Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There will be lawyers.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if I ever tried to have some of you killed.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

… makes me wish i had hoarded more linguine

Fuck if i know. i just get yelled at when i try it.

I can’t take this shit today. I just can’t.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Tick tock motherfuckers! Tick fucking tock!

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

‘Forty-two’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I personally stopped the public option…

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

We can agree to disagree, but i’m right.

This blog will pay for itself.

This fight is for everything.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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  1. 1.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    That last Reddit comment was fucking brutal. Take that Chinchilla

  3. 3.

    Origuy

    According to Charles Johnson of LGF, Breitbart is hosting a hatefest at the thread about McCain’s tumor. Not going there to look. Personally I wish him a long and healthy retirement.

  4. 4.

    waspuppet

    My favorites were the World War II analogies: One person asked him whether he would’ve said the invasion of Poland was a win for Hitler; another asked who had the Worst Week in Washington for the first week of December 1941: FDR or the isolationists.

  5. 5.

    p.a.

    To quote driftglass, “there is a club. we are not in it.”
    To paraphrase G. Marx; any club that would have Chris Cillizza as a member isn’t worth joining.

  8. 8.

    Felonius Monk

    I wonder if he was wearing his smoking jacket while answering these questions. I read some of those questions yesterday, but don’t recall that one being asked.

  9. 9.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    At best the second-dumbest personality in “journalism,” working for at best the second-dumbest name in cable news. Chinchilla and the bullet-headed troll were made for each other.

    True Story: For the latter three years of high school I participated in my school’s Brain Bowl, and all three times I went to the state level. For the state competitions we stayed at Disney’s contemporary resort, and because I was a news junkie but didn’t want to discuss politics with my teammates/roommates I’d satiate my fix by settling on the blandly nonpartisan CNN (as opposed to MSNBC). My senior year, I’m at Disney again (but this time as a tutor for my sister in an AA Studies competition), and I’m talking to someone when in the background Don Lemon asks if MH370 was sucked in by a black hole – which immediately struck me as the stupidest fucking thing I ever heard in the news that wasn’t discriminatory in intent. That was pretty much the last time I ever listened to CNN as a news source.

    (BTW, if anyone is interested, my sister didn’t win that one, but my team placed third in the state Brain Bowl three weeks later).

  11. 11.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @waspuppet:
    Chamberlain’s handing over of the Sudetenland to Hitler means that Hitler will rule over Germany forever, the end

  14. 14.

    mai naem mobile

    @Origuy: jeezus, do these morons know he votes wito them pretty much all the time. Like 99.9 %. He may tawk big, but his vote never follows his courageous mouth. I don’t mean to be talking crap about him while he’s down. I wish him the best with his recovery. I hope he’s stubborn enough not to resign and give these disgusting fuckers some indigestion.

  15. 15.

    A Ghost to Most

    Racists’ wet dream’: Internet torches GOT producers over ‘tone-deaf’ Civil War alt-history series

    rawstory

    Curious what GoT fans make of this.

  21. 21.

    Walker

    @A Ghost to Most:

    I am a fan and this is an incredibly stupid idea. One of the reasons Chapelle stopped his Comedy Central Show was he realized the racists liked it for all the wrong reasons. That is going to happen here.

  22. 22.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Origuy:
    I can just see it now:

    “Ha that old cuck McCain is gonna die! That’s what he gets for being disloyal to the God Emperor!”

    Fuck

  23. 23.

    Mike J

    @Walker: I’m told Turtledove’s books are actually decent fiction, but they’re awfully popular with klansmen and other nazis. Which probably shouldn’t detract from one’s enjoyment of them, but I’ve never been able to even start them because of it.

  25. 25.

    Eljai

    It strikes me that Cilliza uses the phrase “my journalism.” Like it’s not just journalism, it’s his unique brand of journalism. Except what he calls his journalism, I call “pulling something out of your ass that actually has nothing to do with journalism.” Views differ, I guess.

  29. 29.

    seaboogie

    I sometimes check myself to see if I am just piling on, but no – even Cilizza’s slack lower lip annoys me. Small things. Another entitled white dude failing upwards…and with a shoe fetish…ugh!

    Wish me a happy, fellow Juicers, am a monastic turning the page to fitty-six…

  34. 34.

    Yoda Dog

    This dipshit’s WaPo coverage, I think more than anyone else’s, really pissed me off to no fucking end. And that was back when we all thought HRC would win.

    Those were all truly beautiful takedowns and they made me happy.

  37. 37.

    Barbara

    @Gin & Tonic: It’s not actually curable because it cannot be fully removed (something always remains behind), and no chemotherapy totally destroys a tumor. This is not typically a long drawn out cancer, so I have no idea whether he would seek to spend more time with his family or whether he will soldier on in the Senate. I know what I would if it were me, but I am always surprised by the people I know who decide to work until their last breath.

  38. 38.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I honestly don’t hate McCain that much. Now Trump, Putin, Paul, and McConnell are different stories. Those four are as close as it gets to pure evil without being Hitler

  42. 42.

    seaboogie

    @Yoda Dog: Not commenting on the current state of cable news, but I once stayed at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta, and mooned a meeting at CNN just across the way. Well before the Zucker years. Maybe my shiny white ass was prescient, but I think it was just the wine.

  46. 46.

    Yoda Dog

    It really fits perfectly that one of the all-time Hall of Fame wankers in punditry would happen to hire a young Chris Cillizza out of college.

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Yarrow:

    When CNN first started was it a good news network?

