Joe!

This is going to be a fun one.

Leisure Guy!

Two in a row!

Nice catch!
I will be owning a copy of this.
And Trex hosting? BRILLIANT!!

oh my word– this is gonna smoke ‘em all out of their hidey holes!

The mods must have extra special intestinal fortitude for this session.

Congrats to FDL!

“We’re looking forward to hearing Joe tell his story of liberation from gainful employment following delivery of a manuscript that Reuters well knew he was working on, as well as the many showers he took as he made his way page by painful page through all of Coulter’s books.”

LMAO.

Joe is turning a crisis into an opportunity.

The book has a picture of Coulter on the cover — doncha think some of the more, er, repressed winguts will buy it just for their “collection?” I say hawk it at Red State and see if it will go into the top twenty!

What I want to know is how you could stand reading and listening to her long enough to write the book. She is a walking toxic waste site.

Susan Estrich has also come out with a book on Ann– Soulless.

… With Soulless, political commentator Susan Estrich takes on Ann and the “Coulter culture” she has created, exposing how the pundit provocatrice has downgraded our political discourse with her irresponsible rhetoric, personal attacks, and slanderous asides. Trawling through Coulter’s history of often-violent public statements, Estrich asks which are more cynical: the pundit and her headline-grabbing drive-by character assassinations, or the networks who happily bring her back for more. Soulless also casts a light on “the Anns,” wannabes like Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck, whose imitation Coulterisms coarsen our culture with every passing news cycle. And, most important, she challenges us—the readers, the voters—to remember that behind the huckster’s rhetoric lurks a dangerous reactionary whose real agenda is wildly out of step with the American public.

As Estrich says, “She knows exactly what she is doing. And she is scary as hell because of it.”

http://www.harpercollins.com/b.....index.aspx

click on the link and see the cover– stunning.

A trusted friend recommended this book to me for the FDL Book Salon:

“The European Dream” By Jeremy Rifkin

Booklist sez:

The American Dream is not dead, says Rifkin, but it’s showing its years. Contrasting definitively American fantasies of individual autonomy, material wealth, and cultural assimilation with an emerging European vision of community relationships, quality of life, and cultural diversity, Rifkin argues that the great bloodshed of the twentieth century liberated Europeans from their past, better preparing them for global citizenship in the twenty-first century.

I had the pleasure of listening to ann last nite

I can’t believe she has an audience, her voice is like nails against a blackboard

her and thay guy mark lehVIN or something like that

did someone castrate that guy?…that’s the only think I can think to excuse that voice

how do people listen to this and how do these people get work?

angie @ 10

Susan Estrich has also come out with a book on Ann– Soulless.

… As Estrich says, “She knows exactly what she is doing. And she is scary as hell because of it.”

http://www.harpercollins.com/b.....index.aspx

click on the link and see the cover– stunning.

Damn, that black dress is getting a lot of mileage…

Aside from her role as a talking head for the right-wing propaganda machine, who is Anne Coulter? Nobody. Nobody at all.

So why would Reuters claim that Joe Maguire would need to be “impartial” regarding this non-person? She’s not an elected representative or even an actual person of consequence - she’s merely a figurehead.

If Reuters were not itself a willing agent of the right-wing propaganda machine, it would have welcomed an illuminating analysis of the lies and hyperbole employed by Coulter in her role as a right-wing mouthpiece.

I congratulate Mr. Maguire on his book and salute his willingness to face unemployment in order to fulfill his role as a journalist. Courage is facing into the storm, and he’s shown he’s willing to do that.

Reuters not only tipped its hand again as partisan tool of the Right, but hopefully their knee-jerk reaction will end up boosting sales tremendously.

I hope that TRex can find a hazmat suit big enough for a 60 foot theropod. I wouldn’t advise touching anything to do with “that woman” without one.

Heh. Ann’s going to join a prestigious sorority, including Ole 60 Grit O’Beirne and Babs Comstock.

The possibilities are mind-boggling, but I’ll leave the boggled mind to Annie and the rest of her coven (no offense meant to my Wiccan friends).

By the way, FirePups, I’m trying out a little experiment at DailyKos; call it matchmaking between progressives who need and progressive that have. Try it and let me know if you think it could work as a daily diary item. Thanks!!

p.s. TRex, I hope you’re getting those theropodian nails manicured for the occasion!!

Like Colbert, Ann Coulter plays a character. I wonder whether the depravity of her role ever gets her down.

Susan in Iowa @ 17

Like Colbert, Ann Coulter plays a character. I wonder whether the depravity of her role ever gets her down.

No, because unlike Colbert, she’s every bit as depraved as the character she plays.

Someone buy that woman a new dress. And a sandwich.

