Login HereThere's nothing unusual about this event -- other than that it was more forcibly private than most and just a tad more brazenly sleazy. The democracy-themed stagecraft inside the Convention is for public television consumption, but secret little events of this sort are why people are really here. Just as is true in Washington, this is where -- and how and by whom -- the business of our Government is conducted.
The stuff in front of the cameras is kabuki. The video above, which includes the Denver Police using their badges on behalf of the lobbyist cabal to keep us away from their guests, is really your government in action.
If you recognize anyone in the video, please leave their name in the comments.
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Hello, Jane! Hope your having a great time!
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this is pretty encouraging, I just got this from think progress;
I do believe we should have some marketing asking everyone to vote on paper, it would make me feel tons better
JANE
You are missing Tim Russert’s kid make a fuckin fool of himself on national teevee…
What an idiot!
YouTube processing, should be up soon.
Not even KO willing to say in public that Russert’s kid’s a fuckin dumb shit….apparently they are letting him find his own material…
Saint Timothy- roll over in your grave.
Kind of embarrassing for DiFi to miss the DNC this week because of a broken ankle, while her colleague Ted Kennedy gets to Denver tonight with brain cancer….
Damn, rw, I wish I’d seen that. What did he do?
Tom Brokaw’s on. Yesterday he used the expression “card carrying Democrat” twice within a few minutes. The gasbags openly express their contempt for the dems.
Walked by Jonathan Alter few minutes ago.
OT, ’til the video is available: C-Span’s coverage of the convention is great.
He is speaking for all young americans- and decided that the most important piece of information he could share was from an internet poll- cause most young people use the internet—-the most important point from the poll according to Russert is that McBush has a three point lead over Obama on who would be the best Commander in Chief….”If even young people think that McCain would make a better commander in chief, then Obama is REALLY in trouble” according to the budding young genius….
What a dumbshit!
oh this is good!
Sherrod Brown on CSPAN on my teevee, from Denver. Is that the DNC podium?
Heard on another channel that Ted Kennedy wants to speak at his “Last convention”
Haven’t you figured it out by now? Regardless of how he really feels, KO is never going to utter a bad word about Russert
At the risk of being insensitive, just because a guy dies doesn’t make him and his idiot kids all geniuses….shit —EVERYBODY dies- it doesn’t take any fuckin TALENT!
You know Will Rogers was wrong. We have the worst government money can buy.
Hey!
I recognize that pretty blond right at the end.
What is her name?
Dammit, it is right there too!
LOL!
DFH shit disturbers, they are ON IT!
Good job.
Jane something or other, shit, it will come to me in a minute………
I posted this earlier I also encourage anyone who knows who these people are to call them out. See below for other strategies to bust these parties.
How to get into the next Party
Glenn, Jane and Amy:
I’ve been on the other side of this “press can’t get into the party” game, or the “it’s private property”. game.
* If you can’t get in do the next best thing, expose the people who are keeping you out. (See tactics below)
* Get a guest list (with photos) or find someone who knows what the guests look like and then call out their names as they go into the party. “Congressman Blank of Texas! Why are you afraid to talk to the press?”
The goal isn’t to get them to talk to you, but to show their face while they are going into the brothel (er I mean event). Show their embarrassment about it and their fear of talking to the media. Did someone ACTUALLY cover their head with a jacket? Wow. That is what people do when they have been accused of a crime and are coming out of a courtroom. Not a good image for their progressive competition to have. Send this photo to the local press and the progressive competitor in their city.
Tactics to get to the “No Press” decider.
When the private security guy says you can’t come in ask,
At that point they will call over level one supervisor. When they arrive do the same with names, spelling and company then say,
At this point you should get a PR person or a party planner.
Keep pushing the “Who made this decision ABOVE you?” question. Keep getting names and spelling and who they work for who made the decision. If this sounds a little like Roger and Me that is correct, and if you remember that movie you will see just how poorly most companies handle this request for them to explain their policies to deal with the media. Those images make the brand look bad, and they HATE that. As you move up the decision chain you might get someone who figures out that it is not good PR to hide from the press. “I don’t understand why you are embarrassed to let credentialed press in?”
Also, when you get to the party planner or PR person you can ask to get a list of who is attending. They will decline. Ask if you can confirm the attendance of people that you spotted outside. If they are going to treat the event like an illegal activity then you need to treat your investigation like a prosecutor.
And finally, even if you don’t get any further than you did this time, you will have gathered names and footage that can be used in the future by progressives who are running against them.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what channel might have the least repellent convention coverage? I’m on PBS now, but they’re threatening me with Bobo…
Bill Maher blasted typical american voters and McCain on Msnbc
Bill Maher on MSNBC sayin that Moromonism is a crazy religion…Tweety comes to the defense of LDS sayin it’s a “good” religion…Funny as hell.
hahahahahaha!
we don’t know why we’re at this party, or who is giving the party, or what the part is for.
party? what party? get off my property, dirty hippies!
For the lake, try pravda.
