I'd read about this earlier today on Joementum, but I knew that CTBlogger was going to put up a YouTube and I really wanted to see it with my own eyes before I wrote anything about it. Yep, there's no mistake. Here is Joe Tortureman on Imus, joking about…well, what else, torture:
I have particularly appreciated your interrogation of some of the other Democratic elected officials. And I’m very comforted to know that your interrogation is not covered by Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. Heh-heh-heh.
Oh!!! My sides, my sides. The Geneva Convention is no longer even quaint, it's now devolved into schtick on Imus. Yes, this is how seriously Joe considered his vote to institutionalize the United States as a nation of torturers. Just another rubber chicken to whack the Democrats with, right? Oh I can't breathe. Joe you teh funny. You really are.
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KOBE!
I am at a loss for words. POS
To quote my favorite VW commercial, “Oh, schnap!”
That Joe is a funny, funny man alright. If only they had put electrodes on someone’s changepurse, that would have really sealed the gag. Pun intended.
Is it too late to move to CT? I want to move, just to vote against the clown.
When Imus thru his support to Lieberman he lost me. For the first time I thought: “Wow, drugs really do fuck up your brain.”
Words fail me after listening to that freaking f*ckhead.
Making fun of torture and congratulating Imus for interrogating democrats! And this 2 days after the Day of Atonement.
It’s a shanda. (shame on him, really deep dark shame.)
dab — I haven’t seen any story wrt a Lamont comment on Lieberman’s vote on the detainee bill. Is there one?
And Lieberman is being considered to replace Rumsfeld. Still! Which would be worse at the Defense Department. Lieberman or Bolton? Now I ask you.
Joey, you one sick puppy.
Oh, he’s such a kidder. You know, I used to believe that Joe Lieberman wasn’t incompetent enough to be Rumsfeld’s replacement, but he’s starting to win me over.
WTF is he thinking, what exactly what is his position? Even some of the Repubs are yelling at Foley louder than Lieberstink.
I don’t get it, who does he think his constituency is?
My God, Lieberman is such a whiner. After all these years in politics, you think he would have gotten some voice coaching.
Throwing Hastert overboard is like throwing a deck chair off the Titanic. Well, in his case maybe two deck chairs. But they’re taking water fast and the pumps aren’t keeping up.
Regime change here we come.
Is there anyone in the world who does not think that Imus looks like an utter doofus when he’s wearing that hat?
Not terribly undoofusish without the hat, but much more so with it.
Of course I have a blog
Maybe Joe thinks if he can joke about something this obscene, they’ll finally let him into the restricted fraternity that’s running things. This is lower than frat-boy humor.
Any more news on how well Kerry’s visit is helping?
Reading your post I hatched a feverish hope that the “Joementum” moniker can come true in this way:
If Lamont’s campaign can keep stepping up (and if we can keep supporting them! =-) and bring those polls around, perhaps that will build powerful momentum for other races! (Lamont already has, but here’s hoping for more.)
OT Hey SteveAudio- just to let you know that folks will be looking for you on Late Nite- heads up. It started with my question about making an audio of the Greenwald film, and brainstorming went on from there. See comments on http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..-for-sale/
Joe needs to do more TV appearances. He’d be great on The Daily Show.
What an utter embarrassment to the American people.
A cad of the first water.
Making a mockery of the Geneva Conventions, a unifying code of honor that contributed to our now thoroughly debased stature in the global community.
Godwin’s Law is now dead when a so-called man of faith and Jewish heritages sounds like a Nazi.
Disgusting, beyond adjectives and adverbs; worse than a Republican.
I am going to have to find a way to choke out some money to give to Ned Lamont so this horror can be retired.
Wow. Is anyone sure Lieberman is a human?
Maybe more like a twisted Zaphod Beeblebrox?
Joe REALLY needs to quit letting DANGERSTEIN come up with his talking points. It’s getting embarrassing.
Is anyone but me not getting the ‘Refresh Comments’ button when they load the page?
Juck Loe Fieberman.
is listening to Lieberman called “Joeboarding” or just “boring Joe”?
Jeebus,
I wish Keith would give Joe a slap upside the head.
Maybe then the Dem’s in Charge would do something.
