Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

How stupid are these people?

Let there be snark.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Saturday night and Sunday afternoon

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  2. 2.

    AA+ Bonds

    If y’all hop over to FoxNews.com right now you will see a fairly blatant pro-Romney push on the front page that goes so far as to use the phrase “not-Romney vote” to describe support for Gingrich

  3. 3.

    srv

    Maybe that was you trolling redstate, but how about: “After the lynching of Cain, where can blacks find a good political role model?”

    If he doesn’t mention Obama, he’ll look like an out-of-touch old white guy. If he does, he’ll have to say something nice.

  4. 4.

    Mike in NC

    David Brooks will be on Book TV

    It’s simply incomprehensible why this asshole draws any attention whatsoever. Is he considered the thinking man’s Glenn Beck?

  5. 5.

    AA+ Bonds

    Also, here’s my favorite comment on the current FoxNews.com bury-Cain story, “Let’s Quit Bashing Women”:

    These women made the choice to get into a character debate with a person running for political office. I am not saying one way or the other if they were honest with their original claims. I am merely pointing out, that the women’s actions were actually counter-productive for protecting women from being bashed when they do make valid claims. Its like the little boy that cried wolf. Eventually people get tired of people abusing protections they are given, and their ends up being negative repercussions for others that aren’t abusing those protections.

    Yeah, chew on that. Keep in mind Nate Silver’s piece on how conservative blogs overwhelmingly defended Cain on allegation after allegation, often by slut-shaming the women who came forward.

  8. 8.

    eemom

    In happier news, James Wolcott and Tbogg will be discussing James Wolcott’s new book at 5pm EDT tomorrow. I love both of them.

    well, ok…..but be sure to put on your biohazmat suit before you dive into that, ugh, “lake.”

  9. 9.

    Roger Moore

    @AA+ Bonds:
    So let me see if I get this right: the women who accused Cain were wrong to do so even if they were being honest, because accusing him is abusing their protections. That doesn’t even begin to make sense, unless you assume that it’s always wrong to accuse somebody important, even if the accusations are accurate. That’s just awful.

  11. 11.

    JGabriel

    Roger Moore:

    That doesn’t even begin to make sense, unless you assume that it’s always wrong to accuse somebody important, even if the accusations are accurate.

    You know the meaning of the word authoritarian, right?

    .

  12. 12.

    Lojasmo

    Is bobo the applebees-salad bar guy?

    I still vote for chunky Reese Witherspoon question.

    What a cock knocker

    ETA. How about whither spoon to use in the salad bar question? Maybe for the chunky blue cheese? Trifecta!

  13. 13.

    some guy

    well, ok…..but be sure to put on your biohazmat suit before you dive into that, ugh, “lake.”

    morons say what?

  14. 14.

    D-boy

    I will call, I promise you that, but I welcome your help in formulating questions.

    However you formulate your question try to work “primal scent” into it

  15. 15.

    sfinny

    I’m still trying to get my mind around the fact that settlements from years ago are a result of current liberal media attacks on Cain. Ow, my mind hurts.

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @sfinny:

    It’s necessary to jump to the left, then take a step to the right, and enter the time slip after a mind flip.

    Then you’ll see how events in the past are the result of current MSM attacks on Cain.

    Let’s do the Time Warp again!

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @sfinny: Time is relative. ‘Cuz libs are moral relativists or something, something, mumble. Speaking Wingnutian is harder than I thought.

  21. 21.

    Redshift

    @Roger Moore: Come on, these are people who claim to revere liberty and the Constitution, but will tell you you’re “abusing” your freedom of speech if you use it to say the wrong things.

  24. 24.

    Donut

    Bobo is such a cancer on humanity (when I typed that I thought for second, “is that hyperbolic?”, but then I realized nah, not really) that it’s hard to come up with a funny/snarky/derisive question that will get his goat. I just can’t think of anything that would really get to him, since he is so humorless and smug. Second, any ‘serious’ question you ask him will be brushed aside, because if you challenge him, he likely just won’t accept your premise and will evade.

    Not that I spent my evening on the subject, but it just depresses me that anyone even bothers with this simpleton.

    I think I’m gonna have a bourbon on the rocks and think about going to sleep.

  25. 25.

    Yutsano

    @Comrade Mary: Keep in mind: he is a fraternity member from a small midwest liberal arts college. It would indeed be irresponsible not to speculate.

    (He’s gonna sooo kick me later.)

  27. 27.

    David Koch

    @Paddy: Why is that funny? lefty bloggers say that all the time, as in “obama could have repealed DADT with an executive order”..

  28. 28.

    piratedan

    maybe you should keep the BoBo questions simple like….

    who did you blow to get this gig?

    how much did you get for selling your soul?

    do your pits smell when you get on a crowded elevator?

    what’s your favorite Applebee’s entree?

    do you have any friends outside your income bracket?

    when is the last time you used something other than wikipedia to look something up?

  33. 33.

    JGabriel

    @Lojasmo:

    Is bobo the applebees-salad bar guy? I still vote for chunky Reese Witherspoon question.

    Bobo is the Applebees Salad Bar guy. Douthat is the chunky Reese guy.

    .

  34. 34.

    AA+ Bonds

    David Brooks should nevertheless be asked to comment on live TV regarding Douthat’s chunky Reese Witherspoon story and if you don’t think it can happen you haven’t seen CSPAN2

    I suggest you tell him you’re about to give him a quote from Ross Douthat to comment on and then start reading that quote aloud until you’re cut off.

    If they want high school you should give them high school

  35. 35.

    Chuck Butcher

    I think I’d ask him two give 5 separate examples of “both sides do it” and how they’re equivelant using the available data to back it up. It took me quite awhile to come up with that…

  36. 36.

    Anne Laurie

    “Now that Doubthat’s doing your identical gig but with extra Christofascism, do you wake up at 3am sweating at that thought that your target readers might be telling each other ‘Sure, Brooks is a reliable authoritarian knob-polisher, but Ross has the primal scent of a genuine Believer’?”

  39. 39.

    Ecks

    @srv: No, he’d just attack your premise. Cain wasn’t attacked because he was black, he was attacked because he wasn’t as serious as godsent Mitt “sensible” Romney, blah blah blah.

    Bobo may be a jackass, but he’s not such a political newbie as to be trapped by a few implicit assumptions slipped into a question like that.

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