July 29, 2010
— Purple Avenger Time is one of the big dogs. A playah with clout. Its in doctors and dentists waiting rooms ferchrisakes. Even though it sucks, Time gets major eyeball exposure.
It sounds like this piece (which Drudge also linked) has them pretty much saying - repeatedly - that Ogabe's rhetoric over the BP spill has proven vastly overblown.
Did I wake up this morning and fail to notice that gravity has stopped working? That hydrogen now has 5 protons rather than 1? Seriously, WTF? Where does some punkass fish wrapper rag like Time get off daring to even suggest that the ascended Messiah was wrong? Nerve? these peasants got it in spades I tell you!
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Posted by: RarestRX at July 29, 2010 10:34 AM (rmNST)
I can't read that drivel.
They have a link out to the "Top 10 President Pop Culture Moments".
They shouldn't even be celebrating a Top Three. Time can't run out of time fast enough.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 29, 2010 10:36 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: sven10077 at July 29, 2010 10:36 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Vic at July 29, 2010 10:37 AM (/jbAw)
Amazing how things change once you show the reporters the writing on the wall....in red ink.
Posted by: Time Magazine Accounting Department at July 29, 2010 10:37 AM (P9+0W)
Posted by: Shirley Sherrod at July 29, 2010 10:38 AM (xq7pr)
Posted by: Ben at July 29, 2010 10:38 AM (wuv1c)
Think how hard this makes determining BP's fine?
Posted by: bill-tb at July 29, 2010 10:38 AM (y+QfZ)
Why, yes it does -- you're very observant. With five protons (and some other hand-wavy shit that you needn't be concerned about), hydrogen is now boron. Couple this with Obi-Won's "mongrel" comment on Da Spew and boron becomes moron. So we're all morons now (there goes the neighborhood).
Posted by: Mr. Science 'Splains T'ings at July 29, 2010 10:38 AM (FcKXR)
Its in doctors and dentists waiting rooms ferchrisakes.
So is Highlights. But Highlights usually contains more useful and intelligent information.
As someone said above - Blind squirrel, nut...
Posted by: Book Geek at July 29, 2010 10:39 AM (1+OO5)
Posted by: CUS at July 29, 2010 10:39 AM (wOGfT)
So is Highlights. But Highlights usually contains more useful and intelligent information.
As someone said above - Blind squirrel, nut...
Posted by: Book Geek at July 29, 2010 02:39 PM (1+OO5)
And that cool find the object thingy.
Posted by: Rocks at July 29, 2010 10:39 AM (Q1lie)
What is this "print...magazine..." that you speak of?
Posted by: Time's Man of the Year 2006 at July 29, 2010 10:40 AM (3iMgs)
Posted by: Truman at July 29, 2010 10:40 AM (e8YaH)
The cover photo of Sarah Palin's new book "America By Heart: Reflection On Family, Faith, And Flag" has been released by HarperCollins. LINK
Posted by: mrp at July 29, 2010 10:41 AM (HjPtV)
Posted by: CUS at July 29, 2010 10:41 AM (wOGfT)
Posted by: sven10077 at July 29, 2010 10:41 AM (kq1lG)
Posted by: Fred at July 29, 2010 10:42 AM (xWGQr)
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 29, 2010 10:43 AM (0GFWk)
Posted by: Mel Gibson at July 29, 2010 10:43 AM (mv9nq)
When the few and brief moments of lucid reason look like an insane fantasy, that's how you know you're really insane.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at July 29, 2010 10:43 AM (0q2P7)
You know, it's interesting.
Everyone knows Obama is a liar...and Obama doesn't give a shit about it.
Posted by: Alpha & Omega Man at July 29, 2010 10:43 AM (uFokq)
Posted by: Time's Planet of the Year 1988 at July 29, 2010 10:44 AM (8lCJT)
Posted by: Iota Cracker Jones at July 29, 2010 10:44 AM (1DVez)
Posted by: CUS at July 29, 2010 02:41 PM (wOGfT)
This wasn't in offices of dentists or doctors, but whatever became of My Weekly Reader?
Posted by: Mr. Science 'Splains T'ings at July 29, 2010 10:44 AM (FcKXR)
Posted by: Time's Planet of the Year 1988 at July 29, 2010 10:45 AM (8lCJT)
Posted by: Iota Cracker Jones at July 29, 2010 02:44 PM (1DVez)
It's a conflation of Obama and Mugabe, as in Robert Mugabe, whose business-promoting policies are very similar to Comrade Zero's.
