Courtesy of Andrew, here's your rofler of the day. Tonya Harding is pissed (or maybe not?) at Obama for using her name as synonym for kneecapping--except she did kneecap someone. Hilarious.
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"You're a piece of work."
Priceless.
I'd put it closer to the 'sad' than 'funny' category. Seeing how she is now, I wish Obama hadn't used that reference.
She is so f*ing drunk.
And it's hilarious that her "interviewer" called her a "piece of work" considering the fact that this tool is on Sean Hannity all the time talking trash about Obama.
Ha!
Tonya Harding is pissed (or maybe not?)
Yeah. That's the thing isn't it? How exactly does she feel about Obama bringing her name up? At first seh seems annoyed but then she seems to suggest that he was doing her a favor. But she said it as if he was supposed to be bothered by the fact that it was helping her. This was her revenge? What could possibly make her think he would care? Its a bit bizarre to watch actually.
Tonya:
"I ain't drunk. I've just been drinkin'..."
Fuck Bernie Goldberg. Tonya Harding is an idiot but who in the hell cares about what she thinks? Who even paid attention to then Senator Obama invoking her name? I didn't and I followed the race pretty closely. I could do without seeing either one of those assholes on TV ever again.
Next up: Charles Manson wishes his name wasn't synonymous with criminally insane.
Jan Brady circa 1972 called, she wants her hair back.
"I bet you'll still pay to come see me"
I'll take that bet.
Not to pick on her looks, but those bangs are fucking sweet!!
Oh, and Bernie Goldberg is such an idiot. This guy does sports stories like he's Mike Fucking Wallace. He LOVES himself.
Tonya Harding is pissed (or maybe not?) at Obama for using her name as synonym for kneecapping--except she did kneecap someone. Hilarious.
To be fair, it was her husband, Jeff, who actually did the knee-capping.
"To be fair, it was her husband, Jeff, who actually did the knee-capping."
Well, to be extra fair, it was her bodyguard who did the actual swinging. Her husband just planned and watched. And it would have worked, too, if it wasn't for those damn kids!!
Sometimes I'm almost ashamed to be from Portland...
Daz, you beat me to it. I'd take that bet any day of the week.
TNC, really.. you should have nominated TH for our white person spokesperson
Heh, I guess I'm just a sucker but I can't help but feel bad for her.
I just can't stomach watching someone being tormented, and I imagine her life as one of near-constant torment. Literally, it turns my stomach.
Fuck that hack Bernie Goldberg.
What sgwhiteinfla said. This reflects on Goldberg as much as Harding. Goldberg loves beating up on the powerless. One of the best takedowns Jon Stewart ever did was when he had Goldberg on for his plug of his book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. When you look through his list you realize its full of people with no power or influence (Michael Moore? Ralph Neas?! Bill Moyers? Latrell Sprewell??!!!).
So way to go, Bernie. We know you hate Obama, and you pick on the one person in the world who is less sympathetic...
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"To be fair, it was her husband, Jeff, who actually did the knee-capping."
Indeed; from now on knee-capping should be referred to as "Gilloolying"
Pay to see her do what, exactly???
Stacy, as he so often does, has put his finger on the most intriguing aspect of this issue.
Those bangs...Good Lord...
Erika,
Remmeber Tonya is from Clackamas County somehwre and now lives in Vancouver I think, so us Portlanders are off the hook:-)
Wow, the years have not been kind to Tonya.
Next up: Charles Manson wishes his name wasn't synonymous with criminally insane.
Well-played. Tempest in a teapot, boy. She's been ridiculed for any number of years so where does she get this faux outrage? Like a multitude of other infamous people, her name is shorthand for certain types of anti-social and deviant behavior; in her case for being an ambitious, yet no-talent hater on a competitor that was by all accounts was more talented and beautiful than she. I can't hate her hustle, though; she played Goldberg. She knows who she is and if she can parlay her infamy into money--she has bills doesn't she--why not?
The part that kills me though is when Goldberg is acting as if he's outraged at her self-serving behavior. It sounds to me as he's mad that she didn't continue lambasting Obama. He figured out that the outrage was fake and was mad he couldn't use her in his book as an example of Obama being some sort of self-serving, malcontent. But, given his reputation, it's like a crack fiend looking down on an alcoholic.
@Erika
And Monica Lewinsky went to L&C. We're rolling in the classy ladies around here (actually we are, thankfully).
Ah, Tonya. Still the high priestess of the Church of Too Stupid to Live.
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Shorter Harding: "How DARE President Obama force me to go on television to say I don't care what people say as long as I get publicity!"
"If ya like me, great. If you don't like me, that's okay. That's your opinion."
If they ever make The Tonya Harding Story (again), I hope they get John C. Reilly to play her. I can totally hear Reed Rothchild delivering that line.
God I love that.
@ AdHoc Blues:
in her case for being an ambitious, yet no-talent hater on a competitor that was by all accounts was more talented and beautiful than she.
Harding is and has been a lot of things, but I don't think anyone thought of her as having "no talent". She was one of the most athletically gifted and technically accomplished women's figure skaters of her time, and finished at the top of the US nationals for 3 years or so in the late '80s and early 90's. She took 4th in the Olympics in 1992.
She had tons of talent -- certainly more athletic talent than Kerrigan. Her problem was her head. What the media loved about the kneecapping attack was that it represented a talented star falling into the depths.
Quick clarification on my comment: I shouldn't have said that Harding finished "at the top" of the US Nationals -- that sounds like I mean that she won. She never won nationals, but she was among the top finishers, and in contention for the title, for those years.
There's a viciousness in her face, in her eyes. I find it rather frightening. I'm not just saying that because of her history in the public eye - look at her eyes. Snake's eyes.
I like Tonya Harding. She saved somebody outside a bar using CPR once. That's not exactly a get-out-of-kneecapping free card but it's close enough. In the big picture, Tonya Harding has her sh#t together a lot better than most people. Disciplined enough to be an elite athlete, quick enough on her feet to save a life. If she played team sports as a kid I think it would have been a better outlet for her in your face (or knees) style. Now her past makes her a bit of a freakshow so nobody wants her on their team in life. It's sad. She's an OK person.