1. First off, today is picture day for my son’s pre-K class. So if I’m not around much it’s because I’m off hemming his sheet and starching the hood. O! How the whiteness glistens!
2. The Big Lie strategy — which I picked up on earlier but which now can be found in greater numbers, expressed with an almost surrealistic candor by those pretending to be champions of principle — is, thankfully, beginning to turn off some of the more honest (and truly principled) Democrats. Obama’s base has been laid bare, here. Unfortunately, many rank and file Americans — though they express their doubts about media objectivity — still in all get their information from the mainstream press. And when that press is churning out muck-raking tales and innuendo confined to one political party, well, it could add, as Evan Thomas once helpfully and infamously noted, about 15 points to the “preferred” candidate’s side of the electoral ledger.
Freedom of the press only works when the press is truly representative of divergent opinions. But like many disciplines in the academy, the mainstream press has become nothing more than another “progressive” advocacy group — desirous of teaching the rubes whatever “lessons” are deemed necessary to get voters to think “correctly.” From there, it is but a small step toward convincing oneself that, as a “reporter,” the methods by which you achieve that end are subordinate to the end itself — and so certain literary license or a particular “framing” is perfectly acceptable, given that what is important is how people interpret. Give them what they need to make the “right” reading and you’ve done the nation a service.
Our press, conceived of in such a way and protected by the First Amendment and a mythology of its commitment to “objectivity,” is nowadays an embarrassment, frankly. And while the Palin feeding frenzy (based entirely on lies and sensationalism), when juxtaposed against the desire on the part of the press to bury unflattering stories about, say, John Edwards or Barack Obama (no matter how true they happen to be, or in Obama’s case, by refusing to do anything but the most cursory of “investigations” — be it into the Rezko connection, the Ayers / CAC connection and administration, etc.) clearly points to an almost in-your-face bias on the party of the mainstream press, unfortunately, the only people who know so are those that follow the news closely and skeptically.
People who read, say, US Weekly without realizing the political slant behind it? Not so much.
Dan has plenty more over at the Pub.
3. Ray Robison looks at Biden on defense. All teeth and (doll?) hair, I’d say.
4. Terry Hastings emails:
One of PW’s astute commenters observed that part of the problem with politics today is a self absorbtion that blinds itself to what the political class has become. There are no mirrors. In that vein, today’s WSJ summarizes the reaction across a broad swath of what is commonly known as the mainstream media and it appears to support the no mirror thesis.The media is first and foremost about itself and its own internalized narratives. The news is just a useful medium from which to pull teachable lessons. The fact that doublethink is required to internalize the lessons is lost upon the media because it has lost the ability to look at itself. George Orwell no doubt is saying “I told you so” from somewhere beyond the great divide that separates all that was from all that is.
It is too early to say how Ms. Palin will emerge from all this, but I hold out HOPE! that she has the ability to rise above the shit storm that has descended upon her and expose the blatant liars and hypocrites for what they are.
5. David Thompson on the greater good: “When parenting collides with leftist pretension…”
6. Send letter of support to the Palin family, if you so choose. Visit here for details.
7. My finger still hurts. Thanks for asking.
Comment by Barrett Brown on 9/3 @ 11:12 am #
“And while the Palin feeding frenzy (based entirely on lies and sensationalism)”
Ahem. There are legitimate issues with Palin that are not at all based on lies or sensationalism. Perhaps we could discuss them?
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 11:15 am #
Sure, Barrett. Why don’t you bring one of those legitimate issues up?
Comment by PC on 9/3 @ 11:15 am #
I feel like AllahPundit, in that I need to breathe in a paper bag at this point.
My husband pointed out last night, though, that people who get their news solely from US magazine are unlikely to vote anyway.
I’m really hoping he’s right. *sob*
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 11:16 am #
That Thompson article … I feel so selfish and elitist. Where do you suppose I could find a hair shirt to wear?
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/3 @ 11:19 am #
There are. But unfortutely, the feeding frenzy doesn’t address those.
You can raise them here (or if you want, put a post up over at the pub, and I’ll link it) and we’ll be happy to talk on those.
But I have to get my kid ready for his pic and take him to school, so I’ll be out of the loop for a bit.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/3 @ 11:20 am #
Yeah, Carin, you homeschool, do you not? How dare you deprive your children of the opportunity to mix with other children and learn when to keep their heads down? You should feel shame.
SHAME ON YOU, CARIN!!
Comment by mojo on 9/3 @ 11:23 am #
Dance FASTER, monkey!
Comment by urthshu on 9/3 @ 11:23 am #
PC -
Seriously, do not be upset. Palin isn’t the kind of person to take this shit lying down.
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/3 @ 11:25 am #
Agree partially emmotdb. It’s not so much the volume of the noise but its content that I’m objecting to.
On one level, I mean. On another level I think it does some good by exposing certain unfortunate truisms about many in the progressive base and in the press.
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 11:29 am #
Did you guys hear LEVI said he didn’t want children? ON HIS FACEBOOK PAGE.
Man, these reporters are, like, so getting to the bottom of this story.
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 9/3 @ 11:31 am #
emmotdb: “Its hard to compare Palin to other established politicians and how their information is discussed. The stuff on Obama has come out over time, over years, in the press and in books and videos and blogs. Palin? We’ve had this holiday weekend and thats about it.”
