CNN- We Don’t Know What the F**K We’re Doing:
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Meanwhile, we are going on nine months since Marcy Wheeler was blacklisted for saying “blow job.“
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licensed to kill time
Arggh – finally a new thread, and I have to go. John, you might want to check what’s going on in the thread below – it’s a total meltdown.
ETA – now the whole site has gone completely wonky. Everything is messed up, no sidebars and no comment box and OMG!! Imma let you finish, be back tomorrow.
Martin
First rule of journalism – never say blowjob, just give them.
dmsilev
Per the GOS, Erick Erickovich’s latest idiocy is to wank off about threatening census-takers with his wife’s shotgun. Heckuva job, CNN.
Disclaimer: This is an Erickson idiocy from yesterday. There’s a respectable probability that he’s said something equally stupid today, so it may not in fact be his *latest* idiocy.
-dms
freelancer
Jay Rosen has some idears, some good, some not so good:
Somehow I imagine a nightly trainwreck that is comparable to Welch vs. Winebox.
John Cole
I already fixed the thread below. Idiots. I leave the blog alone for a couple hours and you jackasses are using crayons on the wall and eating paste.
Violet
New thread! Yay! The Bolding Gone Wild is gone from the old thread – maybe because we got a new thread? Or did Cole fix it?
cleek
i liked the bold!
(i did not break the layout, though.)
dmsilev
Well, that looks odd. There must be an unclosed div tag somewhere or something, because right now comments 4-6 look like they’re sub-comments of my comment #3.
-dms
John Cole
@cleek: Asshole.
asiangrrlMN
Um. Someone broke something again, and there is no comment #4. I’m just sayin’.
Bob L
@John Cole:
Unfair, look closely; that is not crayons on the wall. They don’t make a brown crayons.
Joseph Nobles
@licensed to kill time: wondering what replying here will do.
Loneoak
I’m getting some really bizarre graphics malfunctions on Safari. Have no idea about the technical details, but it’s mushing together multiple comments and superimposing comments over each other when I scroll over with the mouse.
MikeJ
@asiangrrlMN: All multiples of four so far, but it’s a very small data set.
Edit: With the addition of one more data point, smart ass theory is shot down before the post even goes through.
Seebach
I still do not like the MSNBC is the Fox News of the Left framing. It’s not the same. It simply is not.
Violet
@John Cole:
What cleek post are you replying to here? The missing Post #4?
licensed to kill time
I said I was leaving, but I just can’t quit you. Random names are popping up in other people’s comments now. Whee!
Good luck all!
eric
I for one believe that hurtful, over the top, near holocaust level Catholic bashing is causing God’s divine retribution to rain a little Word Press hellfire on y’all.
Violet
@licensed to kill time:
It’s awesome fun, isn’t it?
Cole, I guess you ate some of the paste along with Post Number Four. This thread is fun too!
dmsilev
Oy vey. here’s what the comments look like for me. Safari 4 on a Mac.
-dms
Midnight Marauder
…Whoa. Shit is ALL KINDS OF CRAZY right now.
licensed to kill time
@Violet:
I blame it all on the dancing reply arrow. Get thee behind me, satanic popup arrow!
dr. bloor
@John Cole:
Fuck you, I wasn’t using crayons on the wall. The orange and green ones were delicious.
Violet
The comment box appears and disappears at varying times when the page is reloaded. No idea why. Reload again, comment box reappears. Reload again, disappears. Fun!
TooManyJens
This was a triumph…
scav
Chrome’s now lost it. Mine’s looking like a non-closed indenting (list?) tag or something every so often in the comments. At least this TechnoJoy!! event had nothing possibly to do with my wandering unhampered by common sense into the geekdepths.
arguingwithsignposts
@John Cole:
Says the guy whose FPer was posting chatr__lette?
jeffreyw
While at the buffet, try the sesame chicken.
me
Comment 3’s reply link isn’t closed properly and so comment 4 is joined with comment 3.
Violet
@licensed to kill time:
Yeah, the popup reply arrow is EVIL. If I get some garlic and a silver spike, will that take care of it? I miss the old static reply arrow (whine).
