LiveBlog for Friday, October 16, 2009
• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins the Mooks in studio in L.A. for another edition of “Fridays with Fugelsang.”
• After scouring northern Colorado by foot and air, frantically chasing a now-infamous Mylar balloon for dozens of miles and interviewing his big brother over and over, local and federal authorities ended their search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene where it began – at his house. He was in a box. In the attic. The whole time.
• House speaker Nancy Pelosi warned her Senate counterparts yesterday that she intends to fight hard for a public plan option as part of any comprehensive health care overhaul bill. Dem Senate leaders have not yet indicated whether they will include the option when they combine their two measures.
• President Obama signed legislation yesterday providing an additional $7.5 billion in assistance to the Pakistani government to help them combat a wave of attacks orchestrated by the Taliban.
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Wednesday night for what appeared to be an adverse reaction to medication, but she was released Thursday.
Tags: Balloon Boy, Barack Obama, Falcon Heene, James Clyburn, John Fugelsang, Nancy Pelosi, Pakistan, Robert Andrews, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Goood morning all
If Balloon Boy was a hoax, I’d like to see the parents get stuck with a huge bill, then maybe a visit from CO youth services. The NERVE of them knocking Stephanie off the Ed Show. Though after listening to yesterday’s show, I think it was probably better that Mama got to rest her voice a bit.
It’s too early to be driving to work in the snow
Fortunately it isn’t heavy and it’s not sticking to anything, but still 
#1 I hear ‘ya, trojanrabbit! The fact that the family had been on the reality teevee show “Wife Swap” makes we suspicious of either the boy, the parents or the whole kit and kaboodle. As for snow… meh. I’m not ready for winter (then again, I never am).
Hopefully, Steph will benefit of the night off. Felt so sorry for her yesterday. It had to have been a tough 3 hours for her.
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Yeah, I really felt bad for her because it’s doubly bad feeling like crap and not being home.
The host on the overnight show I listen to has also been out most of the week with flu-like symptoms. And his show is 5 hours long and he has no mooks to take up the slack.
So this means there will be sausage and lung butter being made at the top of the hours today?
Figures, after I show the wife how to record the stream, she’s no longer home to record it any more.
I think it would have been funnier had he been on the balloon and made it safely home.
That way, Shane-O could do a mashup drop that goes:
“Look at you… you’ve got a baby… in a balloon!”
Mornin’ all!
Has anyone seen dlisted?: http://dlisted.com/node/34372
Is she trying to be the Katie Price of the conservo-set?
IT IS BALLOOOOOOON!
If he was in the balloon it would have been better…then congress could have stepped up to the plate & banned children flying in homemade aircraft. Or something important like that.
It’s not a balloon! It’s NOT a balloon!! It’s an airship, an airship!!
~Monty Python (Happy 40th!)
8
Of course, in the previous Administration it could have been considered a potential terrorist aircraft and be shot down.
OK I have to ask: why is there an advert for Patients First at the bottom of the blog page?
Is Chris’ tooliness getting contagious & spreading to Momma?
#7 I was thinking of the drop from Pink Floyd’s THE WALL, “Look Mummy, there’s a
airplaneBALLOON up in the sky.”“Mr President, we must close the homemade airship gap!”
#13 Doctor Strangelove much?
Moi? (^_^)
Olympia Snow looks like a Disney villianess. She should be in a hooded cloak offering bright red shiny apples to little girls.
G’morning, gang! I love the smell of LiveBlog in the morning!
#4 trojanrabbit, Mmmmm, sausage sizzling up in lung butter, sounds like the Denny Hastert Breakfast Slam!
So last night Rachel Maddow reiterated what a caller on yesterday’s Stephcast pointed out, which is that if Harry Reid puts the public option healthcare bill on the floor for an up or down vote, the Republicans would have to have 60 votes to filibuster, which they don’t have, because they would need one Democrat to break party unity to join them, which has never happened in the history of the Senate.
Hmmm, ONE Democrat….or perhaps someone who caucuses with the Democrats…. I’m talking to YOU, Lieberman! (Muttered with gritted teeth, like Jerry Seinfeld saying, “Newman!”)
I just e-mailed the good senator….
Oh please please please. Don’t say L.B. I’m eating a bagel.
BTW, after describing Steph’s condition to me wife, Peggy said to me, “So, that’s where you got that phrase (lung butter)”
Good morning, ProducerChris and Steph.
#18: that’s what I’ve been saying! Let the Repubs show exactly what their ideas are.
Hi Steph! Hi Mook(s)! Thanks for the sausage!
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And of course it has to be the “cultured” green lung-butter.
Never heard of that term before. Thanks, Stephanie.
Oh wait…the Repubs don’t have any ideas.
Forgot.
Sorry sorry.
Jim’s out looking for a UFO-shaped baloon so the show can get some attention.
Ah Steph’s hacking is coming along nicely!
Mornin!
Notice that the balloon was made of silver foil…?
