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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    05/29/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Fucking go, Cajun. This is awesome.
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    05/29/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    This is my question though--the standard question to ask, usually, I think: Why? If Mancow is a right wing, torture-loving, Cheney/Bush/Gonzalez apologist why FAKE the waterboarding to then proclaim it absolutely is torture, worse than drowning, etc. etc.? The only thing he can do is alienate his base. What's his endgame? Until that becomes clear, I'm going to reserve judgment.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    America demands a do-over.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    So, basically, if I wanted to waterboard myself I could lay in my bathtub and turn the faucet on? Because I do that sometimes when I'm drunk and I've yet to admit to myself why I keep drinking.
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    05/28/09

    @Private Hangnail: This from the Mancow version, because Christ, Christopher Hitchens' made my head hurt.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Well at least we're not talking about whether it's torture or not anymore. I guess we know the answer to that. The discussion has turned to DEGREES of torture. Hang Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld!
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    05/29/09

    @TittiBarr: Who isn't? A friend of mine told me last week that if I thought waterboarding was torture I didn't know what torture was. This from a woman who graduated from high school, got married, had a kid, and was a stay-at-home mom until the kid was 15 (coupla years ago). Where in that history does her torture expertise come from?


    (My personal feeling about having babies and then raising them aside.)

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    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    So, when does Gawker do their own REAL waterboarding on one of their (un)lucky staffers?
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    05/28/09

    @kiyoshimartinez: It's like I said...watching the Mancow vid I sort of thought, "Hmmm...that doesn't look so bad." But then rewatching the Hitchens video wants me to have nothing to do with it at all.
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    05/28/09

    @jazzy: I was going to say, isn't Chicago radio jock and massive tool redundant? Except for Steve Dahl: disco still sucks.
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    05/28/09

    @belltolls: I don't know how that happened. I am not drinking or anything. That was for @jazzy.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Can someone who has friends please try this at home and let me know how this really goes? Thank you.
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    05/28/09

    In reply to Did Erich 'Mancow' Muller Fake His Waterboarding for Publicity?
    Looking at the two side by side? and i think your whole face HAS to be covered doesn't it? it looked like he kept his mouth shut but the dude stopped long enough for him to breath out of his nose as well.


    I'm from Chicago. Mancow is a joke.

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    05/29/09

    @jazzy: Also in Chicago and also LOATH HATE Mancow!
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