Somebody Has To Freshen Things Up A Bit - [Niedermeyer's Dead Horse]

Although I see nothing in the queue I feel certain that Y-Not is working on a glorious politics thread as I type this. In the meantime, test yourself against the minion of the Vast Anti-Trump Conspiracy (#VATC), Hugh Hewitt, and see if you can do better than Trump.

I'm betting you will.

@mflynny @realDonaldTrump http://t.co/ezB3C3qlt9 the easiest test ever. Try to pass
— Jenna Abrams (@Jenn_Abrams) September 5, 2015

Yes, it's an open thread.

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1 Good morning all!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 10:57 AM (r65B3)

2 You will only make me stronger.

Posted by: the Donald at September 05, 2015 10:57 AM (DtNNC)

3 Yes, it's an open thread.

Yes, but does it have zaftig women or hot, topless redheads?

Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 10:58 AM (2iV3X)

4 I love the Clinton campaign spin on why they paid an IT guy on the side to set up their private email server: They didn't think it was "fair" to use tax payer money to pay him. Yeah, you're all about saving the gubmint $$, aren't you? I'm sure the used Clinton Foundation $$ to pay the guy instead.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 05, 2015 10:59 AM (5buP8)

5 Don't judge me!

Posted by: The Donald at September 05, 2015 10:59 AM (9mTYi)

6 Good questions for an intelligence analyst but not necessarily for a politician.
I could ask Hewitt a number of similar questions on many parts of the world and I guarantee he would fail.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 11:00 AM (r65B3)

7 Trump would be the greatest maestro in the world if it weren't for the people chewing gum in the first row. #VATC

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2015 11:00 AM (5NgCd)

8 As I posted my last comment on the previous thread, I felt a trembling in the Force, and I knew the spirit of Willow had passed by.

Posted by: mindful webworker - did I do that? at September 05, 2015 11:01 AM (yCZVl)

9 Speaking of the Clinton Foundation, is that 501-C3? There must be multiple violations of their tax filing's laying around out there.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 05, 2015 11:01 AM (5buP8)

10 Why is the tampon ad on the sidebar in Spanish and we all type in English?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 11:01 AM (r65B3)

11 Trump Trump on foreign policy?

As opposed to privately negotiating treaties with Iran?

Posted by: SouthTexas at September 05, 2015 11:02 AM (/orPj)

12 10 Why is the tampon ad on the sidebar in Spanish and we all type in English?

Kotex is trolling the Horde.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 05, 2015 11:02 AM (5buP8)

13 It's almost like Trump is actually trying to win the Presidency and all the others in the race just want that spiffy participation trophy.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at September 05, 2015 11:03 AM (wKcQA)

14 I didn't recognize any of the names and knew none of the answers but scored 5 out of 6.

I think the pictures chosen probably helped and led me to the answers I picked. Probably much harder if you were just given the text or by "oral exam" in the case of Trump. Not denying he needs to get his shit together. If possible.

Posted by: bananaDream at September 05, 2015 11:03 AM (vLk7c)

15 Good questions for an intelligence analyst but not necessarily for a politician.
I could ask Hewitt a number of similar questions on many parts of the world and I guarantee he would fail.

***

No person knows everything but how Trump handled it has finally done me in. The bitching and moaning and whining.

Just stop it, already!

Just as Hillary cannot be, simultaneously, the smartest woman in the room and a poor dear who can't even figure out how to read her email, Trump cannot be the greatest businessman/negotiator/fighter ever who whines about "gotcha" questions.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2015 11:03 AM (5NgCd)

16 Speaking of Zaftig,have you seen those new Lane Bryant commercials?

Posted by: steevy at September 05, 2015 11:04 AM (sPO3u)

17 Foreign Policy Trivia Game

Why do the five richest gulf state oil producing country not shelter refugees from Syria?

Why is it the obligation of Western Civilization to take in refugees fleeing chaos in their home countries?

If Western Civilization is such a wonderous place to live that people risk their life and the lives of family members to reach sanctuary in Western countries, why is it such an evil thing for Western countries to go into places of civil unrest and impose order and good governance as they practice it?

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:04 AM (kBd14)

18 >>They didn't think it was "fair" to use tax payer money to pay him.

Ha! Remember when Bill wanted to lease THE most expensive office space for his post-presidential office, which is paid for by the taxpayers? Only moved to Harlem because he got caught.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:04 AM (NOIQH)

19 The site needs a French whore's bath.

*splashes on eau de cologne*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 05, 2015 11:05 AM (rwI+c)

20 A shout out to all WWII vets. I am in China working and they made this special holiday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the surrender of the Japan and the end of WWII. All factories were closed and workers off to celebrate per the orders of the "gummit"

There has been nothing but Chinese WWII movies on all week here. It's been a really big deal. There were parades and such and lots of hoopla.

I had many people stop me on the street and ask me if I was an American and talked a lot to me. They were really extra nice, My Chinese isn't that good but what I got out of it was they really appreciate the US stopping the Japanese in their tracks in WWII.

The Japanese really did a lot of horrible things in China, and not only to the soldiers but to the people too.

These Chinese people remember what you US WWII vets did and the sacrifices you made. If any of you are WWII vets (like my Dad) I just wanted you know to know that.

You guys are truly the 'Greatest Generation".

Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 05, 2015 11:05 AM (jArat)

21 Why is it the obligation of Western Civilization to take in refugees fleeing chaos in their home countries?

***

We will be done in by our insistence upon being seen as a fair and open-minded people.

BTW, I fucking despise the word "fair".

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2015 11:06 AM (5NgCd)

22 >>Why do the five richest gulf state oil producing country not shelter refugees from Syria?

Saw a picture or refuges on the news this a.m. - it was a mass of able-bodied adult men (no kids, wives in the photo).

Yeah, we know exactly why they're not taking them in.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:06 AM (NOIQH)

23 Government money was used.
If paid by the foundation, only question is, which government's?

Posted by: USA at September 05, 2015 11:06 AM (tfM+W)

24 I wonder if the State IT guy with a clearance filled out an outside activities request before he did that private server work for Hildebeast?

Posted by: goatexchange at September 05, 2015 11:06 AM (QftM3)

25 When leaving the Whitehouse the Clintons chose to steal only the least costly items of silver and dining ware out of concern for the "taxpayers".

Posted by: bananaDream at September 05, 2015 11:07 AM (vLk7c)

26
Hugh "Cathy" Hewitt

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 05, 2015 11:07 AM (kdS6q)

27 Its the first Saturday in college football. There better be a cheerleader within the next hour.

Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:07 AM (zt+N6)

28 Why am I being shown tampon ads at all? They think I' gonna buy a box so I can relive the good old days when I'd toss them on the bedroom floor?

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at September 05, 2015 11:07 AM (wKcQA)

29 It will be nice when we can go back to ignoring the savages in the Middle East and go back to more important things, like hot topless redheads.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:08 AM (PEFlK)

30 No person knows everything but how Trump handled it has finally done me in. The bitching and moaning and whining.

Just stop it, already!

- - - - - -
I quit listening to several right of center broadcasters years ago because of the whining
Makes ya wonder if Trump is doing this by design. The Trumpster has a way of making the story about the media. And there is a need for that.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 11:08 AM (r65B3)

31 3
Yes, but does it have zaftig women or hot, topless redheads?
Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 10:58 AM (2iV3X)

Hot topless zaftig brunettes works for me.

