Yeah, I know that finding dumb stuff at Newsmax is shooting fish in a barrel, but this cracked me up:
If Simon & Garfunkel were still recording today, they might pen a hit new song, to the beat of “Mrs. Robinson,” titled “Where Have You Gone, Milton Friedman?”
The guy who wrote this is the much-feted CEO of Newsmax, Chris Ruddy:
Ruddy, the CEO and editor of Newsmax, is emerging as the most prominent online voice of the conservative movement. Newsmax has flourished because Ruddy has exhibited a stronger commitment to the bottom line than to presenting himself as an ideologue.
“I’m not looking for a cult of personality of Chris Ruddy,” he said. “Running a business takes 24/7.”
[….]A smart, cautious CEO, Ruddy is pleased to drop hints that Newsmax has become the leading online conservative voice.
[…]Ruddy learned the lesson well when he was trying to raise money for Newsmax. “People said, ‘If this is the Chris Ruddy Web site, you’re not going to have a lot of value as a business,'” he recalled.
My media philosophy is to just try to be the best DougJ that DougJ can be.
Comrade Stuck
All seven or eight of em. :)
DougJ
I think it was only about five or six.
KCinDC
Has "Hey, Paul Krugman!" been mentioned here yet?
steve s
You misspelled ‘fetid’.
arguingwithsignposts
They keep using that word "journalism." I don’t think it means what they think it means.
Comrade Stuck
Huh, K-Low can keep The Corner House of Crazy afloat on 4 or 5 hours a day, minus a few donut breaks.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
No, it doesn’t scan. It need an extra syllable, like, "Where have you gone, Milton Friedom-man?".
Fun fact: Friedman has a son who is a Duke in the SCA.
Rick Taylor
I miss Milton Friedman too. He was a lot smarter than most of the conservative thinkers we have today. I’m not happy having an opposition party that is nearly batshit crazy.
Comrade Jake
I bet Ruddy’s stupid dial goes to eleven.
jenniebee
ROFL, what’s next, "Galt’s Song" to the tune of "Kathy’s Song?"
For you see, I refuse to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand among the loose tea leaves
The only truth I know’s Fox News
Sweet Jeebus, what the fucking fuck?
The Moar You Know
Somewhat OT: China has just figured out the dollar isn’t worth a shit.
jenniebee
Or "The Geithner"
In the clearing stands a Geithner
And we profit by his trade
But he carries the reminders
Of every buck that got flushed down
The toilet while we cried out
‘Why the anger and the rage?
We are bleeding, we are bleeding!’
But the hedge funds still remain.
After changes upon changes,
we are more or less the same.
After changes we are more or less the same
ImJohnGalt
@Rick Taylor:
I dunno. His "ideas" have caused a great deal of unhappiness and suffering in a few South American Countries (cf. The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein).
DougJ
No, it’s catchy but it seems everyone else has already discussed it.
Also, I don’t buy into the infallibility of Krugman on this one.
4jkb4ia
Pitt beats Gonzaga 65-60 in a game that certainly qualified as basketball. Had thought about whether Malia and Sasha Obama would want to play basketball at this level.
KCinDC
DougJ, I don’t believe in Krugman’s infallibility either, even on economic issues, and certainly his fallibility on political issues was demonstrated during the primaries. I think his analysis needs to give more consideration to how politically possible various actions are rather than simply what the ideal action would be if Krugman were dictator.
And by "mentioned here" I meant in the comments. I certainly don’t think it merited a post, unless you were hard up for an open-thread video.
JasonF
What a conincidence. I’m working on a song called "88 Lines About 44 Wingnuts."
Ruddy was a tone-deaf dolt
Who couldn’t count five syllables
I’m rhyming that couplet with:
O’Reilly wound up in trouble
Through gross misuse of falafals
(With apologies to the Nails)
DougJ
I didn’t mean to suggest that you did! I was just explaining why I was ambivalent about that video even though it’s funny.
demimondian
Hey, can I play, too?
