Comments on: Late Nite FDL: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

By: Daphne Chyprious

Daphne Chyprious — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:06:23 +0000

This: “Most of us have been wise to Klein’s shtick for years, now. He’s not just uninformed, but belligerently so. Thin-skinned, pompous, vain, and painfully superficial, Joe Klein is the Beltway Insider’s Beltway Insider, a creature so inured to the insularity of its condition that any attempt to relocate it to less rarefied airs would surely destroy it, like some slimy, invertebrate deep sea creature brought too abruptly to the surface.”: may be the most brilliant paragraph I have ever read, anywhere, on any topic.

I think you just passed the audition, TRex. You may now replace all of the Beltway belchers - and may it never be referred to as the Cocktail Circuit again.

By: PhysioProf

PhysioProf — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:38:42 +0000

While we’re at it, Dowd and Brooks, “YOU’RE FIRED!!”

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:48:43 +0000

My Cat should take over Joe Klein’s job.

By: saverosecanyon

saverosecanyon — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:59:54 +0000

oh come on guys; Joe Klein is almost as valuable to me as the stars of the Real Housewives of Orange County…whenever I think I am worthless, narcissistic and shallow a quick fix from the OC girls and shabang I feel like Ghandi…and when I’m feeling well kind of stupid, nothing like a little bit of Joe and suddenly I’m thinking “you know Mom was right: I am pretty smart.”
So for the sake of a lot of us marginal schlepps, ease up on the guy — there are some days our pathetic egos need a little boost.

By: GMFORD

GMFORD — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:46:00 +0000

Of course politics is partisan! There are two parties and each has its own position on issues which they defend. This nonsense about pretending partisanship is a bad thing drives me crazy. It’s the same thing the conservatives did when they starting pointing out democratic candidates and calling them ‘liberal’ with a sneer. Like there is something wrong with being a liberal.

We need to start saying ‘Yes it’s partisan politics, what of it? I know you conservatives (sneer) would be happier if you were the only party but you aren’t so get over it!’

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:45:12 +0000

cinnamonape @ 155

newtonusr @ 131

When I lived in Davis in the 80’s, the streets in East Davis were completely deserted on Thanksgiving. We would invite students without local family and chow big time, then set up card tables in the street in front of my house and have a Backgammon tournament to the death!
Dead and Woodstock playing loud.

Wow! Newt…I lived there at the same time. Worked at Barney’s Records and did a gig DJ’ing on KDVS. Also involved in the Apartheid Disinvestment movement on campus. Do we know one another?

Perhaps, but I lived in Davis and attended Sac State. I lived on Pomona, with my back yard pressed up against the community gardens.
Ate at Steves a lot.

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:29:17 +0000

newtonusr @ 131

When I lived in Davis in the 80’s, the streets in East Davis were completely deserted on Thanksgiving. We would invite students without local family and chow big time, then set up card tables in the street in front of my house and have a Backgammon tournament to the death!
Dead and Woodstock playing loud.

Wow! Newt…I lived there at the same time. Worked at Barney’s Records and did a gig DJ’ing on KDVS. Also involved in the Apartheid Disinvestment movement on campus. Do we know one another?

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:07:34 +0000

Inexplicably, Charlie Rose broadcast an interview with KKKarl Rove on Thanksgiving Eve. I am constantly amazed at Charlie’s inability to ask a question (or find his cuff links), and the credulousness with which he accepts answers.

One moment among many. Charlie asked KKKarl about Lee Atwater’s death, in preparation for which Lee apparently called a lot of folks he’d hurt to apologize. KKKarl couldn’t think why Lee might have felt he needed to do that. KKKarl did recall that Lee had called to thank him.

Not to be outdone, Charlie wondered aloud why so many people complained to Newsweek about hiring KKKarl, that soooo many people imagine KKKarl to be harmful to the body politic. KKKarl couldn’t figure, except to say that the Internet’s “pseudo-anonymity” allowed people to express their ill-temper and bad mouth in a way that was coarsening debate. Charlie kept a straight face, as if nothing extraordinary had just been said, and moved on.

Excuse me while I lean over the rail…

By: TRex

TRex — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:01:05 +0000

neurophius @ 150

“Thin-skinned, pompous, vain, and painfully superficial, Joe Klein is the Beltway Insider’s Beltway Insider, a creature so inured to the insularity of its condition that any attempt to relocate it to less rarefied airs would surely destroy it, like some slimy, invertebrate deep sea creature brought too abruptly to the surface.”

Great line, TRex. You’re on fire tonight.

Oh, thank you.

By: Margot

Margot — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:59:37 +0000

Burns @ 145,
I <3 Wobblies. Very inspirational.