Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Everybody saw this coming.

Come on, man.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

This fight is for everything.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Let there be snark.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Our Failed Major Media, Wired for Repubs

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Good for Jaime Harrison. Hot-Take Josh should be listed as a major in-kind donor on the RNC’s balance sheets.

Of course, his defense would be But I’m just doin’ it for the lulz social media klout!

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  1. 1.

    RSA

    Gotta respect the bald moral deciduousness of pretending to be scandalized by the DNC chair saying rude things about Republicans in the same week an elected House GOP member called Democrats “pro-pedophile.”

    Seems like an evergreen Republican tactic to me.

  2. 2.

    sab

    NPR ( or at least All Things Considered) has been relentlessly “alleged russian war crimes” like anyone else was doing that mayhem and random murder.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    I look forward to the Four Pinocchios that will be given because there is no evidence that Cotton literally is infested with maggots.

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    @sab: Well, you see, they have to play it cautious because they might otherwise sway the juro…wait, it’s not that kind of crime you chickenshits!

    “Full disclosure, Gazprom is an NPR funder.”

  6. 6.

    laura

    I cannot spot the lie in Jaime Harrison’s comments regarding bag of maggots Tom Cotton and the entirety of the Republican Party and their embrace of fascism. I applaud his salty comments! Here we’ve lost a voice unafraid to call bullshit on the current state of the media with the accidental death of Eric Boehlert, and bottom feeding what abouters like Josh carry on carrying water for his preferred party. Just not fair.

  7. 7.

    Another Scott

    NPR ATC was yet another example of our media failure just this evening. A story on abortion laws and access and what Oregon is doing to undo the effects of gutting Roe.

    This is Katia Riddle’s story about it – not quite a transcript, but close. But listen to Ailsa Chang’s introduction to the story (in the blue audio link above the picture).

    (Roughly) These states are doing this, and this state is doing this, and that state is doing that. “Meanwhile, neighboring Oregon, like other liberal states, …” (starting at 0:20 in the 4:41 audio link).

    No mention at all in her introduction that the GQP is ramming all of these blatantly unconstitutional laws through their legislatures and having GQP governors sign them.

    And it looks like these introductory framing segments don’t get included in the text of the stories. And like the headlines, it sets the tone for the reader as to what they’re expected to take from it as being important.

    Chang also has a verbal tick that drives me nuts – she way over emphasizes numbers: “MILLIONS” “THOUSANDS” “BILLIONS”. It’s almost comical, in an annoying way.

    Katia Riddle’s story is a good (as in well done) one and well worth a listen.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    @Baud: At the very least, give Tom Cotton xrays, a CT scan, an MRI and full anal probe before declaring he does not, in fact, have maggots. One cannot be too sure.

  10. 10.

    apocalipstick

    When it comes to Tom Cotton,  nobody’s description has ever bested Charles Pierce’s:

    “Bobble-throated slap-dick.”

  11. 11.

    geg6

    @Baud:

    I dunno, but maybe he is infested with maggots.  Is it irresponsible to speculate?  It is irresponsible not to!

  12. 12.

    JPL

    @CarolPW: true.   During the hearing today for the General Counsel of the CIA, he wished her older children the best since they would have to deal with the new addition to the family.  The older children are four and maybe seven, but I’m not sure.  The nominee is due any day

     

    most children are excited about a new addition to the family, but that idea must be foreign to Cotton

  16. 16.

    Splitting Image

    @geg6: 

    I dunno, but maybe he is infested with maggots. Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to!

    I think it’s more likely that his fruit cellar is infested with maggots. Tom Cotton seems to me like the sort of person who would murder his own mother, embalm her, and keep her around the house to talk to.

  17. 17.

    Kathleen

    @laura: I’m devastated. I subscribed to Press Run and will miss his voice and the community there. A fierce warrior for democracy.

  18. 18.

    Nelle

    @laura: I just read about Eric’s death and know we’ve lost an important voice.  I’m not often stopped by news anymore (not cynical, but not surprised).  This death has stopped me.

  19. 19.

    Danielx

    Gosh, I’ve heard a lot of stuff about how Matt Gaetz likes to fuck underage girls. Would it be unethical to say, supposing I was a Villager (FSM forbid), “well, it’s out there, it would be irresponsible not to speculate?”

  21. 21.

    apocalipstick

    @JPL: Was that an appropriate topic of discussion for children of that age? Might his sexual discussion make their parents “uncomfortable”?

  23. 23.

    geg6

    @laura:

    OMG, I am crushed by this.  Eric Boehlert is probably my most favorite talking head and I read everything I can find of his.  Bloggers on the Bus was a terrific read back in those heady days.  Damn.  And that Rupert Murdoch still besmirches the planet.  It is just another blow to the idea that there is any sort of benevolent god.

  26. 26.

    kalakal

    At least one death today improved the world. Vladimir “Mad Vlad” Zhirinovsky’s loathsome existence was ended by Covid. A man who advocated enslaving all non Russians in countries adjoining Russia and dealing with Russia’s nuclear waste by piling it up on their western boarder and turning on some very big fans amongst his many repellent policy ideas.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/vladimir-zhirinovsky-obituary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

  28. 28.

    SFAW

    @zhena gogolia:

    Nil nisi bonum and all that

    If I remember correctly “De mortuis nil nisi bonum” translates, for people like Zhirinovsky (and the entire Rethug Partei), as “He’s dead? Good.”

    NB: I have never studied Latin. Although I have attempted to “study” various Latinas — does that count?

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    Nehemiah Persoff, an actor who went from the uncredited role of a cab driver in On The Waterfront‘s iconic “coulda been a contender” scene to become one of the busiest character actors in television and film for five decades, died Tuesday at a rehabilitation facility in San Luis Obispo, California. He was 102.

    Persoff had retired from acting in recent decades after suffering a stroke and other health issues. His death was reported to Deadline by a family friend.

    A long life, and so many memorable roles. Peace.

  34. 34.

    Brachiator

    @zhena gogolia:

    Yep. Bobby Rydell, 60s teen idol, age 79

    His death just days away from his 80th birthday was confirmed by radio legend Jerry Blavat, Rydell’s longtime friend from the singer’s South Philadelphia stomping grounds. “Out of all the kids” from that era, Blavat said, “he had the best pipes and was the greatest entertainer. He told the best stories, did the best impersonations and was the nicest guy.”

    Rydell’s fame as the epitome of an American teen pop star in the days just prior to rock’s British Invasion was such that Rydell High School in the Broadway musical and subsequent film “Grease” was named after him. An actor also portrayed him in a performance scene in the film “Green Book.”

    He was fun in “Bye Bye, Birdie.”

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