During which time, the so-called media decided that the fever dreams of Kos Kids were worthy of following-up upon, unto the point that WaPo and the NYT was genetic testing on Governor Pallin’s youngest. Bravo.
emmotdb: “When news of Edward’s affair broke, we didn’t get breaks on his large house or his feminist blogger  that news was already covered, in a way.”
If by “covered” you mean “ignored by the mainstream media for the better part of a year,” maybe.
Comment by Sean M. on 9/3 @ 11:31 am #
Um, Barrett, You might want to pass that comment on to a few of our more (Ahem) “legitimate” news organizations.
I’m just saying is all.
Comment by PC on 9/3 @ 11:34 am #
Yep – they’re stalking the boy’s Myspace page now, and it’s front page news for the CBS site.
I’m firing up the blender because I just can’t handle this sober any longer.
Comment by mojo on 9/3 @ 11:39 am #
This is the sort of moment which usually happens to individual humans at around 16-18 years, when they look around at their “friends” and say “Hey, wait a minute! These people are ASSHOLES!”
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 11:40 am #
We’re waiting Barrett. For that legitimate issue regarding Palin. Oh, perhaps you put a post up on the pub. I’ll go check!
Comment by cranky-d on 9/3 @ 11:40 am #
What’s next? Will it be that Levi is the father of Sarahs youngest? Or have they already gone down that road?
Comment by cranky-d on 9/3 @ 11:42 am #
I mean, it’s like a frelling soap opera at this point.
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 11:45 am #
Well, Ace linked some post where they were saying Trig’s mom is actually the next younger teen.
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/3 @ 11:45 am #
On the plus side, I think all this soap-opera like coverage will yield a big audience for Palin’s speech. And if she does well — and makes the attacks look silly and petty with style and wit — this could be a big big night for the McCain ticket.
Meanwhile, it might be fun to get together a volunteer blog collective that “investigates” the lives of those who purport to deliver us objective news. Which is important, necessary, and ethical because…well, it is.
Comment by Judd on 9/3 @ 11:48 am #
Oohh, me first. Maureen Dowd is a cold fish in bed. It’s true.
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 11:50 am #
Shssh, you guys. We’re waiting for Barrett to bring up those legitimate issues.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 11:50 am #
She’ll still just be a stoopid woman, Jeff, what birthed a slutty man-trapping strumpet. And there will be questions about that. NPR said we can’t just not discuss this.
Comment by Sean M. on 9/3 @ 11:55 am #
And Barrett chimes in, claiming that nobody asked him what those legitimate issues were (ignoring Carin’s comment #2) in 3…2…1…
Comment by Hadlowe on 9/3 @ 11:58 am #
I heard that Chris Matthews is actually a Tony Clifton type character for Maureen Dowd. I don’t know if I believe that. I would think that she’d want to be someone a bit more rough and tumble.
Also, Olbermann is one of those babies that survived an abortion. The vacuum stopped working halfway through.
Comment by mojo on 9/3 @ 12:04 pm #
“Well, I certainly was in the race…”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c70_1220407735
Comment by mpbk on 9/3 @ 12:06 pm #
here comes the next one
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5713866&page=1
although I think I heard about it before
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/3 @ 12:07 pm #
I really believe that last night NBC made President Bush look like an idiot on total accident. I mean there is no way they purposely cut out crowd shots or applause lines so you could just see him stop like an idiot and stare in the camera every 20 seconds like a drooling idiot. Why ever would they do that?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/3 @ 12:09 pm #
So… there’s nothing there, really?
Comment by Jeff G. on 9/3 @ 12:11 pm #
There’s no attempt here to do any “reporting.” It’s just a chum dump of allegations meant to get the sharks circling.
It’s reprehensible. And par for the course.
I heard from somebody (can’t remember who) that ABC’s Brian Ross was once caught with a tranny hooker. He said he was doing an undercover investigation, but not everyone believed him — not least because he was dressed as Joan Jett and had a string of anal beads hanging from his rectum.
Comment by Pablo on 9/3 @ 12:12 pm #
No, emmotdb, you’ve had this weekend. Theose watching the starboard side have had Palin on the radar for months. You and yours are just pissed that you missed it and that Johny Mac dropped a bomb on you.
I’d love to hear about those legitimate issues too, Barrett. I confess, I’m a little too excited by this pick and I sure could use a little cold water, if you see what I’m saying and I think that you do.
Happyfeet, I couldn’t help but think of you when I noticed Peggy not sighing.
Heh, heh, heh.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/3 @ 12:12 pm #
It does not matter Rob. The point is to have as many headlines and scroll at the bottom of your TV saying the words “investigation” and “Palin” in the same sentence. Double points if they can fit in “possible abuse of power”.
Comment by Jim in KC on 9/3 @ 12:14 pm #
God forbid they find out she waterboarded a polar bear or something…
Comment by steveaz on 9/3 @ 12:16 pm #
I hope Sarah calls-out those pesky libruls tonight.
By tellin’ em that by not abortin’ little Bristol’s baby and by decided not to disown her own kin, she kept two more poeple offa the welfare.
