Is there anyone in public life with a mustache who isn’t a buffoon?
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Enceladus
Henry Waxman?
cleek
Waxman?
adolphus
Ron Mael, but I’m not sure he qualifies as “public life.”
John Waters?
SnarkIntern
I don’t know, can you please post your picture?
Heh.
:-}|
adolphus
Barbara Mikulski?
Louise
The Post has canceled the pimpfest.
Gregory
Not since that OxyClean guy died.
*Edit:* No, wait, I know — Ron Jeremy!
JK
In addition to Henry Waxman, I would add Jim Hightower, Jeremy Rifkin, Slavoj Žižek, and Ron Kuby.
Breezeblock
Wyatt Earp?
burnspbesq
Axelrod?
Yankeedrawl
Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chair of the Education and Labor Committee, is one most decent and intelligent representatives in Congress. He’s also got a kick-ass mustache.
Comrade Stuck
You’all came to the right place to get one of those.
Bwaaa Hahaha hee tee dee!!!
burnspbesq
And for the record, it’s not the mustache that makes Bolton an idiot.
MattF
David Axelrod?
I think the problem is that there are a lot of buffoons in public life, both mustachioed and not.
John PM
Tom Selleck (aka Magnum PI)
adolphus
Frank Zappa?
edit: Okay, so he is dead, not currently in public life, but he was and did have a bodacious mustache of and on.
Brick Oven Bill
Janet Napolitano?
cleek
Wilford Brimley
Throwin Stones
Does that include mustache with a beard, or stache only?
Michael
Ah, the Walrus.
I remember his tenure in the UN well. In a foreshadowing of just exactly how much I’d come to reject the entirety of my political suppositions over the past administration, I remember thinking that the boy just wasn’t quite right in the head, that diplomacy wasn’t about yelling at people.
GRreynoldsCT00
Carlos Santana…
adolphus
@Gregory
Are we talking solo mustaches only or mustaches in combination with other facial hair? I thought the former, but could expand the sample.
Oh, how about Wilfred Brimley?
edit: Damn! Cleek beat me to it. But then he could be a buffon. (Brimley, not Cleek)
racrecir
Suck. On. This.
Aqualad08
Sarah Palin? Wait, what am I saying…damn you Newsweek!
GRreynoldsCT00
Nah, mustaches are too prickly
gbear
Greg Norton, the bass player from Husker Du had a major moustache. Of course, he’s a chef now so it’s OK.
JK
Rep. Jose Serrano, Rep. Eliot Engel both from NY
MikeJ
James Sinegal.
And gbear beat me to Greg Norton. *That* was a stache.
cleek
Yosemite Sam
gbear
I used to have a mustache, but I grew a beard when everyone kept telling me ‘You look just like the drummer from Cheap Trick!’ Even Bob Stinson told me that.
Michael
I hate you, Gbear, for beating me to it.
Greg Norton’s mustache is a thing of wonder:
http://modernserf.com/images/beard/greg%20norton%2080s.jpg
GRreynoldsCT00
@cleek: But he’s a buffoon!
Comrade Stuck
@cleek:
Obvious Neocon.
JK
OT
ASS-ociated Press manufactures a controversy
h/t Obama cites Michael Jackson as entertainment icon http://kstp.com/article/stories/S1009264.shtml?cat=89
MikeJ
Kevin Youkilis
Mike Lowell
bodacious
John Kitzhaber, Oregon Ex-Govenor
JK
Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson.
adolphus
Lemmy from Motorhead
Derek Smalls (mock buffon)
Paul Teutul from American Chopper
Punchy
Ron Jeremy
cleek
@GRreynoldsCT00:
them’s fightin words!
Nathan R
Wilford Brimley? Definitely a buffoon. Unless you’re into cockfighting.
cleek
Tony Iommi
Punchy
@MikeJ: All Bahstahn players are buffoons. By default.
JK
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums
John
Joe Hackney, NC Speaker of the House and President of NCSL.
adolphus
Snydley Whiplash, Horatio J. HooDoo, & Dick Dastardly
not buffoons so much as villainish
Keith
Bob Dylan (at least in the last pic of him I saw in concert)
syl
Yeah, Mark Gormley.
Oh, you said isn’t a buffoon. Nevermind.
Tsulagi
Good to see Bolton still free of the oppressive chains of Peak Wingnut.
Yeah, send the Israelis to bomb Iran while McCain sings. Paint the bombs green to show your solidarity with the protesters. Could there be any doubt those Iranian protesters would be tossing flowers and candies up toward the liberating Israeli pilots? No doubts for Bolton. Oh, and to show you’ve gone the extra mile in your really smart thinking and planning, make sure the Israelis use their Barak model F-16s.
