“Vote Republican Or I’ll Bite Your Ear Off!”

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by hilzoy
Think I’m kidding? Think again (h/t TAPPED):

“At the press conference, Tyson posed for photos with fans, signed autographs and campaigned for Maryland U.S. Senate candidate Michael Steele.
Tyson, wearing a white and blue Steele for U.S. Senate T-shirt, said he used to believe black Republicans were “sellouts.” But Tyson said he changed his mind after researching the Maryland lieutenant governor.”

Gee: that sure makes me want to rethink my vote for Cardin. Who will endorse Steele next: Hannibal Lecter?
On a happier note, the appearance of the word ‘research’ in the mouth of Mike Tyson makes this as good a moment as any to mention my favorite philosopher-meets-world story:

“As related by Ben Rogers in ”A. J. Ayer: A Life,” Ayer — small, frail, slight as a sparrow and then 77 years old — was entertaining a group of models at a New York party when a girl ran in screaming that her friend was being assaulted in a bedroom. The parties involved turned out to be Tyson and Naomi Campbell. ”Do you know who . . . I am?” Tyson asked in disbelief when Ayer urged him to desist: ”I’m the heavyweight champion of the world.” ”And I am the former Wykeham professor of logic,” Ayer answered politely. ”We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest that we talk about this like rational men.””

*** UPDATE: I only just followed Ugh’s link in comments, but: wow. Now it’s not just Vote Republican Or I’ll Bite Your Ear Off, it’s Vote Republican Or We Takes The Precioussssss:

““As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.
“It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S.,” Santorum continued. “You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.””

22 thoughts on ““Vote Republican Or I’ll Bite Your Ear Off!””

  2. And while we’re on on ridiculous statements from our political leaders, today:
    Saying that the bill “reaffirms our determination to win the war on terror,” [Bush] concluded by announcing he was signing it “in memory of the victims of September the 11th.”
    …
    the Republican National Committee charged on its Web site that “Democrats would let terrorists free,”
    …
    House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) charged in a statement that Democrats “would gingerly pamper the terrorists who plan to destroy innocent Americans’ lives,” and he singled out House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for criticism.
    …
    “Democrat Leader Pelosi and 159 of her colleagues voted in favor of NEW rights for terrorists
    …
    Hastert added that Pelosi “does not understand that our fight for freedom does not just happen on the battlefield but also on the floor of the House of Representatives.” He accused Democrats of putting “their liberal agenda ahead of the security of America.”
    …
    Boehner (R-Ohio) asserted in a statement that “Capitol Hill Democrats have yet to offer any solutions or formulate any serious national security policy on how to keep America safe in a post-9/11 world.”
    You’re right hilzoy, it is all about the precious.

  3. Kevin Drum, citing Steve Benen, decries Republican race-baiting in his 1:31 pm post today.
    Before THAT pooch accused you of being Walter Duranty, Hilzoy, he was fond of accusing current day Democrats of being slave-owners back in the wonder days of the Civil War.
    Ugly stuff.
    The Ayer-Tyson story is prithlith, as Tyson might say. I’d like to hear Muhammed Ali’s rhyming couplets in response to Tyson’s “research”.
    I hate it when Orcs like Santorum dress up like Hobbitts.

  5. Ah, for the good ole’ days of 2004 were the Bush administration would only insinuate that if the Democrat’s were elected they would feed your babies and kittens to the terrorists, now they can drop all the pretense and come right out and say it.

  6. J.R.R. is getting a lot of play, Kuo in Newsweek:
    Are Christian leaders being naïve in their dealings with the White House or do they understand the nature of the exchange?
    It’s a little bit of both. In some ways White House power is like [J.R.R.] Tolkien’s ring of power. When you put it on, it feels good and it’s dazzling. But after a while it begins to consume you in ways you don’t realize. That’s the nature of White House power. I have no doubt that Christian political leaders have gotten involved for all the right reasons. I just think over time it becomes harder and harder to stand up against that ring of power and the White House, to say no and walk away.

  7. Saying that the bill “reaffirms our determination to win the war on terror,” [Bush] concluded by announcing he was signing it “in memory of the victims of September the 11th.”
    Well, ‘slong as nobody’s, you know, politicizing 9/11. That would be wrong.

  8. Well, ‘slong as nobody’s, you know, politicizing 9/11. That would be wrong.
    “politicizing” is what your opponent does to things that you wish he’d just stay quiet about.

  10. It’s been a while since the White House was a good fit on my ring finger. Plus, it doesn’t go with my watch.

  12. [The preceding comment would have been a lot sketchier, as well as filled with the word “moist”… ATM.]

  13. [The preceding comment would have been a lot sketchier, as well as filled with the word “moist”… ATM.]

  14. Cleek, the folks at Uters Land of Chocolate apparently don’t appreciate your direct link to their graphic. I get redirected to an image of Bart at the chalkboard writing “Ich darf nicht bei ULOC klauen.” (I think “klauen” must be a slang term for “steal”.) Pasting the the URL into the location field works, though (since the browser doesn’t send a referrer then).

  18. Yeah, one wonders how Ayer the logician was “entertaining” the bevy of models. Maybe the host of the party told them he was a “magician”.
    The only guy I can think of who could get A.J. Ayer AND Miker Tyson on one guest list was Andy Warhol.
    I once posed as a logician at a party to attract girls, figuring it would be a good icebreaker, and when one approached me in a dither after being assaulted by someone in the next room, I got two sentences into my moves and she turned on her heel and returned to the assault, telling me rather testily, I thought, that she preferred the other guy’s fallacy.
    At least, I think that’s what she said.

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