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  1. gpanfile Says:

    Agreed. Now how about the thing on the right side that says 'Read more' but displays EXACTLY THE SAME TEXT. Perhaps the high sheriffs could look up the word 'more' in the dictionary?

  2. viciousmaniac Says:

    1. Preview
    2. Keep comments all on one page

    Then maybe Swampland can get back to the workable levels it was, pre-clusterf**k.

  3. Sean DeCoursey forgot his password Says:

    Strongly concur on preview and one page comments.
    Also, could we get
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    paragraph and line breaks back please?

  4. Paul-no not that one Says:

    A little Cult of Personality isn't it? After 8 years of one branch government getting away from that symbol would be nice.
    Someone linked to the original picture yesterday. The Capital I think it was.
    On the other hand, it is just a picture.

  5. hulagate Says:

    And if you look real close you can see the PayPal Gaza Proudly Accepted pin on his lapel.

  6. hulagate Says:

    What? No Kenyan or Hawaiian or Chicago mobster flags? That don't seem too diverse.

  7. Paul-no not that one Says:

    hulagate, the king/queen maker is back!
    QH/Obamish, after electing BHO president and getting Senator Clinton the SofS job who will you focus on next?

  8. kbanginmotown Says:

    Cool pic. It looks like Obama is calling an audible right while getting ready to take the snap. Sadly, the brown object that W is getting ready to hand off is a bit....pungent.
    .
    OT: Did anyone catch schmaltzmeister Mitch Albom's Defense of Detroit in Sports Illustrated last week? Nice counterpoint to the Weekly Standard hatchet job that Michael found. Sometimes, there's a time for balance.

  9. pourmecoffee Says:

    And if you look real close you can see the PayPal Gaza Proudly Accepted pin on his lapel.

    Your right-wing hipster thought fugues are blowing my mind with their rat-a-tat-tat righteousness, man! Crazy!

  10. hulagate Says:

    Does the Rosty, er, B.H. Obama impeachment for use of foreign funds begin this month, or during Black Vetting History Weekend?

    I always get those big fat slacker dinosaur union holidays mixed up.

    = RICHIE RICHARDSON ACCOMPLISHED =

  11. hulagate Says:

    1-13-09: The day the biggest female shill for Saudi Arabia soaked up the faux Congressional mentor sun, but for the cause of covering Obama's campaign finance flipping be-hind, if butt for the swaddling Barney Frankly sake of the same sack of anti-family shiites that sold the Hispanic Catholics the Bill Richardson Story as if he was actually going anywhere in the DNC Ivy hierarchy.

    Enough already about Bush & Cheney's willingness to defend the nation.

    When does Admiral Airhead start his promised invasion of Pakiland?

    = CARTER LITE ACCOMPLISHED =

  12. grape_crush Says:

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    hulagate: Does the Rosty, er, B.H. Obama impeachment for use of foreign funds begin this month..
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    Nope, that's scheduled sometime after Bradley Schlotzman's prosecution.
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    There's gotta be a docket chock full of Bush administration officials to go through before getting to the folks that haven't yet taken office...
    .

  13. sqr1 Says:

    Nice counterpoint to the Weekly Standard hatchet job that Michael found.
    .

    And yet to live in Detroit these days is to want to scream. But where do you begin? Our doors are being shuttered. Our walls are falling down. Our daily bread, the auto industry, is reduced to morsels. Our schools are in turmoil. Our mayor went to jail. Our two biggest newspapers announced they will soon cut home delivery to three days a week. Our most common lawn sign is FOR SALE. And our NFL team lost every week this season. A perfect 0-16. Even the homeless guys are sick of it.

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    Yes, quite the counterpoint. Where's my travel agent?

  14. Elvis Elvisberg Says:

    I'm with Paul-no not that one-- politics is bigger than Barack Obama. It was cool to have all 12 or however many dudes up there, but this is... too individual-focused.

