1 who?

2 Wasn't he a bad guy in one of the Bond films?

3 How does Media Matters have any credibility? The fact 2/3's of the American people think the media is too liberal might be an indication of their irrelevance, but the media still reads and gets stories from them. Odd. Or suicidal.

4 Olbermann rant factory and Soros cabana boy Eric Boehlert is a sleazy, mendacious propagandist?

I give up; give me the blue pill.  I don't know what to believe any more.

5 Thanks, Rightwingnews

6 Boehlert is a Special Kind of Scumbag.  Kudos to Patterico on the delicious takedown.

7 hahahahaha @ Obama Derangement Syndrome Who do these people think they're fooling?

8 OT: That was refreshing, The BP Chairman said both he and Obama care about the "small" people.

9 Who is this Boehlert douche? I mean, I've seen Breitbart have his fun vendetta there, but that doesn't mean much to me. Does Boehlert have any influence over anybody?

10 hahaha, Boehlert is less known than me.

11 he natters on and on on Media Matters and his nonsense gets picked up by Olbermann.

12

Oh dear. Not another lying-creep, nobody. I'm still trying to scrub my brain of the Will Folkes saga.

 

13 OT: Fox News:

BP chairman apologizes for spill, says company will not pay any more dividends this year

14 I mean, I've seen Breitbart have his fun vendetta there, but that doesn't mean much to me. Does Boehlert have any influence over anybody?

Posted by: meep

He does a mean Charlie McCarthy impression,so he is a big hit with the libtards.

15 Holy shit. I've never been to RWN before. You should have put a warning on that link. It's the Sargasso of the internet. Pages with fifty embedded streaming live naked-lady cams load faster. Scrolling down is like running in a dream. I haven't seen a "loading" spiral on text since '98. What the hell?

16 Does Boehlert have any influence over anybody?

You're a long way from Starbucks, homey.

17 You know what would be nice right now? Some mini-BLT's and chicken skewers to nibble on.

18

I hate facial hair especially gray facial hair. I hate it as much as ponytails but not as much as earrings.

19 Pages with fifty embedded streaming live naked-lady cams load faster.

Learn to use links or get off the intertubes.

20 Eric Boehlert?  Never heard of him!  No lie!

21 Who is this Boehlert douche?

I mean, I've seen Breitbart have his fun vendetta there, but that doesn't mean much to me. Does Boehlert have any influence over anybody?

LOL, obviously an LA Times writer which means he is automatically a liar. Don't need Patterico to call him a liar.

22 The Smirking Chimp?  Need to start and Obama blog called The Smoking Chump.

23 I hate facial hair especially gray facial hair. Grr-rrrrrrr!

24 So, he's someone who is less relevant than Olbermann. As long as I've got the peck[erwood]ing order straight.

25

The Smirking Chimp?  Need to start and Obama blog called The Smoking Chump.

 

Brilliant!

26 I'm sure that Boehlert is a legend in his own mind, and that his mother is very proud of him.  Patterico exposing Boehlert's mendacity is like watching a chimpanzee easily rip the face off a human.

^{(see what I did there?)}

27

From Boehlert's blog on what conservatives call the President"

"The smoker in chief"

"The real good talker"

"The community organizer" 

WTF?? Besides for being true, these jabs are sooo fucking lame, where did he get these quotes from LGF?

We need to put this guy some fuckin knowledge!! E-mail him fellow morons and tell him what a real smart military blogs thinks of president prissy mcfuck face.

  

28 Wait, you mean somebody at Media Matters is a lying presstitute? You could knock me over with a feather.

29

Douglas also throws in a link to Karen Alloy in his takedown piece.

 

Gawd.......I would do anything to jump into her cleavage.

30 I am inclined to call bs on the urge to act protective of BP... can someone tell me why I'm wrong?

31 Because I am a man of honor, and I need to protect my wife from baseless assault, I must confess.  Yes, my pet name for Eric Boelhert is "Baby Blowhard".  I am compelled to admit that I have fudge packed his squeakhole on numerous occasions.  I will post proof of these encounters on my blog at 5 p.m. EST. 

32 Show me the Times blogger, for instance, who shows up on liberal talk radio, makes regularly appearances on The Rachel Maddow Show, and is linked to by key liberal bloggers while writing critically of the GOP leadership. That Times staffer does not exist.

