12:21 PM Manny: http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/07/04/journalistic-narcissism/
Me: 'Nuf said
Me: 'Nuf said
Friday, July 17, 2009
Mr. Tobia goes to Afghanistan
11:14 AM me: hey dude, sorry about going mia yesterday. Want to talk more about what we were talking about, but first. PJT's blog goes live! http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/the-poppy-palaces-of-afghanistan.html
welcome to bloggerville buddy!
11:15 AM Manny: I told him
me: you know you're in good shape when someone tolerable posts you on his blog. Boosted him way up the most hits list on True/Slant
I apparently have to get on my plane now
some thoughts on the sane and the insane left over from last week when I was on vacation. Again. (I know, sweet right?)
9:58 AM he makes an important point: does anyone believe that the last event in the sequence is unrelated the prior events?
10:02 AM Seems like, since 2000, the media has asked me to believe, repeatedly, that the most obvious, simplest explanation for things is somehow crackpot
10:03 AM Bush rushed into Iraq, demonized democrats who opposed it as cowards, and won a congressional midterm election
says Times: those things are totally unconnected. Totes.
10:05 AM the U.S. harshly interrogated people. about 100 of them died.
Nothing to do at all with rumors that we were torturing people
| 7 minutes |
10:12 AM me: I know, like any person with even a hint of common sense is definitely a moron (and hates america). Surprise! We let Goldman Sachs run our economic recovery plan and now they're making record profits! Who could possibly have seen this coming!? Not any of our elected officials? Not the media certainly?
10:13 AM Manny: crazy
they say you're crazy
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/mites-of-roundtable-by-digby.html
1:09 PM me: hey dude
1:12 PM Boy I wish you hadn't sent me that digby piece. It is anger making.
1:15 PM they seem to think that it's a good thing to investigate peons who got carried away and not a good thing to investigate the system and leadership that made such behavior possible. It's like blaming the sheep for going hog wild on the neighbor's grass that the shepherd led them to.
8:36 PM Manny: Yeah
8:38 PM me: yeah?
| 13 minutes |
8:52 PM Manny:
I got nothing to add
Cokie roberts
8:53 PM F u cokie
Friday, July 10, 2009
what exactly does the government mean when they call something "detention?"
12:22 PM Manny: good stuff:
| 14 minutes |
12:36 PM me: Wow. we really got in deep on this one
dick cheney is a real jerkoff
12:37 PM the times, again, obviously just the mouth piece for the most popular lie-teller they can find
| 6 minutes |
12:43 PM Manny: "No matter how many stories there are like the one today from McClatchy's -- where emphatic accusations about a detainee turn out to be totally false -- the willingness to believe unproven assertions from government officials about Muslims detainees is never-ending."
| 16 minutes |
1:00 PM me: of course, because racism is never ending
explaining the keyboard cat
11:30 AM me: apparently some people do not understand keyboard cat
sad for keyboard cat
Manny: who doesn't love keyboard cat?
11:31 AM me: it's not a question of love
11:33 AM Manny: so what's the problem?
11:35 AM me: they just don't understand the cat or why he plays the keyboard or, I guess, what it means to play someone off if one happens to be a keyboard cat
11:37 AM Manny: they never saw this?
11:42 AM me: I'm not sure that will help
but ha ha ha
Manny: are they unfamiliar with the concept of playing someone off?
11:43 AM don't they watch the oscars?
me: that's what I think is at the root of the confusion. I think they lost the trail of the concept between the oscars and the cat.
11:44 AM Manny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_Cat
there
11:48 AM me: that wikipedia entry is the greatest thing I've ever read
Manny: I love a good mem
mem
11:49 AM meme
sticky e key
11:50 AM me: ha ha ha ha ha ha
Monday, July 6, 2009
Palin YAY!
Wow, it's an exciting time to be alive.
10:10 AM Manny: actual paragraph from the WashPo
"Yet Palin's vulnerability masks her firepower, ambition and strong will, advisers said. Not one to fit comfortably into convention -- and not comfortable being a victim, either -- Palin spoke Friday as if she was rolling the dice and betting on herself. She presented herself as a game-changer stepping onto a stage of her own making."
10:14 AM me: Sure. That's just awesome reporting. Let me jump in to help them out: "Her skin glowed with the glow of power and future success. Her eyes, lit by the fire of a glorious future of command and by distinctive authority that could only come from the lord himself..."
| 5 minutes |
10:19 AM Manny: remember when she got John McCain elected president?
10:20 AM me: yeah, she's wonderful
she sure is a "game-changer" isn't she
10:22 AM I don't understand this whole thing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Palin quit being governor because it was hard right? I mean, her excuse is: my term was winding down so I would have to work harder and instead, I quit so I could be a national beauty queen contestant
| 9 minutes |
10:31 AM Manny: it says something about the media that they would take anythhing she does seriously
she somehow got a winner's narrative, even though she's clearly a ggiant loser
10:34 AM me: dude, how can you get a winner's narrative when everything you have ever done, including both running for VP and being governor, you have failed at? She announces that she's quitting her job and is admitting that it it too hard for her, and not only does she get a pass, she gets a celebration. What is the deal? How is this possible? Doesn't anyone have any self-respect?
Manny: I'm saying the media doesn't report true things
it tells STORIES about them
10:35 AM me: yes, but this story is crazy
Manny: so for some reason, they've decided her story is about a plucky beauty queen who saved the republicans
not the redneck idiot who incites the racists
and got hers ass kicked
10:36 AM me: and is pathetic, ignorant, and prone to grotesque failure
| 5 minutes |
10:42 AM Manny: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/07/shes_done.php
10:46 AM me: Ah, now this is a line I can get behind: "But MC is 100% correct that any pundit who thinks this is some risky but potentially brilliant strategic move is absolutely smoking crack. Hitting the crack pipe, or, just as likely, being witlessly contrarian to set themselves apart from the common herd of sane people."
10:47 AM Manny: i also enjoyed that
witlessly contrarian
heh
describes 95 percent of everything on Slate
me: ha
ha
ha
1
10:51 AM Manny:
David Broder, dean of the washington press core:
"Oh and by the way, the last time I checked, her nickname is 'Sarah Barracuda.' Palin is a fighter."
umm, Epic Fail
10:55 AM Don't fighters have to like... fight?
if you run, doesn't that make you a runner, not a fighter?
10:59 AM me: she's not even a runner, she's just a conniver and an opportunity grabber who like anyone with the maturity of a five year old follows the path of least resistance as quickly as possible
| 23 minutes |
| 6 minutes |
11:28 AM me: that is a terrible thing to send me. it argues that she's very important and doesn't explain why!
Manny: she was very important at destroying McCain's campaign
11:32 AM me: well that's clearly true
| 13 minutes |
11:46 AM me: I like this from the TPM piece you sent me: "She's back to what she was -- a small person looking for someone to be angry at." I don't think that's journalism, but it is awesome.
| 16 minutes |
12:02 PM Manny: play her off, keyboard cat!
12:04 PM me: ha ha ha
Manny: i love the keyboard cat
12:05 PM me: it's the best!
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