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In Which The Corpse Calls The Anorexic Skinny
youthful good looks
Of all the wingnuts rushing to the defense of the bloated drug-addict and radio yacker Rush Limbaugh, certainly the most entertaining instance has been watching Bob “Don’t Call Me Emmet” Tyrrell wheedle his scabrous tongue up the talk show host’s tail pipe as he does in his latest column at Clown Hall:
“Rush is the bloated face and drug-addled voice of the Republican Party,” Paul Begala is quoted as saying by The Washington Post ["Teehee" - says Tintin]. Begala is asseverating1 on Rush Limbaugh, the most popular radio commentator in the country, but alas, one who disagrees with Begala. I think it speaks volumes about Begala’s obliviousness that he would bring up physical traits in attempting to make some political point.
Of course, here at SadlyNo! it is the first fricking bullet point in our mission statement that we strive to ridicule the personal appearance of right-wing pundits, bloggers and politicians. But we certainly understand Bob’s outrage at such a juvenile tactic and are quite, quite sure he would never stoop to such a thing himself.
Has he beheld himself in a mirror lately?
Oopsie-doodle, Bob just couldn’t help himself, could he? And the first teensy crack in the dam releases a tragic flood of looksism from Bob who, we might maturely add, has obviously not beheld his own damn self in a mirror lately either.
Even friends know him as “The Skull,” owing to his cadaverous countenance. You may only have seen him on television. I have had the gruesome experience of seeing him in the flesh. We were in the makeup room being cosmeticized2 for appearances on a cable television show. The artiste3 attending to the crevices, the gullies and the bumps of Begala’s unfortunate face had to apply so much makeup to it that when he left the makeup room, it looked as though he was wearing plaster of Paris. During the ensuing debate, he may have laughed at one or two of my jokes4, or he may have frowned. It was impossible to tell. His ghoulish features were covered up completely.
Daaayum, girl. Guys don’t normally get that upset about someone else being called ugly unless, of course, its about someone they happen to be fucking at the moment. Now isn’t that a lovely image?
1Apparently “asseverate” was today’s word on Bob’s word-of-the-day calendar, and he was hell-bent on using it even though there was little that was solemn about Begala’s dig.
2Somebody has been attending classes at Pastor Swank’s Academy of Fine Writing.
3French for artist; Republican English for big old flaming fairy, as in our new interior decorator is such an artiste.
4The normal responses to Bob’s “jokes” are normally not laughter but instead are nervous twinges followed by weary exclamations of “Ohhhhh, Grampa!”
Arky4That1 said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:43
Hair by Turtle Wax.
Judas Peckerwood said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:45
I think that the focus should be on Rush being “drug-addled.” Much more effective than focusing on his weight.
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:47
Emmett is a poopyhaid and has cooties! Nyah nyah nyah nyah
actor212 said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:52
Tyrrell looks like Max Headroom’s uglier older and stoopider self.
J— said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:53
Besides, Begala doesn’t look like a corpse. Carville does.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:55
But we certainly understand Bob’s outrage at such a juvenile tactic and are quite, quite sure he would never stoop to such a thing himself.
It is a very common wingnut tactic to say “Activity X is abhorrent, but my enemies’ use of it licenses my doing it too.”
Cf. Saddam Hussein / torture.
Jennifer said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:56
“…drug-addled voice of the Republican Party.”
Since when is being “drug-addled” a “physical trait”? Unless of course he’s suggesting that being an addled addict is part of Rush’s very identity.
actor212 said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:56
Cf. Saddam Hussein / torture.
Or Limbaugh/drug abuse.
Me said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:57
Note that he took lengthy issue with the superficial insult (bloated), but did not care to address the more substantive one (drug-addled).
And as for Begala’s superficial insult, it actually seems quite the opposite of hypocritical for a cadaverous man to call a fat man “bloated”.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
March 5, 2009 at 18:59
asseverating? cadaverous countenance? cosmeticized? timorous? pulchritudinous?
