Sheppard Smith, Arch-Progressive Crank

Yes, in the middle of FoxNews' broadcast day, they have smug, condescending, reflexive and dogmatic progressive anchoring the news.

As Shep Smith said about the threat of Global Warning: It's true. It's true.

The #SmartTake today among progressives on Twitter was to fret about Obama's Cuba initiative, not for being insufficiently anti-communist, of course, but for exposing that Tropical Communist Paradise to decadent running-dog capitalism.

And that, of course, was Shep Smith's take.

“The last thing they need is a Taco Bell and a Lowe's," Shep Smith says, worried about America poisoning Castro's utopia, and that we will "ruin" it. Quote unquote.

Incidentally, Jay Thomas, supposedly an actor and allegedly a comic, hough I mostly know him as a blowhard minor celebrity turned progressive radio host, makes a joke that if North Korea launches a nuke and kills Seth Rogen and James Franco, it will be a "Hell of an ending to their careers."

I'm not offended, I'm just annoyed that so many people, especially those on the left, seem to think "clever" is synonymous with "obnoxious."

Posted by: Ace at 06:04 PM

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1 The peasants, they're revolting!

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 06:05 PM (o7UW9)

2 it's twue. it's twue!

Posted by: Lily von Schtupp at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (GY4EO)

3 Yo quiero, prison camp?

Posted by: Cuban Sandwich Chihuahua at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (0cMkb)

4 We'd kill for a Taco Bell and a Lowes, assmunch.

Posted by: The Cubans at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (8ZskC)

5 A Super Walmart in Havana will be the end of the Castros.

That's a good thing, Shep.

Posted by: blaster at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (Rx8ML)

6 Smarmy fuck ought to be leaning forward over at MSNBC.

Posted by: Ook? at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (E/isQ)

7 Stay away from my cabana boys!!!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (qfd4W)

8 No, what they really need is a Neiman Marcus so all the idiot Hollywood fucks who travel down there to gargle Castro's balls will feel right at home.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (loNgJ)

9 Shempf just wants the rent boys to stay cheap...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (/4AZU)

10 "Its twuu! Its twuu! America will ruin Cuba!" - the mewlings of Sheppy Snith

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (UtvsI)

11 Well they certainly don't need Shep's brand of stupid polluting their airwaves.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (KBIDy)

12 We'd kill for a Taco Bell and a Lowes, assmunch.
Posted by: The Cubans at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (8ZskC)

******

And a NAPA store.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (eLjug)

13 Shep's never been in a Lowes but he's at a Sephora store nearly every day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (8ZskC)

14 One American food court in Havana would destroy them.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:08 PM (UtvsI)

15 Maybe Fidel said, "Mr. Obama, tear down this ocean."

Posted by: DM at December 17, 2014 06:08 PM (j/tOh)

16 Shep Smith was just being ironic, concern trolling the liberals who would worry about such things.

His eyes were twinkling, right?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (X4b03)

17 Are we about to ruin Cuba the way Giuliani ruined New York?

Posted by: Shep Smith at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (yRwC8)

18 "The Marshall Plan is such a disaster. It threatens to undo the nostalgic bombed out look of cities in Western Europe and replace them with places that people might actually want to live in."

-- Edward Murrow

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (UWFpX)

19 Lowe's would be very handy when you're trying to repair your shanty after a tropical storm.

Posted by: huerfano at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (bAGA/)

20 14 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:08 PM (UtvsI)

You want regime change?

Open up a Mall of the Americas and then carpet bomb the country with gift cards...

of course THAT ain't Ogabe's goal is it?

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (/4AZU)

21 I still refuse to believe Shep's gay.

Posted by: Wayland Flowers at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (bGLSw)

22 13
Shep's never been in a Lowes but he's at a Sephora store nearly every day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (8ZskC)
That's the only place he can buy that peculiarly orange colored face makeup he slathers on with a trowel.

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (fMQoG)

23 Cuba could use a Target, but you can never find any customer service help when you need it.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (NeFrd)

24 Shep Smith is what passes for "right-wing" news in America.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (ZPrif)

25 We might ruin the ruins.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (8ZskC)

26 From Twitter :

NBC News: US officials say the hacking attack on SONY originated outside North Korea, but on orders from the North Koreans.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (9sMMW)

27 Wish we we could a little "American poisoning"...

...and t.p.

Posted by: Venezuelans at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (qfd4W)

28 12 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (eLjug)

There's a killing to be made down there in distributing tires, spark plugs, and parts...

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (/4AZU)

29 It does illustrate the weakness of the American Right, though. We can't even get Shep Smith fired.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (ZPrif)

30 Someone tell Shep to get down there pronto, I heard they were eating babies in Cuba!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (KBIDy)

31 The peasants, they're revolting!

Posted by: Chupacabras at December 17, 2014 06:05 PM (o7UW9)

------------------------
You said it. They stink on ice!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (KFdZd)

32 To bring this over from the other thread, I said:

Who would want to ruin a country that people try to swim 100 miles on inner tubes just to leave?

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:11 PM (MMC8r)

33 Kinda why I don't watch Fox News in a nutshell.
This describes 90% of their programming.

Just like there's no real difference between the parties anymore.

Hillary / Jeb 2016 !
(credit to Rush for this glorious idea)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2014 06:11 PM (OCcU9)

34
Jay Thomas ruined Mork and Mindy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 17, 2014 06:11 PM (sattt)

35 Stay away from my cabana boys!!!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (qfd4W)

****

Stay away from my banana, Shemp!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (NeFrd)

36
New Cuba tourism ad starts at 1:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60MqEjLDIg&list=PLvbdP55tzzApisjlKQYMiJsMmrcNh3cWs&index=2

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (CMkNk)

37 Shep wouldn't have a problem with a Havana Homo Depot, though.

Posted by: Lowe's at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (bGLSw)

38 Ya know, I'm glad I'm not the only one sick of Shep. His smug regarding the Ferguson and Gardner cases were my tipping point. Before, I could just ignore/avoid his show, now I actively go out of my way to change the channels. Watched a few good soccer games instead...

Posted by: RedDish at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (5eXg1)

39 I don't understand this reflex amongst some.

Yeah, I don't want to see a place plowed under by a bunch of meaningless slogans and stuff... But the chance they all of the sudden fall to a "McCulture" is generally bullshit. Even so, would it be that bad? Only if we also allow the autocratic despotism.

Why do we maintain the embargo? Because we like the Cubans so much we want them to be free.

We don't give a flying fuck about the Chinese but we believe the Cubans are yearning to be free and rule their own lives.

Let the people be free... If they happen to want Walmart then good for them. But to expect a nation to remain backwater for the sake of tourists and fetishists... Fuck you.

Between this and the nork thing. Power to the people already... And we do that by leaving them the fuck alone to be free.

This has to be tied to the left's dismal view of freedom.

