Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How stupid are these people?

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

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You may have heard about the big profile of Pam Geller in the Times this weekend. I’m not linking to it, but you can read Zandar’s summary here.

I’d like to ask: why? Her blog has only half the traffic, roughly, of this blog. Where’s the Times profile of John?

I’m genuinely curious how the media decides which bloggers to fluff.

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  3. 3.

    Menzies

    John doesn’t push Randian bullshit or yell Islamophobic slogans at the top of his electronic lungs purely to start shitstorms over whatever an isolated group of Muslims are doing somewhere in New York City.

    In other words, you want to get fluffed in the Times, you’d better be spurting all over the place.

  4. 4.

    Loneoak

    My favorite part of this article:

    Her closest partner is Robert Spencer, the proprietor of Jihadwatch.org. Incorporation papers for their American Freedom Defense Initiative list as founding members Anders Gravers, a Danish “anti-Islamization” activist (“Jihad is the knife slicing the salami of freedom”) and John Joseph Jay (“There are no innocents in Islam”).

    Jihad is the knife slicing the salami of freedom! That has to be a Balloon Juice tag. The formula is wonderfully flexible:

    Pam Geller is the knife cutting the cheese of rational discourse.

  6. 6.

    beltane

    If John joined up with European far-right and neo-Nazi groups I’m sure the Times would shower him with their love. You can’t be too rich, too thin, or too fascist these days.

  9. 9.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    I’m genuinely curious how the media decides which bloggers to fluff.

    Cup size.

    But this is actually a good development. It takes about .3 seconds to realize the woman has issues. The more people know about her, the more she’ll poison anyone who supports her or will even stay in the same room with her.

  10. 10.

    beltane

    @Loneoak: That is AWESOME. Let’s see. Maybe McMegan’s new title can be “the spoon that scoops the whipped cream of prosperity”.

  11. 11.

    smiley

    I think they did a profile on her because she is a fairly loud voice in a local New York story: Park51.

  12. 12.

    El Cid

    Hey, I wonder if a media figure crusading against Jews and Judaism would get a huge New York Times profile with both positive and negative aspects?

  13. 13.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Where’s the profile of John?

    Is there anything we don’t know about him at this point?

  14. 14.

    KG

    yeah, it seems obvious, squeaky wheel and all that… She raises a shitstorm every other week. She gets attention from the Daily Show and Colbert, she gets attention from the cable news blowhards… plus, she lives in New York, so it makes the gig easy.

  15. 15.

    JenJen

    If John became besties with Michelle Malkin, set his hair on fire over stupid shit regularly and made sure cameras were there to capture all the dumb-ass crap he said, well, I bet he’d be sitting at the “Morning Joe” roundtable in no time.

    Luckily, Cole doesn’t strike me as much of an attention slut.

  22. 22.

    Uloborus

    I am very taken with Benen’s analysis of news media bias, so let me try and apply it:

    Geller is a freakshow, so she’s a more exciting topic. She makes bloggers look like freakshows, so she reinforces their feeling of being Very Serious Journalists, unlike bloggers or activists of any kind. John is moderate on most issues, so he’s irrelevant – they need to show the extremes, no matter how mismatched, so that everyone understands that caring about anything is childish. And since all political ideas are inherently and by definition juvenile, a proper adult has no problems drawing attention to her in a very flattering way. It shows how mature and uninvolved they are that they’re complimentary to the freakshows who are what all political zeal really amounts to anyway.

    Does that sound convincing?

  23. 23.

    ruemara

    Which ever one pushes the rightwing tard button hardest, I suppose. And who can I send my “FUCK YOU, Times” for giving this evil bitch any more validity?

    Also, too, FUCK THIS BING AD!

  24. 24.

    gbear

    Pam Geller is the knife cutting the cheese of rational discourse.

    She’s breaking the winds of reason.

  25. 25.

