Hugh Hewitt picks up a story set to break big tomorrow on Politico by Mike Allen Ken Vogel
The allegations in this Bloomberg story –if true– pose a huge problem for a senior advisor to the president, David Axelrod. This is the heart of the problem:
Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until he sold his interest after Obama’s victory, government records show. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, which it’s due to pay in installments beginning Dec. 31. Axelrod’s son, Michael, still works there. He didn’t return a phone call. The firm’s Web site continues to feature David Axelrod’s work on the Obama campaign. (Emphasis added.)The problem is that Axelrod’s former firm is currently receiving huge fees “from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA,” as well as AARP, the SEIU and other big players in the health care debate.
If Axelrod has been negotiating any part of any deal involving any of these players which are funneling money to the firm that owes him money, or if he is advising the president on the deals with any of these groups, that’s a conflict of interest. Laundering the money through a “coalition” doesn’t remove the conflict much less the appearance of impropriety.
Questions about Axelrod and AKPD surfaced last April
According to a disclosure form released Friday evening by the White House, the firm, AKP&D Message & Media, paid him $897,000 last year, when it had basically turned itself into an arm of the Obama campaign, which paid the company $2.5 million.The disclosure indicates that Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe — the “P” in AKP&D and still an influential political consultant for Obama and the Democratic National Committee — was not among the buyers, though he’ll remain a senior adviser to the firm. [...]
Axelrod’s disclosure offers a peek inside the business model he used to create a Chicago-based consulting powerhouse, which included both AKP&D and ASK Public Strategies.
ASK, which specialized in corporate public relations, paid him partnership income of $152,000 last year, according to the disclosure, even though he had taken a leave of absence to work on the campaign. Axelrod sold his share of ASK to Kupper and Eric Sedler for $1 million at the end of last year.
The firm became the source of some controversy during the presidential campaign, when The Washington Post reported that in 2006, Michelle Obama urged the University of Chicago’s hospital, where she served as an executive, to hire ASK to drum up community support for a controversial urban health initiative.
Do read the whole Bloomberg link and see stuff like
Grisolano, 45, said AKPD has had no contact with Axelrod “with regard to the Healthy Economy Now work.” He said he works with Axelrod, 54, on “strategy and research” for the Democratic National Committee.‘We’re the Best’
“We get business for the same reason anyone else would get business: because we’re the best ones to do it,” Grisolano said.
At the White House, Axelrod’s role in the health-care debate ranges from Sunday talk show appearances to meetings with House and Senate lawmakers.
Yeah, right. Let’s run this again … Man owns firm, man takes government job, man sells firm and firm owes man $2 million (if firm goes bust, man out $2 mil), firm lands multi-million dollar contracts from organizations doing business with the government on a top issue for the person man works for and man is out advocating for.
Doesn’t pass the smell test, no matter how many times it’s being run through the washing machine.
Michelle Malkin is going to have to add another chapter to her book.
Related: Dicentra points out how PhRMA is being sold down the river.
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UPDATE Ken Vogel’s Politico piece
[T]he selection of Axelrod’s former firm to push the president’s top initiative raises appearance questions, particularly since Axelrod’s son Michael still works there, said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates for stricter government disclosure and ethics rules.“The big issue seems to me whether there is a quid pro quo with PhRMA,” said Allison, adding “there’s no evidence that Axelrod steered the business to the firm. But the fact that special interests like PhRMA and the American Medical Association working hand in glove with the White House picked a firm that is so close to the White House shows how incestuous Washington can be.”
If this were Rove, there’d already be clamoring in the MSM for a special prosecutor.
Comment by pdbuttons on 8/18 @ 7:11 pm #
wave the -though nicely laundered and folded
bloody shirt
Comment by newrouter on 8/18 @ 7:15 pm #
small time thug from chitown O! smokes another cig
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 8/18 @ 7:22 pm #
He didn’t answer the email when he usually does is telling. Doesn’t matter, he’ll just shamelessly lie,
Comment by newrouter on 8/18 @ 7:42 pm #
obama art
http://wildammo.com/2009/07/27/unusual-paintings-of-obama-naked-with-unicorns/
Comment by happyfeet on 8/18 @ 7:49 pm #
the last one is priceless
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Comment by Chairman Hussein Teh Magnificent on 8/18 @ 8:16 pm #
Nutin to see here youse guys. MoveOn….
Comment by Ella on 8/18 @ 8:22 pm #
This is totally O/T, and it somewhat pimps a personal fight, but if any of you could go to my blog and post an intelligent, possibly profanity-laced response to an email from a liberal family member, I’d be obliged.
http://apparatchick.blogspot.com/2009/08/unedited-face-of-liberalism.html
Posting her email on the internet was the best revenge I could think of.
I’d do the same for you.
Comment by Ella on 8/18 @ 8:23 pm #
Oh, when it gets enough comments, I’m going to send her the link. Can’t wait for the holidays!
Comment by Pablo on 8/18 @ 8:26 pm #
Can the media avoid the absolutely fascinating story of the Baracky marketing campaign and continue selling the lie through 2012? Or will they finally see it as being in their best interest to do their fucking job and turn this punk out?
Comment by sdferr on 8/18 @ 8:28 pm #
“…will they finally see it as being in their best interest to do their fucking job…”
right, about the time they get tired of people cracking ‘em in the shins with baseball bats for being the useless pricks they are …
Comment by newrouter on 8/18 @ 8:34 pm #
Well it wasn’t a socialist do gooder. They bullshit all the right judeo-christian stuff but wouldn’t know a tee from a gate valve. No folks like you like to mouth off about “how we can send a man to the moon” shit but f**kin’ they can’t hookup a washer/dryer. No you losers like to point at problems and your duct tape or caulking is always ” we need more dumberment”. No we need independent people to fix their own problems as they seem fit. Not the “sheeple crowd” of the communist-socialist-fascist left.
Comment by JimK on 8/18 @ 8:39 pm #
How long before the scandals and the plummeting poll numbers force the MSM to reverse course on the big O? Will they try to prop up this fraud for much longer?
Comment by Ella on 8/18 @ 8:40 pm #
newrouter, you are my hero.
My friend Jesse is currently in Uganda with the water project. His do-gooding duct tape is, in fact, doing practical good.
But, you know, in America the government = the people, and that’s really as beautiful as free libraries.
Comment by JD on 8/18 @ 8:52 pm #
Ella – I cannot get your comments up from my Blackberry. Suffice it to say that teh stoooopid that strong should be hospitalized, or at least heavily medicated.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/18 @ 9:05 pm #
Culture of Corruption!
WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Ella on 8/18 @ 9:05 pm #
JD, your emotional support tastes sweet enough.
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Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/18 @ 9:11 pm #
“Comment by JimK on 8/18 @ 8:39 pm #
How long before the scandals and the plummeting poll numbers force the MSM to reverse course on the big O?”
Never.
They’ll have his crank in their collective mouth FOREVAH!
Comment by norton on 8/18 @ 9:12 pm #
For eight years, the left demonized Karl Rove as evil incarnate.
Compared to Axelrod, Rove is a choirboy.
Comment by JD on 8/18 @ 9:17 pm #
Ella – I come from a heavily-liberal family. My god-father and god-mother are avowed Communists crunchy hippy professors. My Dad and his wife are uber-liberals in the education unions and administration. I can empathize.
