MSNBC’s “line up” includes empty-headed boobie Lawrence O’Donnell appearing as a “political analyst”. Yesterday, on Hugh Hewitt’s show, O’Donnell demonstrated his intelligence chops in several amazing ways. Skip to 12:07 to start where Hewitt challenges O’Donnell’s claim that the United States has historically prosecuted waterboarding and O’Donnell can’t cite a single case. The kicker comes at the end of this exchange when Hewitt decides to vet O’Donnell on his research. At 22:44
H: Did you read the Nuclear Jihadist by Douglas Franz and Catherine Collins?O’D: No, no.
H: Uh, he’s John Kerry’s senior investigator on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Sound pretty reputible to you?
O’D: Keep goin’
H: The AQ Khan network is gone.
O’D: I know! I know and that’s a great thing but let’s just get a couple of things straight. Nothing about Al Qaeda, nothing about the AQ Khan network, nothing … The guy [Cheney] wants you to rate his job starting on September 12 [2001]. Do you want to start rating the Obama presidency on September 12, 2009?
H: Larry, that’s a specious argument, but I want to get one more piece of data out there. Have you read The Looming Tower yet?
O’D: No.
H: What was the last book you’ve read about terrorism?
O’D: The last bo…? I don’t think I’ve read a book about terrorism.
H: Ever??!!??
O’D: Um, no.
H: About Al Qaeda??
O’D: No.
H: About… how about the mullahs in Iran?
O’D: No.
H:
H: I .. I’m just stunned.
O’D: Well, I’ll tell you I’ve read Bob Woodward’s books about the accounts inside the Bush Administration about what they were doing from the day they got sworn in, ok?
H: You haven’t read a book about terrorism?
O’D: There is no, there is absolutely no evidence, and I defy you …
H: Larry! You’ve never read a book on terrorism?
O’D: Point to me, point to me a citation of one memo or one meeting that Dick Cheney …
H: I think I need to go lie down. I .. I really do. Do you think you are a well-informed MSNBC, by MSNBC standards, do you think you’re above the grade of people on that network?
O’D: That’s a trick question, Hugh.
Amazing.
Comment by Asymmetric Polyhedron (formerly mojo) on 5/28 @ 8:29 am #
What, you mean the bare non-sequitor “DICK CHENEY!” doesn’t work anymore?
Comment by SarahW on 5/28 @ 8:30 am #
Oh my.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/28 @ 8:30 am #
I never read a book on terrorism either. I’m hoping to pick up an advance copy of the Hunger Games sequel this summer… I can’t remember the title. There might could be terrorisms in that cause of there’s an opppressive dirty socialist government in it what needs its ass kicked.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 8:30 am #
But he read Boob Woodward’s book! Everyone knows Boob Woodward is always correct in every detail of everything he writes, and that everything you need to know is in his books!
Comment by BuddyPC on 5/28 @ 8:33 am #
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Would be my reaction if this shit wasn’t so frickin’ serious.
Today’s pick for your netflix queues: The Life And Death of Colonel Blimp.
Money scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScR_-vqaC8
Comment by Jim Ryan on 5/28 @ 8:33 am #
American political life has become a tale told by an idiot.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 8:36 am #
Why does anyone pay any attention to O’Donnell? Look at his wikipedia entry — where’s the background that says “this is someone deserving my attention”?
We’re headed for tyranny because we’ve let worthless pieces of shit like O’Donnell become the people we treat as experts. I’m beginning to think we deserve it.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 8:36 am #
To the people that think Larry O’Donnell is a good and valued JournoList, they will likely see this as Larry getting the better of Hugh.
Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 8:40 am #
The man married Kathryn Harrold.
Does he care about anything else?
Comment by Bob Reed on 5/28 @ 8:42 am #
Larry’s not too good with facts…
Propaganda though, well that’s a different matter altogether…
But, I mean, that’s not why MSNBC uses him, right..?
