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February 28, 2013

Social Media Is Hard Liquor for "Reporters"
— Ace

Reporters say they just want to report the facts, but the dirty little secret is that they're chiefly interested in Reporting Themselves. They wish to advance in the pack; they wish to be the stars -- rather than the recorders -- of their stories; and they desperately, desperately wish to not merely report to you the facts but to insist upon what you should believe the facts mean.

There are too many examples of this to recount. Here's one that just caught my eye.

It's pretty clear to me Michael Scherer thinks he's a STAR...!!! and stars streak across the sky, baby.

Social media is like alcohol. It's addictive, and it reveals who you really are.

Michael Scherer can walk back and "add context" and "explain what he meant" all he likes. But he's revealed himself; he is firmly on Team Leftwing and when he's not working, he's snarking about Republicans.

Yes, his idea of "time off" is to snark about Republicans. That's not his job; that's what he does in his pleasure-time.

His point, of course, is stupid. Jindal is pointing out that rather than solve the problem, Obama is focused -- as usual -- on solving the PR problem; and Jindal, as both a high official, a politically invested analyst, and a governor of a state which will be affected by the sequester, is right to criticize Obama.

But does that mean Obama should ignore the actual problems of governance and instead focus solely on his PR pass-the-buck strategy? In Michael Scherer's world, it means exactly that, because he is engaged in the mythmaking function of fiction, and fiction has Designated Heroes and Designated Villains.

Posted by: Ace at 09:21 AM | Comments (195)
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1 I'm so glad I stayed away from this stuff (only use message boards).

Posted by: Serious Cat at February 28, 2013 09:21 AM (UypUQ)

2 Ace Found some good stuff--perhaps for you--on the Woodward front. Hang on.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 09:22 AM (r2PLg)

3 Reporters have been biased and slanted since I have been old enough to read a newspaper and watch Douglas Edwards on CBS News.

It is not a new phenomena.

Posted by: Vic at February 28, 2013 09:24 AM (53z96)

4 Love is like oxygen
You get too much, you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die

Posted by: Sweet at February 28, 2013 09:24 AM (bGlsD)

5 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at February 28, 2013 09:24 AM (xN73L)

6 Again: Your mailbox is like your house's vagina.

Posted by: Truman North at February 28, 2013 09:25 AM (I2LwF)

Ace, here's a little something rockmom posted in the Lanny Davis thread. It ties in directly to what you're talking about here - social media as addictive substance.

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"338 OMFG, I just got into it with some douche from Mediaite who posted his column about Woodward taking it in the shorts from the "media elite." I asked him, what media elite, Woodward IS the media elite. Do his critics have multiple Pulitzers, bestsellers, movies made of them? His reply, "no but they have Twitter accounts and are not afraid to use them."

Ladies and gentlemen, your new Media Elite: kids on Twitter.

Posted by: rockmom at February 28, 2013 11:56 AM (Ea7Up) "

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:25 AM (4df7R)

8 Social media is like alcohol. It's addictive, and it reveals who you really are. Also, it makes you do some pretty stupid things.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 28, 2013 09:25 AM (7xPCu)

9 His reply, "no but they have Twitter accounts and are not afraid to use them."

Sounds like a twelve year-old.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:26 AM (UOM48)

10 Reporters have been biased and slanted since I have been old enough to read a newspaper and watch Douglas Edwards on CBS News. It is not a new phenomena. Posted by: Vic at February 28, 2013 01:24 PM (53z96) Yes of course, but now with twitter and the like, it is out in the open. And only the really dumb, meaning democrats, deny it anymore

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 28, 2013 09:26 AM (9Bj8R)

11 It's pretty clear to me Michael Scherer thinks he's a STAR...!!! and stars streak across the sky, baby. --- You're one in a million Yeah, that's what you are You're one in a million, babe You're a shooting star Maybe someday we'll see you Before you make us cry You know we tried to reach you But you were much too high Much too high, much too high, Much too high, yes, ow!

