Or, he could sell his system as a free market alternative to the federal witness protection program.

This guy is as famous as me.

By now you’re probably asking yourself “If I get the kind of blog traffic that Lee Stranahan gets, which has a trend line (see below) that looks remarkably similar to Andrew Breitbart’s current EKG, will I be rich and famous too?”

Actually, I’m wondering if I get a Segway by signing up with early registration to his master^#*$(% class.

Are you fucking kidding me? Footage of Obama eating at Roscoe’s? What is that for, a fan site for Roscoe’s?

Hell, I have a blog trend line that looks like that. But then, I’m not trying to sell my services as an expert on blogs to people who believe that Breitbart was some kind of hero.

(I know what a Segway is, too, thanks.)

Segue, Strange-ahan. Segue.

Wow, if such footage did exist that would be so fucking awesomely meaningless, and if the footage didn’t exist it would be so fucking dude wait wha??

Last week I had to alert a writer — not a blogger but a professional who writes for several well-respected publications (i.e. none of the “Big” oeuvre) that it was “segue” and not “segue way” as he had written.

Oy.

Speaking of delusions of mediocrity, I see that Dana Loesch’s retaliatory petition to re-inflate the Limbaugh blimp has over 500 signatures. Meanwhile, the petition to get Limbaugh banned from the Armed Forces Radio network has over 20,000 signatures.

Breitbart’s fiefdom of failure is the gift that keeps on giving.

My blog’s been offline for four years and I still get more sitemeter hits than that.

My only regret is that I failed to convince Whitney Houston to take out Stranahan when she beat up Breitbart during their final toot.

Ooh! Ooh! Where do I sign up!? I, too, wish to be a famous political blogger who knows how to use the word “segway!” I will be linked and quoted extensively! I will be “trending” (whatever that means)! I will have my ruggedly handsome pan on TV ALL THE TIME!! And all for the low low introductory price of $35!!

(Yes. There WAS one of me born every minute.)

I think he’s emulating his idol aWol in falling off a segue ;}

“Segway.??? Is there a Stupidity Highway from Big Government’s Breitbart.com to Great Online College Courses? Or does Mr. Stranahan envision some two wheeled, battery operated, self-balancing, travel device that’s slow enough to make bloggers “expurts on thingies.” A word of advice to the greatest political blog teacher in the history of the web: next time try dictionary.com. It’s on the innertubz and it’s free.

It’d almost — almost — be worth signing up, just to find out the secret recipe for online wingnut welfare:

Lesson 1: Truth? What Truth?
Lesson 2: When in doubt, make it up.
Lesson 3: If you have nothing else to say, then smear someone.

Etc etc etc.

But I just spent $35 to fill up the battery on my Segue™, so it’ll have to wait.

P.T. Barn – er, Lee Stranahan is alive and well. Sort of reminds me of the guys on late night television selling educational seminars and materials on how you too can become a rich real estate investor. Leading of course to the speculation as to why these guys aren’t doing it themselves if it’s all that easy.

Oh yeah – because it’s easier fleecing the rubes at 99.95 a head by telling them how to lose their money investing in the smoking wreckage of the national residential real estate market. So with Lee – if he knew how to make money blogging, he’d be doing it. But hey, who can blame him – if people send money to TV preachers, why not Lee?

Also, too – was in a low mood since attending a funeral this morning. Seeing the ever hypnotic rotation of Shakira’s never-to-be-sufficiently-praised ass helped immensely.

Freudian slip of the day, isn’t it?

Strainaham:Segway::Segway:http://goo.gl/PWOyW

Also, too: I haven’t looked at Himself’s Twitter page in a while, but let’s have a golf clap for this long overdue bit of honesty in his bio:

Lee Stranahan
@Stranahan

Writing, film making, Breitbartian conservative …

How long has it been since he gave up on his claim that he was the only real liberal on the Internet, anyway?

I support Stranahan’s plan, as I do any enterprise designed to separate fools from their money.

That avatar on Stranahan’s twittertwat feed is way appropriate, innit? A little fucking baby, pretending to be a grown-up with intelleckt. What a fucking pussy.

There’s a lot of assclowns on the twittertwat that use babies as their avi and, you know what (?), most of them are fucking pussies*.

