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Michelle Malkin about swallowed her tongue last week when Glenn Greenwald correctly labeled her blog and multimedia vanity project “hate sites”. Greenwald took a representative sample of the comments on display there and found more vile racist cant and thinly-veiled calls to violence than you’d find at a Republican Bake Sale.
The examples are sort of grimly funny, not so much for their lunk-headed content, but for the criminal way in which Malkinites seem to compulsively butcher the English language. There seems to be absolutely no distinction between “their”, “they’re”, and “there”, or “to”, “too”, and “two”.
You always know you’re at a Right Wing site by the anarchic state of their homonyms. I don’t understand where the nativist, anti-Mexican crowd gets off insisting that every one must read, write, and speak English when they so clearly are incapable of it themselves.
Well, Michelle, of course, grandly faked another one of her (as TBogg says) “back-arching ragegasms”, decrying The Left as the real hate-mongers, frantically googling her name and any liberal blog name she could think of and posting links to the results in her post, apparently believing that for any progressive to mention her name at all is tantamount to “hate”.
Actually, a friend of mine said that in the original post, most of those links went directly to posts of mine, which would have been thrilling had she kept it. I guess she figured out pretty quickly that I would dance a jig of joy around the room. That single act would have confirmed all my fondest wishes. It would mean that she reads absolutely every word I write about her (as I have long suspected) and fulminates about it in seething rage and misery when she can’t sleep at night. Poor, poor little pointy-headed thing.
One thing I have noticed in my studies of Malkin’s spells of mental and emotional affliction over time is that she apparently has the memory and attention span of a fruit-fly. Just days after screeching and rending her garments about how hateful, racist, and elitist us Lefties are, she has gone and deliberately posted a photo of a Koran floating in a toilet on the front page of her blog. (Link deactivated per reader request)
Given that she has posted extensively on the riots that resulted from reports of desecration of the Koran in US prison camps, Malkin (whatever she may claim) has obviously posted this photo to be as hateful and inflammatory as she possibly can. Can you imagine the flap that would erupt if I or any other liberal blogger posted a photo of a Bible (or even a Book of Mormon) submerged in a toilet? Bill Donohue would be so outraged that he would spontaneously combust (but not before going on every major news network to decry the blasphemy in particular and “godless” liberals in general). Bill O’Reilly would get so heated that he wouldn’t need batteries for his vibrator anymore. It would just run on rage.
So, yes, Michelle, you may not use the f-word on your blog, but you’re confusing message with medium there. You can try as hard as you like to nitpick through every blog post we write about you and call them evidence that the Left is as crazy and pig-ignorant as you are, but nothing will obviate the fact that your blogs and syndicated column have been an unending geyser of racially, religiously, and ideologically based hate since their inception.
I believe that Mr. Greenwald has you dead to rights, ma’am. You truck in nothing but hate. Rage and fear are the only colors on your emotional palette. You can put as much lipstick on your pet pigs as you want, honey, but the fact remains: they’re still pigs.
Try and get some rest, dear.
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woo hoo, TRex!
TREX!
Drat!
Fuckery! Fuckery! Fuckery!
The intelligence of a fruit fly? Which one, Dunce or Rutabaga?
Sigh…poor, poor Malkkkin. When will she ever learn?
Way past my bedtime.
hiya trex!
TRex!!!
TRex! Loves me the smell of Malkkkin frying in the evening. Smells like ….VICTORY!
DrDick @ 10
First they ignore us. Then they laugh at us. Then they send Michelle Malkin after us. Then we win.
Hey Sarky, still up?!
How’s AuntB?
Trex, you are on a rip roaring tear tonight! Should have you primed for YKos.
AZ Matt @ 13
RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHRRRRRR!!!!
Their, there and they’re, our and are, then and than, to, too and two are difficult concepts for 5th grade English learners.
Damn, T, you don’t cut them any slack?!!!
“I don’t understand where the nativist, anti-Mexican crowd gets off insisting that every one must read, write, and speak English when they so clearly are incapable of it themselves.”
8-)
Personally, I wish you would un-link to the picture of the Quran in the toilet. We can take your word for it.
To faithful Moslems the Holy writ is more than say the Bible is in the Judeo-Christian tradition. It is almost like it is a diety in its own right.
My respectful request is that you do not do anything that later can be used against this wonderful blog. Linking to this picture may come back to haunt the Lake.
Hey, TRex. How many points do you think MM’s bloodpressure rose when you pushed publish?
Hey, please don’t make fun of bad spelling. That is hitting pretty close to home with me. It is not-nice speech against poor spellers. And careless typers. And the easily confused, and promptly distracted. Not that I’m not all of the above, mind you.
TRex @ 14
I just click on the link for th Koran flush and got a forbidden. Guess I am not evil enough for her site.
I love knowing that she reads me.
It smells like…victory.
Now, if I know that someone is relentlessly talking smack about me, I tend to stop reading them. But MalKKKin is one of those types who simply has no self-control about that sort of thing. She probably just saw this link pop up on Technorati and is reading every word as we speak.
You will notice, however, that she never, ever, EVER mentions me by name on her blog. She’ll lob grenades at Jane every so often, but I think she knows better than to put my name into anything that has her name at the bottom. Google would just bring me right to her doorstep and I would laugh in her face some more.
Suzanne @ 18
Hey, Suzanne! Welcome back. What is the current body count in the recent debacle?
She’s malkin her bed, and she alone has to sleep in it.
wesgpc @ 19
Dude.
You practically get spell-check free with your latte at Starbucks these days.
There is no excuse.
BigMitch @ 17
It’s already forbidden!
EvilDrPuma @ 11
We won’t being doing nearly as much “winning” as we can without addressing this first.
Just curious why this issue never seems to be front and center in alot of the blogosphere. So little of what we do here matters at all if the problem of electronic voting isn’t fixed.
The California Sec of State’s Offce just released a report saying all the electronic voting machines, made by the biggest companies (ES&S didn’t cooperate), are easily hacked and vote tallies easily manipulated. HELLO?!? Doesn’t matter how much money we give to a Blue America candidate if they’re running in a district using this stuff.
As usual, BlackBoxVoting.ORG is leading the fight and doing the heavy lifting. They say this report doesn’t even address the main problems! So even at the surface level of the corruption, we have a Sec of State for the largest state in the Union saying these machines are untrustworthy.
I wish more people would get active on this issue.
Trex — you of all bipeds should know that a mere humanoid/android such as Ms. Malkin cannot possibly have as thick a skin as your Paleolithic outer covering… as a liberal carnivore, please have some compassion for the little ones that you might accidentally on purpose ty-boe on.
She cannot help it; she is a single-celled organism, where you, who are the more evolved, should know better.
Suzanne @ 18
Yee-Haw, You’re back in the Saddle!!! Bon Soir, Ma Cheri!!! *g*
Suzanne’s with us!
The correct term, Michelle, is contempt, not hate. Big difference.
TRex @ 21
Maybe she’ll even post a comment. If she does, can we feed the troll? Pretty please?
Big Mitch is right
The Quron is the translated words of Allah written in Arabic by the faithful prophet Muhammed. It is sacred to such an extent that to submit to Islam must involve learning Arabic.
TRex @ 21
She smells like……Roses.
And top o’ the evening to everbody. Glad I ate well before reading about Michelle, our right-wing troglodyte belle.
Jim Clausen @ 32
As did Moses and numerous Saints, etal…!!!
