“The White House has promised that in his final address, the president will be joined by a small group of everyday American heroes, which means that the only person on stage with a history of failing to perform well in moments of stress will be the main speaker.”
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
Most obvious line of the day, so far
“Okay, fine, Blagojevich is clearly insane.”
Best line of the day, so far
“At a press conference in Washington today, President-elect Barack Obama repeatedly refused to answer questions about the size of his package, calling the subject ‘a personal matter.’
Best line of the day, so far
“I don’t really go see movies. I did see High School Musical 3, but that was [niece] Kiley’s birthday party. Before that I can’t remember the last one I saw. Maybe Horton Hears a Who?”
Jill, official older daughter of NewMexiKen and mother of three young children.
Best redux line of the day
“The baby got a hold of a cup of red Gatorade and my bathroom looks like a crime scene.”
Jill, official oldest daughter of NewMexiKen.
First posted a year ago today.
Best line of the day, so far
“Pandas are animals blessed with a great color scheme. Endangered in the wild, they’ve been the subject of a massive, worldwide marketing campaign that emphasizes their cuteness without so much as mentioning their nasty side. In this way, they’re like former First lady Barbara Bush.”
Go read Tom’s whole take on pandas and “Another Case Where Marketing Endangers Lives.”
Best line of the week, so far
“BCS commissioners propose two-team playoff.”
Sportspickle.com via Sideline Chatter
Best line of the day, so far
“This is us. We own this. We did this. So man up.”
Lions Coach Rod Marinelli to the team after they ended the season unfeated, 0-16.
Would we had had a president who could accept responsibility like that these past eight years.
Marinelli quoted by Peter King – SI.com.
Best sports line of the day
On the first play of the second half, the Lions broke the huddle with 12 men. The first play of the second half. Now, it’s important to keep two things in mind:
1. The Lions had known for nearly two hours that they would have the ball at the start of the second half.
2. Only 11 men are allowed on the field at a time. That is a new rule for the 2008 season. Oh, wait, my bad: That’s actually been the rule for, like, 100 years.
Michael Rosenberg writing about the futility of the 0-15 Detroit Lions.
Best line of the day, so far
“Caroline Kennedy would like to be considered Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2009 and has let the magazine’s editor know of her interest in the honor, aides to Ms. Kennedy confirmed today.”
There’s more, just click.
Best new cliché of the day
“Take a moment here to refer to the performance of Viola Davis in the role of Donald’s mother: If she doesn’t get an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress I’ll throw shoes.”
Frank McCourt in his look at the movie Doubt.
A stong-willed nun in the 1960s. Imagine that.
“You haven’t the slightest proof of anything,” Father Flynn.
“But I have my certainty,” Sister Aloysius.
Best Christmas isn’t all in New England line of the day, so far
No where in the collection of holiday songs is the singer lamenting for Christmas of their youth were it was 65 and sunny.
Or having tamales to eat on Christmas Eve.
Or plucking a piñon tannenbaum out of the pile for 15 bucks a piece at the flea market.
Or filling paper bags with sand.
No, the “east coast bias” that applies to sports seems to infiltrate the holiday as well.
Click to see Karen’s photo of another Albuquerque Christmas tradition.
Tysonic
From TPM Reader DM …
Bill Simmons, a sportswriter for ESPN, coined the term “Tysonic”. It refers to Mike Tyson, and applies to anyone who has entered a sphere of existence so bizarre, you will believe any news you hear about them, no matter how absurd. Aside from Mike Tyson, Britney Spears is Tysonic. After the turkey interview, I classify Sarah Palin as Tysonic.
As a native Chicagoan, I say Blogo is definitely Tysonic. If someone told me, “Hear about Blogo? He dressed himself up as Elvis, highjacked an Air Yugo flight from O’Hare to Belgrade, and is now living under the protection of Serbia… And he’s formed an exploratory committee for 2016.”I’d pause for a moment and say, “Yeah, that sounds right.”
Best line of late night last night
“According to a new survey that just came out, the most admired profession is doctor. Doctor is the most admired profession. Yeah. The least admired profession? Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s barber.”
Conan O’Brien
Runner-up:
“I tell you, the economy’s rough. People are standing behind President Bush just to get the free shoes.”
Jay Leno
Best line of the day, so far
Al Unser Jr. paid an undisclosed sum to an extortionist who threatened to release a “compromising” videotape of the two-time Indy 500 winner, AP reported.
Though New Mexico prosecutor Mark Drebing picked an inopportune time to invoke Unser’s nickname when he said, “I don’t think Little Al did anything wrong.”
Best Christmas line of the day, so far
When I was a child, I tell my offspring, my brother and I often would receive just one present at Christmastime, typically an individual crayon. It wouldn’t even be a full crayon, but merely a stub. Still, we’d be grateful and would pretend that “brown” was our favorite of the 64 Crayola colors. We would talk about how great this crayon would be if only we could afford paper.
Joel Achenbach
[First posted here three years ago.]
Best snow-related line of the evening, so far
“The snows are not predicted to let up until Thursday, three days from now. At this rate we are all surely in for great hardships. If I were you I would start rationing meats, lamp oil and marshmallows.”
Especially marshmallows.
Best line of the day, so far
“Compared to their counterparts in the Japanese Parliament, it’s clear that the U.S. Congress is vastly overpaid. With three day work weeks, being out of session half the year, and subsidized pensions and health care, the average senator makes about $3000 per hour…. And for all that, the GOP still turns out shit Americans won’t buy.”
Best line of the morning, so far
“So it’s a particularly amusing sign of how far the political climate has shifted that in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, only 33 percent of respondents admit to having voted for the guy [George W. Bush] twice, while 52 percent said they’d never voted for him at all.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Republicans to Detroit: if only you could figure out a way to pay your executives and not your workers, we might help you.”
Fascinating line of the day
“The S&P 500 moved more than 5% 27 times between 1950 and 2000. And 22 times between October 1 and now.”
Best line of the day, so far
“There was some kerfuffle in the econo-blogosphere last week over whether Barack Obama had appointed too many economists as advisers. Personally, I think the new President is going to need every last one of them.”
Best line of the day, so far
“A six year old child could write more intelligent columns about economics than George F. Will.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Continuing in his quest to assemble a so-called ‘team of rivals,’ President-elect Barack Obama today announced that he would name Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston to key Cabinet positions.”
Best reactions of the morning, so far
“A bailout was necessary — but this bailout is an outrage: a lousy deal for the taxpayers, no accountability for management, and just to make things perfect, quite possibly inadequate, so that Citi will be back for more.”
“Citigroup management gets a great deal; you and I not so much.”
“The Washington Post, which is obsessed with cutting the pay of autoworkers earning $57,000 a year, did not even bother to tell readers what pay cuts Robert Rubin and other top executives at Citibank will receive as a result of conditions in its latest government bailout.”