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Shorter Charles Krauthammer
Above: ‘Kiss of Death’ (1947), featuring Richard Widmark.
- Perhaps it’s not even legal for Hillary Clinton to serve another term in the White House.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
El Cid said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:08
Yes, but considering that Grapthar’s Kraphammer ends up recommending that Bill Clinton, First Husband, avoid weird conflicts of an ex-president in the White House by having Hillary spirit Bill down to Argentina as some sort of ambassador is not likely to be opposed by one Bill Clinton.
El Cid said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:09
I.e., “Please, please Hillary, don’t throw me in that thar briar patch of Argentina, so so far away from Washington and from you, surrounded by all those terrible mean pretty I mean horrid Argentinian women.”
tb said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:09
Legal? This is America!
larry said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:14
Bill back in the White House? Got my vote.
Legalize said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:15
I think it’s cute when criminals and sociopaths speculate as to the legality of anything. Kraphammer isn’t qualified to opine about any matter more substantial than the city code of parking enforcement (and probably only really tiny cities).
Brando said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:15
So the Clintons have a strained, strange relationship, yet they will rule together like they share the same brain? The Wookie defense makes more sense than that.
Olexicon said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:18
did he just take one of his old column’s about hilarty as first laday and cut and paste switch everything for TEH CLENIS?
J— said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:18
My favorite bit of nastiness in a very nasty column:
Which I read like this: Hillary Clinton is a failed wife; Bill Clinton is failed husband. Their staying together sullies the institution of marriage and renders them unfit to serve as President and First Husband.
t4toby said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:26
They pay this asshole money to write that tripe?
Shorter Krautie:
Clenis! Hitlery! Argentina! CLENIS!!!1!
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. ;-)
t4toby said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:26
Hey! where’d my subscript go?
Richard Nixon said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:27
It’s not illegal if the president does it!
Yes, it’s just that simple.
SamFromUtah said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:29
Do Americans really want a historically unique two-headed presidency constantly buffeted by the dynamics of a highly dysfunctional marriage?
We much prefer the dysfunctional father-son relationship we’ve got in the presidency now, is that it?
Notorious P.A.T. said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:31
Do Americans really want a historically unique two-headed presidency
It’s better than a no-headed presidency.
“Duh, is our children learning? Duh, Iran is part of an Axis of Evil!”
J— said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:33
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. ;-)
A big smiley face sticker for t4toby. Always cite your sources, even for genres of blog posts!
We much prefer the dysfunctional father-son relationship we’ve got in the presidency now, is that it?
For Krauthammer, yes. From his article:
I’ll have to remember this the next time my dad visits and we sit down to eat dinner together.
gbear said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:35
“Do Americans really want a historically unique two-headed presidency constantly buffeted by the dynamics of a highly dysfunctional marriage?”
Hmmm, that doesn’t seem to have bothered Charles in W and Dick’s case. And they’re not EVEN thinking about the children.
Grand Old Partisan said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:42
It seems to me that the only way that a woman can actually hold power is as a cunning, shadowy, usurper, as did Hillary during Bill’s presidency.
Were she to actually win an election, Hillary would immediately become the puppet of her husband and male relatives.
t4toby said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:42
Thanks, J.
I think.
It was supposed to be extra small, to illuminate the snark, but Wordpress failed me. I don’t understand why the preview is more tolerant to HTML than the actual post.
J— said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:44
Thanks, J.
I think.
Do think. I like the Shorter concept attribution in Sadly, No!’s shorter posts, especially when it annoys people.
Snorghagen said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:49
Well, we just need to pass legislation mandating that Bill Clinton only appear in rubber or latex. Problem solved.
saul said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:50
I for one certainly hope it is not legal for Hillary Satan to serve another term in the white house. Hilldog is the closest thing we have in this country to a European style socialist as evidenced by her plans for “Hillary Care”, and $5000 baby bonds. She is definately in the pocket of that treasonous dog George Soros.
t4toby said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:53
We seem to be of one mind on that. If it slightly irritates people, I’m usually in favor of it.
