Loose Lips Quotes of 2009: Adrian Fenty
“He is if I let him.”
—Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, May 26
The leitmotif of city politics in 2009 was the emergence of Fenty the Jerk—an arrogant, stubborn, uncommunicative boor who's anything but accountable. That wasn't a product so much of any isolated incident, but a narrative that was continuously sharpened by a string of small travails—secret foreign travel, hoarding of baseball tickets, his children's school enrollment, and so on—and Fenty's response to them. His knack for turning one-day stories into one-week stories or one-month stories has been preternatural. Take his response to a Washington Post revelation that he was in the habit of letting friend Keith Lomax—a construction-company owner with millions in city contracts—drive him around in his city-owned Lincoln Navigator. When reporter Nikita Stewart asked Fenty whether a non-city-worker was allowed to play chauffeur, Fenty issued the imperial declaration above—just as Richard Nixon once defended his own shenanigans by saying, "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." At least when Nixon said that, he wasn't in office anymore.
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6:15 pm
PERFECT QUOTE FOR A DOW-LOW PUNK!
FUCK THIS FAGGIE ASS BITCH!
7:28 pm
Sort of explains the whole "god" thing with him 'making it rain,' etc.
8:08 pm
Fenty the Fag likes it up the ass through a hole cut into his tight bike shorts. Faggy Fenty fucks free for fun - fucking ffff alliteration.
12:36 am
Fenty is a bisexual like many of his frat brothers. I bet, Fenty is a bottom, but the man has a flat ass like an ironing board and he have a little cut pinga.
7:47 pm
Leave Fenty alone. He has a job to do and I know that none of you could have done any better or you would have been the mayor.
He is strongly supported, loved and prayed for.
3:21 pm
WHAT! Watcher2
Noodlez you stole my line! Priceless!
9:46 am
Watcher2 is entitle to pray for whom he/she pleases. However, there is a very large number of previous Fenty supporters that may be praying, but, contrary to your opinion, for the day that they can vote him out of office.
8:26 pm
Fenty is a jerk, watcher 2 you must be part of his admin.