This is quite possibly the most horrifying thing I have ever heard. Joe Lieberman goes waaaay below and beyond the call to defend poor Johnny’s beleaguered bearings:
I just want to report that this morning, I personally checked John McCain’s bearings. He has not lost any of them, and they are all really in great shape.
This is a mental image that will haunt me for the rest of my days. If there is an extended version of this clip with Joe talking about how he spit-polished McCain’s bearings or gave them a nice rubdown, for the love of God please DO NOT tell me about it.
(h/t Atrios. Now I really do have a reason to hate him.)
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Eli!
CTut!
rofl, i dunno why rocky mountian oysters comes to mind. *g
Eli!
Urk.
Maybe Rocky Mountain Nutmegs.
KO just had Mort Sahl on and he cited a anecdote about Hojo receiving Repug donations, ‘Yes, I’ll take the thirty pieces of silver!’ Yep, you do that, Judas…!
well, the phrases ’consider the source’ and ’takes one to know one’ are what i keep thinkin’
Since they are normally resting on his chin, I think we can believe what ever Joe says on this topic.
So Liebervurst thinks that when ya lose yer bearings- it’s like WHEEL bearings that fall out somewhere?
Don’t let Liebervurst fix your car or navigate yer boat.
Hey Eli-
OMFG! I love Mort Saul!
On KO just now, he opened the interview with an apocryphal story about asking Mark Russell about his interview of RGJoe – Russell asked RGJoe if he took Republican campaign contributions, and Russell told Saul that RGJoe replied that he did, but only 30 pieces of silver at a time!
which one had the soap?
(i’m sooooo sorry, been thinkin’ it all day)
This is a mental image that will haunt me for the rest of my days.
*
It’s not pretty, but I suggest you delete that one from the forever file.
There should be a limit to how much we can retain.
For your sake…
na, them hill are iron. ain’t libelman a transplant?
He’s happy to report that all his shipshape with the Skipper’s scuppers and his bright work be squared away too. Joe can’t wait to conduct a closer examination of Cap’n McCain’s bilges,, but he’ll have to lay him to, in order to do so…
Yeah, I was wondering just how often Joe “checks” McCain’s bearings…
You owe me a Coke, Newt! ;-)
Correct me if i am wrong, but I believe in order to check bearings one has to remove the rim.
And now I’m getting a *truly* disturbing Captain Queeg visual…
Eli, I had to break into a loud rendition of LA LA LA LA when Keith just reported that story. Mr. martha was laughing so hard I don’t think he will be permanently affected. Me, totally completely and utterly grossed out.
He’s had to straighten the out once or twice… IIRC! ;-)
now that one is prize.
Hey Eli heres a little hole to be dugg by your firedog pup friends… Good post!
PG-40 rating.
lol :)
Or NC-DEM…
get in line, CTuttle :-)
Hi Eli
What’s next, Joe verifying that McShame is not impotent? As his fluffer he would know for sure.
Can we get a second opinion on those bearings from Charlie Crist or Lindsey Graham?
How many times did Hojo whisper in McInsane’s ear about AQI and others…?
Eli ..xxxoooo..good evening
Anybody with an IQ starting with an integer should know that the phrase “lost his bearings” simply means lost one’s way, or sense of direction. I love the phony “outrage at Obama’s ageism” by the McBu’ushies. Very cute.
AAAAACCCKKKKK. TMI TMI TMI
All kidding aside, what the hell is Joe talking about? This morning he personally checked McCain’s bearings and he has not lost any of them. What the hell does that mean?
Doesn’t he have any work he should be doing for the people he represents? I don’t think inspecting John McCain’s balls counts as oversight.
now you’re aiming below the belt.
Ewww.w.ww..w.w….!!!!
It wasn’t bad enough before you put that image into my mind? Aughh, patooie! I was trying to eat dinner!
Since you guys are standing in line to check each others bearings, I’m going to wimp out and say good nite.
But, have fun.
Hi, sadly!
I think, pardon my french, that HoJo has sunk to levels of bithcery.
I can check my own damn bearings, thank you very much.
I didn’t realize that auditioning for VP required such “personal” vetting.
well is JOeyLiarmman…a wet nurse,or cabanna boy for McNutty?
Here’s the complete clip:
I just want to report that this morning, I personally checked John McCain’s bearings. He has not lost any of them, and they are all really in great shape. I also checked his crank and it needed some lube. His dipstick looked a bit low, so I put a wad of oil in that hole thingie. Then I made sure his battery was recharged for the rest of the ride…..
just turn and cough
gives “kissing up” a whole new meaning, huh?
