LiveBlog for Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Lester Brown, Founder of the Earth Policy Institute and author of “Plan B 4.0,” calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the need for immediate environmental action.
• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Humpdays With Hal.”
• Comedian Margaret Cho calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk about her upcoming shows and the release of her new concert DVD, “Beautiful.”
• President Obama has sought to spend no more than $900 billion over a 10-year period on health care reform. Yesterday, however, House Dem leaders received a new cost estimate of $871 billion from congressional budget umpires who measured a bill with a a robust public option.
• President Obama spoke with Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday and congratulated him for accepting the report of the UN-backed Election Complaint Commission which ruled that he garnered under 50% of the vote in the August election after vote fraud had been factored in, mandating a recount.
• Oprah Winfrey announced yesterday that Sarah Palin will appear on her show on Monday, November 16th.
Tags: Afghanistan, Allyson Schwartz, Barack Obama, Earth Policy Institute, Hal Sparks, Hamid Karzai, Health Care Reform, Karl Frisch, Lester Brown, Margaret Cho, Media Matters for America, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Palin
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Gooood morning all
400 Quatloos against Sarah actually appearing on Oprah.
Morning, all. Gonna be a drive-by post today – I’m playing a funeral at 10 AM, and will probably need to start changing at 9. Let’s see how much work I can get done in the intervening hour-and-a-half…
Good morning Earlybloggers!
It’s amazing what staying up all night will do for your …………… zzzzzzzzz
Good morning all. After yesterday’s show I couldn’t stop thinking about Michael Steele. He’s an embarassment to Maryland. He seems to be what I would call the racial version of transgendering. He is trying hard to be an angry white man. What next chemical treatments to remove his skin pigment?
4 he is just another angry conservative is all. color has nothing to do with it…it’s all brain chemistry; wired that way.
look at the Cheny clone….nothing of what you would expect from a lesbian you would think…
i actually have work that i have to pay attention to, so i can’t even listen to steph in the background which givez me sad. make sure the blog rocks today so i have an inkling of what is going on.
i know that there was something about someone saying that respected journalists, talk show buffs, and pundits should stay away from fox…who does that leave?
Hello everyone. Can’t stay long either. Sorry to hear about the funeral you have to attend Peter.
I enjoyed watching parts of Olberman late last night. He had excellent guests.
#1: 500 Quatloos!
Rebbecca Taylor -> Becky Taylor -> Bea Taylor -> Aunt Bea.
#1 cont’d: and an extra 100 if she doesn’t say something incredibly stupid.
My dad wore the dark suits, white shirts and skinny ties too. Usually always a white shirt. He branched out to pastels in the post-1969 70s. Woo hoo!
While cooking breakfast for Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Taylor wears high heels, a string of pearls, matching earrings, a frilly apron and . . . that’s it!
9—LOL. I don’t think any woman wants to be called Aunt Bea.
My Great grandfather’s family (Cassidy family) lived with a cousin named Jim Ward in Fishkill NY back in 1880. It is possible Jim is my fourth cousin.
14—I am reportedly related to one of the members of the first Massachusetts Bay Colony. So my sister says. She did the whole genealogy thing.
I don’t think the woman who PLAYED Aunt Bea (Frances Bavier) liked being called Aunt Bea.
BBL gotta get ready for work.
The Hoff show will straddle the fine line between unfunny and dontwannnaknow.
all the whispering doggedly (from the producers of “hung”) reminds me …. how IS william hung these days ?
16—I think she was happy to be working with nice Andy Griffith and that cute Howard kid. Overweight lady in her 60s gets full-time acting gig—-that hardly ever happens in Hollywood.
I have some good news. I went to the dentist the other day with a cavity but because I had a filling there already she said she might have to recommend a root canal if removing the old filling exposed any root tissue.
It didn’t so I got away with just a white filling. That is huge good news for me because almost every other time I’ve needed a root canal and a crown. That good news saved me about $500 in copays.
‘k. I’m gonna run too. Be well.
Happy Humpday!
#1: I see your 400 Quatloos and I raise you … OK, I’ve got nothing.
