Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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  2. 2.

    geg6

    Well, I already said this in the old open thread but if you aren’t watching this show this morning, you don’t know how to pleasantly while away a summer Sunday morning. Poisonous plants, Viennese art wars, Pete Seeger, and Judd Apatow up next. Lovely stuff. And a little bit of progress on the al Qaeda front, though I’m always suspicious of any MSM reporting on that.

  3. 3.

    Triumph

    Can someone please explain to me why Michelle Malkin is on with Curious George this morning? And why Michael Moore wasn’t on to balance her out? Ok, ok- I apologize, Mike. You never said anything as absurd as saying “WWII detention camps were peachy keen!”

  5. 5.

    DecidedFenceSitter

    Coming across my google reader from Abovethe Law: A Gay Gatesgate? D.C. Lawyer Arrested for Disorderly Conduct, Claims Officer Called Him ‘Fa**ot’

    Basically a bunch of gay lawyers were out drinking and discussing the Gates affair, and while walking outside noted an excessive police presence, and exerted their right to not interfere, but to comment (somewhat foolishly, but foolish is not a crime) and ayup – another disorderly comment, this time with supposed gay bashing.

    Yee-hah! Let’s see if this makes any news.

  7. 7.

    Bill H

    Then the group noticed five or six police cruisers surrounding two cars in an apparent traffic stop on the other side of the street. It seemed to Tuma that was more cops than necessary.

    How, precisely, did Tume decide that it was a “traffic stop” and not the arrest of some highly dangerous felons? The mere fact that it was orderly may have been due not to the fact that the “two cars” were occupies by terrified teenagers, but that the dangerous and armed criminals were being subdued by the presence of a sufficient number of officers to keep them from responding by pulling out their weapons and blazing away.

    If that were the case his taunting the police would have created a charged and highly dangerous environment. I’m not all that inclined to believe at face value the words of someone who exercises that kind of poor judgement, and I’m not crazy about people who put into jeopardy police who may very well be performing dangerous duty.

    In the Gates event, Gates was involved. In the Tuma case, Tuma was not involved in the event and involved himself by taunting the police and deliberately attempting to piss them off. To his misfortune, he succeeded.

  8. 8.

    General Winfield Stuck

    I am laughing my ass off this morn at Mike Pence’s tour de force performance dissing the good economic news as poopycock. Wallace rattles off improvements across the board and shows a GOP political ad touting the stimulus jobs created in Indiana, concluding with “and you can thank Mike Pence for these new jobs. Fucking hilarious. And the hating on the Clunkers Program has them reaching critical mass toward defeating extending it. One billion dollars creates 200,00 new car sells and it’s a tax and spend catastrophe. It’s making them crazy, stuck on wingnut default — tax cuts, tax cuts tax cuts, that’s what we need cause it worked so well before.

    You ought to see this one when the video is posted online.

  10. 10.

    The next-to-last samurai

    She wants to know if the Man in the Yellow Hat has granite countertops in his kitchen?

  11. 11.

    Anya

    is anyone else depressed by our politics and media. I’ve decided not to watch t.v. at all and read MSM. All it does is make me think Obama’s admin is a major failure. Somehow I’ve started to believe that the republicans are winning. How can our nation be full of uninformed people?

  12. 12.

    Comrade Jake

    I saw most of Malkin’s appearance this morning on George’s show. Unfortunately about the most wingnut thing she said is that the Obama admin and Dems have vastly underestimated how much of a grass-roots movement the Tea Baggers represent. That and, people on umemployment are lazy bastards sucking at the government tit.

    It seems that only Matt Lauer is capable of tapping people’s peak wingnut.

  13. 13.

    El Cid

    Clinton-era paranoid right style heavily armed mother of 3 arrested outside National Guard base in NY.