Aloha, demi! I know mine are straight and true…! ;-)
I’m not sure if McThusula(™RevDeb) got this tactic from Senator Clinton, or the other way around.
But we’ll surely see this soon: “Obama draws breath – McCain furious!”
ack…gag..gag..shudder
bom dia pups
think i threw up in my mouth a little
sadly–left you a note in the ’mccain, not old just lost’ thread at 100 101
nite all
Okay, then. Still, have fun.
jeebus, who is his writer?
I had the exact same reaction…
Haddasah…beard? Joey looks A- sexual to me
not my trademark. I stole it from someone else here. Can’t remember who started it or I would give credit where credit is due.
ishall go look….nite nite
GOP – Grandpa’s Old Potty
That one brought tears…
No doubt, dude.
Good night CT. :)
So who is the political genius in the McBush campaign who brought the fact that McBush is past green bananas into the discussion….
If McBush hadn’t lost his bearings, he’d have fired the idiot.
second that.
He’s playing the age card!
Here’s the deal McBush- when the thing you want to avoid most is having people realize that you were born during the Boer War, you don’t accuse people of callin ya old–got that?
Medic? Medic?
ET, how could the Hulkster still have a 53% somewhat/very favorable rating…? Inquiring minds want to know? ;-)
Strategically, it was kind of stupid. It’s like there’s no strategy at all. Or, they’ve decided the kitchen sink is all they’ve got as well…
See my 84 on the previous thread. Would that story have gotten any press 3 years ago? Thanks for catching it.
”Someone grab that old fucker- he’s tryin ta whack me with his walker!”
Boer War–that’s FUNNY. God, that sounds OLD.
this whole thing just brings prunes to mind
Republicans love to play victim.
GOP – Grandpa’s Orange Panties
in more ways than one.
The images were horrific and now you bring up prunes. Shame on you. :)
Or, you pull a Ronnie Raygun and make and effective neutralizing joke out if it. But, NO-o-o-o-o-o-o-ohhhh!!! Not in the current, transparently banal Land Of The Perpetually Politically Indignant Over EVERY Imagined Slight.
Joe has personally checked on McCain’s prunes and found them to be exemplary…
Exactly.
Those Meenie Libruls.
One of Joe’s favorite tactics against Lamont was to continually accuse him of running a negative campaign.
sorry but it was the image that popped in my head.
(I must be dottering, myself, as this is a repeat):
you want old? McVain came to the New World from Asia via the Bering Land Bridge.
Bustednuckles will confirm, if your going to check bearings you better be load a grease gun.
aaack.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I always packed ‘em by hand… ;-)
*putting plate down*
i didn’t need to eat tonight anyhow
YA, they just found the remains of his 14,000 years old lunch in Chile.
Ah yes, the Bering Land bridge. That’s quite prehistoric! But I’ll raise you one–he got here before continental drift tore good ol’ North America from Old Europe…
It’s the McCain-Lieberman diet plan.
Hamentaschen, his favorite.
The Chair recognizes the Senator from Pangaea…
Better copyright it quick! You could make millions!!!
707!
I’ll grant you that, but did you know that his economic plan to address the mortgage crisis emerged from the sub-prime ordeal ooze?
Yea, but Cindy wouldn’t like the climate
hahahahahaaa
Al Meyerhoff
McCain to Me in 1999: Bush “As Dumb as a Stump”
Posted May 9, 2008 | 06:01 PM (EST)
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Read More: 2000 Election, Dumb As a Stump, John McCain 2000, McCain Bush Dumb As a Stump, McCain’s 2000 Presidential Vote, Politics News
As a lawyer might say (OK, I am one), I have no personal; knowledge of whether John or Cindy McCain voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 election. However, now that that has been called into question by Arianna Huffington (who says no) and Huffington’s truthfulness has in turn been questioned by the McCain campaign (although not yet by the McCains), I can offer the following anecdote as admissible hearsay shedding a little light on the subject:
Awww, the Native Americans are not gonna like that. *g*
rofl
I’m pretty sure I’d get sued for promoting bulimia.
“Don’t call me OLD, you whippersnapper” croaked McBush as he pitched a jar of Geritol at Obama’s head”
It is pretty amazing, isn’t it? The Alaska bubble.
Ex-State Representative Vic Kohring, who was sentenced in Federal court yesterday to 3 & 1/2 years for corruption, could probably get 55% of the vote in his district from his jail cell. After all, unlike Democrts, he doesn’t kill babies, and that is all that matters in his district.
I do belive the wise from the past would reject and denouce!
yup reall Bull …emia
I bow to you in awe, as usual. But, I also steal from you too (”my contempt for Joe Lieberman…)
quite a stump speech.
it’s public domain by now!
