Usually you have to work the morning shift at Coco’s or at a dry cleaners to be afforded the opportunity to patiently listen to an old man with nothing better to do bend your ear about the sad state of affairs in the world today and how things have really gone to "hell in a hand basket" or some other quaint elderly person expression that makes you remember that you really must die before you get old. But now, through the miracle of teh internets, you can sit in the privacy of your own home and be lectured and harangued by someone who quit his job in the Senate after only eight years so he could do a little TV, marry and ‘do’ an ex-cheerleader, and then run for President between naps.
How very fortunate for America that a camera just happened to be there and filming when Fred turned from his newspaper-readin’ and ruminatin’ (in a very unstagey manner, I might add) and spoke to us in that folksy unscripted way of his. The part where he started coughing and accidentally pooped himself was also a nice touch. Very natural. Very…. earthy.
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Does it ever stop? I’m at almost four minutes & he’s talking about rakes, & shovels…
Ditto. Where did this piece of crap come from? Are Republicans paying good money to listen to this “advice”? Is it being used as a “sleep aid”?
Ha! Bring back the winger blogs who thought that this man should be president (and “drafted” him and threw money at him) so that I can laugh at them again!
Well, I for one am glad someone cleared this cornfusing mess up. He had me at the cigar and reading glasses swivel. I’ve been terribly distraught shoveling and filling for libruls. Next, I’ll turn big ones into lil’ ones. Me and Dub and the boys. Club Me Fer Growth…
The reason(s) for Thompson doing this are hypocritical, as if he’s always been a public watchdog and his party is blameless. And “spending” as a cause is so vague and irrelevant it is used as a propaganda device to get people angry.
But if you listen to the content he’s striking a chord with many Americans, especially with those losing jobs and retirement and savings. In fact, he’s illustrating why the Republican Party is disintegrating: it does not know which way to go on the crisis. However, some of his points are valid, but twisted to his ends; there’s actually populism in here, but in hands like his this itself is disingenuous -and dangerous. He’s not some old out of his mind fart; he’s seeking a message to get him back into the political process.
Did anyone watch it all the way through to see if there was a point to it? The folksiness was killing me and I had to stop at about 3 minutes.
WHO the fucking fuck puts this bullshit on teh Internets?
“Shut up or I’ll break your arm, old man.”
Hope he shows up on Happy Tree Friends;
Asshole dipshit fuckwad.
He’s still lazy. He’s still stupid.
And does he know he’s slamming Bush and Republicans?
Hey, they don’t call it the Grand Old Party for nothing.
During the election, Freddy did some radio spots for wingnut candidates here in PA, for example, the carpetbagger that ran against Murtha. I got so damn sick of listening to his folksy BS, I turned down the volume at the first syllable.
But the wingnuts luv them some Freddy. So will it be Thompson/Palin or Palin/Thompson in 2012? I’m figurin’ that Fred will be just Reaganesque enough to nab the nomination (mid-level senility). If the wingers can prop him up, they’ll go for it.
Let’s see, we have arrogance, condescention, derisiveness, elitism, smugness, and hypocrisy all in one patronizing lecture. Old Fred couldn’t be more unctuous. I wish at some point during his folksy chat that his chair had tipped over, causing his corduroy slippers to fly off and let us see his support stockings. Asshat.
I couldn’t listen to it because I didn’t know in advance how long it was going to be; it’s tough to listen to someone that I have utter contempt for if I don’t know that the end is near. Plus, I was distracted by wondering if “FREDPAC” was some sort of euphemism for a full Depends.
“I’m about to go Matlock on your ass.”
Have you taken a good look at teh internets? Mostly chaff, hardly any wheat, as they say.
Well, I watched the whole thing, if only to see Fred poop himself.
Spoiler alert: He doesn’t.
But I must say that I really, really, really, really wish this guy was President, if only to hear the Law and Order gavel “sound” (buh, bum!) everytime he finished speaking.
“My fellow Americans…” (buh bum!)
So I jumped around thru the damn thing, trying to find his fucking point.
Shut the fuck up, you old asshole! There was no point!
Stop it!
STFU!
Try that shit-headed rambling in the real world and I’ll kick your ass!
And, I shit you not, he finishes with “Have a Happy Holiday Season?”