    Moses2317

    John, if you could find yourself some billionaire sugar daddies, and forget everything you know about reality, then maybe the NYT would profile you. The fact that you weren’t profiled must mean you are doing something right.


    Winning Progressive

  29. 29.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    It could be that John Cole is unwilling to have anything above thigh level appear as photographic evidence of his existence. I mean, maybe they just don’t want to run a picture of his knees…?

    And in other news, speaking of this blog, I just met SiubhanDuinne!! She was in my town/her hometown for a hs reunion, and we got brunch!

    She’s a lovely person and I highly encourage anyone who may want to meet a lovely person to angle to meet her.

  34. 34.

    MikeBoyScout

    Salami is not of freedom, and those who would say otherwise are trapped! Into frittering his life away being nurse-maid to a lot of garlic eaters…” ;-)

    It’s a Wonderful Political System!

  35. 35.

    gbear

    Didn’t Ken Mehlman just discover the salami of freedom? I read something about it somewhere…

  37. 37.

    SRW1

    I’m genuinely curious how the media decides which bloggers to fluff

    John Cole just isn’t that good at this hating thing. And he does cute animal pics. How does that help keeping up the rage against Islamofascists?

  38. 38.

    joel hanes

    Pam Geller is a disposable plastic “knife” which cannot cut the juicy filet of rational political commentary — but the knife does have a woman with big tits molded into the handle, so there’s that.

  39. 39.

    Eric U.

    if John was an ex-Democrat, he would have been on my TV enough that I would recognize his voice from the next room with the volume muted.

  41. 41.

    Martin

    John hasn’t started a religious war recently. Do something interesting and they’ll profile you.

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    That god damned Bing ad is about to make me homicidal.
    If I wanted to be dragged to the bottom I would read what JMN posts. And then cut my wrists.

  45. 45.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Cool. It’s neat when BJers meet in person.

    @John Cole: I dunno. Throw in the drinking and the random assholes you toss at your commentariat, and I think it’d be a fascinating read. You’re grumpy and curmudgeonly, too. Sure, you are not a hater, but you rant so wonderfully. I would love to see a profile of you in the NYT. Mebbe with a pic of Tunchie instead of you!

    P.S. You guys are in rare form today. Keep it up!

  46. 46.

    Rugosa

    Pam Geller is a raging narcissist. Early on, she posted the video of an interview given from outside her bathroom. I couldn’t tell if she was actually on the toilet (the angle was right), but the whole bathroom theme was perfect. She also videoed herself ranting with her young daughters in the background. I can’t be sure, but I think they were rolling their eyes.

    Every time she attended a function, she would post a photo of herself with the most important person there, always with most of her hair fluffed forward over her shoulders.

    I just checked her site (I always take an ativan first) and her reply to the article goes on and on and ON. When did she have time to write it? I had to laugh when she objected to the Times’ comment that she “arched her back” at a beach shoot. Have you seen the banner of her site????

  47. 47.

    AR

    Pamela almost single handedly made Park51 into the national political football that it is today. Thus, she is an very influential person, as pathetic as that is.

    Democrats ignore the DFH bloggers as agreeing with them might anger the fee fees of the right wing puke funnel. Thus, no profile for John.

  48. 48.

    eemom

    @Martin:

    He did do something interesting! He killed the public option with his rampant republican journolisting misogyny!

    And his obsession with typos, also too.

  51. 51.

    cdmarine

    It’s just a demonstration of what those of us on the left have been saying for years: the right wing in this country has an organized media and messaging machine in a way the left could hardly dream of. They take fringe nutcases like Pammy and they amplify and mainstream their craziness by passing it up the GOP media food chain. Eventually it hits Fox, and then suddenly it’s “news” and all the other networks have to cover it, too. The left doesn’t have anything even remotely resembling this. That’s why Pammy can shout nutbag conspiracy theories like a crazy person on a street corner and get profiled in the NY Times, and John can get twice the traffic from actual, you know… readers, and he might as well be shouting to the wind for all the attention it gets him (or any of us).

