I knew he was going to be on Meet the Press. I recorded it because I can barely stand the sound of Cotton's voice. Haven’t watched yet and after reading this from Andy I think I will skip it altogether.
I heard his comments after viewing the 2nd strike video "righteous" is the way he described it. Meanwhile the Honduran cocaine king pin is now spending time with his family for the holidays. Because he addressed Trump as "your Excellency" in his letter. WTF?
If it weren't for Andy Borowitz, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel & Jimmy Fallon, and people on You Tube whose names I cannot come up with right now, I'm sure I would not have two brain cells left to rub together to create the will to go on with hope that there is still hope. (There's still hope--right?)
The things you do for us Andy 😂 with such brilliant results! Truly appreciate your watching that insufferable man Cotton! I think Profiles in Awfulness would be a fitting sequel to Profiles in Ignorance and with this lot your magnum opus would run to several volumes 😉
Yes, I find that sooooo nauseating! Obviously, they can't see how shallow, idiotic, mean-spirited, self-centered...you get the point, he is. I just shake my head every time one of his acolytes speaks and can provide not one simple fact about anything their hero has done.
You deserve combat pay. Cotton can only go lower than Sanders, because the bar has been removed. It cannot go any lower. It’s not even a minor speed bump.
What's really sickening is that this hypocrisy and blase, insidious lying has become the norm. I honestly cannot watch or listen to any of these soulless, selfish, intellectually diminutive cretins. It affects my blood pressure. I only "hear" what's being said by reading TBR and HCR and a couple other 'stacks. And the NYT.
So, Andy, I say that you deserve prizes more worthy than any phony medal PIFA doles out (for which, incidentally, I half expect trump to appoint a Secretary of Soccer to his cabinet). No, you deserve a tickertape parade, a solid gold trophy (preferably made from melted down doo-dads yanked from trump's White House) and a holiday named after you, just for weeding through the swamp of lies and greed and slime churned out by this dictatorship.
I so agree that Tom Cotton was just horrible on MTP. I wouldn't have expected anything different since he's always awful. Andy, I don't think you want an award from FIFA. Frankly, a made-up award from such a corrupt organization is the only one that our corrupt dear leader should receive.
Two medals—one for this sentence alone (ré wormbrain Bobby K): "He has poisoned his brain to such a degree that it’s remarkable a worm found it habitable."
I think you deserve a medal, Andy!!! You deserve the real thing though! Not some verkackte shit piece created by an awful, shifty, corrupt, laughable man and organization.
Saw on the news this morning that the Honduran Attorney General has issued an international arrest warrant against Juan Orlando Hernández for earlier corruption, so there’s hope!
He's a horrible, horrible man! Welker did pretty good trying to call him out, but he just doubled down. He makes me gag, along with all the rest of 'em. What a bunch of useless ass-lickers those Republicans are.
Welker was ok, but the format of MTP now appears to allow her only one follow-up question on each subject. That means an experienced liar like Cotton easily disposes of the follow-up with another lie, and she meekly moves on to the next subject. It’s frustrating to watch.
The aggression of Tim Russert is sorely missed. MTP is the hot seat. We don't get a look behind the curtain very often and this show should be the fourth estate's chance to snarl back at the BS inflicted on US.
Tim Russert -- I remember him so well, and miss him so much. He took no shit from no one. His son Luke is trying, but has been relegated to mc-ing the 'forums' on MS-Now. The apple did fall far.
I must apologize for my deplorable use of the double-negative. 'No shit from no one'==Mea Culpa. What I meant to write was that Tim (may he rest in peace) took no shit from ANYONE.
Luke is ok, but just that. But no one could ever rival Tim. No one.
True - I don't watch MTP often enough to have noticed that, but you're right, Andy! Thank you for pointing that out. It is very frustrating, and probably one of the reasons I don't watch it much anymore!
Unfortunately, none of our mainstream press seem to want to incur the wrath of tRump!! Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him!! Thank God you’re picking up some of the slack!
