I’m reasonably sure someone said something nasty about me on the internet today, so I am taking KO’s lead and leaving until every last one of you agrees to see things MY WAY!
Actually, I’m making some salsa and then me and the bitches are going to a picnic/bbq with friends. I’ll be back later. You are on your own- try not to pee on the carpet.
Mark S.
one two three four
I declare a hyphen war!
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
You leave an opening like that, and what you’ll have is proof that someone said something bad about you on the internet, because it’ll all be right here.
bkny
joe barton:
“I apologize for using the term ‘shakedown’ with regard to yesterday’s actions at the White House in my opening statement this morning, and I retract my apology to BP.”
hahahahahahahahaha ….
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_06/024312.php
Carnacki
Perhaps if Keith Olbermann lived with Tunch like you he would have been toughened up against criticism on the Internets.
georgia pig
Yeah, the old salsa and bitches dodge. You’re salsa’s probably weak, no habaneros, full of fruity crap like mangos and peaches. Will you take a progressive stand for seasoning, or be an Old El Paso corporate salsa sellout?
Zifnab
Possibly the most petty and destructive thing you could do.
Have fun.
YellowJournalism
Ebert on the oil spill, our energy consumption, and the pressure on the President.
Best parts:
Twisted Martini
But I can’t hold it!
kommrade reproductive vigor
… Whoops.
Mark S.
Who’s gonna be Olbermann’s Worst Person in the World Tonight? The Internet? Tunch?
YellowJournalism
@kommrade reproductive vigor: He better hope that Just Some Fuckhead doesn’t poo in his shoes.
dmsilev
@bkny: Sounds like the subtitles during the opening credits of _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. “The people responsible for apologizing for the apology have apologized.”
More seriously, I’m pleased to see that the White House is starting to give Barton’s original statement the publicity and pushback that it deserves. Via Steve Benen, this is from Robert Gibbs on Twitter: “Who would the GOP put in charge of overseeing the energy industry & Big Oil if they won control of Congress? Yup, u guessed it – JOE BARTON.”
dms
fourlegsgood
You and the bitches, huh? you misogynist son of a bitch!! DELETE MY ACCOUNT!!!
you have SO disappointed me.
PS. can we pee in the closet?
/yes, snark
daveNYC
Guac is better than salsa.
Carnacki
@kommrade reproductive vigor: Now he tells us.
R-Jud
I couldn’t possibly pee on the carpet– I have hardwood floors! HA! I’ve run rings around you logically.
South of I-10
How about if we just spread trash around and drool on the couch a little?
licensed to kill time
@Mark S.:
Hey hey hyphen-say, how many threads have you killed today?
freelancer
“I got 99 problems, and they all bitches.”
Raenelle
John!!! Odds are very strong that Rosie has joined your family. If it were me, to make it all livable, I would take Rosie in ASAP and have her puppies aborted.
Legalize
LOLz kiss the carpet goodbye. Me and KO just drank a whole shit load of iced tea!
kay
House Republican Leaders John Boehner (R-OH), Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Mike Pence (R-IN) issued the following statement:
“The oil spill in the Gulf is this nation’s largest natural disaster and stopping the leak and cleaning up the region is our top priority. Congressman Barton’s statements this morning were wrong. BP itself has acknowledged that responsibility for the economic damages lies with them and has offered an initial pledge of $20 billion dollars for that purpose.”
What can they mean by this? It isn’t a natural disaster. Are they using “natural” because they are forbidden to utter the word “environmental”?
Conservatives now speak a different language than the rest of us. They really do.
NobodySpecial
I notice you said nothing about the ceiling.
Redshirt
Where’s the money, Lebowski?
licensed to kill time
That pee on the carpet scene in The Exorcist scared the pee out of me back in the day. It was genuinely shocking back in 1973, nowadays not so much I guess.
CaseyL
“Me and the Bitches,” huh?
So, you’re Pimp Daddy Cole, now?
MTmofo
@Mark S.:
Maybe the kossak that posted the smear. It’s now hidden.
Mark S.
@kay:
That oil would be gushing whether BP did anything or not. Just walk on by.
Sentient Puddle
@kay:
They’re calling it “natural” so that they can basically say “shit happens, we shouldn’t let it stop us from drilling.”
PurpleGirl
Have fun, JC.
trollhattan
Well somebody loves them some J. Cole.
