Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

When we show up, we win.

Bark louder, little dog.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

In my day, never was longer.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

“woke” is the new caravan.

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  1. 1.

    Steve L.

    Again I’m reminded of the Dave Chappelle joke about being confronted with something so racist you can’t get mad.

  2. 2.

    Chris

    I guess their viewers are just small government conservatives who are concerned about the size of the deficit.

    Actually, it’s that their viewers feel threatened by big, black deficits.

    Hence, all the rhetoric about the federal government “forcing” things down their throats.

  5. 5.

    RedKitten

    Gad — even reading the little side headlines, it’s blatantly obvious that Fox heavily skews right. It’d be laughable, if it wasn’t so damn damaging to your public discourse.

  7. 7.

    Mark S.

    Best line from the link:

    It is virtually impossible to be scared by someone who says “rap palate.”

  9. 9.

    El Cid

    @Chris: Look, they’re not racist. They’re just incredibly concerned about all the damage that black and Latino people do to our culture, our children, and the economy. After all we wouldn’t have had this whole economic crisis if Jimmy Carter hadn’t put in the CRA to make banks give free houses to welfare Cadillac black people and then ACORN thugs stopped us from voting differently. Plus you have to be very careful with a President who is related to people from Kenya or who worked in Indonesia. He could be a Black Panther looking to hook up again with his Bill Ayers terrorist friend.

    How is that racist?

  11. 11.

    JGabriel

    Fox News: The World’s Finest Purveyor of Photographic Depictions of Scary Black People Across Two Millenia. Established 1996.

    .

  12. 12.

    Comrade Darkness

    Gansta rap? Am I the only one old enough to remember when Obama wasn’t black enough? Yeah, that talking point had staying power . . .

  13. 13.

    Restrung

    this makes me an angry white man.
    thuh fuck is wrong with these people?
    At the same time, I agree with comment #1 and a Chapelle joke I don’t remember. Not ready to laugh, though.

  17. 17.

    beltane

    @Chris: I’d say Fox viewers are most afraid of big black surpluses.

    This also reminds us just how old Fox’s viewership is. My teenagers would find this to be the coolest thing ever.

  19. 19.

    Loneoak

    I don’t believe that Obama listens to rap. I demand to see the long form receipts of these iTunes purchases, with proper kerning. I am absolutely certain that he listens exclusively to Creed.

  20. 20.

    DonkeyKong

    “You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor.” –George Wallace, Spiritual Godfather of the Teabaggers.

  21. 21.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @MikeJ:

    I thought about posting about it, to be honest. But while I thought the video was cute, Katy Perry is annoying, so I didn’t want to talk about it.

  22. 22.

    JGabriel

    Just reading the CNN punking document and came across this beautiful sentence regarding O’Keefe:

    James should have a more sleazy persona than normal …

    Question: Is that even possible? I mean, I don’t want to say that O’Keefe is sleazier than a child molester …

    Actually, yes, that’s exactly what I want to say.

    .

  26. 26.

    Chyron HR

    Colbert Embarrasses Dems

    Uh, right. Fox News was driven to shrieking psychotic fits by his performance because it was sooooooo embarrassing… to the Democrats.

  29. 29.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @Restrung:

    A hyphen. A single hyphen will kill a thread, but a double hyphen “–” will not.

  31. 31.

    RedKitten

    @Svensker: Yeah, something tells me it won’t have as much of the market share, though. It’ll probably do well with Alberta viewers, and maybe some folks in Ontario, but that’s about it, I’d guess.

  37. 37.

    Davis X. Machina

    @RedKitten: Some day, in Texas, universal health care will be a reality. And then you won’t be able to tell it apart from Alberta.

    Ok, except for the food.

  39. 39.

    RalfW

    And a mighty uhhh, thanks to @CharlesMBlow for playing along with Fox on the fauxtrage. Adam Serwer and I, and maybe a few other Tweeps, have now unfollowed the hapless and hyper-sensitive Timester. If we have Bobo and ChunkyBobo, shall we call this dude Bloblo?

  41. 41.

    JGabriel

    DougJ:

    A single hyphen will kill a thread …

    Just imagine what they can do when hyphens band together in a terrorist cell.

    Or are they like ninja, the more there are the weaker they become?

