Betty Cracker at Rumproast is shrill:
For context, click the link to read “POTUS Talks to PPOFB”.
(H/t commentor Licensed to kill time.)
This post is in: Humorous, Lies, Damned Lies, and Sarah Palin, Open Threads
Betty Cracker at Rumproast is shrill:
For context, click the link to read “POTUS Talks to PPOFB”.
(H/t commentor Licensed to kill time.)
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General Egali Tarian Stuck
Absolutely brilliant Ms. Cracker!!
Emma
That is first class snark, that is.
Red Pill
Straight up fucking genius. Make this viral!
Joseph Nobles
Person Posting On FaceBook?
Darkrose
Pretend President On FaceBook.
Mike Kay
Palin is an endless font of comedy.
horatius
Posted on my FB page.
This one’s going viral.
The Dangerman
If Sarah went down to help at the Gulf, she’d surely be ready for action (what, you can’t clean up oil by shooting it from a helicopter? well, fuck it all).
arguingwithsignposts
OT, but if you have a cable carrier that subscribes, ESPN3.com is going to be streaming all 64 of the world cup games. via of Zen and Computing, with a list of other sites around the world that will be streaming the games.
El Cid
I hope you people realize you are mocking the former Commander of the Alaska National Guard, the organization under Palin’s absolute and direct command which was the only thing to keep Russian missiles and Putin’s head from reaching U.S. airspace.
freelancer (itouch)
@The Dangerman:
She could be the spokeswoman for laying ineffective booms. We know she has the waders.
http://sarahpalininformation.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/sarah-in-waders-in-boat-with-news-crew.jpg
The Dangerman
@freelancer (itouch):
Lots of tea partiers wading to hear her speak of laying.
Violet
But this is not how it would go. What would really happen is that she would take him up on the offer, go to Louisiana, and showboat her meetings with Hayward and other oil execs.
And then after a day or two of that, she’d start complaining that the President wasn’t giving her the resources she needed to do the job. Obama just doesn’t get it. If she were in charge she’d do X, Y and Z differently and better. She’d organize her teabagging followers to stage protests demanding she be given whatever money and resources she claimed to need.
And after a week or so of making it All About Her, creating chaos everywhere she went and leaving an even bigger disaster in her wake, she’d quit. She’d say the President wasn’t doing the right things, she couldn’t possibly succeed, so she quit because she wasn’t going to “waste the resources of hard-working Americans.”
And all that would have happened is she got an even bigger spotlight on her, made things worse while she was there and left a bigger mess to clean up.
That is how it would really go.
Drive By Wisdom
No lack of apologists here. Liberals never have a solution.
Spill, Barry, Spill.
handy
Obot or not, you gotta admit this is pretty awesome.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
My favorite: “What the heck? Is this those radio guys again?”
The Dangerman
@Violet:
Don’t forget her Nieman Marcus expense report.
Mike Kay
@Drive By Wisdom: oh, did we hurt your feelings? Here, have a tissue and wipe your snivling tears. Poor teabaggers, they can dish it out, but they can’t take it. Heh!
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Drive By Wisdom: Sadly, when I read your posts, the only thing I can think of is that next time you should stop and get some.
freelancer (itouch)
@Mike Kay:
I think ole drive-by is trolling/spoofing.
handy
@Drive By Wisdom:
Hey I get it. Only under an incompetent like Obama could an oil spill of this proportion could happen. Dubya would have looked into the camera all serious and said, “I’m from Texas. I’m an oil man. If there’s one thing I know it’s oil. We will smoke it out. We will not be defeated. Now watch this drive.”
Chad N Freude
@Violet: Depressingly accurate and insightful analysis. Why are you trying to make me suicidal?
kay
@Drive By Wisdom:
Why doesn’t Palin go down there?
There’s two GOP governors who don’t really have a choice but to kiss her ass (Crist doesn’t count) standing at the ready to put her on a boat with a camera crew and have her ride around a while. She could bring Todd. He’s a commercial fisherman. Or oil industry worker. Or something.
She and Todd could offer their specific, concrete ideas to a grateful nation.
We look forward to her suggestions, and a lively discussion on Common Sense Solutions. But she’ll have to stick around for question time, after the photo op. She can’t just blast out some Tweets, and then run away.
Nellcote
Speaking of phone calls, nobody seems to have noticed that when Lauer asked Prez Obama if he had talked to the BP CEO, he said No AND they just tell you what they think you want to hear anyway, ie. they just lie.
Corner Stone
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
Shit. Me too.
Keith G
Meanwhile my government, led by the man I voted for, seems to be negligent in its duty to protect its citizens’ right to know.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/politicsemail/10access.html?hp
Tho an Obot for now, I am getting pretty fucking tired of Obama’s increasingly casual regard for the Bill of Rights.