That’ll put a bee in those Jersey-liberalz bonnets!
Comment by Sean M. on 9/3 @ 12:17 pm #
No, no. You’re doing it all wrong. You’re supposed to express some doubt about the rumor and then claim you’re just “airing” it.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/3 @ 12:18 pm #
The trolls have a tag-team format worked out, apparently.
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 12:21 pm #
Not that I believe it AT ALL, but I heard Keith Olbermann was really into farm animals, ifyouknowwhatImeanandIthinkthatyoudo.
Moo indeed.
Comment by Clint on 9/3 @ 12:22 pm #
Waterboarded a polar bear? That bitch! There’s a line, and that crosses it.
Carin, I read your comment about the myspace stalking and thought “No!” Yes. I’m so sad right now. I know I shouldn’t be, but I can’t help it. On the plus side, he writes he doesn’t want kids, his girlfriend is pregnant and he sticks around? Sounds more mature than that Edwards guy I was hearing about a week or two ago…
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 12:22 pm #
Thanks, Pablo – I wish I had the link of Peggy in the last week or so on MSNBC – she was funny and charming and I think maybe she’s out of her funk. I’m rooting for her.
Comment by psycho... on 9/3 @ 12:22 pm #
No one does that, so yes. But people who seek news there, or from its royalty-culture equivalents like the Sunday shows and the Times, do what they’re told. They wouldn’t be in the audience otherwise.
The celeb-gossip crowd is misunderstood politically, I think. They’re female Walter Mitty’s, yes — but when leftists call “Mitty” on someone, they mean something different. They’re saying you’re a sucker for believing in “the American Dream,” or some dumb shit like that. I mean… It’s hard to explain.
If you read the political comment that appears at non-political sites, tv show or music messageboards for example, you might be surprised — not by its media-obedient pseudo-leftism, but by how it gets justified.
Us types’ Palin hatred — and it is a near-uniform hatred, because that’s what they’ve been instructed to feel — is, they say, among other similar things that always include the word “trash,” for her failure to marry up. Redneck apes like her husband, you see, however rich they may be (and he is rich, by all but celebrity standards), are only objects of sexual fantasy, or someone you bang on the side and pass off his baby as your husband’s, not legitimate marryin’ stock.
That this bit of soap opera narrative/morality and these (mostly) shlubs’ housewives’ impacted disappointments overlap, this time, so conveniently with D-ticket classism is a coincidence (pretty much), but it’s going to help Obama (a proper fantasy-husband…except in one way (ROVE!)) electorally.
This crowd, and its NYT-Mitty analog, is the media’s 15%. And it’s why Palin’s only going to bring in a couple points of pissed off Hillary shrews.
(I assume ROVE! has this all in his Satanic equations. Cuttin’ it close, though.)
Comment by Clint on 9/3 @ 12:25 pm #
I would never say such a thing personally, but I’ve been told by reliable, yet anonymous sources that Anderson Cooper likes the feel of latex. Now, I wouldn’t want anyone to think badly of such a thing…
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 12:27 pm #
Clint, I would say the number of men who want children is rather low. Many simply don’t realize how much they want ‘em until they get ‘em.
Except my second son. He ALREADY wants kids. Has since he was a toddler. He’s 12 now. LOVES BABIES.
My husband told me (while I was preggo with #1) that he just didn’t find babies/kids interesting. Amazing how labor changes a man.
Anyway, I would never hold what a teenager says against ‘em. I mean, I’d TEASE them. But, not for reals.
Regardless, if a guy doesn’t want kids he shouldn’t have sex until he gets his balls plugged up.
Comment by dicentra on 9/3 @ 12:34 pm #
Dennis Prager, who studied the Soviet Union as his college major, says that the one thing that has astonished him the most as he’s aged, is that a free press can still brainwash a populace.
I know people sometimes hark back to the days when the news was just the facts, ma’am, but how do you know it was? Because Cronkite seemed so trustworthy? Because the newsreaders maintained sober, poker-grade facial expressions?
I’m pretty sure they were always biased, just that it wasn’t so obvious because there was no basis for comparison. I remember when Rush came out, I was startled to hear someone on the airwaves say the things that we in the heartland had been saying amongst ourselves for decades.
Dude, go back to Sesame Street. It’s collectivism 27/4. (Cooperate! One of these things is not like the others!) :D
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 12:35 pm #
Anderson Cooper likes anything that doesn’t have a vagina. He’s a lot ecumenical in his tastes. But mostly it’s shoes shoes shoes with that boy.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/3 @ 12:36 pm #
My intuition tells me that this latest frenzy, as well as the entire propagandistic nature of the MSM coverage during this election cycle is a perfect storm of categorical imperatives for the left-ish press.
1) They know that many of their elite personalities will be retiring soon. And, as this was supposed to be a Dem year, it’s the last hurrah for Matthews et al to try to reclaim the glory days of their hippie malcontent youths, Ya know, when they stopped the war and changed the world and stuff. This is their best shot in 35 years at getting a far left monopoly on government; and perhaps their last.
2) In the dynamic of the new information age they are seeing an ever increasing number of folks turn to outlets other than their own. With print media circulations waning and TV audience share declining, this may well be the last cycle where they can exert the level of influence on the electorate that they have come to enjoy.
