I used to read her, back in the dark ages when I read newspapers. What I recall of her is that she’s a smart-alec and she did about 30 columns on how she wasn’t covering the Lewinsky mess. Which of course she was. In all she was critical of Clinton for exactly the same reasons the conservatives were.
Fast-forward a few years and she has the audacity to be snarky about HRH GWB. The clamor of indignant readers got her run out of the Tulsa World for being too liberal.
I suspect the Grauniad assumes its readers are familiar with the Wilde quote, as would likely the other UK broadsheets.
American papers, on the other hand, can only safely assume that their readers are familiar with Girls Gone Wilde.
Well, crap, i thought i was being all original and punny, but i guess it shouldn’t surprise me that someone else got there first.
Not too surprising, considering the exalted station Oscar Wilde has long enjoyed at the content-free encyclopædia.
[Oh Rick Perry…](“Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support,” Perry said, eliciting a few chuckles from the crowd.” Those who won’t be, just work hard. Because you’re… counting on us.”)
So to sum up: wrong on the voting age, wrong on the voting date. And the last sentence has a ring of “Work hard because you’re counting on us and that’s not going to do you any good” about it.
I’m starting to wonder whether this is an actual strategy amongst the Republican candidates to commit gaffes that get them extra press coverage on the grounds that those who support them won’t care and those that care would never support them anyway.
What I got from that sentence is, “If you’re old enough, please get drunk enough to vote for me.”
Here’s an excellent NY Times article about The Donald Debate Circus.
Quote Karl the Rove:
They’re both probably right, of course. Hilarious.
I don’t know what I’m looking forward to more: when Trump looks into the camera and says, “Newt. You’re Not Fired” as an endorsement or when the first question he asks is “Do you believe Obama was born in Kenya?”
This is better than sit-coms if you ask me.
I think we should start laying out the drinking game ground rules now. First up – a shot for every mention of The Apprentice.
Will Donald Jr. and Ivanka be Trump’s co-moderators?
I don’t drink, but I’ll go for a bong hit every time he says “Huge!”.
Or when Newt says, “Profound”
Between the two of you, you’ll probably be bogarting the region’s supply for the next three months…
Rick Santorum takes questions from conservative Christian students and gets a mite testy
I’m not sure I can do justice to that in summary form, except to say that Santorum once again demonstrates why he richly deserves his Google bombing.
“How dare you so-called Christians ask me questions that weren’t approved by Pope Pius X!”
The best and brightest the 2nd District of Texas has to offer is apparently Rep. Ted Poe:
See, now that’s just ignorant, and as a Texan he damned well ought to know better. The Regulators answered to Charles Jackson and Charles Moorman and, eventually, to Sam Houston. And they bloody well didn’t sip lattes or fiddle about with iPads. What kind of revisionist history is this, anyways?
The Associated Press has published a list of misstatements from a recent GOP debate.
I realize “false” is not the same as “stupid” but I hope fellow Dopers can peruse the list and discuss the more amusing falsehoods.
Stupid Republican Link of the Day. Goes nowhere. Any help?