KOEB 9/12/05

[Berry Cool]

It's "What Went Wrong?" night on MSNBC, and our next batter is...KEITH OLBERMANN!!!!

Ready to take a swing at incompetent bureaucrats everywhere...including the latest pitcher put into the game when Michael "Brownie" Brown, in the middle of resounding boos, walked off the pitcher's mound in the middle of a terrible situation...the latest denizen of the Bush "Bull" Pen, David "Duct Tape Man" Paulison!



Batter up, Keith!!!!

[crispini]

1. Hi ladies!

oh, he's wearing the new Least Fave Tie. :( Well, it's nice to whine about the small things. :D

[SharonRB]

3. Hi, all

[Berry Cool]

73. I'm not crazy about the whole suit combo, but

then I remember what's inside the packaging. :-)

:hi: from Berry After the Show!

[WolverineDG]

78. not so wild on the brown suit

but hey, it was a great show as usual, so no complaints here. :)

dg

[gkhouston]

162. bwahahahaha

Snap! I was thinking the same thing. Keith, that tie does not work with a white shirt. Try a bone color or light coffee or something other than Craig-Crawford's-teeth-white next time, 'kay?

[RevCheesehead]

2. And it's a home run off the first hit!

:loveya: Here he is, snarking a .387 and rising.

[Berry Cool]

75. Aw, man, Rev, why did ya have to say

"rising"? :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

80. for you, dear Berry.

Actually, I think the word is "Anticipation."

[Muffstser]

85. "As you know, I've been working" - Shrub: Gator Food!

Well, FINALLY! What an idiot.

[RevCheesehead]

4. Dear MSNBC:

Please stop the damned screen-crawl. Please.

[SharonRB]

6. I think I need to pick up a copy of Newsweek this week

[bunny planet]

94. Exactly, I'm going out to buy an issue tomorrow morning.

Let's help make it their best selling issue ever, maybe then they'll figure out that most people in America are starved to have the media tell us the freaking TRUTH.

[bunny planet]

91. Oh, I know, is there anyone that even likes the screen crawl? Who decided

we needed that much sensory overload in the first place. Was it Faux that first started using it, or CNN, and who as MSNBC decided they'd be brilliant and emulate anything seen on Fox?

[RevCheesehead]

117. It made sense during 9/11 - the early days

But just as I feared, it stayed.
Before that, CNN headline news used it. Again, it made sense, if you needed to get your news in a hurry.

[Gogi]

170. Let's start an 'abolish the screen crawl' movement!

I hate screen crawls and what earthly good is it during Countdown?:wtf:

[RevCheesehead]

173. Yes!

It's all overkill, which desensitizes us from real moments of crisis.

[Gogi]

180. OK, we must start an online petition.

We, the suffering viewers of Countdown, demand the MSNBC screen crawl be abolished. It is an insufferable intrusion which adds nothing to the pleasure of watching KO's snarky take on the news.

Signatures: Gogi

[crispini]

5. Yay Newsweek!

:woot::woot::woot::woot::woot::woot:

[RevCheesehead]

7. "How bush blew it"

one of the absolute best articles I've ever read.

Hello, media. Welcome to our world.

[SharonRB]

8. I've gotta get a copy!

I think this guy is kinda cute. I don't like his glasses, though.

[crispini]

10. Had to burn a DVD for Shrub?!!!

:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

[Botany]

17. they loaded it into his game boy .....

... that way they knew he would see it. Or mixed it in with his Condi &
Gannon "home made DVDs."

[RevCheesehead]

19. LMAO!

:rofl: Botany, you bring such wonderful perspective!
Thanks for the laugh. :D

[Botany]

26. i bet you "his staff" tells him ....

.... remember to rewind the DVD when you are done.

What a fucktard ........

[WolverineDG]

188. i bet he didn't even watch it

just used it as a coaster.......

dg

[SharonRB]

51. Hey, Botany

If we keep playing the way we did Saturday, you may get your wish. (Don't count on it, but just sayin'.)

