Goodbye Ari Fleischer.

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Doesn't signal a substantial change in policy of course (alas), but at least we won't have to contend with his adamant-yet-clueless down and generally smackworthy countenance on the nightly news anymore.

Good riddance.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

adamant-yet-clueless style

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

This calls for a celebration.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh. A man who clearly regards himself a little too highly, that one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Out with the old obfuscator, in with the new obfuscator.

― hstencil, Monday, 19 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha! I was going to start a thread about this called "Say Goodbye to Penishead" but I restrained myself.

― NA. (Nick A.), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

He always reminded me of the guy who really really wants to be Secretary General at Model U.N. because he wants to talk a lot and bang the gavel but not actually have to do any writing or thinking.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

...when he actually has to say something about a particular proposal you can hear the air being sucked out of the room quicklike.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 19 May 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael McCurry and Marlin Fitzwater were alot more fun, but he was better than the dread Dee Dee Myers.

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

it is hope-inspiring in that 'gee we're already almost thru one term of Bush, this'll be over before you know it, um, right? only five more years! piece of cake!'

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

For the past year I've been expecting him to end one of his press conferences with the flash of a thrown smoke bomb and disappear.

― cprek (cprek), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

With only his diabolical laughter echoing in the press corps' ears?

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Good riddance! May I never have to see his evil penis head again.

And that voice! It was the most Smug Satanic Yuppie voice I have ever heard.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

you've never heard charles rocket

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't believe there are people out there who find Ari sexy. I bet the majority of these peoples lips look like a hook should be hanging out of them.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess what I'm trying to say is that he was an overachiever--he always seemed to be bluffing. Sadly not enough reporters called him on it. I predict he will lead some corporation to ruin or else wind up in some harmless management position.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I imagine he'll do better than that, what with his connections to the favour-friendly White House.

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

unlike every other press secretary

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

CJ to thread!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I was waiting for that

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

This makes me picture ILX as a lot of people bantering back and forth really quickly as they rush down dimly-lit hallways.

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

and noone ever actually has sex

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

They should get someone entertaining to do their press stuff--like the Nuge. He'd do a great job and probably get about the same amount of actual information across--the obfuscation would just take the form of lots of WOOOOOs and gunshots-into-the-air instead of snarky snideness and clumsy evasion.

― adam (adam), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

early word is Pete Incaviglia's got the inside lane

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

And that voice! It was the most Smug Satanic Yuppie voice I have ever heard.

The fact that I have no idea what he sounds like is extremely gratifying.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

So is this what Bobby Valentine has been publicly auditioning for on Baseball Tonight then?

― chester (synkro), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

< / biting Blount's style >

― chester (synkro), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The best single moment of Frank Miller's sequel to Dark Knight Returns features a panel of Fleischer saying "I don't have to tell you fucks a goddamn thing."

Classique.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

They should get someone entertaining to do their press stuff--like the Nuge.

Not to mention that he appears to have the same socio-political views as this administration. except maybe on drug and alcohol use -- how do these right-wing anti-drug folks square their beliefs with Dubya's well-documented alcohol abuse (and the rumors of drug use) anyway?

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

please tad, ain't noone more anti-drug/anti-alcohol than reformed addicts (ask my mom. or my dad.)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 07:44 (twenty-three years ago)

And Mayor Bloomberg to thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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