* Oh fuckidyfuckfuck! realitychecker will be here soon associating anyone saying both ‘fuck’ and ‘pussy’ with decapitation and general mayhem. Also, primary obama!

Mr. Stranahan will move toward the money, and if he doesn’t find it via this scheme, he’ll try something else. With all the mystery SuperPAC money likely to be spent against dems during the general election, I’m guessing he’ll have some takers for his services. He’s well equipped for minor-league media campaigns (possibly including dirty tricks, depending on how he’s wired, and degree of financial greed/desperation).

The Wasilla Grifter Princess has probably hoovered all the cash from her dimwitted orc-like followers, otherwise he could try tapping that vein… as long as those folks don’t discover the ridicule directed toward their Leader in Mr. Stranahan’s past work (a couple of these are actually are kinda funny, IMHO):

Sarah Palin’s Speecher (3:01)
Palin Speechwriter on Obama Death Panels (0:57)
Palin Speechwriter on Civility in Health Care Debate (0:59)
Palin, Bachmann, Census: The Tubagoo Report (2:15)

Those are funny! I wonder if he changed sides after Breitbart stuck his fangs in him and sucked the humanity out of his soul. Or maybe, he used to be a liberal, but after he found out that black people were being registered to vote, he became outraged by the New Black Panther Party.

In my googlie quest to discover who the hell Stranahan might me (I’m so poorly read!), I came across this:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/05/a-love-supreme
I also came across flickr and twitter links for him and all the usual suspects, except no Wikipedia page! I guess he’s too cool and subtle and Lennyish for that. Just what you’d expect of someone who (I’m drawing an inference here, from the collection of links google produced) hooked up with Breitbart via HuffPo.

My guess is that, for Stranahan, the calculation was simple:
Breitbart.com = steady paycheck

I’d never have heard of this guy if it wasn’t for Tbogg’s sublime japes against him.

My favorite is when he has a sad over the fact that the best American musicians and artists love Obama.

He’s like the Peter Suderman who got an MFA instead of sucking enough Koch to get a wing-nut sinecure.

Perhaps Stranahan really did mean segway…..as in:
plunging off a cliff while riding one…

truth is stranger than fiction

how appropriate, all things considered.

Just where on Lake Avenue is Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles? It sounds great!

I was curious to see what IMDb had for this clown. Aside from some visual effects stuff, there’s all of this:

Director/Writer/Actor (as “Scary Rented Friend 3″)/Producer/Editor (1 title)
“Breathing Room” (1998)
Tagline: “Love is wonderful…until it sucks.”
(Wowsers.)

Not to be confused with about eighty other IMDb entries under that title, looks like “Breathing Room” was a big hit with all six young males who have seen it, but you can’t rent it anywhere.

He also has a deviantArt page devoted to black-and-white “tasteful” boobtography…assuming this is all the same clown. (It does kind of fit together in that “I was liberal, until those Hollywood Jews spat on my genius” sort of failed-artist’s butthurt.)

I might be willing to take his course if he throws in some advice about where I should buy gold and ionized bracelets for pain relief.

There has to be some equivalent of Poe’s law for race-baiting and bigotry. I thought TBogg made up that last one. Maybe we should call it the TS rule. As in: you can’t make This Shit up.

It’s the 0.000079 that really makes that graph art.

Uhm… (hint, hint): nothing is stopping you from setting up that much-needed wikipedia page on Mr. Stranahan. You’d be doing the world a favor, and I’m sure the rest of us would be happy to chip in.

You know, a while ago I was asking around whether there were any big name liberal bloggers who had made the switch to conservative, along the lines of conservatives who had betrayed their cause come to the light (John Cole, Charles Johnson, David Brock, etc.), and I couldn’t think of a single one.

If this Lee Stranahan character is an exemplar of the breed, I can see why they aren’t thick on the ground.

Well, wait…they’re THICK….

I would prefer that he Segway over to Roscoe’s – maybe have a Stymie’s Choice.

You just HAD to link to that menu, didn’t you… Now I can’t hear myself think over my stomach growling, and the drool is all over my keyboard.

Really. The radical Mau-Mau Obama eating chicken & waffles with his homeys down in the ‘hood….Pasadena.

I love the way you think!

Teh Google says east side between Orange Grove and Mountain. (If you were going to Oxy and living on campus, you’d need a car, or at least an hour on buses, to get there.)

