Tonight on The Independents: Happy Birthday, Stimulus! Also: John Kerry's Global Flatulence, Rand Paul's GOP Rebrand, Charles Barkley's POTUS Interview, College Drinking Bans, Dumb Laws, and Favorite Almost-Presidents
Tonight's live episode of The Independents on Fox Business Network (9 pm ET, 6 pm PT, repeats at midnight) will kick off with some dueling Carneys: White House Press Secretary Jay, who spent the day tweeting FACTS about the 5-year-old birthday boy stimulus package, and Washington Examiner columnist Tim, who tends toward a more skeptical view.
GOP Deputy Communications Director Sarah Isgur Flores and progressive communications consultant Christy Setzer will duke it out over Secretary of State John Kerry calling climate change a "weapon of mass destruction," plus NBA great Charles Barkley's interview with President Barack Obama about the Affordable Care Act, and the comments from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that the Republican Party needs to transform or die.
Also on the show: A demonstration of dumb laws, colleges attempting to ban drinking games, giant horrifying snowballs, and favorite almost-presidents. Send your tweets at #indFBN, and log onto the show website at 10 pm to catch a live-stream of the sexy aftershow!
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First!
Second.
Matt's back! HOORAY!
Matt? Who is this Matt?
I will slap you so hard...
And I will LIKE it!
So...I'm learning entirely too much about you guys at this point. It's starting to get weird.
Starting?
Matt is being a team player and filling in for Suderman on the show.
I'm so glad we don't live in that bizarro world. It would be filled with my tears & hatred.
heheh. also, Fuck Patrick Kennedy.
Climate change as a WMD? This is really a thing? WTF..
I was just reading about AGW in Stossel's book this morning.
Kerry was right about American's "right to be stupid" apparently
Kerry, like Biden, is one of the primary benefitters of that law.
*right, not law. Damn food coma.
I should like to remind everyone this is a thread dedicated to commenting on the show, such as it is. No superfluous jibber-jabber. Just sit quietly until the show starts.
Or else what?
I think you know or else what.
You'll turn this thread around and go right back home?
...and NO ICE CREAM!?
I was promised ice cream!
You keep it up and Immma gonna banana split your lip!
It appears I offended a couple of the Peanuts with this quote:
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
What could be more libertarian?
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
So you wanna strangle Obama with the entrails of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior?
That's pretty racist, yo.
I'm really confused what your bizarre political philosophies have to do with Schulz' cartoon cast.
Here's hoping someone down in Texas puts you out of your misery.
You're boring now. At least Tony's creative with his trolling.
INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIB9Y4OFPs
What, no love for Michael Anissimov?
C'mon! Take him up on his offer! For that, I might actually be willing to pay my cable provider for FBN!
He wants a debate, not a platform to broadcast his views unchecked.
Michael Anissimov is American?
"I'm tired of harmful libertarian ideas"
Wha?
groan. harmful. his only schtick is 'the tooks are jobes!' Also = SPANISH
How many times can a guy repeat that on TV in front of an economist?
Whats that weblink for the streaming version again ? thnx
Alert the affiliates, she's wearing hoops again.
And a giant Sham-Wow.
Man in black.
almost Presidents
"Benjamin Franklin: The only President of the United States who was never President of the United States"
... Hobbit
Kennedy's lips.... are.... shining at me.
He has scurvy.
Throw him a lime.
Gillespie wouldn't allow anyone to eat fruit. Not a food a true libertarian would eat, he claimed.
So there's no AM or PM Links on a holiday, but there is the show that nobody actually watches?
Phallic symbol alert!
You can eat a limp noodle.
Throw it against the wall and see what sticks. (I'm gonna guess what sticks will be teachers union kickbacks.)
Stossel trained Kennedy, didn't he? Handfuls of spaghetti.
Damn girl
She's ripping off Stossel with the props.
For the love of fucking Spell-Check you FBN idiots... FLACCID. TWO FUCKING C'S.
Spending a week at sea seems to have reenergized Matt. Are we sure it's the same Matt Welch and not a doppleganger like The Thing?
He's libertarian. There's no soul there to begin with.
Who's the creator? Jackson Roykirk?
Matt...looking good. Yes, a slight adjustment of the tint to make you an undertaker? but still. Beats puse-on-tangerine.
You bitch about the spelling of "flaccid", and then you type "puse"? :-p
....but....but....but!
(bursts into flame)
Brought back from the brink of recovery.
