10:17
Oh, I forgot, ...I don't have to do that anymore.
I'm just relaxing, there's a Voyager rerun playing for nobody
as
Mrs. BartCop experiments in the kitchen with tonight's food surprise
while I do my Fourth Estate duties protecting the goddamn First
Amendment.
Got a whole lot of Chinaco Anejo left from last
night.
If you stick with the nano-sized sips, and enjoy rolling it around
your mouth,
tasting the pear, apple, smoke, vanilla and my favorite - the
papaya
collide,
it just makes you want to write home and tell the folks.
...watching Jon Stewart, waiting for Chris Rock to come on,
He's interviewing Dole, and Dole is killing this crowd!
He said he saw every night of the Demo convention except Wednesday
because he never misses an episode of Southpark.
ha ha
Oh, one other thing?
After re-reading last's night's raw-unedited first draft of history,
I did a Kool Aid joke that might've been misunderstood.
Truth is, I was grasping at straws.
When a Democrat speaks, there's almost no comedy material at
all.
Feed the hungry?
Comfort the stricken?
Save Social Security?
Where's the comedy?
Besides, I was kidding when I said the numbers were down.
We went from 320 hits to 370 hits in one day, and that's not
bad.
Even with the tons of bullshit, I'm lying less often than the
pros are.
Whoops, there's Chris Rock...
This actually ran yesterday, or recently, it's hard to
keep track,
but it was so good, I wanted to be sure you saw it.
Clinton - still master
of all he surveys
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/08/17/timopnope01006.html
As I watched Bill Clinton deliver his masterly valediction to
the Democrats in Los Angeles on Monday, I was reminded
of a guiding principle for understanding American politics
that has served me well in the past 20 years. If you want to
know what is going on in America, don't believe what you
read in the papers. There is no substitute for flying across
the Atlantic, seeing events with your own eyes and talking
to ordinary Americans.
This has been a firm principle of mine since the early
1980s, when I first went to work in Washington a year
after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. President Reagan
was derided by pundits around the world and throughout
America itself as a cross between a village idiot and Dr
Strangelove. His economic policies were ridiculed as
"voodoo economics" by no less a person than his own
Vice-President, George Bush. In his first year in office, the
United States suffered its worst recession since the 1930s.
And yet it was evident after just a few weeks' travel
around the country that America was at a turning-point,
that the Reaganauts had caught the flood tide of history,
that the President himself had an almost psychic rapport
with America's public mood.
Never have the media - and especially the powerful
Washington-based opinion barons who dominate everything
that passes for political thinking in America - failed so utterly
to take the measure of a politician as they did with Bill Clinton.
How many American pundits imagined just over a year
ago, in the midst of the ludicrous impeachment "trial" before
the US Senate, that Bill Clinton would be remembered by
history not as an embarrassing sexual pervert, but as one of
the few truly great US Presidents of the 20th century?
According to conventional wisdom, history will record
President Clinton's political and economic achievements as
no more than a footnote in a Karma Sutra-style chapter on
sexual gymnastics. Nobody denies that America is more
economically prosperous, more socially stable and more
globally dominant than at any time since the early 1960s,
but most commentators maintain that the President
deserves little or no credit for all these boons.
And virtually all Washington pundits believe that Al Gore's
best electoral strategy now is to show a frosty disdain for
Clinton's personal foibles, while emphasising the
Vice-President's alleged involvement in developing the
policies the White House pursued. Gore's own handlers and
spin-doctors seem impressed by this theory.
Why, then, do I believe that both these assessments of
Clinton's legacy are wrong? Why do I think that the
President will look a towering and impressive figure both
through the telescope of history and through the microscope
of electoral tactics?
On the question of electoral tactics, recent experience
suggests that American voters are often more intelligent
than political pundits. If history judges Clinton well, then
so
probably will the voters. If the Clinton legacy is viewed
with gratitude by the public, then Gore's best bet will be to
present himself as the candidate of continuity and a vote for
him as a vote of thanks to President Clinton. As for
Clinton's "personal problems", there is no reason why his
priapism should reflect more negatively on his successor
than the Alzheimer's disease which began to afflict Reagan
in his later years (and was certainly much more debilitating
from a practical standpoint).
But why should the public be grateful? After all, governments
do not create prosperity. Profitable employment and sustainable
economic growth are created by private businesses, workers and
investors. Thus Clinton cannot directly take credit for America's
superb economic performance and the first sustained improvement
in the living standards of poor and middle-class Americans for
30
years. But what this argument misses is the negative role that
governments usually play.
Governments may not be able to do much to improve
productivity or create jobs, but they can certainly wreck the
economy. To say that the Clinton Administration did
America's economy no harm may sound like damnation
with faint praise, but it is an accolade of the highest order.