    Seriously, that’s a pretty ridiculous oversight. How minimal was the WordPress QA that something like that got through?

    .

  42. 42.

    Wile E. Quixote

    I’m going to have to catch the episode of CSI where they mock the tea-parties. Hell, I’d even watch the sucktacular CSI Miami with that wee little sunglasses wearing leprechaun David Caruso on it. Then I need to check up on the episode of SNL where they mock Christine O’Donnell and see if I can find the Letterman clip where he makes fun of her.

    As far as the “gangsta” rap goes, well, if I had a dollar for every dipshit white boy listened to N.W.A and/or Public Enemy (and yes I realize how dated I am) back in the day I’d be set for life.

  45. 45.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @RalfW:

    Charles Blow is pushing the “Obama loves gangsta rap” stuff? I knew he was an idiot but…

  46. 46.

    jl

    First of all, ‘Gansta rap’, that is old grandpa music, isn’t it? Has anyone worried about that, for reals, since Public Enemy?

    Second, maybe we are being unfair to Fox News. Maybe those gansta rappers were getting ready to sing an aria.

    Yeah, that’s probably it, Fox News is a victim!

  47. 47.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)

    @Davis X. Machina: How often is it 115 degrees in the shade in Alberta, with 85% humidity? I’m not going to have any trouble telling them apart. Hell, if I didn’t need a passport, I’d be living in Calgary already.

  48. 48.

    RalfW

    @DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.:

    CharlesMBlow In Rolling Stone Obama says he listens to jailed rapper Lil Wayne. Is there a Wayne song that’s not violent, misogynistic and/or homophobic? about 12 hours ago via web

    CharlesMBlow Lil Wayne rapped on the track “Go DJ”: “You homo ni***s getting Aids in the a**” Does that deserve a presidential endorsement? about 12 hours ago via web

    CharlesMBlow There are many talented rappers making great music without Lil Wayne’s vitriol. Rap is not the problem; hateful ppl like Lil Wayne are. about 11 hours ago via web

  50. 50.

    JGabriel

    Steve:

    What is “Fox Nation”? … I don’t get the concept.

    Of course you don’t, you fucking libtard. Only True Patriots get the concept, not a bunch of Gay Commie Islamofascist SociaIists like you, me and the rest of the traitors who read Balloon Juice.

    .

  54. 54.

    Angry Black Lady

    Wow, y’all. Thanks for the link! I hate people a little less right now.

    Again I’m reminded of the Dave Chappelle joke about being confronted with something so racist you can’t get mad.

    @@Steve L.: – I believe that was from the “Niggard Family” skit and Dave Chappelle wipes away tears of mirth and says “This racism is killing me inside.”

  55. 55.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)

    So, does it help or hurt a gansta rapper’s career to be found on Obama’s play list?

  57. 57.

    Mark S.

    Video: 7-Year-Old Rapper Makes Name For Himself

    I wonder if it’s this kid.

    Speaking of which, does anyone remember the conservative moppet who wrote a long essay about how his pre-school teachers were so sexist he wanted to pull his pen1s off or something? What’s he up to now? Is he a tea party candidate now?

  59. 59.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @JGabriel:

    Seriously, that’s a pretty ridiculous oversight. How minimal was the WordPress QA that something like that got through?

    “WordPress QA?” I would laugh bitterly but my throat is hoarse from screaming curses and imprecations about OpenLDAP. What annoys me about WordPress, well it’s not the only thing about WordPress that annoys me, is that it’s possible for a user working on it with the GUI to do something seemingly innocuous completely and totally break it in such a way that the only way to fix it is to go in on the command line on the server and beat a bunch of PHP files back into shape.

  60. 60.

    PurpleGirl

    @El Cid: You are one mean dude… so often I have to do a double-take to remember that you’re writing satire. (A voudoo that you do so well.)

  67. 67.

    Jim, Foolish LIteralist

    I’ve read that the Murdoch family is embarrassed by this sort of thing, but fat Roger, for some reason, can get away with anything with the Emperor Palpatine

  69. 69.

    jwb

    @RedKitten: Yeah, that’s what we thought here in the 1990s as well. Of course, in the great scheme of things, Fox still doesn’t do all that well, here—the numbers are not that good from a historical standpoint; it’s just with all the media fragmentation, they are doing better than the others.

  70. 70.

