Archive for the ‘Both Sides Do It!’ Category
Coming Clean Under A Hard Rain
Cue the “abyss staring back” and “ends justify the means” soul-searching on the case of HuffPo’s Peter Gleick admitting to less than forthright methods to obtaining the right’s game plan on pushing climate change denial in schools. At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be [...]
February 21, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
84 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Decline and Fall, IOKIYAR, Science and Technology, Show Us Your Countertops, The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right, We Are All Mayans Now
Hypocrisy
This is just the kind of shit I love reading: The sharpest edges of President Obama’s counterterrorism policy, including the use of drone aircraft to kill suspected terrorists abroad and keeping open the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have broad public support, including from the left wing of the Democratic Party. A new Washington [...]
February 8, 2012
· John Cole · 185 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Democratic Stupidity
BoogerGate: Digging for the Truth
Thanks to alert Balloon Juice commenter WereBear, I learned that Rush Limbaugh was possibly caught on film picking his snoot in Patriot owner Robert Kraft’s booth during last night’s Super Bowl. There is much speculation about it on the Google: Did he or didn’t he shove his finger knuckle-deep into his nostril in full view [...]
February 6, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 54 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Both Sides Do It!, General Stupidity, I wish a motherfucker would!
Clearly We Need Laws To Protect Us From Republican Voter Fraud
Next time somebody says DEMOCRAT VOTER FRUAD ACORN BLAH BLOOGITY BLAH please calmly direct them to Indiana’s GOP Secretary of State Charlie White being convicted on six of seven voting fraud felony counts while being the state’s top election official. Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was convicted of six felonies early this morning, and [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 36 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality
Divorced From Reality
It’s finally happened: somebody’s managed to penetrate David Brooks’s neutronium denial shield and impress upon him that the American economy isn’t so hot for the proles at the Applebee’s salad bar, and all that manages to come tumbling out is that Both Sides Do It. Democrats claim America is threatened by the financial elite, who [...]
January 31, 2012
· Zandar · 262 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, David Brooks is a dickhead, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Our Failed Media Experiment, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot
It’s A Bit Too Late For That, Ruben
CNN’s Ruben Navarette is warning that the GOP might not do too well among Latino voters in 2012, which is a bit like, well, like Herman Cain warning that the GOP may not do too well with African-American voters like myself. But here’s his opening: On behalf of all those Latino voters who have figured [...]
January 27, 2012
· Zandar · 45 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Flash Mob of Hate, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America, The Brown Enemy Within, WTF?
Sorry, Charlie
Charlie Bass (R, NH-2) tried to use Polifact’s “Lie of the Year” designation to yank ads claiming he “voted to end Medicare” when he voted for the Ryan plan, and he was denied (via): [...] The Bass campaign sent letters to two New Hampshire stations — WMUR and WHDH — demanding the ads be yanked. [...]
January 11, 2012
· mistermix · 56 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Our Failed Media Experiment
The Cost Of The Payroll Tax Cut
Steve Benen is most likely correct when he notes the GOP “negotiators” in the Senate side of the payroll tax cut fight starting next month have no intention of extending the cut at all. Senators Crapo, Barrasso and especially Jon Kyl being involved means the Republicans are signaling that they are okay with destroying any [...]
December 31, 2011
· Zandar · 21 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, DC Press Corpse, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, The Math Demands It
He’s a pro
I wrote here about searching for, and finding, a candidate for the state legislature: He’s a Steelworker. He’s been married 32 years and has 4 children. He spent 2 years in the military. He worked 2nd shift his whole life, and only became politically active with the Steelworkers in 2002 I met with the candidate [...]
December 30, 2011
· Kay · 27 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Election 2012
The Most Wankeriffic Thing You Will Read for the Rest of the Year
Bill Adair, at Politifact, attempting to justify their bullshit Lie of the Year: At a Republican campaign rally a few years ago, I asked one of the attendees how he got his news. “I listen to Rush and read NewsMax,” he said. “And to make sure I’m getting a balanced view, I watch Fox.” My [...]
December 22, 2011
· John Cole · 89 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Both Sides Do It!, Our Failed Media Experiment
Inoculation Achieved
Politifact won the Internets today not only by showing us that both sides do it, but also by pissing off liberals. It doesn’t get any better than that for impartial journalists. I hope they’re enjoying their post-coital cigarette.
December 20, 2011
· mistermix · 62 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, hoocoodanode, Our Failed Media Experiment
Sex vs. Money: Sex Makes The Front Page; Money Counts.
So another Republican “family values” stalwart turns up gay as a goose. (h/t yuriwho at GOS) My first reaction was that the seemingly endless GOP of sexual-bigotry-fail is becoming regular enough to resemble how I remember the what the DJ back home in the Bay Area said about the weather for six months at a [...]
December 20, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 38 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Free Markets Solve Everything, Gay Rights are Human Rights, Grifters Gonna Grift, Republican Venality
This Deceased Equine Quadriped Has Been Pretty Well Whacked, But…
...I’ve never thought enough was that much better than too much, so here, a brief (for me) reaction about the now-notorious Gene Marks piece in Forbes. (With apologies to ABL, DougJ, and John, all of whom get this “timely” thing waaaay better than yours truly.) I popped these thoughts up in response to this piece [...]
December 13, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 39 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Fucked-up-edness, General Stupidity, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot
Paging James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart, paging James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart,
From the HuffPo, we get the story of Eric Boehlert subjected to a botched scam operation: It was the middle of the day on Friday, and Eric Boehlert heard a knock on the door. A senior fellow at Media Matters, a nonprofit watchdog that challenges conservative news outlets, Boehlert works from his Montclair, N.J., home. [...]
December 8, 2011
· Soonergrunt · 91 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Clown Shoes, Fucksaw, Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Open Thread, Our Failed Media Experiment, Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!
Crowd Sourcing Snark: New York Times Economics Fail
The Great Grey Lady (No Longer) of 43rd St. is just trolling us. After today’s piece, “Hey! Look! Destitution Is Not So Bad,“they’ve given great prominence to this piece by Adam Davidson of Planet Money, somberly explaining why no one, not the government, nor business, can create jobs in a depression. It’s a particularly irksome [...]
November 5, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 47 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Free Markets Solve Everything