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/sometimes_i_love_words_and_the_people_who_speak_them/
Apropos to nuttin’, a new-to-me Website of delicious mockery.
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/
ellaesther
As a 45 year old woman, I’m not sure how I feel about that incontinence crack.
beltane
@kay: They think there is no such thing as the environment. The planet Earth does not exist; it is a lie being promoted by Al Gore in his quest to lead the New World Order and outlaw Jesus. Have you heard that Al Gore is fat?
Midnight Marauder
@kay:
If you subscribe to their ideology, then the resultant spill in the Gulf is a natural byproduct.
This is another one of those times where their words reveal more than they ever intended.
licensed to kill time
@kay:
The most generous interpretation I can give to that statement is that it is a disaster that affects nature, hence a natural disaster. But I do not think that is what they were trying to convey, I’m not that generous.
Eric S.
Dear FSM! Has this been put up? Yes, I know it is speculation, but the implications are enough to make you pee on the carpet.
QuaintIrene
Aaaaah, nothing like a webby hissy-fit. Olbermann just guaranteed a double viewership of his show tonight. Unless he walks off that too.
denverjeninpdx
K.O.’s silly rant on kos is just further proof that all of these netroots blog flame wars are about egos and nothing more. Kos has devolved into kindergarten recess spats that are without end. It is embarrassing, frankly. Non-stop meta about ponies, obots, holding feet to fire, trolls, and more progressive than thou b.s.. All that chest thumping. And now, K.O. has jumped in. It makes me sad to watch us eat our own. The netroots feeds on outrage apparently, and doesn’t know any other way to be. I am fed up and gladly taking refuge here.
Really nice rant earlier, John. Made my day.
ellaesther
Ok, as you all probably knew I would, I’ve posted some thoughts about Israel’s decision to ease its blockade of Gaza….
It just occurs to me that I didn’t load that post with the background posts that I always link to in such things, the historical background, advocacy groups, reading list…. And now I’m running out the door to continue the all-around running that I’ve been doing all blessed day and which has kept me from you fine folk all the day long!
When I get back, I’ll slap that up there too. But rest assured it’s there, on the blog, if you’re looking for it!
kay
@Midnight Marauder:
I think it’s deliberate. I know I’m supposed to admire their lock-step discipline, and all that, but this particular penchant for renaming things is spooky.
I noticed in the 2008 elections that conservatives started calling free media (interviews and such) “earned media”. Nothing is free. Get it?
That weird attention to detail creeps me out, and how they all start using a phrase at the same time.
I think they have a phrase book.
Mnemosyne
Sigh. We just had a very disappointing afternoon, my co-workers and I. We sat outside for an hour to try and catch a glimpse of Michelle Obama, who was visiting one of the offices across the street, and she went the other direction. All we saw were CHiPs.
That’s it, Obama’s lost my vote in 2012.
Violet
@beltane:
And a cheater, if the gossip rags are to be believed.
kay
@ellaesther:
Thank you. I don’t know anything about the situation (really), so I will start there. I have been meaning to read your stuff.
I know what anyone who reads a newspaper knows, so not a lot.
LT
I don’t quite get it. Olbermann called dicks dicks. Why is that a problem? Because he also said See ya? Hmmmph. doesn’t seem to be that big a deal to me. They were dicks, even if I don’t quite agree with Olbermann or Maddow on this.
And president would look like a dick right now on the oil spill. And if Obama were “doing more,” whatever that means, Rs would be dissing him for “doing more.” Fuck em all.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
It doesn’t work in real life like it does on paper. Trust me on this.
AND
HEAR YE, HERE YE
I just got a Purple Plastic Unicorn in the mail signed by the MUP his self.
Actually, it was my discharge papers from the recent HCR campaign. A certificate by golly gosh darn.
Together, we reduced the cost of care
And, we established the toughest patient protection in history. AND We achieved the dream of generations.
High quality affordable health-care
is no longer the privilege of the few
BUT THE RIGHT OF ALL
Pardon me, I have a Blue-Vein Hard On to tend to.
kay
@licensed to kill time:
It’s so carefully crafted.
I watched the representative give his little apology sermon on the Sacred Right Of BP to dodge accountability. He meant every goddamn word.
