Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

So very ready.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

When we show up, we win.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

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  1. 1.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    I got the guy who is spending the most time training me in to understand that I don’t really want to talk politics. He gets it and things have been going a lot more smoothly the last couple of nights. I learned that it really was 28 months in Iraq over a couple of tours that converted him from being basically apolitical to being a rabid right winger and I can at least be sympathetic without really understanding or approving. I really do like him 95% of the time, so I consider all of this to be a positive development.

  2. 2.

    wasabi gasp

    Coming up next: hate-filled throat eruption…and you may be surprised by what she has to say.

  5. 5.

    patrick II

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    I would end up being the opposite of a right winger if I spent 28 months of my life in Iraq and found later it was all a sham and there never was WMD. I think one thing that happens though, at least for Vietnam vets I know, is that if you have actually been in battle and killed someone it would be hard to admit to yourself that you took a life for no good reason other than whatever crazy ideas actually drove the Bush administration to put you in that position..

  8. 8.

    Tree With Water

    “Mr. [O’Reilly]… told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. “I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”

    Didn’t that gasbag also level a public threat about ten years ago, involving unleashing FOX in-house security on a critic? I definitely recall one being made, and it involved someone at FOX (and I think it was that asshole).

    I’m enjoying the hell out of this story. I particularly enjoy watching the chicken-shit reaction of American journalists in maintaining the fiction that FOX “News” practices journalism. They want O’Reilly to just go away, because they don’t dare rock the Murdoch boat. They realize the longer the story lasts, the worst they look for pulling their punches. Simply put, they lack the integrity to call the FOX network what it is, and want to change the subject. The damage done to their own credibility in perpetuating the dangerous fiction is total. They either don’t understand that, or more likely, they don’t care. By my lights, by maintaining the charade their credibility as journalists is irredeemably compromised. I mean, do those people truly believe they can implicitly endorse FOX as professional peers, and then expect me to take them seriously? Me, or anyone else..

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Someone at the NYT website commented, most astutely, that Faux “News” is to news as World Wrestling Entertainment is to sports.

  14. 14.

    srv

    It’s different if you’re Obama’s VA Secretary:

    “Secretary McDonald has apologized for the misstatement and noted that he never intended to misrepresent his military service,” the White House said in a statement. “We take him at his word and expect that this will not impact the important work he’s doing to promote the health and well-being of our nation’s veterans.”

  15. 15.

    Fred

    In “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, Al Franken relates a story about O’Reilly getting in the face of a lady who worked on Franken’s book (editor?) and verbally assaulting and physically intimidating her because he didn’t like the photo of himself on a mock-up cover at a book show. The man is a real shit.

  17. 17.

    srv

    Some real heroism amongst Democrats:

    Two senior U.S. Senate Democrats invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators during his upcoming visit to Washington, warning that making U.S.-Israeli relations a partisan political issue could have “lasting repercussions.”

    Senators Richard Durbin and Dianne Feinstein extended the invitation “to maintain Israel’s dialogue with both political parties in Congress,” according to a letter to the Israeli leader seen by Reuters.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    This is nuts: holding the 2022 World Cup in winter? Three out of four World Cup players will have to leave their club sides for some two months or more bang in the middle of the season. FIFA should never have awarded the World Cup to Qatar.

  19. 19.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Fred: Bill-o and Sen. Franken nearly came to blows at book conference at UCLA with poor Molly Ivins between them.

  21. 21.

    srv

    Now we know why Sarah is Proud:

    Adelaide, Australia – Personal freedoms will need to be redrawn, according to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who talked tough on security on Monday after the release of a report on the handling of a deadly siege at a Sydney café.

    In his speech marking the report’s release, Abbott told his audience “the system has failed us”, and he warned of an “ominous” new “dark age”, while doubling down on his commitment to expand the power of law enforcement agencies to fight “terrorism”.

  22. 22.

    gene108

    @Amir Khalid:

    I wonder how much money Qatar bribed FIFA with to land the World Cup?

    There are better choices.

    If FIFA wanted to expand popularity, the USA would have been the best choice. People are beginning to follow the sport here, to some extent and hosting it here would bump up the popularity.

    Japan and South Korea would have also been a way to reach out to places not typically thought of as soccer powerhouse countries and give them a shot to get involved.

