― gff, Friday, 11 May 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
― Uptoeleven, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― JW, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
― gershy, Sunday, 13 May 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Cockburn:
The Clintons have always excited passions disproportionate to their very modest talents as creative politicians. Looking back across the Nineties at the frenzied Republican onslaughts on the couple, one can only wag one's head in bemusement at the Right's hysteria. Why did they consume so much energy in savaging a pair who had learned conclusively from their earlier upsets in Arkansas that you don't get ahead by offending the powerful, starting with the timber and chicken barons who controlled that backward and impoverished state?
To be fair on Bill and Hillary, beyond some ritual freshets of campaign rhetoric in primary season they have never advertised themselves as anything other than reliable guardians of the basic Business Round Table agenda that defines the programmatic vision of 99.9 per cent of all American politicians....
No one has yet written particularly well about the Clintons, probably because the appropriate tone--Mencken's comic savagery--was devalued by Bill's assailants on the right. Obsessed by Bush, the liberals cannot see Clinton for the light-weight scoundrel he was and have reinvented his terms in the White House as a golden age, whose possible sequel under the aegis of President Hillary Clinton they eagerly await.
http://counterpunch.org/cockburn09292007.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
had to check the date on that
― gff, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Alex Cockburn doesn't like the clintons, part 235
― kingfish, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Cockpunch
― milo z, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
the Clintons WERE tailor-made for Mencken though.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
timber and chicken barons
I know what career I want to get into. "I am a very prestigious chicken and timber baron. Carriage driver, take me to the Clintons' so they can polish my shoes."
― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
the last time i read mencken's obit of william jennings bryan i sort of wished mencken had lived in a different era so he could've written the exact same thing - only about someone else. bryan was really a great man compared to the shitheads we get these days.
― J.D., Wednesday, 3 October 2007 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Dud: "There's nothing patriotic about hating your government or pretending you can hate your government but love your country."
Everything else pretty classic.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, just classic. from an irish/european perspective, the question looks a little silly.
― darraghmac, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
But wasn't this said in the context of Tim McVeigh & the Turner Diaries and Newt wanting to drown Social Security in a bathtub? After all, if you hate the Constitution but love "The Country" then you are at least a dipshit nationalist and probably a proponent of the Unitary Executive--an American Fascist.
― mulla atari, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The quote works if by "government" he means "system of government" rather than "current administration"
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.gopunditgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/clintonrage.jpg
"AH KNOW WHAT I SAID. Y'ALL ARE JUST SITTIN' THERE SMIRKIN"
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
But that was Chris Wallace, whose father obv. did not whip enough.
― mulla atari, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
COCKBURN: POLITICIANS CORRUPT
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
especially the ones Good Dems come over
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Good Dems = people for whom it is more important to wrest control away from the current administration than to look smart
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Everything sure is gonna change forever on 1.20.09, YUP YUP
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Lots of shit still being wrong = everything stays exactly the same, yup yup yup
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"My dislike for him stemmed from his discrediting of something precious to me: the alliance between the anti-war and civil rights movements of which heβd been a vestigial member in the 1960s, and which was my formative politics. The way he cashed that in, lied about whether he was a draft-dodger; the way he smarmily pretended to be more in favour of civil rights than he had been at the time, the way he cheapened everything. He was nothing but a cynical, self-seeking, ambitious thug, and the realisation that this would be the closest that my class of β68 would get to the top job gave me a terrible sickening feeling."
― and what, Friday, 25 April 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, Hitch.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 25 April 2008 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
It's the only thing in that interview which didn't chilll me to the bone.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 25 April 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
what interview
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 April 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
prospect mag interview
― and what, Friday, 25 April 2008 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10157
well that was depressing
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm not sure what that even *was*
― Other, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ reminiscent
no way is clinton the smartest pres since jefferson
― J.D., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
main similarity is they both banged the hired help
not sure what qualifies Jefferson as "smartest" to be honest.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
He had some novel political ideas he cribbed from Montesquieu and the Greeks, was the ideal generalist, was our best president-as-writer until Lincoln, and served great wine at dinner. That's enough.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
where are the shades?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Sally Hemmings did not receive an annual merit raise.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
that walrus has not banged that dancing dude, you guys are fucking gross
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
they've got a nice rapport
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
jefferson was the best political thinker ever to be pres (except possibly madison), and certainly one of the greatest democratic philosophers who ever lived -- i think that puts him well ahead of anyone who's been president in, like, a hundred years.
― J.D., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/mar/26/tony-blair-biopic-peter-morgan
― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 March 2009 10:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Quaid as Clinton? I don't think I see it.
randy or dennis?
― Director's Commentary: I was pooping while I made this post (stevie), Thursday, 26 March 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, two things
i.
The Clintons have always excited passions disproportionate to their very modest talents as creative politicians. Looking back across the Nineties at the frenzied Republican onslaughts on the couple, one can only wag one's head in bemusement at the Right's hysteria. Why did they consume so much energy in savaging a pair who had learned conclusively from their earlier upsets in Arkansas that you don't get ahead by offending the powerful, starting with the timber and chicken barons who controlled that backward and impoverished state?To be fair on Bill and Hillary, beyond some ritual freshets of campaign rhetoric in primary season they have never advertised themselves as anything other than reliable guardians of the basic Business Round Table agenda that defines the programmatic vision of 99.9 per cent of all American politicians....No one has yet written particularly well about the Clintons, probably because the appropriate tone--Mencken's comic savagery--was devalued by Bill's assailants on the right. Obsessed by Bush, the liberals cannot see Clinton for the light-weight scoundrel he was and have reinvented his terms in the White House as a golden age, whose possible sequel under the aegis of President Hillary Clinton they eagerly await.http://counterpunch.org/cockburn09292007.htmlβ Dr Morbius, Tuesday, October 2, 2007 4:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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ii.
the last time i read mencken's obit of william jennings bryan i sort of wished mencken had lived in a different era so he could've written the exact same thing - only about someone else. bryan was really a great man compared to the shitheads we get these days.β J.D., Wednesday, October 3, 2007 1:15 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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fun fact guys i am a descendant of william jennings bryan @_@
― GROLIOUS NIPPON ;_; (cankles), Thursday, 26 March 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
NY Times having this fucking war criminal/mass murderer write about Timothy McVeigh on the OKCity anniversary is the height of hilarity.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
George Steph called him an....Elder Statesman the other Sunday.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
can't imagine a worldview where bill clinton is a major part of the world's problems tbh.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
not any more!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
and what of Lucretia?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
there might be a video tribute to Epstein and Weinstein if Biden's the nominee, ya never know
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
The woman from the bombastic Blood, Sweat & Tears song? I don't know.
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 January 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
Bombastic Rodham
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
Don't forget the time his spouse met personally with Putin at his private compound before taking $500,000 for a speech to Renaissance Capital in Moscow. Oh, wait, that was the Clintons. https://t.co/NMwY76eJF5— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 23, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YsfBoQf.png
― calstars, Saturday, 25 April 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
I see how this is generated -https://www.kapwing.com/explore/bill-clinton-album-challenge-meme-template
- but where does it originate? Did he pose with actual LPs originally - when, and what were they?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 25 April 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bill-clinton-swagAccording to this the original is a photoshop to begin with (from an onion piece from 1999!) so no, he never posed with any records
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 25 April 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
In the onion article they are all Joan Jett lps
The image definitely has that janky onion photoshop feel
― calstars, Saturday, 25 April 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link
Yes. In fact I originally thought it was fake - thanks for confirmation.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 25 April 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link