I hope Bill has stocked up on his K-Y Jelly supply (and I’d imagine he has), because he’s going to need it.
I also hope neither Euna Lee nor Laura Ling try to make money off this episode when they get out.
Bubba Clinton Going to N. Korea
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“I also hope neither Euna Lee nor Laura Ling try to make money off this episode when they get out.”
Good one, Robert.
Hey Bubba,
Ask KJI about the Gippeumjo special. You can thank me later with a cabinet or ambassador spot later.
what is it with former presidents coming to this peninsula? they’re gonna start making people think its the hub of Asia or something
Given that Euna and Laura are fully assimilated Asian Americans, I can almost guarantee that they will shoot for a book/TV deal.
I dunno, Robert. I’d say that if either Euna Lee or Laura Ling can make a buck out of their encounter with North Korea, more power to them. They will be among a select few who have done so. The place is a black hole for everyone else’s money, so maybe it’s time someone, anyone, gets something out of that god-forsaken cesspool.
DLB
“Given that Euna and Laura are fully assimilated Asian Americans, I can almost guarantee that they will shoot for a book/TV deal.”
Given that Euna and Laura are Asians, I can almost guarantee that they are money grubbers and that they will shot for a book/TV deal.
*shoot for a book/TV deal.
why would anyone care if they try to make money off the ordeal? who would that negatively impact?
pbowers,
Right. They’d be crazy not to. What’s the point of being taken hostage in NK if you can’t tell your story afterwards.
wasn’t it supposed to negatively impact all the contacts that they used to set up the whole operation? didn’t they get ratted out or something?
Rather than Bubba Clinton visiting on a taxpayer-funded junket, it should be the unfortunate (and rather stupid) ladies’ boss, Ozone Al, who should go, and he should so so at his own organization’s expense.
If the Nobel laureate were more of a man, perhaps he’d offer to serve their 24 years for them. Doing so would likely lower his carbon footprint.
#11: I like your thinking. That would give The Goreacle all the carbon street cred he could ever possibly need–an inmate of a North Korean gulag must have the carbon footprint of a chipmunk.
Bill Clinton is going for a Nobel Prize.
the Nobel Politcal, I mean, Peace Prize.
At the very least copy catting Carter.
Lee and Ling pulled off the ‘me love you long time’, it seems.
Quite notable low profiles by their barbarian husbands.
this reminds me of Jesse Jackson’s tricking of the Serbian govt during confrontation to release some US prisoners and Serbia getting zero in return.
anyhow, ‘me love you long time’.
ha ha ha, guys.
ha ha ha.
satisfy me a knowledge crave like no other community can.
You guys probably know it firsthand.
Where did the ‘me love you long time’
phrase originate from?
we have a variety of choices.
Japan, Philippines, Korea, Vietnam.
Gomawuh.
What’s funny is that Clinton still has hard feelings towards Carter because of Carter’s unauthorized trip to Pyongyang in 1994 when tensions were high over the NK nuclear program. One would assume, though, that he cleared it with Hillary and her boss before going.
“Where did the ‘me love you long time’ phrase originate from?”
Since I remember hearing it first in the movie “Full Metal Jacket”, from a scene during the Vietnam War, I’ll guess Japan.
“Where did the ‘me love you long time’ phrase originate from?”
Since I remember hearing it first in the movie “Full Metal Jacket”, from a scene during the Vietnam War, I’ll guess Kazakhstan.
Who’s the KY-jelly for: himself or someone else?
# 6,
Gee I don’t know… How many lucrative book deals do you hear come directly from either Korea, China or Japan? Now compare that to America!
I’d argue that self promotion for money is a trait stronger in the West than it is in the East.
@19, I think he was simply calling Asian women money-grubbing, not so much making commentary about the self-promotion in the West vs. East.
@20, then he would have simply added another term “women” instead of taking away “Americans”.
I am not so sure that Asians and book deals go hand in and as much as the Americans, if at all.. (The OJ case says it all he’s black and male but he IS an AMERICAN)
hand in HAND as much as IT DOES for the Americans.
those ridiculous girls could not have chosen a worse time to be farting around north korea in the name of journalism.
NK definitely seems in the dealing making mood – not just the two women. I wonder if Clinton/Obama will bite. You’d think they’d have something in mind to send Bill over there – that it would be about more than the two women. What can we expect? Probably another shut down of the Yangbyeon Reactor, and end to rocket launching in return for some sort of humanitarian aid, that’s what I’d bet. So, NK would continue expanding its nukes under the table, albeit at a slower rate. It would be great to see some more creative and intelligent diplomacy from the US, some way to really get NK away from nukes – but they probably figure the best they can do is to slow down the North.
K-Y? That is the best you could come up with? Really? How sad, sleazy and juvenile.
As far as K-Y goes, I think the op was referencing that brand of unctuous negotiating and double-dealing that Bubba Clinton is famous for. (I could be mistaken though.)
@22: Do ya’ mean: “손에손 에소…” I absolutely adore that song — it’s my “drunken encore” song whenever I go to noraebang!
I see that ol’ Cullen Thomas, the dude busted and tried in Seoul in 1994 for mailing myself hashish from the Philippines, makes the interesting observation that the three phone calls granted by Pyongyang to Laura Ling to her family back in the States are three more than the South Korean authorities allowed him to make during his incarceration. In your face, Seoul!
BTW, can we get Pyongyang to accept Lisa Ling in exchange for her sister? Damn, that woman is annoying!
DLB
Oops. Meant to type “himself,” not “myself.” Damn, that’s kinda funny actually.
DLB
And Bill got the job done this time – it’s being reported on MSN that the two journalists are being pardoned. The US just had to suck up to the DPRK once more.
Democrat ex-Presidents tend to have the best success with the Norks…
Actually, the U.S. didn’t suck up to anybody — sending Bubba was a stroke of genius from the State Dept’s pov as it killed two birds with one stone.
First, Bubba’s mere presence gave KJI the satisfaction of having received an official-sounding/looking apology from an ex-president, which was a veritable coup for the North Koreans.
Second, however, Bubba’s status as an “unofficial” person — in the words of the White House on a “solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans” — gives the U.S. an equally smarmy feeling that we got what we wanted without having to negotiate with a country we don’t recognize.
Oh, the cheap thrills!
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