…a hundred million there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real job losses.
Nancy Pelosi: “Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs.”
At that rate, we’ll all be out of work before the end of the month, with hundreds of millions of fantasy Americans to go.
Whenever the Speaker opens her mouth, I have this sense that she is saying only what she imagines will be politically effective to the dolts who continue to elect her and her fellow partisans, and that she is either unaware of, or completely indifferent to the fact that any relationship between what she says and objective reality is purely coincidental. In short, the woman is a hyperpolitical idiot.
[Via Mark Hemingway]
It was an easy mistake. Nancy is just an innumerate boob. The Beltway crowd can’t understand small numbers like thousands. To them, millions are miniscule. Nothing really counts until you’re talking about billions or even trillions.
I can’t disagree that she’s an innumerate boob, but it does her boobosity an extreme disservice to say that she’s just an innumerate boob.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
Unfortunately, the marching morons are running the country currently.
But remember, Bush is an incoherent idiot .
And it wouldn’t be hard to imagine the Press and pundits’ response had Sarah Palin said something so stupid. Will the late night TV hosts and Saturday Night Live ridicule Pelosi? Will pigs fly?
Then I guess pigs fly. SNL has ridiculed Pelosi more than once — when she became speaker they illustrated her “San Francisco values” with a staff in bondage gear, and last year they depicted her as a tool of George Soros.
But keep nursing that media bias self-pity, it’s very attractive.
Jim, I think what’s meant is ridicule in a damaging way, i.e by mocking her intelligence. Mocking minor pecadilloes — like her sexual tastes — or influence upon her from sources (Soros) of whom the audience approves is not damaging. Indeed, it “humanizes” her and probably enhances her stature.
This is not the same thing at all as the savage mockery of, say, George Bush’s intelligence in which the MSM indulged for eight years. That is quite damaging, inasmuch as intelligence is a primary requirement to be President. However, having sexual kinks and being influenced by Good Guys is not a handicap for a Speaker.
It’s like the old joke: when you’re asked in a job interview to identify your greatest flaw, the correct answer is “sometimes I work to much” not “sometimes I watch porn on company time.” There is ridicule, and there is ridicule. You can be sure the masters of the form at SNL know which is which, and which helps The Cause and which does not.
The Soros skit has Pelosi admitting that she was wrong about Freddie/Fannie, and that Bush was right. It has her calling for government funds for unemployed druggie alcoholics who bought houses with subprime mortgages and then set fire to them.
But that isn’t ridicule, because SNL is all about The Cause.
Mmm hmm, Jim. Points to you, then.
You get back to me when you can’t stand to tune in SNL, because of the relentless rather unfunny mean-spirited mockery of everything for which you stand. You really have no idea, do you? You’er like the husband who takes care of the toddler for all of Saturday morning while the wife has a bath and a nap, then stretches his aching back and says how he so understands how rough it is being a mom. Tee hee.
Sure, and let me know when Rush does a show that ridicules Bush/Cheney as much as SNL has ridiculed Pelosi.
But of course Rush isn’t “mainstream” like SNL, his audience can’t be nearly as big. Oh, wait….
And “mean-spirited mockery of everything for which you stand” — really? I guess I really have no idea how you suffer — here I thought it was just a TV sketch comedy show grasping for laughs, I had no idea how it pierced your soul.
The self-pity is breathtaking.
Sure, and let me know when Rush does a show that ridicules Bush/Cheney as much as SNL has ridiculed Pelosi.
Did I miss the show during which Rush claimed to be an equal-opportunity ridiculer, rather than a conservative? I suppose it’s possible, since I don’t listen to Rush much. When did that occur?
Or has SNL claimed that they’re only “progressive” commentators, and can’t be expected to criticize Democrats? It has to be one or the other for your stupid comparison to make sense.
By the way, are you “Jim Harris” leaving off your last name, or a new troll named Jim?
No, Jim, the difference is that Limbaugh doesn’t claim to be “neutral” and “nonpartisan” and so forth. He’s openly on the side of the conservatives. He’s got nothing to hide.
It’s the cheerleaders for your side who pretend to be “objective” and “reality-based” and “equal opportunity.” Indeed, you are making that very claim here, arguing that SNL is even-handed in its mockery of targets on the left and right.
No doubt part of that pretense is to score public funding, e.g. in the case of NPR talking heads. But part of it is a sleazy attempt to delegitimize opposition. See, when Rush says it, it’s just partisan advocacy (which he admits!). But when NPR says it, or the New York Times editorializes it — why, that’s mature, moderate, centrist thinking, don’t you see?
It’s not the partisanship to which we on the right object, Jim. It’s partisanship under false colors. Fly the flag of liberalism openly and proudly, and you may fire away as you will. But fly the false flag of neutrality, and you will be hanged as pirates if we can catch you. Ancient rules about not misusing the flag of truce, the red cross, and so forth, you know.
The self-pity is breathtaking.
Goodness, don’t project. There’s no pity going on here, self or otherwise. If anything, looking at the increasing wealth of Rush, the expanding market share of non-MSM media outlets, and the collapsing fortunes of Democrat mouthpieces like the New York Times and LA Times — those poor sad newsies, cleaning out their desks, lovingly wrapping up their signed photos of JFK, aw gee shucks — it’s pure schadenfreude, it’s me laughing heartlessly while watching the Pravda apparatchiks get sent off to the gulag of unemployment and irrelevance.
I never claimed that SNL was “objective” or “equal opportunity”. I’d claim that they try to get money from their sponsors by making their audience laugh. Rush has the same business model (only he shoots for outrage as well as laughter).
As for the idea that late-night sketch comedians are “flying false colors” and deserve to be hung as pirates — geez, take a chill pill.
And no, I’m not Jim Harris.
I just want you to know THAT losing 500 million jobs A month in THESE 57 United States is a “terrible, terrible thing” and not TO be mocked!!!!!!
If anyone asks, I am the Paul Milenkovic who is Paul Milenkovic.
Those extra seven states must be bigger than I thought.
Those extra seven states must be bigger than I thought.
You have no idea…
But is it the same Jim who got his foot wedged so far down his throat he could still stand on it on 1/29?
Anyway, cut Pelosi some slack. Her brain maxes out at remembering to inhale and exhale at alternate intervals.
Anyway, cut Pelosi some slack. Her brain maxes out at remembering to inhale and exhale at alternate intervals.
Always a positive trait for our law givers.