Prime Time Thread

Open thread for documenting the constant variety of cable news hackery and also.

Tonight! Take a drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage every time someone says “taint” or “tainted”, “Big 3″ or the colloquial “Blago”.

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  • dontpanic23

    We’ll be shitfaced.

  • LameDuckHunting

    That would make your liver more corrupted than a Illinois governor.

  • PackyJ

    I drank too much beer last night, and I feel it today.I simply can’t do it again tonight, still have to work tomorrow.

  • http://www.nonfatventing.blogspot.com jen

    You know, I haven’t heard too much on the news about BugDoh!abitch’s predecessor, Ryan, who is in JAIL for CORRUPTION. I think it’s relevant to the present Corrupt Chicago Government story… Oh, yeah, he’s a REPUBLICAN. I think news reporters have their tongues cut out if they disparage a REPUBLICAN!

  • dontpanic23

    Is Ryan the person that “The Ryan” highway is named after in Chicago? If so, are they to soon have a Bagodabitch bridge? Is that the tradition?

  • LameDuckHunting

    I think they only name highways after indicted Illinois governors, and then, only the highways they ride out of town on the way to prison.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Oh hey! Bob has a new widget from Amazon. :) QT

  • GItheJOE

    Fuckity, Fuckity, Fuck, Fuck!!!!Goddamn “No Attacks Mythology” on Hardball and fucking Chris agreed that Bush did keep us safe.Fuck him! I will never vote for his ass unless it is against Arlen Specter because Arlen is really old and needs to go home.

  • ceu

    I have news!

  • dontpanic23

    Ceu! Give it to us! Gently!

  • PackyJ

    Ceu – What news? Spill it.

  • Kat

    Exciting, ceu! What news?

  • Kat

    And about the drinking game, Bob…I don’t think my liver can handle it. It’s still trying to recover from “you betcha,” “Joe the Plumber,” and “maverick.” I’m gonna have to charge the McCain campaign for my cirrhosis treatment.

  • jane

    No comment on the liver. *cough*

  • jane
  • dontpanic23

    Thank you, Jane. Now I need jingle-purging treatment.

  • ceu

    As many of you know (since I spilled my guts on the “How will you fare in the economic crisis?” thread a coupld weeks back) I work 3 jobs – all part time. Today, one of my employers, a community foundation where I am the accountant, asked me to increase my hours there to 30 per week. That means I will now get INSURANCE – health, life, disability! I can go to a doctor! AND it’s enough that I can, if I choose, quit my job at the furniture store (that’s on its last legs, anyway) and STILL have more $$ coming in than I do now. I don’t think I will quit ’cause the extra income will be nice, but just knowing that I can walk out on the stupidest woman in the world and not stiff my family in the process is amazing!!It’s been a long, tough haul, but I’m seeing a light! And I’m excited!I also know that a lot of you are hitting hard times & truly, having been there (all of it – foreclosure, bankruptcy, losing it all) I do feel bad for you, but please understand, I’m not gloating – just being happy. :)

  • GItheJOE

    Does anyone know what the hell is wrong with NASA and Obama?Does the P.E. not believe that we are going to Mars like Bush’s dream a couple years ago?

  • PackyJ

    Ceu- I’m happy for you! That’s great news!

  • GItheJOE

    ceu,You have no reason to apologize. Congratulations!I hope everything works out well for you and you get to slap that stupid woman on your way out the door.

  • dontpanic23

    Woot, Ceu! That’s great news. Congrats.

  • dontpanic23

    Or whack her with a chair leg.

  • GItheJOE

    I like DP’s idea better.

  • cminri

    hey ceu..congratulations to you, fellow new englander! its nice to hear good news for a change.

  • jane

    Yay ceu! Yaaaaay! I’d link you the Ann Coury video, where she says (to a grown man, “Yay you! Yaaaaaaay!” as if he were two, and had made poopy.) (DP has seen it, I think?) if I hads it on this browser. Sadly Nooooo!Nice to hear good news from ya. Now what about Padster…

  • dontpanic23

    That violent streak never makes it out of words but it sure feels good.Hey, Cminri. Glad to see you back around.