The worth of the profits is feted in the airport stalls //
Confessional Halls //
And whispered by the shell //
Of Geither
MikeJ
All this filking on the day I read Spandau Ballet is planning a reunion. I think I need to drink until I pass out and this is all over.
mandarama, Eager Minion
@jenniebee:
FTW. Thank you for the best laugh I’ve had all day.
gizmo
A very good question from Spencer Ackerman :
“What would we think, for example, if we discovered that the Bush Administration had been secretly lending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to their friends to participate in a highly speculative investment scheme? And some of the friends turned out to be former colleagues and mentors at private equity and sovereign wealth funds, and most of the money came from subsidized interest rates on non-recourse loans from the FDIC, so that if the investments went bad, the private investors could walk away with only minor losses while leaving the Treasury stuck with the bad investments? But if the investments became profitable, the private investors would have leveraged massive US dollars and become obscenely rich.”
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/4380#more-38300
Mako
If Simon and Garfunkle were still alive today they’d be singing-
"But I work in his factory
"And I curse the life I’m living
"And I curse my poverty
"And I wish that I could be
"Oh I wish that I could be
"Oh I wish that I could be
"Chris Ruddy "
Andre
@arguingwithsignposts: Not to mention playing right into the old canard by calling something "a series on journalism’s conservative voices" and then only profiling two people.
Shortest. Series. Ever.
Mako
@The Moar You Know:
Oh my god! We must worry about that! China holds all the US debt!
Of course, if they cash it in, they crash too.
Interesting that they are all about the IMF when the IMF can’t even give money away anymore. No one wants the stigma.
You know, I just read an article in the newspaper yesterday that talked about how the "new" Honda Insight was going to challenge the Toyota Prius.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/22/business/hybrid.php
Utter bullshit that article.
Does anyone actually still believe anything they read in newspapers?
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I get the Newsmax emails and they’re a mix of bizzarro-world Republican triumphalism and health advertising aimed at old people.
Bruce Baugh
Slow down, you move too fast
You’ve got to make the stimulus last
Just kickin’ down the S&P index
Just look at CNBC and feelin’ groovy
J. Michael Neal
Spandau Ballet never gets old, mostly because it’s possibly the most unintentionally hilarious name ever given to a band.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Not unless they were both suffering from senile dementia.
Dear fReichtards, could you please NOT SUCK for five seconds?
That’s funny as hell but you still suck.
cosanostradamus
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Ruddy, the CEO and editor of Newsmax, is emerging as the most prominent online voice of the conservative movement.
Only because Hitler never learned to use a computer.
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J.D. Rhoades
There’s your trouble, right there.
Dennis-SGMM
Not just a Yugo but, a Yugo SL.
SLKRR
@jenniebee:
jenniebee FTW.
I was going to work up something to the tune of A Geithner Over Troubled Water, but you saved me the effort, because it would be way lame compared to this.
The Other Steve
Chris Ruddy was one of the central nuts surrouding Vince Foster’s suicide. He literally wrote the book.
newsmax.com was started almost entirely on Vince Foster conspiracy theories.
BTW, I think we need to start feeding bizarre conspiracy theories to the wingnuts. Stuff about how Obama ran the south side cocaine operation and such.
demimondian
@The Other Steve: So you’re confirming the rumor about Obama’s "O-boys network" in Chicago? Cool!
Dennis-SGMM
Coals to Newcastle. How could we possibly top the ones that they come up with themselves?
SLKRR
@Dennis-SGMM:
How could we possibly top the ones that they come up with themselves?
SLKRR
@Dennis-SGMM:
We can’t.
Running a cocaine operation vs. being a gay communist Kenyan/Indonesian Muslimofascist bastard child of Malcolm X. The rightwing has become unspoofable.
RememberNovember
that’s it, Im cancellling my subscription to Free Republic!
You mean the Newsmax that peppers it’s emails with snake-oil cures and Viagra alternatives?
/facepalm.
mike
Ruddy formerly worked for Richard Scaife publishing lots of nonsense on how Vince Foster was murdered by Hillary Clinton. He has long sucked the teat of Scaife.