Matt Drudge led his site for much of the day Monday with all-caps links to POLITICO's coverage of Massa's statements: "RAHM WOULD SELL HIS OWN MOTHER,' SON OF THE DEVIL'S SPAWN.'"

Wow, Matt-in-the-hat sure do luff his hyperbole.

Ironically, an ALL CAPS POST by Matt Drudge would be relegated to the children's table of failed postage here at the Retort.

I sat down at the table where my whole staff was all of them, by the way, bachelors.

Massa's whole staff are bachelors?

The "confirmed" variety?

Be Well.

This is so silly. Massa's become a joke. There were what? 33 Democrats that voted against the bill, and somehow he was singled out? We're now asked to believe that over his original reason for resigning. In fact, his response to this allegation should and would have been "GFY." Surely a "salty sailor" wouldn't be bothered by such "pressure."

We're up to 3 reasons why he's resigned, and the only thing we've actually learned is he's a cancer survivor and he's gone into much more detail about naked men masturbating than I care to hear about.

But hey, if it takes the heat off Roy Ashburn admitting "I'm gay" (finally) then go for it, Beck.

oh yeah, maybe I'll read the article now.

Oh wow. I agree with Malkin? I have to go take a very long shower.

Progressive Leftys are furious that they have to cough up $5,000 and be put on a two-year waiting list just to have Rahm harasss them in the shower.

#5 | Posted by cookfish at 2010-03-09 07:28 AM | Reply | Flag: Would pay 5,000 dollars to be harrassed in a shower by Rahm Emmanuel.

Be Well.

Spud's still eagerly holding his stub. And his ticket.

still eagerly holding his stub. And his ticket.
#7 | Posted by cookfish | Flag: Collects Stubs

"But hey, if it takes the heat off Roy Ashburn admitting "I'm gay" (finally) then go for it, Beck."

I see your point, those people in Kern and Tulare Co. are happy about a democratic Congressman from New York, and in the national spotlight taking the heat off their State Senator. Brilliant assessment.

MASSA ON BECK TODAY
5 EST

Meet Eric Massa, conservative media hero.

BULLSHIT!!!!!!!

oh yeah

washington is said to be going berserk over his appearance..at least thats what beck said on his radio show...which of course could have been more of a promotional than the real thing..but you have to believe that rhom will be watching with his 'associates' and then move to a meeting room with the other members of 'the family'

I agree sniper.

by resigning, he made it easier for k sibelious to become my health care manager.

at what point was massa telling the truth in all this? i tohught he said he had cancer and was resigning cuz of that...

AND last night,...on fox there was one segment on each of the shows...and on cnn..

NOT ONE FUCKIN WORD.......

but this morning on cnn...they finnaly had a segment about massas but not ONE TIME was the name RHOM mentioned or brought up or even remotely reported.
I guess anderson cooper would have gotten all excited about two men in a shower.

NERF

you are absolutely right about being apparently skeptical

if the incident was as he described....the sexual comment, then he did absolutely NOTHING wrong at all...so why resign??????

stay and fight dickhead...

but remember ONLY GOP GOVERNORS ARE CALLED QUITTERS in the lame stream media...

How is this guy a conservative hero?

Politico is going into the dumps with hyperbole.

In the same article they claim he is a hero--they provide comments by conservatives who think he is a progressive loon.

Massa sure gets himself into a lot of sexual-related misunderstandings. First the masturbating bunkmate in the Navy, then tousling a colleague's hair and saying he should be "fracking" him. The guy's life is like an episode of Three's Company.

The guy's life is like an episode of Three's Company.

I have to disagree for one reason: this guy's life is funny.

If it helps health care legislation get passed, than I fully support his sexual improprieties. Especially since they have forced him out of office thereby decreasing opposition to needed legislation.

Three's Company

Worst show ever.

Conservative - I think not.

so moder

you have no problem with rhom and other dems 'sticking' it to him in the shower and having the unions threaten him and all of the other shit going down?

and if you dont...lets be sure and archive your positive response to that for oh ..say...sometime around next november 2, 2010....

I have no problem with the improper behavior of ANY congressman, regardless of Party, being exposed and leading to their resignation from office. Do you?