Comment by Bob Reed on 8/18 @ 9:29 pm #
This kind of put’s a whole new slant on al the “astroturfing” charges thrown around by the left over the last few weeks. It’s looking to me like there may have been some pre-emptive desire to arrive at a moral equivalence equation that would provide a credible tu quoque should the Axelrod matter come under greater scrutiny…
But I could just be working too hard lately, and subject to hallucinatinmg also…
Comment by newrouter on 8/18 @ 9:32 pm #
people need more Reagan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmmgVFByeaI
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 8/18 @ 9:55 pm #
One can only imagine the hatemail the author of the Bloomberg piece, Timothy J. Burger, has gotten from angry left haters. Also, I bet they’ve already started his Joe The Plumber style work up over at JournoList with Olberstupid and David Shuster leading the charge.
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Comment by dicentra on 8/18 @ 10:22 pm #
Ella:
I had to post the fisking of your aunt’s e-mail here, because it got too long for comments and had links and stuff in it.
Hope that helps.
Comment by Ag80 on 8/18 @ 10:23 pm #
Give the media a break. They’re too busy trying to decide if Trig is Sarah’s baby.
And poor old Cindy is sitting in a ditch at Martha’s Vineyard wondering what went wrong.
And, Gitmo is still open. We have hundreds of thousands of servicemen in Iraq and more going to Afghanistan.
The government runs a car company, the banking industry a and they want to run health care.
The MSM reports on citizens bearing arms at a protest, despite the 2nd Amendment, as if the act is somehow racist. Yet the guy with the “assault” rifle was African-American?
And, so far, the only person injured at a townhall meeting also was African-American after a beating by the SEIU.
And George Bush is the fascist? After he gave up power voluntarily?
Give me a break you lefties.
Semanticleo, I’m talking to you and your ilk.
You don’t give a damn about America and its citizens. All you want is control.
Comment by dicentra on 8/18 @ 10:24 pm #
Darleen! Malkinalanche!
WOOt!
Comment by dicentra on 8/18 @ 10:42 pm #
And poor old Cindy is sitting in a ditch at Martha’s Vineyard wondering what went wrong.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile.
Comment by newrouter on 8/18 @ 10:48 pm #
“I know something of taxes. For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that Government–Federal and State and local–costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. As an immediate program of action we must abolish useless offices. We must eliminate unnecessary functions of Government–functions, in fact, that are not definitely essential to the continuance of Government. We must merge, we must consolidate subdivisions of Government, and, like the private citizen, give up luxuries which we can no longer afford.”
Franky the ‘velt’ being a “small gov’t type”
http://newdeal.feri.org/speeches/1932b.htm
Comment by dicentra on 8/18 @ 10:57 pm #
Yikes re: 30. Does that mean that we can never vote for someone who promises to end waste, fraud, and abuse?
Looks like it.
Comment by Ed on 8/18 @ 10:58 pm #
“Michelle Malkin is going to have to add another chapter to her book.”
Will she have any facts this time?
Comment by cranky-d on 8/18 @ 11:10 pm #
Wow, Ed,what’s it like to be an completely ignorant idiot? Just wondering.
Comment by Darleen on 8/18 @ 11:15 pm #
Ed
Ok, how about substantiating your assertion and quote something from “Culture of Corruption” that is fiction.
I mean, you must have that at your finger tips right? Or did you just stumble home from Kilkenny’s Pub to vomit on your keyboard?
Comment by cranky-d on 8/18 @ 11:20 pm #
Darleen’s response was better. I’ve been drinking again.
Comment by JD on 8/18 @ 11:23 pm #
Ed fuckin’ p3wnd you racist wingnutz who love M’chelle Mahalhaldingdong.
Comment by dicentra on 8/18 @ 11:27 pm #
Ed … p3wnd [sic] you racist wingnutz
That was a pwning? I must have blinked.
Comment by peter jackson on 8/19 @ 12:08 am #
HALLIBURTON!!!1!!
Comment by MarkD on 8/19 @ 12:15 am #
I don’t get the problem. This IS Chicago-style politics. We’ll see if it even gets reported in the NYTimes.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 12:16 am #
First Lady Michelle Obama as a kind of Machiavellian manipulator running the show from behind the scenes. She labels her “the First Crony.”
This has a familiar ring, doesn’t it? The wingnut right attacked Bill Clinton relentlessly as a corrupt Southerner involved in shady dealings (think Whitewater or Mena), while the Evil Hillary ran the show behind the scenes. And the mainstream right made heavy use of these attacks.
It’s just deja vu all over again.
Especially the complete and utter loss of perspective:
Hannity: Now that you’ve done all this research — and I’ll let the audience, because you really, with great specificity and detail, go into the corruption — how corrupt is this administration compared to others?
Malkin: Well, I think you have to judge them by their rhetoric. And if you look at the gap between the rhetoric and the reality, this has to be one of the corrupt, most corrupt administrations in recent memory.
Hmmm. I dunno about you, but when I look at the levels of corruption within an administration, I look for actual things like, you know, corruption. Things like Halliburton and Enron.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 12:24 am #
Oh, and Darleen, honey-don’t know about a Kilkenney’s Pub (I don’t drink) but by the looks of your “blog,” you must be the bah-bahhingnest l’il righty sheep pukimg at your local dive.
Comment by Abe Froman on 8/19 @ 12:51 am #
Ed, Darleen asked you a very straightforward question and all you could muster in response is paragraphs of rambling idiocy. Are you sure you don’t drink?
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 1:14 am #
HALLIBURTON !!!!eleventy
Peter nailed your bitch ass before you even commented.
Enron was a nice touch, not at all predictable, or mendoucheous. I blame Krugman.
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Comment by dicentra on 8/19 @ 2:02 am #
The wingnut right attacked Bill Clinton relentlessly as a corrupt Southerner involved in shady dealings (think Whitewater or Mena), while the Evil Hillary ran the show behind the scenes.
Are you saying that the Clintons were clean? Are you saying that because one set of politicians was/wasn’t corrupt, then pointing out corruption in the next set is just the right compulsively replaying an old strategy?
Because, right. Michelle Malkin is lying, and Michelle Obama’s father was NOT part of the Daley machine, she didn’t engage in patient dumping, her salary didn’t increase astronomically after her husband got into the IL senate, and her position at the hospital was so essential that they replaced her right away.
BTW, I’ve got this great ocean-front property in Utah for sale.
Comment by No one you know on 8/19 @ 4:04 am #
First Lady Michelle Obama as a kind of Machiavellian manipulator running the show from behind the scenes. She labels her “the First Crony.”
I don’t think Ed understands the word “crony” There’s no implication of M’chelle running anything, just the first person with her snout in the trough. That’s shown easily enough. The woman is given a do nothing patronage job, not quite the “no show job” that some political cronies manage to obtain, but appearances must be kept up. Then, state senator Obama becomes US senator Obama and her salary triples after said Senator steers a $1 million earmark her employer’s way. Oh, and lest we forget, the job was eliminated when the Obamas left for Washington.
This and Darleen’s post remind me of Biden’s idiot son #2. Seems he had a job at MBNA (now BoA) as VP in charge of something, let’s call it political access to his father. Then someone realized that, as VP, he’d probably have to show up from time to time, and account for his time. No problem, just get rid of the position and put him on retainer at the same salary. If he wasn’t a lawyer, they would have made him a “consultant.”
