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Steele Falls for Set-Up [Dan Collins]

What a noob:

Attacking Rush, Continued [Guy Benson]

Last month I noted a synchronized verbal assault launched against Rush Limbaugh by so-called political analysts Paul Begala and James Carville. They were feverishly making the case that Rush is the de facto leader of the Republican party, and repeated this talking point as often as possible.

At the time, I theorized these attacks were no coincidence; likely hatched during the daily conference calls among Bagala, Carville, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Lo and behold, this past weekend, Stephanopoulos induced Republican Rep. Eric Cantor to repudiate Rush on This Week. Meanwhile, down the dial on CBS, Rahm Emanuel raised the Limbaugh issue unprompted, rehashing the Begala/Carville meme about Rush’s status within the GOP.

I concluded my previous post on this topic with a joke about CNN simply hiring Robert Gibbs as an “analyst.” Never fear: He’s in the loop, too.

The result of this kind of simpleton fucktardance is that we get pieces like this that get regurgitated in the ever-dutiful MSM (fuck them and the whore they rode in on).

Well played, Mr. De Facto.

UPDATE via router and Pablo. Contrary to the plumline, Steele apologizes to Rush.

73 Replies to “Steele Falls for Set-Up [Dan Collins]”

  1. happyfeet says:

    He needs to resign before I’ll have anything to do with that little club what he’s de facto president of. Bunch of homos.

  2. Jeffersonian says:

    Mrk my words: This is all battlefield prep for the Fairness Doctrine (or whatever the Dems will call it) debate. They’re preparing a door for the squishy Republicans to walk through.

  3. happyfeet says:

    Christ. Now the moron turns around and kisses Mr. Limbaugh’s ring? He’s a de facto fucking idiot.

  4. happyfeet says:

    Limbaugh said: “I’m not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don’t want to be. I would be embarrassed to say that I’m in charge of the Republican Party in the sad-sack state that it’s in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it’s in, I would quit. I might get out the hari-kari knife because I would have presided over a failure that is embarrassing to the Republicans and conservatives who have supported it and invested in it all these years.”*

    This Rush Limbaugh person makes uncommon good sense I think.

  5. Mr. Pink says:

    GOP looks like Nazi Germany? Fuck you in the mouth, old chum.

  6. phil says:

    I think we need to focus. The more time were talking about rush limbsugh is the less time were talking about multi trillion dollar deficits and falling stock prices despite the passage of everything the dems wanted.

    They are starting to realize they won’t be able to run on their own record in 2010. It’s up to us to remind everyone (constantly) who is completely in charge now.

    Focus.

  7. happyfeet says:

    Well that’s the point, phil. Michael Steele doesn’t have his eye on the ball. He’s worse than useless. He’s actively revising and extending the dirty socialist talking points.

  8. router says:

    RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

  9. Techie says:

    Amateur hour.

  10. alppuccino says:

    Expect more of this.

    Mouthbreathingly stupid comments from you?

  11. router says:

    affirmative action in action on both sides

  12. alppuccino says:

    Too wordy.

  13. happyfeet says:

    Where’s Jeff? I think it’s his turn to post something.

  14. happyfeet says:

    oh. I don’t understand the part about the Nazis.

  15. alppuccino says:

    That lost me too. Either we’ve converged at this point and time and you’re as dumb as me, or I’m as smart as you. Not sure.

  16. happyfeet says:

    I don’t know either. I’m gonna go home and be irate there for a bit I think. I have gum there.

  17. router says:

    i want to throw an oreo

  18. Carin says:

    Well, don’t watch the news. It will only make things worse.

  19. guinsPen says:

    Steele to Rush: I’m sorry

    So reads Politico’s (and Hot Air’s) headline, yet Steele never uses those words.

    This is as close as he weasels:

    Asked if he planned to apologize, Steele said: “I wasn’t trying to offend anybody. So, yeah, if he’s offended, I’d say: Look, I’m not in the business of hurting people’s feelings here. … My job is to try to bring us all together.”

    Steele apologizes to Rush

    Holy galloping apology inflation, Danman!

  20. Carin says:

    Hey, Happy, Meijer is having a sale this week. 6 boxes of Ho-Hos for only 5 bucks. Or, maybe it’s 5 boxes for 6 bucks? I can’t be expected to remember.