Consider how few other governments -
not just in America
but anywhere in the world - can claim
to have done nothing
to obstruct economic progress for two
full presidential
terms. Certainly this cannot be said
of Reagan and Bush,
who presided over two recessions, created
a dangerous
budget deficit and permitted the wildest
exchange-rate
swings in US history, or of Carter,
who almost lost America
its global economic leadership, or
of Nixon and Ford, who
coined the word "stagflation", or of
Kennedy and Johnson,
who inaugurated 15 years of global
economic crises with
their vast expansion of government
spending and
inflationary financing of the Vietnam
War.
This catalogue of blundering governments could be
extended backwards through history to the dawn of
civilisation and geographically across the length and breadth
of the capitalist world. It does not prove, as is often claimed
by conservatives, that the only good economic policy is no
policy at all.
On the contrary, many of the world's worst economic mishaps,
ranging from the US Depression of the 1930s to the ERM fiasco
in Britain and the collapse of the Japanese economy in 1997
were
based on the premise that governments should use some kind of
auto-pilot to set interest rates and taxes and then simply let
events
take their course. Thus to say that a government's greatest
economic
achievement is to do the economy no harm, is not the same as
to
advocate a policy of laissez faire. Both economic theory and
history
have shown that capitalist economies do not remain stable for
long
if left to themselves. Booms and busts have to be consciously
avoided
with skilled and responsible management of monetary and fiscal
policy.
Free trade must be actively promoted, often at substantial political
cost.
Financial markets are not always automatically self-correcting;
crises
have to be consciously averted or contained. Competition is
constantly
threatened by monopolistic forces; it needs to be actively protected
and
enforced.
This is what Bill Clinton has done, by appointing outstanding
people to run his Treasury Department, by giving political
support to the Federal Reserve Board while quietly
reminding it of its dual mandate to promote economic
expansion as well as keeping inflation under control, by
actively intervening in global financial crises, by
encouraging his Justice Department to pursue an
aggressive policy of anti-trust enforcement, by taking some
big political risks on behalf of free trade.
All this is just a longwinded way of making the point that
Clinton crystalised in the most heartfelt sentence of
Monday's speech. "To those who say that the progress of
the last eight years was an accident, that we just coasted
along, let's be clear: America's success was not a matter of
chance, it was a matter of choice."
From now on, it will be up to Gore to bang the drum with
this message. Whether he can do so half as effectively as
Clinton remains unclear. Late tonight, after his acceptance
speech in Los Angeles, we may have a better idea.
But whatever happens to Gore, Clinton's position in history
seems pretty secure. On the most politically charged issues
that divided America during the 1970s and 1980s - abortion,
civil rights, affirmative action, sexual tolerance, school
prayer and even the level of taxes and the size of
government - it is the radical Republicans who are now
desperately trying to silence their extremists and clambering
on to the progressive, liberal territory staked out by Clinton,
not the other way round. Above all, Clinton has removed
from the political agenda the radical Republican demands
for a minimalist laissez faire government and an end to
progressive taxation that were hailed as irresistible in the
years up to 1994.
In Britain it is often said that Labour won the last election
only by conceding that it had lost the argument. But in
America exactly the opposite is true. Even if the
Democrats were to end up losing this year's election (which
seems most unlikely), Clinton will have won many of the
most important arguments in American politics.
See? I told you it was good.
Subject: Wonderful Timing!
From: pajessb@msn.com
Hey Bartcop!
When I first heard the latest installment
of the great Clinton cock-hunt follies,
I was initially furious. But then I thought
, this is perfect!
The GOFP is really THAT stupid! A nice public
reminder of all the festering,
maggot-ridden bitterness and hate charecteristic
of the GOFP Gestapo.
It can only help Al & Joe, but you
can bet all the whore-commentators were
harping upon Clinton's cock (yet again)
during Al's big night.
Paul
P.S. I have been checking in with
you HOURLY the past few weeks. You are an
island of sanity amidst the garbage that
'passes' for political 'commentary'!!!!
Two ladies chatting
From: JennyQ1@aol.com
SanoLushis: Today's the Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JennyQ1: Damn gore behind by 40 pts with working moms. WHORES
SanoLushis: what can they be thinking?
JennyQ1: I don't know
SLUTS
SanoLushis: lazy low end do nothings
JennyQ1: Dumbya ALWAYS mentions them
in his speeches, tho
: Clinton gave them family leave, health care, higher
wages, jobs
...now they want to punish him for Monica. Cunts
Subject: payoffs
From: rgray@dmv.com
I bet Nancy is fit to be tied.
Cheney got 10 million dollars after working for Haliburton for
5 years.
Ronnie worked 8 years for Nissan and all he got was 2 million.
rgray
ha ha
News from the Future
From: thissteve@yahoo.com
Subject: Iron-clad proof
How do we know for SURE that Clinton gets
credit for the economy?
Because the republicans predicted doom
and destruction when the
demos' economic bill passed in 1993.
