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DougJ touched a nerve earlier, and I’ll just say you won’t see this kind of shit too often outside the red light district in Amsterdam:

Full disclosure: my husband once had a fellowship with the Charles G. Koch foundation, and works for Reason Magazine, which has been a recipient of funds from Koch charitable organizations. We also sometimes use Vanity Fair paper napkins and Dixie brand paper products, which are owned by the Kochs.

Say what you will about fluffers in the porn industry, but they’re not afraid or ashamed to admit whose dick they are sucking and know better than to pretend that that really isn’t a dick in their mouth- not to mention they would at least have the professional courtesy to know better than to try to slap this sort of flaccid bullshit in your face.

Criminy. How long before the Fonzi of Freedom has a job at the Atlantic?

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  1. 1.

    Riilism

    We also sometimes use Vanity Fair paper napkins and Dixie brand paper products, which are owned by the Kochs.

    In McArgle-bargle’s defense, it is very hard to find paper products at the grocery store that aren’t manufactured by Koch…

    Of course, that has nothing to do with whether you have a vested interest in presenting one side of the debate…

  2. 2.

    c u n d gulag

    Here’s the punchline:
    “Not that that will influence my vote, mind you. I vote the issues.”

    Now that them there’s some pure f*cking comedy gold!

    The next issue that this twit understands, will be the first one she ever understood.

    And I’m not putting any money on THAT happening!

    Rattlesnakes will throw curveballs in the Major Leagues before any rational thought enters her steel-reinforced concrete cranium.

  3. 3.

    Shalimar

    So she knows which paper products they own, but isn’t aware of how extensively they are involved with her husband’s employer? “Has been a recipient of funds” makes it sound like Planned Parenthood getting 0.005% of their budget from Komen. The past tense also makes it sound like they don’t receive funds anymore, which I’m sure was intentional on her part.

  4. 4.

    Shalimar

    Someone at The Atlantic should tell Megan, “stop using our website to defend your husband’s pimp, it makes all of us look bad.”

  6. 6.

    Cermet

    She being a whore whoses idea of earning money is being married to a Kock sucker, she has first hand experience learning to perform for money what ever her pimp the kock sucker brothers desire. Oh, after learning that others know she is a paid whore for the kock sucker brothers, she finally notes this after pointing out she whores her children as well by forcing them to use kock sucker brother products. Nice.

  8. 8.

    R. Porrofatto

    McArdle: How will he counter the favorability boost that the Kochs are expected to get from the fact that their name sounds like a popular soft drink

    Not the way I pronounce it.

  9. 9.

    MikeJ

    I have to say I’m not comfortable with the phrase “Koch sucker”. Fellatrices are wonderful people performing a wonderful service, whether it be as amateurs of professionals. It seems unfair to compare them with anything unseemly.

  10. 10.

    amk

    Looks like o’rly taitz got her ass kicked. Again… in IN.

    So which judge has the cajones/boobs to throw her sorry birther ass into the slammer ?

    Or better yet, deport her racist ass back to russia or whichever shithole she came from ?

  11. 11.

    El Cid

    Honestly, it took me a while breezing through the comments of the earlier DougJ post to realize that the part about the Vanity Fair paper napkins etc wasn’t DougJ’s added snark, but McAddled’s original.

    Thankfully, there are people who monitor McAddled or Sullivan etc, so I don’t have to.

  12. 12.

    dslak

    While I can understand the whore analogy here, on some readings it carries a slight whiff of misogyny. One which people like Cermet pick up on a little too well.

  15. 15.

    El Cid

    By the way, Obama’s once again failing to pal around with terrorists sufficiently. (H/T GOS.)

    The U.S. government refused to grant a visa to [Israeli Knesset member] National Union MK Michael Ben Ari, on the basis of his membership in a “terror organization.”
    __
    Ben Ari recently submitted a request to the U.S. consulate for a visa, so he could take part in two conferences held in the United States this week, one aimed at encouraging aliyah to Israel.
    __
    In response, however, he was told that he cannot be granted the visa based on a clause that allows the U.S. State Department to prohibit the entrance of people who were involved in terror activities or were members of a terror organization in a foreign country.
    __
    Ben Ari believes that the U.S. government is referring to his membership in the Kach movement, a far-right political movement that is considered a terror organization in Israel, Canada, the European Union, and the United States.

    At the moment I haven’t decided whether or not this will become the outrage-du-moment, and if the decision will be rescinded if it does, but at least for the moment it’s a decision in the category of sane.

