Crooks and Liars has an hilarious clip from Scarborough Country (yes, you read that correctly…I know, I found the snark from this source amusing as well…). Long live John Stewart, that’s all I’m saying.
And Taylor has an update on her quest to get an interview with John Bolton. Hint: Bolton isn’t interested in talking to anyone who isn’t an outright cheerleader and martini officianado. Why wouldn’t he want to spend time with Taylor? Well, his loss – she is a blast to hang out with at lunch, and she can speak in coherent sentences and ask insightful questions…oh, wait. I’ve answered my question.
It was awfully kind of Atrios to provide a style guide for journalists covering Turncoat Joe.
And if you missed this Paul Hackett clip, you are missing out. I’m just saying.
UPDATE: HAHAHAHA Taylor has the video clip from John Stewart’s take-down of the Bush Presser. *snerk* Oh yeah. Must see teevee.
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CHRISTY!
TREX!
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LOVELY LOTUS!
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Ned!
I hope they get on YouTube!
Why do you continue to link to files on Crooks and Liars servers? For practical purposes, they are not available. Very rarely in relation to total requests does John Amato’s server actually provide the file. It is difficult to believe that a “2006 World Technology Award Nominee” like Amato would set up a server with so much in common with joe2006, but that is the way it is.
(Please, if you are going to delete this comment you also should ask for a glimpse of C&Ls server file request logs)
notanumber at 6 — for god’s sake man, give it up. I JUST watched this video. You are the one with the problem, not John. Sheesh.
Great Post Christy- Long Live Jon Stewart, Indeed!
Where is everybody? Jeeze I finally get my name change made (thanx to the kind help of a FDL legend) and didn’t have a tech meltdown – so easy I should be embarrassed – and was sure my last comment was EPU’ed at previous thread.
Re: mathews, hacket, and rethug zombie.
Though I enjoyed Mathews merciless clobbering of the dopey rethug, I was shocked. Mathews loves him some manly, swaggering Dubya, and many other rethug henchmen like McCain and Hagel. Had Mathews treated ANY of the drumbeating warmongers with HALF the disdain he had for that dipsh*t, he might have influenced public opinion BEFORE the Iraq Fiasco. Mathews can never be trusted.
Above all else, he is a tool for the corporatocracy (fascism).
Thanks, Christy!!!
and, um . . . I just left a note for you downstairs.
I think that’s the only thing notanumber can type. I’ve never seen another post by him/her. Maybe you should check your computer settings if you have to post this EVERY TIME THERE’S A LINK TO CROOKSANDLIARS.
Stewart calling Tucker “please watch me dance” Carlson a ‘di@#head’ was, i think, my all time favorite TV moment.
newspaperbrat @ 8
I threw in a reverse EPU after yours.
That HAS to be a FDL first!
I resist saying this, but sometimes, rarely perhaps, I actually find Scarborough gets it almost right. I can’t believe I’m saying this. Something is not quite right here.
OK at 14 — I know. It feels naughty, somehow, doesn’t it? *g*
Jon Stewart Rules! http://tinyurl.com/f25qt
lol
OT….GREAT NEWS FOR NED…What UAW had to say at a rally for Ned.
———————————————-
The regional director of the United Auto Workers union says he’s appalled that Senator Joe Lieberman has qualified to get on the November ballot as an independent.
Bob Madore says Lieberman is selfish and is only out for himself and that’s why his union is backing Democrat Ned Lamont.
He pledged to get 5,000 people out to work for Lamont because Lamont has refused to accept a $5,000 political action committee contribution from the unions.
Bustednuckles @ 13
That I wanna see bustedknuckles – oh and I was too late to correct my embarrasing spelling. Preview IS my friend but only if one has the wit to use it. LOL!
Geez, I have never had a problem accessing C&L. Once in a while it gets overloaded but I can wait a minute or two. :)
You know, I really don’t mind watching Lou Dobbs, although I think he is over the edge on immigration. I read Buchanon and Will and don’t agree often, but I like the read.
I just can’t stand the talkingpointers who try to throw a nutcase and a wimpywhiner in the mudpit together and bark like a chained dog while they fight it out.
I first/last watched Scarborough a couple of years at least ago and was not impressed at all. If it’s different now, I might take a look, but he gave me the impression of being a fusion of Carlson and Matthews.
Here’s Stewart on Crossfire from long ago. – in case anyone missed it.
Kurt @
11
Hey Kurt!
Great Romanian video the other night. 8-p
Classic Steve Carrell on TDS
That Hackett clip would normally have annoyed me, since Tweety kept cutting him off – but we really got a dose of Van Taylor, who is so jaw-droppingly insane it was freakishly compelling.
That clip is quite possibly the most stunning example of idiocy I’ve ever seen!!!
Republican Congressman Scarborough’s secretary was discovered bludgeoned to death in his office. There was a suspicious change made regarding the local Medical Examiner and the subsequent criminal investigation was irregular and flawed. No suspects were ever charged in the crime. So, they gave him his own Right Wing TeeVee show.
IOKIYAR – except for that low level dipsh*t on Hardball recently, but he’s like Tigger (the only one).
