Wanker
The guy in the picture above isn’t a Russian gangster. No, he’s Nick Cohen, a concern-trolling British neocon who pretends to be liberal. Over the weekend, Cohen offered up the most preposterous defense of Sarah Palin so far heard on either side of the Atlantic:
[Palin] proved her support for the Iraq War by sending her son to fight in it. …
It’s not quite clear how Palin “sent” her son to Iraq. Did she threaten to ground him if he didn’t go? Did she march him down to the recruiting office at gun point? Or perhaps as Commander-in-Chief of the Wasilla White Militia Alaska National Guard, she drafted him and then mobilized his unit to Iraq?
Hat tip to Lord Andrew Throckmorton Farthington Stuttaford, the Seventh Duke of West Brixtonshire, who linked to Cohen at America’s Shittiest Website™ and who provided, as “context” for ASW’s web-challenged readers, a description of Cohen as “moderate left,” which is about as accurate as saying that John Podhoretz is “moderately attractive.”
Don’t trust anything written by Sick Boy from Trainspotting
Oh sweet flaming Jesus.
Be careful what you ask for, I suppose.
Holy crap, what a blithering idiot. I especially like how he characterizes the press as “Barack’s berserkers”, as if they were all with the horned helmets, singing “Immigrant Song” as they hacked away at Palin’s image with mighty battleaxes.
commie atheist Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Republicans don’t lie, ever. At most, they say things that are “functionally false,” but are true on some elemental (or perhaps spiritual) level. Democrats lie all the time, even when they’re telling the truth.
IOKIYAR. It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
I think I’ve seen this c.a. around somewhere.
Campaign 2008 – It’s just like 2000 again. How long before we hear that John McCain is a regular guy we want to have a beer with? (We already know that Obama is one of them uppity elitists…the worst kind!)
So, I guess all those Democrats who are against the war and whose kids & family members are in Iraq are now hypocrites?
This guy’s a douchebag, he finds any excuse to praise some right wing militarist lunacy ’cause he thinks he’s somehow fighting Pol Pot.
Not to be all Negative Nancy on y’all, but with nonsense like this floating everywhere and Chris Matthews playing a clip of Norma Rae in tribute to a Palin who is nothing like said fictional character, I am getting nervous that the stupid is taking hold and it’s going to be hard to shake off.
When the fuck are the debates?
“a man of the moderate left”?
So at least he’s not one of them new hybrid orcs…or so Stuttaford claims.
..which is about as accurate as saying that John Podhoretz is “moderately attractive.”
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He is, to these kinds of bears:
http://www.bearatones.com/about.html
Once you have lapdog press that won’t even ask about blatant lies like the bridge to nowhere, what’s the fucking point?
Is there any lie these fucks can’t get away with?
If they had nominated a cheese sandwich to run with McCain, would we be seeing prominent Republicans solemnly telling us how PREPARED the sandwich is to be president?
I think we would.
YAAAA! Can we have George Will’s face back please?
I would be a much bigger fan of the mainstream media if this were true.
The media narratives these days are beyond stupid. I frankly am depressed at how easily people continually get sucked into these vapid talking points.
There’s really no use getting too excited about the debates. They, too, will become victim to these same inane narratives. No matter how well Barack does (or poorly McCain fares), it will all come down to:
Obama = nuanced, weaseley, tepid, an empty suit.
Mccain = Maverick, straight-talker, goes right to the heart of the matter.
Look, they (they being the MSM) did the same thing in ’04. Kerry ran circles around Bush, but it was just enough for these people that Bush “hung in there” and “held his own.” It was all crap, we all knew it, but there it was unfolding right before our eyes.
Sen. Webb proved his opposition to the Iraq War by sending his son to fight in it.
Huh?
Aaah ah Aaaah ah! Aaah ah Ahhhh ahhhh!
This might be inappropriate to ask, but for curiosity’s sake, is there anything to the rumor that Palin’s son enlisted simply because he had too many DUI/DWIs and would have otherwise been sent to jail?
Don’t take it personally, guys. Nick Cohen’s just a really appalling tosser with a surprisingly high-profile day job.
