Rumor: Beck will reveal that John Roberts was blackmailed into voting to uphold ObamaCare. Hacked emails supposedly used against Roberts.
How does the Snowden revelations square with this rumor, I ask you?
— From here, on the nutty extremist side of the winger gallery.
How the hell do you blackmail someone with a lifetime appointment?
Further, it occrs to me that even if it’s true (like, confirmed by two independent sources true), all you’ve accomplished by exposing it is to afford Obama the opportunity to appoint the Chief Justice.
Now, If Beck was going to reveal that every member of the GOP congressional leadership was compromised by blackmail, that I’d believe. It’s the only way voting themselves into pemanent minority status affirmatively makes sense.
Ernst Schreiber says June 13, 2013 at 11:49 am
It’s the only way voting themselves into pemanent minority status affirmatively makes sense.
I have another theory there. They may recognize that the party is almost done, and they are throwing in with the Democrats against whatever the new party will be. It’s a ruling class lifeboat scenario.
How does the Snowden revelations square with this rumor, I ask you?
Quite neatly, not to say perfectly. The lingering documentary traces allowing such a plot to be uncovered, for instance, bespeak a finely bumbling security state.
Or maybe it says something about why Jesus didn’t write things down?
Well, they should know, they’ve done as much to cripple it as the Democrats.
1. The harm comes to someone he cares for deeply.
2. It’s really bad and would legitimatize him more than his Obamacare vote did.
3. Impeachment is still a possibility.
Is this going to force someone’s hand? Or is Glenn just whistling Dixie. Again.
Beck hasn’t said anything specific, other than about the document as referenced above. The Roberts angle is speculation/rumor from elsewhere. Contrary to what the linked site claims, Beck doesn’t claim to have possession of this document, only that his people have seen it.
Yes.
OT: anybody here able to post comments over at PJMedia? I can’t owing to outdated software limitations. Anyways, Walter Hudson is a moron, and I’d tell him, if I could.
Listen, moron. The threat had been eliminated. He’d just been disarmed –literally!. The guy saying that Dooku was too dangerous to live was The Personification of Evil in the Star Wars Universe himself.
See, this is why you guys are losing and will always be a marginalized minority. If party affiliation were reversed in these scandals, the Dems would run with the “SCOTUS Blackmailed! ObamaCare Ruling Invalid?” narrative, even if they knew the source was loopy.
Instead, you want to take the high ground and mock Beck. That’s admirable, but while you are playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules, your political opponents are using VX Gas on your population centers.
Instead, you want to take the high ground and mock Beck.
I reserve the right to mock Beck, you, and the pantomime horse you both came dressed in.
Will to Power. Got it.
run with the “SCOTUS Blackmailed! ObamaCare Ruling Invalid?” narrative, even if they knew the source was loopy.
First, I didn’t mock Beck. Second, I specifically cited the religious ties in the foofarall.
That’s because they depend on the idiot vote, and have gone to great lengths to make it a majority.
If we were comfortable ruling a nation of idiots, we’d be Democrats.
Or Establicans.
We do a sort of all purpose mockery around here and that’s the way we like it, Fen old friend.
So you guys are in the Beavis Butthead camp? Let it all burn while you make fart jokes?
[Hi Leigh! Long time]
Burning is a good way to clear away the deadfall and promote new growth.
So, yes.
As a tactical matter, I’m giving some thought to voting straight Democrat next year. Just to make sure those bastards own the fail.
Fen,
It’s already burning. We can see the fire and we’re getting ready to make s’mores.
How far we’ve come: It wasn’t that long ago we’d have dismissed, out of hand, the suggestion that a Supreme Court Justice was blackmailed.
In the works of Billy Joel: “We Didn’t Start the Fire”.
So you guys are in the Beavis Butthead camp? Let it all burn while you make fart jokes?
Logic, much?
If Roberts WAS blackmailed into upholding Obamacare, just to spare his family life, then he is not an honorable man.
He knows what Obamacare is. He knows what a threat it is to the Republic. He knows that he’s the one man who can stop it.