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 11:09 AM (sdi6R)

32 Ask Obama the questions. I bet he misses them too, if he has to rely only on his drug degraded mind.

Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:09 AM (zt+N6)

33 willowed from previous:

Googleadservice. Crawls the site and serves ads based on keywords.

No joke, but probably picking up all the Hillary and !Jeb! references.

& google probably blocks all the guns & ammo stuff, 'cause "childern & the erf"

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2015 11:09 AM (ZQfW9)

34 Its the first Saturday in college football. There better be a cheerleader within the next hour.

Posted by: buzzion

Shouldn't you be resting in your native earth?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 05, 2015 11:10 AM (rwI+c)

35 It will be nice when we can go back to ignoring the savages in the Middle East and go back to more important things, like hot topless redheads.

- - - -

Hey, where is KDBar anyway?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 11:10 AM (r65B3)

36 Good morning all

Posted by: chemjeff at September 05, 2015 11:11 AM (2XMpf)

37 It was nice of Hewitt to spit Romney's cock out of his mouth to ask Trump questions though.

Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:11 AM (zt+N6)

38 If Hugh Hewitt had a sex change,

would he suddenly become a

hot topless redhead?

My guess is no.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2015 11:11 AM (KUa85)

39 Oh that's right, first college football Saturday
GO HUSKERS

Posted by: chemjeff-husker at September 05, 2015 11:11 AM (2XMpf)

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:12 AM (PEFlK)

41 32 Ask Obama the questions. I bet he misses them too, if he has to rely only on his drug degraded mind.
Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:09 AM (zt+N6)

Mark Levin said last night that he'll bet that Obama knows all the names of the leaders of all of the Muslim terrorist groups, and where is that getting us?

Zing!

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 11:12 AM (sdi6R)

42 Is it too f*cking much to ask the admins for heteronormative objectified cheerleaders on the first Saturday in college football?

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 05, 2015 11:12 AM (tfM+W)

43
There was another Presidential candidate who had never held office and screamed loudly about imposing tariffs to punish those country's who "take advantage" of us by selling us "cheap" goods.

Herbert Hoover. Does Smoot-Hawley ring any bells?

Posted by: GBruno at September 05, 2015 11:13 AM (u49WF)

44 Mark Levin said last night that he'll bet that Obama
knows all the names of the leaders of all of the Muslim terrorist
groups, and where is that getting us?

Zing!

Posted by: rickl

Well, sure, we're old buddies from way back!

Posted by: Presn't Obama at September 05, 2015 11:13 AM (PEFlK)

45 You know who this helps?

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at September 05, 2015 11:14 AM (75uvI)

46 I got all six of the WSJ questions correct. What did I win?

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:14 AM (kBd14)

47 @ 17.

This.

Ask these questions of every single candidate.

Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at September 05, 2015 11:15 AM (xrET7)

48 Does Smoot-Hawley ring any bells?

----

Is that a hot, topless redhead?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:15 AM (PEFlK)

49 Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist, huh? Did you ever think
about that? I didn't know! So now, if I went in and made a major
security issue out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in,
and there are no exclusive rights for anybody; nobody wins. So I made a
decision and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley, it was a bad
call. I now disagree with the choice that I made.

Posted by: Burke, Carter, J. at September 05, 2015 11:15 AM (JO9+V)

50 Saw a picture or refuges on the news this a.m. - it was a mass of able-bodied adult men (no kids, wives in the photo).

It's right there in front of their eyes, and people are refuse to see it.

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (rHXGG)

51 Is it too f*cking much to ask the admins for heteronormative objectified hot, topless redhead cheerleaders on the first Saturday in college football?

FIFY

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (ZQfW9)

52 Oh, and.

"hot topless redheads"
http://is.gd/cteBh8

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (rHXGG)

53 If Western Civilization is such a wonderous place to live that people risk their life and the lives of family members to reach sanctuary in Western countries, why is it such an evil thing for Western countries to go into places of civil unrest and impose order and good governance as they practice it?
Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:04 AM (kBd14)

A great question.

Posted by: tbodie at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (5fXFG)

54 You know who this helps?

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at September 05, 2015 11:14 AM (75uvI)

Hot topless redheads?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (KUa85)

55 I don't have sound on my computer (at work), and I'm not sure I care enough to see/hear what the questions were, so...

Is Trump TRYING to answer the questions, or is he essentially saying "I'm not playing your stupid gotcha game, douchebag!"

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (TOk1P)

56 The Chinese 70th anniversary of victory over Japan military parade is up on You Tube. As always impressive, as was the Russian military parade of a couple months ago...The Chinese are all of the same height! in the parade, amazing...

Posted by: Colin at September 05, 2015 11:17 AM (eoM8x)

57 Wanna see Trump fall dramatically in the polls? Draft The Most Interesting Man In The World.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at September 05, 2015 11:17 AM (wKcQA)

58 Oh, and hot topless redhead.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:17 AM (TOk1P)

59 College Football? Oh, um, Go University of Alabama at Birmingham!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:18 AM (PEFlK)

60 Thanks, HR.

At least it wasn't Carrot Top.

Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 11:18 AM (2iV3X)

61 Whoa! The DVD drive door/shelf just opened/popped out on my PC. The ghost in the machine.

Posted by: The Donald at September 05, 2015 11:18 AM (9mTYi)

62 Saw a picture or refuges on the news this a.m. - it was a mass of able-bodied adult men (no kids, wives in the photo).

It's right there in front of their eyes, and people are refuse to see it.

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (rHXGG)

Lemme guess, a heavy mix of chemical engineers and explosives experts among those refugees.

And hot topless redheads as well.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:19 AM (TOk1P)

63
Oh, and.

"hot topless redheads"
http://is.gd/cteBh8

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (rHXGG)

HRipley...! You know, I... I expected more from you. I thought you'd be smarter than this.

Posted by: Burke, Carter, J. at September 05, 2015 11:19 AM (JO9+V)

64 Wanna see Trump fall dramatically in the polls? Draft The Most Interesting Man In The World.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection

I accept your nomination.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:19 AM (PEFlK)

65 Saw a picture or refuges on the news this a.m. - it was a mass of able-bodied adult men (no kids, wives in the photo).

It's right there in front of their eyes, and people are refuse to see it.

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 05, 2015 11:16 AM (rHXGG)

Well, to be fair - they'd be more welcome if

there were more hot topless redheads in that group.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2015 11:19 AM (KUa85)

66
46 Fvck them raghead sunsubitches. My refusal to learn their names is a measure of my contempt for them and all they stand for.
More redheads less ragheads I say

Posted by: MAx at September 05, 2015 11:20 AM (LAliD)

67 Save us Obi Wan Romney, you're our only hope!

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at September 05, 2015 11:20 AM (m5pZQ)

68 OK HuHew, if you're so smart, then what's the expansion coefficient of ferrous metal?

Really? You don't know? Then how can you call yourself whatever it is that you call yourself?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 05, 2015 11:20 AM (LUgeY)

69 It's not that you need to unfocus your eyes, it's that you need *deep* focus to see the HOT TOPLESS REDHEAD.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 05, 2015 11:20 AM (rwI+c)

70 The Chinese are all of the same height! in the parade, amazing...
----------------

They have a sizing machine.
It grinds all of them down to the same height.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:20 AM (9mTYi)

71 The Chinese are all of the same height! in the parade, amazing...

----------------

They have a sizing machine.