  24. 24.

    Bobby B.

    Atop The Corporation’s My Olympus, Bill O’Reilly and Rachel Maddow bump beakers of Golden Nectar, and Chuck Todd and Anne Coulter are locked in an immortal embrace of passion, and the Gods do smile.
    Or, “the animals looked from farmer to pig…”

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    Debbie(aussie)

    @srv: Mr rAbbot is just trying to play catch up to his tea party sponsors in the US. The report into the siege said no such thing. He such an asshole!

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    Viva BrisVegas

    @srv:

    Personal freedoms will need to be redrawn, according to Prime Minister Tony Abbott

    Abbott has just unconvincingly survived a spill motion and now sees his best bet at remaining in the top job as becoming a wartime PM.

    Polling for the Liberal Party has been bouncing around in the low 40’s for months now, but an election is not due until late next year.

    He’s just been found out for proposing to send 3500 ground troops to Iraq and another contingent to Ukraine, and probably would have if the heads of defence hadn’t told him he was crazy.

    So he’s pulling out all stops and going the whole teabag retard. Kicking refugees, insulting Muslims, antagonising Indonesia, bugging the Internet, attacking the Human Rights Commissioner, are all in a day’s work.

    It’s not pretty and will only stop when his party gets sick of the low polls.

  29. 29.

    bemused

    @Fred:

    Have you seen the clip of Bill from his early broadcast days throwing a mega meltdown tantrum trying to do a promo? I remember him shouting “we’ll do it live” practically snorting like a bull. What a joy he must be to work with.

  31. 31.

    Sherparick

    @Tree With Water: Ditto. Not to much to add. Murdoch does not quite dominate U.S. media as he does Australia’s, but he is huge. From a simple aspect of careerism in a industry (TV, Radio, and Print journalism) that is increasingly one of a few big winners (see O’Reilly and Brian Williams) and lots of “losers” (short term free lancing with no benefits), and winning is more about one’s “entertainment” value then journalistic skills, these guys and gals don’t want to burn bridges. And O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, and Murdoch really do wage intimidation war against any critics (not that O’Reilly immediately went full nuclear against David Corn and Mother Jones. Sadly, MSNBC has apparently realized that liberal millenials work during the day and are not watching cable news. Those that do, mostly retired, white, and over sixty, also think our President is a Muslim Agent about to implement Sharia law. So it looks like we can expect more programming like Scarborough during the day, and it also explains why CNN has become “the Muslims are coming to kill you in your bed network.” I tell my older friends (and I am now fitting this demographic myself, except for the retired part) to try to avoid both local TV news and cable news as much as possible. In the evenings, I am catching up with the Vikings.

  32. 32.

    SRW1

    @Amir Khalid:

    I think what that means is that all commercial leagues will have a winter break, No use to try ro compete with a World cup anyway. It will also mean that in the Northern hemisphere the seasons will beginn/extend well into the hottest months of the summer. Nice example of how an initial f*ck up snowballs.

    But before we get to the 2022 train wreck, there’s still the 2018 affair in Russia. I have some doubts that event is home and dry yet. There have been predictions that Russia’s economy may do another 2008-2009 style financial crisis in the near future. I also wonder what Putin’s calculation is as to how much of Eastern Ukraine he can grab without triggering a boycott or even a reassignment of WC 2018. 1980 Olympics here we come.

  33. 33.

    SRW1

    @gene108:

    Japan / Korea hosted WC 2002, the US WC 1994.

    PS: I think if Russia 2018 blows, up the US might be one of the strongest candidates to take over. The other alternative would probably be a consortium of European countries.

    ETA: Morzer got there already. Sorry, saw that too late.

  34. 34.

    Morzer

    @SRW1:

    I wonder when Romanov in Portland will denounce the secret Obama fascist plan to steal the world cup for America by forcing Putin to defend innocent little Russia from the invading Ukrainian hordes.

  35. 35.

    SRW1

    @Morzer:

    I don’t think Vladimir will have WC 2018 brought up first. You don’t ruin your PR hits unless you absolutely have to. And WC 2018 taking place in Russia may already be somewhat tainted internationally, but if it does take place without a boycott from major countries it will still serve the domestic purpose of demonstrating to the Russian people that the world respects Russia.

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