Reynolds: “Neither Howard Kurtz nor David Gergen thinks there is much to the Jeff Gannon story, with both noting that White Houses usually try to seed press conferences with friendly journalists. I think that Bill Press is right that if this was a false-flag operation by the White House that’s a fairly big deal, but there doesn’t seem to be much evidence of that. Personally, I never paid much attention

Willis:  “Sure, whatever.  Anyway, as I was saying, ‘Jeff Gannon’ isn’t even his real name…!”*

Barone: “The Democratic internet constituency, with your site a prime example, Mr. Willis, was and is motivated by one thing more than anything else: hatred of George W. Bush.  Whereas the focus of hatred in the right blogosphere is not Kerry or the Democrats but the Mainstream Media, or MSM. They argue, correctly in my view, that the New York Times, CBS News, and others distorted the news in an

Willis:  “Excuse me, waitresss…?  Can you bring me a dessert menu when you have a sec?”

In the CITIZEN JOURNALIST business, this is what we BIG TIMERS call “grasping at straws.” (h/t INDC Journal, who has more; see also Tom Maguire) **** update:  I loved this bit from Josh Marshall—whose penchant for framing arguments in suggestively open-ended questions strikes me as the rhetorical equivalent of a Victorian gentlemen lighting up his pipe and discoursing, in a thoroughly condescending way (and from the comfort of his plush

Anybody interested in the DVDs of Scorsese’s The Last Waltz (Special Edition) and/or Boxcar Bertha?  Both are brand new and can be had for $6.50 each, shipping included (to the US), or both for $12.  The Scorsese box set I purchased included both of these, but I already had them in my collection. Email me or drop a note in the comments. 

“Man. If I ever meet the guy who invented ‘blogging,’ I swear to Jesus I will brain him with a very heavy      log.”

My guess is that in the cold, clarifying light of morning, how Jordan’s remarks actually played on that Davos tape was even worse than we’d been led to expect—and that, recognizing this, Jordan didn’t so much resign as he was coached by the CNN brass on how best to salvage what remained of his dignity.  I echo Jim Geraghty’s parting thoughts: I would have preferred the tape come out, and

Hoping to overcome what has quickly become a hackneyed premise, FBI agent Don Epps (Rob Morrow) eschews a dangerously abductive statistics-based theory offered him by his brooding mathematician brother, Charlie (David Krumholz), and instead tries doing his own fucking crime solving for a change—relying on nothing more than the vast resources available to him as a federal law enforcement official.  (Co-stars Peter MacNichol, Judd Hirsch, and Sabrina Lloyd)