Comments on: McCain’s Cronies: Playing Unrepentant Footsie With Ralph Reed http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:44:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580544 readerOfTeaLeaves Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:37:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580544 <p>Well, it sure seems that Joe Klein has had a few epiphanies recently; he’s writing as if he’s finally gotten pissed off at whoever thought they owned him. He’s starting to eviscerate the campaign bullshit, and my heavens is that a refreshing sight (!).</p> <p>Speaking of Unrepentant Footsie and Ralph Reed — at one point, he was billing Microsoft $20,000/month for ’strategic advice’ or some such twaddle. (And I thought to myself, ‘if I didn’t have a conscience, I could probably bill for bullshit like that, too… dayum’.) </p> <p>The licentious sums of Ralphie The Walking Bubonic Plague and his fellow toxic travelers give a little more context to the McSame campaigns desperate efforts to smear Obama, though. Imagine being a lobbyist billing (former Soviet) Georgia, and other nations — and then seeing that the US election might put a damper on your income. Mwhwahahahahaha…. ;-))</p> Well, it sure seems that Joe Klein has had a few epiphanies recently; he’s writing as if he’s finally gotten pissed off at whoever thought they owned him. He’s starting to eviscerate the campaign bullshit, and my heavens is that a refreshing sight (!).

Speaking of Unrepentant Footsie and Ralph Reed — at one point, he was billing Microsoft $20,000/month for ’strategic advice’ or some such twaddle. (And I thought to myself, ‘if I didn’t have a conscience, I could probably bill for bullshit like that, too… dayum’.)

The licentious sums of Ralphie The Walking Bubonic Plague and his fellow toxic travelers give a little more context to the McSame campaigns desperate efforts to smear Obama, though. Imagine being a lobbyist billing (former Soviet) Georgia, and other nations — and then seeing that the US election might put a damper on your income. Mwhwahahahahaha…. ;-))

]]> By: oldtree http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580541 oldtree Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:31:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580541 <p>The argument might be that the old man doesn’t know anyone that isn’t a crook.</p> The argument might be that the old man doesn’t know anyone that isn’t a crook.

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580532 readerOfTeaLeaves Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:20:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580532 <p>Please give him something that’ll take longer than ten minutes.<br /> ‘Cause I think that may be all the time left once DeadEye and Booshie leave the WH…. though, in my dreams, they leave in handcuffs and are escorted by FBI and Federal Marshals…</p> Please give him something that’ll take longer than ten minutes.
‘Cause I think that may be all the time left once DeadEye and Booshie leave the WH…. though, in my dreams, they leave in handcuffs and are escorted by FBI and Federal Marshals…

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580529 Christy Hardin Smith Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:17:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580529 <p>Oh, and I do no know what happened with Joe Klein other than the fact that the man crush of the day has likely faded…just like it did for the Big Dog and for Bushie. It may take a while, but he predictably turns sour on the romance eventually. Maybe it’s just McCain’s turn.</p> <p>Or maybe he needed more fiber in his diet this week. In other words, who knows, but even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while. If it’s a revelation, though, more power to him and kudos if he keeps it up.</p> Oh, and I do no know what happened with Joe Klein other than the fact that the man crush of the day has likely faded…just like it did for the Big Dog and for Bushie. It may take a while, but he predictably turns sour on the romance eventually. Maybe it’s just McCain’s turn.

Or maybe he needed more fiber in his diet this week. In other words, who knows, but even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while. If it’s a revelation, though, more power to him and kudos if he keeps it up.

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580525 readerOfTeaLeaves Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:13:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580525 <p>Oh, he is quite the False Prophet.<br /> Lordy, if this GOP group had lived during the time of Moses, the people would have been walked clear across the Sahara and ended up drowning off the Ivory Coast. Jeebuz, what a gang of nutjobs… 8-0</p> Oh, he is quite the False Prophet.
Lordy, if this GOP group had lived during the time of Moses, the people would have been walked clear across the Sahara and ended up drowning off the Ivory Coast. Jeebuz, what a gang of nutjobs… 8-0

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580523 readerOfTeaLeaves Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:10:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580523 <p>According to my main source inside newspaper operations, things like Craig’s List have taken a huge segment of newspaper revenue away. In addition, too few papers are owned and operated by news people anymore; they’re far too often managed by ‘bean counters’ who don’t care all that much about the traditions of local community services or networks. Sad.</p> According to my main source inside newspaper operations, things like Craig’s List have taken a huge segment of newspaper revenue away. In addition, too few papers are owned and operated by news people anymore; they’re far too often managed by ‘bean counters’ who don’t care all that much about the traditions of local community services or networks. Sad.

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580522 Christy Hardin Smith Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:10:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580522 <p>You know, that traveling bubonic plague show thing just tra-la’ed out of my fingertips. But I’m gonna have to start using it because it cracked me up a second time there reading it. hehehehehehe</p> <p>A pestilence upon the land, indeed…</p> You know, that traveling bubonic plague show thing just tra-la’ed out of my fingertips. But I’m gonna have to start using it because it cracked me up a second time there reading it. hehehehehehe

A pestilence upon the land, indeed…

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580521 readerOfTeaLeaves Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:08:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580521 <p>CHS, Just a quick comment — when did you start letting Joe Klein over at TIME (Swampland) start drinking out of whatever Magical WhoopAss potion you were blessed drinking from… cause the wingnuts are all over JK, now that he’s actually mentioning the huge problems involved in ‘false equivalences’ of ‘objective’ reporting.</p> <p><a href="http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/08/scholarship.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time-blog.com/swamp.....rship.html</a></p> <p>I think your WhoopAss is a splendid antidote to Ralphie’s <em>‘traveling bubonic plague show</em>.’<br /> That man and his ilk are a walking pestilence upon the land.<br /> Uff…</p> CHS, Just a quick comment — when did you start letting Joe Klein over at TIME (Swampland) start drinking out of whatever Magical WhoopAss potion you were blessed drinking from… cause the wingnuts are all over JK, now that he’s actually mentioning the huge problems involved in ‘false equivalences’ of ‘objective’ reporting.

http://www.time-blog.com/swamp…..rship.html

I think your WhoopAss is a splendid antidote to Ralphie’s ‘traveling bubonic plague show.’
That man and his ilk are a walking pestilence upon the land.
Uff…

]]> By: Marion in Savannah http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580520 Marion in Savannah Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:07:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580520 <p>It’s owned by Morris Communications, and they probably out-dumb Gannett. A few weeks ago someone noted that the article I linked to had nothing but one-sentence paragraphs…</p> It’s owned by Morris Communications, and they probably out-dumb Gannett. A few weeks ago someone noted that the article I linked to had nothing but one-sentence paragraphs…

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580519 Christy Hardin Smith Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:06:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccains-cronies-playing-unrepentant-footsie-with-ralph-reed/#comment-1580519 <p>Yes. This has been another edition of… *g*</p> Yes. This has been another edition of… *g*

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