What I find funny about the Scarborough graphic is that Stewart and O’Reilly are shown equally visibly above the caption “Fake News Feud”. One might almost get the impression that both of them were in the fake news business.
Speaking of funny video. There is a hilarious one of Jon Stewart on Bush’s presser. End’s up with a must have graphic of Dubya and Laura a la’ John ‘n Yoko.
Cujo at 26 — Yeah, I was laughing out loud when I saw that — and thinking that Scarborough is probably on the O’Reilly falafel shit list now, too. *G* (Welcome to Olbermann territory…)
Speaking of funny did you see this Hightower poster….LOL
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/833
Timewarp at 27 — Do you have a link for that? It was completely hilarious!
Thanks Christy.
Thanks everyone.
FDL’s a special place.
veruca @ 22
Heya veruca! I was afraid you had missed it. I try not to post stuff like that except in Late Nite threads…I tend to ramble and wander off topic and don’t want to disrespect the forum goddesses here by going even more offtopic than I tend to wander hehe.
But since this is an “amusement” thread, here’s the “making of” video of that previous video…set to different music…enjoy!
Click Me!
Awhhhh Wolfie just got punked…
Christy – here it is at Salon’s Video Dog.
whig-guy @ 33
Howard Stern ordered Karr to kill JBR ? who knew!
It was awfully kind of Atrios to provide a style guide for journalists covering Turncoat Joe.
Um, normally I would just lob this out there, but I’m feeling inhibited after the last thread. Is this acceptable? Too mean-spirited?
I just watched Hackett and Tweety rip that Texas brat to shreds at Crooks and Liars. Twice. That one deserves to go viral.
Jack Cafferty at CNN is leaning Lamontwards, it seems … cool!
CNN – cafferty weighing in on Lieberman:
respond here
I find it interesting that MSNBC appears to be the only one of the three cable news networks that appears to be just behind the crest of popular sentiment.
Fox News is relatively stagnant in its pro-Bush bias.
CNN has been hiring degenerate gamblers, the only black elected Republican in national office in the last 2 decades and an overtly fascist blabber mouth…in other words CNN is listing hard right.
MSNBC seems to see the trend and is offering some morsels to the centrists and left leaners.
Don’t get me wrong, the Jonbenet obsession and much of their programming is still crappy, but they at least acknowledge other points of view without resorting to the FOX tactic of hiring liberals in name only who have very untelegenic appearances and raspy voices and a penchant for setting up arguments with the right wing frameshop in mind.
-GSD
Kurt @
32
O! Zone! Five minutes and thirty-five seconds of my life that I’ll never get back…
LOL
Oklahoma kiddo @ 14
You are not alone. He tends to give pretty hard-nosed and honest opinions about political races and issues (in the sense of handicapping a horserace).
Scarborough is what Republicans used to sound like. B.L.A. (Before Lee Atwater). You can disagree on politics, but still respect the integrity of the person. It’s no wonder he got out of Washington.
twolf1
RE: President Ted Stevens…Yipes!!
Oh man…you were right…
Oklahoma kiddo @
14
My experience too. I’m always surprised when things I’ve decided are true don’t seem to be so true. Makes me want my blankie.
Christy:
But . . . but . . .
Taylor was a cheerleader! Then Miss Missouri! Of course, she wasn’t your ordinary beauty pageant contestant. On the “I Have a Past” section of her blog, she says this as a caption to a photo of her in her “Miss Missouri” gown:
Maybe Bolton has read her blog bio, and decided that it takes more than being a cheerleader to get at interview with him. You gotta be the right kind of cheerleader.
(Insert Missouri/Nebraska/OU football humor here.)
hackworth @ 25
What bugged me was that this happened when “Dem” Gary Condit was being excoriated 24/7 over an (at the time) missing intern, but not a peep was heard from the corporate media about the Republican congressman with the dead body in his office fer chrissakes.
You would probably have wasted that time anyway hehe. At least you didn’t waste that time reading a Danielle Steele novel :)
Speaking of interesting TeeVee appearances, did anyone catch Nancy Pelosi’s dodge of Letterman’s question about Joe Lieberman on his show last night? He asked her what her views on that race were and she used the dodge that she is concentrated on the 3 House races in CT and managed to avoid answering the question directly. I’m surprised Letterman let her dodge like that.
btw, gang, Howie has a special Blue America addition coming up here at 5:30 pm ET/2:30 pm PT. :)
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 47
Yeah, she danced so hard in the whole interview, I thought her pumps would burst into flames! She’s well practiced.
And isn’t Letterman residing in CT?
FYI, I’ve posted the last part of the bloggers’ conference call with Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland.
http://howardempowered.blogspot.com
Christy
Want to thank you for “Of Civility, Critique, and Conversation…and FDL”. Cool, damp towel to the forehead.
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @
47
Gawd forbid my California reps should ever do anything these days to make me proud.
Hackworth @ 25 I’m not a Scarborough fan, but I believe the determination was that the secretary died of natural causes. I don’t recall hearing anything about her being bludgeoned to death.
