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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Racial Justice / Post-racial America / When Lynchings Go Awry

When Lynchings Go Awry

by John Cole|  November 9, 20145:29 pm| 139 Comments

This post is in: Post-racial America, Assholes, Clown Shoes, Teabagger Stupidity

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Apparently Warner Todd Huston and Joel Pollak at Breitbart have breaking pieces on AG nominee Loretta Lynch:

Members of the conservative media are attempting to scandalize President Obama’s Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch by suggesting she was involved in the Whitewater investigations of the 1990s. However, the Loretta Lynch that played a bit role in Whitewater — an investigation into fraudulent real estate deals that did not include any wrongdoing by the Clintons — is a different person than Obama’s attorney general nominee.

According to a November 8 Breitbart.com article by Warner Todd Huston, “few are talking about” the fact nominee Lynch “was part of Bill Clinton’s Whitewater probe defense team in 1992.” Huston pointed to a March 1992 New York Times article that “reported that Lynch was one of the Clintons’ Whitewater defense attorneys as well as a ‘campaign aide.'” And in a November 9 article Huston’s colleague, Breitbart.com Senior Editor-at Large Joel Pollak wrote, “The connection to Whitewater ought to provide additional fodder for Republicans during Lynch’s confirmation hearings”:

The connection to Whitewater ought to provide additional fodder for Republicans during Lynch’s confirmation hearings. It is odd that Obama chose someone so close to the Clintons–or perhaps not, given the prominent role played by Clinton insider John Podesta in the second term of the Obama White House. Lynch has been rewarded throughout her career for her political loyalty–not an unusual path up the career ladder for federal prosecutors, but certainly one that will allow the GOP, as well as Obama, to raise the political stakes.

The Loretta Lynch referred to in the New York Times article is a California based attorney who has worked on several prominent political campaigns, not Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch. Obama’s nominee is shown on the right, while the Loretta Lynch Breitbart refers to is on the left:

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I wouldn’t suggest reading the comments at Breitbart- they read like they have finally gone full Stormfront.

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  1. 1.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm

    Even Satan (The prince of liars) can’t hold a candle to these nanocephalic slackjawked mouthbreathers.

  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm

    I’m not sure why everyone seems to be so pumped about the actual Ms. Lynch that is nominated.

    ETA,
    Is Dday incorrect here?
    https://twitter.com/ddayen

  3. 3.

    Trentrunner

    November 9, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    I dunno, I’d be disposed to defend anyone who defended the Clintons from that Whitewater/Vince Foster/Monicagate stuff.

    Still. Hilarious.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Dread

    November 9, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    they read like they have finally gone full Stormfront

    Finally? I think we’re about six years past that point, mate.

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    November 9, 2014 at 5:38 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I’m not sure why everyone seems to be so pumped about the actual Ms. Lynch that is nominated.

    Her history of prosecuting corrupt police seems like a good start.

  6. 6.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 9, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    You can’t unsee what you have seen. Need some brain bleach, stat.

  7. 7.

    Iowa Old Lady

    November 9, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    I can’t unsee that picture, Cole. One of your neighbors?

  8. 8.

    JPL

    November 9, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    @Corner Stone: Well both sides of the tweets and all.

  9. 9.

    John Cole +0

    November 9, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    @Corner Stone: I have no opinion of her whatsoever. I’m still hurting from that Taibbi piece on Holder. I do find these guys at Breitbart to be hysterical, though.

  10. 10.

    Tree With Water

    November 9, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Ms. Lynch also moonlights as a running back for the Seattle Seahawks.

  11. 11.

    JPL

    November 9, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    @John Cole +0: Please tell me that the guy with the gun shot his manhood off.

  12. 12.

    Carrie

    November 9, 2014 at 5:43 pm

    Omfg. And right before supper too.
    Thanks alot.

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    @Corner Stone: She also prosecuted the police officers who assaulted Abner Louima. She was also involved in getting the Citibank $7 billion settlement over mortgage fraud. She’s been a lawyer for 30 years; you’re going to find good and bad.

  14. 14.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    @Tree With Water: If she goes Beast Mode on banksters count me in.

  15. 15.