3) The specter of multiple Supreme Court retirements means that the balance could be shifted from high court advocacy to one of legitimate interpretation only. I mean, if they have to rely on actually having laws passed and the political consequences of such, as opposed to enjoying judicial fiat, some of their favorite congressional progressives might have to worry about their phoney-baloney jobs!
4) The nomination of Ms. Palin and the ascendancy of Gov. Jindal are just two examples of conservative apostates to the ideology of identity politics. And, since the public school system is by and large training our youth to respond in an unconscious Pavlovian way to race and gender dog whistle cues, it might mean they could lose some important elections down the road.
While there are many more factors at play, let’s hope that the transparent bias and hypocrisy of the MSM on display this cycle will cause the public to wake up and see the elitist intelligentsia for the useful idiots they are.
Comment by ThomasD on 9/3 @ 12:44 pm #
Meanwhile, it might be fun to get together a volunteer blog collective that “investigates†the lives of those who purport to deliver us objective news. Which is important, necessary, and ethical because…well, it is.
Oh yes, since many of those reporters have delved into the lives of Palin’s family certainly some would argue that that makes the reporters’ families fair game (did ya see what I did there Barret?)
Let a thousand inquisitions bloom!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 9/3 @ 12:44 pm #
Funny how being against the SCHIP program suddenly meant that you were anti-child or wanted to starve children, but yet outing the sex life of an underage child to the NATION is a perfectly acceptable thing to do.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/3 @ 12:48 pm #
Oh, SNAP!
but in all fairness Edward’s supporters are spending a lot of money to ensure that his not child and remission lover are well cared for in the finest gated communities.
Obviously the young Palin and her redneck will be living in a … wait for it … TRAILER PARK!
BTW: I got an E-Mail from some Republican operative who claims to have a home video of Rachael Madow having a steamy threesome with Star Jones and Dennis Kucinich. I’m inclined to dismiss this sort of thing unless he produces the tape, which he said he’s holding until sweeps.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/3 @ 12:48 pm #
#23 haps:
Bingo – that big haired backwoods bimbo and her sorry shameless slut of a daughter deserve all of this. Because they are in the way of Ascension, and the press is utterly terrified of her. (Probably scared of both – but we’ll just let it be the mom).
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 12:51 pm #
oh. Reporter’s families are definitely fair game I think. They should be publicly humiliated – gratuitously – and also they should be friendless and denied many opportunities I think. Reporters, you see, are scum.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 12:52 pm #
Mikey, the only thing that gives me pause is … what if Governor Palin is up to the job? O! glorious day! But mom always called me her little dreamer.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/3 @ 12:52 pm #
I think you need to apologize to scum.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/3 @ 12:57 pm #
Somebody at disney.com is saying that there are papers over at smoking gun that Olberman is a silent partner in a yak slavery farm. Something about extra large lingerie and some mention of a note in his handwriting to his “slobby, hairy honee!”
Oh and Batboy was his love child.
Comment by steveaz on 9/3 @ 1:00 pm #
Will Bristol ’show’ at the convention?
I mean, Quel Horreur!
Comment by mojo on 9/3 @ 1:03 pm #
After cruising the Lefty blogs:
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The one, true TALENT of the human species? Rationalization. We can rationalize ANY kind of obviously illogical, unrealistic bullshit and make it seem the greatest thing ever.
And no, I don’t put that in the “plus” column.
Comment by Barrett Brown on 9/3 @ 1:04 pm #
“We’re waiting Barrett. For that legitimate issue regarding Palin. Oh, perhaps you put a post up on the pub. I’ll go check!”
My invitation was to Jeff, who has since accepted via e-mail. The debate will take place at National Lampoon, although Jeff may also be cross-posting his responses here.
“And Barrett chimes in, claiming that nobody asked him what those legitimate issues were (ignoring Carin’s comment #2) in 3…2…1…”
You should be thankful for decimals.
Comment by DarthRove on 9/3 @ 1:05 pm #
Carin, I’m one of those guys who really didn’t want a baby until my wife and I had one. Now, I want more and can’t remember what life was like before the munchkin came along. And I don’t want to.
Comment by dicentra on 9/3 @ 1:07 pm #
The trouble with the rumors you guys are cooking up is that in your wildest, most depraved imaginations, you cannot imagine something that would actually shame these people.
Except this:
You know what I heard? Chris Matthews once had a moment of introspection in which he questioned whether being an MSNBC celeb imbued him with the wisdom of the ages.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/3 @ 1:12 pm #
No-way, dicentra. Couldn’t have happened. Way I heard it, he just had gas.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 1:15 pm #
Chris Matthews leveraged MSNBC into his own syndicated Sunday show is more his story. I don’t think he’s under any obligation to do that one in hi-def so there’s a good chance it”ll be what keeps his little boat in the water in the medium term at least. He’s really hard to look at just cause it makes me scared of what happens when you get older.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 1:15 pm #
I heard David Gregory refused to answer a call from Buffalo Bob Smith. Dude flat wouldn’t come to the phone. I have no knowledge as to whether any shame was involved though.
