Intern Juli has compiled her notes and will now describe the atmosphere at Columbia University during last night’s Service Nation Forum with Barack Obama and Walnuts. If you watched the thing, you’ll understand how comical it is that so many people were duped into watching it outside. Here is Juli’s preview from yesterday.
Some 5,000 Columbia students sat on the steps of an administration building to watch the Servicing 9/11 thing on their precious flatscreen teevee. Everyone whined all day Thursday about how the concrete steps were so uncomfortable that it was like sitting on concrete, and yet they continued to sit out there despite this thing being broadcast on smaller teevees, indoors, all over campus. So there they sat, with their Philip Roth or whatever, and complained.
Of course the teevee was broken anyway, and the sound kept cutting in and out, and then the picture was black and white, which was racist, especially on 9/11. Your Wonkette Intern only knows this because of GChat; complications with her computer battery forced her to sit inside the press room with some other web-bloggers who were also duped into covering this.
It turned out that one of the “viewer questions” that John McCain had to answer, that one from “Gisele” in Brooklyn, it turned out that “Gisele” was sitting in the press room! This question was a trap and McCain walked right into it, believing “Gisele” was some first-generation American mother of seven from Bed-Stuy or whatever. This was literally the only interesting thing that happened in the press room.
But anyway, back by the dumb teevee, there was much commotion about this Rick Stengel guy, and whether his jaundiced hide was so gruesome and yellow because of the broken teevee or not. And there was clapping and booing at the exact moments you would think that these kids would put down their iPhones for three seconds in order to clap and boo.
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What was Gisele’s liberal elitist trap question?
“The busiest people are the busiest. The busier people are, the busier they are.”
John McCain – Service Forum
huh?
Clearly they have not downloaded “Clap’nBoo” from the Application Store.
LOL HAHAHAHA!! “Application Store”. It’s App Store you old lame-o. Boo!
that still looks like mecca to me
Who doesn’t want to sit in the open air to hear two men drone on and on about the greatness of America and how wonderful it is that everyone likes service and how they like service, in a phony, condescending, vote grubbing, and hucksterish fashion? Right? Plus the Ivy League loves big honkin’ teevee’s and stair sittin’ on liberal coastal elite concrete.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
OK here’s the Sarah Palin, George Bush, Miss Teen South Carolina mashup for those who wanted to see that. (Check this link again later if it’s not working for you yet.)
Today we all have sore, concrete textured ass-flesh.
[re=94914]Miller[/re]: What’s that blog of yours again?
[re=94878]grendel[/re]: I think it was this one.
“WOODRUFF: If I could just quickly follow-up. I asked partly because we got a number of online questions, and a woman named Giselle (ph) from Brooklyn, New York, she says: “With the staggering economy, how can people commit time to community service and still make ends meet?”
I know you said earlier, people of all income brackets, but what about those people who really do have to work to make…”
McCain had to admit that the economy was in terrible shape.
[re=94909]Special Agent Jack Mehoff[/re]: hahaha I am a geezer.
Look at all of those people. Great, now one of you punks can tell me what the fuck an oxford comma is.
[re=94932]Tawmn[/re]: Well at least your an elitist kindergarten trolling geezer like us or whatever.
You guys totally left out the Tobey Maguire part.
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/?p=3321
The Steps are not concrete, fools. They’re granite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University#The_Steps
[re=94941]SuperRounder[/re]: HARVARD comma, you faux elitist… Red, white, and blue!
they’re all high waiting for the rock band to show up. oops, are the sixties over.
Does being an intern at Wonkette make one a community organizer? Cause our future overlords frown upon such activity, FYI.
[re=94916]Serolf Divad[/re]: That was the aural equivalent of root canal work.
This may be the gayest thing to ever have a name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
[re=94951]Tawmn[/re]: Anyone who leaves out the last comma is a commie…
[re=94961]facehead[/re]: Whatever, grammar illiterate! Serial comma 4 lyfe!
When people are out of work they always have time for community service.
[re=94920]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I think, could be wrong, his website is:
http://scouthatesyou.com/
I like how teh gays managed to cover the screen with their ever colorful banner and have a hulking member of the Taliban stand guard. Country first!
Juli’s “Rick Stengel’s hide is yellow” comment will not go unoticed by the largely Asian student populace. Demands for immediate apologies are forthcoming.
[re=94916]Serolf Divad[/re]: yale and harvard grad. wow, aren’t they embarassed to have gwb as an alumnus. he’s in good company on that video.
[re=94916]Serolf Divad[/re]: My word that was tremendously painful to watch. Bravo
Excellent recap, Juli! You’re clearly Wonkette material. Also, I’m sorry for sucking up to the intern editor; it’s been a long day.
dudes anyone talking about the steps as uncomfortable is clearly not a columbian cause all we do is sit on those goddamn steps.
serial commas are awesome
[re=94916]Serolf Divad[/re]: Fingernails on a blackboard, metal trash cans being thrown around at 6:00 AM, the neighbor’s dog who barks all night…all preferable to listening to Bush or Palin. I just feel sorry for Miss SC.
Juli – Can you please do some digging on Mehgan’s time at Columbia? I’m sure there are a couple stories in there hankering to be told. Its up to you to bring that campaign down now. I’ll bet you can even get a children’s book contract out of it if you find something good.
“Are you saying you think Americans are better than other nations?” –Judy Woodruff
Held at Columbia University, The 9-11 Forum On Public Service & Civic Engagement was moderated by Richard Stengel, managing editor of TIME, along with PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent and Political Editor Judy Woodruff. The forum was staged by Service Nation; “a new nationwide coalition.” While no relation to journalist Bob Woodruff, Judy is married to Al Hunt executive editor of The Bloomberg News, DC, bureau. Bloomberg also reported that, “she [Sarah Palin] was arrested 22 years ago on a drunken-driving charge.” The next day, “impartial moderator” Woodruff reflected on the experience with NewsHour’s Steve Goldbloom. Judy, who espouses a civilian counterpart to the military conceded that while 9-11 might not have been the most auspicious date, the candidates stayed true to the service mission, as if John McCain were somehow onboard with a civilian mission with military authority. Anyway, The Democratic National Committee reemerged as The [International] Provisional People’s Collective Party, or PCP. And, guess what the PCP has in store for America: Political Officers, Commissars. The title Commissar refers to either a People’s Commissar (government), or a Political Commissar (military). In the Soviet Union, the Institute of Political Commissars was established to control the military. The state security organizations, KGB, etc., and or People’s Commissars also controlled the Soviet Army, together with the entire Soviet State. Compulsory Public Service is the future. All men will be judged politically; anti-Marxist sentiment shall be crushed. But we first require a state organ with which to train the political functionaries who will hold coequal rank and authority. And although they never mention it at the forum, welcome comrade to Hillary’s National Public Service Academy: http://theseedsof9-11.com
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