Rolling Stone: Shrub and "dried dog shit"

[Seabiscuit]

A Rolling Stone article began:

"Crawford, the home of President George W. Bush, is a sun-scorched hole of a backwater Texas town -- a single dreary railroad crossing surrounded on all sides by roasted earth the color of dried dog shit. There are scattered clumps of trees and brush, but all the foliage seems bent from the sun's rays and ready at any moment to burst into flames.... The moaning cattle along the lonely roads sound like they're begging for their lives. The downtown streets are empty. Just as the earth is home to natural bridges, this place is a natural dead end -- the perfect place to drink a bottle of Lysol, wind up in a bad marriage, have your neck ripped out by a vulture."

- roasted earth "the color of dried dog shit". ROTFLMAO!!!! And guess what - it SMELLS like dried dog shit too because Shrub lives there!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7581585?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1125069733110&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.847

[electropop]

1. What a tourist paradise!

This adds to my appreciation of the protesters down there.

[cliss]

2. Hm, there's some creative writing for you.

Dog crap? Sounds appropriate to me.

Let's be honest here. George Bush is finished. NO ONE supports his policies, except a tiny percentage of people who make money off him. Even those people probably curse him, as they're raking in their billions.

Just dry up and blow away, Bush.

[xxqqqzme]

3. '...a natural dead end....'

boy that describes it perfectly.

[opihimoimoi]

4. The Place where Satan lost his Shoe

[Hubert Flottz]

16. I think Western Texas, west of El Paso, is pretty country ...

Here is what one famous American thought of the place though:

Gen. Phillip Sheridan, "If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell"

[sam sarrha]

5. The Truth is ...... Crawford is the only place that would take him in..

[leftchick]

6. This writer is a regular comedian.....

:rofl:

<snip>

Early on my third day I was browsing in the hat section of the Yellow Rose when a clerk approached me.

"Excuse me," I said, holding up two Old Glory mesh hats. "Which of these do you think looks more American?"

She smiled and walked away. A friendly feeling welled up inside me. Within five minutes I was talking to store owner Bill Johnson, a fanatical Bush devotee with a striking resemblance to frozen-sausage king Jimmy Dean. I introduced myself as a Fox TV booker named Larry Weinblatt and told Bill I wanted to bring Sean Hannity down to do a whole show with Sean standing between the Ten Commandments tablets. Bill was all over the idea.

"We want to have that kind of godlike effect," I said.

"Right," Bill said, nodding.

"Secondly, Sean, when he travels," I said, "he brings his own Nautilus equipment. He pumps iron before he goes on."

"Does he really?"

"Yeah," I said. "We get a lot of demonstrators when Sean does his show, and so what he likes to do, when he finishes the broadcast, he takes his shirt off and flexes his muscles for the crowd. You know, rrrr. . ."

"Is he really built like that?"

"Oh, man, he's huge," I said.

[ET Awful]

7. LMFAO . . . . This guy is hysterical

"Which of these do you think looks more American?"

:rofl: :spray: :rofl:

[stellanoir]

8. just love the closing paragraphs. . .

". . . Iraq is an insane blunder committed by a bunch of criminal incompetents who have managed so far to avoid the lash and the rack only because the machinery for avoiding reality is so advanced in this country. We don't watch the fighting, we don't see the bodies come home and we don't hear anyone screaming when a house in Baghdad burns down or a child steps on a mine.

The only movement we're going to need to end this fiasco is a more regular exposure to consequence. It needs to feel its own pain. Cindy Sheehan didn't bring us folk songs, but she did put pain on the front pages. And along a lonely Texas road late at night, I saw it spread."

[Seabiscuit]

10. Nominated for best article to date re: Cindy and Iraq

[Gruenemann]

9. I've always wondered why he chose Crawford.

With the unlimited wealth at his disposal he could've picked up a ranch in one of the pretty parts of the state. It's really ugly around there. Not the ugliest part of Texas by any means, but just a few miles from Crawford are some really nice areas, and even farther away some gorgeous areas. It'a a mystery....

[Richard Steele]

17. He chose it for SECLUSION. So he can HIDE.

He needed a spot well off the beaten path,
where there are NO roads that allow a view
of the modern 10,000 Sq.Foot house he built.

He wanted to pretend to be a Texan, so
he can't let anyone see how he actually lives.

[Seabiscuit]

18. Yup. The phony "cowboy" who hides from the world and his own

reflection. Nothing like a huge patch of dust and tumbleweeds.

[CantGetFooledAgain]

11. Matt Taibbi is a wonderful writer.

Here is another fascinating and utterly maddening Rolling Stone article (about the inner workings of Congress) that he wrote:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7539869?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1

[porphyrian]

12. Aw, I thought it was calling bush "dried dog shit...""

...the fucking traitor.

[DougieZero]

13. Great article

His books are great... kind of like Hunter Thompson... He wrote a funny article about the early war protests for The Nation.

His background is really interesting... He went to live in Russia when he was really young (24?) just for the adventure (not politics)... he stayed there for like a decade. Played Baseball and Basketball for the USSR.... then came home.

He is a leftist who really cuts through the crap.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. ahem....from Salon

Politics-a-palooza

Gonzo journalist Matt Taibbi will do anything -- including throwing a pie made of horse sperm into the face of a New York Times bureau chief -- to bring political reporting back to life.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ievJtKwGqMsJ:www.salon.com/books/int/2005/05/12/taibbi/+MATT+TAIBBI&hl=en

from May

THE 52 FUNNIEST THINGS ABOUT THE UPCOMING DEATH OF THE POPE

http://www.nypress.com/18/9/news&columns/taibbi.cfm

52.Pope pisses himself just before the end; gets all over nurse.



51.After death, saggy, furry tits of dead Pope begin inexorable process of melting away into nothingness, like coldest of Sno-cones under faintest of suns.



50.Pope survives just long enough to be acquired by Isiah Thomas for Stephon Marbury, 2005 #1 pick and cash considerations. "We feel like we've made ourselves younger and more competitive," Thomas says.



49.After beating for the last time, Pope's heart sits there like a piece of hamburger.

[Seabiscuit]

15. Yes, Matt reminds me of Hunter Thompson

[BrotherBuzz]

19. Kick because it's such a great read!!!

I can only believe Matt Taibbit partied with Hunter Thompson, he's that good.