So Cindy Sheehan is like, super-qualified to be VP then?
So I guess Cindy Sheehan is super-qualified to be president, if that’s what it’s about.
Barack’s berserkers.
Actually, better proof of Gov. Palin’s support for the Iraq War is her calling it “God’s plan.”
I was about to post that, MzNicky. It had to be done!
Oh, absolutely. I’ve thought for a long time one of the biggest advantages the Republicans have is their complete lack of shame. That’s what enables them to go on television and claim with a straight face that Palin is prepared for foreign policy because she’s had to “deal with Russia and Canada” as governor of Alaska. I heard some young, attractive Republican lady make this case on Fox this morning. Bob Beckel looked as if he couldn’t believe the ridiculous words were coming out of her mouth. And then, when pressed to explain what the hell she meant, she went off in different directions, as if the answer was obvious. It’s breathtaking, really.
If this is the new VP standard, Joe Biden beat her to it.
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is there anything to the rumor that Palin’s son enlisted simply because he had too many DUI/DWIs and would have otherwise been sent to jail?
I suppose it would be irresponsible not to speculate, but just out of curiosity, where did you hear this?
Republicans send their kids to war because they believe college takes them farther away from God.
I’m not making that up. I read that in an article in Psychology Today.
Aaronovitch Watch (incorporating “World of Decency”) also keeps a close eye on Nick “Decent Left” Cohen.
By the way, what up with the photo of Larry Drake of “LA Law” here?
Google Aaronovitch Watch. FYWP.
Is everyone sure Brad’s OK? Haven’t heard from him in a while.
Someone ought to call and make sure he’s all right.
They might have gently mocked her idiotic creationism, while carefully avoiding all discussion of the racist conspiracy theories of Barack Obama’s church.
Yes, because the idea that black Americans might not get a fair shake is certainly the equivalent of believing that the magic sky fairy put bones turned to stone in the ground just to trick humans.
Note also how he slides from her actual beliefs to someone other than Obama’s beliefs.
“Republicans send their kids to war because they believe college takes them farther away from God.”
Go on Johnny! Go blow up infidels for Jesus! And if you get blowed up, why, it’s just the will of Jesus in his neverending war against brown people with oil and you’ll be raptured right up into heaven!!!11!!!
Sometimes it really does seem like we’re fighting a losing battle here…
Shorter Nick Cohen: The liberal American press certainly screwed up. With friends like that, Barack Obama doesn’t need enemies!
Shorter actual liberals: Imagine that. It’s almost as if they’re not our friends.
It should be noted that when Congress changed the maximum enlistment age to 42 in 2006, Governor Palin herself was still young enough to enlist.
Oh god, not NIck Cohen.
I’m semi-tempted to email extracts of What’s Left, his concern-trolling book about the state of the left, to Clif in revenge for being forced to read this article.
It’s hard to imagine any words emerging from that face other than “How much for zee little gairl?”
Interesting article at CJR.
Back to work for me. *sniff*
NIck Cohen is a wanker, Lenin’s Tomb has often detailed his pathetic dribble he calls writing and the other so called ‘moderate left’.
he’s one of those types who were supposedly on the left but moved right and become total assholes (see Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Hari), I really hate those types.
a common term used is ‘decent left’ and they hang out at a odious little apologists for imperialism blog called Harry’s Place, the very same wankers who signed that ‘Eustonite Manifesto’.
bunch of tossers the lot of them and yet they get airtime to talk complete bollocks.
In American political parlance, “moderate” means “my bitch.”
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Let me just say that I have no business judging anyone on the basis of appearance.
But, yeeeesh!
pathetic dribble he calls writing
Drivel!
Pedantry quota fulfilled.
Little known fact: Wasilla is only 4320 miles from Moscow.
Wasilla is also 4442 miles from London, and 4647 miles from Paris. Who knew it was so centrally located?
It’s 7437 miles from Mecca, so we can rest assured that Palin’s not an Islamohomoterrorfascist.
Thanks Daft Logic
Pfft.
Like I’m gonna listen to Frank Langella’s opinion on America’s foreign policy.