They’re renouncing their own philosophy, because they know it’s radical.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Mark S.:
And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don’t ask me, I can’t get a break
The next stop is FireDogLake
Five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
Ain’t no time to be spoof’d-n-trolled
We’re all gonna get rickrolled
LT
@LT: That second graf in comment 44 should start with “any” president…
stuckinred
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Where Jane is so pretty and is the only one that tells the truth!
stuckinred
Pretty day a Pebble Beach on ESPN HD!
Mark S.
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
Nice!
licensed to kill time
@kay:
Yes, and your point above about them all using the same phraseology is so true. It’s especially apparent when you read a collection of remarks on Media Matters or wherever, quote after quote with the exact same wording from politicians to pundits to radio hosts to Fox News. Do they send out a memo, stat, for any given event? They are all reading from a script.
I just about can’t stand to read those anymore, it fills me with loathing and a bit of despair.
Linda Featheringill
@ellaesther:
I had an elderly cat [Piggy] who eventually developed incontinence. I decided to treat her the way I would like to be treated. I did what was needed and then tried to keep her quality of life good.
Years passed. I am now the elderly one with unreliable control of urine. I found that I can treat myself the way I treated Piggy. I do what is needed and then try to keep my quality of life good.
I have found out that other folks tend to treat you the way your treat yourself. And I think that Piggy taught me a really, really good lesson.
rootless_e
Y’all don’t listen to enough sports on TV. “natural” means “black guy”.
I’m going to make the implicit explicit in the GOP statement so you understand it.
—-
The oil spill in the Gulf is this nation’s largest black guy caused disaster and stopping the leak and cleaning up the region, and gittin’ that black guy, is our top priority. Congressman Barton’s statements this morning were wrong politically incorrect. BP itself has acknowledged that responsibility for the economic damages lies with “them” (you know, “them” – the black guys) and has offered an initial pledge of $20 billion dollars welfare for that purpose.”
Jackie
Hey, maybe KO is a bit brittle, but he’s under constant attack from all sides. Finding a baseless hit on his integrity in a place where he expects to find a reasonably receptive group might have just been the last straw at the end of a long day. Dailykos has become a real cesspool in the last year or so. I don’t go there without putting on my hip boots first.
Midnight Marauder
@kay:
You’re right. His name is Frank Luntz.
rootless_e
and it’s one two three
what are we blogging for
don’t ask me
I don’t give a damn
blame everything on
that devil Rahm
and it’s 5 6 7
open up the 5 minute hate
ain’t no time to wonder why
whoopee it’s norquist
time
jeffreyw
Mrs J prefers her lobster steamed with butter and lemon.
kay
@licensed to kill time:
Well, it fills us with despair because it works. “Death tax”.
I still don’t want to do it. I’m not sure it’s worth it. The name of the thing is the estate tax, whatever they call it. I can’t deal with their whole new language.
There will be two descriptive phrases for the oil spill. You’ll know who you’re talking to depending on which one you hear.
It’s sad, though, because “natural disaster” actually had a specific meaning. Oh, well. Conservatives took it! Gone.
jeffreyw
I’d rather see it stir fried in Szechuan peppercons and chili oil.
jeffreyw
If that isn’t hot enough, there is always Sriracha sauce.
MikeJ
@jeffreyw: Hey jeffrey, I’ve got some chicken and some cherries, both bing and rainier, the king of cherries, sitting around. Got any ideas on a sauce/glaze/something else to do with these recipies for dinner tonight?
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@rootless_e: It’s better in three part harmony.
Maude
@licensed to kill time:
And then the next morning, the radio wingers repeat it all again.
@rootless_e:
and it would Never would have happened if that black guy wasn’t elected president. Also, too.
Anya
@bkny: I don’t understand what the fuck is up with this crap the republicans pull all the time. They have no shame, yet, enough idiots vote them in. What the fuck do these assholes want, the total distruction of this country and the complete takeover by corporations? I am fed up with both the right and the firebaggers.
Fuck Olbermann and his prima donna act, also too.
rootless_e
what is it with these double posts?
Violet
This is fun: http://joebartonwouldliketoapologize.com/
gbear
@Jackie:
And if there’s anything KO hates, it’s a confrontation.
jeffreyw
@MikeJ: Not off the top of my head, aside from making a reduction of the cherries in some brandy and doing a glaze on a roast chicken. Add a splash of lemon juice.
gbear
@rootless_e:
It’s a comment that appears more than once, but that’s not important right now.