#18 Yep. This is when Obama plays Godfather and asks of Joe ‘a favor’ for not kicking him to curb.
Wow, Chris is producing and stuff!
OMG Chris is a producer!
And >belch< from Steph….
good Steph belch drop for Shane-O.
It’s Miller Time, y’alls!
So balloon boy chundas & the father keeps chatting away?
This father is very…I don’t even have a word for it…
“So, puke sound first, Chris?”
“Yeah, I’m turning you off.”
This is why they get paid the big bucks, people!
What Balloon Boy might have seen, had he been on a balloon… that went to 105,000 feet.
Well at least Balloon Boy had the good idea to barf of Viera.
#36, forgot the link: http://bear.sbszoo.com/bear3-4/bear4.htm
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Makes one sandwich.
Mama is sounding better today. Her voice is back to Susan St. James (from McMillan and Wife) levels.
Good morning, Rebekah!
And this is the state of television today: wife-swapping with idiots.
the balloon story was probably the greatest thing ever seen on this planet….
OMG Steph got pushed over for a pyscho. What were you thinking Ed?
At the risk of being skewered. Other than giving Step copious amounts of TV time, Ed Schultz sucks.
An amateur inventor invented flubber.
Yes, you can be an amateur scientist. Most of the scientists of the 19th century were amateurs (born into money).
Even today, a lot of discoveries are made by amateur astronomers (asteroid hunters, supernova hunters), because they have more eyes in more places than the pros, who use their limited telescope time to look at specific objects, and have scheduled to look at those objects months in advance.
I’m an amateur Doctor.
LOL Talk amongst yourselves.
Get well, Stephanie!
Derrick…are you playing Doctor now?
Yea, the Harvey’s Bristol Creme endorsement!
Nick,
Only after I sleep at a Holiday Inn Express.
Falcon? Really??
#46, that said, this guy sounds more like an amateur loon than an amateur scientist.
Morning bloggers!
#52 Falcon? Where’s the Snowman?
#52, well, this kid will have one thing going for him – that wacky cybernetic dog Dynomutt.
Next question: what else is this guy inventing?
Thought bloggoes?
Hey Chris momma can stop here on her way home.
Sounds like a stand up news story. I’ll send an email
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/829464.html
Just when you thought there was nothing to do around here, . . . The Holiday Inn Grand Island will be filled this long weekend with married folks who have sex with other people’s spouses. The doors are swinging open for “Entice the Falls,” an annual swingers convention billed as “Four Days of Wicked Temptation.”
If this is a hoax, then what a terrible dad he is for making his kid out to be a brat.
You can always tell loons by their obsession with magnetism.
Seriously, we’ve understood magnetism and what generates it to over a hundred years.
A way to make “Calling All Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” a #1 song in all markets.
PeterW: Hah! I wasn’t going to go there…but you did!
#60 Foil hats would have made the scene PERFECT!
Watch all the right wingers cry and whine about Rush failing to buy the Rams.
That was weird, the live blog lost all formatting for a second.
Way too much to do to stick around.
Take care of yourself, Stephanie.
Have a great weekend, all!
64 – I can see their headline “Rush Gets Rammed”.
Bye, trojanrabbit!
I guess we should be glad that this guy decided not to be an amateur nuclear physicist.
Have a great weekend, trojanrabbit!
Steph could do Colombo with her voice now.
Stephanie’s going to get on a plane with that flu? Yikes.
Love Mama but… Won’t be good for her either.
Hope she gets better soon.
AS MUCH AS I LOVE STEPH…BOY AM I GLAD I WON’T BE ON THAT FLIGHT WITH HER WITH THIS FLU!!!!
At least that was a cheaper way for him to track down his “Space Ship”.
#69, he wouldn’t have got far with the little sources you can buy from Edmund Scientific.
What is this balloon supposed to be for? I’ll bet he was planning a UFO hoax.
Thank goodness the mainstream media provides such hard-hitting reporting about Balloon Boy, instead of ferreting out the tough stories like, umm, healthcare and the war(s) in Afghanistan and Iraq
Wow Robotrix….are we on the same wave lenght?
At the same time you said the same thing. fun.
Still to fly with the flu NOT KOOL TO OTHERS OR HER.
Hang out in NYC Mama, it will be raining all weekend and COLD too…stay in bed and get better soon.
They could cut the silver foil balloon up and make souvenir hats to sell and cover the cost spent on the hoax…
#77 – They do dwell on silly stories too long…
But people do need a laugh/distraction once in awhile…or our heads would explode from the stress.
hullo
Momma sounds like little horse this morning, Frau Blücher
Does anyone know the link to the Heene/Silver Wife Swap episode?
So one kid is called Falcon…is another called Snowman?
Guess we are, Siena…
And nothing makes Screaming Babies scream more than when they start feeling sick…
And they can then turn into Barfing Babies (aka Balloon Boy)
Hannity was still claiming something may have fallen off of the balloon possibly the child after 8pm on his radio show. In the meantime all other news reports were stating the child was found and most of the nonsense surrounding this event were being disclosed. Oh shiny!