    Comrade Luke

    Reposting here from the open thread, since you brought up the deficit :)

    –
    I’m about to blow a gasket.

    A friend of mine posted a link to Krugman’s latest editorial about how structural unemployment is a canard, and some guy comments about how Krugman is always wrong, the emperor has been shown to have no clothes and the problem is spending.

    I normally keep my mouth shut (really, I do!), but people espousing nonsense like this in public forums really bugs me, because other low-information people will read it, absorb it, and then repeat it to other low-information people, and so on. So simply comment “Krugman, as usual, is correct.”

    The guy replies by posting an link to some blog post from a guy who is a follower of “the Austrian school of economics” that supposedly debunks Krugman’s article, and says “Please don’t reply unless you have solid data to support your argument”. If you go to the guy’s blog, the very first comment calls him “intellectually dishonest”, and a few comments down someone posts a link to government data showing he’s wrong, so I go point that out and say “Where were these deficit clowns during Dick and George’s Excellent Iraqi Adventure? They could have saved us a trillion dollars.”

    Then he goes off on how Hayek was great, spending is wrong, and how Obama has spent more on the stimulus than we spent on Iraq and we have nothing to show for it, blah blah blah. I just said “If you don’t like deficits, tax the rich, get rid of the estate tax, tax capital gains as income and get out of two unfunded wars in the Middle East. Easy-peasy.”

    I come here and shake my head when reading about how we’re supposed to support Democrats even though they’re shitty, but then I see these jokers and have to agree. These people just go on and on and on, and they’re coming out of the fucking woodwork.

    It’s. so. damned. frustrating.

  72. 72.

    MikeJ

    This is OT, but Ken Burns reminds me once again how much I fucking hate singing anything other than Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the 7th.

  73. 73.

    S. cerevisiae

    The worst thing about the Delta NWA merger? We don’t have the NWA on the planes anymore that I can say “Straight Outta Eagan!”

  77. 77.

    Brachiator

    I guess their viewers are just small government conservatives who are concerned about the size of the deficit.

    The funny thing is that I would bet that the people who watch Fox News are not all the same people who watch Fox entertainment programs. The sane ones have got to be going “WTF” over the Fox Entertainment Propaganda grid. And I bet that the real Whitey Tape is a suppressed Simpsons episode that mocks the shit out of Rupert Murdoch.

  78. 78.

    Jim, Foolish LIteralist

    @Comrade Luke:

    I come here and shake my head when reading about how we’re supposed to support Democrats even though they’re shitty,

    But all Democrats aren’t shitty, too many, sure, maybe even most, but what good there is in the federal gov’t pretty much all has a D after their name.
    There are some GOPers I think who are, or could/should be decent people, if more conservative than I– Lugar is pretty much the only one left, I think, Hagel and Warner were on that list, but they left. If Snowe had an ounce of guts, we’d live in a different country.

  79. 79.

    raoulduke

    @JGabriel: No, no, we’ve got our minorities to get the white folk worried about; Mozzlems, Hindoos, hordes of Tameel Tigers (Tigers! Aiiighhh! Tigers!!) arriving on cruise ships, RCMP wearing turbans on horse back (and you know they’ll want turbans on the horses next), not to mention an Aboriginal population we only officially stopped trying to annihilate in 1970 or so. And a government that’s trying to roll the clock back to 1930 something that’s in need of a larger media cheering section…..

    Well, you asked.

  80. 80.

    Mark S.

    @El Cid:

    It doesn’t sound too habitable, since one side is always hot and the other side is always freezing, but I think the Teatards could make it work because they wouldn’t have any intrusive government stifling them.

  81. 81.

    El Cid

    @Mark S.: That central zone between the bright and dark sides should maintain a temperature between minus 30 and minus 10 F, so, surely that’s not too tough for our brave, courageous, Valley-Forge hardened TeaTard revolutionaries, right?

  82. 82.

    Comrade Luke

    @Jim, Foolish LIteralist: I’m more talking about the super-douches “debunking” Krugman than anything about Democrats right now. I’m fucking sick of hearing about the deficit, be it at the local, state or federal level. It’s like taxation is headed the way of gun control: can’t talk about it, can run on it, and eventually everyone just gives up on it altogether. That scares the shit out of me.

  86. 86.