I was gonna say somethin’ about his hair but I think the mods’ll burn me.
I don’t know, there are some things so gross (to me anyway) that just kill the need for food. This is one of those.
Notice on the video that Mrs. Greenspan is able to continue after hearing Joe but the other correspondent can’t stop laughing. Maybe Joe needs to visit the Greenspan household…
I did notice that Young pulled in some very unfavorable no.’s tho…! Go, Benson…! ;-)
I don’t even want to talk about his stump in the same post as his bearings.
That’s cause Mrs. Greenspan’s sense of humor got lost in the same place as McBush’s bearings.
Why, are you orthodox?
Hillary’s Last Stand.
when HoJo “checked under the hood” he should have noticed that McVain had no analytic converter.
I’m whatever Joe isn’t.
Plenty of mileage, tho.
Heading of another potential s*x scandal, the McCain campaign clarified today that the alleged S&M devices found stashed behind the bulkhead on Air Force Cindy were actually buggy whips.
Not to mention, who had an axle to grind?
most of it on re-treads
Actually, this is Hillary’s last stand – in the Fuhrer Bunker…
One thing that has been bugging me about Lieberman.
Too lazy to look it up. Is Joe related to Alexander Lieberman?
I once worked with the guys that did all of Alexander’s welding. The Laymans. They are an excellant crew of artians.
John McCain is wearing mostly polyester
John McCain is yelling at spiders again
John McCain thinks that’s a bunch of hooey
do the wise have hair?
okay that’s it for the opld bashing from me
Wicked, ET!
Breaking up is so hard to do…
From the Perrspective Blog:
McCain, Bush Staffs Coordinate on W Separation Strategy
Ouch! 707!
Blowout (Nov) prophecies…
Since it’s opening fishing time “Up North” in Minnesota this weekend and since the Rethugs are comin’ to St. Paul to anoint Methuselah John [and isn’t it swell that Paw-lenty will get the bridge fixed by convention time?], my metaphor of choice shall be the fish:
Lieberman is two wall-eyes short of a pike.
Anyone else think McCain’s lookin’ an awful lot like the grandpa of the albino in DaVinci Code?
Prairie Today: Rare Birds
Lieberman is two wall-eyes short of a pike.
LOL!!! Hi Prairie, the fisherfolks are happy and all is well with the world down here too.
seriously, what were they thinking with this ad?
Gotten about as much mileage out of that clip today, as Joe is getting out of John’s bearings, eh?
Firestone and (b)rim
Keith encore time.
Firestone
Fixed!
I like the YouTube keywords. And how she refers to him as “this baby”. And the micro-editing to remove all pauses and give McMom that weird cadence.
(Does anyone know what McCain’s mom has to do with “Safety”?)
He looks scarier than Cheney. At least Cheney holds his convictions.
Search your inner-tooobz.
Uh-oh, some blog-whoring… Mea Culpas…
What convictions? He doesn’t even have indictments.
she can’t make any more mccains. makes me feel safer
Jon Stewart was awfully cordial to McCain on Wednesday night. McCain came off like a real nice fellow. Scored him some street cred. Stewart did not press him on anything. What’s up with that?
And where are Cindy and the kids?
would you buy a used car from Mr. Three-on-a-tree?
I’m not sure it will do what they think it will. I cannot be the only person who has older and even elderly relatives (heck my great-aunt is 94 and my grandparents lived well into their 90s). I am watching many of them maintain their health mentally and physically, in their 70s, 80s and 90s and that’s great, but it still doesn’t mean you have the stamina and mental acuteness required to be the President. People will think about the people in their lives and wonder…
Just saw a heading over at TPM [and boo-yah for Josh’s new little cutie!] of McCain saying: People want me to tie Obama to Hamas.
So what are we to take from this? People, of course, being Rove…Think Progress still has their countdown going last I looked.
But I take it that McCain’s surrendered his bearings and is being led around by his ”hot dog” in this campaign [yes, we did see the gazillionth re-run of ”There’s Something About Mary” earlier this evening, why do you ask?]
Sheesh, you’d think two hours after eating it would be all right to read something like this. But nooooo.
McBush says that at his age he needs to name two Veeps.
I’d like to negative campaign him, right upside the head.
“three on the tree”
Haven’t heard that in a McCain’s age.
You want to talk about old? McCain is so old he thinks “The Flintstones” is science fiction.
The wheel is just not practical.
Obviously fire is some kind of liberal bleeding-heart handout scheme. I mean, softened food, come on.
And it’s dangerous. Vote for the anti-fire candidate, he’ll keep you safe. You don’t want to die horribly in your cave, do you?
mccain is so old he was god’s babysitter
roflmao
Mc(not a Ford)Maverick’s engine has the latest technology: fool injection
McCain is so old that when he saw the Lucy fossil, he said “Man, she used to put out!”