  15. Elvis Elvisberg Says:

    I mean, one man's opinion, and all-- thanks for updating it.

  16. gysgt213 Says:

    More cow bell. Thanks.

  17. hulagate Says:

    Pardon me, but when does Hillary get frog-marched off to Leavenworth prison with Obama and Joe Wilson, for under-reported (if reported at ali) foreign income? Mind you, we're in a deep deficit mode, what with all the Rezko bank bailouts and required UAW shuttering, and certainly the Treasury could use the funds for a whole host of 1000 Bridges To Nowhere projects until the lemmings come home to rut, when they realize in about 18 months that they've selected simply the skinniest empty suit since Jiminy Crater to hep (help) decide which way the wind blows in Mild Shy Stadium.

    Senator Skippy ain't even been inaugurized yet, and America already misses the real Americans, eh?

    BTW: We are still taking signups for the Counter-Inaugural of 2009, at our new if not yet disproved HULAgate.org humor station location for all across the nation sans ration.

    Pending Secret Servile approval we plan to raise our FISA flags somewhere between the Big Gay Day meetup at Lincoln's swollen feet and the original Fedskins Field (aka Booby Kennedy Park). Nationals Financial Gridiron was sadly already booked by the ACLU and PETA, so we've had to relegate ourselves to something even more non-union than usual.

    [The sick liberal rumor that we plan to burn Keiffer Oberamergau and Blind Boy Patterson in effigy are completely tentative. We do see a pre-chilled dunk tank with Ariana Hoofington happenin though.]

    Donations will not be accepted, but there will be a cash wake for the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform notion between 3 & 5 if we can get Say Joe Klein off the bar stool at the Springfield Trader Vic's to make way for that and the charity Pin The Kickback On The Illinois House Rep session.

    PS: Where are the other 53 U.S. flags?

    = PRESIDENT OF CANADA ACCOMPLISHED =

  18. sgwhiteinfla Says:

    hulagate
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    "Yo Mama"

  19. pourmecoffee Says:

    It's a make-no-sense comment poetry slam!
     
    A-tisket, a-tasket, there's a spaceman in my basket. 1-2-3-4, I declare a thumb war! I wish I may, I wish I might, surf on a sea of pudding tonight.
     
    = MIDDLE SCHOOL CREATIVE WRITING EXTRA CREDIT PAPER ACCOMPLISHED =

  20. formerlyjames Says:

    High sheriffs, thanks for your efforts, although I never paid any attention to the banner. Thanks to Time for the blog. Thanks to the commenters who enlighten me, even though sometimes it's bitch, bitch, bitch. Thanks to KT for engaging.

  21. 53_3 Says:

    Wow! Finally!
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    I'm tired of tangling with fellow Dems.
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    Question Hillary is Back!
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    My, oh, my, dredged up from below the extinction horizon.
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    How'd you like that last rock from space, QH? Pretty bad blow for you Palinesque Pony Riders, huh?

  22. hulagate Says:

    1,2,3,4
    Let's MeetUp
    and Lose A War

    Gooooooooooooooooooooo Team Vichy!

  23. Andy from MA Says:

    The big question: Is QH etal back after incarceration or rehab?

  24. 53_3 Says:

    I think the three months of intensive rehab and psychiatric treatment, plus the budding off of yet another poisality, has revived QH.
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    Of course, If QH has any children in the armed services, he will have to face the fact that they will have to salute a Black man!
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    No choice, QH, it's the law...

  25. textee Says:

    Why would Time magazine dutifully present the thoroughly unqualified, terrorist fraternizing, community organizer in front of four (four!!!) United States flags when the only "US of KKK A" flags Democrats get near are those they have dipped in kerosene and set on fire? Obama adoration, anyone? BTW, boys and girls, the "US of KKK A" is what Obama's BFF Jeremiah Wright calls the United States. Just thought you would want to know ....