Finally – Pelosi is standing up. Finally.
Completely off-topic:
A white US justice of the peace has been criticised for refusing to issue marriage licences to mixed-race couples.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8310509.stm
I smell Republican running for Prez!
#83 = Yeah the kids have weird names…
I blame Demi Moore, Penn Gillette, Nic Cage and Gwennith Paltrow…
If these parents are bad for just (and there’s so much more to jump on their heads about) that there needs to be a raid by Child Services in Hollywood.
Ironically, going by Jessica’s description (forcing the wife to hand out fliers) I think I saw that episode! The first and LAST time I tuned in because there was nothing else on.
Good morning balloon bloggies and amateur storm chasers everywhere!
# 87
I predict an entry on Frangela’s Idiot of the Week list.
#88: don’t forget Moon Unit Zappa.
thank you “Reasonalble People”!!!!
Diseases Rethugs are prone to, continued from yesterday:
festering, creeping, salacious and Mephitic,
Necrotizing Narcissism and Psychopathia
#90 – And once again, we have to hear about this – and blatant racist judge in the US – from the BBC
#94: no sh*t, huh?
Brine Shrimp
Won’t somebody please think of the shrimp?!
90 & 94 – Actually it was on the AP wirw. Huffpo had the story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/interracial-couple-denied_n_322784.html
Found the Heene/Silver Wife Swap episode:
http://www.mixx.com/videos/8620649/youtube_heene_silver_wife_swap_episode_part_1_of_5
#94: Yeah MJ gets a month, Walter Cronkite gets a couple of days, the Balloonies (™ Nick) get a day, rascist judge…nada.
Hiya. Bloggoes!
How are ya this “fine” snowy mornin’?
I’mm looking for a few extraordiary corporations to sponsor the breaking up of all the trusts we gots in this country!
Glen the Desk Clerk: Hey a$$holes, more a$$holes here
for your suckfest!
[drop]
I think that was actually the Senate Finance Committee…
Thanks Producer Chris! I got me a shoutout!
Wuz that Jim Ward with some kind of Proposition for Momma?
I am an amateur OB/GYN…
#102 Yea, Mark! You haz a shoutout!
Have a good weekend, everyone!
No offence SkyHawk but HuffPost isn’t enough
FYI – Wal-Mart and Amazon are in a price war on some new titles. Right now the price for these is $9.
Stephen King, “Under the Dome”
Sarah Palin, “Going Rogue”
James Patterson, “I, Alex Cross”
JD Rodd, “Kingdom in Death”
John Grisham, “Ford Country”
Dean Koontz, “Breathless”
Linda Howard, “Ice”
The second title there they shouldn’t be able to GIVE that away….
#1: “If Balloon Boy was a hoax, I’d like to see the parents get stuck with a huge bill, then maybe a visit from CO youth services.”
Agreed, since Co. Youth Services are doing a heckuva job in South Park! (Not)
Welcome to Cough Talk lines are open.
#107: Holy Moley! $9? Does that even cover costs??
It’s ALWAYS about the children.
I’m trying to find the story that Steph referred to — about an insurance company that canceled all people suffering from a certain illness.
How is this guy still a judge? And why hasn’t this come up before?
Garignak!
“Racism in this country is the exclusive province of the left” – actual Rush Limpbag quote.
That was a prime example of the republican healthcare option. You choke – we watch.
It’s fun!
107 — I’m all excited about #1 on this list. I love that guy.
Flush is a blatant racist… so go ahead and sue somebody Rush,
see how that works out for you, you fat bloated lying scumbag
Balloon Boy “I Want to Believe” http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/4830/iwanttobelievev2.jpg
Oh, Trust me, anyone who listens to you knows from blind hatred, Rush
I should be able to buy black people. It’s at the top of my list!
Just tuned in. So Courtney Love is guest-hosting today?
#122:
#110 – Or maybe this just proves how little the physical printing of these books actually costs them that they can still make any profit at that price…
Wow. 7.5 billion for Pakistan. No possible backlash for that!
I asked a Pakistani friend which US presidents Pakistanis liked or disliked.
He said, “We hate Eisenhower because he said, ‘giving Pakistan money is like pouring water on sand…’”
He paused; I didn’t say anything, so he continued
“…OK, it’s true. But he shouldn’t have said it. We hate him.”
#122: or Dale Bozzio. She did just get streeted.
#118 – Racism aside. Since they drug test the players shouldn’t known drug addicts be banned from owning teams too?
Any sausage?
#124: I thought most stuff was still printed in Canada…although a few books (read: graphic novels) say ‘printed in china’.
K THNX!
Momma remember a little honey and warm tea for that throat!
yep. I wonder if we’re supposed to be hearing this!
#124, right-wing books aren’t about profit, they’re about peddling ideology. Same with right-wing newspapers, which are huge money-sinks.