Comment by Walter Sobchek on 9/3 @ 1:21 pm #
Dissin’ Buffalo Bob? BUFFALO BOB??
OVER THE LINE!
Comment by Big Dan on 9/3 @ 1:25 pm #
Re #56
I’ve written a devastating reply that would be terrifically convincing.
But my polar bear ate it.
Right after chowing on Ross’s beads. Ew.
Comment by Clint on 9/3 @ 1:26 pm #
I played cards once with Buffalo Bob and some other shady character who was only known as Dan Rather. Course, he didn’t last long in that game, we spotted those fake cards as soon as he laid them down, and Buffalo doesn’t take well to cheaters.
Comment by dicentra on 9/3 @ 1:30 pm #
For those who wanted a Chuck-Norris-type list of little-known Sarah
ConnorPalin facts, go here:http://www.palinfacts.com/
Comment by BJTexs on 9/3 @ 1:31 pm #
Actually I heard it as Gregory and Howdy Doody had a torrid affair.
Please, no woody jokes.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/3 @ 1:44 pm #
“Ya know, when they stopped the war and changed the world and stuff.
- Which, of course, was a total delusion as well. But then psychiatry tells us that its unwise to take away all of the crutches of the ideologically addicted at once.
- Barrett. You need to go slow on those unbased comments that you seem to always find a way to never requite yourself for.
- Battleship mouth, rowboat ass?
- Or are you simply gathering your cliff notes preparatory to issuing a bone crushing comment single handily destroying the last possible glimmer of political gravitas for the nightmare bitch of your dreams.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 9/3 @ 1:59 pm #
- And Jeff, as they say in the NFL……throw a little dirt on it and you’ll be fine.
Comment by Rich "El Tejon" Cox on 9/3 @ 2:04 pm #
Lest we forget, media and news are for profit (NPR and PBS the exception). Always remember that everything they say or do is with bottom line in mind. REGARDLESS if they cry otherwise, they want ratings.
And if that means a soap opera, than there you go. All the easier for them, and still home and in bed by eleven.
Trackback by From The Maas on 9/3 @ 2:05 pm #
“In-your-face bias”…
I say it again: to hell with the media. I’ll let Jeff Goldstein explain:Freedom of the press only works when the press is truly representative of divergent opinions. But like many disciplines in the academy, the mainstream press has become nothing m…
Comment by Rich "El Tejon" Cox on 9/3 @ 2:15 pm #
@70 From The Maas And that is why they are worried about some more openly bias sources. It rips away the burka of lies that they hide beneath and offers a greater spectrum of informed choice for, well, the consumer. But claim objectivity and you have, in name, a higher ground.
You know… you never truly know how much the media gets wrong unless it is about an issue that you are intimately aware of or personally involved in.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/3 @ 2:33 pm #
Here’s a peice that alludes to something I mentioned in an earlier post:
http://www.jessicaswell.com/mt/archives/2008/09/the-last-hurrah.php
Enjoy!
Comment by maggie katzen on 9/3 @ 3:00 pm #
then why not email him in the first place instead of acting like you actually want ot engage in a discussion by commenting? You pull this all the time. Oh, “I’ll do this some other time and place” whatevs.
Comment by Squid on 9/3 @ 3:04 pm #
Tejon,
The ratings argument may be true, but only up to a point. Our money-grubbing truth-tellers were all too happy to sit on the Edwards story for a year.
Comment by TheGeezer on 9/3 @ 3:06 pm #
BJ, where have you been?
Bob Reed, #45: I find your summary convincing. There’s something more, I think, about the audience. I am a baby boomer, hence my handle. But there are a lot of BBs out there, and I wonder if some of the really amazing rad crap wranglers hunkered down at DU or KOS are last-gaspers as well?
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 3:18 pm #
Mathews cannot stand Palin, and just said nobody nobody ever thought that Gov. Palin would be selected. There is spittle flying.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/3 @ 3:21 pm #
TheGeezer, #75:
Your hypothesis is a very strong possibility, and veeeeery plausible. At many of our Academic institutions, the ivory tower intelligensia has been bent on influencing our children in the same negative ways I touched upon briefly earlier. Just as these folks regailed them with nostalgic stories of how they changed the world in their youth, and have inspired an entire new generation of ingrates and malcontents such as those demonstrating in Denver and more furiously in minneapolis this week, so too do they probably exist at DU, Kos, Huff Po, and the other far-left blogs.
Since a tenured professor at a large institution can arrange to have plenty of time on their hands, at others expense of course and courtesy of graduate assistants, I can see them being able to stir the pot “liberally” at most any of these places.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 3:22 pm #
Someone is going to have to make sure Mathews head does not blow up.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/3 @ 3:39 pm #
#49 haps:
Whether Gov. Palin is up to the job is something only time can tell. No one thought Harry Truman was up to the job either, and he turned out to be tougher than a Missouri mule.
#78 JD: Why? The dry cleaning bill will go on the network’s tab, won’t it?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/3 @ 3:41 pm #
Oh, and Jeff:
Another of those milestones – first school pictures. Enjoy them, this stuff here is mostly ‘paper moon and cardboard sea’ stuff compared to that.