I have no problem with the improper behavior of ANY congressman, regardless of Party, being exposed and leading to their resignation from office. Do you?
#24 | Posted by moder8

If it leads to the seat being filled by a member of the other party, 99% of the retort does. And I think you do too.

How is this guy a conservative hero?

He's not. But lefties like to pretend that such hyperbole is true until they actually believe it themselves, just like yesterday's "Somalia is a Libertarian Paradise" thread.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh a HARD HIT from hag....

I believe in the rule of law and also in the rule of due process...thats something that dems WONT give to the right but demand and whine about when that shoe is on thier foot
EXAMPLE...best one in the fuckin world

DEMS NEED almost EVERY dem vote...SO...charley rangle sits on chair of TAX COMMITTEE for over a fuckin YEAR....do I HAVE to even say it.
OKAY I WILL...if rangel had a 'r' after his name..the left both in dc and here would be in a perpetual CONVULSION over it.

"EXAMPLE...best one in the fuckin world

DEMS NEED almost EVERY dem vote...SO...charley rangle sits on chair of TAX COMMITTEE for over a fuckin YEAR...."

What? There's a better chance of you giving up ALL CAPS than there is Rangel's seat ever going to a republican, so your best example in the world falls on its face.

Actually HC, I disagree. If a Congressman or other important elected politician is corrupt or behaves improperly a la Massa, I want them out of office. It is that simple.

"Actually HC, I disagree."

That 99% of the retort feels that way or that you are one of the 99%?

my point was,...of course..that if dems need the vote, they dont give a FUCK about the rule of law or THIER own so called culture of corruption that ONCE UPON A TIME was considered a problem when the culprits had "R" s after thier name.
I KNOW a dem will get that seat. the district's motto is "GIMME GIMME GIMME"

I disagree that I would want somebody corrupt to remain in office simply because they are a Democrat, even if that meant a Republican taking over the position. Too much shit in politics that we don't know about to put up with the shit we do know about.

good for you moder...I hope to be as 'balanced' in my view on the subject..

That's what I was hoping to hear, M8.

Massa's exploits in the Congressional shower room with Rahm were the funniest thing since Rev. Wright and Van Jones. I hope we hear more from this Gay Wad Liberal Democrat.

Frack me? Frack you! So say we all!

- Martin

still eagerly holding his stub. And his ticket.
#7 | Posted by cookfish | Flag: Collects Stubs

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2010-03-09 08:47 AM | Reply | Flag: Has a stub

Actually HC, I disagree. If a Congressman or other important elected politician is corrupt or behaves improperly a la Massa, I want them out of office. It is that simple.

#29 | Posted by moder8

Couldn't agree more---part of the reason we have the problems we have---if someone cannot keep their personal life in some kind of modicum of integrity how do you expect them to make selfless decisions and decisions that are positive for the average American.

***BREAKING***

Massa under investigation for allegedly groping male staffers

It really is ironic how someone who is an obvious villain to the democratic party, automatically becomes a hero of the conservatives. Exposing corruption and another accusation that the WH tried to push another dem out of office is the real issue.

If anyone is a conservative hero it is Dennis Kucinich. He has said that this bill is a pos and does nothing to reform Healthcare. Hell he continues to point out the $70 billion give away to Insurance Companies. Based on the recent polling, is it any wonder why Obama is back in campaign mode and begging the House to pass it before the recess? Obviously he knows when Congress goes home, they will be reminded of those numbers. Why does Pelosi need another week to bring it up for a vote? Repubs should be demanding it daily. Like Obama said we have debated it, we know everything there is to know, what gives dems?

This turd it obviously Republican material. The Rtards keep all their gays in the closet.

I hope he and Beck play hide the pickle on national TeeVee. Won't that get the big ratings and titilate poor Babbler?

Too bad the Rethugs couldn't find their own conservative media hero amongst themselves.

They're so desperate they're sucking Dem cock.

LOL!

I'm still not grasping (ahem) exactly what was inappropriate about his behavior at the wedding. Drunk guys at the table make rude and vulgar comments about him "blanking" the bride. He responds with rude and vulgar comment about "fracking" one of them.

Is it the hair tousling that's the problem?

They're so desperate they're sucking Dem cock.

