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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

2012 Arlen Specter Remembers Back When Pornographic Kinescopes Were Three-for-a-Nickel on Saturdays

Posted by on Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM

This happened on MSNBC this morning:

"Well, the Republican party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October?" said Specter.

Paraphrasing a recent joke by Bill Maher, Specter said, "Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen."

Ouch, grandpa. Maybe stick with the Etch-A-Sketch imagery from now on, okay? (Related: Someone needs to write Republican presidential nomination fan fiction, stat. I've got your title: "Mitt Romney and the Pornographic Movie Queen from Venus.")

 

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Dougsf 1
Arlen Specter has the perfect name, it's almost Dickensian.
Posted by Dougsf on March 28, 2012 at 12:07 PM
smade 2
Ageist! You're gonna be old, too, one of these days, if you're lucky.
Posted by smade on March 28, 2012 at 12:09 PM
Unregistered User 3
@2 and if I'm really lucky, I'll be like my awesome, aged grandma who knows what a joke this is.
Posted by Unregistered User on March 28, 2012 at 12:34 PM
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 4

Is that anything like Zsa Zsa Gabor in Queen of Outer Space?

http://cassymuronaka.files.wordpress.com…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://www.you-read-it-here-first.com on March 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM
ryanayr 5
Mitt: That's a big lava lamp, congratulations!
[puts lava lamp in butt]
Posted by ryanayr on March 28, 2012 at 1:06 PM
6
Please don't make me think of Arlen Specter and porn at the same time. Not cool!
Posted by Root on March 28, 2012 at 1:51 PM
7
Not kinescopes, kinetoscopes!

Kinetoscopes were ancient peep-show viewers, basically a movie film loop in a cabinet, which one person could view at a time.

Kinescopes are television shows recorded onto movie film in those much more recent days of yore before videotape.
Posted by Brooklyn Reader on March 28, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Andy Niable 8
There's a " 'Round The World" / Foreign Policy joke in there somewhere...
Posted by Andy Niable on March 28, 2012 at 4:34 PM

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