  26. Andy from MA Says:

    Note: to high sheriffs, Gov Richardson is no longer Commerce Sec'y-designate...you might want to take his picture down

    http://www.time.com/time/politics

  27. 53_3 Says:

    Wow!
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    A revival of the stoopid!
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    I love it...

  28. Andy from MA Says:

    53_3: ECT doesn't work for everyone...or his HMO won't renew his thorazine prescription.

    textee: (laughing and pointing)

  29. 53_3 Says:

    QH, texte:
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    Howz that basement? Got candles lit under Timothy McVeighs' picture? How about this:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7825039.stm
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    Keep the cult alive!

  30. 53_3 Says:

    True, Andy, true, but sex offenders are only slightly less prone to recidivism.
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    textee: (pointing, hiking my leg and farting, and adding my laughter to the growing chorus)

  31. 53_3 Says:

    It's like old times, 'cept the shoe is on the other foot now.
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    A lot of Americans celebrated, QH and Texte. Now you are the ones crying in the wilderness.
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    Only thing is, you're slightly more insane...

  32. gysgt213 Says:

    Please ban the use of the words "czar" and "homeland" unless the writer or speaker is referring to the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

  33. hulagate Says:

    In deference to Madame Clixon, later today do expect to see Muffy Tumultuous and little Katie Coolchick prowling around Prince George'e County in a Honda Accord coupe, busily trying to bust some rent-a-cop for pointing out the various former Pell Grantee meth labs to the local sheriff between bathroom runs to the closest Starbust. [Do stay clear of the kitchen for once, eh Katie? The hired help hates you almost as much as the volunteer shareholders.]

    I Mena Airport, if CBS and Time-CNN-AOL-Jazeera can't spike a DNC news reader story, who IS?

    The back-patting by the press over Sippy Cup Runneth Over Obama makes the latest Jew On Jew crime in Hollyrude a tad more prime Time media palatable perhaps, but why would we ever expect otherwise from the same lefty dolts that brought you Father Bill Moisten (his pansy Now diatribe is off the reality reservation almost as often as Top Sex Cop Spitzer enjoys the occasional Jersey hooker)?

    Corruption knows no slow sow season of course, so it behooves you virtual stringer girls to chew the cud as often as you can before the Ken Starr farm hands finally put the loose change pigs back in the factual paddock if not the Illini impeachment line (take a number, Mister Knowitall President Select - your articulate chance for defense of all things not CVV verified will come as sure as Hillaroid will change her Botox injections).

    Keep dope alive, keep dope alive, thank Rick Warren almighty, keep dope alive!

    http://www.HULAgate.org

    PS: Say a prayer for Howie Mandrell. NBC tanks without him.

  34. hulagate Says:

    Of course, If QH has any children in the armed services, he will have to face the fact that they will have to salute a Black man?

    ...

    Powell's back in uniform?

    Watch out Congo, we're comin atcha!

  35. JJ Says:

    Wow, Question Hillary, you sound like David Brooks with a drug problem. You know there *is* help out there...

  36. dunedweller Says:

    Andy #25 (and others): Maybe the sheriffs really are high - that would explain a lot.

    Speaking of high, hulagate call poison control already...

  37. hulagate Says:

    Please ban the use of the words "czar" and "homeland" unless the writer or speaker is referring to the old Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.

    ...

    STOP PICKING ON THE OBAMITE YOOFS (almost as scary as the teen Nazis, if more heavily drugged).

    They know not what they know.

  38. sqr1 Says:

    textee: You forgot to explain why global warming is a hoax.

  39. sgwhiteinfla Says:

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    .
    I just got "Rick Rolled" by Nancy Pelosi
    .

  40. hulagate Says:

    53reeper said [ignored by the swimming Seattle masses]

    Yo, Brother Pushtan:

    When does the 1000 Bridges To Nowhere sea shell make work scheme kick in between Tacoma and Vancouver?

    I understand Boeing has a bunch of slacker union dregs they need to unload by next Labor Day.

    Since Starbust ain't hiring either.

