You Can't Fix Stupid

Every now and then I see something that makes me hope that the President is drinking again because the alternative is that he is stupid as a post and like Ron White says "You can't fix stupid"

An Exercise For Mary Matalin

This is now my 3rd post on stupid things that Mary Matalin said in one edition of Meet The Press. I know that this is early in my blogging career but I am guessing that we may have an early leader in the "most deluded person I have seen on TV" race.

MS. MATALIN: Yes, because what we’re seeing for the first time last week, is a majority of people now support and believe that the war can be won.

Repeat after me ....

"The Iraq War is a Civil War. An occupying country cannot win a Civil War."

Fred Thompson

Thanks to the folks at Talking Points Memo Election Central I was alerted to the weird discussion of Fred Thompson on Meet The Press yesterday.

It started off with the brilliant comment from Mary Matalin that it was a good idea for Fred to appear on Leno instead of taking part in an actual debate with other.. you know .. candidates.

MR. RUSSERT: Mary Matalin, on Wednesday night, all the other Republicans will be on a stage debating in New Hampshire. Fred Thompson will be on Jay Leno. Is that appropriate?

MS. MATALIN: And guess what? Who do you think has the largest audience at that time? Jay Leno has 31 percent of the audience at the time immediately preceding the video. This is a message-driven campaign, and we want to drive people, and the biggest place to do that was Jay Leno. We want to drive him right at 12:01 to hear Fred Thompson’s principles, which is the definition of performance. I don’t know what they mean by performance. I know what he means by performance. It is getting your principles out there, and we want to drive him right to the video so they don’t have to go through the prism of us. You can read it, and you can see it, and you can hear it and deliver his principles. Thank you, Jay Leno.

This being followed almost immediately by what I feel is the question of his campaign

MR. MURPHY: Can he up his message game, and can he working a media environment more hostile than Fox? Those are the two questions I think he’s set up to answer, but he’s got to go do it.

The thing is that I think the question has been answered by his choice of where to spend debate night

White Flour Indeed

Even my 12 year old knows that Nazis are clowns so this story from Digby was nice to see.

Via Perlstein, here's a hilarious story about a Klan rally. For real.

Saturday May 26th the VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK group attempted to host a hate rally to try to take advantage of the brutal murder of a white couple for media and recruitment purposes.

Unfortunately for them the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were.

Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns.

“White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”.

Now... the problem with white flour though is shown in part in this story from Balloon Juice

We are now officially a nation of hysterics:

Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.

The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.

New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.

I am sure that someone far funnier than I could make a joke about this so I offer it as an exercise for the reader.

Why Does This Idea Not Die

No sane person is calling for an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq if for no other reason that it is a physical impossibility.

Why then, do Democrats let people beat them over the head with it like it is something that is actually being considered.

Imagine my surprise that i have to say "attaboy" to Bob Shrum for actually showing a backbone but I thought this clip from Crooks and Liars was wonderful. It even has the added benefit of watching Mary Matalin toss a pen across the room when she was called on her bullshit talking points.

Stupidest Idea I have heard today

From Digby

Does any of this remotely seem like a good idea? The mere fact that the US is so obviously running this thing automatically makes it an enormous mistake. And it's not just because it's so transparent that there can be no doubt that Allawi will be seen as a puppet. It's a huge mistake because aside from looting the treasury and stealing elections, everything the Bush administration touches turns to shit. Aside from the embarrassingly blatant hypocrisy, does anyone believe they could pull this off and make it work?

No.

Boston Blackie

I am completely addicted to Old Time Radio, especially Boston Blackie.

Just saying...