Hmm. Just trying to remember the last time the NYTimes treated a conservative lawmaker like this.
“Problem child”? Big mouth wide open?
I think we’re more than ready for a new Spy. Maybe Media Matters could find a snarky illustrator to go with their stories.
The Daily Beast is too sensationally oriented, Mediaite swallows wingnut/corporatist bilge without comment.
I’m thinking Media Whores Online. And I’m thinking sooner would be better than later. There’s simply not enough punishment waiting on bad journalists, not nearly enough.
UPDATE: Eric Boehlert’s take.
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Elsewhere in the Times, Krugman continues to argue the stimulus was too small, and Dede Scozzafava gets even by endorsing the Democrat.
If the local TV stations give Hoffman some serious on air time, he’s doomed. The whole time I watched him being interviewed by Glenn Beck I kept trying to figure out if something was wrong with him. He really seemed one off in just about every way.
More on Scozzafava’s endorsement from a local newspaper, and more on how GOoPers treat women from The Daily Beast.
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The WaPost pundit contest kicks into Villager style bipolarity today with conservative Darryl Jackson going down on Sarah Palin (comparing her to Ronald Reagan in terms of being underestimated) while Mara Gay pleasures the First Lady, Sonia Sotomayor and Nancy Pelosi.
Easy to take potshots from the bloggers’ gallery, but these contest columns continue to bear the burden of acute self-awareness. When I read a column, I want to hear a personal voice talking with me about something of interest. And I don’t care how many rewrites it takes to fake that conversational tone. It can lecture me or flirt, but a good column has to have a distinctive voice and as few personal pronouns as possible.
I wonder if the WaPost is coaching these folks, or if they’re just out there on their own, twisting in the gentle breeze of Village opinion.
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The runoff election in Afghanistan has been cancelled. A tough decision, no doubt, but Karzai has decided to bravely go the George W. Bush route and just declare victory.
Whatever, just so long as we get the fuck out of Kabul sooner, not later.
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Because every good American really needs to know the enemy, and right now our biggest enemy is Goldman Sachs.
Mobs with pitchforks would not be inappropriate; teabaggers welcome.
See also Nomi Prins on too big to fail.
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Will Congress ever investigate these frauds or will the Christianists continue to block investigations into any and all cults?
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And have I mentioned Wegestock lately?
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Forest Evashevski, R.I.P.
In Iowa, he was a god.
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11/02/2009 at 10:27 am
Doak Winston
NANCY PELOSI IS A CUNT
11/02/2009 at 10:43 am
Mark Gisleson
Just like, apparently, Doak Winston.
11/02/2009 at 10:56 am
Mark Gisleson
And given the title of this post, add this to the documentation proving that wingnuts totally don’t get irony.
11/02/2009 at 7:43 pm
Tommy
Nor know how to turn off Caps Lock.
11/02/2009 at 2:47 pm
Pearl
Just found you. Liking it!
Pearl
11/02/2009 at 5:39 pm
Go soft, go ignored…
Per that Grayson link you spread today. And hell I think I saw the C word in the comments…LOL….its been awhile…what kind of blog is this?
Anyway from that article….
““A lot of people think a Democrat with guts is some kind of mythical creature like a unicorn, but it doesn’t need to be that way,” Mr. Grayson said in an interview to explain his approach. “
““Representative, Barney Frank Democrat of Massachusetts, who is known for slinging devastating zingers at his political opponents, said that Mr. Grayson had the potential to be a smart, serious lawmaker. He said that Mr. Grayson needed to be careful to avoid inappropriate remarks like the one about Ms. Robertson but that the speech on health care was within bounds. “That was legitimate satire,” he said, adding: “I welcome Grayson’s taking the fight to them. I think he has got to be a little more careful about his punches, but I am glad he’s throwing them.”
Fuck Barney for playing this both ways.. What a WUSS…“Grayson has potential to be a smart serious lawmaker…” POTENTIAL..WTF…sometimes you wonder if some of these senators and representatives in senior positions would even know what a fucking barn door looks like if it hit them square in the face and than spanked them square in the ass on the way out.
11/02/2009 at 9:00 pm
gene
Wege wrote: Hmm. Just trying to remember the last time the NYTimes treated a conservative lawmaker like this.
“Problem child”? Big mouth wide open?
Some at the Times are deserving the Molly Ivins description: If they get any dumber, they’ll have to be watered twice a day.
11/02/2009 at 10:31 pm
autoegocrat
Lordy you get some awesome trolls, Mark. I don’t understand why you complain about it. You should go with full unmoderated anonymous comments all the time.
Seriously though, I am thinking about driving up there for Wegestock. I can’t afford it, but the desire is strong, and even though it’s a crazy idea, it just might work. I won’t know anybody there but you, but unlike the others, I can boast that I’ve actually blogged on Norwegianity. That’s sure to be a chick magnet.
I hope you have hot groupies, Mark. I’m counting on you.
11/02/2009 at 10:54 pm
Mark Gisleson
wow — you’d definitely win the traveling prize. You could raft your way up here but I think you would have needed to have started last week.
Hot groupies? In their day maybe but most of my readers haven’t groupied in decades.
That blogging you did is now part of the Norwegianity Apocrypha.