Tim Blair

GOOMBA GOOM!

I must add.....

John Howard re-elected
Hamid Karzai is elected
George Bush re-elected
Arrafat is dead
Rall gets dropped from the WaPo....

(did I miss anything?)

Man, the last couple of months have been rocking!

You know, this might rank as one of Ted's least offensive cartoons.

An achievement, to quote someone, like being a thin sumo wrestler.

You missed Castro falling flat on his face on live TV. That was good.

You missed the Prime Minister of Spain complaining to the press that President Bush wasnt returning his phone calls. I liked that one too.

Oh, and Farenheit 9/11 hit the remainder bin at Blockbuster video.

Add to that about a week and a half of stunned silence and tourettes syndrome from Air Americas Jeanene Garafalo and Al Franken.

And for the last three weeks its the first time if 4 years I havent heard anyone say:

"Bush is Dumb".

as the prof would say, "heh".

There was speculation at Captain's Quarters a day or two ago that Kim Jong Il might be dead as well.

Tim, does "fake turkey" count as, well .... you know! If so, I'm greatly relieved to see Dubya's triumph and his (generally idiotic) opponents' humiliation will not mean the demise of our favorite non-fact in the catalog of Bush-haters' fantasy and distortion.

We're coming up on the anniversary of the infamous non-fake turkey incident. Hope you're planning a fitting commemoration ....

"Now, you may find it odd that a president who could fly halfway around the world to pose for a photo op with a fake turkey has managed to be in office for four years without ever making the short trip to Ottawa ... "

Um, maybe because President Bush feels a whole hell of a lot of gratitude to those soldiers in Baghdad, as opposed to owing either Chretien or Martin damn near not one thing.

(did I miss anything?)

The humiliation of Dan Rather.

"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could lie..."

Robbie Williams brags about how he could outperform Bush as President: "I speak better than him, you know. I'd do a better job than him. And I'm not very bright, I'm not," added the chart-topper

Gee, what's not to respect about the not very bright chart-topper's oratorical and leadership skills? Now, if we could only get W in a music video to show Robbie how it's really done

rall was dropped by "men's health" and several other monthlies too. quietly, his "cartoons" vanished.
ottawa? bleh! pat buchanan was right,. canada is like a latent case of arthritis. you ignore it until it starts acting up. then you take a pill...

Bush - fresh off his secind election win - is visiting Canada? Well, now he's just rubbing it in (LoL).

I have a question: why IS he going to Canada?

The marines are still in Iraq....is he saying that a better photo op is in Canada?

I'm so confused...

The Real JeffS:

Condi Rice as Secretary of State
The Marines cleaning out Fallujah
Stargate confirmed for a 9th season :)

"the decision to drop Rall was a “cumulative” one that had been building for a while."

I wonder how many other left wing pundits are accumulating credits for their soon to be announced depatures? If the MSM finally realizes what their markets really think, it could be the season to be jolly indeed. I hope Margo has been practicing her basket weaving.

Turkeys, fake or otherwise, have done more for the war on terrorism than Canada.

For interested parties, Charles P. Pierce is a regular on an NPR news quiz program. The show used to be slightly funny, but it's ossified a bit, and the tone has grown much more bitter since the Iraq war. They decided a year or so ago that, given that the panelists were mostly left-liberals (besides Pierce, there's Adam Felber who runs a left political blog and Sue Ellicott who worked at Air America radio) they would get a conservative, so they hired PJ O'Rourke; sadly, he's hardly ever on.

Mr Pierce also won the Media Research Center's Dishonor Award for liberal bias in the quote of the year category:

“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

Who the hell is Robbie Williams, and why should I care?

There's a hell of a killing to be made for somebody with the balls and spunk to market plastic (or even inflatable) turkeys emblazoned with: "I Voted For Dubya -- Blame Me!"

Oh, to be 20 years younger...

Bush visited Canada twice during his first term for multinational summits. PM Martin has been to the White House.

... and Philip Adams didn't appear in yesterday's Australian."
Last Saturday, he ran one of his regular columns about the people who help street kids. He does this whenever he's in the shit.

Is he on the way out?

