Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly — two Joisey boys — were knocking it around last night on Bill-O’s nightly bloviate-a-thon. Stewart called O’Reilly’s show “an island of sanity on Fox News.”
O’Reilly thanked him, but the “Daily Show” wag quickly added, “But that’s like being called the thinnest kid at fat camp.”
My HuffPost blog on the porcine Roger Ailes is here.
Awwww. Poor Roger Ailes.
I said he had a face like a clenched fist, and that his network was a malignant tumor on the body politic. He didn’t take kindly to this, apparently, and blasted me in Politico.
Barnacles to ya, Rog, barnacles. May the fleas of a thousand camels invest your shorts.
Another fine piece in the Times today. He nails it, again. An excerpt:
“A do-nothing Congress, at a time when ever more Americans are losing their jobs and homes, is an even riper target than the Supreme Court — and far more politically vulnerable. Without strong medicine from Obama, we can be certain of the same result: a heedless Congress will keep doing nothing.”
NYTimes’ Frank Rich, in his column today, has this on Obama’s situation — love the Baucus line:
“Obama has blundered, not by positioning himself too far to the left but by landing nowhere — frittering away his political capital by being too vague, too slow and too deferential to Congress. The smartest thing said as the Massachusetts returns came in Tuesday night was by Howard Fineman on MSNBC: “Obama took all his winnings and turned them over to Max Baucus.”
Very funny video from The Onion. Funny excerpt:
“We should just put corporations in office and cut out the middleman.”
If corporations are the same as people now, does that mean a merger is same-sex marriage?
And, is a hostile takeover the same as rape?
“Washington is a whorehouse, and every four years we elect a new piano player.” (Gore Vidal).
“Being a Cubs’ fan prepares you for life — and for Washington.” (H. Clinton)
1) The Senate is a swamp; this just deepens it a bit.
2) Let these GOP morons fillibuster.
3) Change the cloture rule. Super-majorities are always bad news.
4) Time for Obama’s Mr. Nice Guy period to end.
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman nails it in this piece:
Why, it’s none other than corpulent Fox News uberfuhurer Roger Ailes!
Ailes
Not exactly a shocker, but it needs to be stressed far more often.