I have never watched those Sunday news shows as they are just a venue for very tepid reporting and for the administration (especially this administration) to pull out some pretty stupendous lies. If cotton cares about kids, where's his outrage over dismantling the department of education.
Since Arkansas is the state responsible for the Walmart-ification of the rest of the world, it is unsurprising that Old Tom Cottonmouth thinks that slapping an American flag on everything he says makes it all okay (if you recall that is what the Waltons did when they were expanding their "brand"). I have friends from Arkansas and colleagues at universities there and we stand in solidarity together, those of us in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas: four of the most idiotic and venal state governments in the USA, despite Laura Kelly's attempt to hold the line in KS. Andy, I have a request: I would love for you to reveal the utter moral and ethical black holes that are Andrew Bailey (former AG in Missouri) and Kris Kobach (current AG in Kansas and was one of the more repellent of my colleagues at UMKC) because they have national political ambitions and both of them are utterly nauseating humans.
No doubt!!! Where does a worm like Kobach gestate?? Or all the other repugnant Republicans? Who knew there were so many heinous hyenas in America (apologies to hyenas)??!!
I have been wondering what genetic defect/aberration creates these GOP creatures, whose humanity is alleged but not proven. (Apologies to hyenas, but I love your descriptive "heinous hyenas")
I really can't (not my stories to tell) but let's just say his colleagues in the Law School were not fans--and that law schools in general are often centers of inappropriate behavior on the part of male faculty and female students (have witnessed this is several places and with several people). So not surprising at all given what a piece of shite he is.
Why did you leave Indiana out of your state denunciations? Hoosiers are working hard to surpass Louisiana. A candidate for congress in Indiana said she believed the legislature would do the right thing. (We are being re-gerrymandered for Trump.). I will not even know what red district I am in until Friday!
Believe me: I am well aware of the problems of horrifically execrable state governments in the Heartland. I have witnessed the debasement of state government personally in Indiana (went to grad school there in the 1980s) and Missouri (was purple when I got here in 2008) but really no region is immune. I lived in western NY State for 17 years, in the most impoverished county in New York, and the Albany government treated us all like something they stepped into and tried to wipe off from the soles of their shoes. Both Democratic and Republican governors. I am highlighting my immediate neighbors because, unlike places like Florida, we often get overlooked in the awfulness indices and the genuine battle that blue cities like Kansas City have with the state governments is ignored.
You make an extremely important point here---no region is immune. At first, like Andy, I was thinking that Arkansas should feel awfully embarrassed and then all these other states were added in (and they left out Kentucky, home of Moscow Mitch!) but you remind me that there are people who did not vote for Trump in all of those states and, frankly, we ALL should be embarrassed by what our country has become. Folks like Tom Cotton, though, should be tarred and feathered.
Well said, Andy! Like everyone else, the Trump administration's glaring hypocrisy makes me sick. As Andy points out, Trump’s "outrageous pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández," who was convicted of flooding the US with hundreds of tons of cocaine, has gotten little criticism from the GOP. These people don't care about anything but their own big asses.
Andy, I LOVE how you are speaking out and calling out the hypocrisy that abounds in this administration. As you said, I just hope I'm still here to watch the Hague proceedings on TV. Keep up the good work!
if media networks really want to strike it rich, they should set up a network devoted to the Hague, 24/7, coverage . . . coming after ConOLD eats that last double cheeseburger and filet-o-fish
A brutally scathing assessment of Slender Man #2 (Jared Kushner is the inaugural creep). Excellent piece, Andy!
As I understand, Tommy Rotten felt the two survivors of the initial blast were just waving, enjoying their fragile hold on a PIECE of a boat. They were "not incapacitated" (aka dead) so they must have been enjoying their cruise in the middle of freakin' nowhere, holding onto freakin' nothing. Rotten also argued, " that President Donald Trump did not have to seek congressional approval if he continued boat strikes..."
What is your end game, Senator Rotten? What do you want from the bloated yam, so much that you would sell your soul? And I'd like to hear your explain, to your own kids, why this act of presidential and defense incompetence is perfectly acceptable to you. You are indeed an embarrassment, not only to your state but your country.
