Some lady on Chris Matthews said Kerry was like Lurch

[Vickers]

on The Addams Family. So I wanted to see a picture of Lurch, so I did a quick search for an Addams Family site. The first site that pops up is:

http://www.addamsfamily.com/

Go ahead. Click on it. You won't believe it!

[molly]

1. Many thought Humphrey Bogart was the sexist man living

during his time.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. What's your point?

[Vickers]

3. Oh, a point, right! Um....

...it seemed funny? Unbeleivable? Silly? Ridiculous?

STUPID?

[demgrrrll]

4. Completely unnecessary to post that information. I cannot imagine

anything less relevant to what is going on in the world today.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. She is getting her talking points from Limbaugh

He has used that description of Kerry often. Number one in the propaganda wars is to dehumanize your opponent.

[barbaraann]

6. I guess the Republican standard of beauty is Richard Perle

for men and Karen Hughes for women.

And Ann Coulter for....................:evilgrin:

[molly]

12. Too funny - Mary Matalin got

"something" done - she keeps changinr her looks?

[salinen]

7. As I recall

Lurch was the wise servent on that show. So I think Kerry fits that description well.

[emulatorloo]

8. That my friends is a genuine "Personal Attack"

Reference it each time some repug tells you that an attack on GWBs failed policies are personal attacks or attack politics.

At any rate, who cares what stupid crap they say about his appearance. I am more concerned about the lies about JKs character and policy positions.

[namaste]

9. Well, someone should tell her...

Cheney looks like Uncle Fester. And wasn't Uncle Fester always in the basement? How appropriate a comparison that would be, since Cheney hides in his bunker all the time.

[LatteLib]

30. LMAO

You've got a great point! I hadn't thought about Cheney looking like Uncle Fester but, now that you mention it, he is a dead ringer AND as you pointed out, he does live in the basement.

[goondogger]

10. These ad hominem attacks

seem to be the norm from the right. I try my darnedest to listen to right-wing radio for a bit each day for some perspective on their arguments. While my blood pressure has suffered for it, my overwhelming conclusion is they have no arguments, simply name calling (yeah, yeah, something we all already knew).

It amazes me though that nobody calls the Limbauhs, Hannitys, Ingrhams, etc. on it, but I guess when you're preaching to the choir . . . :puke:

Kerry questions Bush's domestic policies = he's Lurch

Dean puts the spotlight on the Iraq debacle = he's emotionally unstable

Edwards reveals the "Two Americas" = he's a lawyer

Michael Moore makes us think = he's fat (and a media elite!)

*sigh* Sad thing is these tactics work, especially on the audiences that consider Faux to be news rather than "news."

The optimistic side of me likes to think that when somebody's son is fighting in Iraq and their neighbor is out of work that those things will supersede the fact that Bush's opponent is tall.

[jbfam4]

11. welcome, goondogger

All excellent points. Glad you joined here at DU.

[goondogger]

13. Thanks, been lurking awhile, figured I'd join the fray. [nt]

[PCIntern]

16. I'm new too...Welcome Aboard

These are really neat folk here...it's great to participate it's energized me in many respects.

[juajen]

41. WELCOME

To Goondogger and PCIntern. May your days on our forum be happy ones.

:bounce: :bounce:

[newyawker99]

33. Hi goondogger!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[htuttle]

14. It could be much worse -- at least Lurch had smarts

[PCIntern]

15. You Rannnnng?

Of course the Repugs traditionally attempt to demonize our folk as ugly, perverse, traitorous...and WORSE!

We won't let that stuff get to us...and her statement was not original - there was a joke going around weeks ago that Kerry vs. Edwards was Lurch vs. Tom Sawyer.

PS Actually the funniest thing I've heard during this whole business was Maher's remark that Teresa Heinz Kerry was the Ketchup lady - that's why he John has to hit her on the bottom to make her come.

Ya gotta be able to laugh...

[shindig]

42. YOU RANG?

I wish someone would have pointed out that Bush is a monkey.

[SheilaT]

17. Well, he does look like Lurch

and I've commented on it myself more than once. But that has nothing at all to do with what I think of him as a candidate.

[rock]

18. Very funny!

I like being a democrat because we can make fun of ourselves.

[patricia92243]

19. Get real - Pubs ARE going to make personal attacks. The answer is not to

hide our collective heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't matter. It does!

Think up good answers. Don't ignore anything and think it will go away. It won't.

[PCIntern]

21. You're absolutely correct -

this campaign is going to go nuclear - or as the idiots would say: nuculer - shortly.

I'm ready, believe me -and screw 'em if they can't take a 'joke'.

[dusty64]

20. And junior looks

just like a particularly ugly chimpanzee, so the point is ............ :shrug:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

27. Junior reminds me of....

<http://hypocrisytoday.com/alfred.htm>

[boobooday]

22. They are also talking Herman Munster

You can see some of their lame humor at:

http://www.nojohnkerry.org/parody.htm

If you wanted to.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[PCIntern]

24. It is lame humor

The fact is that it was the media who stated that Rove is a genius. I don't think so - I think these guys have clay feet and as soon as people stop being cowed by the bullying, stop being the 10 year old who's shaken down for his or her lunch money, they will electorally rise up against these Machiavellian Manipulators. They are transparently obnoxious and incompetent - the real fault lies with the fact that people are just like they were in Jr. HS, they waver before a clenched fist. How many encounters in film and literature do people have to watch and see before they know that one well-placed swing disarms the bully?

[alcuno]

23. W/out knowing which woman, I'm betting on Peggy Noonan.

Was she gushing about *'s manliness? Blech!

[Stephanie]

25. Who are you calling a lady?

That was repub attack dog clear channel prostitute Laura Ingram.

[CatWoman]

28. Yeah -- I was watching

She's always attacking Dems for their looks.

I remember during the debates (2000), all she could focus on was Al Gore's makeup.

Didn't Brock out her as a drunk, along with Coulter?

[neebob]

26. He does not look or act like Lurch

and it irritates me that someone as stupid and offensive as Rush Limbaugh can say he looks like Lurch or he looks French or whatever and everyone starts repeating it. It's like grade school, where some loudmouthed bully with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and a pathological need for attention starts calling the tall kid or the smart kid or any other kid some name and it sticks. How many tall kids do you remember getting called Lurch in school? How about the Jolly Green Giant? Yeah, that's original. Gimme a break.

[Judi Lynn]

29. It's remarkable that Laura is so bankrupt mentally

that she believes it's appropriate to bring childish gibberish like that to an "adult" tv political show on ABC.

[sybylla]

31. IMHO, more like Sam the Eagle from the Muppets

Every time I see him with his deep voice and his stiff-neck mannerism, all I can see is Sam the Eagle.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. I think it's best to be aware, but no participate in all this.

That's why I don't particularly like calling Bush "chimp" etc. even though he is decidedly simian looking. On another board I participate in, where I USED to debate RW'ers (gave that up, it was just dumb), people have started threads with these Lurch pictures etc. I could post the Bush/Chimp pics etc. there but I just don't participate. The threads and comments that I post have information, arguments, and I don't shout.

If you can point out that you have arguments, and what the other side has is namecalling, you've won half the battle.

That having been said, I'm still totally cool with "lying, crooked..." because it's true!

I'll take "Lurch" any day of the week. Gore was a better looking guy than Kerry (although I don't think JK is difficult to look at) but wasn't half the fighter that JK is, either during the campaign or after the SCOTUS decision. We NEED a fighter. I think it's kind of funny that it's been revealed that JK's heritage is in fact Czech and part Jewish rather than Irish which his name and Boston heritage would suggest. 'Cause he fights like the stereotypical Boston Irishman.

[Jane Austin]

34. So . . .

They both have long faces. That's about the only similarilty I see.

[BlueEyedSon]

35. Richard Perle & Simon BarSinister

[grasswire]

36. that's a GOOD picture of Perle

My favorite lookalike is Wolfowitz and Sesame Street's Count.

[grasswire]

37. the usual pic of Perle

without makeup, apparently

[BlueEyedSon]

38. ROTFLMAO!

at Wolfie & the Count

[CatWoman]

39. OMG

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[0007]

40. Kerry like Lurch? LOL!