It grinds all of them down to the same height.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:20 AM (9mTYi)

Ancient Chinese secret!

Posted by: Laundromat Owners at September 05, 2015 11:22 AM (TOk1P)

72 College Football? Oh, um, Go University of Alabama at Birmingham!

The B l a z e r s are starting all over again, yes? Stupid administration.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 05, 2015 11:22 AM (rwI+c)

73 OK HuHew, if you're so smart, then what's the expansion coefficient of ferrous metal?

What is the un-laden airspeed of an African swallow?

The answer very well may be "hot, topless redheads"

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2015 11:22 AM (ZQfW9)

74 Show me on the doll where the bad radio man touched you, Donnie.

Posted by: the Donald's shrink at September 05, 2015 11:22 AM (PEFlK)

75 @56, Colin. My VPN is having problems. No You Tube or google for me.

Fortunately my US email still works. I guess I will have to go to Hong Hong to fix all that.

It's on all the channels here.

It's a good time to be an American in China right now. I have more pussy flying at me than a guy standing in front of a cat flinging machine. heh.

My Chinese wife is batting them off with a tennis racquet. heh.

She is none too happy either.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at September 05, 2015 11:23 AM (jArat)

76 They're more incensed that Trump doesn't know al-Baghdadi than that Hill doesn't know what wipe a hard drive means

Posted by: MAx at September 05, 2015 11:23 AM (LAliD)

77 The Chinese 70th anniversary of victory over Japan military parade is up on You Tube. As always impressive, as was the Russian military parade of a couple months ago

...The Chinese are all ~~of the same height!~~ hot topless redheads! in the parade, amazing...

Posted by: Colin at September 05, 2015 11:17 AM (eoM8x)

FIFY

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2015 11:23 AM (KUa85)

78 I accept your nomination.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:19 AM (PEFlK)

You've got my vote!

Unless that redheaded chick from the Wendy's commercials throws her bra into the ring...

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at September 05, 2015 11:23 AM (wKcQA)

79 What's worse is that a lot of European leaders are lecturing that it is the Christian thing to do (see neoneocon.com for quotes).

Let that sink in: take your Christianity and stick it where the sun don't shine if you don't like SSM and abortion, but you're really not a good Christian if you don't embrace open borders/mass illegal invasion---er, immigration.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:23 AM (NOIQH)

80 I got 5/6 of the questions correct. Would you give ME the launch codes?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:23 AM (jR7Wy)

81 Ancient Chinese secret!
Posted by: Laundromat
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ISWYDT

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:24 AM (9mTYi)

82

Crap.

...The Chinese are all ~~of the same height!~~ hot topless redheads! in the parade, amazing...

Posted by: Colin at September 05, 2015 11:17 AM (eoM8x)

FIFM

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2015 11:24 AM (KUa85)

83 I got 4 out of 6

To be fair to Trump, he doesn't have a multiple choice quiz being given to him.

Hillary or Obama would probably have that kind of quiz on their teleprompters, and the MSM would tell them the questions in advance anyway

But lets all put the genius label on a President who thinks "Austrian" is a language

Posted by: kbdabear at September 05, 2015 11:24 AM (GrXXa)

84 Got 5 of 6.

So what, apparently the next debate is going to be political nerd jeopardy, with Hewitt in the role of Trebek.

I would love if Trump donned a Connery accent and told Hewitt to suck it.

Hewitts an ass.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 05, 2015 11:24 AM (eDW1j)

85 The Chinese are all of the same height! in the parade, amazing...

They wouldn't let me join.

Posted by: Yao Ming at September 05, 2015 11:24 AM (PEFlK)

86
The eventual GOP nominee, wrote Hewitt, should pick Romney, using his fundraising power and credibility to beat Clinton.

June 2015

Romney Fever - a chronic illness.

So sad Hugh has it.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 05, 2015 11:25 AM (kdS6q)

87 Did Hewitt ever quiz Mitt, or was his mouth full?

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 05, 2015 11:25 AM (q94F7)

88 Would you give ME the launch codes?
------------

Do you promise to press the button?

Posted by: Mr. Healthy Penis at September 05, 2015 11:25 AM (HstNY)

89 Natural flirts with the barrel.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:26 AM (9mTYi)

90 Trump didn't get multiple guess. I knew 4 of the 6 for sure, 1 not so much, and guessed the one I had no idea right. This doesn't prove crap. He's a business man not a politician. My question is, what has electing politicians done for our country? They spout a bunch of platitudes during the campaign, and then get into office only to find that what they promised isn't feasible based on discovering the actual extent of the problems. Until he's briefed on the intelligence, how's does he(or anyone else for that matter) know what's needed to deal with any issue, let alone foreign policy?

Posted by: hadoop at September 05, 2015 11:26 AM (2X7pN)

91 >>They're more incensed that Trump doesn't know al-Baghdadi than that Hill doesn't know what wipe a hard drive means

OK, that's funny since ISIS is nothing if not LOOK AT US!!!! 24x7, though I doubt Trump was doing a Bush sr. mispronouncing "Saaaaa-dem" Hussein's name on purpose mind trick.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:26 AM (NOIQH)

92 Woo hoo. I got six out of six right in that quiz. Of course, I guessed on all the "Which fanatical Muslim lunatic is running which bunch of terrorists?" questions.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 05, 2015 11:26 AM (QHgTq)

93 Let that sink in: take your Christianity and stick it where the sun don't shine if you don't like SSM and abortion, but you're really not a good Christian if you don't embrace open borders/mass illegal invasion---er, immigration.

How many refugees is Emma Thompson sponsoring? She could have a small village erected on her property.

Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 11:27 AM (2iV3X)

94 You've got my vote!

Unless that redheaded chick from the Wendy's commercials throws her bra into the ring...

Posted by: jwpaine

I'd step aside for her. No, wait--I'd put *her* in a cabinet position!

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:27 AM (PEFlK)

95 Fair warning:

al-Baghdadi mac bad daddy will be on the next test.

As will enimen al-enema alani's booty

Now, go study!

Posted by: Hugh Huey at September 05, 2015 11:27 AM (tfM+W)

96 I'm thinking of buying Lily from the AT&Tads a red wig. What do you think...short hair or longer?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 11:28 AM (r65B3)

97 I answered all the WSJ questions with HOT TOPLESS REDHEAD.

What do I win?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 05, 2015 11:28 AM (LUgeY)

98 They should have asked Trump to name all 57 states.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:29 AM (9mTYi)

99 Do you promise to press the button?
Posted by: Mr. Healthy Penis at September 05, 2015 11:25 AM (HstNY)
--
At the inauguration!

My presidency will be the wildest 48 hours of your life!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:29 AM (jR7Wy)

100 Hey..., what's this stuff on my shoe?

Posted by: Barky at September 05, 2015 11:29 AM (9mTYi)

101 >>How many refugees is Emma Thompson sponsoring? She could have a small village erected on her property.

