Obama/Dean ‘08!

Morning Christy.

HI, Christy, toobz still strange but I’m always glad when the Lake appears. Funny post.

What do I think?…as if someone had to ask me to shoot off my sarcastic mouth! Methinks the Republican/media conspiracy is still afoot, more later.

Tweety and his ilk sink pretty low. Scraping the bottom of the barrel really. Who in their right mind could love a guy who sings about bombing Iran, like killing people is a funny thing?

Mornin Christy,

despite Mitchell’s reality based reportage, her esteemed colleagues Kelly O’Donnell and Tamron Hall repeated the McCain lies twice on MSNBC yesterday - after Mitchell’s report .recidivist asshats

I want to see a bumper sticker: Republicans for Lord Voldemort/Lord Sauron 08.

John McCain has gone all Fred Thompson on everybody, old, cranky, sleepy, sloppy on the facts, going through the motions and looking like he would rather be someplace else, maybe with the trophy wife.

Morning all — sorry about the hiccups on the site. Tech folks are working on it as I type this, but sorry for any inconvenience.

That top video is via Media Matters. I thought it was a hoot!

Who in their right mind could love a guy who sings about bombing Iran, like killing people is a funny thing?

oh. . . I don’t know :D

Christy, Dum spiro, spero.

Yes, I would like to hope the media will come to see Mccain as he is, but I doubt it.
Today in the WaPo there was an Ode to McCain authored by Richard Cohen.

On the other hand, I continued, I could cite four or five actions — not speeches — that John McCain has taken that elicit my admiration, even my awe. First, of course, is his decision as a Vietnam prisoner of war to refuse freedom out of concern that he would be exploited for propaganda purposes. To paraphrase what Kipling said about Gunga Din, John McCain is a better man than most.

But I would not stop there. I would include campaign finance reform, which infuriated so many in his own party; opposition to earmarks, which won him no friends; his politically imprudent opposition to the Medicare prescription drug bill (Medicare has about $35 trillion in unfunded obligations); and, last but not least, his very early call for additional troops in Iraq. His was a lonely position — virtually suicidal for an all-but-certain presidential candidate and no help when his campaign nearly expired last summer. In all these cases, McCain stuck to his guns.

This morning Cohen’s column was all the rage on “Morning Joe.”

lying about something that reporters witnessed first hand? Not working so well.

hey - give ‘em a break. Rove protege Steve Schmidt just got there. Time maybe, to instill the “Rove Spirit”, but not quite down with the “Rove Subtleties” yet. I mean, stuff like this doesn’t just come naturally.

It takes practice, lots and lots of practice….

That’s like a joke and Richard Cohen is a comedien?

For some reason, nobody, not even Olbermann and/or Maddow, are willing to point what seems quite obvious: John McCain is neither ignorant of the facts not lying about them. He is simply suffering from geriatric dementia. What the hell does he have to do before people will acknowledge it, drool on himself?

ya mean this Steve Scmidt ?!?!?

Schmidt (pictured) right) was untroubled by the firings(USAA’s), telling the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that it was “mostly a combination of nonsense and politics and provides us no concern at all.” Griffin, Schmidt said, was “a great addition to the firm.”

whole lotta media crickets chirping on this in light of yesterday’s DOJ news

link

Here’s me reporting so Really Good News! My 20 year old prodigal son who has come home to live with me is really getting his act together. No shenanigans. Helping me out here and now he’s got a job. A paying one that starts today. Working for the Obama Campaign. Woot. It’s a new day and I have a lot of hope this morning. And, a big smile.

That Cohen column is wankerific, even by his incredibly low standards. Saw that this morning. Heaven forbid anyone fact check him, since he’s clearly incapable of doing so himself. No wonder Scarborough latched onto it — it’s right up his fact free spin alley…

Yay, demi! That’s great news for you and yours! :)

That is just great. Do you know what he will be doing? You can keep us posted on all the stuff he learns. They do finally grow up, don’t they? It’s a joy when it happens.

(((demi))) ooh - happy for you !

gotta go, y’all have a FDL Day !

MySql squirrels keep eating my comment. Yay Demi!

Thanks for the well wishes CHS, Twai and cbl2. He will be doing Fund Raising. And, I will share everything here that he learns and shares with me. The Audacity of Hope? Hey, it’s already working in this household.

Good morning,

Just spent two weeks unable to get through the squirrel baracades.

I see they are chattering again. And piling stuff up.