The obvious thing that everyone doesn’t say is: how the hell would a 10-11 passenger boat motor 1,000+ miles to Florida on one tank of gas? And Tom Cotton should stop embarrassing himself. A good example of dedicated stupid.
I knew he was going to be on Meet the Press. I recorded it because I can barely stand the sound of Cotton's voice. Haven’t watched yet and after reading this from Andy I think I will skip it altogether.
I heard his comments after viewing the 2nd strike video "righteous" is the way he described it. Meanwhile the Honduran cocaine king pin is now spending time with his family for the holidays. Because he addressed Trump as "your Excellency" in his letter. WTF?
I think I deserve a medal—possible from FIFA—for watching Meet the Press despite knowing Cotton would be on.
Your medal should be from the Comedian Hall of Fame, because comedians speak truth to power and idiots. Maybe that's the same thing
If it weren't for Andy Borowitz, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel & Jimmy Fallon, and people on You Tube whose names I cannot come up with right now, I'm sure I would not have two brain cells left to rub together to create the will to go on with hope that there is still hope. (There's still hope--right?)
And Heather Cox Richardson
Amen to Letters from an American! HCR ROCKS!!
Can we now call her the Notorious HCR?
And Mary l Trump
Yes, there is hope. Montréal is sending to our friends all it's love.
Thank you so much, Jean-Pierre. We are devastated
by the disrespect this orange moron has heaped upon
your country, and all others for that matter. Please accept
our heartfelt apologies and our love back.
Everything will be find. Canada survives the orange moron. We call him piggy ... No offense. Merci !
Especially Justin T. to his favorite first lady.
Cue Gary Puckett and the Union Gap’s “Woman, Woman!”
Or the many of tPUMP’s women/wives etc. like Stormy or Malaria
Merci bien. Mille fois merci.
Merci beaucoup! Will you take me in? :^)
And don't forget Jon Stewart and John Oliver please
Oh, yes! Of course!! Thanks for waking up the weary brain cell.
Yes the young comics on the Daily Show, Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng (love his anti AI rants) and Jordan Klepper, oh and Josh Jordan.
Please add The Contrarian to your list for more reason to hope!
And Robert Reich!
That list of names above keep us sane and hopeful...they are all brilliant.
Yes...there is still hope...just 11 months until the midterms ...and you will see a huge change for the better.
Today we might get a Democratic Miami mayor!!
Yup, counting the days till we can put the brakes on this asshole.
That said, still taking even money he doesn't make the full 4 for any reason.
I'm part of a trio where we take turns sharing a brain cell........
How to say that you’re an orange cat without saying it
Yes, more hope every day. Keep the remains of faith going!
And Randy Rainbow. Have you seen the latest? It’s to Cabaret! It’s brilliant, as always.
It is incredible. Everyone should watch it at least once.
I hope so, no pun intended. Wait, maybe my brain did intend that pun. It's hard to keep track...
Don’t leave out Randy Rainbow!🌈🌈🌈
And Senator Adam Schiff.
At 'im Adam!
Add Jeff Tiedrich to the group.
And our friends at Pod Save America!
So TRUE!!!
And Jonathan Larsen (The Fucking News), & Jay Kao, Joyce Vance!
The things you do for us Andy 😂 with such brilliant results! Truly appreciate your watching that insufferable man Cotton! I think Profiles in Awfulness would be a fitting sequel to Profiles in Ignorance and with this lot your magnum opus would run to several volumes 😉
Your willingness to "take one for the team" again and again blows my mind some mornings, my friend.
Like, EVERY morning @AndyBorowitz
Absolutely, and not one of those cheesy "participation awards"
Was any time allotted for his cousin, "Oxy"? I believe he was a college buddy of RFKKK Jr....
Beware! Watching Tom Cotton can lead to CDS ..Cotton Derangement Syndrome. Almost as damaging as Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Not to mention the MAGA affliction TAD: Trump Adoration Syndrome.