Comment by Rusty on 8/19 @ 5:17 am #
#40
Not from Chicago, are you. Corruption is the default operating mode for Chicago pols. One of whom you elected. And all his corrupt Chicago pol. buddies. Hope and Change. All yours ,Ed.
Comment by Pablo on 8/19 @ 5:33 am #
I didn’t realize that Halliburton and Enron were part of an Administration.
Hey, remember when Nancy Reagan was running things with an assist from her astrologer, Ed? And do you remember when Darleen asked you to quote something from Malkin’s book that is fiction?
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Comment by Carin PHD on 8/19 @ 5:46 am #
You know …. I’m thinking that just maybe Ed didn’t read Malkin’s book.
Oh, that’s just crazy talk!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/19 @ 6:12 am #
#Comment by Carin PHD on 8/19 @ 5:46 am #
[chuckles into his morning coffee]
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 6:35 am #
Ed and william were having a contest to see who could be dummerer than a sack of semantiKKKleo’s last night.
Comment by Matt on 8/19 @ 6:35 am #
Judging by that last paragraph, Ed should drink. It could only increase his coherence.
Comment by LTC John on 8/19 @ 6:38 am #
#51 – isn’t this just a rerun of the “I didn’t read Liberal Fascism, but I know what it says and it is wrong!” ala sashal?
Comment by Eben on 8/19 @ 6:45 am #
Ed = Joy Behar, to wit, whenever Malkin would bring up some fact of corruption in B.O.’s admin Joy would just look at her and say, ‘But what about Boosh?’
Ed and Joy are too fracking stoopid to realize that using the ‘yeah, but your guy was bad too’ defense doesn’t really help them, it just serves to point out that your guy is really indefensible.
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Comment by Darleen on 8/19 @ 7:58 am #
Ed
Admit it, you haven’t read Michelle’s book so you don’t have a thing to substantiate your assertion.
Too bad you didn’t claim drunk … by the morning you’d be sober, but crazy is forever.
Or maybe you fell off the Redondo Pier head first?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 8:03 am #
#56:
And Bush was famously non-corrupt.
Proof? If there was actually any evidence of corruption in the Bush Administration the Democrat Congress and the press would have found it long ago.
(And if one argues that the lack of evidence proves how wily and cunning they were at hiding their corruption, then I would say you better best leave them be, for someone that cunning is more than capable of making people into bodies and making bodies go away.)
Comment by ghost707 on 8/19 @ 8:17 am #
Darleen,
You are under the impression that politicians are subject to the laws of the land.
This is New Zimbabwe, not America.
Worst that will happen to Axelrod is a slap on the wrist – if that even. The Chicago mob runs this country now.
Comment by geoffb on 8/19 @ 8:21 am #
Sarah Palin hits them again. Meanwhile Hot Air asks a Soros question.
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David Axelturf’s major ObamaCare conflict of interest…
Michelle Malkin’s got an in-depth look at just how Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod and family have been profiting from the push by President Obama to essentially socialize our healthcare. Make sure to read her post in full, or you can…
Comment by serr8d on 8/19 @ 8:32 am #
Darleen, if you want, send me whatever pic you had on Photobucket and I’ll host it for you.
Pro account~!
Comment by Darleen on 8/19 @ 8:42 am #
Thanks, serr8d, I upgraded.
Comment by Ric Locke on 8/19 @ 8:46 am #
What Ed, and others like him, don’t realize is that shouting “Halliburton!” confirms our accusations against Axelrod.
Recap: When Dick Cheney left Halliburton, the company owed him a lot of money for salary and bonuses. At the time he wasn’t thinking of running for Vice President and looked forward to a spell of little or no income, so he and the company very sensibly agreed that, instead of the money being paid as a lump sum, it would be paid out in installments. This is an absolutely normal and straightforward arrangement. It’s easier on the company’s cash flow, and reduces the tax bite on the recipient a little. Important: the payments were not contingent on Halliburton’s income — the only way they would be modified would be if Halliburton went broke, and there’s little danger of that.
Then Halliburton got the service contract for support of the military in Iraq. Again, this was quite sensible: Halliburton already had substantial operations there and didn’t need to start from scratch (and charge for starting from scratch) and its only credible competitors are foreign companies, especially Schlumberger (French). The award meant services could begin immediately rather than after a long delay to ramp up, it keeps the money mostly in the US economy, and it didn’t require outlays for building facilities, getting security clearances for the people, and all the other startup costs.
The Left predictably went insane, and seized upon the delayed payments as an excuse. Cheney’s getting paid off for hiring Halliburton to prosecute the war! CORRUPTION!
It’s a lie. It was a lie then, it’s been a lie every time it’s been repeated, it’s a lie now, and it’ll be a lie when the Sun grows cold. The “payoffs” to Dick Cheney had nothing to do with the war, and did not change in either direction because of the war or any other new business Halliburton got.
The situation with AKPD is superficially similar. It owes Axelrod money from the time before he took office, just as Halliburton owed Cheney money from before he was elected. The difference is, Halliburton is a profitable company and would have continued to be profitable (and pay Cheney) even if the Iraq war had never happened; Cheney was an important but ultimately replaceable part of the enterprise. AKPD is David Axelron, period, end of sentence; it has no business except what it gets from the Government and the Democratic Party, it exists only to support Axelrod, and if it doesn’t get fat Government contracts Axelrod gets bupkis.
So every time you shriek “Halliburton! CORRUPTION! Tu quoque!” you are confirming our accusations. If Cheney was a badguy for accepting deferred compensation, then Axelrod is just as bad or worse — and if you’re going to accuse Cheney of corruption and excuse Axelrod, you’re a lying partisan who supports corruption when it’s your guy doing it.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by ghost707 on 8/19 @ 8:56 am #
I am still betting that after Obama’s approval ratings sink into the low 40’s – high 30’s that he heads into Bank Of America, exits with a couple of large roller cases with 100 million in cash and heads off to a non-extradition country.
Being mobbed-up is all Obama and friends know. That and they think Marxism is cool.
Comment by sdferr on 8/19 @ 9:21 am #
“exits with a couple of large roller cases with 100 million in cash”
In the movie they just used a duffle-bag.
Comment by Dave in SoCal on 8/19 @ 9:29 am #
“her position at the hospital was so essential that they
replaced her right awayeliminated the position once she left.”Just to set the record straight.
Comment by Joe on 8/19 @ 9:35 am #
I am at the beach. I don’t want to hear bad news. I want another mojito.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 10:07 am #
I love to read the disjointed mutterings of delusional “conservatives” and Malkin/Palin groupies. Nothing funnier since vintage Monty Python.
Comment by dicentra on 8/19 @ 10:23 am #
I love to read the disjointed mutterings of delusional “conservatives” and Malkin/Palin groupies. Nothing funnier since vintage Monty Python.
Don’t know about all y’all, but I was just devastated by that argument.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/19 @ 10:24 am #
“Nothing funnier since vintage Monty Python.”
Except to see someone like Brave Brave Sir Eddy running away from reality.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 10:33 am #
It’s little wonder Malkin was canned by newspapers in L.A. and Seattle for fudging facts. Her capacity to confuse her paranoia and conspiracy fetish with actual fact is her entire schtick.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 8/19 @ 10:36 am #
One thing Michelle Malkin does best is drive the nutroots completely and totally bat shit crazy insane with unbrideled rage – as evidenced here by Ed.