Posted by: Cicero at July 29, 2010 10:46 AM (QKKT0)
Obama + (Robert) Mugabe [the commie who destroyed the legacy of Rhodesia being the breadbasket of Africa, and turned it into the 7,000% inflation hellhole of Zimbabwe]
Posted by: Purple Avenger at July 29, 2010 10:46 AM (mv9nq)
Does it still have Goofus and Galant?
Yes. And they're married now.
Posted by: Time at July 29, 2010 02:45 PM (uFokq)
Coffee, screen, and awesome hash!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 29, 2010 10:46 AM (8lCJT)
Posted by: chemjeff the whispering grammar Nazi at July 29, 2010 10:47 AM (Pm5H8)
If GWB were Pres, they would never print the truth about the oil.
Never.
Posted by: pam at July 29, 2010 10:47 AM (h8R9p)
Posted by: Vic"
All they will succeed in doing is turning their current readers away, hastening their demise.
Or so I think, anyway.
Posted by: Dianna at July 29, 2010 10:50 AM (qrFCz)
Posted by: denny crane at July 29, 2010 10:50 AM (IQBsP)
Posted by: Jean at July 29, 2010 10:51 AM (xMgdu)
Eventually, the Corps admitted that van Heerden and Kemp were right, that the surge in New Orleans was not so gigantic and that engineering failures had indeed drowned the city.
But...but...but...I thought it was BOOOOOOOSH!!!!111!!!ELEVENTY!!!!!
Posted by: chemjeff at July 29, 2010 10:52 AM (Pm5H8)
Posted by: J. Danforth Quayle ... still waaay smarter then J. Robinette BiteMe, Jr. at July 29, 2010 10:52 AM (FcKXR)
Yes. And they're married now.
Posted by: Time at July 29, 2010 02:45 PM (uFokq)
Umm, to each other? Oh my.
I was just at the hospital getting various tests and yes, Highlights is still on the tables.
On the plus side, I just read SI's NCAA Tourney Preview issue.
Posted by: CUS at July 29, 2010 10:53 AM (wOGfT)
Next thing you know, Michelle Bachmann will be their Page 3 girl.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 29, 2010 10:53 AM (8lCJT)
Maybe they actually read their quarterly sales numbers and stock prices?
Sales? They had more than one?
Posted by: Cicero at July 29, 2010 10:53 AM (QKKT0)
It's the liberals' version of taqiyya: Lying to the infidel is OK.
What they don't realize is they think Obama's always lying to the other guy.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 29, 2010 10:53 AM (T0NGe)
Cue Barky re-owning the spill in 3...2...1...
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 29, 2010 10:53 AM (fLHQe)
Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at July 29, 2010 10:54 AM (sYHKJ)
Only if Ogabe is made of oil eating bacteria....
AHEM....
Support bacteria. It's the only culture some people have
Posted by: pitchforksandpowder at July 29, 2010 10:55 AM (6erHm)
Or, "shut up about the damned spill, OK, it's over and not a big deal." And no part of it was Obama's fault.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 29, 2010 10:55 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: State Department Russian Language Expert at July 29, 2010 10:55 AM (mQ8O/)
Remember that scene from "The World According to Garp" in the driveway?
Posted by: nevergiveup at July 29, 2010 02:43 PM (0GFWk)
yeah, i'd say he was underblown and overbit.
Man, what a stupid friggin movie. The only book Irving ever wrote that was even semi-decent was A prayer for Owen Meany.
Posted by: Rocks at July 29, 2010 10:55 AM (Q1lie)
Another way to look at it: the democrats and Time magazine are happy to say - "see - the spill isn't so bad after all" because the spill was hurting Obama.
Rush being right helps Obama. that's the only reason Time Democrat Magazine is saying this.
Posted by: Lemon Kitten at July 29, 2010 10:56 AM (0fzsA)
It's easy to overstate the policy implications of this optimistic news. BP still needs to clean up its mess; federal regulation of deep-water drilling still needs to be strengthened; we still need to use fewer fossil fuels that warm the planet; we still don't need to use more corn ethanol (which is actually dirtier than gasoline). The push to exploit the spill to gain a comprehensive energy and climate bill in Congress has already stalled anyway — even though the planet still needs one.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at July 29, 2010 10:56 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: CUS at July 29, 2010 02:41 PM (wOGfT)
It's got a website now (don't do tinyurl so google it yourself); don't forget The Timbertoes.
Posted by: Captain Hate at July 29, 2010 10:56 AM (qPpkJ)
Perhaps they're actually (gasp!) trying to attract advertisers.
Posted by: shibumi at July 29, 2010 10:56 AM (OKZrE)
Even Limbaugh, when he wasn't downplaying the spill, outrageously hyped it as "Obama's Katrina." But honest scientists don't do that, even when they work for Audubon.