[bunny planet]

99. LOL

[WolverineDG]

38. wow

the guy's REALLY out of touch...i've heard of living in a dreamworld, but this guy really doesn't have a clue!!!

what scares the pants off of me is he's the one who gets to push the button!!!!!!! :scared:

dg

[gkhouston]

163. if we're lucky

he doesn't know where the button is. Right now, I'm not convinced the man could find his ass with both hands.

[WolverineDG]

187. iother items shrubbie couldn't find his ass with:

(1) map
(2) flashlight.

:evilgrin:

dg

[RevCheesehead]

11. Hi Sharon

Yeah, the glasses are a little too "Devo" to me.

[SharonRB]

13. Exactly!

I couldn't put my finger on what it was that bugged me, but I think you got it.

[crispini]

12. online here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/site/newsweek/

everybody knew -- EXCEPT SHRUB!:mad:

hindsight-- uh, no. my dad told me this was gonna happen on SUNDAY.

[SharonRB]

35. Thanks for the link, Crispi

I just read it. Wow!

[WolverineDG]

72. actually

anyone who paid attention in social studies & geography class, and anyone who read anything about NO knew what would happen...methinks shrubbie just thought all that "infermation" got in the way of memorizing where the good bars were on bourbon street......

dg

edited because i apparently slept through grammar.....

[Berry Cool]

79. Shrub decided that "Katrina: The TV Series" was too dull on initial airing

so he'd just wait for the DVD to come out.

It might have bonus features, you know.

[bunny planet]

96. Wolf is adorable, love the accent (kind of like the glasses actually).

[WolverineDG]

121. you & me both bunny

but then, i like dorky glasses anyway. according to my bf, they're chick magnets. ;)

dg

[bunny planet]

128. When I met Mr. Bunny he had dorky glasses (held together with, dare I

say it, duct tape). It's the big, brown, soft eyes behind the glasses that did me in. Wolf has those same kind of eyes.

[Berry Cool]

159. Dorky glasses? Funny you should mention dorky glasses.

Some guys just can't resist wearing 'em.

Chick-magnet...or cheese-eating surrender monkey? Countdown reports, you decide!

[RevCheesehead]

164. Berry -

I'd love Keith to be my "cheese-eating surrender monkey." :loveya:

[gkhouston]

167. you'd even be willing to do the surrendering

provided he took care of the cheese-eating part, n'est-ce pas?

[RevCheesehead]

169. of course.

I'm (ch)easy. :evilgrin:

[Berry Cool]

185. I'm with the Rev on that one.

Of course, he and I would take turns on the "surrendering."

[WolverineDG]

30. oh dear

i think someone in the white house is thinking "maybe we shouldn't have set newsweek up." :cry:

karmic paybacks are a bitch! :evilgrin:

dg

[bunny planet]

126. Interesting that they had 19 writers in on that one story for Newsweek.

I guess they don't think the magazine wants to fire every single one of them, so there is safety in numbers. Either that or all 19 of them were anxious to get a chance to take a swing at the man who has dissed the press and used and abused them so badly for five years (of course they could've put up a fight but they just rolled over for it, causing lots of damage with their enabling).

[WolverineDG]

127. either way

i'm glad to see the poodle press begin its morph into the pit bull press.....heh

dg

[Patsy Stone]

146. I was thinking it was the second choice.

Like Murder on the Orient Express.

[bunny planet]

151. I'm loving your literary and film references tonight Miss Patsy.

[Patsy Stone]

153. Cheers, Sweetie Darling!

I feel inspired this evening. It must be something in the air. :)

[RevCheesehead]

9. They had to burn a DVD for * to get it?

Did they give him popcorn, too? :eyes:

[Patsy Stone]

18. Nah, 'cause he might have choked on it...

I guess there's no TV on Air Force One or in the ranch. :crazy:

[RevCheesehead]

21. 3 times today, he said "I'm working."

What was he doing in the air? Watching a movie?

How are ya, Patsy? :hi:

[Patsy Stone]

25. I'm doing quite fine...

Thanks. You?

He was learning where Louisiana was on the map and that he should use the word "parish". That alone probably took about four hours. :)

[Berry Cool]

87. I believe he confused the words "parish"

and "perish."

