Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

This fight is for everything.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

He really is that stupid.

This really is a full service blog.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

No Justins, No Peace

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

A consequence of cucumbers

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

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  1. 1.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So is the Media elite behind Mitten or Newt? It sounds like even they can’t make up their minds.

  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    Do the Foxbots ever talk about “Obomneycare” (tm Tim Pawlenty)?

    I suppose we should be thankful that they didn’t make that particular substitution mistake with Herman Cain back when he was running.

  5. 5.

    ...now I try to be amused

    I kinda wish Obama could run in the Republican primaries. Who knows, he might outpoll (and embarrass) some of the other candidates, he’s that good a politician.

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    Damn, DougJ, two minds, single thought. I was just coming here to post that.

    Does this mean that Fox is now pro-Gingrich? I thought they were pushing Romney, but now I don’t know.

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  12. 12.

    cathyx

    Why not the best of both worlds and have them both on the ticket. Romney/Gingrich ’12. Or Gingrich/Romney ’12.

  14. 14.

    feebog

    Does this mean that Fox is now pro-Gingrich? I thought they were pushing Romney, but now I don’t know.

    Faux Noose is definitely looking for the anti-Romney candidate. Romney has definitely been subjected to hardball interviews by Faux, at least compared to the fluff they have thrown at other candidates.

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  15. 15.

    pragmatism

    completely intentional. the fox chryon and graphics are the id of fox news and are used to subliminally validate the alternate narrative lurking beneath the veneer of “fair and balanced”.

  16. 16.

    jl

    “Maybe these hilariously regular and repeated Fox mistakes are just incompetence at understanding the capacities of their demographic.

  18. 18.

    Rafer Janders

    @BGinCHI:

    Where’s Romney’s long-form birth certificate?

    Actually, this more accurate than you think, since Mitt is the son of a Mexican immigrant. (Romney’s father George W. Romney was born in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1907, and the Romney family fled the Mexican Revolution for the US when George Romney was six years old).

  19. 19.

    geg6

    Well, looks like Gingrich has won the Murdoch primary. Will someone please tell Jonathan Bernstein (filling in for Benen) as he seems to be under the delusion that the “establishment” in the GOP does not include people like Rush Limbaugh and that they have magic powers to make sure their preferred candidate will win despite all those pesky voters.

  20. 20.

    AdamK

    I think they hire idiots to work behind the camera as well as in front to make sure nobody looks bad by comparison.

  21. 21.

    ira-NY

    I have never been one for conspiracy theories and such.

    But, it might be time to get fitted for a tin-foil hat to wear when I consider Fox.

  26. 26.

    Capri

    @geg6:

    IIRC, 4 years ago, the Republican decision makers wanted anyone but McCain. Limbaugh hated him. Coulter said she’d vote for Hilary before McCain. Guiliani was their guy. Then Romney.

    Once McCain got the nomination they all got in line.

    If there really were some connected folks that could actually manipulate the process effectively, McCain would have been an after thought.

  27. 27.

    Bitter Scribe

    OK, there are malevolent Fox “mistakes,” like putting (D) after the name of a Republican newly engulfed by scandal. And there are idiotic Fox mistakes, like putting a picture of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in place of Sarah Palin.

    Not sure where this one falls.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    @Rafer Janders:
    Wait, wait. I was under the impression that George Romney ran for President in 1968. But from what I know a naturalized US citizen is ineligible. Am i missing something here?

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    @Amir Khalid:

    Wait, wait. I was under the impression that George Romney ran for President in 1968. But from what I know a naturalized US citizen is ineligible. Am i missing something here?

    There is this, from the Wiki.

    George Romney (1907–1995), who ran for the Republican party presidential nomination in 1968, was born in Mexico to U.S. parents. Romney’s grandfather had emigrated to Mexico in 1886 with his three wives and children after the U.S. federal government outlawed polygamy. Romney’s monogamous parents retained their U.S. citizenship and returned to the United States with him in 1912. Romney never received Mexican citizenship, because the country’s nationality laws had been restricted to jus sanguinis statutes due to prevailing politics aimed against American settlers.

    Had Romney’s campaign been more successful, this might have been more of an issue.

  34. 34.

    Wag

    I’m waiting for JCACHO to come for our triannual inspection and needs a laugh. Thanks!

    Fox News is for sheep.

  37. 37.

    SFAW

    He was a U.S. citizen at birth because his parents were both U.S. citizens.

    Are you sure? I’ve never seen a copy of George’s parents’ citizenship papers? For all I know, it could have been part of the long-game plan para La Reconquista.

    Is it irresponsible to speculate? etc. etc.

  38. 38.

    SFAW

    I’ve never seen a copy of George’s parents’ citizenship papers?

    I seem to recall hearing George Romney saying once, long ago: “Papers? We ain’t got no papers! We don’t need no papers!”

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    montanareddog

    I don’t honestly know what motivates those assholes

    Doug, I think it is simply eyeballs. A presidential between two boring, middle of the road technocrats is the last thing Roger Ailes wants. When he said he hired Palin because she was “hot”, he was not referring to her alleged pulchritude, but to the fact that she was “media hot”. Gingrich is the same and gives an old Nielsen whore like Ailes the closest thing to a chubby that he can manage nowadays.

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