Monday, May 26, 2008

FTW! FTL! FTW!

1. Keith Olbermann decides to do a Friday Special Comment on that Clinton RFK insanity -- FTW!

2. jetBlue doesn't carry MSNBC and I'm not able to hit my Slingbox to record it -- FTL!

3. MSNBC posts the clip and spares me a No-bermann Memorial Day -- FTW!!! And now for your viewing pleasure, ten minutes of country ass-kicking from a city boy:


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2 comments:

MC said...

Aside from the tasteless nature of the reference, bringing up 1968 as a reason why one won't drop out of a race has other interpretations that have equally unpalatable results.

-The Democratic candidate that followed the fallen Kennedy, Humphrey, while keeping things close in the popular vote, got trounced in the election by a candidate that had run 8 years previously.
-Humphrey ran on the platform of restoring law and order to American politics.
-Do I need to mention the convention riots, which Rush Limbaugh wants?

So beyond the barbarity of Hillary's assertion, there is just the horrible further implications of such a statement for both herself and the party at large.

May 27, 2008 at 8:17 AM
AG said...

The Get Fuzzy avatar is working for me on so many levels. Hi Matthew!

Agreed re the multiple levels on which a reasonable Democratic candidate would not want to invoke 1968 -- the year that engendered the cynicism that eventually led to rejection to the possibility of chnage, which led to the inward-looking 70s, which led to the I've-got-mine-Jack 80s, which led to... well, here we are. The poisons in the American cultural bloodstream aren't all to be lain at 1968's door, but it was a truly crap year. Plus, Humphrey.

And I'm damned curious to see if Limbaugh keeps this up -- the term "shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater" comes to mind.

May 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM

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