He has great insight…You know, based on all of those tripe filled scripts he co-wrote for “The West Wing”…
MSNBC don’t need no stinkin’ facts!
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 8:43 am #
Good Allah. Not that lying Moby poon again today. The inanity, it just oooooozes from that one.
Comment by geoffb on 5/28 @ 8:46 am #
Look, this is easy. Democrats just know things. They do. It has some connection to ivy, possibly the poison type.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/28 @ 8:55 am #
Exactly. I think Hewitt and Darleen are both suffering from unjustifiably elevated expectations.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 9:00 am #
Except, Slart, that O’Donnell has been elevated to a position that implies he has something to contribute by a news organization. Hewitt and Darleen are right to expect more; it’s not their failure that he’s a light-weight, mouth-breathing, partisan nut-sucking, lying, unbalanced piece of shit.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/28 @ 9:02 am #
Speaking of stoooopid, how’s this:
Charles from LGF today:
“To me, the issue is very simple — almost blindingly simple, in fact: openly wishing for political opponents to “FAIL!†is horrendously bad politics.”
Did someone inject Novocaine into his cerebral cortex or something?
Link via Ace.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/28 @ 9:05 am #
Something to contribute in what area? Nuclear physics? Middle East politics? The environment? Or, maybe, domestic politics?
Comment by mcgruder on 5/28 @ 9:09 am #
those two books were brilliant, absolutely top notch.
it seems there is a devil’s trade-off involved in punditry, especially on the left. you trade seriousness and credibility when you admit, or demonstrate, your cluelessness. on the other hand, youre always working, there’s always a 12-week gig on some network as a pundit, a book every three years and the warm bask of the admiration of people who dont care that you are wrong.
many people have had to do worse to put food on the table, i suppose.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/28 @ 9:16 am #
Well, here’s how I see it: if Larry O’Donnell is simply commenting on the US political scene and not terrorism or nuclear proliferation, I wouldn’t expect him to be well-read on the latter two. Knowing of Larry’s history, though, he’s made some wild accusations in yet another area in which he’s nearly devoid of knowledge.
If so, I missed it. Because I don’t think Larry has anything of value to contribute other than the entertainment value of watching some idiot blow his stack on the air.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 9:19 am #
Aw, fuck it. What’s the point?
Keep giving the Annointed the tongue baths they feel are their due.
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 9:35 am #
What a tool.
Geez, Larry, I’ll even make it easy on you. If Bernard Lewis, or Robert Spencer or even Charles Allen are simply too hard core for you then how about “The Age of Sacred Terror” written by two members of Clinton’s NSC and Robin Wright’s “Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam,” she being a relatively liberal reporter.
But, hey! Larry knows ideals and feelings and outrage. Facts, history and data are insignificant when working one’s umbrage up to a convenient partisan denunciation.
Ignorance: It’s what’s for dinner!
Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 9:40 am #
“Facts, history and data are insignificant ”
Most books on “terrorism” are just poorly sourced stories pulled out of the author’s butt, BJT.
There are better ways to learn about it.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 9:46 am #
Yea, who needs books? I learn all I need to know about terrorism from Bill Maher and Jon Stewart.
You know, our terrorists is somebody else’s freedom fighter.
Oh, I forgot to mention how invaluable information contained on bumper stickers can be.
GIVE PEAS A CHANCE.
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 9:47 am #
Because, poon, you’ve read most books on Terrorism? Even when you lie outrageously you are still a parody of yourself.
Bernard Lewis, distinguished Middle East Scholar at Princeton is no doubt one of those serial liars. Charles Allen, distinguished journalist and middle east scholar, is another. Those two guys from Clinton’s administration caught Bubba’s liar’s bug and are, thus, disqualified.
Go back to building Mile High Dirt Berms@trade; poon, and leave the discussions to serious people.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/28 @ 9:47 am #
It’s like Sgt. Schultz channeling Paul Begala.