No, Chimpy, that's the name of the PLACE they live in. It's not what they're supposed to DO.

[WolverineDG]

34. what was he doing?

he was going over the exchange policy on the louisiana purchase....

dg

[RevCheesehead]

44. and removing all references to terra, freedom, and security.

If it's outside the Iraq box, apparently it doesn't exist for him.

[Berry Cool]

82. Well, he HAD to keep reminding people he was workin'

or from lookin' at him, they might have thought he wasn't.

Convincin' people you're workin'...it's hard work.

[Patsy Stone]

129. I'm glad you understand, Rev.

Working on working hard is hard work. :)

[WolverineDG]

189. IRL, when I hear stuff like that from someone

again & again & again, I think "you can't be doing X, because if you were, you wouldn't have time to TALK ABOUT IT."

but i suppose president-in' is hard werk if they don't let you play dress up.....

dg

[gkhouston]

166. if he has to *tell* us he's working for us to *know* he's working

it isn't working.

[RevCheesehead]

168. " Working" to shrubbie

is mastering "Grand Theft Auto 3". And not falling down.

[RevCheesehead]

14. OK, the question I have is: Can blivet "wait this one out?"

Or is he toast?

What's going to happen in the next few weeks? For the last 5 years, the policy has been "do nothing and wait." (with the exception of the campaign).

Give me some hope, please.

[bleever]

22. This jug of milk has gone sour, and it ain't going back.

Hear the word of bleever.


:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

28. Promise?

Is it quacking yet?

:hi: Hey there, bleev.

[bleever]

49. There are huge quacks in the administrations quedibility.

:)

[Berry Cool]

89. Yeah, and I only wish that meant

that the "levee" is about to break!

[gkhouston]

172. it's quacking, and it's got H5N1

lame duck, diseased, possibly terminal.

[Patsy Stone]

29. The media is pissed off.

That's always good. :)

[RevCheesehead]

42. Let's hope they stay that way.

sigh....

[bleever]

46. Bushco controlled them with "access" and slime attacks, but

those tactics have lost their effect at this point.

[Patsy Stone]

50. Suddenly, it begins to snow on those asleep in the poppy fields.

What a glorious awakening it could be. :hi:

[bleever]

68. That's it! The perfect image!

:loveya:

[SharonRB]

74. You mean like this?

Nevermind -- it didn't work.

[SharonRB]

84. Here you go

[bleever]

98. Very nice. Add this:

[Patsy Stone]

123. Singing

"You're out of the woods.
You're out of the dark.
You're out of the night.
Step into the sun, step into the light..."


:hi:

[Berry Cool]

92. It IS a perfect image

But let's not forget, the poppies didn't put everyone to sleep in the first place. The Scarecrow and the Tin Man were unaffected by them. Only Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion were vulnerable.

I like to think of Keith as our Tin Man...because he's sturdy and, whether he realizes it or not, he's ALWAYS had a heart! (not to mention brains and courage!)

[RevCheesehead]

120. Except that once it snowed, the Tin Man rusted again.

[Berry Cool]

137. Which just goes to show...

...Keith needs to go shopping for a new winter coat and hat.

[gkhouston]

174. LOL, that's not where I went

:blush:

[bunny planet]

140. Spot on reference Pats.

Poppies, poppies, poppies.

[Patsy Stone]

143. I'll get you, my pretty... :) n/t

[crispini]

31. Can we impeach him for something in all this mess?

Is being a bad manager grounds for impeachment?

[Patsy Stone]

37. Is it as important a matter of national security as an indiscretion?

It's difficult to say. :sarcasm:

[Berry Cool]

95. No, being a bad manager isn't grounds for impeachment

but if Steinbrenner owned the USA...Bush would be SO fired.

[Muffstser]

110. Maybe "crimes against humanity".

Let's see...starvation, drowning, dehydration, wholesale slaughter of humans and animals...yep. Works for me.

[gkhouston]

175. no, but I think some of those signs on the 24th should read

"No Confidence"

[Greylyn58]

33. I need to ask a question

and since I'm among friends here...What does blivet mean and how does it apply to Pretzel Boy?

