Re that Herman Cain video:
Okay, I take back everything I said yesterday about his lack of knowledge of foreign policy, national security, social issues, etc. He’s got my endorsement just for Mark Block’s cigarette exhalation. Haven’t seen anything like that since Sammy Davis Jr. took a drag in the instrumental break of “With A Song In My Heart” at the Royal Albert Hall a couple of decades back.
That ad could cause some progressive liberals(?) to have a stroke.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseActually that guy has a 2-4x greater likelihood of having a stroke than the average non-smoking liberal.
I'm kind of a fan of the well-placed cigarette puff myself, being a former smoker. This was just weird.
As for Sammy Davis - totally underappreciated imo. His untimely death from throat cancer at the age of 64 was a great loss.
But yeah, I can take a joke...
/rolls eyes
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSo? The thing about being an adult (and not just old enough to buy booze or vote) is that you can make choices - and not all of them are going to be good.
Don't be so sure about 'non-smoking liberals' - they're the most incessantly apoplectic bunch around, always wound up over others doing things they don't approve of. Mrs Grundy had nothing on this bunch of Pecksniffs.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseOne of the benefits of second-hand smoking. I knew we'd find one if we waited long enough.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWe should be so lucky.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLissen up muthafugga! Yo' spiffin' on gangsta!
How you don't see the relationship between the culture you despise and this video astounds me.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePlease expound on this. I'd love to understand what it is that you see.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHappy to: mildly threatening, in-your-face flouting of what's good for you. Then the mischievous from-the-side smile.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGangster?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI honestly don't know what the big deal is . . . there's so much more to look at with Cain (and every other candidate), besides whether he has someone smoking on one of his ads or not -- I like Cain, and I worry about Cain -- but whether or not his campaign manager smokes doesn't bother me a bit.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI hate smoking, and wish it was banished from the Earth. Today. But I love the way it's being used here. It's the entire Libertarian streak of the Republican Party encapsulated in one puff. Very economical.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI love the angry cig drag. Its a shot right across the bow of the PC goons' dinghy boat. Although to give today's PC goon credit, he's captaining more of a battleship I suppose. ...actually its more of a cruise ship with lots of showtunes and fancy costumery. I digress.
Selfishly I want more anger, even though its probably not a winning strategy. I didn't think Cain was going to have the "hardness" to him needed to take on Obama, but maybe I'm wrong. I still think Mitt and Newt are probably the only ones capable of handling Obama's slime in a debate, but I at least like this vid.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThose horrible PC goons that try to reduce cigarette smoking which has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. How dare they.?
Oh.... Rick Santorum would like to see contraceptives outlawed. Now that is they type of nanny state that makes sense. I mean we know how dangerous protected sex is.
The hypocrisy on the right is mind blowing. So let me get this straight, you are ok with smoking being gloried like it used to be encouraging young people to take up the deadly habit to be "cool" or has it been a good thing that there is PC that smoking is not cool but rather an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCalma. I'd hate to see you pop a blood vessel.
"Oh.... Rick Santorum would like to see contraceptives outlawed." No, he just wants to talk about them for some reason.
Calma.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Rick Santorum would like to see contraceptives outlawed..."
Citation, please?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI don't know if this describes you personally, Slide, but people who throws fits about a mother taking her daughter to McDonald's but then argue that that same daughter should be able to get an abortion without her mother ever finding out has no business lecturing us about screwed up priorities.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow about this: "Those horrible PC goons that try to reduce cigarette smoking which has provided comfort to millions of Americans. How dare they.?"
I'm an adult. I can make my own choices. The Surgeon General has made me fully aware of the risks. If I choose to smoke, it's my problem, not yours. Certainly it should be of no interest to the State.
This is not an issue of "cool". It's an issue of individual liberty and responsibility, and a desire to keep the nanny state from infantilizing all of us.
Where did the Santorum bit come from? We were enjoying a campaign ad from Herman Cain, and now you're throwing an also-ran into the mix?!?!?!!! Who is Rick Santorum anyway? How do you take a statement from some minor politician and tar the entire conservative movement with it?
I guess the bottom line here is (a) grow up, and (b) go see a shrink about your control issues.
Slightly off topic, but I long for another Kodos and Kang election matchup, just to hear Kang proclaim "Cigarettes for none! Abortions for all!"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNice Treehouse of Horror reference
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe hypocrisy of the Left is what is mind-blowing. You and your ilk want all of the benefits of Western Civilisation without being exposed to any of the risks or responsibilities that are an integral part of it.
You are parasites - the only reason you get your knickers in a twist about smoking or trans-fats or sodium or whatever is that you're scared your host might die before you can suck out all of its substance. That and the recollection that cigarettes were the preferred method of getting rid of dug-in blood-sucking vermin.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDear Lord! My wife's a leftist!
("No, honey, I didn't mean that. Ouch!")
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