STILL MORE ON THIS BLOG'S PATENTLY OFFENSIVE EFFORT TO BRING DOWN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Fred Thompson (!) weighs in.

(Thanks to Frank M)

Comments

[Meditrina]

The irony that the stupidity comes from the Philosophy department does not escape me.

Seriously, Dave. When you are elected, we need to, um, reevaluate their funding. Yes, of from the United States federal goverment!

[Bethie]

Was that an endorsement from another presidential candidate?

[CJrun]

I say you should offer Fred the V.P., yes of the United States. Look out, south FL, I'm on my way down... lock up your sisters and ration the beer....

[Annie Where-but-here]

and he mentions duct tape - swoooon!

[Dr. Rickenstein]

And all along I was under the impression collegiate academia in America was nothing more than a bastion for left-wing Commie zealots bent on destroying this great nation by corrupting the minds of our youth. Who knew the Bushies were running amok at Marquette.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Dr. Rick - you're profiling again. Stop it.

[SW]

He's just pandering to the growing juggernaut.

[SW]

You gotta give the guy credit for addressing one of the hottest issues of the day. Why didn't Wolf Blitzer ask the candidates at the last presidential debate how they feel about this contrversial topic?

[ScottMGS]

Yup, CJ, he's definitely angling to join Dave's ticket.

[casey]

Once again, shoddy reporting. I read the entire article and I still don't know how much Fred Thompson (!) weighs.

[Siouxie]

Thompson for VP! Yes, of the United States!

[pete]

Does this mean that if the unthinkable happens (the blog's run for the roses errr oval office fails) he will throw his weight behind Fred?

Although if the reverse would happen Fred would undoubtedly have more weight to throw behind the blog.

[Eleanor]

*zips in*™

Boy, talk about strumpeting for votes!

He must think this position will get him the Dave Barry contigent, which count in the multitudes.

And this also means that Dave is famous!

Go Dave. :)

[pete]

Doc, I think you have the roles of lefties and conservatives mixed up. It ain't the conservatives in charge of campus PC.

[pete]

That's right. Dave needed Fred Thompson's recognition to validate his fame. huh?

[SW]

Fred Thompson wrote a column?

[Lairbo]

Just wait till Rudy chimes in; he's still steamed about Dave's "Can New York Save Itself" article.

[SW]

I understand Tom Tancredo is putting the finishing touches on his Barry position paper as we speak.

[Doc Rick]

That was my point pete. Since when did any humor columnist, let alone our beloved Dave, become a pariah on any college campus? It's not like Dave is Rush Limbaugh or Howard Dean and yet a college is having a censorship issue over his work? And the Philosophy Department no less!

[CJrun]

*tripleSteviesnorks*

[SW]

Further proof of cj's warped sense of humor brilliance. Ha ha ha. Ty, bro.

[insomniac]

"In the American political system, the people are entertained by two equally important groups, the politicians who say stupid things and the humorists who write about them. These are their stories."

student #1: didja see that quote on that office door yesterday? i thought the federal government was our friend! i was going to join the civil service, but they said as a philosophy major, i had no marketable skills!

student #2: yeah, that chuck berry guy really made me think about blowing up something! too bad as a philosophy major, i have no practical way of making an explosive device!

(they get to the offending door)

#1: the clipping ! it's... ,gone! call 911!

(#2 vomits noisily, but off camera)

det. green: which of you two called it in?

#1: i did, it's horrible to think that this can happen , but i guess no one's safe anymore...

green: you did good, son, now, this headless corpse has been here awhile, why do you think no one noticed it?

#2: that's just the chairman...what about the clipping, for God's sake?

[Annie Where-but-here]

*snork* @ insom's Law & Snorker!

[SW]

Ha ha ha insom.

[Wes S.]

Somehow, I get the feeling that if Dave's quote had been attributed to somebody like Ward Churchill or Noam Chomsky, nobody on Marquette's faculty would have had a problem with it.

[padraig]

*warning sports anecdote warning*

Marquette U. hasn't been much fun since Al McGuire retired. After he quit coaching he broadcast college hoops games for NBC. Notre Dame was lining up to shoot a game-winning free throw and McGuire said, "The penguins back in South Bend are really workin' the beads now!"

All the non-Catholics in the audience said "Wha?" while all the current and lapsed Catholics shared a simultaneous snork. RIP Al.

*wipes tear from eye, steps aside to allow blog to go back on-topic*

[Annie Where-but-here]

padraig - I remember that - hilarious. Nowadays he'd be fired for such a comment. Too bad.

[Martin]

It seems a single quote from Dave is enough to threaten the stability of the federal government. So why does he want to diminish his power by becoming President? If he's elected, nobody will take him seriously ever again. Does he just want beer paid for by federal funds? Or did he promise the rest of the Rock Bottom Remainders that they could play at his inauguration?