Most of the epithets given the Shrub I understand, but this one??

Somebody please help me to understand... :)

By the way...evening all. Hope your day went well.

[crispini]

43. 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag .... :P

I remember reading that NOAA warning on Sunday... :cry:

[SharonRB]

48. It's something we started calling * a long time ago

It has several definitions, all of which fit him perfectly.

Definition: /bliv'*t/ 1. An intractable problem.

2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks.

3. A tool that has been hacked over by so many incompetent programmers that it has become an unmaintainable tissue of hacks.

4. An out-of-control but unkillable development effort.

5. An embarrassing bug that pops up during a customer demo.

6. In the subjargon of computer security specialists, a denial-of-service attack performed by hogging limited resources that have no access controls (for example, shared spool space on a multi-user system).

This term has other meanings in other technical cultures; among experimental physicists and hardware engineers of various kinds it seems to mean any random object of unknown purpose (similar to hackish use of frob). It has also been used to describe an amusing trick-the-eye drawing resembling a three-pronged fork that appears to depict a three-dimensional object until one realises that the parts fit together in an impossible way.

[Greylyn58]

64. Thanks for the info

I think my favorite explanations are:

4. An out-of-control but unkillable development effort.

5. An embarrassing bug that pops up during a customer demo.

I think an embarrassing bug aptly describes Shrub.

[Gogi]

178. How's it going Grey?

eom

[bunny planet]

142. still, ten lbs. of shite in a 5 lb. bag describes Pretzel boy perfectly.

[bunny planet]

131. Don't know if my sanity will hold if he still retains his Teflon Don

status after this big a screw-up. But then I said the same after the million other scandals and screw-ups. This is just so unspeakably sad, it is imperative that we wrest this country away from these maniacs before it is really too late.

Ok, now I'll tell you how I really feel.

[Patsy Stone]

148. They suck, they steal elections, and they kill people.

Just my .02.

[gkhouston]

176. he won't keep his Teflon Don status if the press can make him

lose his cool. I'd love to see David Gregory wind him up at a press briefing the way he goes after Scott McClellan. I think blivet**'s stretched pretty thin now and it wouldn't take much to crack the facade. Get some nasty reactions on video and there would be no going back.

[bunny planet]

193. All my toes and fingers are crossed.

[bunny planet]

135. If Johnny Cochran were still with us he'd say

'Do nothing about the levee breach, then the people must impeach.'

Can't believe I'm making up quotes by Johnny Cochran, he supposedly did do a lot of work for good causes, although OJ, of course, was not one of them.

[Berry Cool]

158. OK everyone, come up with your favorite Johnnie Cochranism about Katrina.

"If the lake should overflow,
You know Bush has got to go"

"FEMA cannot stop water's courses
With a man who only knows about horses"

"There was too much in Pontchartrain
And far too little in the president's brain"

"Eating cake and gee-tar strummin'
Won't stop a killer flood from comin'"

"If he does nothing when floods rise high,
The Chimp has got to say goodbye"

[RevCheesehead]

165. You MUST re-post this in the Lounge -

it's an instant classic! :applause:

[gkhouston]

177. it's definite Lounge fodder; go for it! n/t

[bunny planet]

194. Oh thank Gawd you wrote more. I was beginning to worry that I had crossed

the lines of good taste with my first Johnny Cochranism.

[gkhouston]

195. bunny, if you can't be bad in the clubhouse

where can you be bad? :7

[bunny planet]

196. You've certainly got a point there.

:evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

171. I don't think he can wait this one out.

some of the press may come to heel, but Andersoon Cooper won't. Brian Williams won't. I don't think the idea of mercenaries in New Orleans will sit well with a lot of Americans, who are going to wonder where the Guard is and we know the answer to that one.

As things calm down a bit in New Orleans, it only gives the broadcasters more time to focus on how bad things still are in Mississippi, and that's not going to help. It will remind Americans that it's not just about a bunch of poor black people in New Orleans (for the rednecks who think the dispossessed are a bunch of welfare layabouts) and that it's just not about the levee breach. The response on the ground in Mississippi is also not acceptable; it's just not so concentratedly dramatic.

