Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Battle won, war still ongoing.

We still have time to mess this up!

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

The words do not have to be perfect.

This fight is for everything.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

You cannot shame the shameless.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

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

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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  4. 4.

    Emma

    Aren’t the Snowden supporters claiming that it’s not the messenger, it’s the message?

  7. 7.

    Ted & Hellen

    I love Obama,

    This is all that needs to be said, and pondered regarding your skewed perspective, Little Doug.

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Baud: Do we now have to cut and paste all our witty Charlie Rose related badinage onto this thread to be appropriately topical?

    @ Doug Milhous J:

    Why all my “liberal” friends are on his jock is a mystery to me.

    Totebaggers. obvs.

  9. 9.

    bill d

    Rose is an older, well off, white guy who likes to complain a lot and you are curious as to the “true progressive’s” crush on him?

  11. 11.

    srv

    I’ve always hated watching Presidents speak, but this would make me sick.

    Doug, sooner or later, you’re going to realize he’s your “liberal” friends guy and not your guy.

  12. 12.

    lamh35

    If the next President is Hilary Clinton, then I’m guessing you’ll be greatly disappointed DougJ

  14. 14.

    Cacti

    @lamh35:

    If the next President is Hilary Clinton, then I’m guessing you’ll be greatly disappointed DougJ

    Much to the chagrin of our resident PUMAs, I’ve little doubt that Hill will find a way to muck up Inevitability Part 2: Electric Boogaloo.

  16. 16.

    Suffern ACE

    Well I guess if he could only pick shows that were skeptical of the war in real time, he could ask that someone rehire Donohue. I think that might be the only one.

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I heard a lot about CHarlie Rose, about the great, long-form, serious discussions he had. I tried to watch a few times and he’s pretty much like Tweety without the hyperactivity: Long rambling questions, stepping on his guests attempts to answer.

    That said, I don’t know where I’d want Obama to go for a TeeVee interview. Martha Raddatz?

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    @David Koch:

    Primary Obummer in 2016!

    You know, as long as you can’t refer to President Obama without “snark” like this, I’ve got to assume you’re a Repub plant.

    The open question is whether you’re paid to spam us, or if your GOP masters are aware you’ll keep doing it for free.

  19. 19.

    Cacti

    @Ted & Hellen:

    This is all that needs to be said, and pondered regarding your skewed perspective, Little Doug

    Shouldn’t you be out patrolling the streets for dangerous black bucks with Skittles?

  20. 20.

    Tom Levenson

    Charley Rose is every Big Pharma’s worst nightmare. No market for sleep aids when he’s on the air.

    I have no brief for interviewers who think they are the star of their show. Nuff said.

  24. 24.

    Betty Cracker

    Looking forward to hearing Obama’s take on the Snowden info dump and would watch it even if it were on Fox. I’m conflicted about the NSA issue. For once, the truth might actually reside in the middle of the two poles. It has to happen occasionally, right?

  25. 25.

    Cacti

    @David Koch:

    why would i care what you think. nobody else does.

    It was such a bummer for AL when Rep. Nadler disavowed the breathless reports of the LaRouchies and Paultards.

    The “inadequate black man” must have gotten to him.

  26. 26.

    Suffern ACE

    @Tom Levenson: the problem is that is pretty much every show now. Could you imagine Tweety or Andersen or Wolf Blitzer handing the interview over to someone who might have spent the afternoon learning about the structure of the security agencies? He might be better off on Dr. Drew.

  27. 27.

    pokeyblow

    @efgoldman: I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but it’s sad that you’re so predictable, just sticking your hand up for attention all the time.

  28. 28.

    pokeyblow

    @Suffern ACE: Wolf Blitzer? I’d hardly categorize him as informed.

    I’m sorry, but Obama is on Tom Rose because of the late schedule, and the accommodating atmosphere.

  29. 29.

    Howard Beale IV

    The sooner a Dem Prez candidate distances himself from Obama’s policies (NSA reauth, Holder/Breuer not prosecuting the control fraud perps, etc ) the better.

    Shame that candidate Obama != President Obama.

  32. 32.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Cacti: Nadler’s backatrack isn’t what you think it is; rather it’s acqiescing to what the Adminsitration said.

    IOW, he isn’t willing to put his ass on the line and call out Clapper as a perjurer.

  35. 35.

    pokeyblow

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thank, and apologies to Suffern ACE.

    I’m old-school, and think an afternoon’s commitment to some complicated issue isn’t remarkable.

  37. 37.

    Ted & Hellen

    @Cacti:

    Shouldn’t you be out patrolling the streets for dangerous black bucks with Skittles?

    Here again we see the classic Botsplainer’s misdirection/racist maneuver. When frustrated by an opponent’s temerity in making a comment unaligned with its own thinking, the Botsplainer spews in all directions, hoping something, anything will stick.

  38. 38.

    pokeyblow

    @Cacti: Sorry. Charlie Rose. Not to garner sympathy, but an old friend named Tom committed suicide a week ago. My emotion is 70% anger, 20% whatever, 10% sorrow (I think), but his name is on my mind.

  39. 39.

    Howard Beale IV

    @Baud:

    True: but you’d think we’d be smart enough to realize that; but the only reason why Obama got elected for 2012 was that Romney was (1) orders of magnitude worse than Obama and (2) no credible third party like those that exists in other (albeit Pralimenterian) representative democracies.

    If it wasn’t for the fact that Perot went batshit crazy in 1992, maybe a true third party could have emerged. But it didn’t and we’re stuck with the consequences of what happened at that time-and we’re paying dearly for that.

