Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Books are my comfort food!

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

The willow is too close to the house.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

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

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Stand up, dammit!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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The Official Washington Post Response to Their Editorial Board’s Awfulness

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For reals:

Once again, DougJ from 2009 will never be wrong:

I’m watching Monica Crowley and Pat Buchanan on the McLaughlin group and so help me God, I am praying for a dirty bomb in Georgetown.

These people will destroy us all.

Don’t be fooled by Obama — we are fucked.

Sociopaths. Although the spelling error misdirect is a more pedantic “OMG BLOGGERS USE FOUR LETTER WORDS,” so props to Chuckie for that.

And yes, this really happened. Why every blog does not have an “Our Failed Media Experiment” tag is beyond me.

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  1. 1.

    jl

    Lane is on-point as always. Keep making that rag look good, Mr. Lane, someone has too.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Chuck Lane is ANOTHER guy whose head would look much better on a pike than on his shoulders.

    Speed the day.

  3. 3.

    Zam

    A pet peeve of mine is people who correct grammar on texts tweets and blogs as a method of demonstrating their own brilliance (this is especially prominent with there their and they’re). I know whats right on most things but occasionally I’ll be typing fast and fuck up, knowing a few basic grammar rules and being able to spell certain words does not make you a fucking genius.

  5. 5.

    Marc

    the washington post has never printed a typo

    Just lies about what awaited us in Iraq. So, you know, no biggie.

  6. 6.

    scav

    Of course they know how to spell Hemorrhaging. It produces their favorite business-lunch tipple.

  8. 8.

    dr. bloor

    You go to war on Twitter with the argument you have, not the one you wish you had.

  9. 9.

    Jewish Steel

    @Zam: Agree. I give all the attention typing shit in a comment box on the internet its due.

  11. 11.

    Trollhattan

    You can’t spell hemorrhaging without “hag,” Chuck, and you may well be one.

  15. 15.

    Baud

    I bet the Washington Post editorial board doesn’t know how to spell douchebag.

  16. 16.

    Betty Cracker

    I wonder if the WaPo editorial board knows how to spell “supine, knob-polishing, neocon-enabling stenographers.” They could look it up. I believe Hiatt’s picture illustrates the entry in Merriam-Webster.

  19. 19.

    piratedan

    glad that Charles knows how to spell, crafting a coherent argument, not so much.

  21. 21.

    Eric U.

    I wish I had figured out the twitter, I’d be sending Chuckie all the wapo misspellings and mistakes I could find

    For years, the WAPO page on the Ruby Ridge standoff had it happening under Clinton instead of under Bush. I think Atrios waged a one-man campaign to get them to change it

  22. 22.

    matt

    ‘FDR In Bed With Coed’

    Washington Post printed that instead of ‘FDR In Bed With Cold’

  24. 24.

    David Koch

    Obama leads in Ohio poll 50-45 in a PPP robopoll with a D +9 electorate. Now I know why GOPers rage at polls.

    Nov 3, 2012

    So Chuck was part of the polls are skewed conspiracy theorists.

    Kooky.

    Creepy.

    Anti-science.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    It’s “haemorrhaging”.
    You Americans and your American spelling. Hmph. ;)

    This was too blatant to work as a red herring. Charles Lane has as much as admitted that The Washington Post printed a stupid editorial. This just confirms my long-held belief that Twitter would have been more aptly — or at least more honestly — named BrainFart.

  26. 26.

    David Koch

    Except for Gallp and National Journal, every national poll of the last ten days has race tied. It’s a tie, people.

    Nov 2, 2012

    BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

    Yeah, it was a real nail-biter.

  28. 28.

    Keith G

    Lane’s futile attempt at witty repartee aside, it’s still:

    JG Cole 1

    WP Editorial Board 0.

  29. 29.

    Morzer

    WaPo editorial board knows how to spell “hemorrhaging.”

    Maybe so, but it’s unfortunate, to say the least, that their prescription for dealing with it is more of the same.

  34. 34.

    geg6

    @David Koch:

    Between this and #28, you’re on fire tonight. Hope you’re tweeting that shit to Chuckie boy. Come in, let’s do to him what they did to the idiot Racistskins today.

  36. 36.

    David Koch

    Cuz numbers are hard and Nate Silver has teh Ghey

    Chuck Lane said Romney would outright win Florida (O by +1), Virginia (O by +4), and Colorado (O by +6) and marked as toss-ups states Wisconsin (O by +7)(!), Iowa (O by +5), and New Hampshire (O by +6).

    If he was in any other line of work, instead of propaganda, he would be fired.

  37. 37.

    dmsilev

    And Mr. Lane doesn’t seem to understand (or at least is pretending not to understand) that proofreading and spellchecking standards vary somewhat depending on the medium. For an article destined to a professional journal, I’ll proofread the living shit out of it, and probably a couple of my colleagues will do the same just in case I missed something. For an internal document, I’ll read it over once or twice to make sure there aren’t any glaring howlers. For a comment to a blog post, as long as there aren’t any red squiggly lines, I’m good. For a fucking tweet…

  38. 38.