And God help us all if a tropical storm wanders through that area, as could so easily happen. They don't even have to originate off the coast of Africa; sometimes they just pop up in the Gulf and drop a bunch of rain and catch people by surprise because you don't get the long lead time you have with hurricanes. There's a reason why a lot of people living along the Gulf Coast try to catch the weather nearly every day during hurricane season. Houston's worst flooding has come not from hurricanes, but from slow-moving tropical storms that passed over the city multiple times. I'm not thinking just of Allison, but another one back in 1979 or 1980 over Labor Day weekend that caused a lot of street flooding.

[WolverineDG]

190. A lot of hurricane damage happens afterwards

after Hurricane Emily came ashore, tourists along the coast thought it was no big deal, but here 180 miles inland, we got a lot of rain & wind....one of my trees got knocked down & also a power line (wanna meet some cute guys quick? call the power company & say "I've got a downed power line in my back yard" five minutes later, YOWZA, chez DG crawling with cute guys in company trucks)

Other storms that had damage occurring after they came ashore: Allen, Celia, Beulah

Hurricane Celia & its aftermath make for interesting study since it didn't act like it was "supposed" to & even intensified before it came ashore, so if hurricanes are your "thing," start with that one.

dg

[Botany]

15. KO "like trying to talk about ......

..... imagery in a Fellinni film."

:hi:

btw if * did not now that Brownie was gone how did they have a replacement
so quick?

[crispini]

27. that was nice....

:loveya::loveya::loveya:

[Botany]

32. Fellinni never used cuffs

.... I have seen 2 of his films. I never got 'em.

[crispini]

39. LOL!! :P

[Patsy Stone]

16. I'm late!

But I'm here to deliver floties for the best newsguy out there.

:loveya::loveya:

Hey, all! :hi:

[SharonRB]

40. Hi, Pats!

[Patsy Stone]

52. Hey, Sharon!

How's things?

Rita's hair is getting scarier by the day... :)

[SharonRB]

54. Things are okay

I have a bit of a sore throat and a headache, but otherwise I'm okay. I'm going to try to go to sleep right afrer the show.

I don't care what Rita is talking about, I can't watch her.

[Patsy Stone]

66. Sorry to hear you're under the weather.

She's impossible to watch. I wish they'd put something on after KO that doesn't cause me hurt myself trying to get to the remote fast enough. :)

[SharonRB]

77. LOL -- I hear ya!

[Berry Cool]

100. When Rita foghorned "What went wrong?"

my first thought was "Oh, she's gonna talk about her VOICE tonight."

Or perhaps the circumstances leading to her hiring.

[Patsy Stone]

133. Foghorned! Fabulous.

That is exactly the right description. She's such a nightmare. Whatever possessed them to hire her? Are they really getting that many Fox viewers?

Oy. Rita, baby, someone, somewhere, has a brush and a lozenge. Go find the Red Cross. They will help you. Also, does Dan Abrams still have that three day growth?

[Berry Cool]

139. Patsy, I heard Homeland Security won't let the Red Cross near Rita

If they offered HER brushes and lozenges, then it would attract EVERYONE to come into NO looking for free brushes and lozenges.

Can't have that.

[Patsy Stone]

145. LOL!

And she may end up contaminating the water, too. :evilgrin:

[bunny planet]

20. Hi guys, guess I'm going to be Bunny after the show tonight..........

Just wanted to say in the mean time, KO is really on point tonight.
I love his going after the duct tape guy, and of course his coverage of Newsweek's 'Bush Blew It' article is very important.

He's getting might froggy with the Preznit, as he should.

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[Patsy Stone]

24. Don't forget he's from FLA-LA-LA... n/t :)

[bunny planet]

83. Hi Patsy.

Who's from Fla-la-la, the duct tape guy. That would explain it.

[Patsy Stone]

149. Former Miami-Dade Fire Chief.

Among other First Responder experience. I never did get around to buying that duct tape. :)

[bunny planet]

152. I've got extra, I use it for achieving a certain effect in my paintings

(just in the process, I don't leave it in there).