I don’t know what it is, but the site is really slowing down for me
I think it’s youtube and if it is I wish you’d stop posting them
I know thy’re kewl, but it takes about five minutes to load fdl righ now on m t1 line
me to me at 54 — it’s running very fast for me at the moment, and our line gets wonky here in the boonies. You might try clearing out your browser cache — sometimes when mine gets full, things really slow down for me.
me to me @ 54
I’m not having that problem – probably not more that 15 to 20 seconds to load the site.
witchywoman @ 53
There is still some tinfoil out there about how/by whom the investigation/autopsy was handled. I’m not inclined to think Scarborough did it, but it just irks me the double standard of the media coverage of Condit vs. Scarborough. We all know Chandra Levy’s name, but how many know Lori Klausutis’?
Christy Hardin Smith @
7
I did too…and service here can sometimes be spotty.
op99 @ 57
That there was fishiness I can definitely buy into.
For the record for anyone watching the Hackett/Matthews/VanTaylor clip
1) Hackett’s tie is a golden tan.
2) Van Taylor – one of the true, CLASSIC yellow ties.
*******************
Has anyone been keeping track on the Iraq talking point? It sure seems like Mehlman’s “adapt to win” was shot down by Bush coming back on with Stay the Course again.
And now from watching VT, it seems as if the new point is — well, wherever al-Qaeda was pre-Iraq war, they are there in Iraq now and we have to fight them there.
Hackett (and even Matthews) were EXCELLENT. The only thing I would have like to see someone go after more is: Don’t the recent arrest in Britain show al-Qaeda is there too? And Pakistan. What about the bombings in Madrid and Indonesia? There too, right? Isn’t the President’s Terrorist Surveillance program based on his assertion al-Qaeda is HERE for that matter?
Are we bombing cities in Britain in the hope that we may end up taking out a few al-Qaeda? How about the US – have we lauched any cruise missiles against Terre Haute?
If al-Qaeda is in Iraq, but also in Britain, Madrid, Indonesia, Pakistan and THE UNITED STATES — aren’t we better off having our troops defening OUR homeland?
I haven’t been able to get on youtube since lunchtime.
Dear Mr. Stevens, if I’ve done something to offend you, please send me an internet as to what it was and I will offer an apology in the form of a return internet to be sent today but delivered to your truck sometime next Tuesday. Thank you and Stevens/Toobz ‘08
me to me @ 54
The graphic at the top of this post isn’t actually a YouTube link. But I had a network slowdown too (not as bad as yours) about 10-15 minutes ago that seemed to involve more than just this site. Could just be a coincidence though.
Just wanna pop in and say Hi Firepups, good to see y’all…
and that in spite of that fact that Scarborough has been showing more than a nodding acquaintance with reality in recent days, I still don’t trust him.
Why?
a) he still has that extraordinarily smarmy look on his face which, to me, signals disingenuousness and opportunism
and
b) Lori Klausutis (is that spelling correct?) dead on his office floor.
Someone earlier suggested that he’s staying out of Washington politics because he still has the old gentlemanly approach to disagreement between the parties.
Excuse me for being cynical, but I think when he mulled over a run for this election cycle, he may have been motivated to stay out of it because of Lori’s family’s efforts to keep the story of her death alive.
That odd death, which took place in Florida, was just one in a series of deaths where the autopsy services of the state of Florida proved themselves capable of screwing up an autopsy such that — surprise! — the screw-up helped the GOP “team.”
Can’t help viewing Scarborough with a jaundiced eye. YMMV.
lol! O’Liely loses automatically, for the simple reason that he’s allowed himself to be caught up in a “FAKE NEWS feud”.
It’d be cool if this turned out to be contagious, and took all of faux news down – at least perception-wise.
twolf1 @ 62
THAT’S HILARIOUS.
newtonusr @
51
He moved from CT a few years ago to Westchester County just north of NYC. I know he has a keen interest in the race though, I know friends of his lawyer here in Indy where he is from. Dave is a progressive Dem and quietly supports candidates like Lamont, though I am not certain he has specifically done so with Ned yet. Big Dave is one of us and kinda my personal hero along with Kurt Vonnegut of liberals who made it out of Indianapolis. It gives me hope for escape one day soon.
op99 @ 57
I don’t recall there ever being any talk that Scarborough ever had an affair with his secretary, who was married. Whereas, Condit, on the other hand, was at best a liar and a creep. The Dems are well rid of him. Anyway, she was not bludgeoned to death. I think I remember that it was determined that she had an undiagnosed heart problem. No comparison to the Condit brouhaha.
op99 @
47
We all know that Truth has a liberal bias.
-GSD
me to me @ 56
me to me – I’m on a T-1 too (tee-hee)… I have found that when fdl hangs on me, I have to reboot, which not only clears the cache, but flushes the ram, too. You might try that.
:-)
Fini FiniTOOBZ! @ 47
- missed Pelosi on Letterman – anyone know of a linky? Pelosi is usually a smooth artful dodger. Boxer could learn a lot from her about anger management with cranky constituents and pushy media types. Their ongoing pussyfooting with Joe Lie continues to confound and annoy many hapless constituents of the Golden State.
witchywoman @ 59
IIRC, however, he was in Washington around the time she died – not logistically impossible that he made the round trip, but not likely.