Good one. Sounds like a life threatening affliction.
It is!
Yes, I find that sooooo nauseating! Obviously, they can't see how shallow, idiotic, mean-spirited, self-centered...you get the point, he is. I just shake my head every time one of his acolytes speaks and can provide not one simple fact about anything their hero has done.
You deserve combat pay. Cotton can only go lower than Sanders, because the bar has been removed. It cannot go any lower. It’s not even a minor speed bump.
Andy, you deserve more than a medal!!
What's really sickening is that this hypocrisy and blase, insidious lying has become the norm. I honestly cannot watch or listen to any of these soulless, selfish, intellectually diminutive cretins. It affects my blood pressure. I only "hear" what's being said by reading TBR and HCR and a couple other 'stacks. And the NYT.
So, Andy, I say that you deserve prizes more worthy than any phony medal PIFA doles out (for which, incidentally, I half expect trump to appoint a Secretary of Soccer to his cabinet). No, you deserve a tickertape parade, a solid gold trophy (preferably made from melted down doo-dads yanked from trump's White House) and a holiday named after you, just for weeding through the swamp of lies and greed and slime churned out by this dictatorship.
I so agree that Tom Cotton was just horrible on MTP. I wouldn't have expected anything different since he's always awful. Andy, I don't think you want an award from FIFA. Frankly, a made-up award from such a corrupt organization is the only one that our corrupt dear leader should receive.
Thank you, Andy, for sparing us from watching cotton. Your sacrifice is admirably appreciated!
Two medals—one for this sentence alone (ré wormbrain Bobby K): "He has poisoned his brain to such a degree that it’s remarkable a worm found it habitable."
Of course: The Andy Borowitz Golden Global One-and-Only Peace Prize for Exceptional Tolerance, Patience and Amazing Insights.
I’ll write to FIFA about your medal. You have to understand though that I don’t seem to have as much influence in this matter as does President Trump.
The FIFA Peace Prize?
And I like soccer! ⚽️
I think you deserve a medal, Andy!!! You deserve the real thing though! Not some verkackte shit piece created by an awful, shifty, corrupt, laughable man and organization.
WTF is my new middle name.
I've progressed to WTFF...what the f'ing f.........
I’m an 89 year old white lady and proper - but it’s become my middle name as well.
Brava Joyce!
This!
It’s become my immediate response to almost everything I hear now from these creatures.
That was my comment. Thanks
LHS I think every news reporter is saying (that’s my middle name)!
There is no FBI to investigate and follow the money from a Honduran Drug Kingpin to Trump offshore accounts.
Has to be money involved!
No. There is ALWAYS money involved.
Yeah, again!
Saw on the news this morning that the Honduran Attorney General has issued an international arrest warrant against Juan Orlando Hernández for earlier corruption, so there’s hope!
The Honduran AG better get security immediately. Trump will likely threaten him.
Yeah!
Kashyap is too busy making sure his girlfriend avoids the airport lines and gets express service for her travel.
$$$$$ likely involved.
Just guessin'
Bitcoin plus sycophantic fawning of ego seems to be the winning combination
Thanks for the reminder about Cotton's voice.
I like the skip-straight-to-Andy suggestion.
I think so, too. And for ever having had to listen to Leavitt. And just maybe for every TBR since 2016 or somewhere thereabouts.
WTF 🤬 indeed!!!
It's BEYOND repulsive
Janeen. WTF is right. They (the rethuglicans) always speak out of their Ahole!
He's a horrible, horrible man! Welker did pretty good trying to call him out, but he just doubled down. He makes me gag, along with all the rest of 'em. What a bunch of useless ass-lickers those Republicans are.
Welker was ok, but the format of MTP now appears to allow her only one follow-up question on each subject. That means an experienced liar like Cotton easily disposes of the follow-up with another lie, and she meekly moves on to the next subject. It’s frustrating to watch.
The aggression of Tim Russert is sorely missed. MTP is the hot seat. We don't get a look behind the curtain very often and this show should be the fourth estate's chance to snarl back at the BS inflicted on US.