    RalfW

    @S. cerevisiae: As a Minneapolitain, I too will miss seeing the NWA craft. I remember being kinda shocked when they switched to that from the stodgy Northwest with the lame serif font. But I realized that only a small percent of passengers would ever make the connection to rappers.

  87. 87.

    Jim, Foolish LIteralist

    @Comrade Luke:

    I’m fucking sick of hearing about the deficit, be it at the local, state or federal level.

    Oh yeah, especially that crap about the stimulus costing more than Iraq. That’s just pulled out of their ass. I saw David Gregory start talking about the deficit, with Deep Concern, early in ’09, I knew then that it was coming. MTP has been the prime conduit from FoxNews to the rest of the MSM since the days of ol’ Punkinhaid Russert.

  88. 88.

    jl

    Fox took the story down. Looks like they are losing their nerve. Chickens. Where will we find the brave patriots if Fox of all people wimp out?

    But, maybe they can make something out of the ‘Obama likes opera’ angle. Opera is both elitist, and in certain parochial quarters, trey ghey.

    It’s Obama’s fault. He should have said he likes Lawrence Welk and Liberace, oops, no. Strike that.

    Lawrence Welk, JohnPhilip Souza, Stephen Foster, and, let’s add Zamfir just to make it believable. That might make a nice Reader’s Digest human interest story.

  89. 89.

    asiangrrlMN

    @RalfW: And now, it’s Delta all the way.

    @jl: He should have said he doesn’t like music. Then, it would have been, “WTF is wrong with him?” If he said he liked country, he would have been a poseur. He cannot win with that crowd.

  92. 92.

    Comrade Luke

    @Jim, Foolish LIteralist:

    Oh yeah, especially that crap about the stimulus costing more than Iraq.

    See there’s the perfect example of why I hate “debating” with conservatives. He stated that as a matter of fact and it knocked me back temporarily. At that point you’re left with either assuming he’s lying and/or spending hours researching it. I see Democrats spin the truth all the time, but I rarely if ever see them just flat-out lie on obvious things, and it’s really disconcerting to discuss things with someone like that.

  94. 94.

    Comrade Luke

    I need your help. Remember that chart that showed we could make up pretty much all of the deficit if you got rid of the tax cuts? Does anyone have a link to that handy?

  96. 96.

    Brachiator

    OT: A somewhat unexpected twist in the gay rights struggle:

    Vaughn R. Walker, the federal judge who ruled that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional, will leave the bench at the end of the year for the private sector, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco announced Wednesday.
    __
    A media liaison for the court said Walker’s decision was unrelated to his August ruling that found a ban on same-sex marriage violated the U.S. Constitution.

  99. 99.

    S. cerevisiae

    ” you are the only director that can do justice for Springtime for Hitler”

    “will the dancing Hitlers wait in the wings! We are only seeing singing Hitlers!

    (sorry, watching the Producers with some herbal side dishes.)

  100. 100.

    VixenStrangely

    There has been entirely too much hating on WordPress in this thread. I could suggest a clever alternative called “Blogger”. It’s mostly free and is only limited by the time-space continuum. Said the chick whose e-mail is aol. I totally still can’t say enough on my Compuserve BBS about how stoked I am about the new Wolfenstein.

    Anyway, you all are missing the big picture–Obamacare is messing with Andy Griffith’s Q Rating! Matlock! The real one, not Broder! Where are we gonna find a kindly older son of a gun to really explain that the O-to the C-A-R-E isn’t actually threatening Medicare? Or olds in general. Damn. Do you think Andy Rooney would work, or are we off the Andy’s?

  101. 101.

    VixenStrangely

    There has been entirely too much hating on WordPress in this thread. I could suggest a clever alternative called “Blogger”. It’s mostly free and is only limited by the time-space continuum. Said the chick whose e-mail is aol. I totally still can’t say enough on my Compuserve BBS about how stoked I am about the new Wolfenstein.

    Anyway, you all are missing the big picture–Obamacare is messing with Andy Griffith’s Q Rating! Matlock! The real one, not Broder! Where are we gonna find a kindly older son of a gun to really explain that the O-to the C-A-R-E isn’t actually threatening Medicare? Or olds in general. Damn. Do you think Andy Rooney would work, or are we off the Andy’s?

  106. 106.