4: that actually comes a bit later. ironic mike’s next step is this: and i swear to cthulhu, i saw such a thing myself: a pinto with a roll bar and dash full of racing instruments, and a general lee (dukes of hazzard) paint job. – - – thoe, true to form, ironic mike is prone to announce something like: “obama’s communist healthcare agenda is nothing more than a national destruction derby of the american economy, and i’m going to be this bumper full of patriotic bumper stickers right here yall !”
I gave up on civilization when GWB was reelected.
I don’t think the Navajo are slowing down on the Desert Rock coal fired power plant.
5: thank you for reminding me about cenk’s awesome mr hyde moment (2009>2>20). observe what happens a minute and a half into this compilation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMU2o1DVxYE&feature=fvsr
11: spiffyhussein’s dad is flandershussein ?
THANK YOU, JIM! Let’s all just give up now.
Hiya, Bloggoes!
As a TG person, let me just say that we don’t want Michael Steele.
13: auditions now open for wilmer’s new project: the maude squad.
Steph- the movie is 11th Hour.
14: i still remember my fourth cousin, thoe you never really forget the first one either.
That there is a distorted commercial on the livestream. quite overmodulated!
Oh AND Chris…you were wrong….BIG difference between the two aforementioned pharmaceuticals!!
16: ironically, even the must studious combined efforts of etymologists and entomologists can not even seem to find either an ant or a bee who responds nicely to being called “ant-bee”.
Jim is Eeyore.
26: those ads that begin with “giggly white bitch” never DO turn out well.
#11: “My dad wore the dark suits, white shirts and skinny ties too. Usually always a white shirt. He branched out to pastels in the post-1969 70s. Woo hoo!”
Pictures or it didn’t happen!
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/
27: there’s something along the lines of ZERO navajo approval or benfit attached to that coal project; it’s more of a wholly owned john mccain pollutive endeavor for internalized profit. mccain treats land the same as planes. he has the skills to manage sustainability, as long as that includes taxpayers paying for the massive net losses.
36: i’ll bet you a freddie kruegerrand that there are pharmorecuticles that meet the eye.
The White House should pull the press pass from Fox news, so should Congress.
GHWB: the donald rumsfeld of weird spent white guys.
To the cornfield with you! And without the right equipment, or an exit strategy!
Good morning, everyone! Sorry, I’m late – had a dental appointment. Hope everyone is awesome.
That’s it for me today. I gots to write a paper on families of folks in prison.
How come the RWs are so whiny? Rush, Beck, Fox, O’Reily sure do whine an awful lot for a cadre of puke bags that call liberals weak. Grow up guys, and change your diapers.
first, these people lobby like madness-in-the-spring for getting rid of grades, and standardized tests, and then when they still fail, they whine and complain about even the most minimal standards. they are simply busheviks of the most extreme degree. the grade of “failure” is appropriate. – obama’s whitehouse is correct on this one; seems like a touch of the old DOER (a jesuit precept: doctrine of equivalent response AKA “WWJD”) – consequently, the press corps would be proper to tell FAUX that they are allowed in at any time, just as soon as they join the learning curve. – their failure was completely voluntary. – did i miss any details ? – okay, good. – didnt think so. – pasta la pizza.
I found http://www.blip.tv/file/2695340 on http://www.mikemalloy.com where SDS marchers are arrested in Rochester NY. It’s not 1969, it’s 2009!
Also, when is Jim Ward going to mock Michael Steele’s “assimilation” reference as something from the STAR TREK: BORG episode mix of DVD’s?
Don’t care about the DOW. Ann Telnaes does it again: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/anntelnaes/
sums up my feeling pretty damn well.
hiya
head full of snot this a.m.
“We bow in awe of your vast collection of racist quotes”
Rush could be sipping on a mint julep on the porch of his plantation in blackface and say he isn’t rascist.
51
Is this somehow supposed to tweak the Republitards blaming the stock market plunge on Obama?
Chiron under Steph: Hard-up liberal drunk radio-show slag.
rush has mad cow disease. so does beck, hannity, savage, all of them.
Sean, nobody (with a brain) wants to hear what you have to say!
52: That’s what you get for sucking face with moma.
Fox is the middle school bully. They want to be able to beat on anyone they choose, but the minute anyone stands up to them they throw a tantrum and protest how mistreated they are.