[Patsy Stone]

154. I'll come over if I need some.

LOL. An excellent application of the material, bunny. MacGuyver, eat your heart out! :)

[RevCheesehead]

36. Thumper!!!!!

Nice to see you, woman! (I've missed you!)

[bunny planet]

81. Back at ya Rev.

Hi!

I've been back for two weeks, just didn't have the heart to post much.
:cry:

[SharonRB]

41. Hi, Bunny!

Nice to see you.

[bunny planet]

86. Hi Sharon. How's by you dollface?

[SharonRB]

90. I'm doin' okay

Very, very busy at work, so not much time to be online other than once I get home. I'll be so glad once I get through to the middle of November or so when all of our client's open enrollment periods are over.

[bunny planet]

112. I know what you mean. I have been so overwhelmed with work since I

got back and I don't even start my teaching schedule until two weeks from now, with an added class. Being busy is helping me try and move past the fury I'm feeling over this bumbling criminal we've got in the WH. I did finally hear from my friend in NO, she said she was OK but didn't know where they would go or what they would do. Just about broke my heart. I offered for her to go to my cottage in Florida but she is uneasy about being in another coastal community. Can't say that I blame her. We just missed being hit head on last year by Charlee. My best friends's Dad is right on the ocean on the Outer Banks, NC, I sure hope Ophelia deals kindly with those folks.

[RevCheesehead]

23. Biloxi - Merh's home...

She was able to get in to work today and sit in Air Conditioning. It's the little things that keep her spirits high.

Here's the link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3991340&mesg_id=3992393

[crispini]

45. "FEMA Underfunded."

"FEMA Underfunded.""FEMA Underfunded.""FEMA Underfunded."

SAY it!

[crispini]

47. "a truly Federal responsibility."

Say it!!

[Muffstser]

53. Hi, gang! Has he pulled out the duct tape yet?

I want props! :)

[SharonRB]

55. First story.

You missed it.

[Muffstser]

60. If my VCR fails tonight, I'll weep.

Duct tape! Plastic wrap! I love it!

[RevCheesehead]

56. AAARGH! My ears!!!

Stop scratching your fingernails on the chalkboard!!

WHY is Reeter hacking her own show?

[Patsy Stone]

58. No one else wants to? n/t :)

[Muffstser]

59. Count your blessings, Rev: she was off on Sunday.

Praise the Lord and pass the earplugs.

[Muffstser]

57. Gidget's back!

I'm relieved to see an even somewhat non-Katrina story.

[Patsy Stone]

61. Monica, so nice to see you!

Excellent story as usual. Between us girls, maybe a little lipstick next time?

[Berry Cool]

101. Hey, don't be too hard on Gidget.

I can sympathize with her because she has a chipmunk-shaped face like me. And she's skinny, but she still has that chipmunk square face.

I noticed this a while ago, and it made me feel better.

[Patsy Stone]

138. Does that cause one to forego a nice shmeer of lipstick? :) n/t

More a nudge from a friend than a criticism, Mon. Wish you were on more often. Tell them to bring back the Newsquiz. :)

[Muffstser]

62. John Roberts making baseball references?!? KEEEF!

Say something!!!

[Berry Cool]

104. I am surprised Keith let the baseball comment pass without comment.

Oh well, even the best of batters sometimes lets a strike go by.

[Muffstser]

107. I got it, Berry!

He was waiting for John Roberts to say, "duct tape." That's it!

[Berry Cool]

119. It amused me to listen each time to how careful Keith was

each and every time he said "duct tape" to enunciate and pronounce each word, rather than slur it.

I can just imagine him in the makeup-room mirror at MSNBC before tonight's show...staring into it and repeating over and over again, "Duct. Tape. Duct. Tape. DUCT. TAPE..."

[WolverineDG]

124. he said it that way because

"duck tape" was the magic word.....

dg

[Berry Cool]

141. The funny thing is, the big company for making the stuff

actually calls it Duck Tape. That's their brand.