OfT
Froomkin’s latest included this transcript from Sunday’s Meet the Press about our Vice-President, Dick Go Fuck Yourself Cheney, who I affectionately refer to as DeadEye.

….MR. WOODWARD: Well, he called to complain that I was quoting him about the meetings with Henry Kissinger that he and the president had. I had interviewed Vice President Cheney last year a couple of times at length about material I’m gathering on the Ford administration, on-the-record interviews, but he volunteered, he said, ‘Oh, by the way, Henry Kissinger comes in’ and he, Dick Cheney, sits down with him once a month and the president every two or three months. And Cheney was upset I was quoting him. And I said, ‘Look, this ‘on-the-record’ doesn’t have anything to do with Ford, you volunteered that.’ He then used a word which I can’t repeat on the air. And I said, ‘Look, on the record is on the record,’ and he hung up on me.

“MR. RUSSERT: What, what do you mean, he swore at you?

“MR. WOODWARD: He, he said what I was saying was bull-something….”

Fern @ 19

Someone buy that woman a new dress. And a sandwich.

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and some breathmints

From Abovethelaw, Jon Stewart on mAnn:

I actually feel sorry for her. Once your career is based on denigrating 9/11 widows, what’s your second act? Unless you dig up Mother Teresa and stick a dildo in her eye, nothing could be more offensive.

OT: just got this email from Lamont campaign with the new ad

(sorry if it’s already been posted)

Wow, great spanking material for Jonah and the 101st Chairborne pajama warriors!

Al kicking butt on Tucker.

Lieberman is getting trashed beautifully.

Now he’s on to Barbra and her brilliance last nite.

Sharpton: I’m an advisor to Joe Lieberman– I am telling him to retire.

angie @ 26

Sharpton: I’m an advisor to Joe Lieberman– I am telling him to retire.

Al said that?

Joe, fuhgeddabouddit!

:-)

Ya know, the only thing I ever want to read about that bitch again, is her obituary.

MSIRT From NY13 Blog

My wife and I attended this debate. IMHO, Harrison walked all over Fossella. I posted this in an AMERICABlog comment window when I got home:

I am charged up tonight. My wife and I attended a debate between our congressional candidates, Vito Fossella (R) and Steve Harrison (D) - (NY13). Fossella is New York City’s only Republican Congressman, representing the very strong Republican base that resides here.

Harrison walked all over him. Sharp as a nail and unrelenting, Harrison had to remind Fossella frequently the he was a Republican (Fossella uses the banner: “An INDEPENDENT fighter for Staten Island”).

Fossella tried to keep the issues local but Harrison successfully kept the focus on the administration ’s attack on the Constitution, to which Fossella replied: “Well the constitution is not a “suicide pact” (and therefore can be ignored if it’s judged by the administration & party in power that national security requires it to be ignored).

And this debate took place deep in “Fossella territory.” Harrison’s campaign is cash poor because the Dems have written off a victory by him, but I tell you, he is one smart, principled firebrand.

All his campaign literature proudly displays “Democrat”, while Fossella, as mentioned above, hides his party affilliation by highlighting INDEPENDENT in his literature and with no mention of REPUBLICAN to be found on his banners or on his web site (Fossella has voted with Republicans 90% of the time and has a long list of Repug PAC contributors, including:

21st Century Freedom PAC
Back America’s Conservatives PAC
Cmte for the Preservation of Capitalism
Every Republican is Crucial PAC
Freedom Project
Growth & Prosperity PAC
Keep Our Majority PAC
Leadership PAC 2006
Majority Initiative-Keep Electing Repubs
Promoting Republicans You Can Elect
Prosperity Helps Inspire Liberty PAC
Rely on Your Beliefs
Rich PAC
Texas Freedom Fund
Together for Our Majority

So maybe Fossella’s running scared? If you want to help a Dem in a congressional contest that up till now has been off the radar (major Democratic party organizatiions are not contributing to him) go to Steve’s web site and donate if you can.

And this morning I added this on another thread: Just to add a few afterthoughts, having slept on it:

Fossella, who brags in his literature about voting against Bush’s policies (very occasionally - but still a ‘bragging point’) was forced by Mr. Harrison to repeatedly extol the administration on Iraq & national security with the tired “they’re the only people protecting us” and “9/11 - never again” lines. So, if Fossella had planned to distance himself from Bush, the Democrat made sure he was stuck to him.

My wife and I can’t get over how good this guy was. The small church hall was about 50/50 in terms support/non-support based on the “hoot & howl meter readings” registered after each respective set of comments. But the pro -Harrison forces in the audience certainly made a good showing and a lot of noise in this heavily Republican area. I can’t wait to see today’s local paper. There was heavy press coverage of the event.