THANKS FOR KILLING XMAS, ASSHOLE!!!1!
Where was teh fuggin red pickup?? Should be in the window, or at least a model of it on the desk. What a moron. He was most implausible as a New York DA, he now is absurd as a human. This has to be a warmup for being the new Paul Harvey. Even ditto heads aren’t brain damaged enough to listen to this jackass.
Now at least we know how Lonesome Rhodes would have ended up.
Alt:
Man, that was like Lonesome Rhodes on Metamucil!
Onions! Bees!! Shelbyville!!! Blargh!!
That’s the longest commercial for Vicks Vapor Rub I’ve ever seen.
This is hilarious! Pure comedy.
Clearly Fred should be sent on a diplomatic mission to someplace like Iran.
Why, by the time he finished his “opening statement”, they’ll be begging for mercy; any terms we want, fine, just make this geezer shut up and go away.
Then again, that probably would violate one of those quaint Geneva Conventions, so never mind.
“Asshole dipshit fuckwad”
In addition to summing up the incontinence that is Uncle Fred in a most succinct and accurate manner, that has got to be the most poetic assembly of curse words that I’ve ever heard. I hope it’s in the public domain because I intend to use it.
what a fucking asshole
They edited out the parts where he dozed off, right?
obviously not
Nothing says empathy with an American public that’s lost its retirement funds, homes, college savings accounts (shall I go on?) like an old, ugly, fat guy sitting in his library smoking a cigar in his leather-backed chair while the wintry sun glints off the forested grounds through his mansion’s window.
Craptacular.
I thought Nixon was a modern day Dracula, but old Fred just might have him beat.Make him look in a mirror or hang some garlic around his neck and let us be rid of this fool.
Nixon was a serious evil person, but ya gotta admit, he flushed more brains down the toilet every morning than the current crop of Republicans have in their respective crania.
Would someone please tell this doddering old fool that the election is over and the date is, last time I looked at my calendar on the tool bar of my iMac, DECEMBER FUCKING 3RD???????
How long is that thing really? I gave up after I’d listened to all I could take in one sitting, left it running, went to get a beer, and came back and it was less than halfway done…
Not many men could make McCain look like a young, strapping JFK, but Fred pulls it off.
I’d play this, but it looks like GoodMrsPuma is already over her insomnia. Thanks anyway!
Damn! The Repugs are pulling out all the stops to render themselves irrelevant for the coming century. Palin, Boehner, and now Droop-Dog Thompson.
The man could put a tweeker in the middle of a meth binge to sleep.
Well, they have been dead for a long time now but just haven’t noticed it.
Now I finally understand Palin’s appeal, though…it’s that she was born after the start of the Neolithic.
And that she is not yet fossilized. Well, at least not from the neck down.
EDP – How is your semester winding down? Mine has gone really well and will soon be over. Of course I just collected the papers from my theory seminar, so I have plenty of pain left before it is over.
Arriana Huffington is being more than her usual jerk about TDS tonight.
Oh my goodness, Fred has his uses after all. He proves to be a very effective non-addictive sleeping pill.
Sleep guaranteed and nobody will be tempted to take two (overdose) of his lectures (one is quite enough to bring on a deep & restful sleep).
There are global implications too – Fred as a secret weapon to end the war and bring the troops home. Let’s send him to the Middle East to put the Iraqis to sleep so our troops can tippytoe out of their country unnoticed and unharmed.
Digg!
My last class is Monday and the final is the 18th, with a stack of papers to grade in between. Not bad, really, but I’m tired and depressed and it just seems like a chore right now.
Classes are over Friday here and then finals next week. Not too bad. I have about a dozen papers in my seminar and about a dozen essay exams coming in from an upper division course next Wednesday. My two big lecture classes are scantron tests and I have a TA for one.
This video would make a great Ec I final exam: discuss, using what you’ve learned about macroeconomics theory this semester, all the errors in the video.
Damn, eCAHN, that’s harsh. It would take at least 3 hours to do that.
So make it a take-home.
LOL.
In fact, I think I’ll send it to my wingnut son, to see if he remembers any real economics.
Ouch!
Just did it. I know I’m safe because he never looks at anything I recommend.
Baabwa is on Colbert. Click. Gone.