    Jay C

    @matt:

    ‘FDR In Bed With Coed’

    Washington Post printed that instead of ‘FDR In Bed With Cold’

    Well, to be honest, they may have been right the first time: but then, they had a lot more respect for the Presidency back then…..

    But SRSLY, Lane’s best (only?) response to a critical tweet about the Post’s BS FP editorial is a gripe about the spelling of “hemorrhaging”??

  40. 40.

    OGLiberal

    @David Koch: What’s hilarious is that Obama won Ohio 51-48. So the poll was actually quite accurate. Yeah, 51 is closer to 50 than 45 is to 48, but doesn’t really matter because neither 45 nor 48 gets you the win and while Mitt overperformed the poll, so did Obama. Whatever, Obama won Ohio easy, which is something Mitt’s pollsters, Charles Lane, or the skewed polls nuts would have never predicted or expected, because all are reality denying fucking morons.

  41. 41.

    lukeallen1

    I would sooner stick needles in my eyes then defend wr0ng way Cole but WaPo stirs up a whole other type of disdain!

    Grammar nazi’s are people who can’t find anything better to do with their english education….like maybe proper journalism.

  47. 47.

    Just One More Canuck

    Wow Cole – he really showed you. It’s a wonder you can show yourself here after that

  55. 55.

    Lurking Canadian

    @David Koch: what is he even trying to say there? Doesn’t the shorthand “D+9” mean “The Democrats can be expected to win this district by nine points”? Why would that lead somebody to think a 50-45 Obama advantage would be suspicious?

  56. 56.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @OGLiberal: Not to meniton Kkkarl Rove making a total buffoon of himself on election night on Faux, screaming about there’s no fucking way that Obama is winning Ohio when Faux’s own analysts had it called, because the outstanding ballots were all in urban areas trending seriously Obama.

    Kkkarl Rove, SOOPER GENIOUS!

  57. 57.

    Kay

    Is there any public support for an aggressive, interventionist foreign policy right now? I mean, outside of these 150 (or so) people?

    I think most, the vast majority, would be absolutely horrified if they were to start that up again.

  58. 58.

    Lurking Canadian

    @Villago Delenda Est: Oh, I can understand Rove’s reaction. I mean, haven’t you ever bought something on eBay, and then the guy just keeps your money and doesn’t ship it?

  61. 61.

    Marc

    @David Koch: Ha! You misspelled “Gallup.”

    This invalidates your entire argument, meaning Chuck Lane was right about Ohio and Mitt Romney is actually our president.

  62. 62.

    David Koch

    @Lurking Canadian: the parenthesis are my short hand annotation of the actual results. For example, he said Wisconsin was a toss-up, but actual result was an Obama win by 7 points. So in parenthesis I note the winner (O for Obama) and margin of victory (+7 for winning by 7 points). Together it reads as (O +7).

  63. 63.

    HugeEuge

    WaPo editorial board knows how to spell “hemorrhaging.”
    Possibly because so many articles have been written about WaPo using the word in question right before “money” Now that Bezos owns them I wonder how they are covering the Amazon-Hachette dispute.

  67. 67.

    Petorado

    Chuck Lane: spell checks -yes, fact checks – no. It’s obviously not good Beltway decorum to print lies with typos in them.

  68. 68.

    David Koch

    The bankrupt warmongers at the Post are truly disgusting. Not one has ever served a single day in uniform. Neither have any of their children. Not. One. Yet these soulless pigs have no compunction to send other sons and daughters to fight and die in bloody quagmires they create.

  69. 69.

    eldorado

    @Lurking Canadian: i think what lane was trying to say is that the poll had +9 more democrats responding but obama only lead by 4. so democrats were over-represented, even with that he is barely ahead, poll is skewed, suck it libs.

  71. 71.

    priscianus jr

    @Zam: @Zam: people who correct grammar on texts tweets and blogs as a method of demonstrating their own brilliance . . . I know whats right on most things but occasionally I’ll be typing fast and fuck up, knowing a few basic grammar rules and being able to spell certain words does not make you a fucking genius.”

    Point well taken, but as one such corrector myself, I think there’s a big difference between significant errors and mere typos. For example: the NRA-led fictional reinterpretation of the Second Amendment rests on the fact that they don’t know what an “absolute clause” is.
    blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2013/02/12/a-grammar-lesson-for-gun-nuts-second-amendment-does-not-guar…

    And this moron at Breitbart doesn’t understand that “infringe” is not a synonym of “regulate”, even when that has just been explained to him by an articulate second-amendment advocate, Dick Metcalf.
    breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/05/Guns-Ammo-Editor-All-Constitutional-Rights-Need-Regulation-2…

    Metcalf was fired for writing that column, or in other words, because a lot of his readers don’t think grammar means anything.
    politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/guns-second-amendment-target-me-102133.html#.U4iQEi-NDFc

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