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The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann

by Speranza ( 142 Comments › )
Filed under Media at February 2nd, 2010 - 7:30 am

I predict that one day Olbermann will have such a melt down on his show “Countdown to No Ratings” where he curses, spits, tears at his hair – that even MSNBC will have to pull the plug on him and call for medics to take him over to a mental institution for observation. He is a perfect example of the Peter Principle at work – he rose to his true level of mediocrity. He was a forgettable sportscaster and then got promoted to spew Leftist pap at MSNBC. He never, ever has an opposing viewpoint on his show because like a certain husky, pony-tailed blogger – he cannot debate.  (By the way last night on O’Reilly – a man I find insufferable most of the time – he had on as guests the leftist mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsome, and the angry leftist columnist from Time Magazine, Joe Klein. At least there is balance on Fox.)

by Stuart Schwartz

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings.”

The fat lady is doing more than singing for Keith Olbermann. And, like most of the other women in the life of MS-NBC’s premiere leftist sexist, she’s not interested in dating him. Rather, she merely wishes to see his well-padded bottom fade into the distance.

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By the end of 2009, media observers were noting the “abysmal” state of Olbermann’s ratings. And now the thirty-day moving average of ratings shows him steadily sinking as Bill O’Reilly leads the charge of FOX News to the top. The FOX blowout of Keith and friends during the State of the Union this past week prompted National Review to ask, “[A]t what point does MSDNC pull the plug on its all-Left format?”

And so the fat lady is not just singing for Olbermann and MS-NBC: Rather, she is belting out an aria that rushes Katrina-like past the designer finery of Old Media grandees in the audience of Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera, rattles the Swarovski crystal chandeliers above their heads, hurtles across Central Park, and pierces the floor-to-ceiling windows of Olbermann’s  $4.2-million 40th-floor Trump Palace roost.

It is from here that Olbermann leads the progressive media battle on behalf of America’s downtrodden, joined by neighboring New York Times staffers and mainstream media executives, fighting their self-described war on privilege from foxholes developed by Donald Trump. The various Trump Towers dotting upper Manhattan are, collectively, a progressive Pentagon, headquarters for the media war on Middle America…with Olbermann among the most polished of its brass.

…That is, until America began paying attention. The result: The audience of Countdown has sunk to roughly 20% of FOX News-viewers led by Bill O’Reilly. And now the fat lady is howling her delight as she joins a decades-long string of females in Keith’s life — beginning with his mother, who thought her son needed psychological help — whose fist-bumps will come when he has exited their lives.

Olbermann does not like women, especially attractive and/or accomplished women. Nor is he particularly fond of men. He is forever the awkward, angry teenager of his high school days who mystified psychologists, the überdork whose cruel taunts of the athletes he covered as a sports broadcaster were legendary, even as he yearned to be thought of as the stud that covers studs. Give it up, a Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist suggested after watching Olbermann ridicule the appearance of an overweight athlete. He noted that the hefty lefty is “so bloated he looks as if he swallowed Dan Patrick [his ESPN co-anchor] back in 1997.”

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Women are anathema to Olbermann. He delights in demeaning them, and the more attractive or accomplished they are, the more malicious he gets. Conservative Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, who relishes her role as policymaker and  mother, is a frequent object of his anger; columnist Michelle Malkin is a “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” because of her intelligence and traditional values; Sarah Palin is a moronic “Bush in a skirt”; and there’s nothing wrong with Hillary Clinton — who had the nerve to oppose Barack Obama in the Democrat primaries — that a good beating won’t cure.

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142 Responses to “The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann”
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  1. tanker on the horizon
    1 | February 2, 2010 7:35 am

    Beyond the padded cells of DU, does anybody watch this fool?


  2. Carolina Girl
    2 | February 2, 2010 7:36 am

    Now that Comcast owns a majority of NBC, I imagine that they’ll be looking for better revenues, and they aren’t going to see that with their all-left format. Fox has the ratings, Fox has the hosts, and Fox has the revenues. They’ll be looking to duplicate the Fox formula, but somehow I can’t see credible conservative/moderate hosts wanting anything to do with the network.


  3. Speranza
    3 | February 2, 2010 7:38 am

    Chris Mathews recently compared the Republicans to the Khmer Rouge.


  4. Speranza
    4 | February 2, 2010 7:40 am

    Anyone ever see Olbermann and his “speshul komments” when he does his Edward R. Murrow impression sand ends with this speaking from the side with Murrow’s “Good night and good luck”?

    You siiiir are no Edward R. Murrow!


  5. vagabond trader
    5 | February 2, 2010 7:43 am

    Jeesh, what a bitter stew of pathologies this guy is.

    Good night and good riddance.


  6. daughter of patriots
    6 | February 2, 2010 7:45 am

    Is he fired yet?


  7. Speranza
    7 | February 2, 2010 7:46 am

    daughter of patriots wrote:

    Is he fired yet?

    I expect him to have an on screen nervous breakdown.


  8. Speranza
    8 | February 2, 2010 7:47 am

    Since Olbermann hates women I am not surprised that he mentored and promoted Rachel Maddow.


  9. vagabond trader
    9 | February 2, 2010 7:48 am

    @ Speranza:

    Methinks he is past that! :-)


  10. Carolina Girl
    10 | February 2, 2010 7:49 am

    Speranza wrote:

    daughter of patriots wrote:
    Is he fired yet?
    I expect him to have an on screen nervous breakdown.