OK, Emma, can I express my Christian values on this issue?....What about now, is now OK, too, or am I a scary religious bigot?...Or how about now?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:29 AM (NOIQH)

102 F*ck Hugh and the horse Hugh rode in on, Hugh Hewshit.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 05, 2015 11:29 AM (7OlRf)

103 How many refugees is Emma Thompson sponsoring? She could have a small village erected on her property.

Posted by: fluffy

Heh. the entire village is erect, huh?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (PEFlK)

104 Why is it the obligation of Western Civilization to take in refugees fleeing chaos in their home countries?

What could possibly go wrong for countries to have open borders? It's not like the people fleeing their 3rd world shitholes will turn the countries they're going to into similar 3rd world shitholes. Oh wait...

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (DiZBp)

105 I saw HOT TOPLESS REDHEADS open up for the Indigo Girls at Red Rocks back in '04.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (LUgeY)

106 John Kennedy was not a Rocket Scientist when he made the famous speech about going to the Moon.

Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (qh617)

107 NPR coverage of Hugh Hewitt dust up:
Take that, Donald.

Posted by: USA at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (tfM+W)

108 "hot topless redheads"

I was fearing David Caruso in a speedo.

Posted by: Fox2! at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (brIR5)

109 Ok, I took the quiz. Is that really what Baby Hewitt tried to ask Trump?

I got three right, but really, the answers are, 1 through 6:

Who gives a sh*t!

Once upon a time I knew all the leaders in the Middle East by name, and could tell you what each of the naughty groups were up to, and who each nation was aligned with.

Now, it's a fustercluck. Thanks to Obama.

We have one of two choices, go in and kill as many of them as necessary (I have no specific number, however many it is, is how many it is), or walk away and tell them to stay out of the west.

That's it. Knowing the names of who is doing what to whom matters not at all. It serves a purpose we can no longer call a viable option.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:32 AM (TOk1P)

110 Why yes, I've been watching Aliens. Why do you ask?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2015 11:32 AM (JO9+V)

111 Eh.

I don't care if Trump knows who's-who is the Middle East,

*HOT*

what I care about is if he can put together a team to push American interests hard in the region.

I suspect that he can.

*TOPLESS*

For that matter, I hardly care if he knows the name of the President of France.

What I care about is can he push American interests hard.

*REDHEADS*

America!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2015 11:33 AM (KUa85)

112
NPR coverage of Hugh Hewitt dust up:

Take that, Donald.

Posted by: USA at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (tfM+W)

Wow, it's on NPR. So three more people will know about it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 05, 2015 11:33 AM (DiZBp)

113 13
It's almost like Trump is actually trying to win the Presidency and all
the others in the race just want that spiffy participation trophy.
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Hence the Trump appeal which the news media can't understand.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 05, 2015 11:33 AM (ry4ab)

114 You know, I... I expected more from you. I thought you'd be smarter than this.

Harry's alright.

How many refugees is Emma Thompson sponsoring? She could have a small village erected on her property.

Til Schweiger is building a refugee[sic] dorm with his Hollywood money...far away from his daughters, of course.

Posted by: HR trinken trinken trinken at September 05, 2015 11:34 AM (rHXGG)

115 Qualifying candidates based on their actual knowledge? Aha.
Say hello to President Bolton's Mustache.
They say Adlai Stevenson was very knowledgeable. I'm not convinced.

Also, just to get this said, The Most Interesting Man in The World is a role. Good actor, nice guy playing it, but, ad campaign. The real Most Interesting Man in The World was Commander Edward Whitehead RN, president of Schweppes USA.

Just google that magnificent sonofabitch. Damn, that was livin'.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 05, 2015 11:34 AM (xq1UY)

116 NPR coverage of Hugh Hewitt dust up:

Take that, Donald.

Posted by: USA at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM

Wow, it's on NPR. So three more people will know about it

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 05, 2015 11:33 AM

Bill Bennett will be all over this in #twoweeks

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (ZQfW9)

117 Aliens?

"Who do I have to fuck to get off this planet?"

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (kBd14)

118 One strike against Carson is that he is, like, not a very polished speaker. Lots of "you knows".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (jR7Wy)

119 106 John Kennedy was not a Rocket Scientist when he made the famous speech about going to the Moon.
Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 11:31 AM (qh617)

I bet he couldn't even name all the engineers who worked on the Apollo program.

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (sdi6R)

120 Questions we need to ask Presidential candidates:

Describe your vision of America. What part can you bring about ?

The courts have said I can have privacy in all matters where I can
expect privacy. When can I expect privacy ?

Who are the "middle class" ? Be specific

Do you have any "executive experience" ? How big was this organization
(people/revenues) ?

What was the hardest non-governmental job you ever had ?

Are there any assurances that appear to have been inferred or implied
during the campaign that you feel you won't be able to back up with
action once in office ?

When should you and your staff be held responsible, and what form would
"being held responsible" take ?

As far as I know there is no official definition and I've been told in
some languages it is just not defined, so please .. define "fair"

Please define "infrastructure"

What kind of grades did you get in school for "working well with others" ?

Give an example of how you work with those whom you don't agree.

Are you a "victim" ? If so, why should anybody ever elect a "victim" as
President and Leader of the Free World ?

what is your plan to deal with a Higgs Boson disaster ?

Describe all the parts of the "Obama Doctrine"

How important would "sustainability" be to your administration's climate
policy ?

(This is a trick question because most sustainability efforts involve
continued use of carbon-based energy whose production and use have an
even larger carbon footprint)

Explain the difference between Quds and Scuds

Posted by: James Carville at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (e8kgV)

121 The Clintons probably kept the IT guy on their payroll so he wouldn't fall under the usual gummint employee rules. He did not even have to waste valuable time with routine disclosure training. There are no self-incriminating gummint forms he signed.

Posted by: I Self-Identify as Captain Obvious at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (Q8y6V)

122 College football is back. Those "student" athletes are back to their pursuit of academics. And my academics I mean raping students, getting DUIs, etc.

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (0LHZx)

123 When the slaughter starts in the west, it will come suddenly. One day, all the factions will be eyeing each other angrily as governments appeal for calm, the next, the streets will be rivers of blood.

Posted by: Grump928(C) looks on the bright side at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (rwI+c)

124 OK, Emma, can I express my Christian values on this issue?....What about now, is now OK, too, or am I a scary religious bigot?...Or how about now?

I don't believe she was scolding in terms of Christianity, but I believe she said that the whole UK is racist for not doing its part.

Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 11:36 AM (2iV3X)

125 Naturalfake, you do have a way with words!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 11:36 AM (r65B3)

126
Annddd... the winning answer to ALL the quiz questions is???

Who are they????

Targets...

Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 11:36 AM (qh617)

127 The Hewitt interview will not prove significant.

More interesting I think, and with more potential to cause Trump problems, was his response to the Kentucky Christian clerk's imprisonment.

Posted by: rrpjr at September 05, 2015 11:37 AM (s/yC1)

128 @106 Actual JFK quote: "I'm not that interested in space." From NASA film.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 05, 2015 11:37 AM (xq1UY)

129 11
Trump Trump on foreign policy?

As opposed to privately negotiating treaties with Iran?
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Touch�.