/airplane!
frankdawg
sorry if I missed this in an earlier thread – is your new little friend knocked up?
gad! I don’t think I have heard that term since I was in high school in the 60’s & can’t remember ever saying it before.
jeffreyw
@MikeJ: Tho I am quite fond of fried cherry pies. And baked cherry pies. And cherry cobbler. Also.
Violet
@MikeJ:
Got any orange? This sounds good.
Pitting cherries is kind of a pain, but once you’ve done that, a sauce or reduction is pretty easy. Add some sugar, water and something acidic like lemon or orange juice or vinegar. You don’t want it too sweet, so go easy on the sugar; you can always add more to taste. A tiny dash of salt might help bring out the flavors too.
Toast some almonds to put on top. Cherry and almond work very well together.
Glidwrith
@Sentient Puddle: I had the same meme from my Fox-news watching, Limpballs-listening, fits-every-teabagger demographic dad: “Shit happens, whether it was Katrina or the oil spill, you just can’t legislate safety for such things”.
This was followed by the sound of my head hitting the wall.
bkny
bwahahaha – wapo:
According to a GOP leadership aide, Barton met with House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) Thursday afternoon, and was told, “Apologize, immediately. Or you will lose your [subcommittee] position, immediately. Now that he has apologized, we’ll see what happens going forward.”
Liberty60
Ok, I admit to being the slow kid in class…but I don’t know what “WATB” is, from the previous thread.
clue me in, someone?
Mark S.
@Liberty60:
Whiny ass titty baby.
bkny
@Liberty60: whiny ass titty baby
MikeJ
@Violet: That does sound good. May give that a go.
Like Jeffrey, I also love fried cherry pies. However, my second parent in two years is about to get a stint as a result of a lifetime of a diet that’s a cross between the Neelys and Paula Dean. Since I can’t do anything about the genetic component, I’m making an attempt to minimize my own risk on the part I can. As Cookie Monster will tell you these days, fried cherry pies are a sometimes food. But damn it sounds good.
frankdawg
@MikeJ:
simmer about a cup of pitted cherries with about 1/4 cup of honey, You can add a little water at first if you need more liquid but go easy as you want it to thicken. boil it down until it is thick enough to coat a spoon. take it off heat and add a tablespoon or two of amaretto. You can also use almond extract but start with a teaspoon & taste before you add more.
About 20 minutes before the chicken is roasted baste with this sauce, wait 10 minutes & do it again. Because of the sugar be sure it does not burn. If you have slivered almond you can put them on top also in the last 10 minutes. Cherries & almond go together really well.
frankdawg
@Violet:
If I didn’t type so slowly I would have been first! :)
MagicPanda
@Glidwrith: I misread that as *fists* every teabagger. (shudder)
Glidwrith
@MagicPanda: Snort!
MikeJ
@frankdawg: I just saved that one. We’ve got at least 6 weeks of cherries every week at the farmers’ market coming up.
KevinD
Hey, here’s something we can give Obama credit for.
Violet
@MikeJ:
Yeah, fried cherry pies. Yum, yum, yum! Sometimes you just have to indulge. If you’re having oatmeal for breakfast and a salad with minimal dressing for lunch (or equivalent healthy foods) you can probably enjoy the occasional fried cherry pie.
I really want to get a cherry pitter. I have all sorts of kitchen gadgets and somehow that just seems indulgent. I might put it on my birthday list, though. I want to make yummy cherry things during cherry season.
Rich Sellers
Y’all smell just a little bit off.
You might be FULL OF OIL!
Violet
@frankdawg:
More is always better! Your recipe sounds really good. I’d forgotten about amaretto, but that works really well with cherry anything. I really love cherry season!
eco2geek
My problem with the GOS lately is that there’s so much hyperbole. For example, there was a somewhat recent diary on the rec (“recommended”) list where the posters flew to LA to attend the Tonight Show when Palin was on, in order to hawk their Palin book to other audience members. They noticed that there wasn’t much audience laughter at Palin’s jokes, but when the show aired, there was a lot of laughter, so they surmised that the show’s soundtrack was altered.
It’s the end of Western Civilization! It’s the end of humanity as we know it! It’s an abomination! It’s horribly terrible and terribly horrible! And awful!
OK, in your opinion (since you have no actual proof) they added a laugh track to the Tonight Show. Could we please mostly stick to facts and avoid hyperbole?