Tim Russert -- I remember him so well, and miss him so much. He took no shit from no one. His son Luke is trying, but has been relegated to mc-ing the 'forums' on MS-Now. The apple did fall far.
Genes will only take you so far. Luke probably has a different mix of assets.
I must apologize for my deplorable use of the double-negative. 'No shit from no one'==Mea Culpa. What I meant to write was that Tim (may he rest in peace) took no shit from ANYONE.
Luke is ok, but just that. But no one could ever rival Tim. No one.
Don't matter no how Wendy. Dominic go frisk 'em.
She needs to try "the weave" - maybe that would get better responses
True - I don't watch MTP often enough to have noticed that, but you're right, Andy! Thank you for pointing that out. It is very frustrating, and probably one of the reasons I don't watch it much anymore!
Has MTP wussied down? Is Bari Weiss advising?
I no longer ruin Sunday mornings with any of those shows.
What good does it do to hear the lies by maggots who defend tRump? Just makes me angry and frustrated.
Agnes, you're right. I call them the Sunday Morning Agrevation Shows. All I do is yell at the TV.
No, no, not ass-lickers, in Germany we would say Mastdarm Acrobat. Sounds kind of "sporty".
Unfortunately, none of our mainstream press seem to want to incur the wrath of tRump!! Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him!! Thank God you’re picking up some of the slack!
Useless ass-lickers will be their band name I hell! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Brown-nosers and brown-tongues!
Peaceful Mary. I think a lot
Of us are saying the same thing 💩
I have never watched those Sunday news shows as they are just a venue for very tepid reporting and for the administration (especially this administration) to pull out some pretty stupendous lies. If cotton cares about kids, where's his outrage over dismantling the department of education.
I don't watch them either. I'd rather take Murphy for a walk or to the dog park 🐕
Especially if Murphy needs to comment by taking a dump.
Cotton is rotten. But Sanders is grander.
I don't cotton to Cotton.
I'm trying to pick a favorite.
Just 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sanders is a piece of work . . . rising to the level of her incompetence, she and her dad can go pound sand.
--if they can even do that.....
Time to recycle Cotton!
into rainbow ribbons for the Presidential Medal of Freedom
No, please don't recycle him. Just throw him on the rag pile to be disposed of or wiping our demented president's a$$
excellent options, Wendy - especially the second!
Excellent suggestions!
😂😂😂🫠
Bernie is grander, Sarah is a POS
as is her father
Since Arkansas is the state responsible for the Walmart-ification of the rest of the world, it is unsurprising that Old Tom Cottonmouth thinks that slapping an American flag on everything he says makes it all okay (if you recall that is what the Waltons did when they were expanding their "brand"). I have friends from Arkansas and colleagues at universities there and we stand in solidarity together, those of us in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas: four of the most idiotic and venal state governments in the USA, despite Laura Kelly's attempt to hold the line in KS. Andy, I have a request: I would love for you to reveal the utter moral and ethical black holes that are Andrew Bailey (former AG in Missouri) and Kris Kobach (current AG in Kansas and was one of the more repellent of my colleagues at UMKC) because they have national political ambitions and both of them are utterly nauseating humans.
Kris Kobach is odious. Sets a new low for alleged humans. (former Kansan here).
Oh you have no idea (I have stories)
No doubt!!! Where does a worm like Kobach gestate?? Or all the other repugnant Republicans? Who knew there were so many heinous hyenas in America (apologies to hyenas)??!!
I have been wondering what genetic defect/aberration creates these GOP creatures, whose humanity is alleged but not proven. (Apologies to hyenas, but I love your descriptive "heinous hyenas")
Let's hear'em!
Please publish said stories!
I really can't (not my stories to tell) but let's just say his colleagues in the Law School were not fans--and that law schools in general are often centers of inappropriate behavior on the part of male faculty and female students (have witnessed this is several places and with several people). So not surprising at all given what a piece of shite he is.