FACT: Throwing the virgin into the volcano appeased the Volcano God. Notice the eruptions that didn't happen!
You forgot the "or" clause of this fact.
Entrepreneurs are racists.
4-way Independents orgy.
STOP SMILING AT THE BAD INDICATORS.
Kennedy brings back painful memories of being an ugly girl in high school.
For me, not her.
So...clearly you've had an eventful life since graduating high school.
Well I was a man first and then I decided to become an ugly woman at the age of 12 and now I'm a handsome man.
Don't other me.
Kmele again takes style-victory. The sport coat is...tres versatile. He's worked it with different shirt/tie every week. Nice short/spread collar as well. The lapel thing is a mystery however.
He should give Welch some tips.
Sign makers need jobs, too.
Kennedy feeds liquor to local high school kids?
Malt Liquor.
RACIST!
The only answer he could give. "I'm sure."
You're just jealous of his red beard.
You know who else had a red beard?
Red Beard?
Your mom?
Chewbacca. Idiots.
Me?
Amen
That is a sweet beard though.
We Red Beards pity the rest of you.
its softer and more stroke-able while Evil-Laughing.
The only reason I regret being a woman is that I can't grow an awesome beard. Because it would be amazing & red if I did.
It's called hormone replacement therapy.
Yeah, no, I like my boobs. They're pretty fantastic.
Proof or not real.
(This is why there are no female libertarians....)
I'll stay a female libertarian even if you don't believe I am!
All boobs are fantastic, Kibby.
Eh, I dunno about that. Or maybe I'm just picky about my women.
There are exceptions, but each type of boob has a certainly delightful quality.
So check your 38DD privilege!
Wrong & wrong.
I'm glad I'm wrong because I feared it would have really freaked you out if I inadvertently guessed your bra size.
And I'd ask how much breast touching experience you have relative to me, but I'd probably don't want to go there...
I would have filed a restraining order against you, because you already know too much about me clearly.
Girls touch each other's a lot, we're weird. But I'm sure you have me beat in the context of sexual contact, because there aren't a lot of girls worth sleeping with around here.
I'd wager I could take you. I had a great ginger beard all through college (although I don't have the cool brown/red look, I'm just a day walker). After my sophomore year I grew out my beard and then shaved my head. Not sure I can pull it off these days.
People who refer to their naturally red hair as "ginger" are weak, sissy, fashion-conscious millenials who know nothing of True Beardness, which is not some conscious act, but rather the inevitable process of high testosterone levels combining with massive alcohol intake and complete disregard for personal appearance.
One day you awake and you are MAN
Now that was a teaser.
Isnt the last time they did this "FACT" thing when Valerie Jarrett told a bunch of barefaced lies and got owned on it?
FACT: Tim Carney kind of looks like me with that red beard. Is that how I'll appear in 20 years?
What, are you fucking 15?
She told me she was 18!
Carney's awkward pause was one of FEAR
Jesus, Kennedy is tweaking hard on something.
And I LIKE it.
I'm not going to get into the tub before it's filled with water.
Mother Nature was acquiring yellow cake.
They all want cake.
NO NO NO
I liked the Deep Purple version of "RDMH"
... Hobbit
John Kerry = Making Hilary Clinton look far more competent as Sec State.
It's pretty astounding.
That's his job: make Hillary look good by comparison so she's more electable.
(shocked face)
DUUUUUM DUUUUUM DUUUUUM DAAAAAAAAAAM!?
These girls got their necklaces at the same dollar store.
Climate change is a WMD.
Everyone who emits CO2 is a terrorist. Let the droning begin!
I will exhale another CO2 laced breath unless you pay me....
ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
With California in drought, President Obama came and brought some more hot air.
And he's playing golf on water-sucking courses.
Christy has been dealt a bad hand. Let's see how she plays it.
Flores... Flores por los Muertos....
POW! Foster is not a climate scientist.
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!
Damn, Kennedy shut her RIGHT DOWN.
WTF is it with 'political strategists' referring to the Retarded Behavior of politicans as "realism"
"this level of ridiculous bullshit is simply par for the course"
If you're a Democrat, you know every expert agrees with you.
Shut her down. Fuckin A Kennedy!
Whooohooo!
"Am I a climate scientist"?
BITCH, YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID
Science is supposed to be all about questioning. Global warmers use it to stop inquiry.
The scientist said. ARE YOU A SCIENTIST?! SO THERE
SCIENTISTS!
They know, and they say DEMOCRAT
Fuck that. Show TJ Oshie and Jonathan Quick sticking it to the Russkies.