They’re bankrolled by rich-righties as part of their propaganda program.
Old “F Troop” drop “It Is Balloon!”, Chief Wild Eagle
Can anyone help me find the story Steph was referring — the one about the company canceling everybody with a disorder.
Here’s the link to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCcxrre6HY
Uh oh….I called Rebecca “Jessica” earlier…
SORRY!
I’m so sad for Steph, a whole week in new york and she’s sick.
PeterW,
Money vs ideology — even after all these years, I still don’t know which motivates the right wing media people more. Surely it’s a mix of both.
Mama, you’re always shiny!
Did she say she’s shiny? What does that mean?
Did I just hear Firefly slang? Awesome reference, Steph!
#139, you gotta spend money to make money. Spend money on right-wing propaganda, get deregulatory loons into office, make money.
#135: goto the Countdown w/Keith Olbermann site. He does a whole piece about. And probably will again tonight.
Here is A link: http://www.insurancenewsnet.com/article.asp?a=top_lh&id=110815
#135 Ron:
I think it was on Countdown. :Look for it on MSNBC.com
Will Today really let him barf on the West Coast now that they have time to edit it out?
#142, yeah, that’s ruttin’ awesome. But it’s what makes Mama’s show the best one in the ‘Verse. Well, other than the Oaty Bar commercial.
>> Nick (somewhere in the æther) says:
>> #124: I thought most stuff was still printed in Canada…
I used to get stuff printed in Canada since I distributed bother there and here.
It was all about duties — I had to pay a lot to get my stuff _to_ Canada but the US let Canadian items in free.
Totally unfair but that was it.
Yeah Madduane I thought that I heard that too!
In that “it was for the show” video clip, the dad’s reaction was even more indicting than what the boy said.
I gotta go out and find the thing for the humidifier… will
miss ya
#144: sorry not a link to Countdown. I just did a search for “MS NY insurance cancelled”
I think Steph sounds like Dr. Laura, especially when the good Dr. is back chain smoking.
Morning bloggos.
If the balloon boy family did this as a way to get some money, at least they weren’t out robbing banks or ATM’s!
#142 I didn’t think she was a Firefly/Serenity fan. Maybe it’s a “Shiny Happy People” reference.
Falcon, if you’re going to spew, spew here.
WHY DID YOU PLAY THAT?????
lol — “put it out there”
Baloonie daddy must be a republican. Or a Libertarian. You puke-we watch.
I think the kid is making a physical commentary.
Nick,
Thanks for the link! I didn’t know what state it was in.
Unless there is a devil in the details, this is the perfect story for the need of healthcare.
We’re just saying that you should be embarrassed by your cute froggy voice Steph.
From what I remember of that episode of “Wife Swap” he wouldn’t have helped his kid or cleaned that up even if he wasn’t talking on TV…
That’s “Woman’s Work”….
If Mom wasn’t there…”Sit in it, Kid. She’ll be back.”
159 — they all kinda looked like they were in an outer circle of hell. That’ll teach you to do something for the show.
There was a Japanese comedian in the early ’90s who had a monkey in his act. When he’d say “Bush-san! Bush-san!” the monkey would pretend to barf.
Pedal-bar?
I’ve seen the six-person circular bikes in NYC. Sounds like they added a bar to the thing.
Jill St. John! Yeah! As a teen boy, I thought she was so hot.
#163: Yeah Circle 8 of the Malebolge: the Fraudulent.
I wautch the news too.
OY! Larry get some facts!!!
Caller, get your facts straight or STFU.
As a republican you are not open to facts, information, reality…
Really caller, ????
#166 Jill St. John, Susan St. James, Eva Marie Saint, women were just alot more saintly when I was a kid.
Doesn’t watch mainstream news but he watches Fox.
Dolt.
Yo dude – Cluster Fox considers itself mainstream and believe it or not, actual news.
Okay, I’m bored. This cat-toy is chewed up and needs to be dumped.
He cares because Rush told him to care.
The film Mark Cuban produced was Redacted, about the ACTUAL rape, murder, and burning of a 14 year-old Iraqi girl by US troops.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0937237/synopsis
Can’t speak to the artistic liberties taken by the film, but if the US Military doesn’t want disparaging remarks about soldiers raping, killing, and burning teenaged girls, maybe they shouldn’t rape, kill, and burn teenaged girls.
173 — Lily St. Cyr?
This guy is missing the obvious. Rush said on ESPN that the media was overstating Donovan McNabb’s abilities because the NFL was desperate for a black quarterback to be a star. That’s a clear, unvarnished fact. I’ve had to listen to that vomitous statement repeatedly again this week.
And the Mark Cuban film was “Stoploss”, if I’m not mistaken.
The movie was “Redacted” and as someone who has spent 30 months in Iraq I can tell you it was pretty straight forward and true to life. Republicans seem to have a problem facing the reality that war is not a fucking Ronald Reagan/John Wayne movie, it’s a little more bloody, dirty and gritty.