  • Kat

    That is awesome news, ceu! And I think around here we cry with each other, and we laugh with each other.

  • ceu

    thanks. :) I’ve worked damn hard & they’ve known for a while that I was looking elsewhere for full time work & they told me they didn’t want to lose me. The President told me that I was the best accountant he’d ever worked with – that I’m a friggin’ pitbull (his word) when it came to financial matters and getting things done right & proper & legal. I was stunned, seeing as how I don’t wear lipstick. And considering that my degree is in History, not Accounting.I was all aglow. :) and now I’ll shut up about it.Again – thanks for listening! You guys are the best!someday I may write a book about the stupidest woman in the world….she didn’t know there was a “delete” key on a keyboard & once informed me that computer input might not show up right away because a computer has to “think about the information you give it. But don’t worry, it will all be there in the morning”. I’m not making that up.

  • JMY

    For the record…I’m starting to get annoyed by Campbell Brown with a passion…then when I read who her husband was and how he is a contributor to FOX news…it made my head hurt.http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/12/feds-subpoena-tribune-in-blagojevich.html

  • CycloCynic

    Jane,Thanks for sending along the menu for your new basement business. I expect that you’ll have your household repairs paid for in no time.I’ve forwarded a deposit for the evening of Decemeber 13th to you PlayPal account. I’ve also circulated the menu amongst a select few of my gay male friends– I didn’t think you’d mind.

  • PackyJ

    Ceu – It’s not a big truck, dammit. You can’t just dump something on it.

  • CycloCynic

    Oh– I forgot to mention– “Ball Gag IN” option, please.

  • jane

    holy carp, ceu, if you’re ever looking for work again you gotta let me know. Maybe could help…contacts if nothing else.But I’m glad the community foundation got you! And vice versa.

  • jane

    I knew there was a reason I liked this place. *sniff*

  • jane

    Keith just used “Blogoyovenivich” and “stripping him” and “filling the open seat” in the same sentence.Showering. BRB.

  • ceu

    me, too.And now I will do my spiel about supporting your local community foundations. These are the people who give grants to the libraries & food pantries & universal pre-k initiatives & hospital expansions, etc. in your communities. (and yes, every one of you has a community foundation that serves your area) They – we – also manage those scholarship funds that people set up when a local, well-loved coach or teacher dies, etc. So if you’re looking for a worthy charity, check out your local CF.

  • ceu

    Keith just mentioned Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. That’s a blast from the past.

  • jane

    I just realized if you try to cover most of your face with your hands you can still see Bolognavich’s facial, um, area in the little bitty space between fingers.TAINT! Richard Wolffffffe for the taint!

  • Kat

    Richard Wolffe can taint me in as many ways as allowed by law. And perhaps a couple that aren’t.

  • GItheJOE

    Thanks jane! Now I have to go to the store and get beer which is a pain in the ass in PA. You have to go to a beer distributor to get beer.That is right. Now gas station beer.

  • ceu

    My email from HuffPo just now:The Daily Brief Obama Unfairly Tainted by Crimes He Didn’t Commit(groan)

  • ceu

    And – Keith’s doing a countdown of the 25 most corrupt politicians ever. Interesting stuff.

  • ceu

    Joe – where are you in PA? I lived in York County for 10 years. Very odd the way they sell beer…

  • GItheJOE

    Ceu,I am going to college in the mountains, Williamsport. It used to be a lumber town and had a lot of millionaires because that is the name of the high school football team.Tons of hillbillies, conservative as hell and loves them some huntin up here.

  • GItheJOE

    Shouldn’t that be a disqualification to vote on the Auto Bailout if you have the competitors plants in your state.Jesus, isn’t there any oversight of the congress at all.

  • EL Mystico

    Wow. Rachel is kicking ass on the GOP vs the Big 3! I heart you,Rachel Maddow.

