Willis: “Fine, so maybe I can’t actually prove that Resident McChimpychimpy is working to remake the United States into theocracy lorded over by evangelical Christians bent on bringing about end times. But that doesn’t mean the idea is completely untrue.” Electrical tape roll: Willis: “I mean, it’s possible, isn’t it?” Electrical tape roll: Willis: “Because he loves Jesus so much?” Electrical tape roll: Willis: Electrical tape roll: Willis: “I AM
February 13, 2005
February 13, 2005
The “Oliver Willis gets into a battle of wits with a roll of electrical tape and doesn’t really acquit himself all that well” post
February 13, 2005
Your Sunday riddle
Q: What do you get when you cross Oliver Willis and a diet cola? A: Yeah, right. Like that‘s ever happened. **** update: SO I ENJOY DEVIL DOGS. SUE ME!
February 13, 2005
If instead of a marginally literate paid Democratic shill, Media Matters’ chubby pitbull and Beyonce fanboy Oliver Willis were one of the talking dolphins from Mike Nichols’ quirky & paranoid 1973 thriller, “The Day of the Dolphin” (with George. C. Scott)
Dr. Jake Terrell: “Does Fa love Pa?” Willis: “Fa LOVE Pa. Fa HATE Bush and Cheney, though. Hate them. The filthy bipedal fascists.”*
February 13, 2005
The “Oliver Willis gets into a battle of wits with Glenn Reynolds and doesn’t really acquit himself all that well” post
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
February 13, 2005
The “Oliver Willis comments on the Iraqi election results, in which the majority Shiite Muslims won nearly half the votes, giving the long-oppressed group significant power but not enough to form a government on their own” post
Willis: “Sure, whatever. Anyway, as I was saying, ‘Jeff Gannon’ isn’t even his real name…!”*
February 13, 2005
The “Oliver Willis gets into a battle of wits with Michael Barone and doesn’t really acquit himself all that well” post
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
February 13, 2005
The “Oliver Willis enjoys a chicken fried steak with gravy, cole slaw, macaroni salad, 2 ears of corn, scalloped au gratin potatoes, 4 country-style biscuits with butter and jam, and a chocolate milkshake” post
Willis: “Excuse me, waitresss…? Can you bring me a dessert menu when you have a sec?”
February 13, 2005
The marketing of a non-story: The “Jeff Gannon” Question
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