P J O'Rourke - Trump's not only a pig, he's a stupid pig.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Just now on Nicole Wallace show on MSNBC.

Also, Peggy Noonan is now a political analyst on MSNBC.

[FarPoint]

1. Nicole Wallace...

She was pleased with his assessment.

[Hamlette]

17. Wallace has been good lately.

I suspect she is still right wing but Palin and Trump might push her to the light.

[FarPoint]

20. I don't mind her or Steve Schmidt....

They don't try and sell any of the right wing propaganda memo stuff...Call things out based on analysis logically.

[Hamlette]

22. yes, and one of my favorite movies is Game Change. Watch it if you haven't.

It's about Palin and Steve and Nicole's response to her which was horror. They both worked for McCain and Nicole says in the movie that she didn't vote because she hated Palin so bad.

Not voting is a big deal for us politicos.

[FarPoint]

24. Oh...I have seen the movie...

Excellent...a favorite of my daughter's as well.... Funny thing I live in Dayton Ohio, was outside the Nutter Center with a Planned Parenthood Group for the McCain announcement of his VP pick.... memories...

[Doreen]

2. One problem with that statement.

Pigs are on of the smarter animals the we have.

[rock]

3. If it weren't for trump

We'd have no stupid pigs at all.

[Ken Burch]

4. When, P.J. O'Rourke, who turned the National Lampoon from satire to sewage, calls you "a pig"...

...It's time to go "whee, whee, whee!" ALL THE WAY HOME.

[longship]

5. Worth an R&K on its own.

Very astute, my friend.

[malaise]

9. ROFL

[zentrum]

11. Well done!

[Big_K]

18. I did like his early books....

But nothing in the last, oh, two decades.

[KG]

6. piss on o'rourke anyway

[hatrack]

7. Said the stupid and profoundly, deeply unfunny pig .. .

Bleccchhh.

[sandensea]

8. P.J. O'Rourke's certainly evolved.

I remember his being far to the right of even Dick Armey during the Clinton years.

Once, when asked about a Transportation Department funding logjam, he said simply: "let'em walk!"

[m-lekktor]

12. One can be critical of Trump and still be a right wing asshole. nt

[sandensea]

15. True.

[Ken Burch]

21. Not sure if he's evolved as much as he's reached his limit with Trump.

I remember seeing him on C-Span a few years back, giving what was supposed to be a comic talk to some executive kind of group(might have been the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco) which began with a stream of racist jokes, all of which bombed with an audience he clearly assumed would love that kind of material).

[sandensea]

23. Sure.

They like to couch racist humor in terms of "defying political correctness" - but as you pointed out they're playing to the gallery, and they know it.

Plus, I doubt O'Rourke himself enjoys Irish jokes.

[frogmarch]

10. O'Rourke is one of the reasons

I quit watching Bill Maher years ago. They were buddies and loved spewing libertarian bs and laughing at each others' jokes.

[byronius]

13. The early abandoners hope no one remembers their facilitation.

"I was always with the resistance! From the inside!" Will say Joe Scarborough.

I mean, I do welcome their arc. Glad they're no longer peddling pure evil. But anyone who supported conservative anything or anyone in the last fifty years does not get my actual attention.

They apparently have finally discovered the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground! Wow!

Well, that's nice. Pardon me while I listen to Randi Rhodes and Sam Seder.

[Doug the Dem]

14. Peggy "Sniffs and Throws Her Head Back" Noonan on MSNBC?

I guess they'll be hiring Matt Drudge shortly, for purposes of gender equality.

[Nitram]

16. Fuck P.J O'Rourke. It was conservative hard-liners like him the led to Trump's election

[Hieronymus]

19. Not a fan of O'Rourke nor Peggy Noonan.