    El Caganer

    November 9, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    @Corner Stone: Much the same reason as with Eric Holder. If you nominate an AG who goes after banksters and doesn’t do dick for John Q. Public’s civil rights, the banksters won’t give you any money and John Q. Public will hate your guts for letting police abuse citizens, corrupt politicos disenfranchise those they don’t like, etc. Consequently, you won’t be in office for very long, and there’s a good chance you’d get ousted before even getting rid of the banksters.

    If you ignore the banksters and stand up for John Q. Public’s civil rights, the banksters will give you money and John Q. Public will at least get something out of the deal.

  16. 16.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    @JPL:

    Wait, that guy is not Cole?

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: And, as Dday points out, the HSBC BS.
    There’s no perfect social justice warrior available for this job, I get it.
    But a lobbyist and Fed board member doesn’t do it for me. Sorry.

  18. 18.

    The Dangerman

    November 9, 2014 at 5:47 pm

    @JPL:

    …shot his manhood off.

    Creepy Rob Low-T?

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 5:48 pm

    @El Caganer: This is one of the more ridiculous responses I could have imagined. And, yes, I thought of a few.

  20. 20.

    Felonius Monk

    November 9, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    @JPL:

    Please tell me that the guy with the gun shot his manhood off.

    Or, at least, took one in the Boys.

  21. 21.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 5:53 pm

    @Corner Stone: She may if Shelby, Diaper Dave and Warren turn up the heat-that is, if they even hold confirmation hearings.

  22. 22.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    @John Cole +0: I’m still learning more on this. It doesn’t actually matter, as Obama didn’t ask me. But I’m looking for some reason people are excited. Beyond the fact that Obama nominated her.
    Knocking people down is easy. Ambitious, talented, successful people make decisions and do things we won’t all agree with. Magnanimously, I am ok with that.
    But I see an easy downside discussion here and not a lot of upside. So I thought I would ask.

  23. 23.

    mai naem mobile

    November 9, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    This is funny. When i saw Obummer announce her yesterday i was wondering which rightwinger would be the first one to say he nominated Lynch because her name would give him an advantage during her nomination hearing because thats how stupid they are.

  24. 24.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    @Corner Stone: She was a partner at Hogan Lovells, but that is a huge law firm. It does lobbying as many law firms do, but I have not seen anything to indicate that Lynch was anything other than a lawyer there.

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I may be more familiar with Hogan than you are, but then again I may not.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    @Corner Stone: All I was saying is that working for that firm does not automatically make her a lobbyist.

  27. 27.

    Amir Khalid

    November 9, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    Gee, I dunno. It’s really hard for me to tell Loretta Lynch apart from Loretta Lynch.

    As for the Mr Seks Appeal, I get why he’s posing with guns and ammo. But toy guitars?

  28. 28.

    MattF

    November 9, 2014 at 6:00 pm

    But, you see, they don’t care that it’s the wrong Loretta Lynch. Doesn’t matter. And, besides– once you’ve unskewed the facts, and come to see things in their true clear light, both Loretta Lynches turn out to be merely separate visible aspects of the same malevolent entity.

  29. 29.

    Felonius Monk

    November 9, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    Here all the time I thought those turds over at breitbart.com were just morons (aka morans) — turns out they’re idiots, too.

  30. 30.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 6:02 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    People are accusing her of being a lobbyist because she worked at a firm that lobbies?

  31. 31.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    @Baud: Well, I spent time at Baker Hostetler, a firm that also lobbies, but I have never been a lobbyist.

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    @Baud: Contra Omnes, not all big law firms lobby. And those that do, do not have an ethical wall between individuals inside.
    I get what you’re trying to do here, but when you’re a partner at a shop that lobbies.

  33. 33.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    You will never be Attorney General, you corporate shill.

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    @Corner Stone: I did not say that all big law firms lobby.

    @Baud: Well, no shit.

  35. 35.

    The Other Chuck

    November 9, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Whitewater? Yeah that’s gonna really move opinion. Keep fucking that chicken, Breitbrats.

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    @Baud: Why not? It’s not stopping Ms. Lynch.
    Let the man dream, for dog’s sake.

  37. 37.

    jibeaux

    November 9, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Let’s look on the bright side here. They did not analyze Loretta Lynn’s fitness to serve as AG, and really they’re just not going to clear any bars higher than that.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I’m not trying to do anything. But I know enough about law firms to know that most attorneys in most large law firms do not lobby.