#179 God bless her (Lily St. Cyr)
Wow, caller! You came out against slavery! Pretty controversial!
Mama, we’re done with this idiot. He has no point other than the lies from Faux News
This guy is TOOL!
Peter: Thanks for the correct film. There have been a few that these right-wing tools have objected to, so I wasn’t sure which it was. Thanks for the link to IMDB.
Let him finish! Let him finish!
Gawd, what an idiot!
Time to hang up…bye, bye.
Raising his voice: a sign of a right wing tool
Sounds like Ross Perot. Can I finish? May I finish?
People are having a hard time sourcing that quote, Jim. We should be a bit wary about it.
Calls from smart funny liberal listeners usually last about ten seconds, but then a RW loons dials the phone . . .
Didn’t Marge Schott get suspended by Major League Baseball for suggesting that Hitler had his good points? But Limbaugh should get a pass from the NFL for saying slavery had its good points???
193 – Thank you! I was just thinking the same thing.
The movie Redacted was about the Army not Marines. They have their scandals they have to answer for, no need to pile the Army’s on top of them too.
Ok now that Idiot McAsshat is gone…Momma will you at least be wearing a mask during your flight?
Scottzi or John from Amherst ought to be calling in soon.
Here’s the wiki on the film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redacted_%28film%29
Rush also said watching an NFL game was like watching the Bloods and Crips but without the guns – I wonder what doesn’t sound racist to the caller about that? And I’m sure the NFL would love to have an owner with an attitude like that towards its players.
Of course he’s against slavery. There wouldn’t be free Black people here now if there hadn’t been slavery…
Whatever happened to “If you’re dumb, you die”?
#192: actually I’m pretty proud of that caller. Not for his views but that he was able to dial with his head up his ass. and he sounded SO clear speaking thought his hood. Ah technology.
The caller just made our point…if Rush were named Joe and he wasn’t outspoken…he wouldn’t have gotten the attention from Sharpton…and he would have gotten the team.
Right – he was judged on HIS merits, or lack there of, not on the basis that he is a rich, white conservative.
#201 Must have been using a wireless headset and had Mama on speed dial.
Mama in NY
Rachel in NY
Mama sick
Rachel sick
Mama and Rachel lesbo lovers?????????
‘Whatever happened to “If you’re dumb, you die”?’
That’s that Teddy Roosevelt progressivism we’ve heard so much about.
204: something to ponder
Here’s a St. Louis Post Dispatch article with the quote Jim mentions.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/columnists.nsf/bryanburwell/story/E196145D80764B2F86257648000EF26B?OpenDocument
“Rush’s need to own black people” LOL!!!
Amen, caller!
>> scooter says:
>> #166 Jill St. John, Susan St. James, Eva Marie Saint, women were just alot more saintly when I was a kid.
I’ve long wondered if those those where stage names thought up by goofy agents. All where fabulous women, anyway.
BTW, I Googled it and realized that it was Susan St. James who I had such a crush on when I was a kid. Can’t blame me for getting confused!
So now I’m thinking that child protective services does need to get involved. That kid is scared & distressed & his parents apparently don’t give a good g*d d*mn.
Was Momma kissing Rachael? Is that what you’re implying (or inferring or whatever)?
Rush manufactured this whole thing for money and ratings and does not really care as long as he gets paid and people are talking about him which they are. This does not alter the fact that he looks like that dude in the pig sticking scene from Deliverence the Movie. Also, any news on the Sean Hannity Frotting addiction?
#207, the article has a disclaimer at the top saying the same thing I did – the quote first appears in a book criticizing Rush, and people are still trying to verify it.
Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if the audio turns up, Rush’s denials notwithstanding, but we should be cautious about it until it’s better sourced.
“‘Whatever happened to “If you’re dumb, you die”?’
That’s that Teddy Roosevelt progressivism we’ve heard so much about.”
No. It’s the basis of “Survival of the Fittest”, Natural Selection, improving the gene pool and The Darwin Awards http://www.darwinawards.com/
#212, it certainly took the spotlight off Glenn Beck for a while, didn’t it? I imagine Rush was chafing under Beck’s newfound prominence.
Actually, he’s so fat, I imagine Rush chafes doing anything.
If Rush were “Joe” Limbaugh (what is the Right Wing’s obsession with guys named “Joe”? “Joe” the Plumber…Joe Wilson…) and not a famous radio blowhard, he wouldn’t have had the money needed to have been a part of a bid to buy an NFL team, making that intellectual exercise a moot point.
Frotting. there’s a word that just isn’t used enough.
Although coupled w/Sean Hannity it becomes nauseating.
#216 – Joe is supposed to be “every man”, the regular down home all American guy. Their version of it anyway…
“Everyone knows Cindy McCain is the alien from V”
Allegedly. (Whew, glad we added that!)
Steph is a phelgm monster this morning…she sounds like she’s getting ready to hack up a big hair ball. I can relate Steph.