Per the AP:
AP —
Going To Iraq To Avoid Jail Time? – Sarah Palins son Track Palin has joined the army to avoid going to prison.Track Palin is not going to Iraq because he is patriotic but because he was arrested,for vandalizing the brakes of a school bus,in order to avoid jail he enlisted himself in the army.Track Palin will be performing security duties for his brigades top officers in Iraq starting on September 11, 2008
Yeah, I get around, ITTDGY.
Yes, Cohen is a bit of a wally. Sad to say he has column space in The Guardian – but, fortunately, one look at that goblin face leering at them from the top of the columns is enough to scare most readers off.
Sarah Palin described her mayorality as “not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Judging by that standard, the college sophomore who managed the Festhaus at Busch Gardens this summer is eminently qualified to be one rapid heartbeat away from the presidency.
Maybe she threatened him with an unvarying diet of moose pie unless he went? That would motivate me.
… vandalizing the brakes of a school bus …
WTF?
From ADN, December, 2005:
Four high school students were arrested Monday on charges stemming from vandalism last week that disabled a school bus fleet, closing core-area schools for a day in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, according to the Alaska State Troopers. Three boys — a 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds — were taken to the Mat-Su Youth Facility after their 10:30 a.m. arrests at their homes. The fourth, Deryck Harris, 18, was arrested at 2:51 p.m. at home and jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility.
Umm, what about Jenna and notJenna? Or all of them Romney boys? This is a great standard, because from what I remember of the chickenhawk brigade and the “skin in the game” argument, the GOP is going to be on the losing side of this one too.
Yes, you’re right. That’s pretty twisted.
Hard to spin that as a bit o’ boyish fun, but we know they will try.
Wouldn’t it be great if there were no wankers?
Here’s what we do. Set up a network of giant orbital lasers capable of hitting every location on the planet and incinerating what they hit. Set up another network of sensitive microphones that can recognize the spoken word “wanker”, and another network of cameras that cover all public areas. When the network of microphones detects the word “wanker”, it triangulates the location of the speaker. That is correlated with the video images from that location to determine the object of the statement- the person who was called a wanker. The orbital lasers then instantly incinerate the wanker.
Wouldn’t that be great? Of course there would be some capability for gaming the system and some small amount of error, but I think it would be at least 90% accurate. And voila’, no more wankers.
Then we could move on to “tossers” and those who “talk complete bollocks.”
As someone who’s not exactly cute myself, I must protest this blatant lookism from someone who … oh, fuck, who am I kidding here? This hideous fuckstick obviously dropped straight off the tailgate of the Fuglymobile. Yow! Eyewash, STAT!
In an age when politics is choreographed, voters watch out for the moments when the public-relations facade breaks down and venom pours through the cracks.
Like Sarahcuda’s smear-job/BS-sermon at the RNC, for example?
For once, the postmodern theories so many of them were taught at university are a help to the rest of us. As a Christian, conservative anti-abortionist who proved her support for the Iraq War by sending her son to fight in it, Sarah Palin was ‘the other’ – the threatening alien presence they defined themselves against.
Spoken like someone who’ll never have to worry about the possibility of a President Palin stacking the Supremes & thus taking away their right to a safe & legal abortion in the wake of a brutal rape. Obviously, you’d have to be some kind of college-coddled elitist to see such a spectre as a threat – just think of it as an exciting real-life adventure! Close your eyes & think of England, indeed. Oh, & she also calls the Mesopotamian Clusterfuck “God’s Plan” & believes that Armageddon is the necessary precursor to her Messiah’s return to Earth – come on, folks, can it GET any more non-threatening than THAT?
In Britain, the most snobbish attacks on Margaret Thatcher did not come from aristocrats but from the communist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who opined that Thatcherism was the ‘anarchism of the lower middle classes’ and the liberal Jonathan Miller, who deplored her ‘odious suburban gentility’…
Alias, people whose depth of insight & academic merits make Cohen look like the hollow prattling twat he is, & who must thus be demeaned by his futile attempts at sentience.
Change hands & finish up already, you sad little gollum.
