Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I really should read my own blog.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

This really is a full service blog.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

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  1. 1.

    eastriver

    I swear to God this was the cover for Greg Kihn’s 1982 album NO DICE CINDI.

    I SWEAR.

  7. 7.

    FlipYrWhig

    It’s like Gilbert & George meets M.C. Escher. Obnoxious suit-wearing douchebags endlessly climbing staircases.

  10. 10.

    BGinCHI

    Anyone on the front page post about this? Yglesias got mugged.

    An Evening On The Beltway Yuengling and Minor Assault Circuit

    So . . . I was walking back from the home of Megan McArdle and Peter Suderman and instead of doing the normal thing and taking Q Street west to 5th and then walking south, I wanted to take a shortcut by walking south on North Capitol to then cut southwest on New York. But then lo and behold right by Catania Bakery a couple of dudes ran up from behind, punched me in the head, then kicked me a couple of times before running off.

    Given where he was spending his time, it looks like instant Karma payback.

    Thanks, God.

  12. 12.

    reflectionephemeral

    If Brooks is, as it appears by his facial expression, plotting a practical joke; and if he also, as it appears by his left hand’s position, hiding something; and if he did, in fact, go on to light a fart in the general direction of the Disgraced Former Speaker…

    Well, then I will be a David Brooks fan for life. I don’t care what anyone else says.

  13. 13.

    Dee Loralei

    Hahahah Drifty will have fun with that. Now what’s the title of the album and the song names?

  15. 15.

    Jewish Steel

    Yeah. Huey Lewis album cover for sure.

    @BGinCHI: Doug indicated that he was itching to, but restraining himself. You read TBogg’s take on the evening? Tis wicked.

  17. 17.

    Turgidson

    @BGinCHI:

    I don’t wish random unprovoked violence on anyone, so I’m glad Yglesias is OK.

    But the only reason I can conceive of that anyone should have to spend an evening with McMegan would be to force her, Clockwork Orange style, to watch a movie documenting , mocking, and correcting the arithmetic atrocities and other egregious errors that have appeared on her blog. Only problem is that such a film would be about 3 weeks in length.

    I realize that this may seem like “random, unprovoked violence” – but no, it has very much been provoked.

  18. 18.

    FlipYrWhig

    @BGinCHI: I think it’s all a misunderstanding, and the guy who punched him in the head was actually trying to volunteer his services as an unregulated freelance hair-cutter.

  19. 19.

    JGabriel

    So. Today we hit the debt ceiling, and the House GOPer’s have done nothing to raise it yet. Meanwhile, the Fed has to waste time moving monies around to keep the government open.

    My question is: How much is it costing us to implement all of these cost shifting measures to keep the government running while these evil, irresponsible Republican assholes play around with the country’s economic well-being and global faith in our credit?

    Keep in mind, they’re only 5 months into their two-year reign. We’re not even a quarter of the way through this shit yet.

    .

  20. 20.

    Ghanima Atreides

    via one of the blogs we monitor and mock as needed

    is it from the LoOG?

  21. 21.

    BGinCHI

    @FlipYrWhig: Or he was a proponent of quality public education. Or he had read one too many posts on urban parking lot design, in Helsinki.

  22. 22.

    Turgidson

    Also, too: this is off-topic and has been mentioned by others, but I’m thrilled to see Sullivan FINALLY get reclassified on the Blogroll.

    Took way too long, but better late than never.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    In your grandmother’s day if you wanted to get mugged you had to do it by hand, and it would take hours and hours. Really it just wasn’t possible for normal people to get mugged until the Reagan revolution.

  25. 25.

    JC

    Well, clearly, this is Igor attempting to get (now old) Frankenstein to walk this way

    since there are cell phones now, the movie has to be updated.

    Can we have a thread, at some point, about something important? The Brace Yourselves post by mistermix was the last one that wasn’t snark, really…and even there, no request for positive suggestions – perhaps because nothing can be done, but still…

    Oh, lest I forget:

    What can Obama do about jobs, using executive power?