Comment by SBP on 5/28 @ 9:47 am #
Let me guess: poon said something really stupid.
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 9:47 am #
VISUALIZE WHIRLED PEAS!!!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/28 @ 9:49 am #
“#Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 9:40 am #
“Facts, history and data are insignificant â€
Most books on “terrorism†are just poorly sourced stories pulled out of the author’s butt, BJT.
There are better ways to learn about it.”
And I’m sure you have the academic credentials to write that book.
Right?
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 9:49 am #
CRAP!
“Mile High Dirt Berm™”
The HTML was angry that day, my friends!!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/28 @ 9:51 am #
“Do you think sheep know when you’re pulling the wool over their eyes?â€
“Obviously the only rational solution to your problem is suicide.â€
“All extremists should be taken out and shot.â€
“100,000 lemmings can’t be wrong.â€
“Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep”
“I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather…. …Not screaming
and yelling like the passengers in his car….”
“The gene pool could use a little chlorine.”
“Happiness is a belt-fed weapon”
“I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.”
“Your kid may be an honor student but you’re still an IDIOT!”
“It’s as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you.”
“When you do a good deed, get a receipt, in case heaven is like the IRS.”
“Smile, it’s the second best thing you can do with your lips.”
“Friends don’t let Friends drive Naked.”
“Wink, I’ll do the rest!”
“I took an IQ test and the results were negative.”
“Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?”
“If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?”
“Time is the best teacher; Unfortunately it kills all its students!”
“It’s lonely at the top, but you eat better.”
“Reality? That’s where the pizza delivery guy comes from!”
“Forget about World Peace…..Visualize Using Your Turn Signal !”
“Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.”
“Give me ambiguity or give me something else.”
“We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.”
“Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.”
“He who laughs last thinks slowest.”
“Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.”
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 9:53 am #
So much wisdom right there O’Brain. That’s why I gave up book learning long ago.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 9:54 am #
Most books on “terrorism†are just poorly sourced stories pulled out of the author’s butt, BJT.
There are better ways to learn about it.
You are sooooo right, poon. Why don’t you go volunteer to be a cultural liaison for one of the splodeydope groups, or see if they need any practice dummies for their rusty scimtars.
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 9:55 am #
P O O N
Positively
Our
Oddball
Nabob
Comment by Kevin B on 5/28 @ 9:56 am #
I think you’re all being unfair to O’Donnell. After all, he’s an important man on television . When’s he going to get time to read a book? Between Hairdressing and Makeup?
You have to give him props for having read Woodward’s book. Well a review of it actually. Well his hairdresser talked about a review she’d read of it. In the Times . The Hairdressing Times . It was quite scathing about Cheney’s hair.
But the point is he’s a busy man. An important busy man. On television.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/28 @ 9:57 am #
There are better ways to learn about it.
Like listening to Larry O!, who doesn’t even bother to write down what he yanks from his ass.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 9:57 am #
Most comments by poon/meya/Sammy are just poorly sourced stories pulled out of the author’s ass.
There, now it makes more sense.
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 9:58 am #
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/28 @ 9:47 am #
It’s like Sgt. Schultz channeling Paul Begala.
You will be sending me $49.95 for the keyboard now covered in spewed green tea, won’t you?
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:15 am #
Why not just go diet raspberry green tea and be a total poofter, BJ?
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/28 @ 10:17 am #
tired of being the only one, white chocolate mocha man?
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:20 am #
Damn you, Maggie!
Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 10:21 am #
Because books are readily available to the masses, the masses try to make book reading important.
It’s human nature.
