July 17, 2010 10:07 AM UTC

Jeopardy insults

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• by: Diogenesdemar

(It’s a slow day, so I’m retitling this diary and promoting it to let foes of given candidates play this version of Jeopardy Insults.    The author didn’t quite get the nature of Jeopardy right — you don’t spell the answer, you’re given the answer and must supply the question.  Example: “An old curmudgeon rashly elected to Front Page Editor:”

BJWilson: “Who is Voyageur?”  So, have at it (within the usual bounds of our impeccable good taste, of course.)   – promoted by Voyageur)

Jeopardy Question:  “How do you spell vacuous?”

Check out yesterday’s Colorado Matters broadcast interview with senate (and sometimes suggested replacement-gubernatorial-as-consolation-prize-loser) candidate, Jane Norton.

http://www.cpr.org/#load_artic…

I’ve often heard what a dim bulb Jane is, but I have to confess I never actually have heard her speak (outside of her badly scripted and delivered campaign commercials) until yesterday morning.

Between poorly parroting GOP talking points, simply outlandish jabber, and much outright avoidance answering the questions posed, this is some of the most entertaining self-parody and nonsense that I have heard this year (and that’s saying something).  Just one problem, J-No was slinging it straight.

Interviewer Ryan Warner is, on several occasions, nearly unable to hide his incredulity.  (Still, he’s appropriately servile, er – “polite,” enough not to ask any of the obvious death-blow follow-up questions.)

While simultaneously negotiating I-25 traffic and laughing my ass off I sadly missed some of what was said.  But, my favorite candidate response was to a question about the problem of illegal immigration.  Jane’s partial solution to this complex problem — because there is insufficient jail space to hold 12 million illegal immigrants – those who won’t voluntarily leave should be given 30-day community service sentences.  Problem solved!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you candidate V-A-C-U-O-U-S.