Uh-huh. Substitute "ExxonMobil" for Audubon" and let's see if TIME believes that one.
Posted by: chemjeff at July 29, 2010 10:57 AM (Pm5H8)
Next thing you know, Michelle Bachmann will be their Page 3 girl.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 29, 2010 02:53 PM (8lCJT)
Crikey !! Sod off, mate.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, faithful reader of The Sun at July 29, 2010 10:59 AM (JrRME)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 29, 2010 10:59 AM (Pm5H8)
Posted by: Smart Shopper at July 29, 2010 10:59 AM (QKKT0)
Yes. And they're married now.
Posted by: Time
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To each other?
Posted by: Retread at July 29, 2010 11:00 AM (komCR)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 29, 2010 11:00 AM (Pm5H8)
That, of course, assumes Time, Olbermann, Matthews, et. al. are still around in 2 years.
Posted by: Mallamutt at July 29, 2010 02:59 PM (OWjjx)
In two years, Olbermann will be a five-dollar whore in a ten-dollar whorehouse
Matthews will also be sucking Cock, but more discreetly
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, faithful reader of The Sun at July 29, 2010 11:01 AM (JrRME)
Time is trying to salvage Obama's failure to do anything about the spill.
They lead off with Obama's quote that the spill was a catastrophe, true, but they frame it as the conventional wisdom--in other words, Obama was just saying what everyone knew, not playing demagogue.
They then go on to say that the spill hasn't turned out as badly as expected. It wasn't that Obama was hyping this thing like junkie, its just that, you know, he was repeating the conventional wisdom which somehow turned out to be mistaken for reasons that are of no particular interest or bear on anything else.
Sheer propaganda.
Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at July 29, 2010 11:01 AM (epBek)
Posted by: Retread at July 29, 2010 11:02 AM (komCR)
O/T, does anyone know anyone who likes Shep Smith or O'Reilly? No? How do they keep their jobs?
It's the network and the time slot, not the blowhard.
Posted by: Iota Cracker Jones at July 29, 2010 11:02 AM (1DVez)
Posted by: chemjeff at July 29, 2010 02:59 PM (Pm5H
A quick search of Audobon showed that their new president used to head the Environmental Defense Fund which is known to funnel cash to groups like ELF.
So yeah, definitely an agenda to push and one using terrorist tactics to boot.
Posted by: ErikW at July 29, 2010 11:04 AM (fDRif)
Posted by: dum blond at July 29, 2010 11:05 AM (gbCNS)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 11:06 AM (RkRxq)
When Time-Life Magazine comes out with their collection of Greatest Children's Stories Ever Re-Told ("Get Aesop's Top Ten Fables for just $19.99 plus shipping and handling; every month we'll send you a new volume, including favorites such as The Doctor Is In - A Seuss Compendium and Not-So-Grim Fairy Tales for the Very Young"), they will probably describe the hero-kid in The Emperor's New Clothes as "a trouble-making hoodlum with a Tourette's-like penchant for shouting out unpleasant truths about other people's wardrobes."
Posted by: Z as in Jersey at July 29, 2010 11:07 AM (kZT4X)
It's the network and the time slot, not the blowhard.
Posted by: Iota Cracker Jones at July 29, 2010 03:02 PM (1DVez)
Shep treks the Hersey Highway with well-placed stockholders, tycoons, etc. He catches the load, IYKWIMAITYD
O'Reilly probably has half the Fox execs cowering in a broom closet, and screams at them every night until they wet themselves and extend his contract
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, increasingly discouraged at July 29, 2010 11:07 AM (JrRME)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 03:06 PM (RkRxq)
No time like the present..
Posted by: TexasJew at July 29, 2010 11:07 AM (o7kZZ)
Better theory. They knew Ofumbles dropped the ball on this one totally, so they are re-writing it as, "not a really big deal so who cares?"
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at July 29, 2010 11:07 AM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Call me Lennie at July 29, 2010 11:08 AM (r/5/5)
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 29, 2010 11:09 AM (HQSQk)
Does it still have Goofus and Galant?
Yes. And they're married now.
Posted by: Time at July 29, 2010 02:45 PM (uFokq)
I very nearly spit soda all over my monitor. Good job.
Posted by: Randy at July 29, 2010 11:09 AM (zQKSr)
You mean like the conventional wisdom (and just about every other spy agency around) that said that Saddam had WMD's? But Bush lied...
Posted by: CUS at July 29, 2010 11:09 AM (wOGfT)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 11:10 AM (RkRxq)
TIME magazine printed something that might actually be true?