  27. 27.

    johnsmith1882

    Driftglass’s weekly depantsings of Brooks are worth visiting his site all by themselves. I’m thinking of an MC Escher-type thing, with the stairs all going nowhere, to infinity, called “Both Sides Do It”.

  28. 28.

    MagicPanda

    I know everyone here hates Sullivan, but is he really in the same class as Hugh Hewitt, Halperin, Red State and Malkin?

    Even though he is sometimes wrong, I find Sullivan worth reading.

    (ducking for cover)

  29. 29.

    piratedan

    @MagicPanda: when you’re supposedly serious and you swoon every time the next white hope lumbers up to the podium and spouts the completely unrealistic drivel that is thoroughly debunked by the REAL serious people and then get your undies in a twist while your cheerleading is frowned upon, yes, you need to be mocked until you can prove to do some real work in attempting to translate realistic political questions instead of regurgitating talking points without any real clue as to what they might mean to anyone with a shred of empathy for one’s fellow man or a pulse…..

  32. 32.

    JGabriel

    Caption:

    Hello? 911? Men keep putting their hands on my knee at dinner parties, and now they’re following me!

    .

  37. 37.

    Turgidson

    @piratedan:

    This, pretty much.

    Sullivan’s view of himself as an independent, critical thinker of no party or clique is what makes him such a clown. He’s just as predictable as the others in the Mock as Needed category, but with a different style.

    No matter how batshit insane the GOP gets, he’ll jump at any chance to fall back in love with them. It’s as sure as the sun.

  38. 38.

    Silver

    @MagicPanda:

    Sullivan is worse. The others are loud and proud hacks. Part of Sullivan’s uniquely malignant odor is the fact that he proudly proclaims that he is not a member of said club.

  39. 39.

    Napoleon

    I wonder if REM will now write a song about Matt Y?

    Oh and that Bobo pic is priceless.

  41. 41.

    Jamey

    @MagicPanda: In many ways worse. For reasons better minds than mine already have elaborated.

    (i.e., that Sully wraps his bugfuckery in a veneer of Oxonian polish and the occasional blind-squirrel-finds-a-nut reasoning that helps him see the right side of an issue like torture.)

  43. 43.

    salacious crumb

    hehe stiff crochety conservatives idea of fun!

    is that poop on that wall, by that guy standing?

  46. 46.

    jrs1

    Good stuff. Still I have to wonder if taking the pic from a different site, getting traffic from that pic, and then refusing to give credit isn’t a little over the top dickish even for BJ.

  48. 48.

    Jewish Steel

    @piratedan, turgidson:

    Well said, botha youse.

    Any blogger too chickenshit to allow comments probably shouldve been in the “mock” category all along.

  49. 49.

    Mark S.

    Let’s talk more about Medicare vouchers:

    The Democrats lead in the generic Congressional ballot by a single point, 42% to 41%, with 16% undecided—well within the survey’s margin of error. And yet the trend is unmistakable, as this represents a six-point turnaround from the Battleground survey of late October 2010, where voters supported Republicans by a five-point margin, 47% to 42%.

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    @PurpleGirl:

    I just started reading that book and it seriously is the gayest** thing I’ve ever read. Tom of Finland’s work is less homoerotic than “Dorian Gray.”

    ** Obviously, I don’t mean that as a bad thing, just a comment that, really, it’s very, very gay, particularly for something written over 100 years ago.

  51. 51.

    Mark S.

    @Josie:

    I loved this quote of Ryan:

    If I could sum up that disagreement in a couple of sentences, I would say this: Our plan is to give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers.

    See, when people starve to death, they are simply denying business to inefficient farmers and grocers.

  52. 52.