Svensker
@freelancer:
It’s just dumb beyond words to start with, and then the fact that it is his wife’s shotgun….
Plus it’s great that CNN has employees on the toob threatening to shoot census workers. Outstanding work, boys!
RedKitten
Yep, she’s gone FUBAR. John, are you seeing what we’re seeing, or did you want me to email you a screen shot?
cleek
@John Cole:
i didn’t do anything!
Sentient Puddle
Yeah, at this point, seeing the HTML in some comments eat the scripting in others, I think we can safely say that it’s WordPress eating paste, and punching out whole sections of drywall.
eric
@cleek: nice try Pope Cleek I
Martian Buddy
Now there’s a vorpal post in this thread. My head hurts.
Also, as long as I’m cross-posting my snark:
This is the towering intellect that wanted to abolish the police force because they were talking about unionizing, yes? Bet the cops would just love to respond to that call.
“Hey, you had your chance, it’s my turn to tase him in the nuts!”
(Italics substituted for bold for safety’s sake.)
El Cid
In CNN and Urk Urksum’s defense, he said that on his radio like, a looooong time ago, like, yesterday, when he was many, many, many hours younger. You libruls just can’t let people grow and learn.
Violet
@me:
In my Firefox there is no Comment 4. And the actual Comment 4, as seen on dmsilev’s screen capture linked in Comment 20 doesn’t appear to be attached to either Comment 3 or 5.
licensed to kill time
Hah, is John banishing the OMG! reply arrow? Cuz now I have no reply thingy at all. This is wild fun, peeps. Man, I really have to go, though.
Tonal Crow
Everything looks OK in Firefox 3.6.2, but the reply button has disappeared. I suspect Tunch is hiding it.
Sentient Puddle
At this point, I’m sure John is now smacking the plugins around with a monkey wrench, as the phantom posts have returned, but I now no longer have a reply button.
This has been a fun Friday afternoon. All that’s missing is a beer.
me
Part of the problem was dms’s dash was getting transformed into a unclosed strike tag.
dmsilev
Isn’t it fun to sit and kibitz while watching the effects of someone else’s frantic attempts at troubleshooting?
-dms
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@eric #18
My theory as well. If you see an HTML table riding a pale horse, don’t bother trying to run for it. It’s too late.
Violet
Hey, Comment 4 is back! And I was wrong in my previous post, but no way to edit anything now.
This thread is awesome!
asiangrrlMN
Whew. All better now. No more breaking the internetz, peeps! This is why we can’t have nice things.
Erick the son of Erick’s biggest regret about calling David Souter a goat-fucking child-molester was that his kid and wife got heckled about it. Really. But, you know, CNN long tried to claim that Lou Dobb was two different people, so why not Erick bin Erick? I am contemplating getting cable just so I can cancel it in outrage over CNN hiring the Red State Warrior.
MikeJ
Is today the day we joke about naming our firstborn
Robert’) Drop Table comments;
gbear
Crap, I was hoping is was a quiz show.
“What is your favorite liberty?”
“Gun ownership….NO, speech!AAAAAAAahhhh!!
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Since I hardly ever watch CNN, I did not realize they had jumped in headfirst with the sewer trout. I mean I know that Erick the retch had been hired but that was the first time I actually saw him on teevee.
That said, your comedy creds have gone up a point or two with me CNN> Center of Nutter News. That was funny as hell and would have been even without Stewart.
freelancer
all better again. Phew. Our little thread is all growed up!
asiangrrlMN
jeffreyw, cannot reply to you, but oh my god oh my god oh my god! WANT the sesame chicken!
General Egali Tarian Stuck
So no edit. That’s alright, I don’t need it. :)
And now edit appears. Okay, who wants to be this months sacrificed virgin to the WP gawds. Don’t worry, your demise will not be real.
KRK
Today’s xkcd is perfect for BJ commenters: http://xkcd.com/722/.
jeffreyw
Random frog comment.
Violet
Does anyone have a Reply button? It’s gone for me. I think the garlic and silver spike worked!
asiangrrlMN
gbear, waitaminute. Erick son of Erick claims to be a libertarian? WTF?
