Democratic strategist MaryAnn Marsh—making a return appearance on “Hannity & Colmes” this evening—was given yet another opportunity to correct her earlier statement that President Bush betrayed his country by not fighting in Vietnam.
But Marsh, in what has become standard operating procedure for blinkered Donk flacks, declined, insisting that she stands by that statement—then she tried once again to make the case that Bush betrayed his country by not fighting in Vietnam (at which point an exasperated Laura Ingraham interrupted to ask, “what about Clinton’s Vietnam service?” Ms. Marsh seemed genuinely confused by the question).
For his part, Alan Colmes muttered something about prescription drugs for the elderly, then french kissed a bust of Mario Cuomo.
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update: At least, I think it was Mario Cuomo. Does anyone know if Philip Baker Hall is a partisan Democrat…?
Ahh, in the interests of accuracy, dogs return to their poop, cats return to their vomit.
(And, if it’s still chunky enough, re-eat it).
The more I hear from these Mary Beths and Mary Anns and Kennedys and Kerrys, I just keep thinking that some God-like being is arranging a weird, drawn-out real-time version of Mystic River or something.
“Does anyone know if Philip Baker Hall is a partisan Democrat…? “
Philip Baker Hall a dormitory at Princeton, isn’t it? (rim shot)
Philip Baker Hall? Don’t you mean Michael Ian Black? Or Philip Michael Thomas? Or Ian Baker Finch? Or Rodney Allan Ripley? Or David Hyde Pierce? Or Philip Seymour Hoffman? Or David Ogden Stiers?
Michael Jabba Moore?
What the fuck does Anthony Michael Hall have to do with Mario Cuomo?
Easy there, Doug. Easy, big fella. Anthony Michael Hall interned for Cuomo in ‘99. Or was it ‘93? Okay, so I made that up, but, hey, how about that dog vomit? I mean, that’s gold, Doug, gold.
Doug – On the surface: Nothing.
But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find that AMH has everything to do with Mario Cuomo.
Behold, Steve in Houston’s unified theory of the 2004 election.
— Anthony Michael Hall plays Johnny on USA Network’s “The Dead Zone”.
— In the original movie version of TDZ, of course, Johnny was played by Christopher Walken, who found out through his ESP gift/curse that a corrupt politician was going to sleaze his way from a New England base to a job as President and then initiate a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Clearly, that wacko never voted against any weapon systems!
— That corrupt politician was played by … Martin Sheen. Sheen, of course, also played Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now, who was engaged on a secret mission on a Swift Boat to go after Colonel Kurtz who had gone crazy and bugged out to … Cambodia.
— Sheen, of course, went on to portray an idealized intellectual liberal president from … New Hampshire on the Democrat porn television show, The West Wing. His first lady has strange, big hair and is generally kind of unpleasant and tends towards making maverick public health care statements.
— (Sheen has also been one of the many outspoken celebrities who have spoken at length in the media about their freedom of speech being ripped from their figurative wombs.)
OK, hang on, it’s really coming to a head now.
— John Kerry has boasted, of course, that he was born in the west wing of a hospital in Colorado (Jeff can confirm)
— Colonel Kurtz was played by Marlon Brando. Kerry has boasted that he received advice on dealing with the Contras from Brando. Brando also was crazy.
— And finally, John Kerry – much like Mario Cuomo—is a Democrat.
Voila.
Now, you may say I’m crazy. You may even say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. Read the above over and over again and it will start to make sense.
Trust me.
SiH,
You’re one crazy bastard, all right. Crazy enough to blow my mind. My world has come crashing down all around me. Who will be there to help me pick up the pieces? Who??
Oh.
Silly me. I get it now.
SiH, as a Mary Pat, I renounce all those Mary Anns and Mary Beths. Dangit, couldn’t the Irish Catholics branched out a =little= more—or at least stuck to Mary Pat, which has both the Catholic (Mary) and the Irish (Pat) explicit.
Further – MaryAnn Marsh questioned whether Bush served *at all* in the National Guard.
Her quote went ‘Bush’s Natinal Guard Service … his supposed National Guard Service’
gawdalmighty.
“Sure, we’re too old to change the world. What about that kid, sitting down, opening a book right now in a branch of the local library and finding pictures of pee-pees and wee-wees in The Cat in the Hat and The Five Chinese Brothers. Doesn’t he deserve better?”