If the president isn't responsible, if it's
the fed that controls things,
if it's all really Reagan's plan kicking
in---
---Why would they predict disaster from a meaningless bill??
Philip
Philip,
You have it exactly right.
They predicted doom and gloom, but why?
After the fact, they credit American workers for the boom,
Were they predicting Americans would refuse to work hard?
Sounds like they have no faith in the American worker.
Here's a good e-mail I received.
Great Democrat Quotes
"We knew the Republicans were going to so something.
We just didn't think they'd stoop this low."
-- Florida delegate Jeff Wright, on the GOP's Cock
Hunt surprise.
In Volume 247 - Clinton Cock Hunt II, I printed this letter:
Subject: TOMMY LEE, NOT TOMMY LEE JONES
From: rcahtare@utic.net.ba
ROCKER TOMMY LEE WAS MARRYED TO HEATHER
AND PAMELA;
NOT THE ACTOR TOMMY LEE JONES !!!
Bojan Èahtareviæ
I asked where that e-mail address was from.
Subject: Worldwide Treehouses - Domain Suffixes
From: melic@newsguy.com
Well, you asked:
.ba is Bosnia/Hertzegovinia.
Here's a site that lists them all:
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/domains.html
First, thanks to Melic for being a good detective and second,
I think we can forgive BojanÈahtareviæfor
not getting BartCop sarcasm.
Several locals didn't get the "joke," either.
Whoa!
Just as I write that, the next letter up is from Bojan!
Subject: Re: TOMMY LEE, NOT TOMMY LEE JONES
From: "Bojan Cahtarevic" rcahtare@utic.net.ba
Ba is Bosnia and Herzegovina .... an interesting
country for an avid political watcher like myself .
A Country ruled by 3 extreame right wing
nationalistic partyes that even in the time of war
( that they caused ) maintained their evil
coalition in practice if not publicly.... now they do it
publicly as was the case before the war....
Here are a few facts about the place.
The country borders Croatia on the West and Serbiaon the East.
Croatia was untill January 3rd ruled for
10 years by the infamous right winger Franjo Tudjman
and his corrupd HDZ party, now he's Dead
and so is his party. The Country is now governed by
a coalition headed by centrist SDP ( they
are social democrats, they follow the "3rd way" of
Blair and Clinton ) and leftist president
Stipe Mesic ( a local version of Clinton, you can see them
togeather at http://www.nacional.hr/images/24800001.jpg.
He was also the last president of Yugoslavia
before it disintergrated) . for more info on croatia visit
http://www.nacional.hr/Default.en.asp
the pages of the popular leftist magazine that exposed
HDZ and Tudjman as a bunch of Crooks and
Loonyes, the pages are in english. Croatia is
by the way a popular meditteranean tourist
location .... You also may know Goran Visnljic that in
ER plays Dr.Luka Kovac ( he plays a bosnian
but was acually born in Croatia ) Hess the local Superstar ....
Serbia is ruled by Milosevic and all I can
say about it is that it is a center of EVIL .....
a Mafia-Natzi-Fascist-Staliniststate .....
Milosevic combines both Hitler and Stalin in one
....... compared to him Pat Buchanan is
a Saint !!!
The country is now on the national level
governed by the High Representative of the International
Community and his aides . on the local
level the country is divided on the Federation and Republika Srpska...
Federation is mostly croat (chatolic) and
bosniak (muslim, but in a large part liberal ... alcohol is everywhere
and so are the miniskirts ) and in effect
the more prosperous part. Thats where I live. The Srbska is almost
98 % ethnicly clensed of the other ethnicityes,
that's where the most war crimes occured and that place is
in deeep economic crisis .... Now we also
have the elections in November when it is expected that our
own SDP ( the only multiethnic party) will
win the election in Federation and do what Croatian SDP did
and finally end the reign of terror ....
The solution for srbska will come only when Serbia becomes free
like Croatia did (god only knows when thats
gonna happen)...
Both parts are full of corruption, crime
and terror ... Its much like South America .....
Sorry for bad spelling and grammar but I went throu Catholic schooling ......
ha ha
ha ha
ha ha
Bojan, thanks for writing.
I enjoyed the tour of your country.
Will you act as my eyes and ears in that part of the world?
When something happens, be sure to let us know about it.
I'm glad you get to live with the miniskirts and alcohol.
You probably don't see a lot of luxury tequila over there,
but if you ever get the chance to try the Chinaco Anejo
tequila, go for it!
ha ha
Please write again, and I'm hoping people will see this and write to you.
...and your spelling and grammer are better than most mail I get :)
Subject: Democrats
From: carob@hub.ofthe.net
Bartcop,
I have enjoyed your site for
more than a year (the check's in the mail, I promise).
