Reason on the Tube: Mangu-Ward and Moynihan on Stossel Tonight!

If you are in front of the television at 8PM 9PM tonight, be sure to tune into Stossel on the Fox Business Channel, where Reason Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan will talk about the post-Cold War resurgence of anti-capitalism and Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward valiantly defends ice cream trucks against food scold MeMe Roth.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Ugh, now there are two options for the live bloggers to gather to dish.

[John]

Don’t be dishing on Mangu Ward. She is the Mary Ann of Reason’s Gilligan’s Island.

[Too Easy]

So Kerry Howley must be Ginger.

[John]

Pretty much. I was always a Mary Ann man myself. So as a consequence, I never got all the Howley love around here.

[Tulpa]

I don’t think anyone but Sanchez got the Howley love around here, not for lack of trying.

[John]

She is hot. But I always found her posts annoying. Since I wasn’t dating her, I don’t miss her one bit. Mangu Ward in contrast puts up some pretty good stuff. And is very cute.

[Ska]

Now that’s funny.

I always dug Mary Ann. Gingham prints, maybe? Who doesn’t love seeing the where the checkerboard curves?

[ClubMedSux]

“Where the Checkerboard Curves” was always my favorite Shel Silverstein collection.

[Tulpa]

I was gonna go in more of a Bailey from WKRP direction, but all right. As long as we agree that Weigel is Herb/Gilligan.

[John]

That would make Suderman Less Nessman. I can see that.

[Timon19]

No no. MORE Nessman. Always more Nessman.

[ClubMedSux]

Keep Suderman away from the turkeys.

[Tulpa]

This is Peter Suderman saying, “This is Peter Suderman.”

et cetera

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If you are in front of the television at 8PM tonight…

I will be!

…be sure to tune into Stossel on the Fox Business Channel.

Oh. Me not get.

[Tulpa]

Yeah, what gives? It’s like they buy into the liberal talking point that libertarians are all rich robber barons with the most expensive cable package.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yeah, seriously. I don’t get Fox Business Channel either. Everytime I tune it in, it goes right over my head.

[Drax the Destroyer]

No that it is very timely, but you guys should know that all of Stossel’s shows have ended up on Hulu…eventually (I think Hulu is a month behind).

[Darkeyes]

Yo, I heard Stoss, Moynihan, and Mangu-Ward are going to spark a blunt on FBC.

This is true?

[Esoteric]

Moynihan’s more the type to drink openly from a bottle of whiskey on-set.

In other words: my kind of guy.

[hmm]

Moynihan’s more the type to drink openly from a bottle of whiskey on-set.

Fuckin’ Micks. Makin’ the Scotts look like upstanding folk since Hadrian was building walls. Cause he was scared of those upstanding folk.

[hmm]

lets go with Scots…

[Timon19]

So MeMe is coming back to Stossel to try to take on someone less pissed off than The Jacket? She’s taking the easy way out, like Lebron.

The Jacket’s battle with MeMe was fascinating.

[Drax the Destroyer]

I think the impetus of the battle is some unresolved sexual tension. Or so TV has led me to believe after letting 20+ of garbage being funneled into my eyeballs.

[EJM]

If you are in front of the television at 8PM tonight…

For once, someone is putting the interests of Central Time residents first. (In other words, the show airs at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.)

[Mr Whipple]

I’ll have to TIVO. A new episode of Burn Notice is on.

[Fist of Etiquette]

John should do the whole show ducking under his desk, just to drive the point home.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Moynihan: Man in Black

[Fist of Etiquette]

Bellow: Chuck Schumer Impersonator

[Fist of Etiquette]

Freedom from failure also means we aren’t discouraged from making bad choices.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Transfat ban still seems ludicrous.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yeah, racists think government is doing too much.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Second book plug DENIED by Stossel.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don’t know if it’s an excuse to regulate, but America is too fat.

You fat fucks.

[Drax the Destroyer]

Methinks the Corn subsidies don’t help. Corn Syrup < Sugar Cane.

[Fist of Etiquette]

C-c-cat fight.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Children do not need to learn about free market decision making in school, since as adults they’re not going to encounter it in the real world.

[Fist of Etiquette]

STOP FEEDING MY CHILD!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Katherine, don’t go broad. Save school choice for the next show.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Katherine, you broad.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The libertarian wants to license 5-year-olds’ driving. HYPOCRITE!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

“The biggest attack on freedom is loss of health.”

