Wonkette has a post on Rush Limbaugh’s latest offense against the concept of humor, a (poorly) photoshopped image of “Obama” tagged onto Mount Rushmore, and the Wonkette commentariat did their best to respond appropriately. Many of the suggested metaphors are witty, but my personal favorite comes from Gratuitous World:
Finally the people of South Dakota will see the visage of a black man. We’ve come a long way.
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But Tim Heffernan at Esquire has the best line of the day, as he fisks Eliot Spitzer’s silly Slate scare-piece on “America Undone”:
… [I]f the relative decline of America’s sole-superpower status is news to Eliot Spitzer, it becomes easier to understand why CNN gave him a show. The first rule of cable punditry is that America is Number One, always, forever, no questions asked. It’s this assumption that allows any failure of any president to get absolutely everything he wants in foreign negotiations to be presented as some sort of shameful personal abasement. (Except when Israel rebuffs a given president, in which case it’s a victory for hard-nosed realism and democracy in the Middle East. But I digress.)…
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… The president went to Asia with a bunch of things on his agenda. Some, like bolstering India as a counterbalance to China in the UN, he succeeded at. Some, like a trade agreement with Korea, he didn’t get. And let’s relax over that one: this is how international relations go, all the more so now that… now that? Sorry, I meant to say for the two decades since the alternative for small democracies to accepting our terms was accepting the Soviet Union’s. Again, if Spitzer thinks this trip is the one that made America’s decline apparent, he’s got no business — though probably plenty of money to make — commenting on foreign affairs. (Spitzer Palin. Two half-term governors and their views of scary elsewheres.)
Sly
Nobody better call Limbaugh a racist. Some stray puma kitten might come in here and yell at us for “worshiping” Hopey-Changey Blackity Black Jesus. Again.
The Grand Panjandrum
Spitzer got pimp slapped by Heffernan.
Lancelot Link
So i guess Spitzer likes being a whore just as much as he liked being a john.
AB
@Lancelot Link: +1000
homerhk
The anhomie that Spitzer demonstrates towards Obama has always been a bit strange in my book. What I do find curious is the fact that – in relation to South Korea – when Obama took a stand in favour of US interests (beef and automobiles) and said that he wouldn’t sign a trade deal just to get a deal, this is considered a failure. Don’t people want Obama to stand up for US interests? That Spitzer article also fails to mention the rapturous reception Obama got in India and Indonesia and the deals he made in India.
mai naem
Spitzer’s turned into an attention whore and that’s a pity since he has a lot to offer. It still pissed me off that the Repubs would have accepted a pol with Spitzer like crimes but the Dems have to throw a well qualified pol. away like rotten fruit.
As far as Limbaugh, it gives me joy to look at Cheney’s appearance at Bush’s library ground breaking ceremony because Limbaugh will look like that in time too. I used to listen to Limbaugh occasionally back in the 80s. Yes, he was conservative but he was funny. I don’t know if it was when Clinton came in but at some point he just started getting nastier and downright mean.
Suck It Up!
@Sly:
You forgot to put the passive aggressive strikethrough of the hopey changey, etc. part
Suck It Up!
I only get to see Spitzer in Daily Show clips. Pretty surprised to hear to him and the rest of cable call the entire trip a failure. Wait, no I’m not.
@homerhk:
Must. keep. narrative. going.
ornery curmudgeon
No … Spitzer didn’t write the headline, and the point he comes to is this:
“So why is Wall Street responsible? The culmination of the Wall Street economic model was not just the financial services cataclysm of 2008-09. It is also the long-term decline of the U.S. economy when compared to our international competitors.”
liberal
Heh.
Short Bus Bully
This is a bullshit post from an otherwise good poster linking to a BULLSHIT article written by someone who obviously didn’t read Spitzer’s original article.
lrn2read plz.
I dare you to go back and read Spitzer’s article again and tell me that you don’t agree with it, or are you guys all of a sudden fans of Wall St.? And comparing Spitzer to Palin? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
/BJ fail
Mike G
What a difference a few years makes. Obama didn’t get all the deals he wanted? That’s how international negotiations usually go outside Repuke Omnipotent Murka Fevered Fantasy World.
Having Bush represent the US overseas was like spectating at the Special Olympics. You felt like giving him a medal if he didn’t fall down, puke on anyone, give unrequested backrubs to heads of state, add more than usual to the number of people who hate us, or start World War 3 with some blurted remark. And most of his ‘deals’ were obtained by arrogant-asshole steamroller tactics that caused more damage than benefit through the resentment and blowback they engendered.