  39. 39.

    Betty Cracker

    November 9, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    Jeebus, what the hell happened to Russell Brand?

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 6:10 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Thread’s over. You won.

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:10 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yes you did. You said she fucks goats and that all goat firms engoaten their environment.
    It’s right there in goat and white!

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    Damn. I’m hungry for some goat all of a sudden.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 6:11 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    That’s what not voting will do to you.

  44. 44.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    American Airlines cabin crew barely rejected a union contact by 16 votes-The proposed contract included guaranteed raises but ended a profit-sharing plan, further complicating their merger with US Airways.

  45. 45.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    @Baud: What you’re saying is bullshit. Most lawyers are not lobbyists. Most law firms do not lobby.
    You are pulling the proverbial goat chain.

  46. 46.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Ok, you lost me. But I like goats, so it’s all good.

  47. 47.

    Botsplainer

    November 9, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    You and gnawing on fucking goat. It’s a little tough for me.

    Lamb, I’ll do.

  48. 48.

    Tehanu

    November 9, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    @Comrade Dread:
    You beat me to it.

    Also: John, did you HAVE to use that photo on the post? There’s not enough brain bleach on this planet to get that image out of my head. Yeaughhhh.

  49. 49.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    @Baud: Most law firms do not lobby. Let’s drop those from our discussion, goat boy.
    What about considering those firms that *do* lobby?
    The average attorney makes $35K a year. You going to compare Ms. Lynch to that category now, as well?

  50. 50.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:18 pm

    @Botsplainer: I’ll take some Lamb Chops.

    ETA, lamb fucker!

  51. 51.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 6:20 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Most of the attorneys in law firms that lobby do not themselves lobby, IMHO.

  52. 52.

    hilts

    November 9, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    @MattF:

    “Correction: The Loretta Lynch identified earlier as the Whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney.”

  53. 53.

    Southern Beale

    November 9, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    Apparently that great conservative magazine American Thinker made the same mistake. Hilarious.

  54. 54.

    hilts

    November 9, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    No, this guy is a roadie for Ted Nugent.

  55. 55.

    mdblanche

    November 9, 2014 at 6:26 pm

    @Trentrunner: I know, right? When I read what they were “accusing” her of, I kept thinking “this is a bad thing, because… ?”

  56. 56.

    Roger Moore

    November 9, 2014 at 6:27 pm

    @JPL:

    Please tell me that the guy with the gun shot his manhood off.

    I doubt it. It’s such a tiny target.

  57. 57.

    MattF

    November 9, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    @hilts: “Correction: This article is false.”

  58. 58.

    catclub

    November 9, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    @El Caganer: Well put. Also depressing.
    Also, the banksters STILL decided that Obama had it in for them, and pulled their support ( which did happen in 2008).

  59. 59.

    SRW1

    November 9, 2014 at 6:30 pm

    I wouldn’t suggest reading the comments at Breitbart- they read like they have finally gone full Stormfront.

    OK, so the Breitbart guys may be a bit shaky with that ‘facts’ thing, but nobody can accuse them of not doing their job.

  60. 60.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 6:33 pm

    @Betty Cracker: He’s gone fill LibDem/Sohulists with his Trews Youtube Channel.

  61. 61.

    mdblanche

    November 9, 2014 at 6:33 pm

    @Southern Beale: With a name like that, I’m guessing it’s the magazine for conservatives who totally missed Orwell’s point.

  62. 62.

    shelley

    November 9, 2014 at 6:39 pm

    And the rightwing brain-rot continues.

  63. 63.

    scav

    November 9, 2014 at 6:40 pm

    @JPL:

    @John Cole +0: Please tell me that the guy with the gun shot his manhood off.

    Well, if he did, he must have remarkably good aim.

  64. 64.

    Carnacki

    November 9, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    So, plastic surgery?

  65. 65.

    mdblanche

    November 9, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    @MattF: “Correction: This article is true. And by true I mean false. It is all lies. But they’re entertaining lies. And in the end, isn’t that the real truth? The answer is no.”

  66. 66.

    Roger Moore

    November 9, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    @shelley:

    And the rightwing brain-rot continues.

    How? It’s hard to believe there’s any brain left to rot. The only way the rot can continue is if the rotten material rots a second or third time.