Under those circumstances, you call their bluff and take the hit. I fail to see how the broken hearts of a woman and her children outweigh the welfare of the Republic and the lives of 300 million Americans and their posterity.
Same goes to anyone in the legislative branches that is being threatened: your personal life and the comfort of your loved ones (comfortable only in a lie, may I remind you), is NOT sufficient cause to permit this immigration abomination from passing.
Take the bullet; save the Republic.
the prequel protagonists spend most of their time trying to weasel out of conflict – and thus exasperate it.
Cripes.
I don’t know what’s true or isn’t anymore. I do know the whole D.C. power structure is such a corrupt incestuous mess that it doesn’t seem likely that blackmailing the Chief Justice would even be necessary. I further know that if it’s true, it’s intolerabe –armed insurrection, politicians and bureaucrats hanging from lamp posts intolerable.
Finally, I know that voting Republican for the sake of voting Republican won’t solve anything.
. . . the Beavis Butthead camp?
They’re notorious for sitting on a couch, is that right? So a lighthearted callback: Laugh about shout about when you’ve got to choose, everyway you look at it you lose.
Laugh about shout about when you’ve got to choose, everyway you look at it you lose.
Morton’s Fork is an inefficient way of feeding oneself.
“…ac, ac, ac, ac, ac, ac.”
b joel
Though it could be an efficient way of provoking the thought: neither of these, we’ll make another, thanks.
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, sdferr.
Pitiful. And diagnostic.
Talk about begging to be insulted…
I’ll let it go, though — because sometimes, lighting a match is just not a good idea.
Will on Lerner and ilk.
Obama Administration Thugs Threaten State Department Whistleblower… And Her Kids
Burning stops the smell cold.
A little Blazing Saddles for Fen.
evil woman
Pelosi: “As a Catholic” Late Term Abortions Are “Sacred Ground”
So you guys are in the Beavis Butthead camp? Let it all burn while you make fart jokes?
But what happens when your Party Leaders are like Mr. Van Drissen? If they were like Coach Buzzcut, I would at least respect them.
As a pacifist, we have a sworn duty to burn out the terrorists wherever they hide, down to the last woman and child.
As a celibate, laying more pipe than the city sewer works is a personal goal of mine.
yeesh.
Be fair, sdferr, a lot of stuff goes on in D.C. that must be investigated. This is front page of Pravda today.
I suspect Beck is going to have a proof problem here. I would not put it past Dems to blackmail Roberts…but I am pretty sure they would not do it by email.
One of the reasons you vet someone is to make sure those kinds of things don’t happen. So either he was “honeytrapped” after confirmation, or the Bush people completely blew off their due diligence.
Or whatever Beck has, it isn’t proof the Roberts was blackmailed.
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Which will come as news to no one here.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when the barista set figures out just how hard the little god-king has screwed them.
Oh hell. Maybe he’s just another one of these closeted republicans trolling the bathrooms for young interns.
These days, that practically seems to be a requirement for nomination to public office for a Republican.
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when the barista set figures out just how hard the little god-king has screwed them.
The dupes will blame the insurance companies all the more, just like the dupes blame the oil companies for gasoline price hikes. :-(
Again, I want to cry.
Christ, SBP, Congress doesn’t think it can afford Obama-care, and those bastards set their own salaries.
Have a good cry, Curmudgeon. Get it out of your system and then get even.
Crimeny. I’m listening to two lady lawyers yelling at each other on Cavuto’s show. One is insisting that Big Brother is only collecting all of this personal information for our own good. And, the terrorism! We must stop it!
I think I’ll join Curmudgeon over at the crying towel.
. . . those bastards set their own salaries.
hmmm, looks like they may have failed to figure in the bubble inflation in the D.C. environs as the dough poured in.
Who was that crying man?
The only thing I’m seeing on TheBlaze right now is a “Feel the pregnancy” belt. Is Beck going to news dumb this on Friday? Or is this another thing “I wish I could tell you about.”
I agree with Ernst, it would just allow the dems to appoint another lib Justice.