I do not personally know anyone who despises
Republicans in general and G.W.
in particular more than I do. However,
I don't share your unbridled enthusiasm for Al Gore,
or Bill Clinton. I hope Al Gore wins,
but the positions of the two major parties seem to be
that the Republicans will let corporations
do whatever they want and the Democrats will let
corporations do whatever they want within
comfortable boundaries.
Neither party has criticized the insane
war on drugs, forfeiture practices, the disturbing increase
in police brutality, features of the WTO
and NAFTA agreements that allow a race for the bottom
in worker benefits and environmental protection;
nor has either party convincingly condemned
the corrosive influence of money on the
political process
Charles
Charles, the problem is the crazy idiot voters.
Take the war on drugs - the first politician to say something
sensible about drugs
will be called a "druggie" by the GOP and Jay Leno.
Then the crazy idiot voters will "know" that that politician
is a bad, bad man
who wants to hook your daughters on airplane glue.
Maybe you remember my defense of Clinton's refusal to back gay
marriages.
You and me and Bill Clinton know better than that, but the GOP
and Jay Leno
would run pictures of Dick Butkis and Dan Dierdorf french-kissing
with a caption that reads, "Welcome to Bill Clinton's America."
People are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too stupid to handle the issues.
How stupid are the Democrats?
Last night, CNN did a poll of the Democratic delegates,
asking them who would win in November.
Remember, these are pro-active, attending Democrats;
Bush 50%
Gore 44%
A. They don't have any faith in Gore
B. They didn't even have the brains to hide that lack
of faith.
I can guarantee if CNN had asked the same question at
Nazi-Con 2000,
the numbers would've been 98% to 2%
At least the Republicans have the brains to lie.
Any idea why Rush is pushing the Moody Blues CD so much?
Every day this week he's played some and talked about it.
He's a regular Moody Blues commercial.
Sure, I talk about Zeppelin and Jimmy Page, but not in an attempt
to get you to go out and buy his newest CD.
If I was the Moody Blues, I wouldn't personally sign a CD
for America's most famous Nazi pig.
From: JennyQ1@aol.com
Halfway thru Gore's speech and Smirk is missing one lung so far...
ha ha
http://wwj.com/ has a poll showing Gore ahead by 17.
I realize it's unscientific, but online polls are always pro-Nazi.
Subject: what a surprise
From: rzavadil@concentric.net
Just heard that stuipd bitch whore Peggy Noonan saying
that she thought Gore's speech was a big flop.
Guess he should have said something about dolphins.
ha ha
BTW - Thought it was a great Gore speech,
one that makes coke-boy Smirk seem like someone you
would be uncomfortable with hiring to mow your lawn.
Bob
Rush Breaks Huge Story
"You can't be a man and be a liberal - those are incompatible."
...so, apparently, Jesus was a woman.
Subject: GO AL GO
From: Nmmeeks@aol.com
Bartcop,
i think Al gave a really strong speech tonight. i personally
think Butch is
too stupid to realize the beating he took but once one of the
living dead,
either Cheney or Bennett, explain it to him, Butch will wish
that he had had
a rendezvous with Pickle's car.
john
chicago
Rush just came on here in K-Drag, and he loved the speech.
"This was a good speech for Gore.
It was a very good speech, in light of expectations."
Whoa!
Stroke Me, Stroke Me
Pigboy just said Gore was ahead of Smirk by three points.
Is that for real?
Or did his stroke make him screw that up?
Fasten Your Seat Belt
Subject: Rush said so.
From: AtticusGump@aol.com
Bart,
I can see him now. He is sitting in a dark
corner of his home, a bottle
on the table and an ashtray full of cigarettes.
The day was typical for him. He arose with
a hangover, scratched his
hairy butt, took a shower (his third of the week) and got dressed.
He may
notice the wife and kids on the way out the door, but more than
likely he
belched, adjusted his balls, and was out the door into his beloved,
hasn't
been washed in 6 fucking months, pickup. They all drive pickups
Bart.
He pours himself another drink, lights up another
Marlboro and gets a
little more angry. Over what, you ask? Bart, does it matter?
The anger is there and it's real.
He tools on down the highway, breaking every
traffic law known to man,
all the while decrying the lawlessness of the land. Especially
that mother-fucker
in the White House, Bill Clinton. He's to blame for his lot.
"Yeah, that's right. Rush told me all about him. Bill Clinton
is to blame for
my shitty life," he thinks as Ted Nugent blares over the stereo.
The last drink hit the belly hard. A small
fire smoldering, just waiting
to flare up and rage. The wife and kids are starting to get on
his nerves.
It's been like that for a while. If they would only be quiet
for 5 minutes,
I could think straight. He pours another drink.
Work is hard, hot and heavy. Gandy-dancer.
Fixer of railroad tracks.
One of the shittiest jobs imaginable. He'd like to take it easy.
Just like
those welfare niggers. Sit back all day, get drunk and have babies,
all the
while sucking on the government tit. Rush told him about those
people too.