Mutant Poodle @ 34
Do troglodytes really deserve this kind of smear?
TRex @ 21
Kinda like BOR never mentions Keith O? but we know who she’s thinking of…
Hi TRex!
Hi Suzanne!
Hi Michelle!
excellent work, Sir TRex!
Loo Hoo. @ 25
Begging to disagree …
Pffffffffffft. She would never, ever do that.
She, like all bullies, is at heart a profound coward. She would never, ever, ever face me one-on-one. She knows about how long it would take for me to chew her up and spit her out.
Uhoh! Where’s Suze??? :~(
EvilDrPuma @ 36
That’s true. Troglodytes live in caves. Michelle lives under a rock. In a swamp. Surrounded by festering slime.
TRex @ 41
I know, I know. But it’s nice to dream.
When I first saw Michelle, years ago, I thought she was a pretty woman. Now, knowing the kinds of beliefs she has, she looks so homely. Sad.
TRex @ 21
Someone’s talking smack about you?!? Who?!? Let me at ‘em!
EvilDrPuma @ 36
Agreed on the wren/chimpanzee version of said genus.
However:
A troglodyte is usually chaotic evil in alignment. The stench of an angry or frightened troglodyte is so foul that it sickens all living creatures nearby, even after the troglodyte dies.
The god of troglodytes is Laogzed.
is Laogzed Troglodyte for Rove or Cheney?
Mutant Poodle @ 47
is Laogzed Troglodyte for Rove or Cheney?
I know the D&D reference, but I have to point out that MM smells worse by far.
Big Mitch, do you have a link that works?
TRex, my computer decided Saturday morning that it was going to act as if it had an imaginary firewall and prevent any and all attempts to connect to the internets.
4 phone calls to tech support (3 of which had to be in India), I ended up having to take it back to its ‘out of box’ state. Am currently downloading 71 critical patches that MS insists must be installed immediately.
TSF – wow – Lionel Ritchie doing 3 Times A Lady – wow, thank you just doesn’t cover how touched I was.
I will admit to being very very very cranky and not at all ladylike this weekend.
My system is running very slow so I ask that everyone be very patient with Moderator request. Thank you.
BigMitch @ 17
I killed the link.
Sigh.
CTuttle @ 42
I’m growing a little more concerned…!!!
Oh, Suz. You deserve the Three Times a Lady. And Teddy was sweet to post it. Welcome home.
Has any one seen Alfred lately?
CTuttle @ 52
dood, scroll up
Suzanne @ 50
Capiche! Mia Signora!!! 8-)
I am back. :)
So Trex, what are looking forward to the most in Chi-town? The food, your blogging buddies, the pols, the YKos T-shirt?
Be sure to be very nice to TexB since this is her vacation from Texas and the Snarkie One.
hi Suz, welcome back :-)
Hey Trex, I want to thank you for keeping tabs on what these right wing hate mongers actually say. I can’t stomach reading or listening to them myself. Not enough blood pressure medicine in the world to keep me from having a stroke if I do, but it sure is fun to listen to you folks cut them down to size.
I miss AK too.
TRex @ 51
TRex..it IS the high road. And you just know that is the road we must take.
In a snark-o-licious way, of course!!
(Really, the comment about grade school English had me one exhale away from spew. The MacMurray Pinot Gris is grateful that spew potential was not reached this time!!)
Hiya Suzanne!
TRex @ 51
It’s on MM’s front page in all its heinous and hateful glory.
Marretta, are you new today? Welcome.
Loo Hoo. @ 49
Not no more.
SnarKassandra @ 57
Welcome back…
TeddySanFran @ 64
I dare not infect my liberal pooter with such vile bile!!! ;-)
Hmm there was a favorite gooper example of godless art- had somethin to do with Jesus and a urinal? Can’t remember for sure.
Marretta @ 60
I used to have to eat a fast food dinner in five minutes, and yet I don’t have the stomach to look at that crap.
TRex is a better
mantherapod than I.I caught a snippet of Bill O tonite. When someone said that right-wing blogs have hate-filled comments, Bill O said ‘no one goes to right wing blogs”.
Wonder if Michelle knows.
I enjoyed the fact that Atrios was running Bill O’s loofah act across the blog today. I hope Home Depot appreciates that he is a sexist choncho.
BAM!!!
CTuttle @ 68
No kidding! No telling what kinds of virus you might contract going there. I understand TRex has a special hazmat suit that covers his pooter.
solai @ 71
But if no one goes to right wing blogs, where do the hateful comments come from? Does Bill-O post them all?
Malkin is pathetic..a self hating brown person. Our energies are much better spent going after O’Reilly. He is an evil piece of work and has influence on the political discourse. He is also very vulnerable. Do the wing-nuts who run Home Depot really want to sponsor a person who jerks off with a vibrator up his butt while harassing a female co-worker? The people need to know that Home Depot approves and financially supports this behavior.
I really really missed you pups and (deep sigh) it is nice being home at the Lake again.
DrDick @ 74
Guaranteed Industrial Grade, Eh, TRex????
EvilDrPuma @ 75
He has more psuedonyms than Mackey.
Liberty Lover @ 37
What? Who?
rwcole @ 69
Something about the Repugs and toilets… . Their up-bringings no doubt.
EvilDrPuma @ 75
He is the only one that will pay money to be able to comment!
rwcole @ 69
It is on ms. malkins blog right now.
Suzanne @ 77
Likewise, Ma Cheri!!!
welcome back, Suzanne – you were missed and there was a lot of folks inquiring after you.
Wolcott has a related post tonight. Nice double shock of exquisite snark.
Marretta @ 60
Welcome to the Lake, Marretta.
TRex @ 51
I love being Liberal. We can’t say or do anything together without it going through the wringer. We don’t just look away or convienently ignore a fellow Liberal if we don’t agree, unlike wingnuttia. I guess that’s why we’re always correct!
I mean, we can’t even link to a picture in order to illustrate a haters hypocrisy. It’s even something that involves a choice you make as an adult like religion, and not something you can’t help since you’re born with it.
Even a joke about a lack of spelling acumen can’t go unchecked.
I’m not being snarky, I do think this is good since it ensures we can back up our arguments, and withstand critcism.
Do you think wingnuts like having there posts scrutinzed two? ;)
AZ Matt @ 58
I am most looking forward to three days of Being Famous. It does my low self esteem issues a world of good to be worshiped and adored.
Suzanne @ 50
On Sunday morning, I woke up witSuzanne @ 50
On Sunday morning, I awoke to the total destruction of my computer system. Everything is gone, every link, every email…everything. Mr. LS spend all day yesterday removing and replacing a bunch of hardware to get back on line. So far, so good. It is unnerving, since three weeks ago, all of my data was suddenly gone….nothing important really….but interesting….
TRex @ 89
Well I want to get your autograph!
SnarKassandra @ 82
Nice one, Cassie!
I was going to comment at Bill O’s website. I was stunned when I discovered there’s a fee.
TRex @ 89
But we worship and adore you already, and hold you in the highest esteem!
solai @ 71
Well, slap the mule!
Bill O’Reilly has TOLD THE TRUTH for once in his miserable life.
so, did Billo destroy the big orange tonight?
somehow I’m guessing it is still up and running..
TRex @ 89
no biting! She’s a fragile soul!!! *g*
Steve-AR @ 76
Is this for real?
