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So That Happened: Another GOP Debate Chirpstory

Posted on February 22, 2012 by | 3 Comments

I can’t take it anymore.

It was an all-out war on the Browns™, the Uterati™, reality, and my soul:

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Shit! I Have to Tidy Up the Place for Yet Another GOP Herp-Derpbate! – Now with Bonus Chirpstory!

Posted on February 22, 2012 by | 9 Comments

Update!!!  My esteemed colleague, Ian, has put together a chirpstory – the best tweets of the debate – for the GOP herp-derpbate, and I have embedded the code below, right before I begin live-blogging the debate.  Enjoy!

*yawn*   *shuffle, shuffle, stop*  *peers around and tightens robe*

What the fuck are you doing here?  The hell?  Another debate, you say?  It’s been so nice not having to listen to the GOP presidential candidates blather on and on and on and on and – do we have to do this again?!?  Oh fine.

*flounces to the computer and thunks down*

*drums fingertips on the keyboard, producing gibberish, which is still more intelligible than anything any of the GOP candidates might utter tonight*

The GOP herp-derpbate is taking place in Arizona tonight with CNN’s John King moderating.  He got clowned on by Newt Gingrich the last time he moderated, so expect King to get some of his own back tonight.

What will be on tap?  I have a hunch Romney will be asked about a certain local, hypocritical, blackmailing de-closeted sheriff.  Santorum will definitely be asked about his holier-than-God attitude in deciding who is a Christian and who is not.  By they way, Ricky, have you read Matthew 1: 1-5?  Fascinating scripture.  Really.  Or, as I like to say, don’t start none, won’t be none.  I have no idea what will be asked of Ron Paul, nor do I particularly care.  Is it just me, or has he fallen completely off the radar lately?  Couldn’t have happened to a nicer crank if you ask me.  As for Newt, the less said, the better!
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Newt Gingrich Refuses to Debate President Obama if Reporters Serve As Moderators

Posted on January 30, 2012 by | 18 Comments

Awww! Wittle Newt thinks he’s gonna get to debate Pwesident Obama! How pwecious!

During a campaign stop today, Newt claimed that he won’t debate President Obama if reporters serve as moderators.  Even though every debate is moderated by a reporter of some kind, Newton seems to think he’s special and that he gets to make the rules.  I don’t know what he thinks he’s entitled to — a debate moderated by Colonel Sanders?

It’s kind of cute, in a way.  Cute like a raccoon is cute until you realize it’s rabid and it tries to bite your face off.

What?  I don’t know.

From Think Progress,

GINGRICH: As your nominee in the fall, I will not accept debates in which reporters are the moderators, because I will not accept another Obama person in the debate.

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Republicans Play the Hispanic Name Game

Posted on January 28, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Forget “Jeopardy,” “Deal or No Deal,” and “Wheel of Fortune.” 

Romney wins Hispanic naming game

The next big thing in game shows is “How Many Hispanics Can You Name?”

If you spent your Thursday evening watching “X Factor” or “Vampire Diaries” instead of killing innocent brain cells by screaming at the Republican presidential primary candidates debating in Jacksonville, Fla., Nielson ranks your evening productivity at 85 percent above the 5.4 million who wasted two perfectly good hours being reminded why they’re voting a straight Democratic ticket in November.

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Live-Tweeting the #CNNDebate because… ::shrug::

Posted on January 26, 2012 by | 1 Comment

I don’t know anymore. There’s a debate every other hour. I can only take so much.



(chirpstory after the jump)

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Gingrich Threatens to Skip Debates if Audience Not Permitted to Act Like Jackasses

Posted on January 24, 2012 by | 14 Comments

Newt has revealed himself to be the proverbial naked emperor.  Instead of having no clothes, he apparently has no debate skills.

Today, he appeared on Fox and Friends to complain about Brian Williams asking last night’s debate audience to hold any applause until the commercial breaks:

In an interview with the morning show “Fox and Friends,” Mr. Gingrich said NBC’s rules amounted to stifling free speech. In what has become a standard line of attack for his anti-establishment campaign, Mr. Gingrich blamed the media for trying to silence a dissenting point of view.

“I wish in retrospect I’d protested when Brian Williams took them out of it because I think it’s wrong,” Mr. Gingrich said. “And I think he took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against the media, which is what they’ve done in every debate.”

You see, for all of his talk about wanting to go toe-to-toe against Obama in a series of seven thousand Lincoln-Douglas style debates, Newt doesn’t want to debate Obama.  He wants to preen for the camera and act like a pompous jerk.  He wants to debate the media and bask in the glowing approval of the debate audience members who think the librul media is trying to turn them in to socialists.

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Tweet of the Day – Mittens vs. Newton at the Florida Debate

Posted on January 23, 2012 by | Leave a comment

***yeah, yeah, it’s the Tweet of yesterday.  I told you I’d be backposting a lot of these because — SQUIRREL!!

 

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What the Hell? Another GOP Debate?: Live-Blogging the Final Four with Added Bonus – the Chirpstory

Posted on January 23, 2012 by | 9 Comments

Welcome to January Jackassery and the Final Four!  There are half the candidates with twice the dog-whistles.  Cage match, TO THE DEATH!  Four men will enter the ring, and…um, four men will walk out*.  But, but, but, three will be bloodied** if unbowed, and ONE MAN WILL BE DECLARED THE WINNER. What is foremost on my mind for this monumental event is this:

Really, GOP?  Another debate?  What the fuck are we going to learn that we don’t already know?   Or rather, to which new low will the candidates – and audience – sink?  Will Newt Gingrich promise, to wild applause from the audience, to return to the good old days of slavery?  Will Rick Santorum vow to personally check the home of every gay man to ensure that there is no frothy mixture left behind?  Will we see angry Mitt slip out from beneath the carefully-polished veneer?  And, if we do, can we please please please have Mitt saying, “You won’t LIKE Mittens when he’s angry!” before punching Gingrich in the nose?  Will Ron Paul strip to his onion belt and start chanting, “Gold standard now and forever, bitchez!!!!” while throwing gold doubloons at the other candidates, the moderator, and the audience?
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Conservative columnists unhappily tweet the South Carolina debate

Posted on January 19, 2012 by | 11 Comments

I like following conservative and conservative-ish pundits on Twitter, because A) it’s good to know what the other side is saying and B) they’ve often sometimes got insightful things to say about their cause. Here are some of my favorite tweeted reactions to tonight’s debate from a couple of the nation’s leading conservative thinkers:

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