How scary is it that A) Mike Allen and I have the same wet dream, and B) It’s about Roger Ailes?
Yes, I too would love nothing more than to see Roger Ailes run for president. Not only is he one of the most unelectable and “personally loathsome” men on the planet, but think how much of its remaining credibility Fox News would squander if it went all-in trying to make him look like the next Ronald Reagan. Or even the next Fred Thompson.
But what really caught my eye was Gawker’s claim that the White House is deliberately trying to raise Fox News’ profile:
[T]he White House… like[s] the idea of having an opposition that is noxious, untruthful, combative, angry, emotionally unstable, and subject to an unyielding financial incentive to be ever moreso.
Which begs the question, What do they need Fox News for? After all, the Republican Party already meets all of those criteria. And we’re not talking just random teabagger crazies, these are actual elected officials and members of the party apparatus.
They’ve got the likes of Michele Bachmann, Jean Schmidt, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Joe Wilson, Steve King, Sarah Palin (only recently not a governor) spouting pure high-grade malice and/or crazy every time they open their mouths.
They’ve got Mark Sanford, John Ensign, David Vitter, Mark Foley and Larry Craig tripping over their own dicks.
They’ve got 75% of the Senate Republican caucus voting against accountability for rape.
They’ve got the goofiest, gaffiest party chair in United States history, and more baldfaced liars and corrupt corporate puppets than I can count.
And as you go down the food chain, it gets even worse. One GOP Congressman jokes about hunting Democrats, another about lynching them. Remember the e-mail with the watermelons on the White House lawn? That was a Republican mayor. That wacky picture of President Obama as a pair of disembodied eyes against a black background? That was a Republican state senator’s staffer (as was the pedophile Furry). The guy who compared Obama to Osama bin Laden? VA GOP Chair. The idiot who spilled explicit details of his affair into a live mic? Republican assemblyman.
In other words, the GOP doesn’t need any help from Fox News to look bad, they’re managing just fine all by themselves.
There are signs that they’re beginning to worry that all the Crazy is making them look bad, but they’ve been making noises like that ever since The Thumpin’, and it never translates to any actual changes in behavior. If anything, they’ve become even more obnoxious and extreme since Obama took office. Just like Flight 188, they may have finally realized that they’ve overshot their target by hundreds of miles, but unlike Flight 188, they’re unwilling or unable to turn the plane around, even at the risk of running out of gas and crashing.
I guess they have the wrong Cheney in the pilot’s seat.
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I grew up with R. Crumb, William S. Burroughs, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, and countless others who challenged the morality police bullshit, but you sir, you have gone WAY over the line:
Roger Ailes and wet dreams together?!?! Have you no decency?!?!
Well… no.
This has been another edition of Simple Answers To Simple Questions.
Let Ailes run ,with Sarah’s backing of course !
Maybe she could be his running mate. Or Michele Bachmann.
Or maybe Glenn Beck! It’d be like a dream team!
gotta feel sorry for this eponymous guy.
Ailes & Beck 2012!!
“Because Bush/Cheney just wasn’t crazy enough!”
But ,What if they won?
Lordy, it’ll be Jabba & Leia all over again …
Eli !
If a majority of Americans think Ailes would make a good president, we’re doomed as a country anyway.
Because they need to get their psycho on….
Have you seen the polls? I think an ice cube has a better chance in hell.
There won’t be any elections in 2012 we will have joined the New World Order and elections will no longer be needed.
Fearless Leader Obama will be calling all the shots ,Ailes and Beck will have been sent off to the FEMA re education camps, they will no longer be a problem !
Will they have enough time to compile the 2010 census results and use them to take away everyone’s guns before then?
Sure just as soon as the death panels finish up with their work
The guys who fell asleep flying the plane…couldnt they at least have set an alarm clock? Or is the airline just too cheap to provide them with one?
Sorry Gramma ,but you know it’s all for the greater good
Shouldn’t the voices on the radio have woken them up?
falling asleep in the cockpit is not all that rare . Some of these guys are flying while exhausted !
Had the same thought, more than a little frightening. Wonder why none of the passengers noticed the flight was more than a hour longer than it should have been. Where were the flight attendants?
Oh, like WTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING UP THERE, those voices? Barely interferred with their dreams.
What’s the GOP’s excuse?
(I guess it’s a golden opportunity to insert boilerplate about the GOP’s tired, exhausted, failed ideas)
It strikes me as incredibly improbable that Ailes might run. When you think of all the dirty laundry Republican public officials seem to possess, someone like Ailes who has spent his life working in the private sector has probably left a mountain (range) of dead hookers in his wake.
Their “jet dreams” about Roger Ailes in a speedo…running a marathon?
Plus the whole “personally loathsome” thing…
eeeeeewwwwwwww
Eight years and 300 million passengers
On plus side, that would be the shortest marathon ever. What, like 20 feet or so?
Not sure where to put this:
Soupy Sales: RIP!
Watching a bunch of youtubes right now.
any more of that and I’m outa here !!
This whole Roger The Hut nonsense is obviously a PR counter play in response to the White House/Pox Newz flap.
Sorry, got a little carried away with a great local brew earlier this eve, and getting a little punchy!