C-span
??? Baffled here…!
So far the fuckin MSNBC dream team is acting like the three stooges…clowns.
Well, you know, although I find it truly amusing that these folks are all just a little bit embarrassed about showing up for this party(what’s the problem folks…are there going to be strippers and lap dancing going on?), as a voter whose congressman is Mike Arcuri, I don’t need to know if he showed up for his little ‘thank you’. He voted for the final bill so I’m very pissed off at him anyway. The day these folks have to meet in the men’s room of the Minneapolis Airport to pass their money is something we should work toward.
I missed it again. But I saw Maher say that people are getting stupider and stupider. He said they think drilling offshore will lower the price of gas and that this black man raised by a single mom is somehow an elitist.
Brilliant. I hate Maher, but when he’s on, he’s on.
I’ll give them a try next. Thanks!
snark
Where’s Rachel? She’s the only one of them with any brains. She was on earlier.
Gah, Tweety can’t through five minutes without saying the name CLINTON.
Would love to see Maher has Tweety why mormonism is a “good” religion and to name the “bad” religions…..could make Tweety explode like HAL in 2001 space odyssey.
I’m sick of this MSNBC-CNN coverage already. This two day meme of the democratic party being split is getting old and ugly in a hurry, making it nearly unwatchable. I hope this carries over to the GOP convention how McSame is’nt conservative enough to hold the Republican Party together as a whole.
This all day bashing of Michelle Obama on TV because she is not patriotic enough is bordering on racism, the invisible “swift-boating” developing now in this election. I hope this First Lady bashing carries over to Cindy McCain and her wealth she has handed over to the McCain campaign, but you know it won’t.
Just for the record, I was formerly a Clinton supporter and I will proudly vote for our candidate Barack Obama. This election is just too important not to lose by partisan squabbling. Clinton supporters get over it! Hillary will still be around in the senate doing very important work for the cause and the party. Biden was actually my favorite candidate at the beginning of all this, so I am now even more thrilled to support this ticket.
Thanks! I know I miss a lot because I can’t get FDL at work so I was wondering…!
KO, in a very professional way, slapped the shit out of Mornin Joe. What DO you people want?
David Gregory only wants to talk about the Clintons what a dumb fuck
Why don’t you talk about Kucinich?
It’s his job to fan the flames of “Democratic dissent” and “fracture within the party.” He’s just earning his paycheck. [spit]
Well I was thinking since FDL is such a lefty place that the soviet news agency would be an appropriate place for everyone to get a “critical” look at the convention.
They had him on already.
Todd tries to point out that the Clinton/Obama storyline is all based on bullshit and is a made up media story- but the other assholes won’t have any of it…
Bah hahahahahaha! Holy cow. I’ve never seen a bunch of people ashamed of going to a party! Wow.
Brokaw says “The people say We need to know more about Obama”
I say how can you be that ignorant?
Oh yeah, we walked right into the Main Street discussion at the Big Tent yesterday. We just gave the woman at the door our email addresses. Compare & contrast.
Looking at my copy of Robbins for anaplastic astrocytomas:
But, but, but… Aren’t we all supposed to be jolly commies together? Or are they liberal fascists too? I get SOOOOO confused!
Yeah- but they didn’t spend hours talking about whether he will TRULY endorse Obama and whether he wants Obama to win so that he can run in 2012, and how his blowjob destroyed america.
OK, I’m done.
What a strange time. The U.S. is exactly like China and Russia: authoritarianism prevails with the support of the citizens.
Why does’nt that Russert kid do something with all that greasy hair hanging in his face? It totally distracts from anything meaningful he has to say. it makes him look like one of those typical Townhall “Young Republicans.”
Man I hope Glenn doesn’t forget this experience.
And now HERE’S NANCY
OOPS they fucked up the audio..
Figures.
MSNBC sound gone… C-Span has sound.
There’s probably a reason for that. Took his ol man years to sorta hide his gooperism.
MSNBC sound back.
MSNBC audio failed on the pass to Pelosi, now working. Missed her salute to Clinton. Odd, huh?
Really David Gregory would rather be talking about David Gregory> That asshole thinks its about him
I’m throwing things at the teeVEe now, Pelosi burns me up
I like Pelosi- but this is really fucking boring.
Well, unless he spent his entire life hearing his dad tell him to “get a haircut,” or “get the hair out of your eyes…” Passive aggression — it’s the wave of the future.
Nobody’s applauding the Dem Congress list.
Oh, gawd… Can I shoot myself now? And I rather thought that Nehru jackets went out in the 60s…
Pelosi speaking live right now. Apparently KO smacked down Joe Scarborough tonight live on tv by saying “get a shovel!” when Joe was saying all polls show McCain doing wonderfully. I missed it. Dammit!
Here’s my problem… the TV is on one end of the house and the computer is on the other.
If I had any sense, I’d stay back here.
And I am so happy to see Raven back again!
Shorter Pelosi: We did stuff (without confronting Bush on anything).
