Christopher Hitchens puts a nice little capper on the “Bush is dumb” jokes (language warning).
It always seemed to me that the people who honestly believe that one politician or another is really stupid are the dumbest people out there (e.g., Joy Behar). It makes sense, because they probably go through their lives with the desire to feel smarter than someone.
Well, Bush was smart enough to know it’s better to take a fight to your enemy’s backyard. For that, he gets five stars. I’m just sorry he didn’t “decrease the surplus population” in places like Iran.
Bill Mayer is smart – he just has a cynical, fat head. Hitchen’s hand salute was appropriate, I think.
I was flipping channels looking for a Girls Gone Wild infomercial the other morning when I ran across a woman on C-SPAN with the subtitle “Bush is Dumb”. OK, it actually said “Rediscovering Intellectualism in Politics” or some such blather. But her whole take was “Bush Dumb, Obama Smart”. Deciding that wasn’t Girls Gone Wild, I kept flipping.
“I don’t agree with Bush’s policies so he is a stupidhead!”
And the left wonders why we think they are childish…
“It always seemed to me that the people who honestly believe that one politician or another is really stupid are the dumbest people out there (e.g., Joy Behar). It makes sense, because they probably go through their lives with the desire to feel smarter than someone.”
You mean like Cher? Or maybe Sean Penn?
There is a three letter word for dumb politicians – “JOE BIDEN”
Christopher Hitchens
That? Was freaking brilliant.
Obama is still dumb in all 57 States…
Hehe. Sounds like Socrates landed on the Girls Gone Obama channel instead of the real deal. Well, as House said in one episode, “The pr0n is piling up on the Internet. It doesn’t download itself, you know!”
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I take issue with a lot of the things Christopher Hitchens says, but sometimes he’s right on the money.
And what incredible savoir faire!
FWIW, you’re a finalist for best humor blog:
http://2008.weblogawards.org/site-news/2008-weblog-awards-finalists/
I think Hitchens took a cue from the Ann Coutler playbook, and decided to mock the libtards for fun. Wooo Hooo!
Did I miss something? Was Maher making a Clinton/Lewinski reference with the “But sometimes a cigar is really a cigar” retort? Seems like a non sequiter to me.
Happy New Year! Don’t drink and drive.
Absolutely. Absolutely. People who are constantly putting others down are those who need the artificial boost to their own egos.
And the more important the person is that they are putting down, the bigger the boost to their ego.
I have more important things to do then think, watch, or care what that idiot Bill Maher does,
like:
wishing you people a Happy New Year !!!
Yeah, ‘Bush is dumb’ jokes are old and tired, but ‘Obama gets his head stuck in a bucket’ jokes are cutting edge.
…And of course, Frank J is leading the way!
President Barak Hussein Obama, Commander In Chief -Now that’s a joke.