    I will definitely tune in to his show on election night if it looks like the Republicans will take the House and the Dems lose big in the Senate. However, I suspect Overbite will not be on the air by then. I do suspect, however, that that blowhard Ed Schultz will be the first to go. If he’s replaced by a moderate/right host, I think the others should be dusting off their resumes.

    The one I feel sorry for is Mark Levin. He’s had just way too much fun with Keith’s idiocy over the years.


  11. vagabond trader
    11 | February 2, 2010 7:51 am

    @ Speranza:

    Chris Mathews recently compared the Republicans to the Khmer Rouge

    Yup the GOP, identical to the Khmer Rouge, Stalin, Castro, Mao, and just for good measure lets throw in H!tler./


  12. 12 | February 2, 2010 7:54 am

    This is going to screw with the ‘boobs not bombs’ lefties.

    Boobs with bombs

    MI5
    Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.


  13. vagabond trader
    13 | February 2, 2010 7:56 am

    Speaking of Olbies cohort, this is disturbing tho not surprising.

    http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/02/-ed-schultz-visits-the-white-house-and-says-its-almost-a-shrine-to-obama.html


  14. Carolina Girl
    14 | February 2, 2010 8:03 am

    If NBC won’t get rid of the Overbite on his cable show, the least they could do for football fans across the country is throw him off the set of the Sunday football pre-game show.

    Maybe if we call called up Comcast and threatened to go with satellite instead…..


  15. Doppelganger
    15 | February 2, 2010 8:04 am

    If they just stopped broadcasting MSNBC entirely, how long would it take before anybody actually noticed?


  16. wolfie
    16 | February 2, 2010 8:06 am

    I all for Olbermann staying on the air! He’s a huge asset to us in winning over independents.


  17. Doppelganger
    17 | February 2, 2010 8:08 am

    Speranza wrote:

    Since Olbermann hates women I am not surprised that he mentored and promoted Rachel Maddow.

    There is something so grating and irritating about their tones of voice. It’s their arrogant tone of voice, their forced erudition,the way they talk down to the pleabs, the way they talk to their like minded sophistos as if they are speaking with ESP to the truly enlightened. They way they talk about the neanterthals on the right that I grates on me.

    In reality I firmly believe that Olbermann and Mancow, after mega doses of fish oil both probably come in at an IQ level somewhere around 95.

    the people aren’t fooled by these fakes


  18. Speranza
    18 | February 2, 2010 8:08 am

    Carolina Girl wrote:

    Speranza wrote:
    daughter of patriots wrote:
    Is he fired yet?
    I expect him to have an on screen nervous breakdown.
    I will definitely tune in to his show on election night if it looks like the Republicans will take the House and the Dems lose big in the Senate. However, I suspect Overbite will not be on the air by then. I do suspect, however, that that blowhard Ed Schultz will be the first to go. If he’s replaced by a moderate/right host, I think the others should be dusting off their resumes.
    The one I feel sorry for is Mark Levin. He’s had just way too much fun with Keith’s idiocy over the years.

    Have you ever seen Olbermann Watch?


  19. refugee000
  20. wolfie
    20 | February 2, 2010 8:11 am

    Carolina Girl wrote:

    the least they could do for football fans across the country is throw him off the set of the Sunday football pre-game show.

    Amen to that!


  21. vagabond trader
    21 | February 2, 2010 8:12 am

    @ refugee000:

    lol, bad bad.


  22. wolfie
    22 | February 2, 2010 8:12 am

    @ refugee000:

    Bad decision for the company! Those “truth in advertising” campaigns invariably go wrong!


  23. Carolina Girl
    23 | February 2, 2010 8:13 am

    @ refugee000:

    Oooo….there’s that pretty puppy!


  24. Doppelganger
    24 | February 2, 2010 8:15 am

    Carolina Girl wrote:

    If NBC won’t get rid of the Overbite on his cable show, the least they could do for football fans across the country is throw him off the set of the Sunday football pre-game show.
    Maybe if we call called up Comcast and threatened to go with satellite instead…..

    I just mute that prick. I can’t stand Collinsworth or Costas either. NBC sports in general sucks the big one. Tom Hammond, Johnny Miller, that annoying Jimmy Roberts.

    MUTE MUTE MUTE


  25. Bumr50
    25 | February 2, 2010 8:17 am

    @ Doppelganger:

    Pretty soon we’ll get to see the Olympics Guy!


  26. Speranza
    26 | February 2, 2010 8:18 am

    @ Doppelganger:
    I agree with you about Collinsworth and I used to like Costas, not any more. Who has the worse rats nets on their heads – Costas or Olbermann?


  27. vapig
    27 | February 2, 2010 8:18 am

    Doppelganger wrote:

    Speranza wrote:
    Since Olbermann hates women I am not surprised that he mentored and promoted Rachel Maddow.
    There is something so grating and irritating about their tones of voice. It’s their arrogant tone of voice, their forced erudition,the way they talk down to the pleabs, the way they talk to their like minded sophistos as if they are speaking with ESP to the truly enlightened. They way they talk about the neanterthals on the right that I grates on me.
    In reality I firmly believe that Olbermann and Mancow, after mega doses of fish oil both probably come in at an IQ level somewhere around 95.
    the people aren’t fooled by these fakes

    Watch it – there really is a Mancow out there.


  28. vagabond trader
    28 | February 2, 2010 8:19 am

    So what is with Keith and his Momma and do I really want to know?