In fact, if it were true, it would make the “blackmail” effective beyond just the Roberts family. Imagine being told “do as we wish or this comes out, if you rule against us, it will ruin your family and you will be forced to resign allowing us to replace you with a radical leftist justice”.
In this scenario, even if Roberts fights back and Obama goes down, Biden would just take Obama’s place and he could make the next SCOTUS appointment. No win.
Beck isn’t going to do anything other than enjoy the taste of shoe leather.
but I am pretty sure they would not do it by email.
You’ve got it backwards: they would have seized HIS e-mails and found something.
The dupes will blame the insurance companies all the more, just like the dupes blame the oil companies for gasoline price hikes
And the banks for their student loan debt.
He who smelt it, dealt it..
No, I couldn’t think of anything more constructive to add..
eff john roberts
Rare formal review ordered for federal judge
– I had to chuckle at his drama-queen statement “we’re going to be divided as a people”. WTF, has he been living under a rock since 2001?
“Crooked judges you rent by the hour. Honest judges stay bought.”
Cold, you say?
Damn this smells like a set-up. Anyone know anything about the case at hand? Is she being totally railroaded?
Mojo is right: Roberts is so wholly bought they can make him dance on knife-blades.
althouse with reader’s recollection of the event
“Frankly, whenever I see a complaint alleging racism these days, I assume it’s a political hatchet job by political hacks.
Ralph Nader: ‘Has There Been a Bigger Con Man in the White House Than Barack Obama?’
dicentra, from looking at althouse, yes, this is a setup designed to destroy the reputation of a very serious and formidable judge.
Roberts, by allowing this to go forward, has ensured this woman will never advance beyond her current station.
“A Tale of Sound & Fury (But No Transcript): In Defense of Judge Edith Jones.”
Was whatever she said ‘racist’? READER POLL!
Suspension over gun-shaped toaster pastry is now permanent mark on kid’s record
it seems the system is consuming individuals
Well her words were just so horrible, whereas [in]actions are perfectly fine.
the female judge didn’t seem to care
Di, taking a bullet for the republic is fine in theory, but John Roberts is not a super-human; he puts on his robe one leg at a time ( though perhaps it was panties; I digress).
I can certainly imagine circumstances where I would be forced to do something very dishonorable to protect my loved ones. But I hope I’d be well-paid.
The sudden about-face was not him waking up in the middle of the night and saying, “Say, I’ve completely thought this out wrong, even though I’ve already written the opinion the other way.”
That’s the problem, it’s not the dems threatening him, it’s the ruling elite permanent political class that has unbelievable power over the individual. It ain’t gonna fix itself, either.
Is Colorado state senator Angela Giron resorting to PAYING to have anti-recall supporters?
Suspension over gun-shaped toaster pastry is now permanent mark on kid’s record
A mark of honor, yo. Hope it looks as cool as the scar from a tiger bite.
Di, taking a bullet for the republic is fine in theory, but John Roberts is not a super-human; he puts on his robe one leg at a time.
It doesn’t take super-human powers to value the freedom of your fellow citizens over your reputation. How many soldiers have taken a literal bullet for the Republic, or worse, lived with severe wounds, missing limbs, brain damage, and the like.
For the Republic. And none of them were in a lynch-pin position like Roberts was.
He’s cowardly and venal.
::spit::
The only claim Beck has made is that someone has a bombshell that they’re considering dropping. But Beck could wind up feeling just as stupid as Sarah Palin did when she said she could see Russia from her house.
I have absolutely no idea what’s going on here.
“But Beck could wind up feeling just as stupid as Sarah Palin did when she said she could see Russia from her house.”
She never said that. Never.
Beck — in a video crafted by some questionable entity — says he has a big (the biggest!) story and the related link is pure conjecture from a person with terrible web design skills.
That’s what Pablo is saying, SBP.
“Damn this smells like a set-up. Anyone know anything about the case at hand?”
I saw the discussion at Althouse the other day.
As others noted on that thread, political types who make speeches nowadays without arranging for their own recording are naive.