  16. 16.

    mr sketchy

    Y’know, I feel that mcbabble used the line “We also sometimes use Vanity Fair paper napkins and Dixie brand paper products, which are owned by the Kochs” to downplay and/or mock the idea the Kochs pay money to her husband could be a conflict in interest.

    The problem is, as ideas go, mcbabble doesn’t seem bright enough for such tactics.

    On the other hand, it was such a piss weak attempt, it does seem like her work.

    It’s not so much as an enigma wrapped in a puzzle. More like an idiot wrapped in a corporate whore.

  20. 20.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @El Cid:

    Ben Ari believes that the U.S. government is referring to his membership in the Kach movement, a far-right political movement that is considered a terror organization in Israel, Canada, the European Union, and the United States.

    So I guess that makes Ben Ali a Kach-sucker?

  21. 21.

    Anya

    @El Cid: I hope they’ll stick with the decision. One would think that they knew what they were doing when they reached that decision. I am assuming that refusing a visa to a Knesset member is not a decision made by a low level officer. I am not sure why is the organization considered a terrorist, but placing an Israeli organization on a terror list is not something that’s done lightly. I’ve noticed from the article that Haaretz didn’t take a stand one way or another.

  22. 22.

    Anya

    I have no use for McArdle whatsoever, but I am bothered by the whore analogy. It gives some a full license to showcase their misogynistic attitudes.

  23. 23.

    kay

    I wonder if she’s embarrassed that she came out in favor of the mandatory intrusive ultrasound in Virginia.

    I think that’s always difficult for paid pundits/advocates. When they knee jerk defend a policy or politician as “reasonable” and then the politicians themselves run from the policy as too radical, as happened here.

    She’s to the Right of the Right wing Virginia governor on state-mandated testing for women, which is really saying something, for a “libertarian”. She’s out there in Texas-territory, on state sanctions on women. Wow.

  24. 24.

    MattF

    Well, it’s a free country and a free market and nobody can say that I can’t profit from my opinions. Even if ‘profit’ means someone slides a bill into my undies, since it’s not legal to actually touch, at least while anyone’s watching.

  25. 25.

    Sly

    @Anya:

    I am not sure why is the organization considered a terrorist

    Organizations and people affiliated with Kach and Kahane (the founder of the movement) were put on the State Department’s terrorist group list probably at the request of the Israeli government itself in order to prevent them from raising money in the United States. These are groups that are, after all, officially banned from participating in Israeli elections for both supporting violence and inciting racism.

    Guys like Ben-Ari, in Israel and elsewhere, dance around the fine line between mainstream politics and ultra-nationalism, so the question as to whether or not he deserves to be on the list is one that could probably be debated forever.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @kay:

    I wonder if she’s embarrassed that she came out in favor of the mandatory intrusive ultrasound in Virginia.

    I seriously doubt that McMegan is even capable of embarrassment. About anything. Ever.

  27. 27.

    Ronzoni Rigatoni

    @Riilism: Well, one always has the option of buying Dart brand styrofoam cups (instead of Dixie cups), owned by the gazillionaire brothers Dart, who gave up their American citizenship to avoid taxes, and bought a country (Belize) in order to become certified under diplomatic immunity as consular officers in the US. Didn’t work, tho’. St. Bill Clinton put the air brakes on that ploy, IIRC.

  29. 29.

    marv

    I personally think all her posts are exactly the right height, and that’s all I have to say about her, but on the topic of the Atlantic – I hate to say this because I have admired Fallows’ writing since the 80’s when he was reporting from Japan and I think I am exactly the same age he is, which sort of makes it strangely personal, but I just don’t think he is a blogger. Just something about the way it feels. It reminds me of seeing Edwin Starr on Soul Train in the late 70’s doing disco. Or when older American guys let their hair grow after the British Invasion in the 60’s.

  30. 30.

    cathyx

    @kay: People like McMegan think that everyone says whatever they need to say to make money and they don’t understand what the beef is. Principles don’t figure in the discussion.

  31. 31.

    redshirt

    I’m doing my best to avoid any Koch products, as I find the brothers to be one of the biggest scourges on Earth and I feel its incumbent to do anything I can to not aid them, and hinder them where I can. As such, here’s a list of Koch commercial brands. Please boycott!