Homeland Security stopping Sen Nelson from bringing media with him on a tour is the type of shit I would expect from a Rethug. This is so disheartening.
Joseph Nobles
Um, Menendez at the Senate hearing on C-Span right now said the BP plan for dealing with a huge oil spill in the Gulf included resources and plans for cleaning walruses and seals. He was kindly scratching his head about it.
ellaesther
So.many.kinds.of.BRILLIANT!
Thank you. Thank you John Cole, and thank you Licensed to kill time! May the FSM bless and keep you, always.
Josh
Sheer bloody brilliance.
@Keith G:
Yes it is. I’m disappointed by this, but it doesn’t surprise me.
ellaesther
And in other news, I broke a tooth on a jawbreaker tonight. Can’t my damn teeth read? JAW-breaker, JAW-breaker!
Chad N Freude
Don’t forget how well President Obama explains the complexity of the problems he is faced with, as documented by Jon Stewart. (Sit through the opening, it’s worth it.)
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Keith G: Yea, not good. But we’ve seen this play before, the WH visitor list comes to mind and when Obama finds out it is reversed. But we shall see.
uloborus
@Keith G:
You realize that three fourths of that article is ridiculous garbage and deliberate misinterpretations, right? The media whining that blanket and specific restrictions on where people can enter the recovery zone also apply to them? That these restrictions have almost no effect on whether or not images of the disaster can be shown?
The only new information there is the curiosity that they don’t want politicians *and* journalists together. It’s an interesting restriction, but they don’t actually tell you the government’s side. Instead they link it to a lot of deliberate bullshit to suggest it’s part of a larger coverup.
Chad N Freude
@uloborus: These restrictions do have an effect on whether or not images of the disaster can be obtained.
Chad N Freude
@ellaesther: Emily, you’re supposed to let them dissolve, not try to chew them. Think “Suck on this”, referring, of course, to the jawbreaker.
uloborus
@Chad N Freude:
Not much of one. How many newsmen have you seen standing on oil-stained beaches? I’ve seen plenty. We’re also seeing the oil-damaged wildlife. The only large-scale restriction is flight over the Gulf under 3000 feet. You can’t get a lot of good footage there, since it’s just oil on water, and you CAN get pictures from higher up.
Also, this article conveniently leaves out part of the government response to these accusations I read in a different article. Journalists can get tours of the zone, they just can’t decide to fly through that area spontaneously.
Oh, and the restriction is a government policy. The entire basis for saying it’s BP is the guys sulky that they can’t go through saying ‘Well, we think it’s a BP decision.’
EDIT – and journalists are not being singled out here. The restriction is ‘no one who’s not somehow connected to the cleanup’. What you’re seeing here is that when they admitted they weren’t connected to the cleanup (IE, they’re random journalists) they were denied.
ellaesther
@Chad N Freude: Now you tell me. Very helpful. (I also never manage to hold off on Tootsie Pops. I am, apparently, just as God made me. Well, “just as God made me,” minus part of a tooth).
ellaesther
@Chad N Freude: Hold the phone, you just called me Emily. That just feels weird.
Which is weird, because that’s my name, and by now, everyone here knows it.
But still.
Mark S.
@Chad N Freude:
In my household, they are known as Friedman Units.
BethanyAnne
@ellaesther: ow! I broke a tooth last year. With the new job, I can finally get it fixed. /looks on bright side of life
Nellcote
@Chad N Freude:
If these so called journalists had the slightest bit of initiative they’d find a pissed off local that could lead them through the swamps to wherever they want to go.
Chad N Freude
@ellaesther: Well, when I click on your screen name link, I get this. Not a particularly good method of hiding your identity.
BTW, we had a kind of flirty exchange on this blog a long time ago (I don’t remember what started it). You, of course, have forgotten it; I shall carry the memory to my grave.
Not related to the topic at hand, but I think of great interest to you and many of the commenters who engaged in the recent Israeli vs flotilla blogwars, this podcast: “American Jews and the Future of Israel” (skip to about 7:20) is really interesting reasoned discussion without ranting, screaming, accusations, or other any of the other debating styles so popular on BJ.
Zuzu's Petals
Also posted in another thread:
The Mudflats has its usual great take on Palin’s phony “phone me” grandstanding.
Zuzu's Petals
Also posted in another thread:
The Mudflats has its usual great take on Palin’s phony “phone me” grandstanding.
eemom
@Chad N Freude:
this NYT piece is good too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/opinion/10judt.html?pagewanted=1&ref=opinion
Chad N Freude
@eemom: Thank you. I hadn’t seen that. Tony Judt is one of my (few) heroes, still writing (dictating) measured, thoughtful articles and books while slowly dying of motor neuron disease (ALS). He won’t be with us much longer, and I have already begun to mourn.
ellaesther
@Chad N Freude: Well, no, this is why I say “everyone here knows it.” I realize that it’s odd that it seems odd! And yet. It comes of being a bear of little brain.
