FDL!

Great guide o’ Snark

I am a blogofascist!!!

So this is where everyone is-cool.

I’m still too irate at the Times travel story to have included it.

The audacity is galling.

Wow. And “fatuous, bombastic pedant” was just beginning to grow on me.

The end times are really weird.

“Sabre of Irrelevancy”
LMAO.

OT,…Jane,
Did Christy pass my message to you?
Larry

As per the Poor Man Instutute:

“…dangerously charismatic 2002 US Spelling Bee quaterfinalist and apple-cheek’ed nerd despot Markos “Kos” Moulitsas”

Oh, you mean that 13 yr old carrying the 2.5 yr old on his shoulders @ yKos?
The Poor Man Institute shoots & scores!

Peter Bergen takes the various MSM and government terror analysts to task in today’s OpEd section of the NYTimes and he’s not kind about it. In fact, he tells us more about the current incarnations of AlQaeda in one column than the whole paper has recently.

John Casper @ 7,

yeah, I liked the imagery.

margot,

If you’ve moved on to this thread, I left you a msg re your poll of single women at the bottom of the preceding thread.

Jane,

well, The Corner really has . . . cornered the market on “baselessly supercilious”. ;-)

vachon, I’m not finding PB on NYT’s Opinion page. Linky?

Ed*ard Teller –

Ask your 20yo daughter how she would organize a political-awareness-viral-marketing-campaign / voter-registration-drive for her friends and others in her age cohort.

If we can spark a Peer to Peer Single Women movement, we will kick Karl Rove’s ass from here to Cheney’s bunker.

Really Off Topic
Jane, congratulations on the SHOWTIME AD.
FWIW AMC appears to be trying to “brand” itself apart from TNT and other Cable outlets with some original content.
Also, you have probably already thought of a contest where readers grade political journalists. Assigning annual grades might help further the identity of FDL, Kos, and others as the CONSUMER REPORTS for political journalists.

ck,

She’s already involved in that with some of her roommates at Western Washington University, and might help with the US House race here in Alaska this summer.

I might have gotten more of a sense of their Bellingham organizational structure, except I got the feeling from my daughter that as dad and a male, I should butt out and let them handle it their way.

Mighty Casey, watertiger, and Poor Man from newtonw at 10.

I’m gonna have sooooo much fun tonight. Thank you thank you.

John Casper at 17 – I think you have something there. Excellent idea

Creek Running North – ahhhhh.

ET 18, ask her to post here about it, by popular demand!

Jane,

well, The Corner really has . . . cornered the market on “baselessly supercilious”. ;-)

I was thinking of Bill Bennett today as “unfounded pomposity”.

A snark-related comment to Jane, while you’re in CT, or any Nutmeg folk: Did you see the parade float at My Left Nutmeg of the LieberBush KissyFace? I, for one, would happily contribute to a fund that paid someone to drive that float to every Lieberman appearance between now and 08/08, for gas to get it there, and for a parking space across the street from JoMo’s campaign HQ.

Ed*ard Teller –

We don’t need to have your daughter tell us how it’s done — but we need to have your daughter lead the discussion that Pach kicked off last night, so that all of the like minded young women in America can kick Karl Rove’s pasty white ass.

this rabid lamb is excited about getting fitted for her blogofascist uniform

Blogofascists get uniforms?!?

Can I wear number 12?

Capt. Twelve A.M. Midnight, E.S.T., C.E.

‘It’s my view that this situation needs to be watched closely’

;>)

The reason nobody can find the Peter Begen OpEd I referenced is because it’s in the Washington Post. It’s titled Al Qaeda, Still In Business.

Duh duh and duh.

darkblack,

damn, you’re good.

Where can I get my “Jane Hamsher of the Left” baseball cap? Heading out for a drag brunch at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room, feeling underdressed without my ballcap!

You know, I think the old (I mean 1960s old) television show “That Was The Week That Was” should be resurrected. (Google it…it was a one-season wonder with Tom Lehrer among others.)

This post is a good start. Ms. Hamsher, you know people in the industry; pitch it! ;)

Yeah, Jane, you’re not busy….