Someone’s thesaurus got a real workout. Das Manifesto Kultursmog is fadgetastically blarteriffic. Amusant aussi, la:
says Tyrell regarding Kat-Park. That is one heckuva Town Hall.
erlking said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:02
Didn’t Tyrell found the company that makes replicants?
kiki said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:02
I like to go with “fat almost-certainly-pedophile Rush Limbaugh” myself, similarly mixing the superficial and the substantive.
jim said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:04
Nice to see Ted Knight got himself another gig.
I think the focus should be on Rush getting a bazillion dollars a year to be constantly full of shit.
Sure, nail him on the Oxycontin, Vicodin & whatever else he’s taking for kicks (it’s fair game given his anti-drug tirades), but understand what’s important – the man has openly said that he doesn’t give a flaming shit about the truth & never has right from day one, & that he’s a water-carrier for GOP thugs . You’re an uglier man than I am, Gunga-Din … & I’m no Brad Pitt myself.
Jennifer said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:04
“fat almost-certainly-pedophile Rush Limbaugh”
I kind of like “suspected Dominican child-sex tourist Rush Limbaugh”. You know, to fill in the gaps in people’s background knowledge.
Me said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:06
I like to go with “fat almost-certainly-pedophile Rush Limbaugh” myself
“Miserable fat Belgian bastards” is a favorite.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:10
Besides, Begala doesn’t look like a corpse. Carville does.
I always thought of Carville as being more reptilian in appearance. Which he’d pretty much have to be in order to reproduce with Mary Matalin.
Careful she doesn’t eat your head, Jimmy boy.
Dan Someone said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:10
Well, since Tyrell didn’t comment on the other half of Begala’s statement, I guess we can take that as an admission that Rush is indeed addled by drugs.
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:11
Or focus on his Dominican sex tourism. The boys of the D.R. are only waiting for someone to call.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:12
Careful she doesn’t eat your head, Jimmy boy.
That’s praying mantises that do that – also not out of the question in Matalin’s genetic makeup, I suppose.
tigrismus said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:12
Emmett is like a Nexus Alpha, right? Made from cheek scrapings of Trelane and Bruno Anthony?
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:14
That’s praying mantises that do that – also not out of the question in Matalin’s genetic makeup, I suppose.
So we have established that Mary Matalin is some sort of alien repto-arthropodic head-eating insect queen?
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:16
So we have established that Mary Matalin is some sort of alien repto-arthropodic head-eating insect queen?
Not conclusively without DNA tests (if she in fact has DNA and not some extraterrestrial equivalent). But it’s a reasonable working hypothesis.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:17
Also, I lurve that all the ‘D’ is being focused on Rush. They are totally missing the point that the dig isn’t about the Big, Fat, Oxycontin-Abusing, Viagara-Smuggling-to-Sex-Tourism-Hotspots, Loudmoth Shitbag that is Limbo (under teenaged DR hookers) – the dig is about how the entire GOP is beholden to a radio talk show host.
actor212 said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:17
So we have established that Mary Matalin is some sort of alien repto-arthropodic head-eating insect queen?
Head-eating or head-swallowing? It looks like that jaw unhinges.
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:20
>i>It is a very common wingnut tactic to say “Activity X is abhorrent, but my enemies’ use of it licenses my doing it too.”
I was always
sickenedamused by the Bushies when confornted with this or that automatically saying “But Clinton did it too!.” Their only justification was that the impossibly evil master criminal whose entire career was everything anathema to them did it so it’s ok.actor212 said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:21
D-KW,
And the fact that Rush is actually stupid enough to fall for it just makes it that much sweeter.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:23
Head-eating or head-swallowing? It looks like that jaw unhinges.
I believe you have mistaken Ms. Matalin for Ann Coulter. It’s not a difficult mistake to make.
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:24
We’re liberals so we can be fair here. Rush isn’t the only leader of the GOP. Their sage, experienced, policy guru is a thirteen year old brat. So there’s that.
actor212 said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:25
I thought Ann Coulter was drinking the blood of Republican virgin girls?
