I have a strong feeling that our Media Stars are going to be left with even more egg on their faces than usual as the next elections roll around, so convinced they are that, somehow, the Republicans have recaptured the hearts of that imaginary “middle America” that none of them have evidently ever seen. Of [...]
Hag readers know I harbor an understandably visceral disdain for NBC’s David Gregory, but watching him this morning on his last-place excuse for a show, I think I started to figure out why. He’s an automaton (and a sloppily made, one, too… they evidently put on either the wrong eyebrows or the wrong hair at [...]
I have often groused dyspeptically about the tawdry circus acts that have replaced political discourse in this country, and the insulting way in which our media stars never fail eat it up, like slow children gazing in slack-jawed amazement at an unusually bad magician. Such misguided adulation then trickles down to the dumber members of [...]
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One of the funniest things about the right is that they never lose, even when they do, and they even have rather disturbing success convincing others, or at least the media, that this is so. A lot of us, and certainly any trained psychiatrist, would look at their behavior each day, and [...]
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It’s certainly no mystery why the GOP and its fanboys at Fox and elsewhere are always on the attack. Aside from the fact that only 20% of Americans will still reluctantly admit to being Republicans, the other 80% are always susceptible to inconvenient facts slipping into the conversation, which would clearly make an [...]
Ever since Nixon, the American Right has essentially given up on facts, logic, and evidence, preferring to focus on comic book narratives wherein they’re always the plucky, all-American heroes, fighting valiantly against forces of pure evil. Unable to sell the efficacy of any of their policy goals on the merits, the world has been imaginatively [...]
David Brooks reports that some unnamed Republican Senator had his hand on his inner thigh through a “whole dinner.” This says at least as much about Bobo, to my admittedly jaded mind, as it does about the Senator, who must be pretty disgusting for Brooks to have not named him. I mean, Larry Craig went [...]
Reading the New York Times with unusual thoroughness over the holiday weekend, I found myself annoyed, and a little embarrassed, that so much of it was, well, garbage. Worse, it was garbage of the most common and insulting sort: fawning, shallow interviews, dubious, poorly-sourced claims presented as fact, “balance” in the form of risibly false [...]
To: Paunch Sulzburger, runtofthelitter@NYT.com
From: Overpaid Consultant
RE: “Talent”
Good seeing you the other night, Paunch. The lighting in that restaurant did make you appear taller and less bald. But let’s cut to the chase here. Some of that dead wood on your OP/ED page is so petrified you guys don’t need an iceberg to sink. The deck [...]
Update: Below, in comments, CHNN correspondent RMP reports live from the AIG hearings.
“The Commercial Republic.” Hmmm. Now, I don’t ordinarily think much about David Brooks, and generally avoid his NYT column, because if I happened to be in the mood for something insultingly elitist, completely irrelevant, and stupefyingly clueless, I have a veritable smorgasbord already with [...]