Jezebel

Awww, Moe, you motherfucking peacenik, you.

Drinks!!

What? Seriously what is all this about?

I'm not feelin' the hotness of the Romneyboys. More Javier Bardem and Daniel Craig, please!

He looks so handsome and polished and bright-eyed and yet he still looks INSANE. While having chiseled enviably proportional features.

Fucking good-looking crazy Mormons and their Mitt Romneys.

um... he looks a little inbred.
all-american, indeed.

Oh. That's that blog run by ex-Gawker commenters, right?

Meh.

Is this the blog that now has Tionna?

The Romney boys are hot in a mediocre way, but obviously the hatefuck factor figures in to increase their desirability. But thanks, Moe, for featuring this commentary - I haven't read the rest of her blog, but it seems this girl needs to get her ass over to Jezebel because that was damn funny.

@girlreporter: I think so.

@hamsterpants: (cough) Clive Owen (wheeze)...

GOOD pictures. Pictures that allow us to forget sometimes he is rumpled, wrinkly, wonky-eyed, and human.

OOOoooh and Ryan Gosling. Where is his uppity-pompous-actor fine ass?

All I can say is that he looks unnatural. I'm not sure in what way, but he's unnatural. Cyborg? Maybe.

Gross - this can't be for reals! He's hideous!

@hortense: Aaaaaaahhhh. I wondered. Still funny, though.

@rocknrollunicorn: Wait, I have it. Perfect teeth, and is that a toupee? I can't see from whence the individual hairs come. But most of all: crazy eyes. Lasers come from those eyes!

I'm confused.

@hortense: They balled themselves up into one giant pantywad about this.

@Moe: Thank you very much for that. I'm sure in the future we could link back and forth for true hilarity to emerge. How much fun was that anyway?
Sincerely,
SLCO contributer/resident artist Gina
BalknChain/Kewgr
[wwwkewgrluv.blogspot.com]

Who names their son TAGG?! Does it get more Massachusetts country club My-Dad-Is-A-'Pub-Presidential-Nom than fucking TAGG? oi.

@Moe: I think it was mostly flametards from their site calling for your head, right? Anyway, week's almost ovah, don't stress.

He looks like clip art from the Fifties.

@katekatekate: Tagg is seriously a pretty common name in Utah. It's for the upper-crust Mormons.

He looks like the kind of closet-disturbed preppy that'd give you a shiner if you used the expensive, monogrammed towels in the bathroom to actually dry your hands.

This is from extensive personal observation and experience: Most Mormon boys are cute in general but more often than not their personalities are as boring as dry toast. They are usually very nice and considerate, though.

@TheGoodYears: This is from extensive personal observation and experience: Most Mormon boys are cute in general but more often than not their personalities are as boring as dry toast. They are usually very nice and considerate, though."

Its a shame b/c that's right up my alley (depends on what you consider "boring") and my angry-lapsed-Catholic heathen ass is going to hell in a hand basket.

@TheGoodYears: I have to defend my (Mormon, but somewhat lapsed) ex-bf here. He was insanely funny in a completely inappropriate way to the point that he offended my (Catholic) parents the first time we all went to dinner together. He was, however, very considerate. And cute, but everyone knows I have strange taste in men.

What? Who? Did he star alongside Tyra in that princess=Barbie-doll-comes-to-life movie?

PS. Also, BangieB. You're welcome, sugar. I heart!

But those forbidden-fruit Mormon boys are so hot!

The next white-shirted, skinny-tied missionary adolescent you see, tell him you are having a spiritual crisis and invite him in.

But be prepared for a threesome because they only work in pairs.

Barbie made the right decision when she dumped his ass.

Oh ew.
And sorry but I thought the SLC Outsider post on the Romneys (and the Huckabees for that matter) was pretty fucking funny. I'm not going to hate on them because everyone else has deemed them an enemy of the motherfucking state.
Sorry, unwadding panties now.... *pick pick*

@rocknrollunicorn: Cyborg. Rominator.

@LoveNoelG: ditto. im confused as well. moe needs a drink?

@mightymouth: That was nice to say, thanks. Adam did a wonderful thing bringing us together over there.
*warning: You will NOT be able to unsee the Huckabees and you may not have enough money for the recuperative therapy. Cheers!

Remember the Matt Damon character/puppet in Team America? The one that can only say, "Matt Damon"?

That's what this guy looks like. The puppet.

@BalknChain: Now can Adam do something else wonderful and acknowledge that maybe, MAYYYYYBE I never saw the effing blog? I could totally send you my cache history to prove it. And yeah I like my porn softcore.

That chin scares me. After viewing all the Myspace pages against my will (and seeing who DOESN'T have their photos set to private) I have to say - Mr. Chin here is the only one married to a brunette. He wins in my book.

Please don't let the blonds flame me, but that family pic with all the Romney boys, Barbie wives, and kiddos skeeves me out more than Huckabee's son David.

