TMZ in DC

JNS — there are some incredibly interesting people around DC, sits not just the same five people you talk to everyday. And JNS neither Matalin nor Hubby Carville would make my list.

Dee, you hurt me, I talk to six people every day. And one of them, I’ll admit, is decent looking. JNS

The times that I have stopped at TMZ during channel surfing, it seemed that the staffers took actual delight in the misery of their subjects. My glimpses of the style of reporting did not make me a fan.

The people got elected because they have some charisma? Is money called charisma now?

Well as long as it’s six then you are covered.

And Jay may I suggest that instead of going for looks you go after the funny because there are a bunch of funny people in this town. I mean you got to admit that you have to have a really wicked sense of humor to get through the day around here.

Six degrees of separation. Catchy. Very catchy.

I’m curious. Are people in DC as fug as they think themselves to be?

Sacred: Is money called charisma now?
.
Now? Where you been?
.
Paris Hilton has charisma coming out of her ears, don’t tell me she’d be a nobody if she was poor. Don’t say it!

In other news, Secretary Kardashian responded to questions about renewed North Korean development of fissile material: “You know, it’s all… whatever!”

somepeoplelikeit: That’s not charisma coming out of her ears, that’s her brains leaking out. Oh well, she had no use for them anyway. Tragedy averted.

Never have Mary Matalin as a speaker at a corporate function, wedding or bar mitzvah. She’ll get drunk and then just speak jibberish.

Mary Matalin and Madame, seperated at birth?

It seems to me that the beautiful people need to be turned inside out so se can all see how shallow and ugly they really are.

By the way, Susan Boyle is one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever seen on line.

Don’t mistake speaking jibberish for speaking in tongues. Throw in a little tourettes and it’s fun for the whole family.

Okay..just for comparison

.
At first, it sounds like C-Span just added another channel…but I guess it would be mildly interesting to see Senator Vitter buying diapers at the local convenience store.

Mary Matalin: “…politics is show business for ugly people.”

She ought to know.

By the way, Susan Boyle is one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever seen on line.
.
larry,
.
The singing was beautiful but the BEST part of the video for me was the look on the judges’ faces after the first few bars of the song. They looked like children – TOTALLY spellbound! And the look was there for the remainder of the performance.

Why aren’t we hearing about the tea bagging parties?

Why aren’t we hearing about the tea bagging parties?
.
Cliff,
.
Maybe because the numbers at the demonstrations are less than the number of people waiting to cross the street at the same location?

afguy, you mean like the picture here – Excitement builds at DC tea bag protest site
.
or here – Hundreds of tea baggers in Boston
.
or here – Teabagger of the day
.
Also off topic, but a really good point. Steve Benen: It’s what struck me as so strange yesterday. When DHS raised concerns about radical right-wing extremists who might commit acts of violence, Limbaugh, Hannity, Dobbs, Malkin, and others immediately thought, "Wait, maybe they’re talking about us!" With DHS also concerned about "left-wing extremists," it seems mainstream liberals aren’t especially concerned about being lumped in with a violent fringe.

Just following around Congressional Republicans and First Dog Bo should provide plenty of worthy material…

http://www.political-buzz.com/

wvng,
.
Yep, you pretty well captured the essence of the “movement” there.
.
Sadly, I have “in-laws” and married children who think also this is a big deal.

Just following around Congressional Republicans and First Dog Bo should provide plenty of worthy material…
.
Sorry, Matt.
.
Even working overtime, Bo could NEVER hope to match the others mentioned in either “quantity” or “quality” of the “worthy material”.

Footage from MA state house http://bit.ly/iqQMe. It’s pretty sad. Hockey celebrations at Boston University yesterday attracted at least 10x more people.
.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/gallery/04_14_09_BU_parade?pg=3

Hockey celebrations at Boston University yesterday attracted at least 10x more people.
.
jarais,
.
Puzzling, too, considering that there were probably “hockey pucks” involved in both events.

af, and over at Sully’s he has a post from a libertarian: Teabagging In A Nutshell. “My friend Tim Lee pithily observed on Twitter that the tea partiers are in a lot of ways similar to the anti-war protesters from several years ago. I tend to agree with them, but they make it very difficult to take them seriously.”

