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NRO “Editor” Jonah Goldberg is not pleased with that woman named after three flavors of ice cream all at one time which is normally ‘awesome’ and ‘proof of God’ to Jonah:
Understandbly(sic), the White House is trying very hard to get out in front of the would-be Christmas bomber story. The head of the Department of Homeland Security isn’t helping. I watched her on three shows and each time she was more annoying, maddening and absurd than the pevious(sic) appearance.
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Napolitano has a habit of arguing that DHS is a first responder outfit. Its mission is to deal with “man-caused-disasters” afer(sic) they occur. It appears she really believes it. If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly(sic) unqualified hack.
I remember when the National Review editorial board demanded the resignation of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice after they discovered an unread copy of Bin Laden Determined to Strike US under a stack of InStyles and Jimmy Choo catalogs in her office, and how Donald Rumsfeld had to wrestle the tantÅ away from Rice when she attempted seppuku. Only by promoting Condoleezza to Secretary of State was she able to reclaim her lost honor, hold her head up high, and go do a little shopping .
I guess it is also worth noting that, if we went around firing people for saying or writing something ranging from, say, the awkward to the dumb, Jonah Goldberg would have run out of umemployment benefits about seven years ago.
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And who can forget Michael Chertoff’s tearful resignation speech after the botched response to Katrina?
Sorry to go off topic but… You have to go check out the National Tea Party convention scheduled for February 4-6 in Nashville, featuring Sarah Palin as keynote speaker at the closing banquet. They want $349 for the convention and $549 if you want to attend the Palin speech (or $349 if all you want is the Palin speech). I’m sure there must be tens of teabaggers willing to cough up $549 plus travel and hotel expenses.
Oh, and while Sarah is speaking (if she doesn’t cancel) this dessert will be served:
Those aren’t so much sics as hics. You gotta admit, he drunk types pretty convincingly.
How very flaccid of him. Maybe he’s scheduled some bebe making time with Abi. NYT health plan no doubt includes ED meds.
Signed,
Chunky Reese Witherspoon
Whoops, shoulda been down one item. Oh, well, I’m sure Jonah’s no all nite worker, either.
s, crw
Isn’t this the same guy who peviously wrote a book called “Liberal Fascism?”
The only legitimate complaint against Janet Napolitano is that she tolerated Joe Arpaio, whilst she was Governor of Arizona. Many of us wanted her to shoot him, but noooooooooooooooooooo, she wouldn’t do it. Silly Democratic woman.
But thank G*d that Obama & Reid in their infinite wisdom decided to keep Joe Lieberman as chair of the senate homeland security committee — nothing builds confidence in their ability to protect us from Nigerian whack jobs with roman candles up their butt than having Holy Joe at the helm. Now that Joe has once again embarrassed the democrats in public I assume they’ll give him an additional committee chairmanship as a reward…
I have no particular beef w/ Napolitano, but if the administration wants to fend off attacks from the likes of Jonah, they could start by showing some more competence in their choice of overseers.
Jonah really needs to fire the guy who designed his spell checker.
Even leaving aside the utter stupidity of what he has written here, Jonah should be mindful of the “glass houses” rule of stone throwing. Someone who owes their job to family connections and makes two spelling errors in three sentences should be careful about calling other people an “unqualified hack.”
Coulis? Seems a little French for such red-blooded fine Americans.
“The pevious appearance.” If I had someone like Doughy Pantload braying obnoxiously at me, instead of doing something useful like cleaning the Cheetohs crumbs off his keyboard so that his fingers wouldn’t slip constantly and skip letter after letter, I might be a little pevious too.
“if we went around firing people for saying or writing something ranging from, say, the awkward to the dumb”
Then Jonah would have spent his entire adult life sleeping under bridges and panhandling on street corners.
Annoying Jonah Goldberg is a minimum requirement for high government service.
@SteveinSacto 2:
I love the pricing: 349, 549. Like gasoline or Rollback Specials at WalMart. How much for Palin Insurance, guaranteeing *a full refund* if/when she doesn’t show?
True, all true. But Napolitano’s statement about how “the system worked” hit a personal best in stupid, too.
“Passengers are reminded to arrive at least three hours before flight time for mandatory Disrobing and Cavity Search…”
All it takes is a few years of the gov dinning fear into our ears and the bullshit premise that somehow everyone can be made absolutely safe from the one-in-a-million lunatic. It’s not as if there’s anything otherwise dangerous about taking to the air in an aluminum tube that’s being directed by an air traffic control system which is older than most of the passengers.
We have idiotic leaders because our leaders have encouraged idiocy in the electorate. It’s only a matter of time until the Talent Contest takes it’s place alongside the debates in the rich tapestry of our elections.
How can an “editor” get away with two misspellings per paragraph?
Yeah, I know, the bar’s not set so high with this one, but seriously.
Editor? There hasn’t been an actual editor, copy editor or even proofreader employed by a US newspaper in ten years. Longer than that for the book and magazine game. It’s a whole industry that was eliminated by ‘spell check’.
Jeez, why can’t Napolitano stick to her guns (so to speak)?
“This is the best Al Queda can do? A guy who sets his crotch on fire? The system worked…although TSA will not stop every individual determined to hurt Americans, everybody did their jobs, including the brave passengers on that flight. Americans’ security is my number one priority and I’ll continue to improve the way the HSD does that every day.”