[Patsy Stone]

150. LOL.

Hey, dg. :hi:

[WolverineDG]

191. hiya pats! n/t

[gkhouston]

179. he may be saving it for a blog entry. n/t

[crispini]

63. sweeeeet! let's bag on Roberts!

I'm in the mood to fight and this guy is too white to be real.

Big 'ol closet case.

[RevCheesehead]

65. That's scary.

I mean, I lived through the 70's, and that is still scary. Ewwwww.

[Berry Cool]

106. It IS scary.

All that gold tinsel garland on the Christmas tree...YUK!!!

[Botany]

70. He is either gay or smoked a lot of weed before

he went shopping.

I think the wife and kids are a cover. Just another self hating
gay man .... kinda like Jews for Hitler.

SOB helped * steal Florida in 2000 .... worked in Jeb's office too.

[Patsy Stone]

93. And, for just one second, you almost seemed surprised

about the cronyism. BvG = SCOTUS. Since he helped them beat us, I guess he gets to join 'em!

[WolverineDG]

102. you know

i wasn't even going to go there, but watching the footage of him today, combined with that outfit = there's something blipping on my gaydar....and i'm straight....

dg

[Botany]

116. same for me .....

.... expect i am a straight guy. The wife and kids that came as a neat
little package ..... kids adopted ...... and he wasn't married until after
45 (?) ..... I smell cover up

He can go with Rove, Scotty, Ken Mehlmen, and so on.

[gkhouston]

181. well, my husband was 38 when we got married

and he's definitely straight :evilgrin:, but yeah, I think Robert is probably in the closet, too. Not that I would care if he didn't seem so unsettling in other ways. He's one of those people who never seems to blink, and I don't take that as a good sign. His reactions to what's going on around him seem a bit flat and artificial, which really sets off an alarm in my head.

[WolverineDG]

192. i'll have to watch for that, gk

those things set off my alarms too....i make wide berths around those folks. they creep me out big time. :scared:

dg

[RevCheesehead]

67. I'm so glad Keith ends with an upbeat note.

This stuff is emotionally wearing me out.

[WolverineDG]

111. i agree, rev

it was really nice to see the humor (at the appropriate moments) make its way back into the broadcast.

dg

[Muffstser]

69. Oh. My. Gawd. Miracle's wearing the same outfit my niece wore!

It's identical. Twelve operations. That poor, precious little thing.

[Berry Cool]

109. She's a dear one, isn't she?

Miracle, I mean--not Rita.

Nice to have a positive story on.

I think Keith is slowly, slowly working his way back toward laughs and snark. He's already taken his snarks where he can get them (and he made about a million duct tape jokes tonight). Maybe in a week or so we'll feel as if it is safe to really have a laugh again. I don't know, maybe even sooner. But there's just so much to absorb.

[Muffstser]

115. I think you're right, Berry. Slowly, but surely.

That story about Miracle got to me, because the little striped outfit she had on in the earliest part of the piece is the exact same one that my precious little Boo wore in her daycare class photo.

I just want to hug both little munchkins. :)

[crispini]

71. what on earth has Rita Skeeter done to her face?

maybe it's the way she's doing her hair, but all of a sudden, all of her plastic surgery is just LEAPING out at me. That way too thin nose! Those overblown lips!

I may have to submit her to badplasticsurgery.com....

[crispini]

76. Look at this!

Rita Cosby 2001:



Wow, she looks AWFUL today!

current link:
http://www.gogomag.com/cgi-bin/tvheads_viewer.pl?tvheads37819&37819&Rita

[RevCheesehead]

88. Why do I think "Chip -n- Dale" here?

[crispini]

103. You know, I don't like bagging on women (or anyone)

for their looks -- but I reserve the right to bag on anyone who has had bad plastic surgery. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her face in the 'before' picture. Good heavens, she looks simply horrible now. That nose!

[WolverineDG]

108. i was going to take a pass on this

it isn't just the surgery that's gone bad...her dye job is hurtin' too.

dg

[Botany]

105. Peroxide can cause brain damage

...... I hope she goes back to Aruba

[crispini]

113. I'm seeing...

1) nose job
2) forehead botox in a big way
3) lip injections gone wild

not sure about the eyes, may or may not be an eye job goin' on too...

