If ilx were the McLaughlin Group, who would be john mclaughlin?

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or eleanor swift? tony blankly? laurence o'donnel? who in the hell would be pat buchannon?

Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

...WRONG!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I would, divvy.

John McLaughlin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Laurence O'Donnel is my main man!

Did you see it last week.

McLaughlin: "Question! IF JOHN EDWARDS AND DICK CHENEY WERE DOGS, WHAT BREED OF DOG WOULD THEY BE?!"

Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a high-school English teacher whose voice was very similar to Eleanor Clift's.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

mclaughlin-"chihuahua and pitbull. bye bye."

Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Geir

kephm, Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If ILX were the Mahavishnu Orchestra, could I be Rick Laird?

briania (briania), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a dream the other night that after years of being the battered liberal, Eleanor Clift came on the show looking quite fat and while she was being berated by John, pulled a cord from under her blouse, said, "Fuck you John!" and blew up the studio. I slept soundly after that.

Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

If ILX were the Mahavishnu Orchestra, could I be Rick Laird?

You know, I was waiting for this joke.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Aiming to please.

briania (briania), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

I AM JOHN MCLAUGHLIN AND HERE I AM IN THIS THREAD YELLING AT YOU LOUDLY AND IN A VERY ACCUSATIONAL TONE!

iiiijjjj, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:39 (seventeen years ago)

IT IS A FRIDAY NIGHT YOU SHOULD BE OUT HAVING FUN AND NOT WATCHING ME SIT AT A TABLE AND YELL AT YOU AND HANGING OUT WITH PAT BUCHANAN!!!

IN ADDITION TO THIS I LOOK LIKE THE SIX FLAGS DANCER GUY!!!

iiiijjjj, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:41 (seventeen years ago)

HAPPY DIWALI, BYE-BYE!

gabbneb, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:42 (seventeen years ago)

ned otm

gabbneb, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:42 (seventeen years ago)

Tombot, b/c he barks but in all likelihood he is of gentle disposition one-to-one in real life

dell, Saturday, 12 January 2008 03:22 (seventeen years ago)

but who would the other panelists be??

dell, Saturday, 12 January 2008 03:23 (seventeen years ago)

McL seems so awfully tame now in comparison to early years. There are at least 30 shows on FOX that out-obnoxious McL's best day every day.

libcrypt, Saturday, 12 January 2008 04:14 (seventeen years ago)

Taking sides:
http://lucytheblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/mclaughlin.jpg

vs

http://www.grc.me.uk/images/JMGUITAR.JPG

dell, Saturday, 12 January 2008 04:19 (seventeen years ago)

John McLaughlin: Wrong! Eleanor-gee-I-think-you're-swelleanor!

Eleanor Clift: I have.. no idea..

John McLaughlin: Wrong! You know quite well, you're just shy. Mondo-jackalo-gee-mon-mania-jack..

Jack Germonde: Well, it might be..

John McLaughlin: I'm not finished with your name, Germonacle-jack-o-lantern-gee-gi-jummy-jummy-jammy-mayhem!

Jack Germonde: You're insane, John!

John McLaughlin: Wrong! I'm perfectly sane. Everyone else, however, is insane and trying to steal my magic bag. St. Patrick of Buchananomics!

sanskrit, Saturday, 12 January 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)

^^^RONG

The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 12 January 2008 09:46 (seventeen years ago)

eight years pass...

Chuck Klosterman thought The McLaughlin Group was "brilliant."

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a47743/why-the-mclaughlin-group-was-brilliant/

That looks like a clip from his last show, but the still alone bades me not to watch.

The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:38 (nine years ago)

Imagine going to confession when McL was a priest.... The penance would be anyone's guess.

The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:44 (nine years ago)

RIP -- love the show, and always thought he handled that forum with the exact right amount of absurdity

Dominique, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:00 (nine years ago)

"Fred Beetle Barnes!"

a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:23 (nine years ago)

I always thought that's what it was too, but, right from the horse's mouth, it's Fred "the Beadle" Barnes. What in the hell is a Beadle? Was their ever a fifth Beadle?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-man-who-created-political-tv-out-of-nothing/article/2003861

clemenza, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:58 (nine years ago)

Okay, it's a religious title, that's why I don't know it.

clemenza, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 23:05 (nine years ago)

I enjoy watching this while stoned but that's about it

brimstead, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 23:30 (nine years ago)

this program relied entirely on showmanship. the amount of information it contained was negligible. my problem with it was that the showmanship wasn't very compelling or entertaining, like watching a play where the actors think that it is more dramatic to froth at the mouth and yell every line at one another.

exact right amount of absurdity

except the absurdity did not emerge naturally from the topic under consideration, by reframing political theater as a theater of the absurd, but was slathered on top of it by pure clowning around

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 23:41 (nine years ago)

I always found Jack Germond wavering between trying to talk rationally and obvious disdain for what he was doing entertaining.

clemenza, Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:48 (nine years ago)

http://sweeneytodd.wikia.com/wiki/Beadle_Bamford

The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 03:57 (nine years ago)

McLaughclown had a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia

kids, study hard

The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 03:58 (nine years ago)


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