TRex @ 89
I will not be there to worship and adore but I do expect lots of reporting from you – especially if MoDo shows up. I promise to worship and adore from afar.
LoudounLib @ 94
We do?!
solai @ 93
There’s a fee at FDL, too. You actually have to have an original thought. It sounds easy, but it’s hard work; really hard work!
AZ Matt @ 100
yes!
We should start asking the folks at Home Depot if they carry O’Reilly Factor vibrators.
-GSD
Hey, Michelle!
Hi there! Thank you for confirming that you have NO life and that you read left-wing blogs looking for just ANYTHING to bitch about on your little rage factory page.
So, little GopSucker, what’s next? More hate? Bring it on, baby. The more you show us your ugly little hate fests, the more you show us just why the GOP and your right-wing masters are no longer welcome in this country. Really, darling, you need to find a better act. Or better yet, go back to whatever slimehole you came from. The rest of us will be too busy cleaning up after you and the rest of your ilk… so, go away. Change your own diaper for once.
DrD, that was some great Wolcott ;-)
Loo Hoo. @ 98
I what for real? I am stranded in Houston Tx so maybe the heat and humidity have distorted my reality.
GSD @ 103
the non-spinning variety
LooHoo,
Go to TheSmokingGun.com
Search for the O’Reilly/Makris lawsuit. Read away, use a barfbag if you must.
-GSD
BOR also said that Ann Coulter wasn’t associated with the repub party.
GSD @ 103
Wow. Brings new meaning to their slogan, “You can do it. We can help. (supply the batteries)”
solai @ 109
In the same sense that brain damage isn’t associated with meningitis.
The O’Reilly Factor, the spin stops once the vibrating begins.
-GSD
solai @ 93
Keeps out the riff raff.
DrDick @ 86
omg
solai @ 109
Really!!!???? What up, visited by Marley and three ghosts? Who had a come to Jesus with Bill?
Loo hoo, DKos has a diary too. With lots of links.
EvilDrPuma @ 111
This is great. The right is pushing the Democrats closer to the netroots and the right is now dissing their own netroots—”no one goes to conservative blogs”…”Coulter isn’t a Republican”.
Just beautiful.
They are shredding themselves to pieces.
-GSD
Hi Michelle.
I have been dying to go OT all day. I commented yesterday that Michael O’Hanlon (of Brookings)on CNN on Saturday was pushing for sticking longer with the surge. On Sunday on ABC with George Steph, Cokie Roberts and David Gergen were both pushing the line that the Democrats’ only plan was withdrawal but that withdrawal would take more than a year and bad things would happen when we left, etc. I saw this as part of a campaign to pushback on Democratic efforts for withdrawal.
Then in today’s NYT there was the op-ed by Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07…..Editorials and Op-Ed/Op-Ed/Contributors
there was more of the same.
Glenn Greenwald did a terrific job as he so often does smacking down O’Hanlon who desribes himself as a harsh critic of Bush’s Iraq policies. Greenwald dredges up all the columns and interviews where O’Hanlon was cheerleading the war and saying a few years ago what he is saying now: that progress has been made and we have the insurgency on the ropes.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/g…..index.html
Pollack was on CNN today. Perhaps no surprise there since he is married to Andrea Koppel. You may also have forgotten that he is alleged to have passed information to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman in the A*PAC spy scandal.
O’Hanlon was on MSNBC opposite Brian Katulis who called him a propagandist for the Bush Administration. O’Hanlon responded that while he was on the right that was no reason for someone on the far left like Katulis to call names. Of course, Katulis is not on the far left and saying that he is was O’Hanlon’s way of doing some name calling of his own. I think Katulis had read Greenwald’s piece and with his own critique pretty much left O’Hanlon sputtering.
What is so absurd about O’Hanlon and Pollack is that they admit that the political process in Iraq and the security operation in Baghdad are not working. These are the two principal goals of the surge. Yet they want to keep the surge going (despite these existential failures in it) and concentrate on security outside of Baghdad. In this they completely misunderstand why the Sunnis in Anbar are cutting deals with us (Hint: It is not because they have suddenly discovered the values of peace). Think rather about positioning themselves for the conflict with the Shia after we leave.
On a final note, why is it that rightwingers like O’Hanlon and Pollack are working for the supposedly “liberal” Brookings Institute?
LooHoo at 65,
Longtime lurker, but have been coming out now again to comment. Thanks for the welcome. I love FDL!
johnSwifty @ 115
I have thought for some time that Coulter is not an asset to Republicans. Who benefits?
I particularly like the part about poot. I don’t want to know what it is or what the artist means. It just seems to be a new “something” for the vernacular. I remember Kenny and Ronny burning “poots” away, but this is a new generation and Frank would be proud.
Ms. Coulter, your nutroots are showing.
-GSD
Get Healthy Soon, Chief Justice Roberts…
So relaxing in Maine that I suspect you forgot to refill that Rx for Xanax…doctors say you must “taper” off of it.
BTW, how do you feel about suspicionless drug testing of students, and drug testing for government employees?
TRex, honey, are you looking like something from the mall scene in “SoapDish” while at YK?
Malkin and BillO had a tag team attack on Daily Kos tonite. Daily Kos is a “sewer” promoting “hate speak”. Nothing special about that, except, it does give Daily Kos “street credibility”.
It does seem Fox Noise is going berserk over the left wing Blogeesphere in general and Daily Kos in particular. I hope none of those bloggers at YearlyKos hurl hate speech at those fair and balanced Fox journalists.
Right on!
solai @ 109
What?! She’s their freaking pit-bull.
O’Reilly is rapidly boarding the short bus to woof-woof land.
The point is to now always tie Coulter to the Republican Party. So now they either have to repudiate her or embrace her.
If they repudiate her, the base is angry, if they embrace her, 74% of America gets queast about a party the embraces the Child-Free Magda Goebbels of the Republican Right Kool-Aid set.
-GSD
Can some nice mod free up my 118? I think I didn’t use enough astericks in a certain organization’s name.
TRex @ 125
He’ll be sitting in the driver’s seat, of course, legend in his own mind that he is.
LS @ 119
Well, to be honest, I have always found folks who label themselves as truly conservative to be singularly unimaginative. The skimpy black dressed one was, if nothing else, a veritable fount of ideas that could be easily understood and regurgitated by those without cognitive abilities of their own. She was providing a service, of sorts. And getting paid for it. I think there is a name for that.
Marretta @ 60
For a safe introduction to the weird world of wacky wingers, try the Blog Report on Salon. The righty blogs are palatable if you get a brief shot of it before you try the whole thing. After reading a few, you take the big step: a comment. You know you’re a real trooper then!
TRex @ 125
Actually he’s driving it.
TRex @ 89
its all perspective…I feel Elevated to the ranks of Noticed By The Famous whenever a certain erudite, Black-Belt-in-Snark Theropod responds to my comments.
(waves to all the rest of the firepups) hi y’all, just a quick drive-by tonite. Give AuntBetsy a gentle hug for me, Snarky.
Loo Hoo. @ 113
Speaking of riff raff. Did you see this Novak remark while discussing the YouTube debate?
First off, he’s even older than I thought. But, then I get really ticked at this comment. What are we? The unwashed masses to be exploited and discarded. I don’t think I’ve been this angry since the “You are my base” remark.
They have no regard for us.
The mall scene in Soapdish? “It’s a crutch!” LOL!
Queasy…not queast.