    This is also why it’s so maddening when people play the “balanced” game of saying “Oh, both sides have their crazy, fringe, nutbags.” Yes, they do, but the nutbags on the right have the ear of people in media and government. The nutbags on the left have the ear of the guy holding the sign next to him at the rally.

  53. 53.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    @John Cole:

    In defense of the NY Times, how many column inches can you fill with discussions of allergies and neti pots?

    Apparently, we can fill a lot of them.

  54. 54.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:

    She’s a lovely person and I highly encourage anyone who may want to meet a lovely person to angle to meet her.

    Hmmn. Sarcastic SWM blog commenter seeking SF. Gaelic name a plus.

  56. 56.

    Joel

    Wingnuts dominate the comments sections of Times pieces and the mailboxes (paper and electronic) of the Times’ editors. It’s particularly craven aspect of human nature that they would capitulate.

  57. 57.

    Martin

    @Rugosa: When does The Real Housewives of Wingnutopia air on Bravo? Put her on with Sarah, and Victoria Jackson. Who else do we have? I might actually watch that show.

  58. 58.

    jaleh

    I get the Sunday NYT delivered. The rest of the week I read it on line. It infuriated me when I saw Coulter and Geller getting six pages of coverage. The whole issue of the Mosque is fading away in light of the O’Donnell “I’m you” stuff. Why bring attention to it again? WHY? I wish someone could contact NYT and ask them.

  59. 59.

    PaulW

    I’m genuinely curious how the media decides which bloggers to fluff.

    The ones whose dicks taste like cherry lollipops.

  60. 60.

    Beauzeaux

    She’s camera ready.

    She’s nuts but also good looking. Looks trump everything except money and she has plenty of both.

  63. 63.

    El Cid

    @cdmarine:

    This is also why it’s so maddening when people play the “balanced” game of saying “Oh, both sides have their crazy, fringe, nutbags.” Yes, they do, but the nutbags on the right have the ear of people in media and government. The nutbags on the left have the ear of the guy holding the sign next to him at the rally.

    I’m wondering if this fake equivalency — you’ve got TeaTard lunatics screaming about ObamaHitlerStalin, and you’ve got public workers in France protesting pension cuts over high finance changes, same things, both extremists right? — will be the actual theme of the Jon Stewart ‘Rally to Restore Sanity,’ because I fear it will be.

  64. 64.

    Menzies

    @El Cid:

    I can answer that question for you right now – of course it will be, because for all Jon Stewart might personally be a leftist, he already isn’t taken seriously by the right and he won’t be taken seriously by anyone if he should become one of the ones crying out for, say, prosecutions against war crimes in the previous administration.

  65. 65.

    Aaron Baker

    Hey, it’s thanks to Pam Geller that I know Andy Warhol is spinning in his grave. You can’t put a price on information like that.

  66. 66.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Beauzeaux: I see the nuts part, but not the good-looking part. Then again, I am not attracted to crazy.

    @Alwhite: Pammy puts the ass in the asshole of the aethers.

    I just think it’s a sad state of affairs when the so-called Grey Lady publishes articles on Coulter and Pammy in the same issue.

    @El Cid: I worry about that, too. I think Colbert will make sure it’s not, though.

  68. 68.

    Donald G

    @Loneoak:

    Jihad is the knife slicing the salami of freedom! That has to be a Balloon Juice tag. The formula is wonderfully flexible:

    I thought the Salami of Freedom was kept in Nick Gillespie’s pants where the Jihad can’t get it. :)

  70. 70.

    Linda Featheringill

    Maybe the NYT, sensing a great turning to the right at the upcoming election, has decided to indulge in what might be termed semi-fascism. The editors might not endorse an outright dictator but they would be willing to suck up to the meanies.

    It is a shame. There are some good people working for the Times.