But many if not most rec’d diaries there are like that.
gbear
@KevinD: Why start giving him credit now, you flip-flopper you.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@KevinD: Sounds like a last minute rumor mongering clusterfuck that always happens on controversial legislation in a conference to resolve a final bill.
Mostly done by players seeking leverage one way or another.
Dr. Morpheus
@KevinD:
Hey KevinD, did you bother to read the whole article you link to?
Sentient Puddle
Agggggggggggg…the only reason I’m still at work is because I have to sit through this compilation. Been at it for about two hours and it’s only about half done. Do I really need to stay?
Fuck…
Mnemosyne
@Dr. Morpheus:
Huffington Post exaggerating a story to get a better headline and more page hits? Why, they don’t do that more than 25 times a week, so that can’t possibly be the case here.
I always make sure to tote one of these along before I believe anything on HuffPo.
ellaesther
@kay: My pleasure! (Well, er, actually, I kind of wish I’d never gotten sucked up in such a miserable academic and professional area, as my days are often framed by suffering and death… but yeah, with that caveat! My pleasure! Sigh).
And I’m now going back to add those links.
Mike Kay
ahahhahahahhahahhahahhahhahah
KO pulls a Palin and quits!
ahahhahahahhahahhahahahhhahahah
ellaesther
@Linda Featheringill: That’s really, really sweet, and I think you’re right.
Oddly enough, I recently upbraided my mother for failing to change her cats’ litter often enough (she hates it, she lives alone, she conveniently forgets…), and what I said was “When you’re as old as they are, you’re going to want someone to change your bed pan regularly, right?” She laughed and said she’d get on it…!
ellaesther
@Mike Kay: (Well, in fairness, she was actually meant to be governing a state, a rather sizable honor and responsibility, whereas he was just adding noise to the blogosphere, so, you know, not quite pulling a Palin, per se…).
Mike Kay
@Mnemosyne:
Don’t forget all their T&A and hollywood gossip posts.
For all their faults, can you see GOS posting diaries on whether Kate Hudson got implants or whether Kim Kardashian’s ass has padding.
ellaesther
And now they’re added, in all their glory: “Israel/Palestine: the basics,” “Israel/Palestine peace advocacy – places to start,” and “Israel/Palestine – a reading list,” at the bottom of today’s post.
ellaesther
PS And now I’m going to start watching LOTR with my nearly-11 year old boy! YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
frankdawg
@MikeJ:
I have 2 sour cherry trees in the yard that just produced this year but they really are more decorative than tasty. We try to get to MI or Door County WI in early July & eat ourselves sick on cherries. Here is another way I love them:
1 c all-purpose flour
1 3/4 c sugar
1/2 ts salt
4 oz unsweetened chocolate
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
4 eggs
1/4 c milk
2 ts vanilla extract
1 c chopped pecans
1 c chopped sweet cherries
Preheat oven to 300.
Stir together flour, sugar, and salt in a large bowl.
In a heavy bottomed saucepan, melt chocolate and butter together over low heat, stirring often.
Lightly beat eggs, milk and vanilla. Add this to the flour then add the melted chocolate and butter mixture. Stir until smooth.
Stir in pecans and cherries along with any cherry juice.
Pour into a large greased 9 inch square baking pan. Bake about 1 hour and 5 minutes. Cool on a rack
Mike Kay
Palin calls on Obama to employ a team of lesbians to plug the oil well citing their experience in plugging dykes.
stuckinred
@Mike Kay: How’s your summer break from Junior High going so far?
rootless_e
@Mnemosyne:
I thought you wrote
Huffington Post exaggerating a story to get a better headline and more page tits?
which would be business as usual for Huffington post.
Mike Kay
@stuckinred:
I heard a real good one last night:
“Digya hear OJ simpson is at the US Open?”
“Yeah, he’s already put 2-under”
Rim shot!
jwb
@rootless_e: Especially the page tits.
ETA: Nevermind. Not paying attention.
Mike Kay
@stuckinred: Oh, by the way, were you serious, earlier today, when you posted that hamsher is calling kos a secret CIA agent? If true, can you link.
jeffreyw
@rootless_e:
Kinda like the flip books with a rainbow? The ones you flip through and a rainbow appears seemingly in thin air? Flip through a book of page tits to see them jiggle.
Mike Kay
@jwb: Rim shot!
dms
Your carpets deserve to be peed on.
