“Is That Clown From Dallas?” “Nah, He’s From Waco.”

Posted on February 8th, 2009 12:08pm by Wick Allison
Filed under Media, Politics

The NYTimes’ Maureen Dowd, whose Pulitzer Prize was not awarded for her fact-checking, writes today:

Pete Sessions, a conservative from Waco, Tex., and the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, warned that they could become an insurgency, having learned more about insurgencies “because of the Taliban.” (Yes, that’s the same Taliban that was allowed to regenerate by bumbling Republican leaders.)

Actually, Pete’s district goes nowhere near Waco. But I don’t see that as a problem. I see it as an opportunity. Michael Irvin doesn’t call the cops back? What do you expect? He’s from Waco. Jessica Simpson breaks down on stage at a Michagan Michigan concert? Gordon Keith fails again to be funny? Tim Rogers shaves his head? Waco.

12 comments

  1. Judging from the way you spell, Wick, you must hail from Waco, too. (I knew you followed the career of J-Simp closely, but I had no idea that Gordon’s jokes and my tonsorial struggles created such large blips on your radar. I’m sure all three of us are flattered.)

    @ 12:24 pm on February 8, 2009

  2. Pete Sessions was born in Waco. It’s not his district, but he’s absolutely from Waco. Did you not bother to check your facts?

    @ 12:45 pm on February 8, 2009

  3. All right ladies, no sniping on Sundays….

    Geez Louise, between Rush “I hope the President fails” Limbaugh and Pete “I Loves Me Some Taliban” Sessions, why do we even need troops in the Middle East? We’ve got Al Qaeda Lite right here, in Congress and on the airwaves. And Maureen (bless her flaming red locks) owes Waco a Dowd-sized apology.

    @ 12:48 pm on February 8, 2009

  4. I smell thunderstorms.

    @ 1:40 pm on February 8, 2009

  5. Awww, man…. Why do all of the good posts have to be on the weekend?

    @ 2:38 pm on February 8, 2009

  6. Doesn’t W stand for Waco?

    @ 2:50 pm on February 8, 2009

  7. Psssssssssst…Wick. Michigan.

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

    @ 3:11 pm on February 8, 2009

  8. I know, I know. But when Hillary Clinton was a New York senator, would Dowd have referred to her as “a liberal from Illinois”? Was Barack Obama “a liberal from Hawaii”? The convention is to identify elected officials by their constituency. That said, I’m all too happy to let it stand.

    @ 4:51 pm on February 8, 2009

  9. Rush said that?
    That is head-scratching after the fairness that most media outlets showed W during his 8 years. You have a right to get your panties in a wad.

    @ 7:55 pm on February 8, 2009

  10. Back when Dallas had no place to test animals for rabies, one had to cut off the head and send it to the state lab in Austin. To this day when our family doesn’t know about something we say “Cut its head off and send it to Austin.”

    @ 8:13 pm on February 8, 2009

  11. Deleting a comment because of bad language or inappropriate behavior is one thing, but because it corrected a misspelling?

    Lame.

    @ 8:28 am on February 9, 2009

  12. @ Troll Doll: The first comment in this thread took care of that. Let’s not repeat ourselves, eh?

    @ 9:37 am on February 9, 2009