Joe.
Whatever happened to Tom, Dick & Harry?
Joe.
So unappealing-sounding.
#220 she sounds like she’s getting ready to hack up a big hair ball.
And we thought she was a ‘dog person’.
Now if we could just get wimpy Harry on board…
They can call the average guy “Joe” because nobody remembers this
#218 – Of course, a lot of these regular “Joes” out there are just as – or some times more – racist than Limbaugh and yet a lot of them own businesses and have employees effected by their decisions…
Harry Reid is an anotomic marvel walking around without a backbone.
#224: OMG I had completely forgotten that film.
Rush was kicked out of the consortium, caller. He didn’t pull out.
It’s an example of the free market. It’s not the government that said he couldn’t buy the team, the other potential owners kicked him out of the group. Consumer choice at its finest.
#209 Well, Eva Marie Saint was the most enduring actor of the bunch and pretty hot too during the North by Northwest era. Jill St. John was just eye-candy, but she was pretty good with Sean Connery in Diamonds are Forever.
But it was Susan St. James that every straight red-blooded schoolboy [including me]was in lust with during the late 60’s, especially when she was hanging around with that totally non-threatening Rock Hudson guy. Susan St. James is just one of those women that looks great from cradle to grave.
#224 – Peter Boyle is one of my favorite actors and that was a break out role for him. Horrible character though and way too relatable for some folks out there.
“rush pulled out…”?
Isn’t that from his little south american trip??
I love that it showed Rush there IS a limit to his money, his power and his influence!
#229, PR is an important part of business. Businesses and owner groups have to consider the PR angle. That’s the market at work.
231 — well, that was the point, really… The average american conservative dude was supposed to relate to Boyle’s character and then end up totally creeped out.
#232 – That trip was to the Dominican Republic
#236: Thanks. I couldn’t remember where exactly he went.
#231 – or they ended up saying “he’s a real American!”. Peter said people came up to him in the street and said they LIKED the character, the felt he was just another misunderstood angry white guy.
238 — now, that blows my mind.
Yes, Dominican Republic….where the main sex market is underaged boys.
Make sure we get that right.
#224: Archie Bunker writ large.
We’re seeing the outer effects of Dorian Gray where Rush is concerned.
I want my constitutionally guaranteed professional football team.
#239 I know. Frightening, but I’m always shocked at how many people like that are still out there!
…or a Racist Seven-Layer Salad.
Waste of a good song on someone crummy like Rush
there is certainly no right to own a franchise – which, by definition, has the reverse right – the right to exclude (as it is a licensing agreement, in part)
And now, the clip…
“Hey MFer, bring me some iced tea.”
Bill O’Reilly’s grandmother had “never met a Black person”????
Do they keep her in the basement…in the fruit cellar? How is that even possible?
O’Reilly was just confusing Sylvia’s with Samuel L’s.
246 — I can’t even imagine a meeting between Ruch Limbaugh and Chrissie Hynde. I think someone would come away from that exchange missing a face, and it wouldn’t be Chrissie.
I’ve been to Slyvia’s in the Bronx…cool place with an amazing history. The original lunch counter from the 40’s is still there and the Sylvia family – another American success story.
Sorry, Sylvia’s is not in the Bronx, it’s Harlem.
Hey Coulter – try getting some facts right. Oh yeah…your a repug so that’s not possible.
Wow, Ann Coulter can rewrite history like nobody else.
Coulter was confusing George Soros with George Walker (and Prescott Bush).
Coulter…”Nazi collaborators”? You really want to open THAT can of worms (Prescott Bush, Ah-nuld’s family in Austria)
Morning all! BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh has lifted off in a GIANT balloon headed for NFL headquarters. In a related story, Sarah Palin mistook the balloon for a giant Putinhead and has begun firing on it.
Hi, folks!
252 – I thought Chrissy Hyde sued Limbaugh for using her song…guess she lost. Too bad.
Who’s plugging their cans where?
and nice Selma Diamond impression, Steph
Nice, Snopes smackdown for Coulter.
Hey, we’ll sound surprised when we hear it again.
Oh I loved Selma Diamond!! She was great. Also the lady that played Joey’s agent on Friends – Steph sounds like her too.
259 – Sorry…NO balloon is that big.
Although Rushbo has enough hot air in him to fill it….
#263 Aww, remember how Bull cried after Selma died? Her character was funny, but it’s also tinged with sadness cause I know she’s gonna die.
Thimerisol was the preservative that some blamed for causing autism. It is no longer used in vaccines.
Jim, that vaccine thing’s been debunked. First they blamed the mercury-based preservative, then they blamed vaccine cocktails. The anti-vaccine loons have just decided on the culprit, without any evidence or even a plausible mechanism (which is why their story keeps changing).
#269 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimerosal_controversy
#267, yes, there are balloons that can lift Rush: http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/
Barely.
Steph’s flight home: Shakes on a Plane.
Hey, Trailer Trash News! New feature on SMS?
