Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
by DougJ| 110 Comments
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The battle is joined.
I know Marvin’s lip-synching but there’s live percussion and if you can find a badder suit than that one…..
You never hear Part 2 on the radio, but it was the inspiration for the last great Jackson 5 song.
JT gets major credit for covering this, even if it’s not a great effort (EDIT: you know, it’s not bad).
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Here is a particularly fun gardening post at the Great Orange Satan.
*** Update ***
I’m feeling ornery:
Let the 70’s/funk youtube wars begin.
It is on.
by DougJ| 83 Comments
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Nate Silver had Illinois as the ninth likeliest Senate seat to switch parties in his most recent rankings. I’ve got to think that the Republican reaction to the Olympics decision is going to change that.
Mark Kirk can’t be too pleased with the wingerati right now.
by DougJ| 71 Comments
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This post is in: We Are All Mayans Now
Their writing is often dense and difficult, but Beck not only reads it, he assigns it to his staff. “Beck asks me questions about Hegel, based on what he’s read in my books,” Pestritto told me. Pestritto is the kind of guest Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity would never think of booking.
Okay, so Beck may lack Buckley’s urbanity, and his show will never be confused with “Firing Line.” But he’s on to something with his interest in serious analysis of liberalism’s patrimony. The left is enraged with Beck’s scandal-mongering over Van Jones and ACORN, but they have no idea that he poses a much bigger threat than that. If more conservative talkers took up the theme of challenging liberalism’s bedrock assumptions the way Beck does from time to time, liberals would have to defend their problematic premises more often.
[….]Beck, for one, is revealing that despite the demands of filling hours of airtime every day, it is possible to engage in some real thought. He just might be helping restore the equilibrium between the elite and populist sides of conservatism.
No wonder those staffers don’t have time to figure how to spell “oligarchy”!
I never thought I would say this about anything, but this piece is grossly unfair to O’Reilly, Hannity, and Ann Coulter. Seriously.
by DougJ| 54 Comments
Howie Kurtz joins in with a hit piece on David Letterman. He manages to quote Beck/Newsmax contributor Tobe Berkowitz (who claims the “liberal-leaning” media will go easy on Letterman) and Don Imus (via Fox).
I can’t think of anything that interests me less than tv stars’ personal life. But I’m not Howie Kurtz or Tobe Berkowitz.
Update. Via Digby, People has some very incriminating details:
The former staffer says that Letterman, 62, carried on a sexual relationship with one of his “peers, a woman close to him, not an intern.”
[….]The former staffer adds of Letterman, “He never acted inappropriate with any of the female staff. He was very kind, and I never recall anyone saying anything at all bad about him.”
by John Cole| 42 Comments
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Cooking a big pot of corned beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots, and doing the rails to trails thing until the Georgia game at 3:30.
Talk amongst yourself.