Man, Nicky looks like he runs on alcohol. Just don’t strike a match too close to his head…
I find it improbable that a juvie case from 2005 would still be pending today and that Track Palin would suddenly face jail time if he wasn’t facing jail time when the crime was committed.
Bush proved his contempt for the Iraq War by not allowing his daughters to fight in it.
WereBear: I don’t find anything via Google that shows AP reporting this story about Track Palin. All I see is rumors etc. on DU and links to queries about same at the Randi Rhodes show. Got a link for an actual news source?
fortunately, one look at that goblin face leering at them from the top of the columns is enough to scare most readers off.
Also useful as an appetite suppressant.
I believe that glare is what Mr. Cohen uses to hypnotize his prey prior to unhinging his lower jaw and swallowing said prey whole.
Yes, Hobsbawm was snobbiest snob of them all, because he looked down on Lady Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness of Kesteven, Order of the Garter.
For as much as I’d like to believe the Track rumor, it seems unlikely since the military has explicitly rejected enlistment in lieu of jail time. Read more here.
“Don’t trust anything written by Sick Boy from Trainspotting”
That may be true, but I believe that this fellow is Spud, not Sick Boy.
“For as much as I’d like to believe the Track rumor, it seems unlikely since the military has explicitly rejected enlistment in lieu of jail time. Read more here.”
That being said, there is nothing explicitly barring the sort of back-room pre-plea arrangement whereby pending charges are dropped if a youthful offender voluntarily enlists. There was one such individual in my platoon in boot camp, back in the 80s.
I wouldn’t write the rumor off; there may yet prove to be a nugget of truth in it.
By, that logic, well, Cindy Sheehan, absolutely luvs it.
Sheesh.
So it’s probably not true. BFD Half of what McCain and Palin say in their stump speeches isn’t true either. Don’t stop them from repeating it, duzzit?
Yeah, I know. High moral ground and all that. On the other hand, I’m pretty much amoral so I’ll keep repeating it. If there’s truly symmetry in nature, it will eventually become true.
Why do I get the feeling that Karl Rove is posting fake Palin rumors on lefty sites all over the interweb, just to provide more ammunition for the “OMG they’re so mean to Sarah!” contingent?
By the way, can someone please tell me that the camera lens used to take that picture above has something to do with the horrible image? Because that face is the stuff of nightmares.
The thing is, the military age has been raised many times this decade. Palin could have enlisted herself if she wanted, in 2006. That was the year the enlistment age was raised to 44, and she was 42 at that point.
“Why do I get the feeling that Karl Rove is posting fake Palin rumors on lefty sites all over the interweb, just to provide more ammunition for the “OMG they’re so mean to Sarah!” contingent?”
Respectfully, I would submit that she Knew What She Was Getting Into When She Signed Up For It, ahem.
For a Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidate to complain of rough treatment in the press or by their political opponents, well, that’s just crocodile tears. Politics are rough. Grow a skin or go back to your hockey rink, lady.
Or: If she can’t handle the press, how’s she going to handle people like:
Hugo Chavez
Kim Jong-Il
Vladimir Putin and his sidekick Medvedev
Whatever Castro is running Cuba this week
The PRC’s Central Politburo
Yes, commie atheist, I can answer that. The lens in question appears to be a standard, perfectly-well-functioning camera lens of the traditional type. It has accurately captured his image, and therefore has EVERYTHING to do with that horrible image. A little vaseline on the lens would have helped matters immeasurably.
Is it me, or does he always look like the Grinch?
No, BB. The Grinch has a tiny little nose. Our boy here has a beak like a hyperglandular toucan.
Ahem.
Apparently it occurred in 2005:
http://frontiersman.com/articles/2005/12/06/news/news2.txt
and the Palin name did not come up, but it was supposedly reported on Alaskan radio recently… only the radio station’s website is just a splash page, with a reminder to visit when their new site is up.
Upon further checking, that site I copied the AP thing off from (from a google summary) is something bogus… when I go to the actual webpage, it’s not kosher looking. That will teach me.
So all I can say is that, according to the original news story, it was not brake tampering, but something more benign. Certainly nothing that would lead to a jail time/enlist scenario for a first offense, for a white male with parents with longstanding ties to the community.