Whee! I got edit back, but still cannot reply.
gbear
FYWP. That little red X replaced quite a bit of text. No edit feature. Joke ruined. FYWP.
Edit: Oh fucking sure! NOW the edit feature returns. FY sadistic WP.
Tonal Crow
ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
I’ll raise your pale horse and bid a white cat batting an HTML table.
ETA: Ooo: two rows of HTML editing buttons. I wonder what happens if I click them?
MikeJ
KRK, I miss the CLI.
asiangrrlMN
Man, Cole’s gotta be ready to kill us about now. #waves at Cole#. Remember, I’m the one on your side about the sheets thing!
jeffreyw, done! I’ll be there in…how long does it take to drive from Minneapolis to your neck of the woods in IL?
gbear, never mind. I misread.
dms, yeah. I mixed up freelancer’s post with the subject of the original post. Sorry!
jeffreyw
Too late! Still have some of these I can fix for ya.
scav
Code in a tumble dryer.
dmsilev
asiangrrlMN: I don’t think he’s ever made that claim. Erick ibn Erick is a conservative hack and proud of it.
-dms
John Cole
That is the best I can get it right now. You will just have to deal with no reply thing, because that is what caused the problem.
Also people, move to Firefox.
jeffreyw
Wide stance.
Violet
I’m on Cole’s side too with the sheets. Don’t let the West Elm trendies get you down, Cole!
I’ve got two rows of HTML editing buttons too. Almost too much fun here to handle!
Edit – I’m using Firefox. It still wasn’t pretty.
dmsilev
You fool! That will trigger the emergency self-destruct mechanism. You’ve doomed us all!
-dms
TooManyJens
Stuck @ 52:
Nor your virginity, for that matter.
scav
John@64: just to be utterly clear, Chrome OK? It seemed ok for all the last thread.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
freelancer
@Violet:
No reply, but now I have two rows of easy html buttons!
Double your pleasure.
Carrie
Told you he would be pissed….
MikeBoyScout
Any chance Erick, son of Erick, Erickson’s wife intends to show him what she’s made of, gun powder and lead?
Hope and Change? ;-)
asiangrrlMN
Violet, I’m glad I’m not the only woman who doesn’t really give a damn about her paramour’s decor. Hm. What happens if I press this button….
Will I break the intertoobz?
Damn. I did not. I am using Chrome. I have no problems with it.
Martin
Mostly because Firefox is starting to suck now. They’re falling behind on the standards, and it’s quite slow compared to Chrome/Safari. We did some testing in the office against my HTML5/Javascript web tools and Chrome was 10x faster than Firefox. It was stunning.
Violet
Is the fun over? Boo….
Midnight Marauder
Your wife’s shotgun?!
And all this time, I thought not using/having your own shotgun was an offense punishable by excommunication or death in Real America.
freelancer
“Ceci n’est pas une bold”
WereBear
I guess with EsonofE on CNN, they are going for the demographic that is both mean and stupid. Worst of both worlds there.
In all seriousness, did they not spend ten minutes on Teh Google? Just a search on Sadly, No! would have made the interview a lot more enlightened.
Well, can’t boycott what I never watch anyway.
Calming Influence
Firefox is affected somewhat as well. And I have to say, when I saw that “bold, begone!” turned every subsequent comment in the previous thread bold, I had too walk away from my desk I was laughing so hard. FYWP, even if you are occasionally amusing.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
I remain a virgin in spirit.
jeffreyw
You are not alone…
Comrade Dread
I’ve got to say that I enjoy the new angrier, more bitter Mr. Cole’s posts more and more.
And he’s not even at +1 yet.
Martin
I don’t see how CNN can’t fire recursive-Erick for suggesting violence against a federal employee. And if they had any shame, they’d fire the guy who hired him, and the guy who hired that guy.
Violet
asiangrrlMN:
Yeah, it really doesn’t bother me. I mean, I might notice it, but would it make any difference to me? Nope.
