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)
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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 drawing room), on “the Nabob problem.” To wit:
Given all these questions about credentialing and pseudonyms, I’m also curious how ‘Gannon’ was credentialed at the Republican National Convention, though the RNC certainly has every right to credential whomever they choose, with whatever name they want to go by.
Are you really “curious,” Josh? Really? I mean, enough so that your “curiosity” prompted you to make actual inquiries into the matter? Or are you simply content to float this little loaded airbiscuit of innuendo and hope that some of its stink sticks to the Republicans’ furniture.
Tell me, please. I’m curious.
Clip is jealous. Clip try for credentials. Who do you have to blow anyway?
Hate, hate, hate Joshua Micah Marshall’s whole passhole-aggresshole routine. Haaaate.
Here’s hoping Martha has something to say on this issue. Soon.
I was curious once. And it killed me.
I demand to know “how a…reporter who used a pseudonym managed to gain access to the White House.” It’s an outrage, I tells ya!
(Scroll down at the link to 1905.)
I hate to plunder my own archives… no, check that… I LOVE to plunder my own archives:
Marshalling the Spin with Chin Music
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/003231.php
is pretty much all I have to say about that fraud.
Well, since Michael (aka ‘Mondo-burger-snarfler’
Moore-on was pseudonymically-speaking ‘credentialed’ to sit in the DNC’s ‘Dead Presidents’ booth, can we call it kinda’ even?
Remind me again who takes Josh seriously?
‘Cause I don’t know anyone who does.
A closeted gay using a pseudonym in DC? And it’s a crime?
I bet there are a lot of people sweating the next few weeks out down there.
So, Craig, that C stands for Cat, then?
I think Oliver Willis ate an airbiscuit of innuendo for dessert.
So much depends upon
An airbiscuit of innuendo
For dessert.
So Jeff Gannon was at the speech, and sitting next to him was Josh Marshall. On his left, of course. As Josh said, God not only has a sense of humor, it seems; he is also well-organized.
So Jeff Gannon was at the speech, and sitting next to him was Josh Marshall. On his left, of course, and as Josh said, God not only has a sense of humor, it seems; he is also well-organized.
I wonder if Gannon was on the White House payroll. Seems like that’s the only way Bush can get support for his “policies.” Nice to see he’s spending my money that way.