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    Image of Ben Dreyfuss Ben Dreyfuss
    12/16/09

    In reply to Sometimes Bill O'Reilly Is Legitimately Funny
    O'Reilly handled himself beautifully, and Time Magazine is a fuck for using that picture just to try to be funny.

    This is a serious fucking issue. This is not a joke. The banks are not lending!

    Have you seen this graph from Brad Delong? These stats aren't jokes. People are really suffering in this shit.

    There is nothing funny about this. Not. One. Fucking. Snarky. Thing.

    I get that Time magazine has had a rough go of it with their last few POY, but this?

    Fail on this, Time Magazine. Fail.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/16/09

    In reply to Sometimes Bill O'Reilly Is Legitimately Funny
    Entity? An homage?

    Haven't found a great nickname for him yet... Helicopter Ben is nice and cute, but "The Entity" might just do the trick better.
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: It's certainly better than "The Situation."
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/16/09

    @sweet_communist: Yikes. Is that what they call me?
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Remarkably, it's self-imposed.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/16/09

    @sweet_communist: If we end up deciding to punish Bernanke, it would be some kind of wonderful to sentence him to a summer on the Jersey Shore with these young firebrands.
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Oh, that would be delicious. I'd love for him to have to shill tacky T-shirts while wearing one that identifies him as a Shore Store Whore. Plus, he could use some time in the sun. He'll be orange in no time!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/16/09

    @sweet_communist: Gel the beard. Lipgloss. Get him juiced and all fist-pumpy. Make him stand up in the club at midnight every night and show us his pout and peace fingers while reading excerpts from Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose."
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: What luxury vehicle name should be tattooed upon his paunchy torso?

    I know for sure that one set of knuckles must read MICRO and the other MACRO (obviously, the thumbs are included).
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/16/09

    @sweet_communist: It must be a modest luxury... something along the lines of Alpha Romeo

    [en.wikipedia.org])
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Never let it be said that I don't learn new things from Gawker and its commenters.

    Servicey!
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    In reply to Sometimes Bill O'Reilly Is Legitimately Funny
    Apparently not everyone loves Bernanke, as Wikipedia currently identifies him as "an American douchebag."
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    @sweet_communist: Alas, it has been changed to "economist."
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/16/09

    In reply to Sometimes Bill O'Reilly Is Legitimately Funny
    What the HELL is a Bernanke?
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    12/16/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Likely some time of sexual maneuver that requires facial hair.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    12/16/09

    @Airvault: *type

    I hate when my fingers fall off while writing.
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    In reply to Sometimes Bill O'Reilly Is Legitimately Funny
    Jeffrey Tambor in a beard? Sounds like George Bluth is on the lam again.
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    Image of Crooks Crooks
    12/16/09

    @sweet_communist: He's not; he's still in my attic.
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    Image of sweet_communist sweet_communist
    12/16/09

    @Crooks: Is he wearing your dead wife's maternity clothes?
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    12/16/09

    @Crooks: The mere fact that you say you have pop pop in the attic tells me you're not ready.
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    Image of The Count of Monte Fisto The Count of Monte Fisto
    01:34 AM

    @sweet_communist: Just don't touch the cornballer.
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    Image of Nick Douglas Nick Douglas
    02:10 AM

    @sweet_communist: He hasn't found the cutoffs.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    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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    Image of Thistledew Thistledew
    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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    Image of ModestProposal ModestProposal
    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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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    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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    Image of romulus romulus
    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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    Motoko Kusanagi promoted this comment romulus was starred romulus was unstarred
    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    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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    Motoko Kusanagi was starred Motoko Kusanagi was unstarred
    Image of romulus romulus
    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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    Image of meerkat meerkat
    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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    Image of sfBirdie sfBirdie
    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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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    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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    Novaload was starred Novaload was unstarred
    Image of sfBirdie sfBirdie
    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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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    10/30/08

    In reply to 'Time' Pretending Obama Won't Be Person of the Year
    Putin is the cover in the background, instead of Biden? That feels like subliminal messaging to me!
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    Image of MoscowNeverSleeps MoscowNeverSleeps
    10/30/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith is not your Bible Spice: Has everyone forgotten that Putin was Time's Man of the Year this year?? Don't think subliminal is quite what they were going for with that one. More like history.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    10/31/08

    @MoscowNeverSleeps: Oh, I meant that the other three covers were presidential/veep candidates in this election, and that seeing as the Republicans love to decry Obama as Socialist, it's an interesting choice for a background.


    Maybe I was too obscure?

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    Image of fetys fetys
    10/30/08

    In reply to 'Time' Pretending Obama Won't Be Person of the Year
    Oo, look! She can see Russia from her easel.
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    Image of HenryLovesFonzie HenryLovesFonzie
    10/30/08

    In reply to 'Time' Pretending Obama Won't Be Person of the Year
    My vote is for Jim Cramer.
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