  47. 47.

    Hawes

    The two most liberal presidents in history got us into an undeclared war with Germany and interned Japanese Americans and the other got us into Vietnam.

    And you’re pissed about Charlie Rose?

  48. 48.

    Ted & Hellen

    @Cacti:

    On a scale of 1-10, how sad were you when Jerry Sandusky was convicted?

    Here we see the Botsplainer attempting to…well, we’ve seen this many, many times before so let’s just behold and ponder its sad descent to depravity; allowing its wretched condition to speak for itself…

  50. 50.

    Suffern ACE

    @Howard Beale IV: I have no idea where that push will come from. It would appear that there is a bunch of warmongers in their enclaves in Washington and New York who don’t quite get that we’ve almost moved on from 9/11, that they’ve gone far enough, and we don’t want another Mideast war of any sort. Even if its only some no fly zone. They form kind of a fifth column and are in both parties.

    But getting rid of them is going to require money and time that we don’t have.

  51. 51.

    beliebert

    @lamh35: I think most of the Obama haters on the left are Clintonista’s. That in and of itself totally discredits them because if they think Obama is towing the company line too much then they are in for a real shocker if Hillary ever gets in. The same Hillary that voted for the Iraq war and has sided with neocons on several other occasions.

  52. 52.

    NonyNony

    @Howard Beale IV:

    If it wasn’t for the fact that Perot went batshit crazy in 1992, maybe a true third party could have emerged.

    A true third party built as a cult of personality revolving around H. Ross Perot. Who didn’t “go batshit crazy” in ’92 to trash his candidacy so much as “revealed to the world that he was already batshit crazy” in ’92 to trash his candidacy.

  54. 54.

    Cacti

    @Hawes:

    The two most liberal presidents in history got us into an undeclared war with Germany

    War was formally declared on Germany and Italy on December 11, 1941, following the declarations of war from those two nations on the United States earlier that day.

  55. 55.

    Hawes

    @Cacti: You’re forgetting seven or eight months of undeclared naval war in the North Atlantic. The sinking of the Reuben James, the destroyer for bases deal, Lend Lease. We were at war with Germany well before Pearl Harbor.

  58. 58.

    steve

    Charlie Rose is a drunk idiot who pimped the Iraq War.

    As a Sobriety-Challenged-American, I object to this soberist bigotry and ask you to refrain from it in the future.

  59. 59.

    Cacti

    @Hawes:

    You’re forgetting seven or eight months of undeclared naval war in the North Atlantic. The sinking of the Reuben James, the destroyer for bases deal, Lend Lease. We were at war with Germany well before Pearl Harbor.

    Boots on the ground in Europe would have been a substantially trickier proposition for Roosevelt had Hitler not thrown the door wide open for him, in the hope that Japan would renege on their non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union.

  61. 61.

    David Koch

    @Hawes: so true. roosevelt began constructing the atomic bomb (in secret!!) on October 9th, 1941, two months before pearl harbor.

    roosevelt also began supplying China with arms in 1938.

    in 38 roosevelt began a giant rearmament prgam, years before pearl.

    Normon Thomas and the socialist party denounced roosevelt in 38 as warmonger and claimed his actions were a march towards fascism. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  62. 62.

    AHH onna Droid

    Doug, dont be a dumbass. Obama has made his whole career on convincing toyebaggers that hes serious and accepting their checks. He’s making a direct play to the only persuadables among those paying attention to this issue. If he can win the manhattan cocjtail party set then even the liberal NYT will declare snoopgate jokesauce and 2014 will be saved.

  65. 65.

    Eric U.

    it still surprises me a little that republicans think that fighting Hitler was somehow an act of agression.

  66. 66.

    NonyNony

    @Doug Milhous J:

    I think that “seriously disappointed” was in regards to this:

    let’s hope the next Democratic president never does his show.

    As in a “if the next Dem President is Hillary Clinton, this particular hope will be dashed” sort of disappointment.

  68. 68.

    David Koch

    @Howard Beale IV:

    Obama got elected for 2012 was that Romney was (1) orders of magnitude worse than Obama and (2) no credible third party

    Who would have been better then obummer?

    Warren? Warren supported TARP. Warren supports drones, bombing Iran, and FISA.

    Sanders? Bernie has been in congress for 22 years and has never passed a single bill. not one. Just three weeks ago Sanders tried to pass a bill on GMO labeling, it lost 71-27, wthe Warren (shocking!) voting against transparency. And when it comes to guns, Bernie voted against over the counter background checks and voted to immunize gun manufacturers from all lawsuits.

    Feingold? He voted for Rumsfeld, Roberts, and Ashcroft. He even said he supported Bush’s warrantless wiretap pgm if he went to FISA. And can’t even win his home state.

  69. 69.

    James E. Powell

    @Hawes:

    We were at war with Germany well before Pearl Harbor.

    You say that like it’s a bad thing.

    Also too, how that germane to anything our current president is or is not doing?

  72. 72.

    A Humble Lurker

    @Anne Laurie:
    Honest question: do you read the comments on this blog? Because this poster has been around since the Koch’s were exposed (hence the moniker) and has proven since to be if not as far from a Republican troll as you can get, still a LOT farther away than other posters you could accuse. And this isn’t the first time you’ve accused them of this. And you never responded to the debunking of the Nadler story yourself yesterday.

    But you know, if you want to go after David Koch after you accused ABL of going all black list on Corner Stone for putting him in a time out for being racist, (when she had a relative who was blacklisted, by the way) you go right ahead. That’s your mistake to make.

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