  • jane

    GI, can you buy liquor after 9 pm? How bout Sunday. Can you buy liquor at all, save in bars/restaurants? Do you have to wait till noon for a beer? (Used to be 1 pm before we got a pro football team, remember that DP?) Do the bars stop serving at 2 am? (Used to be 1 am in the winter on EST.)Do your bars do “bar time”? (ie, last call but they don’t bother to tell you it means last call, they just close at ten-till?)Do you still have dry counties up there?love,a liquor law history lover

  • bjritz

    Super night here folks!Ceu – total congrats on the more hours job and bennys – woohoo! Having just made it through my first year at my new job after my housing (of all things) business collapsed, followed by working two jobs day construction / night pizza delivery guy for a year before finding work – I’m glad you’re doing better.JMY – your polcarbs link made me shudder – how Obama has distanced himself, “maybe too well”, from Blago – wtf??GItheJoeMouthOvich – raking chris over the coals for “bushie keepin’ us safe” – nice call.NoCommentJanie – coughin’ on the liver…hmm…be smokin’ sumpin yeah shure ya betcha.Taint this taint that, just catching up with ya’ll has me on my fourth beer on account of Bob’s drinking challenge.Speaking of accounting way to go ceu.What exactly is Cyclo buyin from you basementJane there also?Thanks there dp23 for a bridge to somewhere!Whew, I think i’m up to speed.

  • jane

    Bravo, BJ (heh). Ceu does pretty good recaps too (for those of you just joining us).I think you got everything, and then some…

  • jane

    Dear Lee Stranahan,I’d sure love to see a 30 days 30 reasons countdown to the End Of An Error.I know you’re busy with the very worthy cause of holding layoff hearings but maybe you could squeeze in 10 days and 10 reasons?lurv,Jane

  • GItheJOE

    Jesus Jane!Do you study puritan pennsylvania drinking laws?Yep, that is all of them expect you can buy beer on Sundays because it creates revenue for the state on football and nascar weekends.

  • bjritz

    oooh I forgot KatLeenDiva’s desire to be tainted by Wolffeman Richard….having watched Lee’s Taint movie post on another thread ooo..not sure about all that.

  • GItheJOE

    Holy shit!I second Jane’s request for a 30 reasons. But I am pretty sure Lee could have started a 1460 reasons video since Asshole got reelected by the evangelicals.Did you hear that Bush is coming clean with the not believing in the literal text of the bible?I almost wrecked my car when I heard that on the radio today.

  • GItheJOE

    On a side note.One of my chihuahuas is sitting on my laptop again.,mlkhugyvfkkiu

  • incredulous72

    I can’t recap; I’m drinking.@jane: Thanks for the jingle. I always thought the Jeopardy theme ‘soothed the savage beast’. ;-) @ceu: Congrats on the gig! That nut at the furniture store sounds like she’s got more than ‘green’ in her ciggies. ;-)

  • bjritz

    Rachel just said pile of Blagoevich!It looks like PE Obama is stomping out the burning Pileovich on the porch.

  • jane

    Joe, those were all NC statutes I listed (not “bar time” though- certain cities seem to share that one).We have beer on Sundays, after 12. And most of our counties have liquor-by-the-drink now too, whether or not anyplace exists to sell liquor by the drink. We do still have totally dry counties.And prolly a lot of moonshine!

  • jane

    “If you’re not drinking, you’re not paying attention.” -jane, 12/11/08

  • ceu

    We can’t buy beer on Sundays or after 9 here in CT, but we can buy it in grocery and convenient stores. When I lived in VT, we could buy it in gas stations, apparently ’cause driving on those roads in the winter wasn’t enough of a challenge.Used to be 8, but the legislature went wild a couple years ago & moved it to 9. And allowed the bars to be open on Election Day. Hard liquor in package stores only.

  • GItheJOE

    Can you say Prohibition is over?

  • jane

    Ooooh! Somebody buy McCain’s campaign’s computers! Whaddya bet they didn’t know how to wipe the hard drives.

  • GItheJOE

    Ceu, you are deserving of one more congrats!Bush never visited your state of Vermont! I am so prove of Vermont plus I like maple syrup.

  • ceu

    Thanks, incred.she’s the owner’s wife so she’s not going away soon… but now it will be more amusing than frustrating! :)

  • ceu

    Oh! Glenn Greenwald coming up on Rachel!

