stpauler: I can hear the calliope music already.

/Seriously, let's get rid of Coleman. I'd prefer Ventura but Franken is an OK second.

I didn't know who this Coleman was but I was really hoping it was Gary Coleman so that I could giggle and then call you a racist with a bit of an early morning smirk.

On a side note, when is Carl Weathers going to run for office? Carl Weathers is a national treasure and Apollo Creed is a childhood idol of mine.

/I also like the idea of 3 Governors having starred in Predator.

Littledogg: I didn't know who this Coleman was but I was really hoping it was Gary Coleman so that I could giggle and then call you a racist with a bit of an early morning smirk.

On a side note, when is Carl Weathers going to run for office? Carl Weathers is a national treasure and Apollo Creed is a childhood idol of mine.

/I also like the idea of 3 Governors having starred in Predator.

Maybe we can get Bill Duke to run as well.

Isn't Franken in trouble with the IRS or something? He is already crooked. May as well let him be a politician.

Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

President Camacho 2016

I have respect for any politician who publicy states that "religion is a crutch".

tomw: Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

Yeah but he's good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like him.

Jesse Ventura ate Sean Hannity alive the other day on Hannity and Colmes. It was fun to watch.

Ventura's term as governor reminded me in some ways of Hiaasen's character, Skink.

Xaneidolon: Jesse Ventura ate Sean Hannity alive the other day on Hannity and Colmes. It was fun to watch.

Ventura's term as governor reminded me in some ways of Hiaasen's character, Skink.

Youtube? Link? Something? Any chance to see that asshole hurt.

McManus_brothers:
Maybe we can get Bill Duke to run as well.

I like the way you think, he would make for a hilarious yet awesome leader.

IMDB has informed me that the guy that played the predator died from the AIDS many years ago. Correct me if I am wrong but I believe he replaced Jean-Claude Van Damme who quit because of heat exhaustion or some such nonsense. Since he is predator runner up I think he too should run.

/Not sure if Van Damme has citizenship

Here is the link (new window)(pops).

stpauler: I can hear the calliope music already.

/Seriously, let's get rid of Coleman. I'd prefer Ventura but Franken is an OK second.

Agreed.

As I've said in previous threads, Ventura wasn't that bad of a Governor. He got a few good things accomplished. His biggest sin was frightening the two-party system into joining forces to roadblock much else from getting through. The Reds and Blues had to show us that there is no room for independent governance.

I think Franken would at least be pretty funny if nothing else. Whatever you think of him (I wasn't a fan of Air-America anymore than any other politically extreme radio show) he is a bright guy.

tomw: Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

More so than Coleman? He speaks with a farking Eastern accent and was born in Brooklyn.

At least Franken grew up in MN and went to Blake (just down the street from my high school).

I'm curious to hear why you claim Franken is the carpetbagger. Unless you don't know what that term means.

Just listened to him on Stern this morning. He's nuttier than a fruitcake. Must have taken 1 too many chairs to the head back in the day.

I really liked him when he was a governor, but then a couple years ago I saw him on some show getting interviewed and he had the jack sparrow goatee and was just rambling crazy. Too bad though, when he was governor he was full of common sense and brutal honesty.

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live."

That alone should be enough reason to vote for him.

Three Crooked Squirrels: Xaneidolon: Here is the link (new window)(pops).

Oh, goody!

. . . watches video . . .

That's eating Hannity alive? Hannity turned it into a Truther interview. I was really hoping for something better.

Agree or disagree with the truthers, I still think he made a mess of Hannity. (see the part where Ventura calls for ad hominem attacks on truthers, Hannity objects, then starts calling Ventura Rosie a few minutes later.)

The reason that I say that he ate Hannity alive is that if you were to write out the the flow of the conversation, point-by-point and then counterpoint, Hannity either loses or drops nearly every point. Try it on paper. Honestly, I was surprised that Hannity was as restrained as he was.

I'd never seen Ventura live/interviewed before (only read stuff out of the news). He's got a real presence.

tomw: Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

Except he grew up in friggin St Louis Park.

And he's only "in trouble with the IRS" because his accountant was an idiot

Ventura is a farking toolbag truther who spouts Truther lies he read off a farking Truther web site.

Did you hear the new truther story? One of their top professors came out and explained that the WTC was brought down by the Hutchinson Effect using energy from Hurricane Erin, and that the US Government covered up the Hurricane.

I kid you not. Good jorb truthers!

"I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control!"

/Hopefully I'll be able to stop with the Ventura quotes after this one.

The amount of hate that is spewed towards Franken on a regular basis is proof to me of just how vicious the political arena is (not that I really needed any confirmation).

I used to listen to Franken's show on AAR religiously. Aside from the obvious left leanings, the show was more like something you'd find on NPR. A little bit of poitical opinion and banter, but also a lot of *intelligent* conversation really good guests. Columnists, authors, leaders of think tanks (Jonathan Alter, Joe Conason, Howard Fineman, Melanie Sloan, to name a few). The total opposite of blowhards like Hannity, OReilly, Limbaugh (and lefties like Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy too). I cannot recall a single time when I thought to myself "gee, that was a really over the top and despicable thing to say", whereas most AM talkers would have you saying that at least once an hour.

Oh, he also has been married to his *first* wife for like 30 years, and they have 2 normal and well adjusted children.

But what does that matter? He is an elitist New York liberal and Stuart Smalley was never funny.

Smellvin: "I'm all for gun control, I just define it a little differently. If you can put 2 rounds into the same hole from 25 meters, that's gun control!"


Excessive testosterone and machismo. Just what I look for in a political candidate.

halfof33:

Have a link?

Ed Finnerty: Have a link?

You got it: here is a link to the JREF site where his idiocy on the Alex Jones show was discussed.

Link (new window)

I suppose you could go to Infowars and Prison planet and find a link. I don't link there because they are blocked almost everywhere as hate sites.

Cripes, I see that Ventura is back on with that fat little fark Jones today. What an asshat.

Dogberry: Is Jesse turning into Kevin from The Office? (With a whole lot of 9/11 nuttiness thrown in.)

Yes - he is 100% convinced that dubya was behind 9-11. Heard him on O&A a while ago, total nutjob.

halfof33:

Umm. You just linked to a forum where other people are saying that. All I saw was a link to a YouTube video of a Larry King interview.

Can't watch the video at work so I'll assume he says something in there.

Didn't Jesse Ventura make some statement about he and his family leaving the country as a result of the enacting of the Patriot Act? Something about it taking away liberty/freedoms, etc? Why hasn't he left if he felt so strongly about wanting to leave?

"I asked him the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."

-On what he spoke about in his meeting with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (9 May 2001)

/Ok. That was the last one. I promise.

Mmm yeah, I'm pretty sure most of the people who voted for Jesse the first time around aren't prepared for a repeat of this experiment. I think he was abundantly aware of this fact when he chose to not run for re-election as governor.

BTW Jesse, thanks for giving away the budget surplus. The resulting deficit when the economy slowed was no problem at all, we just hacked it out of nonessential services like roads and education.

Ed Finnerty: Can't watch the video at work so I'll assume he says something in there.

Uhh, don't know what to tell you champ. If you can't watch videos at work, there ain't no way you are going to get through to PP or Infowars, unless you work at the Headquarters of the Illinois Nazis. Here's a youtube link, anyway:

Link (new window)

Smellvin
"I asked him the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."

-On what he spoke about in his meeting with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (9 May 2001)

/Ok. That was the last one. I promise.

Big hitter, the Lama.

tomw: Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

Yeah, really. How dare he grow up in St. Louis Park, instead of New York like Coleman!

Dogpants: tomw: Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

Yeah, really. How dare he grow up in St. Louis Park, instead of New York like Coleman!



Aaaaaand BURN.

If they can replace the joker they have now with a professional comedian, I'll be happy.

There isn't a facepalm pic big enough for how I feel aboot this......

Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

God, I watched the You Tube where Franken tries to act like a common man. He makes me gag.

nicedream: Aside from the obvious left leanings, the show was more like something you'd find on NPR.

And Kathrine Lanpher makes my boy parts feel funny.

Ventura is, as people have already mentioned, a hard-core truther. That alone disqualifies him from further public office, IMHO.

tomw: Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

How can that be since he is from Minnisota?

I've spent more time in MN than Franken. Maybe I should run.

All2morrowsparTs: tomw: Franken is a carpetbagging tool.

How can that be since he is from Minnesota?

Remember all that time he was on SNL? What's the catch phrase? "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

Well, guess what! Al Franken is from Minnesota. Here I tune in expecting high-quality New York entertainment -- the glitz, the glam -- and instead I'm assaulted by folksy, down-home shtick about some guy in a Cosby-sweater who affirms himself! I suppose that passes for rollicking hijinks in the sticks, but I shouldn't have to be subjected to it. He is a carpet-bagging fraud, and I'm glad someone is finally calling him on it.

/I'm being no more absurd than the people actually making the charge.

Geotpf: Ventura is, as people have already mentioned, a hard-core truther. That alone disqualifies him from further public office, IMHO.

Right. Because lies and coverup are what's good for America.

"The chair will recognize Senator The Body."

Ventura was a great governor (too many reasons to list). I remember meeting him a couple of times when he was in office, and I was always impressed with him both in person and as a political office holder. He was his own person and people couldn't stand that, but I thought it made him a better governor that the idiots that Minnesota had before him and after him.

I met Coleman a few times too, every time I wanted to cut my hand off afterward to keep the douche from spreading. Last time I saw him he was at a gas station biatching to the cashier about how he was jet lagged from flying back and forth from Washington, as he was paying to fill up his Volkswagon...this from a guy who was mayor of a city that had a Ford plant. My personal feeling is that if he doesn't like the commute, he should find another job.

/Was on my way to a bar when I ran into Coleman at the gas station
//Totally got after it, altitude training rules

HowlingFrog: Right. Because lies and coverup are what's good for America.

Huh, Froggy joined TF.

The better to ignore anything that might shake your tiny, tiny world view.

GOOD ON YA MATE!