49 thoughts on “Sunday Roast: A bit of Fry & Laurie”

  2. On This Week, substitute host Jake Tapper lets Tucker Carlson talk over Katrina Van Den Huevel and Donna Brazile anytime they start to make a point.

    The panel discusses Obama’s poll numbers. Interpreting the polls, no one ever mentions the possibility that some of the disapproval comes from Obama supporters who are disappointed the President hasn’t been liberal enough. Of course George Will and Tucker aren’t going to help.

    I’m getting tired of polls that “create” results by not asking a question that deliberately gets at the truth. On Meet The Press, David Gregory quotes a poll taken by Allstate-National Journal-Heartland Monitor:
    If the 2012 election were held today, who would you vote for?
    The choices are President Obama (39%) and “someone else” (50%). They make it sound like he would lose an election held today.
    Why not President Obama, another Democrat, a Republican and a third party?

    Republicans are trying to claim that Obama owns the recession now, that it’s all his fault. Never mind that all through 2009 we’ve been hearing how the economy is the worst in 26 years. That calculates to 1983 to me, yet Republicans want to blame Carter for a recession Haint Ronnie inherited. Reagan was sworn in Jan.1981, yet things are not as bad now as they were in 1983, two years after Reagan took office, but somehow Obama is to blame for today’s economy, one year in. On the Reagan scale, things have to get worse until 2011, before Obama has failed as miserably as Reagan did, IMHO!

    On MTP, Bob Woodward quotes a book by Lou Cannon, White House Correspondent for the Washington Post, called “Reagan”, written one year into Reagan’s first term.
    Reagan was, for all his optimism, running out of time. His reach had exceeded his grasp. Age and events had dimmed a sense of leadership.

    By 1982 it was an axiom in the White House, that Reagan, like so many of his modern predecessors, would be a one-term president. I believe that Reagan will not run again.

    Woodward’s conclusions:
    We don’t know with Obama, but it’s also possible for… Lou Cannon was the best. Always kept his head about Reagan’s positive traits, negative traits, he had it wrong. So, all of these pronouncements about disappointment, and so forth, I think are…crap!

    Mark Halperin cleared up a confusing issue for me on MTP. If Martha Coakley loses the special election on Tuesday, the House can still pass the Senate bill as it was passed, with no changes. It won’t have to go back to the Senate if it isn’t changed, it would go to Obama right away. I hope that’s better than nothing?

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  3. Note to the Schneiders:

    I’ve been pulling for the Jets up till now, but Phillip Rivers is home folks, even if he plays for San Diego. The company my wife works for is headquartered in San Diego, too. Sorry ’bout that.

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    • Guacamole?

      The ladies in the courthouse used to make a sort of dip that was made with ingredients with the initials F.A.T.C.O.W.

      Feta, avocado, tomato, ___, onion, ___

      It was amazingly yummy. I don’t remember what the C and W stood for. 😦

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  5. houseofroberts,

    Perfectly understandable. May the best team win. That team, of course, would be the

    J-E-T-S-JETS!-JETS!-JETS! 🙂

    And if they lose, pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training in a few weeks. 🙂

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  14. How about a little bad liveblogging from the Golden Globes red carpet?

    “It’s chaos out here”

    —like Haiti, only more glamorous!

    Fashion: “more guys are rocking the pocket square, taking a bit of a risk there”

    —like rescue workers in Haiti, only with pockets!

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  19. more badblogging:

    “did you know it was going to rain?”

    —-No! You’d think there’d be some kind of weather service or TV Channel available to warn us of such things! Obama lied to us!

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  20. You’d think watching playoff football, you wouldn’t see so many missed field goals? Kaeding misses 3 and the Dallas kicker missed two.

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  22. house,
    I don’t understand how anyone could miss a field goal, barring tripping, high winds or taking it from the halfway line–especially when the kicker has but one function in the game. . .

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  23. Jets 17 Chargers 14 2:14 to play. Jets held onto the onsides kick.

    Those uprights look a lot closer together than they appear on tv! The margin for error is very small.

    I’ve been to one college game, Alabama-Tennessee, in 1967. only high school games other than that.

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  26. Sorry, house, but WOO-HOO! I am psyched! (Yes, I know, I’m psychotic, too.) I can’t believe this, it’s just too surreal. Like rex Ryan, I thought they were out of it after the 15th week, but suddenly they controlled their own destiny and they beat two playoff-bound teams to get there. They already beat one of them again, and I think they can do it again and beat the Colts.

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  27. If that defense can shut down Payton, Wayne, they CAN do it!

    I’ll pull for the Vikes and Jets from here on.

    5th, I’m watching this shiney ball thing now, what are they doing?

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  39. The facial expressions were priceless.

    Jeeves always thinking ahead to keep ‘Bertie’ out of fates worse than death (marriage).

    Gussie Fink-Nottle, don’t recall who played him, was also perfect for the part.

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  43. house,

    And of course, we love Lloyd from his roles in the “Airplane!” movies. Lloyd wasn’t really getting the jokes when he was shooting that movie, and Robert Stack had to tell him, “Lloyd, we’re the joke.”

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  44. Hi Schneiders!
    And of course Avatar won. Hope that pisses off the Pope! 😀

    It’s funny Jeff Bridges won something. I was watching Last Picture Show the other day…

    Yes it was Sea Hunt, Jane. Lloyd Bridges became forever known in my family as “Bubbles”.

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