Why did you leave Indiana out of your state denunciations? Hoosiers are working hard to surpass Louisiana. A candidate for congress in Indiana said she believed the legislature would do the right thing. (We are being re-gerrymandered for Trump.). I will not even know what red district I am in until Friday!
Believe me: I am well aware of the problems of horrifically execrable state governments in the Heartland. I have witnessed the debasement of state government personally in Indiana (went to grad school there in the 1980s) and Missouri (was purple when I got here in 2008) but really no region is immune. I lived in western NY State for 17 years, in the most impoverished county in New York, and the Albany government treated us all like something they stepped into and tried to wipe off from the soles of their shoes. Both Democratic and Republican governors. I am highlighting my immediate neighbors because, unlike places like Florida, we often get overlooked in the awfulness indices and the genuine battle that blue cities like Kansas City have with the state governments is ignored.
You make an extremely important point here---no region is immune. At first, like Andy, I was thinking that Arkansas should feel awfully embarrassed and then all these other states were added in (and they left out Kentucky, home of Moscow Mitch!) but you remind me that there are people who did not vote for Trump in all of those states and, frankly, we ALL should be embarrassed by what our country has become. Folks like Tom Cotton, though, should be tarred and feathered.
Please add Iowa to your venal state group.
And Florida
Goes without saying.
A true cesspool.
It’s hard to be humorous about such rot.
Trying.
And doing a great job with the absolute shit that's keeps on keeping.
Like court jesters of old, you speak truth to monarchic power with piercing humor - and you never look the fool!
your last sentence was the best!
Succeeding.
--and succeeding!
Worthy of a Quisling Award, though it is a very crowded field!
how about: "Quisling: The Next Generation"
Tom Cotton also calls killing the crew of the boat as Righteous. That’s an odd way to describe killing people, especially since there is no war.
White Christian Nationalust language.
He obviously is referring to protecting rich kids since he loves cutting benefits to poor ones.
Thank you for shining a spotlight on the Cottonmouth Snake. Too easy to lose sight of him in the morass.
Well said, Andy! Like everyone else, the Trump administration's glaring hypocrisy makes me sick. As Andy points out, Trump’s "outrageous pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández," who was convicted of flooding the US with hundreds of tons of cocaine, has gotten little criticism from the GOP. These people don't care about anything but their own big asses.
Andy, I LOVE how you are speaking out and calling out the hypocrisy that abounds in this administration. As you said, I just hope I'm still here to watch the Hague proceedings on TV. Keep up the good work!
if media networks really want to strike it rich, they should set up a network devoted to the Hague, 24/7, coverage . . . coming after ConOLD eats that last double cheeseburger and filet-o-fish
I find myself choosing to watch paint dry versus ever watching Cotton in an interview. He is a poor excuse for a human being.
Right on the money. Cotton is evil and incredibly ignorant and/or stupid. Thanks, Andy!
A brutally scathing assessment of Slender Man #2 (Jared Kushner is the inaugural creep). Excellent piece, Andy!
As I understand, Tommy Rotten felt the two survivors of the initial blast were just waving, enjoying their fragile hold on a PIECE of a boat. They were "not incapacitated" (aka dead) so they must have been enjoying their cruise in the middle of freakin' nowhere, holding onto freakin' nothing. Rotten also argued, " that President Donald Trump did not have to seek congressional approval if he continued boat strikes..."
What is your end game, Senator Rotten? What do you want from the bloated yam, so much that you would sell your soul? And I'd like to hear your explain, to your own kids, why this act of presidential and defense incompetence is perfectly acceptable to you. You are indeed an embarrassment, not only to your state but your country.
Thank you! Outstanding comment, Annette.
So well stated.
Amen!
Yup!
thank you all - its just so sad this comment has to be made, and Tommy Rotten is only one person in this farce of an administration.
The obvious thing that everyone doesn’t say is: how the hell would a 10-11 passenger boat motor 1,000+ miles to Florida on one tank of gas? And Tom Cotton should stop embarrassing himself. A good example of dedicated stupid.