“That’s what Pablo is saying, SBP.”
Okay. Slow on the uptake today, I guess.
welcome to baracky’s “shock and awe™”
I’ll admit that I don’t listen to enough Beck to know if he’s been hinting that this is what he thinks he has or not. So, maybe so but maybe not. The clip provided by rightwingwatch.org doesn’t include any such snippet though.
The source for the BirtherReport is Before It’s News and they have nothing as well.
Think about the claim from Before It’s News. They don’t just have an anonymous source for the story itself, they have an anonymous source about Beck’s story from a currently anonymous source.
So, that’s about 5 or 6 people in Beck’s organization probably who’d know such a thing and one of that small number decided to leak it to… Before It’s News.
The word for this is horseshit. Bullshit also works.
I was going to say batshit, but to each their own.
“I’ll admit that I don’t listen to enough Beck to know if he’s been hinting that this is what he thinks he has or not.”
the beckster hinted today he had a whistle blower that implicated both parties in sumthing. john roberts was never mentioned. john “bush did it” roberts sux on so many levels i laugh at the bs. hello edith johns johnny
almost seems like the rethuglican ruining class has nsa problems?
jones
I’d need some bit of proof before I said that, nr. I wouldn’t cross out the misuse of confidential information (from the very beginning: Jack Ryan, 2004) but I don’t actually need it to explain the ruling class acting like the ruling class.
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I also remember ol’ Joe the Plumber. Confront Obama and suddenly your records are released.
That’s about where I’m at now with the NSA. I can easily imagine them doing good in a country that can be trusted to not elect people like Obama.
The well has been poisoned. This is why we can’t have nice things. A man’s word is his bond.
All those cliches. They’ve always been true. That’s why we kept repeating them. Now we all have to live in barbarism for awhile because we forgot why all that stuff mattered in the first place. We didn’t value what we had because we didn’t notice it. We were the fish who didn’t understand the concept of water.
please give them mock: it is “the ruining class ” sir!
He hasn’t said what it is, but he was in DC a couple of days ago for some big cable TV show and rubbing elbows with a few of the cleaner souls from Capitol Hill, and he’s hinted that at least some of them know what the deal is. Whatever it is, the whistle blower fears for their life and is not certain to blow said whistle. Beck says his people have seen at least one document that would be a major bombshell, and it’s something that nobody is looking at right now. And that’s about all he’s said about what this deal is.
Now, he’s been speculating for ever that something happened very late in the game to change Roberts’ mind on O’care, as have many others. But he hasn’t connected this with that.
you chow heads in the media next time you talk to sanfrannan ask her: ” are you apart of the ruining class”?
ask the orangeman ” are you part of the ruining class?”
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.
asks the marco “are you apart of the ruining class?”
same sex senators say yes
Maybe “Before It’s News” is being used by their source who is working an agenda for others who wish to take down Beck and any others who can be suckered.
Get into the anonymous source game with guys from intelligence services and smoke and mirrors is all you’ll get in the end.
As best I can tell, that’s about the shape of it.
What makes it hard to think about (for me) is that we’ve lived in this place during this time. Some random guy running from another dude with a machete in another place and another time would just call this Thursday. He’d laugh and laugh. You pay the boss man or you takes your chances. That’s the normal state of affairs.
“Some random guy running from another dude with a machete in another place and another time would just call this Thursday. He’d laugh and laugh. You pay the boss man or you takes your chances. That’s the normal state of affairs”
hi baracky what’s new?
baracky: proggtard
junglefeverOh, hey, thanks for the clarification re Beck, btw, Pablo.
oh you can’t have “jungle fever”
link
Okay. I’ll have you know my hat doesn’t taste like chicken.
” The term has lost its popularity since the bigoted subtext has been explained to the uneducated”
“uneducated” in what or “educated” in what??? !!!??
i had spares di
In times like those, Baracky would be the first one eaten.
“While being cared for, however, he developed feelings for his caretaker, a Rhodesian woman”
is she “white”? effin tribalists
“It doesn’t take super-human powers to value the freedom of your fellow citizens over your reputation.”
