Is it just me, or does anyone else find it difficult — after watching the video and reading Allah’s take on “The Beltway Boys’” absurd defense of Lindsay Graham and the (thankfully) dead Immigration Reform bill — not to picture Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, masked and stuffed like a couple of limp old sausages into tights and capes, zipping through the skies around Capitol Hill and unleashing their “rhetorical barbs of steel” on an unruly mob that has unfairly tried to beat back a “Brown Menace” that our heroes, from their privileged perch, recognize as good and kind and hardworking and steeped in family values?
Because I gotta tell you, that’s all I can think about right now — and it’s kinda creeping me out.
Especially because it looks a bit to me like Mort’s packing a good-sized ferret in his superhero stretch pants.
(h/t CJ Burch)
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See also, Ace, who answers Mort thus:
So, talk radio told the public about all these ‘bad parts’ of the bill. The public should have been appraised of the ‘bad parts’ by the MSM, but weren’t. So talk radio did their jobs for them. This is a problem, yes, but not with talk radio  the problem is with the MSM for failing to properly report and critique a major, transformational bill air-dropped on an unsuspecting public with only the scantest time for real debate and analysis.
To which Kondracke would likely reply, “YOUR PUNY BARBS HAVE NO EFFECT ON MY BELTWAY INSIDER ‘FIELD OF FORCE’!
“Now scurry, before I’m forced to unleash upon you a wrath of finger wagging the likes of which you will not soon forget!”
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 6/29 @ 12:37 pm #
Actually, ever since Hillary Duff took to posing in a bikini I’ve been feeling much more welcoming to our southern neighbors. In fact I need six yards of much spread and a twelve-year-old son who has disappeared into the “bermuda bathroom” only to reappear at night, dehydrated and exhausted and no use whatsoever.
So if I can get someone else to do the work for $15 and a bottle of Jergens, I’d be happy.
What’s Mort’s phone number?
Comment by John on 6/29 @ 12:37 pm #
Any ideas on how to get a combination of Dr. Pepper, saliva and mucus out of a computer keyboard?
Comment by JD on 6/29 @ 12:50 pm #
john - A lubricant of Dr. Pepper, saliva, and mucus? Does the snot and the fizz from the soda add to the enjoyment?
Those “inside the beltway” are routinely amazed at how their views do not mirror the views of those outside the beltway. Instances like this simply provide a crystal clear example of it.
Comment by Karl on 6/29 @ 12:50 pm #
Wonder Twins, or Ambiguously Gay Duo?
Comment by Karl on 6/29 @ 12:54 pm #
BTW, if LMC is going to bring Hillary Duff posing in a bikini into it, there really should be a link for those who missed it.
Comment by Tman on 6/29 @ 12:56 pm #
This post reminds me of this cartoon from Cox and Forkum.
Keyboard protection required before clicky-linky.
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000384.html
Comment by mRed on 6/29 @ 1:04 pm #
Fred and Mort have always been interesting to observe because they are the megaphone for the K Street “power brokers”. Put another way, they are puppets.
Comment by McGehee on 6/29 @ 1:27 pm #
I used to enjoy watching whatever show on Fox News that Brit Hume would host, and he’d have Kondracke on the roundtable portion of the show. Kondracke would say something central to whatever point he thought he was making, and Hume would point out that his assertion was not supported by the facts.
Kondracke always somehow managed to look like he’d just been whopped upside the head by a large piece of meat, just before going into pathetic defensive mode.
I suppose maybe that still happens. I’d like to think so.
Comment by mojo on 6/29 @ 1:28 pm #
“Yes, that’s right Fred. Soon, all humans and humanoids will be free to live wherever they want to, even Mars, and the US government will have to pay for all the transportation. Google it!”
Comment by JD on 6/29 @ 1:33 pm #
Hillary Duff - yummy. However, those pre-pubescent Disney stars tend to run into problems later on down the road. Enjoy it while you can.
Comment by gahrie on 6/29 @ 2:15 pm #
JD:
I’m hoping that I’m the one she gets into trouble with……..
