Bill must have seen a lot of traffic yesterday, as the Washington Monthly linked him (and that is how I got there to see the Khaddafi foolishness), because he has this whiny screed up: What does a link from Daily Kos and attention from the Left get you? A flood of appalling comment-sludge. Not spam. …
Archives for February 2008
Busted
Remember that idiotic Bill Hobbs post yesterday, in which he mistakenly took a Josh Marshall joke about Obama’s ties to Khaddafi seriously and looked like a total idiot? You will never guess what happened next. He tried to delete the post, but Stephen at the Politburo Diktat caught him and has the screen shots. I …
Our New Sheriff Is A…
Josh Marshall breaks down the GOP strategy: Hopefully, everyone can now see the McCain strategy for running against Barack Obama. Yes, we have some general points on taxes, culture wars and McCain as war hero who can protect us in ways that flash-in-the-pan pretty boy Barack Obama can’t. But that’s not the core. The core …
Thursday Open Thread
I swear to goodness that when I checked Memeorandum and saw the headline “McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out”I thought it meant something about his mother’s birth canal and a c-section birth and said to myself WTF. Having read the article, I think the actual story is just about …
More Friedman Units to Provide a Clear-Eyed View
Remember the set of ludicrous charts from the Petraeus testimony, in particular this one that Kevin Drum mocked:
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The Stupid, It Burns
Josh Marshall makes a funny: Can we ignore Sen. Obama’s silence about Muammar Kaddafi? We know that Louis Farrakhan has said positive things about Barack Obama. And he’s not the only one. This is the same Louis Farrakhan who has travelled to Libya to meet with and say positive things about Kaddafi, who has long-standing …
Open Thread
Long tribute to Buckley at Red State that I found pretty amusing, because if Buckley had said some of the things in the comments section at Red State that he had said publicly (like, for example, Bush should resign he is such a failure, or that the Iraq War was a failure, or that the …