    Georgia-Pacific paper and pulp company, maker of “Brawny” paper towels, “Angel Soft” toilet paper, “Mardi Gras” napkins and towels, “Quilted Northern” toilet paper and paper towels, “Dixie” paper plates, bowls, napkins and cups, “Sparkle” paper towels, and “Vanity Fair” paper napkins, bowls, plates and tablecloths. The Atlanta-based company has operations in 27 states.[18]
    Invista, a polymer and fibers company that makes “Stainmaster” carpet, and “Lycra” fiber, among other products.

  32. 32.

    cathyx

    @redshirt: That’s all well and good but I’ll bet that their competitors are just as dirty with their donations.

    ETA: Perhaps we should all just make our own products from scratch.

  33. 33.

    YellowJournalism

    I’m not comfortable with the whore anaology, either. Whores are legitimate business people. Isn’t being McMegan be insult enough in itself?

  34. 34.

    WereBear

    I still say that boycotting Bounty paper towels would get some kind of message across. I’m happy to say that I’m walking the walk; Scott is the soul-sucking corporate entity we use on messes.

  36. 36.

    beltane

    It feels dirty knowing that all of McMegan’s expensive kitchen appliances were purchased with the proceeds of Koch whoring. Just shows you how lucrative the sin trade is.

    And yet even with the Koch brothers’ largesse at her disposal, this woman still isn’t proficient at separating eggs.

  37. 37.

    beltane

    @WereBear: Bounty seems to be one of the few paper towel brands that are not owned by the Koch’s so I’m not sure what message boycotting Bounty would send.

  38. 38.

    Hawes

    I agree with Gin & Tonic. This is a complete pandering to the Moore Award panel of Fogies and Fuddy Duddys at Andrew Sullivan’s Institute for Pearl Clutching.

    Still, it is awards season and I wish you the best of luck.

  40. 40.

    Roger Moore

    @Anya:
    According to Wikipedia:

    Today the United States continues to designate the group a terrorist organization,[3] and says that it has engaged in terrorist activity by:

    *using explosives or firearms with intent to endanger the safety of individuals or cause substantial damage to property (including an attempt to car bomb a Palestinian girls school in East Jerusalem)[17]

    *threatening and conspiring to carry out assassinations

    *soliciting funds and members for a terrorist organization

    The State Department also says that the group is suspected of involvement in a number of low-level attacks since the start of the Second Intifada in 2000.[18]

    Edited to fix formatting and FYWP

  49. 49.

    Nylund

    Shorter McMegan,

    “The fact that over 80% of my recent posts have been dedicated to defending the people who have supported my husband’s livelihood over the years is purely a coincidence and you’re stupid for mentioning it.”

    But to be fair, she’d probably support her Galtian overlords no matter what.

  50. 50.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @mr sketchy:

    to downplay and/or mock the idea the Kochs pay money to her husband could be a conflict in interest.

    No shit, Sherlock. She had a good ol’ hissyfit about people who pointed out that the bullshit-libertarian wingnut welfare operation pretty much owes its existence to Koch money.

  51. 51.

    RSA

    The weird thing is that McArdle doesn’t even seem to recognize that reasonable people can wonder about the conflict of interest. I’d expect someone to start off a blog post with a disclaimer, and it wouldn’t make light of the relationships but would say, “My husband has held a Koch Fellowship and works for Reason Magazine; David Koch is on Reason’s board of trustees.” She writes as if anyone who thinks she could be biased in writing about the Koch brothers is an idiot.

  55. 55.

    Barry

    @kay: “I wonder if she’s embarrassed that she came out in favor of the mandatory intrusive ultrasound in Virginia.

    I think that’s always difficult for paid pundits/advocates. When they knee jerk defend a policy or politician as “reasonable” and then the politicians themselves run from the policy as too radical, as happened here.

    She’s to the Right of the Right wing Virginia governor on state-mandated testing for women, which is really saying something, for a “libertarian”. She’s out there in Texas-territory, on state sanctions on women. Wow.”

    I think that it’s an indication of just how bought-and-paid-for she is. She’s in the ‘libertarian’ niche, so she could get away with not supporting it. In the end, either (a) she’s paid by the article and needed the money, or (b) the right-wing hack world operates on the basis of ‘if you’re dirty, you’re dirty all the way’; that the glibertarian end is actually just one branch of the same root that the social right-wingers are a branch of.

  56. 56.

    Brian R.

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I seriously doubt that McMegan is even capable of embarrassment. About anything. Ever.

    Agreed. After all these years watching her trot out her third-grade grasp of economics and get smacked around publicly for it, and come back for more?

    She clearly has as much self-respect as she does intelligence.

  59. 59.