To add to TheRealJeffS great couple of months list:

Canada's state-censor lifted its ban of the Fox News Channel today...

and

Paul Martin FINALLY kicked that lunatic Carolyn Parrish out of the Liberal caucus after her latest embarrassing stunt of crushing a George Bush doll under her boot on This Hour Has 22 Minutes show on the state-run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV station.

I just did a Google on Carolyn Parrish.

And what came up? This.

"Bush to visit Canada on Nov. 30; mad cow expected to be on agenda ".

I have a screenshot if anybody wants one, things like this are too good to last.

Great heading Tim. Dad's Army?

I can't understand how that smug tw@ Robbie Williams has albums that get to number 1. Unlike him I know something about both politics and music. I look forward to his continuing lack of success in America.

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Perhaps this is a special interest gloat, but I raised a glass to the passing of Derrida on my birthday.

Shame on me.

Re: Derrida

The Onion had possibly the funniest headline (no story, the headline on the front page referred to a non-existent page inside):

Jacques Derrida "Dies"

Also in stupid celebrity news -- TV star gets "Bush flu".

I liked Derrida, though now I have a pile of his new books I haven't gotten to. I used to be pretty current though. I don't think academics actually read him, but just adopt the sound. Anyway it seems that way to me. I don't recognize Derrida in their explanations of Derrida, nor in others', for that matter.

Robbie is doing another bit of band-wagon jumping. His career in the US is going no where so he is hoping for a bit of pay-back from the Bush-hating crowd. Its pathetic and sad, but I bet some PR nitwit from his record company thought it was a steller idea.

Oh, please!
Al Brain's screenshot is an absolute pearler!

Is it possible to overdose and die from gloatiness?

Rall is trying to organize a letter writing campaign to get his cartoon back in the WaPo. If anybody wants to 'help him out', (I did, takes less than a minute) here's where to write.

washingtonpost@mailnj.custhelp.com.

From A. E. Brain's link:

"The president, however, is largely handcuffed on trade matters due to the influence of powerful Congressional interests."

That, too, is a win, though not in the "no more Rall" category. Nice to see a journo with some teeny inkling of how the US political process works.

Regards,
Ric Locke

You might be a moron, stupid, idiot... if you:
1) got a degree from Yale
2) ran several successful businesses
3) were the Govenor of Texas
4) are the President of the US for 2 terms

If this is what we considered to be stupid, I want both my kids to be stupid too.

You know, of all the celebrities whose opinions on world events I could not give a flying shit about, one of the least shit-giving must be Robbie Williams, a manufactured, never-quite-got-to-the-point-of-selling-a-single-record-in-America nobody whose psychodramas are apparently endlessly fascinating to Britons but prove the point that if a tree falls to print a tabloid in the UK, nobody in the US hears it.

"If this is what we considered to be stupid, I want both my kids to be stupid too."

Never mind the kids, I'll take some of that 'stupidity' for myself RIGHT NOW.

If Bush, with all that he's been able to accomplish, is considered stupid .. what about the rest of us who haven't accomplished anywhere near what Bush has? Perhaps Rall was right .. we must be morons. But, using their standard of Bush being stupid, so are Rall and a large % of the population.

They have high standards for non-stupid. Not too many people would qualify. Robbie Williams? He's a moron by his own standard. He's just too moronic to know he his. His delusions of grandeur that he could be president and do a better job than Bush indicate he's also suffering from some psychiatric affliction and may need medication.

Thanks for the link, Arty. I mailed off a congrats to the WaPo.

I don't know who Robbie Williams is, either. I don't think I'll bother to find out either. Life, these days, is good!

Why, I'd burn all my Robbie Williams albums. If I had any. I can still burn everyone else's, though.

One to add to the "You might be a moron, stupid, idiot..." list:

5) Liberated 50 million people from two of the world's worst tyrranies.

Here is a link for an actual George W. Bush Turkey-serving action figure. Really, I'm not kidding.

http://www.nrbookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6278

Whois Robbie Williams? Oh, he's a cro-magnon - that sings? Ted rall , good, he accumulated enough frequent-flyer miles to hell.

