Infected Tube

This is sure to drive certain parts of Internets crazy:

A quick peek reveals that is exactly the case.

Granted, this was back in 2007…

“As I indicated before, I think that we’re going to have to have some system where people can buy into a larger pool. Right now their pool typically is the employer, but there are other ways of doing it. I would like to — I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort. But I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out where we’ve got a much more portable system.”

Gawker explains:
Ridiculous, panty-raiding Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank is partaking in further jackassery on behalf of the legendary paper yet again, now making videos where he’s calling Hillary Clinton a “mad bitch.” The Post pulled the video, but someone kept it.

Milbank likes tries to be funny and cool and things that traditional newspaper columnists aren’t! Which is funny, again, because – as made evident by his last appearance here: his embarrassing HuffPo-diss-hiss punditry on CNN – he hates bloggers, who do that kind of thing for a living, because we’re not journalists or something. But that kind of doesn’t make sense, because here he is, making a video about the Obama Beer Summit, suggesting that all parties involved “got it all wrong” and also, that Hillary Clinton should drink “Mad Bitch Beer.” The

Glenn Beck, who always seems one moment away from imploding into a black hole of stupidity, one-upped himself on Fox & Friends (the morning show for Mensa members)

Gawker breaks down the madness:

With Glenn Beck running loose spouting all sorts of crazy-talk, you just knew at some point he’d say something to cause enough of an uproar that the Fox News brass would have to address it. Beck finally did that today.

The incident in question occurred this morning on Fox & Friends when Beck made his weekly drop-in on the folksy vegetables who host that show. In the course of discussing the controversy surrounding the arrest of Henry Louis Gates and Barack Obama’s subsequent comments on the matter, Beck said that Obama has a “deep-seeded hatred for white people and white culture…I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people…this guy is, I believe, a racist.”

Fox News then released this statement:

During Fox & Friends this morning, Glenn Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions.

Gawker cut to the heart of the lunacy: “So in other words, Fox News said this: Glenn Beck is free to use our airwaves to say whatever the hell he wants, no matter how baseless and irresponsible the things he says may be, and will you now please leave us the hell alone.”

Huff Post sums this mess up well:

Is Sarah Palin secretly a beat poet? Do her words make little to no sense because she is so immersed in language and lyrics that she operates on a plane we cannot grasp? We sincerely doubt it, but that was the implication last night as William Shatner appeared on the “Tonight Show” and read Sarah’s resignation speech in his typical Shatner way, with all the lilting and soft drum beats we’ve come to expect. It was quite magical.

Says The Superficial:

Gina Gershon stars in a spoof campaign video released today for McCain running mate Governor Sarah Palin. If you haven’t seen it, I don’t want to give away the ending but Gina Gershon strips down to a bikini and fires a shotgun. Somebody get this woman an Oscar. All of them. In the meantime, I wrote a blurb for the DVD cover:

“I laughed till I cried. Then I laughed some more – followed by more crying then laughing. Then I did what I call a ‘cry-augh.’ At which point I felt confident my co-workers couldn’t figure out I was masturbating.” – The Superficial Writer

P.S. – Check out John McCain on a yacht with actress Anne Hathaway and convicted con-man Raffaello Follieri.

Could I sell you a Bridge To Nowhere?

“That’s not change,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said of what Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is offering.

“You know, you can put lipstick on a pig,” Obama said, “but it’s still a pig.”