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Q: What do you get when you cross a 60 Minutes reporter with a mime?

A: Steve Kroft, who somehow managed to do an entire interview with the President without speaking — or at least, without speaking about Solyndra, Congressional calls for Attorney General Holder’s impeachment, the MF Global scandal (and in particular, the role played by top Obama fundraiser Jon Corzine), or Elena Kagan’s involvement in the legislative guidance of ObamaCare before her appointment to SCOTUS.

Though in his defense, Kroft did manage to get through the entire bit of surreal, activist fluffery without once finding himself trapped in an invisible box, or slipping on an unseen banana peel.

So there’s that.

*****
update: more, from Jim Pethoukoukis

15 Replies to “Q: What do you get when you cross a 60 Minutes reporter with a mime?”

  1. sdferr says:

    “We’ve got a lot more work to do in order to get this country and the economy moving in a way that benefits everybody, as opposed to just a few.”

    So, would you start by closing down the nation’s ports? Evulse Barack Obama.

  2. JD says:

    That was a very pubic hummer.

  3. geoffb says:

    Q: Steve Kroft Huummmmmmmm? Ommmmmmmmmmmmm? Hummmmmmm!!

    A: President Obama [sound of a law lecturer pounding the table with both shoes]

  4. geoffb says:

    The hummer and the hummee.

  5. Squid says:

    JPeth’s statistics are RAAAAACIST!

  6. John Bradley says:

    “We! Will! Bury! Y—your head in my lap!” — Barack “li’l Nikita” Obama

  7. Squid says:

    Going back to the earlier thread: “People are going to say, ‘You know what? A good captain would have had us in some smooth waters and sunny skies at this point.’ And I don’t control the weather.”

    As a sailor, I can’t begin to tell you how much this analogy pisses me off. A good captain checks the effin’ weather forecast and charts a course around the worst storms. A good captain heads to a safe harbor to ride out the storm. A bad captain — one who never worked a ship but rather was handed a vessel by a well-connected family friend; one who’s been told since Day One that he’s the smartest captain in any harbor — well, he just barrels on into the worst storms, consequences be damned. He doesn’t bother to tell his passengers that rough seas are ahead; no, he insists that everything is fine. And when these passengers take him to task for stupidly endangering their lives, he belittles them for complaining about a little seasickness.

    This Captain Ohab that we have at the wheel is single-mindedly pursuing his obsession, and he doesn’t care what sacrifices the rest of us make in that pursuit. Of course the Chocolate Jesus, if he read Melville at all, read it through the prism of racial justice or something, and won’t understand his role in our current mess at all. Still insists he’s the smartest skipper in the harbor, though.

  8. sdferr says:

    Barry would be the first man puking over the side when the seas get a little bumpy. Who the fuck is he kidding?

  9. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Hey, so what if the ship founders. Just walk on water.

    Like teleprompter jesus.

  10. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Rush is playing a clip from that MSNBC morning show with the former Republican guy nobody watches.

    It seems we the American people are not worthy of our saviour, Barak Hussein Obama mmm… MMM… mmm….

  11. JHoward says:

    Last para from the Pethoukoukis piece:

    In the end, Obama overestimated the impact of his stimulus plan and underestimated the severity of the Great Recession. Indeed, his economic team was dismissive of the idea that the aftermath of the financial crisis posed any special problems for the recovery, despite much research to the contrary. This allowed Team Obama to shift gears to healthcare and financial reform and ignore key longer-run measures to boost economic growth such as pro-growth tax reform. Maybe Obama is finally realizing it now and will push such policies if he wins a second term.

    Why. Why do we insist on doing that. Maybe the Berlin Wall fell over. Maybe Chavez finally got property rights. Maybe Mike Moore will donate all he has to the poor.

    With that out of his system, maybe now Alec Baldwin will go meditate on a mountaintop. Maybe Barky will grow a sudden sense of respect for classical liberalism and now go fight the Beltway hammer and tongs.

  12. […] the courage to call Holder and Kagan out in defense of Congress’ constitutional privileges, understanding that the MSM will happily help spin the spectacle to the advantage of the Democrats and […]

  13. TaiChiWawa says:

    Q: What do you get when you cross a 60 Minutes reporter with a mime?

    A: A panta-loon?

  14. Squid says:

    If we were smart, we’d be producing Steve Kroft bobbleheads and marketing them to “news organizations” as a money-saving alternative to overpaid human interviewers.

  15. mojo says:

    Barack “Ahab” Obama: “He tasks me, and I will have him!”

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