59 ummm! Momma-snot
The difference between calling Bushy Hitler and calling Obama
Hitler is that Bush did emulate Hitler: war of aggression,
domestic spying, assassinations, torture, destruction of the
rule of law…. the only Hitlery things Obama’s done is he
hasn’t yet rolled back everything Bush did. But I’m preaching
to the choir here, I know. Nice housecoat/fuzzy slippers this
morning, Momma. Somebody tell Jim Ward to put on some pants.
Morning all! What’s that awful smell?
#19: Sorry, but appearing on reality TV still isn’t a capital crime. It was at the top of our list, but Tom Delay caught us trying to sneak it into the appropriations bill.
Liz Cheney has such a soothing voice.
Bye, bye, Bernie K!
Fox and Felons will be on the MSNBC prison shows on weekends, don’t worry.
The Bush’s (both of them) had a long history of sniping at CBS News (Dan Rather specifically), going as far back as 1992, which I documented in my blog last night.
Bernie Kerik going to jail? thanks for telling us Momma!
That’s great! He was Rudy’s choice for whut? terrorism
czar o’New Yuck? When is Rudy going to jail?
How about Liz Cheney’s terror of getting a beat down by Rachel Maddow. Kind of like when Olberman was calling Hannity out every night on his claim to be waterboarded for the troops and never did it and it just fizzled. What frotfest! Liz and Hannity!
Crazy right wing, jew hating Scott from Boston is following me around like a persistant fart. I listen to Tony Bruno in the morning and the Stephcast in the afternoon. Scott called in last night whining about a Jew owning the Pats, taking down the whole league…..can’t everyone just block his calls?
#67 I wonder if Rudy will let Bernie use his dress and panties for party night in prison?
two words you won’t hear in the same sentence about moma: Massive and Chest.
We’re all going to be dead from nervous exhaustion and boredom by the time we get a stupid healthcare bill. Kill Bill, now there was a good movie.
69
Did Scottzi also whine about Fireman owning Reebok?
69. He calls Thom Hartmann too. I’d love to see Mike Malloy get ahold of him.
Reid is playing rope-a-dope without the rope.
69 Scottzi should be cut off. Nobody needs to hear his hate.
I bet the ADL knows about him already, but I’d like to rat
him out to them.
Why doesn’t he call Mark Levine? that I’d love to hear. Better
yet, I’d like to see the video of Scottzi and Levine put in
a room together for ten minutes.
Reid gets what he deserves. No big loss if he loses reelection.
Momma’s Menagerie:
A nice, if small, pair of Tits, that is titmice birds,
showing off her cooter, i.e. a river turtle, her giant
dogs, a Spectacular ass [he stays in his manger], as well as
a shaved monkey, and some kind of cat that’s apparently
always wet… and of course a beaver, a Very Nice
beaver, who has a damn in the pond in the Compound…
skating
I remember our city used to have 3 city run hospitals, the county had one. Now they are all closed. Even one of the local universities sold its hospital to Tenet Health care. The private health care industry has squeezed out any public care, and the current bills do nothing about it. What’s in the House and Senate now do nothing to improve the situation much.
Harry Broken Reed. Is he a secret Blew Dog? What’s up with him?
I swear his wife must always get on top ’cause he can only F#$K up.
Geez, I always thought ‘quickie divorce’ was more of a threat to marriage.
The gay!! THE GAY!! They’re going to destroy the nuclear-family ideal concocted during the 1950s! What will happen to Levittown?
Damn you Bond: Actor Joseph Wiseman, who played villain Dr No in the first James Bond film, dies aged 91
#80 I saw Sen Reid on teevee last night. He looked really tired. Word is, his re-election in Nevada is in jeopardy (as it should be).
79 isn’t that how Bill Frisch’s dad made a billion dollars,
buying up all the public hospitals in texas and making them
for profit, his profit…
82 just watch MadMen to see how wonderful the nuklee-ar family is…
84
It would be so great if Reid and Pelosi both lost re-election bids. They deserve almost as much scorn as Bush & Cheney.
Listening to the Republicans is like listening to the Bruces sketch from Monty Python.