If I have to hear one more time, by one of the self-appointed arbiters of rationality, (who just happens to have THE inside track on how things in Washington work), how I, as a Democrat and leftist, am supposed to react the Obama presidency, your carpets are the least of your worries.
handy
Veiled Clenis reference?
Mark S.
@stuckinred:
Enjoy it now. He’s off to camp next week.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
i love it when they get all huffy.
stuckinred
@Mike Kay: It was back when I was a regular there and I’m not sure it was her or one of her lackeys but they certainly were on that.
Not firebag but here’s what I found
http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/2007/08/11/more-on-the-daily-kos-cia-connection/
dms
General,
Like you’re one to talk.
KevinD
@Dr. Morpheus: Yeah, you’re right Dr M. I should’ve taken in consideration how there’s one guy equivocating about how something may or may not have happened. I’ll try and be more careful next time;)
stuckinred
@dms: That sounds like quite a threat.
Cacti
I often wonder, how is that the “progressive left” end up with a spokesman like Keith Olbermann…
A manicured millionaire who draws a paycheck from General Electric’s news network and who has probably never done a hand’s turn of manual labor in his life.
MikeJ
@stuckinred: I was actually pleasantly surprised by him on the thread that addressed his favorite subject. He made substantive comments addressing the subject (granted, the only subject he ever addresses), but directly addressed other commenters and tried to counter any points they made with logic and facts. It was amazing to not see a string of the same one liner over and over from him.
Cat Lady
If the name Joe Barton rings a bell, it’s cuz he’s the one who thought he stumped Steven Chu with a gotcha question. What an amazingly stupid ass clown. Note that this moran will be responsible for energy policy should the House flip, and Gibbs should hammer that home every fucking day from now until November. Firebaggers can suck. on. that.
stuckinred
@MikeJ: I was simply being snarky about the dike joke.
KevinD
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: That’s possible. I’m sure there’s more then one congresscritter who would like to blame Obama for doing what the congresscritter wants done anyway.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@dms:Well, maybe, in a way you could be some right. But I don’t ever claim purity with an ideological title as an argument. Only the spoof approved – Obot, which can mean many things, or nothing at all.
stuckinred
@Cacti: Like all the rest of the people on the “progressive left” are fucking coal miners.
matoko_chan
well, here is one for the side of the angels.
Film maker Iara Lee was on board the Mavi
Marmara and got away with a video of what happened.
Kevin K.
Personally, I will not stop bitching about the abomination that is Obama until he is impeached by the progressive blogosphere, which was 100% responsible for getting him elected, and he is replaced by David Sirota.
Mike Kay
@MikeJ: what I don’t understand about you is if you don’t like my stuff why trouble yourself by read it. the internets is simply to big to read every comment — people naturally skim comment threads. For me,, when ever I see McLearns(sp) name I simply scroll down (he lost me when he said a jew can’t elected president in the usa).
Cacti
@stuckinred:
True.
The “progressive” title has become a synonym for white collar, wine track liberals.
Keith G
@Jackie:
My problem with that other Keith is that he plays the righteous indignation card way too often. He has been a valuable voice, but he diluting the power of his own ability to influence the conversation because of his serial rants. I, too, have wondered if some of his Old Faithful style outrage was a bit manufactured….and I like the man.
His own broadcast hero, Murrow, would tolerate none of his clownish theatrics. I am tired of him.
Cacti
Yep.
It was the white blogger vote that really put him over the top in places like North Carolina and Indiana.
They are “teh base” after all.
Mike Kay
@Kevin K.: Heh. Sirota pulled a KO last year, saying GBCW on GOS because someone was mean to him.
I really do wonder how someone like Sirota, who is aggressive and personal in his attacks, crumble when criticized.
For all of Kos’ faults, he’s never been thin skinned and he doesn’t cry over push back, even when it’s bare knuckled.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
@KevinD: Proxy access is more complicated than it sounds. I’d have to see exactly what the proposal was and what replaces it. Making it too easy to access the proxy can turn into complete chaos, and it invites all sorts of mischief.
