Happy anniversary!
Thirty eight years since Ted Kennedy’s Midnight Car Wash. Howie Carr is all over it.
Posted: July 18th, 2007 under history, personal, politics.
Comments: 28
Comments
Comment from mesablue
Time: July 18, 2007, 8:00 pm
I mailed an anniversary card to his office last week — as I do every year.
Comment from porkthebean
Time: July 18, 2007, 10:31 pm
Amazing how the doofus’ of Mass. will keep voting that nasty old fat bag of cow shit back into office. His whole life record is one of assholery. What is WRONG with that state?
Comment from Dawn
Time: July 18, 2007, 10:48 pm
beaner,
Don’t forget John Kerry.
My condolences to the Kopechne family on this sad anniversary.
Comment from jwpaine
Time: July 19, 2007, 1:35 am
“the doofus’ of Mass….”
Shouldn’t that be “the doofii of Mass.”? Or maybe “the doofim of Mass.”?
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:56 am
As a doofus currently of Rhode Island, I have to spring to the defense of my neighbors to the North (and East — we’re kind of snuggled in the armpit of Massachusetts here). Kennedy is the only guy who is EVER going to get elected if he’s the only guy running. The Republicans have run someone against him a few times — and not won, but not done too badly — but the current GOP strategy seems to be “screw New England, we’re never going to get anywhere up there anyway.”
Seriously, they have to TRY. Because New Englanders hear the “screw you, we don’t need you” part loud and clear. And Democrats who know they’re never going to have opposition can be as dreadful as they like.
Yeah, I know money is tight, but somehow Dole scraped up enough cash to interfere at the primary level in Rhode Island, defending the dreadful Lincold Chafee against a more conservative Republican challenger. If there’s money for that, how come they never support the guys who run against Patrick Kennedy? Patrick Kennedy! Dumbest man in Congress is my representative! Augh! He got re-elected last time six months after drunkenly mowing down a DC cop. Why? Minimal opposition.
Seriously, it would be worth the investment of some money just to get conservative ideas on the airwaves up here. It would have an impact, even if it didn’t win elections for a while.
But what am I talking about? The GOP isn’t about conservative ideas, it’s solely about winning elections. I swear, you could make the whole pack of bozos take off their nametags, cross the aisles and be the other guys, if you told them that was the only way to keep in office. Both sides. They’re just a bunch of third rate actors reading lines.
Oh, yeah. I needed to hack all THAT up at six in the morning…
Comment from Pupster
Time: July 19, 2007, 8:40 am
Run Weasel Run!
Weasel in ’08! Drinks like a Kennedy, but no one gets hurt!
Comment from whitishrabbit
Time: July 19, 2007, 9:08 am
Usually I forget all you guys are conservative. It’s always kind of suprising to hear the goofy, lovable sweas squad come out in favor of the GOP. Juxtaposition, woah.
Like a runway model in bowling shoes.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2007, 9:18 am
Oh, it’s worse than that, wabbit. I think you’ll find most of us actually detest the GOP because they aren’t conservative enough.
Underneath all this louche behavior and cuddly dysfunction lurk stainless steel ‘wingers. It’s sort of a P.J. O’Rourke thing…
Comment from Pupster
Time: July 19, 2007, 10:04 am
Runway model in bowling shoes..I like that.
I suppose if you were a ‘brownish wabbit we would set about ‘ye with oppression and disenfranchisement.
Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: July 19, 2007, 11:00 am
It’s the same here in Nevada – we have that despicable Harry Reid (ptui!) because he runs virtually unopposed every time. It makes me want to run down to the GOP headquarters and lay about the place with a big ol’ clue bat.
Comment from porkthebean
Time: July 19, 2007, 12:15 pm
Doofi sounds good but I meant doofuses, thus the apostrophe I originally put after doofus –> doofus’
I know what you are saying Weasel. Hannity and Skeletor had the republican on that was running against Kennedy this past election. Oh brother, what a puss. Hannity was trying to coach him to run some clever Mary Jo ads or any of 50 million other stupid things Kennedy has done but the guy would have none of it. He wanted to keep it civil. BAH, everyone knows it’s a blood sport! Against a Kennedy, because you don’t have it’s funds, you go short and sweet, straight for the jugular.