Rule 1: No pooftahs
Rule 2: I don’t want to catch anyone not killing blacks
rule 3: No pooftahs
Steph, check in the mirror for stray nose crust before Hal gets here.
AstroGlide Sampler Pack? Who knew?
#86 I’m a big fan of Mad Men. Ah those were the days…sleeping around on your wife, closeted homos being fired, drinking at 10am, cars that are the size of a small whale…
89 nose crust: so sexy
#71: “No sooner had Stephanie Miller arrived home and opened her front door, than she found herself flat on her back with a massive dog on her chest. Evidently, it was time for walkies…”
#91: and smoking was still good for you.
It’s been a month since Mr. Sparkman’s body was found hanging from a tree, naked, bound, with “fed” written on his chest. Does it still matter to anyone? Did I miss the arrest of the killer?
Hi MookenBloggsters! What’s going on here? Not much, huh? By now you should be 2/3 of sparta..
Watching the early issues of Mad Men had me developing a sympathetic cigarette cough..
On the same AMC, I’ve been watching the Breaking Bad series. Last week they were cooking up massive meth in the New Mexico desert, and had to make a battery out of chemicals on hand to get back to town..
91. Eye candy extraordinaire Don Draper can do anything he wants. We’re lucky he even cheats and lies for us. Love that show.
91, 94 Don Draper seems like a nice guy when the series starts,
you identify with him. But more and more you see he’s a creep.
It’s a great show, love some Christina Hendricks… now That’s A
Woman with some curves! sorry Momma, you know my heart still
belongs to you
95 Yes, I hope the killer or killers are brought to justice.
That’s bad territory to be any kind of government worker.
SERIAL MILLER” is what the London tabloids like to
call the 27-year-old actress Sienna Miller, in honor of
her long and well-documented romantic history. Her flings
have included Jude Law, Daniel Craig, James Franco and
most recently the married oil heir Balthazar Getty, with
whom she was photographed topless and in a sailor hat.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/18/sienna-miller-is-less-pro_n_325073.html
“TOPLESS IN A SAILOR HAT!” Steph never told us anything about
her younger sister…
#43: Didn’t Jesse Ventura use make his press pack wear passes reading MEDIA JACKAL? The White House should make the press pass out to FOX “NEWS”, FAUX NEWS, or something – I’m sure Rahm has some choice terms.
Defense Department Opposed Franken’s Anti-Rape Amendment
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/defense-department-oppose_n_326569.html
Huffpo on top of these things…
Third-a!
smoke em out. heh heh
http://www.republicansforrape.org
Kick It!
That’s how she likes it, Hal.
When is the Stephanie Miller News Team going to a White House presser?
Is ‘gay adjacent’ affordable, yet tastefully appointed?
Caribou Jane?
Caribou! Shout out, ayuh!
I need to hear Dick Morris crashing through the floorboards.
Kerick should be signing up for Linked-In soon.
a few of the Republicans For Rape:
Mitch McConnell douchebag
John Ensign — belongs in jail
David Vitter — hookers n’ diapers
Lindsey Graham douchebag
Jeff Sessions douchebag
Richard Shelby — wanted to kill American, Union Auto companies
John McCain ’nuff said
Saxby Chambliss — Called Max Cleland unpatriotic
Bob Corker — wanted to kill American, Union Auto companies
scumbags all.
Oh my! It’s a gay!
So what happened to Step’s puppy Oliver??
I posted this a while back, it’s from a New Yorker article
on Why the Dreyfus trial in France matters now. It’s very
germane re why the Rethugs are so whiney, delusional and bitter.
“The trouble was that, like most happy endings, the happy
ending was not the end. The good guys won in a way that only
made the bad guys worse. As with Watergate, the immediate
outcome of the affair gave a misleading impression of
unanimity; in truth, while the good guys thought the other
guys had absorbed it as a lesson, they had merely resented
it as a defeat.
Though Dreyfus won his place back, in 1908 he was the victim
of an assassination attempt by a follower of Charles Maurass,
who had succeeded Édouard Drumont as the leading authoritarian
anti-Semite in France.
In any modernized country, the backward-looking party will
always tend toward resentment and grievance. The key is to
keep the conservatives feeling that they are an alternative
party of modernity.
