Cressbeckler
May 11, 2010 2:01 PM Subscribe
He first made headlines during the 2008 Presidential election as an electric (but polarizing) third party candidate. Though some considered him a marginal, fringe voice representing the worst of today's far-right wing, it looks like Joad Cressbeckler will be having the last laugh. Today ONN announced that he will be joining their nightly lineup with his own prime-time show The Cressbeckler Stance.
He's right up there with Senator Tinkerbell.
posted by Dick Laurent is Dead at 2:06 PM on May 11, 2010
posted by Dick Laurent is Dead at 2:06 PM on May 11, 2010
No
posted by humannaire at 2:14 PM on May 11, 2010
posted by humannaire at 2:14 PM on May 11, 2010
Ratio: Palin/Cressbeckler 2012!
I don't truly think the Sarah Palin that exists in my head is as ignorant as the one that exists in reality, but in my head, it's really funny to imagine her falling for this like a Chinese news outlet and trying to see how she can get this Cressbocker guy over into her Party of Tea.
(My head is a fun place to be sometime, but it's mostly nice because the real one isn't an actual electable threat there.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:35 PM on May 11, 2010
I don't truly think the Sarah Palin that exists in my head is as ignorant as the one that exists in reality, but in my head, it's really funny to imagine her falling for this like a Chinese news outlet and trying to see how she can get this Cressbocker guy over into her Party of Tea.
(My head is a fun place to be sometime, but it's mostly nice because the real one isn't an actual electable threat there.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:35 PM on May 11, 2010
This is excellent. Anything that shines a light on how ridiculous and out of control the culture war has become has my approval, especially anything that mocks the constant travesty broadcasting out of the 24-hour cable news channels. Colbert does a fine job, but Joad Cressbeckler is a sublime satire of the tea party-goading pundits in these frothing-at-the-mouth, rail-against-everything times. I hope we see more of him.
posted by millions at 3:28 PM on May 11, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by millions at 3:28 PM on May 11, 2010 [3 favorites]
That was more amusing than anticipated.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 3:30 PM on May 11, 2010
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 3:30 PM on May 11, 2010
The Cressbeckler Stance sounds like a really awesome sexual position.
posted by dnesan at 3:45 PM on May 11, 2010
posted by dnesan at 3:45 PM on May 11, 2010
Nice to see a young fresh face having a go at the Imus/O'Reily demo. However I'm not sure how those viewers will take to Cressbeckler's admirable gamble that he can raise the level of debate.
posted by washburn at 3:46 PM on May 11, 2010
posted by washburn at 3:46 PM on May 11, 2010
The Cressbeckler Stance sounds like a really awesome sexual position.
I thought it sounded like the gripping new novel from Robert Ludlum.
Or perhaps it's the gripping new novel from Robert Ludlum about a really awesome sexual position. Don't bring that one on the plane.
posted by AugieAugustus at 4:44 PM on May 11, 2010
I thought it sounded like the gripping new novel from Robert Ludlum.
Or perhaps it's the gripping new novel from Robert Ludlum about a really awesome sexual position. Don't bring that one on the plane.
posted by AugieAugustus at 4:44 PM on May 11, 2010
I'm thinking it's a wide kind of stance.
posted by ursus_comiter at 4:46 PM on May 11, 2010
posted by ursus_comiter at 4:46 PM on May 11, 2010
He's refreshingly incoherent.
posted by gallois at 5:40 PM on May 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by gallois at 5:40 PM on May 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
This was good, but the 2008 clip really got me laughing. "I'm voting for a man I can imagine drowning a bag of cats" FTW.
posted by treepour at 9:42 PM on May 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by treepour at 9:42 PM on May 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
I really love this idea, but the actor isn't doing anything for me. His voice sounds too forced and his eyes are dead.
posted by DU at 5:28 AM on May 12, 2010
posted by DU at 5:28 AM on May 12, 2010
One problem:
Hi name is Joad.
The End.
posted by Kskomsvold at 5:56 PM on May 11 [+] [!]
hey now!
posted by Joad at 9:46 PM on May 12, 2010
Hi name is Joad.
The End.
posted by Kskomsvold at 5:56 PM on May 11 [+] [!]
hey now!
posted by Joad at 9:46 PM on May 12, 2010
He's right up there with Senator Tinkerbell.ahem, Tankerbell.
posted by Dick Laurent is Dead at 2:06 PM on May 11 [+] [!]
I'm very sorry you had to see this folks. Now ole, Crossbeckler here is plum full of obscenities and I find myself to me aroused and titillated by all this. I'm new to this whole internet contraption but I can see this is going to need my guiding hand.
I wish I could be anywhere people are putting things on the internet. So I could see it before the public sees it and I could keep them from being titillated or aroused or in anyway confused by the counterculture. I wish, but I'm just one senator. I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish...
posted by Senator Howell Tankerbell at 12:25 AM on May 18, 2010 [1 favorite]
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