Bottoms-up ping to Today Show/NewsBusters ping list.
Go here for the latest news on Mayor Noggin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1575754/posts
I saw that headline, though, and I was thinking the pistol, not the malt liquor, and my first reaction was "Why not? Why shouldn't Ray Nagin eat a Colt .45 for breakfast?"
Under the heading "if a Republican head ever said that":
If a Republican had ever said what Anderson did, he would have been accused of the worst kind of racism. Beyond the alcoholism charge, Colt 45 is a classic inner-city beverage. For years, actor Billy Dee Williams was Colt's main spokesman, and the tag line was "Colt 45 - works every time."
The man just laughed. Said he was a friend of Nagins.......LOLOLOLOL..
Mark, have you seen lately that a couple of DUmmies are DOSing/trolling/orcing the comments threads on your site. Not registered myself, but I read a handful of comments threads this morning after I read your post here (went to your site looking for any possible TODAY/Anderson vid), and thought you should know.
Gun control? bump..
Breakfast is served, your honor.
If I went to work drunk I would be totally ineffective.
I would also be fired in very short order.
I hope the good folks of New Orleans have the wisdom to fire this waste-case at the next election.
Brings back incredulous memories of going to The Cave during college days and consuming pitchers of the stuff - back when we were immortal. If Nagin is still drinking Colt 45 for breakfast at his age, he's a better man than me.
I used to love Harry Anderson on the TV show Night Court but my favorite character was the DA Dan Fielding played by John Larroquette who is a New Orleans native.
The John Larroquette Show was also great TV show for a while. Larroquette played a recovering alcoholic named John Hemingway, not a stretch since Larroquette is himself a recovering alcoholic, who runs a seedy bus station in St. Louis and quotes the novels of Thomas Pynchon and keeps a sign over his desk, “This is a Dark Ride”.
It was a wonderfully dark, deep and sometimes, poignant comedy whose characters were shown as flawed and kind of seedy in a very real way. Larroquette’s portrayal of early recovery and AA was probably the closest network TV as ever come to portraying what it’s like, although in a rather dark and satirical way. After the first season NBC tried to revamp it into a more traditional comedy and ruined it completely.
OK that was off topic. Nagin probably does have Colt 45’s for breakfast – it would explain a lot. I used to know a gal from NO who's father was in politics down there. She told me excessive drinking and eating were the main past times in that city - it was the way of life.
Thanks to all who explained to this old lady what a Colt 45 is! I figured it was some kind of handgun!!
LOL!!
Brown is dumb as a brick and had no idea what he had said.
Brown is dumb as a brick and had no idea what he had said.