Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Let’s finish the job.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

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

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

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

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

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

We still have time to mess this up!

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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  2. 2.

    gogol's wife

    His interview with Frank Lloyd Wright is great, if you can see them through all the cigarette smoke.

  4. 4.

    lamh35

    saw this on twitter this morning.

    Made me wonder if his son thinks about how his mediocre journalistic ability showcased on FoxNews compared to his father more stellar legacy.

    This is def a case where the son has not lived up to the father n’est ce pas?

    RIP

  5. 5.

    Schlemizel

    Nobody could make the sleazeballs sweat like Mike could make them sweat. It was a joy when he & 60 Minutes were in their prime, watching him set them up and them pulling the rug out so that they would fall on their fat faces.

    those days are long gone now, no news outfit would allow its people to be so unkind as to expose bad actors on film (or video). Particularly if they are corporate “people” or wingnut pols.

  6. 6.

    currants

    I used to love 60 minutes…but it’s probably been 20 years since I watched it.

    OT, and I know people get annoyed with Greenwald, but have you seen this? The filmmaker’s a family friend; what she’s been going through is just insane, and she’s right–it must be so much worse for the people who don’t have the resources and knowledge that she has.

    I’m thinking of Taibbi’s piece on police in private buildings, and the recent SCt ruling on strip searches, and wondering what to do about the police state we seem to be leaving for our children.

  7. 7.

    MD Rackham

    Not to speak ill of the dead, as Mike Wallace was a very talented interviewer and reporter, but it sure looks like he must have been a shitty parent given his offspring. OK, maybe he just didn’t have much to work with when it came to Chris.

    At least Luke Russert is merely a willing tool.

  8. 8.

    David Koch

    Obama strikes again. Just a week after pressuring Al Gore to fire Olbermann he offs Mike Wallace.

    Christopher Hitchens

    Bob Novak

    David Broder

    Andrew Breitbart

    Keith Olbermann’s career

    Mike Wallace

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    @Schlemizel:

    those days are long gone now, no news outfit would allow its people to be so unkind as to expose bad actors on film (or video). Particularly if they are corporate “people” or wingnut pols.

    It’s not only that — the Food Lion lawsuit scared a whole lot of news organizations even though ABC ultimately won. Corporate lawyers don’t want to deal with any lawsuits, even ones that the company will probably win.

  10. 10.

    Schlemizel

    @MD Rackham:
    It tough to blame parents for their kids. Sometimes its obvious but I have known so very good parents whos spawn are pure evil & some pretty shitty people who have saints for kids.

    It would have been nice if he could have called the kid out or that the kid would have a Road to Damascus moment but I don’t expect it

  11. 11.

    the Conster (f/k/a Cat Lady)

    @David Koch:

    Don’t forget Obama’s Secret Service thugs ran over Jim Treacher, who miraculously escaped Obama’s super secret nefarious plan to eradicate all of his critics, apparently starting with the most self regarding lamest ones first.

  13. 13.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    one of the reasons we don’t have a roster of mike wallace’s is because the world needs to hear from the luke russerts and jenna bush’s of the world.

    ironically mike wallace had his own skin in that game too.

  16. 16.

    Raven

    he CBS Reports documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, which aired on 23 January 1982, engendered one of the most bitter controversies in television history. The 90-minute program spawned a three-year ordeal for CBS, including disclosures by TV Guide that the report violated CBS News Standards; an internal investigation by Burton (Bud) Benjamin; and an unprecedented $120 million libel suit by retired U.S. Army General William C. Westmoreland.

    Westmoreland sued producer George Crile III, correspondent Mike Wallace, and others for alleging that Westmoreland participated in a conspiracy to defraud the American public about progress in the Vietnam War. The suit was dropped, however, before reaching the jury, with CBS merely issuing a statement saying the network never meant to impugn the general’s patriotism.

    http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=uncountedene

  21. 21.

    Chris

    The old CBS dudes were great, but flawed, men. And most of em worked straight through the Golf Years. Lots to admire about these egotistical bastards.

    The Insider (tobacco whistleblower story) is probably Wallace’s lowest moment. CBS corporate bested Editorial.

    Forget Little W, tv-based journalism died long before he got there. Tough being Mike’s son, like being Sinatra’s singing boy.

  26. 26.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven: If he wins…$$$

    ETA, but I’d just give it back for a free invited round at Augusta National. More memories there than a couple grand for a ball I snagged.

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    @Raven: Is there a Spaniard left in the field? A couple Americans, a Swede and an Englishman.
    ETA, all chasing a South African Oosty.

  39. 39.

    James Gary

    @David Koch:

    Obama strikes again. Just a week after pressuring Al Gore to fire Olbermann he offs Mike Wallace, Christopher Hitchens, Bob Novak…

    Don’t forget Thomas A. Kinkade, Painter Of Light©. Equally right-wing, equally hacky.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    Man, I love Nick Faldo. I love watching him, love listening to him. But I would never want him as my coach. He’s the most hypercritical asshole since Johnny Miller died.

  53. 53.