Comment by PC on 9/3 @ 3:41 pm #
hey, Peggy Noonan just got caught on an open mic saying “it’s over” – so should I start drinking now or just shut off the computer and hibernate for the next few years?
Comment by B Moe on 9/3 @ 3:44 pm #
Someone is going to have to make sure Mathews head does not blow up.
That will depend on if Obama is standing or sitting, I would reckon.
Comment by SteveG on 9/3 @ 3:46 pm #
multiple sources at MSNBC have confirmed that Kieth Olbermann’s high school 4H project was rejected by the judges because “the livestock seemed a little too friendly”
Lately Olbermann’s fascination with livestock took a eastern twist with what has become an obsession with yak.
One of the staffers who declined to be named due to his closeness to Olbermann said: “we didn’t make much of it at the time, after all, yak butter and tea is a staple throughout Tibet… but that’s not butter… and that isn’t tea”
When asked why excerpts from an alleged personal diary presumably found in the trash outside Olbermanns home made repeated reference to “giant tea bags” if there was in fact no tea, the staffer reportedly blushed and shrugged
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 3:46 pm #
what? I don’t get that. Over in a good way or the way where we all have to join the Social Justice Happy Squad and call each other comrade?
Comment by PC on 9/3 @ 3:49 pm #
Hot Air posted the clip – Noonan saying Palin’s unqualified and the election is over.
To be brave, I don’t think she’s right. But I’m feeling weak-kneed. I better stay off the computer until after Palin’s speech tonight. !
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 3:52 pm #
oh. See just when I try to be nice to that Peggy Noonan skank she does this sort of thing. Bless her heart. She’s a useless idiot, something of a pioneer in this realm really. A path-breaker.
Comment by sears poncho on 9/3 @ 3:58 pm #
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Comment by Barrett Brown on 9/3 @ 1:04 pm #
“We’re waiting Barrett. For that legitimate issue regarding Palin. Oh, perhaps you put a post up on the pub. I’ll go check!â€Â
My invitation was to Jeff, who has since accepted via e-mail. The debate will take place at National Lampoon, although Jeff may also be cross-posting his responses here.
“And Barrett chimes in, claiming that nobody asked him what those legitimate issues were (ignoring Carin’s comment #2) in 3…2…1…â€Â
You should be thankful for decimals.
Well, surely a person of your supposed intelligence will understand, since you posted in a public forum, that you were going to actually address these issues in said forum. So your snark seems a bit misplaced. Unless, of course, you’re just an asshole.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 4:00 pm #
Megan Kelly, PBUH, just vivisected the editor of US Weekly.
Mathews just put his head so far up his ass it came out his mouth.
Comment by B Moe on 9/3 @ 4:05 pm #
Unless, of course, you’re just an asshole.
Pretty much a given. th*r has more integrity than I have seen from Barrett.
Comment by B Moe on 9/3 @ 4:07 pm #
Check out the post I just put up in the Pub, JD. The women are getting with it. Barry is fixin’ to be in a fucking world of hurt if he can’t pull off some kind of miracle soon.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 4:10 pm #
Rachel Mad Cow is so far beyond idiotic that it has to be painful.
I am going to watch MSNBC all night. Pray for me.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 4:29 pm #
Noonan has been a pos for many years now. This is no surprise.
Comment by steveaz on 9/3 @ 4:29 pm #
That Noonan’s peed in my coffee on and off for years, Happy.
That said, I think this time she’s just keeping the fun alive, if you know what I mean. Everytime she’s paid to go on air to say “It’s over! McCain’s over!” she keeps the whole “Palin beach-ball” in the air while she makes some good dough.
No one gets hurt, and as El Tejon sez, we’re all home by eleven, right!
Comment by Barrett Brown on 9/3 @ 4:37 pm #
“Well, surely a person of your supposed intelligence will understand, since you posted in a public forum, that you were going to actually address these issues in said forum.”
This is Jeff’s blog. Sometimes I talk to him here when I could be e-mailing him. Sometimes he talks to me here when he could be e-mailing me. Welcome to the internet.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 4:38 pm #
And of course Kathryn Lopez defends Noonan.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 4:39 pm #
psycho @ #40
“Us types’ Palin hatred  and it is a near-uniform hatred, because that’s what they’ve been instructed to feel  is, they say, among other similar things that always include the word “trash,†for her failure to marry up. Redneck apes like her husband, you see, however rich they may be (and he is rich, by all but celebrity standards), are only objects of sexual fantasy, or someone you bang on the side and pass off his baby as your husband’s, not legitimate marryin’ stock.”
Aren’t you aggravating things a bit here? If this is some kind of “defense” of Palin, it’s not helping.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 4:43 pm #
Kathryn Lopez is strange. You went to the Corner, didn’t you? You are so busted. That place is not healthy. Be careful.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 4:44 pm #
David Gregory is a piker compared to Olberfuckface and Crissy Mathews.
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 4:45 pm #
My invitation was to Jeff, who has since accepted via e-mail.
then why not email him in the first place instead of acting like you actually want ot engage in a discussion by commenting? You pull this all the time. Oh, “I’ll do this some other time and place†whatevs.
Really. Maggie and I are going to continue THIS discussion via email, and we’re going to debate the douch-baggery of BB. Anyone who wants to join in, let me know.
