Comments on: Toward A Permanent Minority

By: Major Kong

Major Kong — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:01:38 +0000

Every time I see Rove I think of the German phrase The face that begs for a fist in it.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:20:30 +0000

Does’nt he look like “Edna” from the Incredibles?

By: John Dickerson

John Dickerson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:44:42 +0000

Damn, he was cute back then. Way kewl! A regular chick magnet! Now, about that “seventies hair”…….

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:18:48 +0000

What’s more frightening to me personally than the fact that I recognize the young Dan Rather is that my 7th-grade boyfriend looked just like the kid in the photo. O.M.G., what narrow escapes we sometimes unbeknownst make.

By: henry lewis

henry lewis — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:25:20 +0000

Is that Dan “The Man” Rather in that photo with that nerdy greasy-haired kid?

They sure knew how to build sideburns back then.

By: fdc123

fdc123 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:59:05 +0000

god that looks like a clip from the old Stanly Milgram Perils of Obedience documentary.

any bets how far karl rove would go on the scale?

By: PaminBB

PaminBB — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:05:25 +0000

“Sixth, new media require attention. Younger voters are increasingly getting their information from the Web — twice as many 18-24 year olds get their news online than from newspapers. Political Web 1.0 was about faster and easier communications and Republicans had the advantage. Political Web 2.0 is about networking and Democrats grabbed the lead. The party that figures out where Web 3.0 goes will grab the decisive high ground in high-tech warfare.”

What about Faux News? That isn’t drawing in the kids? Maybe they’ll all tune into Hannity now that the scary Alan Combs is going away.

BTW, what is this Political Web 1.0 crap he’s talking about? Chain email blasts? Their communication strategy was based on spamming everyone?

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:47:53 +0000

cur: In fairness to you, it does more resemble a preepmtive comb-ober.

Or, a:
comb preemptive rove
comber peep rev vomit
be covet remover pimp

By: cur

cur — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:04:00 +0000

preemptive comb-over.

By: cur

cur — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:03:03 +0000

preepmtive comb-ober

By: justme

justme — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:00:17 +0000

Classic pic.

Looking at it, don’tcha just wanna smack him and take his lunch money?

Oddly, I still just want to smack him and take his lunch money, but that’s a different story.

By: StringonaStick

StringonaStick — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:41:34 +0000

When I was in high school (mid-70′s, yes, yes, ancient history), we had a guy who looked just like little Karl, just a bit thinner and just as politically involved, sucking up to get that second spot speaking as a representative of our class at graduation (1976- bicentennial graduates!). He went on to become a wheel in state politics when the wingers were in charge of our state, getting a position that let him trash the environment with abandon. I wish I had acted on my desire to knee that SOB in the nuts when I had the chance.

By: Turbine Yukon Palin

Turbine Yukon Palin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:20:21 +0000

He included a scenario wherein McCain would take California

He must have been taking some seriously vault copy narcotics to include that scenario.

By: WereBear

WereBear — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:08:16 +0000

A hundred girls could kick the crap out of a hundred nerds, and we still wouldn’t wind up with the psychopathic grudge holding of a Karl Rove.

It doesn’t matter what he blames; the kid who cut in line in kindergarten, the style of glasses frames his mother got him, the fact that his father was gay and helped pioneer the Prince Albert… he’s just that kind of guy.

He’s a bully and a hater. No one made him that way. He could, as a grown man, choose not to be that way.

To me, he’ll always be the guy who engineered the biggest Republican losses in thirty years.

By: Xecky Gilchrist

Xecky Gilchrist — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:29:18 +0000

I want to beat the fucking shit out of that nerd talking to Rather.

Isn’t Rove the way he is because somebody did that back then? IIRC some girl kicked the crap out of him and that would explain a lot.

By: Jay B.

Jay B. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:13:53 +0000

I’m not a violent man and I generally hate the “picking on the kid with glasses” reactionary anti-nerd thing and I’m not a bully — but I want to beat the fucking shit out of that nerd talking to Rather.

By: de-lurker

de-lurker — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:09:57 +0000

As was mentioned on another thread, I found that posting a comment got rid of the Gingrich problem.

By: justanamericancindi

justanamericancindi — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:02:02 +0000

Holy crap, is that Joey Sweeney?

By: papa zita

papa zita — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:56:20 +0000

Everything’s fine on my computer, Windows XP, Firefox 3.0.4 – Haven’t tried it on the Linux side, but it never touched my box.

By: Oliver's Neck

Oliver's Neck — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:43:24 +0000

So, not to add to the pain but I just tried to send you some more Amazon Honor Payments love and apparently, as of yesterday, they no longer do it. So, um, you might want to look into that at some point.

I’ll be slipping back into the lurk now…