Colin Powell Pins Bush, Lieberman on Iraq
Unfortunately I believe that this is the real Joe talking… not even Dangerstein can curb his rabid tongue and beliefs.
Is there anyone in the world who does not think that Imus looks like an utter doofus when he’s wearing that hat?
I think it’s the cap pistols on his belt and the broomstick horsie by his chair that REALLY make him look like a doofus. I bet when he was eight his mommy told him he couldn’t wear his cowboy costume to school. He’s been trying to get revenge ever since.
Lamont on the torture issue, from his speech of September 13:
Real security in a dangerous world
I wonder if Joe has any other torture jokes up his sleeve.
He should go on the late night comedy shows.
afterthought @ 19
No, Zaphod is two-headed. Joe is two-faced.
Speaking of harassment of young employees, you should the stories about Imus at WNBC long, long ago…
utterly morally and spiritually bankrupt…
Dab? are you here?
mutzali @
29
Well, I did say twisted, but you are right.
Longtime Republican was source of e-mails
The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page says the documents came to him from a House GOP aide.
That aide has been a registered Republican since becoming eligible to vote, said the source, who showed The Hill public records supporting his claim.
http://www.hillnews.com/thehil…..news2.html
scarecrow @ 7
Lamont made a statement but more to the effect that the torture vote was a Rove distraction. He did go on to talk about how reprehensible Lieberman’s vote was – I can’t find it on his web site, but I’m sure it’s there (quite frankly I wish he had hit Lieberman harder)
Lamont did issue a strong comment about Lieberman’s refusal to comment about the latest NIE about Iraq and terrorism.
http://nedlamont.com/news/1540/
xyz – I left you information on the previous thread about door to door canvassing in Norwalk this Saturday – with Ned. You can take the train to Norwalk – Sono.
TRex @
26
you funny. what spurred your imagination, old chap?
that’s “you should HEAR the stories…”
To quote the great secular humanist Huck Finn, it’s enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Truly I am ashamed to breathe the same air as these well-fed glib heartless fucks.
ot- is anyone watching PBS -moyers on America on the abramoff scandal? I can’t believe what they tried to pull off!!!
Talk about Imus looking ridiculous in that cowboy hat. Lookie a Georgie trying to look oh so cowboyish chopping weeds at his big spread in Crawford. It’s all so phony. What are these guys trying to prove? Most of the real (if you will) cowboys and cowgirls I know here abouts, wear normal clothes. That is… Nikes and whatever.
LindyH @ 32
Yep –
Scarecrow – I’m impressed. I looked through a bunch of Lamont statements but couldn’t his specific comments about the torture bill.
Aha — found the story on Lamont and detainee bill — a Journal Inquire article on Lamont’s cite:
Lamont blasts Lieberman over detainee bill
punaise!
it hasn’t been the same…
Sharkbabe @
38
truly.
This Moyers show is puke-inducing, too. Nothing everybody here does not know, but it’ll be news to many. It is factual and chilling.
Delay and now Boehner… all of them getting slammed.
Frank and Ornstein discussing all of this with Moyers.
Just 4 1/2 weeks to Joe’s angry, bitter non-concession concession speech to the sparse crowd of janitorial staff indifferently cleaning the vacant ballroom at the Hyatt. “Who is that asshole?” the guy stacking chairs will ask the man who is vacuuming. “I don’t know,” the vacuuming man will reply. “I think he used to be a Senator.”
Joe is as ‘human’ as Cheney, Bush, Limbaugh, Bill Bennett and all the other sanctimonious liars. Human in name, but ignorant of his true self. I am convinced that Joe is oblivious to his own bullshit. Probably thinks he has a great speaking voice, too. I won’t be surprised if he becomes a lobbyist for Halliburton after his defeat.
hey, Mack!
cleter @ 46
Thanks, Cleter – I needed that. I’ll sleep well tonight with that mental image.
Angie –
Yep. I love Moyers, because he doesn’t pull punches. He calls a crook a crook. I still remember the Moyers Report he did on Watergate and what Nixon’s crowd did to the Constitution. Moyers is not confused by the Fox notions of “fair and balance.” Just Unvarnished Truth.
PBS News Hour: When asked about Foley and the predator scandal, he says some things, and then says that Minnesotans are more concerned about how the Twins are doing.