Teddy’s on to something – I’d order a Jane Hamsher of the Left baseball cap in a second!

One of those ubiquitous church marquis signs inspired some patriotic ponderings in me yesterday. See this diary for details… Time for America to be “born again”?

I want one of those ballcaps, too, please. I don’t get to go anywhere nearly as chic as the Starlight Room, but I promise I’ll take it for a spin down Main Street in our hometown of 5,600.

-S

oh – and I’d wear it in the YKOS2 media room nonstop!

Chris Bowers has a What-Should-We-Call-The-Media post at MyDD. The Winner, by acclimation of Chris Bowers, is:

Establishment Media

http://mydd.com/story/2006/7/2/122645/5623#25

vachon, the Bergen piece is absolutely chilling — not just for what it says, but for what it leaves unsaid: “And with Cheney and Rumsfeld in charge, al-Qaeda remains not just essentially unopposed but actively aided.”

Linkmeister @ 30

Maybe see if Robin Williams would like to host it?

Peterr @ 38,

I think Eddie Izzard would be a better fit. And preferably in full drag.

How about a more generic “Hamsher of the Left”?

I’ll never be mistaken for a Jane.

I was going to suggest that Lee Siegal was giving pedants a bad name, so perhaps we ought to substitute “dick.” But then I found out that there’s an alternative definition of “pedant” that seems to fit quite well:

A French term that describes a slight, tingling prickle. See also Spritzy.
http://www.lovewine.org/

Perhaps we could just start calling him “Prickle.”

The fastest growing group of single women voters are hispanic. On average they have lower incomes, more mobile, less connections within their communities, and less educated. They also do not read newspapers, few have access to the internet and their main source of information is daytime TeeVee. So if the adds are developed, they need to be placed during the soaps, game shows and reality shows.

Their issues are the same, healthcare for themselves and their children, increased wages and education. They want a better life for their children without having to give them up to the military for the college education benefits.

My question, how do we reach out to them?

… but someday WE’ll be the Establishment, and someday WE’ll be Corporate, but WE’ll never be Traditional Media. I voted in Chris’ poll for TradMed. My fiance’ says it nicely morphs into TrajMed, for when TradMed tragically disappears….

Watertiger is the new Kos.

op99 @22 & ck @24,

Just back from my second run to the central landfill, aka the dump.

Julia and some of her friends left while I nwas out to run in the Mt. Marathon Race in Seward

http://www.sewardak.org/news-e…..rathon.htm

(check out their 2005 race photo gallery!)

and will be back Wednesday.

She’d be more politically active than she is if not for crew (35 to 60 hours per week) and school itself. She struggled to get into the Huxley College of the Environment. I’m not at all sure I can convince her to participate in “dad’s blogging,” either. It’s so “old school.”

watertiger @ 28:

High praise, indeed. Thank you.

FiDi says that they were not brief on SWIFT… that the first she heard about it was in the NYT!
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/…..n-briefed/

STEPHANOPOULOS: The White House said they briefed the Congress on this matter and there is no law called into question. Do you believe that a law is called into question and that this program might have been illegal?

FEINSTEIN: Well, I’m on the Intelligence Committee. I can tell you when I was briefed and when the committee was briefed — and that was when it became apparent that the New York Times had the story and was going to run it. And that’s when and why they came to us and briefed us.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So you knew nothing about it before the New York Times was asking questions?

FEINSTEIN: That’s correct.

Feinstein is another useful idiot for the GOP.

Have to put in yet another good word for Chris Clarke’s “Song of J. Edgar Goldstein” at Creek Running North.

It’s, quite simply, a hoot.

Hey, it looks like the outsider candidate in Maryland is starting to take the lead.

Kweisi Mfume is starting to lead Ben Cardin.

If Mfume gets the nod, the wingers will attack him mercilessly for his affair.

Let’s not let the fact that Gingrich, McCain and Giuliani all had affairs go unnoticed. If the R’s say it is bad for Mfume to run for senate with an affair on his record then it must be really bad for a Presidential candidate.

Keep those slingshots by your sides.

