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Language dos and don’ts

Gibbs: I’m not really an intentionalist, but I do play one on TV:

Gotta love the wink wink nod nod here. It’s as if Gibbs is saying of the naked emperor, “no, those weren’t his balls brushing over the cold cut platter at the buffet table” — and a hundred reporters, having watched those emperor balls scrape the pile of shaved turkey, not only pretend to agree, but they then rush off to make a emperor balls-flavored turkey sandwich just to show that they’re in on the lie.

Up is down. Black is white. Stiller is Meara…

(h/t sdferr)

49 Replies to “Language dos and don’ts”

  1. Molon Labe says:

    embedded video broke. link?

  2. alppuccino says:

    I like the laughter. And I like the fact that Gibbs was not amused by the laughter. Tough job to have the Prez field puff-balls the night before and then you’re stuck with cleaning up Joe Biden’s puke the next day. Gibbs does such a crappy job at it too. I bet Gibbs just can’t wait to get home to a nice hot bath and a good book.

    Book. Good one.

  3. SBP says:

    So: Ron Ziegler or Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf?

  4. geoffb says:

    Joe speaks “Biden”. A little known offshoot of English. Gibbs was just doing his Babelfish impersonation. All were amused. All were sated. The tergiversation (h/t Jeffersonian) went mostly unnoticed or at least unremarked.

  5. SBP says:

    This one was pretty good, but my favorite one so far is when he was asked a question about the Manhattan airplane fiasco last week and responded “You’ll have to ask the White House about that.”

    What a moronic little turd he is.

  6. Tman says:

    Would someone please tell me that this is all a dream and that when I wake up it’s October 08 and the Thompson/Sanford ticket is destroying the Clinton/Obama team?

    Please?

  7. N. O'Brain says:

    “I am a moron and, yes, I play one on TV.”

  8. SarahW says:

    Gibbs is not respected. This is what I gather.

  9. dicentra says:

    Cliff Clavin is Sam Malone
    Urkel is Samuel Jackson
    Han shot second

  10. Rob Crawford says:

    Boy, we really dodged a bullet by not putting Palin in the VP office, didn’t we?

  11. Sdferr says:

    SarahW, I think that it is the American people who are not respected when officials of their government will speak to them in this way.

  12. SarahW says:

    12. Yes, disgracefully so, Sdferr.

    Gibbs is not thought well of, though. Maybe up there with Baghdad Bob.

  13. happyfeet says:

    Gibbs always makes me think of him but to be honest I limit my Gibbs exposure cause it’s disturbing how he lies and even when he tells the truth he’s entirely too comfortable saying Dumb Things.

  14. SarahW says:

    11. I remember people telling me how much more “statesmanlike” Biden was. It was funny then.

  15. router says:

    In this NPR interview, Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, gives her perspective (and her boss’s) on the auto industry (HT: TJ Goss). In the second quote from her, I have tried to reproduce the sounds she makes in trying to avoid telling a ridiculous lie. She tells it anyway. From the 3:35 mark of the interview:
    Jackson: The President has said—and I couldn’t agree more—that what this country needs is one single national road map that tells auto makers who are trying to become solvent again, what kind of car it is they need to be designing and building for the American people.

    NPR reporter (interrupting): Is that the role of the government. though? I mean that doesn’t sound like free enterprise.

    Jackson: Well, ih it , it is free enterprise in a way. Umm uhh you know, first and foremost the free enterprise system has us where we are right this second (laughs) and so some would argue that the government already has a much larger role than we might have when Henry Ford rolled the first cars off the assembly line.

    ?

  16. SBP says:

    When even NPR is calling you a dirty socialist, you might want to ease up a bit, Lisa.

  17. geoffb says:

    Biden brought gravitas to the administration is what I remember being told. The “vomit comet” is used to bring the same amount of weight for seconds that Joe has full time.

  18. Jeffersonian says:

    Vice President Denathor Biden: “Abandon your posts! Run!! Run for your lives!!!”

    Spokesman Wormtongue Gibbs: “I think what the Vice President wanted to say was it would be prudent to use hand sanitizer frequently”

  19. JHoward says:

    Spokesman Wormtongue Gibbs

    Next to which, Tony Snow seems a mile tall and a hundred years past, RIP.

  20. Carin says:

    Jake Tapper has had several exceptional moments over the last few weeks. Those employed as “journalists” should take note and see how it’s done.

  21. N. O'Brain says:

    “Spokesman Wormtongue Gibbs”

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!

  22. Carin says:

    Remember when the GAY PORN COCK OF LIES asked Bush what his most enchanted moment so far was? ‘Cause I was thinking that was an awfully gay question.

  23. Like Steve Martin said: Some people have a way with words; other people, not have way.

  24. ccoffer says:

    Brakabama is a terrified narcissist. That is why he surrounds himself with incompetent boobs. Its also why he forced the folks at Georgetown to hide the Jesus.