Damn what a day to be angry and drunk

Posted by: Patrick J. at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (ufEXd)

40 You know, the way West Germany 'ruined' East Germany.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (MMC8r)

41 23 Cuba could use a Target, but you can never find any customer service help when you need it.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 06:09 PM (NeFrd)

Plenty of valets, though.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (CMkNk)

42 Just like Detroit. We should rebuild it with functioning businesses. That would "ruin" it.

Actually, decommunizing and rebuilding them is the FIRST thing they need, as I think the inhabitants of at least one of them would agree.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (oKE6c)

43 35 Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (NeFrd)

Leave SHEMPF ALONE>....

LEAVE HIM ALONE!

//Bradley Breanna Chelsea Manning

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (/4AZU)

44 Yeah, no way we want the benefits of American capitalism.

Everyone here just lo-oo-o-o-o--oves living in a poverty-stricken 3rd world.shithole.

Did I say 3rd world?

Hell, I'd kill to live in a 3rd world country.

This is a chuffing 4th world country!

4th.

World.

But, no no, you keep your Taco Bells and Lowes and stores filled with items and food and

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Posted by: Cuban Sheppard Smith at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (0cMkb)

45 BUT their eating people down at the Superdome!!!!

Posted by: Shep Smith's 1-incher at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (MBEYv)

46 NBC News: US officials say the hacking attack on SONY originated outside North Korea, but on orders from the North Koreans. Posted by: Dr Spank at December 17, 2014 06:10 PM (9sMMW)

So they hired mercenary third party hacker ninjas?

*visualizes it as a scene from You Only Live Twice*

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (yRwC8)

47
Funny, I seem to remember that 20 years ago the left was trying to make the case that Reagan's arms buildup and SDI didn't bring down the USSR, but that Levi's and rock-n-roll did it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (TIIx5)

48 No wonder we're in the shape we're in, what with imbeciles like Sheppy telling everyone what they need to know.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (0HooB)

49 I've heard that Roger Ailes loves Shep,so he isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: steevy at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (v5UtH)

50 The last thing they need is a Taco Bell and a Lowe's

They're giving us jobs! Workers of the world unite against this capitalist invasion!

Posted by: Communist at December 17, 2014 06:13 PM (0NdlF)

51 Holy shit, they might start getting cars manufactured after the Eisenhower administration!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 17, 2014 06:14 PM (mx5oN)

52 Shep Smith running FoxNews would be Glenn Beck running MSNBC.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 06:14 PM (ZPrif)

53 one thing i can thank This President for is making the freaks so very comfortable ripping off their masks so one can tell What they are.
I hate to think i would have been under the illusion for many more years thinking,' well i don't agree with them sometimes but they are still my fellows.'

Posted by: willow at December 17, 2014 06:14 PM (nqBYe)

54 I useta think that carpet bombing Cuba with VCRs and color TVs would solve the problem, but then I useta think Nixon going to China was a good thing.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 06:14 PM (X4b03)

55 29 It does illustrate the weakness of the American Right, though. We can't even get Shep Smith fired.

Waste of a bullet. Oh wait, you mean the other kind of fired.

Posted by: CM at December 17, 2014 06:15 PM (0NdlF)

56 55 29 It does illustrate the weakness of the American Right, though. We can't even get Shep Smith fired.

Waste of a bullet. Oh wait, you mean the other kind of fired.
Posted by: CM at December 17, 2014 06:15 PM (0NdlF)

Shooting him out of a cannon?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 17, 2014 06:15 PM (mx5oN)

57 When is Shep just gonna suck a dick on air?

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (9sMMW)

58 and G-d forbid they have a home depot with all the stuff available so they can actually repair their homes.

perhaps castro will allow them in long enough to get their goods steal their merchandise and rebuild the castros and friends homes

Posted by: willow at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (nqBYe)

59 THEY'RE I am an idiot.

Posted by: Shep Smith's 1-incher at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (MBEYv)

60 Can we deport all those talking NAPA cans to Cuba?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (UtvsI)

61 Any word if Major Nelson will be released now?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (KBIDy)

62 57 Posted by: Dr Spank at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (9sMMW)

I'm kinda booked for the next month or two....

I'll work him in.

//Neil Degrasse-Tyson

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (/4AZU)

63 @40 You know, the way West Germany 'ruined' East Germany.
-----------------

You laugh, but...

Earlier this year, I saw a black and white photo essay from some photog who was writing about how bad it was that the old nostalgic East German apartment buildings were being replaced by newer buildings.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (UWFpX)

64 Shep Smith running FoxNews would be Glenn Beck running MSNBC. Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 06:14 PM (ZPrif)

No, because one of those would be the ultimate liberal nightmare, aka my ultimate dream come true...

But they wouldn't need to call up convenience store workers for Moron Trivia anymore, they could just use the MSNBC panels every Friday...

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (yRwC8)

65 When is Shep just gonna suck a dick on air?

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM
..............Wrong channel I think.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (KBIDy)

66 I'm not offended, I'm just annoyed that so many people, especially those on the left, seem to think "clever" is synonymous with "obnoxious."

I'm offended. I'm offended that the left makes jokes about killing and nuking Americans, but I'M somehow a domestic terrorist because I choose to own a gun.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (XAGDQ)

67 Moving Shep out and Megyn in drove Fox evening ratings through the roof. Pretty soon, the same pattern will repeat in the afternoon and Shep will be looking for a new gig.

Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (LISuA)

68 Can someone go fetch me car please?

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (1vYi0)

69 It still amazes me how some conservatives continue to contribute to the RINO enablers revenue stream. Mind blowing.

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (XzRw1)

70 I don't think anyone believes that the Israelis were upset about a movie about assassinating a Nork dictator. Who else are we supposed to think it was?

If we had real leaders their entire country would be burning after threatening terrorism on our shores.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (MMC8r)

71 Apparently the Pope and Canada are responsible for Obama's Cuba actions

http://bit.ly/1J4Mwts

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (lN8KC)

72 one thing i can thank This President for is making the freaks so very comfortable ripping off their masks so one can tell What they are.
I hate to think i would have been under the illusion for many more years thinking,' well i don't agree with them sometimes but they are still my fellows.'

Posted by: willow at December 17, 2014 06:14 PM (nqBYe)

They haven't been our fellows since they sided with the crown during the revolution. Same assholes, different century.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (FMbng)

73 50 The last thing they need is a Taco Bell and a Lowe's

Because everyone in Cuba is just a cast member.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (oKE6c)

74 65 Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM (KBIDy)

That'd be the LOGO/FoxNews crossover....

Queer as Volk right?

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (/4AZU)

75 Shep Smith......*yawn*.......every bit as smart as bicycle boy, and just as boring. Every time I see him I think of a cancer patient. He doesn't have the aura of the long lived. Seems, perpetually unhealthy.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (xWW96)

76 It still amazes me how some conservatives continue to contribute to the RINO enablers revenue stream. Mind blowing.
--
Do you mean our cable bills?