DougJ
West is a borderline buffoon. Big Nader supporter. Nader supporters are kind of the neocons of the left, IMHO.
DougJ
Stache only.
PattyP
Kevin Smith.
DougJ
@PattyP
See #50.
Napoleon
Walter Cronkite
Captain Kangaroo
Legalize
Sometimes Sen. Sherrod Brown wears like a 9:00 shadow, and a shirt he slept in. Ok, not a responsive answer. But it’s true, and I like Sherrod Brown.
geg6
@John PM:
Sorry, but Selleck is a wingnut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Selleck#Politics
gbear
Morris Day.
Legalize
Jason Giambi?
geg6
@Gregory:
Sorry, but the OxyClean guy was a religious nut. Believe me, since he died and was a Pittsburgh native, I’ve been treated to local media reports on every aspect of his life as if he was Michael Jackson.
Napoleon
Gallagher
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Michael D.
DougJ
BTW, I had no idea Brimley was such a whack job til now.
Napoleon
Peter Sellers
Harry Shearer
geg6
@Napoleon:
Seriously? Not a buffoon?
Comrade Stuck
Inspector Jacques Clouseau
cleek
i can’t think of Brimley without thinking of a scene from Strangers With Candy where they have him (though it was Colbert doing Brimley’s voice) reading a book-on-tape about how dangerous retarded people are:
every time we hear Brimley now, my wife and I say “They all want cake”, or “the diuhbeetuhs”
Comrade Stuck
clouseau
Tax Analyst
I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure you get “Bonus Buffoon Points” if you not only have a mustache, but somehow manage to follow the example of basketball coach Rick Adelman and wear it and comb your hair in a manner that makes you look a whole lot like Adolph Hitler.
Now this may be a sexist remark, but isn’t one of the reasons guys get married is to have someone TELL them when there is something seriously off-putting in their appearance, as in, “Dear, why don’t you shave off that mustache? I don’t think the ‘Adolph Hitler’ look gives off the right type of impression”.
GRreynoldsCT00
@cleek:
He never got one over on Bugs…
AdrianLesher
Henry Waxman, David Axelrod, Ian McShane (as Al Swearengen).
Eric Holder isn’t that bad, either.
DZ
Salvador Dali
redbeardjim
Jamie Hyneman.
Michael D.
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson
…no, wait… “…who ISN’T a buffoon”
LD50
Doug’s mother?
gbear
@Michael D.: No full beards allowed!
gwangung
Now THERE’S a worthy opponent for Obama…
Death By Mosquito Truck
This cute little fella.
Ken
Joe Tiller
Fleem
I don’t think Paul Krugman is a buffoon.
JK
@DZ:
I admire Dali as an artist, but not as a person because he was a supporter of Francisco Franco
h/t http://www.counterpunch.org/navarro12062003.html
@DougJ:
I respectfully disagree with your description of Cornel West as a borderline buffoon and also with your reference to Nader supporters as neocons of the left.
geg6
@JK:
Whereas I will respectfully disagree with you and agree with DougJ. ;-)
ChrisB
Good calls on Waxman, Axelrod and Cronkite.
@JK: Perhaps more than DougJ, I think Brother West and Eric Michael Dyson are both buffoons.
Civil war buffs might start with Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Phil Sheridan (but not Ambrose Burnside, who was a buffoon).
JK
Robert Kuttner – OK, he has more than a mustache, but his smackdown of Sean Hannity is timeless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8bsIjGcZyI
JK
@geg6: @ChrisB:
Thanks for getting that off of your chests.
ChrisB
@JK: Yes, I feel better now. :-)
Napoleon
@geg6:
I figured someone would call me out on that one.
Dr. Loveless
I can’t believe this thread has gotten this long without at least one mention of Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters.
I remember reading once that most men settle on a hair/facial hair style in their 20s and early 30s, and rarely change it afterward. Which would explain why so many wingnuts in their 50s and 60s look like they’re still waiting for the return of Disco.
LV-426
Doc frickin’ Holiday!
freelancer
Did Bolton have his binky stolen by Persians as an infant?
LV-426
@cleek:
Did you see Brimley’s Diabetes commercial on Family Guy?
Dennis-SGMM
Is there anyone in public life who wears a bow tie who is not a buffoon?
Michael D.
@Dr. Loveless: See #72
Mar
CHUCK NORRIS
geg6
@Dennis-SGMM:
Now that would be harder to find.
geg6
@Mar:
He said NOT a buffoon.
JK
@Mar:
You mean the Chuck Norris who wants to run for President of Texas after it secedes from the United States and participated in that wacko 9/12 townhall gathering promoted and hosted by lunatic Glenn Beck?
I think Norris more than qualifies as a buffoon and worse.
