Rules is rules....
Posted on 08/20/2008 12:00:16 AM PDT by tlb
a clandestine meeting takes place between two senators with one goal.
“Our toast to The One,” they say in unison, “is that he’s toast.”
“Obama should have picked you, Hillary,” John McCain tells her. “It isn’t fair, my friend. But it just makes it easier for me to whup him.”
Hillary replies. “I’m looking toward the future now, a future that looks very bright, once we send Twig Legs back to the back bench.”
“He’s a bright young man, but he got ahead of himself,” McCain says. “He needs to be taught a lesson, and we’re the ones to do it. ... And thanks again for BlackBerrying me the Rick Warren questions while I was in the so-called cone of silence.”
“Oh, John, you know I love you and I’m happy to help,” Hillary says. “The themes you took from me are working great — painting Obama as an elitist and out-of-touch celebrity, when we’re rich celebrities, too. Turning his big rallies and pretty words into character flaws, charging him with playing the race card — that one always cracks me up. And accusing the media, especially NBC, of playing favorites. It’s easy to get the stupid press to navel-gaze; they’re so insecure.”
McCain laughs. “...Seriously, Hill, that Paris-Britney ad you came up with was brilliant. I owe you.”
McCain lifts his glass to her admiringly. “...Pictures of him pushing around a golf ball while I’m pushing around Putin. Priceless.”
“I have a little secret to tell you about that, John. Bill made it happen. He loves you so much. He called Putin.
And you don’t have to worry about my army of angry women. We’ve spread the word in the feminist underground ... that ‘catharsis’ is code for ‘No surrender.’
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Rules is rules....
Who is that??
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*(young swimsuit model from Yahoo)
She is cute, but she does not look like Catherine Zeta-Jones.
“I’m Proud_USA_Republican and I approve this message”.
—Paid for by friends of Proud_USA_Republican, G.O.P
Conforms admirably to the spirit of the law, and never mind its letter.
Mo outdid herself with this one :)
To be funny, or even effective, satire must have an element of truth within it. If you examine the assumptions that underlie this satire you'll see that all the humor actually runs in the opposite direction than should be intended for this satire to be effective..
This is not funny because the charges against Obama are true and not manifestly false as would be required for the satire to work:
“Oh, John, you know I love you and I’m happy to help,” Hillary says. “The themes you took from me are working great — painting Obama as an elitist and out-of-touch celebrity, when we’re rich celebrities, too. Turning his big rallies and pretty words into character flaws, charging him with playing the race card — that one always cracks me up. And accusing the media, especially NBC, of playing favorites. It’s easy to get the stupid press to navel-gaze; they’re so insecure.”
I take this column as Mo’s way of trying to belittle McCain (and Hillary) in order to boost her man Obama.
BUMP what you said. Agreed.
IMO this sounds like some high-schooler’s first attempt at political humor.
Lame.
Agreed. It’s not funny. It’s the rantings of a paranoid lunatic, trying to pass her paranoia off as humor.
The rule is Katherine Zeta Jones when MoDo is posted. :-)
See, Michael Douglas dumped MoDo for KZJ, so it's an exercise in rubbing salt in her wounds, I suppose.
2) I don't really mind. = D
Agreed. I didn’t find it very funny.
I thought it was one of her best, but that’s not much of a record.
There is missing ingredient in this article, Humor.
More of a cattiness than humor.
I view it that way as well.
Who cares? She’s nice to look at!
I totally agree with you. I thought the whole thing was stupid.
FR cannon and protocol require that all MoDo posts be closely followed sex-kitten shots of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
We have standards and traditions, old boy. Without them we would be little better than those savages and heathens at DU.
Thank goodness somebody understands the rule.
Hillarious!
now that is tagline material
Axis Sally couldn’t have written a bigger piece of propaganda.
How do you post pictures?
I haven’t figured out how...cut and paste doesn’t seem to work...
HTML to use it on FR is < IMG SRC="http://wwww..." >
Remove the spaces around < and >
Know too that some sites do not permit offsite viewing of their images and while you will see the image on your computer (because it is already in cache) some other viewers may get a red X or even a "bandwidth thief" graphic instead of your picture.
Hrumff, rather, old boy. It’s like chilling old claret or beating someone else’s wife. It’s just not done in the best circles.
This is the second lefty today that I have seen writing an Obama obit.
These people are terrified.
This is not Catherine Zeta Jones...
Somehow, I will bring myself to forgive you, of course, but the rules are not satisfied...
Frankly, I find this column to be stupid and juvenile. In other words, exactly what I expect from Dowd.
But, I will freely admit, that I do not browse Dowd threads for the articles!
“I do not find the piece particularly funny.”
Lighten up, Francis
It is obviously a severe case of Dowd's Syndrome
Newspaper columnist's attempt at dialogue, she explained.
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