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (ZPrif)

77 My thought on Cuba: Maybe the Big 3 (ok, 2.5), want to get in there and start selling cars. I understand their fleet is kind of aging. Fashioning water pumps out of coconuts for a '55 Chevy must be getting kind of old. But then again, you need money to buy cars...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (5buP8)

78 Can someone go fetch me car please?

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM
...........Why don't you ask that guy standing over there with the big ass ears smoking.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (KBIDy)

79 "I'm not offended, I'm just annoyed that so many people, especially those
on the left, seem to think "clever" is synonymous with "obnoxious.""

Well, given my sparkling wit and witty repartee, it is a natural mistake.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (PD6iL)

80 TPH or Gaylord is once again voting Present to avoid the stinky cow patties his action is going to drop on him.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (UtvsI)

81 Earlier this year, I saw a black and white photo essay from some photog who was writing about how bad it was that the old nostalgic East German apartment buildings were being replaced by newer buildings.

Who knew Cabrini Green was nostalgic?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (XAGDQ)

82
You know, the way West Germany 'ruined' East Germany.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:12 PM (MMC8r)

Or as one of you reprobates said, rightys will fill a glass half-way with wine, and lefties piss in it until full. Leftists will argue that they improved the piss, rather than ruined the wine.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (TIIx5)

83 I suppose we should be grateful that Morocco didn't have hacking capabilities back when Hollywood put out 'Ishtar'

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (NeFrd)

84 And a NAPA store.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at December 17, 2014 06:07 PM (eLjug)

Jeremiah had a NAPA store.

He was a good friend of mine,

I never understood a single thing he said,

But he had some mighty fine wine,

Posted by: Things Three Dog Night never sang at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (8Fl6F)

85 perhaps castro will allow them in long enough to get their goods steal their merchandise and rebuild the castros and friends homes
Posted by: willow

Will there be a nearby day laborer hangout like mine?

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (1vYi0)

86 Obviously I asked for this set to look like the Enterprise's flight deck because I firmly believe in the Prime Directive.

Posted by: Captain Smith of the Starshep Twitter at December 17, 2014 06:20 PM (ecsQj)

87 Test

Posted by: AmishDude at December 17, 2014 06:20 PM (b4b5c)

88 We'd kill for a Taco Bell and a Lowes, assmunch.
Posted by: The Cubans at December 17, 2014 06:06 PM (8ZskC)
------------------
Well, you WILL be killed if you even attempt to patronize either one. (Said Castro)

*And I'm not even gonna mention the obvious and much needed Pep Boys joke here.

Posted by: shredded chi at December 17, 2014 06:20 PM (HYcaA)

89 Moving Shep out and Megyn in drove Fox evening ratings through the roof. Pretty soon, the same pattern will repeat in the afternoon and Shep will be looking for a new gig.

Faster please.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 06:20 PM (0HooB)

90 ...........Why don't you ask that guy standing over there with the big ass ears smoking.
Posted by: Minnfidel

The one in mom jeans?

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:20 PM (1vYi0)

91 Moving Shep out and Megyn in drove Fox evening ratings through the roof. Pretty soon, the same pattern will repeat in the afternoon and Shep will be looking for a new gig.

Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 06:17 PM
..........I'd watch Megyn read a menu. I change the channel the minute I see Shep "Canibal" Smith on.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (KBIDy)

92 You laugh, but...

Earlier this year, I saw a black and white photo essay from some photog who was writing about how bad it was that the old nostalgic East German apartment buildings were being replaced by newer buildings.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (UWFpX)

Routine in deeply liberal-infested cities, e.g., SF and NYC. Recall that half-pint shithead Spike Lee complaining about white people moving into the bruthas dusky paradise, fixing up the place and lowering the crime rate. So inauthentic. You'd think that area was the "Ghettoland" part of Disney World.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (oKE6c)

93 Wonder if a Taco Bell in North Korea would serve tree bark tacos.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (xWW96)

94 The one in mom jeans?

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:20 PM
.........Yes, that's him though. But wait until he's done talking with his dealer.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (KBIDy)

95 Why is he on FoxNews?

Do you really think MSNBC or CNN would tolerate someone who would obnoxiously insert their conservative views at every opportunity?

I'm not saying every anchor on Fox has to be conservative, but couldn't they at least get a guy that plays it down the middle?

Posted by: McAdams at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (FodfO)

96 The castro bros. never waterboarded anybody. We have much to learn from them. And to prison with you if you disagree.

Posted by: Ain't it cool at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (KG1MP)

97 Oh, yeah, Shep Smith boogieing down on a Cuban beach with a $4 bottle of rum in each hand? Times, they are a-booming!

Posted by: Fritz at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (dVmLD)

98 The last thing they need is a Taco Bell and a Lowe's," Shep Smith says, worried about America poisoning Castro's utopia, and that we will "ruin" it.

Want to ruin it? Let the Irish in.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM (XAGDQ)

99 Shep signed a big new deal just last year. Don't think he's going anywhere.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 17, 2014 06:22 PM (ZPrif)

100 How the hell are people in Cuba going to buy new cars? Or are we going to sell them clunkers, and the auto parts they would need to keep them running?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 06:22 PM (X4b03)

101 I loved the Professor's hairy coconuts. He could do all sorts of things with them.

Posted by: ginger at December 17, 2014 06:22 PM (Dw98+)

102 Then again, how is anything North Korea did any different than what Anonymous does?

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:22 PM (MMC8r)

103 Shep is in the John Gruden category of bad and ESPN sign Gruden so he'll be around to terrorize my ear drums on MNF. I skip Shep. He has always bothered me.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (FF+db)

104 I know a woman who risked her life on a raft to leave Cuba and reach America. She told me that the people of Cuba never have as much food as they would like, and that she used to go fishing in the ocean to get additional food. (I'm certain that the people of Cuba still do this.)

If Taco Bell can sell food at prices the people of Cuba can afford, it will be nothing but a good thing. If this Shep Smith guy thinks otherwise, then either he hasn't thought it through, or he's a bad person.

Posted by: mr_jack at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (O7l6D)

105 Wonder if a Taco Bell in North Korea would serve tree bark tacos.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:21 PM
..............The all new barktada!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (KBIDy)

106 81 Earlier this year, I saw a black and white photo essay from some photog who was writing about how bad it was that the old nostalgic East German apartment buildings were being replaced by newer buildings.
Who knew Cabrini Green was nostalgic?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 06:19 PM (XAGDQ)

This just in: East St. Louis declared a historic site. It's where they filmed "Escape from New York!"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (oKE6c)

107 My parents were there fishing about five years ago and had a great time. At the end they tried to tip their guide and he turned down the money, saying it was illegal to possess dollars and they were not convertible on any kind of black market, so they were pretty much useless.

The guide asked for a shirt instead, so my father literally gave him the shirt off his back as a tip (and a vest and some fishing clothes). Those folks are sooooo hungry for capitalism-- they'd probably give their left nuts for a Lowes and a Taco Bell.