Comment by Pablo on 8/19 @ 10:41 am #
She even makes them make shit up, as also evidenced by Ed.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 10:45 am #
Topsecretk9, actually we LOVE the craven stupidity of Malkin/Palin/Bachmann, etc. They don’t inspire “unbridled rage;” they inspire hours and hours of mocking laughter!
Keep it comin’, fringe righties! You are absolutely HILARIOUS!
Comment by ghost707 on 8/19 @ 10:48 am #
Obama really is the Black Knight. “It’s just a flesh wound!”
King Arthur: “What are you going to do, bleed on me?!”
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 10:52 am #
Keep one eye open, Ed. You know that Dick Cheney is comin’ to get you! I warned you about messing with people who can make bodies disappear but no, you wouldn’t listen.
Comment by Alyosha on 8/19 @ 10:52 am #
Ed’s snark is very weak.
Comment by Joe on 8/19 @ 10:59 am #
Ed, chop chop on my mojito! Or the only tip you will be getting is pick up the pace!
Comment by ghost707 on 8/19 @ 11:00 am #
Watch out, Ed may poke us with the soft cushions!
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Comment by DonP on 8/19 @ 11:02 am #
C’mon now, people, don’t you know it’s unfair to ask Ed to provide actual “facts” or “evidence” or “coherency”? He just wants us all to get along. Except for stupid, evil people he doesn’t like (conservatives). They can go to hell. That is the alpha and the omega of his argument.
Comment by ghost707 on 8/19 @ 11:06 am #
Sorry Darleen,
Not meaning to derail the thread here, however, Ed invoked the Monty Python Rule by proxy; meaning, he must be mocked and taunted mercilessly by way of biting Python humor and snark.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 8/19 @ 11:06 am #
Ed, we’re laughing too.
Get it?
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 8/19 @ 11:09 am #
Ed is packing it in and packing it up And sneaking away and buggering up And chickening out and pissing off home, Yes, bravely Ed is throwing in the sponge.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 11:12 am #
Ah, droolers on the right! The easiest sale in bogus punditry.
Comment by maggie katzen on 8/19 @ 11:13 am #
honk-shoo
Comment by ghost707 on 8/19 @ 11:14 am #
The comfy chair was too much for Ed.
He broke under pressure.
Sad really.
Comment by dicentra on 8/19 @ 11:25 am #
OMGLOL! Trending topic #obamacarefacts
“Under ObamaCare, it’s ALWAYS lupus.”
“Under Obamacare, John Connor MUST DIE.”
“Under ObamaCare, your tax dollars will go to abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.”
“Under Obamacare, you will Rock and Roll all night, but only party every OTHER day.”
“Under ObamaCare, all ambulances will have one speed. Kill.”
“Under ObamaCare You will get to pick how you die: lethal injection or Thunder Dome.”
“Under Obamacare, Grandma will be a shovel ready job (in all 57 states).”
They think that they’re making fun of wingers, but no. We’re laughing WITH you on this one.
Comment by dicentra on 8/19 @ 11:26 am #
Good grief, Ed.
As trolls go, you’re pretty pathetic. You’re neither clever, incisive, or funny.
Comment by LTC John on 8/19 @ 11:32 am #
I get the feeling Ed isn’t even trying very hard. This is an awfully large boulder to try to cheerfully roll up the hill.
As Ric pointed out, even a “but your guy did it!” comes across especially weak.
Comment by ghost707 on 8/19 @ 11:39 am #
Yeah,
The left is now figuring out that re-arranging the deck chairs is not working out too well, what with all the water splashing ever deeper on the deck.
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Comment by Walsingham on 8/19 @ 12:01 pm #
I picture Ed as just another one of those guys who is smaller than all of the women in his office workplace and that has a voice two octaves too high. You know, like the beta males that are always calling in to Air America.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 8/19 @ 12:14 pm #
I just heard that AKPD is recommending ObamaCare Public Option be referred to as GRANNIEMAE:
Granny may die, and
Granny may not
Comment by dicentra on 8/19 @ 12:27 pm #
Here’s the #obamacarefacts topic, for those interested.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 12:28 pm #
These comments are further proof–as if it was needed!–that righties lack wit, humor, insight or writing ability, but are the world’s greatest followers. Drop a couple of morsels of bullshit and watch ‘em trail behind….
Comment by McGehee on 8/19 @ 12:37 pm #
I dunno, Ed. You’re not as funny when you don’t have Edd and Eddy to look smarter than.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 12:39 pm #
Ed’s a fucking dunce. I love, just absolutely love, when an obviously stupid person like our Ed here, calls other people stupid. The irony is syrupy sweet. Dicentra, you’re right. Ed has hit the trifecta of fail.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 12:43 pm #
Some “righties” sure do, Ed. However, I can name at least one “leftie” that has those exact same characteristics. Ed, say something intelligent. I dare you.
Comment by Darleen on 8/19 @ 12:49 pm #
Ed
say, did you locate a copy of the #1 NYTimes Non-Fiction book? You know, so you can quote the “fiction” you asserted when you first slithered in.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 12:55 pm #
101 OI:
Now that was just mean!
*snicker*
Comment by Matt on 8/19 @ 1:12 pm #
I am persuaded by Ed’s argument and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.
Comment by Matt on 8/19 @ 1:19 pm #
Sorta OT but can anyone explain to me why we’re giving Brazil 2 billion dollars to drill for oil ? I don’t get it.
Comment by sdferr on 8/19 @ 1:21 pm #
Kinda looks like a globalized form of NIMBY, don’t it Matt?
Comment by Freedom Fan on 8/19 @ 1:39 pm #
Hey Ed, Boss Obama’s approval ratings on RCP just fell to an all-time low of 51.4%, and Obama’s teleprompter, David Axelrod, appears to be on the take from “special interests”. Sux to be you, eh?
Comment by DarthRove on 8/19 @ 1:49 pm #
Matt @ 1:19pm
We’re giving Brazil $2,000,000,000 because George Soros bought a ton of Petrobras last week. But that’s a coincidence, I’m sure.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 8/19 @ 1:52 pm #
#1 NYTimes Non-Fiction
1, 4 and 5. Wow, wingers must be buying those books to burn and keep warm in August.
Y’know.
Cos they’re so stupid.
Hyuck
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 8/19 @ 1:55 pm #
DarthRove
you got a link on that? Just curious, cos Petrobras is supposedly a state owned company … how did Jorge Soros get a stake in it?
Jorge … aha get it, Ed?
Comment by sdferr on 8/19 @ 2:05 pm #
OTT, this may help.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/19 @ 2:07 pm #
“#Comment by Matt on 8/19 @ 1:19 pm #
Sorta OT but can anyone explain to me why we’re giving Brazil 2 billion dollars to drill for oil ? I don’t get it.”
It was Ed’s idea.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 2:38 pm #
Amazin’ how righties all over the Internet all “write” with the exact same bogeymen: Soros, Air America, ObamaCare….same witless prose, too.
Rash Limbo was at least smart enough to name his zombie followers “Dittoheads.” He probably didn’t forsee that it would apply to FOX News freaks, Malkin Moonies, Beck backers, etc. But he did get the “me-too-ism” right.
All followers, none with an original thought in their impressionable heads….