“Oh, and Jonah, fuck you.”
Seems a little French for such red-blooded fine Americans.
Damned homonyms.
That should read “coolies”.
How many minutes/words before it is conidered an official speech and she can leave with her honorarium
She would do just that in that other dimension where, you know, van Jones wouldn’t have quit when people said mean things about him, where Rahm Emanuel would be back to dancing ballet for a living, and where the hopey-changey administration had a clue about standing for something they claimed to believe in, up to and including integrity, competency, courage, and accountability. Oh, and where someone like Tim Geithner wouldn’t be in charge of “fixing” the very industry he helped screw up…
But, instead, we have this sad posse of chronically clusterfucking do-gooders who stagger along cluelessly and then cower and assume some sort of improvised fetal ball/defensive posture every time the GOP or the media say boo. It’s a sad sight indeed.
A Mooslim tries to blow up an airplane with a Pantload of his own?
Cooincidence? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Yeah, my bad (as MC Steele would say), I keep forgetting we don’t live in a perfect world.
Yeah, Jonah’s an idiot.
Unfortunately, so is Napolitano. And her closetedness is an insult.
I agree she should be fired.
But I also agree it’s hilarious coming from him.
Who knew plantation owners could get coulies in raspberry flavor . . . .
-LarueinSacto, hoss . . . howdy.
If TBogg had any more snark in him, he’d be . . . . swallowed whole, cuz he’s so snarkilicious.
Srsly, TBogg, one of yer best, evah . . . *bows*
I can’t believe this suicidal asshole put the explosive material in his underwear. I already have to take off my shoes to get through security. Now what?
Ok, YER now the snarkiest . . . that was a nice piece of work . . *G*
This is a fast crowd, fast company . . . and damn one has to pee high up on the post to run with it.
Venezuela and Madagascar vie for the honor of producing the world’s best chocolate. Go to http://www.roguechocolatier.com and order a few bars of their Rio Caribe, if they still have it.
I don’t think coolie means what you think it means . . *G*
Is that Minnesnowta Gus, or Mingus?
Cuz Mingus, that’s Pork Pie Hat turf . . . idol worthy.
Something bad happens.
The conservtives then set about proving it happened only because Adam and Eve were liberals.
And if liberals didn’t set out to do pretty much the same thing when bad things happen under the conservative watch, it might actually be outrageous.
Instead it’s what passes for “dialogue” in American politics these days.
Okay, for sure, they’re a lot worse than we are.
Most of the time.
Well, I think we need to forget the air marshals and put a bunch of cute Dutch tourists on every inbound flight to USAmerica. Spread them around the cabin so they can take quick action wherever the fires start.
Also, speedo-flying.
You have to ask?
YOU? Again? Isn’t your shift over, or are you paid by the word?
Christ, no WONDER journalism has a bad name anymore . . . .
noam chomsky’s film is rattling around in my skull… Manufacturing Consent… we’re so easily manipulated aren’t we????? so bend over and spread em!!!
must we? ;)
Yer suggestin these ‘tourists’ either put their fingers in dykes or flog fellow passengers with wooden clogs?
I just don’t get it . . . sigh . . . naive in Sacto . . .
Noam, like Studs Terkel, is godlike.
*bows*
What, we ran nekkid and free under our jeans for decades as we ran wild and loose . . . . gimme a break.
You shy? *smilessweetly*
Thanks, thanks, thanks. Just sent that to a palinite.
that’s word ;o)….
Yesterday 123 people died from being denied Health Care. Today 123 people died from being denied Health Care. Tomorrow 123 people will die from being denied Health Care.
National Security. What does that concept really mean?
unfortunately those in charge are NOT concerned at the least with those stats…
I’m not a journalist.
And if you don’t like what I post don’t read what I post.
Indeed.
And every 24 hours, 18,000 to 20,000 children aged five years and younger die from starvation in one or another 3rd world shithole. WHO estimates that in the 20th century, nearly 700,000,000 children died from hunger.
The civilized world. What can that concept really mean?
This is what You get when people are Political appointee’s to jobs they have little knowledge of.
The truth be known, our Homeland Security, our State Dept., our Unintelligence Agencies, our Defense Dept. that does nothing to defend us, and most of our Government is totally useless.
They bungle fifty things to getting one right, yet we pay to support all this mess and have to listen to the bullshit they put out to cover their butts for their failures.
Dear TBogg; great thread!
I thank you and Bernard Kerik (wearing Gucci-orange…) thanks you.
Youse is a good guy. :o)
In other news, yesterday on CNN, Mary Matalin informed all and sundry that George Bush “inherited” 9-11.
When people get up in front of the camera and say things like this, a buzzer should go off and a crawl that takes up 1/3rd of the screen with dayglo limegreen letters should come up, saying:
“THIS PERSON IS A FUCKING LUNATIC. SHE IS BEING REMOVED FROM THE SET AS YOU READ THIS. IN OUR ONGOING EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF NETWORK NEWS DISCUSSION WE ARE SUBBING IN AN AMATEUR VIDEO OF A MENAGE-A-TROIS INVOLVING A DONKEY AND TWO DWARF PROSTITUTES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.”
Giv the pour gye a brake, for gods’ saik.