Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Let there be snark.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

We will not go back.

Republicans in disarray!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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

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

Petty moves from a petty man.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

In after Baud. Damn.

Be a wild strawberry.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

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Dana Milbank reports that Andrew Breitbart is an angry, angry man… with a book to sell. So I hoped for some much-needed slapstick comedy when Ken Layne at Wonkette posted on Saturday night:

KOCH INDUSTRIES
Breitbart-Palin Mob’s Next Target: Andrew Sullivan

America’s surly unemployed white mouse-clickers need a little direction here. What website needs to be boycotted next? It appears it is Andrew Sullivan’s “Daily Dish,” because he has committed the Crime of repeatedly writing in a Disrespectful Way about Saint Sarah Palin and her baby. Do these people realize Andrew’s site isn’t just a couple of bloggers, but is actually part of the Daily Beast and Newsweek? Do they have enough twitterers and mouse-clickers on the ‘puters to click every ad on a hundred years of Newsweek archives and send illiterate twats to every banner advertiser? Is Sarah Palin’s army of deluded fools ready to go to bat?…

Raising the question: Would “rooting for injuries” be the wrong response?

So… anybody got more dignified plans for their evening?

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  4. 4.

    lamh34

    Isn’t the NYT supposed to be REAL journalist?

    The Onion Fools The New York Times With Fake Obama Tiger Beat Cover

    Today The New York Times admitted they made the mistake of treating a fake creation from The Onion as something legitimate. Last week the Times printed an article documenting the history of the squeaky-clean teen magazine Tiger Beat, and included a retrospective of past magazine covers. Unfortunately (or humorously depending on one’s perspective), in the collection they also included a parody cover created by The Onion, which featured President Obama.

  5. 5.

    jl

    Well, most of these reactionaries are somewhere on the spectrum between mentally unstable to clinically insane, so what did we expect?

    So far, whenever the TeaGOPper Committee for Public Safety’s Revolutionary Tribunals have aimed outside their own, the results have fizzled. Sure some serious damage has been done, but it is isolated, and the population has not been aroused to the danger, and no mobs escorting tumbrels full of liberals through the streets.

    So, the are frustrated and look for the internal enemies. So I believe that Bbart is turning on his fellow maniacs.

    But Sullivan? Now? Why?

    Unless, maybe, the answer is to be found in unearthing some, now ancient and forgotten, Balloon Juice secret wisdom: that all weird stuff on the blogs is a Comrade Bolshevik Wobbly DougJ Hill spoof.

    Assuming that Bbart is going after Sullivan, it will fizzle, since it seems so much like an Onion satire that most people will glance at the kerfluffle, emit a brief chuckle, assuming that this is some kind of ironic inside baseball political humor that they don’t quite get, and move on.

  6. 6.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @lamh34:

    The NYT fell for the phony scandal that was “Whitewater” and fell for the Wenn Ho Lee phony scandal.

    They’ve got a track record of desperately trying to live down (and make up for) their failure to be in front of Watergate.

  7. 7.

    Linnaeus

    I will be:

    1. Watching hockey.

    2. Drinking whiskey.

    3. Pretending that I will get dissertation writing done tonight.

    4. Maybe having another whiskey after that.

  8. 8.

    Citizen_X

    Say, you know how some Republicans don’t always act exactly in line with their professed beliefs? That just happens to be true of one Robert Watson, (Republican) Minority Leader of the Rhode Island House. He had said, earlier, that legislators are doing the right thing “if you are a Guatemalan gay man who likes to gamble and smokes marijuana.”

    Well, it turns out he’s not living up to those fine, all-American sentiments. Has he been found out to be gay? No. Does he have a gambling problem? No. An undocumented Guatemalan housekeeper? No.

    Instead, it seems he was busted with a bag of weed and a pot pipe.

    Don’t know if this changes his mind on decriminalization.

  9. 9.

    jl

    @lamh34:

    Cripes. I thought I was joking.

    Politically, we are living under some kind of curse, run by an unholy spiritual combo of Kafka and Borges.

    Edit: oh, yeah, my plans: I plan to ignore news items that look like Onion spoofs. I have no idea how that can be done, but I plan to try.

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Linnaeus:Might it not be more efficient if you did the first three things at one time? Then you could quickly move on to item 4.

  13. 13.

    JGabriel

    Dana Milbank:

    [Bretibart] protested to the Daily Caller that Beck had stolen material from him, and he told the Daily Beast that Beck was trying to “appease” liberal critics.

    I’m not feeling appeased yet.

    I am, however, kind of boggling at the extremes some people will resort to in the tightest inner curves of the purity spiral. How far right do you have to be to think Beck is appeasing liberals? Po’ Breitbart is circling closer and closer to the wingularity’s event horizon.