I have a feeling Trump dodged the questions because his first answer of "nuke them from orbit" might not go over well.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 05, 2015 11:37 AM (ry4ab)

130 Knowing all the player doesn't always mean that you know what's going to happen. In 2008 ,Hewitt attested that Cankles was going to be Prezzy and believe he has said she absolutely would win in 2016.
And BTW, Survey USA Trump 45 Hildabeast 40,
so I guess knowing all the players doesn't ensure the correct analysis

Posted by: RIK at September 05, 2015 11:38 AM (uPwpt)

131 I do remember that Henry Ford was asked various elements of international policy and engineering in a forum.
He responded, to a very surprised audience, that he had no clue.
He followed up by saying that he had on his desk a box with mother-of-pearl buttons and when he needed those sorts of answers he pushed one of the buttons and asked one of his assistants to get that information for him so he could go on running his business.

Hewitt is an ass, and a techical wonk, loves that lawyers have such prominence, and when he exposes that he is not so much a neo-con as he is hawkish liberal, I turn the radio in my car to the Russian station so I don't have to hear things that spike my BP

Oh, and hot topless redheads

Posted by: Kindltot - hot topless redheads at September 05, 2015 11:38 AM (3pRHP)

132 One strike against Carson is that he is, like, not a very polished speaker. Lots of "you knows".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM

He can "you know" all he wants.

Until he gets his mind right with regard to the 2A, he's a non-starter

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2015 11:38 AM (ZQfW9)

133 Wonder how Steve Jobs would do on a test with coding questions.

Posted by: Chuck Pylon at September 05, 2015 11:38 AM (mTTqQ)

134 I forgot, It's over. Trump wins

Posted by: RIK at September 05, 2015 11:39 AM (uPwpt)

135 Hugh Hewitt is a braying boor. (Also a really lousy political prognosticator.)

Posted by: rrpjr at September 05, 2015 11:39 AM (s/yC1)

136 it's on NPR. So three more people will know about it
Posted by: TheQuietMan
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A lot of older folk worship at the NPR alter. A LOT.
It's appalling.

Posted by: Barky at September 05, 2015 11:39 AM (9mTYi)

137 I'm not on board with Trump yet, but I don't begrudge anybody for not being their sharpest 24/7 with a live interview.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at September 05, 2015 11:39 AM (ROUi8)

138 Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (0LHZx)

Do us all a favor and go find a HOT TOPLESS REDHEAD goat and spend the rest of the day with it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 05, 2015 11:39 AM (LUgeY)

139 Trump should have said "...I don't know their names, but we have their coordinates. FYNQ"

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2015 11:40 AM (ZQfW9)

140 We need to elect Ben Carson President just to prove that Barack Obama wasn't an anomaly.

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:40 AM (kBd14)

141 How many refugees is Emma Thompson sponsoring? She could have a small village erected on her property.

Posted by: fluffy

Intercourse her and everyone like her. Another brainless twat opening her uneducated mouth. She's a mediocre actress who no one would have heard of if she didn't hook up with Ken Branagh

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 05, 2015 11:40 AM (DiZBp)

142 29
It will be nice when we can go back to ignoring the savages in the
Middle East and go back to more important things, like hot topless
redheads.
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In another year or so when we are no longer required to look at official pictures of angry muscular women who dress in long shirts, yes. Of course if Trump wins we will get pictures of his hot, topless blonde ex-wives.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 05, 2015 11:41 AM (ry4ab)

143 �I'm thinking of buying Lily from the AT&Tads a red wig. What do you think...short hair or longer?Posted by: Diogenes
------
I'm thinking of buying Lila Perry From Hillsboro MO a bag to wear over his head. What do you think...paper or plastic?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 05, 2015 11:41 AM (7OlRf)

144 Annddd... the winning answer to ALL the quiz questions is???

Who are they????

Targets...

Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 11:36 AM (qh617)

Your answers are acceptable. We would have also accepted "a bunch of beardie fellows what better keep their arses over there, and down if the chuckleheads they insight pull any nonsense we don't like."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:41 AM (TOk1P)

145 121 The Clintons probably kept the IT guy on their payroll so he wouldn't fall under the usual gummint employee rules. He did not even have to waste valuable time with routine disclosure training. There are no self-incriminating gummint forms he signed.

Posted by: I Self-Identify as Captain Obvious at September 05, 2015 11:35 AM (Q8y6V)

Actually, it looks like he was a Clinton IT guy who was then given a job with the State Dept.... so he still had to sign all those silly forms...

And as a staffer, should not have been given a pass on either his training, or security clearance.

Clinton's stuff was apparently a 'side job' which was not disclosed to the State Dept., nor was the pay from the Clinton's on the forms he must turn in every year about outside income.

Now why Hillary got to bring her own IT staff onboard? to a GS job?? don't know...

He then LEFT the State Dept. when Hillary left... but is still listed as a Contractor for the State Dept.

Just like Eric Snowden, this guy knows where the bodies are buried... the only question is how to pressure him to release said information.

Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 11:41 AM (qh617)

146 I think Obama is right. ISIS is the JV team. It's just that under Obama, we're the T-ball team.

Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at September 05, 2015 11:41 AM (Nwg0u)

147 "19
The site needs a French whore's bath.

*splashes on eau de cologne*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 05, 2015 11:05 AM (rwI+c)"

Speaking of whores and in honor of the Army-Navy football game:

A soldier and a sailor are in a barbershop getting haircuts when a barber offers to put Eau de Cologn on the sailor who refuses, "My wife will be mad if I go home smelling like I was in a whore house!"

The soldiers says, "Go ahead and put it on. My wife doesn't know what the inside of a whore house smells like."

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 05, 2015 11:42 AM (QHgTq)

148 If you want to read something scary about the refuge crises, see Robert Spencer's article, "The Hijrah into Europe"

Hijrah, or jihad by emigration, is, according to Islamic tradition, the migration or journey of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, later renamed by him to Medina, in the year 622 CE...

To emigrate in the cause of Allah --- that is, to move to a new land in order to bring Islam there, is considered in Islam to be a highly meritorious act.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260019/hijrah-europe-robert-spencer

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:42 AM (NOIQH)

149 140 We need to elect Ben Carson President just to prove that Barack Obama wasn't an anomaly.
Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:40 AM (kBd14)
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Allen West!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:42 AM (jR7Wy)

150 What's up with the GOPe radio hacks and their names?

Eric Erickson? Hugh Hewitt? Who's next John Johnson? Dave Davis?

Posted by: HUCK / AKIN 2016 at September 05, 2015 11:42 AM (0LHZx)

151 79
What's worse is that a lot of European leaders are lecturing that it is
the Christian thing to do (see neoneocon.com for quotes).

Let that sink in: take your Christianity and stick it where the sun
don't shine if you don't like SSM and abortion, but you're really not a
good Christian if you don't embrace open borders/mass illegal
invasion---er, immigration.
----------------
Welcome to the new Gospel of Social Justice.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 05, 2015 11:43 AM (ry4ab)

152
I forgot, It's over. Trump wins

Posted by: RIK at September 05, 2015 11:39 AM (uPwpt)

I think what you meant to say is "hot topless redhead," in which case, we all win.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:43 AM (TOk1P)

153 Jeb Bush fans react to Trump's imperfect pant crease:

http://tinyurl.com/qfvjkld

Posted by: USA at September 05, 2015 11:43 AM (tfM+W)

154 If George Will and Jonah Goldberg want Trump to fall in the polls, they should endorse him.

Posted by: navybrat at September 05, 2015 11:43 AM (ETxiG)

155 A lot of older folk worship at the NPR alter. A LOT.

It's appalling.