Shep Smith is an entitled drama queen, with nothing other than a condescending attitude to carry him through the broadcast day.

Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (LISuA)

108
Apparently the Pope and Canada are responsible for Obama's Cuba actions

http://bit.ly/1J4Mwts

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 17, 2014 06:18 PM (lN8KC)

So you're saying that it doesn't matter how many divisions the Pope has.....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (TIIx5)

109 Pixy doesn't want me posting cut and pasting, but two incidents with Jay Thomas. First, he was fired from Cheers for calling Rhea Perlman ugly. I have a URL but Pixy hates me. Also Jay Thomas accused some guy of being the Boston bomber. He was not. Again, link that Pixy seems to hate.

Posted by: AmishDude at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (b4b5c)

110 "53
one thing i can thank This President for is making the freaks so very
comfortable ripping off their masks so one can tell What they are.

I hate to think i would have been under the illusion for many more
years thinking,' well i don't agree with them sometimes but they are
still my fellows.'

Posted by: willow at December 17, 2014 06:14 PM (nqBYe)"

The acronym TWANLOC comes to mind.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (PD6iL)

111 There will be one good thing for Cuba, they will be able to replace all those defective rice cookers they got one year as a present from the government.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (UtvsI)

112 There has got to be a lot of nekkid and ashamed trees in Worker's Paradise of North Korea.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (xWW96)

113 Shep Smith thinks Cuba is Fire Island instead of Devil's Island.

Posted by: --- at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (MMC8r)

114 Americanization is allowing the market to dictate winners and losers. All those American brands that pop up are making money and providing an affordable service. The elitists just don't like seeing how their servants live because it is beneath them which is why even in America the live in gated communities.

Posted by: Swatara at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (V8aMM)

115 You wanted Tom hanks.
You would settle for Steve Gutenberg.
You will get Jay Thomas.

Posted by: Garrett at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (F7vVo)

116 I'm trying to decide how the caving by Sony will play out in the future. We know that craaaaazy tea partiers are not suddenly going to threaten to bomb theaters or use their eeeevil guns to intimidate the left into making the movies we want. Though I predict a Law Order or CSI episode on that coming next season.

But a bunch of OWS crazies threatening to bomb the Kermit Gosnell documentary premiere...that I can sadly see as an actual thing.

Ironically, if that actually happened, it means that people upset about abortion clinic bombings then threatening to have bombings at anti-abortion movie premieres...

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (yRwC8)

117 ..............The all new barktada!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (KBIDy)

And the Dirtilada!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (0cMkb)

118 How the hell are people in Cuba going to buy new cars? Or are we going to sell them clunkers, and the auto parts they would need to keep them running?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 17, 2014 06:22 PM (X4b03)

You really think the "cash for clunkers" cars got crushed?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2014 06:25 PM (FMbng)

119 Wow! We are going to score BIG on this deal. The U.S. bank payoffs to us for doing business here will be SPECTACULAR!

Posted by: Raul Castro, and oligarchic apparatchiks at December 17, 2014 06:25 PM (kgisg)

120 The acronym TWANLOC comes to mind.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (PD6iL)

That's suspiciously close to my trademarked properties.

You'll be hearing from my lawyers.

Posted by: Tone Loc at December 17, 2014 06:25 PM (V+kmg)

121 Shep Smith:

"Cuba Liberace!"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at December 17, 2014 06:26 PM (NeFrd)

122 "104
I know a woman who risked her life on a raft to leave Cuba and reach
America. She told me that the people of Cuba never have as much food as
they would like, and that she used to go fishing in the ocean to get
additional food. (I'm certain that the people of Cuba still do this.)

If Taco Bell can sell food at prices the people of Cuba can afford,
it will be nothing but a good thing. If this Shep Smith guy thinks
otherwise, then either he hasn't thought it through, or he's a bad
person.

Posted by: mr_jack at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (O7l6D)"

Those are not mutually exclusive.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:26 PM (PD6iL)

123 I think Shep is just worried that if we put all the Lowes and Taco Bell's over there that it will tip over Cuba.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:26 PM (KBIDy)

124 I think zero's goal is to do something more outrageous every day. You ain't seen nothing yet.

I'd be ashamed for the pussification of this country except that it's not my fault. I didn't ask or vote for this shit.

Posted by: freaked at December 17, 2014 06:26 PM (JdEZJ)

125 Actually, I don't see how tree bark tacos could be much worse than the shit Taco Bell normally serves. You have to be drunk and starving to think a white rice burrito with imitation cheese sounds edible.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM (xWW96)

126 Can we get Shep Smith replaced by Buck Sexton? He is entertaining on Red Eye, is adorable and has better hair.

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM (yRwC8)

127 That's an insult to Liberace, at least Liberace had talent and was entertaining. Sheppy fails on both counts.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM (UtvsI)

128 Smith is a vapid, ball gargling idiot. I have yet to hear him say one insightful thing, but I hear him say a lot of stupid things in an enragingly smug tone. So fuck him.

I've only known Jay Thomas as a short asshole with a big mouth. He always says really dumb shit too, but he says it with this laughable tough guy tone as if he wasn't 3 apples high or as if he could actually fight his way out of a fog patch

Posted by: UGAdawg at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM (c+vBe)

129 Remember in Goodfellas when they found Jay Thomas on a meat hook in the refrigerated trailer? The man's a craftsman; nobody grows snot icicles like he does.

Posted by: Schnooks and Granny Warrens at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (KG1MP)

130 Does this bag of dicks have a Twitter account. I hope to God he gets blasted daily on it.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (z/Ubi)

131 The guide asked for a shirt instead, so my father literally gave him the shirt off his back as a tip (and a vest and some fishing clothes). Those folks are sooooo hungry for capitalism-- they'd probably give their left nuts for a Lowes and a Taco Bell.

Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 06:23 PM (LISuA)

That would be my question to Shep Smith.

"Yeah, but what if they want a Lowe's and a Taco Bell?"

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (V+kmg)

132 Who knew organized hacking could be so successful at influencing Hollywood?

Maybe Hollywood better reexamine some of their movie characterizations of conservatives. I'd hat to see some hacker (working through a proxy server in Russia or someplace) take down a movie company over a little misunderstanding.

Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (LISuA)

133 It really shows Hollywood talk a big game but are a bunch of cowards.

This is why they NEVER go after Muslims but routinely use Christians as a punching bag. We never punched back.

Sony folded because they were scared of lawsuits. It always comes back to money.

Posted by: McAdams at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (FodfO)

134 And the Dirtilada!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM

Shoe Lace Bel Grande!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (KBIDy)

135 Today it's Cuba. What will he pivot to next?

Posted by: freaked at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (JdEZJ)

136 I know a woman who risked her life on a raft to leave Cuba and reach America. She told me that the people of Cuba never have as much food as they would like, and that she used to go fishing in the ocean to get additional food. (I'm certain that the people of Cuba still do this.)
----------

I know an entire family. One suitcase each. That was it. He had been a prosperous upper middle-class farmer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (kgisg)

137 And a Subway and a Waffle House on every other street corner . . .

#WhatCubaNeeds

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (JO9+V)

138 127 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM (UtvsI)

Shempf is REAL talented...

