dagblog - Comments for "Chasing the Weasel"

Just posting the transcript

Janicket — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 18:17:05 +0000

In reply to Just more of the same. Hugh

Just posting the transcript is enough (I say having read it), unless Hewitt's nonverbal reaction is part of what you want to convey.

Just more of the same. Hugh

Flavius — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:32:36 +0000

In reply to Chasing the Weasel

Just more of the same. Hugh Hewitt trying to give Trump a graceful way to back off his claim that Obama founded ISIS.

Sorry , I've deleted it because it starts with a commercial . If I can provide a clean link I'll resubmit.

From Andy Borowitz:

CVille Dem — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:56:07 +0000

In reply to And now of course, I must add

From Andy Borowitz:

Trump says: I will only use nukes in a sarcastic way!

Ha, I was writing the

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:46:24 +0000

In reply to You posted this 2 days ago,

Ha, I was writing the following comment while you posted.

And now of course, I must add

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:45:00 +0000

In reply to Chasing the Weasel

And now of course, I must add Trump's statement that Obama is "the founder of Isis."

Explanation: "Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) "the founder" of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON'T GET SARCASM?"

As a connoisseur of sarcasm and all the snarktastic arts, this explanation offends my sensibilities. Sarcasm is an ironic device, used to imply the opposite of what the words normally mean. For example (ahem), "Mr. Donald Trump is a man of penetrating insight and profound moral courage." What I really mean is that Trump is a soulless, spineless moron. So as an exercise for the reader, what would Trump really mean if he sarcastically called Obama the founder of ISIS?

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PS Alas, the joke is on me, for here I am chasing the weasel.

You posted this 2 days ago,

CVille Dem — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:39:14 +0000

In reply to Chasing the Weasel

You posted this 2 days ago, and he's done it again! What is even worse about it is that the latest monkey overshadows the last one instead of making it as cumulative as it should be. Well, maybe I'm wrong about that. I do think some previously "undecideds" are getting the message.

Michael, why are you being so

Michael Maiello — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 03:09:12 +0000

In reply to Chasing the Weasel

Michael, why are you being so mean? Literally using Trump's own words against him is despicable. Sad!

Sarah Palin's "Reload"?

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:03:25 +0000

In reply to Janicket ... Well . . .

Back in 1994, Carl Bernstein notes Hillary had to wear a bulletproof vest because of organized crowd rage.

And remember Sarah Palin's "Reload"?

and then there's just the truly gun-inspired bizarre that makes us all a bit nuttier:

The version I know goes:

Lurker — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 07:33:13 +0000

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The version I know goes:

Up and down the City Road

In and out The Eagle

That's the way the money goes

Pop! Goes the weasel.

Half a pound of tuppenny rice

Half a pound of treacle

That's the way the money goes

Pop! Goes the weasel

(City Road is a street in South London not far from Waterloo. The Eagle is the name of a pub on the City Road. It's still there. The song is complaining about how quickly one's wages are dissipated by a trip to the pub or the grocer.)

(edited to add): It's a protest song from a few hundred years ago. Probably sung by Bernie Sanders as a child.

I have no other place to put

Richard Day — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 02:38:29 +0000

In reply to Chasing the Weasel

I have no other place to put this?

Sam Harris is passive/aggressive

But he really put it to trump in this half hour diatribe.

What Sam does is interesting. I assume he has written many essays on this subject prior to this video but his speech just sings.

Anyway, this video just encapsulates my feelings about Trump and this 2016 election.

Again, this is half an hour in length and probably more than most folks can stand, but...

Oh I had to add that this guy is not always perfect.

I have listened to him on podcasts and such.

But this video or really audio, presents a guy with no ehs, or ahs or ers or whatever.

He never stops. He never interrupts himself. So to that extent this presentation is prepared.

But damn!

Bill Burr and Louis CK and Patton will continue for an hour and a half.

But there is no applause here. There is no laughter from some audience.

If I were Hillary, I would offer this guy a million bucks just to make twenty speeches, word for word, from this diatribe all over this country.

the end

finally