  71. 71.

    drunken hausfrau

    Sorry, but… TITS and ASS!!!! Pammy is always showing off those jugs and usually wearing something inappropriately tight, shiny, and very tacky. Plus she has all that hair… I do think some idiot suckers in the media have just never gotten over their 12 year old selves.

    I know this is sexist. Too friggin bad.

    Drunken Hausfrau +4

  72. 72.

    Svensker

    @John Cole:

    In defense of the NY Times, how many column inches can you fill with discussions of allergies and neti pots?

    Yeah, but what about the nekkid mopping and scented candles?

  73. 73.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @JenJen:

    Luckily, Cole doesn’t strike me as much of an attention slut Calamity Jane Hamsher.

    Fixited.

  77. 77.

    drunken hausfrau

    Wait… OK, the nekkid mopping is kind of kinky… but still, it doesn’t bring out the sparkle ponies that Pammy wearing that pepto bismol pink spangly dress, with giant titties and lots of hair extensions on the cruise of the damned did. She is the only one who gives Sarah Palin a run for the money in the sparkling stars and boners department.

    And now I need to go bleach my brain.

  78. 78.

    quaint irene

    And in not at all related news…Jack just met up with a skunk.

    Phew! Tomato juice is the traditional de-odorizer. But my vet also recommended Massengil douche. Seriously.

  79. 79.

    R. Porrofatto

    My comment didn’t make it through moderation at the Times. Can’t figure out why, unless it’s because I didn’t pay homage to the paper. Here it is if anyone wants to take a stab at it:

    Wow, it was bad enough when she showed up on 60 Minutes, but to see her picture on the front page of the New York freakin’ Times given her very own puff piece is proof positive of the power of the Internet to aggrandize the deservedly insignificant, and just how low even formerly respected media have sunk. I don’t usually use language like this, but those of us who are familiar with her site and her views know that this woman is a loon, and the NY Times not only just elevated this nut to even greater prominence, but didn’t even capture its subject, to its everlasting shame. People reading this article will have no inkling about just how abhorrent this person is, or even how crazy it is for her to be so profiled in the Times. For example, while “Jack Begg contributed research” to this article, he and the authors completely neglected to inform readers about Ms. Gellers’ detailed 2008 “research” and “investigation” which “proved” Barack Obama was the love child of Malcolm X. I’m not kidding.

    This is the kind of World Weekly News nutcase you move away from on the bus, and the NY Times gives her this kind of publicity? It’s no wonder newspapers are dying.

  81. 81.

    Bubblegum Tate

    @Rugosa:

    She also videoed herself ranting with her young daughters in the background. I can’t be sure, but I think they were rolling their eyes.

    You mean the “My Sharia” (“My Sharona” parody) video? I felt so bad for her poor kids.

  83. 83.

    scav

    “Jihad is the knife slicing the salami of freedom”

    wait a minute, just one gosh-darn minute, what are the freedom fries crowd doing with a eurotrash salami here? Seriously Salami! Elitist foodie la-di-dah fascist cylindrical meat product . . . shouldn’t that be, I almost said Vienna Sausages but they’ve got that foreign stench too, no damn it, it should be the red-blooded Tube Steak of Freedom here!

  84. 84.

    quaint irene

    r — Blogger, Provocateur, Lightning Rod – NYTimes.com

    God, how I hate that word ‘provocateur.’ It’s a ‘get out of jail free’ card when some, usually conservative, blowhard sticks his foot in his mouth or finally says something way over the top. They’ll always demure, ‘no, no, I’m not a racist/xenophobe/morally bankrupt moron. I’m only trying to stimulate discussion and dialogue!”
    Ann Coulter’s another one who hides behind that particular word.

  86. 86.

    Ross Hershberger

    And in not at all related news…Jack just met up with a skunk.

    We get skunked periodically. My wife found a cure using baking soda, peroxide and a little soap. Applied properly it works great. The tomato juice cure is a half measure, but peroxide doesn’t go with vodka.

