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September 6, 2005
WB: Noblesse Oblige
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I heard the mp3 and I don’t think Barbara Bush said “Let them eat cake.” You have to be careful. That’s the kind of thing the right wing blogs will jump ALL OVER, e.g.
DEMOCRATS FABRICATING QUOTES BY BARABARA BUSH
and from there it’s all over the Internet
Posted by: zen_less | Sep 6 2005 7:35 utc | 1
The quote isn´t complete – as some pointed out the quote is:
What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overhwlemed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle)–this is working very well for them.
The actual quote is much worse actually-“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they want to stay” in Texas.It’s been updated on E & P’s website.
All over the Internet…..
Billmon?
Perish the thought, not to mention the cream cheese icing that those folks in the arena will never get with their cake because the underprivileged only deserve to have that crappy surgar/water/foodcolouring crap with the hard bits mixed in to keep ’em honest.
I heard this old 60s rock song all over the radio internets:
“I aint gonna work for ma bush no more….everybody says she’s the brains behind pa…”
But I might have miss heard it. Awaiting confirmation. I don’t want the conservative bloggers jumping all over it.
Posted by: christofay | Sep 6 2005 9:51 utc | 5
who the heck ever tried to set her up as a love object anyways? do you remember her puppy book?
Posted by: christofay | Sep 6 2005 10:34 utc | 6
zen_ less it’s Billmons sarcasm…that’s why we love him…
Do not worry, he is well known on the Internet…
And about Bushes…they are so far from reality that I don’t see how anybody would expect anything decent to come from that family…
Posted by: vbo | Sep 6 2005 11:13 utc | 7
So is BB, Cheney’s sex change brother? could you imagine sleeping w/that? no wonder HW, is so …nevermind…lol
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 6 2005 11:23 utc | 8
How will the influx of refugees to Texas affect their electoral politics? Will they vote as Texans after many months of residency? They’ll be there over a year by the 2006 congressional mid-terms. I look for Texas to try to block their participation. And what of the decimated districts all along the Gulf coast? I’d wager many citizens intending to return will want a say in their next Representative or Senator. Yet they’ll be out of district, many with new jobs and new residences acquired or rented. I haven’t heard of these considerations mulled over publicly. Anyone have thoughts or info on the legalities involved?
Posted by: steve duncan | Sep 6 2005 13:48 utc | 9
@CF:
I saw the quote over at Smirking Chimp and drageed it over here to stick up somewhere. Then I saw that Billmon had written about it.
I thought of the puppy book too.
Posted by: Groucho | Sep 6 2005 14:17 utc | 10
could you imagine sleeping w/that?
plllease,uncle $cam, let’s not go there, ever!!!
Posted by: annie | Sep 6 2005 14:20 utc | 11
I aint gonna work for ma bush no more….everybody says she’s the brains behind pa…”
She talks to all the servants about Man and God and Law
Everybody says she’s the brains behind pa
She’s 68 but she says she’s 24.
I ain’t gonna work for Georgie’s ma no more.
Posted by: Billmon | Sep 6 2005 14:29 utc | 12
I used your picture to make some Livejournal icons. I hope that’s okay. They’re here.
Keep Rehnquist on the bench. Whatever his latest intra-body experience is, I’m sure he’ll be a better jurist for it. I saw Lord of the Rings, is this pertinent?, and Gandolf came back much stronger after his rebirth. I am sure this applies.
Posted by: christofay | Sep 6 2005 15:43 utc | 14
Has a more criminal family ever run the country?
The Bushs’ make the Kennedy’s look like amatures.
Posted by: Scott McArthur | Sep 6 2005 16:12 utc | 15
Note here where he says that Barbara “Bush chucked again…” fraudian slip? Or should people just up chuck when they hear her name?
Posted by: Jeremy | Sep 6 2005 16:32 utc | 16
Nice post and awesome photoshopping. Made my “silver foot” post at my blog seem… bland.
Also, thank you for linking to my Hurricane Relief Diary (from Daily Kos). I’m about to go and donat another $39 so that it tips the scales at $15,000 raised on the nose. These are all great organizations. I will also be doing a diary at Kos evaluating the response of each of the organizations, provided I can find kudos or criticisms in the news media. It will just be one more way folks can be informed in their giving.