Well … nuts to them!

It’s been good to ’see’ you all again, if only for a day or two.

The squirrels at FDL, the rats in Congress, rodentia everywhere are failing to ’serve’ and need to be reminded (sterny) of whom they work for.

At least the squirrels are cute, if surly, whereas the rats … are simply surly.

Morning DW — good to see you. Sorry about the squirrels — we’re working on it….

They long for the warm, fuzzy later days of Reagan. Unlike Reagan, McCain grows more evil as he becomes more demented.

congrats from a former (?) prodigal son.

or was it “black sheep”?

“World’s most prolonged adolescence”?

anyway, very good news - never give up.

msmolly @20 - I think your squirrels are eating *my* comments too. Please tell ‘em to cut it out! *g*

The ad buys were for the DC market only, I heard. Just playing there so the “controversy” would be played 24/7 on your friendly cable news show.

Hi Christy.

Bout time, heh. At this point, is it soup yet? toast? Woot!

p.s., don’t worry about hiccups. we puppies get the hiccups ourownselves all the time. we don’t rattle easily. ;->

‘Thanks for the well wishes CHS, Twai and cbl2. He will be doing Fund Raising. And, I will share everything here that he learns and shares with me. The Audacity of Hope? Hey, it’s already working in this household‘ (my bold)
I just loved that!! :)

Demi! That’s absolutely wonderful news. Funny how they decide mom’s smarter than they thought, after they grow a bit, eh? Sounds like a dream job.

Tell him I’m jealous! ;->

I think it is important that we keep focusing on issues like this:

We all know that the MSM will not point out the fact that the same folks who have pulled all the crap under the Bush adminstration are the exact same folks working to elect McCain as President. The MSM wants to make the public believe this is a horserace and is really close. They will turn a blind eye to the fact that it is the same people pulling the same shenanigans trying to pull a repeat on the American people.

Hey, that F5 thingy helps the squirrels behave themselves, I think. Just made some jibberish go “poof”.

I heartily agree.

Is it just me, or does Mukasey think all this criminal activity in OUR Dept of Justice will just fade away if he mumbles incoherently for long enough?!

Maybe they’re just playing out the string until they are no longer in office hoping that they can get clear.

In the bookstore in the Athens Greece airport…. in the English book section…. two of Obama’s books and right next to them was Media Matters book about McCain….. really wish I had take a picture….. bwwwaahhhhh

Everywhere we went in Europe, we were questioned about our feeling about the Prez election….. the questions would be … “Do you think Obama can win? with a lot of hope in their questions…..

While I suppose the recent unpopularity of the Republican “brand” has helped, every once in a while the obvious is just too much for the press to overlook. This is probably one of those times.

What is it with these republican journalists???

Dixit Mitchell at the end of that second video:

” … seems inexplicable that this whole thing became an issue … “

Where has she been for the last seven years and a half???

Just saw Tim Kaine on MSNBC dealing with the press regarding the burning question whether he’s going to be Obama’s pick for veep.

While interjecting that his state, Virginia, has been named “the best managed state.”

For all the fluffery about The Surge, I’ve a hunch this election again is going to be it’s the economy, stupid.

And Obama-Kaine 08 is A-OK with me.

I’m still stunned that Andrea Mitchell called bullshit on this. It’s just not her style. I’m worried that the real Andrea Mitchell may have been kidnapped and replaced with an actual journalist.

maybe the media is starting to realize that he really is that ‘dumb’…that like me, they want a president that is smarter than they are.

mccain was on larry king last night—he said pack-key-stan.how many years has he been in politics?

his forte is supposed to be his ‘experience’ in foreign policy?

iran/iraq mixups
shi’a/shi’ite mixups
czech republic screw-up, repeatedly.
pack-key-stan.

i can’t wait for someone to ask him something about ‘africa’.see how many countries he confuses there.seriously.

with all the rest of the Vapid Vapors Media, in a tight little circle congratulating themselves on their “access” and importitude….

John McCain has gone all Fred Thompson on everybody, old, cranky, sleepy, sloppy on the facts, going through the motions and looking like he would rather be someplace else, maybe with the trophy wife.

The majority of the time I see what you describe above, but I can’t help missing what are likely deliberate attempts to make him look young. At first, I saw his NAVY ball cap only as him trumpeting his military service. When I started to notice the bill of the cap getting more and more folded and that he is now virtually always wearing it, it occurred to me he looks like a fratboy. It hides his thin white hair and skull. I’ve noticed he also now tends to show little bursts of energy running the steps from the jet to the tarmac (with folded bill cap on head). He can try, I guess.