    Stan of the Sawgrass

    Horrible. Just Horrible. (back to the Bobo thread.)
    Not seeing it as an album cover, though. It’s a poster for a movie–a vanity project somewhat on the order of Pavarotti’s “Yes, Giorgio!,” but with many hi-jinks with a goofy liberal sidekick (played by the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz- a real straw man!)
    The movie is now “writing itself” in my head, no matter how hard I try to ignore it. I’m sticking my fingers in my ears, singing filthy limericks, and it’s no use– I can barely see the screen for all the ad copy running over Bobo’s phiz like the Mississippi flood. What’s the visual equivalent of an earworm?
    The album cover thing is bad enough– you start thinking of song titles, band types and arrangements, etc. But plot treatments are swimming unbidden before the better angels of my nature– Bobo stumbles on the formula for a “banality bomb” that might destroy his credibility forever (cough!!cough-snort-cough!!) unless he can keep it away from the evil Dr. Thugman.
    There’s more, but I’m getting bored, too. I’ll be fine as long as I don’t go back and look… at … the … damn….picture.
    If only I could stop seeing it!
    God damn you Doug J!!

  54. 54.

    Jared

    Can I request that Malkin be taken off the sites you monitor and mock as needed?

    When’s the last time anyone paid enough attention to her to bother mocking her?

  55. 55.

    Jim C

    Wasn’t that the cover to the critically lambasted rock opera Secrets and Staircases by David + David*?

    *Brooks & Broder

  56. 56.

    JPL

    Where is bobo and who are the other folks on the stairs?
    BTW..It’s almost time for Chuck and I demand an open thread.

  57. 57.

    driftglass

    I will always humbly defer to the awesome power of Reality.
    She wins every time.
    However, she also gives me ideas…

    As to “Why Wipe the Decks with Sully?” when he stops deliberately using a fake Conservative history every bit as self-absolvingly dishonest as Palin’s in order to prop up his career — just like Palin — while he chastises Palin for doing exactly yhe same thing…I will stop carving him up like the Christmas ham.

    Not that it matters in the slightest, of course: however righteous and eloquent and devastatingly factual our little cries down here in blogger Whoville are, we will continue to be completely ignored by the Sullivans and Brookses and all the rest forever and ever.

  61. 61.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Stan of the Sawgrass:

    It’s a poster for a movie—a vanity project somewhat on the order of Pavarotti’s “Yes, Giorgio!,” but with many hi-jinks with a goofy liberal sidekick (played by the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz- a real straw man!)

    Roberto Begnini plays the straw man.

  62. 62.

    stuckinred

    Lawrence O’Donnell taking the major victory lab. He said all along today Trump would bail TODAY! He’s killin the village!

  63. 63.

    Mark S.

    Geez, I went to Sully’s to see where this photo came from and came across this: The Lost Ending to Election. Paramount Pictures wasted no time time getting that pulled for copyright.

    Isn’t that stupid? If anything, a lost ending would generate interest in your film. Instead, you come off as a bunch of assholes.

  65. 65.

    chamois

    I am not convinced that is Bobo unless I get a close-up of his little bunny teeth.

    If it is indeed the Bobo, then I my caption suggestion is:

    “Oh, boy! I don’t have to pretend to have a new idea for at least 3 weeks!”

  70. 70.

    dan

    It’s the cover to the Men in Suits album “Stairway Dance”.

    You can dance on the stairway
    You can leave the stairs behind

  72. 72.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    @stuckinred: I love Lawrence. So much better than the childish Olbermann.

    Even Cenk is doing a good job, now that he no longer has to pander to the firebaggers.

  76. 76.

    stuckinred

    @harlana: Rush Limbaugh says he can’t explain it. He said on his radio show that it was “inexplicable” that Newt Gingrich expressed support for Obamacare’s individual mandate and attacked Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan, according to Mediaite.com.

    “I am not going to justify this. I am not going to explain it,” Limbaugh said. “The attack on Paul Ryan, the support for an individual mandate in health care? Folks, don’t ask me to explain this. There is no explanation!

    “If Newt wanted to throw a nuclear bomb into the whole Republican apparatus, he did it with the two comments that we played for you just now on Meet the Press yesterday.”

  77. 77.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    I know O’Donnell keeps saying TPaw wins the nomination by default, but he’s wrong.

    The base wants a freak show, so it’s gonna be a freak, and there’s no bigger freak (sans baggage) than Bachmann.