    (I know that looks like a mixed metaphor what with the spirals and the horizons and the left/right lines, but it’s really not if you use a Hilbert space with enough dimensions.)

    .

  14. 14.

    John O

    Very Meta. Let’s go all the way with it: “Breitbart uses Trig as political prop to attack Sullivan for attacking Palin for using Trig as a political prop.”

  16. 16.

    lamh34

    I’m guessing today counts as a slow news day, if a story like this gets reported.

    Breaking: Typical Nine-year old girl bored to death by her father…more details at 11???

    Maybe she didn’t like having so many people in her backyard – or perhaps she’s just had enough of her father’s bedtime stories. Either way, nine-year-old Sasha Obama looked the picture of misery as she listened to the president read out a story at the White House’s annual Easter Egg…

    REALLY!!! Really

  17. 17.

    Comrade DougJ

    You know…I’m kind of with Breitbart on this. I think the Trig truth-squadding is kind of sick.

  18. 18.

    Sko Hayes

    @Jay in Oregon: Bwahahahaha, these people are hysterical:

    And I agree with the Levin attackers; Trump is Ronald Reagan reincarnated

    Where do they come up with this stuff?
    One person brings up the fact that Trump gave Rahm Emanuel $50,000 for his mayoral campaign 3 months ago, and this is one response:

    It’s confusing to me how a staunch conservative would do this. I know he is very principled, much like Ronald Reagan was as someone insinuated up-thread, and so it is difficult for me to reconcile this. Any help would be appreciated.

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Latest ad: Get a FREE copy of Dinesh D’Shithead’s latest book, “The Roots of Obama’s RAGE” with Townhall Magazine.

    Um, do I really need that much emergency toilet paper?

  20. 20.

    darkmatter

    @anne laurie:

    Would “rooting for injuries” be the wrong response?

    The answer is never. Well, not in my personal experience at least.

  21. 21.

    Sko Hayes

    Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Allen West, in his own words:

    WEST: We need you to come in and lock shields, and strengthen up the men who are going to the fight for you. To let these other women know on the other side — these planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women that have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness — to let them know that we are not going to have our men become subservient. That’s what we need you to do. Because if you don’t, then the debt will continue to grow…deficits will continue to grow.

    alan.com/2011/04/25/rep-allen-west-liberal-women-neuter-american-men/?utm_source=twitterfeed&ut…

  22. 22.

    Joe Beese

    @lamh34:

    Isn’t the NYT supposed to be REAL journalist?

    Not really.

    Almost as sickening as the atrocities themselves, however, is the way the release has been played in the New York Times, whose coverage of the document dump will set the tone for the American media and political establishments. The Times’ take is almost wholly devoted to showing how evil and dangerous a handful of the hundreds of Gitmo detainees were, and to justifying Barack Obama’s betrayal of his promises to close the concentration camp. … Taken together, the Times’ first “package” on the Gitmo documents is a breathtaking exercise in the Pravdazation of information in a putative democracy with a putative free press. The general thrust of the stories conforms almost entirely to the American elite’s accepted myth about Gitmo — and indeed, about all of the state’s crimes against humanity: that well-intentioned, good-hearted people did the best they could in a volatile situation. Mistakes were made, sure, and of course there were a few bad eggs here and there at the lower levels, and yeah, some officials were more competent than others, and things are in a bit of a mess, but still. When we erred, it was usually because we were too soft for our own good. And in any case, the intentions of our leaders and their minions are always noble and pure: to protect the security of the American people, and advance democracy throughout the world.

  23. 23.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Comrade DougJ:

    The point is that Palin is a pathological liar. Sullivan, bless his heart, can’t get over that anyone would take Palin’s word on anything, to include the color of the sky, where the sun rises in the morning, or the spelling of “and” and “or”.

    Palin’s Trig stories don’t collectively make sense. Either she’s confused or she’s a pathological liar…or, far more likely, both.

  24. 24.

    Nutella

    May I suggest something that we all can do this evening?

    See Digby’s post on the new passport requirements. The proposed passport application form demands under penalty of perjury every address, every job, every school you have attended in your entire life as well as all the detailed circumstances of your birth (which we all remember so well).

    Comments can be made through midnight tonight on a web form. Click the “Identity Project” link on Digby’s page for instructions.

  26. 26.

    Linnaeus

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Might it not be more efficient if you did the first three things at one time? Then you could quickly move on to item 4.

    That is, as chance would have it, exactly how I plan to do it.

  27. 27.

    HyperIon

    @Sko Hayes cited one crazy comment:

    It’s confusing to me how a staunch conservative would do this. I know he is very principled, much like Ronald Reagan was as someone insinuated up-thread, and so it is difficult for me to reconcile this. Any help would be appreciated.

    DougJ spoofing again?

  28. 28.