Comment by Barrett Brown on 9/3 @ 4:46 pm #
“That place is not healthy.”
Thank you. I’m sure that Buckley haunts the office out of sheer contempt. Lopez is deranged. Derbyshire ought to be put in charge of the whole operation. And then the print version needs to stop running those embarrassing ads about these swell gems that were just discovered in Bali and how you can own them if you act now.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 4:48 pm #
MSNBC is even less healthier than the Corner, JD. I bet Microsoft wishes they had never co-branded with that crap. Even though Microsoft is a bunch of liberal wankers really now that I think about it. Oh. Ok nevermind.
Comment by Barrett Brown on 9/3 @ 4:50 pm #
“we’re going to debate the douch-baggery of BB. Anyone who wants to join in, let me know.”
Can I join? I’m quite knowledgeable on the subject, having had to live with me for so long. Do you want to see some letters I wrote as a teenager, around the time I started my three-year stint as an Objectivist?
Too bad. They’ve been burned. Ha ha ha! I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 4:52 pm #
Lopez is deranged and Ramesh is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is and Kudlow I think I saw there one time and he’s to economics what Al Gore is to science I think. But also they’re all just so gross.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 4:53 pm #
Yeah, reading a link frm P’Line to Yuval Levin. I can discriminate though…as evidence, I didn’t go for PN this am. York, McCarthy (except as relates to Fitzpatrick in re Plame), Hanson, Goldberg, Levin, Robinson are the only folks over there I’m willing to half-way trust. (I’m not big into Roman Catholicism).
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 4:53 pm #
Ha ha ha! I think.
See now that is for real mirth.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/3 @ 4:59 pm #
If I may float an idea Jeff – put together a file of things you want to put into a book to give your son. School pictures are a good way of starting off each year. Little things he finds so important at that time, but will pass beyond. Give it to him when he hits his mid-twenties.
My mom did that for each of us. Kind of nice, really. (Wait – when I thought I was so ugly and fat I actually looked that good?)
Comment by Carin on 9/3 @ 5:00 pm #
I dunno, BB. Inviting you would seem to ruin the whole exclusion angle I was going for.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/3 @ 5:02 pm #
#85 PC:
Peggy Noonan is one to get the vapours really bad when no one on the Republican presidential ticket is Ronald Reagan. And if I recall rightly, President Reagan’s divorce and children didn’t keep him from the White House, or give anyone who didn’t already dislike him heart-burn.
Comment by thor on 9/3 @ 5:02 pm #
There is no defense for Palin. She’s the Alaskan Crab Nebula with a horse-sized mouth and a grubby fish-fucking hubby.
Her knees will turn to jelly. She’ll break into Jesus tongues. She’ll pull her dress up and show off a Disney character tattoo on her ass. She’ll toss McCain her wedding ring. Then a storm of fear and a husg will envelop the audience as men wearing sunglasses force that Alaskan screwball off the stage.
That’s what’s gonna happen.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/3 @ 5:08 pm #
So she scares you that much thor?
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 5:08 pm #
Is that your Eagleton meme going there? Where’d'ja pick that one up, pray tell?
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 5:09 pm #
I don’t think that’s what’s gonna happen at all. That’s probably how NPR will spin it though.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 5:11 pm #
They’ve got Palin speech excerpts over at the corner hf.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 5:12 pm #
I will be strong and click over but just cause you said so. In and out.
Comment by Pablo on 9/3 @ 5:12 pm #
She’ll skewer your spleen with a stiletto heel and then grind your bones for biscuits, which will go delightfully with moose stew and a nice chianti.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 5:13 pm #
“…I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
Sarah Palin speech for Sept. 3
Comment by Pablo on 9/3 @ 5:16 pm #
Oh, I think I’m gonna enjoy this.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 5:16 pm #
oh. There wasn’t a lot to that really. nishi will be heartened that the PTA comes up again. She really likes that for some reason.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 5:17 pm #
Drudge has excerpts now.
Comment by maggie katzen on 9/3 @ 5:21 pm #
oh no she di-int! I’m gonna be up really late again tonight aren’t I?
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 5:39 pm #
This is your NPR…
“Questions remain” yet they somehow completely unable to actually articulate them. What questions? The ones that fucking remain, are we not clear?
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 5:40 pm #
*they’re somehow* I meant
Comment by guinsPen on 9/3 @ 5:43 pm #
What questions?
Serious ones.
Unasked by crack
headsreporters.Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 5:51 pm #
Those NPRs and WashingtonPosts get themselves all worked up about (utter) shit that no-one else actually cares about, I think. Except of course, the true believers who are already on the make. It is not a bug’s phart in the big scheme.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 5:52 pm #
Chris Mathews just assploded. He and Norah and Mad Cow and Eugene said that the media is not being unfair, they are just doing the vetting that McCain did not do.
They really are little people.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 5:55 pm #
Crissy Mathews is a misogynist.
Comment by guinsPen on 9/3 @ 5:56 pm #
With spittle-flecked guests.
Comment by happyfeet on 9/3 @ 5:56 pm #
MSNBC has its orders I guess.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 5:57 pm #
The twoofers in the background on MSNBC are a riot. That you cannot distinguish them from the Baracky supporters is even better.