Here some oldsters that the pups at the lake should enjoy. Two ladies in their 80’s…for a different perspective on daily events. Lately they’ve gone semi-viral.
Margret and Helen
Their writing really gets some people going. The comments for the last few posts have been quite entertaining.
Great Women ! Thanks
I just have to say that this comment thread is one of the most humorous that I have ever read.
I did not watch the video. I want to thank those of you who did so I wouldn’t have to.
I never thought Fred was presidential candidate material, even for a Rethuglican. The thought of him actually in the White House is an abomination.
I loved the video. It was sooo R. Self-mockery at it’s finest. But then maybe it’s just economist humor. Heh.
A real hoot those two. I look forward to every new post. I picked them up thru Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish.
Well, it would have been a quiet and uneventful administration. I mean you have to be awake more than 30 minutes a day to actually do anything.
well, ianae…but I do appreciate good self-mockery. Maybe I will take a peek.
Toddling off to bed. Take care all.
Good night. DrDick.
OK, I broke down and watched it.
His biting sarcasm and razor-sharp wit slay me.
Why did he do this? Who is his audience? Do they buy it?
America sure missed our chance to have Grampa GrumpyButt as President. He sure makes a good case for neo-Hooverism, doesn’t he. What a tool.
He had the Cigar … was Ariel under the Desk ?
Eureka Springs has tunes at the Mothership!
Late Late Nite FDL: Ultimate Camp
You can’t buy snark like that on a street corner.
Thanks for sharing Lou, I loved it.
Bookmarked and shared with many.
Damn that’s some cutting edge smackdown and snark.
*G*
In response to the Phred Flick.
Where did this originate, and why?
Unlike many other of the earlier comments made, I immediately assumed this was total phreallin tongue in cheek parody . . . I woulda needed days to write that script . . . it’s brilliant as snark!!!!!
I see it as only parody and a real hard ass slap at both the perpetrators of our crap sitch, and the incoming PE who has to DEAL with it all, and who HAS adopted many of those responsible for HOW we get to the crap sitch we are in.
Like SNL, no one gets out alive or unscathed.
To view this as a political tool to advocate failure, and brand Obama with the SAME failure, I’d sure as shat need more information about the clip, its authors/funders, its intent, its intended audience, its distribution and much more.
You DHF’s and prog’s sure spook easy these days . . . I’m not sure yer on my side anymore yer so afraid of the shadows . . . but the rest of us DFH’s and prog’s will cover for your fear if you’ll promise at some point you’ll suck it up and get back in the game without panicing everytime you see a bad buy.
It’s SO unbecoming to lead change that way.
Chill the flock out, Obama’s GOT this. *G*
Beware GOP actors turned politicians. You can’t shut them up.
”Ask not what your country can spend for you. Ask what you can spend for your country.”
Sounds okay. Ahem. But spoken by a Rethug? Uhh, I don’t think so. We’re already spent thanks to these clowns.
“Usually you have to work the morning shift at Coco’s or at a dry cleaners to be afforded the opportunity to patiently listen to an old man with nothing better to do bend your ear about the sad state of affairs in the world today and how things have really gone to “hell in a hand basket” or some other quaint elderly person expression that makes you remember that you really must die before you get old. But now, through the miracle of teh internets, you can sit in the privacy of your own home and be lectured and harangued by someone who quit his job in the Senate after only eight years so he could do a little TV, marry and ‘do’ an ex-cheerleader, and then run for President between naps”
Hey T,
What may be worse is to listen to a presumably young person throwing gratuitous shit at old people. JUST STOP IT. Age usually has little or nothing to do with being a dumbass. You are being a bit of one with your insult above.
Do you remember listening to old Senator Byrd during the run up to the wars?
Don’ be afraid of getting old T, for most of us it’s really much better than anticipated. But I am an old person so I may be full of shit.
I wrote:
“Don’t be afraid of getting old T, for most of us it’s really much better than anticipated. But I am an old person so I may be full of shit.”
I’d rather have said:
Don’t be afraid of getting old T, for most of us it’s really much much better than anticipated. You will be OK when you get there.
Joel
joel, it’s a snark site son, expect your ox to get gored occassionally and it will go better for you, honest. In general.
As someone in his mid-fifties, I appreciate being referred to as a “presumably young person”. All things being relative I guess…