    A Long Island mother of three — armed to the teeth with an assault rifle and shotgun — was arrested for scouting out and taking pictures of an Air National Guard base in the Hamptons, authorities said. Suffolk County Undersheriff Joseph Caracappa said Nancy Genovese, 53, of Quogue, was arrested for trespassing outside the Gabreskie Airport ANG facility Thursday night, and Homeland Security and the FBI are also investigating. Caracappa said Genovese was taking photographs of the perimeter of the base. A search of her car uncovered an arsenal — an XM-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and 500 rounds of ammunition. When asked what she was doing, she replied, “Nothing.”… She was arraigned yesterday afternoon at Southampton Town Justice Court, where a judge set bail at $50,000, and then ordered Genovese held for a psychiatric examination after she went berserk in the courtroom. “She was hysterical — screaming and flailing around,” said Caracappa.

    If a MySpace page with the same woman’s name and an account of calling FEMA about some upcoming training (Nancy Genovese) is the same person, then she’s a Glenn Beck fan and FEMA-camp / foreign-troop trainin’ on U.S. soil fearing nut, too.

    And the left wing Sangria-law “Undersheriff” probably called h ‘hysterical’ only because she demanded to see the judges long-form triple vault King James parchment copy birth certificate.

  14. 14.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Anya:

    Obama’s fate is attached at the hip with the economy, and also, to a slightly lesser degree, his major legislation initiatives such as Health Care reform/ But mostly on the economy, more specifically the job market turning around.

    As long as the economy is weak and job creation lagging, the media and wingnut attacks will have traction. When those things improve the media will change some to better coverage, though the wingnuts will be stuck on Obama fail, but even fewer people will take them seriously.

    So it’s largely a matter of timing on whether the dems do well or not in 2010-12. As for health care, the crazy lying was always to be. It is the Right’s last stand against the New Deal and it’s expansion and they have and will pull out all the stops to stop it. The question is will dems fold or just push on thru with their large majority, ignoring the doubts currently being sowed in the publics mind by the right. I think they will in the end, though others think not. And that’s not really a bad bet considering past history,.

  15. 15.

    schrodinger's cat

    OT: Major success with my first ice-cream. I made fresh
    strawberry ice-cream with nothing but heavy cream, milk, lemon juice, sugar and strawberries. I just followed the recipe in the instruction booklet that came with the ice-cream maker, except I replaced the whole milk with the skim milk. It was great. Everyone loved it. This afternoon,
    I am going to try tropical fruit (mango, pineapple, papaya) frozen yogurt. Will report findings later.

  16. 16.

    Warren Terra

    Remains of only MIA US soldier from 1991 Gulf War found:

    Navy officials announced early Sunday that Marines in western Anbar Province, Iraq, had found remains that have been positively identified as those of an American fighter pilot shot down in the opening hours of the first Gulf War in 1991.
    The Navy pilot, Michael Scott Speicher, was the only American missing in action from that war.
    the evidence in Iraq suggests he did not survive and was buried by Bedouins shortly after he was shot down.

    Needless to say, the warmongers and other purveyors of paranoid nonsense spent the 90’s breathlessly passing on “testimony” of Capt. Speicher languishing in Saddam’s prisons.

  17. 17.

    Max

    I must say… Larry Summers did a good job of pushing back at David Gregory’s bull$hit GOP talking points.

    Larry’s not afraid to run over him and tell him flat out he’s wrong.

    I heart Larry Summers.

  18. 18.

    HRA

    Yummy – have to get an ice cream maker

    Good read of a Frank Rich oped this am. I accessed it through memeorandum.com

  20. 20.

    Anya

    @General Winfield Stuck

    Your analysis makes perfect sense but my fear is that the media for whatever reason sells the republican talking points as though they were facts, for example, have you seen any media dipunking the whole “ObamaCare will kill the elderly”? They discuss every crazy theory as though it was legitimate. When you consider the cowerdly Dems, the unhinged Repubs and an ethical media that treats every serious issue as a game, I think we are doomed.

    If the economy improves they will move to race war and Lou Dobbs will revive his one world government and North American border obsession. Add racism to that and I don’t know if Obama will survive. Of course I could be just showing an advance signs of chicken littlism.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    @Anya:

    The morning after the 2004 election, the headline in one of the London tabloids was something like “How can 63,xxx,xxx People Be So Stupid?” The 63-million-and-something number being Bush’s popular vote projection at the time the paper went to press.