-GSD

Off w/ son Alex to fly fish for Rainbows in upper Willow Creek……

I’d proudly wear the watertiger hat as well

Back in the days of Junior High gym class, I remember a kind of hazing where the victim was said to have “been pants-ed.” It referred to having your shorts pulled down to your ankles, preferably (from the agressor’s point of view) when members of the opposite sex were in plentiful attendance.

When Bush talks about members of Congress “getting briefed,” I can’t help but think that it was his Junior High’s name for the same kind of hazing.

MMMMmmmm, ET, rainbow trout. Drag them through some flour, saute in butter and a few capers, squeeze a lemon wedge… heaven. Have some for me tonight.

And say thanks to them, too.

OfT: Does Libby Get Rove’s Testimony?
by emptywheel

“Jeff, who is much more diligent watching Pacer than I, noted a Judge Walton ruling that probably answers a question I’ve asked about before. Does Libby get the Rove testimony?….”

FUBAR book discussion thread is now open. As always, please keep all discussion that is not about FUBAR on this thread. Thanks!

To Airport Cat w comment from prior thread: “Because I have nothing better to do – well, actually i do have better things to do, but… – I did a radio station search to find out who has the call letters ‘WATB’.”

You are my kind of people :D

Nice to know Lee Siegel has joined the “eliminationist” crowd:

When I see someone wearing a baseball cap in a movie theater, I want them to bring back the guillotine.

Maybe he should cut back on the caffeine.

Agh. I couldn’t do FUBAR, been too busy this past couple of weeks. Will have to read about it upthread.

Hey cbl, Stephen Parrish, Jane — left you each something in the EPU zone last thread.

Katymine 42, and in Spanish on Univision.

I would like to have that “Casey-At-The-Bat” statue.

Please send. :)

James,

google “Casey at the Bat.” You wouldn’t believe…

James @ 4:00 pm (#63) – It would be a sure winner if it was a bobble-head doll. They’d be giving it away any time the Texas Rangers or the Kansas City Royals came to town.

ck @ 36:

chris bowers has a what-should-we-call-the-media post at mydd. the winner, by acclimation of chris bowers, is:
establishment med

who died and made chris bowers markos moulitsas?

personally, we at skippy have taken to calling it the m m m…the multi-millionaire media.

because that’s what they are. a media of the millionaires, by the millionaires, and for the millionaires.

and, for our contribution to this week’s face the snark (aside from a new word, combination of sarcastic, snark, and fantastic…that’s snarkactic!):

a joke we don’t even get, and we wrote it:

seven of nine sings ben folds five

uh, sorry, misspelled our new word:

that’s snarkastic!

by IraqVet4Peace @ 9:00 am

The following is a statement that is being circulated
regarding an incident at the military recruiting
station on Orange Street in New Haven on Wednesday,
June 28. A baseball bat-wielding Marine recruiter
engaged in an unprovoked assault on two demonstrators
outside the recruiting center and then seized the
cellphone belonging to another demonstrator who had
witnessed and photographed the assault. There are
plans for a rally and press conference outside the
recruiting center for July 5 at 5PM.

The National Lawyers Guild was contacted immediately
after the incident by organizers who were looking for
legal assistance because, among other things, the New
Haven police were trying to discourage the victims
from making a complaint against the recruiter %u2014
apparently at least one officer expressed the opinion
that having an anti-war demonstration outside a
military recruiting center was a “provocation.”

The question that this incident must raise is this: if
a US Marine recruiter, while safely ensconced behind a
desk in an air-conditioned office in New Haven,
working in a position that plainly keeps him in the
public eye, feels free to use a baseball bat to beat a
protester . . . then how much restraint do we imagine
that his compatriots use against Iraqis?

I would strongly urge people to participate in the
rally on July 5. The movement needs to respond in a
strong and clear voice to violence against
demonstrators, and all the more so when it comes from
government personnel and is calculated to discourage
political opposition.

Peter Goselin
NLG-CT

Back on after 2nd power outage. Don’t know if you have seen it yet, but

DO NOT PASS GO, GO DIRECTLY TO CROOKSANDLIARS NOW!!!

(unless this is old news, in which case, I am salivating at the thought of Christy’s next post).

You rock Watertigre!