He thinks, "I bust my ass all day, week after week, [All right
so I take a day
off every two weeks because I'm hungover too bad. I work hard.
I deserve it]
and get nowhere. Damn niggers drive around in Cadillacs, and
their kids wear
hundred-dollar shoes. Bastards.
He pulls out his pistol and holds it
in his hands. It is heavy and real.
More real than you or I will ever know Bart. He pours another
drink.
The day went as usual. Hard work
with hard men. All listening to Rush
spew his hate. Rush doesn't have to come out and say "nigger."
They know what
he means when he talks of welfare. After all, words mean things.
Rush said so.
After work a stop at the tavern for a few with the boys. Never
mind his
son has a little league game. He'll understand. Daddy had a tough
day at work
and needs to relax. I have more important things on my mind.
He aims at an imaginary target.
Boom. I could blow your fucking head off, nigger.
"You're lucky I'm in a good mood." He pours another drink.
The stay at the tavern took
a little longer than expected. It always does.
Better stop for a bottle on the way home. On the way in he's
bumped
into by an elderly black man. "Watch it nigger" he says. "I beg
your pardon"
replies the gentlemen. "You heard me" he says and walks in.
Another drink. Another imaginary
target. Another dead nigger.
"Who the fuck does he think he is" he wonders. Damn nigger better
watch who
he bumps into. I wish the kids would shut up.
He arrives home to cold chicken
and warm milk. Fucking bitch.
After all I give her. He picks up the mail. Bills, bills, bills.
Past due. Past due. Past due.
Fuck'em. I need a drink. Oh shit. Here comes the family.
Rush is right. Those people have
no morals. They're stupid and lazy.
Living off my tax dollars. Fucking niggers. Gotta do something
about that.
"Time for bed," he bellows. The
kids and wife know by the tone of his
voice that he means business. The kids make their way quickly
upstairs.
His wife is not so fortunate. He wants lovin' and he wants it
now.
Wife. An acronym for "wash, iron, fornicate and, etc."
Et cetera meaning "when I want it."
The session, as the wife
has begun to call rape, lasts only a few minutes.
That's all it ever takes. A few minutes and he's gone. Out the
door.
I hope the fuckin' bastard wrecks and kills himself.
The elderly black man was
on his way home. He had spent the evening
at a friend's house. A little whiskey, some cards and listening
to the blues.
A nice summer evening.
"Fucking pig. She could at
least act like she enjoys it" he thinks to himself.
"Hey whatta we have here?"
The coroner said the elderly man
never knew what hit him.
They estimated his body flew 50 feet in the air. No one saw it
happen.
Hit and run.
That'll teach that nigger to fuck
with me. The white man is the best man.
Rush told me so. "If you ain't better than a nigger, than who
are you better than?"
The gun is real heavy now. He is sweating.
They found his pickup down by the
lake. Blew his brains out said the coroner.
Suicide over his hit and run. Probably drunk.
A drunken accident and suicide it will
say in the paper tomorrow.
But we know what it was, don't we Bart?
Hate. The product of the pigboy.
I love this country.
This Just In...
ABC News says Robert Ray is adding staffers to go after Clinton.
Tennis, anyone?
That picture is even on-topic.
Pigboy says "the lesbians in the women's tennis world just hate
her,"
as tho that's a face one could hate.
From: (withheld)
Bush was introduced by a professional wrestler, Gore had Steven
Hawkins,
the man who is sitting in Newton's chair at Cambridge.
If that doesn't explain the difference between these two men, nothing will.
Celebrity Mail
I watched it with my cynical hubby -
Even HE was on his feet, cheering for Gore
at the end!
--Tamara Baker
Another Satisfied Customer
Subject: Are you nuts?
From: CharfromER@webtv.net
That wasn't only a home-run; it was out
of the park.
I used to hit your site 3, 4 times a day;
Good bye asshole.
Char is telling the truth.
She's been sending me mail for years.
Next time, I will only have opinions that please everybody.
I'm a big hit at michaelmoore.com, too
Subject:
From: thatcher16@juno.com
Whew.
What a freakin' loser bartcop is.
ellen mckinnon
From: (withheld)
Heard Pigboy spin the recent range fires' effect on the environment...
Always his weakest topic. He spun it as the incompetent
Feds stealing,
and then destroying well-managed private lands, and asked how
many
species became extinct and how many lakes and streams became
polluted.
I yelled, "Zero!" into the radio. These fires are all perfectly
natural,
and would have happened years ago, if we hadn't staved off the
inevitable.
And what about PigBoy's usual rant, that the environment "cleanses
itself?"
Here's a situation where it's actually true, and within a human
lifetime, unlike Smirk's
buddies' industrial pollution. But PigBoy's strokes seem
to have destroyed his memory.
