Gordon Brown – Elephant in the Room

By Saturday September 26, 2009

WARNING: OFF COLOR

Found by John Ligums.



13 Comments
  1. Jim w. says:
    9/26/2009 at 9:50 am

    The color of the video seemed fine.

    The language on the other hand…

    But seriously, it would have been more accurate to have had a Donkey in the room rather than an Elephant.

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  2. qb says:
    9/26/2009 at 10:00 am

    Nice. 2 thumbs up.

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  3. noname says:
    9/26/2009 at 10:02 am

    “does that answer your question”

    pretty much.

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  4. DavidtheDuke says:
    9/26/2009 at 10:10 am

    The “arsehole” was right on the money.

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  5. ECA says:
    9/26/2009 at 10:32 am

    i HAVE TO ASK A STUPID QUESTION:
    REALLY its stupid.

    At what point in TIME, did these folks and others.. BECOME NON-responsible for WHAT THEIR JOB IS/WAS..

    Nixon Left his job.
    most of these people QUIT before they can be prosecuted..SHUT UP AND RUN AWAY.
    When did it become Critical that you LIE to your employer(WE/president/congress/…)? Or at least NOT tell the WHOLE/STRAIGHT truth??

    The Smart people know politics and dont want the job.
    Those that WANT the job, but are almost smart, tend to GET OUT of the job..
    Those that are STUPID, end up with the job, and get SCREW’d.

    When did we start having 2 year olds running this country?? I understand that its NOT 1 thing that DID this.
    I did do it..
    I didnt either..
    I didnt see it coming.
    He did it,
    They did it..

    As was taught to me, at a very young age, If the parents cant find out.. BEAT them all.
    Unless its an individual that did 1 thing. It generally takes MORE then 1 person to MESS THINGS UP.. it takes 2 to start a fight, it takes 2 to dance.
    As the parents of this nation, we need to ABUSE those responsible, EVEN if we get a few that were just standing around WATCHING.. They didnt STOP this from happening. so they can suffer also.
    The problem we have, is that over 1/2 of them have left office.

    I declare that we BASE wages for our representatives on there POPULARITY at HOME as WELL as the bills and STANDARDS they live by..

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  6. Floyd says:
    9/26/2009 at 10:34 am

    #1: The elephant is still appropriate; remember what happened just before the US general election. Too bad they didn’t have Dubya on the panel.

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  7. ECA says:
    9/26/2009 at 10:42 am

    Its just that..
    IF you #@$@#$ up at work..what would happen?
    Fired?
    Job changed to lesser job?
    Cut wages?
    Disciplined?
    Cut hours?

    We dont have to FIX blame..
    TO MANY were in on the problem.
    Some were ignorant,
    Some didnt care,
    some WATCHED it happen and COULD have said something,

    This job USED to be honorary..
    it WASNT their main JOB.
    we NEED to slap them ALL around, just to WAKE THEM UP.. both the corps and the GOV..

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  8. Gasbag says:
    9/26/2009 at 11:17 am

    So Gordon Brown is F!@#ed will like anyone didn’t know that?

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  9. brian t says:
    9/26/2009 at 11:53 am

    I’m seeing a lot of folks who seem to be in need of a history lesson. For starters, how about reading some of the history on this blog? Such as the following from December 2007, warning about trouble ahead: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2007/12/24/flirting-with-disaster-an-economic-assessment/

    Or this, from March 2006: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/03/13/mortgage-payment-reset/
    Quote: “Sure, that sounds pretty bad, but how awful can it be? Well, the worst case scenario is a wave of defaults, foreclosures, and forced sales, forcing home prices appreciably (depreciably?) lower.”

    Meannwhile, in December 2006, Mr. Dvorak was saying that there might be a housing bubble, but it was never going to pop: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/12/15/sf-bay-area-population-expected-to-swell-by-2-million-hey-i-got-your-housing-bubble-right-here/
    “In Northern California I expect to see prices begin to follow a similar pattern making properties appreciate at a scorching rate right up to 2010. Bubble, maybe, but it ain’t poppin’!”

    Oh, but sure, it’s the new President’s fault, isn’t it?

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  10. Awake says:
    9/26/2009 at 1:24 pm

    While we are on politics, a little interesting info about Glenn Beck. And they dare talk bad about Obama’s youth!

    From Alexander Zaitchik’s mini-biography of Glenn Beck on Salon.com comes this nugget:

    Beck was known at B104 (a radio station) as a pro’s pro in the studio but was becoming increasingly unraveled when not working. “Beck used to get hammered after every show at this little bar-café down the street,” remembers a music programmer who worked with Beck. “At first we thought he was going to get lunch.” The extent to which Beck was struggling to keep it together is highlighted by Beck’s arrest one afternoon just outside Baltimore. He was speeding in his DeLorean with one of the car’s gull-wing doors wide open when the cops pulled him over. According to a former colleague, Beck was “completely out of it” when a B104 manager went down to the station to bail him out. In his 2003 book, “Real America,” Beck refers to himself as a borderline schizophrenic. Whether that statement is matter-of-fact or intended for effect, he has spoken more than once about taking drugs for ADHD, and when he was at B104, Beck’s coworkers believed him to be taking prescription medication for some kind of mental or psychological ills. “He used to complain that his medication made him feel like he was ‘under wet blankets,’” remembers the former music programmer.

    Today, when Beck wants to illustrate the jerk he used to be, he tells the story of the time he fired an employee for bringing him the wrong pen during a promotional event. According to former colleagues in Baltimore, Beck didn’t just fire people in fits of rage — he fired them slowly and publicly. “He used to take people to a bar and sit them down and just humiliate them in public. He was a sadist, the kind of guy who rips wings off of flies,” remembers a colleague.

    According to Zaitchik’s article, Beck claims to have gotten high every single day from ages 16 through 31, using marijuana, cocaine, and booze. He hopped from job-to-job for years, earning a reputation as a major-league anti-social misfit. He considered suicide in the mid-1990s, but thanks to having lucked into a job at a Clear Channel-owned station in 1992 (before the company exploded into a broadcasting behemoth), Beck in the late 90s managed to get the break that would set his career on fire, landing a talk show in Tampa, Florida.
    ===============
    And this is the guy that the Teabaggers are using as an idol and expert on everything… a self admitted borderline schizophrenic, mentally medicated, drug abuser and alcoholic for half his adult life.

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  11. Jim w. says:
    9/26/2009 at 7:34 pm

    brian t said,
    “…Oh, but sure, it’s the new President’s fault, isn’t it??

    No, its the old Congresses fault. And it looks like they are trying to do it again.

    http://tinyurl.com/at-it-again

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  12. joaoPT says:
    9/27/2009 at 1:27 am

    Is the elephant an allusion to the Democratic party?
    And if it is, does this cartoon takes the elephant as a scatological actor to “punish” those the author feel that “focked” us?
    Is the world that simple?
    Or is this just a piece of humor jerk-off in a pre-teen flavor?

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  13. brian t says:
    9/27/2009 at 5:31 am

    The Elephant is just from the phrase “the elephant in the room” i.e. a huge factor that people are ignoring in favour of little details. This cartoon is by a British bloke about British politics, no Merkin content in there.

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