Even when the dems are caught with their pants down, there are still some people so blindly partisan that they try to throw it back on the republicans.

Does it hurt when your master pulls that ring in your nose, briwo? Watching the fools you partisans make of yourself with your pathetic spins, it appears it would be quite painful.

Actually HC, I disagree. If a Congressman or other important elected politician is corrupt or behaves improperly a la Massa, I want them out of office. It is that simple.

#29 | Posted by moder8

While I agree, sometimes the outcome sucks.

Take Rangle for instance.

He is a liar and a thief and he HAD to go. However, he had a good track record of being able to work with Republicans AND he is more supportive of free-market principles than most others in his party, which admittedly, isn't saying much.

Sander Levin is bought, paid-for and owned by the UAW.

I hope he and Beck play hide the pickle on national TeeVee.

Axe, I always ask, but you never answer, but I'll try again:

Why do you who post, by far, more retorts that refer to homosexuality, or buttholes, or penises, than anyone else on the DR. You never make similiar references to women or their body parts. It is clearly a pattern with you and I've heard other people comment on it.

What's the deal? Honestly? I keep coming to the same conclusion:

In classical psychology, projection is always seen as a defense mechanism that occurs when a person's own unacceptable or threatening feelings are repressed and then attributed to someone else.

Conservative media hero?

Hardly.

I work nights and listened to Fox's Special report and O'Reily's show. The 2 shows combined for 6 different panelists/guests who commented on Massa (Hume, Megan somethingorother, Juan Williams, Stoddard, Kristol and Krauthammer). They ALL thought Massa was full of shit. All of them. Granted, 2 of the 6 are liberal, but still, that is 4 opininionators not to mention the moderators (BillO and Jim Angle) who agreed with their respecitve guests' assessments.

Some conservative-media hero.

Krauthammer said it best (paraphrased):

"When it comes to Washington and I am given a choice between conspiracy and incompetence, I will choose incompetence every time."

2 predictions.

Crazy Glen will cancel this guy once he realizes his story's a little bit too ripe. Unless he's got TMZ-type proof he really was forced out as he says.

This supposed conservative-thinker will announce within 3 months that he really likes to shower where there are no shower curtains.

Goatturd,

Why do all your retorts refer to deviant sexual behavior? I post a comment about an innocent condiment hunt and your sick depraved child-molesting, scat-filled mind immediately goes to your sex roots.

What are YOU suppressing, you sick pervert?

Does ANYONE want a stalker? I can make you a great deal on a sick pervert that spends 24-7 here on DR waiting for your next post. He has no life a all except waiting for your next post.

Why do all your retorts refer to deviant sexual behavior?

???

Wanna go one for one on whose posts have more homosexual references, axe?

I didn't think you would. LOL Keep blustering and babbling. You might convince someone of your lie if you repeat it enough.

Anyway, let me know if you accept my challenge. I'm ready to play ball, loser.

What are YOU suppressing, you sick pervert?

Reference a post of mine, just as I always reference a post of yours when I make that allegation.

Oh, you can't?

Better think of a new tactic, then. LOL (PS the DR is too smart to fall for more of your lies. Don't try that tactic)

He has no life a all except waiting for your next post.

MY! how they lash out when they are cornered.

Goatcx,

Your reading comprehension is on par with the Babbler's, I see.

I referenced your sick post, you putrid pile of Republican Base.

I referenced your sick post,

???

Which number was it?

(watch this everyone. He won't provide one)

BTW, do you accept my challenge in post #52?

I didn't think so. You can be a smart boy when you have to. LOL

Your #47, Assmunch.

You have to be the stupidest piece of Republican Base on the planet.

EVERY SINGLE POST on this thread is about butt pirates and you single out mine because of 'hide the pickle'.

I SERIOUSLY think you have issues here, Fraud (sic).

Goatcx,

Why don't you fire up your other computer, log in under your BBoB user id and have a nice long 'debate'.

I heading out to dinner.

I take that back. #21 was about Threes Company.

Your #47, Assmunch.

Asking you why you use so many homosexual references (btw, thanks for 'assmunch' and proving me right -- again) is what you call "a sick post"?

How bizarre.

Why don't you fire up your other computer, log in under your BBoB user id and have a nice long 'debate'.