    News flash: except for a small number who have died or seen the light (see, e.g., our genial host), those people are still out there,

  22. 22.

    shoutingattherain

    @El Cid:

    Clinton-era paranoid right style heavily armed mother of 3 arrested outside National Guard base in NY.

    Pam Geller’s aunt?

  23. 23.

    General Winfield Stuck

    those people are still out there,

    Yes, and why we recommend stocking a good supply of wetsuits, spam and mini-guns./

  24. 24.

    joe from Lowell

    “If that were the case his taunting the police would have created a charged and highly dangerous environment.”

    Yes, he might have taunted them a second time. Highly dangerous!

    Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelled of elderberries.

  25. 25.

    Brick Oven Bill

    I am concerned about the lady who was arrested for taking pictures from what is apparently an unfenced public area with two registered weapons in her car.

    There is nothing illegal about taking pictures from public areas or travelling with registered weapons on Long Island to my knowledge. If public land is unmarked and unfenced, I pretty much do not understand how a Citizen can trespass on it.

    The Russians rent apartments outside our military bases and take pictures as a matter of course. I am sure the Chinese do to. The Long Island cops are scared of a female with two registered long guns?

    If the ACLU is a legitimate organization, they will defend this woman, if my understandings of the arrest are correct or even somewhat correct.

    “They are registered weapons, but they’re scary weapons.”
    – Long Island’s Finest

  26. 26.

    gex

    @Anya: I understand exactly where you are at. Quitting the MSM is a good thing to do when it is starting to affect your overall mood. Just be careful not to let them make you give up. Rove would like nothing more than to discourage moderate/independent people from participating in the political process and just let the rabid, easily manipulated base decide things.

  27. 27.

    burnspbesq

    What the Republicans need to do if they want to rebuild their brand is to enlist Taylor Swift as their spokesperson. That would give them access to potential new voters that they can’t get to any other way.

    If you care about such things, there is an interesting article in the NYT this morning about the flood of Taylor Swift clones about to be unleashed upon an unususpecting populace. Far too much cuteness for me; when one of them makes a record as good as “Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town” or “Shooting Straight in the Dark,” then I will pay attention.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/arts/music/02cara.html

  28. 28.

    burnspbesq

    The previous comment, of course, implicitly assumes that there is some way for the Republicans to come up with a message that will resonate with teenage girls. Not sure that’s going to happen any time soon.

  32. 32.

    donovong

    Since this is the official by-god CBS Sunday Morning thread, may I submit to the group that Ben Stein is a douchebag tool, and should be tarred and feathered.

    Fucking Wanker.

  33. 33.

    mcd410x

    too bad preseason friendlies don’t count because arshavin, eduardo, wilshere, et al look pretty good!

  34. 34.

    Robertdsc-iphone

    All it does is make me think Obama’s admin is a major failure.

    Sad to say, it already is, just not in the ways the MSM is following.

  35. 35.

    joe from Lowell

    “I am concerned about the lady who was arrested for taking pictures from what is apparently an unfenced public area with two registered weapons in her car.”

    I, too, am concerned about how this woman with a history of mental illness and violent delusions about politicians was allowed to legally own weapons.

  36. 36.

    Brick Oven Bill

    I am very serious. When approached by authorities, and was asked what she was doing, she said ‘nothing’, which was apparently true. This is in contrast to telling the cop that she will do something to his moma outside the car, after informing him how important she is, demanding identification, and refusing to cooperate.

    It is not a crime for a black man to live in Cambridge. It is also not a crime, to my knowledge, to walk on unmarked public land as a Citizen, or to carry two registered long guns in your vehicle.

    I would also note that the press reporting is hysterical.

    Two long guns does not an ‘arsenal’ or a ‘gun nut armed to the teeth’ make. This is a test of the ACLU. It is also not illegal to be a gun nut, were she to be one, so long as one complies with the law, as this woman apparently did.

    The right to keep and bear arms is one of her Civil Liberties.

  38. 38.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    @burnspbesq: Taylor Swift is the current most played by both of my daughters who are headed to second grade this Fall. I have exposed them to all forms of music and THIS is what they have chosen as their favorite. Sigh. Such is the punishment meted out by the FSM for loving Willie Nelson, Elmore James and the Rolling Stones.