Mike Kay
@Cacti: don’t mock the power of blogosphere, they delivered 17% of vote in New Hamphsire to John Edwards. That was a whopping 5% increase from the 12% he received in 2004.
jake the snake
@MagicPanda:
Rule 34. You can find that on the internet.
stuckinred
@Cacti: a working class hero is somethin to be
middlewest
Just one more jack russell update, Cole. Just one more. Some of us need this.
stuckinred
@middlewest: He’s at a party
debit
Cripes, interesting weather headed my way here in Minnesota. It’s a good thing the cats are forbidden from entering the basement. As a result, they bolt down the stairs if the door is left open.
jwb
@Mike Kay: Yup, they’ve got to get to at least get close to the crazifactor of 28% if they want to be taken seriously as an electoral force.
wonkie
I kind of see KO’s point. There is a pathology amongst a significant minority of the Kos commenters and diariests, something about a need to drag Obama down and to bully anyone who defends him. I don’;t really understand the pathology. Some of it is people who went all out for Hillary. Some of it is people who can’t stand that the world doesn’t conform exactly to their very exacting standards. But the patholgy is there: people who are just as committed to creating and anlternative reality where Obama is a sellout fraud as rteabaggers are to creating an laternative reality where he is a Kenyan.
So if KO dones’t feel like wasting his time at the Great Orage Satan I can see why. I don’t read the diaries much any more either.
MikeJ
@Mike Kay: I don’t have any problem with what you say, simply with the number of times you say the same thing. In every thread. Relevant or not.
Which is why I was surprised when you did so much better than usual, even though the thread was about your pet topic. Baby steps. Soon you’ll branch out and be bearable on a second topic.
SiubhanDuinne
Was very pleased to get an email a few minutes ago from David Plouffe. Sounds as though he is going to take that Joe Barton “apology” and hammer away at it from now to November. I’m so glad he’s back on the communications team.
Lee
Interesting that on the same day there are multiple posts ridiculing KO for spazzing out for being criticized, mistermix made a direct link to Oliver Willis, who responds to criticism with ad hominem attacks.
Anyway, if we have to get rid of KO, I vote for Chris Hayes just as soon as he learns to read from a telepromter. He should have been offered Lawrence O’Donnell’s new spot IMO.
Mark S.
@Keith G:
You, sir, are the Worst Person in the World.
@wonkie:
None of those were reasons why KO flounced off.
SiubhanDuinne
*I’d rather see it stir fried in Szechuan peppercons and chili oil.*
“Szechuan peppercons.” That would be the neocon faction of our new Chinese overlords?
Mark S.
Where have some of the front pagers gone? Tim F? Dennis G? Should we be forming search parties?
Mike Kay
@MikeJ: you still didn’t answer the question. why bother reading someone you find repeative or irrelevant? Like I said earlier, I don’t bother with the irrelvant, nor in my experience do vast of majority of people.
Bill Arnold
@kay:
It’s not a supernatural disaster… “Natural” is often used, especially by marketing people, to mean, essentially, “made out of atoms”. You’re right though, the word “environmental” seems to be toxic to the right, the people who seem incapable of saying “Democratic Party”. Certain words are forbidden by the right-wing canon; their usage is a form of political blasphemy. Add an “ist” to “environmental” though, and it’s OK, as a pejorative.
demo woman
Why is it that the party who preaches against lawsuits, think that courts should settle those harmed by the ENVIROMENTAL disaster BP caused?????
Sometimesthe GOP confuses me.Tlaloc
Shorter cole:
It’s getting lonely down here tonguing obama’s taint. Where’d everyone else go?
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@Tlaloc:
Shorter Tlaloc. Hiiiiiiiiiiillary was robbed!!
tomvox1
I think the thing that people have to understand is that Jefferson was criticized from the Left, Lincoln was criticized from the Left, FDR & JFK both were criticized from the Left and certainly today’s liberal darling, LBJ (“If only Obama had Johnson’s ability to get thing’s done!”), was lambasted from the Left for his terminally stupid war policy.
But when today’s Left starts griping that there is “no difference” between Bush & Gore or Obama and Bush, they need to look at history and get SOME FUCKING PERSPECTIVE. We’ve seen what happens to the country after 8 years of modern Republican rule. Those bastards don’t bitch and moan about every little disappointment for the sole reason that they are busy stealing everything that ain’t nailed down.
So sure, criticize from the Left to make things better and to be constructive. But consistently trying to tear down the best president we’ve had since Kennedy out of personal pique and an unrealistically utopian conception of American democracy is pretty fucking uncool.
fordpowers
the fact that you now get to run around and shit like “me and my bitches” really makes this whole thing very worth while.
Nick
@Jackie:
He has no integrity, he’s a whore for GE.
And I say this as someone who WORKS in the MSM.