Damn girl. Kennedy? Is that how she always is on Mondays?
Someone must have had a good weekend.
Tony is a girl?
Actually she made a decent point there. She's not tony.
That one commercial was both letterboxed and pillar boxed. I'm not buying a product from anyone who does that.
You know, I actually said to myself the same thing.
Dish just ran over on commercials. The show is already in progress.
You should write a strongly worded letter!
Letter? How old are you? We tweet these things these days.
I'm old fashioned.
The fat one.
NAME THE VIEWS YOU DISAGREE WITH
Politics by giggling chicks! ITS TEH AWESOMES!
To think all of those people before Obamacare was enacted who never grew up.
It's a rite of passage. A mandated rite of passage.
Obama is wrong about MJ vs LeBron as well.
That was a pretty good Obama impersonation.
Nothing says maturing like laying all your responsibilities onto the government.
Matt, never leave again.
Damn woman, try playing a little hard to get.
I think his wife might get upset about that.
I just like listening to his insightful commentary, is all.
Matt Welch is to the Independents as Ringo Star is to the Beatles.
A temporary stand-in who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to ride his bandmates to a lifetime of fame and fortune?
Kennedy is obviously McCartney and Kmele is Lennon.
And you can be Kmele's Yoko.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YIJ1pZEBc
There aren't any naked ladies in that video. You liar!
tTe hopeless romantic and the naive idealist?
We are not friends anymore.
Awwwwww. 😉
"Cause, like, its a Cute Lie!"
OT: Guess who said it!
"Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious."
Muhammad Ali?
Penn Jillette?
Kasey Kasem?
Hitler.
Mr Rogers?
Cat Stevens?
Good guesses, but wrong.
I'll give you a hint: he got knocked out of his coffin during his funeral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwHKql3dKc
Bill Braske?
OH MY GOD MUHAMMED ALI IS DEAD?
I a toll-ah
you a toll-ah
we a toll-ah too!
Obama is pushing young people to be personally responsible???? I must've missed that.
Yeah does that make him a racist?
I think it just makes me racist for questioning him.
Unless you come here to troll, we're all racists here.
Obama is pushing young people to be personally responsible for latching onto the government teat.
Mark Pryor should be able to find a headbanging wall somewhere other than under his sofa.
Picard hawking a car rental company other than Enterprise?
Obligatory
Thank GOD. Send out the clowns.
Clown college? You can't eat that.
+1 tiny bicycle.
We're electing new clowns come 2014.
GIGGLE BREAKDOWN!!!
I fear clowns.
There's some sad things known to man
There ain't too much sadder than
The fear of a clown
When there's no one around....
Ha! Fat people no faces B-roll coming up? Something to look forward to.
Comcast just ran over on the commercials too! I missed important clown discussion!
Direct TV too.
YEAH THANKS FOR THE CLOWN NIGHTMARES, GUYS.
Special Olympics license plate slogans?
There is a fake city in California. Mythbusters use it a lot. Why did they need to build a new one?
Detroit might fight back.
Detroit is too dangerous for soldiers!
Children are too gamey for my taste, although I've only eaten orphan after I became lost in the Andes with only my Janissary and servant orphans.
NOOOOO! Damn, man, they gotta be raised like veal. You can't eat free range orphan.
y'Meatanimals
One of the greatest novels in the English language.
AMERICA = FUCK YES!
Never heard of that movie.
Monster-In-Law: a movie that comes close to the level of torture Hanoi Jane denied American POWs suffered in Vietnam.
"This country is going to hell..."
And we LAUGH about it.
That segment reminded me that Hannibal is starting again soon & now I'm super amped for it again. Thanks, Independents!
hannibal is awesome. that is all.
I was wondering when the hell they were going to bring the show back, then bam! It's coming back in less than 2 weeks! Barely enough time to plan the appropriate bacchanal.
The trailers have given me panic attacks. It's going to be flipping amazing.
Tonight I'm drinking the new cider from Dickens.
My wife likes a hot Dicken's Cider.
*in* cider?
Weird
All the villains ARE played by brits!
We call these blue laws.
Kennedy is up for anything, ain't she.
Howard the Duck meets Phantom.
Kennedy, you are awesome.
And you wonder why Kennedy makes the big bucks.
....cause she's a slut?
$0.77 for every dollar a man makes!
Prosecutors don't laugh at these laws.
uh, FoE, I believe that's technically an electioneering comment, so...are you like, registered as a 503c-Q, or what?