Comment by DarthRove on 8/19 @ 2:55 pm #
Thanks, sdferr. Beat me to the link.
Undoubtedly, gurufocus.com is a reich-winger hate site that takes orders from Dick Cheney and the disembodied brain of Ronald Reagan.
I’d trade 50 Ed’s for Lisa and her sugary ta-tas anyday.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 2:57 pm #
Ed is making a push to pass willie jones for the biggest asshat of the day.
Comment by BJTexs on 8/19 @ 3:01 pm #
Ed really seems to enjoy Axlerod porking our fair little country. Perhaps he should just send his tax dollars to David and save the astroturfer some trouble.
TO THE VICTORS GO THE RAPINE!
Comment by sdferr on 8/19 @ 3:01 pm #
Ed is beyond boring. At least william makes a decent vehicle for the demonstration of what a fascist looks like in real life, kinda the flip-side of his hobby horse creationism, which makes a decent vehicle for what science doesn’t look like.
Comment by Rusty on 8/19 @ 3:10 pm #
#113
gosh, Ed. Let’s hear some of your original thoughts. ’cause so far you haven’t stated any.
Comment by BJTexs on 8/19 @ 3:13 pm #
Oh, what was that, sdferr? I couldn’t hear you on account of the hammering of the nails in my hands and feet for the Passion festival. We’re going to burn a Galapagos turtle in effigy!
End … ur … fun times for all!
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 8/19 @ 3:14 pm #
oh I see – majority owned by the Brazilian govt. Thanks for the 411.
Comment by Ric Locke on 8/19 @ 3:23 pm #
…and at bare minimum, we aren’t cutting&pasting from the latest “talking points” email being passed around. Ed, your problem isn’t that you’re repetitive, it’s that you’re imitative.
Anyway, the truth will bear repeating. George Soros has, in fact and in public, declared that he intends to reduce the United States from its pre-eminent role in the world to just another nation; he has, in fact, manipulated the world’s currency markets to make between fifty and 100 billion dollars by impoverishing the U.K.; and he does, in fact, finance MoveOn.org and a number of other Leftoid sites, no doubt including the one you cribbed your talking points from.
We think the Air America business — 21st Century version — is ironically amusing. Nobody listened to it, so it failed. Why did nobody listen to it? –because they could get the same thing from a near-infinite number of other pseudoLeftist organs, and because it wasn’t funny or original in any way. It’s the obverse of your obsession with Rush — Limbaugh attracts listeners and therefore sponsors; Air America attracted neither. But, then, what can you expect from a Leftoid so brain-dead they name their new enterprise after something their parents marched in the streets against?
We are against nationalization of the health care industry and the associated insurance business. We will repeat that as many times as may be necessary. And for us, it isn’t necessary to simply lie louder when challenged, because we have real objections which you and the rest aren’t answering with your ad hominems and sneers.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 3:25 pm #
Note how our special friend Ed decries people citing bogeymen then seamlessly transitions to Rush Limbaugh after having the vapors over Michelle Malkin.
It takes a special person to miss the irony in that, right Ed?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 3:27 pm #
Ric:
Mr. Soros seems to be a villain right out of a Clive Cussler novel.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 4:22 pm #
Look at all you masturbatory righties in a right-wing circle jerk!
It is tons of fun to visit a hellhole like this pathetic site to read the ravings of the uneducated, “let’s-fight-the-corporations-fight-for-’em-cuz-we’re-too-stupid-to-realize-we’re-being-duped” crowd. Not a shred of irony to be found…
Well done, righties! You continue to show why you are the target of comedians worldwide; there really IS nothing funnier than a bunch of intellectually-deficient hillbillies trying to act as if they understand the world around them. And Dick Armey, Rick Scott and millionaire Astroturfers everywhere thank you for your stupidity.
Comment by kristan on 8/19 @ 4:26 pm #
as predictable and interesting as a poorly coded “hello world,” this one is..
Comment by Darleen on 8/19 @ 4:29 pm #
Ed
where’s that quote you from the book you label “fiction”?
You claim substance, prove it.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 5:09 pm #
#125 kristan:
Pretty dialed in. Axelrod’s former company has work through the government so it can pay him his severance, and Ed goes all ‘hillbillies!’ on us. I bet Ed is also another independent businessman who has made a fortune on the stockmarket and has a bevy blonde slavic babes to cater to his needs.
And he choses to spend his valuable time with us! Isn’t that special! Aren’t we lucky!
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 5:52 pm #
Well, Darleen, honey, VDARE sympathizer Michelle “Eye Roll” Malkin puts out a book on this imagined “culture of corruption” within months of Obama’s inauguration. That leads most with even a working knowledge of writing/publishing to believe that Malkin’s entire thesis is premature, cooked-up and bogus. A bit early in the game to cry “corruption!”–but then, I guess i missed this airhead’s book on the real corruption of the Bush Administration–no bid contracts for Cheney’s cronies at Halliburton, the corruption of lies leading up to the Iraq War, ordering unneeded new fighter aircraft and zillions more. Do you know who SueAnn Arrigo is? She was a high-level CIA insider. Her title was Special Operations Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). She also established the Remote Viewing Defense protocols for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 2008, Arrigo sent extensive government corruption and cover-up information to Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee – in 12 separate cases.
– of government corruption and war profiteering;
– sweetheart deals and kickbacks;
– high-level types on the take;
– trillions of missing dollars;
– on September 10, 2001, Rumsfeld admitting “According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions;”
– imagine the current amount;
– its corrosive effect on the nation; and people should
– demand accountability – who profits, who pays and what are the consequences of militarism gone mad.
Not to mention all the Bush crones like Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff, Alphonso Jackson, etc. and what could also be called the “culture of INCOMPETENCE” that also surrounded that disaster of a White House resident.
And Michelle Malkin is worked up because Michelle Obama is infinitely more gifted and intelligent than she and thinks Mrs. Obama is a DALEY acolyte????
That’s a helluva thin “culture of corruption” compared to Barack Obama’s predecessor…
But–hey!–Malkin’s one of “yours,” and you can have her. She’s a piece of shit.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 6:00 pm #
Ed – When you pull your finger out of your chocolate starfish, you should first wash it before picking your nose, and eating you boogers.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 6:01 pm #
JD, did you ever get out of high school?
Comment by kristan on 8/19 @ 6:02 pm #
in spite of it all, I love google.
http://news.google.com/news?q=sue%20ann%20arrigo&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn
summary: “Your search – sue ann arrigo – did not match any documents.”
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 6:02 pm #
Come on. This felcher is really a bot programmed to puke out a TPM/MediaMatters/HuffPo talking point or meme at randomly selected intervals.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 6:04 pm #
Wow, JD; you gotcher pre-approved, right-wing bogeymen all right there on yer flashcard, dontcha, hillbilly?
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 6:13 pm #
Unintentional irony is the best. Mr Ed has been thrashing strawmen and wailing about right-wingnut bogeymen for two days, and then projects that onto others. Teh blissfully unaware is thick in this one.
Hillbilly. You fuckin’ bigot. You are such a wretched vermin that you would not be worthy of lickin’ the spilt grits off the boots of a real hillbilly. I, on the other hand, alas am not. I even have all of my toothers, and they are all white. Step away from the bowl of cereal. The potential for danger is high.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 6:14 pm #
Ed is like a Cliff’s Notes version of a troll.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 6:17 pm #
Oh, JD, you poor, dumb sap. I guess you are blissfully unaware of the real bigot–your heroine, Michelle Malkin. VDARE-sympathizin’, swastika-friendly, Japanese-internment-is-cool-with-her Michelle “I can’t stop my eyes from bugging out of my head when I’m indignant!” Malkin.