Mary @ 60 — I think Dems should say “aDAPToowin sounds like a planet that got destroyed in a Star Wars movie.”
RevDeb – You have mail. Nice to see you back on the threads.
timewarp @ 69
Gary Condit was a conservative Blue Dog Democrat and oh-so-religious. Big on Family Values. Perfect breeding grounds for hypocrisy …
newspaperbrat @ 72
I just checked YouTube but no luck. I wish I had TiVo’d it now but I didn’t.
timewarp @ 67
That finding was almost certainly bullshit. I don’t vouch for the accuracy of this synopsis, but it covers the bases anyway.
Also, Katherine Harris (of all people) was all over the death of Scarborough’s secretary earlier this year:
brownandserve @ 64
any youtube on the page loads and if yourube is slow fdl is slow
I think we shouldn’t embed the youtubes, I think a graphic with a link is a better idea
Jack Cafferty’s Email on CNN just eviscerated Whiny Joe as a sore loser …
OT but I discovered recently there is another *Jenny from the Blog* who actually, um, has a blog! I’ve had this handle for a pretty long time and I wonder how she feels about another one of us roaming around the toobz.
Anyone familiar with Jenny who HAS a Blog? I guess I could check out her site myself… but just curious.
Definitely OT –
For those of you using Firefox, do you find that every few days the folks doing the page coding at Daily Kos and TPM and/or TPM Muckraker manage to code the page in such a way as to make reading it in Firefox a real challenge?
[Items on the page skewed wildly, with text appearing in odd places, sometimes even beneath the ads]
Initially I thought it must just be a fault in the browser, but then suddenly it appears the page coding is corrected, and everything falls back in place where it’s supposed to be. To me, that suggests that different people code on different days, and some keep in mind that not everyone uses Internet Explorer, and others don’t.
Anybody else having similar experiences? Or is my computer playing an episode of “Browsers Gone Wild”? :-)
LindaR @ 72
Mwahahaha! LindaR hat deem banta poodoo!
The GSD Framing Seminar
Here is an interesting thing that occurred to me and I frankly never hear anyone discussing it.
The Democrats are always tarred with the knee-jerk “anti-war” label.
Well, how many Democrats, on a national level or in the blogosphere or next door for that matter, spent any energy trying to stop the US intervention in Afghanistan? How many Democrats or liberals for that matter were conspicously “anti-Afghanistan”…none that I can think of off hand.
So the argument should be stated in a manner that offers support for the hunt for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda but is critical of how damaging to that overall strategy the Bush War in Iraq has been strategically, internationally and also in how it has “wounded our psyche”.
Think about it.
-GSD
I offer the phrase the “hunt for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda“, or the fight against Al Qaeda instead of the “war on terror”.
Lori Klausutis did indeed have a serious head injury. I found a web page with lurid details of the fishy case at http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html This link may not work, but if you google “Scarborough dead secretary” it should be the first site that comes up.
Jenny from the Blog @ 80
If we start worrying about that, then Mary and Anne are in big trouble.
Mrs. K8
I thought it was me! But I like Firefox because I can make the text bigger — important at this stage of my life.
Whoa John McCain is criticizing Preznit Bush (Hardball, MSNBC) Has he been holding a wet finger up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing? Or, more likely, watching the polls?
Fini FiniTOOBZ! at 1:51 pm* –
Denver is a very nice place, full of Midwesterners looking for greener pastures.
Less green, actually — we are a semi-arid, temperate climate. But we have 300 days of sunshine per year — which is more than Florida or Hawaii. Admittedly, some of them are below freezing, but the sun is still shining.
Denver itself votes something like 70% Democratic, and we are surrounded by suburbs that can go either way. Employment is up, but so are foreclosures; but it’s possible to find half decent housing for only an arm and leg now, instead of all four.
op99, sometimes a suicide is really a suicide (Vince Foster) and sometimes an untimely death of natural causes is just that. Gary Condit may indeed have been innocent of foul play in terms of his intern’s dissapearance, but he was a proven liar, creep and all around hypocrite. The attention he garnered was his own doing . . . the girl had dissapeared; he was involved in an intimate relationship with her, and he was more concerned with covering his sorry ass in terms of his career than he was in genuinely being helpful to the police who were really looking for her.
Ah the good old days…when, to paraphrase Jon Stewart, the only person other than Saddam Hussein and his sons facing forcible exile from Iraq was: Geraldo Riviera…
op99:
Well ya got a point. :)
neuro at 87 — likely he’s been getting an earful from constituents back home. Folks in a number of areas of AZ aren’t all that happy with George Bush these days.
Jenny from the Blog @ 80
Well there was that famous Jenny Cam from a few years ago (have no idea if she is still running it). Was basically the first “cam girl”. She had a webcam in her room that was always on. Only “Jenny” I’m aware of out in Teh Internets hehe. But it is a pretty common name :)
“Jenny” — As a mod here, I can see you Email address name and I love it. Use that or a variant if you choose to change …
timewarp @ 89
IMO, if Condit had been pure as the driven snow, the coverage would have been as relentless, in the vein of “it would be irresponsible NOT to cover it – it’s “out there.”
aww, *ilson, of course you got the meaning of my email address… that’s so cool.