Travis G. said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:56
I would have quit using the attribution long ago if it didn’t annoy people.
tbogg said,
November 2, 2007 at 21:58
That picture is so wrong and yet so right.
DJ said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:04
saul exhibits all the intellectual capacity of someone home-schooled by baboons.
Hoosier X said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:07
Two wet suits?
Hoosier X said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:10
I don’t know how we’re ever going to be able to compete with the Mallard Fillmoresque sharpness of saul’s wit. Let’s jusr declare Fred Thompson, I mean Fred Satan, president right now.
Ha ha. I called him Fred Satan. In your face, conservatives!
Cymon Dendu said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:11
TWO highly intelligent and competent people in the White House? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Better one incompetent boob.
BTW, why didn’t the Repubs complain about this Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton thing in 2000? 2004?
t4toby said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:12
I’m more and more convinced that saul is either a precocious15 year old, or a learning disabled 25 year old. either way, he loves banana cream pie.
grandpa john said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:15
Someone should send kraphammer a card of appreciation for reminding the public that by electing Hillary we would also put Bill back in the Whitehouse . Contrary to the thinking of the infantile minds on the right, most americans will view this as positive rather than negative,
thank you charlie for all you help although not intended. Perhaps you keep forgetting that one should think before writing , a common flaw of the flawed right.
Legalize said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:19
“saul exhibits all the intellectual capacity of someone home-schooled by baboons.”
I see no reason to impugn the intellectual capacities of banoons.
Smiling Mortician said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:20
Sons = OK
Wives = Badbadbad
Caveat! IOKIYAR
Silly Cymon Dendu.
Cangrejero said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:20
The problem is William Jefferson Clinton, former president of the United States, commander in chief of the Armed Forces, George Washington’s representative on earth.
George Washington’s representative on earth??!?! For fuck’s sake, Chuck, that wouldn’t even get accepted in an essay competition in Parade Magazine.
trilateral chairman said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:21
The relationship between a father and an adult son is psychological and abstract; the connection between husband and wife, concrete and quotidian.
I suspect that Bill & Hill have had very little “concrete” contact since…hmm…the mid-1970s or so.
Problem solved.
SamFromUtah said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:29
For Krauthammer, yes. From his article: [quote]
Aha, thanks. I couldn’t bring myself to go read the thing.
I had to go look up “quotidian”, too. Krauthammer must be teh smrt because he used it correctly (or maybe misused it in a way that happened to make sense).
The relationship between a father and an adult son is psychological and abstract; [...]
OK, I’ll concede this one. I think it was Dubya’s relationship with his mother that really caused the concrete, quotidian scars.
professor fate said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:33
But we have a two headed Presdency right now – Granted one of heads does not have a brain but that doesn’t matter since Cheney makes all the decisions. At least with Bill Hillary both brains would be working organs
bob
Olexicon said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:36
saul is also anti-semite fro hating george soros
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:51
“I suspect that Bill & Hill have had very little “concrete” contact since…hmm…the mid-1970s or so.”
Why suspect that? For one thing, it buys into the bullshit rightwing narrative that the Clintons have a loveless, barren, sham marriage that is maintained only for the pursuit of power. For another, it assumes that grownups don’t come to certain understandings in their marriages. I know more than one (happy, long-married) couple in an open relationship; Bill and Hillary got married in the Swinging Seventies. Who’s to say Hillary knew what Bill liked right out of the starting gate? And even that buys into the bullshit rightwing narrative of Bill Clinton as sexual glutton. Fuck a bunch of that (no pun intended).
Hoosier X said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:53
I think the reason there wasn’t a whole lot of screeching in 2000 about the dynastic implications of a second Bush president was this: So many real and obvious problems with the man himself made it completely unnecessary to indulge in ridiculous sophistry.
Krauthammer, being a conservative, has nothing else but sophistry and logical fallacies in his rhetorical arsenal. Don’t believe me? Pick an article at random and read it. Case closed.