The GOP lady was more helpful than the Dem lady.
NO?!
You're on a TEAM!
Objective critique.
*when used as a verb, impact means to introduce a stoppage of the bowels.
Wow, my bowels did that to my molars once.
Prescription: remove head from ass
Guy making money selling old razors.
Ima sell percolators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOC6llnRy3Y
The Fightin' Teetotalers.
Yeah, let's turn America into France. BAD ARGUMENT.
Over generalization much?
Regarding food and drink consumption, the French are wonderful role models. Everything else? Not so much.
Back in the day we had 3.2% beer at the age of 18. Made sense - it was really tough to get drunk.
Matt's attire tonight was provided by Hickey Freeman's new "For the Colorblind"- line of men's dresswear...
Awwww...this one's not so bad compared to some of his other choices.
Also, maybe someone died. We can always find a bright side.
Do you not critique some of Kennedy's outfits ever? I would, but my budget does not allow for fashion sense so I still don't have any.
Sorry: heterosexual. Women's clothing is simply an *obstacle to be overcome* as far as I am concerned.
When I have a steady paycheck....
Kennedy brings the pseudoscience.
Clearly basketball competitions needs to be regulated by the government.
Kmele's the kind of guy that calls the three second rule in a game of pick up basketball.
Steely Dan is an appropriate band for this show.
ARM WRESTLE DECIDES
Matt likes a sweet-stroke.
Kennedy likes it pumped up.
And loosey goosey
That ethnically ambiguous lady was a really bad demolition derby driver.
Does Belize throw in a big butted mulatto woman with every purchase?
You didn't let me finish: most oral surgeons are racists and illiterates.
Hey, is Belize English-speaking? And does it have pristine rain forests with real-estate opportunities?
From the commercials, I gather that Fox Business viewers are seniors, in need of investment advice, who are incapable of using normal bath tubs, and would like to buy Belize.
And buy Jaguars.
But at least they have good taste in The Americans. Can't wait for it to return.
BTW -
We must now comment upon matt's self conscious and pretentious Air-Drumming, which is clearly intended to inform the viewer that, "yes, that's a ride cymbal to my right, just over the floor tom". Because Matt? yeah, he's still in a band.
Said it before, I'll say it again: His air drumming is a bit cerebral palsy.
NICE PLUG.
Goldwater? John Hospers?
GOLDWATER
Ross Perot?
Kmele loves Goldwater!! I'm liking this guy more and more...
PEROT
Kmele praises Goldwater and Matt talks...Jerry Brown.
God help us.
Begins with C ends with osmotarian
AH! Lou Dobbs.
Man, Kmele has a strong hold on the Pure Libertarian spot on the show. No cocktail parties for him!
I still think he could have said, in the most menacing and sinister voice possible, "....but of course?" when asked if he was a scientist.
Cato would tell Kmele to go around back and use the service entrance.
DOBBZ!RUN
Brought the bull frog back for the after show.
Lick the toad.
Fat shaming the frog.
I disagree with Kmele for the first time.
YES. GOP lady invoked the zombie apocalypse!
(In defense of the biathlon.)
Kmele is encouraging spoilers. No me gusta!
Matt is afraid of the frog? Get it out of the tank and on to the desk, now!
I swear to god. I thought frogs could fly.
Matt seems genuinely disturbed.
Matt, I'm liking you less. Are you seriously scared of a FROG?
I bet Moynihan isn't scared of frogs.
No, he's too busy being scared of sugar.
Why are there two red pens?
STOP ASKING QUESTIONS OR YOU WILL FIND OUT
I once knew a guy who asked about the red pen.
Once.
Imagine that. People clapped for Obama not by content by intonation.
Ha! Foster the eternal cynic.
I like these after shows, they're great fun.
Someone needs to ask Matt who died
Don't develop a Washington thing, keep your Chicago thing.
Pootie Tang!
Call-in after show? Oh man.
Gotta get a prize pool going for the best H&R caller. Some BitCoins maybe.
THEY'RE TAKING CALLS ON THE AFTER SHOW TOMORROW!
Matt is genuinely scared.
HA hAHAHAHA hAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHAHAah ahah cough.
Oh dear lord. Tomorrow night is not going to end well...
You guys- they're taking calls tomorrow night on the after show.
Holy shit! Did you hear they're taking calls on the after show tomorrow night?
Prank calls!
Ima start dialin now to get in the queue.
Never really thought about it like that man.
http://www.RealAnon.tk