Posted by: Barky at September 05, 2015 11:39 AM (9mTYi)

NPR is verbal necolarpsy. One listen will put you to sleep immediately

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 05, 2015 11:44 AM (DiZBp)

156 >>Just like Eric Snowden, this guy knows where the bodies are buried... the only question is how to pressure him to release said information.

Yikes! Bet he's looking over his shoulder 24x7....

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:44 AM (NOIQH)

157 Commander Edward Whitehead RN

Schweppevesence

Posted by: Fox2! at September 05, 2015 11:44 AM (brIR5)

158 A soldier and a sailor are in a barbershop getting haircuts when a barber offers to put Eau de Cologn on the sailor who refuses, "My wife will be mad if I go home smelling like I was in a whore house!"

The soldiers says, "Go ahead and put it on. My wife doesn't know what the inside of a whore house smells like."
Posted by: Obnoxious
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rofl

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:44 AM (9mTYi)

159 Morning horde. Mom is still in the hospital but feeling much better. Methinks for the prayers.

As for Trump, those questions are such bullshit gotcha crap. If they asked TFG the same thing my reaction would be the same. Who gives a damn. Difference is that TFG surrounded himself by incompetents while I believe/hope that Trump will appoint people due to experience rather than ideology. Hell, didn't he say he'd have The Stache?

Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 05, 2015 11:44 AM (9jeGC)

160 Got two right. Still gonna sleep like a champ tonight.

Posted by: Dick at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (q20+R)

161 140 We need to elect Ben Carson President just to prove that Barack Obama wasn't an anomaly.

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:40 AM (kBd14)

---

Allen West!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:42 AM (jR7Wy)

I know a guy. He's a jazz musician, and tends to say "wise" things a lot.

We could try to elect him. Just to prove stuff.

Like hot topless redhead.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (TOk1P)

162 Very impressed (and surprised) by Eugene Volokh's take on the County Clerk issue. Very fair and clear-sighted. He is known to be a SSM supporter, but he analyzes the threads that could be used to unravel the monstrosity of the SC's ruling.

Hah! Cruz is right (and good on him for foresight) that there will be trouble when dismantling definitions and jailing dissidents is commonplace.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (MIKMs)

163 127 The Hewitt interview will not prove significant.

More interesting I think, and with more potential to cause Trump problems, was his response to the Kentucky Christian clerk's imprisonment.
Posted by: rrpjr at September 05, 2015 11:37 AM (s/yC1)

What did he say about that?

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (sdi6R)

164 Methinks = Thanks

Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (9jeGC)

165 154 If George Will and Jonah Goldberg want Trump to fall in the polls, they should endorse him.
Posted by: navybrat at September 05, 2015 11:43 AM (ETxiG)

And Hugh Hewitt. He's the kiss of death.

Posted by: rrpjr at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (s/yC1)

166 I know the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a bunch of Islamic kill-crazy lunatics while Hamas is a bunch of Islamic lunatics who are kill crazy.

Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at September 05, 2015 11:46 AM (Nwg0u)

167
Speaking of whores and in honor of the Army-Navy football game:

A
soldier and a sailor are in a barbershop getting haircuts when a barber
offers to put Eau de Cologn on the sailor who refuses, "My wife will be
mad if I go home smelling like I was in a whore house!"

The soldiers says, "Go ahead and put it on. My wife doesn't know what the inside of a whore house smells like."

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 05, 2015 11:42 AM (QHgTq)

[SLOW. CLAP]

Posted by: BurtTC at September 05, 2015 11:47 AM (TOk1P)

168 NPR is verbal necolarpsy. One listen will put you to sleep immediately
Posted by: TheQuietMan
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But, but..the erudition, the insight, the poignant musical interludes. Ira Glass!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:47 AM (9mTYi)

169 80
I got 5/6 of the questions correct. Would you give ME the launch codes?

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That puts you ahead of half of Capitol Hill at least, so yes I would.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 05, 2015 11:47 AM (ry4ab)

170 And of course for diogenes:

Cachonda tetona rubias.

Posted by: Kindltot - hot topless redheads at September 05, 2015 11:47 AM (3pRHP)

171 We need Allen West as head of RNC just to demonstrate that Colin Powell and Herman Cain are anomalies.

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:47 AM (kBd14)

172 "More interesting I think, and with more potential to
cause Trump problems, was his response to the Kentucky Christian
clerk's imprisonment.

Posted by: rrpjr at September 05, 2015 11:37 AM (s/yC1)"

If I might suggest a response for any Republican candidate:

"It has long been considered a matter of settled law in the United States that public officials do not have the right to nullify the laws of the United States. The mayors of sanctuary cities should think about what that means."

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at September 05, 2015 11:48 AM (QHgTq)

173 Levin said last night that he doesn't care about the names of the leaders of the Muslim terrorist groups. They all sound like "Yabba Dabba Doo" to him.

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 11:49 AM (sdi6R)

174 6 Good questions for an intelligence analyst but not necessarily for a politician.
I could ask Hewitt a number of similar questions on many parts of the world and I guarantee he would fail.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2015 11:00 AM (r65B3)

I easily answered all 6 questions just from being a lifelong current events junkie.

I'm not an intel analyst and I'm certainly not running for Commander-in-Chief.

Trumps clueless "uninformed-on-basic-headline-stuff-that -half-the-country-can-answer-just-from-paying-attention- to-shit" performance on Hewitt's show has the ChiComs Russkies Mullahs licking their chops. Trumps repeated name-checking of "our Kurds" was equally buffoonish.

And it won't make a shred of difference to your basic Trumpista.

Posted by: MikeD at September 05, 2015 11:49 AM (uKJIC)

175 >>I know the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah....

Now if only Hewitt or others in the media might ask what is the *same* between Hama, Hezbollah, ISIS, AQ, BokoHaram, Quds......

(No need to drill down to the Sunni vs. Shia)

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:49 AM (NOIQH)

176 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse, #21:

"BTW, I fucking despise the word 'fair'."

P.J. O'Rourke's been off his game in the last few years, in my opinion, but I like his response to his then 12-ish daughter's complaining that something wasn't fair - roughly as follows:

"Fair? Honey, you're cute. That's not fair. You're smart. That's not fair. You were born in America. That's not fair. You'd better get down on your knees and pray that life doesn't start getting fair for you."

Posted by: JPS at September 05, 2015 11:50 AM (royPs)

177 This is the same sort of questions they tried to use as "disqualifiers" against W. in 2000.

Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:50 AM (zt+N6)

178 Now if only Hewitt or others in the media might ask what is the *same* between Hama, Hezbollah, ISIS, AQ, BokoHaram, Quds......

(No need to drill down to the Sunni vs. Shia)
Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 11:49 AM (NOIQH)
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Excellent question!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:51 AM (jR7Wy)

179 >>>The Hewitt interview will not prove significant.