The fact that an elite like Lawrence O’Donnell can just chat with terrorism experts to get a stellar education on the topic must be dismissed at all costs.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 10:22 am #
Ba haa haa haa … honestly, Poon, keep it up. You’re a laugh riot.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:23 am #
an elite like Lawrence O’Donnell ? You. Have. Got. To. Be. Fucking. Kidding. Me.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:26 am #
permanently
obtuse
objectively
nonsensical
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/28 @ 10:27 am #
too bad he didn’t think to mention that. “No, I haven’t read them, but I talk to so and so all the time”
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 10:30 am #
You know, I tried that “don’t read the book” theory in college. I didn’t need to read about – ’cause I was living the real thing. What book offered the themes I could find in real life?
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:32 am #
The sad thing, maggie, is that he prolly does talk to several “experts”. His talking to them imparts no working knowledge of the subject, as he routinely demonstrates. Plus, as MSNBC has shown us, “experts” are only people that agree with them, but have a resume. There are commenters here that have forgotten more about the topic, today, than Larry has ever known.
Comment by geoffb on 5/28 @ 10:32 am #
It’s all Gutenberg’s fault. Things just haven’t been the same since those peons got that there book learnin’.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:33 am #
Carin – Quit talking about the Bible like that … ;-)
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:36 am #
In no way am I agreeing with Poon, but reading a book is often a poor indicator of whether or not someone is intelligent. Just look at all of the times that MadCow and Olberfuckface claim to have read a book. Reading the idiocy that populates their world definitely does not make one any brighter, and as been demonstrated anecdotally, reduces IQ.
Comment by Pablo on 5/28 @ 10:37 am #
Why, just yesterday, I was talking to Larry Johnson…
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Comment by Pablo on 5/28 @ 10:38 am #
…when really all they did was chew on the cover.
Comment by SBP on 5/28 @ 10:38 am #
#45: Carin, I think that only works if you’re a “wise Latina woman”.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 10:39 am #
Slightly OT, but last week I was talking to a mom at a soccer practice and she told me she read “romance novels.” I was able to keep that crushed look from my face, and offered (because we had been talking about Jane Austen originally) that Emma and Pride and Prejudice are two of the most romantic books EVA. She said that those books were “too hard” for her.
Sigh sigh SIGH. Why bother even reading?
Comment by SBP on 5/28 @ 10:40 am #
but reading a book is often a poor indicator of whether or not someone is intelligent.
Sure enough, scholarship and intelligence aren’t the same thing.
However, intuition is generally a poor substitute for study when it comes to making important economic decisions.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:40 am #
When she assumes that she is a wise Latina woman, isn’t the whole proposition fatally flawed given her demonstrated lack of wisdom?
Comment by Additional Blond Agent on 5/28 @ 10:41 am #
A couple more for O’Brain’s list from back in the BBS days:
I walk on water but I stagger on alcohol
I remember when Saturns were rockets, not cars
24 empty missile tubes, 24 mushroom clouds, it’s Miller Time…
I’m easily bored, heavily armed and off my medication
From one penis-wielding oppressor to another…
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 10:41 am #
In no way am I agreeing with Poon, but reading a book is often a poor indicator of whether or not someone is intelligent
But, NEVER reading a book … and I think you want to stay as far away from this statement as you possibly can:
Because books are readily available to the masses, the masses try to make book reading important.
Hee hee hee …
Comment by SBP on 5/28 @ 10:41 am #
Also the fact that she apparently doesn’t know that “Latina woman” is redundant.
Comment by sdferr on 5/28 @ 10:43 am #
ding ding ding, finger on nose, JD.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:43 am #
SBP – I am not at all disagreeing with you. I was just trying to point out the “garbage in garbage out” idea. You could read every book written by and about Clinton, Gore, Kennedy, and Baracky from now until eternity, and still be dummerer than a sack of poons.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 10:43 am #
Honestly, I’d prefer
“Because college is readily available to the masses, the masses try to make college education important.”
I would say that college attendance is a poorer predictor of intelligence than one’s book reading habits.
Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 10:45 am #
Carin,
Your taste in music and books plus your bloggie skillz must make you feel like the hippest 50 year old mom in your neighborhood!