  29. Poteen
    29 | February 2, 2010 8:20 am

    @ Doppelganger:

    I don’t mind Collinsworth but since NBC put Olby the obtuse on its NFL coverage I mute the TV and turn on the radio coverage. The radio guys are better anyway.


  30. Speranza
    30 | February 2, 2010 8:20 am

    vagabond trader wrote:

    So what is with Keith and his Momma and do I really want to know?

    She recently died. She thought he was a loon.


  31. pat
    31 | February 2, 2010 8:26 am

    I think Chris Mathews is a drunk.no sober person could say the idiocy he does.


  32. Bumr50
    32 | February 2, 2010 8:26 am

    Too bad we can’t get the Fat Lady to SIT ON Keith Olbermann.


  33. Beltfed
    33 | February 2, 2010 8:30 am

    Keith Olbermann is a washed up jazz musician.

    //


  34. Crashnburn01
    34 | February 2, 2010 8:30 am

    I cannot get through two minutes of Olbermann or Maddow. I end up screaming something with a couple of f-bombs in it and change the channel. Does MS-NBC even present this crap as opinion or is it considered news?


  35. Beltfed
    35 | February 2, 2010 8:31 am

    Carolina Girl @2 :

    Fox has the ratings, Fox has the hosts, and Fox has the revenues.

    The Babes, don’t forget the Babes.


  36. pat
    36 | February 2, 2010 8:32 am

    The article fails to note another oddity about Olbermann, he never learned to drive.


  37. Bumr50
    37 | February 2, 2010 8:33 am

    OT- Gotta run but Reuters put a story up about hidden taxes on the middle class then pulled it like an hour later.

    F*ckin puppets.


  38. wolfie
    38 | February 2, 2010 8:33 am

    @ pat:

    Yes. Chris Matthews strikes me as a man who has, for whatever reason, lost hold of his senses. Olbermann, OTOH, doesn’t give a shred of evidence of ever having had any sense to begin with.


  39. vagabond trader
    39 | February 2, 2010 8:33 am

    @ Beltfed:

    The Babes, don’t forget the Babes

    and the secret formula to Fox News “Blonde Bunny Hair Color.” :mrgreen:


  40. buzzsawmonkey
    40 | February 2, 2010 8:33 am

    Crashnburn01 wrote:

    I cannot get through two minutes of Olbermann or Maddow.

    Rachel Maddow has increased her income by doing infomercials on late-night TV. She is pitching the Smuggie™, which allows liberals to wrap themselves in warm and fuzzy thoughts.

    The Smuggie™ is guaranteed to be both fact- and logic-proof, but there are issues with its inflammability.


  41. vagabond trader
    41 | February 2, 2010 8:33 am

    @ Bumr50:

    Saw that earlier, wow.


  42. buzzsawmonkey
    42 | February 2, 2010 8:35 am

    Bumr50 wrote:

    OT- Gotta run but Reuters put a story up about hidden taxes on the middle class then pulled it like an hour later.

    I’m a backdoor man
    I’m a backdoor man
    The voters don’t know
    What the economists understand

    —Barack “Doors” Obama


  43. wolfie
    43 | February 2, 2010 8:37 am

    pat wrote:

    he never learned to drive.

    That is bizarre.

    I’ve got nothing against odd quirks and phobias, mind you, but that one is a bit disturbing to me.


  44. buzzsawmonkey
    44 | February 2, 2010 8:38 am

    @ wolfie:

    I have a friend who never learned to drive, but unlike Olbermann, he is sane.


  45. chickadee
    45 | February 2, 2010 8:38 am

    pat wrote:

    The article fails to note another oddity about Olbermann, he never learned to drive.

    The only men I know who never learned to drive are really strange people with lots of problems.
    Very dependent and low on confidence. None as nuts as him, though.
    He is such a grating obnoxious entity, I think he actually is an asset for us.


  46. Doppelganger
    46 | February 2, 2010 8:38 am

    pat wrote:

    The article fails to note another oddity about Olbermann, he never learned to drive.

    So he’s a bottom?
    That explains a lot


  47. wolfie
    47 | February 2, 2010 8:40 am

    @ buzzsawmonkey:

    Now, if MSNBC hired you to do commercials for the Olbie & Maddow shows, I think the ratings would skyrocket!


  48. Macker
    48 | February 2, 2010 8:41 am

    Speranza wrote:

    daughter of patriots wrote:

    Is he fired yet?

    I expect him to have an on screen nervous breakdown.

    Not only that, I want to see them keep Olbermann on the air until the guys with the white suits arrive and put him in a straitjacket and take him away! ON THE AIR!


  49. buzzsawmonkey
    49 | February 2, 2010 8:41 am

    wolfie wrote:

    Now, if MSNBC hired you to do commercials for the Olbie & Maddow shows, I think the ratings would skyrocket!

    But I would be making myself sick on an ongoing basis!


  50. buzzsawmonkey
    50 | February 2, 2010 8:42 am

    Macker wrote:

    only that, I want to see them keep Olbermann on the air until the guys with the white suits arrive and put him in a straitjacket and take him away! ON THE AIR!

    Frog march! Frog march! Frog march!


  51. Crashnburn01
    51 | February 2, 2010 8:42 am

    Macker wrote:

    Speranza wrote:
    daughter of patriots wrote:
    Is he fired yet?
    I expect him to have an on screen nervous breakdown.

    Not only that, I want to see them keep Olbermann on the air until the guys with the white suits arrive and put him in a straitjacket and take him away! ON THE AIR!