  67. 67.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    Loretta in Beast Mode! Skittles at the Senate!

  68. 68.

    Suzanne

    November 9, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’d love for you to be Attorney General. And Little Boots would lose his shit.

    I love right-wing fails. The just absolutely make my day. Like the story about the Duggar girl fucking in the church. It wasn’t true, but, oh Lord, I wanted it to be. The Palin fight was even better than I have ever hoped for. I know that it’s bad to be so small and petty, but whenever they fuck up so spectacularly, I just LOVE IT SO MUCH.

  69. 69.

    ira-NY

    November 9, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    Depressing. He is for something. They are against it. And, in the end, fed up with nothing happening, the American people rewarded the ‘aginners.’

  70. 70.

    Trentrunner

    November 9, 2014 at 6:50 pm

    OMYGOD.

    You know how when you think the ice cream is all gone and you go to the fridge and move stuff around and then lo and behold there’s a half-pint of chocolate-chocolate chip that you forgot about and no one else is home and it’s raining outside and there’s a great movie on TCM and the fire is crackling and you curl up realizing just how good life is?

    That’s how I feel when this post reminded me that Andrew Breitbart is dead. Very dead. Worm food dead. So truly dead.

  71. 71.

    MattF

    November 9, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    @Trentrunner: Dead, but still lying. Quite a feat.

  72. 72.

    Baud

    November 9, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    @Suzanne:

    You gotta take happiness wherever you find it.

  73. 73.

    JPL

    November 9, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    @MattF: We’re democrats and we’ll take what we can get.

  74. 74.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 6:54 pm

    @SRW1: When even conservative uber-troll Chuck C Johnson was calling out how wrong this ‘Breitbart scoop’ was, stick a fork in the Breitbart empire. It’s ex-parrot time.

  75. 75.

    Cervantes

    November 9, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Their trivial failures are pored over — bread and circuses! — while their important failures are quickly all but forgotten.

  76. 76.

    Iowa Old Lady

    November 9, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    @Trentrunner: I’m off to search the freezer, stat.

  77. 77.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    Damn. Loretta is freakin’ killing it tonight late.

  78. 78.

    mai naem mobile

    November 9, 2014 at 6:56 pm

    @Betty Cracker: thats what happens to you when you split up with Katy Perry.
    by the way I am surprised that so many people appear not to have seen this picture beforet_t bogg use to use it a lot with his Sean Hannity dating website posts. Pre FDL i think.

  79. 79.

    Mike J

    November 9, 2014 at 7:00 pm

    @Howard Beale IV:

    He’s gone fill LibDem

    So when he said vote for nobody he meant Nick Clegg? While accurate, I now understand the confusion over his statements.

  80. 80.

    Cervantes

    November 9, 2014 at 7:01 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I doubt you’ll find him there. He’s buried in West LA.

  81. 81.

    Roger Moore

    November 9, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    @Cervantes:

    He’s buried in West LA.

    Cool! That’s close enough to go over and piss on his grave. Does anyone know the exact location?

  82. 82.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 9, 2014 at 7:07 pm

    @Corner Stone: Biryani?

  83. 83.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 7:07 pm

    First name Russell…last name Wilson…

  84. 84.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 7:08 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Now you’re speaking my language!

  85. 85.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 7:09 pm

    @Mike J: I haven’t been really watching his channel all that much; he’s definitely turned far left and anti-globalistic, and has had some interesting people on from time to time and has appeared on some off-the-beaten-path shows. But he’s pretty sharp, and put the shiv in someone’s argument pretty quick.

  86. 86.

    Keith G

    November 9, 2014 at 7:09 pm

    @Corner Stone: If I were not an intermittent Obot, my snarkish response would be…

    “Of course he wants to hire someone with New York finance and lobbyist ties… there is the Obama Presidential Library to build.”

    But since I am, it isn’t.

  87. 87.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    I’m probably going to make a mix-meat-meatball to put on some Naan bread and bake as a pizza.
    But Biryani also sounds pretty awesome at this point.

  88. 88.

    JPL

    November 9, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    @Roger Moore: Sounds like a good place to have a balloon juice meetup.

  89. 89.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 7:13 pm

    @Roger Moore: Don’t know about Breitbart, Howard Jarvis is buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.

