I’m just disgusted. I need a break. I will see you all on Wednesday or Thursday.
Fucking Tebow. Just appalling secondary play. Cripes.
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I’m just disgusted. I need a break. I will see you all on Wednesday or Thursday.
Fucking Tebow. Just appalling secondary play. Cripes.
by DougJ| 77 Comments
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You don’t judge shit like this based on merit. Now, whether or not what we experienced was an “according to Hoyle” miracle is insignificant. What is significant is that I felt the touch of God. God got involved.
I have to admit, I was rooting for Denver, because I don’t want the Pats to have to play Pittsburgh.
Great game all around, most exciting I’ve seen since that Cards-Steelers Superbowl.
This post is in: Election 2012, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
It was a cold grey pre-spring morning early in 2002, and I was one among the hordes migrating through the Back Bay (subway, commuter rail, and intercity bus) terminal. Suddenly a tall humanoid in an expensively-tailored dark tweed business-capitalist overcoat lunged into my meagre personal space and thrust a dark-gloved hand towards my throat. When I automatically pulled back, he bared his top-quality-dental-hygiene teeth in a primate threat gesture possibly intended to mimic a smile. Two or three much younger, smaller drones in cheap knock-off overcoats immediately rushed over and carefully guided the tall humanoid away from me and towards another potential target. One of the little drones tarried to look back at me, arrange his shiny happy features into a frowny-face, and hiss, “That was Mitt Romney! He’s going to be your next Governor!”
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Half-awake and running late, I was still sufficiently curious to tarry a few minutes to watch the worst approximation of the standard political grip’n’grin I have ever seen. Even when his entourage of young Mormon missionaries formed an advance guard, every third or fourth innocent passer-by (both genders and a wide range of ages, skin tones, and apparent income levels) shied away from Romney like they’d just read Gavin de Becker. He exuded the polar opposite of charisma.
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That was my first, and please goddess my only, personal meeting with Willard Mitt Romney. I’ve witnessed equivalent events for both John Kerry and Michael Dukakis, and neither of those famously un-gemultlische individuals inspired the same visceral negativity from random citizens — general or specific anti-political animus, yes, but people weren’t pulling away from Kerry (who was also very tall & expensively dressed) like he’d tried to grope them.
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It’s not going to be hard for President Obama’s re-election committee to make Romney seem unlikable. He is unlikable. The best his political supporters have been able to manage are variations on Wilde’s quip about GBShaw: “An excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.” The more time professional politicians and political operatives — not among the world’s most sensitive individuals — spend with him, the less they like him. The Media Village courtiers, however dutiful their attentions to their own paychecks and perquisites, have not been and will never be enthusiastic about their chances to share a non-alcoholic beer or customized-Range-Rover tire swing with “Mitt”. Of course, conventional wisdom is that he gets a minimum forty percent of the votes just by having that ( R ) after his name (although if anyone can break through that floor, it’ll be Romney). And there’s the overlapping twenty-seven percent that won’t vote for an African-American/a Democrat/their own best interests. But making Romney “appealing” to the notorious Low Information Voter is going to cost the Rethug political machine many, many precious millions of dollars… thrown down a sinkhole.
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. We can’t catch, our d-line is decimated, our secondary is apparently on vacation, and this loss will mean interminable Tebow fluffing. Just kill me now.
Moving on to Crown shots now.
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by DougJ| 102 Comments
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There are those who say that Bob Somerby’s obsessive focus on the War On Gore is overdone, but I think Elias Isquith might have a point here:
An underrated aspect of what will be the 2012 election is the fact that, just as they hated Al Gore in 2000, the national political press hates Mitt Romney. For a taste of what, in some bizarro alternative universe, a right-wing Bob Somerby will for years be obsessively blogging about as soon as the polls close this November, check this brutal Dana Milbank column, “Mitt Romney out of control”:
[….]The press’s romance with President Obama may have soured with the years; but I don’t think any opposing candidate — not even the Goracle — would come out on the losing end of a media war with Mitt Romney. The contempt these supposedly savvy insiders hold for the Troy McClure of American politics is just too, too overwhelming.
I guess I’m skeptical overall, though — the glowing coverage of the Romney kids isa case in point.
by DougJ| 110 Comments
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Reader Brendan sends in news that he is playing tonight at the Carlyle Club in Alexandria, VA.
Reader DK sends in a video of himself performing 15 tv theme songs in 2 minutes.
What have all you principled centrists been up to this weekend?