I’m not sure that Andrea Mitchell is suddenly being overcome with scruples. I think what happened is that blogs - from my reading, TPM was on it first, though I could be wrong - spoke up and corrected McCain’s lies. Blogs are pressuring the MSM to get it right. They’ll continue to get it wrong, of course - see how slow they were to react here - but hopefully more and more people like Mrs. Greenspan will be embarrassed into uttering the truth.

Jon Meacham needs a big, long colonic enema to get all that embedded s*** out of him. He really is so full of s*** I think he’ll need to be on the enema table for several weeks. Start fasting, Jon.

Maybe because she got so much flak about her sour grapey “fake interview” BS last week?

I don’t think McCain has dementia. I think he is lazy, lazy, lazy. As befits a man who graduated last in his class at Annapolis, McCain doesn’t like to study. So when his staff briefs him on world events, tries to teach him the difference between Sunni and Shia, tries to explain that there are several groups called al-Qaeda and they’re not all identical, he skims over the bullet points, but doesn’t try all that hard to remember it. It’s easier to stick with the propaganda you’ve been spouting all these years than to learn new facts.

i went to mozilla ff older version yesterday–it is a dream..fdl not crashing, can use ‘reply’. etc…….multiple tabbing, wow.

only thing is, and this is a ‘biggie’ to me–in safari i could hold down keys and click and the link would show in a new window–anyone know how i can open links in ff in a new tab/window?
thanks.

I’m still stunned that Andrea Mitchell called bullshit on this

She calls the bullshit, but she doesn’t call the bullshitters. A bit like that Goodling report, who never points to the real architects of all that DOJ crap.

i can’t wait for someone to ask him something about ‘africa’.see how many countries he confuses there.seriously.

My guess is that he’ll refer to Africa as a country.

To be fair to the OIG and OPR, though, their mandate in terms of investigation does not likely extend past the walls of DOJ in terms of ferreting out wrongdoing in other aspects of the executive branch. They can point to malfeasors, but they can’t necessarily investigate them in that type of report. That is the job of either Congress or the OIG in that particular department…or of someone tasked with those types of investigations within the WH.

But they can point to folks like Rove with big red flag warnings within the report by name…and his name does pop up in there, doesn’t it?

excellent!!!

Totally OT, but MSNBC is really push-polling the Gallup likely voters poll that their own Oracle, Chuckles T, said was totally discredited first thing this morning.

Whitaker, please, change #1 — require the MSNBC left hand to know what the MSNBC right hand is doing….

yep, that’s what i’m waiting to hear! exactly! lol! one biiiiiiiig country, all the same place. wonder where he ‘puts’ egypt?

Thanks for clearing that up, Christy. You pretty well summed up my feeling with that last phrase.

rightclick on the link and select open in new tab.

dick durbin on cspan1 shooting down republican energy/oil drilling talking points

The man can’t remember shit. He has no clue in the afternoon what he said in the morning. That’s well beyond “lazy.”

on a mac–only one clicker. that’s the problem….

Wow staying in here has been rough this AM

McCain should appoint Jindal to perform exorcisms on any MSM who might show some skepticism

Here you go…

http://strangemaps.wordpress.c.....ld-reagan/

With a mac one button mouse, hold down the control key then click on the link - a menu will appear that you can select ‘open in new tab.’

It seems to me that Contessa Brewer always leads with some negative headline about Obama before the actual story. On the poll, she’s using the “No Bounce for Obama’s Trip” headline to get into the story about the likely-voter poll. The other two contradictory Gallup polls are noted as an afterthought, without explanation of the contradictions.

Bear with me as it has been a decade since I have been on a MAC. Try hitting the “Command” key (the key with the apple logo on it) and the W key. That used to work to bring up a new window many years ago.

Pretty sad when we are so shocked to see a journalist do his/her job. Anyway, good on ya, Andrea.

Gee it is after nine and here I come along and no pups have Dugg this funny post by Christy!! So what are you waiting for Digg this Post!!

Actually mentions of Rove in the DOJ OIG/OPR are confined to the case of one Immigration Judge and as a search term a couple of times.

That Richmond, Williams, and Goodling were all White House liaison and all involved in political hires is indicative but the report does not follow up on this.