God Lord.  With all those qualifications, I don't know how he left out being left-handed, with a squint-eye, and an affection for roller derby.

33 Damn I have a hard enough time dealing with the current crop of fucktard libtards and now Ace tosses in some unknowns. Lets see if I have this right, work for the mfm = liar! That about covers it.

34 RWN's site really sucks. It wasn't always that bad, but with the new contributors and new content all trying to share the same space, it gets annoying.

35 Will Folks done went and pretty much disappeared from the face of the earth.  I guess he has done his bit for sacred honor.

36 35,

Maybe he's shining Alvin's shoes.

37 So blog war minutiae? Curious

38 I am inclined to call bs on the urge to act protective of BP... can someone tell me why I'm wrong?

No argument from me.  BP is definitely moving on to my shit list. 

If the management were thrashed within an inch of their lives they would deserve it. 

However, I'm thinking that Barry and the Democratic Congress are planning on going all Bill of Attainder and Ex Post Facto on them.  That has to be fought, no matter who that makes us allies with.

39 Hey Ace,

this is O/T, but Debbie Schlussel has crossed the threshold into batshit insanity and become a right-leaning version of Deb Frisch. She accused Mark Levin of supporting Hezbollah and called Dennis Prager an anti-Semite, and she's a full-blown online stalker now. I'd really, really like to read a post wherein you slice her like a fuckin' hammer, if you have time to write something.

40 I think some people are being protective of BP because Obama is deflecting blame on them from his own incompetence. BP is responsible for all the costs of the cleanup so focusing on that is a distraction.

41 The unused boom controversy is interesting though. The govt is letting miles of boom go unused because it didn't meet quality standards. Turns out it did. Guessing it wasn't union made. I hate to say I read it at HA but I did.

42 Odumbass and his thugs just made BP a deal for windmills and solar panels prolly $50B, nothing to see here moveon.org.

43 ol/dirty/b/tard, I actually first went to RWN to see that article. I'm not linking it because I don't need the drama.

44

If there were justice in the world, people like Boehlert would learn from the experience of being utterly dismantled in a public venue.  Unfortunately, they seem to use the experience of being proved an imbecile to stretch the stupid envelope.

Stunning.

45 Does this guy show up on Olberdouche sometimes?  So 18-20 people hear him.  Oh, and MSDNC has upped the crazy a few notches adding Larry O'Donnell to the mix. 

Which reminds me.  We're out of popcorn.

46 >>>I think some people are being protective of BP because Obama is deflecting blame on them from his own incompetence. BP is responsible for all the costs of the cleanup so focusing on that is a distraction. Well... they do have some blame. We can chew gum and walk at the same time and criticize both for their wrongs. >>> I'm thinking that Barry and the Democratic Congress are planning on going all Bill of Attainder and Ex Post Facto on them. That has to be fought, no matter who that makes us allies with. maybe but that hasn't happened yet (as you say). It will be interesting if it does happen, given the courts struck down bills prohibiting federal money from flowing to acorn on bill of attainder grounds.

47 If you're feeling protective of BP in any way, even just as reflexive opposition to our prissy thug of a pretend president, this might cure you (from The Corner):

http://tinyurl.com/2e3586e

48

Kinda O/T, but, then again, maybe not.

LATimes rips The Vapid One© a New One.

http://tinyurl.com/2vk25qu

It seems like the entire leftosphere has awakened all at once to the wonderfullness that is Obama.

49

 OT: Fox News:

BP chairman apologizes for spill, says company will not pay any more dividends this year

In a completely unrelated event, Britain on the hook to cover loss in income in their pensioners population.

50 Why would Obama dart in and out of the room today with BP? (See Drudge) Why would he advertise that he only had a 20 min meeting? Who the fuck is handling this guy? Who is this stupid?

51

 

What's this?

Rahm cocksucker Emanuel is living in a free apartment owned by BP or a BP lobbyist?

True or not yet true?

52 Patterico is a pit bull. I won't cross him, ever.

53 thanks vjay I just posted that (on your tip).

54

38 I agree. Also, it's a bitter irony (for BP) that they contributed all that campaign money to Obama only to be kicked under the bus when he no longer needs them. But he's using them to shift blame, & the British people feel that he's utilizing this crisis to slam their country. A lot of anger across the pond.