I’ll have the Carol C. Special, please – 1 succulent breast, 1 delicious waffle. Although that Big Mamma Special is making me salivate.

Whatever else Obama has done, he sure as hell did not visit Roscoe’s House of Chicken n’ Waffles in Pasadena while a college student at Oxy in the late seventies/early eighties.

If you’re reading, Stranahan, you stupid fucking tourist, Roscoe’s flagship restaurant in Hollywood opened in ’75, and the Pasadena franchise on Lake opened in ’94.

Oh, and Lee, don’t forget to return all the contributions made to you for your awesome documentary of Anthony Weiner’s weiner. You know, that film you never made.

My kid used to go to Roscoes in Hollywood a lot when he was in High School – and he’d bus from the Westside with this friends. I’ve never been to any Roscoes. But if you were at Oxy, the Pasadena location would be the most convenient. Of course, as Chris points out, the Pasadena location didn’t exist while OBama was at Oxy.

Which is yet another example of Obama’s awesome time-travel powers.

Besides – everybody used to hang with Barry at Tommy’s off Rampart. Chili cheese dogs, mang, chili cheese dogs!

What might be damning would be video of Obama eating an Oki-dog

If he was on Fairfax, he was at Canter’s. No question.

OH HELL YES! Tommy’s signature is of course that big-ass sloppy mess of a chili cheese burger, but them’s damn good dogs, and thank you for reminding me that it’s been far too long since I visited. Orale Doot!

There was a sandwich place on Colorado that he might have visited, though. The name is escaping me – it closed during Bush41, IIRC – but they had sandwiches named for celebrities. i liked the ‘Jack Benny’ myself.

He might have gone by Langer’s, at 7th and Alvarado, across from MacArthur Park. (They make their own pastrami. You don’t have to get it on rye bread.)

Holy crap… 238 page views a day… He’s a fucking juggernaut… Sign me up…

You’re thinking of Stottlemeyer’s.

Since we’re on memory lane, Obama might have washed that tasty sandwich down, like many other Oxy students, with a cheap and tasty mugfull of beer at Chromo’s (while standing next to me at the bar for all I know!). ‘Course, he would have been using a fake ID at the time if he did, not yet being 21, and I bet Stranahan’s beady little eyes just lit up with joy at the thought. Go crazy, Lee!

If I aspired to be an relatively unknown dumbass on the Intertubes, I’d sign up.

It’s all so, so…..
WEST COAST!!!!

Hahaha! Good one! Give him a dollar..

Better one: I should bill him for the time it took me to read that, and then levy his blog account when he doesn’t pay up. Better still, CLASS ACTION!

So, what is this Roscoe’s place, a front for Black Panther’s headquarters?

Oh, wait, here’s a news article…

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/obama-roscoes-west-la.html

Better still, CITIZEN’S ARREST!

I thought Tbogg had doctored up a Tweet at first. If the asshole is serious about Roscoe’s, he’s going to post it for his racist audience. There’s no other possible rationale.

Among other items, Obama reportedly ordered the No. 9, “Country Boy” — three wings with choice of waffle, potato salad or French fries — which cost $8.90, according to the menu.

Breitbartettes: “See, the Kenyan Muslim Socialist eats greasy, fattening food, while hs fat-assed wife tries to put America on a mandatory diet. HYPOCRISY!!!”

You know you can’t cheat an honest man. So I have passed Stranahan’s email address along to my esteemed correspondent of high personal ethics, Mr. Nogakembe of the Nigerian Finance Ministry.

So many misperceptions here! Oxy is way up in NE LA, in the neat little village of Eagle Rock, fast by the Highland Park border. It’s near downtown LA and a quick enough trip to Silverlake and Echo Park, but all of those neighborhoods are rather recent destination developments. The west side, with or without a car, is a haul. Pasadena, is a short trip and the Colorado St. bus will get you from Eagle Rock Blvd and Colorado to Lake in about 20 minutes tops.

Obama, when he went to Oxy, most certainly went to Casa Bianca, because everyone goes to Casa Bianca.

I bet Mr. Stranahan also sells Amway. I wonder if you’ll get an additional discount if you join his sales network.

Thanks – my brain had lost it. Been a long time, and still missed….

They had real sarsaparilla there. Tasted a lot like root beer.