Governor LePage, as everyone reading this site surely knows, spent some time last week yelling at reporters for sport.
Argggh, he said, summoning his inner Voldermort, you cretins lie about me! It makes me so angry! You don’t ask for my side! Why don’t you bother calling me sometime, so I can once again refuse to comment! Then you can run stories that just have long blank white spaces where my statements would be, if I made them! Arggh! It is so unfair that you print things despite my decision not to say anything about them! Oh, and did I mention you’re all liars?
On AMG this went down just dandy. They don’t care that he 1) was needlessly angry and berating on camera, and 2) was actually incorrect and, some would say, lying, because of course all the news agencies called his office for comment and were told that the Governor would not be available.
Who cares about that stuff? The lamestream media deserves it. And yes, someone on AMG did actually say ”lamestream” media.
Melvin Udall went above and beyond the call of duty, as always, showering his fellow angry old man Governor with praise and insisting that anyone who thought his raised voice, finger pointing, and invasions of personal space qualified as a tantrum-esque were just sissies:
EI (and Numbnutz): If you consider LePage’s taped moment “a tantrum,” you must have had parents that praised you when you pooped your pants or broke a glass or spilled a half-gallon of milk.
Uh-huh. Or, we had parents who praised us when we didn’t blame the lamestream media, or anyone else but ourselves, for pooping our pants.
The fact is, LePage pooped his proverbial pants on camera and he’s trying to blame it on everyone but himself.
The thread then devolves, as so many do, into Naran defending anything an everything the Governor’s administration does, thinks, argues, says, considers, and breathes. She links to another lamestreamer, Steve Mistler, who wrote a news piece wondering where is all the evidence of voter fraud we have heard so much about. So far, all we’ve got is a list from Charlie Webster of 206 people who might have been paying out of state tuition while voting in Maine, which is not illegal or fraudulent at all, but that doesn’t seem to bother anyone on AMG.
Oh, and the head of the Maine College Republicans voted in Maine despite not meeting the high Charlie Webster standard of legality. I have seen very little discussion of that little factoid. Shocking, I know.
I did once poop my pants during a particularly liberal report by the golden-toned voice of Doug Rafferty. Or it could have been the Taco Bell….jury’s still out.
I expect to be ignored as if I had shit myself but the devil lies in the silence of the sanity lodged by Eagleisland, DownEastah and Mid-Coast Mainer and Vic Bererdelli.
It is a carnival of the bizzare.
The new PR guys need a bouncer to keep LePage from storming back at the press after he has blasted the piss out of them, says he’s done and turns to walk away.
I wonder if it has dawned on the Maine GOP just how far back LeTantrum is setting their entire party. I take great pleasure in imagining them hearing/seeing his antics and just sighing defeatedly like a parent who happens upon their child playing in the toilet…a toilet filled with poop. (Trying to stay on topic.)
Flea, I really appreciate your effort at keeping this thread on topic. The topic being human feces. Thank you. Some less intellectual websites might lose focus.
I believe it was the esteemed Japanese author Tarō Gomi who said it best.
“Everyone poops.”
Wise words indeed during these troubled times.
Hope you noticed I sought to expamd the thread topic a bit to include #1.
The PPH article is a shamoozle right now; I even caught Naran in a bold-faced lie, and her response was something terribly unwitty, capped off with an ‘lol’.
I know people who laugh at the end of pretty much everything they say, and they do it in a very passive-aggressive manner. I imagine her to do the same. The ‘lol’ at the end of many of her comments drives me nuts; I’m dying to send her to: http://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com/
I cringe every time she makes a comment ending in ‘lol’, primarily because they’re never funny.
yes, erin, the lol is cringe inducing, and we should remember that Naran is someone’s mother, however she has value to those of us who observe her: she serves as a constant reminder to me on the dangers of over-self-exposure. Naran is all output, no input. As her source of knowledge shrinks (limited, it seems to some public access television, the AMG forum, and a handful of daily newspaper articles from Maine Today) her commentary grows – an inverse relationship.
Gee, I’ve gotten way off topic. Let’s see if I can swing it around – what was that Huxley was said to have said about pooping backwards?
I’m slightly concerned for her; most of her commentary is easily ignored, but she straight up lied, and then laughed about it, and she makes it a point to nitpick at others for the same thing.
Not a very good spokesperson for her cause… or maybe an excellent spokes person; I haven’t yet determined what angle they’re actually going for.
