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Miss Authoritiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 03:07 AM
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Titty-twisting the night away

Titty-twisting the night away



Keith Olbermann went one joke(?) over the line sweet Jesus in his post-Pennsylvania primary coverage -- and both he and MSNBC have now issued apologies.

Good. Two down and all the rest of them to go.

Olbermann’s miscalculation took him a little too far down the death to Hillary path in his the-day-after-the-night-before discussions with Howard Fineman.

HOWARD FINEMAN: What this is going to require, at some point, all of (Chuck Todd’s) excellent numbers aside, there‘s some adults somewhere in the Democratic Party to step in and stop this thing like a referee in a fight that could go on for 30 rounds. That‘s what‘s going on. Those are the super-super-superdelegates who are going to have to really decide this.
OLBERMANN: Right. The one—somebody who can take her in a room and only he comes out that kind of a question.
FINEMAN: Yes, exactly.


Yes, exactly. Won’t somebody just kill the bitch already?!

I’m going to take an extremely wide and generous view of this: f*ck Olbermann, f*ck MSNBC, f*ck CNN, f*ck FOX, f*ck the New York Times, f*ck the Washington Post, f*ck the LA Times, f*ck’em all.

And yes, exactly, Howard Fineman, f*ck Newsweek too.

F*ck’em all for the appalling throat-slashing, knee-balling, blood-sucking, windpipe-crushing, skull-smashing, ball-gagging, sucker-punching, gonad-macerating, titty-twisting imagery that has replaced actual substance in our political discourse.

Amazing, isn’t it, that there is more implied violence in the coverage of the three basically decent human beings who are seeking the presidency than in the coverage of the actual violence being inflicted upon Iraqis, Afghanis, and the poor bastards in Gitmo and CIA ghost prisons.

Enough.

Except that today is Sunday, a day of rest and worship for most Christians. It also means that Maureen Dowd has cranked out yet another column -- if by “column” you mean the disjointed yet always predictable stringing together of unrelated high-, middle-, and low-brow cultural references until a minimum word count is reached. And Dowd gives us a very special Sabbath column. Today, Hillary Clinton is a vampire/succubus.

Can you guess whose precious bodily fluids Hillary is draining? Whose magic she is leeching? Whose aura she is siphoning off?

Come on, you know you can.
_________

By Grace Nearing @ Scriptoids

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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 04:40 AM
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1. A wild guess
>Can you guess whose precious bodily fluids Hillary is draining?

I'd say we can safely rule out her husband on this count.
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Miss Authoritiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 03:52 PM
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5. I'm still laughing...
That response deserves a rimshot and cymbal crash!
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 08:13 AM
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2. The media need to meddle.
They just hate the idea of merely reporting the news or analyzing what the results might mean, they have to try to manage the outcome. It's a matter of not having any respect for the democratic process or the will of the electorate. That's how it is with self-appointed big-shots.
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MH1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 09:47 AM
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3. Oh wow. THAT's what all this nonsense is about?!?
The thing in your gray box?

THAT is somehow a "death threat to Hillary"?


Oh.My.

:rofl:

What a circle jerk this thing has become....
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Miss Authoritiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 04:14 PM
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6. Not just in talking about Hillary Clinton, but
Not just in talking about Hillary Clinton, but don't you find some of the language used in the pundits' discussions about Clinton and Obama a little heavy on violent sports, war, Mafia, and movie references? I realize some of this is just babbling on the part of TV talkers who desperately don't want to talk policy and have a lot of time to fill waiting between primaries, but yeeesh.... I actually heard a pundit criticizing Obama for not "strangling" Clinton. That's insulting to both Obama and Clinton.

Maybe you're not hearing it because you hear it all the time, or maybe you're hearing it and it doesn't bother you.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-27-08 09:55 AM
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4. No profile. Assigned to post here?
This doesn't pass the DU smell test.
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