This guy HAD a relationship with the Washington Post???

You mean after he sang "Moon River" and starred on "Mork and Mindy" you don't know who Robbie Williams is?

Thanks for the email address Arty. I sent my congratulations.

In re: "Bush Flu". There is good news in this. The article also stated that the political arguments were so intense that they had to shut the activities down. Could this be the rise of the real "working people" on their set? Just asking.

"You mean after he sang "Moon River" and starred on "Mork and Mindy" you don't know who Robbie Williams is?"

Not Robin Williams, Robbie Williams

"Now, you may find it odd that a president who could fly halfway around the world to pose for a photo op with a fake turkey has managed to be in office for four years without ever making the short trip to Ottawa ... "

Maybe there wasn't any reason to visit Canada before now. Now they can discuss immigration policy and making it easier for disgruntled Democrats to move north and, in the immortal words of Mike Moore, give us our country back.

i wud bee glab two rite a leder too thu Wachigten Posed & hilp owt Mr Rawl butt i cum frumm a read stade so thu onley wurdz i kin spel r Goomba Goom.

You guys are right. So many good things have been happening the last few weeks you could take it as a sign or something.

It also looks like the drought in Australia is finally breaking. All we need now is a few cyclones from up north to come down and flood Nyngan again. That should break its back - and get rid of those rotten locusts as well.

GOOMBA GOOM!

Excellent. Soon the NYT and the WaPo will be fully assimilated into the conservative monolith.

Further gloating here.

And (although I'm thoroughly convinced "bc" had tongue in cheek), just for the sake of completeness:

"Moon River" was Andy Williams

I thought

it was
William Carlos

Williams.

"I didn't think he'd do 'Moon River,' and then, BAM - third encore!" - Nelson Muntz

Oh, wait - this isn't still the cartoon thread?

PS - to add to the Best. Two. Weeks. Ever. - "Yassir Arafat Dies; Italian Restaurant Recovers Lost Tablecloth"

Yep, life's been good to me so far... (Not Robbie Williams either. Man, I'm slow.)

Well, geezer, in that case...

Lucinda Williams (nice skull!)

Saul Williams (note the maps, he must be an intellectual)

and.....

Tennessee Williams! (only he died in 1983....hmmmm!)

Whoops! Sorry, I meant "Old Grouch", not "geezer"! My bad.

OK, I guess "Moon River" is a classic and all but I still think Robbie Williams will be remembered more for his Star Wars music.

Tennessee "Ernie" Williams? Isn't that the guy who sang "Sixteen Tons"?

That would be Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Tennessee Williams was a playwright -- click on the link if you really curious.

People, that was a joke. I know who Tennessee Williams and Tennessee Ernie Ford are. The poster immediately before me implied that Robbie Williams wrote the Star Wars soundtracks, and you didn't correct him, did you?

Anyway, Andrea, you're mistaken. Tennessee Ernie Ford wasn't a playwright -- he's the guy who invented the automobile, and then became President of the U.S. when Nixon resigned.

and then became President of the U.S. when Nixon resigned.

Wasn't that the guy who also played Indiana Jones?

Wrong Harry. That would be Omaha Ernie Ford. Or, in the alternative, Michigan Ernie Ford.

No, you're thinking about Minnesota "Ernie" Fats. The former President who also composed the theme to "Love Boat" while playing a game of pool. (under his pseudonymn, John Williams) Tennesee Ernie Ford, did, however, hum the tune to Star Trek, but was more famous for his career in major league baseball.

Tennessee Ernie Ford also invented the yeehah

Just for the record, I knew it was a joke; I was joking too.

I thought William Tell fit in here someplace.

Harry, Michael Moore sang "Sixteen Tons".

Steve Sailor's meta-analysis of the Army testing that both Kerry and Bush underwent in the 60s puts Bush's IQ at around 125 and Kerry's at around 120. Bush is no idiot, despite the protestations to the contrary by the Left.

The Left really needs a new meme...

Michael Moore sang "Sixteen Tons"? Was that before or after he starred in all those James Bond movies?

The more the Left say Bush is 'dumb' they more they label themselves 'dumber'.