He went on to warn the ditto-sheep not to become overconfident,
polls or not,
warning them that those dirty Democrats have some particularly
nasty "October Surprise"
up their sleeves. Is he admitting that there's been an
October Surprise before?
I wonder which current candidate's father was responsible for
it?
Is publishing Smirk's rap sheet an "October Surprise?"
Subject: bill maher -whore
From: vance_everson@yahoo.com
first, bm makes a joke about al gore claiming
to have invented spell check,
and then he (and barney frank) let michael medieval
get away TWICE with
calling gore a liar over the "inventing the internet"
and "love story" lies.
why?
those lies and love canal lie, and buddhist temple
lies are the ones i keep
hearing brought up, and joked about, but never
EXPLAINED.
why? why? WHY?
instead, they say: what about "no arms for hostages,"
what about "no new taxes"?
the big difference is that THOSE ACTUALLY WERE
LIES, so instead of denying
that al gore lied, when he didn't, they compare
him to reagan and bush, who did
lie, and got away with it. it sounds like sour
grapes, and sounds like an admission
that gore lied (when he didn't).
AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
Vance,
If I had been running that convention, we would've heard a short speech
from Erich Segal, author of Love Story.
I would've played a montage of every GOP prick lying about Love Story
then have Segal come out and say, "Yes, Gore was the model for that
character."
Subject: Reaction
(All letters have been truncated)
From: DARVI@prodigy.net
Bartcop,
Oh, Bernie Shaw said Gore "hit a home run."
Did you hear that?
I'm afraid to change over to FUX News just
because I'm too damn happy.
I know this is gonna sound sacreligious,
but I wasn't this excited for Clinton
(true, I was only 20, and not so intopolitics)
but I really really love Al Gore.
Does that sound crazy?
Yes :)
Good coverage, as always.
How do you get the pics up so fast?
I hired a team of Puerto Rican girls.
From: (withheld)
Relax BC...Sean Hannity was so much in full
froth this morning that it will
take a week to dry his mike and that is
the perfect inverse indicator...
you've been watching too much of the Fucking
Occipital Xeromites that you
are beginning to believe that REAL people
think that way...relax, because if
Kurt Thomas had been providing the commentary,
it would have been:
(cooed as if a 6-9 inch pole of 3-4" circumferance
had just been shoved up his butt)
"Oooohh, he NAILED it".
From: dbaker41@fuse.net
BC: Al needed a home run and he GOT
ONE last night.
He did what he had to do, he rang all the
bells and blew all the whistles.
Most importantly, he was HIMSELF -- even
the vile Republicans had to
admit that. Pollboy Luntz couldn't
say enough good things about it; he
called it over and over again "a home run."
People in Luntz's test audience were saying
AL CHANGED THEIR VOTE.
He asked the group, "How many of you have
a better opinion of Al Gore
after the speech than you did before?"
Almost EVERY HAND IN THE ROOM shot into
the air!
Smirk is just a rich,vapid puppet, and we
know who's pulling the strings!
Al, on the other hand, is a MAN of substance.
dbaker
From: LuckySoNso@aol.com
Your lukewarm reaction to Vice President
Gore's acceptance speech amounted
almost to damning with faint praise.
The speech deserves much more than that.
Gore's presentation was exactly what he needed to do.
Without showing disrespect for Clinton,
Gore accomplished this by his
statement, "I am my own man!" and
by forcefully asserting that "I will never
let you down!" These lines were delivered
in a forceful and very credible
way. I got the message right away,
but then I have an IQ of 65.
As a bonus Gore got in several good licks
on the Repubs: He made them eat
the word "squander" again and he referred
effectively to his Viet Nam
service. He demonstrated what "honor"
really means.
Thanks for all the great work you do.
Lucky
Lucky,
"Great speech" wouldn't mean much coming from me.
People would say, "What else would you expect him to say?"
I wanted a good, solid hammering, but didn't get it.
Reaction seems very positive, so screw what I wanted to hear.
From: DENNISC@iadb.org
The various political pundits kept repeating
that Gore had to give the
speech of his life last night to stay in
the race. They were all telling us
that, because Gore isn't as dynamic a speaker
as Clinton, Gore would be in
trouble. I watched that speech and,
compared to Smirk's acceptance speech,
we've got nothing to worry about.
It reminds me of the story of the fellow
in the campground who was putting
on his running shoes after hearing that
there were marauding grizzly bears
in the area. He was ridiculed by
another camper who dutifully told him "you
can't outrun a grizzly bear". To
which the first camper replied, "I don't
have to outrun the grizzly bear, I just
have to outrun YOU!"
Gore doesn't have to outrun Clinton, he
just has to outrun Smirk and that
will be no problem. Bring on the
debates!
Dennis Courtney
ha ha
From: mike@reed.org
BC,
I see from your page that you weren't watching
ABC at the proper time
or there would have been the mother of
all screengrabs on your site.