And Mikey NTH? Not very original. Saw that one before….
Comment by Rusty on 8/19 @ 6:19 pm #
#124
see #118 above
#128
see #118 above
You do know Bush isn’t the president, yes?
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 6:27 pm #
Rusty, you do know that the topic was “corruption,” yes?
Did all history disappear on January 20, 2009?
Sorry, pal, it ain’t that easy. Your boy Bush–REPUBLICAN–is gone but can’t be forgotten. We’ll be living through the nightmares he created for years.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 6:31 pm #
Mikey – It is more like a parody of the Cliff Notes version.
Ed – What gives you the impression that I like Michelle Mahaladingdong, or does it just make it easier to make wild asspulls?
So internment was good, or bad?
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 6:40 pm #
JD, I have no idea whether you like Malkin or not. And I am not an internment fan, despite my admiration for many of FDR’s other policies.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 6:49 pm #
You called her my heroine, you lying douchenozzle.
Comment by royf on 8/19 @ 6:52 pm #
Sorry, pal, it ain’t that easy. Your boy Bush–REPUBLICAN–is gone but can’t be forgotten.We’ll be living through the nightmares he created for years.
Sorry pal because you say it doesn’t make it so. Nothing you have posted here indicates you have any credibility. Just another loser who still thinks marxism/socialism is good in spite of many generations of failure and hundreds of millions killed. Yeah stupid is permanent you stand as proof.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/19 @ 7:00 pm #
And yet when the post is about Axelrod’s former company getting government contracts so they can pay him his severance pay, Ed goes off on Malkin! Rush! Anything! Sweet God, anything! Bush! Cheney! Halliburton! Why isn’t this working! Malkin! Bush!
Please work!
We’ve heard it all before Ed, and it is so 2005. Got anything to say about Mr. Axelrod’s fortutious circumstances? Anything original?
Comment by Cowboy on 8/19 @ 7:03 pm #
Shorter Ed:
Look!! Republican BUNNIES!!!11!!!eleventy!!
Comment by Rusty on 8/19 @ 7:39 pm #
From what I can garner, Ed here thinks that Bush is responsible for all of Obamas bonehead policies. I’ll make it easy for you Ed; Chicago Politician = Corruptiion. Now. Who is in the Whitehouse?
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 7:56 pm #
Fucking A. Ed, you’re as dumb as a dumb box of rocks. A regular unassuming box of rocks packs more wallop there, little guy. Has Jeff’s place regressed so far as to have this pansy as the best of the statist douchebag contrarians? Say it ain’t so.
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Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:13 pm #
Obstreperous Infidel–do you use your mother or father’s last name? Oh–that’s right! They’re brother and sister!
Mikey NYH, if a real reporter with actual journalistic chops and not some FOX News shill like Malkin comes up with a connection between Axelrod and a whiff of scandal, I’ll take that as something to which I’ll pay attention. Until then, it’s just more sour grapes and Malkin Mania.
And royf? Idiotic, cognitive dissonance-challenged royf? If you believe we are in a Marxist society and we are on the verge of killing “millions,” I would say that I hope you have adequate mental health care because you are fucking nuts.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 8:20 pm #
Ed – Fuck you.
Darleen laid out the case showing how money is being funneled to Axelrod, and the inherent conflict of interest that presents. That you dismiss it out-of-hand shows that you are nothing other than a talking pointing spewing partisan lying hack.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 8:22 pm #
Ed, that weak stuff may work in your pro football forum, but dude you’re fucking stupid. It’s been embossed for all to see. I’m betting you’re as big a bitch as you are stupid, too. Now try again. Just ONE intelligent thing. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be on topic. Come on little one. Give it a try.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:31 pm #
“Darleen laid out the case…” Who the FUCK is “Darleen?” A fucking BLOGGER?
Fuck you, too, JD, you juvenile prick.
And Obstre-whatever the fuck your name is? You are a friggin’ drooling hillbilly. It’s been “embossed” for all to see.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:34 pm #
BTW, JD, Darleen “laid out” nothing. She regurgitated Hugh Fucking Hewitt, Bloomberg and Politico. “Laid out”, my ass. Just another blogger…
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 8:39 pm #
Good Allah. Keep this one away from the Cheerios.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 8:40 pm #
Ed, I’m waiting. Try it little guy. And hillbilly? Is that a pejorative? You can’t even pronounce Obstreperous and you say I’m the dumb one? Again, just one semi (see that…I changed the request) intelligent thing. I don’t think you can do it. Oh, and are you as big a pussy as you are stupid? Because that would be impressive in a kind of backwoods kind of way. Yeehaw, little guy.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 8:41 pm #
What is your standard? Unless Kevin Drum states it, it did not happen? Unless the NY Times condemns it, it is okay?
Do you always go around dropping trou and taking a shit in other people’s living room?
Comment by dicentra on 8/19 @ 8:44 pm #
Michelle Malkin puts out a book on this imagined “culture of corruption” within months of Obama’s inauguration. That leads most with even a working knowledge of writing/publishing to believe that Malkin’s entire thesis is premature, cooked-up and bogus.
Shows what you know. She cataloged the corrupt activities that Obama and his cronies were up to BEFORE he was president. While in Chicago. While in the Illinois State Senate.
They haven’t changed their ways, and you can’t prove otherwise.
Comment by B Moe on 8/19 @ 8:44 pm #
Says a troll named Ed.
The irony abounds.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:45 pm #
Obsies–your stupid fucking handle aside–does not wanting to type your ridiculous nom de plume somehow mutate into a pronunciation? You are really trying too hard, Junior.
Assholes like you with an Internet connection and a dictionary you can’t understand are as fun to get off-point as Michele Bachmann at a sanity hearing. Just fucking hilarious.
Have fun in the outhouse, Junior; keep your hands off your sister!
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:46 pm #
dicentra, neither can you…
Comment by kristan on 8/19 @ 8:48 pm #
hey folks, this might be a good time to stop feeding the troll.
I mean, seriously: do you really expect someone who doesn’t mind obviously contradicting himself three times in a single sentence to respond in a logical/coherent/decent fashion?
I think this one’s too vitriolic/casually-insulting to be able to pull off the “repeat the meme until it sticks” approach with passerbys. unless that passerby is instantly won over by the random usage of the diminutive ‘hillbilly.’ in which case I don’t really care.
Comment by B Moe on 8/19 @ 8:49 pm #
Go read the book, Ed. You a fucking buffoon criticizing a book you haven’t even read a damn review of. You can’t possible make a bigger ass of yourself with out doing some research. I know you have it in you, we will wait.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:50 pm #
Oh, kristan! Such a probing dissection of visitors with contrary viewpoints! Where did you get your jargon, honey? The Onion?
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 8:50 pm #
Ed, so weak. Again, just ONE thing. I even said it could be off topic. MUCH brighter people than you have attempted to talk smack and failed. All I’m asking of you is to say something intelligent. Hell, intelligent sounding will do. But you can’t do it, can you? About anything? Really? Really?
