Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
I’m with DougJ- I used to watch every second of every convention, Democratic or Republican, and I have not so much as watched an instant of it. They are just lying and then parading the 15 or so minorities in the GOP before the camera. What’s the point of watching that?
Think I’ll play some Civ V Gods and Kings while watching the Steelers. Speaking of the Steelers, mom and dad are at the game. They decided to go up, have a good dinner, then go to the game to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Look, I know that my hatred of Charles Lane is almost as unhealthy as my hatred of Bobo, but this is fucking ridiculous. Lane suggests that rather than fact check Paul Ryan’s speech last night, the media should go back and fact check a speech Obama gave in February 2008. The idea is that not everything that Obama predicted in February 2008 came to pass, so therefore Glenn Kessler should give him a gazillion Pinnochios.
I am not making this up. He is saying that a speech that the media should drop what they’re doing with speeches given in the last few days and focus on a speech given more than four years ago. Even though the whole idea with this fact-checking thang, whatever its merits, is that it should slap down claims that are verifiably false in the present tense, not attempt to predict the future.
The Kaplan Daily has one blogger, Jen Rubin, who cuts and pastes Romney campaign emails into her posts. Now there’s another out-and-out Romney surrogate.
The whole operation is going under in the next few years. Pride goeth before the fall, I guess.
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I have not watched a single second of this Republican convention. I usually watch more or less the whole thing. It seems to me something has changed, that it’s now just a silly exercise in telling lies. And that’s not compelling tv.
Talk about whatever.
Add any Colorado public university as a place I do not wish to teach:
Jerry Peterson, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly, said he would cancel classes if he found that someone had brought a firearm to class, according to the Daily Camera.
Although Peterson said he was only speaking for himself, Philip P. DiStefano, the chancellor at UC-Boulder, sent out an e-mail Tuesday to faculty members that they could not shut down a class if a student with a concealed carry permit brought a gun.Uh.
More than 200 campuses in six states currently allow concealed carry in some form, Burnett said, be it campuswide or only in certain areas.
(Jeff Danziger via GoComics – to embiggen)
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Paul Constant at the Stranger explains “God Saved Me From A Breitbart Documentary“:
Yesterday, I attended a free screening of Hating Breitbart, a hagiographic documentary about Andrew Breitbart. The theater was about a quarter full, but it was packed with enthusiastic teabaggers, eager to cheer on proud conservative comments, especially those that mocked education. Brietbart’s father-in-law shrugs off Breitbart’s origins as a liberal by saying “he went to college, you see.” The theater hooted and cheered. They booed and sneered at a Columbia School of Journalism professor. And they loved the fact that the first forty minutes or so of Haitng Breitbart was an account of James O’Keefe’s anti-ACORN stunt journalism. The end of ACORN is a proud conservative moment.
The problem is, I don’t know if Hating Breitbart ever gets around to explaining O’Keefe’s weird attempt to seduce a CNN reporter on a ship stuffed full of dildos and pornography and his other failed attempts at transcending one-hit-wonderdom….
Find out why here, and while you’re at it, check out some of Constant’s outside-the-security-fences vignettes as well.
Dave Weigel at Slate reports on the RNC response to liberal skepticism about evangelicals embracing a Mormon cultist: “Mike Huckabee, Putting Up with Mormons Since 2012.”
And Alex Pareene at Salon has been doggedly highlighting Arianna Huffington’s not-so-new solution to the unemployment crisis: Con people into “volunteering” as personal servants. Because if America’s gonna achieve its full potential in a New Gilded Age, Arianna knows how much we’ll need a dedicated Servant Class for the Banana Republicans to bitch about!
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Apart from human and other monstrosities, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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I’ve been thinking about a simple Romney Drinking game. I have it narrowed to a choice between two options.
In choice A, you take a drink every time he lies. And in choice B you take a shot when he tells the truth.
But there is a problem.
One of these choices will drain every bottle of booze in the house, while the other will keep you dry all night long.
Perhaps there are some other options.
Any ideas?
Cheers
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The post-punk David Broder (reference) thinks it’s funny when journalists try to do their job:
After a morning of reading pieces about Paul Ryan’s Lies and Paul Ryan’s Distortions and Paul Ryan’s Distorted Lies, I am impressed and alarmed at the depth of scrutiny and vigorous insistence on literal truth in every phrase. I wish these fact-checkers had been around for history’s great speeches, when we could have gotten some really prime commentary.
For instance.
Franklin Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
FACT: False! We have many things to fear, including ebola, Spanish influenza and the rise of Hitler.
And a Kaplan editorial board member heartily heh-indeeds the mockery.
Thank Jah all teh kids are on Facebook sexting each other instead of reading the serious newspapers. That may be why they haven’t completely propagandized yet.