Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

Come on, man.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

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  3. 3.

    TaosJohn

    I was following some big-deal social media honcho. Last night he “complained” about having to take a plane to California in the morning. There’s a lot of that shit on Twitter, right? Sweetest unfollow I ever had.

  7. 7.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    Kurtz say something:

    1) New
    2) Not hackneyed Village conventional wisdom
    3) Not full of right wing bias

    That’ll be the day. He’s one reason why the Washington Post will never see a dime of my money. Nor will its advertisers.

    And I say that as a DC native who grew up reading the Post religiously and who, up until 1999, would have paid to read it online.

    Not anymore.

  8. 8.

    J to the G

    Why in the hell would you follow Howie’s twitter feed anyway? I would think you get enough self-abuse in looking at wingnut sites…

  10. 10.

    norbizness

    Why get rid of Twitter? Don’t you like being assaulted with the spontaneous thoughts of random idiots 5,000 times per day? (looks around comments section) Whoops.

  12. 12.

    Violet

    OT, but Palin’s fans are not happy. Story and hilarious video.

    Excellent quotes:

    “I’m very disappointed. I think it was very rude. She could have at least apologized, and she didn’t even do that,” said Teresa Hedrick.

    “We bought two books from Borders to have our receipt and our wristband to get it signed tonight,” said one woman. “My books are going back to Borders tomorrow.”

    “We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,” said one man. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.”

    This is fun! Off to pop more popcorn.

  13. 13.

    Da Bomb

    Maybe Kurtz will inform you of how Palin is Going Rouge and Levi Johnston is posing for Playgirl.

    His official name should be “King of the Obvious”.

  17. 17.

    Martin

    No one is saying that John Cole is going to stop twittering, I say he’s just going to remove some people from his twitter feed.

    I really don’t get paid enough for this kind of insight and analysis.

  19. 19.

    Rick Taylor

    OT, but Palin’s fans are not happy.

    What’d they expect? She didn’t even finish her god damned term as governor.

  20. 20.

    Jon H

    Apparently, Oprah’s starting a channel with the Discovery Channel people.

    I bet it’ll be an alternative medicine quackery, anti-vaccination, and woo channel.

    Ugh.

  23. 23.

    MysticalChick

    HEY! Watch it with the dissin’ of the woo. :-)

    (I’m a hardcore woo-woo chick and I really dislike Oprah. Does that give me a shred of credibility? No? Okay then. Carry on.)

  25. 25.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @norbizness:

    That’s Mr Random Idiot to you sir.

    Didn’t you used to blog? I was a faithful idiot reader who never assaulted you with random comments much to your dismay.

    But then work started blocking your site and I found another shiny object to play with.

  26. 26.

    slag

    At this point, I can’t decide who is annoying me more: Oprah or Palin. Technically, it’s not Oprah’s fault that Howard Kurtz is an idiot, so I probably shouldn’t blame her. On the other hand, it was her choice to be put in the same room as Sarah Palin and even Howard Kurtz could have predicted that at least some of the Palinanity was bound to rub off. So, I’m torn. This is what happens when you pal around with starbursts.

  27. 27.

    Evinfuilt

    @Violet:

    That’s fricking awesome, check out the comments.

    1000 wristbands were handed out. 400 people who had them DIDN’T get their book signed. Guess Palin quit halfway through her signing, she’s really good at the quitting bit.

  28. 28.

    mistersnrub

    Follow Jay Rosen_nyu – he’s an NYU journalism prof makes some intelligent and oftentimes harsh criticisms of the MSM

  29. 29.

    Chat Noir

    @Legalize:

    From the comments:

    Drew Brees: Timmy Go Deep!
    Timmy: (thinking to himself) Oh my God, this is my dream come true! I am gonna catch a pass from Drew Brees
    Keith Olbermann: AND THE THROW IS PICKED OFF!! BY…oh my God! President Obama!!!!
    President Obama: Timmy! TIMMY!!! You know you can’t bring that weak game to my house!
    Timmy: (On the verge of tears)
    Obama: Who’s house???
    Timmy: (begrudgingly) ‘Bam’s house…

    That really is a cool PSA.

  30. 30.

    Anoniminous

    @Evinfuilt:

    Laughing, laughing, laughing.

    She can’t even finish a book signing and people think she’s got the determination to run for president?

  32. 32.