Once again, is anyone having trouble getting the ‘Refresh Comments’ button to load or is it just my computer?
dab from CT @ 42
I had an idea for something I can do from here and wanted to run it by you. Can you e-mail me at melindyh at yahoo dot com?
TRex @ 52
Not I.
scarecrow @ 54
Nor I. TRex is experiencing the refresh that pauses.
See it on mine, TRex. If you’ve already tried doing refresh with the F5 key or clicking the refresh icon on your toolbar, try closing the window and reopening.
yes, how did we survive without punaise
(I always have two reactions to punaise – a) how lame I am in my own thinking about/playing with language, and b) inspired)
Subway Serenade! Somehow always takes me straight to the Paris Metro.
scarecrow @ 54
No problem here except for an abnormally high level of outrage listening to Ornstein telling us that the thugs are even worse than I thought. evil, evil, evil.
TRex — when that happens to me, it’s because it’s still reloading and gets in a loop. I back out of the site and re-enter.
Prairie Sunshine @ 56
this works for me.
Faux News: missing white woman. missing cell phone. Greta, Greta, Greta…have you no shame? Once you were a credible commentator.
I just cleared my cache and cookies to see if that would fix it. It didn’t. Wasn’t someone else having this problem the other night?
OT and better on an earlier thread, but I was on an airplane w/o internet connection. The horror.
Is the government lying to us about important things like war? Absolutely. Is the government lying to us about the attack five years ago, and let’s not forget Washington, where I personally saw the Pentagon on fire from the top floor of the courthouse.
Look I don’t know myself where I stand on this continuum but here is an idea I have not to date seen being discussed.
Theory to help bridge the gap between the way out there conspiracy folk and people who won’t go out there but do think that some people in the government knew in advance.
Changes in flights, Sept. 10 stock exchange put options, and so forth.
Personal data: I had a flight for Sept 12 and got a very strange notice in the mail about extremely high security measures. Sure put a lot of question marks in my head a couple of days prior to the event. Ok here is my theory.
If you accept: Some people high in the administration did know in advance there would be SOME kind of attack.
Problem: How could so many Americans go along with such horrific destruction to our country.
Answer: Only a tiny number of people knew the EXTENT of the attack, and their loyalty might be to
censored. Most thought it would be justmissles…oops not supposed to say that!planes flying into buildings; not that they would fall and kill thousands of fellow Americans.The lesson from Germany is that a few evil people, and a relatively small number of acquiescent folks, can bring down a civilized nation.
fwiw…ymmv.
“Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan I know he’s going to vote against me”
Harry Truman
TRex @ 52
I’ve had that happen about three times in the last 2 days but if I F5 it comes up.
dab from Ct — just to let you know that the MA Militia and Ladies Auxiliary will be down to CT in the weekends ahead. We haven’t forgotten you.
LindyH @ 53
Great. I’ll shoot you an email.
Well, hmmmm. Ms. Hamsher continues to bring all the ammo via her articles, but somehow it doesn’t yet seem to connect to Ct. voters (via polls I’ve read here).
You know, it almost seems to me that Mr. Lamont has been floundering, and it goes back to late August. Back to when he made his rounds of seeing politicos, including Queen Hillary. And it doesn’t seem that he’s regained that June-July momentum. Yet, via Ms. Hamsher, we all know that there’s SO much good ammo out there for Mr. Lamont.
I HOPE Mr. Lamont has identified the groups who heavily voted for LiarMan in the primary. Those groups ought to be the focus of these final weeks. Blow off the LiarMan R teamers…they’ll never vote D. But at the primary, I have to admit that Liarman got a bunch of votes! Who were/are those folks?
In these final weeks, I hope Mr. Lamont spins up some of his usual, clever ads….but TARGETED to LiarMan’s D base who voted for LiarMan in August. That should be the point of attack. I’d urge Mr. Lamont to blow off his generic ads from pre-primary. Mr. Lamont has his base, and they remain energized. They’re solid. But go get those LiarMan voters from August. TARGET your fire….target your ads, target your position speeches. This I believe, is the path to victory.
