KOEB Meeting: 08/06/09 -- RIP, John Hughes Edition

[Patsy Stone]

:hi:
And congrats to the newest member of the SCOTUS! :toast:, Justice Sotomayor

[SharonRB]

1. Hey, Pats!

I just read about John Hughes on Twitter. RIP.

Hurray for Sotomayor!

[Patsy Stone]

4. Her America.

Well, at least it's nearly big enough for the both of us. :crazy: She seems like she's related to the "He's an Arab" lady.

[SeattleGirl]

6. I think they're sisters.

And I'm so glad Keith brought up the racism aspect of all this crap. I think that it's the bottom line motivator to what is going on.

[SharonRB]

8. I agree.

[Patsy Stone]

36. For the headline alone:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6238511

[SharonRB]

38. The headline is pretty funny

Rush, on the other hand, isn't one bit funny.

[Patsy Stone]

46. No

He's a disgrace to humanity.

[SharonRB]

2. I hate these bigots.

She's scared? That's nothing compared what I felt like from 2001-2009.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Indeed. Heck, she's just scared that someone other than a pasty

white man is in the oval office.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Hi Pats and Sharon

Two of my fave Hughes movies are Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck. RIP, Mr. Hughes.

And congrats to Justice Sotomayor!

:hi:

[SharonRB]

7. Hi, SG

I saw your tweet in response to Nancy's (that I posted). I just learned about Hootsuite and signed up for it. Now I can schedule tweets ahead of time, so I've got reminders scheduled for tomorrow and Saturday morning.

[SeattleGirl]

11. Very nice!

There seem to be so many components to Twitter.

[SharonRB]

16. Lots of additional services

Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Twitterific and tons more.

[SeattleGirl]

18. I think I'm gonna need a whole day to figure all that out!

I do love Twitter, though.

[Patsy Stone]

10. I still don't get that woman with the bible.

I mean, I get it, but what's the bible go to do with a town hall meeting?? Is it the mandatory sex changes?

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

12. Yep, and the government-paid abortions.

:eyes:

[RevCheesehead]

19. Simply holding it proves that she's a "Christian."

Not only do I doubt she read it, I question whether or not she CAN read.

[SeattleGirl]

21. She must have missed the part where Jesus told his followers to go

into a room by themselves and pray.

[Patsy Stone]

33. Oh, I see...

She's Christian by osmosis. I'll bet she sleeps with it under her pillow hoping it will just all fly into her head while she's sleeping.

:hi:, Rev!

[RevCheesehead]

34. In the Pirates/Carribean movie,

Pintel and Rigetti argue Rigetti fumbling with the Bible. Pintel says "you can't even read," to which Rigetti says "you get credit for tryin'."

[Patsy Stone]

14. Sixteen Candles

is my favorite. I can almost recite the entire film. :)

[ralps]

5. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone! Congratulations Judge Sotomayor!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

15. Hi ralps!

:hi:

[ralps]

25. Hi SeattleGirl!!! Cool Kitty gif!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

27. Searching for new gifs has become something I look forward to doing

before Countdown.

[RevCheesehead]

13. Oy vey - what a show this is gonna be!

:hi: Hi Patsy and everyone!

[SeattleGirl]

17. Hi Rev!!!

How're you today? :hi: :loveya: :hug:

[RevCheesehead]

20. Hi SG!

Doing OK. And you?

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

23. Doing pretty well. Really busy at work, but that's good.

Better yet, IT'S MUCH COOLER HERE!!! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[RevCheesehead]

28. That's a relief!

It's been unusually cool here the last several weeks. I am NOT complaining, either! B-)

[SeattleGirl]

29. Our poor dog got really sick from the heat. Ended up taking her to

the vet. She got a shot, and he gave us medicine to give her every day. She's doing much better now, but I was so worried about her. The kitties were okay.

[bleever]

22. I think it's time to call this lady:

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

24. STOP THE INSANITY!!!!

[bleever]

26. Ezzackly.

:hi:

[bleever]

30. What a thrill for Al Franken to preside over Sotomayor's approval.

For Al, and for us!

[Patsy Stone]

32. That was fab!

:hi: Feeling better?

[bleever]

35. A little, but not enough.

Can't wait to get back to the office.



:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

39. Isn't that site fun?

I've been wanting to do it since I saw this the other night. But, what, no eye patch?

[bleever]

43. Yeah, I shoulda gone with the eye patch, huh?

And my real hair isn't that blue.

[Patsy Stone]

45. Well, not yet anyway.

:)

[bleever]

52. Kickin' it at home.

Typical Saturday morning.

[SharonRB]

53. Just did one.

[Patsy Stone]

54. Cheers!

That's cool!

[SeattleGirl]

31. Oh good grief! Violence at Tampa Townhall Meeting

Per TPM:

The early reports are sketchy. But apparently a mob of teabaggers began to riot after some were not able to get into a townhall meeting in Tampa.

