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Paging Dr. Freud.
Many nuggets of "conventional wisdom" aren't necessarily wise.
by Seattlite on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:32:40 PM PDT
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...played by batty Vivien Leigh who pissed off Marlon Brando to the max until she was taken away to the crazy house.
This thing won't end pretty.
Wynton Marsalis:"Blues never lets tragedy have the last word."
by skywriter on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:40:05 PM PDT
Norma Desmond from "Sunset Boulevard".
by ZinZen on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:44:08 PM PDT
Heh.
Hanoi didn't break John McCain, but Washington did.
by Dallasdoc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:47:07 PM PDT
by Templar on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:04:36 PM PDT
Dammit, it's mine!
Democrats promote the Common good. Republicans promote Corporate greed.
by murasaki on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:37:30 PM PDT
to publishers and agents. He's done it all in writing!
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -FDR
by Jeff in CA on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:03:46 AM PDT
His literary agent has ;-)
Political Compass says: -8.88, -8.67 "We never sold out cos no one would buy."--J Neo Marvin
by expatyank on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:19:44 AM PDT
to publisher and agents. He's done it all in writing!"
Either that or...has anyone checked to see if Wolfson's nose is growing?
by Wings Like Eagles on Fri May 09, 2008 at 10:54:48 AM PDT
He's "Max," the former director who now is reduced to the role of being the butler/enabler.
Watch your back Senator Obama, you don't want to be in the William Holden role.
Don't go near the pool.
Clinton Campaign = Sunset Blvd. McCain Campaign = Citizen Kane. Obama Campaign = Lady from Shanghai.
Obama '08 - keep hope alive
by catilinus on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:05:01 PM PDT
Nice to see you have a good comedic sense.
by LivinginReality on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:19:13 PM PDT
He's the only reason to pay attention to anything other than DailyKos regarding political news.
Time for us DEMOCRATS to take our fight directly to "GET OFF MY JOHN!" McShame. BTW, can a CHIMP, FROG march? Let's find out ... IMPEACH BUSH!!!
by VT ConQuest on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:25:21 PM PDT
Can't forget them either.
If there's one thing that makes me sick | It's when someone tries to hide behind politics. - Ramones
by Everest42 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 03:22:58 AM PDT
I was wondering who would be the stiff in the pool in that scenario. For some reason, I pictured Carville.
Of the three, Lady from Shanghai's the one I haven't seen, so I can't comment on the parallel there.
by josecheung on Thu May 08, 2008 at 08:39:42 PM PDT
Sunday, I saw a performance of Bellini's opera, "I Puritani". The director told us afterwards that it's rarely staged, for one thing because it requires a tenor who can sing F above high C, and also there's not much of a market for bel canto opera. But he wanted to stage it, in part for historical reasons. He said Elvira's protracted descent into insanity was the inspiration for the Mad Scene in much-better-known "Lucia di Lammermoor", among others. You can see why sopranos love it. They get to keen and shriek and chew the scenery. In "Puritani" (set among Oliver Cromwell's forces against the House of Stuart in the 1640's), she kept it up for a good 45 minutes. I just wanted it to end. The parallels to this campaign are inescapable.
by josecheung on Thu May 08, 2008 at 08:35:58 PM PDT
by Wings Like Eagles on Fri May 09, 2008 at 10:57:58 AM PDT
I am big. It's the voters that got small.
McCain '08 - Hope Less!
by kitebro on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:50:44 PM PDT
Actually laughed out loud!
by Seattlite on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:10:58 PM PDT
feeling that Leona Helmsley vibe.
McCain is a Chode.
by dnamj on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:16:02 PM PDT
by Templar on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:01:23 PM PDT
n/t
Rubus Eradicandus Est.
by Randomfactor on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:32:52 PM PDT
It's the DEMOCRATS who got small!
"If you're going through hell - keep going!" -- Winston Churchill
by Keith Olbermann on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:36:48 PM PDT
must be nice to be working and blogging at the same time, HA! Democrats didn't get small - the mindset did.
"Pictures are better than words, cause some words are big, and hard to understand." Peter Griffin.
by Leigh3352 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:39:49 PM PDT
Good thing Bill Orally doesn't know Keith blogs on DK during the commercials!!! bwahahahahah
Politics is like driving...if you want to go backwards, choose R. If you want to move forward, choose D.
by fireflynw on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:56:31 PM PDT
are small...
Unless you listen to Paul Gipson...
"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." ~ Barack Obama
by Reality Bites Back on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:03:06 PM PDT
Love it!
Great diary. You're spot on: the book deal is the death knell. I can't wait until someone asks Wolfson about this point blank. Matthews did a great job fileting him tonight on Hardball already. (WWII soldier analogy was wonderful.)