_{/Aside: My dad works in oil industry, so I'm not happy about how this is going to affect his work.}   

55

As i said in the morning thread. This 20 billion in escrow is only going to go to unionized companies affected by the spill and public union workers cleaning up the spill in the marshes.

And the best thing, from Obama's view, is that when the 20 billion is blown, he will be able to blame BP for not making the people of the Gulf whole again.

He will be able to mismanage the money and still get away with blaming BP.

It is a win win for him.

56 If BP refused to go along with some payment or plan of Barry's, could the MMS make that a factor in bidding for new exploritory tracts?  And would that be an executive form of a Bill of Attainder against BP?

57 Fine.  But what does Charles Johnson think about this? 

58 Will Folks done went and pretty much disappeared from the face of the earth.  I guess he has done his bit for sacred honor.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth

 

You still have us to serve as beacons of truth

59 Silly me.

I thought I knew all the major players.

Who's this guy?

60

I hate facial hair especially gray facial hair.

Why the Ewok hate?!

61 BP bears most of the blame here, criticizing Obama's incompetence should not take away from that.

62 That LA Times article Backwardsboy linked to was......awesome.  I also thoroughly enjoyed the comments.  Was that our Monty commenting there?

63 BP bears most of the blame here, criticizing Obama's incompetence should not take away from that.

I liken it to the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires caused by incompetence.  Blame them both.

From Wiki:

As damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks  were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were even more destructive.[17]  It has been estimated that up to 90% of the total destruction was the result of the subsequent fires.[18]  Over 30 fires, caused by ruptured gas mains, destroyed approximately 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. Worst of all, many were started when firefighters, untrained in the use of dynamite, attempted to demolish buildings to create firebreaks, which resulted in the destruction of more than 50% of the buildings that would have otherwise survived.[19]  The city's Fire Chief, Dennis T. Sullivan, who would have been responsible, had died in the initial quake. The dynamited buildings themselves often caught fire. In all, the fires burned for four days and nights.

64
BP cut corners.  They cut corners because they were sure that they had the Obama administration's regulators in their pocket. 

65

BP chairman apologizes for spill, says company will not pay any more dividends this year

Instead of blowing money on PR radio commericals, why don't these BP asshats buy up some of the alternative cleanup technologies out there and put them to use?  I hate huckleberry, but he sure highlighted that there are numerous routes available for cleanup.

66 I am inclined to call bs on the urge to act protective of BP... can someone tell me why I'm wrong?

Posted by: ace at June 16, 2010 02:58 PM (66DVY)

IMO what happened today was that the government just took over BP. They are now owned by the government. In Obama's speech after the meeting he announced that the meeting will enable them to set up a legal framework. Trouble is we already have a legal framework, one that was ignored with GM, Chrysler and now BP.

I could care less about BP, I do care that as soon as a company gets in trouble these days all reference to our current form of government is ignored and a new one pops up.

Where exactly does it stop?

67 I read today that oil contaminated sand and soil is being removed to landfills.  Is there a market niche for someone to build a facility to squeeze and/or steam/vaporize the oil from this soil for recovery?

68

 BP bears most of the blame here, criticizing Obama's incompetence should not take away from that.

Its looking more and more like BP was negligent.  That makes the spill their fault.  Refusing help, refusing to utilize contingencies plans, refusing to allow local authorities to act and refusing to put alternative methods to use are zero's fault.  The environmental catastrophe is entirely on him.  And all this refusal and posturing is what makes me think it likely there is a conspiracy on the zero admin's part to allow this to become an environmental catastrophe.

69 OK, who the fuck is Eric Boehlert and why should I care?  Feelin' a little Someguy here.  I'm an avid reader of conservative snark and news/blogs andI had to hit 3 links before I could discover who this tool is.  Aren't we "punching down" on this one Ace?  I'll defer to He Who Slitteth Throats on this, but I'm just sayin'...

70 I liken it to the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires caused by incompetence.

Oooh, good analogy.

71 OK, I did enough checking on Bay-lert to discover that he's smoked more hog than Hillshire farms.

72 Boehlert?  He's up each day at the crack of Don.

73 The rule of law isn't as sexy as Obama bossing BP's leadership around but the Founding Fathers didn't value sexy much, did they?  You may not like that BP is the stalking horse for capitalism but that's what we've got.  Besides, The One told us weeks ago that every decision was being made by the government.  Obama = Big Chief, BP = Obedient Serf.