[L L L]

Dave Barry's own Beer Hall Pusch. You anarchist.

[L L L]

Dave's Kampf

[SW]

Dave-land uber alles.

Ich bin ein one-liner.

[Just Ducky]

*siegsnork*

[marina_like_a_boatdock]

Fred was GREAT in Hunting Red October. Now he's proving how smart he is in Real Life -- talkin' 'bout how he reads DAVEBOY!!!

I love it.

Love,
Grammaw

[Annie Where-but-here]

Hey, Grammaw - long time no see.
I'm guessing there's some sort of tax write-off in running for gov't.

[Brad]

Hey casey... I don't know Fred Thompson's total weight, but he does weigh each of his nuts with a truck scale.

[Solid Citizen]

Meditrina -

......charity is given voluntarily... taxes are extracted with implied or actual use of force....don't know of too many people who derive much pleasure from having a gun held to their head..
....and yes ...probably... greater pleasure is enjoyed when the donation is made to a well run charity... as opposed to some government dysfunctional agency.... OOOOOPPPPS wrong post...
yes it is humorous that the philosphy department totally lacks any sense of levity.... not often that a columnist (past or present) gets endorsed by a Presidential candidate...
We need a Department of Comedy added to the Cabinet....(although it may be easier to simply rename the Department of Education)

[Renee (the First)]

Yeah FRED! Champion of the rights of America's most important writer! I've liked him all along, but this clinches it -- this man is my candidate.

(Seriously, I really have liked him all along -- as far as I can tell he's worth more than all the other top-ranked Republican candidates put together. Go get 'em Freddy!)

[WriterDude]

Dang it, I just knew Fred was going to make a move on displacing Rep. Ron Paul from his place atop my very short "Republicans A Libertarian Can Actually Stomach" list.

[Moon]

Isn't Fred Thompson running for President (YES, of the United States of America), too?

[daisymae]

Here's my question: Do more people know Fred Thompson is a candidate, or do more people know Dave Barry is a candidate?

[Brad]

More little known facts about Fred Thompson:

* Fred Thompson once was confronted by a grizzly bear. Fred showed the grizzly bear his finger nails. The grizzly bear backed down.

* Fred Thompson's wife eats her steaks medium rare. Fred Thompson doesn't even defrost his.

* Fred Thompson has a tattoo of the entire Bill of Rights, on his pecker, with room to spare.

* Fred Thompson impregnated Liz Cheney.

* Fred Thompson once ended a Senate filibuster by ripping out another Senator's heart and showing it to him moments before he died.

* Sheryl Crow got her idea about using a signle sheet of toilet paper from Fred Thompson. Fred Thompson never needs more than one sheet.

[Jessica R.]

Fred Thompson has proven that he understands comedy that should make him a good VP to run the government, the number one comedy act in the country.

Dave for President, yes, of the United States!
Fred for Vice President, of course, of the United States AND the SAG!

[Novanglus]

Good thing it was Fred Thompson that brought this injustice to young and enquiring minds.

If it had been Hillary, I would have suspected a vast internet conspiracy.

Whew...that was close. Anyway, I just posted because now Dave's site is being attacked by gamers. (see last comment)

And just what IS the difference between cheap power leveling
and wow power leveling?

Judi? Is this your way of seeing if anyone is paying attention? Not bad.

[SW]

Lol, Brad - tha's hilarious, and I don't think I even really get it!

[Brad]

Some more for you...

* Fred Thompson had a zit on his back. He popped it by flexing his pects.

* Fred Thompson lights his cigars with spotted owls.

* If Fred Thompson were elected President and had a young intern in his office, she would be down on her knees shining the Presidential seal.

* After Fred Thompson beat Arnold Schwarzenegger in arm wrestling, he told the governator to learn English.

* George Washington had false teeth made of wood. Fred Thompson has false teeth made from his opponents.

* Fred Thompson always steps out of the shower to pee.

[Brad]

* Tony Blair is said to be George Bush's "poodle". If Fred Thompson were President, Mr. Blair would be Fred Thompson's "bitch".

* If Charlton Heston played Fred Thompson in a movie, he would not longer be affectionately known as "Moses". He would be affectionately known as "Fred Thompson".

* The theme song of the Fred Thompson campaign is rumored to be America, F$#k Yeah (warning: NSFW).

* Fred Thompson didn't pay me to write this. He infiltrated my dreams.

* Tiger Woods is trying to be as ripped as Fred Thompson.

* Fred Thompson's right shoe had to be surgically removed from Alec Baldwin's ass on the set of Hunt for Red October.

* Fred Thompson thinks Ted Nugent is a pussy.

[Coconuts]

As a long-time blurker and extremely infrequent blogette, Insom's pithy (did I say pithy?) commentaries always makes me chortle and sometimes LOL. Carry on....