What if it’s not your reputation that you’d be losing… what if it’s something much, much more than that?
What if, rather than something that might horrifically disrupt his family, it was some kind of threat that would literally END his family? I’m not talking about ending just the relationships, either.
What is it that constrains a sociopath with an excessive amount of power? Nothing but their own whims, and the parameters of what it is that they think they can get away with…
But Beck could wind up feeling just as stupid as Sarah Palin did when she said she could see Russia from her house.
It was Tina Fey who said that, not Sarah Palin. But I digress.
But I find it hard to believe even if some douchebag had some dirt on Robert and tried to black mailed him, he would not come clean and report it to the FBI (at the time). What is the point of being their bitch forever? He is not stupid and knows he would be burned regardless.
Why did Roberts flip on Obamacare? Because he is weak. And he wants to be loved. By his liberal pals. That is the Occam’s Razor reason.
You go public with the threat and resign. What are they going to do? Kill your family while the whole world is watching?
Personally, I think judicial restraint is a better explaination than blackmail.
My occam’s razor is sharper than your’s EBL.
Exactly. And yet, “everybody” knows Sarah said it. Just ask them.
The point being that Glenn Beck didn’t say anything about CJ Roberts, or guarantee an earth shattering kaboom! of a story breaking today this time for sure!.
Which is why I’m eating my hat instead of Beck eating his shoe.
Damnit
This is how it’s supposed to work, btw.
People questioning claims. People passing along information to their acquaintances. A smidge of good humor. Admissions of fault. Others being friendly throughout.
That’s also the water we swim in.
Who let you out of your locker dweeb?
He joked.
I forgot the /annoyingly nasal voice through a locker air vent tag, Ernst.
A twist on this is how life appears to a giant.
Everyone wants to have bad manners and fight but it normally ends with a bunch of slap fighting with the punks until the two big guys from each town throw down in the parking lot of a convenience store and settle things.
Imagine being that giant. Imagine how rote and by the numbers that makes kegger kerfuffles in high school.
change of direction:
I read this piece on George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, and I thought to myself, why the hell hasn’t anyone made a movie out of this? It’s for damn sure more interesting than For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Also, just saw this bit of rigorous non-judgementalism. As a historian and a WWI buff, it just pisses me off.
Remember when NBC forced out Maria Schriver-Schwarzenegger, because they didn’t want anyone to think that their journalistic integrity had been compromised? Good times, good times.
They’ve finally caught up with my pre-teen understanding of world events. A good summation might involve how everyone was, like, dying all over the place and it was really crazy.
I’ve always sort of like Eugen Weber’s description of 1914-1945 as “Europe’s Second Thirty Years War” myself.
I’ll listen to Beck tomorrow but this kind of information if actually released is likely to just shut down my brain for a while. I frankly don’t think I can handle it. I wonder if it will be nice waking up in la la land.
” I don’t want someone who is obviously evil, ruthless, crooked, and unworthy of power to embarrass me and my family with my past misbehavior so I guess I’ll throw away all sense and make them as powerful as i possibly can. My job is to protect the constitution and with it the people from the depredations of those they elect to govern them. But on the other hand…what’s in it for Johnny? So… FUCK AMERICA RIGHT UP THE ASS WITH A RUSTY BENT EGG BEATER. Yep. Sounds good. ”
If that’s a real thing, if that happened…yeah, I’d kind of like to gouge out my eyes before I have to see it and really understand it.
Must be nice to get to listen to Beck, over-dramatic warts and all.
Our local talker pulled Beck to put on Gerald-o. All they need to do now is dump Rush for O’Risable (although I just looked it up, and he doesn’t do radio any more), and I can free up another preset on my radio.
You can pick him up on IHeartRadio, mondamay.
Ernst: So…you’re a Second War of Austrian Succession buff, eh?
http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_1/15_1_1.pdf
9-12 et the blaze radio
I’m not a chief justice, but here’s the thing about threats: to be effective, the person making the threat must both conceal his identity and persuade the person making the threat that he can and will carry it out.