…not that there are too many of those anymore…
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:26
Did I call him a brat? Sorry. I meant to say twerp.
actor212 said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:26
Rush isn’t the only leader of the GOP. Their sage, experienced, policy guru is a thirteen year old brat.
It’s hard to separate them, PeeJ.
No, I mean, really, you need a crowbar.
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:32
No, I mean, really, you need a crowbar.
After using a spade to dig through the great mounds of fat the kid is buried in just to find him.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:36
Hey, doesn’t Rush make several million dollars a year?
So shouldn’t he be scaling back to less than $250K any day now? Rush Galt?
If not, I guess those extra dollars above 250 are kind of nice, regardless of the rate at which they are taxed….
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:37
Now she is equally stern in her criticism of the pulchritudinous Limbaugh.
He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. Unless it does in which case EEEWWWW.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:42
Unless it does in which case EEEWWWW.
Can we expect to see Rush endorsing Maidenform products any time soon?
Sarcastro said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:42
Now she is equally stern in her criticism of the pulchritudinous Limbaugh.
He just called Rush “beautiful”.
Or maybe he was comparing him to Publius Claudius Pulcher… a man forced to commit suicide due to his overwhelming incompetence.
kiki said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:44
Y’know, I’ve always thought that one of the most fucktarded internet types are people who lack the imagination to come up with a nym and just use the name of whoever they admire. The day after Enemy At The Gates came out, every other teenage online shoot-em-up player was called Vasily Zaitsev.
I wonder what great thing the current John Galt has created that the world should be grateful to him for. Oh, right – half a million retarded internet posts. Wow. No, don’t go, John – we need you. We really do.
kiki said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:47
Not me, fucknuts.
t4toby said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:47
I am going to incorporate asservate into at least one conversation a week.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:47
John Galt is dead to me.
So he might as well go away.
kiki said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:52
Who Is John Galt?
A douchebag.
SA2SQ
Lord Harry said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:53
Good afternoon liberals, here’s a reciepe I just made for myself.
1 cup liquid egg whites (equivilant to 4 large eggs)
microwave on high for three minutes.
top with 1/2 cup sour cream.
This reciepe is quick and simple to make. Not to mention high in protien which is good for a weight lifter like myself.
Enjoy.
Joe Max said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:53
The first thing I thought seeing that picture is that guy looks like an aged, decrepit version of Max Headroom.
(My apologies to Matt Frewer.)
Joe Max said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:54
Aw damn, actor 212 beat me too it! But I’m not alone!
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:55
I’ve always thought that one of the most fucktarded internet types are people who lack the imagination to come up with a nym and just use the name of whoever they admire.
My wife is partial to using “Modem Butterfly.” But when she wants to piss off some wingnuts, she sometimes uses “Ho Chi Mindy.”
Joe Max said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:57
To reiterate the wisdom of Mr. Jon Stewart:
“But you “people” just don’t get it – giving Obama a sixty-eight percent approval rating. F**king morons. I know you people, you six-pack sipping, iceberg lettuce eating, America loving non-elitists, sitting down in your ivory basements thinking, ‘Isn’t the Dow Jones Industrial Average just a short twitch numerical representation of a bunch of guesses about other peoples assumptions about the financial well being of an arbitrarily chosen group of thirty out of tens of thousands of possible companies?’ NO! You’re WRONG! It is a real-time, cause-and-effect precision barometer of how the president is doing!”
N.C. said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:59
Objection! Assuming facts not in evidence, and also you’re a cockbag.
The Goddamn Batman Is Screaming On The Inside said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:59
I would call him a clown, but that would be insulting to Weary Willie.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:59
I don’t mean to feed the troll, but this whole fucking John Galt thing PISSES ME OFF TO NO END. Stop the engine of the world? FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. It is painfully obvious that Ayn Rand knew NOTHING about engineering – and the same goes for anyone who doesn’t despise John Galt from the depths of their souls
Engineering is a profession – it’s a calling that the practitioners take seriously. Here’s the Creed that Galt, as an engineer was suppose to live by:
http://www.nspe.org/Ethics/CodeofEthics/Creed/creed.html
Oh, your poor widdle feelings were hurt – FUCK YOU JOHN GALT. Suck it up you pansy – you fucking l00zor. You. Are. Supposed. To. Be. An. Engineer. Thus fucking “parasites” you are so contemptuous of? You swore to make their lives better. That is what you are supposed to fucking do.