After Al's speech, after the balloons had
dropped and the confetti
cannons had shot their collective wads,
there was a little boy
singing a song on the stage.
I don't know who the kid was or what he
was singing, but he was there
in a suit with a microphone. ABC had him
dead center on the screen
while Peter Jennings was tossing the report
around to the various reporters.
At this particular moment, George Stephanapolous
was reporting from
the floor. But all we were hearing was
his voice. What we were seeing
was this little boy singing into a microphone.
ABC ran a caption under the shot:
"George Stephanapolous reporting"
It was beautiful. I was watching it with
friends and couldn't help
but yell out "Damn, I hope BartCop got
a screen grab of that."
Mike in Murfreesboro (Who could kick himself
for not taping it).
http://mike.reed.org
Damn, that would've been good.
Judas Maximus deserves everything we throw at him.
From: bassm@ecn.purdue.edu
Bartcop--
The drummers on stage to greet Tipper included
Mickey Hart, former
percussionist (along with Bill Kreutzmann)
for the Grateful Dead. I
happened to have the TV on Fox News (yuck!)
just prior to Tipper's
taking the stage, and Tony Snow (double
yuck!) was interviewing Mickey
about his relationship with the Gores.
Mickey said that he had been
friends with the Gores for may years, had
hung out back-stage at Dead
shows with the Gores, and had been a guest
at Al and Tipper's house many
times. Tony had a Dubya-like smirk
on his face as he asked Mickey if he
supported Al, to which Mickey replied with
the celebrity quote of the
night: "The alternative is an abomination."
Tony had no follow-up for
that response and went back to the booth
immediately for brilliant
analysis from their chimps and orangutans.
Sorry you missed it.
Mark.
From: maccum@hotmail.com
hey BC..
thought old al did great. nice jawline always
trumps everything else
deep in the american psyche..
took in politically incorrect. barney frank,
bianca jagger and the execrable michael
medved among the guests. medved repeated
the the flying-monkey right mantra
of gore being a liar... those who lie reflexively
have created this utter fiction:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/020100a.html
just as the flying monkey right came up
with the story that it was CLINTON
behind the iran-contra operations...
was disappointed that neither barney frank
nor the others didn't reply to medved's
second hand lie, but maybe they thought
it didn't merit a response.
gore's in.. the betting is now only over the point spread.
- macc
From: Cheffeller@aol.com
Chris Matthews went apeshit,
totally verbally trashed Peggy Noonan right
after the Gore speech! Chris Matthews!
It was so fucking hilarious!
I hope people saw this. (Send transcripts
to bartcop@bartcop.com,
heh) I tell you
what, that guy can be a real ass, but sometimes
he does/says shit that kills me.
And Peggy had that tongue-lashing a long
time comin'.
Matthews said "This election is going
to be wickedly close. I can imagine a
situation where the popular vote may be
different than the electoral vote. That close."
And said on Leno that he thinks Gore will
win, even with the Nader factor (neener).
Gore delivered, and I must say, I was quite impressed.
I liked nearly everything I heard. The majority
of it. IF IF IF it wasn't just a sham.
Though, he has previously come off fairly
genuine and straight with what he says
...or I could be being suckerd, who knows.
Early reports show even republicans that
were deadset on Bush switching
their votes to Gore after this speech.
Wow. Hope it keeps up.
From: jhessert@earthlink.net
I can't wait to see the People's President
wipe the floor with Oil Boy
in the debates. You think Condoleeza forgot
to explain how many "three" is?
J
ha ha
Great Democratic Quotes
For us to think of Al Gore in the aura of a dynamic Bill Clinton
is unfair.
Al Gore is no Bill Clinton.
He may need a longer runway than Clinton does,
but I think he'll take off and lead us to victory.
-- Sen John Kerry, (D-Ketchup magnate)
Philly Homemaker Makes 'Sopranos'
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Marie Donato beat out 28,000 would-be actors
vying
to appear in "The Sopranos," and she doesn't even have any acting
experience.
Donato, a 50-year-old homemaker and grandmother of three, tagged
along with
a friend to the auditions that created a, well, mob scene last
month in Harrison, N.J.
She mainly hoped to get a glimpse of one of the cast members
from the popular
HBO series about a fictional New Jersey Mafia family.
The cast wasn't there and Donato never had an interview, but she
did throw her
photograph into a box. A week later, she received a call back
from the casting
company and went to New York to meet the show's executive producer,
David Chase.
Her lack of experience didn't stand in the way.
"I'm an Italian-looking person," Donato said. "Honest and sincere.
Very straightforward.
If anybody knows me, they know I'll say what I think, right off."
Donato shot one episode of the show last week, and had some dialogue.
She may appear on
more episodes, depending on how future scripts are written, according
to HBO.
From: IMNAKED68235@aol.com
i love your site
i hate that fucking old whore dr. laura.
i just wanted to tell you how fucking funny
it was.