People will be asking the flight crew if there is another seat they can moved too so they don’t have to sit next to the coughing/hacking lady. But the flight will be full and it will be over 5 hours long….
That’s the problem with small towns. The neighbors you victimize just happen to be family.
I just got a funny mental/aural image, watching the balloon landing replay and the rescuers chopping it open, releasing the helium. I am imagining them all talking in helium voices. Silly, I know, but this is the Stephanie MIller show!
14 year old Nazi? Isn’t that the same age the pope was in the Hitler Youth? Answer that, Coulter with the giant cross around your neck.
She’s a Flem-e-nazi, my friends!
#275, they’d make Steph fly out on the wing, but they’re afraid it’ll freak out Shatner again.
#277 I would have loved to have been there to hear their helium-saturated voices say “What the f*ck?”
BTW…someone mentioned vaccinations.
Why are people who are pro-vaccines so upset about people who don’t want their kids vaccinated..? They say the un-vaccinated kids put their kids at risk…
Why? That’s the point of the vaccines, isn’t it? To protect the kids from carriers. If your kid is vaccinated they’re safe from un-vaccinated kids, right?
Maybe the un-vaccinated kids getting sick adds to the health care issues in this country and it keeps diseases from “dying out” (assuming they ever do – small pox still exists out there).
#282, unvaccinated kids are potentially the carriers and incubators of vaccine-resistant strains.
They’ll probably have the Hazmat unit at LAX waiting for Momma’s flight!!
277. That’s funny. They’d all be Terry Jeffries
Just wait…Rush will be a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade float.
#282 Maybe it’s a general concern for the well being of children? Sure it’s not your kid barely breathing through the whooping cough, but who wants to see any child struggling to breathe?
I’m guessing the flight attendants will conspire to “fix” a drink of some kind for our Steph.
Voice guy should do a bit.
286 – I get the sling shot franchise.
#290:
Testing, testing–is this thing on?
I’m tired of the non-story already.
#288 – I’m telling ya, shot of brandy or bourbon in some hot tea. Works everytime.
#289 Jim did a bit on the Goodyear blimp springing a leak (in the style of the Hindenburg disaster).
Sparta
#252, #261: I always wondered about that…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_Was_Gone#Use_by_Rush_Limbaugh
I love the smell of Sparta in the morning!
I’ve had Keneau on going to JFK. He slept the whole time and looked like he’d had a long rough night out before getting on his flight.
I balloon for Sparta!
Sparta!
spatter sparta again?
Wow a skyhawk and a balloon on the sparta. Good shot!
Again with the Spartahawk.
congrats, skyhawk!
Huzzah to Skyhawk! *bows*
Skyhawk with a balloon on the liveblog. Bonza!
I missed the balloon-boy story completely, in fact didn’t even hear about it until 9PM last night. But when I read about it in the Denver Post it only confirmed what I’ve been thinking for awhile, that Colorado may have more nutbergers per capita than Florida.
308 — what do you do for excitement in Ft. Collins, anyway?
#308 I heard about it at dinner last night with some friends. It’s definitely getting even more interesting now though!
Jinda-loo is berry bad man
#217 Sean Hannity had a “man in the street” frotting episode that was hushed up by F**ked News. He has since been in counseling. I would not get in an elevator with him.
Thank You, John F! You speak the truth, my friend.
Their not into facts either John…
Bye, Steph! EARPLUGS AND DRINKS!
The NFL isn’t capitalist either, they rely on public money to build their stadiums. Look at the $1B Dallas stadium.
Wow – another Clear Channel snafu.
Bye, Steph. Safe travels! See you Monday.
with the freeway shooters rampantly taking people out from some well-concealed van, truck, or car trunk, it didnt seem necessary to call and remind police that part of that set is “car trunks”. but as it turned out, it was necessary.
with 3 days projection to landfall, and hurricane katrina pointed at beaumont, about to follow the tried and true curvature established by decades of hurricane tracking, it didnt seem necessary to remind anybody that it was about to park and grind right on the delta and overpower the nominal levy at pontchartrain. – and yet apparently, it was necessary.
with a missing scared six year old boy presumably in a situation to think like a scared six year old boy, it didnt seem necessary to remind anybody to at least search the attic …. oh, yes, in a manner as thoe somebody who might be hiding there may not want to be found.
– maybe borrow a k-9 unit as if the child matters. and yet….
my blonde.
Safe trip Steph! I hope your head congestion doesn’t give you fits what with the popping ears and stuff. Last time I flew was just painful, painful, painful.
#297 – Looked it up. Turns out as long as Limbaugh doesn’t alter the song in any way and pays the broadcast fees…she can’t do a thing.
Still don’t understand how the decision Gilbert O’Sullivan won about sampling recordings without permission couldn’t be used in some way but…I’m not a lawyer.
#308 Well, it’s been awhile since someone welded steel plates all over a bulldozer and started knocking down buildings along Main Street.