FUCK YOU JOHN GALT.
What if John Galt was a doctor instead and decided that his new discovery of a cure for cancer should only be available to hot Latinas? Would you still admire the selfish delicate little flower of genius that Galt is?
FUCK YOU JOHN GALT.
Tintin said,
March 5, 2009 at 19:59
Please don’t feed the trolls.
Me said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:01
I don’t mean to feed the troll
Awwwwww FUCK
Jennifer said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:02
Oh yeah, when I want advice on the economy, I turn to the anchor of a comedy show.
No, instead you proudly point to your economic theories that are based on a work of fiction. And to underline the point that you embrace fiction-based economic “theories”, you name yourself after the main character in the work of fiction.
I will say this, though – you have proven your heroic self-sufficiency in pwning yourself.
t4toby said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:04
Stewart was on fire last night.
Can he be the defacto leader of the Democratic party? Please?
Lord Harry said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:05
Sorry libs, but your absurd claims of Jeff Smith being the unfortunate victim of an evil right wing radio talk show host doesn’t pass the smell test.
Even wikipedia, that bastion of conservative thought, fails to make mention of that “sinister rightwing hit-job.”
Just another example of honesty from the Party of Change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Smith_(TV_personality)
g said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:05
Even friends know him as “The Skull,” owing to his cadaverous countenance.
Um, Begala? Is he sure he’s talking about the right guy? I think he’s mistaking Begala for Carville.
Unapologetic pirate of Dr BLTunes said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:06
Being extremely moderate, I don’t agree with everything Rush has to say, but Obama has done drugs too, and his were not even prescribed.
The drug issue is a red herring. At times Rush sounds as articulate, if not more, in representing the conservative cause as Obama does in representing the liberal cause.
Enough vitriolic venom has been directed towards Rush in virulent, truculent diatribes that are rich in rage, but poor in substance. Please keep in mind, as Dr. BLT said in a song Rusty Humphries than played on his nationally-syndicated broadcast:
Right-wingers Need Love Too
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT
http://www.drblt.net/music/rightwingers.mp3
t4toby said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:06
Normally I happily feed trolls, but this one is the brain numbingly boring type. How does that grease monkey thing work again?
I’ve seen y’all talk about it, but I’ve never quite understood how to make it work.
The fact that I have no idea what to do with a ‘script’ might have something to do with it…
t4toby said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:08
I think Asservative should be the new Conservative.
Definitions be damned.
Joe Max said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:09
And one of that fiction writer’s main acolytes to gain political power, Alan “Flesh-o-pod” Greenspan, now admits that those fictional economic theories were what caused him and his fellow Galtians to fuck over the economy.
When, oh when, will you idiots actually “go Galt” on us? How about you go now? Please? Do you need a ride to the airport?
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:09
Asseverates to highest levels in 15 years. Story at 11.
g said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:10
Wow, so we have a fictional character taunting us that we find a comedy talk show host amusing, while defending a major political party that is evicerating it’s own senior leadership to kowtow to a radio talk show host.
I am looking around the for hidden cameras about now. Is this all a “reality show”?
Legalize said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:11
“This is coming from someone who probably has a creepy Obama poster in their bedroom and chanted YES WE CAN! like a second grader during the election.”
Never underestimate the ability of a shit-for-brains wingnut resorting to “probably” “arguments” when they have fuck-all to say. What time is the Junkie Limpbaugh on? Get back to us when your master gives you your marching orders.
g said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:11
At times Rush sounds as articulate, if not more, in representing the conservative cause
Well, yeah, that’s true. Because right now the conservative cause is “oooga boooga you guys are yucky!” and Rush is a master at articulating that.
t4toby said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:12
I want my greasemonkey script to read “I’m an Asservative!”
