• February 13, 2012
  • THAT’S ALL, MY FRIENDS: The balloon sausages shall drop from the ceiling, and then it will take five-and-a-half years to get out of here because of the total failure of security.

{ 64 comments }

AnnieGetYourFun September 4, 2008 at 11:11 pm

You might as well just pitch a tent, Ken. They have to let the wheelchairs and walkers out first.

dorothyparker September 4, 2008 at 11:12 pm

I used to like to karoake to that Heart song. I guess I won’t be doing that anymore.

Oh, and the speech blew.

apocalypsethen September 4, 2008 at 11:12 pm

kind of a depressing week.

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:12 pm

On his way out, McCain kisses every middle-aged blond woman in the audience. And Cindy follows behind with an icy stare for each one.

The Hispanic Buddy Holly September 4, 2008 at 11:13 pm

But at the end of the five-and-a-half years you too will be qualified to be president!

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:13 pm

Kool and the Gang? Wow, it IS the eighties!

d4g33z September 4, 2008 at 11:14 pm

Just fuckin’ punch your way out, big guy!

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:14 pm

Cindy — please — don’t try to dance.

shortsshortsshorts September 4, 2008 at 11:15 pm

I have just started to watch it now, and will get back to you heathens shortly. Five and a half years.

AngryBlakGuy September 4, 2008 at 11:15 pm

…Andrea Mitchell is drowning in balloons LMAO!!!!

Maurice Levy September 4, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Andrea Mitchell should get a raise. She’s being buried in balloons.

AngryBlakGuy September 4, 2008 at 11:16 pm

…am I the only watching Andrea Mitchell?!?!?!

OffTheRecord September 4, 2008 at 11:16 pm

ahhahahah. Oh sweet lord. Andrea Mitchell. Covered in balloons.

BitterDuff September 4, 2008 at 11:16 pm

Oh my God…Please, cameraman put down the camera and throw Andrea Mitchell a frickin’ life raft- she’s drowning!!!

The 3-Legged Man September 4, 2008 at 11:17 pm

These are all songs that Reagan enjoyed when he was workin’ it…

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:17 pm

Why do we hear all those balloons popping? There must be an awful lot of little pricks in that stadium.

The Hispanic Buddy Holly September 4, 2008 at 11:18 pm

Andrea Mitchell has been killed by a massive amount of balloons. Poor Andrea.

AngryBlakGuy September 4, 2008 at 11:19 pm

[re=86520]OffTheRecord[/re]: [re=86516]Maurice Levy[/re]: …I would totally pinch Andrea Mitchell’s ass in the mayhem!

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:19 pm

Wait — he walked through the whole stadium and now he’s back on stage, where he started? He’s going in circles! It’s the McCain Witch Project. (flashlight to face) I’m sorry everybody. I dragged us out here to this godforsaken arena and now we’re trapped and going to die here. It’s all my fault — I thought this was the eighties! (sob).

legglaw September 4, 2008 at 11:19 pm

Andrea say: I covered Reagan. I covered lots of other stuff. I never seen a balloon drop like this. I think Republicans will win…. the balloon war.

snig September 4, 2008 at 11:19 pm

Start yelling “Code Pink” and they’ll rush you out of there pronto.

RooseveltFranklin September 4, 2008 at 11:20 pm

I will vote McCain when he tattoos SARAH on his finger.

The Hispanic Buddy Holly September 4, 2008 at 11:21 pm

[re=86537]legglaw[/re]: The Republican party is in the pocket of BIG BALLOON.

obfuscator September 4, 2008 at 11:21 pm

[re=86532]Ken Layne[/re]:

You guys should just put on pink shirts and voice unpopular opinions. You’ll be courteously escorted out of there in no time.

Viva la Cynthia September 4, 2008 at 11:21 pm

“The balloon sausages shall drop from the ceiling, and then it will take five-and-a-half years to get out of here because of the total failure of security.”

But we need to protect our security, guys! Walnuts said so!

chascates September 4, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Wonkette Staff Members deserve combat pay! Assuming they get paid at all. Take the next week off.
Good job.

Viva la Cynthia September 4, 2008 at 11:22 pm

“Boom Boom Andrea Mitchell”? Seriously, Brokaw? Kinda weird…

WadISay September 4, 2008 at 11:22 pm

The balloon drop terror alert is bright red.

RooseveltFranklin September 4, 2008 at 11:22 pm

Wolf B. is discussing the “First Douche” Todd Federline…

AnnieGetYourFun September 4, 2008 at 11:23 pm

[re=86526]SayItWithWookies[/re]: NICE.

In other news, I’m afraid I have developed a full-fledged crush on Keith Olbermann. Why is this?

Viva la Cynthia September 4, 2008 at 11:24 pm

Huckleberry Hound is on The Daily Show, again being the most gracious and classy person in St. Paul.

legglaw September 4, 2008 at 11:24 pm

Gov. Ridge say: John Bush do this, do that….blah,blah,blah.

Calling Dr. Freud.

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:24 pm

Oh shit — he asked God to still the storms on the east coast. I’m buying a boat.

NoWireHangers September 4, 2008 at 11:25 pm

So ends a shitacular Convention. Now it’s time for you to decide, America!

TJBeck September 4, 2008 at 11:25 pm

Well, that speech was so boring I didn’t even get mad.

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:26 pm

“I move we say Fuck Baby Jesus, let’s get ripped!”

ladymacbeth September 4, 2008 at 11:26 pm

travel safe wonkette! we will miss you til you can be our friend in wonkette world again!