If I do, will you accept the challenge I made to you? Still not? Wow. What a shocker. LOL

I referenced your sick post...

#55 | Posted by axe at 2010-03-09 05:28 PM

In less than a day and a half no less. Thanks for the laugh Axe, you really should be paid for the entertainment.lol

"I hope he and Beck play hide the pickle on national TeeVee. Won't that get the big ratings and titilate poor Babbler?"

"Would those 'some conservative commentators' be the same ones that 1. needs Viagra to anally rape 5 year old Dominican boys"

"Glenda Beck is tearing up on the radio right now crying 'Think about the poor little brown boys in Costa Rica!!"

"I will wager this is a LOT less unpleasant than having Michael Steele's arm shove up your ass like the Rtards have to put up with."

"Much like "Republican" is a sysonym for "racist", "nazi", "closet faggot", "child moletser"

" I never did nothing!!" said the ugly little fudge-packer. "Me and George just sat around the oval office playing 'hide the pickle' all day. No dirty tricks!!! No Sir!!!"

Conservatives are already turning on Massa in advance of the Beck interview. Michelle Malkin trashed Beck on his own radio show Tuesday for asking Massa on, while Rush Limbaugh dismissed Massa as a no-name "kook" on his broadcast Tuesday, warning, "Anybody who embraces this guy is going to get caught."

#63...

Much to the delight of Axe, he is now being accused of groping male staff members. Shouldn't be long before Gloria Allred holds a press conference.

This article is bullshit. First of all at the end of the show Glenn Beck called Massa a liar and told the viewers I'm sorry for wasting your time.

I don't see that as championing this guy at all. Stop assuming and get your facts strait.

Glenn Beck (left) and Rush Limbaugh (right) are among the conservative voices championing New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa.

Well that didn't go well for Beck, now did it?

Damn that was funny watching Beck get absolutely frustrated!

Glen Beck is a LEFTIST????

WTF are you on?!?!?!?

First of all at the end of the show Glenn Beck called Massa a liar and told the viewers I'm sorry for wasting your time.

I don't see that as championing this guy at all.

Beck was championing him as long as he thought he could hammer the Dems over his resignation. When Massa couldn't produce what Beck wanted, he got pissed. As for apologizing to his viewers for wasting their time, shouldn't that be his standard finish?

We see what the left does when one of their assclown brainfucked minion steps out of line, these are very small people, looking for grown-up power. Reminds me of the obamacare summit when the real men in the room, conservatives handed obamster his ass, and made an ass out of him at the same time, just by stating truthful facts about his asscare bill, then with all the classlessness obama could muster, he knocks mccain, unbelieveable, the whole worthless bunch of marxist girlieboys.

Tutamen Deus

I don't know about this Massa guy, or really care. He seems kind of wimpy. But there is something downright creepy about Rahm Emanuel. I wouldn't trust the guy as far as I could throw him. He's fucking spooky.

This guy Massa is just a gay Blagojevich.

#69 | Posted by rightnut at 2010-03-09 11:03 PM
***"Reminds me of the obamacare summit when the real men in the room, conservatives handed obamster his ass, and made an ass out of him at the same time, just by stating truthful facts about his asscare bill"

Wow, nice piece of creative writing there RN. But, for those who saw the "summit" it is clear that the Republicans had nothing to offer the American people other than "start over", "start over" and "start over". While, on the other side of the table, the Democrats kept hammering them with courtesy and facts. And, the response from the Right: deer in the headlights...

You can rewrite history in your own mind; that's just being "delusional". But, when you start expecting everyone else to believe your fabrications, getting angry when they don't humor you; they call that "psychosis"...

Uranus,

Depending on the degree of how liberal the source, the media summation of the summit ranged from a draw to the GOP kicking serious ass. I didn't see one media outlet judge the outcome of the summit as the Dems rocking the house.

"start over", "start over" and "start over".

The bill is a stinking pile of shit and Obama's 'outreach' was to offer up the olive branch of allowing the GOP to polish a turd. The American people are strongly against Obamacare. Time to start over.

Uranus,

The only deer-in-the-headlights moment was when Paul Ryan torpedoed the smoke and mirrors bullshit of the accounting numbers the DNC was trying to foist upon all of us.