Posted by: W. Axl Rose at February 28, 2013 09:26 AM (e0xKF)

12 Yeah, Scherer is just like Rove then.

Posted by: maddogg at February 28, 2013 09:27 AM (OlN4e)

13 Social media will be the death of all of us.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at February 28, 2013 09:27 AM (ndlFj)

14 I love how defensive the left has gotten over the WH vs. Woodward kerfluffle.

"But, Boooooosh!"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:27 AM (UOM48)

15 SMOD can't come soon enough.

Posted by: Witchfinder at February 28, 2013 09:28 AM (pLTLS)

16 Meanwhile, in reality. GDP 0.1% RECOVERY MUTHAFUCKERS!!!!

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 28, 2013 09:28 AM (UZQM8)

17 Sounds like a twelve year-old.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 01:26 PM (UOM4

Exactly. I can almost hear the echoes of, "I know you are but what am I!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:28 AM (4df7R)

18 Reporters are worthless. And average people don't have the same 'rights' as reporters, because it's impossible to get access that a press pass or credentials will grant the posessor. We are all in situations where we could find out 'stuff' and report a story, but can't because of credentials and history. For example, I could go find Sheila Jackson F'n Lee on one of her rare trips to Houston and interview her and report a story back to the horde, but there is no earthly way that I could get access to her without credentials from an organization that she knows would give her positive coverage. Even thou I am actually one of her constituents. Glory bee, I hate to admit that. And hate the feeling of living in a neighborhood that is stupid enough to elect that scrunt.

Posted by: Mephitis at February 28, 2013 09:29 AM (hAI7R)

19 There's something to this. Look at the power of the juiceboxers with the kids and it is dual feed mechanism....

back and forth....

Don't know the answer.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:29 AM (LRFds)

20 but the dirty little secret is that they're chiefly interested in Reporting Themselves. Well, to be fair, other reporters are their most common source for a story or talking point.

Posted by: t-bird at February 28, 2013 09:29 AM (FcR7P)

21 This is about Obama's recently appointed Chief of Staff--Denis McDonough Source: The Swampland Time.com by Massimo Calebresi The ugly: If youÂ’re a reporter in Washington writing on foreign affairs and national security and you havenÂ’t been yelled at by Denis McDonough, you havenÂ’t tried very hard. HeÂ’s toned down the notorious paint-peeling tirades of his early days, but his temper remains in force and is present behind his demands on staff. Anger itself isnÂ’t necessarily a bad thing for a chief of staff: John Sununu was a famously unloved but effective bulldog in the George H.W. Bush Administration, and anger can intimidate opponents and force them off positions, setting a level of expected performance and enforcing loyalty. But curse-laden outbursts can harden opposition from those who resist intimidation on principle and can drive conflict, especially among big egos. This is also about Obama's new Chief of Staff Denis McDonough-- Source: The Daily Beast by Daniel Klaidman Ask a reporter about Denis McDonough, President ObamaÂ’s new chief of staff, and thereÂ’s a good chance youÂ’ll get an eye roll followed by a story about being on the wrong side of a tongue lashing. Though McDonough is said to have mellowed over the years, many Washington journalists can trade stories about his caustic broadsides and occasional bullying tactics in defense of the president he serves.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 09:29 AM (r2PLg)

22 Internet edges networks as source for news. In sig.

Posted by: assault flounder at February 28, 2013 09:29 AM (Kkt/i)

23 16 Meanwhile, in reality. GDP 0.1% RECOVERY MUTHAFUCKERS!!!! --- Given who is in the White House, I'd recheck the numbers. If they're admitting a tenth of a percent growth, it means the actual numbers were negative.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 28, 2013 09:29 AM (e0xKF)

And Bob Woodward says it is now officially alright to go and complain about the Obama Administration. I expect a few more passive-aggressive attacks in the future, and I expect a heavy handed reaction (again). And then I expect a few more attacks. And repeat.

