Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

So many bastards, so little time.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Second rate reporter says what?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

“But what about the lurkers?”

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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  7. 7.

    Kiril

    Is it weird that I hate Luke Russert more than his daddy? If anything, it should be the other way around. Tim Russert was a millionaire blowhard with a workingman’s shtick who tempered his Broderism with a sprinkling of meaningless gotchas and smirking insiderism, but somehow it seemed less repulsive because he came by it honestly. Seeing Luke ape his father’s shallowness just comes off as far more soulless and creepy, and I guess the knowledge that he came by his status as a pure, unqualified legacy plug’n’play replacement just makes everything he says seem all the more intolerable, and, to an extent, evil. I look into those empty eyes and see a child playing dress-up, an empty suit pretending wisdom, a mindless cog in a broken machine. But logically, I should hate the father who helped create the system, not the son trying to play the hand he’s dealt. It’s strange.

  8. 8.

    Judas Escargot

    @Kiril:

    Is it weird that I hate Luke Russert more than his daddy?

    Nope. Russert the elder (love or hate him) came by his career honestly. But the son? Why? Apparently, even “television journalist” is yet another hereditary profession in our corrupt culture.

    To see Russert the Younger’s face on your teevee screen is to have this fact rubbed deep in your face, day after day.

  11. 11.

    Jude

    Just hope Luke remembers to get the suit dry-cleaned. Wouldn’t want to make the same mistake Lewinsky did.

  13. 13.

    slag

    @Kiril:

    But logically, I should hate the father who helped create the system, not the son trying to play the hand he’s dealt. It’s strange.

    Same problem here. I like to think of it as my inner socialist battling it out with my inner fascist. Sadly, I think my inner fascist tends to win most of the time. I end up loathing the individual rather than loathing the system that the individual is attempting to navigate. It’s simplistic, primeval, and almost totally wrongheaded. And also really damned hard to resist.

  15. 15.

    BGinCHI

    And then he I said, “Thanks for letting me blowing me you, Luke John.”

    There, fixed to fit present-day realities.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    From CNN, this made me laugh evilly:

    The pro-Sarah Palin documentary, “The Undefeated,” suffered disappointing box office sales over the weekend, earning just over $5,000.

    $5,000! Hahahahahahahahahaha!

  18. 18.

    RalfW

    @ 16:

    The Undefeated in two+ weeks of release (per boxofficemojo): Domestic Total as of Jul. 31, 2011: $112,200

    HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!

    Oh, and,

    Atlas Shrugged Pt 1 ~ full run grossed less than $5 mil despite being on up to abt 430 screens U.S. over nine weeks (who the hell were the five theaters who ran it week 9???)

    People can be real dumb with their votes. They’re much more careful with their dollars.

  19. 19.

    jl

    But what kind of ‘ahhhhhh’

    Was it the awe of blissfull satisfaction at… what… a legislative masterpiece, that first puff (can you smoke anywhere inside the Capitol?)?

    Or was it ‘ahhhhh…. &%#’?

    Or wast i ‘ahhhhh…. those effing nutcases are killing me’.

    Or ‘ahhhhh….where am i’?

    And, inquiring minds want to know, is there a tweet about what Luke was doing while Boehner said ‘ahhhhh’?

  20. 20.

    pseudonymous in nc

    Little Russ was a mediocre journalist who played a fake proletarian.

    The Littlest Russ is a fake journalist.

    That’s the difference.

  21. 21.

    Lynn Dee

    Luke Russert is like some charity project MSNBC has elected to take on. Luke prepares a couple of canned answers to pointless questions, the host of whatever show he’s appearing on asks the agreed upon questions, and Luke barks out his answers like a trained seal.

    How can I get my kid a gig like that?

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne

    I realize that Jay B and Citizen Alan and I have been kicking each other around today, but I think that the three of us can join hands in a spirit of friendship and agree that Luke Russert needs to have the shit kicked out of him, pronto.

  24. 24.

    LanceThruster

    Does Luke use that affectation that his dad did where any report has a movie connection inserted?

    “It’s just like that scene in the movie…..”

  27. 27.

    August

    I’m fascinated that people find Luke’s nepotism awful, but no one ever mentions Taibbi’s another one.

    For the record: I think they both suck as journalists.

  30. 30.

    jl

    @Mnemosyne: thanks, I forgot about that kind of ‘ahhhhh’.

    Edit: there is also
    ‘Hi, I’m Luke Russert”
    Boehner: ‘ahhhhh…’

  31. 31.

    Arawis

    Luke couldn’t pass up a chance to take care of a “Boehner” when he had a chance. Advantage of being real close to your sources. Sorry for the double post.

  33. 33.

    lou

    It’s funny. My husband was watching the debt ceiling news over the weekend (hey, he works for the feds so he was worried about his paycheck), while I was in the office trying to avoid the whole thing. Then I hear this young voice going on and on about how hard Boehner was working and basically how brilliant and misunderstood he was.

    I asked the DH what Republican shill MSNBC brought on to promote Boehner. It was young Luke.

  36. 36.

    txvoodoo

    @Kiril

    Taibbi’s dad is an NBC reporter. He didn’t finance his journalism with baseball. He started writing after he got sick, and wrote in Russia because he was “… out of the reach of American libel law, and we had a situation where we weren’t really accountable to our advertisers. We had total freedom.”

    In other words, he couldn’t get published here. Now that he’s the darling of the far left, he can spout bullshit about anyone and anything he wants. Verification? Who needs it!

  38. 38.

    Larkspur

    Oof. I’ve been reading Matt Taibbi’s stuff for a while now, and I had no idea that his dad was an NBC personage of some sort. In other words, legacy and/or nepotism fail (at least for moi).

  39. 39.

    Baron Jrod of Keeblershire

    Are we really arguing that Taibbi got his job with Rolling Stone because his Dad was a reporter at NBC and not because of his long record of writing and publishing?

    Of course, I forget where I am. This is Balloon Juice, where anyone to the left of Dick Nixon is the devil, or so say the real liberals.

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