Yup.. were doomed. The seventh seal has been broken. Somebody que the four horseman...
Posted by: StuckOnStupid at July 29, 2010 11:14 AM (e8T35)
No time like the present..
Posted by: TexasJew at July 29, 2010 03:07 PM (o7kZZ)
I get the distinct impression that you're one of those evil oil industry geological insider two percenters who aren't paying their fair share for... just about everything, if memory serves, close?
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 11:15 AM (RkRxq)
Third choice: Bobby Jindal overreacted and should be ignored forevermore.
Lefties view not mine since he was only arguing for preventative measures to protect the coastline during the unknown phase of the spill.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 29, 2010 11:16 AM (tf9Ne)
Yes, but we didn't print it, so we'll have to backtrack on that.
Posted by: MSM at July 29, 2010 11:18 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 11:19 AM (RkRxq)
Posted by: denny crane at July 29, 2010 11:20 AM (I+7Zv)
That's me! Evil Hummer-driving geologist oilman SOB. I said, way back in April, that 3-6 months after the well got capped, the Gulf coast would be totally back to normal. Experience has always shown that to be the case.
This shit's happened numerous times before, and the spill in 1979 was larger and much more nasty. 4 months later, you literally couldn't find a drop of spill-related oil on the beaches in South Padre, and I was down there, looking.
As for this administration, the greenies and the Dims, fuck 'em where they breath.
Posted by: TexasJew at July 29, 2010 11:24 AM (o7kZZ)
Obama's got the inside track on Time's Mongrel of the Year.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 29, 2010 11:24 AM (8lCJT)
No Time, no Newsweek, no People, none of that garbage.
He does have a King James Bible.
Posted by: John Galt at July 29, 2010 11:24 AM (F/4zf)
Posted by: Vic at July 29, 2010 02:37 PM (/jbAw)
Exactly. That liberal ship they booked their presidential cruise on is taking on water fast.
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent - coincidence? at July 29, 2010 11:24 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 29, 2010 11:24 AM (ERJIu)
BP wrote off $32 billion from their bottom line this year. They were able to deduct $10 of the $20 billion from Barry's slush fund off of their taxes and they reported a $17 billion dollar loss.
BP made out liked raped apes on this deal. Obama was probably able to use the $20 billion to pad the books on the deficit. And we, as tax payers paid $10 billion of the $10 billion because of BP's deduction.
I feel really stupid for being such a sucker.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 11:25 AM (RkRxq)
I love (in a totally manly hetero way) my dentist.
Oh, sure, that's what they all say until someone pulls out a tube of KY...
Posted by: conscious, but incoherent - coincidence? at July 29, 2010 11:26 AM (YVZlY)
Posted by: TexasJew at July 29, 2010 03:24 PM (o7kZZ)
Good on ya. I wish your industry and your profession a total comeback. The best revenge IMO.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 11:27 AM (RkRxq)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 29, 2010 03:06 PM (RkRxq)
True dat...can we droop the whole windmill thing as well.
Posted by: dananjcon at July 29, 2010 11:31 AM (pr+up)
link
Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 29, 2010 11:31 AM (HQSQk)
Posted by: Barrack Hussein Woods at July 29, 2010 11:36 AM (/H8uK)
Posted by: Truman at July 29, 2010 11:37 AM (e8YaH)
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 29, 2010 03:24 PM (ERJIu)
Posted by: Captain Hate at July 29, 2010 11:37 AM (qPpkJ)
Did I wake up this morning and fail to notice that gravity has stopped working? That hydrogen now has 5 protons rather than 1?
Bet you no longer doubt the power of the dark side, do you? I find your lack of faith...corrected. Sometimes a demonstration is all that's needed.
You expected me to strangle you? that's so...passive-aggresive.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at July 29, 2010 11:47 AM (1hM1d)
This is just the beginning of this kinda journo-hackery. Picture 2008 levels of Obambi sycophancy and suckitude, now multiply by a factor of 3. You see, now the Messiah is in trouble and his faithful minions will stop at nothing to ensure that "O" reaches the promise land, they have too much invested in this false prophit. Like all libs, common sense, reason and fact are easily couched by emotion, fad and dillusion.
Posted by: dananjcon at July 29, 2010 11:58 AM (pr+up)
Posted by: ParisParamus at July 29, 2010 11:58 AM (7Pu9b)
Remember the hurricanes that were going to take all that oil and DESTROY THE GULF COAST!!!11!!!111!!1 ?
Yeah, neither does Time.
Posted by: Dang Straights at July 29, 2010 11:59 AM (fx8sm)
Posted by: Techie at July 29, 2010 12:08 PM (zbH+i)
Too much of a compliment. Way too glossy for fish wrap. Can't soak up the juices.