I’ll stick with JftB for now unless I get served with papers. :)
LindaR @ 74
ROFL! Mehlman is a bit like an agitated C3PO for that matter.
The LosstBoys at NRO would soon have mountains of minutiae out on why aDAPToowin really sounds more like a planet visited by Capt. Kirk so THERE nyah nyah nyah.
notanumber @ 6
So you can’t download from the Crooks and Liars movie server? Interesting considering you posted a comment on here about it and it comes from the exact same server. ;)
Howard Dean doing a good job of not letting Tweety put words in his mouth
Hey Jenny!
I can vouch for you being around for a VERY long time. I even remember the night at Eschaton when you explained to “inquiring minds” how you came up with your handle. [I wonder if the same approach is true for your doppelgaenger!]
Back when I first showed up at Eschaton (late 2002? I think), nobody else used the moniker I did. Then in 2004 somebody else popped up with the same name. It was unnerving to read comments under “my name” — comments which I agreed with and thought were smart — but which I hadn’t typed.
I remember asking Mr. K8 if he’d seen evidence of me having “missing time” episodes. LOL!!
[Shortly thereafter, thanks to a little security problem I altered my moniker to what it is today.]
Well, just wanted to let you know I know you had your name FIRST! Doesn’t that mean you have “squatter’s rights”?
;-)
Mrs. K8 @ 2:01 pm (#83) – I haven’t noticed this problem. It’s possible I just haven’t been visiting often enough. I just saved the main page at TPM – there are no stylesheets, but there’s quite a bit of Javascript there devoted to advertising. My guess is that the advertising JS changes fairly often (what doesn’t in advertising?). You don’t need Javascript to view the articles there, so you might want to try turning it off if it’s enabled and see how that works.
EPU’d on last thread, but hopefully worth a re-post:
Mary at 213:
Tis indeed a great article! I even had to go back and re-read his article because there is so much depth in his words that not everything really sinks in the 1st time around.
Christy, Pach, TRex (and Jane if you’ve managed to find today’s landing strip in your homeward bound travels), a really serious question for you:
What would you think about inviting Michael Scheuer to join us here at FDL for a Book Salon-type session?
As per Harper’s, Michael is “the formerly anonymous author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror and Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America.”
I don’t know or even care if he is a card-carrying, life-long Republican.
I’m just sayin’ that it seems Michael has some very progressive things to say about this train wreck called the GWOT, and that his is a voice that could use some amplification.
-ck- @ 90
Funny you should mention this, I have identified a few cities out west that I wouldn’t mind checking out and Denver is one of them. What is the public transportation like there? I’m in the process of getting a powerchair soon and will regain lost mobility but I do not drive any longer.
Howard Dean complimenting Ned Lamont and saying he thinks Ned will win the race
*ilson,
oh wait… are you seeing my Indian goddess email or my James Joyce soliloquy email address?
I can’t remember which one I used here. I must know the answer to understand just how really clever you are :)
I just updated the post above, gang — Taylor put together a video clip of the John Stewart smackdown of the Bush Presser. *snerk* If you haven’t seen it, you really should.
…bwahahahahahahaha…
Mary @ 96
Good point. Either way, aDAPToowin is a silly, silly thing to say, and Mehlman says it so silly, sillily.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 107
Saw it last night and 707′d right outta bed!
Mrs. K8 -
Thanks for the validation! It’s so nice to have a character witness. Hugs to you!
btw, I haven’t been back to that site for a long time now. I only have eyes for FDL. :)
Jon Stewart on TDS with GWB’s presser:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0823.html
Christy Hardin Smith @ 2:12 pm (#107) – I just updated the post above, gang — Taylor put together a video clip of the John Stewart smackdown of the Bush Presser. *snerk* If you haven’t seen it, you really should.
You can stop watching once the commercials start, BTW. I don’t know why they’re in the video, but there’s nothing afterward.
Mrs. Bong has scheduled me for therapy *g*.
Jenny from the Blog @ 106
the deva one — now I’m curious about the other one!
Scarborough is an interesting case. Although he served as a Republican congressman and signed the “Contract With America,” Wikipedia says he has “expressed his dissatisfaction with the Republican leadership and lack of commitment to Republican principles as of late, saying on MSNBC that he’s “embarrassed … to be a Republican … because of the lack of leadership.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough
(btw check out that weird photo. Does he wear a toupee?)
Although he used to strike me as nothing but a boring, loud-mouthed Republican former politician, he has surprised me a few times lately when I have decided I could bear to watch him.
Scarborough is, or has been, a lawyer. I wonder what his undergraduate degree was in. Journalism? I sometimes get the impression that he wants to be taken seriously as a “journalist” and not merely as a “TV personality.” But for me to do that, I would need to see more from him than I have seen so far.
