Daniel Larison beats Michael Barone about the head and neck.
It was deserved.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?
The revolution will be supervised.
Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.
Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
Battle won, war still ongoing.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.
The words do not have to be perfect.
No one could have predicted…
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
T R E 4 5 O N
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
jake
Dear Bobbleheads,
Please find some fresh talking points. “Academic Ivory Tower Elite” v. “Jest Plain Folks” is particularly tired.
America has had seven years of what you consider “Jest Plain Folks” and less than 30% still thinks that is a good idea.
Also, when you say Jacksonian to the Jest Plain Folks crowd, they’ll think you’re talking about Michael Jackson, which doesn’t help your favored candidate one little bit.
Dug Jay
I guess if they write something with which you agree, as in the linked article, then it’s largely irrelevant that it comes from an organization founded by a likely anti-Semite, Pat Buchanan, and an outright one, Taki Theodoracopulos.
kwAwk
I’d be interested to know what Larison means by this:
“The academic in me can’t rationalise a path to backing Obama, either, but in my case it isn’t because he lacks some intangible fighting spirit. If anything, he is too willing to use force or endorse its use when it is unnecessary or misguided. ”
That is the first time I’ve heard that complaint about Obama.
kwAwk
‘Dug Jay Says:
I guess if they write something with which you agree, as in the linked article, then it’s largely irrelevant that it comes from an organization founded by a likely anti-Semite, Pat Buchanan, and an outright one, Taki Theodoracopulos.’
Dismissing anything and everything because it comes from a publication that you don’t like is one of the basic traits of a wingnut.
Dug Jay
The ultimate “pot versus kettle” comment.
kwAwk
For it to be a ‘pot versus kettle’ comment you would have to demonstrate that I have a habit of dismissing content because of the source, which I don’t think you’ll find.
Or possibly you are insinuating that I myself am a wingnut which I can certainly assure you I’m not.
TR
Michael Barone = David Brooks + (Rand-McNally)
Aldorossi
Ya know…
I’m a college graduate and a professional licensed to practice my chosen field, who’s father (drove a beer truck for 35 years) and mother (shipping clerk) worked their asses off to put me through university and who worked in sewers on summer breaks (really, down manholes, in a wet suit) to make tuition money, and who is now proud to know a little bit about art and music and reads a book once in a while…
I’m really starting to get pissed off at these assh**ls declaring that I’m not ‘real people’. These dumbass pundits who lick Bush’s scrotum and believe that some frat boy prep school boss’s nephew wanker likes to clear brush on his free time and is the guy we’d like to have a beer with can kiss my hairy white ass.
Thank you. I feel much better now.
Phoebe
Thank you very much Aldorossi. You have added chirping birds amid rustling treetops to the soundtrack of my mood.
I don’t want to engage in a class war, and I’m tired of people walking through and shoving us all one side or another because they’re lazy thinkers. I’m already a traitor to my gender, apparently, and this discovery has done nothing but make me a slight misogynist. Thanks everyone. And, more recently, I’m a race traitor because I don’t think Obama threw his grandmother under a bus. I’m starting to hate everyone now. Except Aldorossi.
TenguPhule
Says the kettle that hasn’t been scrubbed in 7 years.
mclaren
“[Bush is] not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.” — Peggy Noonan, 2004
This is just the old Pol Pot gambit. Kill all the college professors, then kill everyone who wears glasses and likes to read. As I recall, that didn’t work out too well in Cambodia in the 70s.
xenos
kwAwk asked about Larison’s reasoning behind his comment on Obama’s foreign policy. You can find much of it here:
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/
kwAwk
Thanks xenos.
joe
When your opponent’s supporters are smarter than yours, you call them “academics.”
When they’re more enthusiastic than yours, you call them “cultists.”
4jkb4ia
A loud and resounding cheer for Daniel Larison. Mr. Larison appears to be intellectually honest.