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Last updated on July 16th, 2017 at 04:36 pm
Tim Dunlop notices himself:
I’ve noted before that I’m not exactly a big fan of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez …
Does he talk to himself in the mirror in the third person? If he talked to himself in French, would he prefer the formal “vous” to the familiar “tu”? Is he just plain slap-headed out of his manky little gourd?
Posted by rick mcginnis on 2007 07 25 at 01:20 PM • permalink
If you go to the link, above, and then go to Dunlop’s first link, you’ll find that he did, indeed, criticize Chavez, but it was pretty much a “plague-on-both-your-houses” piece on both Chavez and Bush, filled with the acrid smell of moral equivalency. No, Tim, you’re “not exactly” a “big fan” of Chavez; but your capacity for discrimination is still severely atrophied.
Sure, not exactly. Not a big one, anyway.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 07 25 at 01:31 PM • permalink
Waste of O2.
Dunlop and his friends run their websites in exactly the same way Chavez is running the media in Venezuela, so what are they criticizing?
Timmy-girl is also amongst the class of western leftys who come over to America to cash in, then run back home to take up a career of spewing anti-American venom.
He’s an asshole.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 25 at 02:32 PM • permalink
“How long are we going to allow a person – from any country in the world – to come to US soil (I don’t care if it was the UN building, it stands on my goddam ground) to say there’s a dictatorship here, that the president is a devil, and nobody does anything about it?”
Also:
Yes, what better way to show you are not tyrannical than to deport dissenters.
Dunlop makes a very good point here, but it’s not the one he intended, as Chavez left the US voluntarily after his bloviation, without even one shove from the evil Bush Dictatorship.
I must say I do like reading at least one lyle poem for each comment. They’re very good. He has a knack for it.
Ash, that better not be the good stuff.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 25 at 02:56 PM • permalink
Meh, Tim Dunlop, a man with a size 12 ego in a size 3 soul.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 25 at 02:58 PM • permalink
Glad to see you back, Rebecca!!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 25 at 02:58 PM • permalink
I understand he got thrown out of the Sydney Tennis Club for playing with himself…
Heyu, RebeccaH!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 25 at 03:04 PM • permalink
I won’t read the linked post.
I assume Dunlop blames Bush.
That’s a good assumption. Dunlop could be lamenting how his Cheerios became soggy and uneatable and end up casting blame on Bush.
What you will seldom hear him say is criticism or blame on “the men with wild eyes and yet no appearance”.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 25 at 03:06 PM • permalink
Ash,
Please confine your pouring of “good stuff” to the aluminum vats of mead distilled in Sydney. Not the oaken casks of Sumerian mead. Or the Akkadian stuff. Which you should not have access to anyway.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 25 at 03:10 PM • permalink
Well who doesn’t?!
Yo, RebeccaH, what news from the other side?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 07 25 at 04:24 PM • permalink
When you’re carrying loose change, better make sure your pockets ain’t got no holes.
Note to Paco: I just went back and read your very sweet post about Detective Paco. Blimey, if I had known you were writing some of that for me, I’d have put on my silk stockings with the seam up the back, strapped a stiletto to my thigh, and hip-checked Sheila right out of the office for the chance to be Detective Paco’s gun moll and Girl Friday. I still think you can write that book. Check out the books by Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen. Right up your humor alley.
For the record, Mr. H thinks you and I are having an online affair, but don’t worry. He won’t show up in Occupied Northern Virginia seeking satisfaction. It would interfere with his golf schedule.
“How long are we going to allow a person – from any country in the world – to come to US soil (I don’t care if it was the UN building, it stands on my goddam ground) to say there’s a dictatorship here, that the president is a devil, and nobody does anything about it?”
Hi RebeccaH! Welcome back!
I’m not sure who you’ve quoted there, but sovereignty of embassy buildings is a touchy subject and one best left out of the equation. It is enough to say what he said, no matter where he said, is objectionable. The fact is happened within your borders (in effect) does make it more galling, but it shouldn’t be said anywhere. A class A prick with no balls – he cannot stand anyone criticising him in his country, but feels free to be rude in someone else’s.
Ah yes TD, he does like to point out how right he is in posts gone past.