At least he’s not all bad, all the time, like, for example, O’Reilly…
The Scarborough incident stunk to high heaven. Only Condit (granted, he was a slimy fellow) got hammered relentlessly by the MSM, while Scarborough skated. Scarborough, incidentally, had loose zipper issues at that time as well plus a dead secretary, plus a ringer ME. After her death, Lori Klausutis, an active member and officer of her area Republican club, got nary a mention. It was as if they’d hoped she never existed. (This from op99’s link at comment 77)
*ilson -
I hope this isn’t too racy but here’s a hint (from Ulysses):
“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. “
Hee, obviously this would be a very long email address… someday I’ll find a way to be more specific. :)
Tweety is hitting the “macaca” theme repeatedly tonight.
jenny — MollyBlum ?
Cujo –
Thanks for the thoughtful suggestion, but I don’t think it can be javascript.
I use the very handy extension, “NoScript” — and the default is, of course, “no script.”
I just experimented with turning permissions on/off (I had given script permission to dKos already, but not to TPMMuckraker), just toggling the settings. No change.
If it’s not a pain in the butt to you, would you mind seeing what the Daily Kos main page and TPMmuckraker.com look like for you right now? (Not to worry if you don’t have time, this isn’t a really big deal, just something annoying in a minor way) Those are the two sites currently giving me a headache on Firefox.
Linda –
I’m with you on the big advantage of increasing the font size! Since Firefox got installed, I have much better posture, ergonomically, sitting at the ‘puter, too. Don’t have to lean forward and squint now, I can sit up straight with chin tucked back the way it should be. My back is much happier, along with my eyes!
*ilson, well that’s a component. :)
Just testing…sorry for the intrusion!
Ahh HA! DR. Bong I presume?
LOL, you are soooo busted.
Also a cool Kate Bush song/video hehe.
Arnold loves George!
http://www.camajorityreport.com/?page_id=668
-GSD
WaPo
By Richard Cowan, Reuters
Wednesday, August 23, 2006; 4:56 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. intelligence community is ill-prepared to assess Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities and its intentions for developing weapons of mass destruction, a congressional report said on Wednesday.
Noting “significant gaps in our knowledge and understanding of the various areas of concern about Iran,” the House Intelligence Committee staff report questioned whether the United States could even effectively engage in talks with Tehran on ways to diffuse tensions.
*ilson – what was the email on Cafferty?
neurophius @ 114
Scarborough will tout the New And Improved (Old Style Fiscal Conservative)Republican candidates in lockstep (goosestep, really) with the rest of the pundits when the order is called in. Maybe McCain, maybe Hagel. Hagel’s good – he owns the voting machines.
Email to Cafferty was mostly about Joe being a sore loser …
Jenny from the Blog @ 118
Jenny from the Blog — for you. Enjoy!
Kurt & Linda R -
Yes! I’ll go watch that one again. THANKS.
blue america thread
John McCain is not critical of Bush.
He is playing three card monty. He is pretending to be critical of talk that
Even though no one remembers McCain coming forward at the time and saying if we go into Iraq it will take forever to get out, or no, the mission is not yet accomplished, or a myriad of other opportunities he had to set the record straight. Neither is McCain criticizing the reasons for going to Iraq in the first place.
He’s pretending to stand up to the Bush Admin, while arguing that the public needs to understand this is going to go on for a long while, so that he can keep his pro-war stance as he campaigns for Republicans—in place of Bush—and then runs for president in ‘08. He is only pretending to criticize Bush to sound like “straight talk McCain” because now they need to get McCain elected and still keep troops in Iraq.
This live vote at MSNBC honks me off, because to vote yes I have to agree with McCain.
*anything I understand about this posturing I learned here at FDL.
Mrs. K8 @ 2:23 pm (#120) – Both look fine. TPM Muckraker is kinda scrunched into the middle of the page, but I think that’s how the page is designed to look (turns out they have their style sheets embedded in the page. I’m not too familiar with CSS yet). Kos looks fine.
I should point out that I’m using version 1.5.0.6 on a Linux system. The older, 1.0.x Firefox handled some pages a bit differently. If you don’t know what version you have, check Help/About Mozilla Firefox.
Erin @
123
Welcome, Erin!!! No intrusion at all — come on in, the water’s fine!!!
weeder @ 133
John McCain is a wanker.
Sorry. I know this is not up to the high standards of FDL discourse. Couldn’t help myself.
Jenny from the Blog @ 132
I heart Kate Bush.
new thread BTW
New thread, gang — Howie has a special Blue America addition for us this afternoon. Ben Rahn from ActBlue is joining us to talk about fundraising for political candidates — and Howie has some great news about our Blue America donations. :)
Jenny from the Blog @ 110
Hugs back at ya, Jen!
Every once in a blue moon, I post a remark over at the “old home” and I always have it in my daily run of loaded blog pages — love, love, love that multi-tabbed browsing in Firefox.
But usually when I take a peek at the comments, I notice my two main reasons for looking for a new blog home, still kicking strong.
The trolls get way too much leeway for my taste, and the snark is so ultra-refined I end up scratching my head and feeling hopelessly UNHIP!
Back in 2002, life at Eschaton was a lot like it is here at FDL. That’s why it’s so encouraging to see Christy and volunteer Firepup mods (God BLESS y’all) take thoughtful pro-active measures to prevent the breakdown of the community here.
All while the numbers are growing here by the day! It’s amazing. Someone said earlier today that the price of keeping such a thriving, organic community presence healthy at FDL is “eternal vigilance” — and I agree, heartily!