  • GItheJOE

    How much for the computers?I am sure the knuckledraggers don’t know how to wipe a hard drive.

  • jane

    I remember grocery shopping in MI or WI at 6:40 am, waiting to finish shopping on the liquor aisle after 7 am.*sniff*

  • bjritz

    GI – I’ve got the interpretation of your chihuahua’s typing in tongues on your laptop:Chih wrote “,mlkhugyvfkkiu”,MaddowLikesKatHugelyUnderGayYoungVoluptousFrickinKicksKatInsidiouslyunwilling

  • dontpanic23

    Shit, I hate trying to catch up. I missed most of the party. I did get to see my kid and her spouse so I’m not complaining. But I do need to train them to watch KO and Rachel at home so I can play here. I should make visiting hours during Contessa and Andrea.THEJoe–drop the chihuahua. It might have something to say. It might be a right wingnut doggie.CC–He’s gonna be pissed.Jane–tickets?

  • jane

    If I clarify by saying I was working nights, that shopping for liquor was not my morning habit, would that help or hurt…

  • GItheJOE

    Bej, LMFAO!!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-MHt8uTa4c Midad

    Jane, I like the way you think :) .CEU, Big congratulations! Here is a link to a comedy skit that popped into my head when you said you had three jobs ( you lazy boy, only three jobs??)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-MHt8uTa4c

  • GItheJOE

    No, Jane it doesn’t help. I liked the idea of you shopping after a long night of drinking and waiting on beer.I had a picture in my head and everything.

  • jane

    Oh ceu, puh-leeeeze do a recap for DP!And where TF is polleezze BTW?

  • GItheJOE

    DP, don’t worry about the Chihuahua. I screen all my pets political preferences before they enter my death star.

  • dontpanic23

    And Cactus. Where is Cactusgal?I caught Ceu’s big news, Jane. I just got lost shortly after that. Try to keep up.

  • jane

    GI, that happened after the grocery trip. We had been driving all night, then we drank all morning. There was some sledding (outside) and football(inside) involved. Then sleeping. Priorities.

  • dontpanic23

    Good deal, The. We had seven dogs here for 9 months and one of them was for Huckabee. He got under my skin a lot.

  • dontpanic23

    Last night peeing was the priority. What’s the deal?

  • bjritz

    Holy Shit Midad – Udad That was so funny!I’m sittin here on da floor mon tryin to work ma way back onta da couch from funny.

  • jane

    When we got there, we thought we had only one of four reserved condos, for a couple hours, and even rationed TP squares, but went to bed in four separate condos.Turned out the rumor was partly true. Only one condo the next night. Woke up to find the football inside had resumed, and the population had quadrupled. Plus a hangover, also such as.

  • Kat

    BJ – I can only hope that Maddow likes Kat. Although I would certainly not be Unwilling.

  • bjritz

    Janealoza, rationing TP squares, isn’t that a precursor to becoming a serial killer?

  • jane

    BJ, was it you linked Freud as pissing mannikin the other day?WTF did a mannikin have to do with it? Did I read too fast?

  • Kat

    About liquor laws – I miss living in California. In Cali you can buy anything at the grocery stores, and it’s awesome. I would go out drinking at the bars, then on my way home stop off to pick up my veggies & hummus and a vodka if need be. One stop shopping at its finest.

  • jane

    Was it something I said? heh

  • bjritz

    Well, Kat, you know what that means doncha….we’ll have to stone the Chihuahua as a false prophet.Or maybe me as the false interpreter.If you drew Rachel into this blog with your willingness it would be a maul. We all truly want her you know.

  • jane

    Hey! You guys didn’t tell me about the zero-interest and negative interest TBills last night.What good is teh DVR if you guys don’t skim and give me the good stuff?

  • Kat

    True that, BJ…we all do want her. But…as has been discussed before…I have a far greater chance with her than you do. :) It’s good to be the Diva.

  • jane

    OMG? you guys didn”t TELL me about #19, James Traffican’t's hair.Thank God I didn’t miss it.

