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November 25, 2011 7:51 pm
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
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30 Responses
AA+ Bonds - November 25, 2011 | 7:54 pm · Link
GOD DAMN IT
JenJen - November 25, 2011 | 7:57 pm · Link
Oh for the love of fuck!
ABL - November 25, 2011 | 7:58 pm · Link
are you fucking kidding me?!
C.J. - November 25, 2011 | 7:59 pm · Link
drowning in the failure
JenJen - November 25, 2011 | 8:01 pm · Link
Along these lines, while stuck in traffic on Thanksgiving Eve I was mercifully behind a pick-up sporting countless entertaining DFH slogans, among them this gem: “Support Media Literacy”
But the one that made me LOL read “CAN SOMEONE MAKE THE SCARY REPUBLICAN GO AWAY”
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q) - November 25, 2011 | 8:02 pm · Link
I love the alt text – it’s dead on!
Scamp Dog - November 25, 2011 | 8:05 pm · Link
Remind me to never read Ruth Marcus again. I found the article, and yes, it’s as vacuous and stupid as you would expect. WTF is up with the Washington Post that they think this nonsense deserves a public forum?
inventor - November 25, 2011 | 8:06 pm · Link
Whatever life form digs us up in 50 million years or so will probably assume some intellect munching virus overtook humans or wonder what evolutionary pressure caused idiocy to dominate in the later years of humans.
JenJen - November 25, 2011 | 8:08 pm · Link
@Scamp Dog: Hey, it’s the seven-day Thanksgiving holiday for corporate America and Ruth just phoned one in. Her editors probably approved her column via text over gin-n-tonnies.
dmsilev - November 25, 2011 | 8:09 pm · Link
Was that based on the NY Times story about Romney’s hair from this morning? I’m not sure what would be worse, that both of what are ostensibly the leading newspapers “chose” to cover such a crucial subject on the same day, or if the Post saw the Times story and decided that it needed the journalistic equivalent of re-Tweeting.
I did leave a comment on the Times story to the effect that with Romney’s track record of consistency, we should expect him to be sporting a Mohawk within a month or so. Amazingly, it was published.
Xecky Gilchrist - November 25, 2011 | 8:21 pm · Link
In a country that sneered at Al Gore for wearing earth tones and growing a beard and so elected a drooling drunken idiot to its highest office, that article is hard hitting political commentary.
Schlemizel - November 25, 2011 | 8:22 pm · Link
Sadly, Ruth is one of the saner pundits that is carried in my local fish wrap, the “even the librul StarTribune.
We are well and truly fucked
Maude - November 25, 2011 | 8:28 pm · Link
@dmsilev:
I read your comment and it’s true. His hair stays the same.
We’re in trouble when there are two reporters writing an article about hair.
Villago Delenda Est - November 25, 2011 | 8:29 pm · Link
Ruth Marcus…a Village Superstar.
See my nym. The sooner, the better.
moonbat - November 25, 2011 | 8:35 pm · Link
God(s) save us! Whenever I convince myself I am not living in the last days of the Roman Empire something like this comes along to kick me back into the pit of depression.
Garcon, another martini!
Karen - November 25, 2011 | 8:57 pm · Link
Is this Mitt Romney or Justin Bieber?
David Koch - November 25, 2011 | 9:12 pm · Link
Hmmmmm.
There was a front page story in today’s Times on Romney’s hair.
Two separate stories in two separate papers, appearing on the same day, on something as silly as one candidate’s hair.
Sounds like some PR memo on Romney’s hair has been making the rounds.
David Koch - November 25, 2011 | 9:13 pm · Link
Doug, I’m surprised you didn’t use any lyrics from “Hair”.
somethingblue - November 25, 2011 | 9:21 pm · Link
Well, at least this time round they’re writing inane wardrobe pieces about the boys too.
Progress, sort of.
Cat Lady - November 25, 2011 | 9:29 pm · Link
Breck Girl redux. Somewhere John Edwards is enjoying a chuckle.
MikeJ - November 25, 2011 | 9:31 pm · Link
@David Koch: Sounds like they were sitting in the same bar Monday afternoon trying to come up with some shit to fill Friday’s newshole without doing any work over the holiday.
suzanne - November 25, 2011 | 9:43 pm · Link
I’m waiting for FourLoko to show up to tell us how discrimination on the basis of hairstyle is commendable behavior because humans evolved to consider the douchebag hairstyle to be an indicator of virility, and therefore, all those who don’t conform to the appearance standard must be shunned.
That would be the only thing stupider than that article.
Kane - November 25, 2011 | 9:55 pm · Link
From who would you rather have a beer with to who’s hair would you rather brush.
The prophet Nostradumbass - November 25, 2011 | 9:58 pm · Link
The article isn’t quite as dumb as that blurb, but that’s not saying much.
Console - November 25, 2011 | 10:15 pm · Link
Shit that ain’t nothing but some ultra perm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwMBNE8uC3c
Sly - November 25, 2011 | 10:37 pm · Link
@Console:
Mitt’s just lettin’ his Soul Glo.
Mike in NC - November 25, 2011 | 10:44 pm · Link
How soon before the WaPo has an article extolling the virtues of Willard’s pubic hair?
Anne Laurie - November 25, 2011 | 11:17 pm · Link
@Mike in NC: Don’t hold your breath; the Villagers are afraid to find out whether Millard ‘Witt’ Romney really wears ‘temple garments’. Or at least, they’re afraid of being accused of taking an unseemly interest in the “weird” magical underpants…
Schlemizel - November 26, 2011 | 8:18 am · Link
@Mike in NC:
I’d expect Brooks to write that given that he is most likely to be intimately familiar with what Willards pubs look like.
Pere Ubu - November 28, 2011 | 12:28 pm · Link
Okay, I’m all for starting a new campaign – Mitt’s hair is just so goddamn awesome, let’s elect it for President in 2012. As I put it on my blog:
“It’d certainly be just as competent at Presidenting than the rest of the GOP candidates, probably is more able with foreign and domestic policy than Bachmann or Perry or Santorum, and is less likely than Herman Cain to pinch a female reporter’s ass. And it’s just so goshdarn charismatic!
Obviously the GOP has but one choice for their candidate next year:
Mitt Romney’s Hair, 2012
We Could Hardly Do Worse At This Point.”