You really shouldn’t have. No, really. You shouldn’t have.

IS THAT SAM ELLIOT NARRATING?? Ah, jeez.

Hey, I’ll give him a call next time I’m working cattle at the ranch. Hope he doesn’t mind getting a little cow shit on his spiffy fringed coat and expensive hat. I’m sure he wears nice boots, too.

I hate you.

Nice vest.

/chooch

“Doin’ the Lord’s work…”

/puke

Sorry for posting so many times, but how ’bout we send a real hero to the Senate

http://www.ricknoriega.com/

instead of somebody who pretends to be one on tv?

Wow…
Wow…
That song is the fight song for John Tyler H.S. in Tyler :)

Okay — I love Texas politicians. Sure out here in California we have the Gubenator, but across the board Texan Politicians are just so much more entertaining.

Big John — and who was the announcer? Sounded like whoever it was had channeled Johnny Cash.

I am still laughing. This cannot be a serious ad and yet, Big Bad John!

My. God. Are you fuc*king serious?
Also, I’m pretty sure a shortage of folks who “enjoy a good brew” is not one of the big problems in Washington D.C.

…that is a total rip off from Sissy and Bud… when the devil went down to (”a lesser state”) Georgia.

He looks a little soft and pasty on that horse.

He wishes he knew how to quit Washington.

Are you sure The Onion didn’t sneak that in there as a prank and the Republicans are just too embarrassed to admit it?

Greatest. Video. Ever.

My life has been affirmed. I thank you for posting that.

Do you suppose he got that jacket from Chazz Michael Michaels?

-Put

Wow.

Re: 7. T.T.

I’m an E. Tx girl. When the John Tyler band plays their fight song & the fans say “Big bad John” the opponents always say “Flush that john.” Does Gerry Spence know Cornyn stole his jacket?

/OJ reference. Wow.

Re: 14. Put

Foe??
Mo??

tthe jacket with the friinge………….

msn……..is this SNL???

/nice windmill……great slip in symbolism from filmmaker…….

Debbie Riddle, you may want to check your closet ’cause Cornyn seems to have raided it.

Sometimes good laughs come from out the blue and make your day.

The really sad part is that they probably liked the video at the convention.

Republicans will eat. that. shit. up.
They luv politicians on horses.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/345829742_8e1a3d2181_o.jpg

This is EXACTLY the kind of ad run by the first Big John and LBJ.

Why the shock?

Big Bad Earl. You remember it Oilers fans. It can be found here: http://www.atexansblog.com/2008/03/28/you-should-be-dancing-yeah/.

As a child, I had a poster of Earl Campbell running over an SMU defensive back on my wall. I have Earl Campbell’s autograph on a picture of him rumblling through the TCU defense on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Memorial Stadium. Senator, you’re no Earl Campbell.

I always appreciate it when my Texas-themed condescension is home grown.

so who put out today’s talking point memo on how the press/pseudo press can attack Republicans today? Clearly Bob Garrett of the DMN, you, and Evan “we’re not biased because Dems hate us too” Smith read it and faithfully took orders.

Re: 23. Sock Puppet

Attack? Really? I thought she just posted a viedeo.

Re: 21. JUICE

Me too.

But did you have an Astro buddy?

How come the box turtle hasn’t weighed in on all the fun?

Re: 23. Sock Puppet

Oh, come on. The point of this site is to make fun. (Poll Dancing, too. PD showed Obama in his Urkel outfit, for crying out loud.) And even R’s have to recognize how pathetic that Cornyn video is. As for Eileen? She has never pretended to be anything other than a pathological Clinton supporter. That doesn’t mean the mag is biased. It just means she is. And probably against Obama.

Re: 24. NOITALL

I was indeed an Astros buddy (which as I recall basically meant I received a t-shirt in the mail in Austin - getting mail actually addressed to me seemed really cool when I was 8 years old). I still have my Cesar Cedeno baseball cards, and for many years displayed a pennant on my wall from the 10th Anniversary of the Astrodome.