  39. 39.

    demkat620

    Oh goody! President McCain is on my tv. I was starting really worry we didn’t have anybody in charge.

  40. 40.

    Anya

    @ gex

    I am not giving up. Just giving up on the media.

    @burnspbesq

    I don’t think everyone who voted for Bush was an idiot but I get your point.

  41. 41.

    burnspbesq

    @mcd410x:

    Only once has a team other than one of the big four won the Premiership (Blackburn in 1994-95). This could be the year, if Mark Hughes can get some chemistry going at City; he’s got the best players, but will he have the best team?

    Arsenal will do well to stay in the top four. Wenger is going to have to force-feed all of the kids and hope they can get it done.

  42. 42.

    ominira

    @Max:

    I must say… Larry Summers did a good job of pushing back at David Gregory’s bull$hit GOP talking points.

    Larry’s not afraid to run over him and tell him flat out he’s wrong.

    I agree, I was happy to see that he pushed back in a calm, reasoned way.

    I heart Larry Summers.

    Okay, you went too far here.
    *shudder*

  43. 43.

    ominira

    @ominira: blockquote fail – “larry’s not afraid to run him over…” should be part of the first blockquote. I miss the edit function.

  46. 46.

    joe from Lowell

    “When approached by authorities, and was asked what she was doing, she said ‘nothing’, which was apparently true.”

    Bzzzt. I’m sorry, the correct answer is, she was scoping out the military base, as you acknowledged earlier.

  47. 47.

    El Cid

    Clearly it’s time for a massive protest of concerned [white, conservative, anti-FEMA] citizens to go to local military bases and bring lots of legally registered firearms and massive, massive amounts of ammunition and to film and scope out the bases. What harm could this legal display of 2nd Amendment rights cause?

    Oh, however, remember, please don’t take any pictures of any public buildings if you’re Muslim or in any way suspiciously brownish or smell of patchouli. If you are stupid enough to do that, we are bound by Patriot Act honor to throw you in an illegal combatant detention facility forever to be tortured enhancedly interrogated.

  48. 48.

    demkat620

    Can somebody ask the twit on CNN how John King could have an exclusive interview with John McCain when he is interviewed every. single. day.

    He is on tv more than anybody else. Rep, Dem, or media member.

    How is it an exclusive to interview the man who has been on Face the Nation 67 times?

    Idiots.

  49. 49.

    Brick Oven Bill

    There is nothing illegal about scoping out military bases.

    I believe that this is exactly what the ACLU has been doing in Guantanamo Bay for the last eight years. Nobody arrests the ACLU when they scope out Guantanamo Bay. Instead, the ACLU is allowed in to inspect the facilities and collect testimony from detainees.

  50. 50.

    El Cid

    There is nothing illegal about scoping out military bases.

    Exactly. Which is why no one is ever arrested for that or for photographing public buildings.

  51. 51.

    MBSS

    larry summers?

    taylor swift?

    both on my most hated people list. i’m forced to listen to country music where i work.

  52. 52.

    Mike in NC

    Ben Stein is a douchebag tool, and should be tarred and feathered.

    Well, it would definitely improve that ugly little troll’s appearance.

  53. 53.

    donovong

    Okay. Time for me to get involved in the “little old lady with guns outside a military base” conversation.

    I was in the USAF for four years and tasked with the responsibility for making sure that nobody blew up anything on a base, or got their hands on a nuke. This was during the years of Bader-Meinhof and the Red Army Faction, not to mention certain Palestinians who didn’t like us so much.

    If that little old lady wants to exercise her second amendment rights somewhere, let her go to a rifle range. If she gets within 100 feet of a military installation with a gun, she needs to have her head examined, immediately after being thrown in jail. Oh, wait a minute…..

  54. 54.

    joe from Lowell

    There is nothing illegal about scoping out military bases.

    So, now you acknowledge that she was lying when she told the police she was doing “nothing.”

    So, were you lying when you repeated her lie?