    They don’t have Meijer’s out there in Cal-i-forn-i-a, do they? Shame.

  21. Joe says:

    Outlaw? No, dumbass is the correct term. Blegging fights with Limbaugh does not help the Republicans, RNC or conservatism. Come on Michael, get smarter than that.

  22. Mr. Pink says:

    I always put my Ho-Ho’s in the freeze for like an hour or two. That makes them very tasty.

  23. router says:

    is muslim socialist an infidel to the umma

  24. Carin says:

    Huh. I don’t buy Ho-ho, ’cause then I might eat them.

  25. Carin says:

    I’m thinking Muslim socialist is assclown or something.

  26. router says:

    didn’t don imus have trouble with ho-hos

  27. Carin says:

    Fuck David Frum in the ass:

    On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims. This president invokes the language of “responsibility,” and in his own life seems to epitomize that ideal: He is physically honed and disciplined, his worst vice an occasional cigarette. He is at the same time an apparently devoted husband and father. Unsurprisingly, women voters trust and admire him.

    And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as “losers.” With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence – exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we’re cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush’s every rancorous word – we’ll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time.

  28. Spies, Brigands, and Pirates says:

    I’m thinking that muslim socialist got ‘hammered on his first post, Carin.

  29. Joe says:

    Jesus David, Rush is not the problem here. Michael Steele created this media storm by being hamfisted. Steele should have treated Rush just like Howard Dean treated Kos. Well, not the part about Howard Dean coming over without notice in the middle of the night and blowing Kos whenever he demanded, but the rest of it. How hard is that to figure out.

  30. router says:

    no thanks carin i’ll put frumpy over there with kathleen in the dunce corner

  31. router says:

    oh and chrissy buckley can schlepp over there too

  32. Carin says:

    What would have been so hard about Steele explaining that Rush isn’t talking to dumb fucking idiots, who knew what he meant. How but Steele saying … “I dunno, why don’t you ask Rush?”

    Between his participation at the Black state of the union and this … honestly. We’re fucked.

    One beer and I turn into potty mouth. Ya’ll will just have to deal.

  33. Carin says:

    Well, I didn’t mean you personally router. I was thinking perhaps thorazine would be interested. Or, Mr. Assclown. I mean, what did that name mean anyway?

  34. ccoffer says:

    How much does David Frum weigh? He looks sort of self indulgent. Nothing at all like the elegant Brakabama. What a piece of shit.

  35. Carin says:

    No, Frum looks a bit saggy and pasty.

  36. router says:

    michael steele should be given a wedgie

  37. Carin says:

    Bernie Goldberg on Bill O’Riley hit it. Conservatives have no use for most elected Republicans …

  38. router says:

    Let’s see if you can guess what else I’m thinking.

    you want to kill jews and cut infidels heads off

  39. Carin says:

    Let’s see if you can guess what else I’m thinking.

    Humn … I guessing that you’re hoping mommy doesn’t realize you’re still on the computer, ’cause you haven’t done your homework yet.

  40. Carin says:

    How long till happyfeet gets home? sigh.

    If there’s nothing to do here, I’ll have to go peek in Pablo’s window.

  41. Carin says:

    Oh, I’m touched. Muslim socialist went to my blog.

    [I suppose that means I’m gonna have to disinfect ….]

  42. Carin says:

    But, you know what I don’t have to pretend? I don’t have to pretend that Bush kept us safe from a second terrorist attack.

    And, I don’t have to pretend that Bush got us into this financial mess all by himself.

  43. Carin says:

    When will Happy get home? sigh. Back to Pablo’s window I go.

  44. guinsocialistsnoPen says:

    I’m working it into my name.

  45. ccoffer says:

    Is there a “State of the Mulatto Union” for Obama to attend? Steele is growing tiresome quick. I’m not a party activist, but it is apparent that tokenism is the only thing that put him where he is right now. The asshat Ascending Colon Powell springs to mind.

  46. N. O'Brain says:

    “Let’s see if you can guess what else I’m thinking.”

    “Do want fries with that?”

  47. Hey, MS, are you sure you’re not a fascist? Perhaps you should want to change your name to “Islamo Fascist.”

  48. My husband is killing Nazi Zombies right now instead of letting me watch 24. Perhaps tonight is the night Garafalagoglfaloa gets killed by Jack.