I’ll see your Ahem and raise you, Bubba.
I’ll see your Ahem and raise you, Bubba.
Perhaps we should play Checkers instead.
C’mon, we’re all waiting for Brad’s Tom Brady post. Real shame about that.
Yes, we’re all pulling for the Pats and Tom Brady.
Castle will take them to the Superbowl, you can bet on that.
Go Pats!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like the George McPalin Crime Family failed to intimidate the Alaskans into wrestling control of the Troopergate investigation away from the fellow who was granted control in the first place:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate;_ylt=AncGFdyNJfCbSGZE8QdZIMxh24cA
It also looks like the Obama folks are learning to call the McPalin’s statements what they fucking are: “lies”:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080908/pl_politico/20856;_ylt=Aso2msT0SZSI2T_QPsYyhfxh24cA
Perhaps we should play Checkers instead.
As you wish.
I too sense just such a disturbance in Teh Force … & if it be so, then the well-meaning GOP-haters with a mite too much zeal to play a few rounds of “Fuck That Rat” might just be the bestest pals Herr Rove ever made into his little bitches. He’s no genius, but he knows his Psych 101 by heart. He played voters like a fiddle before, & he LOVES playing dirty – watch out for his encore.
I could care less if Palin’s kid worships Cthulhu or got busted selling meth to Girl Scouts: HE isn’t running for Veep. His Mommy Dearest has already handed her opponents enough pure Stupidium to nuke her until she glows … but acres of commentary concerning yet more lurid juicy episodes of “Those Wacky Palins” (right after Obama just said “back off” the family, mind you) will neutralize all that legitimate dirt faster than shit goes through a duck – & if you seriously think it won’t have negative blowback for Obama, please invite me to your home planet, because the media there must be real powderpuffs. Right now, the American media on THIS planet is giving her a delayed honeymoon, after a brutal debut … the best way to end it is to hoist her on the petard of her own shitty job-record, & point out what a brainless wonder McCain is to have put her in as Veep to begin with.
The more of this weak shit I see popping up for people to waste time & energy on, the more I suspect the oleaginous tentacle of Rove at work. Cut it out. The target needs to be McCain.
Is it me, or does he always look like the Grinch?
Almost – that pointy upper lip is definitely Grinchesque.
The fact is, Nick Cohen speaks the Truth and you east coast liberals can’t handle it. He would be welcome here in the Heartland. Check the poles, the Heartland is winning.
Check the poles, the Heartland is winning.
Ewwwwwwwwwwww, Gary seriously, dude, I wouldn’t touch your pole with aaaaaaaa, errrrrrrrrrrr, Sarah Palin’s dick!
Shorter some of the commenters around here lately:
“To defeat the Republicans this year we must become as dishonest as the commenters at Little Green Footballs. And let’s be just as stupid too.”
P.S. You are a idiot.
And yet again, the east coast liberals forgot about Poland. CHECK THE POLES.
Per Rovian logic, if we find out that Track isn’t a psychopath and the circumstances of Trig’s birth wasn’t ripped from a Desperate Housewives script, it proves that every negative thing said about Palin is slander.
If you don’t believe me, ask Dan Rather.
“Check the poles, the Heartland is winning.”
Already checked, Obama still well ahead in the EV count.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
If there’s truly symmetry in nature, it will eventually become true.
What’s nature got to do with American politics? If you really think the corporate media is ever going to run a bullshit smear from the left as “serious”, you’re fucking brain-addled.
“Check the poles, the Heartland is winning.”
The Poles can’t vote in November, they are not U.S. citizens.
WereBear, knock it off.
Wasn’t Hearttland a CBS series Starring Gerald McRaney
Heartland
It looks like he’s standing in a shower stall, which would explain why his face looks like a reflection from the water faucet.
Umm, shouldn’t that be “Czech the Poles”?
mikey
The flags were all dead at the top of their poles.
See I think Palin feels qualified to be VP since she, like Cheney, knows how to check the Poles.
As you wish.
King me!
OT:
Palin action figures and other misc. crap
RB, BB:
Amateurs!
Read ’em and weep!
Oh yeah?