    Marmot

    From Milbank:

    Breitbart has the zeal of a convert; a former understudy to Matt Drudge, he is a recovering liberal, just as current progressive leaders David Brock and Arianna Huffington are recovering conservatives.

    A Drudge liberal what? Huffington and Brock lead huh?

  29. 29.

    jl

    @Comrade DougJ:

    So you admit this stuff is all one of your spoofs?

    Seriously, didn’t Sullivan jump off the Trig Truther wagon awhile ago? Why is Bbart going after Sullivan on this right now, other than Bbart thinks he will make a bigger publicity splash with Sullivan?

  30. 30.

    Barb (formerly Gex)

    @Comrade DougJ: On the other hand, every minute he spends on Palin-Trig is one minute less telling us how serious one of the sadists in the TeaParty is.

  31. 31.

    Roger Moore

    @John O:

    Let’s go all the way with it: “Breitbart uses Trig as political prop to attack Sullivan for attacking Palin for using Trig as a political prop.”

    I think you mean “John O uses Trig as a political prop to attack Breitbart for using Trig as a political prop to attack Sullivan for using Trig as a political prop to attack Palin for using Trig as a political prop.” But maybe that isn’t meta enough.

  32. 32.

    PurpleGirl

    @Sko Hayes: That’s easy. Trump has real estate interests in Chicago and wants to maintain a friendly relationship with city hall.

  33. 33.

    kdaug

    I have been reliably informed that I haven been tried and found guilty of the following crimes against humanity:

    [1] Leaving hair all over the sink in the bathroom
    [2] Not putting my dishes in the dishwasher (my “Didn’t know if it was clean or dirty” defense proved ineffective)
    [3] Spilling something in the microwave (I think it was her, but after [2] above, chose not to contest it)
    [4] Leaving the toilet seat up after a 2:00 AM pee

    My “Retreat To The Man Cave” siren is flashing.

  36. 36.

    Nellcote

    LaPalin should just release Trig’s long form birth certificate. Then all the nasty rumours would just go away.

  37. 37.

    Loneoak

    @Nutella:

    That shit is craaazy. What a bunch of fucking idiots. Can you imagine the chaos of people trying to answer those questions?

  38. 38.

    Jay in Oregon

    @Sko Hayes:

    Here are some other yummy tidbits:

    Like all the trump followers, and liberals, but I repeat myself

    ….perhaps Trump is the answers to the prayers we keep praying, but when He gives us what we’ve asked for, we mock it…..and Him.

    I, for one, hope Trump runs and he will get my vote primarily because he’s caused Obama and his supporters to go into attack mode

    And with Romney or Huck as the GOP nominee…I’d probably vote for a Donald/Hillary ticket as long as Trump was at the top of it. Yeah, I said it.

    Yessssssss, Freepers… GIVE IN to your hate. Screw the Judean People’s Front! Splitters!

  39. 39.

    burnspbesq

    Rooting for injuries is so wrong, on so many levels.

    Root for a meteor to hit the arena.

  40. 40.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Free Republic has been the nesting grounds of the most looney of loons for the past 20 years.

    Not surprising they’re fighting over Trump.

  42. 42.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Nutella:

    That sort of detail is the kind of thing I went through to get a security clearance.

    Oh, and you need to know all the circumstances of your immediate family, as well.

    It’s ludicrous, of course, unless you’re an anal retentive obsessive.

  43. 43.

    Jay in Oregon

    I just want to go over there and say:

    “Yes, Freepers… vote for Trump, for he is Obama’s only real competition in 2012!

    Or wait, maybe we don’t want you to vote for Trump, to give Our Glorious Leader an uncontested path to re-election! We leftists can be sneaky like that.

    Or wait, maybe we want you to think that we think Trump is a serious contender, so that you won’t not vote against not nominating him!”

  44. 44.

    Frank

    I truly believe that Palin’s stock has become about as valuable as Montgomery-Wards stock. What I wonder, however, is if, indeed, this was a result of more people becoming aware of her wretchedness or a purposeful plot on the part of the Republicans to discredit someone they knew was a drag on the party.

  45. 45.

    Delia

    @Nutella:

    That’s whacked out. I just finished sending my comments off to them. I probably came off sounding like Emily Litella.

  50. 50.

    Mako

    @Comrade DougJ:
    Yeah, whatever. Sullivan!

    You know, I read wonkette, I read this blog, its all good fun goofing on retards, but do we have a plan? Seems like we should have one.

  52. 52.

    AAA Bonds

    I’m pretty sure this is Andrew Sullivan’s strange idea of harmless fun.

    @Mako:

    The plan is bolded in the original post.

  53. 53.

    Paul in KY

    @efgoldman: They let Lee Harvy Oswald return to the USA after defecting & marrying a Russian woman, in 1959 or thereabouts.

    I would say if your father had lied about the uncle, then he wouldn’t have gotten the clearance.

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