Go Team MSNBC!
Sweet are the uses of adversity...[Find] tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. -Shakespeare, As You Like It
by earicicle on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:43:42 PM PDT
And I would like to say, for the record, that I probably wouldn't even know his name if I didn't spend quite so much time here, much less have the thought that he was the most likely suspect.
Which is probably not an entirely healthy thing. But I'm okay with that. :-)
Now, go spread some peace, love and understanding. Use force if necessary. - Phil N DeBlanc
by lineatus on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:44:15 PM PDT
(Okay, so between MSNBC and dKos my productivity is off a bit these days!)
I'm tuning in tomorrow: this might be the first chance to see Wolfson try to deny this story. KO cited an "unimpeachable source," and I believe him. I want to see slimy worm Wolfson try to wriggle off the hook!
by earicicle on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:49:01 PM PDT
such a slimy worm. I figured that slimy worms would be slimy not only to their opponents, i.e. Obama, but to their friends too.
May your entire existence be one sensuous, frolic-filled experience lived in defiance of care.
by Fonsia on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:44:53 AM PDT
I wouldn't consider him friends with anyone in the campaign. One doesn't pay someone to be his or her friend.
by conlakappa on Fri May 09, 2008 at 05:43:38 AM PDT
frightening. How could Wolfson say some of the things he was saying with a straight face? Tweety was just incredulous!
It really sounds like they are just not going to accept losing no matter what happens. It's rather bizarro world just listening to him. I picture Hillary challenging Barack to a duel right there on the convention floor. Six shooters at 20 paces!
Or may she will want to see which candidate can drink the other under the table. "Shots of Crown Royal all around, bartender ... and keep 'em comin'
I'm with Rachel - she's not going to go gently.
OWW4O (Old White Woman 4 Obama) OWW40's Unite!
by Cyber Kat on Fri May 09, 2008 at 10:22:16 AM PDT
Seriously.
kewl!
Rupert Murdoch is on the Associated Press Board of Directors!!!
by Lava20 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:44:15 PM PDT
ahhh. Nice, but he's got nothin' on Keith. Or Seth MacFarlane, for that matter. But that's just me.
by Leigh3352 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:47:53 PM PDT
"This guy don't sit right with me Lois, he don't sit right with me."
by Lava20 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:51:18 PM PDT
Now if we can just change that to "This chick", that'd sum up how I feel about Hillary.
by Leigh3352 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:54:01 PM PDT
...it's not just a coincidence and you know who voiced the "guy" of whom Stewie was saying "this guy don't sit right with me Lois, he don't sit right with me."
by Keith Olbermann on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:45:40 PM PDT
also enjoyed seeing you on the Simpsons :)
by auroraborealis on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:48:35 PM PDT
Impressive, dear sir!
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.---Malcolm X
by Queenie68 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:52:40 PM PDT
by some MSNBC news guy of the same name.
"Some creatures are made to see in the dark." -- Henry David Thoreau
by Bodhiness on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:59:37 PM PDT
Hard to miss my favorite host on my favorite cartoon.
Hope Bob appears again soon! =)
by Lava20 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:42:38 PM PDT
Did you get the Family Guy-inspired mug I painted for you?
"The Use of Unnecessary Violence Has Been Approved." Keith Olbermann
by CityLightsLover on Fri May 09, 2008 at 04:47:20 AM PDT
Of course I know that! I nearly wet myself when you did that show, and when you had Seth on Countdown, well.... I won't bother you about what happened then. :) My two favorite men in the whole world on together... When are you going to have Seth on again, anyway? Surely you can come up with a reason.
by Leigh3352 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 06:21:37 AM PDT
work and blog at the same time? Though I admit sorting interlibrary loan requests while blogging isn't that difficult, not like doing live newscast. Way to go, Keith!
-7.75, -6.05 The point of the war in Iraq is that there IS a war in Iraq- Keith Olbermann
by nicolemm on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:31:19 PM PDT
but I'm just killing time until midnight, when I get to go to work. If I got caught messing around online while working, I'd probably get a reprimand. Sigh. Some guys have all the luck. :P
by Leigh3352 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:34:06 PM PDT
William Holden, all will be well. Oh wait...Mr. Holden's no longer with us. Never mind! :)
by CityLightsLover on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:35:09 PM PDT
...going to go out like The Wild Bunch
You Sacrifice the Thing You Love the Most. I Love My Guitar - Jimi Hendrix
by jds1978 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 06:15:10 AM PDT
but think I know some of the cast and storyline; it's good and bloody, yes?