-GSD
TeddySanFran @ 114
Just wait for what Pamaslut has in store for Pat Tillman’s mother! Ya see, Shruggz supports our troops, but absolutely HATES their mothers.
Great snark TRex!
Suzanne @ 122
Um, yes, except I’m not pathetic and washed up.
GSD @ 108
Best parts linked up today at Atrios as well.
We are also witnessing the birth of a new meme about tough, knuckle-brawling, mean spirited liberals.
Keep it up Bill-O.
-GSD
GSD @ 140
And it ain’t just words, friend. It ain’t just words.
Oh my.
Wolcott has given me the vapors.
I must retire.
:)
Frank33 @ 123
This FOX rant was overdue, after we got the Democrats to decline to appear on 2008 PrezCandi debates on FOX. They’ve chosen YK & DK as their targets — and this week has only just begun!
Hugh @ 118
Seems like they would love to just ignore us until we leave… if we would just stop shooting them and supplying weapons and waiting around for a handout of 85 percent of their oil reserves.
GSD @ 140
You have apoint there. They really need to get their story straight. Either we are a bunch of effete, mealy mouthed, wusses or else we are a vicious revolutionary rabble. Can’t be both.
DrDick @ 144
Let’s be a vicious revolutionary rabble. It’s a lot more fun that way.
TRex @ 138
Of course you are not honey. Is why I qualified it with something like.
I read this today and felt ill afterwards.
http://www.informationclearing…..le6308.htm
EvilDrPuma @ 111
I was going to go with gonorrhea and pelvic inflammatory disease, but your analogy is cleaner, I think.
DrDick @ 146
I always use that point to shove back down their throats.
Come on, is the left a pack of surrendering, French pansy-ass losers or are they an ideological goliath that will go all-Stalin and Robespierre on the poor, beleagured Republicans.
-GSD
DrDick@145…
One can certainly be a bunch of vicious, effete, mealy mouthed revolutionary rabble. I know several people who fit that description well. But, wusses we ain’t.
Malkin has her problems but she is also an intelligent human being with a good book on illegal immigration. I read that one cover to cover and you should too.
I saw you on CNN the other night and thought you were way too nice and too polite. But please criticize the issues and not the style, looks, sounds, or other light weight surface stuff else you’ll fall into the Ann Coulter type of logic and there is already enough of that going around.
Heading out, kids. Might be back a bit late. I’m taking some supplies to a friend who has the flu.
See you soon!
Frank Probst @ 150
Combine the metaphors and split the difference: syphilis and brain damage! There, now everyone’s happy!
Suzanne @ 122
We’ll have pics if it’s okay by TRex.
Bill O’Reilly/Ann Coulter Axis.
Syphillis Shrugged.
-GSD
Unbelieveable. Someone made a full-fledged opera out of the O’Loofah phone sex transcript. Now there’s some serious snark going on here….
http://www.mackrisvoreilly.com/
TRex @ 155
You’re a good friend, TRex. See ya later.
Guitarsandmore @ 154
I disagree with both your premise and your conclusion.
I just don’t think I have it in me to read the right wing hate blogs. Even some of the comments on other progressive sites bother me at times. One thing I love about the Lake is that even when people get passionate, they almost always remain civil. There is an awful lot of hate in the world, and although I know we as a group need to know what these scumbags are saying, I just can’t bring myself to wallow in it. I love my country, but there are limits. I guess that makes me a conscientious objector, huh?
We were TiVo’ing both Keith and O’Reilly so we could flip between them without missing any of Keith. I heartily encourage everyone to watch this episode of O’Reilly if they rebroadcast it; it’s hilarious. He was full of feigned outrage and, after warning viewers of how shocking it would be, showed the intentionally obviously photoshopped Lieberman picture. (I’ll post a link to the original if anyone hasn’t seen it.)
I find it hard to imagine that even Fox viewers didn’t find the picture a little funny, and it must have been a letdown after he’d hyped how shocking it was going to be.
Then we flipped back later, and find that he has Michelle “I posted home addresses of people who dared to criticize me on my website and they got death threats from my commenters” Malkin on to talk about how liberal blogs are nothing but hate.
Like I said, frickin’ hilarious!
Guitarsandmore @ 152
That was Jane on CNN, the woman who created FireDogLake. TRex, who wrote this post, is not Jane.
TRex @ 155
Ooh, don’t catch it from your efforts! The wealth would be clearly distributed during YKos! Beware! *g*
Redshift @ 163
The shocking photoshop-job, courtesy Watertiger.
TeddySanFran @ 139
I’m scared to click on that video.
Hugh,
The New Republic was once the liberal/left leaning alternative to The National Review.
But it slipped into DLC centrism and ultimately fell for the neo-conjob on the war too.
Same thing with Brookings I gather.
-GSD
Guitarsandmore @ 151
You are so wrong on so many levels that I’d have to pay a geologist just to sort out the stratigraphy.
Suzanne @ 164
To which I’d add, intelligence is moot if unused. Malkin may or may not be intelligent, but evidence of same from, say, making intelligent arguments would help.
This is, after all, the woman who helped shop the “John Kerry shot himself to get a Silver Star” theme in 2004 – without a shred of evidence to back her up.
And, the FDL zen koan for the day: None of us is Jane, and we are all Jane.
Guitarsandmore @ 152
Um, the thrust of the post is that Malkin is accusing the progressive blogs of being hate-mongers, while she herself has a picture of a Koran in a toilet bowl posted on her site. What part of it seems light-weight to you?
Marretta @ 162
I take offense at the ‘almost’ inference! :P
I am shocked, shocked to find that picture of Joe Lieberman was photo-shopped.
-GSD
‘Mr. Dildo in the asscrack’ is shocked at that.
Funny stuff Billo.
I’m Jane Hamsher.
-GSD
Marretta @ 162
Nah, there are a lot of us like that. I have no interest in actually reading appalling right-wing sites (it would piss me off too much), but it is useful to know what they’re saying to help us disarm it and defend against it (or help it blow up in the faces of supposedly “responsible” Republican leaders.) So it’s good to have folks like TRex who will wade in and come back to bring them the mockery they deserve.
EvilDrPuma @ 165
Let us just say that in my professional opinion, Michelle Malkkin is a mental midget and her position on illegal immigration is basically vile, racist x*nophobia. She wouldn’t know a fact if it bit her on the ass and just makes shit up.
TeddySanFran @ 164
Oh goD…still crying from laughing so hard. To think he put that up on the screen! I can just see kids at the airport or grannies at a restuarant, and that comes on the screen and they can’t hear it, and being like, “What is that all about?!?”. Ha!
MP @170 — “And, the FDL zen koan for the day: None of us is Jane, and we are all Jane.”
Nice!
Redshift @ 175
It’s commonly referred to as ‘Oppo Research’!!! Just ask Tim Griffin!!! ;-)
Is this a new disclaimer on Malkin’s comments section, or have I just not noticed it before? And would such a remark satisfy Mr. O. if it were used on a progressive site, I wonder?
CD @ 176
That’s very funny. I love the ironic insinuation that Michelle Malkin has standards.
LoudounLib @ 178
We’re all one with the universe(Jane)!!! *g*
bonkers @ 175
Okay, that’s funny as hell, but where’s the shock part?
Geez, that photoshopped photo was what – a year, year and a half ago? Was that the best BOR could come up with?
Guitarsandmore @ 152
Way too polite and too nice? We surely don’t want anyone sounding like surface stuff. You won’t find that here.