Of course not. The anti-Trump dumbshits don't seem to realize that we're wise to the fact that any criticism they level at Trump is more applicable to the Dems or GOPe. You can't con us anymore.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 05, 2015 11:51 AM (7OlRf)

180 The problem is not that Trump could not identify the people in question, the problem is his reaction to having been asked.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:51 AM (9mTYi)

181 And it won't make a shred of difference to your basic Trumpista.

Yep. As long as Trump helps to destroy the Republican Party, I am content.

Posted by: Grump928(C) looks on the bright side at September 05, 2015 11:52 AM (rwI+c)

182 This is the same sort of questions they tried to use as "disqualifiers" against W. in 2000.

Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:50 AM (zt+N6)

But not against Prezzy 57 States

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 05, 2015 11:52 AM (DiZBp)

183 What did he say about that?
Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (sdi6R)

He's essentially supporting the existing law. I thought it would get more attention than it's been getting.

http://tinyurl.com/p4tv55e

Posted by: rrpjr at September 05, 2015 11:53 AM (s/yC1)

184 Michael Steele was the name that escaped me, now recalled too late to prevent premature release of commentary that had not ripened fully.

Poor impulse control and lack of self discipline. Only two of many character defects which has rendered me a chronic loser.

[insert french expression that translates roughly as, I didn't think of what I should have said until I was half way down the staircase]

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 11:53 AM (kBd14)

185 the problem is his reaction to having been asked.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 11:51 AM (9mTYi)

Wait... its a PROBLEM calling out the Press for got ya questions?

Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 11:54 AM (qh617)

186 I see comments about whether the questions, themselves, are relevant and I see debate re whether Trump or anyone else could answer them. What I don't see is much by way of concern for the way he handles himself when everything isn't neat and tidy on his behalf.

Doesn't his bitching and moaning and pointing of fingers bother anyone else?

I mean, if after 6+ years of Obama... haven't we had enough of petulant prissyness?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2015 11:54 AM (5NgCd)

187 The RNC went with Michael Steele over Ken Blackwell because he was whiter.

Posted by: Grump928(C) looks on the bright side at September 05, 2015 11:56 AM (rwI+c)

188 I'm more tired of the "smart set" whining about Trump than I am of anything he is doing.

Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:56 AM (zt+N6)

189 "The problem is not that Trump could not identify the people in question, the problem is his reaction to having been asked."

He grows weary of all this "gotcha" crap, coming from both sides.
I don't blame him.

Posted by: navybrat at September 05, 2015 11:57 AM (ETxiG)

190 When the slaughter starts in the west, it will come suddenly. One day,
all the factions will be eyeing each other angrily as governments appeal
for calm, the next, the streets will be rivers of blood.

The best description I can give of the situation as it stands is Europe, June 1914.

One push and it all goes.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at September 05, 2015 11:58 AM (m9V0o)

191 188 I'm more tired of the "smart set" whining about Trump than I am of anything he is doing.
Posted by: buzzion at September 05, 2015 11:56 AM (zt+N6)
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It's still unsettling to see Buzzion's transdimensional musings appear on the comments.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at September 05, 2015 11:58 AM (jR7Wy)

192 Survey USA Trump 45 Cankles 40

TAKE THAT, GWEN IFILL

Posted by: RIK at September 05, 2015 11:59 AM (uPwpt)

193 Wait... its a PROBLEM calling out the Press for got ya questions?

Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 11:54 AM (qh617)

No, the problem is it seems he is whining about it. (And that may be the MSM pushing it.)

Posted by: RWC- Team BOHICA at September 05, 2015 11:59 AM (9jeGC)

194 174 Pretty impressive coming from a member of the Beastie Boys

Posted by: MAx at September 05, 2015 12:01 PM (LAliD)

195 I know a guy. He's a jazz musician, and tends to say "wise" things a lot.
___________________
Dizzy Gillespie ran in 1964.
nb: He said he'd make Malcolm X the Attorney General.
Puh-looze la shonzhe.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 05, 2015 12:02 PM (xq1UY)

196 I thought the whole "Trump don't know foreign policy..." article was much ado about nothing. When I read his responses in the interview they seemed fine to me, and for anyone to say "aha! he knows nothing!" is a poor reaction. It reminds me of the Sarah Palin & "magazine article gotcha" questions.

Posted by: Early Morning Thread at September 05, 2015 12:02 PM (oo88B)

197 [insert french expression that translates roughly as, I didn't think of what I should have said until I was half way down the staircase]

Staircase wit

Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 12:03 PM (2iV3X)

198 What difference does it make? Did Trump abandon his ambassador to Hackneckistan?

Posted by: Fritz at September 05, 2015 12:03 PM (UzPAd)

199 By now it should be abundantly clear that any blooming idiot can be President, given the right circumstances.

Posted by: navybrat at September 05, 2015 12:04 PM (ETxiG)

200 If you'll all remember, O'Dipshit added Paste-eater Joe Biden to his ticket to add 'gravitas' on....foreign policy.

Number of gotcha hit-pieces on the unqualified lefty from Illinois....0.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at September 05, 2015 12:04 PM (oVJmc)

201
define whine
high pitched complaining cry
complain in a feeble or petulant way.

Nope. That isn't trump.

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 12:04 PM (kBd14)

202 Wait... its a PROBLEM calling out the Press for got ya questions?
Posted by: BB Wolf
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No, that is a positive quality. It is the manner in which press are called out that is in question.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2015 12:04 PM (9mTYi)

203 Nood HOT TOPLESS REDHEADS.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at September 05, 2015 12:05 PM (LUgeY)

204 >>>its a PROBLEM calling out the Press for got ya questions?

More like Got Ye questions.

To the GOPe: now you're just some party that I used to know.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 05, 2015 12:05 PM (7OlRf)

205 L'esprit de l'escalier

Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 12:05 PM (2iV3X)

206 Si nos corta, no sangramos?

Posted by: Spanish Tampons at September 05, 2015 12:05 PM (nCKKS)

207 Buzzion? Got my Ouija board workin and my Chakra glowin.

Posted by: Sitting Here Humming at September 05, 2015 12:06 PM (Q8y6V)

208 Curses! Willowed again.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at September 05, 2015 12:06 PM (7OlRf)

209
Hugh Hewitt used to hang out at San Clemente when he was in his early 20s. You know, after I resigned. Filing and stuff.

Well, sometimes, I'd get out of the pool and shower to get the chlorine off, and I'd turn around, and Hugh would standing there.

Just staring at me. Wouldn't blink. Just stared.

Pretty creepy guy.

Posted by: Richard Nixon.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 05, 2015 12:06 PM (kdS6q)

210 The press should be called out for crap behavior as much as politicians should be called out for crap behavior -- checks & balances y'all

Posted by: Ruth at September 05, 2015 12:07 PM (oo88B)

211 L'esprit de l'escalier
Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 12:05 PM (2iV3X)

I think that is it when used as an idiom rather than literal.

Posted by: Garoute Trimble at September 05, 2015 12:07 PM (kBd14)

212 I believe I speak for multitudes when I say, many of us have given All Hail Eris the launch codes. Repeatedly. And yeah, that's what we call it.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 05, 2015 12:08 PM (xq1UY)

213 What I don't see is much by way of concern for the way he handles himself when everything isn't neat and tidy on his behalf.