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:53 pm #
B Moe, I have read excerpts that primo media whore Malkin pimps…they are much ado about nothing. But conservative bulk book buys and a lazy press–not to mention her FOX tie-ins–help third-rate hacks like her sell books. A sign of the times.
McDonald’s sells hamburgers, too, but nobody confuses it with real cuisine.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 8:56 pm #
OI – I would love it if one of these clowns would have the stones to say this kind of crap to my face, just once. They wouldn’t, because they are snivelling little cowards.
Comment by B Moe on 8/19 @ 8:58 pm #
Yet you have no idea what the book is about. You are a liar, Ed. And too stupid to be a good one.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 8:58 pm #
JD, oh, I would–gladly. And I’d say it fucking LOUD, Tough Guy!
Then I’d say it again.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 9:01 pm #
Well, B Moe, your opinion of me matters not one iota. I know what kind of shit Malkin writes; it’s boilerplate Coulter-lite, and is nothing more than rumor, innuendo, accusations and lies.
“Culture of Corruption.” Would’ve made a great title for a book on News Corps. vertical integration and bastardization of actual NEWS.
Comment by kristan on 8/19 @ 9:01 pm #
165:
it’s too bad, really. if you or me lived like that on the internet and then treated people in real life in the same way, at least we’d have friends/family to probably knock our heads around. constructively, of course.
this sad man probably lacks that; and thus rage can boil and consume him without ever being addressed.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 9:04 pm #
True that, JD. This chump is just that, too. Typing away from the ambiotic confines of Mom’s basement, I bet. All I wanted was one intelligent thing from the little guy. Just one. Hell, it could have been a brief outline of the basic themes of Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum or better yet for this guy, a brief outline of the basic themes of Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. Or shit, a brief explanation of the advantages of the aggressive Buddy Ryan’s 46 defense over Marty Shcottenheimer’s (sp?) prevent defense. But, the simpleton could not do it. Oh well…
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 9:05 pm #
Actually, kristan, you’re wrong. Again. Here’s my first comment here, and the two immediate responses. I guess you can decide where the “rage” comes from:
“Comment by Ed on 8/18 @ 10:58 pm #
“Michelle Malkin is going to have to add another chapter to her book.”
Will she have any facts this time?
Comment by cranky-d on 8/18 @ 11:10 pm #
Wow, Ed,what’s it like to be an completely ignorant idiot? Just wondering.
Comment by Darleen on 8/18 @ 11:15 pm #
Ed
Ok, how about substantiating your assertion and quote something from “Culture of Corruption” that is fiction.
I mean, you must have that at your finger tips right? Or did you just stumble home from Kilkenny’s Pub to vomit on your keyboard?”
Hmmmmm. Gee, kristan. Seems my sarcasm was met by “sad” people, probably lacking “friends/family.”
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 9:06 pm #
Obstey, you’re reachin’ again! And you just ain’t that smart, boy!
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 9:07 pm #
You are a snivelling coward, Ed. Pathetic. At least thor made me laugh from time to time. You are angry angry angry hatey hatey hatey all the time.
Comment by B Moe on 8/19 @ 9:09 pm #
And you can’t do it. Because you are a liar.
I heard the same shit about Malkin’s In Defense of Internment. I heard so much shit my curiosity got the better of me and I went out and bought the book. You know what I discovered? None of the people raising hell about it had ever read it, it was blindingly obvious. A
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 9:11 pm #
Well, B Moe, imagine that! You bought a book. Too bad it wasn’t a real one.
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 9:13 pm #
You accused her of having no facts in her book, a book you admit you will never read, and you act shocked that your assertion was not just left to stand.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/19 @ 9:15 pm #
LOL…you are an epic fail, Ed. Epic. And, I KNOW I “ain’t that smart”, Ed. The problem is you don’t. That’s why I’m always open for learning. It’s obvious, you aren’t. The point being is that you’re unbelievably fucking stupid. You’ve made that abundantly clear by your lack of support to your initial whining and your assumptions based on nada, zilch, zip, nothing. You’re a dumb pussy. That is an awful combination. Your being is your own punishment. I can’t even hope to add on.
JD, thor was a god compared to this little guy. Thor, while being the ultimate asshole (so much more of an asshole than the relatively harmless Ed here) was infinitely more intelligent and provocative, too. Sure, his hillbilly stuff was over used and trite, but the celine stuff was kind of funny and interesting from time to time.
Comment by Ed on 8/19 @ 9:19 pm #
Can’t speak about “Thor,” but if you droolers hated him, he must have been a really bright guy.
Bye, righties; this was an entertaining way to kill some time today and gather some info for my article.
Wow; the fringe-right is getting nuttier every day.
See ya in the paper…
Comment by JD on 8/19 @ 9:24 pm #
It surprises not one little bit that this one claims to be a JounoList.
Comment by Pablo on 8/19 @ 9:25 pm #
Bye, Ed. Come back some time when you can’t stay so long.
Comment by B Moe on 8/19 @ 9:32 pm #
World class buffoonery. If there was a Hall of Fame for Stupid, Ed would be a shoo in.
Comment by Darleen on 8/19 @ 10:23 pm #
I love this from Ed the “Journalist”
“She regurgitated Hugh Fucking Hewitt” … not to mention links to Bloomberg and WaPo
Now, why would I consider Hugh Hewitt credible when it comes to conflicts of interest concerning government officials… well, besides him being both a practicing lawyer and a Professor of constitutional law (as opposed to an untenured lecturer)
he has worked within the government and he deals in facts, something Ed has a problem with.
Ed never substantiates one bit of his assertions and can not substantially counter any facts in this post nor in Malkin’s book.
Ed is a phoney.
Comment by DarthRove on 8/19 @ 10:33 pm #
Ed has been tested, Ed is found to be sorely lacking in intelligence and entertainment value.
Into the trollhammer bin it goes. What a waste of bandwidth.
Comment by kristan on 8/19 @ 10:43 pm #
ed,
everyone’s got to take personal responsibility for their actions and words. that means that darleen & cranky-d were probably too harsh at the outset (albeit a bit worn from dealing with trolls like yourself, who drop unqualified – sometimes prima facie idiotic – statements and run), but also that you came in picking a fight with a bunch of total strangers. and more than kept it going with logical inanities and insults.
your time in this thread was roughly the internet equivalent of walking into a bar in south boston while wearing a yankees jersey and shouting “red sox suck!” and then going home to collect your observations for a timely essay about violent boston-ers.
if you were to go to the daily kos and drop an unqualified statement like “will joe wilson have any facts this time?” and I guarantee you that you will likely be banned and flamed by a much larger number of people than you met here today. the same goes for just about any internet community.
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darleen,
in the event that this schmuck is indeed a journalist, you should see if someone can match his ip to a news company. if he is a journalist and deliberately provoked a bunch of shouting matches on company time, his employer should know about his unprofessional conduct. in detail.
thanks.
Comment by Abe Froman on 8/19 @ 11:07 pm #
Wow. I can’t believe I missed out on Ed’s projectile vomiting. The best part about a loon getting that worked up is that you can just feel it consuming him. The rest of us could be chatting on the phone, having a beer, half-watching television and just have a laugh at his expense by dropping in a comment while this poor soul is firing the demons in his head onto the screen with his ass puckered, his teeth clenched and with dippy emo music wafting in the background in his crappy abode.