  90. 90.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    @Roger Moore: Find a Grave: Andrew Breitbart

  91. 91.

    beltane

    November 9, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    @mai naem mobile: The picture is also a Wonkette standby. The need for brain bleach never goes away no matter how many times I see it.

  92. 92.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    @Keith G: Just tired of people telling me that Arne Duncan, Tim Geithner, James Comey, Chuck Hagel, et al are the best candidates we’re going to get in these spots.
    When we can’t get a Surgeon General who thinks guns can be used to harm people, or someone who once worked on the case for Mumia.

  93. 93.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    @Howard Beale IV: Looks like he’s at Hillside in West LA, you can see it off the 405. He’s in the back part of the property.

  94. 94.

    Keith G

    November 9, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    @Corner Stone: The good news is that she has an impressive bio. Maybe her time swimming with the sharks did not cause her to grow fins.

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    November 9, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    That’s what they want you to believe….

    ;)

  96. 96.

    Cervantes

    November 9, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Yes, Hillside Memorial, off Centinela.

    Here’s a map. He lies (still) in the Garden of Rachel (top right).

  97. 97.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    @NotMax: I know, cause it was MURDER.

  98. 98.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    @Cervantes: We all know the grave is empty, cause Obama.

    ETA: Via teh Google Maps it looks like some unfortunate apartment dweller has a nice view of his final resting place. Wonder if they get a discount on rent?

  99. 99.

    sharl

    November 9, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    The story of internet-famous Naked Gun Guy is no less strange than the photos.

    Don’t click over there if this photo and others like it are too off-putting; there is no visual sanctuary to be had there.

  100. 100.

    Cervantes

    November 9, 2014 at 7:35 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” said the Kenyan.

  101. 101.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 9, 2014 at 7:35 pm

    @Howard Beale IV:

    The Virtual Flowers feature has been turned off for this memorial because it was being continually misused.

    Is it wrong of me to go HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! ?

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    November 9, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    @Cervantes

    Owners of adjacent plots may have standing for a class action pollution suit.

  103. 103.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Is it wrong of me to go HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! ?

    No. SATSQ.

  104. 104.

    skerry

    November 9, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    Andrew James Breitbart
    Garden of Rachel, Block 1, Plot 6, Space 8
    Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Ave, Los Angeles, CA

    Amazing what you can find using the Google machine, Ancestry.com and findagrave.com.

    Tell him I said, “hi”

    ETA: Saw others found him first, oh well.

  105. 105.

    Cervantes

    November 9, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Define “wrong.”

  106. 106.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 7:51 pm

    @skerry: Oddly, he’s not listed by Hillside as one of their “Distinguished Residents”. Wonder why.

  107. 107.

    Cervantes

    November 9, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Just tired of people telling me that Arne Duncan, Tim Geithner, James Comey, Chuck Hagel, et al are the best candidates we’re going to get in these spots. When we can’t get a Surgeon General who thinks guns can be used to harm people, or someone who once worked on the case for Mumia.

    Sad but true.

  108. 108.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Because guys like Breitbart who keep dick pics on their iPhones (Weiner) aren’t all that distinguished to begin with?

  109. 109.

    Elizabelle

    November 9, 2014 at 8:18 pm

    @skerry:

    From your Breitbart grave blurb:

    The Virtual Flowers feature has been turned off for this memorial because it was being continually misused.

  110. 110.

    Cacti

    November 9, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I’m not sure why everyone seems to be so pumped about the actual Ms. Lynch that is nominated.

    Maybe he could nominate Alison Lundergan Grimes instead.

    Of course, that would put her in the uncomfortable situation of having to be seen in public with a negro.

  111. 111.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    @Cacti:

    Of course, that would put her in the uncomfortable situation of having to be seen in public with a negro.

    WTF?

  112. 112.

    Cacti

    November 9, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Did you pay any attention at all to the Kentucky US Senate campaign?

  113. 113.

    Burnspbesq

    November 9, 2014 at 8:29 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Dday is always incorrect. A trait he apparently acquired from you.

  114. 114.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    November 9, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    @Trentrunner: I admit, I’ve been depressed this week. You pulled me out of it.

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 9, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    @Cacti: Yes, I did, but I think that more or less suggesting that she is a racist is a bit fucked up.

  116. 116.

