PJ O’Rourke-"Electing Dems" Like "Marrying Angelina Jolie For Her Brains"

Quote of the Day
May 16th, 2008 by Steve O

Two substantive political issues are the federal budget deficit and the war in Iraq. Now, if you’re electing Democrats to control government spending, then you’re marrying Angelina Jolie for her brains. This leaves the Democrats with one real issue: Iraq. And so far the best that any Democratic presidential candidate has been able to manage with Iraq is to make what I think of as the high school sex promise: I will pull out in time, honest dear.”

- PJ O’Rourke.


http://www.teambio.org/2008/05/16/quote-of-the-day-10/

What an ass.

Angelina Jolie seems like she's a very intelligent lady and she's talented, beautiful and incredibly fortunate to be with Brad Pitt and have such a wonderful family!

P.J.'s just jealous.

makes me really ashamed that when I was in journalism school, I hailed P.J. as the second coming of Hunter.
Now I shouldn't even mention them in the same sentence.
Ah, I was a dumb (hopelessly ill-informed) college kid.

I read him back in the mid-1970s in National Lampoon. Now, he seems determined to fill the bar stool of Christopher Hitchens once Hitchens' liver finally flees his body. O'Rourke's writing never really matured, and is the equivalent of "Isn't this clever?" The proper rejoinder used to be, "Yes, I thought you'd think it was clever." Now, I don't know what to say, except to sigh and turn to something more interesting. Like watching that new coat of whitewash dry on the outhouse.

going to a strip club for the salad bar. The talentless asshole has never been funny and he has even less to offer in terms of politics. How incredibly awkward is it to watch him on Real Time with Bill Maher doing his damnedest to play his "See, republicans can be 'hip' too" game. Epic fail, PJ.

Then he realized he was making some decent money doing it, and became a walking talking hole.

:popcorn:

When I went to college. I went to Tyrannasaurus State.

I'm guessing that they thought he was a gormless pratt too.

;-)

I really enjoyed his writing for Rolling Stone in the early 90's. Worked for National Lampoon before that, and took over for Hunter S. Thompson at RS. Clever, acerbic, and funny. Kind of a Bill Maher-type of writer's voice, but more libertarian. A real mish-mash of views. Bought a few of his books.

Then, I dunno WTF happened to him. He took a hard right, really started cranking up the self-satisfied snark and the anti-left dialogue, and he was never the same. Couldn't stomach reading him anymore.

I guess he reminds me of a time, not too long ago, when one could read a moderate right-leaning book and walk away with some insight. Now the dialogue's so divisive and corrosive, I'd just throw one of his books across the room.

Yeah, I'm that old.

I'm serious, I think it's all about the money they get paid to spew bullshit.

His career really took off after that.

DennisMilleritis.
:eyes:

John McCain was the dean? :P

:evilgrin:

And equally bad for my gray matter.

BTW, Angelina ain't no Paris Hilton. She's an activist, she's a spokeswoman...being smokin' hot is just the icing on the cake. I admire the hell out of her as a human being. If I had her cabbage, I'd be doing the same thing.

so he attacks her

I also have the hots for AJ (who doesn't?) but, of course, she doesn't sound even remotely dumb.

The real brainless bimbos tend to be ideologically at his side, so of course he won't diss them. He'll only diss the hot, smart, elegant, hot, liberal, hot Angelina Jolie and others like her. Did I say she's hot?

And it shows.

P.J., check out and compare the federal budget deficit from 1993 to 2001 and the federal budget deficit from 2001 to the present.

The Greenwich-Choate Wannabe and Faux Libertarian should do his homework.

I'd say that P.J. has a very serious case of cognitive dissonance on this issue. I doubt that U.N. Ambassador Jolie would ever be stupid enough to vote for a repug based on their borrow-and-spend economic records.

farking job with holding government spending in check.:puke:

:puke:

:)

AND THE ONLY TIME WE GOT THAT UNDER CONTROL WAS CLINTON???????

FUCK YOU PJ O'CLUELESS!!!

This reminds me of that nefarious grade lowerer who causes so much damage to confused high school students -- the Simile Sap. Not content to just mix metaphors, Simile Sap picks out the wrong attribute and hangs his logic out to dry:

"Did you hear that guy defending evolution? He must be as smart as Einstein."
--"Well yes, Sap, that 'guy' is Richard Dawkins...... and he is in the same class as Einstein."
"D'ohh!"