//Long John Silver President of Male Fluffer Local 957

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (/4AZU)

139 Hey Sean! How is Nearsider doing?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (UtvsI)

140 Fishing for your own food?

The horror.

Posted by: Garrett at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (F7vVo)

141 "120
The acronym TWANLOC comes to mind.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:24 PM (PD6iL)

That's suspiciously close to my trademarked properties.

You'll be hearing from my lawyers.

Posted by: Tone Loc at December 17, 2014 06:25 PM (V+kmg)"

I could not remember who to attribute it to, however, I believe it falls within the bounds of fair usage. And besides, after my lawyers are done with you, I'll own it as well as your house, your car and your first born child.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (PD6iL)

142 Shep: Fox's designated spokesboy for 0 and hate America.

Posted by: The roost aint what it used to be at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (7GI9v)

143 If it weren't for capitalism, Shep would be working Hector's glory hole.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, Curmudgeon Extraordinaire at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (0HooB)

144 @123 I think Shep is just worried that if we put all the Lowes and Taco Bell's over there that it will tip over Cuba.
--------------------

I'm suddenly reminded of the very first McDonalds that went up in Moscow. Apparently it was quite popular despite the cost, in part because the McDonalds management made sure to train all of their employees to say exotic and unusual things to customers like, "Thank you. Have a nice day!"

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (UWFpX)

145 135Today it's Cuba. What will he pivot to next?Posted by: freaked at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (JdEZJ) Look to the darkest place in Asia.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (xWW96)

146 Actually, I don't see how tree bark tacos could be much worse than the shit Taco Bell normally serves. You have to be drunk and starving to think a white rice burrito with imitation cheese sounds edible.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM
...........How about really drunk and slightly hungry? Not that I would know.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (KBIDy)

147
125 Actually, I don't see how tree bark tacos could be much worse than the shit Taco Bell normally serves. You have to be drunk and starving to think a white rice burrito with imitation cheese sounds edible.
Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM (xWW96)

There's a reason they are open until 4 am.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (z/Ubi)

148 "Yeah, but what if they want a Lowe's and a Taco Bell?"

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 17, 2014 06:28 PM (V+kmg)
===========================

Sheep is so confident the smarty pants in NYC and LA will applaud his views that he really doesn't care if he sounds like an idiot to everyone else, probably including the Cubans themselves.

Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (LISuA)

149 The last thing they need is 20 oz. Cokes.

Posted by: Bill DeBlasio at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (kgisg)

150 I wonder how many times Megyn Kelly has busted Shep at her makeup table filching her mascara.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (5buP8)

151 I could not remember who to attribute it to, however, I believe it falls within the bounds of fair usage. And besides, after my lawyers are done with you, I'll own it as well as your house, your car and your first born child.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (PD6iL)

First born child?

Good luck.

I can't even find him.

Numbers 8, 12, 14 and 27 either.

Posted by: Tone Loc at December 17, 2014 06:31 PM (V+kmg)

152
On a scale of 0 to 10, how much direct involvement did obama [including his admin] have in Sony cancelling their movie?

My guess: 10.

North Korean hackers, my ass. The hackers [Anonymous] are probably obama State Dept employees.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 17, 2014 06:31 PM (sattt)

153 150 Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (5buP

I ONLY USE MANSCARA AND GUYLINER!

//Shempf Smiff Action News

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:31 PM (/4AZU)

154 You wanted the Cayman Islands.
You'll settle for the Dominican Republic.
You get Cuba.

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (1vYi0)

155 It must be nice to be a smug, pudgy, overpaid, self-indulgent piece of shit who sits around opining onscreen about what poor people should have.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (8ZskC)

156 And a Subway and a Waffle House on every other street corner . . .

#WhatCubaNeeds

#DollarGeneral

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (XAGDQ)

157 Sheep is so confident the smarty pants in NYC and LA will applaud his views that he really doesn't care if he sounds like an idiot to everyone else, probably including the Cubans themselves.
Posted by: MTF at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (LISuA)

People who have actually lived under communism have a distinctly different view of its merits than the bien pensants in New York, Boston, and LA.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (V+kmg)

158 Look to the darkest place in Asia.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:30 PM (xWW96)

Obama got a colonoscopy while in China? Maybe they left some hardware in there. Could explain a lot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (8Fl6F)

159 I'm suddenly reminded of the very first McDonalds
that went up in Moscow. Apparently it was quite popular despite the
cost, in part because the McDonalds management made sure to train all of
their employees to say exotic and unusual things to customers like,
"Thank you. Have a nice day!"

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (UWFpX)
This is probably just an urban legend, but supposedly Russians didn't know how to eat a Big Mac properly, when McDonalds finally arrived. Supposedly they ate each layer one by one instead of biting into the hamburger. (Though I call bull on that; they never had a hamburger or sandwich before, ever?)

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (yRwC8)

160 the old nostalgic East German apartment buildings were being replaced by newer buildings.
Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:16 PM (UWFpX)

Huh? All of Germany was a pile of rubble after WWII and Communist architecture was crappy gray cement block one next to crappy gray cement block two. What's there to get nostalgic about?

It's like being misty eyed over those "old nostalgic" Trabants - the shittiest cars on the planet. Even worse than Gremlins and LeCars.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands but not hot pink armpit hair) at December 17, 2014 06:33 PM (+XMAD)

161 156 Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (XAGDQ)

or a five and dime....

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:33 PM (/4AZU)

162 "125
Actually, I don't see how tree bark tacos could be much worse than the
shit Taco Bell normally serves. You have to be drunk and starving to
think a white rice burrito with imitation cheese sounds edible.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:27 PM (xWW96)"

The fact that you say that makes me think you have never really been hungry for very long.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:33 PM (PD6iL)

163 Jesus would never make people fish for their own food.

Posted by: wooga at December 17, 2014 06:33 PM (OuLBr)

164
You really think the "cash for clunkers" cars got crushed?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2014 06:25 PM (FMbng)

I figured they were spirited off the scrapyard lot and shipped to Mexico, so the scrap dealers got paid twice.

Corrupt cops in SoCal along the highway to Vegas and the Inland Empire would do a similar scam. Impound cars for speeding, impose onerous impound fees, which would make a lot of cars worthless to claim, buy the cars for $1 at a fixed police auction and ship to Mexico for a quick sale.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 17, 2014 06:33 PM (TIIx5)

165
155It must be nice to be a smug, pudgy, overpaid, self-indulgent piece of shit who sits around opining onscreen about what poor people should have.

Great work when you can get it!

