Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

When we show up, we win.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

This really is a full service blog.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

People are weird.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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Late Night Clown Car Open Thread: Media Mudlarks

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Back in the days of Unfettered Capitalism, neglected children and homeless oldsters could scrape out a living sifting through the Thames mud for resalable items. Today, there’s a whole squadron of high-income, expensively-educated Media Professionals trying to revive that job classification, but for pixels!


Passing notes between the lockers in a suburban middle school serving three different gated communities…

Because the Former Guy was a mighty-but-shallow river of virtual sewage, through which the happy Media Mudlarks could squish, picking out endless nuggets of infotainment and speculation? Unlike the new, professional, Democratic Administration…

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  1. 1.

    Redshift

    “reporter-bashing during the campaign”?

    WTF?

    Does anyone have any idea what the thin-skinned stenographer is talking about?

  3. 3.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Redshift: MAGA Habs is unhappy that we call her that.  Boo fucking hoo.  Also, probably somewhat about the way the Biden campaign did a lot of (what was it called?) “hat for the day” (or whatever) — declared an early end to press availabilities for the day, when Biden was instead, y’know, meeting with *voters* and *activists*.

    But I bet it’s about all our bitching at her and her colleagues (Vogel [spit], etc).

  7. 7.

    piratedan

    what’s weird is while they were tee-ing up Ms. Tanden for her Mean Girl tweets, it appeared to be Ms. Seung Min who was showing Murkowski the mean tweets about her and THEN fishing for a comment.    In the past, when the GOP stated that they hadn’t seen a tweet the press simply shrugged and moved on to the next question, when instead they are out there pushing a narrative, we’re supposed to wonder wtf happened to the happy stenographer crew that suddenly found their inner journalist.

    I gots no problem with someone pointing out to Sen Murkowski what was said about her, I just find it curious that its the 4th estate that has to perform this duty rather than the Senator’s own staff.

    YOU know there’s a double standard here in play, I know there’s a double standard here at play, but don’t be fucking crying about it when we point out the very same crew that let all this shit pass in the name of “access journalism” never appears to have any problem when its a Dem Administration.  I know that there’s plenty of folks out there in the 4th estate doing a great job, when we find a certain element doing the bad faith tango, just don’t act all surprised if we change the music.

  8. 8.

    The Dark Avenger

    Just answered Maggie the Prat:  I’m truly sorry nobody in the Biden Administration falls to the level of your buddies Ivanka and Jared.  I suggest you have a couple of drinks and then get over it.

  9. 9.

    James E Powell

    @Redshift:

    She is just an asshole. There was no reporter bashing from the Biden campaign, but a constant flow of hatred & scorn from the right-wingers. Maggie doesn’t mind that, though, because that’s her team.

  10. 10.

    James E Powell

    @piratedan:

    I gots no problem with someone pointing out to Sen Murkowski what was said about her, I just find it curious that its the 4th estate that has to perform this duty rather than the Senator’s own staff.

    I don’t approve of the vitriol that was aimed at that reporter. I am past caring about that kind of “reporting” because there is nothing I can do about it. It is stupid, middle school “Hey Lisa, did you hear what Neera said about you in math class last year? What are you gonna say to her? Huh? Huh?”

    Just the kind of story you want to tell your grandchildren about your days as a big time journalist.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @piratedan:

    And, apparently, according to some on Twitter, Seung Min Kim neglected to show Sen. Murkowski some later, positive tweets that Neera Tanden had written about her. ?

  13. 13.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Presstitutes with a proclivity for kinky right wing shit, they gladly sell their asses for their wealthy owners so they can have a front seat at the crazy trough. They don’t give a shit about the nation or the people in it, all they want to do is drive a story for their own ends.

    Fuck the NY Times, Politico and the rest of them.

  14. 14.

    Soprano2

    I continue to believe the White House press corps needs a 12-step program for their former guy addiction. They miss the hourly drama that was the former guy’s administration.

    I didn’t know about that reporter showing the Tanden tweets to Murkowski. Seems like something they never did with the former guy’s tweets Republicans claimed they never saw.

  17. 17.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: Between Lisa Murkowski and her father Frank, a Murkowski has represented Alaska in the Senate since 1980. Frank Murkowski ran for Alaska Governor in 2002. When he won, he resigned his Senate seat and appointed his daughter Lisa as Senator. She was leader of the Alaska State Senate at the time.

    While Frank Murkowski was a vocal opponent of gay people serving in the military, Lisa Murkowski was one of 6 Republican Senators who voted in the 2010 lame duck session to repeal the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, thereby allowing military service by openly gay people. Richard Burr of North Carolina was another.

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