Comments on: Dan Riehl Struggles With English, Loses Again

By: Kip W

Kip W — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:26:09 +0000

Publius Servetus must have gone and read the thread over at Riehl’s, where one of his defenders leaped in and won the day by making a crack about Al Gore inventing the internet. The idea being that while we’re shaking our heads slowly, they’ll run up and kick us in the nuts, I guess.

By: dilford

dilford — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:04:44 +0000

“John McCain may have hit upon a fun way to combat the idea that he’s too old at 71 — he’s bringing his mother Roberta McCain, a healthy 95-year old, out on the campaign trail.

“It’s a thrill for me to be invited to tag along,” said the elder McCain to a South Carolina retirement community, before her son gave a speech about the problems facing Social Security and Medicare.” – from 10/18/07 TPM Election Central

I don’t doubt that John McCain may have had a mother at SOME point in his life, but I have a hard time believing that an old person could have an OLDER person (his mother, no less!) out saying wurdz and, uh, doing teh math and…

By: NicaKnit

NicaKnit — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:55:18 +0000

Since HRC is a Wellesley College alumna, I’m sure she’s very tied into the network–which would mean potentially a lot of elderly alumnae mobilized for her campaign. Even one gathering with older alumnae or a meeting with alumne in each city she visits would put her in contact with “all these women in their nineties”.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:49:48 +0000

…or walk by a dryer and mutter “Oh please…oh please”

By: Douche Baggins

Douche Baggins — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:32:24 +0000

PQuincy: It reminded me immediately of the famous Larsen cartoon…the one with the dog getting a lecture from a human. The bubble above the human’s head as all sorts of admonitory words; the one above the dog’s head has “Blah blah Spot blah blah blah blah Spot…,” (or something like that). Riehl’s audience, it seems, responds to “Blah blah blah Hillary blah blah blah…”

“Blah blah Ginger” is a sufficient trigger for this delightful cartoon.

Anybody else mutter “Midvale School for the gifted” when encountering a door that doesn’t swing the “right” way?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:06:35 +0000

Nevermind what Riehl said, what the hell was his point?

Oh right – he didn’t have one.

By: Publius Servetus

Publius Servetus — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:56:59 +0000

Wait…. see y’all are wrong. What Reihl meant to say was, if they’d been born in Wyoming they would have the vote. And since women in Wyoming had the vote there aren’t any women alive today who were born before women could vote (somewhere).

So Hillary is lying, Reihl is right and Gore didn’t invent the internets.

By: marge

marge — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:50:42 +0000

My 83 year old mother can’t wait to vote for a woman. I am not a Hillary fan. On my last visit to Mom we talked about the coming election. She thinks it’s about time a woman was president and hoped she would have the opportunity for vote for Hillary. I’ve always thought Mom would be a CEO if she had been born 50 years later.

By: JAFL

JAFL — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:33:13 +0000

Sorry … my beyond the pale statement. Forgot about that. Didn’t mean to imply that I support Riehl’s assertion. Rather, the argument that it is unlikely that a lot of elderly women attend HRC’s events is not something I read and think “obvious BS”.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:31:27 +0000

So Dan Riehl’s entire premise is that Hillary is a lying liar because she used the words “all these women in their nineties”? Hey, curvy, you’re a Riehlian, maybe you can tell me: How many is “all these”? How many women in their nineties would Hillary have to talk to at her campaign events before you and Dan would consider her comment to be believable?

By: JAFL

JAFL — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:22:22 +0000

What is astounding is why Riehl et al. even took time to mention this, let alone question it. Why? Besides showing an irrational dislike for HRC it shows an oddly flippant disdain for the very important and shameful fact that women in the U.S. were prohibited by law from voting for much of this country’s history. It’s just a profoundly childish and spiteful view of the world – Politically Correct Goat

See, now you are attacking his premise. That I understand. My point was that Sadly No was stating he was stupid and couldn’t do the math. I disagreed with that assesment of his post. I never questioned HRC’s assertion. And I qualified myself by stating that I had never been to an event in hopes that it was clear that I wasn’t challenging her assertion (“maybe scores of women in their late 80s attend HRC’s events”). I’m not supporting Riehl … I just don’t think his statement is wrong for the reasons Sadly No pointed out.

As to g … I didn’t say it was my premise. In re-reading my post and in knowing what I meant, I’m not sure why you took offense. I was only attempting to state his meaning, not offer any implicit or tacit support. If in my attempt I was vague or unclear, I apologize for the confusion.

By: Athenawise

Athenawise — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:11:27 +0000

Maybe someone suggested this upthread, but Dan’s commentary is as head-exploding as what passes for prose from Pammy the Atlas Shrew.

Lefty opinionators are so much better. They also don’t do inadvertent funny, as Dan does.

By: MCH

MCH — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:23:52 +0000

Dan Riehl is a sales director for a tech company

Well, then. That explains a whole bunch right there.

By: PQuincy

PQuincy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:15:15 +0000

Paddy Mac’s comment, “Wingnut guy jabberers from Limbaugh on down through Medved to this bozo just have to surround her name with some words, that’s all” — is great.

It reminded me immediately of the famous Larsen cartoon…the one with the dog getting a lecture from a human. The bubble above the human’s head as all sorts of admonitory words; the one above the dog’s head has “Blah blah Spot blah blah blah blah Spot…,” (or something like that). Riehl’s audience, it seems, responds to “Blah blah blah Hillary blah blah blah…”

Of course, I wouldn’t want to insult dogs, who are generally caring, loving, sweet and generally wonderful, unlike Mr. Riehl and his putative audience.

By: Florida Jeb

Florida Jeb — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:22:28 +0000

Dans Purty.

By: Politically Correct Goat

Politically Correct Goat — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:32:19 +0000

The message I took from HRC’s very simple anecdote was that women were denied the right to vote not too long in the past. In fact, so recent that HRC has met women on the campaign trail who were born at a time when women in the U.S. were prohibited by law from voting.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:10:39 +0000

“Keepin’ it Riehl!” as Chris Rock says, “Yeah, Riehl dumb.”

By: sapper

sapper — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:20:03 +0000

If you were born in 1912 you’d be 21 (voting age) in 1933.

Just saying.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:53:52 +0000

As an aside, WTF does he think he’s proving by way of that rebuttal to this post? My guess? That he wangled a gig as "talking head" with CNN because he never did grasp the concept of res judicata.

By: wtf

wtf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:31:49 +0000

Gawd help me for sticking up for a right winger but I really think Riehl has you on this one…sorry!!

Look what he says in the quote..

“The dates jibe but does the narrative, especially to support her claim of large numbers of women expressing such a sentiment?”

He says “the dates jibe but does..”

I think he is clearly acknowledging that elderly women in this position exist but questions the claim of large numbers of them talk to Hillary about this.

His attack on Hillary without any facts to back up his claim still suggest he is a piece of crap but I kind of have to go with him on this one point.