Heh…and make that titanium ‘wingers. Like McGoo’s knob.
Comment from Dawn
Time: July 19, 2007, 12:29 pm
I REALLY like one of my senators from AZ. I have met him on a number of occassions and he is a decent guy. Our other senator is a little looney, I think from all the water torture, but no one is allowed to talk about it because he’s a war hero.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2007, 12:30 pm
Hannity and Skeletor! Ha! I never watch the program so I can’t comment on his manner, but I sure noticed Alan Colmes’ disturbing skull-face.
I used to think news networks deliberately got the most unattractive righties they could find to make the rebuttal points. I wonder if Colmes is the Foxnews version of that?
Comment from Purple Avenger
Time: July 19, 2007, 12:36 pm
Airbags have nothing to do with crashing and everything to do with flotation. See — congress couldn’t predict when Ted would stumble out in a drunken stupor and just grab/steal the first car he saw, so they had to outfit every car in the country to make sure he was covered in the future.
Comment from Lokki
Time: July 19, 2007, 1:01 pm
Ted is very much the Billy Carter of the Kennedy family. We’d have never heard of him if his brothers hadn’t been sadly assassinated.
Uhm, NOT speaking of which:
First MaryJo died
Then Oldsmobile
Is it wrong to hope this squence follows through to its logical conclusion?
Finally, Where’s McGoo when you need him? I’m doing my best to fill in, but my best isn’t very good:
Chorus: Drunk behind the wheel of Mary-Jo’s Oldsmobile
Off the bridge of life we’ll fly and start drowning, you and I.
Far away I’ll swiftly steal, before the sirens start to peal,
You can go as far I like with me, In my merry Oldsmobile.
Comment from whitishrabbit
Time: July 19, 2007, 3:12 pm
Pupster- thank you… er. Thank ye.
As soon as I typed it I was thinking, ‘Hey, that could work.’ A runway sort of resembles a bowling lane. I picture an edgy natty Gan kinda thing crossed with a Carnival Hobo, pinstriped trousers with flamboyant colorful patches on the ass, one of those old fashioned caps, suspenders, a fake, plastic flower pinned on the shirt and of course, bowling shoes.
Yeah. *sigh* Lagerfeld should really call me.
Comment from Lokki
Time: July 19, 2007, 3:39 pm
Funny… I was just picturing the runway model in her bowling shoes… and nothing else. (uhm, I mean I picturing nothing else, uhm….)
I really thought it was a great image, until you clarified it for me.
Now, I’m picturing you sitting by the phone waiting for Lagerfeld.
Comment from Lokki
Time: July 19, 2007, 3:44 pm
But then, my horizons are so limited… Like I didn’t know that Natty Gan was a real person until you mentioned her and I googled her to get a picture of what an edgy “natty Gan look” would be.
I lived such a sheltered life.
Comment from Dawn
Time: July 19, 2007, 3:58 pm
edgy Natty Gan right here
http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/6/7/2/13262766-13262768-large.jpg
Comment from whitishrabbit
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:42 pm
Dawn- Wow. Edgy, definitely. Natty, yup. Gan… I think they left out the Gan.
Lokki- Don’t feel bad. Noone remembers that movie. Somehow it had a profound and moving effect on my youngish self and left absolutely no impression on anybody else.
Just one of those little lagoons of weirdness.
Comment from porkthebean
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:52 pm
Hmm…I always thought ‘Posh’ was cute as a bug. Then, like her cute as a bug husband, she opened her mouth.
Comment from porkthebean
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:52 pm
Hmm…I always thought ‘Posh’ was cute as a bug. Then, like her cute as a bug husband, she opened her mouth.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:55 pm
Hey, that’s strange. I thought WordPress had comment-dupe protection. I’m gonna try to ram this one through twice.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:55 pm
Huh. I got “Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!”
How’d you do that, PtB?
Comment from porkthebean
Time: July 19, 2007, 6:16 pm
Whoa. Not sure how that happened. Hmm…I kinda double-clicked by accident on ‘post’, but didn’t notice the double post until you did.
Comment from Purple Avenger
Time: July 20, 2007, 2:46 pm
I thought WordPress had comment-dupe protection.
Left wing dupes post all the time using WordPRess.
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