Keith finally asks Hapless Harry if there’s anything Traitor Joe could do to strip him from his dem. cred. Asks him about Joe’s stumping for McSame and Harry brings out the old nonsense that Joe is with us on everything but the war. Keith does not press.
Another non-answer from Hapless.
“I like younger women.”
707!!!
Hapless will be gone after November…and the Senate will be the better for it.
there he goes again, rattling his saber-cats against the Elamites
I really really really really hope you’re right.
My fear is that Harry is providing *exactly* the kind of “leadership” that the Senate Dems want.
Ah, the peanut parent answer. Glad I’m not going to be at the BOOK SALON TOMORROW!
Dang, Suz, you don’t pull your punches…! ;-)
I don’t wanna say McCain is old, but it turns out his kid sister is Mitochondrial Eve.
not soon enough for me. But I think Eli at 161 is correct. Harry is giving them not Hell but exactly what they want. Cover.
mccain is so old he spent his formative years on pangea
John, John, you don’t need Joe any more. Now you can have your own back.
“We can’t do *anything* without 60 votes. It’s just the way of the world.”
Harry Reid is gonna be here soon to promote his book. What would be a collegial way to ask him about Lieberman, FISA, telco immunity, Sumpreme ct. appointments…?
funny how that never stopped the rethugs.
I gotta stay away. I just couldn’t be civil.
“We can’t stop *anything* without 60 votes. It’s just the way of the world.”
I personally want answers to Hojo and FISA, in particular, why he didn’t honor Dodd’s hold on Jello Jay’s bill…?
You can point out that Keith asked him about JoeLie’s stumping for McSame and he did not answer the question. Since he has now had more time to think about it, perhaps he can answer it for us.
He has also said that he does not support immunity for the telcos so how is a compromise necessary. We won FISA by stalling it, the old law is sufficient, so why are we trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? What is Jello Jay trying to cover up?
If he has the nerve to come here to push his book, the least he can do is answer questions.
Now I don’t wanna say that Harry Reid is a useless git, but…oh, hell, who am I kidding?
Countering Chris Dodd on his filibuster, fasttracking Republican bills. Glenn Greenwald is the man to lay out some good questions. Marcy, too. they’ve got the figures.
Doesn’t James Carville run his blog, giveemhellharry?
Harry is leader because the more appropriate choices for leader…articulate, forceful speakers…were too busy contemplating their run for the WH. You can hire the frackin’ behind the scenes negotiators…articulate forceful before the cameras is a talent.
Yes, why is it that he tried so hard to facilitate something he was supposedly against?
Amen, Rev! He will be asked it, unless we’re all moderated…! ;-)
Look on the bright side — we may now have a great 2012 float to chase him around with, like we did with The Kiss.
The Teabag will be the first NSFW political float.
Can anyone from the east coast tell me who is on Bill Moyers tonight?
Pretty please?
5pm tomorrow. Chat with Senator Harry Reid about his new book. Hosted by Digby.
Philippe Sands, among others.
Thanks for a big load of fun, Eli.
Goodnight, my friends.
I’m sure Digby will not forego the pertinent questions that we all share…! ;-)
McCain’s hair.
Ooh, sounds cool!
Good night. Try not to dream.
Thanks.
Tonite, is an early Mother’s day for my better half, a prime-rib and seafood buffet at the Hilo Hawaiian, I’m salivating already…! ;-)
Right. Digby is sharp. She knows the questions as well as anyone. I hope I can be here. Collegial Body, sixty votes, with us on everything except the war.
Phillippe Sands, and don’t miss it.
Not a spoiler, you can see this phrase in the ads for the book:
…culture of cruelty
We can stick this to McCain with SuperGlue. Katrina, torture, every lousy neo-con vote he made. “McCain is a continuation of a culture of cruelty….”
I like the sound of it.
CTuttle and wife, enjoy!
i don’t think there is anyone better when it comes to analysis of the Rs – but, imo, too often she doesn’t apply the same standards or skill when it comes to the Ds.
that said, i think Reid is in for a tough time.
What were a couple good things that Reid did? He threatened a filibuster. Made the senate stay in session overnite. Kept the senate open during break so that Cheney couldn’t pull a fast one. There were a few things that showed some strength, but not much was promising beyond that. Why not?
Does Harry have a twin?
LOL!
i can’t really type now Eli.
but, YOU should be rich! I mean wealthy, as in have a lot of money.
This is priceless!
Maybe this is a picture of McCain’s bearings.
http://www.qcindustries.com/co…..rings.html