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But Fred Hiatt is an idiot.
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The Jokes Write Themselves
- Before marrying Jenny, Mark Sanford insisted on removing “fidelity” from their vows.
- David Vitter cosponsors bill to stop same-sex marriage in DC after patronizing prostitutes in DC.
- Debate over “America’s Future” featuring Harold Ford, Jr. and Michael Steele.
- Nonsense in Washington Post article refuted by Washington Post poll.
Will Charlie Crist Go the Way of Joe Lieberman? (I.e. Become the Most Powerful Man in the Senate)
- The latest attack from wingnut Senate candidate Marco Rubio: this picture of Barack Obama about to make out with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist! “Is Charlie Crist gay or super gay?” is the important question Marco Rubio has for Florida voters. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Also, this line from the same article: “The picture of Crist and Obama could resonate with conservatives in a similar way an image of Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman embracing President Bush resonated with liberal Democrats in 2006. Lieberman lost his Democratic primary to a liberal challenger that year, though won the general election as an independent.” Yeah! And then Joe Lieberman was totally humbled and completely powerless in Washington!
- Oh, speaking of which, some terrible blog called “The Hill” reported that Harry Reid had convinced Joe Lieberman not to filibuster the healthcare bill, but both Reid and Lieber-dick assure us that this is not true at all. Leave the reporting to the real journalists, Hill! (The Hill/The Plum Line)
- How to win the Washington Post’s America’s Next Top Model Great Pundit Competition? Conduct an “admittedly unscientific” poll of your dark-skinned cab drivers. Ladies and gentlemen, the next David Brooks! (WaPo)
- Does former Republican candidate in today’s NY-23 special election Dede Scozzafava have sex with animals? Teabagger candidate Doug Hoffman is not sure but thinks the idea is hilarious! (Watertown Daily Times)
By Henry Allen’s Standards, Everyone Should Be Able to Beat Up Fred Hiatt
- A draft article for your Washington Post’s “Style” section was so terrible that editor Henry Allen straight-up punched writer Manuel Roig-Franzia. That’s one way to encourage better journalism. (Washingtonian)
- Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on many things, including which American political party is most like terrorists. (WaPo/ThinkProgress)
- Sarah Palin is making robocalls for Republican VA-Gov candidate Bob McDonnell, despite being explicitly told by the McDonnell campaign to keep her crazy away from that race. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Rep. Joe “You lie!” Wilson (R-SC) blames Barack Obama for not vaccinating all of America against swine flu instantly, even though Joe Wilson and 95% of Republicans voted against swine flu vaccine. (TPMDC)
It Worked Last Time
Some people suspect that the Washington Post’s endorsement of Creigh Deeds in last June’s Democratic Primary gave him the edge of Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran. I know that, at least where I live, hundreds of “The Washington Post endorses DEEDS” signs went up between the day the Post’s editorial appeared and primary day. And, despite a huge initial deficit in the polls, Creigh pulled off a landslide victory.
Well, the Post has endorsed Creigh Deeds again, noting that only Creigh has put forward sensible, workable plans for fixing Virginia’s transportation budget deficit and maintaining the Warner-Kaine fiscal policies that have successfully guided the commonwealth through tough economic turmoil whereas Bob McDonnell would eliminate state services and return Virginia to the same disastrous state that Jim Gilmore left us in eight years ago.
The most recent polls put Creigh seven points behind Bob McDonnell–a big difference, but not an insurmountable one. Will the Washington Post’s endorsement give Creigh a big enough push to finish on top? It worked last time.
Horrible Liberal Media Puts Teabaggers on Front Page, Antiwar Protestors in Back
Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert finds an interesting contrast in liberal media bastion The Washington Post’s coverage of yesterday’s teabaggerpalooza and the anti-war protests of 2002.
Behold the media’s glaring double standard. Today, the Post puts the “tens of thousands” of Obama-hating tea bagger protesters on A1; makes it the lead story as a matter of fact.
Back in 2002, when more than 100,000 anti-war protesters gathered in the nation’s capitol to protest the Bush administration, the same WashPost did its best to ignore them:
The Washington Post put the story not on the front page, but in the Metro section with, as the paper’s ombudsman later lamented, “a couple of ho-hum photographs that captured the protest’s fringe elements.”
This simply proves again that when right-wing (and mostly white) conservatives get angry, it’s big news. When liberals get angry, it’s just annoying.
We should really make the evil, no good, liberal media elites like David Broder, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Pat Buchanan, and Joe Scarborough answer for their obvious liberal bias.
We Are All Kenyans
- Have you seen Orly Taitz’s Kenyan birth certificate yet? Incontrovertible evidence! (KenyanBirthCerficiateGenerator.com)
- The teabaggers have an exciting new way of expressing their opposition to healthcare reform: physically assaulting members of Congress! (Roll Call via Think Progress)
- Your DNC is interested in whether the RNC’s refrigerators are running, and vice versa. (Ben Smith)
- Retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) will never have to run for office again in Missouri, so he will vote for Sonia Sotomayor. (CNN Political Ticker)
- What a shame! Your Washington Post has canceled Dana Milbank and Chris Cilizza’s “Hillary Clinton is a Huge Bitch Comedy Hour” series of YouTube videos. (WaPo)
Overpaid Wankers of the Day
Quote of the Evening
Perhaps because there is an actual videotape of the planes hitting the World Trade Center that billions of people around the world have seen, while there is no videotape of Obama being born in Hawaii or Vince Foster committing suicide.
– WaPo reporter Ben Pershing, defending the Post’s coverage of the Obama birth certificate “controversy”
Just Who Does This Obama Guy Think He Is, the President?
- President Obama called Cambridge PD Sgt. James Crowley to invite him down to the White House for a couple beers, and then Crowley will arrest him for disorderly conduct. (MSNBC First Read)
- Isn’t it weird how this whole “birther” thing never came up during the presidential race? Oh wait, that’s be cause the McCain Campaign investigated the rumors but found no evidence that Obama was not an American citizen. (Washington Independent)
- Whaaat, the Twitter is blocked in the White House? Why does the Obama administration hate those Iranian protestors (who we all stopped caring about weeks ago) so much? (Think Progress)
- Oh, here is some more stimulus spending for you. This time it’s for “education,” another one of Nobama’s socialist plots. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Your highly respected Washington Post reports that President Obama will attend “some kind of public function” in August in support of Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor. Journalism! (WaPo Virginia Politics)
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