Maureen Dowd is almost as bad, but at least she’s funny.
beth said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:53
SamFromUtah-
I, as well, had to once again consult my Two Dollar Word Dictionary to see WTF that meant.
He doesn’t have a superiority complex. I promise.
kenga said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:54
Hoosier, I think the (D) after his name makes that highly unlikely.
Despondant Cantabridgian said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:55
No, George Soros is an anti-semite for not supporting Christ’s-choice-for-president and the heir-to-the-prophet-Reagan, George W. Bush.
Geez, don’t you learn about religions before you start making broad claims about them?
not that beth, the other beth said,
November 2, 2007 at 22:56
The best part is the cognitive dissonance generated by the fact that Bill and Hillary have done whatever it takes to remain together and respect the sanctity of marriage. They’re doing a lot better than Newt, or Rudy, etc, etc, etc…
Suck on that, social conservatives.
Beth is Beth is Not Beth is Too said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:05
Suck on that, social conservatives.
I told you you had one chance left to even prove you were part of the human race. You’ve run out of chances. And I won’t hesitate to report you to our FBI, even though you’re in India. Got it asswipe? It’s obvious you can dish it out but you’re nowhere near man enough to take it. I have the entire record.
t4toby, who actually currently does not know anyone, nor does he know anyone associated with anyone named Beth said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:09
I could prove that I am part of the human race, but I have a date with a Feministislamopopulist.
Just remember the old rule of thumb when dating anyone named Beth:
Conservatives suck, Liberals swallow.
I know which one I would like to pole.
t4toby, who actually currently does not know anyone, nor does he know anyone associated with anyone named Beth said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:09
About their opinions, of course!
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:13
Krauthammer, being a psychologist, has nothing else but sophistry and logical fallacies in his rhetorical arsenal.
Amended.
THeDRiFTeR said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:15
Hey Sadly, No! guys and gals. None, and I do mean none of the YouTube content you’ve embedded in your page is working. All of them say, “This video is no longer available.” What’s the story with that?
Sorry to be off topic, but I didn’t see anywhere else to tell you this…
Legalize said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:17
Schumer gives the thumb up to torture: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:17
I do mean none of the YouTube content you’ve embedded in your page is working.
Ah, the retribution of Jeebus is finally upon us. Repent sinners! Repent!
Gavin M. said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:24
?? Still works when I try it.
Shorter Still said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:24
CAH-LEEEEEEE-NISSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssharrrkkkgllll
edgyspice said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:43
That picture is so, so awesome.
Tribe said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:48
Uh what???
Ummm? Yeah, not quite Chuckles.
Djur said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:51
t4toby: The ‘live preview’ copies the HTML you write directly into the preview area, as far as I can tell. I’m fairly sure you could put a little frameset in there with a million popups of goat porn, but the server would filter it out when you actually posted.
It’d be nice to get a list of tags and attributes that actually work and for that to be available somewhere near the comment box. I could probably do the grunt work on that if the Sadlynauts would be willing to insert it unto the template, yea, even unto a popup.
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:59
I’m fairly sure you could put a little frameset in there with a million popups of goat porn, but the server would filter it out when you actually posted.
The better to keep Mickey Kaus away from Sadly, No!
K. Ron Silkwood said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:06
Bill back in the White House? Good, we’ll be back to heterosexual blowjobs in the Oval Office.
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:09
All those opposed to heterosexual blowjobs, raise your hands. Anybody? Anybody?
Djur said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:12
Tribe: “republican,” not “Republican.”
Of course, Krauthammer failed to mention Senator Prescott Bush, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, and Governor Jeb Bush. In case you’re keeping count, that’s actually more elected offices than the Kennedy family has held in the same number of generations, and twice as many presidencies.
Honestly, I wasn’t aware Americans worshipped Diana. To the extent they did, it was a mild shadow of the extent to which she was deified in Britain — and in both countries, it was something of a populist sentiment regardless, because she was seen as sort of a ‘common person’.
mikey said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:35
I dunno from worshiping, but I’m basically right there with dead Dodi. She was smokin hot, rich, great smile, sparkling eyes and you just got a sense that she’d be rollicking good fun in bed.