I want to see Jane and Glenn try to interview more people ashamed of going to parties! Just imagine being afraid of talking to people about the party you are going to. It’s not like the ATT logo isn’t on every single piece of collateral at this convention, after all…
Keep up the good work, kids.
Pete! Long time, buddy!
CSPAN has the convention without the talking heads, I highly recommend it.
Here’s the speaking schedule for tonight
Video/Remarks
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Permanent Chair, Democratic National Convention
Video - First Time Delegates: Renewing America’s Promise
America’s Town Hall – Economy
Moderator: Senator Sherrod Brown - Ohio,
Panelists: Ned Helms, Lisa Olivares, Dr. Laura Tyson, Jon Schnur
Remarks
Margie Perez
New Orleans jazz singer & song writer from Musicians Village
President Jimmy Carter Segment
Jimmy Carter/New Orleans Video
Acknowledgment of President Carter
Remarks
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Half-sister of Barack Obama
High School teacher - Hawaii
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Remarks
The Honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Member of the US House of Representatives, Illinois
Mike Fisher & Cheryl Fisher – Beech Grove, Indiana
Mike – Amtrak tech & Cheryl – hospital tech (hosted Obama for lunch)
Tom Balanoff
President, SEIU Local 1 (Chicago)
Senator Edward M. Kennedy Tribute
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
Daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy
Video - Edward M. Kennedy Video
click the link for the rest, don’t want to blow up the servers
Stay where you are. You’ll get a better idea of what’s going on by snarking along with us! And I second, third, and fourth your delight at seeing Raven again.
Political Convention Bull Shit is actually a foreign language—you can take it instead of spanish at some universities…..the vocabulary is easy, but the grammar is VERY complicated.
That’s a good line: John McCain has the experience of BEING WRONG.
Pelosi says they honored our veterans by giving them a GI Bill that would send them to college. While this is good, it would be infinitely better to honor our troops by not sending off to fight for years in stupid, pointless wars.
Wouldn’t you think that you’d try to make fewer MAJOR screw-ups in a speech this important?
I just got interviewed by 2 guys from Comedy Central :)
It was a substantive interview about my questioning Obama in 06.
Pelosi- really gettin the crowd worked up now—-sominex personified.
Good point.
And John McCain is wrong!
Most excellent! Do you have any idea of when and where to look for you?
he is one
Jane, many thanks to you and Glenn for doing this. It’s wonderful to see how much fun you and Glenn were having and how ashamed those jerks were that they were going to a party that nobody knew anything about.
Note to Nancy: you are wrong! Impeach now, it’s not too late.
Was it Rob Riggle (swoon)?
And John McCain is definitely wrong!
Barack America! Very catchy. ;-)
To use a perfectly good English phrase:
“Nancy, go put a sock in it.”
You’re right, of course. The TV is in the garage and there are many heavy objects to throw out there. Think Nancy would set my table saw?
Before Comedy Central I talked for a few minutes with Paul Krugman
hahaahahahahahahaha
poster child of too little too latte
I’m going to need an awful lot of chocolate to get through this.
I make sure I have a big basket of rolled up socks for occasions like this… The cats think I’m playing with them, but what do kittehs know?
This crowd is awfully noisy. Is there a microphone problem, or are people being rude. Or shuffling around? What’s up? Lousy sound system? (MSNBC)
Yowzah!
carbs for pain
too “nothing to see here, move along.”
Jealous does not even BEGIN to describe my feeling about that…
hi LooHoo
Chocolate is your anodyne of choice? I’ve got a LOT of beer…!
Is Nancys smile a surgical construction
Just broke mine out! gmta
Hope you remember us by the time the week is over.
Rhetorical?
it runs on a pacemaker im told
Remember, please, that FOX is the pool network, responsible for funnelling all video/audio from the podium to the other networks.
now there’s an idea
I’m not so sure that’s a smile… Rictus is more like it, I think.
gmta?
uhhm why?
No shit?
(Hiya Loo Hoo!)
That’s brilliant.
Noron now grilling Nancy about whether Clinton has done enough, soon enough, to assure Obama’s victory in the fall. MSNBC has set their narrative. I wonder if Bill is pleased?
Well, we can always say “I blogged with her when…!”
great
minds
think
alike
I can’t wait to watch Ted Kennedy speak at the Convention. Should be terrific if he’s able to.
CBS did this video tribute to Ted Kennedy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3MzvbOUWCE
She always speaks as if her lips were covered in glue. It’s very strange to watch. And she got the smile at Bloomingdales.
and when will maternity leave…spare us her guffaw?
tyvm
thank
you
very
much
*g*
Is Nancy a bit “jumped up,” or is it just me?
Jimmy Carter narrating Katrina video on CSPAN now.
I hope his docs say it’s okay — he’s immunosuppressed from his treatment, so being in a throng of that size may not be the best idea for him.
Oh, it wasn’t Noron, it was the brilliant Ann Curry.
Me too, Kay. I’ve got my tissues ready.
i really began to detest her,so i avoi