Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Second rate reporter says what?

When we show up, we win.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

All hail the time of the bunny!

When I was faster i was always behind.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

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

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  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    You expect someone who is the nepotistic hire of nepotism-beneficiary Bill Kristol to understand concepts like “work”?

  4. 4.

    handy

    At the Beacon, all friends of freedom will find an alternative to the hackneyed spin, routine misstatements, paranoid hyperbole, and insipid folderol of Democratic officials and the liberal gasbags on MSNBC and talk radio.

    The butthurt is strong with this one.

    At the Beacon, we follow only one commandment: Do unto them.

    That’s all well and good, but liberals being what they are have that corner covered as well.

  5. 5.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Still, it’s good to have someone out there doing this kind of hard-hitting, important journalism. Especially when everything else appears to be humming along perfectly.

  6. 6.

    slag

    Hasn’t this broken record been playing for the last 3-plus years? Christ, does it ever end? And these people wonder why liberals don’t care to debate them. Next time I want to engage in a similar life-suckingly inefficient endeavor, I’ll spend 15 bucks on Whack-a-Mole at my local Chuck E Cheese.

  9. 9.

    MikeJ

    “With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving what he thought of affirmative action. ‘I oppose it,’ Irving replied. ‘It subverts meritocracy.’ “

  10. 10.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    how much does a special deputy to the president and the white house and depputante liaison to the hollywood elite make?

  12. 12.

    Scamp Dog

    The goal is not to produce a rational argument, it is to come up with a passably sensible word string that supports the answers they want, and knocks the opposition. That rational argument stuff is for insufferable wonks, don’t you know.

  17. 17.

    Redshift

    I always enjoy TBogg, but this one was simply golden. (That’s where the link goes, in case anyone was afraid they’d be exposed to the Free Bacon unfiltered.)

  19. 19.

    BGinCHI

    The hammock of wingnut welfare lulls even the smartest into stupidity. And when they don’t even start out smart….well, the stupid really burns.

  20. 20.

    Lyrebird

    @Gin & Tonic: Can’t promise I’m sufferable, but yes I use folderol, and I only hit 40 a dozenish months ago… But my language is infected with all sorts of anachronisms and pseudoslang learned from convincing authors like Joan Aiken, so who knows. Had to teach my students the word “anachronism” just last month!

  21. 21.

    AA+ Bonds

    Meanwhile, rather than tease out the connections between the big banks, unions, alternative energy companies, entrenched market incumbents, institutions such as the Center for American Progress and its Action Fund, and the policy apparatus of the Democratic Party

    By this point they’d lost everyone who didn’t follow Beck’s chalkboard to whatever basement he broadcasts out of for GBTV

    BTW you won’t want to miss Thursday at 5pm Eastern, when “Glenn Beck will host a special episode of “The Glenn Beck Program that will reveal the truth behind Louis Farrakhan and his ties to radicals.”

    I mean, re-read that paragraph I just quoted, FUCKIN SNORE FEST IN THE FALLOUT SHELTER, I barely managed to cut/paste without falling asleep and I used macros

  26. 26.

    PIGL

    So they’re sayin’ Rush Limbaugh is a liberal gas bag. The insides of their noggins must be a power disturbing site.

  28. 28.

    AA+ Bonds

    They have begun a dangerous game . . . as soon as they started holding press conferences, they realized that as soon as one happens where the announcement is that Zimmerman walks, they will have riots on their hands in a lot of American cities

  30. 30.

    trollhattan

    …and to cover with relish Mitt Romney’s latest gaffe

    What douches, they don’t know Romney’s latest gaffes only go well with mustard. Feh.

  31. 31.

    Cacti

    @AA+ Bonds:

    They have begun a dangerous game . . . as soon as they started holding press conferences, they realized that as soon as one happens where the announcement is that Zimmerman walks, they will have riots on their hands in a lot of American cities

    Given how badly the Sanford PD has already cocked up the investigation, I’m expecting an acquittal.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    Dang. Fox did find the mole, and has fired him.

    http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/04/11/arts/11reuters-foxnews-mole.html?hp

    Joe Muto, who had worked as an associate producer on commentator Bill O’Reilly’s show at Fox, began his postings on social media websites on Tuesday, and Gawker then began publishing “installments” from the “mole” on its website.
    __
    After being suspended, Muto posted a picture of himself late on Wednesday afternoon inside Gawker’s office saying “It’s Me, Joe: The Fox Mole.”
    __
    “They nailed me,” Muto wrote on the Gawker website. “In the end, it was the digital trail that gave me away. … They couldn’t prove it entirely, but I was pretty much the only suspect.”

    ETA: Ah, PeakVT already informed. Didn’t read upthread.

  34. 34.

    Mark S.

    @PIGL:

    Yeah, I was a little perplexed by the liberal talk radio part.

    But I guess we should all be happy that conservatives finally have a conservative news source to go to. I don’t know how they ever got by with just Fox News, National Review, newsmax, American Spectator, Daily Caller, Hot Air, Drudge, and the three dozen or so others. I think our boy Matt has really found a niche.

  35. 35.

    David Koch

    but, but… even the liburel progressive betters have repeatedly stated, time after time, that the Lilly Lebetter Act is insignificant.

  37. 37.

    PeakVT

    Has anyone here ever taken apart their washing machine and been completely disgusted with what you found? I did last week, and today I finally got the basket out so I could scrub the underside and the tub. Grody to the max.

  45. 45.

    kay

    I think they’re shocked that women prefer Obama over Romney.

    These are the same conservative men who thought women would flock to Dan Quayle because he was “handsome” or switch parties to support Sarah Palin because she has children.

    They think women are stupid and shallow.

  46. 46.

    El Cid

    @kay: After all Chris Matthews was slavering about how Romney’s shoulders were wide enough that you can land a plane on them, and doesn’t Chris Matthews best represent women?

  48. 48.

    matryoshka

    @kay: They’re already rearranging the deck chairs on that particular Titanic. This morning, CNN was pushing poutrage (I’m looking at you, Soledad) that Hilary Rosen had said “Ann Romney is not in touch with regular working mothers. She has never worked a day in her life,” meaning, obviously, outside the home in some shitty job with low wages, like most of the women in flyover country. Everyone was beating their chests on the teevee and saying “This is not a conversation the Democrats want to have! It’s hard work raising 5 boys!” They completely stepped over the fact that Ann Romney could chose to be a stay-at-home mom because her husband was a gazillionaire.

    The upshot of the whole ugly segment was that Obama is just as bad for women, because Democrats think women who choose to stay home and raise their children (like real, proper ‘Muricans) don’t do anything. It’s insulting!

    See how that works? Nobody made a squeak about the Romney’s economic advantages.

  49. 49.

    Tone In DC

    @PeakVT:

    How Moon Zappa of you. ;-)

    I refuse to clean any washer (call a tech for that) because of exactly what you found. I shudder to think of what’s near the alley by the Hilton at 16th and K Streets, where all those Labrador-sized rats hang out.

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