by CityLightsLover on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:04:09 AM PDT
by jds1978 on Fri May 09, 2008 at 10:05:49 AM PDT
"best western" and "ever" are oxymorons in my book; the only westerns I like are Blazing Saddles & Deadwood.
by CityLightsLover on Fri May 09, 2008 at 10:47:14 AM PDT
way out in 2000. If that is any indication, it will be ugly and destructive, indeed. We can only hope that the Clinton's better instincts take over. (I know, I know, some of you are saying, "What better instincts" but you never know.
by Wings Like Eagles on Fri May 09, 2008 at 11:05:54 AM PDT
who slacks off on the job by reading and commenting at DK!
by yg17 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:13:28 PM PDT
I'm reminded of Fozzie Bear from The Muppets Take Manhattan, but I can't quite work out how.
"I play a street-wise pimp" — Al Gore
by Ray Radlein on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:47:33 PM PDT
It was always the Democrats and that states that grew smaller, I on the other hand was always Madam President from day one...now for the closeup...and get Bill the hell out of the way of the camera for god sake.
'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. Noah Cross, Chinatown
by Badabing on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:05:10 PM PDT
There's a video on YouTube with a Hillary impersonator (not a good one) as Nora Desmond. I never saw the original, but I was unimpressed.
by Fabienne on Thu May 08, 2008 at 07:09:49 PM PDT
who, legless and armless, agrees to call it a draw, is the best comparison I've heard so far.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself... Mark Twain
by jedley on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:15:20 PM PDT
by nicolemm on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:35:50 PM PDT
BLEED ON ME???!?
"Some of you are going to die... martyrs, of course, to the Freedom that I will provide!"
by emperor nobody on Thu May 08, 2008 at 09:55:42 PM PDT
Hillary may look like Norma Desmond or Blanche DuBois to many of us, but perhaps she sees herself more like Scarlett O'Hara. This would fit with staying in the race as long as possible (tomorrow is another day) and playing so dirty (I'm going to beat those Yankees at their own game).
I have respected Hillary's intelligence and work ethic. I thought it was great that as a Senator she worked hard and earned the respect of her constituents and peers. But the longer this goes on, the harder it is to remember these things, and the more I identify with Rhett Butler: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S. Truman
by Potalian on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:37:03 AM PDT
HAS to be Penn. Wolfson is still being used as a Stepford Husband this week.
See ya on the airwaves in 10 minutes Keith!
Why does John McCain hate our Troops?
by DumpDoolittle on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:44:08 PM PDT
He is, without question, the most self-interested of the bunch. He's already taken Hillary's loyalty to him and pissed all over it. What does he have to lose?
(-5.88, -6.46) Democracy is what happens between elections.
by autoegocrat on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:55:04 PM PDT
So he has no reason to want to stay in HRC's good graces (employment wise) and so that would make him less of a "dog-whistle" candidate than, say, Wolfson.
by FriendlyNeighbor on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:58:03 PM PDT
...on a good day I bowl a 19
by mahakali overdrive on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:03:17 PM PDT
So now I have to rethink my whole vote. C'mon, Keith, it's after 8, give us the answer!
by FriendlyNeighbor on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:06:22 PM PDT
I think Penn is still working for her and they never did a damn thing. I must say that I actually get physically ill when I look at Mark Penn. He is absolutely the most disgusting person all the way around. He always looks like he just got out of bed, hasn't taken a shower for a few days, and the piggy nose goes so swell with the hideous comb-over. The only worst come overs than his are: Pat Buchanan's, Donald Trump's and Robert Novak. Sometimes I just want to say to guys that do this: Hey, everyone knows its a come over, don't you?
Maybe it's Hilary that is currently writing a book about her election campaign. She is going to need the money to pay off Mark Penn. Here's a great title for you Hilary: What The Hell Was I Thinking?
by Badabing on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:32:45 PM PDT
See comment below. It is indeed Wolfson, along with Patti Solis-Doyle.
by autoegocrat on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:13:36 PM PDT
because he needs those millions that Hillary hasn't paid him. Hell, I'll read his book (from the library).
-4.88 -6.15 Fraggles all over the world approve this message.
by fraggle1 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:59:38 PM PDT
"You can't talk to the ignorant about lies, since they have no criteria." --Ezra Pound
by machopicasso on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:05:28 PM PDT
by dnamj on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:16:37 PM PDT
by Lava20 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:20:46 PM PDT
Can't friggin' believe he "miscalculated" on California.
On the other hand, now I can. I hope someone "miscalculates" his final paycheck.
by earicicle on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:30:37 PM PDT
by karenc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 08:04:18 PM PDT
why not Penn?
by conlakappa on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:31:37 AM PDT
Well, I was wrong. Keith just said it was both Howard Wolfson and Patti Solis-Doyle!