    That would be quite the ratings driver, wouldn’t it?


  52. Speranza
    52 | February 2, 2010 8:42 am

    chickadee wrote:

    The only men I know who never learned to drive are really strange people with lots of problems.

    Actually John Lennon never really learned to drive. Umm I see your point.


  53. vagabond trader
    53 | February 2, 2010 8:43 am

    Olberman and the possibly brain damaged Chris Matthews on the same network,sprinkle with Schultz and Maddow, holy cats!


  54. Doppelganger
    54 | February 2, 2010 8:43 am

    The fat Lady Sings

    Irish Rose?


  55. vagabond trader
    55 | February 2, 2010 8:44 am

    @ Doppelganger:

    Fatter.Maybe Michael Moore.


  56. Nikis Knight
    56 | February 2, 2010 8:45 am

    OT: I’d been wanting to see this, and it’s pretty good.
    Dennis Prager’s speech to the R house members. Hope they listen.


  57. buzzsawmonkey
    57 | February 2, 2010 8:45 am

    vagabond trader wrote:

    atter.Maybe Michael Moore.

    Imagine Michael Moore as a transgender, if you need an appetite suppressant.


  58. wolfie
    58 | February 2, 2010 8:47 am

    @ buzzsawmonkey:

    I think it depends on where he grew up, too. I can see not learning to drive if you live your whole life in a big city.


  59. Gypsy
    59 | February 2, 2010 8:48 am

    BenZacharia wrote:

    This is going to screw with the ‘boobs not bombs’ lefties.
    Boobs with bombs
    MI5
    Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.

    OW!


  60. Nevergiveup
    60 | February 2, 2010 8:48 am

    Former Astronaut Gene Cernon on FOX now bitterly attacking the Obama for shit canning NASA and making us a second class Space Power


  61. Nikis Knight
    61 | February 2, 2010 8:48 am

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Macker wrote:
    only that, I want to see them keep Olbermann on the air until the guys with the white suits arrive and put him in a straitjacket and take him away! ON THE AIR!
    Frog march! Frog march! Frog march!

    No frog marching! That’s animal cruelty! Think of the children!


  62. 62 | February 2, 2010 8:49 am

    OT. Hait. What happens when the left runs a country.

    i disagree though that they are “neo-idiots”. they know exactly what they are doing. they are evil. they use the idiots.


  63. Nevergiveup
    63 | February 2, 2010 8:49 am

    Murtha in ICU Following ‘Complications’ From Surgery

    I wish him well


  64. chickadee
    64 | February 2, 2010 8:49 am

    Speranza wrote:

    chickadee wrote:

    The only men I know who never learned to drive are really strange people with lots of problems.

    Actually John Lennon never really learned to drive. Umm I see your point.

    Most teenage boys can’t wait to get behind the wheel and zoooooom. It is a right of passage for boys.
    I can imagine olbermann whining and pouting when he failed the parallel parking part of his driving test.


  65. vapig
    65 | February 2, 2010 8:49 am

    wolfie wrote:

    pat wrote:
    he never learned to drive.
    That is bizarre.
    I’ve got nothing against odd quirks and phobias, mind you, but that one is a bit disturbing to me.

    Not really for city folk. I know lots of people from San Francisco who never learned to drive. Is he a New Yorker?


  66. 66 | February 2, 2010 8:50 am

    @ Nevergiveup:
    yeah, how many jobs will this destroy? from janitors to clerks to programmers to engineers to executives.


  67. Gypsy
    67 | February 2, 2010 8:51 am

    vagabond trader wrote:

    Olberman and the possibly brain damaged Chris Matthews on the same network,sprinkle with Schultz and Maddow, holy cats!

    You are describing 120-proof, undiluted ugliness.


  68. Doppelganger
    68 | February 2, 2010 8:51 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Murtha in ICU Following ‘Complications’ From Surgery

    I wish him well

    They removed his gall bladder, and found an extreme amount of gall


  69. Nevergiveup
    69 | February 2, 2010 8:51 am

    Palin Wants Rahm Fired
    In a Facebook post, Sarah Palin calls on President Obama to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for reportedly describing the strategy of Senate liberals as “fucking retarded.”

    “Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic

    Sarah is being nice, most people want him drawn and quartered


  70. Doppelganger
    70 | February 2, 2010 8:53 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Palin Wants Rahm Fired
    In a Facebook post, Sarah Palin calls on President Obama to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for reportedly describing the strategy of Senate liberals as “fucking retarded.”
    “Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic
    Sarah is being nice, most people want him drawn and quartered

    No doubt Chucky winn condemn Rahm, since he was so quick to condemn Cato the Elder’s comments about Trig Palin

    / extreme


  71. Nevergiveup
    71 | February 2, 2010 8:54 am

    Turkey on Tuesday denied reports that its ambassador to Israel had asked his superiors in Ankara to transfer him to a new posting after he was treated with deliberate disrespect by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.

    Ayalon in January issued a formal apology to Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, who earlier in the month was summoned to explain a Turkish broadcast of dramatized abuses of Palestinians by Israeli troops, which caused offense in Israel.

    Before the meeting Ayalon told photographers in Hebrew: “Pay attention that he is sitting in a lower chair and we are in the higher ones, that there is only an Israeli flag on the table and that we are not smiling.”