  88. 88.

    Rugosa

    @Martin:

    Inspired!
    She could certainly fit in with the bitchy meme. And she does look a little like Theresa from New Jersey. But I don’t think she does “housewifely” stuff. Actually, I wonder how many women friends she has. I looked back at some of her archived stuff. I saw only one pic of her with another woman in it, and that was a group. The others were all of men or of her with men.

  91. 91.

    Ross Hershberger

    Single mother of 4? Shouldn’t she be busy getting herself a husband to submit to? Or are celebrity Righties exempt from that interpretation of the Bible?

  92. 92.

    JPL

    Today’s Times was easy to read. I also just have Sunday delivery and I normally sit outside reading it while drinking my coffee. With so many pages dedicated to quacks, it wasn’t an all day ritual.

    One of the commenters on Zandar’s link mentioned that maybe it was Be Kind to Bigots weeks at the Times. lol

  93. 93.

    Rugosa

    @R. Porrofatto:
    Pammygirl certainly did not consider that a puff piece. She called it “an extraordinarily nasty and fallacious piece.” Go to her site and look at the looooong looping response she wrote.

  94. 94.

    Citizen_X

    @TBogg:

    It’s always all about the tits.

    So, instead of “All the news that fits,” the Times’ masthead slogan is going to be changed to “Tits or GTFO.”

  95. 95.

    4jkb4ia

    Very good, John and Company. Not pretending to be a movement or doing things for the care and feeding of your brand can still get you 2 million visits a month. Maybe I should specify there was no sarcasm in the above.

  96. 96.

    4jkb4ia

    (The Texas Rangers announcer has a very pleasant voice. Our goal for later today is for Cueto to be knocked out by the fourth inning)

  97. 97.

    licensed to kill time

    From the NYT article:

    Colleagues at The Observer remembered her as brassy and vulgar

    Ooooh, I bet she hated that. It’s a good description of her and Coulter.

  99. 99.

    R. Porrofatto

    @Rugosa: Any write-up that doesn’t profile Pamela Geller as one insane piece of work by any definition is a puff piece, regardless of what Mad Pam thinks about it.

  100. 100.

    Southern Beale

    Pam Gellar is profiled because she’s a colorful character, a psychodoodle who launched a protest against the “ground zero” mosque, which is neither at Ground Zero nor a mosque but it matters not.

    John Cole, on the other hand, is a fairly reasonable fellow who writes about fairly reasonable topics for a fairly reasonable audience. And therein lies the difference.

    If it bleeds, it leads.

  102. 102.

    Rugosa

    @Bubblegum Tate:
    Thank you! I had forgotten about that “My Sharia”. I could only watch it with one eye though. The one I called a rant was of her at the kitchen table, making something? Maybe they are the same one? When was it? Maybe on YouTube?

    My impression is that her early stuff was more amateurish and silly. She posted several interviews with John Bolton (whom she idolized) that were embarrassing. Then sympathizers realized what a gold mine she was and started contacting her and feeding her more of their toxic stuff, she hooked up with Robert Spenser and now you have this official-looking series of rants.

    One of her commenters said that a good effect of the Times article was that he found her blog. Another good effect will be that some of the sane people will see it too.

  103. 103.

    4jkb4ia

    (The only good thing about the relentless march of evil that is the Yankees advancing to the ALCS is that I can listen to Jon Miller this afternoon)

  104. 104.

    Triassic Sands

    Why Geller and not Cole?

    Well, John’s basically boring. At his most extreme he’s not much more than annoying.

    Geller is barking mad. She’s the crazy aunt from the attic in a house with no attic (or basement), so she can’t be hidden.

    On the other hand, I have no idea if Geller’s secondary female sexual characteristics influenced the Times, but John has nothing much to show in that area either.