Why has this nose remained unpicked?
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
King me.
I demand a recount
although, i guess technically you got there first, quaker
I demand a recount
Sooooooorrrrrryyyyy!
Forgive me, I wasn’t trying to spread anything… my break at work ended before I could conclude “this is weak tea” or some other British equivalent.
I agree that while these rumors keep popping up, there’s no point feeding them. But isn’t there a law of diminishing returns for this kind of thing, even from Karl Rove?
Suppose you put out a rumor that a candidate does something awful… you might be able to refute it, but you’ve put it into question.
Blessss us and splash us my precioussss!
/N. Cohen
Just trolling now.
No, no. It’s spelled “Nick Cohen” but it’s pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.
Republicans send their kids to war because they believe college takes them farther away from God.
I’m not making that up. I read that in an article in Psychology Today.
Cite or GTFO.
Well, okay, you don’t *have* to GTFO, but an issue number/date would be greatly appreciated!
Well, things have reached a pretty pass when we’re all sitting around searching the InterTubes for unflattering photos to compare with that alleged human up there and nasty rumors about candidates’ children. I for one am appalled. By the way, I heard Trig is really Piper’s baby.
Also, this.
Brandi,
The current issue, October 2008.
For the record: Nick Cohen was a cheerleader for Ahmad Chalabi in the run-up to the Iraq War. He wrote a number of columns calling the INC Iraq’s democratic government in waiting.
He gets very annoyed when people ask him about this now.
The fact is, Obama candidly spoke about “my Muslim faith” today. The Heartland was right and is winning now. The poles say so.
What, precisely, did he candidly say?
Videotape is not your friend.
What the poles say is “I’m melting!”
And the Republicans want to make money off it.
Nick Cohen, oh my. You should all check out the Decentpedia (I’m not going to insert a link as WP hates me, but it’s decentpedia DOT blogspot DOT com), a hilarious blog taking down the Cohen’s and Hari’s of this world. (By the way, Cohen writes for the Observer, not the Guardian as such.)
Oh, and do not, under any circumstances, read What’s Left? It’ll take you months to recover if you do.
So, what do this guy’s teeth look like?
Mr Cohen was part of the Euston Group who formed last year to promote books that they had all written about how mean and nasty the Left are. Strikingly enough the Left turned out to be people that disagreed with things that Mr Cohen said. Also in the Euston Group is Melanie Phillips who unkind people might refer to as “unhinged”. She and Mr Cohen think that the Left is in bed with islamocommiefascists and are all terribly antisemitic since some of The Left said that they felt Israel had over reacted and was handling the Lebanon war badly. This has been confirmed by anti- semitic, islamocommiefacists Israeli government reports.
Mr. Cohen used to be a fair to middling rock journalist but has seen where the real money is, now IMO.
Moonbotica,
those types who were supposedly on the left but moved right and become total assholes (see Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Hari)
I’ve never heard of this Jonathan Hari, but perhaps you refer to his brother Johann. If so, try to keep up — he used to be a “decent” but has long since recovered.
Hitchens I grant you. And yes, Cohen is a wanker; a wanker of the first water; a wanker of discarded horse-pizzles found amidst vast heaps of offal steaming fresh from the abbatoir. But you are unfair to Hari.
If there is anything positive about the catastrophe of the past eight years of American Republican hegemony, it is this: it has been an enzyme dissolving conventional positions. Under the catalysing force of that enzyme, rare conservatives have, very occasionally, demonstrated that they merit the oxygen they breathe rather than stealing it. I am thinking here primarily of John Cole, as well as… eh, well, Cole is just about it, actually. Conversely, vast shoals of ostensible leftists have revealed themselves to be suppurating pustules. I am thinking of Cohen here, and Hitchens,and, well, the list rapidly grows long as the most impressive horse-pizzle ever tossed onto an abbatoir’s offal-heap. But Hari really doesn’t deserve to be numbered among that sort any more.
Cohen, 2002: “Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades – I’d do it myself if the price was right.”
[Wikipedia article, citing Monbiot].
Smut Clyde said,
Cohen, 2002: “Former lefties can make a good living in the media by attacking their ex-comrades – I’d do it myself if the price was right.”