To sum it up, poop. (Because all conversations eventually end up being about the weather or poop, depending on the company you keep.) ;)
As I have mentioned before, I am concerned about the amount of time Naran spends commenting on the PPH and AMG. It seems a bit obsessive. And coming from the guy who made a blog about a message board, that’s saying something.
Um, and in conclusion: poop.
Obsessive, to put it mildly. In my mind, Naran has been reduced to a set of digits pounding a keyboard in a dark room – like one of Beckett’s later plays: just fingers, a keyboard and the never ending repetition of lol, lol, lol, lol….
And, like Erin, I wonder: does the GOP really believe (as Scott Fish seems to) that she is their gal Friday? Communications aren’t their forte, I understand, but as we all know: caustic is as caustic does.
Oh, poop! it’s contagious.
And I thought this was about one poophead in particular.
Oh, if we’re off going off topic anyway, then maybe you can indulge me again – I just scanned the thread in topic and can’t help but notice an old tack, a real gem of American rhetoric, in which the poster/writer just cuts to the chase and declares someone a loser. That is the triple dog-dare, the third rail, the rhetorical point beyond which no one can pass – and it used in the lowest boozy forums and the highest – Peggy Noonan, herself (the original “herself” on which the cheap local imitation is reputed to be based, without the CV and actual press credentials) just tried it the other day. (WSJ, 7/30/11).
Wet your bed, poop your pants, it’s all the same, you, Loser. We Won. Get Over It. The state of “the public square” in the 21 c. Yikes.
I just got kicked out of AMG last week. SKF and Naran warned me because I referred to Melvin Udall as “Pembroke” in a thread to delete the name or get the ax. Funny thing is, under that posting, there was no “Edit” button above the “reply” button. All the other boxes had it, but not that one.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Jeez, do you think Melvin Udall had a “tantrum” and reported me to The Naran?
Welcome to the club, Tim! I got booted without even a warning. I think Naran objected to my pointing out that the Texans did a poor job matching colors on the Open for Business sign.
Where is that thing, anyway?
I had assumed you stole it as revenge, Joe.
I’m sure I’m red-flagged to never receive membership, even if I paid their ‘$150/month’ costs. I pay 48/year for hosting services, and the domain name re-registration is included. Those AMGers must not have jobs, to generate so much bandwidth they’re spending $100+ a month.
I think for 150 a month, in 2011, the site should be compatible with Apple devices.
Yeah, I stole the Open for Business sign and put it at the foot of Naran’s bed.
Man, you guys sure whine a lot. God forbid you start your own forums and make some real news yourselves, instead of making up stories over here.
I’m sorry this forum is not forum-y enough for you…
I’d say you could go whine about our whining on another forum that accepts whiny contributions, but that doesn’t make sense. The word “another” implies that you were posting on this forum and since this clearly isn’t a forum you certainly weren’t posting here. And the good lord knows you aren’t whining.
I don’t think anyone’s whining here; I’d liken the commentary to a hearty chuckle, a good laugh at the expense of others, or perhaps some jovial, witty commentary.
If you slithered over here from AMG, I should point out to you that they are not producers of news, simply regurgitators. Then, they take a dead horse and beat it to a bloody pulp. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Also, what stories here are made up?
“Good humor” and “jovial wit”? More like men wearing shiny boots standing around the crematorium yard, having a smoke and a “good laugh” at the end of the day’s “business.”
What’s wrong with shiny boots?
If you’re likening AMG to a repository of cremated skeletons, I’d say you’re not far off, lad.
I meant this place. All the “jovial wit” of a burying party taking a break.
Anyhoo…….one thing I have noticed over the past couple weeks, is that things are pretty slow over there. As in slooooowwww. I love it.
Zippy obviously recognizes that AMG is the repository of dead, thoughts, theories, ideals, and ideas and takes offense at our celebration of these dead things. Criticism accepted. But these are graves I will gladly dance upon.
Tim,
now that you can get All Naran, All the Time on every channel what’s the point?
I think Zippy’s on to something. Obscure analogies that require explanation. I’m not sure, but I have a feeling I would be AWESOME at coming up with those. First attempt.
More like carnival barkers in ribbed white t-shirts standing around the Tilt-a-Whirl, drinking a Mr. Pibb and having a “hearty chuckle” at the total for that day’s “proceeds.”
I can do better.
More like port-o-potty cleaners in latex gloves standing around the fill tank, eating bologna and cheese sandwiches and “giggling like school girls” at the amount of money they made vacuuming “poop.”
Yeah, you just got Poop-Rolled. “Never gonna give you up……”
Back on topic. Check-mate.
No flies on Flea.