  80. 80.

    harlana

    at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Andrew Sullivan discussed his blogging past, present and future before a packed lunchtime crowd and it was Sullivan’s initial support for the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq that proved a prominent topic.

    “I supported it like a teenage girl supporting the Jonas Brothers,” confessed Sullivan

  82. 82.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Poor Newt has been out of Congress so long, he still thinks the mandate is a Republican idea.

  86. 86.

    Corner Stone

    @Southern Beale:

    In other news. Mitch Daniels has apparently made it official that he’s running.

    In a blurb on MSNBC earlier I saw MD kiss his wife as she passed him to go onstage for a speech.
    He is tiny.

  89. 89.

    Southern Beale

    @Corner Stone:

    I confess I don’t know jack shit about Daniels except I keep hearing about something rather unsavory related to his marriage? But the only thing I know is that he divorced his wife, she married someone else, and then they got back together. Why is that a big deal?

    I don’t know jack shit about Indiana except it’s right wing wackadoodle central.

  90. 90.

    stuckinred

    @Southern Beale: We’re a loing way from anyone in pro sports coming out. Did you know there are only 26 coaches and/or players in Major League Baseball with a college degree?

  92. 92.

    Corner Stone

    @Southern Beale: I don’t know too much either except for his stint w/ Bush. And his recent whackadoodle decisions in IN as Gov.
    The whole thing where his wife left him, married someone else and then came back? Not relevant to me.
    People are gods damned odd, and will do the damndest things given the chance. Who’s to say whether all that was best for his family or not? Not me.

  93. 93.

    Southern Beale

    @stuckinred:

    I seem to recall a couple NFL and NHL players coming out, but only after they’d retired. You know, that should tell folks something … if they come out after they’re retired there are obviously gay athletes still in the sport.

    I swear, some cultural stereotypes are really hard to kill off. Like you can’t be a talented hockey player and be gay. Who gives a shit? I could care less who sleeps with whom. I’m so FUCKING OVER IT already. America you’re disappointing me.

  95. 95.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    Newt just said he wants to make America like Texas while his opponent Mitch Daniels wants to make America like Beirut.

  97. 97.

    Southern Beale

    @stuckinred:

    Mitch Daniels was a pothead in college? Oh. Join the club.

    Remember when Al Gore admitted to smoking pot in college way back in the ’90s and it was like ZOMG TEH EARTH HAS SLIPPED FROM ITS AXIS!

  98. 98.

    Less Popular Tim

    They stole the idea of wearing suits from The Tubes’s “Completion Backwards Principle”

  99. 99.

    Southern Beale

    @stuckinred:

    Right, no gays in Canada or Europe.

    :-)

    Actually, my beloved Nashville Predators have a really talented LW who is actually from the Nashville area. The exception that proves the rule.

  100. 100.

    stuckinred

    @Southern Beale: Officers found enough marijuana in his room to fill two size 12 shoe boxes, reports of the incident say. He and the other inhabitants of the room were also charged with possession of LSD and prescription drugs without a prescription. … “I don’t make excuses for anything. Justice was served,” he said in an interview on Monday. “I had used marijuana and I was fined for that, and that was appropriate,” he explained.

  105. 105.

    Corner Stone

    @stuckinred: I’m sure they would do what they do. Just saying it’s got nothing to do with me.
    Having been through strange times myself, I know people make family decisions for a lot of reasons.
    I don’t look down, nor sideways on any person with kids who has ended up in a place that’s not easily explainable.

  107. 107.

    SoINeedAName

    Speaking as a physician, there are actually meds available to help you deal with your tiresome obsession over Andrew Sullivan.

    The quick, and gratis, medical advice: GIVE IT A REST!

  108. 108.

    stuckinred

    @Southern Beale: You made reference to the NHL and said”America you’re disappointing me.” and I simply clumsily pointed out that majority of players in that sport are not Americans.

  109. 109.

    Southern Beale

    It’s funny, with Republicans these old drug busts are “ancient history.” See Bush, George W.

