Campaign Retrospective: Goofiest "Pun-dint" Remarks

[writing irish]

Media Matters has a poll for Most Inane Punditry of the 2008 presidential campaign.
http://mediamatters.org/action_center/eoy08/?src=poll3

Your choices...

1. Fox News' Hill criticizes Clinton for leaving too large a tip, accuses her of "spending like a Learjet liberal"
2. Barnes: Obama not "strong on national security" because he opposed war "when the entire world believed" Saddam had WMD
3. Defending Givhan's cleavage coverage, Harwood asserted "calculati[ng]" Clinton knew "what she was communicating by her dress"
4. On Hardball, Matthews and Shuster critiqued Obama's "weird" beverage selection at Indiana diner
5. Matthews on Obama shooting pool: "It's not what most people play. People with money play pool these days"
6. Politico's Simon now on to a different part of Romney's anatomy: "shoulders you could land a 737 on"
7. Matthews: "Who would win a street fight ... Rudy Giuliani or President Ahmadinejad"
8. Brooks thinks Obama wouldn't seem to "fit in naturally" at an Applebee's salad bar -- maybe because Applebee's doesn't have them
9. Cokie Roberts on Obama's vacation: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state," but it looks "foreign, exotic"
10. Scarborough on Obama's "dainty" bowling performance: "Americans want their president, if it's a man, to be a real man"

[Fenian_Bastard]

The Politico! gets only one finalist?
Unpossible!

[Beaker]

That one might be the best, however.  The only shock is that Matthews didn't say it.

[writing irish]

Simon's totally hetero man-lust for Romney's shoulders is funny, but I'll go with option 2, since it's a lie about a lie...a double lie; hooray.

[DanOregon]

I thought Matthews comment about Fred Thompson: "You can smell the Aqua Velva on this guy..." was just plane weird.

The best comment was Bill Maher on Matthews and Olbermann in regard to Obama: "I think they want to have sex with him."

[Ben_Hecht]

Simon's totally hetero man-lust for Romney's shoulders is funny

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I thought Matthews comment about Fred Thompson: "You can smell the Aqua Velva on this guy..." was just plane weird.

As a blunt read on a man's-man type, it's actually pretty good.

But if I had the history of mancrushes that Matthews sports on his resume, I would have gone out of my way NOT to use it.

[Fenian_Bastard]

I thought Matthews comment about Fred Thompson: "You can smell the Aqua Velva on this guy..." was just plane weird.

As a blunt read on a man's-man type, it's actually pretty good.

But if I had the history of mancrushes that Matthews sports on his resume, I would have gone out of my way NOT to use it.

I remember Ed Green calling Lennie Briscoe "Aqua Velva" during the early days of their partnership.

[Ben_Hecht]

I thought Matthews comment about Fred Thompson: "You can smell the Aqua Velva on this guy..." was just plane weird.

As a blunt read on a man's-man type, it's actually pretty good.

But if I had the history of mancrushes that Matthews sports on his resume, I would have gone out of my way NOT to use it.

I remember Ed Green calling Lennie Briscoe "Aqua Velva" during the early days of their partnership.

I don't . . . but it seems an appropriate parallel.

[zeke12]

Tweety ranting about Obama being out of touch because he ordered orange juice was truly a through-the-looking-glass moment.

The Hillary's cleavage coverage was just embarassing for our profession.

[king cranium maximus IV]

I'm going with Brooks. And he pumps out that sort of nonsense on the hour, it seems.

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Does NRO have a stand alone vote?  That whole place was in danger of melting down in the last two weeks of the election.

[writing irish]

Orange juice?  What kind of freakshow circus mutant asshole drinks orange juice?

[DanOregon]

I was kind of surprised Dick Morris didn't make the list: He wrote a book called Hillary vs. Condi (and he was talking about the presidential race not their recent dinner about the SOS job).

[Ben_Hecht]

I was kind of surprised Dick Morris didn't make the list: He wrote a book called Hillary vs. Condi (and he was talking about the presidential race not their recent dinner about the SOS job).

Morris isn't stupid, but when you make 904 predictions, and six of them turn out, that doesn't make anyone a genius.