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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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    @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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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    A couple weeks back on the Top Chef live blog, we had TWO commenters who knew and actually worked for Rocco. (Rupert Pupkin and minou.) There were able to share much of the info Sheila reports above.


    Speaking of which, there's another Top Chef live blog on Gawker tonight - it'll be posted around 9 Eastern, and the show starts at 10.


    How many commenters will know tonight's guest Martha Stewart, I wonder? What personal experiences will they share??

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    At least Wolfgang Puck has frozen pizzas for me to heat 'n' eat.


    Rocco, where is your line of frozen pizzas? I'm hungry!


    And you call yourself a celebrity chef. Jeez Louise!

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Ha. Sheila, a Freudian slip?


    After working in the high-class kitchens of New York's Penisula Hotel


    Rocco DiSpirito: trained to be a dick.

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    I don't understand - has he totally lost that passion to cook?


    Gael, honey, are you new?? Of course he has. Cooking--real restaurant line cooking--is hard. That's why all these guys--Rocco, Wolfgang Puck, Emeril, Mario Batali, Anthony Bourdain, even your precious Tom Colicchio, Richard!--all want to get book deals and TV shows and endorse moderately-priced cookware on QVC, so they can get the hell out of the kitchen.


    (This comment brought to you by Clare's dad. Clare's dad: Continued curmudgeonosity since 1948.)

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Yeah, The Restaurant did wonders for illuminating the amount of douche that resides in him. Smug, unctuous and a nancyboy, he nuked the fridge for all celebuchefs. I would take Rachel Ray anyday over that metro poptart warmer. And to mention Bourdain and this loser in the same breath is blasphemy.
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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Did he just elicit my sympathy for Jeffrey Chodorow?

    Shit, he did!
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    12/17/08

    @fileunder: I was sympathetic to Chodorow when I watched The Restaurant. It was impossible to believe that Rocco had a successful restaurant elsewhere and so now he doesn't.


    Clearly only Mama was a successful chef in his family. And I couldn't believe he was making his old mama slave over a hot meatball pan when he was out snorting and drinking.

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    Dear Rocco:


    Really, pal, you shouldn't take us seriously. After all, many if not most of us are still eating mac-and-cheese straight outta the box on a regular basis, and some of us are taking shortcuts and just pouring in that powder, no butter or milk or anything, resulting in a really gritty meal that is unlike anything Kraft might depict on their box! For shame. Was it not Kelly Osbourne who once said "I love my Easy Mac"? Yeah, it was. And you thisclose to synonimizing (is that a real word?) Gawker commenters and "the gastronomic elite"! Fact: while some of us have eaten steak at the Hustler Club, none of us can review that joint like Bruni did, me-ow!


    And, for real, your dancing on that ABC show wasn't that bad. So what if Cloris Leachman outlasted you? That's AMERICA's fault, and not yours!


    You know what is your fault? Letting that jerkoff Chodorow bring that totes obnoxious intern into your fake TV restaurant that one episode. Or was it two episodes? Yeah, he was a fucking jerk. Who the hell did he think he was? Um, what did he do again? Touch your mama's meatballs? I swear, he was a punk, and he upset the wonderful chemistry on that show! Next time, just go with Gordon Ramsay instead, he's always asking for his risotto!


    And, for real, no more reality shows, just hang back, cook some pasta, and cook it well, don't forget the sauce, or the love, or the love sauce. Your customers will love you for it! Your love sauce, that is! All will be cool again. Just ignore the health inspectors when they walk through the door, because they're gonna want some of that love sauce, too.


    Peace out, brah. Stay less annoying. You'll be aiiight.


    Herbal essences,


    Aaron

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    12/17/08

    In reply to In Which We Send Tap-Dancing Chef Rocco DiSpirito to Therapy
    There was more coke going up his nose at The Restaurant than Mama's meatballs going into mouths. My favorite was when Choderow (his financial backer) was looking at the $1500 a week going to fresh flowers and noticed that all of the flowers in the place were silk.
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    12/17/08

    @LasVegasPhil: Lulz, the flowers wuz coca plants!
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    12/17/08

    @LasVegasPhil: $1500 a week isn't much of a coke habit.
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