  • bjritz

    Yes, Jane, I did. It was the title of the page. I’m not sure why except to lure in the mannikins.manikin, mannikin1. a dwarf, pygmy, or man of small stature.2. a model of the human body, as used for teaching purposes in art, anatomy, etc.Maybe the author was slamming Freud as being smaller than Jung.

  • jane

    Heh. Smaller. Heh. Freudian. Heh. Hyung. Heh.

  • bjritz

    Speaking of liquor laws I used to live in Dallas and they had blue parts of town. You had to join the club down the street. It was usually just a restaurant with a “club”/bar in it. As long as you paid the fee you could drink there.To buy package liquor you had to drive across the river to buy your beer or booze.Guess where in Dallas I was living.

  • ceu

    Thanks, midad!Jane – I think that polleezze changed his/her name. Thought I read that a while back…

  • bjritz

    Jane you can now see why he was pissin his pants!

  • jane

    BJ, to delve further,Even where we have liquor by the drink, an establishment is supposed to make 50% (?) revenue from food, or be a “private club” with membership and so forth.

  • jane

    …and package sales only until 7 or 9pm, and NEVER on Sunday anywhere in NC.

  • bjritz

    I’m missing QueenTiye. Are you out there?

  • jane

    Save the Cheese!Where are you people, you should be alerting me to the impending cheese emergency!And what about that missing (extra?) second Dick Cheney’s adding to the calendar??!??

  • bjritz

    Is that 50% from each meal or just over the coarse of a month?You could serve breakfast to make up for the previous nights drinking.

  • bjritz

    Didn’t we hit on the second last night? I think I saw that through the haze.I totally missed the cheezey emergency.

  • jane

    Exactly, Beejoyevidivicci.Lots of places stop serving food at 9 or so, stay open as a bar later. Sometimes even allow smoking after 10 or such as. (We are a tobacco state after all…for now.)

  • jane

    Bleagh-oyevich carrying ballots.I throw up every time I see that video clip.

  • jane

    Where did I read about Landfillovich? Someone here?

  • bjritz

    Alas, we in Kansas City can no longer smoke inside. Only if you’re in a smoke shop.I have an occasional cigar. Now I can’t smoke in a bar. This is okay as I mostly limit my cigars to pleasant weather and smoke outside most of the time anyway.

  • jane

    BJ, have you run into DP as you both go outside to smoke cigars?

  • bjritz

    Jane, my dear (by the way I just love the name Jane – a very lovely lass from college we all called Beautiful Jane Ogden set the name in my conscientiousness firmly and you are helping the image be becoming) what is the land fill connectionovich?

  • bjritz

    No I’ve not had the pleasure of sharing a smoke with dp. DP in KC?

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    BJ: I’m here! barely. on the train, later than usual on account of being an idiot today. Also almost got into a fight with three women who were so freaking rude as to literally surround me and reach around me to buy tickets from the ticket machine. No excuse me or anything, and me still juggling plastic and retrieving my ticket. You all haven’t heard cursing, nor truly eloquent use of the “f” word till you’ve pissed me off.QT

  • jane

    Me and Lee and KG make three flyin free Tenaciously…Oh, sorry. What? Just Google it, I guess, I can’t find the Jackoyovich/landfill thing I read first.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Also: congratulations, ceu! That’s really wonderful news!QT

  • bjritz

    I’m sorry to hear you’re having a rudimentary experience this evening.I hope you’re enjoying catching up on the prime time thread.Lots of good stuff tonight. Mucho laughing on my part. So, how eloquent are you on the effing off?We want details, blow by blow.Any more votes on your article?

  • jane

    Happy Zappadan and Festivus, all you lurkers and Morning-afteroviches.

  • bjritz

    So, Jane, does that video of Jack Black and Lee etc mean that’s how ur feelin the lurv about us on the blog? Hope so – sweet.