10:23 AM

Apparently, many Republicans are running as independents these days. Perhaps a roll call of Gopers who don’t use the word Republican is in order. Is it happening in your district?

Matthews kicking the shit out of Hastert.
Tweety, “why don’t you just pick up the phone and ask them.”

Tweety: “Three words could bury Republicans this Fall, Iraq, Bush, Foley.”

Tweety is a fart in the wind. he advocates whoever has the whip hand.

Dr. Bong @ 22

My teens want to know what’s so funny.
I’m not telling them!

And to think, I know people who kind of excuse A.C. Brrr.

Does the pic of Ann on the front cover remind anyone else of a puffy coke whore?

Just wonderin…

Guitar, Tweety was complicit with Russert and many others wrt getting us into Iraq and a whole range of other issues.

Since FDL and others started holding him accountable, imo, he has been terrific on Plamegate and Iraq.

We desperately need Tweety to win both houses in November. His coverage of Ned has also has been very good.

OT, Viqueira picked up on Hastert holding his PC in front of a GRAVEYARD.

John McCain has, according to Ed Shultz, been out blaming Clinton because he appeased NK during his time in office. Ed says the Dems have to respond to this immediately and so does BC. He also says (Ed) that the R’s are going to use this and say that if the Dems get back in power NK will nuke us.

whoopsies– but who dressed David Shuster this morning and did I miss the new fashion trend?

I loved his shots of Denny with his glasses askew and the spittle in the right corner of his maw and the ones from the ground up…

pretty good videography to go along with his reporting.

‘Daily Show’ on CNN’s Hysteria

http://www.truthdig.com/avboot....._hysteria/

John,

Guitar, Tweety was complicit with Russert and many others wrt getting us into Iraq and a whole range of other issues.

How so?

John Casper @ 34

What’s the betting that Tweety will pick up on what McCain has been saying today and use it against us? Tweety idolizes McCain.

angie @ 36

I loved his shots of Denny with his glasses askew and the spittle in the right corner of his maw and the ones from the ground up…

then there’s this outfit

I loved his shots of Denny with his glasses askew and the spittle in the right corner of his maw and the ones from the ground up…

Whistling past the graveyard is hard work…

jinny @ 35

John McCain has, according to Ed Shultz, been out blaming Clinton because he appeased NK during his time in office. Ed says the Dems have to respond to this immediately and so does BC. He also says (Ed) that the R’s are going to use this and say that if the Dems get back in power NK will nuke us.

From NBC’s Ken Strickland: Hillary has already answered that.

CARLSON: Yeah. I mean, I like John Warner, of course, and I respect him, but you know, more than three years after the invasion, only now coming to this conclusion? I think all of us are complicit in this war because the ideas behind the war, the ideological underpinning of the war is wrong. The idea that the Middle East needs democracy to be better off, all of us bought into that and that itself is a lie…

MATTHEWS: Not all of us, Tucker.

CARLSON: I didn’t. You didn’t. But the people who did aren’t apologizing for it. Instead of pretending it’s somehow Rumsfeld’s fault for mismanaging it, the problem is deeper than that.

http://thechrismatthewsshow.co.....2006.shtml

jinny @ 39

John Casper @ 34

What’s the betting that Tweety will pick up on what McCain has been saying today and use it against us? Tweety idolizes McCain.

I very much doubt that Tweety will go there and besides that, it’s not true. Clinton’s North Korea expert, Wendy Sherman was on Olbermann killing Bush on North Korea.

“We have to talk,” said Wendy Sherman, a diplomatic troubleshooter for the State Department and President Bill Clinton’s chief adviser on North Korea. Sherman criticized what she termed the Bush administration’s approach of “neither engaging fully in negotiations nor fully pulling out of them.”

My guess is McCain is responding to her.

Is this a great country or what! What may finally do the Republicans in is a sex scandal. Not the death, destruction and chaos brought about by the Bush administration worldwide over the last six years. Not the fact that the Republicans are bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. Not that the Bush people are responsible for adding millions more poor folks to the below poverty rolls. Not the fact we have much dirtier air and water than we did before 2000. Too much.

ot

mccain is blaming clinton for the atomic test in north korea

took them long enough, didn’t it?

oops, I see I’m late with that, please delete

Cozumel @
43

CARLSON: Yeah. I mean, I like John Warner, of course, and I respect him, but you know, more than three years after the invasion, only now coming to this conclusion? I think all of us are complicit in this war because the ideas behind the war, the ideological underpinning of the war is wrong. The idea that the Middle East needs democracy to be better off, all of us bought into that and that itself is a lie…

MATTHEWS: Not all of us, Tucker.

