I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Hee!
ho!
Heigh!
Morning.
I called sheets.
Fuck "I'll never trust the Bush Administration" falafel boy.
My Grandpa Ott's Morning Glory seeds are nearly ripe, and the lily bulbs haven't come yet, so this may all work out.
i'll say this again: when you pander to the dumbest 50%, you can make shit up all you want.
Figures. I finally thought of something possibly worthwhile to say below and there's a new thread. I guess that's what Saturday morning's all about around here.
It's down to the dumbest 30%.
Repost:
To add to all the good feeling in this blog today, I want to thank you all for making my life more bearable.
Not to get all goooey, but it is easier to have faith in humanity when you're here with you people.
Happy anniversary qls. I'm thinking of you two holding hands while marching.
Also I promise to ignore my daughters when they chant, "Bloggers anonymous, Bloggers anonymous!"
Back to one of my favs: Waldman
blerb, copy it, type "repost:
and paste away, you're among friends.
'it's UNCONTESTED childish and immature attacks THAT ARE ALLOWED TO STAND that win'
Fixed it.
Note, for example, the Obama campaign's destruction of the 'madrassa' slur. You don't hear it much now.
They need to be fought. Tooth and nail, blood on the hands, skin under the fingernails fought. They haven't been fought that way for a long time, and they won't look good responding to it with lese majeste.
blerb, copy it, type "repost:
Sorry, ya'll. I'm trying to learn.
Gail Collins funny at teh NYT:
Rudy Finds a New Topic
"fiscal. discipline"
Note, for example, the Obama campaign's destruction of the 'madrassa' slur. You don't hear it much now.
That's only because he's not the front runner.
If he looks like he's gonna be, you'll hear it again at top volume.
"Ms. Perino, many say you're a complete moron.
What do you think, or DO YOU THINK?"
camelot: gotcher back, kid...
camelot, I for one enjoy your posts very much. You're one of the more sensible ones.
'it's UNCONTESTED childish and immature attacks THAT ARE ALLOWED TO STAND that win'
I had thought the Dukakis experience in 1988 had established this as Conventional Wisdom among the pundits and consultants, but apparently something got forgotten.
If anyone sees a semi-reformed redneck around here, I owe him/her a coke from the last thread.
I'll just leave it here on the table.
Lee Atwater was reincarnated as Karl Rove before he passed away.
To add to all the good feeling in this blog today, I want to thank you all for making my life more bearable.
I'll drink to that.
Well, not right this minute. I have a very long day ahead of me.
If he looks like he's gonna be, you'll hear it again at top volume.
They'll find something else. It's best to get them all out of the way early. Recognize your biggest weaknesses and make them old news fast.
From the Media Matters post:
"And don't even ask about the emails we get -- let's just say Rush and Bill's fans are extremely angry and prone to vulgarity, and need to work on their spelling."
That's one I'll never understand. Spelling is only a button away--a good example of whom Jello Biafra calls the "militantly stupid."
Thanks Jac,
Not sure the etiquette involved, or what the coke thing is, but the pause is truly refreshing.
The new rap on Obama is that he's too wonky.
It's just dolled-up racism, but still.
steve: of course. And the correct response at that point will be to slap it down with fact, and refocus the debate on the war, or health insurance, or the millions left behind in the economy. Ideally, with a manner suggesting that a political fight, over issues vital to the nation and the human race, is what's going on, rather than a contest to see who can best meet the expectations of the Broderiat. Even more ideally, with humor and ebullience, as if the battle is worth winning to the extent that it's worth fighting with relish and purpose. Roosevelt did that.
When two people make the same comment, cokes magically appear.
The new rap on Obama is that he's too wonky.
The "White Bill Clinton?" I think it might work...
Cool.
and refreshing.
repugnicants who run a cokehead drunk AWOL C- yalie, and teh media who simply glosses over that shit....naw, uh-merican politics ain't as much a joke as say italy where a porn star gets into parliament....
at least italy is honest with it's corruption, whereas here, the repugnicants have every sunday with bobblehead-propaganda to enforce and explain their fascism
I never had much use for the Log Cabin Republicans; but their anti-Romney faux Romney ad is brilliantly lethal.
Displaying his ongoing commitment to reasoned discourse, Limbaugh puts up a picture on his website of Josef Stalin sporting Media Matters' logo on his chest.
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Entertainment fun for his typical listeners
Gravatars come, gravatars go.....
How soon before someone like O'Reilly or Limbaugh says something to the effect that Obama sure is articulate for a black guy?
Why should Biden have all the fun?
Biden actually grew up politically in the civil rights movement, where he put himself on the line...