  • GItheJOE

    Sorry kids,I had to step out for a minute. It is finals week and I had to put the final bullshit touches on a major project.Mary N. Just ripped me a new one on the worst person quote. I didn’t know someone was the watchdog for grammar on the GDAB.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    No details, bj. Just thinking about it gets my blood boiling again, and I can’t type fast enough on the handheld to vent properly. My temper is pretty short today, and it isn’t unthinkable that the handheld goes flying upside someone’s head. The extent of my people-hating right now is off the charts. I’m having way more sympathy for the chihuahuas.This will pass, especially with opportunity to think good thoughts about specific people, like you, and all the crew here… and to avoid thinking anything at all about Bob’s worst thread… Ok enough. Everyone say something wonderful. And, where is Broadway Carl?QT

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Hey QT, I just got home from a Jazz at Lincoln Center concert. eeded to clear my head of taint and Blago!

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    That would be “Needed”.

  • bjritz

    Thank you Jane Holiday for the ZapFest!

  • Kat

    I just saw that, GI, and don’t let it get to you. She went after the Powell quote too. Please God, don’t ever let her come into the Prime Time Thread. I’d be fucked. And not in the way I would most wish it.Jane would be happy to provide any proof of my grammatical fuck-ups.

  • GItheJOE

    Kat,YOU’RE my hero. I am sorry but their were a lot of “taints” tonite and the beers are making me feel funny.

  • bjritz

    GI – I saw the Mary N Grammatology lesson. Sheessh. Lighten up already. She needs to hit Midad’s Jamacan Job video.Sorry I’m over beering here tonight. Taint right.

  • bjritz

    I thought blogging and grammar were up for grabs. Isn’t this the petri dish of language creation and expansion?

  • GItheJOE

    Hang on kids,got to go let the pregnant chihuahua outside to piss for the 20th time today.

  • jane

    BJ, here’s how I feel teh GDA love.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Carl: allow me to officially hate your guts. You went to Lincoln Center, asin Jazz at? Jealous now…QT

  • jane

    And QT, I can only say I hope MN was joking, or at least just tryin’ to stir somethin up. But I can relate.I would love to be carjacked on a very bad No Good PMS-kind of don’-fuck-with-me day.

  • jane

    (realizes no sane crook would ever want my car…)

  • bjritz

    Janenacious, I don’t have to wonder anymore do I?On that note I’m going to have to sign off and go to sleep dreaming of toe sucking.Be good all and I’ll be checking in the morning for the hook ups that DP makes when nobody is looking.

  • Kat

    I’m off to bed too. Much later than usual, which means I’m going to be a total bitch tomorrow at work. Or, perhaps more accurately, a bigger bitch tomorrow at work.

  • http://obamaproject.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Who is sucking toes? What did I miss?@jane: yeah. Like that. Exactly like that, and glad for society that I don’t know how to handle a gun.QT

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    QT – Yes, this is what the wife and I caught tonight. She got me a subscription for my birthday.

  • prcleburne

    Is there any hope that Rachel is bi- ? I think she’s hotter than a $10 pistol on Saturday night. I think it’s mainly her brain that turns me on.

  • dontpanic23

    >>I’ll be checking in the morning for the hook ups that DP makes when nobody is looking.Posted by: bjritz at December 11, 2008 11:27 PMHookups? Toe sucking? WTF? What is DP hooking up? And in secret?

  • bjritz

    Tpanic – I was referring to teh bottom of Prime Time yesterday:”Okay, CC, you have me intrigued. Jane has my email. Please ask her for it and tell me more–or you can hook up with me on the mybarackobama.com site as “Dontpanic” and send an email through there, which I would then reply with my real one–I feel like a double naught spy here. Maybe we’ll flush him out yet–assuming you aren’t actually our legendary friend masquerading as Mr. Dingeldein. (Only somewhat kidding)Posted by: dontpanic23 at December 11, 2008 03:04 PM”That was the hook. The secret part was posting on prime time at 3oh4 pm next day when “nobody’s” lookin.The toe job was about Jane’s GDA love link to a song above here a few posts.The later it gets the more the cognoscente thought trains derail into the black night abyss.Have a fresh Friday and superb weekend. -bj

  • dontpanic23

    Ooooh, I really am a double naught spy! Thanks for clearing all that up, BJ. I’ll have to watch myself more closely during secret BO hookups. Or conspiracy theories of GDABers. (That almost looks like GRABers. Hmmm.)