Thanks again…
RenaRF
You know christofay, that’s a really good idea. And it can shore up the regime’s pro-life credentials as well, show that they’re really serious about it.
Executive Logic
Earlier, McClellan rejected suggestions that the poor, and particularly blacks, had been abandoned when New Orleans was evacuated.
“I think most Americans dismiss that and know that there’s just no basis for making such suggestions,” McClellan said.
Actual Evidence
At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses pulled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the Superdome since last Sunday.
“How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?” exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
(2nd part of 2nd quote scrubbed from Springfield Missouri News-Leader.com, but preserved at salon.com)
Posted by: citizen | Sep 6 2005 18:22 utc | 19
This is trog bait. You are supposed to roll on the floor and howl with indignation. It will keep you occupied and gratified so you won’t think too much about what you are actually seeing.
Posted by: eftsoons | Sep 7 2005 0:50 utc | 20
Actually,it’s keeping track of the lies. Who really howls about McClellan anymore?
Posted by: citizen | Sep 7 2005 1:26 utc | 21
Roshi here.
I’m perplexed. No matter how many times I encounter what seems like a flaw in nature –like black flies, for instance– I get this way. Reading about the president’s parents touring hurricane relief facilities in Houston, I was struck by the black-flyism of George’s mama and understood as I never had before why they say the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
MOre: http://www.roshiboblog.blog-city.com/black_flyism.htm
Is anyone interested in helping translate some of these excellent posts to other languages?
interblog.wikispaces.org
Billmon’s short and sweet “Noblesse Oblige” is already up as a test case.
This could be a great way to let everyone around the world read some of people’s favorite blog posts.
(Note to Billmon – Let me know if there’s any copyright issues or whatever with this sort of blog translation wiki!)
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 7 2005 2:13 utc | 23
Added a name and email where I can be reached…
interblog.wikispaces.org
(Note to Billmon – Let me know if there’s any copyright issues or whatever with this sort of blog translation wiki!)
Posted by: inter_blog | Sep 7 2005 2:14 utc | 24
On second thought – maybe EACH blog should have its own translation wiki – to make it easier to find things.
So instead of the current
interblog.wikispaces.org
You could have a blog like “inter-billmon.wikispaces.org” where Whiskey Bar enthusiasts could post and edit and view translations.
I’m just very impressed with the quality of some blogs like billmon, digby, wolcott, atrios, americablog, dailykos, etc… and I wonder if this kind of “globalization” (at the level of the PEOPLE) might grow into some sort of counterweight to the corporate media.
For example, it might be really something if EVERY wired person in the world had access to what some of America’s most interesting bloggers are saying about, say, someone like Bolton, or about the Feds’ accidental / on-purpose bungling of Katrina.
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 7 2005 2:20 utc | 25
Actually,it’s keeping track of the lies. Who really howls about McClellan anymore?
What is the point. These people are strangers to the truth. It is like counting turds in a cesspool, i.e., an idle academic exercise.
Posted by: eftsoons | Sep 7 2005 2:48 utc | 26
@interblog:
Boy Howdy, If nothing else, I do want the world to know what every one around here thinks of the mustachioed jackass, aka Bolton. He is so stupid that Bush couldn’t find a job for him in the fifty states. So he sent him riding around the earths outer orbit on a fucking rock! But the guy is so stupid that if they told him that his job was to sort dog doo by color and consistency he’ll spend all day at it and do a damn good job of it to boot.
Max
Posted by: Max Andersen | Sep 7 2005 3:00 utc | 27
I have two questions.
National Press Club speech by Robert Bork 9-6-05
3/4 into speech he suggest intellectuals have turned toward socialism because they require a higher meaning where conservatives do not. He states he was a socialist in his youthful days (very close to beginning of speech). Where do you get a transcript of the speech? Second question is far more confusing to me. It sounded like Bork’s take on the conservative is: they do not need faith. But the Intellectual needs something, which, according to him, they replace with socialism. Which leaves me with my second question, unfortunately, I don’t even know where to start.
Posted by: Craton | Sep 7 2005 5:40 utc | 28
inter-b:
check out Eurotribune
They have people who translate articles from other nations into english.
Soj, at Flogging the Chimp, and also eurotrib, is someone you might find interesting.
Posted by: fauxreal | Sep 7 2005 6:23 utc | 29