Ah, the exchange of yore! No, I haven’t forgotten, but I do also seem to remember mentioning my beloved husband…? Beloved, and cute, to boot! (And tonight very happy, for the Hawks won. Whoot! Go Hawks!)
I’m way too tired to listen to that podcast now, but I will do so. I think that for a lot of American Jews, the flotilla will prove to be their “where were you when…” moment.
ellaesther
@BethanyAnne: The real irony is that I was supposed to have a check-up this very evening, and cancelled because I was too exhausted to try to fit in one more thing (which is just as well, because I’d fallen asleep on the couch at the very time I was supposed to be going to the dentist’s office), and the dentist and I always joke about the fact that I can never fit in a check-up, because something bad always happens to some tooth or another on the day of the check-up and we wind up having to tend to that instead.
Et voila! He will laugh, when I call him tomorrow.
My teeth fucking suck, man. It’s all my mother’s damn fault. But I’m glad you could get your’s fixed! Yay employment!
(And if I’m so tired, why am I still up? Excellent question. To sleep with me! Good night!)
ellaesther
Oh God. I broke Balloon Juice. Sorry about that.
Mr Furious
A Jet-Ski is pretty much the same thing as a snowmobile, but on water, right?
Can’t Sarah send the First Dude out onto the Gulf where he can use all his prodigious racing talent to Jet-Ski in a huge circle, faster and faster until he sucks all of the oil into one big tarball that we ship across the ocean and dump on Gaza?
Yutsano
@ellaesther: It’s all good. I think we’ve all done that at one point or another.
FlipYrWhig
@Mr Furious: Hmm, kind of like a tarball golem? Isaac Bashevis Singer meets Joel Chandler Harris… You’ve got moxie, kid, let’s make a picture!
Comrade Kevin
When will the MSM start using the Orly Taitz campaign in California to bash Barack Obama and/or the Democrats? I seem to recall someone saying they would do that, no matter what the result.
Comrade Kevin
@Comrade Kevin: oh yes, that “Someone” is Anne Laurie, who wrote this post.
asiangrrlMN
@ellaesther: I broke my tooth on a popcorn kernel a few years ago after I had not visited the dentist for years. That was the beginning of years (yes, very specific am I) of dental work. Now, I can finally say, in my last three regular checkups, I have not had to have extra work done. Woot!
@Yutsano: I haven’t! (You can’t see my crossed fingers through the interwebs).
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I don’t mean to make you two jealous, but other than two minor fillings, I have never had any major dental work done. In fact I have some of the healthiest teeth my dentist has seen. Not that I mind spending time with him, he’s quite nummy. It’s a very good incentive to get me to go in to see him.
Anne Laurie
@Yutsano:
You’re trying to make me hate you. I’m still paying for my latest bout of dental reconstruction — four crowns (including a replacement for the emergency crown that first introduced me to this dentist 15 years ago), plus a filling which promptly broke, leading to a fifth crown (but, hey, he gave me a discount on that one). And I’m dental-phobic. Or should that be ‘of course, I’m dental-phobic‘?
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: You.Suck.
@Anne Laurie: Oooh, I feel ya, Anne Laurie. I have had the broken tooth, two crowns replaced, two root canals, bad gums, and, to top it all off, I have a small mouth, so any dentistry hurts me. As my newest dentist said as she was trying to get her instrument into my mouth, “You have a very small mouth!” I know. And, I have lockjaw. I took Ibuprofen and Excedrin before going in until a friend told me I should not mix the two. Even just getting my teeth cleaned is agony.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN:
And swallow, but only if I like you. :)
@Anne Laurie: FWIW I’ll lend you my nummy dentist, although he’s not an orthodontist, so he might just have to stand there and look pretty. This also depends if your tastes go towards dark haired guys with light eyes. Since that describes my last three boyfriends (especially the Dawg, dark brown hair and steel gray eyes, woof) I fully recognize this could be an attraction that only applies to me.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Ha! Good one. Dark hair and light eyes is a great combo. Works for me.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: It’s always a good thing when someone on the Internet can appreciate your slightly twisted sense of humor. I’ve gotten some rather shocked looks when I pop that retort off in real life. But even then, it’s a goodie.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Oh, yes. It’s definitely a goodie. Nom nom nom.
SteveinSC
Fixed. (Apropos this thread.)
licensed to kill time
Wow, I saw my handle on the front page! I should point out that it was Alice Blue (I think) who originally linked this at BJ yesterday morning, though I can’t find which thread it was. I merely resuscitated the link so more people could laugh their asses off at PPOFB :)
AxelFoley
@Drive By Wisdom:
Drive By Wisdom?
Fuck outta here, more like Drive By Bullshit.