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A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off
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Posted on 10/01/2010 7:57:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
A Teary Emanuel Gets Dead Fish At White House Send-off
October 01, 2010 9:55 AM
At the 8:30 staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room this morning, departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was given a gift by Council of Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee: a dead Asian carp.
This was an allusion to the Emanuel legend of his sending a dead fish to a pollster for whom he didn’t care, replicating the scene from The Godfather when the Corleones were alerted of Luca Brasi’s death with a dead fish wrapped in Brasi’s bullet-proof vest. The specific species was a reference to Emanuel’s focus as a member of Congress and White House chief of staff on the aggressive, invasive Asian carp, bane of the Great Lakes, a plankton-devouring creature heading towards Chicago.
Goolsbee said: “I talked to the policy team and we wanted to give you a going away present—something to show how we feel about you but also shows we understand your new possibilities. I was the natural go between—I voted for you all three times you ran for Congress and even in that first primary. So here is your present.”
Emanuel opened it.
“This is a dead fish!” he said.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deadfish; rahm
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How classy.........
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
10/01/2010 7:59:02 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Sub-Driver
As tasteful as giving Bill Clinton a blue dress or Ted Kennedy a new Oldsmobile.
3
posted on
10/01/2010 7:59:18 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Grblb blabt unt mipt speeb!! Oot piffoo blaboo...)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:00:06 AM PDT
by
GoCards
("We eat therefore we hunt...")
To: Sub-Driver
Hannity will have fun with this today.
5
posted on
10/01/2010 8:00:42 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
To: Sub-Driver
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:00:53 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: KarlInOhio
and don’t let the door hit you in the back end on the way out.
Meanwhile, was his leader present? Probably not, he is out campaigning and doing the hip hop routine somewhere.
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:00:53 AM PDT
by
Mouton
To: Sub-Driver
How about a horse head?
He should be very familiar with that.
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:01:20 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: KarlInOhio
Why would Rahm be shocked? He’s a despicable scumbag. What goes around comes around.
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:01:32 AM PDT
by
max americana
(Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
To: Sub-Driver
Are these people 2 year olds?
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:01:37 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
To: Ann Archy
Rahm should be careful about someone delivering him a live shark or something.
Dead fish don't mean 'nothin'.
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:02:26 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
To: Sub-Driver
Rahm is sending it along to a number of Chicago aldermen who have said his run for Mayor is inappropriate because he has no residency there.
13
posted on
10/01/2010 8:02:35 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: Sub-Driver
They have a tin ear for politics.
And they can't govern at all.
How did these people get there?
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:06:32 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Things will change after the revolution, but not before.)
To: Sub-Driver
He must have sh** his pants the bed wetting moron.
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:06:32 AM PDT
by
boomop1
(S)
To: Sub-Driver
How about a horse’s head ...
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:07:07 AM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:07:07 AM PDT
by
Republic
(The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
To: Sub-Driver
A useful idiot who is no longer useful....is still an idiot.
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:08:09 AM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(Just ask Coates: The Obama Admin has no problem with racism as long as it's "applied correctly")
To: Responsibility2nd
How about a horse head? No mention of John Kerry being at this meeting.
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:08:30 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: Sub-Driver
Straight out of the Godfather. "It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes." ―Peter Clemenza
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posted on
10/01/2010 8:11:26 AM PDT
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife)
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