Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

This really is a full service blog.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Giving up is unforgivable. ~Joe Biden

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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

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Early Morning Oddity Open Thread: Another Faux News Star Loses It

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Of course Sean Hannity jumped on the Trump Train early, because Donald Trump is the guy Hannity always aspired to be. But the Trump campaign is a corrosive bath, an acid that strips all it contacts down to whatever bones they possess. Per the NYDN [warning: autoplay]:

Conservative commentator Sean Hannity offered to fund President Obama’s post-election flight to Africa should Donald Trump snag the title of commander-in-chief…

“You want to go to Canada,” Hannity said. “I’ll pay for you to go to Canada. You want to go to Kenya? I’ll pay for you to go to Kenya. Jakarta, where you went to school back in the day, you can go back there.”

Hannity had only one caveat for Obama. “You can’t come back,” he added.

Hannity even worked out the logistics. He would charter Trump’s private jet for the one-way trip and stock it with caviar and champagne…

Hannity publicly offered to send Obama away following Monday’s remarks from White House press secretary Josh Earnest that evaded whether Obama would join droves of voters — even celebrities — planning to ditch the United States if Trump wins the November election.

“He’s working very hard to make sure that nobody has to leave the country as a result of an electoral outcome that the President doesn’t support,” Earnest said.


Hannity’s meltdown, like a ripening boil, seems to have been incubating for a while now…

Fox News staff motto: Four legs good, two legs better!

Reader Interactions

46Comments

  1. 1.

    Botsplainer

    I’m looking greatly forward to the simultaneous dronings of Assange, Greenwald, Sirota, Scahill and Hersh.

  3. 3.

    Keith G

    At this point, whatever Hannity says or Tweets is not important and even though I see AL has devoted space for him here (for some reason beyond my skill) I choose not to care and not to read. He and his ilk are unable to influence this election – at least in the way he would like to. It is out of his hands. Nov. 8 will be a great day, we just don’t know how great. Thus I refuse to give any attention to those voices who are trying to stir up shit in support of their lost cause.

  5. 5.

    different-church-lady

    …even though I see AL has devoted space for him here (for some reason beyond my skill)…

    AL does enjoy her trash talk. And this election, why not?

  6. 6.

    Botsplainer

    On an amusing note, Ukrainian hax0rz are now targeting the email accounts of Russian officials (saw it on LGF).

    Much fun is to follow, obviously. I was wondering when that would start.

  7. 7.

    Mary G

    The intrusion of reality into Sean’s bubble is driving him mad. Or into a long stay in a nice rehab.

  10. 10.

    Anne Laurie

    @Keith G:

    AL has devoted space for him here (for some reason beyond my skill) I choose not to care and not to read.

    Well, I try to save it for the pre-dawn low-impact time slots, but there’s a certain morbid fascination in watching all the separate “eternal” Reich-defenders drop away into betrayal or oblivion.

  11. 11.

    Keith G

    @different-church-lady: I guess you put a finger on it. I never enjoyed trash talk. I grew up, many decades ago among those quiet midwestern, stoic farmer types. Stoicism even extended to HS sports where our football coach’s ethos was to quietly kick the crap out of the other team – let the score and the bruises on their bodies do the talking. Obviously, I seldom watch pro sports these days.

  12. 12.

    amk

    a serial adulterer of a conman+a russian tyrant+a rapist left wing traitor. What a trifecta of murkan wingnutz’ “principles” of hypocrisy and fraud.

  19. 19.

    Bruce K

    @Keith G: Cheese on a cracker, I’m gonna need three Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters to get that image out of my head, and it’s way too early in the day for that.

  20. 20.

    prob50

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Are you people always up this early? That is just sick.

    Since I retired several years ago my sleep pattern has gotten more and more bizarre. Wide awake here at quarter to 3 on W Coast. Next sleep period probably around 7-8am until 11 or noon.

  22. 22.

    Bruce K

    @Steve in the ATL: Some of us are in European time zones. Five AM Eastern time is noon my time (and eight PM Eastern is stupid o’clock my time, so I can’t watch the World Series)…

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Of course Hannity sees Assange differently. He’s discovered Assmunch is a fellow fascist.

  24. 24.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    @Steve in the ATL: For the time being, because of work. But I do like seeing the sun come up, so I’ll probably always want to be up before 6. (My current alarm setting of 4:15 is a little early for my tastes).