Viva la Cynthia September 4, 2008 at 11:26 pm

Hahahahaha:

Jon Stewart to Huckabee: “So you feel that your party is the only party to undo the damage that your party has done?”

Viva la Cynthia September 4, 2008 at 11:28 pm

[re=86552]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Um, cuz he’s awesome? You’re not the only one pining after that guy, trust me.

hockeymom September 4, 2008 at 11:28 pm

did anybody watch O’Reilly and Obama?

chascates September 4, 2008 at 11:29 pm

Guy on CNN says: there’s lots of little pieces of John McCain (balloons?) all over the place.

CivicHoliday September 4, 2008 at 11:30 pm

Hey all – Hopey lays the smack down on O’Reilly on his own show! *snicker*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNAbmt88OHo

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:32 pm

[re=86569]chascates[/re]: They’re called biopsies.

AngryBlakGuy September 4, 2008 at 11:33 pm

[re=86568]hockeymom[/re]: …nope but it is on the Huffington post.

KittyKatMan September 4, 2008 at 11:36 pm

At CNN/Larry King site:

Will you vote for John McCain?
Yes 19% 1124
No 81% 4828
Total Votes: 5952

HairyIckey September 4, 2008 at 11:38 pm

Wow. That speech wasn’t terrible, but the delivery sure was. And USA USA USA! every 4 seconds is, well, fucking creepy.

Off topic, I’ve been really busy and missing a lot of Wonkette action recently. So…WTF is up with the WHOLE ENTIRE FUCKING WEBSITE being an ad???

I’ve had a lot to drink tonight (coping mechanism, of course), but wow it is awful. And this is coming from someone who loved Choke, at least as a book…

SayItWithWookies September 4, 2008 at 11:39 pm

[re=86582]KittyKatMan[/re]: Awesome. At this point it’s hard to tell who’s worse for the McCain/Palin ticket — McCain or Palin.

shortsshortsshorts September 4, 2008 at 11:41 pm

That speech was anti-climatic, short lived, pathetic, impotent, flaccid, pale, sad, weak, desolate, forlorn, lonely, pandering, withdrawn, manic, by the book, plastic, and TOTALLY AWESOME.
You can thank my birthday for this speech.

ms_mcgee September 4, 2008 at 11:42 pm

Ann and Nancy Wilson are pissed at the Republican Party and have fired off a cease and desist letter to the McCain/Palin campaign. I love America. http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/04/republicans-lack-heart/

ms_mcgee September 4, 2008 at 11:44 pm

[re=86592]ms_mcgee[/re]: * For using the song “Barracuda”

WadISay September 4, 2008 at 11:45 pm

If the Republican Party is done with it now, can I please borrow that jumbotron for the football season?

Johnny Zhivago September 4, 2008 at 11:45 pm

I think he had a good beat and he was easy to dance to.

Johnny Zhivago September 4, 2008 at 11:49 pm

[re=86592]ms_mcgee[/re]: A string quartet playing “Nearer my God to Thee” on the fantails would have been more appropriate…

d4g33z September 4, 2008 at 11:58 pm

[re=86592]ms_mcgee[/re]: Wow. Check out the comments on that story you linked to. I think I’ll just hang out at Wonkette from now on. The people here are just so much _nicer_.

PentagonBookkeeper September 5, 2008 at 12:05 am

“I’m afraid I have developed a full-fledged crush on Keith Olbermann. Why is this?” He had me at ESPN. A Baptist, ad man, friend of mine in Manhattan started ragging on my Keith, saying, “He’s such a hater!” So I proceded to tell him how completely SEXY Mr.O is, and now my friend is scratching his head bewildered. Men have no clue.

TJBeck September 5, 2008 at 12:05 am

[re=86584]HairyIckey[/re]: What? oh. I had’t noticed.

CivicHoliday September 5, 2008 at 12:10 am

wow. the few correspondents left in the Xcel center are playing with frightening Walnuts confetti and puppets. And a Utah delegate just did a really really funny impression of Snowbilly.

Fred Wertham Jr. September 5, 2008 at 12:14 am

John McCain’s copyrights were violated for five-and-a-half years!

ms_mcgee September 5, 2008 at 12:29 am

[re=86605]d4g33z[/re]: Agreed. We can only hope (and expect) that those people won’t vote. Ignorant bastards.

S.Luggo September 5, 2008 at 12:32 am

Because of Hanna, Skeletor has made the entire US a no-fly zone except for direct flights to Gitmo. Can’t wait to read your on-line blogs from your May-be-as Corpus torture prison hearings. Will Liz do the final videos? Kisses.

The 3-Legged Man September 5, 2008 at 2:02 am

37 million viewers for Palin’s speech, according to Fox.

Captain Swing September 5, 2008 at 4:00 am

[re=86605]d4g33z[/re]: Absolutely! That is one nasty bunch of blockheads.

Just imagine, if WALNUTS! and Ms Moosefart take the Whitehouse teh Internets will will be infested with buffoons.

Black Eagle – Save us!

Obama/Biden ’08.

accidental_tourist September 5, 2008 at 6:07 am

I heard from a “reliable” source that the audience was instructed ahead of time to start chanting “USA USA” every time someone protested or was tasered/beaten/shot, etc. Dang, that was a lot of “USA USA” going on.

bc September 5, 2008 at 7:54 am

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