@Jezebelmoe: He's in class now, but I'm sure he can make some acknowlegement. I can't speak for him, hence my post on my meager blog and my thanks to you. I strive to be polite at all times. Are you referencing porn libs? That was a riot. Any day you can use oxygen to hydrogen dioxide conversion engineer in a sentence is a good day. I'm sure the commenters here would enjoy a similar thing.
Cheers

having commenting difficulty here..

well, that pushed it through

Sorry, just got out of class (and took the 45-minute drive home.) Thanks for doing this, Moe. And I realize that you guys probably get lots of bullshit "tips" from people, and I can see why you wouldn't read them all.

You done good, Moe. You done good.

I can't believe no one's wished aloud for a look at him or his brothers in their holy Mormon undergarments.

I stand corrected on my statement that "commenters do criticize Moe but when has she ever apologized or righted the wrong?" [BY ANDSHESAID AT 05:21 PM.] I know it was hard, Moe. In fact, you've made it quite clear that it was hard. But this was the right thing to do. And don't you feel better now? No? Fair enough. Well I feel better. Collect your gloves and handbags ladies. The show is over. Nightie night.

I'm not seeing it. He looks a little crazy. Also, it's "beat him" like a rented mule. Which sounds more fun, actually.

@Jezebelmoe: Don't trip, a lady should never have to expose her cachebag in order to (dis)prove her past intentions.

What's with the Romney-fest? They all look like regular a** clean cut white boy Mormons. I think we can do better...Give me some Benicio already!

He has Jonathan Rees-Myers eyes. And that is not a good thing.

Ah. Well done, Moe.

I like my guys a little edgier, thank you. And rating the attractiveness of political spawn is a fairly standard practice at this point in the election cycle. No shame in it, regardless of who else did it.

As others said earlier, it is plausible that Moe didn't read the tips or the website linked from the NYT article on her employer on Sunday (the post in question was front page on that date), and I have no reason to doubt her contention that she conceived of her post independently.

It was just surreal that it took nearly eight hours to get a (defensive and combative) response to a legitimate concern that her co-writer promptly answered. Her "fuck you" response was insulting, given the peculiarities of the situation, although it is surely unsettling to be accused of copying without attribution. Had Moe been seemingly ripped off without attribution, this crowd would have gone nuts in her support, myself included.

It is terrific that her readers respect her, but unfortunate that the sentiment isn't completely reciprocated. It was a legitimate concern that warranted a thoughtful, measured response. In short, it could have been handled much better, including fewer accusatory-toned posts by yours truly.

Snap Judgments and all that.

@daisyfresh: You know, I gave several thoughtful and measured responses, and I recall I was mocked, belittled, insulted and met with disbelief. And I was one of the writers. But, you know, whatever. Snap Judgments and all that.

@daisyfresh: But did you ever think about the notion that what is ACTUALLY surreal is the assumption that I go back and monitor the comments in Crappy Hour while I am supposed to be writing and editing other posts, screening pictures, scanning magazine photos and maniacally refreshing all the news sites. It's awesome that Megan does it, but by the time I code that shit and write the intro and get the photos together and shit I never want to see it again. Not least because "crappy hour" tends to denote "crappy mood" with y'all. And that NYT story: reading Gawker is depressing enough without actually having to read ABOUT Gawker in that particular section of the NYT. I asked Anna what was in it and she said "nothing" and I trusted her. Why read something when I can't post on it anyway?

@Moe: I can't believe you are still in this fucking thread.

@Anonymous Lobbyist:

Actually, you got a total of three posts of disbelief, two of them from me, and for that, I sincerely apologize. There was a much better way to raise the issue, at least in tone, and a trusted writer should be entitled to a presumption of good faith. I didn't extend that olive branch and I take responsibility for setting a poor tone for discussing a legitimate concern.

It nevertheless strikes me as odd that a reader would feel compelled to apologize for raising a pretty glaring set of peculiar facts. I can't imagine any old media reporter or columnist reacting the way Moe did. Perhaps I am naive, but you would almost think the journalist would want to apologize for finding herself in such an ambiguous situation.

@Moe:

Fair enough. I didn't expect you were monitoring the comments on a minute by minute basis, although I find it kind of incredible that your co-writer (or a fellow editor) didn't alert you to the issue on the table.

It is probably a peculiarity of mine that I hold journalists to a pretty high standard, and that is probably not suited for this format. This was hardly a Frey-gate, just something that didn't pass the proverbial smell test on the first whiff. To torture a metaphor, I shouldn't have passed judgment on who dealt it, although I do believe that journalists should held accountable on such things.

@daisyfresh: I didn't say a word to Moe, actually. I know that she's at least as stressed during the day as she said above that she is, and so I tend not to pester her. Period. Because I've worked next to her on her couch (since we did a crappy hour that way in November), I know and respect that she needs her focus time as much as I need my non-focus time and don't mess with that. So, blame me for being a shitty friend or a bad co-worker, but that was my choosing not to screw with her work day by alerting her to the thread.

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