    He can’t abide any competition. Its a weird dichotomy. Ego versus superego. He both loves and loathes Brakabama.

  25. Sdferr says:

    So your President calls out the torturers after all? And here we thought the CIA people were going to get a pass and only the lawyers were branded as fair game pinatas. Who knew the knives would be coming out for the lowly worker dudes?

  26. mcgruder says:

    emperor balls and turkey sandwich.
    it is the end of April but anyone else thinking they are coming up with a better descriptive analogy ought to call it a year.

  27. happyfeet says:

    Maybe thor can explain wtf lame-assed propaganda this is opposed to be what the Associated Press’s dirty socialist piece of shit Tim Paradis tosses off today.

    The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, considered the most reliable measure of the broader market, climbed 9.4 percent in April, its best performance since March 2000, the peak of the dot-com bubble. The Dow Jones industrial average shot up 7.4 percent in April, on top of a 7.7 percent gain in March.

    Dirty liar. Dirty socialist skeezey fucking liar. Check the charts I linked. That’s +5.4% for the Dow and +7.52% for the S&P. For real thor is it smart investyness to buy into a “rally” what is supported by dirty socialist Associated Press propaganda butt boys like Tim Paradis? Cause I’m thinking that’s just gay.

  28. dicentra says:

    He both loves and loathes Brakabama.

    And that is the clinical structure of Narcissistic Personality Syndrome. They’ve been taught to despise themselves so badly that they have to construct a heroic false self to even bear being conscious of their own existence.

    But they feel no pain anymore. They’re not to be pitied but avoided, isolated, and rendered harmless.

  29. Matt says:

    If i ever run into that asshole that ran that abc story, I promise I will kick his ass. Complete utter traitor. Libby goes to jail, this jerkoff will get a pulitzer.

  30. Sdferr says:

    I feel ya Matt, but your President, not so much.

  31. Jeff G. says:

    Leo Panitch is Canada research chair in comparative political economy and distinguished research professor of political science at York University in Toronto, and coeditor of the annual Socialist Register.

    And so he can blow me.

  32. Pablo says:

    I’m really beginning to like Biden. I’m also really beginning to like Gibbs. The Keystone Kabinet is shaping up pretty well too. Hilarity will ensue. Trust me on that one.

  33. router says:

    #

    Comment by mcgruder on 4/30 @ 7:50 pm #

    emperor balls and turkey sandwich.
    it is the end of April but anyone else thinking they are coming up with a better descriptive analogy ought to call it a year.

    tea bagging?

  34. Sdferr says:

    Drudge is linking NPR saying J. David Souter is stepping down end of term in June.

  35. SBP says:

    Post-Kelo, I don’t think it would much difference even if Barky replaced Souter with Leon Trotsky.

  36. blowhard says:

    Replacing Souter will be another step towards calling things what they are.

    Sdferr, good links, as always.

  37. Sdferr says:

    That’s pretty funny right there Jeff, though besides a guffaw, I won’t be holding my splitting sides seeing John McCain’s house-trained pooch is still on that committee.

  38. Pablo says:

    And how fitting that Joe Biden arranged it all by convincing Specter to switch. Thanks, Joe. I’m sure your boss will appreciate your service as he ponders who he will nominate for the Supreme Court.

    Heh. Joe is really growing on me. Souter is an asshole though.

  39. happyfeet says:

    Lindsey is an unrestrained cockwatcher is what’s interesting about Lindsey. He really knows how to size a fella up.

  40. Swen Swenson says:

    Brakabama is a terrified narcissist. That is why he surrounds himself with incompetent boobs. Its also why he forced the folks at Georgetown to hide the Jesus.

    Can’t disagree with the narcissist part, but I’ve got to suspect he surrounds himself with imcompetents because anyone with half a brain wants no part of his administration. I mean really, he’s doing the best he can. He goes looking for a VP and the best he can find is Biden? Half his cabinet are con men and tax cheats and the other half haven’t been nominated yet? It’s starting to look like no one wants Obama cooties.

  41. dave says:

    All dick all the time. It’s a wonder you get on memeorandumb.

  42. Boeing says:

    To compare Gibbs to Baghdad Bob is to insult the latter. At least Bob was funny, and told fewer lies.

  43. Silver Whistle says:

    What is it with the name dave? Do midwives look at the shriveled wee humourless bairns, the ones with that “sookin’ on a toalie” expression, and say “Dave. Yup. Name that one Dave.”?

  44. geoffb says:

    Daves, every blog has one. Dime a dozen.

  45. Squid says:

    Methinks that socialism professor prolly doesn’t want to look at the best seller lists down here in our dirty little country. His German friend might have sold a thousand copies of Marx, but that doesn’t seem to be what our own downtrodden masses are turning to.

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