"As the building filled to capacity, angry protesters stuck outside began to scream, yell, and chant," reports local TV channel 10 in Tampa. "At one point, those trying to get inside began banging on windows as Tampa Police officers quickly spread out guarding all entrances."

A reporter currently inside the venue says at least one fist fight has already broken out.

Late Update: The event was hosted by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL).

Later Update: We're getting overlapping reports. The Tampa Tribune reports to instances of "shoving and scuffles." It seems like at least one incident occurred in cases where teabaggers trying to force their way through the doors after event organizers manning the door were no longer letting more people in.

[Berry Cool]

37. Ai yi yi.

:hi: Hello, kids. Better late than never.

Read about the latest Page Six news. Left my comments on another thread.



Anyone need any garden work done?

Wow, Keith sure isn't talking like a guy who has been muzzled from talking about Bill O'Reilly, is he? I was actually going to say, perhaps his earlier situation could be explained quite easily--i.e., when he was ordered to stop talking about Billo, he did, then started laying into Glenn Beck instead (effectively saying "I'm going to get around any crap you come up with one way or another"). But now he's punching back at Billo with impunity.

I wonder what Glenn Greenwald has to say about this.

[SeattleGirl]

40. Hi Berry!

Come on over! My flower beds are getting choked by weeds and with my broken pinky, I can't do anything about it!

:hi:

(And yes, I know you weren't talking about actual gardening.......:) ).

[Berry Cool]

42. Me?? Making allusions in my image posts???? Never...

:rofl: :hi: Hi, SG!!!!

[SeattleGirl]

44. Not YOU!!!!

:rofl:

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

41. I still can't see he'd let himself be muzzled

especially about something as inconsequential as Billo.

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

49. Me either, but if not, how do you explain his having told Glenn Greenwald

that his reporting was not materially factually inaccurate? :shrug:

Me no figure. All I know is, Keith's obviously having tons of fun with this, and while I sit here worrying about his future, he continues to rock back and forth on his perch singing "neener neener" to his critics.

[Patsy Stone]

55. Here's how I think this went down:

The VP's kept getting calls, every single day, from the other side, bitching about the fighting. They got sick of it. They met and the outcome of the meeting was: unless the other guy does something monumental, could we agree to lay off this for a while? It's getting old, and I can't get anything done over here because these two won't stop poking each other with sticks -- now my boss is on my case about it. After the two VPs made an agreement to talk to their guy and get this to stop, MSNBC went to KO, FOX went to Billo, and they said, "Enough already. I spoke to the other side, we both think it's time for you two to cut out the junior high school crap and move on to new enemies."

I don't believe there was ever a threat of being fired. I believe if this had made him question the freedom he had in his editorial decisions he would have walked -- right over to Yankee Stadium where he'd be staying permanently.

The story got out that the two corporations had a conversation about this. It's in the NYT.

I believe KO decided to stop (as long as Billo didn't kill somebody), perhaps with the network's wishes in mind, but more likely he looked at it and realized how ridiculous this "feud" really was. It was a pissing contest, not real news. Let's face it, Keith was a little obsessed with Bill. I noticed it, you noticed it, it's been quantified. He named him WPITW so many times, it should be named after him. After his diatribe about what he said about Tiller, Billo did, after all, cease to be funny. (It's always fun until someone dies.) There were also (according to those articles) two times they did mention each other after the "edict". What happened to them then? Right... nothing.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't think this is as nefarious as the reporters are making it out to be. I understand I'm supposed to be all concerned about the corporate silencing and the threats to freedom of the press and the END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, but I do believe that if this was as severe as Greenwald, and the NYT, and Sirota are making this out to be, KO wouldn't just take the money and be a good company man. He has enough money already; I think he'd be watching baseball professionally.

Frankly, for whatever reason it happened, I'm glad of it. Aside from the few times there was really news about Billo (like the producer ambushes) most of it was just stupid things he said. There's plenty of other stupid out there to report on, it's not like he was giving up something of substance, if he even gave up anything at all (as they loudly proclaim he did).

Also, the idea that now he had to "prove" he wasn't muzzled by speaking out about it is dumb. If you mention Keith on the front page of the NYT, he's going to talk about it, no matter who is in the story with him.

Go on Glenn Greenwald, compliment me on my "extreme amounts of mental effort" as I "cling to the notion that Olbermann wasn't muzzled by GE".

[ralps]

47. Today's worst person in the world is Arthur Laupher!!! for saying that Medicare & Medicaid

aren't run by the Government!!!!!! & LOL I love Keith's imitation of LOu Dobbs!!!!!!! :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

48. Bringing it all full circle:

Ben Stein's character in John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off talked about the Laffer Curve during his scene.

"Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics."

Synchronicity.

[Berry Cool]

50. And voodoo economics was the one thing Bush the Elder was right about.

And we are all paying for it now.

[Patsy Stone]

51. He was also right

about not going into Baghdad because there was no exit strategy. Another thig we continue to pay for. In fact, his son made him look like a damn genius.