Ghostman
I closed firefox and reopened it. Now it’s all better.
coouple of things, all ot but important
raw story now has it up, another page talking about foley’s messaging
that’s the first, the second is about the rice breifing telling us we were about to be attacked
I’ve been trying to get who else was at the tenet presentation to rice
cressey tells us who else, I got this from c&l
I’ll tell you what
the democrats aren’t taking advantage of this, this is KEY
it is OBVIOUS 9/11 would NOT have happened if ANYONE else were in office
obvious by the performance of the previous administration given a LESS credible threat
and obvious that this president stood down
this is what has to be brought up
NOT by sighting the fact and then leveling charge, but by leveling the contempt and THEN giving the fact
for instancee, NOT;
“we find out from the state department that the president was warned and did nothing to defend this country”
but like so;
“this is the most INEPT president in the history of America, the persident KNEW there was going to be an attack and did NOTHING, we KNOW this is what happened, there are official documents that tell us this”
THAT’S the way to take CHARGE in the war of words
Sharkbabe! too kind….
TRex @ 69
the firefox is guarding the punhouse
Earthquakes – that’s Lieberman too.
handle @ 73
dude. get a grip.
Christ, now Joe’s making torture jokes. He really thinks this is funny! I can’t imagine what kind of shit storm our nation is going to suffer should he somehow hang on and win next month.
I can try to imagine it, but it makes my head hurt.
Local news teaser just said something like “how the Foley scandal lead to demise of another prominent politician…story at 11″. Prominent politician wouldn’t be the chief of staff…did Hastert resign?
I’m having trouble posting since my wireless was installed.
This is a test
Holocastic!
you passed the test! hi zennurse!
ljt @ 76
The CoS isn’t really a politician. There’ve been rumors flying all day long that another shoe was about to drop. Jane? Christy? You ladies aren’t holding out on us, are you?
TRex have you tried restarting your computer? There are times when that is all that will work for me. Sure beats the old days of dialup, though.
Hey TRex, when will your LN be up? Eagerly awaiting.
Ghostman @ 68
Ghostman – I couldn’t agree with you more. Lamont has been put in a terrible position, reminded again and again that he’s running against a fellow Democrat (which is BS). I think rather than give Lamont a boost – all the readjustment that went on in August integrating what little Dem support he was getting – almost took the wind out of his sails.
Lamont has been constrained and Lieberman hasn’t.
I agree with all you say about the targeting. I can assure you that the campaign is definitely targetting efforts. I would say that most folks who are over 60 are inclined to vote Lieberman – they remember the Old Joe and they’re going to stick with him.
I think the Lamont campaign should ask Carter to campaign for him. Even my Republican mother-in-law was moved by Carter at the Dem convention and decided to vote for Kerry (which was huge).
But I think the past week the campaign has gotten it’s old fire back. Lieberman is vicious and is no more a Dem than Dick Cheney is.
me to me –
they did NOTHING. ZIP. Why on earth has nobody seized on this unarguable fact – biggest question of my lifetime. Condi fucking Rice not only kept her job but got fucking promoted.
Yay.
Hi pups, had a dream two nights ago that a bunch of us were doing a protest event involving large signs, costumes and many random bumper stickers about dumping this entire admin and Congress. I went into a trailer to change my costume and when I came out, there were suddenly bleachers full of a military band, a bunch of generals and others in uniform and suits. Nobody recognizable, but clearly Government types. We totally ignored them and went on with our protest. Even though I only know a few faces, my mind gave faces to many of my “old friends” here.
It was fascinating.
Sharkbabe @
57
Subway’s doing well now I guess
http://howardempowered.blogspo…..-back.html
___________________
And don’t know if LindaR mentioned this but one of her diaries got frontpaged
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..184212/514
In the story she mentions Rob Haswell who is a really great guy and is running for the open assembly seat. I just have to say if you admire inspiring speakers like Paul Wellstone, Howard Dean or a black preacher, Rob’s your guy
Check out his People Before Politics Pledge
http://www.robhaswellforassemb…..=more_6728
That’s a good dream and one that is gonna come true come November…with all the stars in alignment.
check out this picture of Reynolds and lump.
http://derenegade.blogspot.com…..gotta.html
Connecticut Bob @ 75
(Sigh)
thanks for linkys John in S
atrios has a post about David Shuster’s report saying that Hastert will be gone by next week. Can’t seem to get the permalink, but you probably have it bookmarked or are watching it yourself.
