Archive for the ‘DC Press Corpse’ Category
An Exaltation of Larks, A Surfeit of Targets
Maybe it really is too late. Classical empires lasted centuries: the Han Dynasty held sway for 400 years, barring that brief unpleasantness with Wang Mang. The Romans had a similar run, depending on how you choose to bracket the rise and fall. The Mongols were a little less permanent, but for all their brutal kin-slaughter [...]
February 1, 2012
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Tom Levenson · 
83 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, Daydream Believers, DC Press Corpse, Decline and Fall
Our Watchdog Social Media
Here’s the video of President Obama’s Google+ Hangout yesterday afternoon. It featured live questions from a few pre-selected individuals, as well as questions gathered from YouTube. The difference between this event and debates featuring questions from the Internets is that Google did a decent job selecting the questions and questioners, and they were pretty good. [...]
January 31, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 80 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse
Money, Money, Chips Coming In
Like I told you yesterday: And Todd won’t ever tell you this, but he and the rest of the bobbleheads and their corporations don’t want the system fixed. They like it as a mess. If we were to hold elections like other civilized nations, we’d have public funding of them and they would last for [...]
January 22, 2012
· John Cole · 75 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Chuck Todd’s Knickers in a Twist Over… Colbert
I can see that the transition from pollster to village hack has been a remarkably smooth transition for Chucky T: Appearing at a Winthrop University panel Thursday, MSNBC host and NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd ripped into Stephen Colbert and his not-yet-official run, suggesting that Colbert might have some ulterior motives in the way [...]
January 20, 2012
· John Cole · 116 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Our Failed Media Experiment
Example #9 Billion How Are Media Are Failing Us
Drudge: Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview. Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEWS cameras, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. She spoke to ABCNEWS reporter Brian Ross for two hours, and her explosive revelations are set to rock the trail. But now a “civil war” has erupted [...]
January 18, 2012
· John Cole · 91 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, DC Press Corpse, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment
What Strange Customs These Foreigners Have
The New York Times DC Bureau climbed in their rocketship and sped to a nearby planet, a place others would call “Jon Tester’s DC Apartment”, to report back on the exotic foods consumed by the dwellers therein: As it turns out, lugging meat from Montana is not much harder than taking some extra suits, and [...]
January 11, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 157 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse
Saving Newt From Himself
So apparently, a media analyst at the Politico has decided that Newt Gingrich is getting a bad rap for his remarks yesterday, and that “the interpretation has changed somewhat along the way.” You remember the remark that got a lot of attention: “And so I’m prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to their [...]
January 6, 2012
· John Cole · 171 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America
Halperin Ekes Out Iowa Win
If you read that Weigel post and do the math, 91,000 Republicans voted last night, versus 102,000 in 2008. The raw vote count was slightly higher this year, but that’s because Democrats and Independents decided to vote in the caucus, either due to Paulism or lack of anything better to do on a cold winter [...]
January 4, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 65 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse
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
Vote for Dan
Dan Savage is up for a Moore Award because he wrote a something scathing and true about Michele Bachmann, and that hurt poor Andrew Sullivan’s delicate fee-fees. He wants your vote, so vote for him to send a tiny little fuck you to Sully and his pompous, stupid awards. For some reason, this image seems [...]
December 27, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 99 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse
White House Reporters celebrate Festivus
In the spirit of Festivus, The WP post printed the Airing of Grievances by White House Reporters this morning. Chief among their list of grievances is that WH Press Secretary Jay Carney and his team are mean to them when they get facts wrong and/or engage in bias reporting. What especially seems to rankle their [...]
December 23, 2011
· Dennis G. · 83 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, DC Press Corpse, Open Thread, Our Failed Media Experiment
Null Hypothesis
James Fallows has been using the term “nullification” to talk the ways that Republicans in the Senate are using the filibuster to keep from appointing a director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. By doing so, they’re making sure that a law already passed by Congress simply doesn’t go into effect. The whole thing is [...]
December 12, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 93 Comments
Posted in: 59-41 Senate Minority, An Unexamined Scandal, DC Press Corpse
They Knew Exactly Which Buttons To Push
So I wonder what the deal is behind this story, but that’s not the interesting part. Late Tuesday evening, a press release went out to numerous political journalists with stunning news. Mega-union SEIU had voted to withdraw its recently bestowed endorsement of Barack Obama. That’s certainly not unimaginable — SEIU often takes its own path [...]
December 7, 2011
· Zandar · 180 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, DC Press Corpse, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Manic Progressive, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Our Failed Media Experiment
Let the walk back begin…
For months the folks in DC who worked with Gingrich have been attacking the very notion of him getting anywhere near the levers of power. That was all fine and good before the Gingrich surge, but what will they do when they have to take it all back to support The Professor over President Obama? [...]
December 7, 2011
· Dennis G. · 59 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Clown Shoes, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, DC Press Corpse, Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment
Let the Fellation Begin
Atrios flags this headline at the Washington Post. Speaking of Newt’s ideas, I know that his child-labor plan has been discussed here, but I think we missed his take on food stamps. He believes that even millionaires are eligible, and that food stamp benefit cards can be used to fund trips to Hawaii. Polifact, who [...]
December 2, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 69 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, The teabagger's apprentice
