Yep, we have Brian Ross at his wankerriffic worst.
Hillary Clingon’s travel records as first lady are released, and what is the lede?
Is it whether or not she is imporperly claiming experience? NO.
Is it evidence of some sort of evidence of wrong doing? NO.
Nope, what’s important to Brian Ross is that Hillary Clinton slept at the White House on “blue dress day”.
What a bunch of shallow wankers.
This is high Broderism at its worst.
Bill Kristol used his report that he was sitting next to Obama when the infamous Reverent Wright sermon was given, which no turns out to be a flat out lie.
Then, when the entire false news thing was entered into his Wikipedia profile, he edited the profile to cover up the fact that he makes sh$# up.
He works for Newsmax, and he’s a Wanker, but I repeat myself
Damn, this is really a day for incoherent NY Times editorials.
Along with the rest of the anti-sex anti prostitution crowd who think that and sex is icky.
Slowly, here is the equation: Pimps exist because prostitutes need them to protect them from a criminal justice system that victimizes them.
How is their job any different from bull semen “extractor”?
As to whether or not it’s “voluntary”, the claim that because of economic need, it’s not voluntary, means that I’m a slave.
I need the money.
Yes, he’s wrong on everything, but this time, it’s not poor judgement, like Iraq, he says that Obama heard Rev. Wright’s notorious sermon, when a quick google says that he was over 1000 miles away, as would a call to the campaign.
This was for an article in the New York Times, which has to start fact checking its editorials.
Well, it looks like Judith Miller style neocon warmongering is not dead at the New York Times. Yes, we now have new members of the Leonard Pinth-Garnell school of journalism, William Broad and David Sanger.
Short version of the story, is that the NIE saying that Iran had halted nuke weapons work is bunk, and they may have a nuke by next year.
This, along with Fallon’s firing, is a pretty good indicator that Bush and His Evil Minions™ want to bomb Iran before Jan 21 2009.
This is why the two Democratic nominees need to say specifically that any order to attack Iran in the absence of a congressional authorization would be an illegal order, and that, if elected, they would prosecute soldiers who obey illegal orders.
Those nuclear warheads that were “misplaced” a few months back were not “misplaced” it was an attempt to stage them for a nuclear first strike.
Thanks to Digby for the catch.
Photoshop courtesy of Group News Blog.
Yes, this inside the beltway puke is smiling at Karl Rove doing rap.
Oh well, I guess that the old boyz club at MSNBC could not handle someone anchoring a prime time show with a pair of t***.
Chris “Tweety” Matthews’ man t*** excepted, of course.
There are some other schedule changes at MSNBC, primarily that as opposed to rerunning at midnight, Countdown will rerun at 10:00pm and 2:00am.
It’s about bloody time, it’s been a ratings millstone to MSNBC for a long time.
Here is hoping that Rachael Maddow gets the nod as his replacement.
I’d like to see them get rid of Chris “Tweety” Matthews too, but his ratings are actually supportable. How about getting rid of Glenn Beck on CNN? As Atrios puts it, “No one watches his sh%$$y little show”.
There is some sort of weird shakeup going on at NPR.
I only hope that, in the end, it results in a reduced role for hacks Barbara Bradley Hagerty*, Mara Liasson, and Juan Williams.
Particularly Williams, who in addition to being a hack is the stupid beyond belief.
*She is in the pocket of the right wing Christian dominionist movement, see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Duncan Black asks:
Does the Washington Post have a policy of only publishing complete morons?
Yes.
This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.
Yep, everyone’s favorite hack journo, Nedra Pickler, has done the most transparent hit piece I’ve yet seen on Barak Obama.
She gets quotes from Roger Stone, the youngest of Richard Nixon’s “dirty tricksters”, and founder of an anti-Hillary “organization” Citizens United Not Timid (check out the damn acronym).
Note the URL. This is an AP story, not OP/ED. She does this repeatedly.
Yes, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, “McCain was the dominant newsmaker in 37 percent of all election-related stories“, as compared to 34% for Obama, 32% for Clinton, and somewhere around 9% for Romney.
When Jake Tapper ran a story suggesting that Bill Clinton suggested that slowing the economy of the developed nations would have to slow their economies to deal with global warming, when he was actually showing that such a strategy would not work.
Here is Bill Clinton’s quote:
“And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, ‘OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.’ We could do that.
But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren. The only way we can do this is if we get back in the world’s fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work.”
(emphasis mine)
But Jake Tapper reported it thusly:
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”
At a time that the nation is worried about a recession is that really the characterization his wife would want him making? “Slow down our economy”?
I don’t really think there’s much debate that, at least initially, a full commitment to reduce greenhouse gases would slow down the economy….So was this a moment of candor?
Remarkably hacktacular. In fact, it was so hacktacular that right wing blogs, such as The Corner on National Review Online, and Hot Air are criticizing Jake Tapper for being unfair to Bill Clinton.
When you have right wingers complaining that you are unfair to Bill Clinton, it is clear that you have jumped the shark.
Heath Ledger, Actor, Is Found Dead at 28
By JAMES BARRON1…
Reporting was contributed by Al Baker2, Anne Barnard3, Brooks Barnes4, David Carr5, Sewell Chan6, John Eligon7, David S. Hirschman8, Thomas J. Lueck9, Angela Macropoulos10, Jennifer Mascia11, Colin Moynihan12, Campbell Robertson13, Melena Ryzik14 and Paula Schwartz15.
