Comments on: LiveBlog for Friday, September 4, 2009

By: Doug Wetzel

Doug Wetzel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:59:14 +0000

Just tried to post a comment on Joe Wilson’s web page. It’s “DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE”. What a laugh.

By: MadCabbieJan

MadCabbieJan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:04:37 +0000

Hey, Shaf and anyone else who remembers me! How’s it going?

By: Ivan Louise Hussain Biggin

Ivan Louise Hussain Biggin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:45:22 +0000

Hal does a great job IMO. However, he’s not Steph and the Mooks. No one else is..

Manana, Bananas!

By: Rocky Mountain High, Colorado

Rocky Mountain High, Colorado — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:29:17 +0000

Oh, it’s labor day. I forget that other people don’t have to work today.

By: Rocky Mountain High, Colorado

Rocky Mountain High, Colorado — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:25:20 +0000

Hey, what’s the deal? A rerun show and no clean sandbox? Did someone not make it back from vacation? Something happen with the fires?

By: shaylward

shaylward — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:26:04 +0000

omg, hal sparks was soooooo boring. i listen to the show for the same reason i watch daily show – i need my news with my laughs. also, i like to wake up laughing. hal, ya gotta mix it up!

By: taylor sublett

taylor sublett — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:54:18 +0000

The interview with the 9-11 commission writer only made me feel more insecure that 9-11 was allowed to happen.
“Mistakes were made” is a ridiculous posture. They had memos! Planes were never scrambled.
I am eagerly awaiting evidence that tells me THEY really had no idea that this was going to happen.

By: PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin

PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:35:46 +0000

Afterthought:

#105: “102: beck — beck hanson — hanson — androgynous musician — young mick jagger — hmmm “mick” racial slur. so glenn beck is a racist.”

Hmmm, those links look a little tenuous. Should have gone via Bowie!

By: gabby hayes

gabby hayes — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:07:07 +0000

I think beck only sees the dark skin of Obama and considers him black (to a racist, a single drop of black blood constitutes membership in the black race). He thinks Obama considers people of color to be superior to white people. There is no rational reason for this belief, but it is not the sort of thinking that is vulnerable to rational discussion. He hates Obama because he is dark skinned and has a status that is higher than his own (just as in many Arab nations Jews were not allowed to ride on burros or horses, because that would place them physically higher and therefore superior to arabs who were not on horseback or riding burros). Because his rational brain requires a rationalization for his hatred, he will take any negative stereotype and retroactively attach it to Obama’s behavior and motives. Therefore, there is no contradiction in a brain like Beck’s in calling him both a communist and a nazi because he hates communists and hates a concept he has in mind of a nazi, so clearly those epithets can be safely applied to Obama. If he hated spiders and snakes, Obama would take on spiderlike and snakelike attributes. If he was lactose intolerant, Obama would be like a big banana smoothie.

By: Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina

Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:59:59 +0000

Have a great weekend, everyone! Fantastic week, Hal, thanks!

Cheers!

By: PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin

PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:59:48 +0000

Have a great weekend everybody, and remember: It’s all fun and games till somebody gets a pinkie bitten off (and has to go to the socialist emergency room).

- SPAR?

By: Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina

Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:59:20 +0000

#181 Amy, Excellent point! (I’m picturing the Nazi-helmeted Franz Liebkind, the script-writer in the Producers, saying, Das is not my Fuhrer! Der Fuhrer never said “Baby!”)

By: k to the g

k to the g — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:59:13 +0000

Thanks, Hal! Leave a super-size set of headphones for Jim when he comes back.

By: shāf

shāf — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:58:28 +0000

Thanks, Hal! It’s been a great week with you.

Have an awesome Labor Day weekend, everyone!

By: gabby hayes

gabby hayes — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:58:19 +0000

thanks, Hal. You were great. And thanks for keeping the spirit of Rollins among us–he’s absolutely one of a kind.

By: k to the g

k to the g — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:56:47 +0000

183. Yeah, I’d like to see the Nazi’s show up and confront the pretenders. That would be fun to watch.

By: Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina

Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:55:51 +0000

I mean,

By: Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina

Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:55:35 +0000

On Glenn Beck calling Obama a racist, I’ve always wondered, how does Obama do it? Does he hate white people and then black people on alternate days, like the NYC parking schedule? “Cause he’s half black and half white. :-O

By: Amy Outside of DC

Amy Outside of DC — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:53:36 +0000

#181 I’m still waiting for the Nazi outrage. There are lots of proud Aryan racists in this country, why aren’t they pissed at the right wing equating a black man with Hitler?

By: shāf

shāf — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:51:23 +0000

So true, Henry! With great power, comes great responsibility.

Wait, wasn’t that the theme of Spider-Man?

By: k to the g

k to the g — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:50:57 +0000

and there was a skinny little hater who tried to disrupt the speakers by playing an accordian and shouting “seig heil”

By: Amy Outside of DC

Amy Outside of DC — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:50:13 +0000

#175 Stupid comapny blocks youtube.
I think you meant Marilyn Monroe, not Manson. Brian Warner (aka Marilyn Manson) wasn’t born until after Jack and Bobby had been killed.

By: PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin

PJ Squeezy Louise Hussein McFlavin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:49:33 +0000

Henry Rollins!

Has a show on KCRW every Saturday at 6pm Pacific.

By: k to the g

k to the g — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:48:55 +0000

Morning all! I went to a pro health-insurance reform rally in Seattle yesterday. One thing I want to suggest is BRING A MEGAPHONE. The anti-reform tiny contingent had one and it made it very easy for them to get their spew out.

By: flombaye

flombaye — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:47:54 +0000

175 was intended to address 174

By: gabby hayes

gabby hayes — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:47:23 +0000

I think Marilyn was eager to meet Jack and what heterosexual male wouldn’t at least want to meet Marilyn Monroe? And if she came onto him, well it’s just impolite to say no to a woman. Marlena Dietrich writes in her memoirs about her meeting with Jack. No words were spoken, practically. She was waiting for him. He came in. They kissed, even though they had never met before. On their way to the bedroom, he asked her if she’d ever had sex with Joe, his father. She said she hadn’t. That was about it. Clearly she arrived with a purpose in mind. And, of course, it would have been impolite not to give it to her. Do you think Richard Nixon ever had sex? Was he celibate his entire life because he was impolite to the many women who came onto him or because he had a face like a badly made pair of wingtip broughams?

By: flombaye

flombaye — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:46:37 +0000

170: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQtfw8U06g

By: Amy Outside of DC

Amy Outside of DC — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:43:23 +0000

#170 Marilyn Manson? So the Kennedys had a time machine too?

By: flombaye

flombaye — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:42:34 +0000

… from “some like it hot”, to “the wonder years” to “happy birthday mister president”, truly a consumate performer.

By: Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina

Juliet Hussein Bravo, Wise Latina — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:41:35 +0000

Love John Fugelsang!