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Notice anything odd in the screenshot above?
I suppose Google isn’t technically mistaking Obama for Dennis Haysbert; it’s a link to a story about how McCain thinks President Palmer is the best fictional President.
Meanwhile, the story it’s accidentally illustrating takes the Lieberman trainwreck to a new level.
“The last few days, four or five days, we’ve seen one of the most unexpected crises in the world as the Russians moved into Georgia as aggressors. And if you read the statements from the beginning, Senator McCain and Senator Obama, one had kind of moral neutrality to it that comes I think from inexperience,” Lieberman said. “The other, Senator McCain, was strong and clear and principled and put America where America always wants to be.”
Except in the way it isn’t:
Additionally, it should be noted that Obama’s initial statement was actually very similar in tone to Dana Perino’s White House statement Friday in which she said, “we urge restraint on all sides - that violence would be curtailed and that direct dialogue could ensue in order to help resolve their differences.”
Whatever, Joe.
Update: Kick Lieberman the fuck out already. I’m all for avoiding lockstep partisanship, but Joe Lieberman is an albatross wrapped in a quisling wrapped in an anti-personnel mine.
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I wonder if any reporter has yet thought to ask Lieberman whether there’s any international crisis to which the correct answer wouldn’t be military force?
smadin: oceanna vs. eurasia, natch. except, of course, that they’ve always been at war. which makes him a maverick, or something.
There are some *weird* associations between stories and images sometimes. (Whatever algorithm they use has ironed out all of the kinks.)
Joe has made such a joke of himself. I hope against hope McCain offers him the VP slot and he accepts. My heart would leap with joy. That would scuttle both his career in the Senate and whatever chance McCain had to be elected President.
What was the 2000 version of Al Gore thinking? Seriously.
Lieberman wasn’t this bad in 2000. He wasn’t great, but he wasn’t this bad. I think the aftermath of 2000 and especially 2004 really soured him.
Like all good liberals, I’ll say the best fictional president was Jed Bartlet. However, I did enjoy the first few seasons of 24 and Haysbert was a big part of that.
It would be funny if a television show that was basically concieved to be right-wing propaganda helped make white America more comfortable with the idea of a black president, though.
i spend probably too much of my time thinking about how much i wish joe lieberman would cease identifying as still being some sort of democrat and at the same time i wish he would cease identifying as jewish and just convert to hagee’s church already. i hate the way he manages to make me look bad on multiple fronts for in some crazy way sharing identities with him.
listening to him talk on a clip on countdown tonight the fiance and i decided he sounds just like a cross between droopy dog and zoidberg from futurama when he talks. which makes listening to him at least sort of funny for reasons other than laughing to hide the profound pain.
Zoidberg would make a better senator than Lieberman.
how much i wish joe lieberman would cease identifying as still being some sort of democrat
It’s going to be tough for him to claim he’s a Democrat when he’s McCain’s nominee for VP . . .
He sure looks like the VP nomineee, too--what other Republican has played a more prominent role in McCain’s campaign?
It’s probably a good thing--McCain needs someone to help him keep track of who’s a Sunni and who’s a Shiite.
How about this reality? In a senate where doucebags like chucky shumer can put an AG like mukasey in to cover up for the last seven years of republican malfeasance, does lieberman, as pestilential as he is, really matter? With the entire craven, wanna-be republicans blue dog posse, doesn’t joe leiberman especially public stupidity hurt this country that much more? There’s no doubt the senate, maybe the entire planet would be better if joe lieberman were not in the senate. There’s no doubt about that. But in the context of what the senate and congress have become, what’s the big fucking difference? Do I need to mention Pelosi’s complete abdication of her responsibility when she assured her republican buddies that there would be no ugly impeachment? Even if she felt that way and that was her plan, why bother announcing it?
We’re the suckers. Make no mistake.
Pelosi and Reid are almost as bad, and they aren’t going to touch the “Connecticut for Me” candidate.
The world would be a better place had the DNC supported the Democratic primary WINNER, Ned Lamont. But heaven forfend a progressive candidate.
Zoidberg would make a better senator than Lieberman.
paging Senator Inanimate Carbon Rod
Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate. Please let McCain pick Lieberman as his running mate.
Quisling? Did you just make a World War Z reference?? Because if so, I applaud your taste!
Sarah, Vidkun Quisling was a real guy, and his name has generally been a slang term for ‘collaborator’ since WWII.
But World War Z was an awesome book.
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I wonder if any reporter has yet thought to ask Lieberman whether there’s any international crisis to which the correct answer wouldn’t be military force?