    Screw this diplomatic shit, to hell with him and Turkey


  72. Gypsy
    72 | February 2, 2010 8:55 am

    vapig wrote:

    wolfie wrote:
    pat wrote:
    he never learned to drive.
    That is bizarre.
    I’ve got nothing against odd quirks and phobias, mind you, but that one is a bit disturbing to me.
    Not really for city folk. I know lots of people from San Francisco who never learned to drive. Is he a New Yorker?

    Believe so. I know I never drove in town the whole 8 years I lived in Manhattan; you have to be either very rich or very crazy to have a car there. Not to mention the hassle at their alleged drivers’ license bureau.


  73. wolfie
    73 | February 2, 2010 8:55 am

    @ buzzsawmonkey:

    Reminds of the time my son fell in loooooove (at age 15) with a little moonbat. Mr. Wolf pasted pictures of ugly leftist women all over the kitchen to show him “what they look like when they grow up.”

    Didn’t work with the boy, but I lost about 5 pounds.


  74. vagabond trader
    74 | February 2, 2010 8:56 am

    @ wolfie:

    lol.


  75. wolfie
    75 | February 2, 2010 8:57 am

    @ vapig:

    As you can see, I am always hunting-and-pecking behind the curve here!


  76. 76 | February 2, 2010 8:57 am

    @ BenZacharia:

    Plastique Surgery? What will they think of next….


  77. Doppelganger
    77 | February 2, 2010 8:58 am

    PaladinPhil wrote:

    @ BenZacharia:
    Plastique Surgery? What will they think of next….

    clever ( you, not them )


  78. buzzsawmonkey
    78 | February 2, 2010 8:58 am

    chickadee wrote:

    Most teenage boys can’t wait to get behind the wheel and zoooooom. It is a right of passage for boys.
    I can imagine olbermann whining and pouting when he failed the parallel parking part of his driving test.

    I think you mean rite of passage.

    Yes, to a large extent it is. But if you grew up in a city, as my friend did, particularly if you were born prior to WWII, as he was, that was not so much the case—especially if it was a city which had a comprehensive public transportation system, as New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco, among other cities, then did. Cars were—are—expensive; in many city neighborhoods there is no off-street parking; and if you live in a neighborhood with most amenities and can access those few you need elsewhere easily by public transportation and the occasional taxi, it is an expense which is easily dispensed with.


  79. Nevergiveup
    79 | February 2, 2010 8:59 am

    Chinese diplomat: Ties with US deteriorating since Obama

    Say what you want about the Chicoms, stupid they are not. They know Obama is a moron.


  80. Nevergiveup
    80 | February 2, 2010 9:01 am

    Obama and his pals about to screw with “Don’t ask Don’t tell”. Hey I’m against changing it, but I not fanatical about that. But it is working, why screw with it? Don’t we have other pressing issues to deal with.


  81. snork
    81 | February 2, 2010 9:01 am

    @ buzzsawmonkey:
    Not to mention astronomical insurance.


  82. Nevergiveup
    82 | February 2, 2010 9:01 am

    Oh and in case I have not said it recently: I hate Robert Gates!


  83. buzzsawmonkey
    83 | February 2, 2010 9:02 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Obama and his pals about to screw with “Don’t ask Don’t tell”. Hey I’m against changing it, but I not fanatical about that. But it is working, why screw with it? Don’t we have other pressing issues to deal with.

    Not if you’re trying to firm up the support of a constituency.


  84. 84 | February 2, 2010 9:04 am

    @ Nevergiveup:
    Obama fire Rahm for that? no way. remember, Obama’s idiotic special olympics remark.


  85. Nevergiveup
    85 | February 2, 2010 9:05 am

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Obama and his pals about to screw with “Don’t ask Don’t tell”. Hey I’m against changing it, but I not fanatical about that. But it is working, why screw with it? Don’t we have other pressing issues to deal with.

    Not if you’re trying to firm up the support of a constituency.

    On the back of our Armed Services?


  86. Nevergiveup
    86 | February 2, 2010 9:06 am

    Kirly wrote:

    @ Nevergiveup:
    Obama fire Rahm for that? no way. remember, Obama’s idiotic special olympics remark.

    Rahm will be asked to resign one day. He is just such a nasty fuck, he will piss off the wrong person. Probably Michelle


  87. Doppelganger
    87 | February 2, 2010 9:07 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Kirly wrote:
    @ Nevergiveup:
    Obama fire Rahm for that? no way. remember, Obama’s idiotic special olympics remark.
    Rahm will be asked to resign one day. He is just such a nasty fuck, he will piss off the wrong person. Probably Michelle

    agree there.
    I’d pay to see those two in a cage match. She might eat him


  88. buzzsawmonkey
    88 | February 2, 2010 9:08 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    On the back of our Armed Services?

    For Obama, that’s a two-fer.


  89. 89 | February 2, 2010 9:08 am

    vapig wrote:

    wolfie wrote:
    pat wrote:
    he never learned to drive.
    That is bizarre.
    I’ve got nothing against odd quirks and phobias, mind you, but that one is a bit disturbing to me.
    Not really for city folk. I know lots of people from San Francisco who never learned to drive. Is he a New Yorker?

    I see lots of people in Pittsburgh with cars that can’t drive. i believe that their disregard for rules of the road and controls at intersections stems from generations of being Democrats, ie: the rules don’t apply to them, unless of course we are talking about union shop rules. I guess the PA motor vehicle manual was never negotiated during collective bargaining.


  90. Doppelganger
    90 | February 2, 2010 9:10 am

    Bumr50 wrote:

    OT- Gotta run but Reuters put a story up about hidden taxes on the middle class then pulled it like an hour later.
    F*ckin puppets.

