Letters to the Editor
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Kovie
"Ah, too many straw men to refute. But I always get a kick out of the "I have a degree in X and have been doing Y for Z years so therefore I am correct and am not to be argued with" line of BS "reasoning""
Ahhh Kovie, once again you manage to make up stuff so as to strut and preen your sarcastic ways. Of course I never said my "degree from X" made me "correct" nor that it precluded "arguing with" me. But hey, why try and deal with what I actually said? It's so much easier for you when you get to do both sides of the argument (must be dull for any intimates of yours if this carries over into other aspects of your life). What the reference to my degrees et. al. did, of course, was point out the silliness, to be charitable, or the stupidity, to be accurate, of your "reading comprehension" line. Ahh, the irony.
" Bob Johnson, who stood right there next to her on stage"
Oh my god, really. Right next to her. Really? Oh my god. No, seriously. Oh my god. Why, this proves all of his words were scripted by the nefarious witch. Nay, even a script would be relying too much on chance. What if he, gasp, went off script. No wonder she was standing right next to him. She had her hand up his butt and was actually manipulating his vocal cords. Oh my god oh my god oh my god. You're absolutely right! Oh my god.
"Bill Clinton her HUSBAND"
and oh my god oh my god oh my god again. You're right. He is her HUSBAND (see, I know you're right cuz you put it in all caps again). And oh my god. We all know spouses never say anything that might not be exactly what the other spouse told them to say. Never. Ever. Oh my god. Her HUSBAND. How could I have missed that. Oh my god you are so smart.
"Mark Penn, who is her CHIEF STRATEGIST"
And oh my god oh my god. He has a title. I don't know if it's the right title but oh wait, oh my god, it's in ALL CAPS TOO, so it must be. And if he as a title, why, he must not be able to move his own lips. Oh my god. It is so like that move, you know, with the bean people, or the pea people, no wait, the pod people. that's it. I bet anyone with a title in her campaign isn't even a real person anymore. Oh my god oh my god.
You are just so smart. Oh my god, it makes me all googly. You can't be stupid. You can type and everything. Why, I bet your SAT's were probably, oh, I don't know, like 500 hundred or something. Maybe even like 530. Oh, I just can't wait until I see your name in the paper for, oh, I don't know, curing cancer or coming up with some new energy thingie so we don't have to buy all that bad oil stuff from all those bad people or something really, really smart like that. I'm going to tell all my friends how I just met the smartest person ever in the world and he knows how to do ALL CAPS and he can anal-a-lize or whatever that big word. You must know, you big smart 530 SAT guy.
"Mark Penn was solicited to mention cocaine twice"
First question on the show (not directed to Penn)
"A]re you satisfied with the explanation from the Hillary Clinton campaign that the comment by Mr. Shaheen about drug use by your candidate was not something coming from the top"
Then directed specifically to Penn
Question 1: "Mark, given the fact that this has reached into the spin room today and there were several questions to David Axelrod about whether his candidate, Senator Obama, has in fact shared or sold drugs, do you expect the Republicans to use this against the Democrats"
Answer 1: I don't know
Mention of drugs? Zero
Question 2: "Did you tell him to step down? It took 24 hours for him to do it. Do you think he did it in time to stop this from becoming a story?"
Answer: "I think this story is over. I think we made it very clear yesterday that we didn't condone it. We weren't part of these -- of the story that he went on with. And we absolutely apologized. And the senator went on the tarmac of the airport as we were all coming down to this debate and apologized personally, because this is not part of her campaign.""
Mention of drugs? Zero
Question 3: "going after his perhaps youthful drug use, which he admitted in his book, do you think those are appropriate shots at the opponent"
answer "I think we've made clear that the issue related to cocaine use is not something that the campaign was in any way raising, and I think that's been made clear"
mention of drugs 1 finally
Yeah, no solicitation of mention drug use there
and my favorite vaudeville part of this in fact involves your Mr. Tripi (yeah, cuz he's neutral)
RIPPI: This guy's been filibustering on this. He just said "cocaine" again. It's like --
PENN: I think you're saying "cocaine."
TRIPPI: No, no.
PENN: I don't know. I think you're saying "cocaine."
[crosstalk]
TRIPPI: You just did it.
There you have it folks--the comedy team of Trippi and Trippi and Kovie of course
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bucky1
I was the one who saw both parties as evil, and it was not you making a hint. You are still claiming that any Democrat will lead us to heaven on earth.
I claimed this? Really. I must be going mad then because I don't recall having claimed this. What magical words did I use, pray tell, to convey such an absolutist thought?
But I suppose that if one is predisposed towards binary thinking and thinking oneself a wise prophet, who am I to argue? Because clearly, there is no legitimate space between pure evil and "heaven on earth". None whatsoever. It's one or the other and literally impossible to assert anything in-between. And nuance and gray are SO 20th century.
I am sooooooooooooooo stoooooooooooooooooopid!