    But you know Obama is supposedly a heroin addict, crack addict, pothead, whatever other racial stereotype thingie they can throw out there. I mean, I just learned today via Atlas Shrugged that Obama dated a crack whore. Who knew?!!

    You know, the right feeds the rumor mill with these viral e-mails they put out via direct e-mail companies like Patriot Depot or whatever it’s called. The left doesn’t do that. I’m not saying we should, I just find it interesting that we don’t.

  113. 113.

    Southern Beale

    @stuckinred:

    OH. I GET IT NOW.

    I mean, America you’re disappointing me for making a big deal about whether someone comes out as gay or not. I wasn’t referring to the nationality of the gay person.

  114. 114.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Southern Beale:

    I mean, I just learned today via Atlas Shrugged that Obama dated a crack whore.

    It was the 80s; everyone did it, right? ::looks around, shuffles feet:: Uh, nevermind.

  115. 115.

    stuckinred

    @Southern Beale: Arrghhhh! “America” has little to do with players in pro sports coming out. You made the case yourself, some have come out after they retire. It’s the makeup of the locker room and the intense environment surrounding making and staying on a team. People devote their entire lives to making the show and they don’t want to fuck it up being a pioneer. They asked Hank Arron yesterday if Jason Heyward, a young African American on the Braves, was aware of his responsibilty to minority kids. Hank said, “he need to focus on the game right now, he can do that later”.

  116. 116.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    @Southern Beale:

    i know its probably irresponsible not to speculate, but, people have been pretending to quietly speculate about the “closeted guy at cnn” for years.

    so this guy comes out, so anderson cooper doesn’t have to?

    i mean if a straight chick who is married to a closeted gay guy is a beard, what is a guy, who takes credit for being “the gay guy” so another guy who won’t, or can’t come out.(because after all this, if anderson cooper really is straight, who the hell is gonna listen?)

    of course it doesn’t matter,except apparently it does.

    barkley basically said, if a guy can play, he can play….but kobe got fined for using a slur in the middle of a game…so it doesn’t sort of matter, kind of.

  117. 117.

    Southern Beale

    @stuckinred:

    “America” has little to do with players in pro sports coming out.

    Eh I’d hazard a guess that locker room culture is as much a reflection of the culture at large as anything else. If more people went “he’s gay? *yawn*” then I’d say it would be less a factor in pro sports.

    Problem is professional sports is mired in this Christianist bullshit, as well as the whole machismo bullshit. I was shocked when I learned how many hockey players are evangelical Christians. They’re recruited, it’s like a fucking cult. You can talk about the gay agenda but there is definitely an evangelical Christian agenda and I say to the gays: bring it on. It’s time for these cultural stereotypes to crumble.

  120. 120.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    @Southern Beale:

    i have serious trouble imagining what backlash there could be for anderson cooper, at this point. but maybe i am giving too much credit to whomever watches cnn.

    i am making a joke, mostly about lemon coming out, having anything to do with anderson cooper. i just don’t see what backlash there would be in media.

  121. 121.

    Southern Beale

    Damn, they’re dropping like flies

    FORMER VILLANOVA BASKETBALL STAR AND MUSICIAN WILL SHERIDAN:
    ‘I’M GAY
    __
    “I’m trying to have a voice and I want that voice to reach as many people as it can,” he said. “I mean, look at me. I’m black. I’m gay. I’m like a quadruple minority and I feel like a little piece of me resides in everybody. Maybe there’s a kid out there who doesn’t think he’s OK and he can look at me and say, ‘OK, he played college basketball. He went overseas. He has a music career and now he’s living his life. Now he’s who he wants to be and he’s happy and confident and comfortable.’ It’s my responsibility to talk about that.”

  123. 123.

    stuckinred

    @Southern Beale: If you are going to play in the NHL or NFL you goddam sure better be macho. Mofo’s are tryin to knock your dick in the dirt (ice) at all times!

  124. 124.

    ...now I try to be amused

    Do a Google image search on “david brooks meme” and see what’s at #1.

  127. 127.