    One rusty Rosty bridge to St Pauli goes kerplunk in the frozen tundra of the Paul Headstone state, and all the lemming loon libs scream GUVMENT PROJECT -- like the public housing in Chicago and Newark was a really good idea too. Amnesia Accomplished!

    BTW: Had Powell (speaking of going off the meds) pulled his pants up and run for POTUS in 1996, we might indeed be in better shape than we IS now, no doubt about it. Obama at least doesn't let personal or family fear trump public service (attempted) -- for which he's a credit to his fellow disaffected Aloha ice cream parlor scoopers that have since to hold an actual day job.

    I wish the new President-select well, right up until he's IMPEACHED and convicted for using illegal foreign funds to buy 4 major media TV ads for every 1 in fall 2008.

    Should be the cakewalk he'll never have in Pakiland.

  41. formerlyjames Says:

    hulagate, please consult with a psychological counselor as soon as possible.

  42. jayackroyd Says:

    MSNBC guests now openly advocate the use of torture. "Anything goes." A "blowtorch" is fine.

    http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10873

  43. formerlyjames Says:

    We are still seeking the definition of the use of torture. Obama may be of help after the fundamentalists leave town.

  44. sgwhiteinfla Says:

    formerlyjames
    .
    Not Joe Scarborough nor Mike Smerconish. Both of them have basically said the country SHOULD torture if it means saving lives. They aren't even trying to make a distinction anymore. They are using the "24" defense and telling anyone that disagrees to suck it. Mind you I have been a huge fan of 24 since it first started coming on but after watching the new episodes its evident that they are trying to make a political statement this year instead of trying to tell a story. Last season sucked bad enough, I think I am done with it all together now.

  45. gysgt213 Says:

    Please ban hulagate to the children's blog. Thanks.

  46. textee Says:

    sqr1 Says:
    Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 3:38 pm
    "textee: You forgot to explain why global warming is a hoax."

    I also forgot to mention that Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Bushitler, Paul Wolfowitz, Fox News, SUVs, Exxon Mobil, Scooter Libby, Halliburton, Diebold and Blackwater caused the end of the last Ice Age; and the one before that; and the one before that; and .... Right? See: the Sun. It's that big, bright thing in the sky that you see during daylight hours. It causes the earth to be real hottie, especially during summer months .... A couple of days ago, I read that someone was claiming that Google is also responsible for "global warming", although I don't remember if they claimed that the Sun or Google was more responsible for the earth's temperature.

  47. billiecat Says:

    There ya go, textee, hulagate shows you how to do it. Mix up the verbal tics and logorhea with lame attempts at humor, spiced up by obscure references nobody can understand. That's how you annoy people - your stuff is pathetic.
    .
    And hulagate - please, go back to QH or obamish, hulagate sounds like a cat throwing up. Not pleasant.

  48. plukasiak Says:

    let me add my voice to elvis and that "other" Paul, and say that the banner should not be about Obama -- and it certainly shouldn't send the (barely) subliminal message that this one intends. Its graphic "editorializing" in a way that a (theoretically) unbiased publication should not be associated with.

    (Is this all Obamamania, ie about "selling" the blog by exploiting Obama's popularity by presenting him with a decidedly positive image -- kinda like the notorious MS magazine cover?

  49. formerlyjames Says:

    plukasiak, I agree about the banner. Is this a cult of Obama? He hasn't had a chance to deliver quite yet. We will see. I hope for the best. Long time comming.

  50. plukasiak Says:

    Is this a cult of Obama? He hasn't had a chance to deliver quite yet.
    _
    in general, the objects of cult worship never do deliver on their promises. Of course, the cultists never realize that, and 'interpret' everything in a way that affirms their beliefs -- that's why their called 'cultists'
    _
    And there is clearly a 'cult of Obama'--he's a marketing phenomenon, to the point where Pepsi-Cola appears to be deliberately echoing his logo in their new logo (http://www.slate.com/id/2198198/)

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