Its no prize to lose to someone you have proclaimed as being dumb.

William Tell? The father of H-bomb? I don't see what he has to do with any of this.

No, no! William Tell invented television. A lot of the personalities mentioned on this thread were on TV at one time or another.

The Father of the H-Bomb was Rob "The Bomb" Williams.

The Mother of the H-Bomb was Vanessa Williams.

Maybe he's talking about this plastic turkey?

Sure, it's not a real President Bush, but what does he care?

Michael Moore sang "Sixteen Tons"?

No, he weighs sixteen tons.

No, no, no.

The guy that played Bond wasn't Michael Moore, it was Roger Williams. The pianist, I mean, not the founder of Rhode Island.

Michael Moore didn't sing "Sixteen Tons," it's just life imitating art. The famed circus fatman Tennessee Artie Ford, to be precise.

Carolyn Parrish was recently seen at Dan Donnelly's Ottawa Ford (Bank at Walkley Road) looking for something a little beat up to run over George Bush dolls with.

Goomba........DOOM! to Ted ;o)

Alright, out of the way ... leave it to an American to straighten out these errors and mistatements about our cultural icons:

Look, it's very insensitive to say that Michael Moore weighs 16 tons, OK.

Better to say Michael Moore displaces 16 tons ....
You can't be hurting people's feelings like that, or they may just leave the country and go to Canada where they will then weigh, shoot, I mean displace only ~ 14.5 tonnes. Man, that metric system rocks - great way to loose weight.

And about those Williams boys, it's Hank Williams and his brother Don Williams (my second favorite country singer) who you are refering to. And the songs are not Tennessee Waltz nad Star Wars, they're called Cheatin' Heart and Tulsa Time (not written by Kenny Rogers, he stole it back when he was really a country singer).

And who ever said they were brothers, Hank and Don, nor Bo Cephus? Besides, neither is any kin at all to Maurice Williams, who I believe played a lot of baseball, and got hits in what, 700 games in a row.

Let's not pull a Dan Rather here, I'm fact-checkin your Ozzies asses ;-}

So when does Ted Rall get his multimillion dollar animated movie deal, with voices by Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon?

Dubya really only had one business success (the Texas Rangers baseball team). His earlier career was pretty dismal. However, in addition to the Yale degree, he also earned a Harvard MBA and flew high-performance jet airplanes. _Not_ stupid.

Aaaargh. Philistines. Mangling classic Country.

"I can still hear the soft Southern winds in the live oak trees
And those Williams boys they still mean a lot to me
Hank and Tennessee"

Don Williams Good Ol' Boys Like Me

"One to add to the "You might be a moron, stupid, idiot..." list:

5) Liberated 50 million people from two of the world's worst tyrranies.

Posted by: Mike at November 20, 2004 at 02:42 AM "

Mike, when talking to Leftists a better way to phrase that is "freed more people than Nelson Mandela", since NM is widely considered to be a god amongst leftists, you'll find it hurts a lot more. particularly if you quote the actual figures.

"When I was a kid Uncle Remus would put us to bed
with pictures of Stonewall Jackson above my bed,
then Daddy'd come in and kiss his little man
with gin on his breath and Bible in his hand.
He'd talk about honor and things I should know,
then stagger a little as he went out the door ..."

mangled, huh? Ok, Robin, here's one for ya:

I wrote Don Williams is my second favorite country singer. Who's the first? Hint: It's the one asking the question and it's from a movie.

Canada is Puerto Rico with pine trees.

(To paraphrase the great Mark Steyn)

Harry Tuttle: it won't be any use they won't listen now.

Butch: omg so true.

Sigh. Plastic turkey, the mobius quip between OM and blogdom.

I give up, Jimmy, Who?

I sent my thumbs-up to the Post as well. Ever notice that Rall, apart from being an asshat, isn't even a very good cartoonist? Just sayin'.

"Kenny Rogers... stole it back when he was really a country singer."

Always loved his cowboy movies. And the Sons of the Pioneers and all...

BTW, JeffS, the Geezer is over here.

Sporkadelic — Clip art is your friend...

Yeah, I know, Old Grouch. I switched posts. My apologies.