To which I responded with an email calling bull$hit. I was at the first anti-Iraq war protest in DC. First protest in my over 50 years. I wasn’t there because of ANSWER (but thank them for getting the permits), nor were the vast majority of the huge crowd there that day. We were there because we had to be, because W’s Iraq plans were so self-evidently a huge mistake. We were there, from around the nation, despite the fact that the media were avidly supporting the war and playing down any protests. We were there despite the fact that no one knew how many to expect, and most expected not many. It was astonishing how ordinary the people were, by age, by dress, by demeanor. It was the media that played up the “message hjackers”, not the crowds themselves.
.
Like the teabaggers my a$$.
.
Also, it is notable that ANSWER did a good job arranging those events, got all their permits and stages and sound and what not. Teabaggers, not so much: I just went to the Lafayette Square "Tea Party." It was a joke. There were around 500 people there. Very little energy. Many of the signs didn’t even make sense. One child was holding a sign, "Obama took away my trip to Disney World." It seems that many parents removed their kids from school to attend. The PA wasn’t even loud enough to be heard from 40 yards away. Very poorly organized.

there were probably “hockey pucks” involved in both events.
.
Is that something else I need to look up on Urban Dictionary?

See? That’s all I wanted: an impression of how big these parties actually are. For all the talk and all the hype, I think we deserve someone (KT? JNS?) to report on the actuality.

Is that something else I need to look up on Urban Dictionary?
.
jarais,
.
It MIGHT be there . . . I recall that it was a vague reference to the relative intelligence of the subject. I seem to recall it in connection with a comedy show from the past (maybe “Laugh In”?)
.
Oh, noes! I’ve just “dated” myself!

Cliff – I’ll have a teabagging round up posted at 7 this evening.

“I just went to the Lafayette Square “Tea Party.” It was a joke. There were around 500 people there.”
.
Maybe there ain’t so many people there because its like raining and what serious protestors would want to get their hair wet. Also you need to remember these are real protestors who are probably at work to pay their taxes and once they get off they will turn out in hughes numbers to protest paying their taxes. Finally, any protestor worth his or her salt knows the best time to be caught protesting is prime time. Jeezzzzz!

gunny, it will, in fact, be fascinating to watch the winger stories build, simultaneously, about why there were so few people there (for the reasons you mentioned) and how there were really huge numbers of people there and the media just didn’t cover it. Anyone willing to bet that won’t happen?
.
Because the reality that they are really all alone in their lunacy simply cannot be allowed.

wvng-I’m glad you concede. Beside, the inspirational Glenn Beck has passed the word that you only have to honk your horn three times to be considered a full fledge protestor any ways. So put that in ObaMao pipe and smoke it. DFH!

Oh and by the way. If your car has been repossessed and you can’t honk your own horn, honk your neighbor’s.

honk your neighbor’s what ….?

Guess Tea time is over in DC.
.
UPDATE 2:15 P.M. The second tea party protest in Washington, D.C., outside the White House, was just shut down by police. A Secret Service agent told Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney that a demonstrator had thrown a package over the fence onto the White House lawn. Below is video of an organizer explaining the protest cancellation.
.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/million-tea-bag-protest-i_n_187243.html

