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January 19, 2005

Lileks on Rice's Harassers

Slicin' like a hammer:

I listened to some of the Dr. Rice hearings today. Listening to Sen. Boxer is like having someone pump six gallons of lukewarm tea up a catheter tube. Slowly. It’s like being beaten to death by a moth. The rest of the questions were a bit more adept, inasmuch as they postured and preened with greater skill – but I kept wondering, who’s their audience? Who are they talking to? Who is this supposed to impress? I suppose if you believe that Abu Ghraib is the defining crime of the 21st century, you’re impressed that they’re still gnawing the bone; if you still believe that the solution to Iraqnam is the addition of Russian forces (!) (as Kerry suggested) (!) then this was heartening: truth to power, man. But to someone who is not on the moveon.org mailing list, it’s more of the same. More about WMD, for example. I too deplore the Bush administration’s decision in 2002 to go back to 1998 and plant all those false stories about Iraqi WMD and Saddam’s Al Qaeda connections in the mainstream media, for example, but I’m more interested in what comes next. (And I still, stubbornly, support the decision to go in.

He's also annoyed at the Boondocks cartoon. He says "It's funny 'cause it's true!", but I think that's just sarcasm.

Thanks to NickS.

Not Very Surprising Update: Barbara Boxer had a very different opinion on Iraqi WMD's when Clinton was president.


posted by Ace at 03:12 PM
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You've got one giant hyper-link on crack there. Close those tabs! :P

Posted by: fat kid on January 19, 2005 03:25 PM

Come on, the best part of today's bleat has to be about the soap. Seriously, that was one of the funniest rants I've ever read.

Posted by: Trevor on January 19, 2005 03:44 PM

Lincoln Chaffee was really really gay too. I sat in astonishment as he spent the bulk of his alloted time trying to convince Condi to play nice with Venezuela's mini-castro : Hugo Chavez. (You know, the dictator who sent a million cash to the Taliban just weeks after 9-11.. Just to say "thanks")

Question: What animal has the skull of Jim Jeffords, the spine of Arlen Specter, and the genitals of Barbara Boxer?

That's right. ---- Lincoln Fucking Chaffee

Posted by: Hans on January 19, 2005 03:54 PM

I fucking hate Boondocks - and I'm glad to see that people are starting to see what a racist a-hole the guy is. Sorry about the curse words, but it's the only way to describe how I feel about that guy/cartoon. He's been doing this same awful crap for a while.

Posted by: carin on January 19, 2005 03:57 PM

Thanks for the tip on the open hyperlink tab. Corrected now.

Posted by: ace on January 19, 2005 04:15 PM

"I admire McGruder’s ability to collect a paycheck for having someone else illustrate a two-word idea that makes the Family Circus look like a chapter of Proust"...

Now that is slicing like a hammer.

Posted by: Phil Smith on January 19, 2005 04:40 PM

Hans said Lincoln was gay (snicker). Big Excitable Andy fan, Hans?

Anyway, the Boondocks cartoon WAS funny. It shows a white jogger jogging in teh cold and snow. The character's comment? "White people."

Ho-ho, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ho, ho. whooo-boy, let me catch my breath.

Now, how's about somebody make a cartoon of the morbidly obese proles and trolls of the more "dusky' hue (from HD whatever that show is, I just see the letters as I flip past, and yest they show just as many white fatties, that's not my point), and say "Black people"?

Oh, that would be just rip-roaringly funny, wouldn't it. Cuz you see, black people are fat because they don't like the outside, or running, or something . . .


God, that Boondock guy's an asshat.

Posted by: hobgoblin on January 19, 2005 06:11 PM

When I google "slice like a hammer," ace of spades hq doesn't come up in the top ten, even. Something like golftipsmag is ranking way ahead of you.
What's up with that?
More like-hammer-slicing blogging, ace.

Posted by: m on January 19, 2005 08:07 PM

m,
Ya gotta google "slice like a fuckin' hammer" and Ace is number one. No loose shit here.

Posted by: Curmudgeon in San Diego on January 20, 2005 12:58 AM

Prior posts got it...Chafee is a empty hat. "Let's all think of something nice to say about Iran?" Give me a break. But Edwards (FL) cancels Chafee, both are idiots.

Biden was same as always, he's not always right but he's usually funny.

Osama Obama is new so he hasn't figured out that the Biden-Boxer posturing is just that, politics as usual. He acted like he thought this was real!

What is the deal though with Boxer? She cried at the certification, looks strange, and then came out with this stuff this week. I really wonder about her.

I think that everyone thinks they are kind of in the center, maybe slightly right or left. So Boxer, who is so far left she can't see the middle, thinks she is in the mainstream, sort of.

She looks at the election and thinks: "Strange, people must not know what I know, there is no other explaination". So, she spends hours going over the same insults to Condi, thinking that people "just don't get it". Hopeless.

Kerry was pitiable: "I have a plan". Here is a guy who had planned to be President since he was a teenager and just can't handle the loss. Tears, rivers of tears.

Bush derangement syndrome. That red bracelet Dodd had on might have come from the Bellview Home for Deranged Democrats.

Posted by: Robert on January 20, 2005 01:56 AM

"....but I kept wondering, who’s their audience? Who are they talking to? Who is this supposed to impress? "

Somebody - PLEASE - open up Photoshop and put some fuckin' knowledge into this Lileks quote.

All it takes is a shot of Barbara Botoxter addressing her home state constituency in the Senate Hearing Room peanut gallery. I see Babs Steisand, Alec Baldwin, and countless other Hollywood elites sitting at rapt attention as The Oracle delivers her insane monologues. That's her audience. It gets exactly that.

Posted by: Dan-O on January 20, 2005 08:41 AM
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