Unapologetic pirate of Dr BLTunes said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:12
When it comes to Rush, the temptation, even for me, is to rush to judgment (pun intended), but we must bodly, put our biases aside, in the spirit of bi-partisanship, and, as Paul McCartney and wings one said in a song that got even bigger than any of the Dr. BLTunes, “Listen to what the Man Said.”
g said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:13
I think John Galt should “go Galt” on us by canceling his internet access account.
N.C. said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:14
Of course. Everything in her fiction novels was a substrate upon which she could preach Objectivism; she was excellent at writing things “the way they ought to be” instead of how reality actually works. The only reason Howard Roark in The Fountainhead was able to talk his way out of being charged for blowing up an entire apartment complex was because Rand’s ideology deemed it ought to happen.
Legalize said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:14
“BTW, millions of Americans have these things called “401(K)s” that are dependent on the stock market, and they’re really hurting right now. So thanks, Stewart. You’re making fun of peoples tanking stock portfolios. Douchebag.”
Actually he’s making fun of shit-stains like you who try to convince people who are losing their 401(K)s that it’s Obama’s fault and that the DOW is an actual measure of the president’s performance.
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:14
Do you need a ride to the airport?
I’ll volunteer to take them. On a rail.
John Galt said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:15
Of course it’s his fault. His policies are anti-market, anti-investment, and he keeps talking down the economy with his pessimism.
Righteous Bubba said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:15
Use Firefox. Get Greasemonkey here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Add scripts by going to, say, http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/14031 and clicking “Install”. Refresh your page and you should see things like
Click on the kill and he’s gone.
I prefer Simba’s version which eliminates all traces of the bad guy:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38746
N.C. said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:17
Apparently, the final deadline to cash in your 401k is some time next week. Too bad they’re not long-term investments, otherwise their value could improve as the economy recovers!
Joe Max said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:17
Yeah, but the thing is that the vast majority of them sure be likin’ them some Obama right now, eh?
Obama says, “let’s help these folks”, while the Goopers say, “let ‘em fail, the morons.”
And you think Obama’s popularity is only because he’s “new?”
DAMN, that must be pissing you off to no end.
Brandi said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:18
What a time for YouTube to yank the longer version of Zappa’s “What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?” The roughly 1-minute reprise leaves out a great bit:
ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE POOR
UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF
SYSTEMS BEYOND THEIR
CONTROL
A PLAGUE UPON YOUR
IGNORANCE & THE GRAY
DESPAIR OF YOUR UGLY LIFE
Brandi said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:20
What a time for YouTube to yank the long version of Zappa’s “What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?” The reprise lacks a key verse:
ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE POOR
UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF
SYSTEMS BEYOND THEIR
CONTROL
A PLAGUE UPON YOUR
IGNORANCE & THE GRAY
DESPAIR OF YOUR UGLY LIFE
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:20
When the DOW gets to 3000, it will be much closer to reflecting the true value of the companies of which it is comprised.
Citibank is under a buck. Why is an insolvent bank’s stock worth anything at all? It isn’t except in the expectation that the government will prop up that bank and the stock will someday be worth something again.
Lord Harry said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:21
Jon Stewart is a bum and a washed up hasbeen. The man brings nothing new to the table. Just the same old, stale anti-bush jokes.
Bush has been out of office for almost two months now, and yet this just goes to show how creative idiots like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are, if they still can’t think of new material, much less anything funny, which so far in their long worthless careers as professional second-graders they have yet to bring.
I’ve got news for you liberals, anti-bush jokes are no longer funny, and haven’t been since the first billion times they were used. Jon Stewart deserves a punch in the face, him and that other idiot Colbert.
Jennifer said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:21
Get back in the closet, you pantomimist fictional person!!
The "The Dow Jones Tanking Means Obama Is A Failure" Troll said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:23
“Now she is equally stern in her criticism of the pulchritudinous Limbaugh.” He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. Unless it does in which case EEEWWWW.
I think we can all use a little help learning about the etymology of various words, to wit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMgECbmcooI
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:23
Can we get Dr. BLT to Go Galt?
Put down the Garageband, man….
