The National Review Online is running a “webathon,” asking for your donations. When you access the site, you get a popup window with a donation request — and the picture and the pitch are cracking me up. Here it is:
Yes, that’s Rich Lowry, the guy who said that Sarah Palin’s winks sent starbursts flying around his living room because he thought, “Hey, she just winked at me.” I can’t see a picture of his face without laughing. Seriously, wherever he goes and whatever he does until the day he dies, everyone around him should do nothing but point and laugh at him for saying that.
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slc1
June 13, 2012 at 10:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Rich Lowry, the man who Ann Coulter labeled a girly boy.
cjtotalbro
June 13, 2012 at 10:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Isnt asking for donations like asking for, GASP, handouts!?
If the free market isnt giving them enough revenue to stay afloat then clearly they are failures and should commit suicide.
Raging Bee
June 13, 2012 at 10:14 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What, they’re acting like PBS now? Did the plutocrats dump them because they have better propaganda outlets? Or is their tin-cup act just a scam to get more money and sympathy?
tommykey
June 13, 2012 at 10:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If NRO went out of business, KLO might have to enter a nunnery.
d cwilson
June 13, 2012 at 10:17 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Couldn’t they just go over to Ham Rove’s house an borrow a cup of money?
Important hygiene tip:
If you’re ever at a venue where Sarah Palin is giving a speech, do not shake hands with Rich Lowry.
jamesk
June 13, 2012 at 10:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“…wherever he goes and whatever he does until the day he dies, everyone around him should do nothing but point and laugh at him for saying that.”
And wink.
Aliasalpha
June 13, 2012 at 10:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Starburst are a brand of lollies in Australia, maybe we should send you some & you can throw them around whatever room he’s in
Dennis N
June 13, 2012 at 10:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ah, Rich Lowry, the man who said that once John Derbyshire was fired there were no more racists at NRO. The most laughable comment of the entire year, possibly of the present decade.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
June 13, 2012 at 11:17 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Aliasalpha:
Unfortunately, we in the U.S. have no idea what “lollies” might be. However, we do have Starburst candies. Is that the same thing, more or less?
Eric R
June 13, 2012 at 12:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My only response to this is Rich who?
marcus
June 13, 2012 at 12:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I just went to the site this morning to get my weekly dose of pain by reading to Ed Whelan’s whine about how teh gheys really don’t have any rights at all and should consider themselves lucky that they aren’t gunned down in the street or at least deported.(/hyperbole) Though I exaggerate, his distaste for their icky “lifestyle” is more than obvious. Current series is about how all the libruls are spreading lies of “conventional wisdom” about the possibility that teh gheys could actually be decent parents and that children raised in that environment might turn out well-adjusted and non-suicidal. I know, ridiculous right? Actually I don’t read them so much as scan the “reasoning” until the urge to pick up my monitor and smash it against the wall is almost uncontrollable. As we used to say, “I wouldn’t piss on that asshole if he was on fire.” (I really wouldn’t.)
Anyway I would love to see the whole damn bunch over there unemployed, penniless, and selling hand-jobs on the street. But that’s just me.
tacitus
June 13, 2012 at 1:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Lollies == popsicles.
tommykey
June 13, 2012 at 1:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Isnt asking for donations like asking for, GASP, handouts!?
The alternative is that you can pay to go on the annual National Review cruise and hang out with the likes of Jonah Goldberg.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
June 13, 2012 at 1:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Not lollipops?
tacitus
June 13, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Whoops — you’re right.
Ice lollies == popsicles
Lollies == lollipops.
Raging Bee
June 13, 2012 at 3:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Anyway I would love to see the whole damn bunch over there unemployed, penniless, and selling hand-jobs on the street.
“Will perform acts I used to condemn for starbursts.”
Area Man
June 13, 2012 at 4:56 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I, too, must register disbelief that the NRO is actually hard-up for money. Surely Richard Scaife or the Koch brothers can find a few million laying in their couch cushions.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
June 13, 2012 at 5:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Starbursts we have here are little square individually-wrapped chewy candies and would make excellent projectiles.
Bjarni
June 13, 2012 at 8:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hmm, this post raises some important points I think need to be clarified.
Lollies == Candies
Boiled lollies == Hard candies
Icy Poles ~= Popsicles
Lollypops == Candy on a stick (Insert US name)
And starbursts are basically the same in both countries (yum!).
Pointless information about starburst: I once ‘wooed’ a girl at uni by making her little origami cranes and things from starburst wrappers while sitting in psych lectures.
jnorris
June 13, 2012 at 9:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I remember about 40 years ago William Buckley had to do a fund raiser to keep the print journal alive.
This time I believe the NRO has not dumbed down enough to reach the Tea Party and empress the billionaire money that controls it.
democommie
June 14, 2012 at 7:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Maybe Ruptured Moldycock can add NRO to his collection of politiporn outlets. All he has to do is put some T&A in it, the hyperbolic horseshit quotient is already at 100%.