John
Keith Hernandez!
JK
Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute
Sirkowski
Mario
Maybe Luigi.
Not Wario.
DZ
@JK:
Well, not exactly. Dali believed that surrealism could exist in an apolitical space, so he did refuse to renounce fascism, but it is simply untrue that he supported Franco in spite of Andre Breton’s accusations.
Colette
@JK:
Dellums didn’t used to be a buffoon, but as mayor he could single-handedly fill a whole clown car.
Comrade Stuck
Ming the Merciless
DougJ
That’s a tricky one. On the one hand, he’s probably my favorite columnist. On the other, his recent use of the word “treason” and his over-the-top Hillary boosterism in 2008 were buffoon-like.
TenguPhule
No.
SATSQ.
ChrisB
@John: Keith Hernandez!
Great fielder, leader and clutch hitter.
But a buffoon in the booth with Gary and Ron.
Laura W
Yanni.
mmmmmmmmm…….
eric k
Krugman has a beard anyway, we’re just talking about ‘stache alone types.
JK
@DZ:
Did you read the Counterpunch column http://www.counterpunch.org/navarro12062003.html I cited in a previous posting? I don’t have the citations at my fingertips, but I have read elsewhere that Dali had fascist sympathies.
Even allowing for a charitable benefit of the doubt on behalf of Dali which you put forward, I cannot give him a pass for refusing to condemn fascism.
Other people with mustaches who are not buffoons
John Cleese and Johnny Depp
harlana pepper
But Bolton’s mustache is lurid
burnspbesq
@ChrisB:
And orders of magnitude worse in those dreadful Just for Men commercials!
Rommie
John Shaft
If Obama grew a ‘stache it would up the Scary Negro quotent x 100 – that would rule!
tom c
Alot of those law enforcement types like Eric Holder and Jim Dangle sport moustaches.
tammanycall
Hercule Poirot?
Bobby Thomson
TBogg.
ChrisB
@burnspbesq: Without a doubt.
Which brings to mind Walt “Clyde” Frazier, who has gone from quintessentially cool to a poster child for this thread.
tc125231
@DougJ: I could care less who is your favorite columnist.
I reiterate, Krugman has been objectively right far more often than his detractors.
His timely insights caused me to take actions that saved 25% of the value of my 401K. That’s almost $100K.
Think you can say the same?
Lancelot Link
Eugene Hutz from Gogol Bordello.
Fred “the Hammer” Williamson.
Captain Sullenberger
Tim F.
@JK: I disagree with the other guys. Neocons think too tactically to have anything in common with Naderites. In terms of ideological rigidity and tactical brilliance I think of them as falling somewhere between Lyndon Larouchies and the Religious Right.
freelancer
Late addition, but Neil DeGrasse Tyson, definitely not a buffoon.
OriGuy
@Rommie: Obama should grow the “Evil Spock” goatee!
Wile E. Quixote
Bryan Cranston.
Speaking of Wilford Brimley my favorite scene in The Firm is the fight scene between Tom Cruise and Wilford Brimley where Tom Cruise kicks his ass. Every time I watch that movie I start yelling “Yeah Tom Cruise! You go and kick Wilford Brimley’s diabetic ass. Go on, fuck him up! Fuck him up real bad!”
If kicking the shit out of a portly, out of shape elderly diabetic isn’t the pinnacle of cinematic fight scene manliness then I’d like to know exactly what is.
Wile E. Quixote
@Rommie
Yeah, but what would give him a bigger SNQ (Scary Negro Quotient)? A full stache and beard with a big fro? A neatly trimmed mustache and goatee and big fro or a neatly trimmed mustache and goatee with a shaven head (think Samuel L. Jackson)?
Oh, and other non buffoonish stache possessors, Morgan Freeman, Tavis Smiley, Romany Malco, Ron Perlman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Omar Epps.
IndieTarheel
Avery Brooks.
If President Obama started kicking THIS look, his SNQ would become incalculable.
John Stossel
This doesn’t count charismatic TV investigative reporters, does it?
Phoebe
David Axelrod is definitely not a buffoon, by any stretch of the definition.
Phoebe
And while it’s not the mustache that makes Josh Bolton a buffoon, how could you have that and not be? When I read the question, and had not clicked on the link, the first image that flashed before me was of Josh Bolton. He has the Geraldo special, and who would want to remind people of Geraldo, or even be recklessly indifferent to the risk, without being himself a buffoon of Geraldic dimensions?
Shabbazz
Kinky Friedman.
Johnny Pez
In fairness to Bolton, I think trying to fend off Pamela Geller’s advances would drive any man insane. And if he didn’t try to fend them off, the result would be even worse.
I tell you, the man has suffered enough.