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by John Cole|  July 9, 20041:28 pm| 5 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

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To those of you who doubted me yesterday when I said Josh Marshall is nothing more than a two-nbit hack, Paul begala with a degree- check this out.

Marshall links approvingly to a painting claiming Iraq was all about oil and states:

“A painting that rather sums up President Bush and Iraq.”

What a tedious fool.

*** Update ***

A reader notes this Mencken quip:

“It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.”

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  1. 1.

    Russell Wardlow

    July 9, 2004 at 2:32 pm

    Sums up rather well what a jackass JMM is.

  2. 2.

    Rick

    July 9, 2004 at 4:19 pm

    The blog is called “Talking Points,” not “Thinking Points,” for obvious reasons.

    If it’s all for oil, where’s my dime-a-gallon gas, huh? Huh?

    Cordially…

  3. 3.

    Al Maviva

    July 9, 2004 at 8:47 pm

    This is news, John? Please.

    Josh Marshal is basically Joe Conason with slightly better manners; Sid Blumenthal without the lawsuits.

  4. 4.

    M. Scott Eiland

    July 10, 2004 at 2:47 am

    That shot of JM on his site only shows him from mid-torso up. I strongly suspect that the shot was chosen to conceal the fact that his posterior is the size of a small planetoid–given all of the stuff he pulls out of it to provide material for his blog.

  5. 5.

    Slartibartfast

    July 11, 2004 at 8:27 am

    “Josh Marshal is basically Joe Conason with slightly better manners”

    I think the problem is, he’s departing the Conason zone and approaching the Corn-itude.

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