Posted by: Michael Moore at December 17, 2014 06:33 PM (xWW96)

166 Obama got a colonoscopy while in China? Maybe they left some hardware in there. Could explain a lot.

Or the aliens installed a satellite dish...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:33 PM (UtvsI)

167 If our betters have their hands in it, you'll get a brand new opulent looking "hospital" on every corner with care like it is from Cuba. Sorry you'll just get a new building.

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:34 PM (1vYi0)

168 At the AOS main page, I currently have an American Family Insurance ad in Spanish. Coincidental timing with events of today????

*rummages around for tin foil hat*

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:34 PM (yRwC8)

169 What they really need down there is Bob's Gun World. Well and a chalupa too.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:35 PM (KBIDy)

170 What they really need down there is Bob's Gun World. Well and a chalupa too.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:35 PM (KBIDy)

171 "People who have actually lived under communism have a distinctly different view of its merits than the bien pensants in New York, Boston, and LA.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 17, 2014 06:32 PM (V+kmg)"

This wins the thread and it should probably be repeated as often as possible.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:35 PM (PD6iL)

172 What we really crave now is Obamacare and carbon taxes.

Posted by: The Cubans at December 17, 2014 06:35 PM (23FyH)

173 "They haven't been our fellows since they sided with the crown during the revolution. Same assholes, different century."

No $%it, it does really go back that far.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 17, 2014 06:35 PM (OCcU9)

174 Prog-Idiot Shep Smith should spend a year in a Communist North Korean labor camp. He'll be seeing mirages of Taco Bell before too long.

The last thing Cubans need are ProgIdiot talking heads presuming to know what they need.

Posted by: Keep Calm Cruz On at December 17, 2014 06:35 PM (wT9UL)

175 @157 People who have actually lived under communism have a distinctly different view of its merits than the bien pensants in New York, Boston, and LA.
------------------

I was listening in to guild server chat in an MMORPG I played one day, and a couple of the guild members were talking about some other game that they'd been a part of. One of the guys was complaining about how the people running that game had forbidden the use of a Clan name that referenced Communist Russia. Free speech, blah blah blah and all that.

My response was to ask whether the people running the game happened to live in Eastern Europe.

The complainer suddenly got real quiet.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:36 PM (UWFpX)

176 What the Cubans need is a Bass Pro Shop. Though a trip through there would probably kill a goodly percentage of the males.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:36 PM (xWW96)

177 The elephant in Shep's room, a misplaced belief that the Rough Riders will spill forth again over Cuba soil.

Posted by: Fox's Incessant Bray of Gay Pig at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (KG1MP)

178 It's like being misty eyed over those "old nostalgic" Trabants - the shittiest cars on the planet. Even worse than Gremlins and LeCars.
----------------

Pretty bad..., no question...., but the Yugo folk really gave it the old college try to beat them out.

Posted by: Bill DeBlasio at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (kgisg)

179 DAMN, I hate I'm late to this thread.

Dear MSDNC: Please, please take Sheppy Smith. You can replace that guy Rachel Madcow with him and increase your viewership by 2.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (FsuaD)

180 This might kill their careers. People might be curious enough to see thid POS

Posted by: Rex Reid at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (8LTOS)

181 "You have to be drunk and starving to

think a white rice burrito with imitation cheese sounds edible."

Translation: You have to be your average Cuban.

I think it will be very popular there.

Posted by: Keep Calm Cruz On at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (wT9UL)

182 You just know every leftist doucheweasel is going to go to Cuba to suck Castro's balls and look at a plaque where Che' took a shit one time.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (KBIDy)

183 >>> It's like being misty eyed over those "old nostalgic" Trabants - the
shittiest cars on the planet. Even worse than Gremlins and LeCars.

There have been articles written on the lament of New Yorkers who long for the days when Times Square was a giant porn magazine come to life, and everything was gritty and graffiti covered and full of vagrants wanting to wash your windows. Never underestimate the pull of nostalgia, no matter how crappy the past.

Posted by: LizLem at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (yRwC8)

184 Once Taco Bell opens in Cuba, bet we could sell a million of these beauties -
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/selection-du-weekend-118-8.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:38 PM (UtvsI)

185 Fucking Progs get misty-eyed over the old East Berlin.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 06:38 PM (FsuaD)

186 I have a crush on Shep. He's dreamy. Can someone hook me up with him?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 17, 2014 06:38 PM (wT9UL)

187 After Shep Smith hornswaggled a family of 25 Cubans out of their beachfront villa for a $4 a day timeshare deal, who can blame him for being an arrogant ass?

Posted by: Fritz at December 17, 2014 06:39 PM (dVmLD)

188 We have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House

Posted by: John McCain at December 17, 2014 06:39 PM (8LTOS)

189 Shep was the least funny of the 3 stooges also

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 06:40 PM (nzKvP)

190 F Cuba F NK F Sony F the MM and specially F BHO.

Just f'n f it.

Posted by: f'd at December 17, 2014 06:40 PM (JdEZJ)

191 Fucking Progs get misty-eyed over the old East Berlin.

The problem is that we are entering the phase where a number of these progs were not around to witness first hand.

Posted by: dogfish at December 17, 2014 06:40 PM (1vYi0)

192 You just know every leftist doucheweasel is going to
go to Cuba to suck Castro's balls and look at a plaque where Che' took a
shit one time.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (KBIDy)

And think "we did it, we won."

Posted by: Hipsters and boomer progressives with Che tees at December 17, 2014 06:40 PM (yRwC8)

193 "182
You just know every leftist doucheweasel is going to go to Cuba to suck
Castro's balls and look at a plaque where Che' took a shit one time."

Yeah, and visit the prison where Che murdered thousands of Cubans resisting the revolution.

The proggies can get misty eyed over 'why cant we do that in the USA?'

Posted by: Keep Calm Cruz On at December 17, 2014 06:40 PM (wT9UL)

194
i do kind of miss the jokes about the east german womens swim team though

Posted by: kj at December 17, 2014 06:41 PM (lKyWE)

195 @183 There have been articles written on the lament of New Yorkers who long for the days when Times Square was a giant porn magazine come to life, and everything was gritty and graffiti covered and full of vagrants wanting to wash your windows. Never underestimate the pull of nostalgia, no matter how crappy the past.
-------------------

With DeBlasio in office, I might have some good news for those nostalgists...

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:41 PM (UWFpX)

196 The Progs need a history lesson about their beloved Che.

He died, crying, pissing himself, and begging for his life. Like the murdering thug pussy he was.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 06:41 PM (FsuaD)

197 The East German judge on this deal - 4.2

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:41 PM (UtvsI)

198 i do kind of miss the jokes about the east german womens swim team though
Posted by: kj
----------------

And the hammer throwers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:42 PM (kgisg)

199 Hey remember those crappy cheap pizzas we were selling a while back? I have an idea for a whole new market for them and we make a killing!