[Wikipedia article, citing Monbiot].
Crikey, there’s nothing like laying it out, is there.
Republicans send their kids to war because they believe college takes them farther away from God.
I’m not making that up. I read that in an article in Psychology Today.
They’re right, of course. Since so many of them have a version of god that can’t stand up to intense questioning from a well-educated five-year-old, their only hope is to keep em out of the company of atheists and pagans and in the company of people carefully trained to follow orders and conform.
Damn. That dood could kick my ass…
mikey
Damn. That dood could kick my ass too…
mikey
I loved how in her convention speech Palin claimed her son “is being deployed to Iraq on Sept. 11th”. Like most of the rest of her spewing, it’s a LIE!
1) There’s a “ceremony” for his deployment on 9/11. For the remaining braindead McSame voters, they’re STILL trying to link 9/11 to Saddam Hussein/ Iraq. The Big Lie lives.
2) Troglodyte Boy will be deployed at some point after (maybe, but prob. to a safe spot) but it would’ve been illegal for her to specify deployment orders on national TV that way. Not that the RePukes respect ANY laws, which are only fit for the Little People.
RB, I’m taking my nose and going home.
Jim said: September 8, 2008 at 22:11
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I could care less if Palin’s kid worships Cthulhu or got busted selling meth to Girl Scouts: HE isn’t running for Veep. His Mommy Dearest has already handed her opponents enough pure Stupidium to nuke her until she glows …
If there’s any truth to the rumor about Track enlisting to avoid jail, I think it reflects less on the kid than on his parents anyway. I mean, he’s a kid; kids do stupid things. But in the Palin family, apparently both the older kids have done monumentally stupid things … which makes me think that Caribou Barbie and Roustabout Ken, er, Todd, aren’t exactly the parental role models the Repulsicans are trumpeting them as. Well, hell, encouraging a 17-year-old girl to get into a shotgun marriage with a no-prospects dropout isn’t good parenting either.
— ‘Tis not worth a single stiver, said the bandy-leg’d drummer — ’tis a nose of parchment.
As I am a true catholic — except that it is six times as big — ’tis a nose, said the centinel, like my own.
— I heard it crackle, said the drummer.
By dunder, said the centinel, I saw it bleed.
What a pity, cried the bandy-legg’d drummer, we did not both touch it !
At the very time that this dispute was maintaining by the centinel and the drummer — was the same point debating betwixt a trumpeter and a trumpeter’s wife, who were just then coming up, and had stopped to see the stranger pass by.
Benedicity ! —- What a nose ! ’tis as long, said the trumpeter’s wife, as a trumpet.
And of the same mettle, said the trumpeter, as you hear by its sneezing.
— ‘Tis as soft as a flute, said she.
— ‘Tis brass, said the trumpeter.
— ‘Tis a pudding’s end — said his wife.
I tell thee again, said the trumpeter, ’tis a brazen nose.
I’ll know the bottom of it, said the trumpeter’s wife, for I will touch it with my finger before I sleep.
“Interesting article at CJR.”
It was interesting, and it reminded me that I should read CJR more often. One thing though:
I would like to know when the first paragraph in a news story stopped being the “lead” and started being the “lede”. It’s like I woke up one day in one of they multiverses ever so slightly different from the one I went to sleep in.
I mean, I used to write for & edit a community college paper; I was assistant editor for a 1000-run small press zine; and this whole “lede” thing just zinged right past me, apparently. Hell, I barely escaped embarrassing myself half to death by scornfully correcting the ignorant the first time I saw it…which was only a few years ago, surely?
If “lead” has always been “lede” back to the stone age please tell me that also because then I can start looking seriously for a way to get back to my own world. This one is starting to suck.
And yes, thanks for dumping the fucking vulgarity filter, and I can go back to my own name now.
And here I thought you were writing something about the new Guy Ritchie movie!
This is a good time to bring these UK fellow Sadly No! travelers some hits again:
http://decentpedia.blogspot.com/
They, along with Aaronovitch Watch, as a previous commentator noted, keep tabs on the British “decent” left.