Unfortunately for the threatener, the information necessary to persuade the target that the threat is real, also narrows down the field of suspects.
Leaving only the question of the target’s willingness to counterattack.
Ernst, you are probably right, my razor is dull. But I am hirsute. Mine was more hypothetical if these rumors about Roberts even are true. And I agree, even if they are not, funny how Dems Justices never surprise the Dems. But Republican Justices?
Vetting never seems to catch it.
S. Weasel on Scandalpalooza and the current state of affairs:
Emphasis mine.
Pablo says June 14, 2013 at 6:26 am
newrouter says June 14, 2013 at 6:59 am
One of these days, I’m going to have to get a phone with a data plan.
OT:
Chelsea Clinton promoting “Day by day?”
“Second War of Austrian Succession” seems a bit forced. But I thank you for the article by my second favorite Erik and third favorite Austrian.
How much brainwashing does it take to believe that there are no inherent differences between the way the average man and the average woman think? I guess if you are raised to believe that, it’s easier to continue to delude yourself.
How are you suppossed to know she’s an engineer if she ain’t got any clothes on?
It’s stranger yet I think cranky-d: it’s like Chelsea’s worldview demands that people who can’t carry a tune must be pushed and prodded into study for the stage of the Metropolitian Opera, for telling them they can’t sing is discriminatory and mean.
My pleasure, Ernst.
Nice to know someone else who has heard of EvKL and appreciates the man.
“I have absolutely no idea what’s going on here.”
I am going to adopt ceiling cat’s statement.
I think you have the truth of it, sdferr.
I (won’t speak for you), on the other hand, might go so far as to suggest Chelsea’s a moron risen to prominence in the public dialog: kind of a proof of her own concept, backwardly.
It’s kinda fun to ask such people if they think that 75% of gangsta rappers and NBA players should be white. For the fairness.
It’s usually good for a few minutes of sputtering.
That said, I know some fine engineers who happen to be female. I don’t think it’s ever going to be 50%, though.
eak for you), on the other hand, might go so far as to suggest Chelsea’s a moron risen to prominence in the public dialog: kind of a proof of her own concept, backwardly. –
You guys should watch how speak about one of our future presidents.
She’s being groomed.
Honestly, she is so fucking stupid.
The teevee is teaching young women to be sluts and grifters. Makers of porn to begin their career.
Who takes their kid to a hollywood movie to inspire their children? Or teevee?
Idiots, that’s who.
Car in: on the other hand we seem to have been spared Caroline Kennedy, so there’s hope.
The thing about fine female engineers is they are capable of finding their own way, probably because they know about themselves that they love something about the work, or the chase. People are funny that way, they don’t need distant organizations like the Progressive Peoples’ Party of Hollywood to take them by the hand, instead encountering other human beings who expose them to interesting things.
Indeed, sdferr. I’m all behind eliminating bigotry, but not lowering standards.
And since when have male engineers been portrayed as “sexy”, anyway?
People wouldn’t have to live vicariously through Hollywood if progs would just quit screwing up real life. There would be a lot more engineers, sexy and otherwise (hopefully “smart” is a pointless redundancy), if our economy was operating as it should.
I’m sure Dilbert has dealt with “sexy engineers” before.
And since when have male engineers been portrayed as “sexy”, anyway?
And why does a little girl need to look up to a “sexy” role model? This was all-around stupid.
I’ve got an idea – how about our kids look up the GREAT people? Honorable and moral people.
ga. the stupid burns.
How are you suppossed to know she’s an engineer if she ain’t got any clothes on?
Yeah. Where are the suspenders and pocket protector?
I’m listening to Beck now, and he seems to have “forgotten” the Big Revelation he hinted at earlier.
Which means either (a) he was talking out of turn, and the parties involved got spooked (b) he was talking out of turn, and the parties asked him to shut UP already (c) he got bad information that he thought was solid.
Because he said that people have been tweeting and e-mailing him asking about The Big Thing and he said that it was the 70 Reps standing up to the immigration bill.