    Jody

    Jim:

    …not to mention there is no such thing as a ruling party that is not going to be full of compromised assholes. It blows my mind that people think the way to combat the frustration with omnipresent corruption is to remove yourself from the process.

  107. 107.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    @El Cid:

    A new somewhat habitable planet in fairly close range to Earth which the TeaTards might wish to go and establish their ideal society…

    No no no… this is the point at which ‘Avatar’ goes from entertainment to documentary… don’t forget who financed the flick…

  111. 111.

    KG

    @Brachiator: not a surprise, really. Judges are vastly underpaid, anyone who has served time on the bench could go into the private sector at a big firm and make triple what they did on the bench as a partner. Even as shitty as the legal market has been lately.

    ETA: plus, because the big firms like having the former judges on the roster, they get to basically do any type of case they want. Or they become mediators, which is good money and better hours.

  114. 114.

    MikeJ

    @KG: US District judges make what, $175k? The median for first year associates in New York, LA, and DC is $160k. That’s for somebody who hasn’t passed the bar exam.

  115. 115.

    TrishB

    @Comrade Luke: Structural fucking employment, my ass. I’ve now been out of work since April due the second yearly 10% cut at my company. Before this, we took pay cuts and and had furloughs. I have skills that fit almost any industry. I’ve sent out hundreds of resumes in the last 6 months, with not one call back. I spent the afternoon in the unemployment office in downtown Cincinnati, due to bureaucratic requirements for unemployment insurance. As I was standing outside, while waiting for my appointment, a man came up to me to bum a smoke. He said he’d spent the last 8 years in Iraq and couldn’t find a job here anymore. What’s wrong with this picture?

  116. 116.

    KG

    @MikeJ: big firm? $160k sounds about right. Smaller firms, much less (I know from experience). The turn over in the District Courts is going to become a huge issue, I think, at least in the legal world.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    My take is that it was not so much the cleavage as the preëmptive fauxrage about it from “concerned citizens” who got wind of it.

    I would have liked to see her do “California Gurls” with Elmo pimped out as Snoop Dogg. Mmm . . . pimp Elmo. But I digress.

    Off to bed for me. Had an awful day at work, including–with no warning–my “annual review,” which is a ridiculous concept in the context of the low-level drone job I have. Lots of H.R. blarney, paperwork and thinly veiled intimidation. Ugh.

  118. 118.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Ah. I get it. More fauxrage from the Botox blonde bimbos at FOX and such? They of the Hooters Mondays? Or whatever. Ugh.

    I would have paid lots of monies to see the scenario you described.

    Work–that blows. Fuck ’em and their feeble attempts to wield what little power they have. Hope you sleep well.

  120. 120.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: I got an iTunes ad. Which is better than the batshitcrazy Michele Bachmann ad I usually get. I dig the song. Oh shit. I’m feeling a little more country again. At first, I thought it was a song by JC, and I was confused as it didn’t sound anything like him.

    How are you?

    Oh, my fave JC song, old school.

    And, of course, my fave, new school.

  121. 121.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: A wee bit of a hard edge for the Man in Black yes. But that song still gets my blood going.

    Two days away from me being the total hermit I plan on being this weekend. One day closer to pay day. Also. Too.

  122. 122.

    jurassicpork

    Does anyone else think it’s ironic that Christine O’Donnell is a jerkoff? And has anyone noticed that Fox doesn’t have any black anchors? I mean, Fox is the place where Affirmative Action went to die. How can they be “fair and balanced” when all their top stars are lily white?

    Anyway, on a personal note: We’re gonna have a tough time making the rent on Friday. Anything you kind people could do to help would be greatly appreciated. More details are here or here (Note the new blog).

  123. 123.

    Malron

    This is what conservatives hear every time President Obama gives a speech:

    Here’s little somethin ’bout a Nigga like me
    Never shoulda been voted in as president, you see
    Barack O and I’d like to say
    I’m a biracial politician from around the way

    Since I was a youth, I knew I had clout
    Now I’m the world leader that you read about
    Passin a bill or two
    that’s what the hell I do
    Don’t like Michelle’s style? Well fuck you

    Windy City Gang
    and I’m in it
    My man Rahm’ll punch a hippie in a minute
    with a right left, right left you’re toothless
    until you say “them Chicago boys are ruthless!”