Sleeping now
much love
Ghostman — I agree with your basic insight. The votes that need to move are not Republicans, and only a few Indies, but instead the remaining Dems who support Lieberman. Who are they, and why are they staying with Lieberman? According to polls, Lieberman still has support from over 30 percent of Dems. My speculation:
Jewish voters are very proud of Lieberman — but I understand they make up less than 5 percent of the electorate. Little to be gained there.
But there is a larger group of folks who are highly supportive of Israel. To move some of these folks, I think Lamont needs to sharpen the argument that Bush/Lieberman policies have endangered Israeli security. The war against Hezbolla in Lebanon provided the evidence for this argument.
There are those who may disagree with deadlines for withdrawal from Iraq, even though they are concerned about the war. The argument to be made to them is that the Bush/Lieberman rhetoric could recklessly lead to war with Iran, and that would make things even worse for US forces in iraq, US interests in the ME, and for Israel.
There are older voters concerned about Social Security. More could be done to highlight Lieberman’s playing with Bush’s privatization effort.
Finally, Lamont is already hammering on Lieberman’s lack of judgment and integrity — being wrong on the war and consistently abandoning Democratic principles to enable Bush policies that undermine those principles. I think Lamont is doing this well, so the emphasis should be on the other areas above. Just a guess. But something more than what he’s doing overall is still needed, IMO.
I like the sharper attacks of the last week or so, re the NIE, the detainee bill, torture. And the constant bad news re Iraq all amplifies his messages.
dab from Ct: well, good! If the Lamont folks are indeed targeting, then some positive results should show up. Perhaps you ought to tell the campaign about the Carter angle….every little bit helps! And, I hear what you’re saying about the senior citizens….but there must be some way to chip into that base as well. I just don’t know how. Carry on the good fight up there!
Ghostman
zenn – I think all kinds of honorable military people are going to be right beside us in the US gulags
ljt @ 76
I don’t want Hastert to resign. I want him to lose. I want there to be mass Republican unemployment. I want there to be 3 unemployed pols for every one cushy lobbying gig.
I want Hastert’s grotesque balloon-head to be the public face of the Republican party for the next month. I want Hastert, bleeding from all orifices, to lead them off the cliff in November. I want him to be their big blubbery anchor.
That said, I did bet a guy at work a dollar that Hastert resigns on Friday.
Anyone got a link to the Scarborough video claiming there’s going to be an out-a-thon next week?
Jon Stewart nails holyfoleygate.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the republicans are sticking knives in each other’s backs because the cartel is cracking. I mean, what if Fordam is saying all that stuff about Hastert just to stick a knife in his back. Fordam was forced out of the inner circle of thugs, and so he says “Fuck it” and plants one in Hastert’s back. Hastert may have been telling the truth, but he was caught flatfooted. Before, Hastert had a chance of survival, now he is DOA. Everyone dies. This is political Shakespeare at its best.
This sinking boat is going to have a bunch of fighting and back-stabbing over the next few days. If we are lucky, this political infighting will spill over to the white house, and ripple all the way down the fascist wavelength til it does the San Andres. It will be known in the history books as “The Rupture.” A beauty to behold.
Maybe then, democracy will have a chance.
lol – Corporate media sux a$$
Since when did Hastert become a “Democrat”?
scarecrow @ 66
i got an email from megan at lamont HQ today…. as everyone (like firepups scarecrow, RevDeb, Kathyrn_in_MA and me) who volunteered out of the meriden office before the primary can attest – she is a wonderful organizer – always calm, welcoming, has her shit together, and is inspiring in her dedication.
anyway, she is still working in the meriden office and is now the out of state coordinator…. yeah! so – i’m doubly psyc’ed to go back to CT…. a great cause and a great organization…
anybody else want to go? email megan at: volunteer@nedlamont.com
p.s. if the trip is too much, megan says they are working on an at home phone banking…. not as much fun, by as professor foland says – it’s good for the soul.
punaise @
71
You do so much to pull minds from this daily horror show to laughter, so sly and intelligent relief
Sharkbabe @ 99
I’m just relieved that your reaction(s) are “high fives” instead of “hives” :~)
punaise—-
Will you share with us about why you went away for a month? Is posting to fdl addicting, and we can totally relate to that :) I mean seriously.