    Why do you lie so much? Why should we take anything you have to say on the subject seriously, when you are willfully dishonest about the basic facts of the case?

    I believe that this is exactly what the ACLU has been doing in Guantanamo Bay for the last eight years.

    The ACLU sneaks around without the knowledge or approval of the people running the base?

    Are you lying again? Wait, what am I saying?

  55. 55.

    burnspbesq

    BOB, your hypocrisy is showing.

    If this woman were a member of Earth First, or had ties to the Weather Undergound when she was younger, your position would be completely different. You know that. And so do we.

    Try harder next time.

  58. 58.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Joe; A person in this country has freedom of movement meaning that if you want to drive around, or cross state lines, or go to the circus, the government has to let you, within certain guidelines.

    This woman might very well be a whack job. But it is her right to be a whack job until the government, through due process, removes some or all of her rights. If she is convicted of a felony, I believe she loses her right to possess firearms. Being convicted of certain felonies can result in the loss of a person’s freedom of movement, AKA jail.

    In the meantime, she retains her rights and if she wants to drive around and take pictures of whatever she wants from unrestricted areas, my understanding is that she is allowed to do this. She can take pictures of the Space Shuttle, a dog, a goldfish, a canary, or the fence surrounding the secure areas of a National Guard base so long as you are taking those pictures from an unsecure, public area.

    We had nutjobs outside our military base on a daily basis. They were allowed to take their pictures, and chant their chants, and make their statements. They might have had legal firearms in their car, and it would have been none of our business.

    Personally, if I had been Dictator back then, I would have arrested them, bathed them, and deported them to San Francisco. But as we were a Constitutional Republic at the time, the authorities were not allowed to arrest, bath, and deport them.

  59. 59.

    JenJen

    @Comrade Jake: I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why Michelle Malkin, aka Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage, was invited on “This Week.” I mean, why, because six months into a new administration, she wrote a shitty book called “Culture of Corruption”? I guess that’s all it takes these days.

    She really didn’t get much in, and Stephanopolous challenged almost everything she said, but one thing got past that I found a wee bit outrageous… she referred to the Tea Baggers as a “counterinsurgency.” By definition, doesn’t that mean she believes the duly and democratically-elected President of the United States is himself an Insurgent?

  60. 60.

    henqiguai

    @JenJen (#59):

    …but one thing got past that I found a wee bit outrageous…

    See, JenJen, what you need to understand is that, in a fight (figuratively speaking) wherein a shyte-storm of blows are being rained in upon you, some, which you determine are just feints or are otherwise ineffectual (a.k.a. are just so stupidly outrageous that only the terminally stupid would believe them and they can’t be convinced otherwise, regardless), you just let them go, ’cause they’re a distraction anyway.

    Or is that my bad attitude toward the stupid showing through, again ?

  61. 61.

    Anne Laurie

    How can our nation be full of uninformed people?

    Read Opium4themasses’ link at #1. Part of the glory of America is that every citizen is free to be an ignorant fvckstick twitching to every astroturfed distortion, rumor, and outright lie bubbled up by Faux News and Rush Oxycontin.

    The converse, of course, is that Americans like you & me have the right to ferret out truth and justice, assuming we can find it over the Media Village Idiot noise, and to call the bloviators and liars by their Right-ful names…

    America, fuck yeah!

  62. 62.

    Anne Laurie

    “Ben Stein is a douchebag tool, and should be tarred and feathered.”
    …
    Well, it would definitely improve that ugly little troll’s appearance.

    WIN!

  64. 64.

    WereBear

    A search of her car uncovered an arsenal — an XM-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and 500 rounds of ammunition. When asked what she was doing, she replied, “Nothing.”

    Well, I’m glad that didn’t work.

    I know stupid is dangerous, deadly dangerous, but how should I fear something that sounds like a SNL skit?

    The Bush years have completely decalibrated me.

  65. 65.

    flukebucket

    The Ben Stein piece spoke for itself. It was the most inane piece of shit I have seen in a long time.

    I really enjoyed the segment on Pete Seeger. McCarthy has been dead longer than I have been alive while Pete just keeps on singin’.

    Lovely.

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