Look out, Mt. Hillary is about to erupt.
by autoegocrat on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:10:58 PM PDT
Wolfson and Solis-Doyle are both long term inner Clinton circle friends/operatives. They also appeared to be on the side of the early more positive campaining. The darker side of Hillary's campaign always has seemed to be Penn/McCauliffe and the more power grabbing types.
Wolfson and Solis-Doyle don't seem like the types to write an expose, or something that would reflect badly on Hillary & Bill.
Could this be a move to pin the blame for Hillary's loss on the Penn/McCauliffe side?
Just kicking around a few ideas ....
by brighton on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:19:37 PM PDT
... to hear. Not 'wanting' in a "wouldn't it be good to know" way. But wanting in a "look at those people being pulled out of those crashed cars; I wonder if any of them is hurt?" kind of way.
Maybe a $2 million advance? I wouldn't be surprised. If not now, once he thinks of it.
If you like Iraq, you're gonna love Iran.
by FundaMental Transformation on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:55:12 PM PDT
to try and get out his version of the story before he becomes identified as a full-on jackass for planning a delegate allocation strategy based on Republican rules.
I trust Barack Obama.
by Jennifer Clare on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:00:13 PM PDT
has spent too much time in colombia.
by robertlewiws on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:03:23 PM PDT
Here's a petition for what it's worth to help the Colombian's protect their land from corporate devastation:
Agrofuels on Stolen Lands Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and Communities
by FundaMental Transformation on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:26:21 PM PDT
i love colombia. i lived in bogota from 1980 until 1982, and visited several times over the years. it is a spectacular country and the colombian people are the friendliest anywhere. at the present i am living in nicaragua, the land of volcanoes.
by robertlewiws on Fri May 09, 2008 at 08:59:12 AM PDT
You know what Colombia's biggest crop is, right?
by jimreyn on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:40:37 PM PDT
by FundaMental Transformation on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:31:48 PM PDT
One day we will all find out that the $800,000 dollars that Bill got for all those speeches was just another plan of the Clinton's to move the Free Trade Agreement forward, just like they did with NAFTA. I can't believe that anyone would honestly think that Mark Penn wasn't getting this deal done specifically for the Clinton's. It's one of many smelly rats in the Clinton Mountain of wood piles, I'm sure.
by Badabing on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:41:03 PM PDT
He has been thoroughly Diagnosed with Anal-Cranial Displacement Syndrome (ACDS), it's apparently an epidemic among political consultants. Must be the diet.
by dnamj on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:18:20 PM PDT
John McCain "Beware the terrible simplifiers" Jacob Burckhardt, Historian
by notquitedelilah on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:22:48 PM PDT
Practically defines the disease.
by dnamj on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:31:13 PM PDT
I didn't know the media actually reported the truth since the turn of the century...except of course Keith
Orwell meet George the 43rd
by FreeTradeIsYourEpitaph on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:58:00 PM PDT
That little fact is the tastiest morsel of stupidity to come out of the whole campaign. Nice job Penn you doofus. lololol. I hope Hilly gets at least a t-shirt outa the deal.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." Carlos Castaneda
by FireCrow on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:50:57 PM PDT
Where you ask yourself..."What does she/he see in him?"
My best friend used to date this guy...and there was nothing redeeming about him. And I couldn't for the life of me understand what the heck she saw in him.
by Lava20 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:07:54 PM PDT
After awhile they know there is no one else who can fill the role of mutual manipulation... sticky, icky, glue.
by FundaMental Transformation on Thu May 08, 2008 at 06:36:05 PM PDT
Hillary told me so I know it's true!
by Lava20 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:55:26 PM PDT
Tentative title:
Microtrends II: The Quickening
"...no man can be sure that he may not be to-morrow the victim of a spirit of injustice, by which he may be a gainer to-day." Hamilton, Federalist 78
by beabea on Thu May 08, 2008 at 05:09:59 PM PDT
with the dart guns. Zap her from, say, 100 yards with a tranqulizer, then transport directly to intervention.
It's not that ordinary people have forgotten how to dream. It's just that their leaders have forgotten how to. - Barack Obama, 2006
by CatSilver on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:46:34 PM PDT
Why?
by David Kroning on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:47:27 PM PDT
by Lava20 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:52:11 PM PDT
sitting in her wedding dress 50 years later surrounded by cobwebs and mice. "I WILL be President! I WILL! The American People are going to come back- I KNOW it!"
by brueso on Thu May 08, 2008 at 04:54:32 PM PDT
Never forget Tracy Flick!
by Jennifer Clare on Thu May 08, 2008