I have a big problem with both. He, like Obama and Hillary, lacks a presidential temperament, i.e., he's always looking for someone else to blame. However, that doesn't excuse his apparently complete ignorance of the world outside his own little bubble. Again, doesn't this sound familiar?

A test like this isn't trivia, it's a way to determine if you're interested and engaged with the issues that you say you'd like to lead the world in addressing for the next 8 years.

No, the media won't ask such questions of the Dems, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't.

Posted by: pep at September 05, 2015 12:08 PM (LAe3v)

214
And sometimes, I'd find money missing from my wallet. $10 here, $20 there.

Can't be absolutely positive Hugh was light-fingered, but -- you know.

Posted by: Richard Nixon

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 05, 2015 12:08 PM (kdS6q)

215 >>Eric Erickson? Hugh Hewitt? Who's next John Johnson? Dave Davis?

Lars Larson - he fills in for Rush sometimes.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2015 12:09 PM (NOIQH)

216 183 What did he say about that?
Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 11:45 AM (sdi6R)

He's essentially supporting the existing law. I thought it would get more attention than it's been getting.

http://tinyurl.com/p4tv55e
Posted by: rrpjr at September 05, 2015 11:53 AM (s/yC1)

From your link:

"The Supreme Court has ruled," Trump said Friday. "It is the law of the land."

That's the disturbing part for me. He doesn't seem to understand that the Supreme Court are not supposed to be nine dictators in black robes.

But Davis should either do her job or resign in protest. That much is pretty clear to me. I do foresee persecution of Christians in the future, but this isn't it.

Just because Obama and the mayors of sanctuary cities think they can pick and choose to only enforce the laws they agree with doesn't make it right.

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 12:10 PM (sdi6R)

217 The best description I can give of the situation as it stands is Europe, June 1914.

One push and it all goes.

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I've been reading The Spanish Civil War by Stanley Payne. The left was engaging in a lot of political violence and one day, July 16, 1936, there was one murder too many and Spain was at war with itself.

Posted by: The Great _______ Snark at September 05, 2015 12:13 PM (Nwg0u)

218 OK folks....

Think about this...

Only about 20% of Americans 'trust' the Government all or most of the time.

Only about 30% of Americans trust the NEWS Media all or most of the time.

Now my guess is that there is a large intersection between those two groups... who vote.

Trump is banking on this very idea... he is running against both Washington AND the Press...

There are those who still 'trust' one part (say, the Republican part) of Government... who will still support it... or still trust 'part' of the media... who therefore don't see this as a viable strategy...

and thus condemn his attacks on said Press, or Washington (including GOP)...

But IMO its all part of his strategy...

Posted by: BB Wolf at September 05, 2015 12:14 PM (qh617)

219 But Davis should either do her job or resign in
protest. That much is pretty clear to me. I do foresee persecution of
Christians in the future, but this isn't it.

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 12:10 PM (sdi6R)

She doesn't have to resign.
Just sign off on the crap. It is obvious that they were signed under duress.

It is hard to argue against any claim that the Federal Gov threatened to throw her but in jail if she doesn't sign, they have already put her but there and it will stay there for the rest of her life if she doesn't acquiesce.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 05, 2015 12:23 PM (NaeCR)

220 Trump should know he is going to be getting all sorts of questions thrown at him.

He should either wonk out and learn as much policy detail as possible, or he should have an overview and an idea of policy direction in each area.

Somebody upthread pointed out that Trump only had to identify the idea that the Middle East was a clusterfuck of a shithole made worse by the obamessiah.

Not that this gotcha Q didn't lower Trump a bit for me in estimation, but even so, he is still miles above the competition, with the exception of Cruz.

Posted by: Grad School Fool at September 05, 2015 12:26 PM (A9KzJ)

221

BTW, I fucking despise the word "fair".
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 05, 2015 11:06 AM (5NgCd)

Had a law school prof who would fail you for using the word "fair" when it was your turn to be on the hot seat. And he meant it. He was liberal as they come, too.

Posted by: ObjectionSustained at September 05, 2015 12:30 PM (2ToL9)

222 Is the Spanish Tampon add there because La Raza trolls this blog or is it meant for Jeb?

Posted by: Buffalbob at September 05, 2015 12:43 PM (ld61l)

223 Survey USA Trump 45 Cankles 40

TAKE THAT, GWEN IFILL

Posted by: RIK at September 05, 2015

^^^Good play on yet another bit of good news.

Posted by: Kevin C at September 05, 2015 01:03 PM (mN2XA)

224 I can still recall when someone who says he supports the "Kelo" decision 100% would not be considered a defender of Liberty, or who uses Obama's take on "Citizens United" to argue that it was a bad decision and bad for America would not be called on the side of Freedom. And then there is the echo of Harry Reid with reference to the Koch brothers. Now such a person is the GOP front runner. Guess a lot of those "Constitutionalists" and TEA Party people actually were just "Big Government on my side is great" folk. Really, Nasrallah will be gone in 6 months? He's been able to avoid Mossad assassination units for over 23 years.

Posted by: Tyrconnell at September 05, 2015 01:13 PM (37ZZQ)

225 6 outta 6. I don't want the Prez job - I have a soul...

Posted by: Ibin Pharteen at September 05, 2015 01:29 PM (s3I9l)

226 Did Harry Truman know the names of the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Posted by: Ceteris Paribus at September 05, 2015 02:12 PM (lQqJB)

227 Yes, but does it have zaftig women or hot, topless redheads?
Posted by: fluffy at September 05, 2015 10:58 AM (2iV3X)

Why can't they be both?

Posted by: Bill H at September 05, 2015 02:58 PM (Baojj)

228 I did better than Tump. Please begin fundraising for me

Posted by: righter at September 05, 2015 03:59 PM (2TD5A)

229 All you politician-loving sum bitches just give it up, Trump will drive your Rino political hacks from the field and his victory will be HUUGGEE!!!!

Posted by: Dogbert at September 05, 2015 04:07 PM (fS+Bi)

230 I finally took the quiz. I got 3 out of 6.

I don't give a flying fuck about who is leading which terrorist group or where they're based. I want them all DEAD.

Posted by: rickl at September 05, 2015 04:49 PM (sdi6R)

231 "Don't whine about it", um, whining's been good for Trump. He's a proud whiner. He said two weeks ago, that yes he whines, he's a FABULOUS whiner, and he whines until he wins. Not joking. Trump actually is self-deprecating even tho he's always bragging. He owns it. He doesn't need advice from bloggers about whining or not. I think he's doing quite well with his own advice, dontcha think? I mean, really, he's at 30-40% in the polls, I don't think he needs advice from NDH on AoS.

Posted by: Aslan's Girl at September 05, 2015 06:29 PM (xetep)

232 For all you complaining about the tampon ad being there.....here is the thing... I bought textbooks and shoes from Pro Bass the other day off the web, and now all the ads that show up for me are from textbook places and pro bass.....the question is, what did you look at or buy that caused a bunch of Spanish tampon ads to show up for you?

Posted by: doug at September 06, 2015 09:48 PM (qddAZ)

233 Ronald Reagan got the same kind of question way back when. He said that it wasn't that important that he knew their names. what mattered was that they knew his.

Posted by: ZZMike at September 07, 2015 01:23 AM (oxJd7)

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