H/T Altercation.
Let’s be clear. This was not tough questioning. It was heckling.
Of course, wankers like Ana Marie Cox approve of this behavior and see it as laudable.
Mitt Romney has volunteers who are lobbiests, but they are not paid staff, like a number of other candidates, including McCain.
In fact, McCain got stenography when he said that tathat tax cuts always raise revenues (not true since Kennedy lowered the max marginal rate from over 90% to 70%), but The New Republic, that bastion of fabulists from Glass to Shalit to Siegel, has to call out the New York Times on its stenography.
It will be very interesting to see what will happen if Hillary and Mitt win, how on earth will the kule kidz make up their minds when they hate both candidates?
Maybe they’ll all become cheerleaders for Mr. Bloomberg.
When Maureen Dowd filed her story on the New Hampshire primary, it had a Derry, N.H. dateline, even though she was in Israel when she filed it.
In fact, she wasn’t at the party that she discussed, she had some stringer do the leg work.
Well, the kerfuffle that has blown up over it has driven him, “Out of My F#@$ing Mind“.
Accountability sucks*, doesn’t it Mr. Rosenthal. Spencer Ackerman notes that NY Times Reporter Rick Bragg was suspended, and then resigned after he did something similar.
At the very least, Ms. Dowd needs to explain to her readers.
*And it is the accountability that blogs occasionally force on “real journalists”, that gives them much of their value, and engenders the hostility of the “Kook Kidz”.
John Solomon has been appointed executive editor of the Moonie Washington Times.
As to why this is coming home, Talking Points Memo has the definitive word, “Here’s what one former colleague of Solomon’s said last week: ‘I worked [X] years in the same office as Solomon, sometimes with him. The consensus: he’s lazy, and takes hit jobs handed him on a platter by opps research teams (and anyone will do.) And doesn’t do much to clean it up. I also know one of his fave and frequent sources is Barbara Comstock, former DOJ spxwoman and GOP attack dog.'”
In the Washington Post announcement of this move, he currently works for the Post, Mr. Solomon, ever the complete tool, says, “It’s going to be about being fair and balanced“. Straight out of Fox News.
BTW, if you want a rundown on a few of his misdeeds, Think Progress has the scoop.
Paul Krugman has the definitive word on the whole “misty eyed Hillary” thing, “I think this thing does call for some serious psychological analysis, not of the candidate — who looked and sounded like a normal person — but of the pundits who have turned Hillary into the object of their obsession.“
The thing that surprises me is that it’s that this is a Maureen Dowd Op/ED, and I’m not referring to her as a miserable excuse of a human being.
When I walked into the office Monday, people were clustering around a computer to watch what they thought they would never see: Hillary Clinton with the unmistakable look of tears in her eyes.
A woman gazing at the screen was grimacing, saying it was bad. Three guys watched it over and over, drawn to the “humanized” Hillary. One reporter who covers security issues cringed. “We are at war,” he said. “Is this how she’ll talk to Kim Jong-il?”
Another reporter joked: “That crying really seemed genuine. I’ll bet she spent hours thinking about it beforehand.” He added dryly: “Crying doesn’t usually work in campaigns. Only in relationships.”
Though let me say, that MoDo does not come across as any great testimony to humanity in this article either.
Atrios calls them, “…all broken. Complete monsters”, and I’m inclined to agree.
I’m beginning to think that we should abolish Journalism schools, and go back to the old way, paperboy to copy boy to cub reporter to reporter, because the products of Journalism schools seemed to have missed “Humanity 101”.
Of course, these days, I’m not sure how you do the “copy boy” bit.
Let me just offer Ramesh Ponnuru, and the rest of my “friends” at the National Review a hearty:
Ha Ha!!!
BTW, with the exception of Jonah Goldberg, you folks was robbed. Bill Kriston can’t write, can’t think, and can’t get the facts straight. If the NY Times wanted a another reactionary in its OP/ED page, they could have selected someone better, though I find his first column so laughable, it amused me.
Like I’ve said before, I’m not classy. I’ve nearly broken 40 posts using the “schadenfreude” tag.
His proposals are pretty common sense, but they would improve coverage a lot:
Then there’s the additional problem that the longer a reporter spends with a campaign, the more likely they’ll develop either a kind of contempt for the candidate and the campaign or a strange version of stockholm syndrome. Clearly this was the case during 2000 and 2004 when the dislike for both Gore and Kerry was palpable. This might be natural and human, but it breeds awful journalism.
Finally, we have the perenial complaint that the coverage focuses on the horse-race and the theater of the campaign and not on the issues. But I don’t really think that’s the fault of reporters. First, they have to file constantly on short deadlines. So even if Obama releases a tax plan one day, and you write a piece about that, that’s still only a one-day story. What do you write about the next day? Why, Obama sniping with Hillary or somesuch. Second of all, consider the imbalance in expertise between a campaign and those who cover it. When Obama releases a tax plan, it’s a product of a team of policy experts, who know the terrain inside and out. But the reporter who has to file the deadline piece about it doesn’t have any expertise on tax policy. So how could their coverage be anything but shallow?
His proposals:
The only thing that I would add is that, particularly for papers like the LA Times, WaPo, and Times, who can pick and choose their talent, don’t hire innumerate reporters.
I don’t care if you are covering politics, or architecture, or fashion, if you cannot read a balance sheet, you have no business being a reporter.
We are not talking differential equations, or even calculus, we are talking Algebra that should have been mastered in high school.