Archive for the ‘Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?’ Category
All right in a sort of a limited way
Laura Ingraham today on her radio show: Rick Perry should drop out of this race. . . . And I like Rick Perry, I thought he was pretty cool in the last debate, except for that little problem with calling Turkey an Islamic terrorist regime. I mean, God bless him but he’s not put in [...]
January 18, 2012
· 
Sarah Proud and Tall · 
55 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Good News For Conservatives, Perry-tinnitus, Schadenfreude
John Kasich and his old friends, and my new friends
I’m puzzled, one could even say troubled, by the fact that national media seem to be promoting Ohio Governor John Kasich. This is from the Columbus Dispatch, during Kasich’s campaign for governor in 2010: While John Kasich’s old boss at Fox News couldn’t legally give him $1 million directly, Rupert Murdoch now acknowledges his “friendship” [...]
July 20, 2011
· Kay · 32 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Daydream Believers, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?
Let the meme creation commence…
EATA: Once again, real life wins: Xantar: You have to hand it to NY Times photographers. This one honestly moved me: • • • • • • • • • H/t: srv [...]
May 2, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 152 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Yes We Did
Dog Bites Man
And in other news, Sarah Palin is not running for President. Yeah, I know. We know this. But confirmation keeps coming in from one angle or another. This time, TPM reports on a new memoir by a disaffected former Palin aide that describes (among much else) Palin’s love of the act of governing: a leaked [...]
April 19, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 29 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?
Annals of the Village: Mickey Edwards edition.
This is so far from being important to the state of the Republic that you can treat what follows as a kind of duty-of-care post: it won’t add anything much to what we already know about the way the Villagers play, but we have to keep pointing and smirking as much as possible. Naming and [...]
January 25, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 29 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Lindsey Graham's Fee Fees
Two Losers
I wasn’t able to follow the lame duck session closely, because the weeks prior to the holidays in this office are ordinarily filled with crisis and drama and last-minute filings, plus, I had to decorate two Christmas trees and talk a lot about possibly baking cookies. I was catching up, and read this on START: [...]
December 24, 2010
· Kay · 53 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, Corrections, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Domestic Affairs, Energy Policy, Foreign Affairs, General Stupidity, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
A growing field of study
As the grumpy old man from Arizonia continues his ongoing campaign of incoherent rants, endless policy flip-flops, public tantrums over imagined slights and sputtering rage at just about everything and anyone—many in the media are wondering what happened to the “Maverick” they thought they knew and loved back in 1999. The cognitive dissonance that John [...]
December 18, 2010
· Dennis G. · 178 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
Further to The Sullivan File
Ah, Andrew. Sullivan is at it again. I don’t often write about Andrew Sullivan, in part because the two parts of his work I dislike the most—his propensity for “man on a horse” hero-worship and his difficulties with science and numbers—are both dealt with more than capably by others, including front pagers here. On the [...]
December 9, 2010
· Tom Levenson · 90 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Just To Make Your Day: Marijuana Nuke edition.
Just what you want in that first email check waiting for the shower to heat up.* That would be the item in this morning’s email feed from Harvard’s news office featuring loose-nuke expert Graham Allison and his panel on the future of nuclear weapons that I missed in meat-space last Wed. Tons of depressing stuff [...]
December 3, 2010
· Tom Levenson · 71 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Republican Stupidity
Annals of the Gutless, Vol. MMX. (Or Right-Wing Chickenhawks Seek Male Enhancement Therapy)
I’m working on something more substantial on Bobo’s latest travesty, but my amusement/outrage meter pegged to the right when I read this over at TPM. EDIT: DougJ beat me to this. So instead of repeating the offending quote from Bryan (I’d have been Rambo if I hadn’t had more important things to do) Fischer… Let [...]
November 17, 2010
· Tom Levenson · 37 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue
Res Ipsa Loquitur
November 16, 2010
· mistermix ... World Peace · 77 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Election 2008, Lindsey Graham's Fee Fees, WTF?
How We Love A Man In A Uniform….
Lost in the general haze of stupid/evil that hangs over Sarah Palin was a grace note in her recent speech supporting indictment-in-waiting Joe Miller, her cherished anti-Murkowski senatorial candidate. In a sparsely attended rally for the fading Teabagger senatorial candidate, Palin recalled Miller’s military background, and asked “are we even fit to tie his combat [...]
October 31, 2010
· Tom Levenson · 126 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Lies, Damned Lies, and Sarah Palin
He still is big
The Vanity Fair piece on John McCain is well worth reading, not because it pushes the “he was never a maverick” angle well (personally, I don’t completely agree with that angle), but because it paints an interesting portrait of an old man who only knows life in the Senate and can’t adjust to new political [...]
October 8, 2010
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 68 Comments
Posted in: Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Our Failed Media Experiment
Beaten to the Punch
This morning, I wondered which beltway hack would be the first to embrace McCain’s penis mavericky credentials and give them the tongue bath they so desperately need, and little did I know that David Broder had already put a spit shine on things: Now that John McCain has taken care of his political business in [...]
August 25, 2010
· John Cole · 72 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Our Failed Media Experiment
Another Not-Win for the TeaBaggers (& Bible Spice)
The Washington Post attempts to make lemonade: Two years after his bitter loss in pursuit of the White House, the 73-year-old McCain now begins a final 10-week push and will be the heavy favorite. The Democratic race was still undecided, but whoever emerges will have an uphill fight in heavily conservative Arizona. That means McCain [...]
August 24, 2010
· Anne Laurie · 67 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Our Failed Media Experiment
