GIJoel's Rowdy Rants ([info]gijoel666) wrote,
@ 2008-10-14 07:18:00
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"no calorie, bacon-flavored aphrodisiac"
The ability to author that phrase is why I love Rachel Maddow so much.  If memory serves**, she used it in the context that the McCain campaign couldn't even sell that right now.

**[Edited 10-15:] it didn't; tho what I said *could* easily have been the context, please see Dianagram's comment for the correct context from show transcript.

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Here's the transcript for context ...
[info]dianagram
2008-10-14 07:47 pm UTC (link)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27183216/

Speaking of more weapons, what ever happened to Paul Wolfowitz? After Paul Wolfowitz sold us the war in Iraq as an easy-peasy, pay-for-itself, weapons of mass destruction pick up that would take like five minutes and five soldiers and five bucks, then he was off to the World Bank where he came in within about five inches of being the first World Bank president ever to be fired.

Well, guys like Paul Wolfowitz have a way of failing up in this world. And thanks to his awesome track record on international affairs. The State Department now has him running the International Security Advisory Board to give our government advice on weapons of mass destruction.

Wolfowitz was really the best guy for this job? Are you sure? It's like hiring Cousin Itt to cut your hair. Anyway, the International Security Advisory Board under the leadership of Paul Wolfowitz has just recommended that we really ought to consider scaling up our atomic arsenal to make sure we are keeping a nuclear arm to China on its toes, quote, "The U.S. must undertake the development of new weapons to convince China that it will not be able to overcome the U.S. militarily."

You know what? If they're going to try to sell us on a new Cold War and a new nuclear arms race with China, you might want to invest in a better salesman. If Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and all the rest of the horsemen from these past eight-year apocalypse were selling a no-calorie, bacon-flavored aphrodisiac, nobody would buy it. Come on, you guys. Geez, come on.

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Re: Here's the transcript for context ...
[info]gijoel666
2008-10-15 01:46 am UTC (link)
"If Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and all the rest of the horsemen from these past eight-year apocalypse were selling a no-calorie, bacon-flavored aphrodisiac, nobody would buy it."

Oops, my bad. But that just goes to show how easy it is to confuse the Bush mafia with McCain and the *"new"* gang-that-refuses-to-shoot-straight.

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