Comment by OldTexasTurkey on 6/29 @ 2:27 pm #
McGehee,
Hume dropped a “whats that got to do with the discussion: bombs on Mort y’day that had him stammering like Katherine Hepbern
Comment by DaGall on 6/29 @ 2:41 pm #
Mort and Fred–The Flying Chorizo Brothers–saving “nativist” gringos, yahoos and honkies from themselves.
Comment by Pablo on 6/29 @ 2:46 pm #
Talk radio = evil. Talk TV = God’s wonderful gift to the ignorant masses. BECAUSE OF THE VIDEO!!!!
But you know, given the choice, I’d rather look at Laura Ingraham than Fred Barnes every time. I’d rather listen to her too. She’s bright and funny.
Comment by Mark on 6/29 @ 2:48 pm #
I’m glad to see it’s not just me that is weary of Fred and Mort. I still watch Hume at 6PM, but switch over to the Simpsons at 6:30 to avoid those guys.
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/29 @ 2:58 pm #
aw, but they’re so cute in that “slightly senile old man” way.
Comment by memomachine on 6/29 @ 3:10 pm #
Hmmm.
Fred Barnes = irrelevant.
Mort Kondracke = irrelevant.
Weekly Standard = irrelevant.
Wall Street Journal = irrelevant.
Comment by Karl on 6/29 @ 3:12 pm #
BTW, does this mean that Mara Liasson is Gleek?
Comment by happyfeet on 6/29 @ 3:36 pm #
Has anyone made the point yet that the backlash we have just witnessed from the right on the immigration bill exactly parallels that which would be directed at the left were they to climb down from their pro-surrender policy? Cause I’m thinking it would, based on today’s lunch with liberals. Not a word about immigration, but lots about Iraq and Bush. And these were hispanic liberals. Who understand survey methodology. Quoting the Lancet study.
Comment by McGehee on 6/29 @ 4:00 pm #
Karl, your comment has been deemed offensive by the Asian-Amelican Anti-Defamation Reague.
Comment by John on 6/29 @ 4:17 pm #
It does not seem to be lubricating my keyboard very well. I should learn to keep the keyboard at a distance when I read PW. This line;
Had me spitting all over my desk.
Comment by B Moe on 6/29 @ 4:33 pm #
Ace’s best line:
Who will speak for the people, if now the people are permitted to speak for themselves?
I fucking love that. Perfectly captures the absolute arrogance that is the Democrat Ruling Elite.
Comment by Karl on 6/29 @ 4:46 pm #
happyfeet asked:
I dunno, though one of my few predictions here was that the Dems’ popularity would plunge when they inevitably caved on the last funding bill. And it did, which makes the troll ranting in the comments to that post twice as funny now.
Comment by happyfeet on 6/29 @ 5:46 pm #
karl - your link didn’t take there…
Comment by Percy Dovetonsils on 6/29 @ 9:25 pm #
Personally, I prefer somewhat blocky-shaped, blonde Hillary Duff - the pre-cocaine-induced drastic weight loss version. The fact that she was also jailbait at this point has nothing to do with my preference, no siree Bob.
And dammit, I’ve always liked Morton Kondracke from when I watched him on the “McLaughlin Group in the late 80s-early 90s. When Eleanor Clift or Fred Barnes would say something batshit crazy, he always had the perfect genteel “WTF???” reaction. Of course, he’s also been in the Beltway far too long, and has no concept of new media and the vigor of the blogosphere.
I will brook no trashing of Jack Germond, however. He was and always will be the beloved beached whale of American dyspeptic liberalism.
(Oh, and I must apologize to the adults here on my recent bear baiting of a certain non-beloved troll about these parts. My bad, but now I know how Clarice Starling felt in “Silence of the Lambs” after Miggs splattered her with his baby batter.)
Comment by Karl on 6/29 @ 9:26 pm #
Let’s try that again.
Comment by Joseph on 6/29 @ 11:11 pm #
You want creeped out? I’ll give you creeped out. Witness: Lindsey Graham’s Kabuki Theater Hour!
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