Posted by: Dominos Pizza Idea Guy at December 17, 2014 06:42 PM (JO9+V)

200 Wasn't Castro the guy who buried the ax in Che's melon? I wonder how the secret police would feel about a bunch of hipsters walking around in Che Tshirts

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:43 PM (5buP8)

201 This asshole is rolling out one outrage every day.
And two years to go.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:43 PM (kgisg)

202 Wasn't Castro the guy who buried the ax in Che's melon?
Posted by: Brave
------------

Not even close...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:43 PM (kgisg)

203 201 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:43 PM (kgisg)

He is definitely settled in to his YOLO communist phase.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (/4AZU)

204 I love the bien pissants who visit these Communist shitholes, tour the rustic Hameaus de la Ruins, proclaim them "real" and "authentic", then take advantage of the freedom of movement denied the citizens of these countries and return to their capitalist hells.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (KH1sk)

205 "I'm suddenly reminded of the very first McDonalds
that went up in Moscow. Apparently it was quite popular despite the
cost, in part because the McDonalds management made sure to train all of
their employees to say exotic and unusual things to customers like,
"Thank you. Have a nice day!"

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:29 PM (UWFpX)"

I remember once when Brian Lamb on C-SPAN had some guy who had been in Moscow at the first McDonald's with a hand held video camera. They were talking while the video showed the two story building from the outside and from the windows it looked completely filled. Then he showed the line coming out the door. Then he walked down the line recording as the line went all the way down the street and around the block then across the street into a park and wound around in the park.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (PD6iL)

206 There have been articles written on the lament of New Yorkers who long for the days when Times Square was a giant porn magazine come to life, and everything was gritty and graffiti covered and full of vagrants wanting to wash your windows. Never underestimate the pull of nostalgia, no matter how crappy the past.

1933 soup lines FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (XAGDQ)

207 I just trolled a bunch of lefties with WalMart's plan for 200 Cuban Supercenters by 2016, and a wsrehouse

Posted by: Jean at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (TETYm)

208 i do kind of miss the jokes about the east german womens swim team though
Posted by: kj at December 17, 2014 06:41 PM (lKyWE)

Obligtory

http://tinyurl.com/mamurnc

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (V+kmg)

209 American Swim Team girls - petite, lithe, and lean

East German Swim Team Girls - cubes of muscle

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (JO9+V)

210 @196 The Progs need a history lesson about their beloved Che.

He died, crying, pissing himself, and begging for his life. Like the murdering thug pussy he was.
---------------------

Lies! Western CIA lies! Che died like a man, surrounded by piles of corpses of the CIA thugs that murdered him!

Bicycle Diaries!

Posted by: That guy wearing a Che shirt at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (UWFpX)

211 Dead che shirt:

http://www.zazzle.com/dead_che_t_shirt-235124300023669199

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2014 06:44 PM (8Fl6F)

212 Che was hunted down by Ecuadorans. He only spoke Spanish and the natives could not understand him. And when caught was a sniveling piece of garbage, no longer the tough Commandante who had a boy executed.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:45 PM (UtvsI)

213 DAMN, I hate I'm late to this thread.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (FsuaD)

Yeah, well you're wanted in HR.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 06:45 PM (8ZskC)

214
It's days like this that really shows how dumb it is to claim obama is semi-retired or "checked out."

obama is still highly motivated and very much involved in the destruction of the USA.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (sattt)

215 When the line to get into McPukils is a half mile long, you know it's got to be socialist paradise.

Posted by: maddogg at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (xWW96)

216 East German Swim Team Girls -- cubes of ~~muscle~~ testosterone.

Fixed.

Posted by: ginger at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (Dw98+)

217 He died, crying, pissing himself, and begging for his life. Like the murdering thug pussy he was.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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I am astonished by the number of aging hippies and hipster douches who admire the guy.

I point out that he was a murderous thug commie, but their filters just do not allow them to absorb that. The media.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (kgisg)

218 All Hail Eris, check previous thread. We covered the Eastern Front in WWII.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (UtvsI)

219 Mike he has been rolling out an outrage a day since day one. After a while you would think you would get numb but then here he comes with something more outrageous.

Posted by: f'd at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (JdEZJ)

220 201 This asshole is rolling out one outrage every day.
And two years to go.
Yup. President Jarrett and Obama are just getting warmed up. Don't worry though, eventually you just go numb.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (5buP8)

221 I walk around all day hating 52-60% of the people I meet.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 06:47 PM (nzKvP)

222 @200 Wasn't Castro the guy who buried the ax in Che's melon? I wonder how the secret police would feel about a bunch of hipsters walking around in Che Tshirts
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Che left Cuba very much alive. Part of it was probably because actually running a country is harder than overthrowing one. But I also suspect that Castro was happy to see him leave.

He died in a hail of army gunfire trying to unsuccessfully start an uprising in yet another Spanish-speaking country.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:47 PM (UWFpX)

223 Nood Moochelle up if you can handle it.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 17, 2014 06:48 PM (Dw98+)

224 Back in the 90s some hipster expats in Prague bemoaned the incursion of a MacDonalds in that lovely city -- fair enough, I suppose -- but the people of Prague desperately wanted a place that was fast, clean and cheap.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 17, 2014 06:48 PM (KH1sk)

225 He died in a hail of army gunfire trying to unsuccessfully start an uprising in yet another Spanish-speaking country.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:47 PM (UWFpX)

Bolivia you me, Bolivia it was.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 17, 2014 06:49 PM (8Fl6F)

226 @224 Back in the 90s some hipster expats in Prague bemoaned the incursion of a MacDonalds in that lovely city -- fair enough, I suppose -- but the people of Prague desperately wanted a place that was fast, clean and cheap.
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Well... two out of three isn't bad...

Cleanliness in a McDonalds tends to vary widely from restaurant to restaurant, I've noticed...

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:49 PM (UWFpX)

227 I remember once when Brian Lamb on C-SPAN had some guy who had been in Moscow at the first McDonald's with a hand held video camera. They were talking while the video showed the two story building from the outside and from the windows it looked completely filled.

Lived overseas for a bit, and it's amusing that McDs can be considered mid-tier dining over there, as opposed to bottom of the totem pole here in the US.

Posted by: CM at December 17, 2014 06:51 PM (0NdlF)

228 Is Shep Smith really so narcisstic that he believes that a Taco Bell is going to ruin a hell hole where people try to flee by the boatload?

Posted by: Mike at December 17, 2014 06:51 PM (c056A)

229
He died in a hail of army gunfire trying to unsuccessfully start an uprising in yet another Spanish-speaking country.

i read castro actually sent him to south america to help foster the revolution then promtly let the local authorities know exactly where he was because castro was afraid of him

Posted by: kj at December 17, 2014 06:51 PM (lKyWE)

230 This asshole is rolling out one outrage every day.
And two years to go.
Yup. President Jarrett and Obama are just getting warmed up. Don't worry though, eventually you just go numb.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (5buP

Nope, there will be a violent reaction I am afraid

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 17, 2014 06:52 PM (nzKvP)

231 East German figure skaters, OTOH ...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/q6qr647

SO NSFW!!!!