[Botany]

118. i wonder if she has cuff marks?

:rofl:

She has to smoke 4 packs a day to get that sweet voice.
she went all out for the Fox Bimbo look.

BTW did you get my e mail?

[crispini]

130. eh? email?

no, I haven't checked it today... hang on.... or are you being funny? :D

[Berry Cool]

122. Omigod...

...she actually looks NORMAL and ATTRACTIVE in the "before" photo!!!!

What the hell is wrong with people that they have to mess with what was perfectly fine? What does she want to do? End up like Michael Jackson?

[gkhouston]

182. good question

she looks great in the before photo. I didn't study her in the detail Crispy did tonight, but you know what I thought of? Mug shots for women picked up on solicitation charges. Seriously. With the overprocessed hair and the washed-out makeup. Granted, she's been moving around a lot in the past few weeks, so her sleep schedule is probably totally fucked up, which could account for part of the haggard appearance, but still...

[Patsy Stone]

160. It doesn't look like she's had a lot of work.

But that hair is a horror. Nothing to do with NO, I mean that the color is all wrong. And now she's wearing a lighter lip gloss, which adds to the problem. Together they're a bit tarty.

[Berry Cool]

114. Maybe it's the fact that she's not all dressed up in the studio now

and she's "slumming it" with casual clothes and hair. The artificiality of her face shows up more when she's in casual dress than when she's all dolled up in the studio. There, you expect to see a Stepford Newscaster Wife. On the ground in NO, you expect to see someone who really looks more casual. But it's not as if she can put on her normal face again.

[crispini]

125. I think you're right.

gosh, your last line almost makes me feel sorry for her.

don't get me wrong, i'm not anti-plastic surgery, but ya gotta be judicious about it. there was never, ever anything wrong with her nose -- why on earth do people fuck up their faces like that? she looks almost ducklike now. Jeez, she looks completely abnormal.

[Berry Cool]

144. If she looks ducklike now,

maybe she needs some Duck Tape...

[Muffstser]

97. DUCT-TAPE-PALOOZA!!!

Just started watching the video of the show. He's running with it!

This almost makes up for all the PC drama of the past 24 hours.

[Berry Cool]

132. OK, now Keith REALLY has to bring back the News Quiz...

if for no other reason than that his ultimate nightmare is now available as prize/punishment:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2085428

The *Talking* Ann Coulter Doll.

It was bad enough before, but now SHE TALKS.

We really, really need to see Keith rip one of THESE apart on the show.

[Muffstser]

136. YEAH, BAY-BEE!!! We need to start a fundraiser for this.

Everyone chips in 50 cents, and we send it along with a role of duct tape. Imagine the carnage. :)

[DemReadingDU]

147. Remember when Keith 'won' the Ann Coulter doll?

Here is the link posted by dzika

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2376534&mesg_id=2377610

[Patsy Stone]

155. One of the best Keef moments, EVAH!

Hi, Dem! Nice to see you. :toast:

[DemReadingDU]

157. Yeh, the BEST

Hi Pats and all KOEB's :hi:

[gkhouston]

183. he'd *have* to rip it apart

otherwise, it's another three years of therapy, at the very least. :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

186. Yeah, and at THAT rate

he'll NEVER get the lobster bib off!

[Patsy Stone]

134. Excellent!

:thumbsup:

[Berry Cool]

156. OK, this also needs to be added to tonight's thread.

In case anyone wants to know the REAL use of ducT Tape (as Keith calls it) or, as this company calls it, Duck Tape...

http://www.ducktapeclub.com/contests/prom/entries.asp

THIS is what you really do with it. Get your high schooler to make his or her own prom outfit from it, and win scholarship money for college.

You can go contemporary, Scottish, Elizabethan, Gay '90s (or just gay)...anything you want.

[Patsy Stone]

161. The tartan kills me. LOL.

[gkhouston]

184. Berry, I think you should send that link to Countdown. n./t