  49. router says:

    24-afro fascists

  50. Barbula says:

    Holy shit! The thought of being in the same political party as Frum or Dreher
    makes my skin crawl.

  51. router says:

    kathleen parker the modo of the uber stupid

  52. happyfeet says:

    Hi Carin! I had to go to Ralph’s cause they still have Lean Pockets on sale for .99 and I still had room in my freezer but it takes awhile cause I have to take them out of the boxes. They didn’t have anymore gum though what I wanted to get … you know those little round kind what have 60 pieces that you set on your desk or in your car or whatever. I’m going through a lot of gum cause I’m quitting smoking so I don’t get stuck paying for little Timmy’s new kidney. Also, Asian peanuts.

    Who’s been giving David Frum attention? That’s seems unwise.

  53. happyfeet says:

    oh. *That* seems unwise. I was trying to eat Asian peanuts and type.

  54. router says:

    hey muslim go find a tree and you’ll find a jew

  55. happyfeet says:

    But no for real. This Steele jackass needs to resign. I’m not having it. You tell him to resign his stupid ass or I shan’t have nice things to say about him and his little coterie of drawing room nancy boys. Tenacious is what I will be.

  56. router says:

    why do muslims want to rule the world? you did a fine job in arabia

  57. router says:

    actually islam is stupider than atheism

  58. happyfeet says:

    I mean, I was a good little soldier for that bloated eggplant looking geezer what the Rs nominated just cause Baracky was a more worser dipshit that hates hates hates my little country and my freedoms. But I’m done being a good little soldier. I’m going to be quite the bad little soldier if I don’t start getting my way. I’ll throw a fit. I will. This isn’t like when you show up late to pick me up for the movies and then are all hey we don’t have time to get popcorn. Well, kind of it’s like that but this would be more protracted.

  59. router says:

    islam a fraud like baracky

  60. router says:

    We miss T. E. Lawrence.

    another jizz slirping anglo of the socialist type

  61. router says:

    why does a “prophet” fuck a 6 year old?

  62. router says:

    oh good the afros are going to cut up the presidents daughter probably muslims

  63. happyfeet says:

    Baracky’s daddy was a muslim what abandoned his son what he didn’t love and then drank himself to death on the dark continent.

  64. router says:

    the proper punishment is for muslims to listen to hitchens non stop on religion

  65. pdbuttons says:

    guess what i’m thinking now/ is that the mother of all trick questions

  66. N. O'Brain says:

    “Sure, but until then, keep working “socialist” into every other sentence and keep pretending the last eight years never happened.”

    Why would I deny the last eight years? I’m proud of the way the President ran the War on Terror. Killed lots ‘n lots of muslim terrorists.

    No attacks on America.

    What’s not to be proud of?

  67. ccoffer says:

    CPAC looks like Nazi Germany? What sort of asshole lets that stand? Does the “State of Black America” look like a fucking Tarzan Movie? Should I use that line for effect the next time the subject arises?

    I can see that going over really well. “Gee, the NBA playoffs didn’t look very diverse. Shit, it looked like something from fucking National Geographic or something. Hardly diverse at all…. know what I mean, Bob Costas?”

  68. Matt says:

    *Why would I deny the last eight years? *

    I won’t either- the President was good on terror, the republican congress spent like liberals and were voted out of office. That’s how the democratic process works. THe majority is responsible for their time in office. Plenty of people on this site criticized the spending by repubs and the failure of the bush adminstration to veto alot of it. Also, if you’ll remember correctly, some of that wasteful spending was in attempts to reach across the aisle (which we should stop doing) to fund social programs the dems wanted and repubs compromised on.

    So if you want an admission that 6 years of a Bush/Repub Congress resulted in quite a bit of wasteful spending, ok, I’ll give you that. However, when liberals say “wasteful spending” what they mean is “spending on Iraq” and I refuse to call THAT wasteful spending, especially given the WIN we’re experiencing in Iraq.

    On the other side, the party with the majority in congress and the president in the White House OWNS the current situation- blaming it on the past admin is not an option- part of Obama’s hope and change is about- well hope and change. Plus, you didn’t hear republicans whining about how Clinton’s pathetic fight against terror brought us to the point where we were incredibly vulnerable to attack (and please, dispute me, then go google Jamie Fucking Gorelick).

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