    Suggestion: if John wants to get a profile in the Times, he should probably schedule sex reassignment surgery. That would probably be enough to engender (no pun intended) interest at the NYT.

  105. 105.

    Arclite

    I’m genuinely curious how the media decides which bloggers to fluff.

    Although lots of folks are taking the bait and saying, “It’s cuz she’s a wingnut!” I think the truth is more pedestrian: they do profiles of people who will help sell papers. Back in the day, during the rise of the liberal blogs, WaPo did a profile of Maryscott O’Connor and My Left Wing, despite the fact that other blogs like Dailykos had ten times the traffic. Why? B/C MOC was a chainsmoking, insomniac, over-the-top, hyperbole-spewing, bleeding-heart attack dog. What does family-man Markos have that compares to that? Oh, he had a stomach illness once, and he bikes.

    Pam got profiled b/c she’s an over-the-top racist drama queen. JC and BJ on the other hand are always pointing out the inherent hypocrisy of both wingers and the trad media, so they are automatically disqualified. I’d love to see profiles of JC and Glenn Greenwald, but it will never happen. Ever.

  106. 106.

    Southern Beale

    I kinda remember a Pam Gellar rant where she was in someone’s bathroom during a party, sitting on the john (clothed) with a bottle of wine. Somehow this was all videotaped … ring any bells, anyone?

  107. 107.

    Southern Beale

    I kinda remember a Pam Gellar rant where she was in someone’s bathroom during a party, sitting on the john (clothed) with a bottle of wine. Somehow this was all videotaped … ring any bells, anyone?

  111. 111.

    Fuzz

    They do profiles on these people because these crazy bloggers are so influential in the GOP. With the dems the average blogger is told to shut up by the vp or called a retard by the chief of staff, but with people like her and even more minor ones like Ben Shapiro or Michael Totten, they have an audience that includes influential Repubs and media, and so they’re able to get the ball rolling on their ridiculous memes and various rumors. The average crazy right wing blogger often gets interviewed by crazy right wing radio hosts (Ingraham, Hannity) and then before you know it their message is reaching a huge audience. On the left we have nothing like that, except maybe Kos or Glenn Greenwald, and most left wing politicians and media types dismiss them. If we had unity of message like they do the Democrats would be in a much better place.

  112. 112.

    Mnemosyne

    @drunken hausfrau:

    Ah, yes, the classic song from “A Chorus Line”:

    Dance, 10; Looks 3

    (There was also the version from the Michael Douglas movie version of the show on YouTube, but it was really fucking creepy and the song itself was poorly produced, so I used this one instead.)

  113. 113.

    TrishB

    @jeffreyw:
    1 Qt 3% hydrogen peroxide
    1/4 cup baking soda
    1 tsp. liquid soap (Dawn works best)

    Lather, rinse, repeat. Oh, and don’t put it in a lidded container.

  114. 114.

    Keith G

    @Corner Stone:

    They wanted to do a bit on him but he was too busy slumming at the gay bars.

    Ah…eh…WTF?

    No humor unless the connotation was bad. Cyber bullying is a no no.

  116. 116.

    Stefan

    This is also why it’s so maddening when people play the “balanced” game of saying “Oh, both sides have their crazy, fringe, nutbags.” Yes, they do, but the nutbags on the right have the ear of people in media and government. The nutbags on the left have the ear of the guy holding the sign next to him at the rally.

    It’s worse than that — it’s not that the nutbags on the right have the ear of people in media and government — very often, the nutbags on the right ARE the people in media and the government. There is simply no equivalent candidate on the left, for example, of candidates for national office on the right such as Christine O’Donnell, Sharon Angle, or Joe Miller, and there’s no one in office on the left as radical and simply nihilistic as rightwing current and former officeholders such as Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, John Boenher, Eric Cantor, etc. And look at the media, with Limbaugh and Beck. The right has mainstreamed its nutbags while the left has continued to marginalize theirs.

  120. 120.