Ohh, I thought this was a post about the new Guy Ritchie movie!
Seems like a good time to post this again:
http://decentpedia.blogspot.com/
Some British fellow travelers; they keeps tabs on Nick Cohen, among others.
Ohh, I thought this was a post about the new Guy Ritchie movie!
Seems like a good time to post this again:
http://decentpedia.blogspot.com/
Some British fellow travelers; they keep tabs on Nick Cohen, among others.
Ohh, I thought this was a post about the new Guy Ritchie movie!
Seems like a good time to post this again:
decentpedia.blogspot.com
Some British fellow travelers; they keeps tabs on Nick Cohen, among others.
If Nick Cohen sees this he’s going to write an article about your anti-semitism where he assumes you know that the international Russian gangs are predominantly Jewish (or pretended to be to get the hell out of the Soviet Union). He will also assume you presumed him to be a Jew even though he isn’t (although he apparently pretends to be one on occasion when commenting to blog posts, ask Mark Elf from Jews Sans Frontieres).
You should all check out the Decentpedia, a hilarious blog taking down the Cohen’s and Hari’s of this world.
— which is NOT CONNECTED in ANY WAY to Flying Rodent.
Also, Rhinogrades!
If “lead” has always been “lede” back to the stone age please tell me that also because then I can start looking seriously for a way to get back to my own world. This one is starting to suck.
‘Lead’ to rhyme with ‘heed’ became ‘lede’ in newspaper-speak, so I’m told, because people didn’t want to confuse it with ‘lead’ to rhyme with ‘head’, which relates to the typographical term for line spacing.
ifthethunderdontgetya: “Campaign 2008 – It’s just like 2000 again. How long before we hear that John McCain is a regular guy we want to have a beer with?”
Well, unless someone gets confused, and we hear that McCain has an illegitimate black child, but then they’ll spin it that that’s a GOOD THING, because he begged the mother not to abort the child and found a fine young man to marry her to.
It’s tough to outdo reality with snark these days.
You may want to pay hede and rede this piece by William Safire http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1D81E3AF93BA25752C1A966958260
or you may not.
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20001128
Guess you don’t have to have great hair to be a “talking head,” if you’re willing to suck up. Cohen obviously has the lips for that task.
“Mr. Cohen used to be a fair to middling rock journalist but has seen where the real money is, now IMO”
Just for the sake of correctitudity, the rock journalist is Nik Cohn.
the rock journalist is Nik Cohn
Son of Norman Cohn, the historian of eliminationist literature.
Ha!
Brilliant article. I love Nick Cohen….his book “What’s Left?” is a classic!
If you liked Nick’s article you’ll love Melanie Phillip’s latest: “Revolution you can believe in”
LINK- http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can-believe-in.thtml
When the fuck are the debates?
As soon as Palin can reload.
Thanks for the correctitudinalism, H.Rumbold. Profuse apologies to the Rock writer Cohen.
I knew the brown acid would lead to trouble.
Arghhh!! should be ‘Rock writer Cohn’. Argghhh !!!!
Hmmmm. Well, it seems obvious that I’ve slipped into a parallel universe and must drum up some kind of epic quest to find my way home. Either that or I’m appallingly ignorant.
Do ya think the thin spot between worlds might be at say Machu Picchu? Is it thinner if I arrive on an ancient Vespa with a pile of gear on the back topped with a crate of chickens and a pair of badminton racquets? Cause that’s the kind of epic quest I can really get behind.
Further proof of Cohen’s wankerism is provided by his account of the 2003 Anti-Iraq war demo in Dublin.
He claims, falsely, that is was organised by Sinn Fein, who were until recently the political wing of the Provisional wing of the IRA.
I marched in that demonstration, alongside a woman who found the PIRA’s use of lethal force against innocent people abhorrent (she was a survivor of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry in 1972, when the British parachute regiment used lethal force against innocent people; unlike some, she did not allow this experience to drive her towards support for violent republicanism).
Had the anti-war demo been an SF, that woman would not have marched in it, nor would many of the thousands who did. Mr. Cohen preferred not to allow the facts to get in the way of a good smear.
Will Self?