Many thanks again to our hostesses, their guest posters, the mods, and every single one of the great commenters here.
And I look forward to more lurkers joining the discussion as time goes by. It’s wise to get a feel for the joint by reading for a few days first, but then — come on in! The water’s fine!
LindaR -
That is such a beautiful video, visually and musically it’s a knockout. Thanks again…
McCain is indeed a wanker. But his spin of Bush and the war interests me in terms of how it will be perceived. William Cohen on Hardball just discussed McCain and he seemed to think that McCain has been critical of Bush. McCain may be walking a fine line, but I don’t see his current rhetoric as enhancing George W. Bush’s standing with the public.
Jenny from the Blog @ 118
“my garden overflows/thick and wild and hidden is the sweetness there that grows…”, Suzanne Vega
Mrs K8 -
I’ve thanked you several times here for clueing us in on the Woody Guthrie American Masters show but I don’t know if you ever got my appreciation.
Boy was that wonderful. You’re the best. :)
Mrs. K8 @ 121
Firefox is great! Control yes!!! Some html pages won’t Firefox, though — formatting goes funny or Java features won’t work right, esp searches and sorts. If I rightclick and hit ‘View in IE’ (last item on the menu) that often fixes prob, well, sidesteps it anyway.
Anniversary Draws Bush to Gulf Coast
His visit next week aims to counter Democrats’ plans to focus on the slow Katrina response.
So how many think Rockey was the start of the media blitz? Or did he act on his own?
Tweety is trying to figure out what the hell McCain is actually saying
Cujo –
Thanks very much for checking.
The mystery deepens, as I have the same browser version you do.
Hmmmmm…will have to think about this, as I flushed the cache and tried again, and the same problems persist.
I wonder if firewall and other security software programs could screw up page display? ‘Cause I can’t imagine what ELSE could be interfering if you have no problems. Whatever it is, I must be sharing the same or similar situation with LindaR.
Verrry interrrestink!
Mrs. K8 @ 2:37
Not true! You’re so hip, you don’t even need to wear a belt! (ba-dum-ching!)
Rocky was a Republican operative.
Check this out.
http://www.attytood.com/archives/003647.html
-GSD
GSD @ 151
one word: disgusting
Rocky the Republican Operative. No kidding. Lame!
CNN posted the answers to Cafferty’s question about Lieberman (finally)
Jenny –
You’re very welcome. I adore Woody Guthrie too, and we made a point of recording that program on DVD for future repeat enjoyment.
I’ve been predicting for a long time now, that as the economy goes over a cliff, there will be a strong strain in the culture linking back to the best of progressive patriotism in the thirties during the depression. [Which the fascists will fight against, natch!]
Woody will be ever more popular, though “updated” with appropriately current arrangements, of course. I expect folks to be ever more interested in FDR (that new book by J. Alter on FDR’s first 100 days is just the beginning) and Eleanor as well. I also think some of the great (pre-code) movies of the era depicting what a struggle people had to go through to survive will be dusted off and given a “new version.”
That’s as far as I go in prognosticating, however.
That, and assuming there will also be new and threatening versions of the “Father Coughlin” variety to battle against.
neuro–but does any Rebublican running for office need to enhance Bush’s image? Isn’t McCain working on enhancing his own image so that he can run for president and then simply continue the agenda that he has enabled all along?
I’m sorry, but this is making me crazy thinking that people who are fed up with the dirty tricks of this administration will see John McCain as the guy standing up to Bush. He was an insider the whole time—what has he got to say for himself? How he helped to mislead the country?
My frustration is not aimed at you, it is aimed at the storyline that McCain is somehow standing up to the administration. He wants what they want. So now he is just saying that they should have told the public how hard it was going to be. Big deal. Is he saying we never should have gone there in the first place? No. Is he criticizing everything else that is wrong with this invasion/occupation? No. He is running for president. And he is standing in for Bush (now that Bush is poison) at Republican fundraisers across the country.
HotFlash –
Thanks for the reminder! So, I guess you also installed that handy-dandy “when you absolutely HAVE to use IE” extension to Firefox. Almost forgot I have it, LOL!!
Kurt @ 148
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Which reminds me — I have to get out to the pool now to do my daily work-out. I shudder to think what I would look like WITHOUT the work-out. Brrrrr!
Hey Gang — I’d love it if everyone would stop over and give a great FDL howdy to Ben from ActBlue in Howie’s latest thread.
Mrs.K8 — it’s good to see you. :)
twolf –
Thanks for the link to Cafferty response, as I’m too pissed at CNN to watch them these days. That guy in Texas, Marty, sure knows how to spout those GOP talking points, eh?
[Ok, now I’m really leaving. See y’all asap.]
Ooops, I lied. Back again.
Can’t resist responding to my favorite ReddHedd!
Big hugs to you, lady! I hope your peanut and you yourself are much, much better.
Do you know what nasty bug it was? Did they do a culture on l’il Peanut?