Also from gunny’s link:
.
UPDATE 2:40: The conservative protesters were allowed to return to an area around the White House after a robot was used to open the package that had been thrown onto the lawn.
. . .
The Tea Parties here in Washington DC are off to a roaring start, right? Ha, ha: No. Right now, the Tea Parties are contending with a number of terrible struggles, which this report from Fox News documents. In the first place, the big event of the day was to be the dumping of one million teabags. The Washington Post notes that this was originally supposed to happen at the Potomac River but was shifted to Lafayette Park because of issues of legality. And seriously, why anyone thought it would be legal to further pollute to Potomac is beyond me. But! As it turns out, the alternate plan – 1. Take a million teabags to Lafayette Park, 2. Dump them on a tarp, 3. Yell at them, 4. Clean up the teabags – also isn’t happening, because of permit issues. According to reports, the truck filled with teabags pulled up to Lafayette Park, but didn’t have a permit, and so they were loaded back on to the truck and driven off to an undisclosed location. Also, the plan to have a second rally in front of the Treasury Department was scotched after the Secret Service said, "Uhm, no."
.
I’m dying here.

honk your neighbor’s what ….?
.
wvng,
.
I can tell you’re someone after my own heart. Never pass up a good line opportunity.

I think the line of the day, among many priceless lines, will have to be: As it turns out, the alternate plan – 1. Take a million teabags to Lafayette Park, 2. Dump them on a tarp, 3. Yell at them, 4. Clean up the teabags – also isn’t happening, because of permit issues.
.
It is just embarrassing. The stoopid, it burns.
.
Oh, and ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

wvng,
.
It IS getting too easy, eh what? The “lines” just kinda write themselves or jump out at you.

There’s a million teabags out there some place? Sad.

Gunny, with the rain, if global warming was a bit warmer today we could make a lot of tea.

gysgt,
.
If it’s raining in the area, there’s a LOT of TEA out there somewhere! (Assuming they didn’t dump them indoors somehow)

Remember Jake DeSantis, the sniveling WATB AIGFP executive vice-president who resigned is such spectacular fashion in the New York Times op-ed section that the more cynical amongst us suspected a public relations carpet-bombing? Pshaw, how can anyone forget the overly self-righteous (and overpaid) Mr. DeSantis?
.
Guess what he is doing now.
.
http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/late-night-one-minute-youre-up-half-a-million-in-soybeans-and-the-next/

About five years ago, John Cole – wingnut blogger, woke up one morning and realized it was all utter baloney. And he became, just like that, one of wingnut land’s greatest and most effective critics.
.
I suspect this whole teabagging stoopidity and Glenn Beck and Faux News and Limbaugh and the ridiculous repugs in congress are going to strip away more like John: smart but deluded people who suddenly wake up. Maybe it will be LGF instead of John Cole, saying things like this before long:
.
You know what really irritates me about the tea parties? The basic fact that if right now, it were President John McCain and not President Obama, and nothing else had changed, these tea parties wouldn’t exist. You know it, I know it, and even the teabaggers know it. It is just such transparent bull…. that it is offensive. The most these guys ever did during the last lost eight years was put a limp Porkbusters logo on their website, but now that we have President Malcom X George McGovern Shabazz, they are freaking out like there is no tomorrow. So absurd.

As it turns out, the alternate plan – 1. Take a million teabags to Lafayette Park, 2. Dump them on a tarp, 3. Yell at them, 4. Clean up the teabags – also isn’t happening, because of permit issues.
.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
.
Although I shouldn’t laugh too hard, that Code Pink demonstration after Bush got the shoes thrown at him was exceptionally lame.

afguy: “Hockey pucks” is something Don Rickles used to yell at hecklers. He compared the IQ’s of his hecklers to that of a hockey puck (zero). God, I’m old.

afguy: “Hockey pucks” is something Don Rickles used to yell at hecklers. He compared the IQ’s of his hecklers to that of a hockey puck (zero). God, I’m old.
-
Alternate definition (one that makes a hair more sense to me as I used to be one): hockey puck – person dating a hockey player. So if you know both definitions it makes sense.

[...] Angeles-based Hollywood gossip site TMZ has always had an eye on the District, but after a trip here this week by producer Harvey Levin, it looks like TMZ D.C. is closer to [...]

[...] Angeles-based Hollywood gossip site TMZ has always had an eye on the District, but after a trip here this week by producer Harvey Levin, it looks like TMZ D.C. is closer to [...]