And I am really not ready for Lanny Davis: Last week, on Dec. 4, I helped organize a Ready for Hillary fundraiser in Montgomery County, Md., in the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C. The organization, an independent grassroots committee, has been at work for the past year gathering millions of names and small donations in …
Late Night Open Thread: Douchecanoe Competition Is Fierce This Week
Last week, TBogg reported that Lanny Davis had shown up to defend “embattled overpaid NFL head and penny-counting situational ethicist Roger Goodell”. Now Deadspin investigates “The Political-Messaging Huckster Behind Roger Goodell’s Awful Presser“: Roger Goodell was talking, but the words weren’t his alone. “That speech was all Frank,” says an associate of pollster Frank Luntz, …
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Cutting for stone
Listening to an old British public radio show on the Hippocratic oath this morning, I reflected a bit on how people have a tendency to lose a staring contest with a problem. That is to say that we often panic a little when problems get so close that they stare us right in the face, …
Late Night Open Thread
. . Props to Wonkette‘s Stefan BC for reminding us that when it comes to the Beltway Village, the only serious social error is not monetizing one’s sins: Lanny Davis, everybody’s favorite personification of uncut, high-grade, burn-your-nostrils-on-its-way-up cynicism, has a new book out! In it, he details the trials and tribulations of lawyering for the …
The man who trolled the world
If Bob Woodward’s goal was to do something so ridiculous it would generate tweets that make me laugh out loud (sometimes at the tweet, sometimes with it), then Mission Accomplished. Lanny Davis in intrvw on WMAL this am claimed threats from WH too re his columns @jtlol. Suspects same staffer too. Pls report! — MomsUnite …
Tuesday Evening Open Thread: The Virtues of ‘Gridlock’
Celebrating the President’s new term is all very well, but Alex Pareene at Salon reminds us that rust and the corporatist-loving media never sleep: As David Brooks taught us last week, Barack Obama’s cunning plan to sabotage and undermine the Republican Party is to repeatedly force them to act as extremist and irresponsible as possible …
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Our Moral Betters Have Spoken
Lanny Davis, one of the most disgusting human beings to walk the earth, weighs in on the Hagel nomination: But: Hagel owes it to all Americans, not just to American Jews, to do more than apologize for use of the expression “Jewish lobby” in communicating his concern about its power. He must understand, first, that …