    Everywhere I speak DLC sayin “damn”
    OFA fucking up the program
    then you realize we don’t care
    While your grandpa says no, the grandchildren sayin “yeah”

    Got you drinkin straight out the Valium bottle
    cuz your children see a black man as their role model
    Folk in the South, when they look at me
    they can truly see the last throes of the Confederacy

    They say “How’d that Uppity Negro make it past
    all the traps that we laid, now his foot’s in our ass?
    How does he win in spite of the lies we keep tellin
    Yo, how long before we elect Palin?

  125. 125.

    Martin

    @TrishB: Profits are doing fine. If they’re doing fine, why fuck that up by wasting money on labor?

    One problem is that our business leaders are almost all stupid fucking cowards. They’re too chickenshit to go into new markets, to risk their cash cows and their bonuses and stock options. Exxon could be the biggest green energy company in the world in 5 years. They have the cash and cashflow to pull it off easily and the labor is just sitting out there to make it happen, but they’re all stupid fucking cowards.

    I’m sitting here trying to figure out who to stick some investment dollars in, and I can’t find one company (that I’m not already in) that doesn’t deserve to have their ass kicked by some former soviet republic. It’s pathetic.

  126. 126.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Friend of mine wanted to hang out this weekend. I replied, as politely as possible, nahgunnahappen. I really do have too much shit to do around here plus I just need a break from the world for a weekend.

  128. 128.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: 6:30 AM. Though that’s deceptive cause I snooze tag til about 7:15. Then shower then clothes then shuffle out the door by 7:45. On bus by 8 get me to work by 8:30. And that’s pretty much my mornings until December. Then I get my night habits back.

  130. 130.

    hamletta

    @jurassicpork: Why would we note your new blog, when we made pains to avoid your old blog?

    I’m sorry you’re having a hard time, but you’ve always been a blog whore, utterly oblivious to context.

  133. 133.

    freelancer

    @hamletta:

    You sound so contrite, as if JP is fishing for webhits because he’s in some truly dire straits. I wasn’t sure, but seeing as how you’re also trolling other people, you are being an ASSHOLE. Don’t use ‘we’ in this place and presume you speak for anyone else but yourself.

    Cheers

  137. 137.

    John Bird

    That’s FoxNation.com if I’m not mistaken. It’s the real Fox News page, the one for their viewers – a ‘news’ aggregator that finds slimy questionable shit that they somehow DIDN’T produce themselves, at least not directly.

  138. 138.

    mak

    Speaking of scary people and things, the Pat Toomey ads that are plastered all over this page lead to a scary warning page alerting me to the fact that the Toomey website “is untrusted.” Heh. Can say that again.

  139. 139.

    bago

    It’s an entertainment page and everyone pictured is an entertainer. That’s not interesting. What is interesting is that 66% of the stories on the entertainment page are about Obama.

    //starts reading thread to see if this point has been noted.

  140. 140.

    NobodySpecial

    If Obama was to say that he had Trick Daddy’s ‘America’ on his ipod, they’d never get it.

  142. 142.

    Uloborus

    @TrishB:
    Republicans. You can throw in a lot of nuance, but it will still come back to ‘Republicans’.

    @asiangrrlMN:
    I have been on the business end of witch hunts before (a weird thing to find myself saying, but I guess everyone creative does). All it really takes is passing the arbitrary defining line of good taste or morality of one person, and a lot of other people freak out and hop on board. If children are somehow distantly involved a LOT of people freak out REALLY BADLY. Again, all it takes is one person. There’s some term for that, some kind of veto, that covers situations where you’re guaranteed to offend somebody.

  143. 143.

    El Cid

    Obama could fuck with ’em by showing up to NASCAR races, pro-wrestling matches, and monster truck rallies. And having lots of country on his iPod.

  144. 144.

    Cris

    @JGabriel: Seriously, that’s a pretty ridiculous oversight. How minimal was the WordPress QA that something like that got through?

    I can’t be bothered to confirm this, but I’ll lay odds that these wacky things that happen on John’s blog are due to third-party WordPress plugins, not WordPress itself.

    Now, you can still blame WordPress for making it easy for developers to make plugins, or for distributing them without warranty. But blaming WP for things like the single-hyphen problem is like blaming Apple for freeware iPhone apps that crash.

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