Tunch in September 2005:
Tunch in October, 2008:
Tunch, this morning:
We are making progress.
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Tunch in September 2005:
Tunch in October, 2008:
Tunch, this morning:
We are making progress.
by John Cole| 45 Comments
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If you really want to get the full flavor of what a jerk this interviewer comes across as, watch this video without any sound. It almost looks like an SNL skit- the guy did everything but stick his tongue out and put his thumb to his nose while waving his fingers.
*** Update ***
I am trying to find some video of the Bush/Gore 2000 debate to offer a comparison. Any help?
I can’t find any clips other than the time he walked over next to Bush while Bush was responding to a question, making that really awkward moment where Bush looked at him funny.
I suppose any clip of Chris Matthews interviewing anyone would be as good an example as any.
by DougJ| 93 Comments
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Obviously, I hope he’s okay and it certainly sounds like he is. In any case, no one could have predicted that Chris Hitchens would get drunk and deface a political poster:
I don’t know if you find this as news worthy or not, but Christopher Hitchens is currently in Beirut sponsored by the same group that owns that crap NOW Lebanon. He got in a few nights ago and surprisingly went out drinking. On his way out of the bar he saw an SSNP poster and wrote on it “Fuck the SSNP”. There just happened to be some SSNP thugs near by–most likely asking people for their ID, and most likely to no avail–and saw him write on the poster and kicked his ass. He is still walking with a limp.
You have to admire the guy’s pluck, no?
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In case you haven’t noticed, I am kind of burnt out and have been slacking. Too much going on and too much to do, plus kind of blogged out after the inaugural burst. At any rate, pets:
Remember that awesome video a while back of the dog on the water slide while the owner was away? I also really like cats that look like lions, for whatever reason. I also almost forgot, I am thinking about adopting a 3 year old cat who needs a home. He has been de-clawed (something I would never do), so I think I will wait awhile since I know those probably go pretty quick, and I will just pick up someone else if he is not around in a week.
PS- No, I don’t have an opinion about the stupid damned NY Post chimpanzee cartoon. I simply don’t care. Don’t buy the NY Post if it pisses you off.
by John Cole| 66 Comments
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This was linked earlier in the thread with the Salvation Army ad, and described as devastating. This is probably the most heartbreaking commercial I have ever seen:
So sad.
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One of the real joys of blogging is the mail, and since Obama was inaugurated, every single day I get spammed email from Clinton supporters about “how all my whoring for Obama” paid off or something to that effect, complete with a cut and paste of an entire Glenn Greenwald post (I read him every day as it is, folks, so you can save yourself the time) and a little note explaining to me that Obama’s human rights sins are worse than the Bush era and might even rival the Khmer Rouge.
Seriously. Nowhere does it seem to occur to them that as Hillary is working with Obama, there is no reason to think that were she President things would be much different. Nor has it occurred to any of them that the first few weeks of an administration is a touch early to judge the record and overall direction.
The weirdest thing is these are allegedly lefties- but at no time during the past eight years did I get the steady email trashing me for voting for Bush. Just weird. The Clinton cult is a strange, strange thing.
by DougJ| 65 Comments
The Note last week:
The (stimulus) bill will be judged a political success not simply if it becomes law, but if it’s deemed ‘bi-partisan,’
Despite some public opposition to Congress’s action (see below) the Republican leadership seems to have succeeded in framing the discourse around a moral question: if Congress can do something to prevent a woman’s death, shouldn’t it?
[…]Simply saying that “Congress has no business here” does nothing to get those butterflies out of our collective stomach when we see the image of a smiling, very alive, woman in her hospital bed.
[….]Once again, clearing away the personal part, the Republicans are on the offensive and the Democrats are on the defensive. That’s a Notable fact.
At least we can take pleasure from the fact that the two people who wrote The Note in 2005 have disappeared from our public discourse, right?