Heh, I think we know this one.
http://www.eurotrib.com/comments.../124354/718/
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Entertainment fun for his typical listeners
el
"Stalin... was he a good guy or a bad guy? I'm never quite certain. What does Rush say?"
/dittohead
Biden has foot-in-big-mouf disease.
Even more ideally, with humor and ebullience, as if the battle is worth winning to the extent that it's worth fighting with relish and purpose. Roosevelt did that.
ProfWombat | 10.06.07 - 10:21 am | #
Roosevelt didn't have the corrupt media that we have.
It's a different world, unfortunately.
Repost of my second dead-thread in a day:
Skimming through this morning. Happy Day, QL! We're at 36 years and counting here...
And here in the east Valley, we have quail in plenty. They wander the streets around our house. Cool to be out on a bike at this time of day and see them all. Along with the mockingbirds and doves and such. Hummers are gone for the year, but I saw a Gila 'pecker the other day...
Entertainment fun for his typical listeners
el
Most of which think it's a picture of Abner Doubleday.
mimi runs amok. Who could have imagined?
Sheets!!!
To add to all the good feeling in this blog today, I want to thank you all for making my life more bearable.
...
Also I promise to ignore my daughters when they chant, "Bloggers anonymous, Bloggers anonymous!"
...
camelot
The first step is admitting you don't have a problem and are enjoying the hell out of it.
Listening to a College Republican and a College Democrat on NPR. Asked which candidates they've met, the little GOOPer reels off each name and title: "Mayor Giuliani, Senator Thompson...."
What a nice boy. I'm sure he wore a tie to a radio interview.
steve: the media were quite largely controlled by Republicans in the 1930s, especially outside the cities, which typically had multiple papers with a diversity of opinion. They vilified Roosevelt. Didn't matter.
Not sure the etiquette involved, or what the coke thing is, but the pause is truly refreshing.
semi-reformed redneck
It's an "Atriotism," invoked when someone (me) posts what someone else (you) posted. Sort of like a jinx.
Others here:
http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/atriotisms/
Remember when the Dems went on Donahue? Clinton had all his charts; teaching like a professor.
We need that. List all of the people who have the courage of their convictions.
(the dems who served, the people who were against the war and stood up for their convictions)
Then move on to a tutorial on media misrepresentation.
Maybe Oprah would allow this, if Obama signed off on it. She does reach many women voters. Any other ideas?
Waldman should be on TV more. He has control at all times. Impressive.
Roosevelt didn't have the corrupt media that we have.
People tended to read "The Democratic Rag" or "The Republican Rag" in those days. I think there wasn't necessarily less corruption, but there was a wider range of viewpoints available and things weren't dominated nationally by a couple of huge corporations whose only interest is enormous viewership in order to sell advertising and make a huge profit.
YMMV.
OK then, I'll venture to comment on this bit from almost an hour ago:
The pendulum always swings, as long as the underlying institutions aren't destroyed. One problem I think we have on the left at this point is we lack a coherant bold philosphy to move the country forward. We are still playing catchup. We are winning elections and then standing around naval gazing. Say what you will about the tenets of neoconservatism - at least it's an ethos.
I disagree. I think we have plenty of bold philosophies. The problem is that most of them have been turned into unutterable perversions of what is right and good by a long-standing, insidious process of brainwashing in which various institutions in this country have been engaging for decades. For example -- socialized medicine. All our opponents have to do is say those words and it's as if they showed you a big black tarantula. Even "liberal", a word that at one time referred to to an amalgam of all high and noble things, has been turned into an epithet of scorn. It is because of this process that there is no guarantee that the pendulum will swing back the other way. The only reason it has now is that the right has so egregiously overplayed its hand now that people are outraged and scared. That swing could be short-lived if we don't get busy now, as in five years ago, undermining the validity of all the falsehoods that have been turned into tacitly assumed truths buy the winger media/church axis. Our weapons are not blistering polemics of our own, but rather better schools, better outreach to the young in general, and early, subtle subversions of winger thought patterns with stuff like Sesame Street. These things -- these philosophical and social infrastructures -- are the rug on which we stand. If we don't do the long, arduous work of building them, that rug will be pulled out from under us again in a just couple of years.
blerb | 10.06.07 - 10:32 am | #
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good rant
things weren't dominated nationally by a couple of huge corporations whose only interest is enormous viewership in order to sell advertising and make a huge profit.
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there's that, and I suspect many right wing mud slingers actually have brains but have sold out to high paying jobs as bible and flag thumping and waving automatons.
One problem I think we have on the left at this point is we lack a coherant bold philosphy to move the country forward.
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The other problem is putting out fires of the current regime is a full time job. Moving forward is blowing the whistle, and that is not attractive.
Come on over to the next post.
There's an HBO free preview on my satellite. I am getting to watch Bill Mahr now!
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