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You are here: Home / Priorities. Ur Doin’ It Wrong.

Priorities. Ur Doin’ It Wrong.

by John Cole|  February 18, 20114:06 pm| 47 Comments

This post is in: Technically True but Collectively Nonsense

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Sullivan passes on the information that the Atlantic fact-checks… poems.

When I think of what needs to be fact-checked at the Atlantic, poems are not at the top of my list. I’m betting you can guess where those fact-checking assets might be better used…

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  1. 1.

    Howlin Wolfe

    February 18, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    I’ll make a guess — McBlargle?

  2. 2.

    nestor

    February 18, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Poems, how do they work?

  3. 3.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    February 18, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Rough winds do shake those darling buds, don’t they?

  4. 4.

    JPL

    February 18, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Well..that just takes the cake. I know it’s five somewhere and after all the attacks on the middle class this week, I’m going to have a few german beers.

  5. 5.

    cathyx

    February 18, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Do poems need to be accurate?

  6. 6.

    Sentient Puddle

    February 18, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Think you might want to include the link at least.

    What he describes sounds more like basic editing. I suppose in a really strained way you could describe editing as fact-checking (in that editors try to preserve the author’s intentions), but I think he’s just calling it the wrong thing.

  7. 7.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 18, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    Maybe they should have McArgleBargle start writing poetry.

  8. 8.

    justawriter

    February 18, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    You never know when some poet will try to sneak in a dactyl into an iambic pentameter. Damn libruls messing with our sonnets.

  9. 9.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 18, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    Nevermind, we’d start getting haikus with 170 syllables and limericks with 500 lines.

  10. 10.

    sukabi

    February 18, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    you know, McArdle may not even be a real person… she may be one of these “fake personas“… you know damn well if the Air Force has been seeking a contract to do this that the GOP has been using it’s own army of “virtual personas” to push their odious policies… think McArdle should have her forehead tattooed “Virtual Zombie Lies”

  11. 11.

    jl

    February 18, 2011 at 4:15 pm

    What has Cole done with Tunch?
    I want to know, a bunch.
    Even though I have a hunch
    the tale will spoil my lunch.

  12. 12.

    Tom Levenson

    February 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    “So,” the fact checker queried in red in the margins, “are you sure that rough beast was slouching? Wouldn’t you call it more of a lope, perhaps?”

  13. 13.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    Tentatively, until
    Atlantic’s fact check is through

  14. 14.

    nestor

    February 18, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    I think I met Alice Quinn once.

    It was a dark and stormy night…

  15. 15.

    grillo

    February 18, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    I multiply seven by ten,
    one thousand more, multiply then.
    That makes seven hundered.
    Oh! I have blundered.
    My calc has gastritis again!

  16. 16.

    cleek

    February 18, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    and it’s not even “fact-checking”. the examples Sullivan gives are 1. basic proof-reading for grammar and punctuation and 2. a simple copy editing process failure.

    someone should fact-check his posts

  17. 17.

    RalfW

    February 18, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    I’ve given up on Andrew. In 2007-8 he kept me from thinking the country had gone insane. But now that the country has gone crazy, he’s useless. Utterly, foolishly pointless. He linked to McArrrgle, Mc-freakin-Arrrgle for commentary about the situation in Wisconsin.

    Sure he has some obligation to link to his house-mates. But on Scott Walker, McArrrgle can’t offer a damn thing except maybe confirmation of Andrew’s misunderstanding of Wisconsin’s budget situation.

  18. 18.

    Violet

    February 18, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    Fact checking poems? That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.

    “A rose by any other name…would never be Megan McArdle and she still can’t do mathematics to an acceptable standard.”

    There. Fact check that.

  19. 19.

    geg6

    February 18, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Why in the fuck would you need to fact check poems? Seriously? This, from the publication that made Megan McArdle their business and economics major? That Atlantic? For reals?

  20. 20.

    jl

    February 18, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    I dunno, a google search reveals no record of any babes striding the blast.

    Them poets been getting away with stuff for years.

    Brooks or Will should write something about the scandal, poets being mostly liberal and all.

  21. 21.

    jl

    February 18, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    @cleek: OK, now it makes more sense. Sullivan is confused.

  22. 22.

    cleek

    February 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    Accountants! To your ledgers!
    Mr Laffer has a curve.
    And this grand curve does measure
    How large a pile you deserve.

    While Uncle Sam would increase
    What he takes and what he spends,
    You can see ’tis less he needs
    And yet thereby more he gets!

  23. 23.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    There once was a lass from the ‘Lantic
    That claimed to be quite pedantic
    But lo and behold
    There were errors untold
    When working with numbers gigantic

  24. 24.

    MattR

    February 18, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead: Bravo!

    Encore. Encore!!

  25. 25.

    cleek

    February 18, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    (fuck you, ajax edit bullshit.)

    here’s my contribution, with it’s final stanza:

    Accountants! To your ledgers!
    Mr Laffer has a curve.
    And this grand curve does measure
    How large a pile you deserve.

    While Uncle Sam would increase
    What he takes and what he spends,
    You can see ‘tis less he needs
    And yet thereby more he gets!