Now I do have a male friend who never seemed to get around to washing his sheets. Total stereotypical bachelor kind of guy. House was a total wreck. He started dating a woman, brought her home, and she refused to get into the bed because the sheets were so disgusting. He thought she was ridiculous for complaining. He told me the story, I went over to his place to offer a female opinion, and hoo-boy those things were ripe. Really foul. So yeah, the color of the sheets is irrelevant. The cleanliness…that’s another thing entirely.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Periodically, when Balloon Juice gets to running too smooth, it needs fixing by our expert blogger.
asiangrrlMN
Martin, well that’s the RedState Erick son of Erick, not the CNN Erick son of Erick. Two completely different people.
Violet, ok, that’s just gross.
Violet
asiangrrlMN, yeah it was truly disgusting. She really liked him though because she stuck around while he got in the habit of both washing his sheets and changing them regularly. True love. Lolz.
Uloborus
Can I have some more paste? These bottles are empty.
Mike in NC
From the previous messed up thread:
“FDR” by Jean Edward Smith (Random House 2007) is very highly rated by presidential historians. In my ‘to read’ pile…
Mike +3
(Have a real job starting on Monday!)
me
To be fair, unclosed tags are undefined behavior. Firefox just handles it better by automatically closing them at the next div rather then blowing up the page like IE.
Allan
Erick also threatened to rape a caller with his wife’s penis.
Citizen_X
It wasn’t me! Tunch ate the paste!
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Martin #84:
And if Count Dracula had a baguette and some garlic, he could make garlic bread.
Little Dreamer
@ Bob L
Burnt Sienna? That might suffice for brown, depending on dietary deficiencies, I mean.
RedKitten
Yuck — dirty sheets. Even if someone is a complete slob, you would think they’d at least wash their sheets before a DATE, just in case.
arguingwithsignposts
@tonal crow:
She is so batting that HTML table!
ETA: I’ve been on FF the whole afternoon. Chatroul__te is not a browser problem.
Little Dreamer
BTW, I did that link to Bob’s comment by hand, no reply button here either.
RedKitten
Hey congrats! That’s exciting news!
Maude
FDR bios, you have to read a lot of them. It seems that each historian has their own personal opinion and it slants the book.
I haz two quicktags. I iz special.
We will soon be having a Set The Tone again after we are cursed out for complaining about the messes in the comments.
The sheets are lovely. I like the duvet color.
Ash Can
@Bob L #11: Sure they make brown crayons. Just look over there in that box full of gravel. That’s where I found mine.
SiubhanDuinne
@arguingwithsignposts #96: I do love that Smudgekitten picture! And seeing it shows how much she’s grown since that was taken.
Mark
I’m a census worker and start in 3 weeks. I’m so mad right now. A “little twerp” am I. This Army vet who has never been arrested in his whole life feels like driving to Atlanta and whipping his ass.
Trying to support my 2 kids as a single dad and this jerk is gonna get me killed? Unbelievable CNN is allowing this.
Yutsano
@ RedKitten:
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I’ve had much more sex in the various cars I’ve owned than in my bed. I cannot also leave out the possibility that I r doing it wrong.
matoko_chan
jeez what is with the multi-chin?
do all “conservatives” have to have that to get into the All-white Super Adventure Teabagger Fun Club?
Beck has a multi-chin too.
geg6
Hey, all I said was that the sheets were ugly. I never said I wouldn’t sleep with Cole because of them. Of course, I would be ashamed in the morning. Quite unlike Politico and CNN.
RedKitten
Good point. I don’t think any of us here said that bad sheets were a deal-breaker. They’re just not adding anything to the ambiance.
Yutsano: my car as a teenager was a Geo Storm. If you can have sex in THAT, you can manage anywhere. But it DOES make a bed look that much better.
asiangrrlMN
Mike in NC, woot woot! Good for you!
Whee! I have started up the debate about Cole’s linens again. He will be SO pleased. But, since he posted an absolutely adorable pic of Tunchie earlier today, I don’t care!
WereBear
Mike in NC: Augh! Went over and read the reviews… and got it for my Kindle app.
I do like FDR biographies. Such a complex person, who overcame a lot; and did a lot of good for many people. I especially like the “balanced view” of Eleanor that was mentioned.
I bring my lunch to work so I can afford my Kindle addiction. It’s a win-win.
Yellowdog
I have NO reply arrow at all, no matter what I do. Firefox on Vista. Did I do something wrong? Don’t you like me any more?