Hokay, that’s pretty close to worship…
mikey
Hysterical Woman said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:42
OT: From a Townhall Ad
Yes! However, we don’t want to see shows Pat Boone. Funny that.
Colleen said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:43
As far as the pic goes, for anyone who has not seen that movie try and catch it the next time it’s on TCM. That movie will fuck you up. Also check out this site for woodcut prints of film noir. Good stuff here. http://www.filmnoirwoodcuts.com
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:45
MIkey, she was also an anorexic aristocrat, who obsessed about her weight, thought silk frocks were great for travelling “because they don’t crease”, and spent the entire annual budget of a small country on frockage. Very shallow, in other words. Shallow and priviledged, and completely unaware of how priviledged she really was. It’s easy to look good when that’s all you’ve got to do with your life. I’d smile pretty too, if I had that much dosh.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:46
Hysterical Woman: I’d say double beef Explicit Sex, Extra Dirty Language, hold the Sick Violence, thanks.
g said,
November 3, 2007 at 0:56
thought silk frocks were great for travelling “because they don’t crease”,
Ummm….is this bad? Cuz I….well, okay, there’s SOME rayon, but..
Snorghagen said,
November 3, 2007 at 1:17
No, Krauthammer mentions Daddy Bush and Shrub, but believes that their relationship is perfectly acceptable since the not very competent father is completely ignored by his utterly incompetent son. Krauthammer seems to believe that an excessive number of reasonably capable people in the White House at the same time might unleash forces that will destroy the Republic.
Kevin Bacon Holding A Short Roll Of Playdoh said,
November 3, 2007 at 1:47
MIkey, she was also an anorexic aristocrat, who obsessed about her weight,
Which is a mental illness rather than a character flaw.
On the other hand she fucked every cauliflower eared upper class prat who came her way simply to spite Charles and the rest of his family… where as Charles at least loved Camilla, and is still with her today; but still, how crap a wife must you be to lose out to Camilla?
What’s more, Diana also pretended to care about various charities purely as a public relations exercise, but then didn’t leave a penny to charity in her will; And obsessively courted the gutter press paparazzi to the point of deliberately staging “See Through Dress” moments, then howled about the horrors of that self same paparazzi intruding into her life; and eventually died due to one high speed chase too many with them, due to being too stupid or arrogant to wear a seat belt whilst her drunken driver careened regally across public roads.
I could go on; but let’s just say that the fact that even some liberal people seem to be unable to tell the difference between someone who’d actually be just the right side of crazily fun in bed, and nothing more exotic than a typically blonde bit of horsey sloane with a neurotically needy and self obsorbed/self obsessed personality, on top of which is supported at the British taxpayers expense and the ever fattening wallet of vultures like the Murdoch press… well, I’d say that’s not a phenominal argument for once for republicanism of the best sort, wouldn’t you?
blowback said,
November 3, 2007 at 1:49
That is where Craphammer makes his big mistake, George Jr. is anything but adult:
I am the decider, bwah, bwah, bwah!
I am relevant, bwah, bwah, bwah!
Gimme my dummy, bwah, bwah, bwah!
Bush Jr. never even made it out of the fucking pram!
mikey said,
November 3, 2007 at 1:57
Well, in the words of some truly great thinkers Qetesh, Duh.
I didn’t say I wanted to become her partner.
And I certainly didn’t concern myself with anything as trivial as her social-economic position in the world.
In as delicate language as possible, I said I’d like to bang her.
And, well, if she wasn’t dead? I really would. And I remain convinced that it would be rockin fun…
mikey
mikey said,
November 3, 2007 at 1:58
I’m not sure, now that I think about it, that I ever got over that eighties feathered blonde hair thing. Still makes my motor run…
mikey
mikey said,
November 3, 2007 at 1:59
‘Course, I actually think Hillary’s pretty hot too…
mikey
saul said,
November 3, 2007 at 2:31
George Soros is a treasonous dog who wants to destroy our constitution and form a one world socialist government. That dog immigrated here from Greece long ago, Congress should vote to revoke that dog’s citizenship!