Help us to help you. We need your lively spirit in the battles to come. As a grateful recipient of much fdl love in crisis, I encourage you to share with us what is happening in your life.
We want to maximize all good punaise contributions to the battle, but do not want to deplete you as a person. Talk to us?
Oh my. al-Qaeda finally decided to stop helping Bush politically. From Think Progress:
Al Qaeda says prolonging the Iraq was “is in our interest.”
selise, scarecrow, you’ve got mail.
dead last @
97
Everyone dies. This is political Shakespeare at its best.
Yep. Only in this play the audience is included in the last act.
punaise @ 101
LOL!
Your Late Nite post…is served. Upstairs, kids! Last one in is a dirty DANGERSTEIN!
RevDeb @ 104
Gosh! How’d you know??
Lamont won the primary but he didn’t win the Democratic Party. The truth is Reid, Schumer, and many other DINOs feel more comfortable with Lieberman. Sure he’s a backstabber but down deep he’s really been just as supine as they have been and still are (just look at Iraq or their cave-in on torture and kangaroo courts). Hillary sent a check but that was not her heart but the triangulation talking. And Big Dawg doing his Big Dawg thing? Making amends for his earlier support of Joe that gave Joe enough of a boost to contemplate an independent run? Dream on. If Chris Wallace hadn’t opened his mouth and stuck his foot in it, that Dawg would have never barked.
Put simply Lamont won the primary despite the Establishment Democrats. If he wins the general election it will be the same way. They will not lift a finger to help him in anything but a symbolic way and probably not even that. I have said it a million times here: the Republicans may be criminal but it is important to remember that the Establishment Democrats are feckless.
For instance, punaise, my “arrrgh’s” are a gauge of my appreciation of the pun. The ultimate successful pun as described by Spider Robinson is when your auditors hold their noses and flee the thread.
The problem with these polls is CT seems to be that while the majority of Republican voters have moved to vote for Lieberman.. you still have a significant minority of Democratic voters willing to vote for Joe. That somehow needs to be turned around.
Independents are a different matter, but without your own base firmly backing you, you’re handicapped in 2 areas, not 1.
egregious @ 101
LOL, you nailed it, thanks for asking. This place so engrossing on so many fronts; there’s always something to pull one in to FDL. And the ongoing banter…
Goodness knows, leading up to Nov. 7 it’s going to be increasingly intense.
I was falling behind in work (self-employed, so too easy to pretend I’m multi-tasking). My month off allowed me to catch up a bit, but I do need to strike a balance now. Quota system? Alternate blog-free days? I dunno….
RevDeb @ 104
got it!
punaise- so far alternate blog-free days is the best I’ve been able to manage.
Hugh, the very same thing happened to Webb. None, not one, of the big dems would be campaigning with him if Allen hadn’t outed himself as the racist pig that he has always been.
Webb walked alone with his own believers for a long, long time. Too long, imho. Both he and Lamont were so unsupported by the establishment that I cut off funding to the “establishment” solicitors long ago.
They did not listen to the people.
Wait and see is not a strategy for winning.
Punaise, have some of that going on myself – including the self-employment. A person can get into trouble…
LindyH @ 109
hey, LindyH, I’d figured as much. I do worry about the silent majority that suffers in, well, silence.
well, enough about me. let’s head upstairs to Late Nite.
Valley Girl @ 113
we. can. get. through. this. :~)
dead last @ 96
Fordham is definitely the most intriguing character to me. ABC says he’s openly gay, yet he was working for a closet case. Here’s my take on the whole situation: I think that he really was a close friend to Mark Foley. Maybe he was hoping Mark would come out and be an openly-gay Republican. Whatever. My suspicion is that he either found out or at least strongly suspected that Foley was screwing around with teenage boys, and he did what any true friend would. He said, “Dude, you need to knock it off. Right now. This is just wrong on so many levels, and if it ever gets out, it’s going to look REALLY bad.” Foley ignored him. Maybe even told him to go to hell. Fordham did what any responsible person would at that point: He went up the food chain. That didn’t get him anywhere. Ultimately, maybe because of this or maybe because of something else, he switched bosses. And had the horrible misfortune of working for someone that wound up receiving a complaint about Foley. When the scandal broke, Foley needed a close friend to hash things out with. And he needed someone gay. Fordham, who’s probably been Foley’s confessor in the past, was an obvious choice. And I think Fordham again did what a true friend would–he went to Foley’s side and talked to him. He tried to talk Brian Ross out of publishing the more lurid IMs, which I think was a reasonable thing to do. Because frankly, no one wants to see their friend’s lurid IMs on television.