The names of whom Rep. King declined to release lest they be targeted prior to their deployment.
Rally in DC next Wednesday. Oops! It’s a “press conference” that will last for several hours.
Speaking of opera, The Phantom of the Presidency meme is working overtime today, I see. Not bad, as such memes go, since by and large it fits the facts. As does Glowerer-in-Chief.
he said that it was the 70 Reps standing up
Does that remotely fit the drama aforetime? Seems like it falls a bit short to me.
I wonder what’s going on there. You’d think Chelsea would be a little brighter; neither of her parents is at all stupid (morally repugnant, but not stupid).
Does that remotely fit the drama aforetime?
No. Which is why I speculated that he misspoke somehow about the other stuff.
CBS is reporting that the compromise of Sharyl Attkisson’s computers has been confirmed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/06/14/cbs-news-confirms-multiple-breaches-of-sharyl-attkissons-computer/
Naturally, Wemple isn’t apologizing for that sneering column he wrote back in May.
Perhaps her parents were exceedingly concerned that she not be too much exposed to alternatives, for fear that her adoption of any radically variant political position from their own would undermine their precious “truths” (and worse, political power), and hence the poor girl wasn’t equipped to think for herself, but merely to parrot?
If its like most things Hollywood, “smart and sexy” will mean a mouthy, insufferable, know-it-all who dresses like a prostitute and acts like one when she’s off the clock.
I can hardly take movies anymore, because every personality trait is done to comic book proportion, even if comic book characters are not the subject.
Hey, if you’d been looking up to Hillary your whole life, you’d be ready for some sexy too.
She’s been nothing but “groomed” for it since she was an infant. A female Al Gore.
Plus what sdferr said at 9:42am.
Well, I guess I can listen to Rush instead of Beck. It’s Open Line Friday.
Which is why I gave up on Beck years ago. He’s just a hair’s breadth from Alec Jones, who is a hair’s breadth from Erich von Däniken. /spit
Of course, black helicopters is an innately racist phrase, given that in this context black = evil.
He’s just a hair’s breadth from Alec Jones,
OMG, those two hate each other’s guts like you can’t believe.
Jones and Beck aren’t in the same camp (Beck is not a truther, birther, bilderberger, etc.), but Beck is definitely given to hyperbole, hyperventilation, and just plain hype.
So when he actually makes with documents and facts and such, it’s all well and good. I’ve also learned to dismiss his breathless promises that his next show, book, segment, etc., is the most mind-blowing thing EVAR.
It’s Open Line Friday.
Wherein Rush pontificates for 98% of the airtime, as usual, and then squeezes in a few calls.
To each his own, di. He often takes Fridays off and has Steyn or others guest for him.
Regression to the mean?
When Mark Levin gets to the callers, I either skip ahead or give up. Callers are, in general, dumb.
I only listen to the podcast version. Commercials drive me batty.
How are you suppossed to know she’s an engineer if she ain’t got any clothes on?
If Kaylee had been tinkering on Serenity’s engine, and also didn’t happen to be wearing those coveralls with the teddy bear stitched onto the leg, do you honestly think you’d doubt that she was still an engineer?
Uh… I’ll be in my bunk.
That Planck’s Law tattoo on her lower back?
Planck’s law? I thought that was an ISO bar code.
Cranky-D wrote:
I gather the podcast version is unlike the I Heart Radio one which has a lot of PSA’s – which are almost all little bits of Common Sense heaalth advice and end with ‘sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services’.
Creeping dependency.
After listening to levin talk about Jeb Bush and Chris Christie tonight, I’m already at the point where voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. And it ain’t even the midterms yet!
And Jeff, speaking about evil, what’s with the ads by leadbolt and the default to mobile WordPress I still can’t get rid of?
The Mark Levin podcast doesn’t have any of that, but he does do a few live read commercials every episode. Those aren’t as jarring to me.
I like to listen to blues on internet radio, but if you don’t pay, you get a lot of PSA stuff. Eesh.
Those HHS ads are everywhere these days, often sponsored by the Ad Council – f’ ’em too.