GSD @ 174
I thought you were Spartacus. No wait, I am Spartacus.
EvilDrPuma @ 11
Ugh! Michelle Malkin site is a joke!
The most ignorant of people gather there
and bloviate about their political wet dreams.
Malkin has three moles posing in her hot air blog and one of them has her complete trust.
Their mission is to bring her down for her blantent bigotry. Time is almost up.
Another example of BOR’s hypocrisy is that he’s the closest thing to porn on cable news. He doesn’t miss an opportunity to show scantilly clad women. I think he builds the news item around the video. And of all the photos he could have chosen, he picks one with sexual overtones.
Loo Hoo. @ 15
They’ve also become difficult concepts for me after many years of marking bad essays.
DrDick @ 176
And that’s when she is standing on her tippy toes.
TRex @ 21
She has the hots for you, Dude, and is completely unhinged by the knowledge that her desire will forever go unrequited.
Suzanne @ 184
Dang, everyone’s a critic…!!! *g*
GSD @ 168
Speaking of Brookings…I had a rare chance to read the NYT dead paper edition today, and I got to see this utter crap from the Brookings Institute.
These people and their ilk continuously get a megaphone through the Conglomerate Media. Absolutely delusional, or extremely evil and dishonest. No matter…the NYT will keep giving these people double the space as Paul Krugman or Frank Rich. Sad…
Good evening dear friends. How is the lake this evening? Soothing I hope.
CD @ 180
Nope, BillO has emphatically said that any claims that they aren’t responsible for everything that appears on the site are “bull”.
Oh, another moment of hilarity — did you know that the only reason the Democratic candidates are coming to YKos is that they’re terrified that if they don’t, they’ll be subject to “smear attacks” like that great patriot, Joe Lieberman? (He was attacked solely because he wants to fight Islamic terrorism, don’cha know.)
Hugh @ 190
While standing on a telephone book on a chair.
TexB @ 194
Evening, Ma’am!!! 8-)
Evening Betsy. How you doing tonight?
TexB @ 194
hi TexB! Hope you are feeling much better.
Hugh @ 186
I’m Spartacus! And so’s my wife!
TexB @ 194
Soothing and freshly stocked with snark. Come on in, the water’s fine!
I’ve come to elevate the discussion. Please. What kinds of cookies do you like best?
Hey Betsy :-)
TexB @ 201
Mmmm, chocolate chip…
Bonkers,
Glenn Greenwald takes O’Hanlon and Pollack to pieces.
They have been swimming in the Kool-Aid for so long they forgot that they have left a paper trail of cheesy Rumsfeldian lines and Bushian logic.
Yes, the great and mighty victory is just around the next corner, if only the Democrats don’t stab America in the back again.
-GSD
Greenwald has one of O’Hanlon’s quotes where he uses the Rumsfeldian “small band of rejectionists” phrase. Pathetic stuff.
LoudounLib @ 204
Yep. Even revolutionaries love chocolate chip! 8-)
TexB @ 199
TexB cookies are the kind I like the best, ma’am.
I am feeling significantly better, than you. But they were not able to do the injections today. Afraid to give me anesthesia.
DrDick @ 205
Fight the power! (with a chocolate chip cookie in one hand)
solai @ 188
You mean O’Loofah has sexual issues?
This boy actually has a wife and kids, so he says…
bonkers @ 193
This was the op-ed I was referencing back in my #118. The good news is that a lot of the blogosphere latched on to it and tore it apart. Delusional is a good way to describe this process where so called experts who are continually wrong continue to get serious media coverage where they can be wrong over and over again.
Suzanne @ 207
Chocolate helps!
TexB @ 202
The left side cookies looked like Mac Nut Cookies! Mac Nuts are the best!!! 8-)
TexB @ 208
?????? Why were they afraid to give you anesthesia?
DrDick @ 214
Because of some rather embarrassing medical issues I was dealing with all night last night and into this morning.
Frank Probst @ 183
I know! I can just imagine BillO’s viewers eagerly waiting for the shocking LIE-beral picture, then scratching their heads in puzzlement when they actually see it. I mean, geez, how can you have a “shocking” picture that doesn’t even require any pixellation to put it on the air?
TexB @ 215
Oh dear. Well I hope everything straightens out very soon.
TexB @ 212
*Sputter* But Shrub has adulterated the Chocolate! It’s the veritable “…Ya nevah know whatcha ya gonna get!!!” *g*
Redshift @ 213
Exactly! If it doesn’t have a black box or pixellation, it isn’t objectionable according to the FCC.
TexB @ 202
I have to have both chocolate chip and white-chocolate-macadamia, because I can never decide between them.
Hey, waitaminute! “NEC Technologies” — what kind of chips are in those, anyway? *g*
Redshift @ 193
Heeeh! They may want to think impeachment.
Speaking of Daily Kos, there is a post about Sibel Edmonds. This case could also contain impeachable offenses by John Ashcroft.
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Former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged woman in US history. Attorney General John Ashcroft twice invoked the rarely used States Secrets Privilege in her case under the guise of classified secrets and protecting national security.
In a recent speech, Sibel again emphasized that the reason that she has been gagged is not for reasons of national security, but rather to cover-up criminality, treason, by high level US officials.
DrDick @ 217
Seconded. We want our Late Nite Firepup correspondent rested and ready for YKos!
I was joking I am a bad speller. I am a terrible speller. And I took TRex’s comment as not not-nice speech joshing.
Some one said Loo Hoo had a diary at Daily Kos? I can’t find anything by a Loo Hoo. But som of Daily Kos is kinda over my head on the technical innertubes level.
If Loo Hoo does have a diary, how to I find it?
By the way, I hope BillO keeps ripping Daily Kos. It is sophisticated site and I figure that they can handle the flack. I bet about exactly precisely more or less 0% of anyone here would be coverted if they didn’t know about BillO or MM or LGF sites and went and visited. But I figure a few Fox viers will convert, if they notice the diffeence in tone and that the reality based stuff isn’t BS.
But then I am a hopeless optimist.
Ha! spell checkd and NO mistakes. Dude!! I am on a roll or what?
GSD @ 205
Thanks. I’ll have to check that out. The lunacy in that article really just left me speechless, so I’d love to see a good smackdown.
If only Eric Blair could see how prophetic he was. We have the “leader of the free world,” and his minions on the press like the Brookings Institute literally saying war is indeed peace. Remember that. War is Peace.
Who knew?!?
Thanks LL.
Did nothing but rest today.
Redshift @ 220
Love those ‘Mac’ chips!!!
Suzanne @ 184
It’s a clever hook into the Democratic Party’s divisions, especially since Lieberman was Bill Clinton’s mentor in New Haven when he first ran for office as well as Barack Obama’s mentor when he arrived in the USSenate. Divide, divide, divide. Next, FOX will ask Clinton and Obama to “disown” the hateful “DailyKos” image.
If they are smart, Democrats’ spokespersons will ask BillO to disown the image on Malkin’s site of the Koran in the toilet.
Redshift @ 193
What can you say? Stupidness.
Redshift @ 200:
Now _that’s_ a coincidence, ’cause you know what? I’m Spartacus too!
non-corporate cookie assortment
TexB @ 202
White chocolate chip w/macadamia nuts!!!!!
as an incorrigible homonymologist, I rise in defense of homonyms everywhere.
just not their ill-use by right wing dimwits.