Unfortunately for Fordham, being a good friend in this case was also politically stupid. You can’t run and comfort a sex predator when your current boss is on the hotseat. So he got shitcanned. Republicans, who would try to blame all of this on Mother Teresa if they thought they could get away with it, immediately pounced. Unfortunately, instead of stomping the crap out of a meek and wounded closet-case, they found themselves up against one seriously pissed-off queen with nothing left to lose. There have been rumblings all day that the GOP is going to start outing all of its gay aides. I think Fordham is saying, “Here’s a little preview of what that’s going to look like.”
Sharkbabe @ 93
While I’m on a soylent green streak, [green streak…what my hair looks like after lots of summer swimming?] my read on madsen. When he is giving his opinion, the truth can be…all over the place. Not helpful, in fact harmful to the cause because he goes on very odd tangents where reasonable people cannot believe him.
When he is giving names, dates, places, and other facts…I believe he is accurately reporting what people in the government are sending him at great risk to themselves, if they are in intelligence. Look at posts from the past that we are just now verifiying.
Sharkbabe @ 93
A toast to cbl, who first said she would sit w me on the porch waiting for the soylent green trucks.
The day I decided I will no longer be intimidated by the powers that be, and that I will speak the truth regardless of the consequences to myself, I became a free person. Try it, you’ll like it.
THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL, if we stick together.
Yes I have people I love. Yes they can be held against me. I like to think they would support my speaking the TRUTH as God wants us to do. We will receive our reward in heaven. Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross. Now’s good! TAKE ACTION!
The fundies don’t have a monopoly on bringing down the power of God! And for the record if I mysteriously die prematurely it is not of my own hand. I swear on the graves of my Scottish ancestors. If I am gone prematurely it is from the evil hands of those who would harm our nation.
PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!
Selise, scarecrow, RevDeb – that’s great. I’m sure they can use your help in Meriden.
I’ve cleared my calendar so I can give Lamont a full day on Saturday.
dab from CT @ 122
yeah! hope to meet you one of these weekends…
I wrote a diary o dK about torture jokes Monday morning. It’s http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/2/33827/0925.
punaise @ 112
We need you in the struggle, but more important is that we need YOU for the long haul. The war is not over after November 7, one could argue things are just getting started then no matter what the outcome.
We need YOU here and healthy and economically sound. Anything we can buy/help w financially? Love you and your amazing spirit :)
Keep us posted on how YOU are doing, it is important to us. Apparently people are saying this about me, I am very very slowly absorbing this….
ot: it is said in my part of the world (new mexico), where a lot of people wear hats, that the one sure way to know you look good in a hat is to truly THINK you look good in a hat.
so i guess imus thinks he looks good in that hat…which is where the exception proves the rule.
imus looks like a crack-addled munchkin wearing a toadstool with his wizened, drug-ravaged, post-syphillitic physiognomy peering out from under that ill-shapen, grotesquely oversized brim…
Lieberman is For Sale people. And he’ll swing to the Republicans in a New York Minute.
Punaise,
This has your name written all over it.
http://www.comicsreporter.com/…..iews/5913/
I think this may be the funniest line I’ve ever read at this site.
Joe Lieberman sounds like the geeky guy trying to be cool when he clearly is not.
He is so revolting and truly warped in his thinking.
GOP = God’s Own Pederasts
laugh all you want. Neds ads have sucked. Holy Joe’s still ahead. Ned needs better and more ads real quick. Start attacking Holy Joe very hard.
Worst. Senator. Ever.
Corparate welfare, quagmire, torture, and sexual perversion, the foundations of Bolting Joe’s campaign. No wonder Bush and the NeoCons love his ass so much.
This does capture the eliminationist mindset of these people; they really would like to exterminate liberals, much in the way of the Argentine juntas of the 70s-80s.
Joe is even starting to sound like Bush with his quaint, flip comments on serious issues.
Maybe it’s the kiss.