Going to Feel Like Hell Tonight
TNR has a good roundup of the issues being worked out in the financial reform bill. In more than a dozen paragraphs about Senate and House process and personalities, there’s one comment from an anonymous White House source. Yet they ran it under this headline:
Street Fight / Obama can get everything he wants on financial reform—if only he gets tough
In the Village, the standing order is that every story must be about Daddy. When someone like Noam Scheiber forgets to comply, the headline writer takes care of it.
April 5, 2010 7:35 am
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment
19 Comments
19 Responses
Lisa K. - April 5, 2010 | 7:40 am · Link
Yeah, CC Sabathia thought it was all about getting tough too-and look where THAT got him.
Red Sox are atop the standings, MFYs in the cellar. So far, the season is going exactly as I planned…
I’m sorry, what were we talking about?
JGabriel - April 5, 2010 | 7:48 am · Link
MisterMix, bad link at top.
The url is missing the ht in http .
P.S. Feel free to delete this comment after you’ve fixed the link.
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Jim C - April 5, 2010 | 7:48 am · Link
Your link is missing the “ht” in “http”
Now to go read it …
mistermix - April 5, 2010 | 7:56 am · Link
Thanks for the heads-up. John must have fixed it.
Brick Oven Bill - April 5, 2010 | 8:06 am · Link
At The Facility, in addition to anal lubricant and all sorts of sex toys, we also sell action figures. We have no way of knowing who buys what, but nonetheless make predictions, as this sharpens the mind.
You have to write down your predictions, or else you tend to change them when the actual data rolls in, to make yourself feel better about your analytical skills.
So here are my predictions about sales of action figures:
Children under the age of 18: 80%
Obama supporters over the age of 18: 20%
Teabaggers: 0%
JGabriel - April 5, 2010 | 8:06 am · Link
Doms must make a fortune in DC. Does everyone there have a Dom fantasy? “We’ll give the black man what he wants, but only if he gets tough with us.”
Our political class is perverse.
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JGabriel - April 5, 2010 | 8:12 am · Link
Brick Oven Bill:
(Pausing to gape.)
It’s like Donald Barthelme filtered through a child molester on a Ouija board.
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Brick Oven Bill - April 5, 2010 | 8:22 am · Link
JGabriel, my likely Client, Teabaggers have no need for such frivolities.
dmsilev - April 5, 2010 | 8:23 am · Link
Brick Oven Bill: Been drinking the battery acid again BOB?
-dms
JGabriel - April 5, 2010 | 8:25 am · Link
Brick Oven Bill: Or the brown acid?
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Keith G - April 5, 2010 | 8:25 am · Link
B.O.B., not a bad effort, but for extra points I think you need to rewrite that post in haiku.
Morbo - April 5, 2010 | 8:43 am · Link
No, no, they’re just looking forward to Super Street Fighter IV and couldn’t resist letting it influence their work.
Brick Oven Bill - April 5, 2010 | 8:47 am · Link
So now;
To Batman, Transformers, and Female Forklift drivers;
I go.
Violet - April 5, 2010 | 9:07 am · Link
These people are sick.
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle - April 5, 2010 | 9:41 am · Link
If you think the whole “Daddy” thing is anything new, you haven’t been reading Digby regularly, like you should. But it is also weird when you think about it, because Ayn Rand played daddy to Mr. Andrea Mitchell, if you know what I mean. And the DC establishment still loves him.
Chris Johnson - April 5, 2010 | 10:04 am · Link
If we must have this mechanism where press seeks daddy figures to spank them and tell them what to think, nice that for a change it’s a centrist liberal black man with a tendency to think things through and be ruthlessly sensible.
We’ve had a spoilt child in that role, and it bent the press twig pretty bad. They got so they were cheerleading pre-emptive war, and still thought they were Americans! I know, hard to believe…
Thingumbob - April 5, 2010 | 10:15 am · Link
So-called Progressives have been touting the Forster and Meadows “Limits to Growth” screed for what seems like an eternity now. Remember, if you will and if it doesn’t make you heave, the mawkish, grinning, and sweatered Jimmah Carter educated us dumb bunnies ‘bout the “energy crisis?” Now, it just so happens that we have on this planet enough thorium resources for nuclear energy production to last at the current consumption rate for a thousand years. Now, of course, we are told that we have to cut back on “entitlements” by the usual suspects in the Democratic and Republican parties “think tanks.” Why? Because of course, we have limited resources, don’t you see. Our economy just can’t support spending on medical technology. Or so goes the Pete Peterson and his ilk’s argument. Well, you can be a pessimistic sucker if you want. But just maybe you might want to be an optimistic human being. The choice is yours.
Uloborus - April 5, 2010 | 11:17 am · Link
Reagan did his damage, but Bush Jr. truly messed this country up good. The president isn’t supposed to be a bully, and it’s not the most effective way to govern. Obama can’t get what he wants by ‘being tough’ and twisting arms and yelling from podiums. Bush had two other branches of government who were ecstatic to assume the mounting position thanks to 9/11. Obama doesn’t, and thinks it’s a disservice to the US to keep the government working that way to boot.
Admiral_Komack - April 5, 2010 | 2:52 pm · Link
The President should unleash his Stimulus Package…’cause you know the Village wants it…badly.