On a MAC, try Command T to pop up a new tab. Works on both Safari and FF for me on the iMAC.

As for Chris Matthews he presciently called Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Presidential nominee something like a year before the primaries began. His track record as it were speaks for itself.

Your thots about Mrs Greenjeans might explain something I tried to convey last night, but that was sorta garbled, because I think Hardball quickly cut some of their recorded schtick. She had been stammering and seemingly at a loss for words, then said something about how maybe some might say Obama was acting a bit TOO PRESIDENTIAL on his trip. I was astounded, and made a comment about it OT on one of Jane’s threads. Poor RevDeb wanted a link (I don’t blame her! Me too!?!) But when I returned to Hardball on the toobz, it looked as if part of what she said was there, but the stuff she was stammering over was nowhere to be seen. I HAD attributed it as original with her, but cruising thru that area of the toobz, I got the impression she was only repeating a virtual “Kick Me” sign someone else had been trying to glue to Obama’s back. Ms. Greenjeans probably realized she could increase her stock a whole lot easier by not having known she ever said such a thing.

Roseannadanna of “Laugh In”: “Well then. Nevermind.” *g*

I love it
Key commands on MAC
Next stop - the find command instead of the Finder

Ian’s upstairs

thanks for the mac info everyone!!! really appreciate it, love new ways to use my mac……and irish-that command closes the window! lol!

and yes mack-lots of key commands……i use them a lot. sometimes easier to stay on the keyboard……depends.

and adie–it was emily latella on saturday night live, but then, saying that you were being emily latella.i think it was ls i was calling ‘latella’ a few weeks ago.

oh yayah!!! it worked, thanks so much, am now going to go play with the other tips listed, thanks pups…this mac is going to be one dangerous information station. lol.

I think Mac has pretty much always had various keyboard commands; just that most folks were not always aware of them.

They just didn’t pre-define the function keys as MS did.

cool! all kinds of options…..if i just want a tab, comm t, comm click to get other things i need……that menu also brings up my ‘answers.com’ add-on, thought that would be a nice quickie info-aid, you click on a word and it will get info on it, cool thing……control click……got it.

As someone who was a MAC user from the mid-80s onward, they have always had the command key functions as far as I can remember…

Either that, or the press is sensing that the political winds for McCain are simply blowing smoke, and they are doing what they always do…abandoning the sinking ship lest its stench rub off. What do you think?

Absolutely!! It is interesting to watch the media shift…but we need to keep the message out there that even if the media takes “our side” they always go through the prevailing winds and will turn once again. All they care about is access.

on safari i hit comm option shift click for a new window…..

When we discuss the “media” we should probably distinguish between it’s various parts:

Reporters

Editors

Owners

Performers (like Tweety)

Op/ed writers

etc.

If we’re talking about REPORTERS, their bread is buttered by finding and writing stories that get bylines and above the fold positioning…if they spend the whole campaign writing crap that gets buried, they’ll be looking for other work.

McBush gives em stories—the stories they’re getting right NOW may not be the stories McBush wants printed- but they are stories nonetheless..

Would you rather be traveling with Obama or McBush?

Guys, you have a problem with your links in Ian’s article — I’m getting redirected to bad URLs when I click on any of the links to ‘read more’ or the comments.

I don’t think it’s me — I got here just fine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25892111

This is not a strong performance from Robert Gibbs(communications director) of Obama’s campaign. Has he ever been on TeeVee before, didn’t look like it.

I’ve heard the complaint from Richard Wolfe and others that aside from putting Barack out front there is little access to the campaign. Like them or not, Obama has to get his message out to more than Olberman because it’s an echo chamber. I don’t like Mrs. Greenspan but it does more good to keep her happy, than not.

I don’t know what the overall Obama media staegy is, but the message doesn’t seem to get out past the blogosphere. Where is the message from the campaign showing McCain voting against Vet benefits constantly? About McCain changing his positions daily(somtimes more)? About the Keating 5?

I think Andrea Mitchell is ‘faking it’ to ‘prove’ her journalistic ethics are intact. It’s an art she’s been forced to perfect since her marriage to the architect of the Titanic, billions and billions of dollars ago.

Guess that BBQ only buys you so much love, eh?

guess Andrea didn’t like mccain’s secret BBQ sauce.

I’ve seen several Republicans for Voldemort in Berkeley but no Sauron. You’d think it would be out there somewhere.