TeddySanFran @ 228
I’m certain that Hill and Obama aren’t very concerned about Billo’s vitriolic vile!!! ;-)
LS @ 120
As I wrote on my blog at The very definition of crazy:
Over on Crooks and Liars, you can see a video of Ann Coulter saying that “Osama is irrelevant. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan,” on Hannity & Colmes. When confronted with reality, she freaks out and nearly walks off the set.
You may recall the kid-glove treatment she got on Jay Leno. The audience was clearly not your typical west coast lefty audience that one would expect in Studio City. They cheered wildly for some of her more bizarre blathering. Then, her book shot to the head of the Amazon list, which also strikes me as strange. Could it be that purchases on Amazon were manipulated to give her screed the buzz?
Something is crazy here. I mean, besides Ms. Coulter. Normally people that crazy are placed in straight-jackets. Why is she on the cover of Time Magazine?
Start with asking, ‘Who benefits?’ Well, obviously it is the right wing of the Republican party. But how? After all, nobody with the brains that God gave animal crackers believes that Osama is irrelevant or that things are going well in Afghanistan.
Think back, if you are old enough, to the time when they showed a cartoon before the movies. Sure, Betty Boop had some creative horsepower behind it, but it was not what brought people into the theaters week after week. What the cartoons did was this: they shifted the boundaries of reality. Theater, including cinema, requires that the folks in the audience willingly suspend disbelief. For something like a cartoon, it is an easy sell, because they are comedic. Then, when the main feature comes on, the shift is toward a more real representation, and so, the movie is more emotionally engaging.
Ms. Coulter is the Daffy Duck of political discourse. When she speaks, you shake your head and wonder if you really heard what you thought you heard. Then when someone on Faux News comes on and says, “we must fight the terrorists in Iraq, so we don’t fight them here,” it sounds like the voice of sweet reason. Compared to daffy Ann Coulter, it is so much easier to accept the talking head, who in this analogy might be compared to, say, Orson Wells, War of the Worlds.
Why the War of the Worlds? Because some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.
“… and tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!”
bonkers @ 193
Don’t miss Glenn Greenwald’s comprehensive takedown of these two Brookings scammers. They’ve never been, as presented throughout TradMed today, harsh critics of Bush’s War On and Occupation Of Iraq; quite the contrary, they’ve been eager proponents and cheerleaders.
I wanted to present an observation, thought I could add little of interest to the conversation, but in the last few days I have felt sharply that unless known and agreeable it’s best not to post. My fear of you is now as great as the right wing sites. sorry for breaking up the conversation, but look at it this way I’m just one more football to kick, just someone else that does not get it.
TexB @ 200
Best cookie secret? Put oats (Quaker oats-regular, not quick ones) in the blender until they are like flour. Half flour and half oats. Yummy!
I am not so cynical about some of the think tanks. Some places have alwyas been mostly kooky (Cato), have gone from respectable to totally on the take (AEI), or were always bogus partisan think tank astroturf (Heritage). But plcased like Hoover and Brookings and Rand still have some integrity. Of course, Hoover is conservative, and full of conservatives, so mostly I disagree with Hooverites. But today I heard on interview with a Hoover scholar on the dub/Brown meeting -he was balanced and sensible, and informative, and delivered some of the driest, subtle and most hilarious anti dub snark I have ever heard.
Brookings was an outpost of sensible and humane macro economic thinking when it was not fashionable. Since Brookings macro was mostly right, the mainstream is coming back to them.
If a place does have integrity, that means that people who you don’t agree with won’t get the axe just cause you disagree with them. So, if I come across something by a Hoover person, I will listen. If AEI or Heritage, I listen in order to know the enemy. If it’s Cato, I grit my teeth or take a drink first, or just relax and remind myself that they have some kooky libertarian beliefs.
But then I don’t know much about Brookings’ foreign policy. Maybe it has always been slanted. Anyone know?
punaise @ 230
I hear there has been some success praying that away, pun.
punaise @ 233
Should homonymologists be able to legally marry, or have domestic partner benefits? I say yes!
TexB @ 226
Cool, but it perplexes me when my wife told me she needed a vacation from her seven-day cruise around the Isles(with only my Mom!)??? *g*
Loo Hoo, you bringing cookies to the hotel? :) For your roommate? And your friends? And your roommate?
Loo Hoo. @ 238
My grandma used that trick too. Definitely yummy.
I call them scheme tanks.
argosfalcon @ 237
??? Whaaat. is it my pajamas with flames on the sleeves?
BOr actually put that picture up on TV? Joe must be livid!
punaise @ 233
I don’t think that’s an appropriate topic for this blog.
punaise says July 30th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
as an incorrigible homonymologist, I rise in defense of homonyms everywhere.
just not their ill-use by right wing dimwits.
——-
Sound like your mouth’s full of hominy. But I like harmonious homologous homonyms, sung to harmonium, so whether I misunderstood or not, I like it.
argosfalcon @ 237
Not quite sure that I understand the point that you’re trying to make. Are you concerned that the Lake is becoming a Kool Kidz echo chamber? That there is a conventional wisdom that can’t be challenged?
If I thought that, I wouldn’t be here.
I’ve never watched BOR”s show, but the snippet that KO keeps playing on Countdown where Bill is questioning the beauty queen is just nauseating. I can tell by the way BOR keeps at his nasty questions that he is not only getting off of his fantasy of what the pictures were, but also by her obvious embarrassment by his increasingly creepy questioning.
No Loo Hoo diary at Kos. Yet.
Well, I think I will call it a night. We are supposed to have a brief respite from the heat tomorrow (the second day this month below 90 – normal is low 80s), so I am going to get up early and climb a mountain in the morning. “Take care and enjoy the snark.
Suzanne @ 240
pray, tell…
bonkers @ 241
don’t pun, don’t tell…
Eureka Springs @ 246
Right On, ES! I was just gonna chide Argos for his(her?) pessimistic ‘tude!!! 8-)
wesgpc @ 239
The point is that there are so many other people that could provide great insight, yet we always see the same people portayed as “the experts” who 98% of the time are pushing the status quo.
Why don’t we see Jane Hamsher, Glenn Greenwald, Marcy Wheeler and countless others that have proven to be great interviews, and give far more thought-provoking opinion rather than regurgitate Repube talking points? I have my theories…
G’night DrD, enjoy that climb :-)
argosfalcon @ 237
I may have not have responded to your every comment, af, but I’ve always enjoyed your contributions. Please don’t take silence for contempt. I cannot imagine what you fear from us, quite frankly. But maybe you’ll take an opportunity to tell us more.
argosfalcon @ 234
Argo, I’ve been gone the past couple days and am unaware of what you are talking about. I would never consider you a football to kick around.
Sleep well Dr D
wesgpc @ 239
Brookings has always been muscular and Scoop-Jacksonian, iirc.
DrDick @ 253
Nite, Dr(pause)Dick!!! ;-)
TeddySanFran @ 248
LOL – I misssed that epic thread
ruffian @ 247
Not to mention the BoyKing!
TeddySanFran @ 258
Please do continue to comment.
Marretta @ 251
Warning: Adult humor to follow…
You just know he pulled out the vibrator (Home Depot edition) later that night. Pox News: We Insert. You Glide.
OK, my work is done here…
punaise @ 263
LOL – I misssed that epic thread
I remember that one (back in March, IIRC) — one for the ages!