Posted by: Nick B at July 29, 2010 12:18 PM (tQmh7)
He does realize that was news a month ago, right? Right...?
Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at July 29, 2010 12:26 PM (IkEhE)
Reynolds posted this at the beginning of the month, and it's no coincidence that's when the started winding up the leak story:
Actually, the reason the oil cleanup is so slow is that thereÂ’s no oil spill at all. OilÂ’s just a cover story. ItÂ’s really aliens on the seafloor. ThatÂ’s why the press is being kept away, and thatÂ’s why theyÂ’re preparing the public by floating stories about the possibility of nuking the site. Those skimmer ships arenÂ’t cleaning things up, they are actually releasing oil to support the cover story. ThatÂ’s why theyÂ’ve found lame excuses to keep volunteers and foreign assistance away. ItÂ’s all obvious once you think about it! Wake up, sheeple!
Posted by: Kazinski at July 29, 2010 12:51 PM (HPhbp)
Posted by: katya, the designated driver at July 29, 2010 12:52 PM (g4YJI)
Looks to me like they're being true to form.
Posted by: schizuki at July 29, 2010 12:58 PM (Xd9fe)
It's "his", "hers" and "its", not "hi's", "her's" and "it's".
Posted by: schizuki's pet peeve at July 29, 2010 01:01 PM (Xd9fe)
Desperatly seeking a Denny Crane vs. Alvin Greene debate smackdown. Which one do you think yer libs nominated for the US Senate, E Earl Huffingslate?
Posted by: Cowboy at July 29, 2010 01:05 PM (tfMGP)
The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill — he calls it "the leak" — is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype.
Still a jagoff. Sod him and Slime Magazine
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 29, 2010 01:17 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: MostlyRight at July 29, 2010 01:38 PM (0aCXd)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at July 29, 2010 01:42 PM (yT8z7)
It's a little too little, it's a little too late.
Posted by: Pat Benatar at July 29, 2010 01:45 PM (w9BEi)
Posted by: Moi at July 29, 2010 01:47 PM (bjYAr)
Posted by: Dave The Dentist at July 29, 2010 02:09 PM (7FgWm)
Posted by: theworldisnotenough at July 29, 2010 02:27 PM (JpqtI)
The problem was that the media kept jacking up people's perception of the spill with estimates that the daily total spill "could be as high as" some ridiculously high number without any evidence to back up the idea that the spill was ACTUALLY that bad. You COULD get hit by up to 437 meteorites today, but you probably won't.
Now imagine the meteorite total multiplied by 100 days. People would expect that someone out there has been hit by 43700 meteorites. It is sort of the same thing with the gulf leak. You had media outlets competing with each other to see who could get the "expert" that would estimate the largest amount of oil for the leak. So over time the estimates "walked" higher and higher as each outlet trotted out some "expert" that gave a higher possible volume of oil. But in this case the potential doesn't ruin beaches. What ruins beaches is what ACTUALLY leaks and escapes containment and escapes surface burning and processing.
Also, since the gulf naturally seeps each year more oil than the Exxon Valdez spilled, there are a lot of oil eating microbes in that water. Oil has a lot of energy in it. Something is going to evolve to use that energy if it can. In a place where you have pretty much constant oil seepage, those critters are going to be all over the place.
Posted by: crosspatch at July 29, 2010 03:02 PM (ZbLJZ)
Probably some nerd accountant has pointed out to the "elite intelligentsia" of management:
HEY! The rag is SHRINKING in size and READERSHIP! Maybe it's TIME to RETHINK your mission statement. Because IT AIN'T SELLING!
Posted by: GarandFan at July 29, 2010 03:18 PM (XaWFq)
Posted by: CoolCzech at July 29, 2010 03:28 PM (tJjm/)
"Where does some punkass fish wrapper rag like Time get off daring to even suggest that the ascended Messiah was wrong?"
It doesn't end there. I stepped outside this morning and the sky was purple, the grass was orange, and my dog was french-kissing the cat.
Posted by: Henry Hawkins at July 29, 2010 04:53 PM (1neAq)
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Posted by: fendi handbags at July 30, 2010 06:42 PM (AvlwO)
The easy explanation is that the liberal nut-base is getting ready to tank Obama so that he doesn't run (and lose) in 2012.
They'll give "Hillary-the-competent" a shot at the title. After all, she's just as much a raging liberal without the baggage of having been exposed as a raging liberal.
They might fool the independents again.
Posted by: Steve O at July 30, 2010 08:35 PM (IXYD1)
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