CARLSON: I didn’t. You didn’t. But the people who did aren’t apologizing for it. Instead of pretending it’s somehow Rumsfeld’s fault for mismanaging it, the problem is deeper than that.

http://thechrismatthewsshow.co.....2006.shtml

Holy shit. That actually came out of their mouths?

commercial for Tweety’s show in between segments was gross. Pimping the college tour it was Tweety attacking one dem after another, no repigs (just saw that on a thread last night and loved it). Made me angry, yet again.

Right now Tweety is going after Denny & co. only because he sees which way the wind is blowing. If there is a change of direction, he will be the first to pile on the dems, yet again.

Barf.

Cozumel @ 38

John,

Guitar, Tweety was complicit with Russert and many others wrt getting us into Iraq and a whole range of other issues.

How so?

According to emptywheel, both Russert and Matthews testified before Fitz’s sgj. As journalists, their responsibility is to inform us. That means both should state publicly what they told the sgj. Neither have done that (and I suspect that will be some of the juiciest stuff in emptywheel’s book). If they would have come out and supported Joe Wilson, when he wrote his op-ed, maybe they, along with an equally complicit NYT’s and WaPo, could have kept us out of the war, or been more on top of the failures in Iraq sooner.

OT, Ned is coming up on Tweety, next segment.

Oklahoma kiddo @
45

Is this a great country or what! What may finally do the Republicans in is a sex scandal. Not the death, destruction and chaos brought about by the Bush administration worldwide over the last six years. Not the fact that the Republicans are bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. Not that the Bush people are responsible for adding millions more poor folks to the below poverty rolls. Not the fact we have much dirtier air and water than we did before 2000. Too much.

Live by the Values Voters, die by the Values Voters.

Dru @ 41

I loved his shots of Denny with his glasses askew and the spittle in the right corner of his maw and the ones from the ground up…

Whistling past the graveyard is hard work…

heh…

and punaise @ 40, that watertiger pic should have included a spew warning! she is simply amazing, eh?

Ned on Hardball!

Ned is just terrific on Hardball.

Staccato bursts from the Lamont cannon are just so effective.

Hitting hard on the lack of diplomacy… and the sabre rattling by Lieberman et al.

No know

Just more evidence that Rueters is part of the gov’t lackeys. Similar to Amazon (and Wiki) who removed the book “America Deceived” at gov’t request. Or BYU who removed 21 year tenured physics professor Stephen Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, brought down the WTC buildings. Censorship rears its ugly head again.
Be defiant, support indy media.
Last link (before Google caves to the gestapo and pulls the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/books.....95-38523-0

Jane Hamsher @ 48

Cozumel @
43

CARLSON: Yeah. I mean, I like John Warner, of course, and I respect him, but you know, more than three years after the invasion, only now coming to this conclusion? I think all of us are complicit in this war because the ideas behind the war, the ideological underpinning of the war is wrong. The idea that the Middle East needs democracy to be better off, all of us bought into that and that itself is a lie…

MATTHEWS: Not all of us, Tucker.

CARLSON: I didn’t. You didn’t. But the people who did aren’t apologizing for it. Instead of pretending it’s somehow Rumsfeld’s fault for mismanaging it, the problem is deeper than that.

http://thechrismatthewsshow.co.....2006.shtml

Holy shit. That actually came out of their mouths?

AGAINST invading Iraq

Chris Matthews
Tucker Carlson
Robert Novak
Pat Buchanan

FOR invading Iraq

James Carville

; )

Like ann needs more publicity.

Guitar_Playing_Bastard @
31

Tweety is a fart in the wind. he advocates whoever has the whip hand.

Yeah, but he brings some valid points in too… and people listen to him. When he says that he was an executive assistant to Speaker Tip O’Neil and that it was his job to know about things like the Foley e-mails and be damn certain that the Speaker knew about them fast and accurately, he points a damning finger at Hastert. **edit** was that Russert instead? I think I had a brain fart but I’ll let it ride. Too lazy to stop and look, heh.

Once in a while he says what he thinks. Actually, watching the talk shows last Sunday was remarkable, because all the panels seemed to accept failure in Iraq as a fait accompli. They sat and talked about how the Republicans would do a pullback to something resembling the Murtha/Kerry plans after the election.

How cynical is that “cut and run” line when that’s the cool plan?

Cut the bitch’s throat and run!

Amazon has run out of the book! They didnt order enough of them. Thats so great.

Bustednuckles @ 21

Fern @ 19

Someone buy that woman a new dress. And a sandwich.

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and some breathmints

The Devil, or Richard Mellon Scaife (I always get the two of them confused), already bought her soul.