Shorter Lord Harry said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:23
WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
bgn said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:23
Now she is equally stern in her criticism of the pulchritudinous Limbaugh.
–He just called Rush “beautiful”.
Well, according to Michael Scherer, Rush Limbaugh is the “Clark Gable of his [i.e. our] day.” Perhaps he really meant Betty Grable.
(Scherer quote from:
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2009/03/phony-entertainer-argument-time-blogger.html )
Righteous Bubba said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:24
That one’s a stellar effort compared to some others.
RobNYNY said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:24
When he said “asseverate”, I think he might have been trying to say “perseverate”. But it’s hard to improve writing like that.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/perseverate
per?sev?er?ate? ?/p?r?s?v??re?t/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [per-sev-uh-reyt] Show IPA
–verb (used without object), -at?ed, -at?ing. to repeat something insistently or redundantly: to perseverate in reminding children of their responsibilities.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:26
Apparently, the final deadline to cash in your 401k is some time next week. Too bad they’re not long-term investments, otherwise their value could improve as the economy recovers!
It’s worth pointing out that, while the DJIA is 50% off its peak (fall 2007), 80% of that loss (40% of the 50% drop) happened under President Bush. Only 20% of the loss (10% of the 50% drop) occurred under President Obama.
Therefore, unless and until the DJIA drops below ~2800 (an 80% drop off the peak, evenly split between the two Presidents), President Obama is, ipso facto better than President Bush. Doubly so if we get past September 11 of this year without 3,000 people dying in a horrifying terrorist attack.
The Repugs have really set the bar low in terms of Presidential achievement, haven’t they?
Unapologetic pirate of Dr BLTunes said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:26
Dr. BLT has to be Dr. BLT. Like Al Gore once said (ironically enough):
“I’m my own man.”
g said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:26
This morning on Stephanie Miller a caller noted that the Republicans are defending Michael Steele from criticism, saying, “Hey, give the guy a break, he’s only been on the job a month.”
While….
I don’t even have to finish it, do I?
another jim said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:28
…the most popular radio commentator in the country
I hope Howard Stern will return to broadcasting, so he can this stat away from Limbag.
MzNicky said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:30
“Pulchritudinous”? Perhaps what he meant was “perfidious.” Or “turpitudinous.”
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:30
I don’t mind BLT commenting.
I just want him to stop writing songs. Galt those songs, man!! We don’t deserve the fruits of your Objectivist heart!
I mean that. we don’t deserve your songs. What did we ever do to you?
MzNicky said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:31
It’s actually kind of scary to even wonder WHAT Mr. Tyrell meant.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:32
“I’m my own man.”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:33
So Bob’s the founder of the American Expectorator. Between The Arkansas Project and Turkmeniscam, there’s a strong indicator that Rushbo’s PR guys are giving Tyrrell envelopes stuffed with cash. Then again, maybe Emmett really does think Limbaugh is pulchtridinous. One with a shit-box worth tongue-jacking that is.
Matt T. said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:33
Can we get Dr. BLT to Go Galt?
Dr. BLT isn’t doing his shtick to be annoying or screw with people’s heads, I don’t think. Trust me, he’s totally not out of character for a singer-songwriter of his type. Even guys who don’t write about politics are that oblivious.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:33
#
Righteous Bubba said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:24 (kill)
Can we get Dr. BLT to Go Galt?
That one’s a stellar effort compared to some others.
RB, you’re defending the Doctor?
YOU are dead to me, sir.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:35
Yeah, Matt, I agree. But I’m kind of hoping the Go Galt movement will serve as America’s Golgafrincham Ark B, and Oblivious Singer-Songwriters DEFINITELY have a reservation on that baby.
Dr. BLT said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:35
I’ve suffered for my art. Now it’s your turn.
Matt T. said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:36
YOU are dead to me, sir.
Well, what’s that to a zombie.
Matt T. said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:38
Ooh, I don’t know about that. I live in a town that’s economy thrives on oblivious singer-songwriters and meathead football fans. The meatheads only come to town a half-dozen times a year, though. And besides, you get rid of oblivious singer-songwriters, I’m sure bass playing prep cooks are an eventuality.