    Raven

    @Corner Stone: Aite, I’ve been foolin around golf for 50 years. What’s brought on this torrent of “he’s the most creative” evah? Put the fucking ball in the hole, what creative?

  54. 54.

    Corner Stone

    Nerves coming down the track. Errrrboddy’s feelin’ the heat coming home.

  57. 57.

    mai naem

    Don’t mean to sound like a troll but Mike Wallace is not Andrew Breitbart or Dick Cheney and while Chris Wallace may not be Mike Wallace, do we have to criticize Chris Wallace today???? Seriously, leave the guy alone. It’s always pissed me off that Rush Limbaugh went after Bill Clinton in a big way when his mom died. Clinton’s a big boy and he didn’t need any help there but jeez can we just leave people alone when they are in mourning.*

    *exceptions to this rule are Dick Cheney, GWB and anybody else heavily invoved in starting Iraq(yeah,I’m a hypocrite -shoot me.)

  58. 58.

    Ronzoni Rigatoni

    @currants: The fkg problem with border searches is (and I worked for 25 years for the goddam agency) that you are not covered by the Constitution until you are actually admitted beyond the Customs checkpoint. Prior to that, you might as well be at Gitmo. Sux, I know.

  67. 67.

    Culture of Truth

    Remember when he called the Ayatollah a lunatic to his face?

    People say he was tough but he was ballsy.

  71. 71.

    Keith G

    @currants: I have been assured that no agency of a government lead by Barak Obama would expand the powers of the security state or diminish any of our civil liberties.

    The woman must be lying.

  72. 72.

    Mnemosyne

    @Keith G:

    Since the 2006 release of “My Country, My Country,” Poitras has left and re-entered the U.S. roughly 40 times. Virtually every time during that six-year-period that she has returned to the U.S., her plane has been met by DHS agents who stand at the airplane door or tarmac and inspect the passports of every de-planing passenger until they find her (on the handful of occasions where they did not meet her at the plane, agents were called when she arrived at immigration).

    Damn that Obama and his time machine that allowed his DHS to start harassing this woman in 2006!

  75. 75.

    Mnemosyne

    @Keith G:

    Your point?

    It’s not an “expansion” if it’s a continuation of an established policy, unless you’ve changed the definition of “expansion” to “anything Obama does.”

    currants, if your friend lives in a state with at least one Democratic senator, I would suggest that she contact that Senator with a complaint about the DHS harassment. Sometimes senators can bring pressure to bear against government agencies that a mere private citizen can’t. If her both of her senators are Republicans, she can still try to get them to take up her complaint, but she may be screwed.

  77. 77.

    Keith G

    @Mnemosyne: The article clearly points out an escalation

    After she advised them that she was a journalist and that her lawyer had advised her to keep notes of her interrogations, one of them, CBP agent Wassum, threatened to handcuff her if she did not immediately stop taking notes.

    That event happened this year. You are defending this?

    Re: The House case, obviously this is all the current DOJ

    The DOJ demanded dismissal of the lawsuit, citing the cases approving of its power to search without suspicion, and also claimed that House was targeted not because of his political views but because of his connection to the criminal investigation of Manning and WikiLeaks. But the court refused to dismiss House’s lawsuit, holding that if he were indeed targeted by virtue of his protected activities, then his Constitutional rights have been violated

    My emphasis.

    Thus, I clearly did not change the definition of ‘expansion’. I do note your less than subtle tactic of accusing me of being anti-Obama. That is silly reasoning which I trust is beneath you.

  78. 78.

    Tony the Wonderhorse

    Okay, gotta do it:

    What do you get when you cross a monkey with a computer?

    A Hairy Reasoner

    Sorry

    Mike Wallace promised the daughter of Churchill he would not ask about his drinking, it was a condition of the interview. According to my grandfather, his second question was “How much did your father’s drinking affect you?”

    He was a great interviewer but not a nice man, near as I can tell. And his son Chris on Fox is a complete tool.

    Should I be kinder? The parasites from my cat box are making me crazy again.

  80. 80.

    Xjmueller

    One of my favorite farside comics was the devil yelling ay Mike Wallace to turn off the cameras because he ddnt want questions about that pestilence thing. The caption was “Mike Wallace interviews Satan.”. RIP Mr. Wallace.

  81. 81.

    Mnemosyne

    @Keith G:

    That event happened this year. You are defending this?

    Yes, clearly when I advised currants to have his/her family friend contact her US senator to get some outside assistance to get the DHS harassment to stop, I was defending the DHS harassment. Good one.

    Thus, I clearly did not change the definition of ‘expansion’.

    Sorry, I didn’t realize that Wikileaks had been invoked in the other case. I realize that for GG fans, the actions of Wikileaks cannot be questioned or criticized and any government investigation of Wikileaks’ actions is by definition illegitimate, so I probably shouldn’t have waded in at all.

  82. 82.

    dww44

    @Raven: My brother-in-law, who spent two tours in Viet Nam in 1964 and again in 1968-69 despised Westmoreland. Thought he was a terrible commander.

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