    JenJen

    Twitter is interesting today. For example, @DavidShuster sure does like to talk a lot of smack to us Buckeyes fans. Muck Fichigan, Shuster.

    As I type this, Caribou Barbie is signing books just a few miles away. I feel a chill in the air.

  33. 33.

    mcd410x

    Completely OT, but did all the head coaches get together to decide this would be the weekend of college football late season suck?

    And why is the name of assholes is ESPN/ABC showing me Texas and Kansas in Florida tomorrow when the national game is Oregon-Arizona? What in the name of french-fried fuck is going on?

  34. 34.

    R-Jud

    @JenJen:

    As I type this, Caribou Barbie is signing books just a few miles away. I feel a chill in the air.

    Clouds of bats? You know, the ones that nest in her bumpit between her ears?

  35. 35.

    Comrade Mary

    @Legalize: Yeah, but let’s see that half-Kenyan commie hypnoplant grannykiller pull off the same move with a bowling ball, like a Real American.

  36. 36.

    Anoniminous

    @tamied:

    “I’m a quitter, not a fighter.”

    IF she runs – something I’m now discounting – she’ll crash and burn in Iowa and NH. Her actions indicate she is incapable of doing the hard slog the voters there expect.

  37. 37.

    geg6

    @asiangrrlMN:

    By the way, regarding the Troy Polamalu/Obama psa, word is that Troy got invited for an overnight at the White House. He apparently accepted. I wouldn’t have minded being the ghost in the Lincoln bedroom for that.

  40. 40.

    whetstone

    I seriously need to remove some people from my twitter feed to stop reading Howard Kurtz because he never says anything interesting, ever.

    Fix’t.

  41. 41.

    Xanthippas

    Seriously, it does take awhile to figure out who’s useful on Twitter and who ain’t. I’m still figuring it out, which is why who I follow is constantly changing. For example: I don’t use Twitter to get a sense of what big people in media are thinking or saying. I get that via Balloon Juice (with mockery to boot!)

  42. 42.

    Jay in Oregon

    @JenJen:

    Have you worked up the nerve to take a look at #tcot yet? I predict you’ll last <2 minutes.

    That crap was so unreadable, I had to Google “tcot” to figure out what the hell I was looking at.

    To paraphrase John’s tweet on #tcot, they put so many freakin’ hashtags on their tweets they don’t have room to actually SAY anything. Thank goodness for bit.ly and other URL shorteners, I guess.

  43. 43.

    Zifnab

    @Anoniminous:

    IF she runs – something I’m now discounting – she’ll crash and burn in Iowa and NH.

    She did get elected both mayor AND governor. It’s not like the very concept of elections is foreign to her. At the very least, she’ll play an interesting spoiler. Over the last year she’s been honing her game on bilking Republican donors fund raising. I don’t know if she’s going to break past a Huckabee or a Romney, but I think she’s got a good shot at making it to Florida, at the least.

  44. 44.

    Fern

    @Zifnab: Her previous campaigns were nowhere near as grueling as a presidential primary, let alone a primary followed by a presidential election campaign. Don`t think she could hold out.

  46. 46.

    LD50

    “We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,” said one man. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.”

    Hell hath no fury like a teabagger scorned.

  47. 47.

    Xanthippas

    Dude, Twitter is for idiots.
    Here me now, believe me later.

    Well, it’s not JUST for idiots. It just depends on what you have in mind for it. I use it to find out about interesting things I can’t get by just reading blogs. John Cole uses it to find more things to mock. It has it’s uses.

  48. 48.

    Anoniminous

    @Zifnab:

    True but she lived in Wasallia and I’m guessing:

    1. Getting the GOP nomination

    2. Carrying Anchorage

    are the two things needed to win the Alaska governor race.

    And then she quickly buggered-off when she actually had to … ya know … do something.

  50. 50.

    Martin

    @Zifnab:

    Mayor of a town smaller than my place of employment and governor of a state that only requires carrying 2 small cities (a job which she couldn’t even bother to finish).

    Against that you think she’s going to do a 50-state primary/caucus effort *plus* a 50 state electoral strategy that will put her in campaign events 3-4 times a day for the better part of 15 months, not to mention raising about half a billion dollars for the effort? It’s becoming apparent from the book blowback that she couldn’t even handle the VP level campaign events for the election – plus the probably 2-dozen or more debates and townhalls, and being head of the ticket means that you have to actually take the lead on policy questions when they arise.

    She’ll never last past super tuesday.

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