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:46 am #
I tend to keep my fingers away from my nose, sdferr ;-)
Carin – Again, in no way was I agreeing with that ignorant lying mendoucheous twat, poon.
It is ironic how things available to the masses (books) are to be dismissed, but those same masses are used as evidence of Teh One’s greatness in the polls. Intellectual consistency … something about hobgoblins …
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:47 am #
poon is a pussy. galore.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 10:51 am #
permanently obtuse objectively neurotic is also a bigoted sexist misogynist.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 10:52 am #
John Banner (who played Schultz) was a million times the man of any of the modern Democrats.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 10:53 am #
And we’re supposed to be the party of the anti-intellectuals.
Comment by TheGeezer on 5/28 @ 10:55 am #
The beauty of all this ignorant pride is that reality is creeping up on us. When the first nuke explosion goes off in, well, say San Francisco, all will change again for a few years until we get down to its REAL cause…
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 10:56 am #
No such luck. It’ll be someplace important.
Comment by Ric Locke on 5/28 @ 10:57 am #
O’Brain, Additonal Blonde — One to add, from Terry Pratchett’s Making Money:
You get the best view from the point of no return.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 11:01 am #
our taste in music and books plus your bloggie skillz must make you feel like the hippest 50 year old mom in your neighborhood!
Oh, that hurtz, poon. I so want your validation.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 11:02 am #
Poon’s showing his ass, cause I don’t think I’ve revealed my music taste to this incarnation.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 11:04 am #
Have we figured out who it is?
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 11:05 am #
It is prolly Bob, or OceanCat. Lord, they are twats.
Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 11:05 am #
Comment by Carin on 5/27 @ 6:25 pm #
System of a Down is GREAT workout music. I just don’t get deep into the lyrics.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 11:06 am #
I still think you’re someone else, poon.
Comment by Carin on 5/28 @ 11:07 am #
They’re … disappointing. Yes.
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 11:10 am #
I still think you’re a pussy, poon.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/28 @ 11:15 am #
I still don’t get why you’re paying attention to the idiot. Ignore it; ban it; just fucking don’t feed it the attention it craves.
Comment by lee on 5/28 @ 11:50 am #
Rob, it’s comedy gold. If you don’t encourage it, how can you get great lines like “the masses try to make book reading important.”?
Admittedly it is a little like tripping a retarded kid…OK exactly like that, but still, funny shit!
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 11:52 am #
lee – Consider yourself denounced. But not condemned, since Teh One makes fun of Special Olympians.
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[...] Darleen over at Protein Wisdom, an astonishing exchange between Hugh Hewitt and MSNBC Commentator/Los Angeles writer Lawrence [...]
Comment by lee on 5/28 @ 12:00 pm #
I saw a fat woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said
‘Thyroid problem?’
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I
realized that The Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked
him to forgive me.
I’ve often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go
swimming.
went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I
ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names.
But one day I turned to my bullies and said ‘Sticks and stones may break
my bones but names will never hurt me’, and it worked! From there on it
was sticks and stones all the way.
My Dad used to say ‘always fight fire with fire’, which is probably
why he got thrown out of the fire brigade.
Sex is like playing bridge: If you don’t have a good partner, you
better have a good hand.
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbor
said ‘Are you going to help?’ I said ‘No, six should be enough.’
If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of
meat?
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and
give the wrong answers.
You know that look women get when they want sex? No, me neither.
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from
things they don’t understand, such as working for a living.
I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think
I’ve forgotten this before.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it
in a fruit salad.
Comment by Joe on 5/28 @ 12:20 pm #
The Looming Tower should be required reading in every grade school, say around 7th or 8th grade. In history class.
Along with American Gods. That is for English/Lit.
Of course there are a few passages in there some parents might have issues with.
Comment by Eben on 5/28 @ 12:47 pm #
The Dallas Cowboys hired an expert to advise them on building a shelter for their practice field.
