Heh Heh

Who posted it is even funnier.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Disney drops lawsuit against State of Florida.

- VDH on the truth about MSNBC. Why anyone still watched them is beyond me.

- Catherine Herridge said to be in talks to join X. This always seemed like the logical next move for her.

- Joe Lieberman aged 82 has passed away. RIP.

Did MSNBC Cost Hillary Clinton the Election?

A breaking conspiracy theory* now says that Rachel Maddow and MSNBC cost Hillary Clinton the election not Jill Stein who is being blamed by some for losing the Democrats states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida. 

What if viewers of MSNBC believed Rachel Maddow and either stayed home (like the cast of Hamilton) because their vote wasn't needed or cast their votes for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson as sort of a mini-protest? In the video above Maddow is so cocky who could blame Bernie Sanders supporters watching at home for making other plans on election day? What has Rachel Maddow done to this country!

* Yeah I just made up this breaking conspiracy theory. But it doesn't make the schadenfreude of the video any less amusing.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Grantland did a short video on Porn Star Karaoke this week. I mentioned Porno Karaoke at Sardo's back in 2005. Grantland please try and keep up.

- Jerry Seinfeld wants people to know he doesn't support murder-for-hire even if you have a really good jumbo shrimp basket.

- I want one of these

- The original Michelin Man 1910

- Just how dumb are MSNBC's hosts? This dumb.

- Wonder if Denver rental car agencies can list this as one of the official job benefits? I imagine that housekeepers at Denver hotels are getting similar benefits.

- More scientific evidence that Bigfoot is as real as Babe the Big Blue Ox.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Keith Olbermann is out at MSNBC. Just curious but does anyone think the Olbermann ratings came close to justifying his contract? Is anyone really surprised at this business decision? Most people deriding this move say that they just fired the guy with the highest ratings at the network but they never mention the guy had lower ratings than Samurai Jack re-runs... Interesting - Why We Have Different Types of Screws and Screwdrivers... Schtup With People will be my Fantasy Baseball team name this year. Exploding Dildos is out. I got the name from this list of awful band names. Too bad Gynecological Whack-A-Mole is too long... The trade between the Angels and Blue Jays looks like an absolute disaster. The Blue Jays get two players they can actually use while the Angels get a franchise crippling contract. Oh and did I mention that Vernon Wells has been awful at Angels Stadium (.226 BA/ .267 OBP/ .340 SLG/ .607 OPS in 159 AB). Absolute disaster... Also interesting - An elevator that publicly shames people who go only one floor... Saying Olbermann had the best ratings at MSNBC is like saying some player is the best on the Pittsburgh Pirates roster. Faint praise indeed... Meanwhile the Tampa Bay Rays signed both Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez. Just a couple of years ago who would have guessed that Damon would get twice as much as a free agent than Manny?... I so want to have a poster sized picture of this... Those Captain Morgan commercials about rum and coke being greatest idea ever crack me up but not for the reason they intend. They have two guys with a gallon of rum and just one 2-liter bottle Coke. Those are going to be some strong drinks. I can't help but picture how those two schmucks will look when they are half-way done with the bottle of Captain...

Pimp My Candidate

I was going to call this post, "Do Two Wrongs Make a Right?" I am of course referring the David Shuster MSNBC flap where Shuster got suspended for saying the following about Hillary and Chelsea Clinton:

"There's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying support my mom ... doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"

I'm of two minds regarding this situation.

In the first place it used to that children of candidates were out of bounds. It also used to be the rule that politics ended at the waters edge in the US. Not any more.

Who can forget both Democratic candidates in 2000 going out of their way to point out that Dick Cheney's daughter was a lesbian? Cheney's daughter wasn't even front and center in the campaign like Chelsea Clinton has been this year. This is the same Chelsea Clinton who has been Page 6 fodder for doing things like hanging out with Maddona, Gwyneth Paltrow and going to Versace fashion shows.

This year she is paraded in campaign commercials wearing sensible clothes playing the role of darling daughter. There does seem to be a disconnect between appearance and reality. Plus if you are going to use your daughter as a campaign prop and that daughter is over 21 - doesn't she become fair game? I have no problem with Chelsea calling her Hollywood friends on behalf of her mom but I guess I do have a problem with the Clinton campaign at the same time having Chelsea play the role of down-to-earth shy doting daughter on TV ads. It's just so phony and its the phoniness that is off-putting.

In regard to Shuster's comment regarding "pimping" - I am reminded of a couple of years ago when my wife walked in on my daughter watching "Pimp My Ride" on MTV. My wife went all Sheila Broflovski until I explained it wasn't what she thought. The word "pimp" has changed and so has its meaning. I also must say that seeing how Bill Clinton tried to persuade the nation that oral sex isn't really sex - the sensitivity to the word "pimp" from the Clintons rings kinda hollow. Millions of kids were exposed to the idea of blow jobs via the nightly news covering the Clinton White House but yet now they get in high dungeon because someone used the word "pimped"? Methinks they doth protest too much.

However, having said that - the discourse in this country has been dumbed down and brought down to the lowest common demoninator and I wouldn't mind seeing the level of dialogue raised to at least an adult level. I'm not holding my breath though. In fact I'm guessing NBC may want to string out this "controversy" so that when the writers come back to SNL that they can have a field day with it.