TexB @ 265
At what juncture have we offended Argos??? :-(
Argosfalcon,
Huh, I’m neither known here or always agreeable and when I have ventured to de-lurk and comment I have been treated with great civility and warmth. I’m sorry you haven’t had the same experience. Sometimes these threads go fast and things get lost in the shuffle.
Oh I think I offended a dozen or so people getting defensive about seizure disorders. For which I apologize.
Was this the picture that launched a thousand falafels?
http://thumbsnap.com/v/KBhm7Zcd.jpg
Betsy, IMHO no apologies are necessary.
TexB @ 266
You do not offend. You help to educate us all. Thanks
argosfalcon – you’ve had plenty of good comments here. please – stick around.
TeddySanFran @ 264
Gives new meaning to my nickname for LieberME: J. Low.
Twain @ 273
Thank you. I was a bit touchy.
FBI and IRS served search warrants at Ted Stevens’ home today. I’m all a-twitter with anticipation of the multi-count indictment that must surely follow.
Dana Milbank includes the Camp David menu for Gordon Brown in his latest snark-lite-fest:
I wonder if Lynne has spoken with Laura about diet choices for their menfolk?
Bonkers at 266,
Ewwwww, now I need brain bleach!
burnspbesq @ 277
I’ll bet Big Mitch is going to be all over that story.
punaise @ 274
Everybody contributes to the dialogue! The Lake is neither; shallow nor narrow!!! 8-)
Oh, to be a white-collar criminal defense attorney with close ties to the Rethuglicans. More work in the pipeline than there are lawyers to do it …
Its not a “tude” its that I have been doing some sampling (a bad habit some anthro.s never grow out of) and some things I have experienced here that reminds me of the echo chambers of other sites. I hope to have more data next week. But I once felt safe to post my half A** ideas, now not so much. I watch and listen and have walked this road before in the 70’s and 80’s, frankly I don’t know what to make of the change, if there is one most likely it’s just me but I have seen this before. I will not walk in to tinfoil hat land, but I have seen a change and no it’s not ego, I was an environmental scientist no one care what we think. sorry my foolishness please forget and forgive,
TeddySanFran @ 278
TexB @ 270
None necessary. It was a vigorous and spirited discussion about the media, the Chief Justice, the medical possibilities, and the legality of it all. Often, as threads add up quickly, tone is lost as we debate form and content. Thanks for contributing your experiences to the discussion.
Marretta @ 279
You can’t handle the truth!!
After all, from the Mackris transcript, we do know he does that. Our esteemed defender of Christmas and the little baby Jesus!
Can anyone identify for me the large, uh, gentleman to the, uh, rear of the Prez in the notorious photo?
CD, I’ve been wondering that myself.
Argos,
If you want to chime in about something, please do.
I spend half my time hear disagreeing with folks.
Can’t say I ever go away angry though.
-GSD
Firefox just automatically downloaded “an important update” to my pooter.
Those of you who are Firefox users and don’t have auto-update enabled may want to wander over to their site and see what all the fuss is about.
burnspbesq @ 290
Windows users only. Mac folks are not updated tonight.
Hear? Here, here.
-GSD
argosfalcon @ 283
Sorry, Argos!!! ‘Tude was a poor choice of words, if you’ve noticed, there’s been a lot of voices saying don’t clam up! Sorry, my overt bleeding heart that I wear on my sleeve needs staunching!!! 8-)
Argos, I’ve enjoyed your comments and responded. Remember?
CD @ 287
That’s the “Secret Service” Director, Ben Dover.
TexB @ 291
Sure about that? This certainly looks like a MacBook. And I left my crappy company-provided Dell back at the office tonight.
TexB,
I thought your comments about the seizures were right on target. You were speaking from the perspective of someone who has lived with seizures and the social embarrasment that goes with them. I think you were right to point out that there is still a stigma attached to epilepsy, and a lot of ignorance out there. I didn’t think you were defensive at all, just sure of your facts. I feel the same way about mental illness. Some people just don’t get it.
OK. ignore the mac comment.
GSD @ 289
I guess you haven’t seen what they say about you when you’re not here, GSD.
(ducking) . :~)
Marretta @ 297
Thank you.
bonkers @ 295
Actually Ben Dover was fired for rank competence and was replaced by a friend of Doro Bush.
His name is Heywood Jublowme.
-GSD
argosfalcon @ 237
i think the banter here can be intimidating, and those of us who are shy by nature may feel either ignored or misunderstood. When i look at the comments carefully, it seems many of the “koolkidz” drop in comments that don’t get a direct answer. That helped me get over my early timidity about jumping in.
When I’m exhaused from work and merely lurk from the sidelines, it still gives comfort to my soul to see the rich tapestry of folk here, and your voice, argosfalcon, is one of the many that make this place feel like home to me. I’ve learned to trust most friends that don’t always agree with me, or express a viewpoint i hadn’t considered.
Altho i love best the friends that proclaim loudly that i am the most talented, intelligent woman they know ;-)
punaise @ 299
Ouch.
I guess I better lurk more often.
-GSD
GSD @ 301
Whew! What a relief. I was afraid there were gonna bring back that hack, Jack Mehoffer.
bonkers @ 291
***
Ahhh. Nice to meet ya’, Ben! (Said in Chevy Chase voice)
GSD @ 303
you can dish it out, so I know you can take a gentle elbow to the ribs. it’s reciprocal, btw!
bonkers @ 304
From your lips to O’Rielly’s falafel.
-GSD
LoudounLib @ 272
I agree. No personal problems in that dep. but i feel there is WAY too much stigma attached to a term that covers such a vast territory.
Hey, LL and CT (and any other Mets fans out there),
Didja hear about the burglary that Omar pulled off earlier today?
Luis Castillo (Twins 2B, multiple-gold-glove-winner, three-time NL stolen base champion, batting .304) for two minor leaguers.
Who owns New York? WE DO!
GSD @ 289
It not the disagreement or agreement I was part of movements long ago, and patterns emerge, Hell If you like or dont like what I say that fine by me. Its there are times when I log on and go, how did this thread get this way? You all seem so bright, we should be looking for strategies among ourselfs and sharing our ideas. Not repeating talking point shaped for those that don’t or refuse to understand. Sorry guess as my time grows short I want more ideas not more noise, again forgive me. Old hippies never know when to shut up.
burns — say wha??? No, I hadn’t heard about that. Holy cow!
Hail Seizure!
Argos,
It can be intimidating. Please don’t stop speaking up. Sometimes someone will say something and I love the comment, or think it’s funny or it piques my interest, and I don’t know how to word it. By that time, 49 people have posted and I just keep reading. ;-}
frustrated SF Giants fan
I hear ya punaise…the Nats are my home team :~(
burnspbesq @ 309
Ah Burnsie, I’m a Mets fan only because I’m a Dyed-in-the-Wool, true blue err… red Bosox Fan!!! :-)
OK, g’nite all.
And Argosfalcon – don’t know to what you refer specifically, but when an issue is critical (and I think we are of one voice about the rampant criminality of the Bush Administration on so many levels and the need for them to leave power ASAP) lots of smaller disagreements which might otherwise see the light of day (about, for example, trade / immigration / details of health care reform / specific spending priorities / etc.) fall by the wayside. Look at the impeach/don’t impeach debate, for which there is no unanimity, but no one is ostracized for a contrary view, one way or the other.
