Garrett: “Say, you think this Klein dude would be willing to front me some of whatever the hell it is he’s snorting? Because seriously, I could probably cut it with cornstarch and turn a 400% profit for him—and that’s just by selling it to Cameron Diaz and Gwenyth Paltrow alone. Provided I can get past the gates, of course.
“Truth is, I hear Gwen’s still pretty mad at me for getting loaded on Pabst and gorilla biscuits and taking a massive dump in her Koi pond.”*
Maybe I should have gone with “Sopors”…?
Can’t wait to see what Time’s right-wing blogger says about that.
Isn’t it a “koi pond?” Unless, of course, the pond is being all shy and bashful…
Sure, why not.
Is it me or is it weird for Joe Klein to quote characters from Primary Colors?
And btw, I like to think of myself as a white Rick James.
I was beginning to think Dan had rescinded your permission to post.
I can also confirm that koi have a palet like Rosie O’Donnell. Those slipperly bastards will eat the corn out of crap.
The fact that I beat you, honey, is proof that you drove me to it and that I love you.
This is in the comments, from our old pal Thersites! I wondered what the old hack was up to.
That blog’s comment section comprises an echo chamber Marcotte or T-bagg would be proud of!
Weird? Why ever would you think that?
You’ve inspired me. I’m calling up Time and canceling my subscription. The only reason I get it (I’m rather embarrassed) was that it is just such a “news-lite” kind of magazine (that I remember reading as a child), I thought my kids could occasionally read it.
I’ve never heard Hannity (the few times I’ve listened to him) say anything comparable to the nutroots. Even what’s said on Air America makes Hannity sound like Johnny Milquetoast.
And the first time I heard of Morris, he was Clinton’s adviser.
I think what pisses them off—what counts as “incivility”—is having the temerity to disagree.
Cool! I generally just inspire RAGE directed at myself.
Dick Morris vile?
Can’t wait to see what skeletons Dick brings out of Hillary’s closet……..
Really. Hannity is obnoxious and condescending. Morris is sorta weaselly. I don’t see vile out of either on of them.
Any lefties care to produce some representative quotes?
Referring to DICK as vile? Marcotte IS everywhere these days!
Obviously, Leif was an MC5 fan.
By the way, Leif, I’ve always been curious: do you pronounce your name “Leaf”, “Life”, or “Lafe”?
Just askin.
Because having people say mean things on the interne t is just like being raped. Just like it.
He’s a scouser. He doesn’t truly “pronounce” any word. It’s more of a interprative phonics.
What’s odd about Klein’s analysis is that he seems incapable of making the distinction between the “vomitously vile” when it arises in “serious political discourse” and when it is explicitly directed at the non-secular. Klein suggests that Christianity and Christians are inappropriate targets of “kid fun” vileness only insofar as a voting bloc might be alienated. If only the mainstream media had been nicer to Bill Clinton, Amanda would have a milder, more considered stance on religion? Klein seems to have conceptualized blogging as a “medium where I get to say really glib stuff.”
Those of us who had the misfortune to live through the daze of disco know all too well it’s “Leaf”.
Sigh.
No, it isn’t. But claiming that the ugly language on the left can be excused because the “sexiness” of Rethuglican rhetoric just made the poor lefties lose their everloving minds and forced them to respond with vile invective IS just like it.\
Of course, I forgive you for your literalism. It’s difficult to make the jump to abstract thinking.
Heh. Indeed.
But it’s a right wing publication. I read it in the comments while I was over there.
Common Jeff, admit it. You ask for it. You really, really, do. In fact, anyone who is Republican asks for it. And the reason we’ve won in the past is because we’re a bunch of skanky ho’s that have lured the gullible, and don’t forget stupid, Catholics, into voting Republican.
I’m the Chairman of Catholics for Skanky Hos in my district.
According to most of the commenters, the entirety of American media is part of the VRWC.
Heh.
I love Thersities lecturing Klein. Is there nothing he is not an expert on?
He is a little weak on IP addresses.
You mean you’ve caught Klein in some rhetorical inconsistency? Or, rather, you would have, if Klein had made both of those arguments, which he hasn’t. But carry on, BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!!
Not typically, but when you try it, it always seems to end up with you tripping into a puddle and covered in shit.
No, / Moops / W00t / Fantastic. I mean Klein excuses ugly behavior on the part of the left because, he notes, the right practically made them do it. You know, by being all mean and such.
Now, I’m sure a bright guy like you can follow that. After all, anybody who can come up with the image of me flopping around stupidly in a puddle that (for whatever unexplained reason) is doubling as a shit repository simply must have the requisite brainpower to understand what I was going for.
The left doesn’t need to seriously engage the right in reasoned debate because the left is innately superior both morally and intellectually–such that any rationale, non-evil person would just “know” that their opinions and positions are always correct. Yet somehow, they have been “forced” by their supposed intellectual inferiors to muddy their precious manicured hands and imitate the grunting of we pigs. Some super-beings, huh? Oh, and btw, why are these white-guilt-ridden ninnies always attempting to expiate their guilt by spending OTHER PEOPLE’S money? I can see it now–the priest prescribes penance–force your NEIGHBOR to say 1000 hail Marys….