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Tremonius
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Celebritydom is exactly like the folks who sit on a hitched trapeze in a glass booth above a pool at the fair and taunt passers on the midway into throwing balls at a bullseye which will dump 'em. We all do it, because we want to feel above 'em, or at least drier, which may be the same. We spend our money to do it, which suits the one on the trapeze just fine. It's amazing Rachel has survived this long without a chorus of balls thrown at her.

Only Michelle Obama is immune.
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Rumpelstilskin
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Thankfully when I'm drunk clicking it's on $1.00 bids on Ebay for very silly stuff. Or, flirting with impossible-to-get men. Harmless, so far.

I like Rachel. Anyone who has a daily show is overexposed by definition. She's relatively new and very unlike the other talking heads, thus all the interest.

She did have a funny segment on how a right-wing web site said if you play some of Obama's statements backwards they say: Serve Satan. That made my day.
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Dickdogfood
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
See, when I get drunk I end up ordering Ozu DVDs--and this is why I will probably never be a famous lesbian political commentator.
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RonMwangaguhunga
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Does this mean Rachel will have less time for reading graphic novels? Say it aint so Rach ..
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overunderover
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
This reminds me of the time, one 4th of July during a party I was hosting, I made ribs on the smoker back in the yard, and between glasses of Montepulciano, I went on eBay and bough a 1977 Toyota Landcruiser. The really cool old ones. Everything was copasetic until I realized it pissed oil all over the driveway.
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Clare
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Does anyone else think that photo of Rachel Maddow bears an uncanny resemblance to a Funny Face-era Barbra Streisand?
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fileunder
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Just because it's an "LG" doesn't make it gay, you know.
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Niko Bellic
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Horror. Those things can be turned off, right? I still think it's much safer to just read TV on Gawker.
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DaeSu
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Nope, I don't want to hang out with Rachel Maddow. Never have, never will.
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El Matardillo
04/08/09

@DaeSu: I'm with you on that.
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loveliesbleeding
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
I tell people that's how I obtained my extensive feather boa collection, but no one believes me.
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Tremonius
04/08/09

@loveliesbleeding: The gent someone golfed with was observed slipping into a corset after a round, and was duly asked about it. Soooo, how long you been wearin' a girdle?

"Since my wife found it in the back seat of my Buick."
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El_Gato
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Correction. Now that Rachel Maddow's been around for a little while, has a self-titled show, and has received plenty of adulation and praise, there are plenty of people who are so tired of all the fawning that they wouldn't really care to have a beer with him. It's all getting a little old.
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Baroness
04/08/09

@El_Gato: Ha, you called her a man, I get it. I hope you're neutered, kitty-kat.
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BowlingForDollars
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
$400? What kind of TV did that buy? Sounds like a 20" 720p HDTV Sylvania for the kitchen.
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Tremonius
04/08/09

@BowlingForDollars: The 21" screen on my iMac is huger than the bigscreen in the den. It depends on where you're sitting.
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Almostbanned
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
I don't trust anyone who doesn't own a television.
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Tremonius
04/08/09

@Almostbanned: It's sort of like a format, like "How ya doin'?" It don't mean anything. I learned that years ago the second or third time someone who claimed they "never watched tv" was able to jump into any conversation on the Beverly Hillbillies with a learned opinion. It's a lot like conversational vegans.
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TwiceShy
04/08/09

@Tremonius: @MyNameIsChris: Clearly it has been a long time since they've watched television. Seriously, Beverly Hillbillies?
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ithacabaron
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Airbrushed like whoa!

Someone alert Jezebel.
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Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
04/08/09

@ithacabaron: What's up with the HUGE eyelashes??? It's like "A Clockwork Orange".
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Trulymadlyme
04/08/09

In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
Oh no, I got drunk last Thursday and ordered one on Amazon! (Laughs) Susan and I ordered take-out Chinese and I made cocktails and then somehow it just happened. I mean, it wasn't like we were on some total bender or something-it was a weeknight-but I woke up the next morning and there was the confirmation...

This is exactly how I was brought into this world. Are we sure they only got a TV?
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