Here is Jon Stewart showing Betsy McCaughey to be a complete liar.
Of course, Andrew Sullivan thought that it was valuable to publish her lies in 1993, and she was rewarded by becoming the NY Lieutenant Governor, and is still treated as someone who should be talked to.
Tom Delay will be appearing on Dancing With the Stars.
Not much of a joke, but the best I could come up with.
Please make better ones below.
O’Donnell, asks if Culberson would vote to repeal Social Security or Medicare, and shows where he is lying.
What’s the word for this behavior???
Oh, right….journalism.
*Ownage.
Seriously, there are 60 Dems in the Senate. It is reasonable to expect that all 60 of them will vote for cloture, whether or not they vote for the bill.
After looking at Smart Money’s predictions, I feel much better about my record of predictions.
Forecast: Next Year Will Arrive in 2010-ish
The article itself is mostly whining from prognosticators, but the hed is prize.
This is at least the 2nd time in as many months that Ezra Klein has called the Washington Post Editorial Page, and by extension it’s execrable editor Fred Hiatt for printing clearly dishonest garbage in a guest OP/ED.
In this case, it was Danielle Allen, who put forward the “death panel” dishonesty.
I figure that if honest evaluation of the accuracy and truthfulness of the Washington Post editorial pages becomes a regular feature of his blogging, Mr. Kline will soon be looking for a new job.
In would be nice if they instituted even the mildest fact checking in their editorial page, though this would necessarily make Charles Krauthammer’s articles read like this:
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A Molson ad from the 1960s:
H/T Old Pinko.
Apple is working with the four largest record distributors to create a format that will force people buy albums, rather than singles. (see also here)
The theory is that people will shell out $20 for
People don’t buy albums because they don’t want to buy albums.
In most cases, they never wanted to buy albums, they bought “b-sides” on old 45’s because you had to put something on the other side of the vinyl, and they bought albums because they were offered no other choice, particularly with CD’s where CD “singles” were about 25¢ cheaper than the complete album.
As Greg Sandoval (2nd link) notes:
Perhaps Apple and the labels can come up with content combos that people will find valuable. But the danger here is in trying to force the packages on consumers and possibly alienating them even more, which could send them sailing into new piracy waters.
I will make two points about album sales:
There are a lot of people who have lost a lot of money betting against Steve Jobs, but I don’t see how this is a win….iTunes downloads are about 99¢, so a full album comes to about $12.00, and the record distributors want to bundle up those 12 songs with some liner notes, and go back to charging $19.99 for it.
Not gonna happen.
Rachael Maddow, that is:
Note, towards the end, where Maddow nails him on running anti-semitic ads against Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the Congressional primary and Enron.
This is wonderful, but it would be more wonderful if it were not so rare.
Yes, as Felix Salmon notes, with no small amount of exhultation, the New York Times has fired Ben Stein as a columnist.
Of course, it was not his deliberate lies, nor his stupidity that got him, but rather the fact that he was cashing in on his Times gig in a way that did not generate them money:
NYT spokeswoman Catherine Mathis confirmed this, telling Gawker that “Ben Stein’s fine work for us as a columnist for Sunday Business had to end, we told him, after we learned that he had become a commercial spokesman for FreeScore, a financial services company.”
More’s the pity that he got the gig in the 1st place.
*A reference to what was John Hughs’ best movie. The director and writer of teen angst flicks died yesterday.
Once again, the Republicans have me saying something that I would never imagined have saying in my wildest dreams, but William Shatner reading Palin’s resignation speech as poetry is brilliant.
You are not only a crank, but spinning at 4700 rpm.
And that is what she says about the birthers.
Damn, Stewart is the best interviewer n TV.
CBS Radio is shuttering WBCN to make space on the dial for yet another sports radio station in Boston.
I spent a year in Boston, and woke up to Charles Laquidara’s “Big Mattress”, and was down there nearly every week in my college days.
I know that when I talked with my brother, who still lives in the area, and some of my classmates from UMass, that it was a shadow of what it once was (thanks a lot, Oedipus), but it’s sad to see a part of my youth go.
It appears that CNBC’s dissing of bloggers has offended someone who knows photoshop:
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So, the AP continues on its jihad against fair use of its work.
They are looking at including “beacons,” which will track just who reads which article, in their work.
When they appeared on Facebook, there was a revolt over this.
I would also note that it appears that their target appears to be Google News, “”The problem we have now is that our stories are getting scraped and reused in large quantities by aggregators who haven’t paid any license fees,” according to Jane Seagrave, Senior VP for global product development at the AP.
You know, if they get what they want, Google news, and other news search pages, will drop them, and they will vanish from the public consciousness with barely a ripple, so go ahead, commit Seppuku.
The problem here is two fold, their clients, the newspapers, are getting their asses kicked by Craigslist and its ilk, and 2nd, major news sources, including the AP, have decided that having the one side tell the truth, and having the other side lie, in an article is balanced journalism.
It’s not, it’s stenography.
This sort of sh&% is why whenever I come across an AP story, I look for an alternate source, using those “aggregators” that they hate so much.
At about 2:45 into the video, he lays one on a lunar landing denier.
In this case, it’s really not about laughing stock South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, but rather about the media whores who sucked up to him for the possibility of an interview.
Keith left him off his “Worst Person’s” list last night for his mash note to Governor Sanford at the start of the scandal, even as he included Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, and Stephen will not stand for it:
Keith, you know what you have to to, because Stephen Colbert is loaded for…dare I say it???? Bear.