Comment by royf on 8/20 @ 3:33 am #
Ed just can’t wrap his head around the fact that “cut and paste” trolls like him are dissected everyday on blogs and news sites which attract classical liberals, libertarians and conservatives. The emailed talking points he mimics are as common as the big mac he ridicules, Yet him concluding he has something/anything to offer is merely a reflection pool. Only inches deep but they will work when appearance is all that matters.
Ed the fact is on websites such as PW the good and bad in politics are regularly discussed and debated, the occasional lip syncing zerobot such as yourself with a fresh batch (in your mind only) of straw men aren’t exactly cutting edge. Hell the crap you spew is years old and has been proven to be nothing but lies and political theater. So don’t expect to be treated with any respect when you drop in spouting things this blog has destroyed intellectually long ago, You brought nothing new here just the lefts same old rhetoric. And as several have said you aren’t even amusing, That is your lot in life. Good luck with that.
Comment by Rusty on 8/20 @ 4:50 am #
Eds’ floaties got punctured.
Comment by Ed on 8/20 @ 9:02 am #
darleen,
in the event that this schmuck is indeed a journalist, you should see if someone can match his ip to a news company. if he is a journalist and deliberately provoked a bunch of shouting matches on company time, his employer should know about his unprofessional conduct. in detail.
thanks.
kristan, your suggestion is oh, so ridiculous. I work from home as a free-lancer (sorry, honey; “company time” is MY time!) and the piece we are working on might not even include the crackpot crap I’ve seen here. See. this site is not exactly a household name in the world of right-wing nuttery, while Free Republic, Human Events FOX News Nation–all rife with misinformed misanthropes–are.
But if Protein Wisdom makes the cut, your dopey suggestion and JD’s keyboard machismo just might be my lede.
Bye, bye. See ya in the paper (and online…)
Comment by maggie katzen on 8/20 @ 10:38 am #
hmmmmm, why might that be?
Comment by kristan on 8/20 @ 10:39 am #
ed,
as far as gloating goes, that was pretty silly. I mean, seriously: my suggestion was ridiculous only because you’re not an actual journalist, accountable to your employer?
that was compelling. whatever.
well, back to life in the fullest.
Comment by Ed on 8/20 @ 1:04 pm #
kristan, honey; NEWSFLASH!!!!! Many of us write as freelancers (of course, you don’t know a thing about journalism, so you wouldn’t know that.) And Peanut? A reputable journalist’s work is then fact-checked AGAIN prior to publication, unlike your heroes in the blogosphere, like Malkin, et al (speaking of Malkin, the syndicate that pedals her column is so starved for cash they are leaving their corporate office in L.A. because they can’t afford it anymore! That happens when a once-respected syndicator decides to go all-fringe, all the time.)
Accountability? You bet; but I don’t punch a time-clock, darlin’; I write from my home at the beach, paid for by FACTS.
Comment by Rusty on 8/20 @ 3:42 pm #
#191
But you haven’t refuted anything Malkin has asserted as fact. Here’s one for you Ed-FACT(you lefties seem to like that style) There are more federal prosecutors in the City of Chicago and Cook County than the rest of the country combined. Wanna guess why?
Comment by kristan on 8/20 @ 5:29 pm #
ed,
well, that was predictable. sheesh.
there’s two aspects of accountability that you don’t seem to get. the first is professionalism. I’m accountable to my employer to not only perform good work but also to remain professional in my conduct as an employee. if I was a journalist, I’d think that would mean that I wouldn’t get into “fuck you!” wars with folks I was simultaneously quoting for new content. but hey, I’m only a researcher, not a free-lancing crusader.
that also gets into the whole ethics issue, the whole ‘tainting of data’ and such. but we’ll let that one go for now.
the second is that of context. your job in writing articles is to provide and to a lesser extent interpret facts, where the facts you find don’t arise because of your participation, but rather as a result of keen observation. the baiting of folks in this forum is a necessary piece of context that will likely not be revealed to your editor or colleagues when your article is fact-checked. so, your quotations will likely be accurate but misleading, in the same way as a self-defense story titled “cold-blooded murder in miami!” sins of omission and all.
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I do have one question for you, since I’m sure that you’ll check back later to see how I responded to your incisive wit. do you actually believe half of the tripe you argued when you were playing dumb? in particular, I mean all of the sue ann arrigo and halliburton business?
finally, as endearing as the “honey”s and “darlin’”s have been, you should know that I’m a man. yeah, yeah, I blame my parents.
Comment by Ed on 8/20 @ 9:20 pm #
kristan, you are right; I apologize for my “baiting of folks.” I’m sorry that I did that–no excuse.
I probably also shouldn’t have called you “honey” or ‘darlin’”, either. You are right again about that.
My original sarcastic jibe was met with what I felt was an over-the-top aggression; that said, my original intent was just that–sarcasm.
I didn’t come here to bait; I came to visit and snark. I’m sorry if if it devolved to disrespect.
I am dead serious about that; I do understand conservatives beefs, though I disagree. I am concerned, however, with the thought that Obama is somehow Hitler.
He ain’t.
Anyway, if I offended you, I am sorry. It really wasn’t my original intent.
Comment by guinsPen on 8/21 @ 4:45 am #
I didn’t come here to bait; I came to visit and snark
Please explain the difference, wordsmith.
Comment by Rusty on 8/21 @ 5:14 am #
I am dead serious about that; I do understand conservatives beefs, though I disagree. I am concerned, however, with the thought that Obama is somehow Hitler.
Uh. More like Stalin, or maybe Hugo Chavez. Prolly more like Hugo Chavez. Only more corrupt.
Comment by B Moe on 8/21 @ 5:27 am #
Then you must be one broke motherfucker.
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Comment by Ed on 8/21 @ 12:36 pm #
B Moe:
I guess you missed the “home at the beach” part.
Nope; not “broke.”
Sorry that I’m doing so well. I know how you want all us liberals–your fellow citizens, BTW–to fail…
Comment by Rusty on 8/21 @ 3:20 pm #
#197
All the bums and their shopping carts, in Coasta Mesa, hang out at the park across the street from the police station.
Comment by kristan on 8/21 @ 3:20 pm #
ed,
this is going to be short, as my wife and I are about to head out of town.
I appreciate the reply and the owning-up. I respect you for that. I find that the internet often brings out the worst in me, something I’m never proud of either. foolish man that I am, to think that contempt will persuade.
with regard to the “honey”s and all that, no worries – I’m not the type to be offended. hell, my undergrad had me primed to have a female roommate when I showed up for my freshman year.
w.r.t. obama and hitler, agreed – we need to deal with things as they are. when that means that obama acts in a thuggish manner, he should be called on it. and when accusations aren’t true, they they should be discarded.
w.r.t. offense, I appreciate it, but respectfully: offense isn’t the issue, rather conduct is the issue. to my mind, you recognized and apologized for your conduct – which settles things for me.
and I’ve got to go. thanks.
regards,
kristan
Comment by Ed on 8/21 @ 5:01 pm #
Thumbs up, kristan. Cheers.
Comment by guinsPen on 8/22 @ 5:43 am #
Nope; not “broke.”
Ok, then.
Broken.
Comment by SBP on 8/22 @ 5:47 am #
Sorry that I’m doing so well.
Right. And I have a castle in the Pyrenees and have sex with supermodels every night.
Hint: we’re not impressed.
More likely you’re a part-time barista who is in default on his student loans.
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