    But I also like staying up past midnight and those two things aren’t very compatible.

  25. 25.

    Baud

    I know conservatives complain that Hollywood doesn’t represent their values very well, and as far as conservative complaints go, that one has a degree of truth to it. But it occurred to me that liberal Democrats don’t have a news media that represents our values very well either. I would like to stay informed, but it’s as if the media physically drives me away. I find it depressing.

  26. 26.

    Mustang Bobby

    I’m not a journalist jackass. I’m a talk host.

    Which means he should be doing traffic and weather together on the nines out of an AM station in Buttfuck, Montana.

  27. 27.

    bystander

    Moanin’ Joe is leading with some b/s about how Bill Clinton is bragging about shaking down corporations for his foundation, while Meeka screws up her face as if she could smell Joe’s “cologne”.

    Had to turn to Phineas and Ferb.

  28. 28.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Bruce K:

    Some of us are in European time zones. Five AM Eastern time is noon my time

    Ok you’re excused. But the rest of you? You need help!

  29. 29.

    Dmbeaster

    Shifted from Morning Blow bs about NYT obsessing over the Clinton Foundation to CNN, where they tell me they are moving various swing states to Trump cause… HORSERACE must never end.

    Thank god for web based rational content, and 538.com analysis of same data.which pretty clearly debunks CNN baloney.

    But on the other hand, horserace hyping probably good to keep Clinton forces motivated to turn out the vofe.

  30. 30.

    kd bart

    Outside the Fox cocoon, has Sean Hannity ever been in a room where he is outright despised and ridiculed by at least half the occupants?

  31. 31.

    kd bart

    @Dmbeaster: Of course there is a new poll out from Texas showing Trump with only a 3 point lead. The same lead that most Florida polls have for Clinton but CNN would never move Texas into the toss up category.

  32. 32.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Yeah Sean, well if Hillary wins we’ll get a fund together to send you coach to Siberia so you can live in the paradise Trump’s best bud Putin has created there. You can buy your own champagne asshole.

  33. 33.

    karen marie

    Who goes to a WH press conference and asks whether the president of the United States intends to flee the country if the candidate for the opposing party wins the election? Who does that? And why do they view the US as some tinpot country where the dominant party jails and/or exiles leaders of the opposition?

    There is something seriously wrong with Republicans.

  34. 34.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Dear Mr Hannity,

    We are starting up a GoFundMe site to buy you a one-way trip to Neptune.

    It shouldn’t take long. You’re so far up Uranus already that we only need to cover the last billion miles.

    Sincerely, Sane Americans

  35. 35.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @amk:

    a serial adulterer of a conman+a russian tyrant+a rapist left wing traitor. What a trifecta of murkan wingnutz’ “principles” of hypocrisy and fraud.

    Don’t forget Donnald’s foray into pimping underage “models”.

  37. 37.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @kd bart:

    Of course there is a new poll out from Texas showing Trump with only a 3 point lead. The same lead that most Florida polls have for Clinton but CNN would never move Texas into the toss up category.

    Since when is CNN a news source? It’s CEO pretty much admitted he’s in the tank for Trump because of ratings.

  39. 39.

    c u n d gulag

    Ok, Unibrow, I’ll one-up ya!

    How about we weld YOU into a gorilla cage, and drop you into an active volcano from your BFF t-RUMP’s helicopter?

    I’d pay for THAT!!!
    Though, I imagine that poor volcano would barf-up tons of magma.

  41. 41.

    low-tech cyclist

    “It’s was Josh Ernest who refuse to amswee teh ?”
    -Hannity

    “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
    -H.S. Thompson

  42. 42.

    Leto

    @Bruce K: I’m right there with you! I wake up in the morning and basically read through the previous days topics. Even when I’d like to comment on something, most of the time the thread is dead. Occasionally I’ll post something on a weekend thread where I’m sort current for that topic. Past that, I read a lot of comments, nod in agreement, and share posts via FB and email.

  45. 45.

    Feebog

    @Leto:

    Those of us on the left coast who wake up at a sane hour are already three hours behind because most of the frontpagers are on the East coast. I would comment more frequently, but when a morning post is already at 200 comments, what’s the point?

  46. 46.

    slag

    When you have to explain to people that you’re

    not a journalist jackass

    you’ve already lost. Sean Hannity eats poops and leaves.

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