Comment by Rich "El Tejon" Cox on 9/3 @ 5:57 pm #
until the day before McCain chose her
Important word that… BEFORE. Yet he still chose her. And what exactly is wrong with being a human again? Not DC enough Mr. Naylor?
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 5:57 pm #
That’s odd JD, I always thought of him as a common twat. So he’d be like hatin’ on his own damned self.
Comment by guinsPen on 9/3 @ 5:57 pm #
Yo, C-ball, say it don’t spray it.
Comment by sears poncho on 9/3 @ 6:02 pm #
This is Jeff’s blog. Sometimes I talk to him here when I could be e-mailing him. Sometimes he talks to me here when he could be e-mailing me. Welcome to the internet.
Guess, you are an asshole. Thanks for clearing that up.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/3 @ 6:04 pm #
Reminder: you can see the actual convention here. No talking heads.
Comment by guinsPen on 9/3 @ 6:07 pm #
Harrumph. There are serious questions about Matthews that are not at all unobvious.
Serious enquiries only.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 6:11 pm #
Brokaw is really not that comfortable in dealing with Olberdicknose.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 6:16 pm #
I am no Newt fan, but he absolutely embarassed one of the MSNBC floor reporters last night.
Comment by steveaz on 9/3 @ 6:17 pm #
Those NPR folks really know how to work a guy’s nerves.
Hell, “Questions Remain” about what I had for dinner last night. Burp!
Not sure what they’re gettin’ at with this one.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 9/3 @ 6:24 pm #
Yes, JD, that was brutal.
As I said over on the Pub, I can’t believe they were stupid enough to put Gingrich on live.
If anything will save us, it’s that our enemies are so fucking stupid.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 6:25 pm #
Meg Whitman worked for Mitt Romney at Bain Capital, which is something she told me today that I hadn’t known before.
Comment by Sdferr on 9/3 @ 6:28 pm #
McCain is a climate change crisis wacko, sad to say. I don’t think he knows what he thinks he knows about that. (Actually, I don’t think anybody does for that matter.)
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/3 @ 6:32 pm #
hf #121
Unfortunately they are all our NPR…It’s like that sleaseball union stuff that used to go on in some places. Where they used your dues to donate to (predominantly liberal) candidates. That practice has been brought to a halt legally. Too bad we can’t have the choice to donate to them or not, like we do for the presidential election fund.
I hate givin’ my money to liberals and commie’s, which are what 98% of the NPR personell are!
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 7:13 pm #
Spies – I could not believe that guy challenged Newt with a live microphone. I was rolling.
Mitt is pretty energized.
Comment by JD on 9/3 @ 7:15 pm #
This is a different Mitt than the primaries.
Comment by Rich "El Tejon" Cox on 9/3 @ 7:28 pm #
I still don’t like his hair.
Comment by Pablo on 9/3 @ 7:47 pm #
Amen.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 8:16 pm #
You don’t have enemies here, you have opponents. Stop making everything bicameral.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 8:18 pm #
I’ll say it: Islamic Terrorism!!! I am in a state if denial!
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 8:20 pm #
Rudy is a regular family guy.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 8:25 pm #
Unreal. Didn’t you guys hate McCain’s shit not so long ago?
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 8:28 pm #
And of course Cindy McCain is holding the non-responsive baby.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 8:56 pm #
OMG!!! She’s going to war with Russia and Iran!!! She’s a gal who knows the north slope of Alaska.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 8:58 pm #
Whoa! Styrofoam Greek columns. Holy shit!! Booooo! Catastrophic harm on American Rights!! Bah!!
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 9:01 pm #
Boo, Hiss, More taxes! Dammit, my nebulous relatives have started a business. Change promotes careers, unless it means bus fare.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 9:06 pm #
John McCain does Great Things. Harry Reid the simpering wimp is proof. Put the Maverick squarely in the death zone. From Hanoi to the Oval Office, dammit!!
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 9:10 pm #
He’s seen how evil is overcome. Some guy from Lancaster. America needs a pinhole guy!!! Wooo!!
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 9:10 pm #
sorry. It just struck me.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 9:44 pm #
As usual, this will be ignored.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/3 @ 10:03 pm #
You just commented on the wrong thread is all.
Comment by cynn on 9/3 @ 10:21 pm #
Not that any of you people would help me get it right.
Comment by thor on 9/3 @ 10:35 pm #
Stop cynn. Moose Mom was brilliant. Didn’t you see how hard Trig clapped?
Comment by maggie katzen on 9/3 @ 11:27 pm #
sorry, I only just made it here.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 9/3 @ 11:39 pm #
Hmmm. Really. Tooo much left-bound inertia to overcome there, I think.
Comment by Rusty on 9/4 @ 5:12 am #
#160
I keep trying, Cynn, but you keep ignoring me. Well. Unless you think I’m being a sexist pig. Then I get all that hot feminist attention you’ve been saving up.
Since you haven’t answered me on the smoking issue, I’ll conclude you’re still puffin away. Which is also the backside of a small colorful arctic bird.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 9/4 @ 5:31 am #
Oh, God, that’s hilarious. Live-commenting on the wrong thread, and then whining about being ignored!
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