(This was Disraeli’s great achievement, as it was, much later,
de Gaulle’s.) When the conservative party comes to see itself
as unfairly marginalized, it becomes a party of pure reaction,
which is what happened to the French right after Dreyfus.
Instead of purging the anti-Semites, people on the right
decided to rally behind them. They came to hate the idea of
the Republic itself.
So Damned Relevant! Thom Hartmann said yesterday how the nation
needs a Republican Party purged of the loonies, as well as a
Dem party purged of the Corpratists. Or as I would say, the
Coprophiles.
116 Oliver piddled on the rug one too many times so Stephy shot him.
No! he was placed with another family. It may have had to do with
him being unable to live with another dog in the house, Steph has
never been entirely clear.
Question:
Wouldn’t it be counter to the “Gay Agenda” to raise their kids gay, ensuring that there are no more gays because they won’t have children?
Thanks! Second question…. Sometimes they mention listening live means we hear their chit chat during breaks but all I ever hear are commercials. Is there something I’m doing wrong here?
118.
She shot him, but it was his poor driving skills. He couldn’t jump the median in the SUV to take the shortcut to Liquor Barn.
I must be psychic…
I predict another iPhone picture by ProducerChris of Steph and Hal together.
http://www.spike.com/video/insider-trading-on/2807992
the smart money knew 9/11 was gonna happen. it also knew
JFK was gonna get hit. those were the two biggest days
in history for ‘put options’… it’s the twin humps under
the carpet. clear proof.
this video does a great job of spelling it out. forget the
buildings impossible falling, all the other evidence, this
is the real Tell.
Careful hal. You’ll get a disease.
121 roflmao
Oliver… drunk driving. that’s whut got him in trouble. Tried
to jump the median at the wrong angle/speed… teach him for
driving drunk
Stephy had no choice. At least Freddy can hold his liquor and
avoid swerving in front of cops…
124 Hal is immune to Steph’s gay ray by playing a gay guy on TeeVee
It’s pretty much an FCC regulation now that we ask you what you think about Balloon Boy.
If marriage is so important to society, why can’t priest get married?
116
Steph had some family issues to deal with and decided it was best if Oliver was placed with another family. Must have been really hard to do that.
When Stephanie is not in LA (like last week) most of the time they put the top-of-the-hour chatter as Steph & the Mooks plan the next hour’s material (otherwise known as “making sausage”) on the live stream.
You keep saying “that’s so gay” and Wanda Sykes is going to burst in and slap you silly.
Crotch-blocked? Is like a Beaver-Baffler?
Yikes, we’re gonna strain to get to SPA
Wow …you guys know it all! Did Steph and the mooks have a falling out with Frangela? They are never on anymore and they won’t say why on their facebook page.
uh oh, No Leonidas Cup will be awarded today
whut wuz Jim’s bit earlier, Ceasar Millan the Coochie Wisperer?
brilliant! BRILLIANT!
133 yes, like Oliver the Frangela thing isn’t much discussed…
but they don’t appear any more. I still like them though.
I guess it’s good nobody is airing any dirty laundry in public.
Momma keeps fooling Hal, he tries to see her underpants, but
she tricks him and doesn’t wear any…
Why so slow today? You can’t all STILL be in the Ballon Boy chat room?
Is it just me or is most of whuts on the TeeVee und radio Mind
Kontrol Propaganda hypnotizing a pretty large segment of the
public into going along with this whole sick thing we’re trapped in?
rhetorical question o’course. A good portion of the public has
been reduced to Sheeple. They still listen to RW Tooles and like
Rethugs who are killing them…
can we get to a half Sparta today? at least?
When will this whole Glen Beck thing end? Glen, you must have graduated top of your class at clown college.
Steph Stephy Stephcha you scamp
Goddess of Wit Beauty and Humor
you are saving the airwaves, you and Rachel and Randi
The word “pho” is pronounced “fuh”.
Goodbye Blogrockers! (see #6) Have a Wednesday!
Glen Beck, Klown Ass
no Sparta, not even half Sparta
have a great afternoon, hope to see you tomorrow
Have a great day, everyone!
Cheers all! Thanks for answering my questions.
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