Too bad they didn’t know he had read nothing on the subject, but had spoken to other experts about it.
It’s the beginning’s of a new T.V. commercial: No, I’m not a doctor, but I’ve spoken to many of them.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/28 @ 12:50 pm #
no, no, it’s “but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night” L. O’D wasn’t even quick enough to come up with that.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/28 @ 1:05 pm #
“I saw a beautiful young woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said
‘They’re real.’ “
Comment by dicentra on 5/28 @ 1:07 pm #
That interview got better: Larry claimed that he had indeed found evidence that we’d prosecuted people for waterboarding.
On Wikipedia. He admitted his source, and then proceeded to tell Hugh that he’d found evidence. Hugh mocked him mercilessly for using Wikipedia.
Then during the commercial, the ever-vigilant Lileks found where in Wikipedia Larry found the evidence. Not under “waterboarding” but under “water cure,” which involves filling the subject’s belly with water to the point of nearly killing the person (which it would if you let the electrolytes dilute enough), then making the person puke it up, then repeating the process, er, ad nauseum.
What a tool.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/28 @ 1:09 pm #
“Of course I was afraid the first time I had sex. Hell, I was alone.”
-poon
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 5/28 @ 1:09 pm #
Well I’ve never read a book on terrorism either.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/28 @ 1:09 pm #
“If it weren’t for pickpockets I’d have no sex life at all.”
-poon
Comment by Joe on 5/28 @ 1:11 pm #
As an old woman told me once in a produce section of the grocery store, the only way to tell a persimmon is ripe is to feel it.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/28 @ 1:13 pm #
“I was such an ugly kid…When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.”
-poon
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 1:30 pm #
But Christopher! You have all of us! In your case, the books would be superfluous.
HOLLA!
Comment by LTC John on 5/28 @ 1:34 pm #
Christopher, then no being a terrorism expert on TV for you either…
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 5/28 @ 1:35 pm #
Mr. O’Brain: Poon’s experience in the sand box growing up was a critical foundational element in the development of the Balloon Fence Missile Shield.©
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 1:38 pm #
Balloon fences protect people from cat turds? Who knew?
Comment by Blitz on 5/28 @ 1:44 pm #
These T-shirts were tested on animals…they didn’t fit
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/28 @ 1:47 pm #
oh yes, cats are deathly afraid of balloons.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/28 @ 1:48 pm #
I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren’t included, so I had to buy them again.
Comment by kelly on 5/28 @ 1:53 pm #
Predictably
Odious
Oblivious
Nosepicker
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 5/28 @ 2:20 pm #
Christopher, then no being a terrorism expert on TV for you either…
True, I wouldn’t present myself as an expert… but I know enough about terrorism to do his job. It’s not his lack of properly reading books, its that he’s a twit who is more concerned about winning points for his team and leftist ideology than foreign policy and the truth. He could read 100 books on the topic and still be an idiot.
Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 2:47 pm #
Yeah,
But he’s still rich and he married a Hollywood actress.
And you are still you.
Try not to hate him too much.
My dog has no nose!
How does he smell?
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 5/28 @ 3:08 pm #
Steven Wright is a genius
Comment by Makewi on 5/28 @ 3:12 pm #
I don’t hate him poon. I just don’t respect his opinion, or yours. I suspect that both of you have at best a passing relationship with truth as a virtue.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 5/28 @ 3:14 pm #
Poon, your contributions to this thread, and to political understanding, and to the elevation of wit, and general human civilization are quite simply staggering. I long to discuss metaphysics with you over a bottle of pinot.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/28 @ 3:47 pm #
…and, can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Comment by Additional Blond Agent on 5/28 @ 4:26 pm #
Hey! Don’t be disrepectin’ on the Dangerfield.
Comment by McGehee on 5/28 @ 5:16 pm #
In Obamaland, newsletter subscribes to you.