    ...now I try to be amused

    @stuckinred:

    The NHL is down to only 3.5 per cent Russian-born players, a figure that doesn’t include Ukranians, Latvians and Kazakhs.

    That might be due to the presence of the (mostly) Russian Kontinental Hockey League.

  130. 130.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    Looking at the photo: i didn’t know they had staircases at Applebees.

  132. 132.

    Ghanima Atreides

    @driftglass:

    As to “Why Wipe the Decks with Sully?” when he stops deliberately using a fake Conservative history every bit as self-absolvingly dishonest as Palin’s in order to prop up his career—just like Palin—

    totally agree with this.

    my latest peeve is Daniel “League of the South” Larison.
    these fuckers are a thousand times more toxic than Palin because they give the Wingularity a veneer of “reasonableness”.
    The guy is a RACIST.
    Why in the name of all the Erinyes ever give any of those assclowns a link and a nod of fucking agreement?
    DougJ and Cole even nod approvingly at Douthat de temps en temps and they tonguebathed EDK everday.

  133. 133.

    Another Bob

    Yes, that’s the album “Happy Ending” by a group called “Putz.”

  135. 135.

    Mark S.

    @Ghanima Atreides:

    DougJ and Cole even nod approvingly at Douthat de temps en temps

    You got any links? I seriously can’t remember either of them doing that.

    What I find funny about Larison is that, when it comes to foreign policy, he says pretty much the same exact things as Pat Buchanan, but nobody in their right mind wants to link to Pat Buchanan. It would be nice if we could have a non-racist isolationist. It’s not that I agree 100% with isolationism, but it would be nice if the discussions weren’t always about whether we should invade two countries or three.

  137. 137.

    Sly

    “Oh my god, Gail! Mitch is coming down the stairs now! Do you think he’ll finally ask me to the prom? I’m totally gonna to freak out if he does!”

  138. 138.

    bryanD

    HA! I see it all!

    The unseen fotog screams at Brooks to GET THE FUCK OUT OF NEWT’S CREW’S PICTURE!

    A rattled and blushing David Brooks nevertheless maintains a textbook cellphone-to-ear posture and thus upholds the honor of the Times.

  141. 141.

    Alan in SF

    Can’t believe no one has mentioned Hipgnosis, since this album cover effectively parodies every one of their trademark graphic twitches.

    Okay, back to teh stupid.

  142. 142.

    Ghanima Atreides

    @driftglass: do you know what Sullivan and Brooks and Douthat and Larison all do?
    They mainstream the crazy.
    They legitimize it, make it “reasonable” and “understandable.”

    @Mark S.: oh please. there is no bright line between bobo and chunky bobo.
    Here is my alltime favorite where Cole nods approvingly at Douthat without EVEN READING THE POST DOUTHAT BASES HIS CONCLUSION ON which incidentially completely destroys Douthat’s argument.

  145. 145.

    MagicPanda

    @piratedan: (sorry for the delay.. I had to make dinner for kids)

    I get some of that. For example, Sully’s swooning over the Ryan budget was vomit inducing. He supported the Iraq war. He thinks of himself as belonging to some kind of mythical conservatism. etc.

    But he’s also a guy who has consistently calls out the media for not calling torture by its true name. He appreciates and highlights Obama’s maturity (although he would mistakenly call it Obama’s innate conservatism) and openly advocated — I think effectively — for his election during the primaries. He recognizes the craziness of the right and calls them out on it.

    Meanwhile, Halperin is a complete and utter fool, who is a HUGE symbol to me of the worst of the MSM. He’s entralled by right wing frames, and treats politics as a combination of gossip show and sportscast. Malkin is a vindictive, venemous creature. Erick Erickson is as smart (and as painful) as a bag of hammers. Megan McArdle (who is not on the “mock” list, but should be) is a lazy thinker who seems to start from her preferred conclusion and work backwards, carelessly assembling “facts” together to reach her conclusion, whether they are true or not.

    I just don’t see them in the same league.

  146. 146.

    Irregardless

    Caption: H! Applebee’s? I would like to book a table for two at 9PM. Can I have it near the salad bar? Excellent. Thank you!

