 4, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 65 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Hoot-Smalley
Another one bites the dust
Check out the Yoplait Facebook page—it leads with some stuff about breast cancer in pink writing suggesting (obliquely) that they may drop Komen. The comments are unscrubbed and from what I can see they are about 50:1 anti-Komen. I don’t see how Yoplait doesn’t drop Komen within a few weeks. As I’ve said before, I [...]
February 3, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 96 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Hoot-Smalley
I love a good train wreck
The CEO of Komen on MSNBC earlier. What a fucking shit show. For 500K a year, they could find a lot better front person. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
February 2, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 119 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Let me be there in your morning
I’m actually on sabbatical at an undisclosed location this semester, with only a few formal duties, but the one thing I have to turn up to tomorrow coincides with this: Word started leaking out in Las Vegas earlier that Donald Trump’s “major announcement” is to back Newt Gingrich, and sources are confirming it to POLITICO. [...]
February 1, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 47 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Reince, watch, repeat
What struck me about that clip from old man Schieffer that mistermix put up wasn’t so much how offensive Reince’s comparison was but how obscure it was. How many viewers could possibly have known who Captain Schettino is? I had no idea. I had heard of the crash, but not to the point where I [...]
January 30, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 132 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Hoot-Smalley
Let fury have the hour
I think Newt might have blown it by not going Howard Beale during the last debate. It’s possible that kind of thing wouldn’t have worked without the crazy audience response, anyway. But if you are wondering whether Gingrich will drown the stage with tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech tonight, here’s a [...]
January 26, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 113 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, We Are All Mayans Now
Brokered convention!
Shame on me, but I’m watching all the cable garbage about the Republican primary and I’ hearing a lot of BROKERED CONVENTION, from Michael Steele, from Joe Scarborough. Scarborough claims that Erick Erickson and Bill Kristol are also talking about it, but I I’d never know, because I wouldn’t read the filthy motherfuckers. (Not true, [...]
January 22, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 73 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Hoot-Smalley
Good news for Evan Bayh
I disagree with mistermix on this one: Listening to this, I’m struck by one thing: if Newt is the candidate, he’s going to drive the discussion into all the nooks and crannies of noise and diversion that have occupied Fox News viewers since Obama’s victory. In other words, Newt is the candidate of the 2009 [...]
January 22, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 87 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Hoot-Smalley, Uncategorized
Twenty inch blades on the Impala
Oh, Jonah: Last night in my dozen observations on the debate I wrote: 5. [Romney] also made some sort of reference to coming from the “streets of America.” Romney is a fine man, but if there’s anyone less “street” than Mitt Romney I don’t know who it could be. If he’s street than I’m the [...]
January 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 134 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, Readership Capture
Random Ben Stein story
Ben Stein is suing a company called Kyocera for not using him in is commercials. Felix Salmon summarizes: The whole suit is ludicrous, of course: Stein is claiming breach of a nonexistent contract. (The closest thing the suit comes to saying that there was any contract at all is the part when it says that [...]
January 16, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 68 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Shame on a winger
Romney says he likes being able to fire people. Huntsman and Perry pounce, at least a little bit. It’s pretty amazing when you think about it, that Republicans are about to nominate a gaffe-prone bankster who passed a a landmark big gubmint health care bill in a country that hates banksters in a party that [...]
January 9, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 129 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Election 2012, Hoot-Smalley
Keep ‘em separated
I have long believed that Judaism is superior to Christianity because it makes its craziest members wear special hats. The crazier you are, the more prominent the head-gear. It’s pretty fucking brilliant—imagine if Gary Bauer had to wear a huge hat whenever he was on teevee! That might make CNN tolerable. But maybe it doesn’t [...]
December 28, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 161 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
Don’t give yourself away
No one could have predicted: House Republicans on Thursday crumpled under the weight of White House and public pressure and have agreed to pass a two-month extension of the payroll-tax cut, Republican and Democratic sources told National Journal. I think this is neither a “game-changing” Democratic victory (as most are saying) or good news for [...]
December 22, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 150 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley
