Is anyone besides me NOT going to watch the SOTU?

[mac56]

I really don't think I'm capable of watching Whistle Ass primp and smirk.

I liked it when Comedy Central used to run its play-by-play commentary of the SOTU (a la MST3K). Wish they'd bring that back, but I fear those days are gone forever.

[Bertha Venation]

1. Definitely not watching.

If we don't just sit & read, Mrs. V. and I have several episodes of "Monk" and "SVU" on tape that we haven't watched yet. If we run out of those we'll go to our "West Wing" 1st season DVDs.

I haven't the stomach to hear that brainless dickless asshole whine and smirk and act like a swaggering ass.

Y'know the big rant Chevy Chase does near the end of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?" I'd like to post it of *, but I like Chevy Chase too much.

[terrya]

2. No, I can't stand to look at him anymore. I'm going to rent the South Park

movie, which I still haven't seen. I'd much rather look at the South Park gang instead of President Asswipe.

Terry

[Richardo]

10. That is one of the funniest movies ever made...

you'll enjoy it...

"Kyle's mom's a bitch..." :D :thumbsup:

[terrya]

17. I might be one of the 5 or 6 people left who haven't seen it. :-)

Looking forward to a very funny movie tonight!

Terry

[Bertha Venation]

16. beware... there's a

big waggy penis in that flick....

[terrya]

21. *phew*...thanks for the warning, Bertha! I'll know when to avert my eyes!

:-)

Terry

[IrateCitizen]

3. No, I won't watch it either

Personally, I find TV to be a terrible medium for political analysis. I will read the transcript of it, but won't bother to watch it on TV.

Of course, it's also a personal health issue for me -- seeing the smirking chimp on TV and listening to his babble often subjects me to fits of endless wretching. :puke:

[bluestateguy]

4. I will not watch

First time since 1991 that I will not be watching.

My president is named Al Gore.

[Richardo]

5. I can't - I'll be at my Bush-mandated second job...

...but I probably wouldn't anyway.

Why subject myself to the same vacuous, ill-conceived, pandering and gloating (with the GOP side applauding after EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE).

I have no stomach for it, and besides, I can recite it to myself sight unseen if I wanted to.

I'm with you, mac56 :thumbsup:

[stanwyck]

6. I don't have the intestinal fortitude to wach Bush live

but I will watch The Daily Show. Alas, I'll probably have to wait until tomorrow to see Jon Stewart's take on the SOTU. Meanwhile, I'll catchup Wednesday am on CSPAN's Washington Journal. Just can't do the "live" viewing. It's too humiliating to know that this great country is being led by this unread, faux cowboy, ill-mannered braggart.

[Coyul]

7. Not watching...

...even to play the drinking game. Shrub makes me ill to watch, much less listen to!

[GOPisEvil]

8. I'm going to be otherwise occupied.

I'm going to be here: www.motheregansirishpub.com Trivia night!!!

[Richardo]

I'm green with envy!

I love trivia and would kick y'alls' ass! :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

18. Be a uniter, not a divider!

Help our team win!!!! We need it! :D

[Richardo]

22. Oh! TEAM trivia - that's even better...

We'd definitely kick a.

Is it that bar-networked nationwide countdown trivia?

[GOPisEvil]

27. Actually, no.

Questions are read by one of the pub owners, an actual Irishman. Figuring out his accent is part of the game. :D There are 8 rounds of 10 questions each. Fill in the blank answer sheets. Between rounds, the sheets are graded and scores revealed. There are about 12 qualifying rounds. Winning teams are invited to a finals round where the grand prize is awarded. (This go-round the grand prize is 4 round-trip tickets to Ireland.)

[Richardo]

33. Sweet!

Bring me back a pint of Harp and a kilt (Campbell of Cawdor tartan) :-)

[GOPisEvil]

34. *feels ground* It's cold, but not frozen!

Don't think we'll win. We haven't even qualified for the finals yet. :-(

We're just not geeky enough. We need some more uber-geeks! :D

[bearfan454]

9. Not me, I work midnights.

I will catch it on Yahoo News tonight after I get to work.

[bif]

11. I have better things to do

Like take out the trash. Clean the kitty litter. Um, do the dishes. Read a book.

[Rowdyboy]

12. A&E has a 2 hour special "Cold Case Files"

which is excellent. What I need to know about SOTU I'll get here, afterward.

I don't let that sort of garbage in my house voluntarily.

[NicoleM]

13. I'm not watching.

I can't stand to see him on the TV for two seconds. There is no way I could make it through a whole SOTU. And what's he going to say, anyway? "I am SO AWESOME and the American people love me!"

[wysimdnwyg]

14. Can't watch

Got poker tonight, so I won't be home. Wouldn't watch, anyway. I spent the entire time last year screaming at the TV. I have no desire to go through that again.


or

Which would you rather be doing?

[noonwitch]

15. I won't be watching, I want to keep my blood pressure down

I may tune in for Nancy Pelosi's and Tom Daschle's comments afterwards.

[ikojo]

51. So you can hear how often they agree

with Bush? They wont tear him apart as they should so why even watch that? It'll be a Bush love fest and I can't stand that. Politicians with a conscience would refuse to stand when he entered a room and would turn their backs on that man.

Clinton was treated with little respect for eight years and I say the three years of coddling this spoiled brat frat party boy for Jesus has received is approx. 999 days too much.

[liberalhistorian]

19. I have absolutely no intention of

watching one single second of it, and I know I'm not alone.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. My head already hurts enough...I can't listen to Smirk's voice too...

I'm afraid that might pop my head.
Duckie

[Ridley Park 704]

23. Nah, there's 50 better things to do

It's just going to be an orgy of more Bush propaganda and lies.
Why watch that drivel, and all that phony clapping at every 5th word?

Ray Tagliaferro (ph) of KGO AM said this morning that if it's ok to clap, then it should be ok to boo. They boo in British and Canadian parliaments, and god knows how many other democracies, but not here. I never thought of it, but he's right.



OK, I'll watch it but only if I'm paid.

[Richardo]

24. BTW congrats on 4000+ posts, mac56!

:thumbsup:

[mac56]

35. thanks, Richardo!

I knew I was closing in on it. Then I whizzed right by, and didn't realize till I'd passed it. :shrug:

[HuckleB]

25. I can't watch.

I'll read it later.

[yellowdawgdem]

26. not watchin' n/t

[VelmaD]

28. This is the one time a year...

that I FORCE myself to watch him speak. Usually if I see him on the tv I change the channel or hit mute. But I make myself watch the State of the Union. It's important to know what the big lies are for the coming year. :-)

[demnan]

29. I'll put it on

but I'll probably in Bartcop chat, that's the only way I could stand the last one.

[soothsayer]

30. fortuitously, I've got some peeps coming over, so I won't be watching

jeez, I hope neither of 'em want to watch

[TXlib]

31. Not watching... nobody to do shots with!

[WildClarySage]

32. I'm already sick

with strep throat. Don't need vomiting to go with it. So, no, I'm not watching.

[bloom]

36. I can't stand to see more than

about 10-15 seconds of Bush* in one week.

[SheilaT]

37. I never watch, never listen

to W. I turn off my radio station whenever they play an excerpt of somehing's he's said, other than when listening to Democracy Now.

I have much, much better things to do.

[cosmicdot]

38. not me...bad enough if it was 'just him'..but, to sit through standing O's

... even more dreadful if and when the Dem side of the aisle joins in ...


... giving any credence and legitimacy to the coup, the fraud, the lies, the hypocrisy, the destruction of our Principles ... it's just appalling ...

[supernova]

39. Not me

I can't stand to watch him. I'll probably be right here at good old DU wanting a play by play though.

I'll wait until Dave Letterman takes little snippets and satirizes them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. Me....because we are having a really good dinner tonight and I

don't want it to be wasted. :hi:

[arwalden]

41. Bush* Is Difficult To Understand. His MUSH-MOUTH Pronunciation...

and his habit of saying "sh" for "s" just drives me nuts.

As in... "Weaponsh of mash dish-truct-shun."

The man is a freakin' moron. An idiot barely capable of forming a complete thought on his own.

I cannot stand. The way he reads. In short bursts. Pausing every three. Or four words. He reads each new line. On the teleprompter. As though it. Were a complete. Sentence.

AHHHH! AHHH! Ahhhhh! AHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHH!
Shut up! Shut UP! SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP!

He's a god damned fucking FREAK! An idiotic manchild FREAK!

-- Allen

(Thanks for listening.)

[waterman]

43. Great post! I share those thoughts practically verbatim.

Sometimes he sounds like Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie".

[terrya]

45. And then there are times...

He sounds like Dustin Hoffman in "Rainman"

[arwalden]

46. Spoken Like True Smart-Asses, Waterman and Terry... nicely done!

[terrya]

47. Well, I try, Allen. But you did a marvelous job of setting it up.

Thanks!

Terry, the smart ass :-)

[blindpig]

42. I'd rather take a whuppin' n/t

[leftbend]

44. Not Watching

My blood pressure meds are expensive enough already.

[arwalden]

48. Clinton Practically Had His Speeches MEMORIZED...

he knew the topics fully. He understood them completely. He could speak extemporaneously.

All Clinton really needed were 3x5 index cards to remind him of the highlights to hit and the points not to forget.

Can you imagine what a mess Bush* would be in if the teleprompter monitor went on the blink?

-- Allen

[terrya]

49. That actually happened to Clinton, BTW

The wrong speech was fed into the teleprompter at the beginning of one of Clinton's SOTU's. Clinton noticed it...but ad-libbed (he was talking about health care) until the right draft of the speech was fed into the teleprompter.

No one noticed the flub. A brilliant display of Clinton's command of the facts.

If that happened to Bush, the effects would be comical, to say the least.

Terry

[ikojo]

50. I have a new DVD (GD at Winterland) to

watch tonight. Definitely better than any Rove/Bush propaganda.

I wonder if the folks at Comedy Central are doing their SOTU thing? Or would that be seen as a terrorist act because they would be making fun of shrub?

[nickgutierrez]

52. He'll take a drubbing

from Jon Stewart -- is that enough?