  151. 151.

    MagicPanda

    @Silver: I guess I can understand that. For example, I find Brooks especially odious, since he has this “reasonable conservative” schtick, but when push comes to shove, he’ll shill for the GOP in a baldly transparent way. I just don’t have the visceral dislike of Sullivan that I do of, say, Brooks.

  152. 152.

    Bill Murray

    @Southern Beale: Justin Fashanu came out in 1990 towards the end of his career (but played at least 3 years after coming out) in English soccer. He ended up committing suicide after being accused of sexual assault on a 17 year old Marylander.

    No other soccer players came out until ~2008 and that person was retired for quite a while.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fashanu

  153. 153.

    Stan of the Sawgrass

    The casting possibilities are endless, and somewhat terrifying. Think of the ads.

    I can’t believe I’ve been drawing mustaches on Bobo’s phiz since 8pm, but you can get some sweet revenge by creating a fake movie poster with that damn pic at:

    @FlipYrWhig:

    It’s not as customizable as we’d like, but do you really want to spend hours in photoshop for snark this ephemeral?
    This calls for a contest. What say you, front pagers?

  156. 156.

    Allan

    This squirrel’s compatriot has just rung him via mobile to alert him to the discovery of an especially abundant cache of walnuts nearby.

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    piratedan

    @MagicPanda: okay then MP, he calls torture, what it is… torture. He knows how to label concepts appropriately, and yet, at the very same time; have his lips firmly attached to the ones condoning the act in the first place. That is somehow supposed to make me think better of him?

    He doesn’t call out the craziness of the Right, sure there are a few candidates he has issues with, but it’s not because they are freaking loony tunes, it’s because they’re not insiders like him and his ilk. Ryan is just as freaking off the reservation as anyone, yet because he has a nice haircut and dresses well, we’re supposed to take him seriously when he decries the need for a system that has been in place for multiple generations that people have been paying into, that they like, trust and use as being somehow superfluous and no longer necessary and here’s a coupon for further care because the best we can do to meet this grave threat of a debt looming over us is to raid an account/program that millions of Americans have been paying into all of their lives without raising taxes and addressing that odious deficit in 25 years. That’s not serious, that’s fucking pathetic and toadies like Sullivan lapped it all up because dooming your parents and mine to inferior care at greater costs and robbing them of this investment would allow more of his rich sponsors to have more cash.

    Sullivan may not be an equivalent of Hitler or even Goebbels, but I doubt very many of us here would piss on him if he was on fire. His kind of palatable around the edges crap is what allows these odious asshats to keep moving the goalposts in regards to what should be under discussion because we have to keep explaining to folks like you why he’s such a farkin’ menace.

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    Yutsano

    @stuckinred: Not for nothing, and coming to the thread really late, but my ex the Canuckistani was also a helluva defenceman. (He even taught me to spell it rite! :) He was even auditioned by the Avalanche at one point, but was turned away because he is openly gay. At least that was his theory. It was funny watching guys get on him for it too. 6’3″ of pure defenceman toughness hitting you hard is difficult to recover from.

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    MagicPanda

    @piratedan: Whaa? Your statements are just completely disconnected from reality.

    okay then MP, he calls torture, what it is… torture. He knows how to label concepts appropriately, and yet, at the very same time; have his lips firmly attached to the ones condoning the act in the first place. That is somehow supposed to make me think better of him?

    On torture, AS is to the right of, say, Greenwald, but I would say he’s to the left of, say, Yglesias. He’s one of the few guys out there who keeps calling these guys war criminals.

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/cheney-returns.html

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/04/obamas-latest-volte-face.html

    I take your point about Ryan. That pissed me off a lot. But I think it’s just erroneous to say that he doesn’t call out the craziness on the right.

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/the-christianist-extremism-of-mike-huckabee.html

    If your issue is that Sullivan isn’t a dogmatic liberal, then sure. You’re right. He’s not a dogmatic liberal. If your issue is that he’s sometimes wrong, sure. He’s sometimes wrong.

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