Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

The words do not have to be perfect.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Bark louder, little dog.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

After roe, women are no longer free.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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  5. 5.

    proterozoic

    You have to hand it to CNN… I never expected to laugh so much over any aspect of the Boston attacks

  9. 9.

    Violet

    Cannot believe that Zucker sent them a congratulatory em ail. For what? Sucking the most?

  10. 10.

    Schlemizel

    I wish the crappy bastards were capable of shame so that this sort of public humiliation would serve to make them want to do better.

  11. 11.

    beltane

    They’re not even trying to out-Fox Fox any more. I’m not sure exactly what they were trying to do with their Boston coverage. Do they?

    OT, but the Elvis impersonator was released. Authorities are now saying that the ricin letters were sent by someone who was seeking to frame the Elvis impersonator. In this case, his paranoia was well-founded.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    I’m a former journalist. I have seen dogs chase cars to more purpose than CNN’s people showed in this embarrassing display.

  14. 14.

    Redshirt

    Speaking of news/Twitter, don’t know if this has been mentioned here so far, but AP’s Twitter account got hacked, released news of a bombing at the White House and BO injured. Stock market instantly tanked.

  15. 15.

    maya

    The fog of factual reporting.

    OT, Apparently Elvis impersonators are not that dangerous after all.
    Should have checked out west coast suspects first because everybody knows Ricin Roni is a San Francisco treat.

  16. 16.

    maya

    The fog of factual reporting.

    OT, Apparently Elvis impersonators are not that dangerous after all.
    Should have checked out west coast suspects first because everybody knows Ricin Roni is a San Francisco treat.

  17. 17.

    beltane

    @Violet: They were very good with the spastic arm movements, almost like they were at a Pentecostal church speaking in tongues. Not everyone can pull this off, give them some credit here.

  20. 20.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Redshirt:

    Stock market instantly tanked.

    Which sort of suggests that privately the traders on Wall St. don’t hate BHO or think he is America’s downfall nearly as much as they like to claim in public. If their private thinking matched their public rhetoric, the market would have gained on that news, not tanked.

  21. 21.

    Redshirt

    @Schlemizel: I’ve started out poorly (immediately started attacking rather than trying to get the Donald to trust/like me first), and I’m sure it will get no where, but I must confess, yelling at stupid celebrities in a quasi-public environment feels great!

    He tweeted a classic “It’s cold in NYC today where’s Global Warming?”.

    LOL Donald. Good one!

  22. 22.

    YellowJournalism

    The reporter who described the eerie empty streets looking as “if a bomb went off” deserves some kind of Dumbshit of the Year Award and that clip should be shown in journalism classes all over the country to discourage overuse of cliches and contextual awareness.

  26. 26.

    p.a.

    Whoda thunk CNN’s highpoint would be when it was run by a drunken fratboy Brown dropout.

  28. 28.

    Keith

    I’m surprised Jon Stewart found anything other than commercials when he switched over to CNN. Alternately, he could have just showed a compilation of CNN anchor returning from commercial break just to say, “When we come back, we’re taking you inside the Jodi Arias courtroom” followed by another commercial break.

  29. 29.

    Trollhattan

    Aaaand, CNN’s punishment for their really bad week of being really bad?

    CNN’s journalistic reputation took a beating last week, but the flack it took from the Internet didn’t seem to prevent viewers from tuning in to the channel. On Friday, as Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being cornered by authorities, CNN had its biggest full-day audience for a nonpolitical breaking news event since the Iraq War broke out in 2003, the network says.

    And while Fox News Channel beat CNN in terms of overall audience, CNN smashed Fox among adults 25 to 54, the demo considered key in the news business. Specifically, during the prime-time hours when the manhunt was at its most tense, CNN averaged 2.5 million viewers in the demo, comfortably ahead of Fox News (1.9 million) and light-years beyond MSNBC (a mere 618,000). Two other fun facts: CNN’s prime-time audience Friday among adults 25 to 54 was more than fourteen times greater than its average in the demo during the first quarter of 2013, when it averaged 174,000 viewers in the demo. And almost as impressive, the 2.5 million demo audience Friday was more than six times bigger than the 400,000 viewers CNN averaged back in February for its breaking coverage of the Poop Cruise.

    http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/ratings-cnn-got-big-boost-from-boston-coverage.html

    As always, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

  30. 30.

