When I saw this post at FDL I started to laugh my ass off.
“Eastwooding”
That image is priceless!
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The Simpsons. I love that damn cartoon.
Oh yeah, and this MoJo article made me laugh too:
News Outlets Around the World Totally Confused by Clint Eastwood | Mother Jones
Oh wow. Those foreign quote are hilarious.
Did you see this? Debating An Empty Chair? ‘Eastwooding’ Was A Thing Back In 1924 | WKNO FM
To be honest, I think it’s pretty funny that conservatives are fawning over Clint’s performance while asshats like tbogg are mocking him. The real problem was that he was smug, obnoxious, undignified, and didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. Take away the old man channeling Bob Newhart and replace him with a slap-worthy aging hipster (or maybe Kathy Griffin) and it’s so Axlerod-Plouffe and most of the reactions would be completely reversed. Oh what wonders and glories we have to look forward to in our politics in the years to come. 😉
If you can find any reason why he shouldn’t be mocked for making a complete fool of himself. I’ll listen. Just can the “both sided do it” stuff until it happens. Which it could easily.
Somehow I don’t think we’ll see a movie actor taking to a stool at the Democratic Convention.
That image is priceless. I can stop laughing.
Here’s another image.
http://www.thebigempty-bjork.com/2012/08/a-juxtaposition-like-no-other.html
pdgrey, that pic is hilarious!
But unlike some good things that We the Taxpayers Built, such as roads, bridges, schools, clinics, fire stations, we the taxpayers got only spies, bailed-out Wall Streeters and maimed and dead soldiers from what the GOP built.
I went ahead and embedded it pd. That is funny too…
Also, JJ, or anyone here what wants to embed Crap I find, that’s great!
NWLuna, yes, and that is a great point. And the renter class is only going to get worse.
Oh, that’s good pdgrey! What an image.
That’s perfect!
I know, right?
Thanks JJ, I am an old lady that taught herself “the computer tubes”. I admit I haven’t mastered it. It’s funny I spent my time learning about using computers to help my music. I’m pretty good with programs though. I was slow to catch the boat.
Another link for you: Shameless: 5 Ugly Themes We Saw at the RNC Convention | Alternet
If you haven’t been watching Stewart and Colbert this week go see it on line. By the way both programs will be on tonight.
Cannonfire has a post about Stewart missing a great opportunity to set the record straight on the stimulus package when he was interviewing Marco Rubio. It’s not that I don’t agree with Cannonfire that Democrats should be it pointing out, but I don’t think it’s really Stewart’s job. Just a difference of opinion.
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-stimulus-lies-and-truth.html
really, I wanted to say I have enjoyed this week with Stewart and Colbert and wanted to share.
Me too. I think Jon actually likes Rubio. His demeanor this time was friendlier, almost palsy walsy, than the first Rubio interview. But, Jon is always gracious with his guests, yet manages to disagree when the guest says something nuts.
I think Jon may be switching sides. He is rich after all.
Okay, I found some more links to share with you, and since I am doing the cartoon post later…and I want to focus on the cartoons, I will just stick them here.
Did Clint Get Cold Feet? | emptywheel
‘Bain Capital’ offers Romney endorsement | The Raw Story
Majority of New Jobs Pay Low Wages, Study Finds – NYTimes.com
(No shit….oh yeah btw, that photo is in one of the best Cuban restaurants in Tampa.)
Cannonfire Mitts great lie.
9 Important Omissions From Romney’s Convention Speech | ThinkProgress
S.E. Cupp: ‘I Wanted A Fist Full Of Cyanide’ Watching Eastwood’s RNC Speech | Mediaite That seems extreme to me…
Gov. Sam Brownback Admits Romney Ads Lie About Welfare | Crooks and Liars
The GOP’s Clever Plan to Position Rubio for 2016 – Clive Crook – The Atlantic
For laughs you could have checked out InvisibleObama’s twitter feed. It picked up more followers than Romney and Ryan put together since it was created. Now the account is suspended. Apparently twitter doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Darn it. I missed all the good stuff!
Suspended? WTF for? Oh, right, because our Corporate Overlords can.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/rnc-convention-workers-minimum-wage_n_1844836.html
God, i hope the DNC doesn’t make this mistake.
JJ, I have to work on the weekends (sometimes) and miss so much not being around on Friday’s funnies. l think laughing is all I have left to make it though!
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Have a good evening and a nice weekend, Sky Dancers. Enjoy the blue moon.
Last night I said, it’s only fitting, two moons for Neil Armstrong.
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Is there a video of the Clint Eastwood appearance?
Yeah, Clint Eastwood’s Republican National Convention speech – CBS News Video
I got embarrassed when he started talking to the chair and shut it off.
Yeah, it was sad to watch.