    Rush discussing this now!


  91. Gypsy
    91 | February 2, 2010 9:12 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Oh and in case I have not said it recently: I hate Robert Gates!

    The Bureaucrat’s Bureaucrat? Um, me, I detest more his boss, the guy who’s setting our “defense” policy, that Columbia and Harvard-educated polymath. Though I guess one could dislike Gates for not resigning, while letting it be known that he was resigning because he couldn’t stand one more day working for a conceited dunce who is totally ignorant of defense and foreign policy matters, and is determined to remain so.


  92. buzzsawmonkey
    92 | February 2, 2010 9:12 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    On the back of our Armed Services?

    Let me add, my joking in #88 aside, that ending don’t ask/don’t tell may well be, for Obama, the equivalent of Harry Truman’s order to integrate the armed services. The same-sex marriage lobby has been drawing an equivalency for some time between their quest for “marriage rights” and the elimination of miscegenation laws in the 1960s; it may well be that Obama’s brand of “constitutional scholarship” may have convinced him that ending DA/DT is of a piece with that.


  93. Nevergiveup
    93 | February 2, 2010 9:14 am

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    On the back of our Armed Services?

    Let me add, my joking in #88 aside, that ending don’t ask/don’t tell may well be, for Obama, the equivalent of Harry Truman’s order to integrate the armed services. The same-sex marriage lobby has been drawing an equivalency for some time between their quest for “marriage rights” and the elimination of miscegenation laws in the 1960s; it may well be that Obama’s brand of “constitutional scholarship” may have convinced him that ending DA/DT is of a piece with that.

    Ah Bullshit.


  94. wolfie
    94 | February 2, 2010 9:14 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Rahm will be asked to resign one day.

    Perhaps after the elections, if things go as badly for the Democrats as we hope.


  95. pat
    95 | February 2, 2010 9:14 am

    Every teenager wants to learn to drive. It is part of the American psych, even if one later opts out. I for one hate driving in cities. But hell, it is a requirement in out local high schools. A regular class.


  96. 96 | February 2, 2010 9:17 am

    on Rush right now….

    Rueters posted then pulled story last night; to post a replacement story later this week:
    middle class tax hit proposed
    charitable contributions tax deduction gone in 2011
    mortgage interest deduction for incomes over $250k gone
    previous tax decreases rolled back meaning:
    25% tax bracket to revert to 28%
    28% tax bracket to revert to 31
    33% tax bracket to revert to 36
    special 10% bracket eliminated

    tax on dividends jumping from 15% to 39%
    capital gains from 15% to 20%
    estate tax eliminated for 2010 (we already knew that) but there are talks of reinstating it before 2011


  97. buzzsawmonkey
    97 | February 2, 2010 9:19 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Ah Bullshit.

    I didn’t say I agreed with that reasoning; I am merely speculating on why—aside from placating the gay constituency and showing a certain contempt for the armed forces—Obama might be pushing this.

    Understand, though, that is may also be a feint. DA/DT exists as a result of a law passed by Congress—so Obama can make brave utterances about how very much he wants to do this, but then blame Congress if it doesn’t cooperate by repealing. Obama gets good-guy constituency points to firm up his gay community support, the Congressional Democrats will get savaged but will probably not sustain damage because the organized gay community is basically stuck on the Democrat plantation, and everything stays the same.


  98. Nevergiveup
    98 | February 2, 2010 9:19 am

    Kirly wrote:

    on Rush right now….

    Rueters posted then pulled story last night; to post a replacement story later this week:
    middle class tax hit proposed
    charitable contributions tax deduction gone in 2011
    mortgage interest deduction for incomes over $250k gone
    previous tax decreases rolled back meaning:
    25% tax bracket to revert to 28%
    28% tax bracket to revert to 31
    33% tax bracket to revert to 36
    special 10% bracket eliminated

    tax on dividends jumping from 15% to 39%
    capital gains from 15% to 20%
    estate tax eliminated for 2010 (we already knew that) but there are talks of reinstating it before 2011

    Sounds like a reciepe for a Republican landslide in 2010


  99. Nevergiveup
    99 | February 2, 2010 9:21 am

    @ buzzsawmonkey:
    I understand you do not agree with that. I was just saying bullshit to this idea that “gay rights” ( what ever that is anyway?) are in any way analogous to The Black Civil Rights Movemment.


  100. Gypsy
    100 | February 2, 2010 9:21 am

    @ Kirly:
    This will do great things for the economy, won’t it? Looks like O really does want to be a one-term president, doesn’t he? By 2012 he’s going to look like Herbert Hoover in 1932.


  101. 101 | February 2, 2010 9:22 am

    Olberman can’t disappear from the airwaves soon enough. Hope he takes Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow with him.


  102. buzzsawmonkey
    102 | February 2, 2010 9:22 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    I understand you do not agree with that. I was just saying bullshit to this idea that “gay rights” ( what ever that is anyway?) are in any way analogous to The Black Civil Rights Movemment.

    The black community largely rejects it too, but it’s being pushed hard by the gay-rights lobby.


  103. Doppelganger
    103 | February 2, 2010 9:28 am

    I’d like to personally thank each and every POS who voted Democrat. I will think of you fondly every paycheck that will now be smaller. I will think of you as I write a larger check to the IRS every April. Thanks!
    HOPE!!
    CHANGE!!!