    So let us withhold the gross
    And keep all our bright gold tight
    Uncle Sam’s coffers will thus grow
    With a bounty infinite!

  26. 26.

    HRA

    February 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    I’ll bet they won’t even go near some of the poems that cross my desk daily. Maybe I should send them some samples.

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Bravo from me, too!

  27. 27.

    lllphd

    February 18, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    yeah. on the WI stuff, all he’s posted so far is a shot of a poster with crosshairs on walker, “don’t retreat, reload.” have we learned nothing?

    would be a valid point if it weren’t for the fact that this does NOT in any way represent what’s going on there.

    the other post is very cursory, but refers to, of all people, joke line, with whom he agrees that we have to tighten belts.

    i swear, i worry that, in order to get through this recent illness, they upped his steroid dose to eye-popping levels. he even posted a link to some gory video game stuff.

    what is up with this guy?

  28. 28.

    piratedan

    February 18, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    There once was a blog called Atlantic
    that selectively caused folks to panic
    when logic applied
    to their unresearched lies
    made them seem no more than moranic

  29. 29.

    jl

    February 18, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    Reading the BJ blog
    Been ever a hideous slog.
    The owner’s manic depressed,
    ever over stressed,
    the others mad, stern, licentious, repressed.
    And now the ultimate curse,
    the thing is infested with verse.

  30. 30.

    Warren Terra

    February 18, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    It still is Winter
    But the comments might make this
    The thread of the year.

  31. 31.

    jl

    February 18, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    So, I haven’t mentioned this because I am so polite.

    Look, so ‘blog rebuild’ Big deal, oh boy goody!

    As I remember we were promised dioramas, free booze, and strippers.

    But Nada. And now, the money bags owner, who admits that he makes a fortune off this blog, and I qoute: “I AM MADE OF MONEY”, and was the brass ball swank to brag about to our poor “lesser person” faces, does not even provide regular RosieReports, LilyHeadlines, or high level Executive TunchBriefs.

    I DEMAND A BJ POETRY CORNER!

    POETRY CORNER, or we all go to BJ square and protest until we get what we want.

    Edit: No BJ Holodeck either. Where did that promise go to?

  32. 32.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 18, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    There was once a kitteh called Tunch
    He had fans by the bunch
    He liked his kibble to have a crunch
    and his minion to provide him with lunch

  33. 33.

    freelancer

    February 18, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    Atlantic, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.
    Atlantic two dollars and twentyseven cents February 18 2011.
    I can’t stand my own mind.
    Atlantic when will we end the human tax?
    Go fuck yourself with your fifth column.
    I don’t feel good don’t bother me.
    I won’t write my manifesto till I’m in my right mind.
    Atlantic when will you be angelic?
    When will you take off your clothes? (Please don’t!)
    When will you look at yourself through the grave?
    When will you be worthy of your million Mental Health Breaks?
    Atlantic why are your calculators full of GI issues?
    Atlantic when will you send your Pink Himalayan Salt to the Middle East?
    I’m sick of your insane demands.
    When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I
    need with my centrism?
    Atlantic after all it is you and I who are perfect not
    the next world.
    Your machinery is too much for me.
    You made me want to be smart.
    There must be some other way to settle this argument.
    Change your blog color!
    …

  34. 34.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 18, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    @jl:

    high level Executive TunchBriefs.

    I thought Tunch needs neither boxer nor briefs.

  35. 35.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 18, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    There once was a bunch of haters
    That picked on a fierce cogitator
    But Megan’s not lame
    If anything’s the blame
    It’s her stomach troubled calculator

  36. 36.

    Badger by Proxy

    February 18, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    The Daily Dish shows
    how much thought goes into the prose
    factless it flows

  37. 37.

    jl

    February 18, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    As it now stands,
    Tunch’s anal glands
    Are in unknown hands.

  38. 38.

    sukabi

    February 18, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    There once was a gaggle of bloggers
    That pounced on a delicate flower
    But Megan’s got game
    Never accepting the blame
    For her colonitis toilet cloggers.

  39. 39.

    nestor

    February 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    There was once a Hamsher
    Who was not a Hamsher.
    And she was followed on twitter ever since.

  40. 40.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    @jl:
    Keep your paws where I can see them
    –Tunch

  41. 41.

    Jack Bauer

    February 18, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    There once was a man from the Atlantic
    Gay and from the UK was the story
    His liberal ideas were only a tic
    As he’s just another fucking Tory.

  42. 42.

    arguingwithsignposts

    February 18, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    when Sully starts allowing comments, you can wake me the fuck up. until then, neck punch!

  43. 43.

    arguingwithsignposts

    February 18, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    hmmm. needs more m_c to make it realz, cudlips!

  44. 44.

    cleek

    February 18, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    a two by four
    to the head of these facts
    to make them dance
    to the tune i call
    i am mick ardil
    i have a belly full of pain
    and a husband of lies
    my calculator
    is
    broken

    eat
    the pink
    salt

  45. 45.

    Josh

    February 18, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    I take it they have determined that everything does not depend on a red wheelbarrow and are still researching whether the bird said “Go, go, go.”

  46. 46.

    mclaren

    February 18, 2011 at 11:39 pm

    The solution seems obvious: require Megan McArdle to write all her blogs in verse.

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