I haven’t had the nerve to watch it yet. I’m waiting on a patty melt at Buffa’s in the Quarter. Drinking in the a/c. Did you get your electrician appointment yet or is half the house still funky?
Never mind. I found it. What’s with Clint’s hair?
Well I thought of Doc Brown, Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future while watching it. and today Tweety did too. That’s a first. Tweety and I agree.
Make sure you have a couple of drinks first, Dak.
I actually sat down next to a guy blogging the RNC for GQ. How is that for weird?
Was that last night?
That is very weird. I can just imagine the style advice to the candidates! lol
I thought Marc Ambinder was doing that too
No. Tonight. He’d been doing it up until the lights went out in the Marigny. He was moaning that he’d missed the Chair moment and was trying to get caught up.
This graph is the reason Obama will lose Florida.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/08/rick_scotts_voter_registration.php
The voter ID law is important but the fact there is almost no new registration in a state like Florida is massive.
Yea, I go from laughing my ass off to screaming.
I should have added, NOW, some of the courts are striking the voter ID and Hours open Laws but the thing hiding under the porch is registration. That graph scared the hell out of me.
Sometimes I post things I just think other people know without links, sorry. Florida’s zombie alien Gov. ran the women’s league of voters out of Florida. Here is a link to see the news.
http://thefloridavoter.org/
I think the court struck down all the limits to registration. I think Obama will win Florida if his campaign makes sure old people understand what Romney/Ryan are up to.
I hope so BB. But I fear it’s late in the game to catch up.
Invisible Obama grants an interview with mashable. 🙂
mashable: Invisible Obama: Exclusive Q&A with the Internet Sensation
twitter feed is back and still funny.
https://twitter.com/invisibleobama
Ralph,
I can’t believe you were right about the Reagan hologram.
Scary huh. Just a lucky guess but I didn’t think they would pass up a chance to reanimate Zombie Reagan for a new generation of wingnuts 🙂
Here’s another congressional idiot, this one from Maryland.
Republican Congressman: There Are Very Few Pregnancies From Rape, It Is A Tiny Percentage
You think they’d eventually run out of white guys with pompadours wouldn’t you? But then, along comes Ryan … 42 and dressing like he was in his prime in 1945
They won’t run out of them until people stop voting for them. That’s just scary to me that we are able to do that. Oh well, when demographics change a little more that will come to an end, I hope.
Samantha B, on the Daily Show, was interviewing attendees about Romney’s disagreeing with the abortion plank. One of the women she interviewed said “I know there are few pregnancies of rape victims….they say there are very, very few.” Samantha B agreed & then said “just 32,000…..a year.” The woman was like oooh, shaking her head in agreement. She basically was dumbfounded. The whole piece Samantha B did was great. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-29-2012/rnc-2012—the-road-to-jeb-bush-2016—the-republican-platform
“government is meant to protect the individual liberties of everyone lacking a uterus.”
well just fuck!
Who are these people? And is she going to wear that same hair-do the rest of her life?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/victoria-jackson-todd-akin-rape-abortion_n_1847852.html
I don’t usually see The Ed Show but during tonight’s show this guy from Janesville, WI that worked at the GM plant in question really did a number on Paul Ryan. And he was sitting in front of an auditorium of workers saying they were voting for Obama. The guy pointed out the auto bailout saved the pensions.
Bwahahahahaha. That’s precious,
Course, if it was pensions for Goldman Sacks or Bain Capital upper management, that would be different. But pensions are so wasted on workers. snark, of course
Pdgrey, Rachel is discussing the Florida Voter Registration issue that you pointed out earlier. She also said it worries her, but she qualified that by saying she believers there’s time to get folks registered. I hope she’s right, Florida is a very important state.
It was the numbers that scared me. Almost 300,000 in 2008 and 11,00 in 2012. God it’s August 31st.
WTF are these asshats doing? Running a campaign for president or do they think they’re marriage counselors. This seems much too shallow to be taken seriously, but …
NYT: Emotional Ties to Obama May be Central to the Election
These GOP strategist are so far not doing so hot on finessing and delicacying their policy of no contraception and forced labor after rape.
That they could think women would be so shallow seems to me to be insulting. Do they think that women don’t vote on issues? Of course, they are also talking about men but when they bring things up it’s always a woman breaking up with her latest or something.
Rachel just covered what’s happened to voter registrations in Florida due to the restrictive law passed this year (just overturned by a judge): http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-08-27/story/democratic-registration-all-dries-new-florida-laws Check out the graph – about 11,000 dems registered vs 128,000 repugs.
She did a really good job in 5 minutes explaining what took me about 5 posts. Guess I won’t get that MSNBC anchor job!
Hang in there. Rachel has had a lot of practice 🙂
Keeping in line with Simpson theme:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/08/31/who-said-it-clint-eastwood-grandpa-simpson-quiz_n_1846218.html