Re: 11. West Texas Hillbilly

He IS a little soft and pasty.

Re: 20. NOITALL

Not shock on my part, but relief. These ads may have worked 40-50 years ago for LBJ and Connally, but this can only be viewed as a parody, not an homage. Besides, Cornyn has yet to summon up anything remotely like the gravitas and leadership of those two men.

Why relief? If this is the best he’s got, I feel better about Noriega’s chances already.

Re: 26. Don’t Mess w/ Pink

A wine-swilling liberal like PL is fun and harmless, and so is her blog which brings humor to the masses (or the 30 or so people who read it) unlike BOR, which simply offers alternative universe vitriol from five partisan hacks sitting around in their underwear.

It is really more about folks like evan smith that seamlessly transition back and forth between the role of an objective umpire and a shrill partisan without, a) admitting even so much that they are partisan, because b) such an admission would give credence to the argument that they are not an impartial umpire.

If you think Evan doesn’t have an agenda that mirrors or essentially advances the Democrat cause then you simply refuse to open your eyes when you read.

Media bias is all fun and games until folks like Olbermann turn the guns on your gal in a primary…then it is a serious problem requiring a lot of soul-searching.

That should be the only ad the Noriega campaign uses all year.

Certainly better than the one with Rick in the LBJ short-brimmed stetson.

Re: 31. Sock Puppet

I have at least 35 people who read this blog.

Are those the Tigua Indians singing backup?

come on PL, it took the Perry Alliance crashing your site to get you your first century mark on comments…and all because they said infanticide should be illegal. Or maybe it was illegals should be infanticided? Either way, it pissed off all 35 of your faithful (does that count include multiple personalities…besides evan…I mean?)

Do you make your followers drink the cabernet kool-aid?

Re: 34. Sock Puppet

Come on man, you must admit that shite is pretty cheesy bordering on “wow, that has got to be the most effed thing I have seen in ages.”

/just saying. objectively, that is one masterfully self-inflicted wound

Re: 30. Bodhisattva

But did you have an Astros Buddy?

/ I got to play pepper in the Dome

Re: 34. Sock Puppet

Hell, WE brainwashed HER.

Anyway, I hear you. But I disagree somewhat. I don’t think “folks like Evan” are a problem. Every editor, writer, etc. has opinions. And the place to express them is on the blogs or the editorial page. But it is still possible for the publication itself to be balanced when reporting straight news. I think TM does a good job of that. It’s like NBC. Olbermann is SUPPOSED to be polemic. Just like Bill-O, only from the other side. But you don’t see Brokaw doing that on the Nightly News. Nor did you see it from Russert on Meet the Press — he challenged both sides equally.

The problem is with broadcasters like those on Fox Noise who pretend they’re doing straight news but are completely biased toward the right wing-nut side.

Thank goodness they’re being called on it.

Re: 12. Pink Lady

Damn it, you beat me to it.

Re: 37. Don’t Mess w/ Pink

you make my point: it’s not someone separate from the editor doing the satire, it’s Evan himself. And we’re supposed to think all the political stories done over the last eight years or so, even if written by Paul or Patti, don’t have the editor’s invisible fingerprints on them?

Re: 35. Sock Puppet

I have at least 30 people who read this blog.

Re: 35. Sock Puppet

All of my personalities drink of their own volition.

I always enjoy a good brew while do’n the Lord’s work.

Re: 16. Cynic

I am in E. Tex girl too! (Marshall)
We said, “Big Red! Big Red!! Flush that John Beat the Lions!!! Oops up side the head!!!”
*Oh the memories!!!!

Re: 23. Sock Puppet
methinks thow socketh doest need washing afore thow foot placeth it in thy mouth.

Big John, not little jon seemed fully capable of his own demise without Evan.PL. or PT Barnum for that matter,with his silly video.