    Cervantes

    November 9, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    @John Cole:

    Apparently Warner Todd Huston and Joel Pollak at Breitbart have breaking pieces on AG nominee Loretta Lynch

    Once again Joel Pollak got up on his high horse and fell right off.

    A certain Carol (not Caroline) Felsenthal’s work was discussed lovingly here recently. Here’s an article she wrote a few years ago, entitled “Joel Pollak on Anthony Weiner, Andrew Breitbart, and Why Sarah Palin Could Be the First Jewish President.”

  117. 117.

    Roger Moore

    November 9, 2014 at 8:37 pm

    @JPL:

    Sounds like a good place to have a balloon juice meetup.

    No, it’s the place for the afterparty.

  118. 118.

    Corner Stone

    November 9, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    @Burnspbesq:

    Dday is always incorrect. A trait he apparently acquired from you.

    Damn! Nailed me again!
    Is there some kind of law school course at Duke you took named “How to definitively state some shit online with no context or any other bullshit” ?

  119. 119.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 8:42 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    No, it’s the place for the afterparty.

    After the consumption of large quantities of beer.

  120. 120.

    Roger Moore

    November 9, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    After the consumption of large quantities of beer.

    That was the general idea, though I suspect only PsiFighter+37 is the only one of us who could truly do Breitbrat justice.

  121. 121.

    Gus

    November 9, 2014 at 9:08 pm

    “It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it’s out there.” I’ll be curious to see if this has legs in the wingnut world, even though it’s so easily disproved.

  122. 122.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 9, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    @Roger Moore: I’m pretty sure that iced tea would work for me.

  123. 123.

    rikyrah

    November 9, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    Cole,

    that picture is hilarious

  124. 124.

    Tree With Water

    November 9, 2014 at 10:00 pm

    @rikyrah: That is a photo of Cole, rikrah.

  125. 125.

    Comrade Mary

    November 9, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    So I guess I’m the only one whose first thought on looking at that photo was PARKLIFE!

  126. 126.

    Another Holocene Human

    November 9, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    @Howard Beale IV: Wow, that’s a mess. Did the contract suck or are they just pissed? Will be interesting to see how management responds and how that bodes for the union in the future. This was the new union, right?

  127. 127.

    Another Holocene Human

    November 9, 2014 at 10:44 pm

    @Southern Beale: Don’t you mean “American Stinker”?

    One more thing I miss from Sadly, No. The toilet paper roll added that certain je ne sais quoi to the pretentious yet so sad Uncle Sam Rodin cosplay mascot.

  128. 128.

    Rob

    November 9, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    @John Cole +0: Hysterical in both senses.

  129. 129.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 9, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    @Another Holocene Human: New contract, now going to binding arbitration, new union.

  130. 130.

    SqueakyRat

    November 9, 2014 at 11:44 pm

    @jibeaux: Loretta Lynn was a girl I liked in high school. This one is Lynch.

  131. 131.

    Crissa

    November 10, 2014 at 12:50 am

    Where the heck do you get such pictures? Ughhh.

  132. 132.

    Morzer

    November 10, 2014 at 1:50 am

    If that is evidence of John Cole’s personal collection of images, I think I’d prefer to unsee it.

    Good to see that Frightfart publications is maintaining its usual high standards.

  133. 133.

    John Weiss

    November 10, 2014 at 1:56 am

    OMG! Senior Onebrow!

  134. 134.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 10, 2014 at 2:44 am

    Saturday on Yahoo the photo of Ms. Lynch with Obama seemed to have been photoshopped so that she looked like the US Attorney for Centauri Prime.

  135. 135.

    Morzer

    November 10, 2014 at 4:40 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Well, how did you think that Obama acquired his horns and tail?

  136. 136.

    Sondra

    November 10, 2014 at 7:36 am

    @Trentrunner: Still more hilarious will be the confirmation hearing when we will learn that the R staff members briefing their Senators ended at reading the headlines. Hence their Senators will proceed without realizing that one is white and the other black.

    And then it won’t make a bit of difference in their questioning.

  137. 137.

    David

    November 10, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    That dude is seriously sexy! Who is he?!? Is that a rash around his undies?

  138. 138.

    Ken_L

    November 10, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    The amazing thing is that some people in various comments threads are defending it as an understandable mistake that anyone could have made. The notion that journalists should fact check before they publish is obviously foreign to them.

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