Archive for the ‘Our Failed Media Experiment’ Category
Chart Of Darkness: Belaboring The Point
Following up on Saturday’s post on the latest wingnut meme that Kenyan Soshulist Maths are hiding the truth that the reeeeeeeal unemployment rate among scared, crazy self-piddling conservatives is 157 gazillion percent, we see FOX and Friends is happily joining in the silliness. “Are they playing around with the numbers?” fill-in host Eric Bolling asked. [...]
February 7, 2012
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Zandar · 
51 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now, Wingnut Event Horizon
I Think That’s Some Sort Of Bomb Iranian Mix
Well, since John Yoo is on vacation this week or something waterboarding herds of unicorns and John Bolton’s Mustache is busy with trying to adapt drone controls for use by facial hair (hard to fly straight and hit the red button at the same time when you’re only a mustache) to bomb Syria, it’s up [...]
February 6, 2012
· Zandar · 127 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Military, Our Failed Media Experiment, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, War
What Am I Missing Here?
Douthat:’ IN the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as pro-life as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either be “illegal in all circumstances” or “legal in only a few circumstances.” These results do not vary appreciably by gender: in the first Gallup [...]
February 5, 2012
· John Cole · 64 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
Something’s Wrong, Something’s Amiss
Gosh, I can’t quite put my finger on what’s bothering me about this analysis of Romney’s performance in Florida from CNN’s Juan Carlos Lopez here, but it’s just not right. How Romney won Florida’s Latino vote Huhwha? Did I miss something? As Mitt Romney dominated the Florida Republican primary Tuesday night, he also captured the [...]
February 3, 2012
· Zandar · 64 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Romney of the Uncanny Valley, The Brown Enemy Within
Six More Weeks of BS
Here it is only Groundhog Day, and even that cheap whore Conventional Wisdom can’t fluff the awfulness of nine more months of unmitigated Willard. Dave Weigel at Slate points out that within the GOP compound, the natives are restless: ... It’s not just Bill Kristol worrying about this field. Nearly two out of every five [...]
February 2, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 23 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment, Republican Stupidity
Crossing The Rubin Con On Romney
Oh, Jennifer Rubin. You really are a terrible hack, and why the Kaplan machine keeps inflicting you upon the populace, I’ll never know. Romney as the nominee will be flyspecked and criticized over every word. He needs to avoid actual gaffes. But he can’t keep the media from editing out all the inconvenient parts of [...]
February 2, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
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
Simp Phony For The Devil
Having taken over Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog for Steve Benen (now part of the Maddow team at MSNBC, and more power to him there, he’s badly needed), Ed Kilgore is doing a pretty solid job so far. He flags this article from The Hill written by FOX News punching bag Juan Williams and immediately [...]
January 30, 2012
· Zandar · 51 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Election 2012, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Flash Mob of Hate, Grifters Gonna Grift, Our Failed Media Experiment, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person
It’s Funny to Compare Obama to a Coward Who Killed People
I don’t know what’s worse, Bob Scheiffer and Reince Preibus laughing about Preibus’ comparison of President Obama to the Captain of the Costa Concordia (17 dead, 16 missing), or Bob Scheiffer’s bewildered old man face before he gets the joke. Isn’t it about time for one of Scheiffer’s kids to take over that show?
January 30, 2012
· mistermix ... World Peace · 109 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment
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?
They Still Don’t Know What a Fact Is
The weasels at Politifact have backed down somewhat from last night’s epic failure: EDITOR’S NOTE: Our original Half True rating was based on an interpretation that Obama was crediting his policies for the jobs increase. But we’ve concluded that he was not making that linkage as strongly as we initially believed and have decided to [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 94 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Our Failed Media Experiment
Politihacks
Looks like the clowns at Politifact are following DougJ’s advice and just going full wingnut: Politifact—the self-anointed fact checkers—grade this statement from the President speech tonight as “half-true:” “In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.” This is not half true [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 56 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Our Failed Media Experiment
Oh, stewardess, I speak wingnut
A simple google search could have taught America’s worst columnist that wingers talk about Saul Alinsky all the time. But no: The Gingrich I seek is not the man above but the one of big ideas. The term gets thrown around a lot, and Gingrich himself is apt to think his every idea is BIG. [...]
January 24, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 142 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now
You my winger? (It certainly appears so.)
I don’t know if you know anyone like this, but I have an adult relative who regularly stages temper tantrums to get what he wants. It always annoys me, because my attitude has always been “scream all you want, I don’t care”, but not everyone in my family feels this way. So it is with [...]
January 23, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 72 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Pretty Much What He Said
Sometimes I get emails that are so spot-on I ask if I can just publish them, and I did, so here you go: I have been saying for years that no way, no how will the American South line up behind Romney, for the simple reason that he’s a Mormon. I don’t understand why this [...]
January 23, 2012
· John Cole · 186 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment
