Wednesday (FA Wire) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit to Baghdad today, in part to congratulate Jalal Talabani, who on Saturday was reappointed President of Iraq.
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40 comments
Matt
April 26, 2006 at 7:32 pm
1He’s thinking “she’s tall enough to hide behind, but I’m too fat!”
Skerlnik
April 26, 2006 at 7:58 pm
2There’s a really tasteless joke I just can’t put together here somewhere, about solving the immigration issue, immigrants “taking” jobs nobody else wants, Talabani’s nervously being the Prez of Iraq, and the old Doritos tagline of “crunch all you want, we’ll make more”.
I don’t know. Assemble the above in some sort of witty way, and see if it’s funny…
Eh, probably not.
cooper
April 26, 2006 at 8:08 pm
3Adam, this is great fun! The comedic impulse must come so easy to you, that you can do this sort of thing with one hand behind your back. What? You did? Oh, right, sorry…
Matt
April 26, 2006 at 8:26 pm
4Coop, don’t make fun of Adam. He’s likely to give you . . . the finger!
Murray
April 26, 2006 at 8:30 pm
5Yup, what this war needs is more photo ops. It’s stupidity and futility are easily overlooked as long as there are enough good pictures. If Condi AND Rummy go there it must be a good thing.
(Talabani might not want to step into Rummy’s shoes).
Maximum Bob
April 26, 2006 at 8:58 pm
6RICE: You know, Mr. Talabani, there’s a saying in America that any Iraqi leader who shakes Donald Rumsfeld’s hand will stay in power for 20 years!
TALABANI: And after that?
RICE: Don’t ask.
ginny
April 26, 2006 at 9:01 pm
7But… what about the cheese?
Ann
April 26, 2006 at 9:04 pm
8Oh, MaxBob—that’s VERY good!
David
April 26, 2006 at 10:32 pm
9There’s no backdrop with wallpaper repititiousness of some cutesy saying. I’m thinking something like Mesopotamia on the Mend (in honor of Adam’s finger, which I gather is currently aimed at Cooper).
SeattleDan
April 27, 2006 at 1:01 am
10Hey,wait a minute. Talibani? Doesn’t that mean he’s a member of the Taliban? Huh? Looks mighty suspicious to me.
Landis
April 27, 2006 at 10:59 am
11Photo-toons are back!! Woo hoo, I say, Woo hoo!
About the finger comments, all I can say is: Wow. I’d sure hate to be the subject of a roast by this crowd. (nice ones)
dee
April 27, 2006 at 10:59 am
12Oh puhleeeeeze, let’s not feel too sorry for the guy. He WAS given a choice of jobs — President of Iraq or White House Spokesman.
David
April 27, 2006 at 11:23 am
13Repetitiousness, dammit.
Josh Brown’s latest political cartoon presents what I think is a most appropriate take on Condi and Rummy.
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/jbrown/ldw.htm
Skerlnik
April 27, 2006 at 12:29 pm
14“Yer doin’ a heckuva job, Tally!”
Sharon
April 27, 2006 at 1:34 pm
15David, thanks! I never saw this guy’s work before. The man’s a f’ing genius.
cooper
April 27, 2006 at 10:25 pm
16Hey, what’s with Rummy’s wimpass mauve tie? Was his red “Power” tie out being cleaned?. Maybe he was wearing his Blood-Red Reeboks and that’s what caught Talabani’s eye. I hope so, America must exude power at all times.
cooper
April 27, 2006 at 10:32 pm
17Now we know why America is going to Hell in a handbasket! http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46938
SeattleDan
April 28, 2006 at 12:04 am
18Thanks for the link,coop.I thought the Nation’s problems were rooted elsewhere (like in the GAY AGENDA),but it is good to know they are rooted in the inefficacy of W’s prayers. Clearly what we need is a President who KNOWS how to pray correctly.
hedera
April 28, 2006 at 12:16 am
19You know the scary thing about the Onion article? It reads like the ones in the real newspapers… There is no escape.
Maximum Bob
April 28, 2006 at 12:31 am
20The Onion’s been on the top of this thing from the start. Back on January 18th, 2001, they published an article titled, “Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over.’” It predicts:
- the invasion of Iraq (”Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least on Gulf War-level conflict in the next four years.”)
- tax cuts
- the decreasing religification of the government (”Continued Bush: ‘John Ashcroft will be invaluable in healing the terrible wedge President Clinton drove between church and state.’”)
- the ever-widening split between the left and the right (”We as a people must stand united, banding together to tear this nation in two.”)
And that’s why I staunchly support the inevitable Felber ‘08 campaign. If politics has become the business of mimicking satire, we need to elect professional satirists.
Maximum Bob
April 28, 2006 at 12:33 am
21Sorry–I meant the increasing religification of the government.
SeattleDan
April 28, 2006 at 12:44 am
22Hear,hear.Felber in ‘08!(Is Adam thirty-five yet? Or will he be then?)
David
April 28, 2006 at 12:59 am
23Who’s heading up the Felber ‘08 exploratory committee? Be nice to have someone with some mental horsepower at the helm again, especially someone who also actually knows something.
David
April 28, 2006 at 1:07 am
24The Intercession Institute? Wow. There’s a little town near Kissimmee named Intercession City. And to think I’ve been paying it no mind for a good half century. Sounds like Jeb needs to take W there.
Pete IVDL
April 28, 2006 at 1:45 am
25I’ve just realised I read the Onion more often than any of my national newspapers… and I still seem to be able to follow the news. Herman T Zweibel, I salute you!
And Matt, Adam would never use his hands in an offensive way towards coop. He’s a giving kind of comedian/writer/TV guy. He’d probably give you a tip, too. If he had another one. heh heh heh.
Stephen
April 28, 2006 at 10:23 am
26I particularly like the “White House denies existence of Karl Rove” article. I have liked the Onion ever since I got an email about “Harry Potter sparks rise in Satanism.” The person who sent it was quoting the article as a legitimate article, saying that the books were evil and people shouldn’t be reading them. It also gave a call to “concerned Christians” to “PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!!” so they could save the country. I was disappointed that they needed to bring in a bogus article to support their position. At least they provided a link so you could “read about this tragedy for yourself”.
Now that I think about it that might not have been a good idea.
Sharon
April 28, 2006 at 10:43 am
27Omigod, according to the “White House denies existence…” story, Rove is only a few days older than I am, yet he looks–in that blurry alleged photo–to be about 20 or 25 years older. A lifetime of lying and cheating does take its toll, doesn’t it?
Mary
April 28, 2006 at 11:12 am
28Yes! Felber in ‘08.
Maybe we can get Brad Whitford to continue in his role as Josh Lyman- seeing as the West Wing will be ending this year. He got Santos elected. Why not Adam?
siobhan
April 28, 2006 at 12:30 pm
29New “Get Your War On” strips. (Cooper, I thought it was your job to tell us when a fresh set was posted.)
Ann
April 28, 2006 at 12:53 pm
30Adam should run THIS year, and take his opponents by surprise! They’ll never see it coming. “Why wait ’til ‘08?”
Sue
April 28, 2006 at 3:53 pm
31Sharon,
That’s probably because Rove doesn’t have a portrait in the attic.
(Sorry, WETA showed “The Picture of Dorian Gray” last Sunday, and I’m all Hurd Hatfield-ed up.)
cooper
April 28, 2006 at 5:22 pm
32siobhan, I feel I’ve let the gang down, blowing the GYWO update. Thanks for taking up my slack. I’ll have to go out into this beautiful spring day (blue, cloudless skies; 78F) to drive home from work, with the sunroof open, Dire Straits on the CD, and try to make sense of this crazy world and my depressingly humble place in it.
Oh look, it’s after 5:00 on the East Coast and time to start the weekend. All you left coasters - do enjoy the next 3 hours. Buwhaa ha ha ha ha!
David
April 28, 2006 at 5:36 pm
33One more reason to love FA - people who dig GYWO.
Multitudinous thanks for the link, siobhan.
Cooper, you’ll appreciate this. I bought a copy of the first (I think) GYWO, published in 2002, at that wonderful bookstore in Asheville, which I cannot for the life of me think of the name of at the moment (you gotta love that string of ofs).
siobhan
April 28, 2006 at 6:17 pm
34David, of course.
cooper
April 28, 2006 at 7:52 pm
35David, of all the names of all the bookstores of Asheville, that’s the one of which you can’t think of the name of? You’re of a lot of help! (I’ve got the second GYWO book).
SeattleDan
April 28, 2006 at 7:58 pm
36coop,I have a copy of the first book that I can part with…you should be able to email me by clicking on my name.Say something in the subject line about it being you so I dont think you’re a spammer.
David
April 28, 2006 at 10:34 pm
37Cooper,
Malaprop’s, dammit, Malaprop’s!
61 Haywood Street
It’s like walking into a most interesting corner of heaven, the kind of place the absence of which would make heaven pointless.
I suspect, although I’ve never been there, Blue Moon Books in Landrum is akin to Seattle Dan’s haven of sanity and grace. I suspect Blue Moon Records on Main Street in Hendersonville is a companion to Blue Moon Books.
cooper
April 29, 2006 at 6:45 am
38David, now… don’t you feel better? Thanks for the tip, pal. I’ll check it out next time I’m up there.
David
April 29, 2006 at 11:12 pm
39I do feel better, much, much better. You will definitely enjoy wandering into Malaprop’s. Good coffee, too. Great wine store just down the street. Got my first bottle of Lambic there.
justin
May 5, 2006 at 8:48 am
40Talabani:There is something fishy in my name. Thats what people think about me. And both of u made an effort to come here. Its so nice of u. I like the way hah!