Barnicle wants to know "why we should care about hookahs"

[pkz]

Mike Barnicle is in the chair for Matthews on MSNBC~ "funerals (soldiers) are happening on a almost daily basis around this country, why are we talking about Vitter and a hookah?"

I almost laughed outloud at the stupidity of the question.
Vitter is supposed to be doing OUR business, he is now a no-show for his job...hiding out...in doing so, he is effectively voting no for any motion that comes up.

I love these "sex stories" yeah, I get some pleasure cause of the way they witch-hunted Clinton...but dang...if they aren't keepin' that thing in their pants, I don't want my money paying for it.

I want to KNOW that they are doing the job they were elected to do.

[The Magistrate]

1. Another Groupie For Impeaching President Clinton Heard From, Sir

Fired from his newspaper, by the way, for plagarizing his columns, which is how he fetched up on cable news in the first place....

His stand is clear: Republicans get a free pass.

[LSparkle]

5. Yep ... it's worth spending a YEAR of nightly coverage on when it's a D

but when it's an R, it's suddenly "unnewsworthy."

[NNN0LHI]

8. You said that very well, Sir

As usual.

Don

[Wiley50]

2. You Mean, One of These?

Hindustani: हुक़्क़ा / حقّہ; is a multi-stemmed, often glass-based, water pipe device for smoking; originating in India, it gained fame under the Ottoman Turks. A hookah operates by water-filtration and indirect heat. It can be used for smoking many substances, such as herbal fruits and tobacco. Depending on locality, hookahs are known as other names, such as a shisha/sheesha, water pipe, nargeela/nargile/narghile/nargileh/narguilé, argeela/arghileh/arguilé, okka, kalyan, gewat suckre, or ghelyoon/ghalyan. Many of these names are of Arab, Indian, Turkish, Uzbek, or Persian origin. Narghile (نارگيله) is from the Persian word nārgil (نارگیل) or "coconut", and in Sanskrit nārikela (नारीकेल) and it was made out of coconut shells.<1> Shisha (شيشة) is from the Persian word shishe (شیشه, literally translated as glass and not bottle). Hashish (حشيش) is an Arabic word for grass, which may have been another way of saying tobacco. Another source states, "In early Arabic texts, the term hashish referred not only to cannabis resin but also to the dried leaves or flower heads and sweetmeats made with them".<2> Hookah itself may stem from Arabic uqqa, meaning small box, pot, or jar. Both names refer to the original methods of constructing the smoke/water chamber part of the hookah.

Narghile is the name most commonly used in Armenia, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Israel, Bulgaria and Romania, though the initial "n" is often dropped in Arabic. Shisha is more commonly seen in Egypt, Bahrain, Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. In Iran it is called ghalyoun or ghalyan (قليان) and in Pakistan and India it is referred to as huqqa. The archaic form of this latter name, hookah is most commonly used in English for historical reasons, as it was in India that large numbers of English-speakers first sampled the effects of the water pipe. William Hickey wrote in his Memoirs that shortly after his arrival in Calcutta in 1775:

The most highly-dressed and splendid hookah was prepared for me. I tried it, but did not like it. As after several trials I still found it disagreeable, I with much gravity requested to know whether it was indispensably necessary that I should become a smoker, which was answered with equal gravity, 'Undoubtedly it is, for you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. Here everybody uses a hookah, and it is impossible to get on without'..... have frequently heard men declare they would much rather be deprived of their dinner than their hookah.<3>

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah

[BlooInBloo]

4. that's what I thought too!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. that is where my mind went

we made a really nice one out of a bell jar in college...

sP

[pkz]

9. lol...my mind doesn't go there anymore

Barnicle has that heavy accent, he can't say "hook-er" he says "hoooo-cah"

[SpiralHawk]

10. republicon Vitter was smoking a Hoocah with a hooker while he wore dirty diapers?

That totally trumps a blue dress, Barnicle, you plagiarizing republicon tool.

Get a clue.

[Orangepeel]

3. Chris Matthew's idiot R brother was worse. I'll call for Vitter to step down when Bill Clinton does!

what the hell does Clinton have to do with this except be the object of Vitter's enormous hypocrisy?

Personally, I'm not outraged that Vitter went to a "hookah" (even if it was for some weird diaper fetish), and, if he wasn't such a prissy, homophobic, moralistic blowhard in real life, wouldn't care at all. But, since Vitter IS a prissy, homophobic, moralistic blowhard, I'm glad he's a laughingstock.

[spanone]

7. the consensus on matthews was so phony.

the 'panel' thought a 'sex scandal' wasn't worth the time, even the supposed 'liberal'