Humorless Politics Thread

[roubaix]

I swear I saw Olbermann wearing a sweatshirt on his Current show before the Treyvon Martin murder happened.  It looked like he was starting to give up.

[Smelodies]

I understand Keith is in negotiations with WFMU.

[dave from knoxville]

I understand Keith is in negotiations with WFMU.

He can be the next Weev (Weave?)

[cavorting with nudists]

Aw, I was glad to see him go but this almost makes me miss the dumb bastard:

A bad back doomed any chance Perry stood to break through. It became an open secret that he was using painkillers in sufficient dosages to keep him standing through the two-hour debates. The manager of a rival campaign was at a urinal in an empty bathroom in Hanover, New Hampshire, before the Bloomberg News debate on October 11, when he heard someone come through the door loudly singing "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Wondering who was making all the noise, the campaign manager turned his head and saw, to his surprise, the governor of Texas. Perry came down the row of about twenty urinals and stood companionably close by. Nonplussed, the campaign manager made a hasty exit; as the bathroom door closed, he could hear Perry still merrily singing away: "I-I-I've been working on the ra-a-i-i-l-road, all-l-l the live-long day . . ."

http://gawker.com/5898350/is-rick-perry-a-creepy-pee+er-or-just-high-on-pills

[Kormod]

The only song Rick Perry knows, like Alex De Large and "Singin' in the Rain."

Some more Romney weirdness:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/quoted-ann-romney-wants-to-unzip-the-real-mitt/2012/04/02/gIQASROBrS_blog.html

“I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.”

— Ann Romney refuting the notion that her husband is “stiff,” in an interview with Baltimore’s WBAL radio Monday. “He is not,” she said. “He’s funny, he’s engaging he’s witty. He is always playing jokes. When I met him as a teenager, he was the life of the party. . . That’s part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.”

[Steve of Bloomington]

The only song Rick Perry knows, like Alex De Large and "Singin' in the Rain."

Some more Romney weirdness:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/quoted-ann-romney-wants-to-unzip-the-real-mitt/2012/04/02/gIQASROBrS_blog.html

“I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.”

— Ann Romney refuting the notion that her husband is “stiff,” in an interview with Baltimore’s WBAL radio Monday. “He is not,” she said. “He’s funny, he’s engaging he’s witty. He is always playing jokes. When I met him as a teenager, he was the life of the party. . . That’s part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.”

People who 'like to play jokes' are almost never funny. 'I switched your cell phone to Spanish, haha.'

[Kormod]

Jokester Mitt:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/28/mitt-romney-wisconsin-humorous-story_n_1386383.html

One of [the] most humorous I think relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors. ... They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Jokester Mitt:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/28/mitt-romney-wisconsin-humorous-story_n_1386383.html

One of [the] most humorous I think relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors. ... They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. And as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign.

LOL

[Steve of Bloomington]

Reminds me of the hilarious story of when my grandma was sick and I mispronounced 'preexisting condition' after hearing the grownups say it.

[Kormod]

A Fox News anchor tweeting a link to a groundbreaking story:

[daveB from Oakland]

Hot dang, Heather, you got yourself a real lid-blower there! That's some real journalism ... And also she's a pretty blond lady! Can you believe it?

I did not follow the link to "Godfather politics". Is that Herman Cain related?

Ms. Childers has learned well from her employers: As long you phrase your libelous fictional bullshit in the form of a question, it's all good.

[Smelodies]

I wonder if it was Gibbs or Axelrod who made the call to Chelsea.

[Kormod]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/04/17/ted-nugent-declares-i-will-either-be-dead-or-in-jail-if-obama-is-re-elected/

Ted Nugent is hitting the pavement for GOP president hopeful Mitt Romney. The rocker called for attendees of the National Rifle Association’s convention to go out and recruit thousands of people to vote for Romney in the coming election. Nugent said,  ”Our government is wiping its a– with the Constitution.”   During an on-site interview, he also told the crowd, ”We’ve got four Supreme Court justices who don’t believe in the Constitution. Does everybody here know that four of the Supreme Court justices not only determined you don’t have the right to keep and bear arms, four Supreme Court justices signed their name to a declaration that Americans have no fundamental right to self-defense? That sounds like a stoned hippie. That doesn’t sound like a Supreme Court anything.”  The musician went on to say: ”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”  A representative for Nugent didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

[cavorting with nudists]

”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

Yet another reason to vote for Obama. Come on, people, do your part!

[daveB from Oakland]

So Ted's got a Secret Service detail on him now. Gary covered this topic pretty well on his show tonite.