Yutsano
I’m not bragging or anything, but I’m not exactly a petite individual, and I tend to go for guys quite a bit bigger than me. I still managed to knock boots a few times when I was the proud owner of a Volkswagen Beetle. I’m talking the old school tiny models. It wasn’t that bad either. Okay I’ll shut up now.
Oh, have your hubby watch his inbox the next couple of days. My parents got the ranch and I want to discuss stonework with him, though it may not happen until I get back from Arizona.
kay
I’m sure you’ll do great. I used to be a mail carrier. They were always like this. Speak slowly and don’t alarm them, they frighten easily.
They always thought their mail had been “tampered” with.
If they give you any trouble, toss off “get a job, loser” as you’re leaving.
Hob
@me:
<standards-nitpicking>
No, not undefined at all. In HTML, inline elements (like <b>) are not allowed to go past the end of any block element (like <p>); they’re supposed to get implicitly closed at that point if they were left open. Firefox (sometimes) gets this right now, but most browsers historically haven’t.
</standards-nitpicking>
Nicole
@ ThatLeftTurninABQ
I have no idea what that means, but it’s hilarious.
asiangrrlMN
Yellowdog, Cole had a fancy new flashing reply button which is what fucked up the site. Thus, we have no reply arrow right now. Such is our lot in life.
RedKitten
What type of stonework are you thinking?
freelancer
This made me laugh my ass off. Kudos
RareSanity
Man, I love it when Cole just loses it…
He’s right! Give us hell, Quimby!
As fitting today, as it was yesterday…
Yutsano
@ RedKitten 116:
I’m thinking an entryway for either their driveway (the driveway to the house is down a long road that leads to the house in the back) or a greeting stone for the porch. I can supply him with some pictures of the type of horse they breed/show. The ranch also has a name that I’m not recalling, but it’s the Spanish word for pork chop. Yes my parents have a strange sense of humour why do you ask? :)
RedKitten
Very good. Just making sure that you were indeed looking for the type of thing that he provides, so that you’re not barking up the wrong tree.
When thinking of the lettering, keep in mind that he can’t make letters any smaller than 1 inch tall. So the more stuff you have on the stone, the bigger it has to be, and hence, the more expensive it is to create and to ship.
Hob
ARGH, FYWP, I FUCKING ESCAPED THOSE FUCKING BRACKETS.
Yutsano
I checked the website you showed me and also the stuff that sits around your fireplace, it is exactly what I’m thinking would be perfect for their new place.
I may just say screw any lettering and just go with the picture of the horse and call it good. Or if I go with the driveway stone just the numbers for the house. I don’t know I’m still mulling exactly what I want there. Honestly I haven’t even seen their new place (I know, I know, bad for the inheritance that they’ll all spend anyway) so I’m still trying to decide exactly what will be the right fit there.
Karen in GA
Mike in NC, congrats!
And I appear to have swapped out the reply function for double the html button thingies. Safari, Windows 7.
RedKitten
@Yutsano: No problemo. His usual turnaround time is about 30 days, so just keep that in mind if you’re thinking of giving it to them for some particular occasion. Anyway, hopefully he’ll hear from you soon. :)
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Nicole #114
Thanks!
The meaning was that not only does CNN have no shame, in fact they appear to be allergic to it, like vampires and garlic.
BombIranForChrist
CNN is basically a very, very boring Today Show.
It’s just so inane.
Yutsano
I don’t have a set timeline for when I would need this. My father’s birthday is in June, but as he would just as soon we ignore that it ever happens I’m thinking I’ll skip that timing. I might just surprise them with it one weekend while they’re least expecting it. Or even for Canada/Independence Day (I love how they’re three days apart!) or just whenever. I’ll most likely get the ball rolling when I survey the financial damage from the Arizona trip.
cleek
this meets or exceeds expectations.
Older
Irk’s wife won’t let him have a shotgun; that’s why he has to borrow hers. Hopefully, the census won’t call at his house while she’s out.
Mister Colorful Analogy
@dmsilev – April 2nd, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Don’t touch it! It’s the History Eraser button, you fool!
-MrCA