    Actually, yes. Maybe not in the very beginning, but within the first two or three years. CNN made their bones in January 1991 covering the first Gulf War. They were fearless, and innovative, and put the three broadcast networks to shame. I remember seeing Tom Brokaw covering the first night of action, using CNN’s footage (because NBC had none of its own), and grudgingly but sincerely giving props to their upstart cable rival. Before that, it had been known, derisively, as “Chicken Noodle Network.” Not after the Baghdad Boys did their thing.

  50. 50.

    Yarrow

    @SiubhanDuinne: Thanks. I vaguely remember something about them covering the Gulf War and doing a good job. I guess that sort of thing got expensive and hiring talking heads to bloviate for hours is cheap.

  53. 53.

    Walker

    @Yarrow:

    It was okay. But cable news has always had the problem that there is never enough news to keep people talking for 24 hours. In the old days, they would just repeat a lot. It was the ever-increasing introduction of commentary shows that really sent everything to hell.

  58. 58.

    The Pale Scot

    @SiubhanDuinne: OHHhhhh……… SNAP!

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    using CNN’s footage (because NBC had none of its own),

    And that was the beginning of the end. CNN had crews all around the world, and a lock on realtime film. Then Ted the Twit decided to pad his bottom line by renting out clips to the other networks, erasing the exclusivity the network had worked so hard to create.

  60. 60.

    Gin & Tonic

    @SiubhanDuinne: I was recovering from a serious injury at that time and was more or less confined to a recliner, so I had CNN on 24×7, and they had all the action.

    Some years later I was in Atlanta and visited the CNN Museum, where one of the exhibits was Peter Arnett’s coat. IIRC, they sent him into Baghdad with 100 large sewn into the lining, so he’d be able to fix problems.

  65. 65.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @Gin & Tonic:
    I can imagine. I know I’m not the age of most of the audience here, but I really like BJ. It’s a great place to get informed on politics because it uses trusted news sources to inform it’s commentary. I’ve lurked here since at least 2011

  75. 75.

    Steve in the ATL

    @SiubhanDuinne: Are you FB friends with his son Teddy? His page is a large collection of rightwing memes. His IQ must be a quarter of his dad’s.

  77. 77.

    Origuy

    @mai naem mobile: I had a friend die of a brain tumor at about 30. He was doing Scottish dance, both Highland and Country, fencing, and playing shinty (Scottish game like lacrosse) until close to the end. It caused seizures, though, and he would just sit down during dance class.

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @seaboogie: Jebus. BOXERS! You all knew that. Fraternity, LAC, rugby, fencing, skiing, repeat old Saabs. Nothing screams WASP? OG WASP?

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Steve in the ATL: I once had a really rude client ask if our receptionist’s drapes matched her carpet – she responded, “Hardwood floors.” Dude was nonplussed and I didn’t need to beat the guy about the head and shoulders.

  88. 88.

    Tenar Arha

    @A Ghost to Most:

    Shortest: NOPE
    Short: DO NOT WANT THIS
    Longer:
    I like the show, but it’s got its issues. Look, these are the guys that basically filmed Sansa Stark getting raped (which I had to fast forward past) & have frequently included unnecessary women only nudity that did not advance the plot in ANY way for 6 seasons. In addition they’ve failed to handle the racial issues of GOT with sensitivity sometimes. The fact they seemed surprised by the criticism of the white savior narrative underlying Daenerys’ whole storyline is concerning as well.

    Add in that, we as a country, have never addressed in any comprehensive way the facts of our own history of slavery. For example, Sally Hemings was Thomas Jefferson’s captive, not his mistress; by any reasonable conception this means she was incapable of freely consenting to having sex with him that wasn’t buried under coercion, therefore he raped her.

    Now imagine the inability to deal with just that one historical nugget, amplified into a story guided by these two white male show runners…& my mind goes: NO, thank you very much for your occasionally squicky entertainment, but definitely no.

  94. 94.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @seaboogie: This was some sort of girl game? The world can confuzzle me at times. I am just going to go be happy about Saab 2.

  95. 95.

    justawriter

    So Cillizza is actually Trip Tripler, a minor character in Doonesbury who served as Will’s “quote boy.” Sadly, I can’t find any links to those delightful comic strips.

  96. 96.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    @A Ghost to Most: Knowing nothing else except the premise, I don’t necessarily see anything wrong with the idea itself, aside from being done to death already, only second to the “Nazis sin WW2” concept.

    The Confederacy was never going to “win” the civil war, only make the Union cry uncle and get an uneasy peace.

    Though banning slavery was explicitly prohibited by the Confederate constitution, its highly unlikely that de jure slavery would still exist in a present day CSA. International pressure, cotton coming from other sources, and mechanization would have eventually made the CSA ditch slavery.

  97. 97.

    seaboogie

    @Omnes Omnibus: No, and yes. In any gamesmanship that might have been had, you are deeply and fondly regarded as a co-equal player.

    And congrats on Saab 2

  106. 106.

    J R in WV

    @seaboogie:

    “Wish me a happy, fellow Juicers, am a monastic turning the page to fitty-six…”

    Indeed, a Happy !! Sorry about the monastic turn, tho.

  112. 112.

    seaboogie

    @J R in WV: Thank you. The only downside of being an unintentional monastic is explaining to my separately coupled parents that how I celebrated my birthday was having a delicious peach from the farmer’s market for breakfast. Had to turn the convo to other things about them.

    But the peach was singularly delicious, and fully appreciated by this little soul in body – and the day was fine and better for it.

  114. 114.

    kindness

    I liked the LG&M wrap up of this. Especially to post of all Chris’ headlines since the 2016 campaign started. What a vacuous twit he is and CNN is an enabler in all this.

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