/boo hoo

Re: 40. Sock Puppet

Ummm … it’s why they called it EDITORial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed#Op_Ed_page

Re: 46. Don’t Mess w/ Pink

wrong. real news orgnizations…certainly daily papers, but also news magazines…are supposed to have a firewall between news coverage and opinion. The editor of the EDITORIAL PAGE gets to express opinion either under his/her name or in unsigned editorial. The editor of the NEWSPAPER OR PUBLICATION is to refrain from editorializing, at minimum in their reporting, and many experts in the field believe it should be alltogether (in other words, Clay robison shouldn’t be a bureau chief during the week and a columnist on sunday.) Why? Because it does not inspire confidence in the reader that they are not getting editorial in their news.

Re: 40. Sock Puppet

Now that you’ve shot the messengers, are you going to try to defend that video?
All it’s missing is Ratso Rizzo.

Re: 48. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton

if it were up to me, I would have themed it “Big Johnson: Even Hank Wetzel is inspired by Corn Dog.”

I mean, if you are going to do a spoof, go balls to the wall…or let’em free fall from the f*ck swing

Re: 47. Sock Puppet

“The editor of the [publication] is to refrain from editorializing, at a minimum in their reporting …”

That was my original point. As to the straight reporting, I think TM does a good job of keeping it balanced. Better than most. Certainly better than Fox. And sometimes infuriatingly so.

In any case, it is interesting that your complaint about PL and the rest editorializing originated out of her just posting a video. I’m taking that as an acknowledgment of just how horribly embarrasing it is.

It’d be nice if I could spell.

/Embarrassing

Re: 47. Sock Puppet

You are absolutely correct. When Larry Flynt expresses his political opinion, it destroys my confidence in the unbiased content of the rest of the magazine.

/Welcome to ITPT. Nice screen name. You seem familiar for some reason. Have we met?

if it were up to me, theme would have been: “Big Johnson: How even Hank Wetzel is inspired by the Corndog.”

I mean, if you are going to do a spoof, you might as well go balls to the wall, or free-falling from the f*ck swing.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33468

Re: 50. Don’t Mess w/ Pink

I’ll handle all the mispelink in these here parts

Re: 53. Sock Puppet

Perhaps you ought to climb down from your high horse, as it were. Newspaper editors in hundreds of newspapers all over the country write opinion columns. It’s no big deal.

At magazines, where the stories are expected to have a slant, editors are always putting their opinions out there. Again, it ain’t really no big deal.

As a practicing lib, I’d also say that the slant in Texas Monthly’s political coverage is much more often conservative than liberal. Burka certainly ain’t no liberal.

In the end, it’s all about exercising some judgment and expressing a vision.

Now, what IS a big deal is that a sitting United States Senator put out a video in which he is dressed up like Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy. So, uh, what is Big John selling?

Yeah, sp, don’t complain about media bias, just bend over and take it…Polynesian style

re: 56; SP

Polynesian style=Republican style

Conservatives will consistently remind an A.D.D.-inflicted America that a liberal bias in media is dominant and inherent.

All the while, these same conservatives, in their free-market glory, fail to counter the extreme bias with their own brand of publications, blogs, etc.

They have conceded this battle for no particular reason. It’s not the lack of talented writers or creative messages. In this manner, they take it Polynesian style so very hard with so little lube that they have a horrible field of hemorrhoids that makes them bitter and uncomfortable when strolling through the blogosphere.

Re: 57. Victorious Secret

They haven’t actually conceded anything. The right whines about the supposed “liberal” media, all the while understanding it really isn’t. If the media is liberal, then I must be a fu*cking anarchist.

jON sTEWaRT sHOweD THIS SHIT ON THE DAILY SHOW.

As if them saying W is a Texan isn’t bad enough.

/I hate those gopperbacks.

Re: 33. Pink Lady