I think, however, that we coalesce around a reality, which is a good start, as opposed ot coalescing around a fantasy.
If you think we’re an echo chamber, wait until the Dems hold all three branches of government. That should just about do it.
GSD @ 307
Ha! That’s a classic! There’s also the ones where he actually takes letters from Mike Hunt and Dick Pinch, and keeps saying the names over and over. That dude is such a loser…
Might have try some other standbys with him one of these dayz, Amanda Hugankiss and Hugh G. Rection…
LoudounLib @ 311
NYT.
Sleep well MP.
We’ll find a way to disagree even when we’ve got all 3 branches.
CTuttle @ 316
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
nicely said, MP, and g’night :-)
burnspbesq @ 309
…and a physical therapist to be named later.
Seriously, the Mets IR is ridiculous these days!
(Must sleep – let go of baseball – sleep)
burnspbesq @ 321
Eggsactly!!! ;-)
TexB @ 320
Exactly my point.
G’nite, MP!!! 8-)
well burns, wrt Beltran — guess I need to re-shuffle my fantasy team lineup again…
burnspbesq @ 306
Anyone care to translate this for us sports impaired? What kinda burglary? Did he steal the other team’s mascot or something?
argosfalcon @ 310
Hm. Well, Late Nite isn’t generally the time for strategy and ideas, it’s when we kick back and have a bit of fun. Not that you can’t try (nothing is off-topic in Late Nite), and it does sometimes get going, but the more strategy-oriented stuff is more likely to happen during the day, so don’t take it personally if it doesn’t catch fire.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, y’know?
Margot @ 313
Dear lady the next time someone tells me to scram, I well bear that in mind, I do care about all of you and your thoughts (yes I hear horse sh*t, but I do) and as time permits I will return.
BigMitch @ 17
I’ll just bite my tongue here, shall I?
;>)
bonkers says:
July 30th, 2007 at 9:48 pm:
“The point is that there are so many other people that could provide great insight, yet we always see the same people portayed as “the experts” who 98% of the time are pushing the status quo.”
–But that is a media problem. There are several very good poli sci and government studies people at Hoover who were against the Iraq invasion and have written very good analyses and well-thought out recommendations for how to extract ourselves in a way that does not maximize the damage. And they say to actually leave, not BS around with residual targets –er forces; they say drop the crony capitalism, etc. they say the US cannot be an occupying force at all in control of Iraq in anyway, and all troops should leave unless part of UN international effort –these are freaking Hoover scholars saying this. From what I can tell, they are in the media, oh, once every two years or so. I guess when everyone else is unavailable, the media are forced to book them, even they won’t follow the script.
Teddy San Fran:
Thanks for the tip on Brookings’ international relations. I didn’t know that.
Suzanne @ 328
Once a cop…
Argos,
Hey, all you old hippies have a lot to offer the younger generation. One thing I really get as I get older is that nothing is new. To quote Battlestar Galactica, “All this has happened before and it will all happen again.” Historical perspective is a rare thing in this world.
I have been commenting here since the beginning. It took me at least a year to feel comfortable with myself doing this. When you cannot see the people you are communicating with ever (body language means a great deal) and there are mostly unwritten rules to follow it can feel intimidating and mysterous. Frankly, sometimes it can even feel creepy. The fear is that I will not know when I am making a fool out of myself. Constantly I am critiquing what I have written. Sometimes I feel super smart and other times that nasty little voice in my head starts telling me what a dope I am.
Most of the time I am learning and contributing. I love the lake. It has tested my metal.
Come back Argos. Please.
Mutant Poodle @ 325
“…I don’t belong to an organized party! I’m a Dem…!!!” ;-)
I think if Michelle is pooping Korans she should see a doctor.
punaise @ 233
What is your take on homonographs?
Argos, what Redshift sez.
-GSD
solai @ 71
Billo should know… Probably meant to say no one posts in right wing blogs (like mine) that charge $5 per month for posting privileges.
TRex has a new thread
argosfalcon @ 310
I see your point, my take on it is late night is when we de-stress and get silly. A lot of bright articulate folk here at the lake, and i tend to be too busy during the day to comment, but i read and take notes you betcha. Lots of good phone #s, actions to take, talking points. Thats when this dithering artist shuts up and listens 8-).
Snark and silliness has its place also. My ex tried to be a GOP’er, back in the early 80’s. Went to some MN GOP things with him. ERLACK. What a bunch of grim, unhappy, mean-spirited people. BLECK.
Nothing like the fun, laughs, energy, and companionship from Dem picnics that my sibs & i went to growing up. Folks didn’t have to drag us there, we went willingly. I can’t imagine getting my palm read at a GOP fundraiser.
Suzanne @ 328
The terms of this trade are spectacularly one-sided in favor of the Mets, ergo, the reference to theft.
The Twins basically gave away Castillo to the Mets; they got two guys from the low minors who aren’t considered to be among the Mets’ best prospects. It made financial sense for them to do so (Castillo, who makes $5.75 million per year, is a free agent at the end of this season, and the Twins couldn’t have afforded to keep him and the other two key players who are also free agents at the end of the season), but it’s still quite a coup for the Mets. Castillo solves the biggest problem in their lineup.
new TRex thread
darkblack @ 331
Hoofah.
-GSD
wesgpc @ 332
Why do think tanks exist? Who funds them? Are they necessary?
These are questions that always pop up when I see/hear these tools being interviewed. I suspect any “liberal” voice at these places serve the Alan Colmes role.
There are some incredibly insightful and accomplished commentators that do not belong to a “think tank.” Why isn’t Juan Cole, one of the foremost experts on the Middle East, all over the Conglomerate Media? I agree, it is a media problem, only in that they are one part of the greater puzzle that’s designed to keep the electorate under control…literally.
RE: bonkers says July 30th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I think you are too cyncical. Juan Cole is an academic, so he is in the oldest style of think tank. There are many mansions in the think tank world. I would agree with you that in the last twenty years or so several new ones were created, or co-opted, for partisan political purposes, and are fundamentally dishonest. But even AEI (co-opted) has some old farts that are honest and do good work and are too famous to fire for not toeing the party line.
The anti-Iraq war people are Hoover are not stooges. They are very harsh about the Iraq war from the very idea of invading, up to right now. But that is precisely why you only see them on the media once in blue moon -they won’t follow the accepted script even though they are experts in international affairs, and comparative government, and political science and civial war. So what? They won’t put on the requested act, so forget them.
It is infuriating, I agree. I am not at a think tank, but have worked at them in the past. But the techie mathy part, not the soft science parts. I guess that is a disclaimer.
GSD @ 205
Greenwald let’s Pollack off too easy. Per the Wikipedia:
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OT, but Rest in Peace Bill Walsh. You made the Niners a dynasty and you made my liife happier in the process.
Thanks, Bill.
“I don’t understand where the nativist, anti-Mexican crowd gets off insisting that every one must read, write, and speak English when they so clearly are incapable of it themselves.”
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hahahahahahahaha I have been saying this for years! Thank you for printing it!
AZ Matt @ 72
I heard Home Depot surrendered and pulled their FOX advertising – but have had such a nutzo busy day maybe I imagined it.
Damn those homonyms! Demanding there speshal privillidges!
Booger
A homophone and proud of it
Booger @ 352
Was that an ad homonym attack?
Speaking of right wing hatemongers, would someone check out Pammy at Atlas and tell me if those photos of her and Sheehan are legit?