    /


  104. Goodbye_Natalie
    104 | February 2, 2010 9:28 am

    Man, I hope they don’t fire Queef Ogremann. It is the cheapest form of entertainment on TV. Every time there is a bit of bad news for the Dear Leader, I turn to BSNBC to watch Ogremann puff up like a toad.

    Queef appears to share some of the same personal shortcomings with a long-haired hippie blogger has that I once frequented: (1) Insecure, (2) an insatiable appetite to be noticed, (3) a little “problem” with good looking and/or strong women, (4) A necessity to toot his own horn requiring frequent admissions of his own “brilliance”, and (5) a strained or torn relationship with Mommie Dearest from an early age.

    Too bad I’m not a psychologist or I would do a little research for the common desperate condition.


  105. 105 | February 2, 2010 9:28 am

    Obama often lies by omission – remember what he said during the campaign – you will pay less taxes under him than you did under Reagan. Remember the top bracket under Reagan (before the tax cuts) was 70%. He can pretty much double the tax rates and still claim to be telling the “truth.”

    Every word is planned out, every phrase is designed to deceive, they do it with statements like that, and by simply changing the name of their new programs, while saying they are cutting the program (using its old name).

    I keep looking for some shred of honesty from Obama and his guys – I have yet to see it.


  106. 106 | February 2, 2010 9:31 am

    @ Speranza:

    It is hard to drive on several hits of LSD. The road keeps moving, the yellow pulsing laser is always shooting at you, and occasionally a tree will jump in front of you. But the lights on all the cars are pretty…


  107. buzzsawmonkey
    107 | February 2, 2010 9:31 am

    Rose wrote:

    I keep looking for some shred of honesty from Obama and his guys – I have yet to see it.

    You haven’t seen the new Shredded Honesty™ breakfast cereal now being offered in supermarkets coast to coast?

    It’s government-approved, because it provides green jobs, and it’s sustainable!


  108. 108 | February 2, 2010 9:33 am

    @ Gypsy:
    even worse, the country will look like it did in 1932. won’t be so bad for those who manage to hang onto the fewer and fewer jobs that will exist. but, for the growing numbers of unemployed, it won’t be pretty.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/reuters-takes-down-story-linked-by-drudge-report-2010-2


  109. snork
    109 | February 2, 2010 9:37 am

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    The black community largely rejects it too, but it’s being pushed hard by the gay-rights lobby.

    The black community is insulted by it, and for good reason. And discrimination and violence ever committed against gays in this country pales to insignificance compared to the insults and lynchings Blacks have had to live with. And then for them to waltz in on MLKs coattails is chutzpah. It would be like comparing their plight to the Holocaust. Blacks have every right to be furious.


  110. Nevergiveup
    110 | February 2, 2010 9:37 am

    Duncun Hunter Jr. on FOX now– he is great


  111. Speranza
    111 | February 2, 2010 9:38 am

    Iron Fist wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    It is hard to drive on several hits of LSD. The road keeps moving, the yellow pulsing laser is always shooting at you, and occasionally a tree will jump in front of you. But the lights on all the cars are pretty…

    he also was not a nice guy.


  112. snork
    112 | February 2, 2010 9:39 am

    Iron Fist wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    It is hard to drive on several hits of LSD. The road keeps moving, the yellow pulsing laser is always shooting at you, and occasionally a tree will jump in front of you. But the lights on all the cars are pretty…

    But when you’re not sure if you’re driving or not, things get a little dicey.


  113. Speranza
    113 | February 2, 2010 9:39 am

    With his rage – I would not want to see Olbermann behind the wheel of any vehicle.


  114. buzzsawmonkey
    114 | February 2, 2010 9:40 am

    snork wrote:

    The black community is insulted by it, and for good reason. And discrimination and violence ever committed against gays in this country pales to insignificance compared to the insults and lynchings Blacks have had to live with. And then for them to waltz in on MLKs coattails is chutzpah. It would be like comparing their plight to the Holocaust. Blacks have every right to be furious.

    But the anti-miscegenation cases, such as Loving v. Virginia, are being used as the cornerstone of any legal arguments that are made on behalf of same-sex marriage. Most such arguments are not, however, legal in the strict sense; they merely invoke “equal protection” without defining the term or justifying its application in this context.


  115. vagabond trader
    115 | February 2, 2010 9:41 am

    @ snork:

    Well said, also the black community, as liberal and democrat as they vote, do not as agressively embrace the gay agenda due to religious and cultural sensitivities.


  116. snork
    116 | February 2, 2010 9:43 am

    Mother Jones is singing the blues.

    With the Senate cap-and-trade bill on ice for the foreseeable future, a key bloc of Democrats is agitating for a Climate Plan B: an existing energy policy bill they say would put the US on the path to a clean energy future. Make that a road to nowhere. The bill in question lacks any kind of cap on carbon, and contains so many concessions to the oil, coal, gas, and nuclear industries that one environmental group has dubbed it a “flashback to Bush energy policy.”

    Wail, Mama!


  117. vagabond trader
    117 | February 2, 2010 9:43 am

    @ Speranza:

    lol,indeed.White knuckling his way down I-95 screaming about Boooosh and Cheney.Not good.


  118. Nevergiveup
    118 | February 2, 2010 9:43 am

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that he supports President Obama’s decision to seek the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy prohibiting gays from serving openly in the military and has appointed a “high-level working group” to figure out how to do it.

    See I don’t get this? If you support gays being open in the Military what the fuck to you have to figure out? What bullshit.