The Dems had no response to that and still don't.

How is this guy a conservative hero?

Politico is going into the dumps with hyperbole.

~Murphy

Not Hyperbole, Murph.

More like sardonic irony.

Massa is a lefty and a Dem but because he got pressured to resign under a cloud of scandal he spouted off against the Dems and thus was embraced by rightwing nutjobs like Rush and Beck et al.

Did this thread get greenlit too?

Woo Hoo! Spud went 2 fer 2!

Be Well.

#73 | Posted by JeffJ at 2010-03-10 12:41 AM
#74 | Posted by JeffJ at 2010-03-10 12:44 AM

I'm sure that the Faux News "highlites" replay was very dramatic, I was talking about the actual summit...

Spud found a fun Time article on Massa appearing on the Glenn Beck Looney Tunes Hour.

FTA: And to make things worse, when Massa turned from discussing his own woes to the machinations of Washington, he offered ideas that have no place in Fox News's tightly regulated framework. Massa suggested that Beck and other Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill. Beck, who has called such proposals "a huge mistake," put his hand over his mouth, as if he were holding back an upset stomach. Massa, who has opposed the Obama health reform because it is not liberal enough, told Beck that he should stop calling people names like "socialist" and "communist." "You can be a progressive and be a fiscal conservative," Massa then explained, as Beck lost control of his own program.

www.time.com

They are full of shit.

I listened to the entire interview. Beck never lost control of his program. He controlled the flow from the start and he really probed to try and uncover something from Massa that he hasn't already expressed since this happened. He also started at the outset by stating that he and Massa agree on very little politically and it was ALSO very evident throughout that Beck seriously doubted Massa's credibility.

I am not a Beck fan, but fair is fair. The snippet provided is not an accurate portrayal of what I heard. This article acts as if Massa stating a position that (like campaign finance reform) that Beck disagreed with was somehow a bad reflection on Beck - which is hilarious given that Beck prefaced the interview that politically he and Massa disagree on just about everything.

I listened to the entire interview.

You should watch it instead. I did. Beck's exasperation, rolling his eyes, etc. made it fun (for me, anyway). Maybe in the right-wing land of Glenn Beckistan this was 'control' but wow, for others? Not so much.

I hear what you are saying, Yav.

I work nights and Beck is on XM at 2 AM.

Body language is actually a stronger indicative of what's going on than verbal inflections and the actual words themselves.

So, my analysis is based only on what I heard.

If all Dems are like Massa, it is true Washington is presently run by idiots. The man was tired of the fight and was resigning from the battle. I watched the show. What a weak wimp Massa is.

Larry King: "Are you gay?"
Massa: "Here's my answer--I'm not going to answer that question."

the big interview yesterday was a big bust wasnt it.
I started 'surfing' after about 15 mins and beck was exactly right at the end...he did waste my time..

this massa guy is simply lying about something. you dont partake in innocent goofing around and then resign...not from something like being a congressman...

If all Dems are like Massa, it is true Washington is presently run by idiots. The man was tired of the fight and was resigning from the battle. I watched the show. What a weak wimp Massa is.

#81 | Posted by BettyO

Seems like there are a bunch bailing out of congress in the past 10 months. DC is the most corrupt place in the US.

Eric Massa, Democrat.

Well that didn't go well for Beck, now did it?

Damn that was funny watching Beck get absolutely frustrated!

#66 | Posted by YAV

I guess that will teach Beck to never, ever trust a Democrat.

"They are full of shit."

Please do not ever say this to a frustrated latent homosexual.

I think this guy is full of it.... He is hiding something and I think Beck knew it last night... His story don't wash...

I don't know if it's because we are both from new york and I'm tuned in but one look at that guy tells me he's bullshitting.... He acts guilty.... Very Guilty. Was living in his Office??? Come on... Something is not right there. He was living with his Bachelor Staff members then moved into the Office after the Wedding??? He Got drunk at the party... Made the Gay Move..... They kicked his ass out of the house he was living in because they were uncomfortable with him after that... Then he moved into his office...

Eric Massa, Progressive Tickle Buddy

He's trying to give the right wing media
his famous Massa massage. These were very
popular in the south during the 1800's.