Righteous Bubba said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:38
Offering perspective. This one’s more professional, whereas other songs have had some incidental weirdness.
t4toby said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:39
I agree with RB (btw, thanks, no more dumb teenaged troll)
At least Dr. BLT has a thang, and goes to the trouble of producing something.
Its like when someone asks me for money. I usually say no, but if they say something like, “I’ll tell you a joke for a dollar” or “I’ll do a double backflip for two dollars” (I have witnessed both) then I feel like the person is at least attempting to earn money, no matter how misguided they may be.
I feel the same way about trolls. BLT is not my cup of tea, but is head and shoulders above the other dumbasses we’ve been seeing around here.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:41
I can’t believe that the troll sitch has gotten so bad that Dr BLT has been adopted like a pet, as one of the ‘good ones’.
Time was, you could slag on the Doctor all day long.
Next thing you know, Sadly will be inviting AnnieAngel, Shoelimpy, and Iris back.
oh well, I’ll stop now. Hell I’ll even admit to downloading one of his songs (OK, I deleted it after I sobered up, but still).
Back to our regular trolls, then.
Galactic Dustbin said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:42
But I’m kind of hoping the Go Galt movement will serve as America’s Golgafrincham Ark B, and Oblivious Singer-Songwriters DEFINITELY have a reservation on that baby.
That exactly what I thought when I heard of the whole go Galt thing! Just like the Fountainhead always brings to mind this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2PyeXRwhCE
PeeJ said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:42
I can’t find any pix to link to so you’ll just have to trust me on this. Oregon Public Broadcasting reported, this morning, on the state of Washington’s “death with dignity” act which came into effect today. Protesters were carrying signs saying, among other things, “Shame on you, people will die.”
btw, the law is modeled on Oregon’s 10 year old assisted suicide law. In both cases, the candidate must be expected to live less than 6 months in order to qualify.
t4toby said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:43
My boss was one of the main forces behind that initiative.
purvis ames said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:44
Okay, let’s face it; Begala can’t begin to measure up to Limbaugh’s ultra suave, pig in a suit, good looks and unless he can bring in his junkie pederast bonfides like Rush, well, he might just as well shut up and go back to liberal hell.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:45
dustbin, I always think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URb9WyLRxHU
Unapologetic pirate of Dr BLTunes said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:45
The more “obvious” songs (and if you’ll go to my website http://www.drblt.net you’ll find that there are many that are not so ostensibly “obvious”) like this one, critically acclaimed as the #8 best record of 2006 by Blogcritic Al Barger:
Neil Young (Have You Forgotten)
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008, 2009
http://www.drblt.net/music/neilyoung.mp3
http://www.morethings.com/music/best_songs_2006.htm
…are only “obvious” to those who take them literally, and to not take the time to read between the lines.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:46
I’ve got news for you liberals, anti-bush jokes are no longer funny, and haven’t been since the first billion times they were used. Jon Stewart deserves a punch in the face, him and that other idiot Colbert.
If only they’d just start dissing cripples and sick people like Michael J. Fox. Now that’s comedy gold.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:46
OK, point taken, Matt.
Unapologetic pirate of Dr BLTunes said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:47
For those here that are now standing up and showing me some love, and support, I’m deeply humbled and honored by your comments.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:50
Let’s not forget the standard pattern. Crazed right-wing nutjob – we’re talking deranged enough to make David Brooks look like a “moderate” – spews some ridiculous nonsense. “Rush Limbaugh is the acme of civilization” or some such nonsense.
Next step is a WashPost “news” article pointing out that the man who made fun of a Parkinson’s sufferer, and used the term “phony soldiers” to describe servicemen who disagreed with him, well he really ain’t a bad guy. That really, Rush “does far more good than harm”.
They may have broken out the “Stand With Rush” bit a little early. They shoulda waited at least until Richard Cohen’s article praising Limbaugh’s dancing skillz.