Comment by poon on 5/28 @ 6:34 pm #
You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals
So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
Oops, wrong channel.
Nevermind
Comment by JD on 5/28 @ 6:45 pm #
Poon is so ugly when it was born, the nurse puked and the doctor slapped its goat/mother.
Comment by guinsPen on 5/28 @ 7:02 pm #
Opps! Wrong planet.
Comment by MNF-I REMF on 5/29 @ 12:56 am #
O’D is an idiot, as noted by many above, and this would not be affected by additions to his reading list. Even more discouraging is that Hewitt is so spotty on foreign policy (and he is – instincts are all good but he clearly does not know the subject well enough to correct anyone less buffoonish than O’D on his show).
I tried reading the Franz book but stopped after getting part way in when the authors just couldn’t stop barfing up brain-dead myths about proliferation and the US (none of them really material to the story, which is supposed to be about AQK). Much of it the sort of stupefyingly dumb b.s. that informs your typical WaPo article or Opinion section piece – and in this case much of it apparently spoon-fed to the authors by that weird proliferation guy/Glenn staffer over at Govt. Affairs Committee who was always the figure behind stupid (and failed) Dem amendments to DOD authorization bills back in the 80s.
I admit my tolerance for conventional-wisdom idiocy and slander and mythology has declined to Zero of late – but I just couldn’t force myself to pick my away around the crap in that book to find out what I bought it for. The nonsense also greatly undermined the general credibility of the thing. That Franz is an investigator for Jawwwwhn Kerry comes as no surprise. Hewitt’s unwitting self-parody in citing this as evidence he is “reputable” is just perfect.
Hewitt has a habit of having very dubious lightweights on his show, whom he someimes challenges, but not nearly enough – and without much substantive force. That Barnett guy has been on several times. If one weren’t already sickened and amazed at the vacuous nature of Beltway foreign policy punditry and much “expertise”, the fact that Barnett could get public money to advise DOD would suffice.
Hewitt’s generally OK – if you can ignore his frequent descents into brainless GOP establishment hackery – but his limp cross-examinations of some ridiculous “mainstream” foreign policy pundit/guests do nothing to combat the collapse of intelligent discussion in the public square.
Comment by donald on 5/29 @ 4:45 am #
The bar to be an elite is pretty damned low apparently. I heard that HH interview, lisetning to the whole thing in context was amazing. I also think that his wife looks a lot like the girl Phil Specter blew away. Last, for Larry to catch up quickly, a great book is Ghost Wars. Really. Because I do read everything, on every subject I can get my hands on. It just doesn’t show.
Comment by McGehee on 5/29 @ 5:24 am #
Honestly, I think at the entrance to elite HQ there’s a picture of Biden with the legend, “Your IQ must be THIS LOW to get in here.”
Comment by LTC John on 5/29 @ 6:05 am #
102 – quite so. I just wish my remark had been able to be heard in a “Soup Nazi” voice… “No TV expert for you…2 years!”
MNF-I REMF – I admit my tolerance for conventional-wisdom idiocy and slander and mythology has declined to Zero of late…” I hear you. Big time. Even if I was just some puke in MNSTC-I.
Comment by thor on 5/29 @ 6:30 am #
You’ll never be just some puke, you explosive heave.
Comment by David XXIII on 5/29 @ 10:39 am #
Basically, Hewitt is a tool. He is an unabashed GOP shill. He represents Beltway complacency at its finest. He was for the TARP bailouts and continues to stupidly defend that idiocy long after its total boneheadedness has become apparent to even the most clueless. He supported Senator Dumbass in Pennsylvania in the 2004 primaries. He supported McCain wholeheartedly after Romney pulled out. If the GOP attaches their label to it, he will suck it up. I stopped listening to him years ago because of that.
David
Comment by Rusty on 5/30 @ 6:59 am #
#115
Damn You!