    Poopyman

    @russell:
    I can’t agree. When the tits are topped by a screaming Pez dispenser it negates any advantage they might have provided.

    YMMV if you’re a wingnut, I guess.

  121. 121.

    Poopyman

    @monkeyboy:

    I was amazed at how many comments express “love” for her, or positively discuss her photos and how she looks.

    Are there any in there from John Bolton? No way I’m going to go look for myself. I’ve got standards, you know.

  122. 122.

    Bill Arnold

    @Triassic Sands:
    Every few months John posts one of his “prophetic rants”. These are usually worrying; picked at mercilessly in one’s mind, they still ring true.

  124. 124.

    Corner Stone

    @Keith G: He did a whole FP post where he complained that he and buds “had to drive” to find a seedy dive gay bar and drink Heineken.

    I couldn’t care less if that’s where he bought his morning coffee every day.

  126. 126.

    4jkb4ia

    Pam Geller posted a picture of Kagan in a Nazi helmet!? That went through lashon hara and out the other side!

  128. 128.

    honus

    @Poopyman:I can only imagine ending up in the rack with Pam after a whole lot of alcohol, and then I’d chew my arm off to get out. Only guys who never get laid would think Pammy is hot. I guess that means most of the James O’Keefe set. Truth is, I think he set the whole boat thing up as a way he could actually nail Abbie Boudreau. These are the same guys that go to the private rooms in strip bars or went to Club Med back in the day.

  129. 129.

    russell

    When the tits are topped by a screaming Pez dispenser it negates any advantage they might have provided.

    The scary thing in that picture are her eyelashes. They’re like four inches long.

    She’s like a living breathing blow-up doll. Who doubles as a screaming Pez dispenser.

  130. 130.

    scarshapedstar

    I’m genuinely curious how the media decides which bloggers to fluff.

    SATSQ: They fluff the biggest wingnuts they can find.

    On the bright side, maybe we could fool them with some of John’s posts from the Dark Side era… I kid, I kid.

  131. 131.

    Wile E. Quixote

    Pam Gellar is popular for the same reason that Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham are, namely because there are lots of horny conservatives out there who are married to fat, fugly skanks like Maggie Gallagher who want to grab Pam, et al by her ears and fuck her in her pretty little mouth. I call this the “starburst factor” after Rich Lowry.

  137. 137.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @kommrade reproductive vigor:

    If “Screaming Pez dispenser” isn’t added to the BJ Lexicon immediately, I will kick, scream, hold my breath ‘til I turn blue and vote Republican.

    And I will not only join you in your poutrage but raise it by refraining from all witchcraft* and masturbation** and campaigning for Christine O’Donnell unless “red-blooded, tube-steak of freedom” is also added to the BJ Lexicon.

    *I haven’t actually done any witchcraft yet, but I like to keep my options open.

    **Probably TMI.

  141. 141.

    Pat

    I’m a disillusioned Dem who would never consider handing the keys over again. Who knows, it may take eight freaking years or longer to correct what the Republicans have destroyed. I won’t back down and I shudder at the thought of any true blue Dem sitting home on election day knowing the likes of Karl Rove and families like the Palin’s are out there voting for my demise!

  142. 142.

    Bubblegum Tate

    @Southern Beale:

    I kinda remember a Pam Gellar rant where she was in someone’s bathroom during a party, sitting on the john (clothed) with a bottle of wine. Somehow this was all videotaped … ring any bells, anyone?

    I believe that was my first exposure to miss Tits on a Blintz. She was at some dinner party, and out of nowhere brought up “the global jihad,” utterly confusing the other people there, one of whom basically said, “that’s right-wing crazy crap.” So she went to the bathroom to rant about it. It was so fucking weird, yet positively quaint compared to what has come since then.

  143. 143.

    YellowJournalism

    So what I’m taking away from this thread is that John will never be in the Times until he becomes batshit insane and gets a boob job and hair extensions.

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