BUT in far more exciting news, and OT, Cadel Evans has a fantastic shot at winning the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. Given all the drug testing controversy, I see now why they give the winner the yellow jersey.
Still, awesome effort to be number 2, after being beaten in stage wins by drug cheats.
c’mon aussieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
traceeeee can join in – she loves supporting aussieeeeeeeees and the nation and all that.
Great to see your fingertips, Rebecca.
Come on guys let’s help our friend
Mr. H, errmmm Paco out…let’s all write to RebeccaH.OK, I’ll start. RebeccaH Had it been I, I would have hand carried you to the the, ummm yea… I’d have put on my silk stockings with the seam up the back, strapped a stiletto to my thigh….I blacked out…Phewww, where was I?
Say HI, to Mr. H…:).
How ‘bout a spin in my new ride Rebbecca babe?
And as soon as I get enough donation money, it shall be delivered.
I might attempt some kind of critique of Dunlop, but the man is like a cross between a pit bull terrier and Sherlock Holmes.
His ability to figure out that editors commission items for publication – to join the dots, if you will – is unrivalled.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 25 at 06:39 PM • permalink
I’m very happy to see that Rebecca is back with us.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 25 at 07:14 PM • permalink
Rapid-fire commentary and discussion of politics, values and culture that doesn’t suck.
states his profile. Well, what about honesty in advertising?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 25 at 07:16 PM • permalink
What is this crap? Let’s form a revolutionary brigade and go get pissed in Venezuela over Christmas and appreciate the wondrous prosperity and freedom that the soon-to-be president-for-life has brung them Venis
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 25 at 07:30 PM • permalink
#40 Cocktail frankfurts? Hot dogs with martinis?
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 25 at 07:42 PM • permalink
Great to have you back RebeccaH!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 25 at 07:44 PM • permalink
Cheeerios in NZ and Queensland.
Um, Dean, I always thought it was an olive in a martini?
Dear Management (whom ever that may be),
I would like to lodge an objection regarding commenter Lyle. My research into this fellow indicates the following:
1. Top notch artist
2. First rate wordsmith
3. Profile pic shows him to be unhideous.Surely this is too much for one person. Can we ban him?
Yours
AggrievedPosted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 25 at 09:46 PM • permalink
Im surprised if Dunlop isn’t kidding us he is not a fan of the buffoon. In fact I don’t believe him. The idiot gallery he left behind at Road to Madness is the largest collection of hard left conspiracy tawdry nutballs this side of Equatorial Guinea.
It must be a personality clash because it can’t be what the Chavezmeister beleives in.
When you’re carrying loose change, better make sure your pockets ain’t got no holes.
But then you could never look back and see Paco right behind you…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 25 at 10:24 PM • permalink
Too right, IT. I don’t take so well to strangers walkin’ into this here saloon and takin’ up all the good comments.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 25 at 10:28 PM • permalink
#58 – Even with my raw, unbridled and staunch heterosexuality, I struggle to tell another man he’s, um, er, good looking. In order to overcome this problem I invent words of endearment. We can’t all be first rate wordsmiths like you, Lyle.
Are you happy? Now everyone knows I think you’re inugly.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 25 at 10:49 PM • permalink
Well if that fancy stanza
makin’ Lyle tries to horn in on my INability with spelling,grammar, and sequiturin’ well….trouble. Trouble a wordsmithin’ dandy might find objectionable, if you get my drift.The Yojimbo checks the Colt Dragoon.
Yep, 50 grains for the dandy-overkill.
Checks the angle of the sun. Less than three hours until noon-Old Pueblo time.
“Barkeep…..”
Life is good.
Venezuela’s working people, led by George W. Bush’s arch-enemy, President Hugo Chavez, have taken over more workplaces, set up more cooperatives, established hundreds of free public education and health programs, organised their neighbourhoods and taken big steps towards exercising “popular power’’ in their country.
I say, but that rather elevates Hugs to a more lofty position than he’s otherwise entitled and largely overstates his place in the general scheme of things. How embarrassing to have the level of George Bush’s animus define one’s worth.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 07 26 at 01:16 PM • permalink
Well, I bet
he had to look pretty hard.