BTW, the pictures are still there.
http://www.bartcop.com/picidx.htm
From: (withheld)
Yesterday on Rush's show, Bennett was on and he talked about
"...the assault on our culture by movies and other things."
Isn't that brave of him to say, "and other things."?
Even Bill Bennett won't criticize TV,
because you can't criticize TV without criticizing FOX TV.
I wish I was Rupert Murdoch.
It must be cool to own a TV Network, four newspapers, 40 radio
stations,
54 GOP Senators, 200+ GOP House members, one still-smoking neutered
commentator who's outrage level falls by half when you snap your
fingers
and of course, one Lying, Nazi Whore.
Five years ago, if you did a shot of Chinaco every time a Republican
criticized TV, you'd be dead within a year. Now if you
do a shot for every
Republican criticism of TV, you'll make Orrin Hatch look like
Hank Williams
Jr. by comparison (Hank Jr. is the most famous drunk I could
think of now
that Smirk switched to Ritalin).
ha ha
Jesus Twin Attacks Jesus Twin
Tom Coburn (R-Word is Good) seems to be attacking his fellow
Jesus Twin Steve Largent (R-Power-Hungry Liar) in local radio
ads.
Coburn is doing spots for his chosen successor, Andy Ewing, a
millionaire
car dealer from Proud-to-be-an-Okie-from Muskogee, Oklahoma.
In the radio ad, Coburn says,
"When I ran for congress in 1994, I gave my
word I'd serve
three terms and then come home. When
I give my word, I keep it.)
But,
but,
but Steve Largent and Uncle OJ Watts also gave their word,
but they
both claim, "There's more work to be done."
If Tom Coburn's word is good, why isn't the word of Largent and Uncle OJ?
Subject: Papax7
From: style_invitational@yahoo.com
Just curious...
Whatever happened to your religious friend
"Papax7"?
WM
He's still around, and still insane.
Every week or so he sends a 180 Meg "Papa's Cyber Weakly" to
me
that contains every fax the GOP sent him, but no original material.
I'll put a link up to his next tome.
Subject: National Crisis
From: quasit@anonymous.to
Hey, Bartcop! Did you hear?
Congress is about to launch a major investigation of the sinking
of the Kursk
-- it's a matter of national urgency!
Apparently there's good evidence that the Russian sub collided with Clinton's cock.
Quasit
ha ha
Great Democratic Quotes
"Dick Armey being so concerned with my sexuality's getting
a little creepy."
-- Barney Frank
Voltai29 Comes Thru
Someone needs to whack that kid.
Congressional immunity is not retroactive and does not
involve treason
felonies or breech of the peace.
"The Senators and Representatives shall
receive a
compensation for their services to be
ascertained by law, and
paid out of the Treasury of the United
States. They shall in all
cases, except treason, felony, and breach
of the peace, be
privileged from arrest during their
attendance at the session of
their respective Houses, and in going
to and returning from the
same; and for any speech or debate in
either House they shall
not be questioned in any other place."
--US Constitution, Article 1, Section 6
This stipulation was added because the English monarchs liked
to
arrest members of Parliament on their way to vote!
Volt
Hey!
Chris the Screamer says Frank Luntz (GOP pollboy)
says Algore did real good,
his focus group says he talked about "all the right things tonight,"
and
"Smirk is going to have to take a good look at what this means."
...I can see it now,
the election will be close,
but Gore's going to win,
....and I'm going to be driving the '90 Cavalier next year...
Christopher Hitchens
Boy, there's a guy who'll get a footnote in the BartCop Biography.
The man who calls President Clinton, "that rapist," and calls
Nancy Reagan and Mother Teresa, "those whores," is on MS,
and Chris the Screamer is so fucking tickled at something he
said,
he can't get his breath and is giggling like an altar boy at
a funeral
after he just heard his best friend and fellow altar boy fart.
Y'know, I wish I had a hundred dollars for everyone who's told
me
I'd be more marketable if I could just learn to curb my "expressive"
language,
Yeah, like I'm gonna put on a skirt for fucking Damp Rid.
But Christopher Hitchens gets rich for calling Mother Teresa a
whore?
Wasn't she just named the most admired person of the century?
...but I could make real money calling Mother Teresa a whore?
No.
...not at that price.
11:58 CST Thursday
Chris the screamer just said,
"Tipper Gore is as good looking as Lee Remick.
When Al Gore kissed her, he REALLY kissed her,
like a lot of American male voters would like to kiss Lee Remick."
I don't mean to be the skunk at the picnic, but Lee Remick,
as you can see, is/was so damn good looking you'd drive into a tree
to enter the contest to win a date with her.
I like Gore.
I like Tipper more than the scared-of-censorship weenies,
but Lee Remick is/was a classic Hollywood world-beater,
where the First Lady-Elect is "nice-looking."
...I think Chris the Screamer needs some time alone...
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