Sure it sounds stupid, but look at her glasses. She looks all booksmarty.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Let’s hear some of these sex jokes. For context.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chris Lee wrote a play that was offensive to everyone? He wrote the screenplay for “Pearl Harbor”?

[Lord Ballsac]

Nah, I think it was for the Penthouse channel’s made for tv movie “Schindler’s Fist”.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Lukianoff? With that name, you should either be playing hockey or hunting vampires.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Academia, it’s faaaaaaaaaaaantastic.

[Fist of Etiquette]

John loves hearing that government cronies do things?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha, Seton Hall.

[Fist of Etiquette]

College students are idiots.

[Fist of Etiquette]

HFS, college students are idiots.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Okay, some college students are idiots.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The reasons the college students gave for their First Amendment exceptions were so fucking sophomoric.

[Mr Whipple]

They are law students, right? Stos asked them what limitations should be placed on Freedom of Speech, and not one said libel. Lawyers. Fucking, future lawyers. These kids got their heads up their asses, or what?

Libel, you dumb mother fuckers. That’s a perfectly legitimate exception to FoS, at least it is for a lawyer.

[Fist of Etiquette]

John Stossel, Orchid Hunter

[Fist of Etiquette]

They were looking for your underwear, Nora. They’re pervs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Nobody can believe it happened, Kathy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Oh sure, all these cases seem ridiculous if you describe them.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The politicians don’t actually say they can run our lives better than us out loud, John.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Was that cop a McPoyle?

[Fist of Etiquette]

John just crushed a stagehand with that ream of paper.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Now, on to Comedy Central and Futurama. Thanks for watching… NOBODY.

[capitol l]

Nobody! Nobody! Since when does THE Fist of Etiquette care about anything other than his ART!

Do you liveblog for them or for you, is it your art or theirs?

Listen, scrote, if we’re going to take this shit national you are going to have to FOCUS—put down the damn bottle and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That “NOBODY” was part of the mosaic that is my art.

[capitol l]

Ahhh, I see now.

[capitol l]

I went out and got drunk, completely forgetting about this groundbreaking Stossel event…Here’s a not watched recap of the show—>

Don’t worry about other people’s behavior if it doesn’t directly and negatively affect your behavior.

[Fritz Perls]

Why is it that no one understands that the debate over whether the public is rational and can be trusted to freely choose or irrational and needs persuasion and coercion is irrelevant?

[Fritz Perls]

The evil, immoral, unethical trend in the U.S for the past century, is the fact that politicians, businessmen, bureaucrats, and skinny blonde environmentalist writers ATTEMPT to change or influence the public’s behavior with regulations and propaganda

[Fritz Perls]

Stossel is far too nice to these people.

I’ve given up on them.

(Please forgive the multiple posts, due to fumble fingers.)

[hmm]

God the difference between educated and flaming retarded couldn’t have been better displayed than the Katherine/MeMe discussion.

God MeMe has to be the dumbest hair flipping bimbo personality to make the news cycle rounds. It’s like listening to Bill Madison’s lost puppy speech. I feel dumber for just having listened to her.

[Fritz Perls]

When I look at MeMe, my first impulse is to be attracted to her, to make love to her, but when she opens her mouth and starts speaking her control freak propaganda, I feel that I want to treat her with the utmost cruelty, even sadism.

I imagine myself meeting her socially, and rejecting her with the utmost coolness and indifference.

[hmm]

I imagine her head on a pike at the end of my driveway.

Is that racist?

[Fritz Perls]

Only if you are black.

It might be more cruel to entice her to like me, maybe fall in love with me, and then when her expectations for the relationship are highest, reject and humiliate her.

But what would you say to her, do to her, if you had the chance? What do you feel you are capable of?

[hmm]

Head on a pike. Only way to go.

There’s only one cure for stupid.

[Old Man With Candy]

Rodeo sex.

[Mr Whipple]

but when she opens her mouth and starts speaking her control freak propaganda,

That’s what they make duct tape for.

[Lord Ballsac]

I’ll say it again, MeMe just needs some DVDA …and to get back in the kitchen and start making my goddamned sandwich.

[Mainer]

The heavy leather BDSM has never been my thing, but I think I would really enjoy mistreating and humiliating MeMe, and ya know, I suspect she’d like it, too.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Actually, the jaunt over to Seton Hall painted a pretty good picture of educated stupidity.