SamFromUtah said,
November 3, 2007 at 3:24
You know, in the right context, Saul is pretty funny.
They made a movie about that, y’know.
Gundamhead said,
November 3, 2007 at 3:29
Is it just me, or is saul the most boring and all around generic wingnut troll we’ve had? His writing is just plain dull and even Rush wouldn’t touch his arguments. At least Kevin’s kinda entertaining, what with his drunkenness or mild retardation or whatever it was.
SamFromUtah said,
November 3, 2007 at 3:34
Is it just me, or is saul the most boring and all around generic wingnut troll we’ve had?
It’s not just you. The Littlest Rabbi reads like a “fortune” program farting out lines from a 2003 Limbaugh program.
M. Bouffant said,
November 3, 2007 at 3:43
Dating the Dead Dep’t.: I dunno, mikey I never got the impression Lady Di would be able to enjoy herself, let alone any one else. And as a full time shut-in, I waste an awful lot of brain cells on concepts like that.
“typically blonde bit of horsey sloane.” I do believe Mr. Kyra Sedgewick w/ Play-Doh© summed the late Lady up perfectly. “Sloane” indeed!
owlbear1 said,
November 3, 2007 at 3:49
If Hillary gets it shouldn’t Bill be known as the “First Gentleman”?
Years of tradition and all that.
Calling him the ‘First Husband” would be really fucking sexist.
Despondant Cantabridgian said,
November 3, 2007 at 3:54
Yeah, saul isn’t even any fun to debate. Calling George Soros a dog three times in two sentences… referring to Hillary as “Hillary Satan”… ok… is he communicating in code to an Islamic terror cell or something? Because, otherwise his transmissions don’t make sense.
mikey said,
November 3, 2007 at 3:55
Saul is an idiot, without any redeeming qualities, but may well be a fourteen year old girl with bad acne, so a little slack is required…
mikey
DEMIZE! said,
November 3, 2007 at 4:29
#
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
November 2, 2007 at 23:13
“Krauthammer, being a psychologist, has nothing else but sophistry and logical fallacies in his rhetorical arsenal.
Amended.”
Arsenhole,ReAmendified.That’s better…
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 3, 2007 at 4:34
By the bye, that’s a mighty nice bit of photoshoppery there.
atheist said,
November 3, 2007 at 5:27
Lack of a God, what a dipstick Krauthammer is.
SamFromUtah said,
November 3, 2007 at 6:32
Wouldn’t a real Nazi spell “Heil” right?
Do we have a namespoofer?
Anne Laurie said,
November 3, 2007 at 7:31
I think the reason there wasn’t a whole lot of screeching in 2000 about the dynastic implications of a second Bush president was this: So many real and obvious problems with the man himself made it completely unnecessary to indulge in ridiculous sophistry.
I was surprised when a usually rather conservative acquaintance, an immigrant from Bangladesh, ranted in 2000 that Dubya should not be allowed to run for president. “First the father, then the son?” he explained. “This is making a prince! I came to America to get *away* from such children of privilege!”
The intertoobz were not nearly so all-encompassing then, but from the international media I could find off-line, he wasn’t the only person to find the whole Bush Dynasty meme… less than true to the American Ideal. In retrospect, of course, we should have paid more attention to our more experienced global neighbors about this.
Meghan said,
November 3, 2007 at 15:40
K. Ron Silkwood said, “Bill back in the White House? Good, we’ll be back to heterosexual blowjobs in the Oval Office.”
Can we add “consensual” and “with adults” and “not for money” to this? I just want to make sure we’re really separating from the GOP.
Gundamhead said,
November 3, 2007 at 18:20
Oh yeah, and that photoshop? Genius. I like it even better than the lollipop one.