Blessings on you for all you do here, even when feeling unwell. I surely hope someday I have a chance to meet you in person, to give you that hug for real!
weeder
I get your point that McCain is trying to get away with appearing to distance himself from Bush without actually changing his position. Update: Tucker Carlson is now grappling with the question. Tucker on McCain: “That’s not straight talk–that’s a crock.”
Holy crap — I just got a push poll call from the Economic Freedom Fund. The wingnuts are gunning for WV votes already. Jeebus, this election cycle is going to get ugly.
Who knew Tweety had balls? I’m breathless.
We’ll see how much magic the pasty-faced college drop-out and youthful dirty-trickster for Nixon, Karl Rove has left.
We’ll see if his efforts to re-write history about the Katrina debacle will cause more people to loathe and despise Bush and his myth-makers.
Spike Lee vs. Turdblossom.
-GSD
Mrs. K8 @ 2:48 pm (#147) – I’ve seen problems like this at other sites, in particular the Major League baseball sites, which are Javascript-heavy. It may not be JS, but there’s something that some sites do that occasionally makes Firefox look funny. It could be Internet Explorer-specific style sheets or JS, or some other non-standard thing that IE does but FF doesn’t.
neuro- thanks for the note about Tweety and Tucker Carlson (I cannot believe he is actually questioning this—I am really stunned…) not just shilling for McCain. That gives me some relief.
Feel like I have PTSD after six years of these guys…
Rocky Hack-arella!
Suzanne Malveaux is helping to perpetrate this fraud on the nation.
Phony fuckers. Liars and malcontents.
-GSD
GSD @ 166
Too bad spike lee doesn’t have the total media coverage that Mr. T. Blossom does. I really hope this media blitz doesn’t get out of control (although, judging by today’s events, it already has) and I hope some M$M finds the balls to refute any false claims (and you know there’ll be plenty) the ChimpAdmin makes. Hopefully they will remember how they felt, how emotional they got while knee-deep (literally) in the crisis.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 162
I just looked this website for the “Economic Freedom Fund”. Is this the right-wing equivalent of Working Assets?
Cujo — pretty much. Blergh. Why they have our phone number in their databanks, I have no idea. But I bet we get taken off the list after someone goes over my answers. LOL
Ann Althouse, in NYT op ed, on why Judge Taylor’s opinion was so bad. So “light” on the law. So activist, and yet so “uses old cases” and so “upholds the Congressionally enacted statute.” Judge Taylor just doesn’t understand this simple, non-activist legal premise (for which there is no citation of any kind).
The President, and not Judges, should get to decide how the law should be interpreted.
She, V Consp, OrinKerr, Yoo, Goldsmith — my mind just boggles. They ALL teach? Not at nightlaw schools?
With this out there as faculty, the work product of the Seton Hall kids is just that much more impressive.
This apparently disappeared the first time I sent it. Thank you T- for the following link.
I think people cite these figures without realizing that the world to which they refer no longer exists and maybe never existed.
http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm…..sequence=0
The CBO report came out in Sept. 2003 and anticipated a draw down in forces to begin by March 2004 to a sustainable occupation of 67,000 to 106,000 personnel if all active
Army, the Army National Guard, Marine Corps and Marine Reserve Regiments were used. It further estimated the cost of such an occupation would cost between $14 billion to $19 billion annually.
First off, this report is nearly 3 years old and much has changed both in Iraq and in our armed forces since then. The insurgency took off, the occupation remained in combat mode and never shifted to policing, troop levels have been maintained at higher than sustainable levels for 2 years, Iraq slid into civil war, recruitment numbers and quality decreased as did retention of experienced but worn out veterans.
The costs cited are another clue that the CBO report is describing a fundamentally different reality. We are probably spending around $90-100 billion annually in Iraq not the $14-19 billion in the CBO report. The premises have changed. As Iraq’s descent into chaos shows, even the present overextended US commitment is insufficient. And there is a vast difference between occupation duty which the CBO’s report anticipated and the current ongoing combat. With the high costs of the operation and the degradation of our forces, I think it is clear that we do not have the will, the people, or the resources to maintain 100,000 troops in a state of endless combat.
Mary @ 3:26 pm (#171) – Judge Taylor just doesn’t understand this simple, non-activist legal premise (for which there is no citation of any kind).
Even as a non-lawyer, I still have to laugh at lawyers pontificating about “activist” judges. I have not yet heard a distinction between activist judges and the opposite, whatever that is, other than “judges whose decisions we don’t agree with”. Now, maybe there’s some really technical distinction I’m missing, but if there is it sounds like you are missing it, too.
She, V Consp, OrinKerr, Yoo, Goldsmith — my mind just boggles. They ALL teach? Not at nightlaw schools?
Next, we’ll be staffing university biology departments with the faculty of the Discovery Institute, and civil engineering departments will be taught by 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
When I hear the term activist judges, I think of the Supreme Court, circa 2000.
meta @ 3:56 pm (#174) – Yes, for instance. For some reason, it’s not activist for a federal court to tell a state court not to follow its own election rules.
cujo – once upon a time, it had a tendencey to mean striking down laws enacted by Congress or the States too easily, based on judicial findings of rights (like privacy) that were not fully spelled out or on vague Fed Const. powers, like the Commerce Clause.
I believe now it means: WAH!WAH!WAH!