That Girl said,
March 5, 2009 at 20:52
Just saw this on my Facebook (sue me!) home page: “Digby Digby joined the group Go Galt Go!”
commie atheist said,
March 5, 2009 at 21:09
Go, Johnny Galt, Go! Go, Johnny Galt, Go!
http://righteousbubba.blogspot.com/2009/03/nationalize-atlas-shrugged.html
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 21:27
That really, Rush “does far more good than harm”.
That’s Jack Kingston (R-GA) from the 1st District in GA who said that. Kingston has a long, long history of saying shit that just isn’t true and behaving as if it is proven fact. He has one of the least permeable skulls in the entire GA Congressional delegation.
Smut Clyde said,
March 5, 2009 at 21:38
I remember first meeting the word “pulchritudinous” in a novel by Mack Reynolds.
I think
AsservativePerseverative* should be the new Conservative.Fixelated.
* Often a symptom of schizophrenia or frontal-lobe damage.
John D. said,
March 5, 2009 at 21:43
“I think it speaks volumes about Begala’s obliviousness that he would bring up physical traits in attempting to make some political point.”
Y’know, never mind Tyrrel adopting this so-called tone of high-mindedness before immediately going right on to slime Begala’s physical appearence, thus doing the exact same thing he’s accusing Begala of. That’s just typical Republican Projection. What interests me is that he’s sobbing about poor, persecuted, defenseless widdle Rush Limbaugh, who we all know would never, ever stoop to such tactics himself.
Except for every time he opens his mouth.
Xecklothxayyquou Gilchrist said,
March 5, 2009 at 21:46
I remember first meeting the word “pulchritudinous” in a novel by Mack Reynolds.
I think my first encounter with it was in a Doc Savage novel.
Smut Clyde said,
March 5, 2009 at 21:56
the bloated face and drug-addled voice of the Republican Party
This counts as a synecdouche, does it not?
Smut Clyde said,
March 5, 2009 at 21:58
it speaks volumes about Begala’s obliviousness
It must be hard to avoid the word ‘volume’ in any conversation centred on Limbaugh.
Smut Clyde said,
March 5, 2009 at 22:01
Tyrrell looks like Max Headroom’s uglier older and stoopider self.
Surely he is channeling the Howard Beale character from Network.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
March 5, 2009 at 22:06
He looks like he’s already got the ‘Crazy Baby’ eyes that driftglass always uses….
Bitter Scribe said,
March 5, 2009 at 22:15
In his memoirs, Tony Hendra talks about how, when he and P.J. O’Rourke (whom he couldn’t stand) were National Lampoon editors, O’Rourke kept trying to get Tyrell’s stuff into the magazine. Hendra described Tyrell’s writing as “great swatches of Latinate alliteration draped over gutter-level bigotry.”
(I’m quoting from memory and so may have a word or two wrong, but it’s mainly accurate.)
Bitter Scribe said,
March 5, 2009 at 22:23
Oh, and Hendra also called Tyrell an “odious little fruitfly.” THAT, I’m sure, is verbatim.
OB-GYN Kenobi said,
March 5, 2009 at 22:30
Hendra described Tyrell’s writing as “great swatches of Latinate alliteration draped over gutter-level bigotry.”
Oh, that’s schweet. And it’s got a chewy, chewy center.
Snarla said,
March 6, 2009 at 0:46
My first brush with “pulchritudinous” was in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
Max Headroom must have meant “pusillanimous.”
parsec said,
March 6, 2009 at 3:08
This is the first picture of Tyrell I’ve seen since before he ran the American Spectator (v. 1.0) into the ditch. The years are not kind to serial prevaricators. And if you’re going to ape Mencken you must use the big words correctly.
Brandi said,
March 6, 2009 at 3:39
Well, according to Michael Scherer, Rush Limbaugh is the “Clark Gable of his [i.e. our] day.” Perhaps he really meant Betty Grable.
I think you mean Kate Smith.
Ezzthetic said,
March 6, 2009 at 3:43
I’m just surprised you missed the opportunity to make some joke about “emetic”.
GoatBoy said,
March 6, 2009 at 7:18
I call fake Dr BLarT