Clear Channel is bringing in hazmat team to ready the studio for next show.
i know that robert duvall failed the audition to join the ramones, but did his mother know that he was a boo radley ?
#321 – I think it’s the Steph show that is choosing that song whenever they do a Rush bit. I can imagine Chrissy wants to gag everytime she hears her tuned played with Rush pontificating.
i was loving the voice. where’s here dotter, melissa ?
Hi Chris!
Mama’s seat smells of Hal Sparks.
#319 – They did search the house…and called to him.
Maybe he wasn’t really in the attic as he’s been told to say?
Maybe that’s why he’s got this sudden case of puking? Stressed much, Kid?
Tossing people out of houses for stadiums is a Texas tradition. Dubya did it when he owned the Rangers. Then he sold the land, rather than using it for parking as he claimed he was going to do.
329: have they found out anything good about the kid’s parents yet ?
Again…hoisted on their own petard!! Love it!
a BIG bitch. watch your language please.
#312 – But Steph wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t Limbaugh’s signature tune.
No he’s whining like a little fat boy that didn’t get his way.
331: give the little bitch a break. he’s allergic to truth.
331 — longstanding sports tradition, and one of the reasons I’m not a sports fan. Ever hear of Chavez Ravine?
no more obsolete labels. everybody use flugelslang.
338: her banana dance was outstanding.
Oh, he’s awful. Can’t wait for Ahnold to leave.
who’s performing at the pizza party ?
john an chovy.
cool.
Hell yeah, John! I had (and still have) issues with the Big Dog selling out on Media Ownership, DOMA, DADT.
why would anybody try to connect rush with something american ?
#335 – I’m pretty sure that performance rights organizations (like ASCAP and BMI) collect $$ from shows like Rush’s and the SMS — for the use of music in their catalogs – thus the shows pay for use of copyrighted material and the owners/writers of the music get distributions from the orgs
Yeah but what does that say about the Miss America pagent people?
Do people watch Miss America pageants?
#347, with the sound off or not at all.
But they also don’t have any problem with sending other peoples kids to fight an illegal invasion either.
348: even frank sinatra can be tolerable with the sound off (as long as you can be sure that he’s not attempting to warble either).
#258: Watched “Capitalism: A Love Story” last night. Ah-nold was in there for 3 seconds saying something to the effect that he left Austria to get away from socialism. Damned liar.
#346 As I’ve said before, I predict that the following year’s Miss America pageant will be judged by Glenn Beck and held at a Chuck E. Cheese.
346: Job training for Fox news personalities.
#347 Robotrix:
NFL players are union and by nature – fighters, politically aware fighters.
Miss America people are vapid mannequins.
#351 – I’m going to see that movie tonight! Can’t wait.
at least there was evidence that mohammed atta’s meeting in niger with saddam hussein was causing cancer.
348 – Can’t you see the same amount of pretty girls in various states of dress on MTV any time you want to?
355 — It’s all about the Spike Jonze thing for me at this point.
355: makes a perfect double feature companion with “tequila mockingbird” starring gregory peck and raul julia.
John, best back-handed complement evar!
357: it’s different. the ones on MTV all started out as girls.
look at carrie prejean.
that was a compliment??
Jim, how dare you talk about OUR SAVIOR like that! *snickers*
360: was it lennon and mccartney that came up with that best ambidextrous compliment ever ?
“i want to hold your breasts !”
“Capitalism” is a classic. Poor Michael looks tired by the end. We need to get out in the streets and pick up the torch he’s handing us.
She was a little bit disgusted!
#354 – My cousin was a college player…
Unless it makes them money or gets them laid, most NFL players aren’t aware of much.
OK I admit it: I like boobies. There I said it.
#364 – or the line from Otter in Animal House to Karen Allen’s character – “can I massage your thigh?”.
Rush got thrown out of the Big Boys’ Club – it’s all about his bruised ego.
#369 – Oops. Not Karen Allen, another girl he was after. Anywho, that was a weird line, but still kinda funny.
#357, the undress is not the point. The fact that beauty pagents with no sound are effin’ hilarious is. The silliness is magnified by the silence.
Yep, I have no problem with Meghan posting her picture. It’s her right.
Caller is wrong. Some tank tops are cut high and some are cut low. She could have been wearing a tank top that didn’t reveal most of her boobs. Such things do exist. Just because you have big boobs doesn’t mean you must show cleavage.
#373 – spoken like a true guy!
Thanks for holding down the fort John! Always a pleasure.
Oh come on. Ann talks about how she’s more a man than liberals. She brings it upon herself.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Bye all! Kepp your balloons tethered.
Have a good weekend everyone!
or keep…whatever
Last word on that book sale – Amazon vs Wal Mart.
WSJ says they’re both losing $7 to $8 on each book at that price.
So, just this once – buy Wal Mart.
Mr. Heene. I was reminded of a character with a similar sounding name, Dr. Haney on “Green Acres”. Both tricksters.