    Roger Moore

    @RSA:

    The weird thing is that McArdle doesn’t even seem to recognize that reasonable people can wonder about the conflict of interest.

    That’s because she assumes anyone who has read her work would know she’d suck up to TPTB whether they’re paying her or not. It’s not as if she’s completely changed her writing or something. The only thing that makes this case noteworthy is that she’s focusing on one specific issue instead of spreading the kowtowing more evenly.

  60. 60.

    mark

    @Anya – bothered by the whore analogy, but not by the gay bigotry inherent in the ‘koch sucking’ jokes? Only had one strand of pearls to clutch?

  61. 61.

    Bullsmith

    She really is a shining combination of glibness, arrogance and bone-deep stupidity. Why the Atlantic lets her piss all over their brand name day in and day out remains a mystery to me. Sure, she attracts some of the worst comments outside of Freeperland, but is having the worst blog in the MSM really worth it? If so, surely this kind of grade-school thinking can be had for free?

  62. 62.

    WereBear

    @Bullsmith: If so, surely this kind of grade-school thinking can be had for free?

    Undoubtedly, but your average grade-schooler has more self-respect.

    I think the irresistible combo of Proper Birth, Alliance by Marriage, rudimentary literacy, and genuine obsessive fascination with the minutiae of snobbery is what puts McMegan over the top in this particular field. And with the New Media’s attitude of “an eyeball is an eyeball” the horrified disgust and fascination is the New Fandom.

  63. 63.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @Brian R.:

    Koch is pronounced “Coke” so, “Koch head” is the best.

    I don’t think that billionaire fuckheads earn the benefit of having their names pronounced according to their wishes, but if you really want, “addicted to Koch” takes care of both.

  66. 66.

    The Raven

    Don’t drink the Koch!

    Just to make it clear, a fellowship means that the Koch Foundation paid Peter Suderman’s salary for a year or so. He’s at least in his mid-20s, probably older, so I expect it was a substantial salary.

    …and how can _Reason_ claim to have anything to do with freedom if the Kochs are paying their bills? What in _Reason_ is actual political analysis and what propaganda?

  67. 67.

    Brian R.

    @mark:

    @Anya – bothered by the whore analogy, but not by the gay bigotry inherent in the ‘koch sucking’ jokes? Only had one strand of pearls to clutch?

    And this, my friends, is why conservatives always win.

    They bring out the big money and blast attacks at us, and in response, we devolve into a Wesleyan faculty seminar on PC speech.

  68. 68.

    samara morgan

    How long before the Fonzi of Freedom has a job at the Atlantic?

    oh, i think he will get there before Kain does.
    in spite of you and Sully pimping the little creep 24/7.
    E.D. Kain is excited.
    is Brave “inherently conservative”?
    ;)

  70. 70.

    Kathy in St. Louis

    Thanks to the lady for the update on Vanity Fair napkins and Dixie Cups. Didn’t know the Koch bros. owned those companies. Won’t be buying their crap anymore.

  71. 71.

    wrb

    @pseudonymous in nc:

    I don’t think that billionaire fuckheads earn the benefit of having their names pronounced according to their wishes,

    Nor do orange House speakers.

    It’s like they think someone might notice America getting screwed.

  72. 72.

    Anne Laurie

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I seriously doubt that McMegan is even capable of embarrassment. About anything. Ever.

    Well, if her $1500 Thermomix blender were to break down just when her husband’s bosses were coming to dinner…

    McArdle’s a devout glibertarian. Leaving aside defensive late-night tweets, she’s getting paid a lot more to be wrong on the Atlantic‘s internet than John Cole is for snarking about her, so by her standards, she is WIN!

  73. 73.

    mark

    Brian R – you got me wrong. I was pointing out that on a thread about what a bunch of whores republicans ares, someone called out not the republicans but instead called out those who call out republicans.

  75. 75.

    sfbay

    Brian R is right. If you think calling someone a “cocksucker” is misogynist you’re a fucking moron who just likes being offended and/or getting attention. An attention WHORE, you might even say. Oops just insulted ALL WOMEN EVERYWHERE AGAIN, OOPS.

  76. 76.

    samara morgan

    @Anne Laurie: yuppers.
    what do you think sully is grooming “Our” EDK for?
    Sullivan made sure Friedersdorf got his old slot at the Atalntic.
    If McMegan is the “economics editor” while knowing nothing about economics, im pretty sure Kain could be the “culture editor” since he knows nothing about culture.
    ;)

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