    Schlemizel

    @Trollhattan:

    People wondering why the big Z congratulated them? Those of us wonder why they are not shamed into improvement?

    There is your fucking answer right there.

    CNN / American stupidity – which is the chicken & which is the egg?

  32. 32.

    Ted & Hellen

    Isn’t Jon Stewart the douche nozzle who organized a giant Both Sides Do It and Civility Above All rally in D.C. once upon a time?

  34. 34.

    The Moar You Know

    CNN / American stupidity – which is the chicken & which is the egg?

    @Schlemizel: CNN is but a symptom. This is a nation that, for most of its history, has spat with great contempt upon those who would dare claim that knowledge or intelligence are useful things.

  36. 36.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    @Ted & Hellen: I would have thought Stewart would be one of your all time faves. He beats on Obama like the President is his personal golf ball, and he’s got 36 holes to play and three hours to do it in.

  37. 37.

    satby

    Well, even though I hate CNN with a passion, I hate Fox Noise way, way worse, so I’m gratified that CNN creamed Fox in a key demographic and was mocked by Jon Stewart both.

    I can haz Al-Jazeera English, please?

  38. 38.

    Redshift

    @beltane:

    They’re not even trying to out-Fox Fox any more. I’m not sure exactly what they were trying to do with their Boston coverage. Do they?

    Trying to apply their patented Carnival-cruise coverage technique, perhaps?

  40. 40.

    Cacti

    @Ted & Hellen:

    Isn’t Jon Stewart the douche nozzle who organized a giant Both Sides Do It and Civility Above All rally in D.C. once upon a time?

    Yep.

  42. 42.

    Redshift

    @Mnemosyne: I remember it being mentioned when Curtis was first accused that he believed that guy had tried to frame him. Pretty weird stuff, if it turns out to be true.

  43. 43.

    beltane

    @Redshift: The new suspect is Republican former MS state house candidate J. Everett Dutschke, already in legal trouble in a child molestation case. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s like the whole state of Mississippi is trolling Wonkette.

  46. 46.

    jomo

    The amateurishness of the coverage is hilarious. It reminds me of the Little Rascals putting on their very own Broadway show.

  47. 47.

    Citizen_X

    @beltane:

    It’s like the whole state of Mississippi is trolling Wonkette.

    Come on, it’s Mississippi. You know how poor they are. They gotta get their kicks somehow.

  49. 49.

    Another Halocene Human

    @beltane: And if so, Mississippi, well played. Tennessee has topped the charts since January but I think they’re going to have to dig deep to beat this story.

  50. 50.

    Another Halocene Human

    @Comrade Luke: Don’t we?

    I took a suggestion on BJ and escalated from watching my FB feed for Tsarnaev news on Friday to watching the WBZ live stream. WBZ is a Boston-area broadcast station.

    The ratings don’t catch that kind of stuff. Or like when I was watching a lot of MSNBC several hours later online. Or back when I watched TDS/Colbert religiously online.

    Nor does it take into account the habit I share with many of my family members of tuning into radio or online radio feeds for coverage of a live event, rather than listening to the tv station.

    What about all the people getting their news from twitter?

  51. 51.

    Patrick

    @Comrade Luke:

    I think this guy raises a good point: https://medium.com/on-the-news-media/c53bde1778d1. If we really cared, we would watch something else.

    And that’s the sad part of this. CNN is not going to hurt one bit. People want to hear the very latest, whether it is true or not. This is not much different than the NY Post publishing a picture on page 1 of two young people that they accuse of being the bombers without an ounce of evidence.

    People want to read/watch it. People find that interesting. Until it happens to them. Until they themselves are accused of something on page 1 for something they didn’t do. We get the society and the media that we deserve…

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