If P.J. wants the Simile Sap to spice up his writing, there's no lack of material. Look at the Iraq War Resolution.

... and hear what he really thinks of John McCain.

to fund their illegal immoral wars based on lies??? And who has been robbing the Social Security Trust for the last 8 years? Wasn't it Rumsfeld that said the pentagon lost track of 2 trillion dollars on 9/10/01?? The Dems are the ones that hired KBR and other contractors to rip us off with their cost plus tactics? The Dems are responsible for the "missing billions" in Iraq? And whose idea was it to spend so much money investigation Clinton. but then couldn't spend any money investigating 9/11? Someone has been wasting money on wrong priorities and in isn't the Dems.

And he should leave Angelina out of it because she clearly has more respect than he does.

Yeah, sure he is... he's a laugh-riot

:crazy:

...but you know what they say: Looks aren't everything.

sandpaper condom.

...

:patriot:

He know that right? Oh that's right, republicans objectify woman: if your good looking and sexual you must be stupid.

I've never had the impression that Angelina Jolie was particularly dumb. Or does this dimwit just think that women can't be smart and hot at the same time?

A better analogy would probably have been Jessica Simpson...

Turning one of P.J.'s best quotes against him.

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P.J. and my hippy-turned-Mepublican brother have this in common: Too much blow back in the day.

Is there anything sadder than former rebels who have become Republican toadies?

You must not know funny.

(You'll have to be a Coen Brothers fan to get the reference.)

oh, Coen! never mind

O'Rourke vs. Miller! Pow! Bang! Sock!

We all win...

"Putting Words in the President's Mouth
Sixteen obvious points that George W. Bush should make during the Wednesday night debate.
by P.J. O'Rourke
10/12/2004 12:00:00 AM

(2) There are two organizations pushing for change in November--al Qaeda and the Democratic party. And they both have the same message: "We're going to fix you, America." On the whole, the terrorists have a more straightforward plan for fixing things. They're going to blow themselves up. Although, come to think of it, Howard Dean did that.

>>snip<<

(4) Speaking of jobs, Senator, how come every illegal immigrant who wades the Rio is able to find one in about 10 minutes? Meanwhile, your Democratic core constituency has been unemployed for years. Are your supporters lazy, Senator Kerry? Or are they stupid? Back when Clinton was president, did your supporters think they got their jobs at Burger King because Bill was sleeping with the cow?

(5) You say health care costs are soaring? Well, I'm not the one with a personal injury lawyer on my ticket. I loved the billboards that John Edwards used to have all over North Carolina: "Y'ALL MIGHT HAVE GOT HURT AT WORK AND NOT EVEN KNOWN IT" and "FEELIN' POORLY? LEMME SUE YER DOCTOR!"

(6) Yeah, we're running a deficit. Like Democrats never did that. But at least we're borrowing the money when interest rates are low. It's the same as refinancing your home loan. Not that you'd know, Senator Kerry, since your rich wife paid off your mortgage.

>>snip<<

(8) No, it turns out Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. And how crazy does that make Saddam? All he had to do was tell Hans Blix, "Look anywhere you want. Look under the bed. Look beneath the couch. Look behind the toilet tank in the third presidential palace on the left, but keep your mitts off my copies of Maxim." And Saddam could have gone on dictatoring away until Donald Rumsfeld gets elected head of the World Council of Churches. But no . . ."

Edited to add the link because the entire piece is filled with so much juicy comedy goodness:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/770chlec.asp

comedy has to be fluid and precise, not rigid and clumsy. hmm, that sounds vaguely sexual. i wonder if republican humorists are bad in bed, too...

Jolie?

It seems to me that the overriding rationale for the right (wrong) wing is that their intentions are "good".

Sorry, no. What counts is your actions and what results from your actions.

The right wing wants you to buy into the idea that "the ends justify the means". All human beings of conscience must reject this false premise.

sw

Intelligence is actually highly correlated with good looks. Genetic health and all that. Sometimes it doesn't work out but you're more likely to be smart if you're good looking.

She happens to be both. And she's a liberal... good on her :P

They BOMB every time!

:nuke:

About 30 years ago.