  119. pat
    119 | February 2, 2010 9:44 am

    @ Rose:
    Olberman can’t disappear from the airwaves soon enough. Hope he takes Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow with him.

    Queer TV gone in a day.


  120. Speranza
    120 | February 2, 2010 9:44 am

    vagabond trader wrote:

    lol,indeed.White knuckling his way down I-95 screaming about Boooosh and Cheney.Not good.

    He would be a real horn leaner wouldn’t he?


  121. vagabond trader
    121 | February 2, 2010 9:44 am

    @ Nevergiveup:

    They could start with a cross dressing karaoke night?


  122. Doppelganger
    122 | February 2, 2010 9:45 am

    I am tired of progressives who treat our military as a social experiment.

    they gave us Major hassan


  123. vagabond trader
    123 | February 2, 2010 9:46 am

    @ Speranza:

    That head hanging out the window in traffic jams screaming obscenities at other motorists.


  124. buzzsawmonkey
    124 | February 2, 2010 9:47 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    See I don’t get this? If you support gays being open in the Military what the fuck to you have to figure out? What bullshit.

    These are my boots and these are my pumps
    Barracks-mates, keep away from my rump
    Sound off…


  125. pat
    125 | February 2, 2010 9:48 am

    The obligatory fat Olbermann pic.
    http://blog.turntablelab.com/fat_keith.jpg


  126. Speranza
    126 | February 2, 2010 9:51 am

    vagabond trader wrote:

    @ Speranza:
    That head hanging out the window in traffic jams screaming obscenities at other motorists.

    and when one burly motorist pulls over, he rolls down the window and cries like a baby.


  127. Goodbye_Natalie
    127 | February 2, 2010 9:51 am

    My reasons for not wanting any of the brownshirts like Queef Ogremann and Butch Madcow to be canned are strictly selfish. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

    Truth be known, I probably would delight if Mother Earth suddenly decided to forgo gravity where they stood and spun them off the planet. It’s just that sadistic nature of mine when things go wrong for Worst President in the World Bomba to watch Ogremann mimic the Tasmanian Devil of cartoon fame. He literally drools with rage.


  128. Goodbye_Natalie
    128 | February 2, 2010 9:53 am

    @ pat:

    :lol:

    Classic! I’ll add this one to my repertoire of insults – I mean a picture is worth a thousand words.


  129. vagabond trader
    129 | February 2, 2010 9:55 am

    @ Speranza:

    Like a good groveling libral, blames the outburst on a poor slob behind him.


  130. 130 | February 2, 2010 9:59 am

    rahm has apoligized to the head of the special olympics. that’s nice but what about the rest of the population?

    and, as Rush pointed out, this was spearheaded by Sarah Palin on Facebook! she has so got their number.


  131. snork
    131 | February 2, 2010 10:01 am

    Doppelganger wrote:

    I am tired of progressives who treat our military as a social experiment.
    they gave us Major hassan

    They treat all of society as a big social experiment.


  132. vagabond trader
    132 | February 2, 2010 10:01 am

    Unreal,local Chitown media disses Polish Americans.

    http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/02/eye-dont-witness-news-the-lech-walesa-story/


  133. mjazz
    133 | February 2, 2010 10:03 am

    @ Iron Fist:
    One guy told me he looked out the driver’s side window and when he turned to look out the windshield the scene from the driver’s side went to the windshield.


  134. wolfie
    134 | February 2, 2010 10:03 am

    @ pat:

    Oh dear. I fear he has been passing up the arugula and Shred of Honesty™ for Krispy Kremes.


  135. chickadee
    135 | February 2, 2010 10:06 am

    Nevergiveup wrote:

    Palin Wants Rahm Fired
    In a Facebook post, Sarah Palin calls on President Obama to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for reportedly describing the strategy of Senate liberals as “fucking retarded.”

    “Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic

    Sarah is being nice, most people want him drawn and quartered

    He did apologize.
    Sarah made that pos issue an apology.
    lol


  136. snork
    136 | February 2, 2010 10:07 am

    @ vagabond trader:
    Thread in the queue ’bout that.


  137. vagabond trader
    137 | February 2, 2010 10:14 am

    @ chickadee:

    More evidence of the disdain these commies have toward those they consider “lesser” humans.Would love to hear them in their private moments, can you imagine how they really feel? Disgusting.


  138. Macker
    138 | February 2, 2010 10:27 am

    pat wrote:

    @ Rose:
    Olberman can’t disappear from the airwaves soon enough. Hope he takes Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow with him.

    Queer TV gone in a day.

    And now, congratulations go to pat for receiving the first such award, indexed due to inflation of course:
    3.8 TRILLION UPDINGS!


  139. 139 | February 2, 2010 10:29 am

    @ pat:

    Pat, in Lihue?


  140. taxfreekiller
    140 | February 2, 2010 11:59 am

    over there,,, .00001

    Guanxi88 is makeing fun of CJ being fixated on the John Birch Society.

    He asked CJ in the open why CJ was so fearful of the JBS,, got at least 5 to 7 down dings from the rude king for that,,,,

    cj is such a pantie waste…..


  141. calcajun
    141 | February 2, 2010 12:33 pm

    buzzsawmonkey wrote:

    Nevergiveup wrote:
    These are my boots and these are my pumps
    Barracks-mates, keep away from my rump
    Sound off…

    We could have this, then:
    SQUAD! CAMP IT UP!


  142. pat
    142 | February 2, 2010 2:01 pm

    @ wolfie:
    LOL. his frigde would be an interesting study.


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