Posted by: hubba hubba at December 17, 2014 06:53 PM (BNp5c)

232 I point out that he was a murderous thug commie, but their filters just do not allow them to absorb that. The media.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (kgisg)

They process the world with feelings. Inconvenient facts are tossed aside because of the feelbad, so it can't be true.

Posted by: CM at December 17, 2014 06:53 PM (0NdlF)

233 All Hail Eris, check previous thread. We covered the Eastern Front in WWII.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 17, 2014 06:46 PM (UtvsI)
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That quickly, huh?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 17, 2014 06:53 PM (KH1sk)

234 I thought Che got it in Mexico City with a bunch of his original crew being in on it. Probably conflating stories...

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:55 PM (5buP8)

235 Basically, the leftist douchenozzles hate America so much they would rather see people live as slaves before giving them any kind of freedom that remotely has an American fingerprint on it..

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 17, 2014 06:55 PM (FMbng)

236 I am woman, okay?

You got problem with that?

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Posted by: Jarmila Kratochvilova at December 17, 2014 06:56 PM (kgisg)

237 @229 i read castro actually sent him to south america to help foster the revolution then promtly let the local authorities know exactly where he was because castro was afraid of him
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Possible, I suppose. But iirc, Che went to Africa first after leaving Cuba.

Posted by: junior at December 17, 2014 06:56 PM (UWFpX)

238 I thought Che got it in Mexico City with a bunch of his original crew being in on it. Probably conflating stories...
Posted by: Brave
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Trotsky?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 17, 2014 06:57 PM (kgisg)

239 Trotsky?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Trotsky, in Mexico with the ice ax. Stalinist Clue is such fun, isn't it?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at December 17, 2014 06:58 PM (V70Ne)

240 Trotsky. Similar guy, different accent.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 17, 2014 06:59 PM (5buP8)

241
213 DAMN, I hate I'm late to this thread.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 17, 2014 06:37 PM (FsuaD)

Yeah, well you're wanted in HR.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 17, 2014 06:45 PM (8ZskC)

Yeah we're gonna have to ask you to start wearing heels more often. And low cut tops.

Posted by: Ace of spades human resources at December 17, 2014 07:01 PM (z/Ubi)

242 Castro Brothers needed the Soviet Union and Che was becoming a Maoist. Che resigned all his duties and went to The Congo first to fight the imperialists there. He wasn't welcome for long and half his Cubans died, mostly from disease. He went from The Congo to Bolivia.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at December 17, 2014 07:03 PM (fiVFD)

243 205 "I'm suddenly reminded of the very first McDonalds
that went up in Moscow. Apparently it was quite popular despite the
cost, in part because the McDonalds management made sure to train all of
their employees to say exotic and unusual things to customers like,
"Thank you. Have a nice day!"

I can tell you why it was so popular: because you could actually eat there. The first two days my wife and I were in Moscow we had a can of potato chips and small bowl of cole slaw to eat. That was it. (And we were staying in a tony hotel.)

Restaurants couldn't be bothered to serve people. The staff would claim that they had no food, although their friends were there chowing down, and the staff sat around and played cards. We couldn't even bribe them to feed us, because they didn't get to keep the dollars. The first word of Russian we learned was "zagrito" - "closed."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 07:06 PM (oKE6c)

244 PS: the staff got paid either way, and so didn't give a shit about doing their jobs, and made no bones about it, either.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 17, 2014 07:07 PM (oKE6c)

245 "I'm just annoyed that so many people, especially those on the left, seem to think "clever" is synonymous with "obnoxious." "

Or just plain old "noxious".

Oh, and Shep Smith is unwatchable. Isn't he just a large animatronic Ken doll?

Posted by: dissent555 at December 17, 2014 07:12 PM (yR6A1)

246 194
i do kind of miss the jokes about the east german womens swim team though
Posted by: kj at December 17, 2014 06:41 PM (lKyWE)

Especially because it turned out that real Eastern European women are pretty hawt.

Posted by: rickl at December 17, 2014 07:23 PM (sdi6R)

247 Cuba has a maximum wage. Not a minimum wage, a maximum. It's $29 a month. Or, in other words, about what raging cockholster Shepard Smith makes about every three seconds.

Posted by: David Gillies at December 17, 2014 07:43 PM (iPiI2)

248 Shep cam does what he wants because he throws big Crack parties in the hamptons, this is from a reliable source.

Posted by: 8ball at December 17, 2014 07:46 PM (RxoQJ)

249 Modernity is icky and so are vaginas.

Posted by: Shemp at December 17, 2014 08:02 PM (RYD+a)

250 But was Shep weeping? It doesn't count unless he is weeping.

Posted by: Stephen Lowe at December 17, 2014 08:40 PM (WY7t+)

251 I wouldn't hesitate asking her where the bananas are

Posted by: Avi at December 17, 2014 08:43 PM (S8jpG)

252 Does Shep know what they do to people like him and me in Cuba?

Posted by: Baldy at December 17, 2014 08:44 PM (+35FH)

253 129 Remember in Goodfellas when they found Jay Thomas on a meat hook in the refrigerated trailer? The man's a craftsman; nobody grows snot icicles like he does.

Posted by: Schnooks and Granny Warrens

That wasn't Jay Thomas, it was the guy who's suing the simpsons over the mafia henchman.

Posted by: dirks strewn at December 17, 2014 09:18 PM (TIgJq)

254 Plough over Havana with walmarts for all I care as long as they don't put it on stolen land

Posted by: Avi at December 17, 2014 09:18 PM (S8jpG)

255 Cuba is a BYOTP (bring your own toilet paper) country

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 17, 2014 09:27 PM (e8kgV)

256 I salute Jay Thomas for pointing out that Seth Rogen and James Franco are big, fat, stinking pussies.

My favorite way to trip up lefty warmists is to ask them what percentage of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide (don't do it if they have the time to search the internet, all leftists cheat). It's 0.04%. There is 22 times as much argon as CO2 - watch out for broken light bulbs!

But the point is if they don't know the % of CO2, they don't know shit about the atmosphere or science, so STFU.

Posted by: Adjoran at December 17, 2014 09:28 PM (QIQ6j)

257 The white paint concession in Cuba, whether it's Lowes or a Home Depot, will be a payday beyond imagination.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 17, 2014 09:29 PM (e8kgV)

258 @ 257 -

Mmmmmm. Titanium dioxide.

Posted by: dissent555 at December 17, 2014 10:07 PM (yR6A1)

259 Of course they don't want a Lowe's in Cuba.

Next thing you know the parking lots will be full of Mexicans.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at December 17, 2014 10:33 PM (+Fae7)

260 Who knew that Shep was such an ardent supporter of police states?

Posted by: Brisco_County_Sr at December 17, 2014 11:15 PM (PyqnD)

261 Shep can go blow it out his butt, i'll buy a Taco Bell franchise for a Cuban in exchange for one of those cool 50s cars they still have!

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