Once an individual crosses a certain corpulence threshold, any apparel in proximity to the hindquarters becomes a thong.
Don’t look at me! No to thongs. Nothing in the crack. Not even lint.
Mike Allen blew his last cred wad on this story, I think. But no Villager is ever shunned by other Villagers for absurd or incorrect reporting or commentary, so his career may move to greater heights — probably at FOX.
Isn’t the ultimate beat-sweetener to write about someone’s Presidential aspirations? And hope that someone can give you a job?
Recall, please, that Mike Allen was singled out at the White House by then-President Bush on politico’s very first day.
And word on the pilots is that they had left Denver controller’s airspace but hadn’t changed their radio over to Minneapolis controller’s frequency. So other pilots had to hail them, using the Denver frequency.
Which Minneapolis apparently cannot do.
Every time I read about these details of the American air traffic control system, it makes me wonder why I fly.
You could try putting ‘em on backwards. :-)
P.S. RIP Soupy.
Oh Rah, Oh Ray. Part of my influences, growing up.
:( Still trying to reconcile this death thingy.
So the pilots overshot a mini apple and ended up over eclair? Maybe their eyes were just glazed over after the long john flight and they were just frittering away the time? At least they didn’t end up in Boston, where they really would’ve been cremed! They must be Danish.
Just think of the angels laughing in heaven right now. I wonder if Fang is up there, too.
I knew there’d be big trouble when they put N.W.A. on their planes.
Let me tell you, it wasn’t so funny if you were one of the little kids who sent the green paper with pictures of bearded men of it from your dad’s pocket and your mom’s purse to Soupy. It wasn’t funny at all.
Naughty giggling, I suspect. Black Tooth, White Fang and Pookie.
Peaches too. He was such a quick wit. There’s a youtube of him just last January, his 83rd birthday. Still had his chops.
Party pooper.
Oh Teddy, you didn’t!
Easy, P.
Just sayin’ he wasn’t universally loved.
Who is?
And, it’s kind of why I liked him. I was always drawn to those on the fringe. Maybe I still am.
Are you saying that you didn’t like Mr. Sales?
Im always drawn to the fridge. Well, only when there’s beer in it I guess…
Those pilots were Straight Outta Crullers. That’s why they were flying to Eclair.
You mean I’m not universally loved? Dang. Oh well, Bob loves me.
What about if there’s chocolate cake in there?
They ran out of twisty donuts? Partial to jelly myself, or chocolate anything.
They weren’t asleep. They were fooling around with the flight attendants.
it would be irresponsible not to speculate!
Maybe they needed the overtime.
FYI, Soupy’s original name was Milton Supman.
The raving right makes the corrupt corporate Dems look good by comparison. This is the way to stop progressive legislation. Obama,Biden,Shumer et al can keep on pawning off crap to the public because there isn’t an alternative.
You are loved.
Ixnay on the aring way em thay ackwards bay.
If it’s hoppy, it’s happenin!
In my book at least. Beer cake….hmmmm….
Explanation of Teddy’s “green paper” reference, in case you need it.
You might want to try that with a yellow cake. Beer instead of other liquids. Why not, babe?
PS, my system just reverted to me having to do each refresh twice and getting the data base error with each domment.
Was it the Party Pooper comment? Ha!
Nope. Got it. But, thanks.
the tubes is tired tonight.
FWIW, Flight 188’s pilot’s name is Cheney. There must be a metaphor there.
Looks pretty good.
Beer cake recipe.
Me too. Yawning. Thankfully, I’m not piloting a plane or anything else.
You good?
(domment? see what I mean?)
Asleep At The Wheel?
Hi ya, honey.
This looks like a beer cake winner.
I didn’t know that when I said yellow cake.
I’m on it. You’d think that the baking would take out the alcohol, tho, wouldn’t it? Maybe a liquer?
My last sentence. I wasn’t able to make the connection as elegantly as I would have liked, tho.
Gregg Levine is upstairs!
Late Night: Elephants on Parade?
Now, you’re talking!
Too many yawns here. Gotta go.
You are all universally loved. And, you all deserve it. Don’t forget it.
It seems like this has happened in Hawaii more then once.
If my memory serves between 3 or 5 years ago a new to Hawaii airline set up cheap flights and their pilots overshoot the Big Island by some measureable amount of time.
Ot seems like in Hawaii this has had before that one but unsure.
At least these guys weren’t at risk of losing sight of land.
Michael Moore was just talking about this.
Oh, poop. Didn’t read carefully. Thought I had a scoop. (sigh) Sorry.
I really wanted to close with something like “…And the pilot’s name was CHENEY!”, but I just couldn’t figure out how.
And yet it’s looking like the Republicans are going to capture the governor’s house in VA in a week or two.
The Virginia Gov. race shows once again given the choice between 2 rethuglicans, all other things being equal, the voters will vote for the one with the honest party label versus the rethuglican running as a D.
At first I thought the title referred to the Twilight Zone episode where the airliner flew back into the time of the dinosaurs and at the end was left up in the air looking for a place to land. That’s as good a description of the GOP as I’ve heard lately.
R.I.P. Soupy Sales, the original subversive naif.