The administration cannot stay away from the PR game, it is all they have. And while I can understand the abuse it gives the press (the toady always receives contempt not love - see Saruman and Wormtongue), a little kindness and ego-stroking here and there goes a heck of a long way. And I am quite satisfied that concept is unknown to the administration.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at February 28, 2013 09:29 AM (hLRSq)

25 Well at least I am not addicted to social media. I hardly update my facebook page. I haven't tweeted in days. My blog get's about 1 post every 2 months. Yep no addiction here.

What do you mean commenting here is social media!? Well F*ck!

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Now With More DOOM! at February 28, 2013 09:30 AM (0q2P7)

26 (that's ace's pat benetar ref, btw)

Posted by: soothsayer at February 28, 2013 09:30 AM (NLH1M)

27 SMOD can't come soon enough. Or the 4th Horseman.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2013 09:31 AM (GFM2b)

28 7 MWR,

and not to brag but I offered her a counter thought tied into the notion that was not bad.

There really are two..hell really about 5-12 Americas....

and the legacy media my age is taught to respect craves blowjobs from Twatter and the kids love Juicebox...

the nation is in flames because the media is wondering who the handsome fella in the mirror is.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:31 AM (LRFds)

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 01:26 PM (UOM4

Its now the era of Snark, over Substance...

/he says... snarkily....

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 28, 2013 09:31 AM (lZBBB)

30 Obama was for Sequestration before he was against it.

Posted by: SurferDoc at February 28, 2013 09:31 AM (6H6FZ)

31 Instead of writing novel ace o spades attacking media #mindyobidness

Posted by: Michael Scherer at February 28, 2013 09:31 AM (4cRnj)

32 25 MikeTheMoose,

I was near it...quit cold turket....

You guys are my last addiction you guys....

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:31 AM (LRFds)

33 15 SMOD can't come soon enough.

SMOD teased us, and then turned out to be a big, fat nothing burger.

I won't be had again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:32 AM (UOM48)

34 When did the canard about journalists are supposed to be impartial begin? Nobody's impartial. The only hope is that they are open as well as honest about their biases.

Posted by: Truman North at February 28, 2013 09:32 AM (I2LwF)

35 If they're admitting a tenth of a percent growth, it means the actual numbers were negative.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 28, 2013 01:29 PM (e0xKF)

Anything to stay out of a Recesion....

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 28, 2013 09:32 AM (lZBBB)

36 Actually Social Media, Smartphones, Computers, and on and on is going to drive MSM reporters out of business just like it has driven print media to the edge of the cliff.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 28, 2013 09:32 AM (9Bj8R)

37 If they're admitting a tenth of a percent growth, it means the actual numbers were negative. They're using numbers from five years ago.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2013 09:33 AM (GFM2b)

38 I won't be had again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 01:32 PM (UOM4

No no, Jane. It should be:

"I won't get fooled again. YEEEEEAAAAGGGGH!"

Then you put on a pair of sunglasses.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:33 AM (4df7R)

39 Heh. That front page at Drudge will never get old.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:33 AM (UOM48)

40 1. Is UE going up tomorrow? 2. If UE goes up tomorrow, will it, by the end of the news cycle, be successfully spun to blame the Republicans?

Posted by: soothsayer at February 28, 2013 09:33 AM (gtTDa)

#9: Jane D'Oh -

Sounds like that person does not understand what elite means - Woodward, and the people he knows and has known for decades, get to hire and fire the Twitter snarksters.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at February 28, 2013 09:34 AM (hLRSq)

42 37 If they're admitting a tenth of a percent growth, it means the actual numbers were negative. They're using numbers from five years ago. --- That would be a step up from what I'd expect. I'd have guessed the answer was coming straight out of Obama's ass, successfully mined by Reggie Love.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 28, 2013 09:34 AM (e0xKF)

43 tasker-- great great tip (You're a great american.)

I'm trying to track down Rockmom to get the provenance of it.

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 09:34 AM (LCRYB)

44 Just when you think Biden can't get any stupider, he up and proves you wrong.

Posted by: maddogg at February 28, 2013 09:34 AM (OlN4e)

45 34 TruNorth,

right around the time they figleafed Federal licenses for bporadcast to be so high bud...

I can't just go out and start a real news station...

I wish I could but the donks will play the game they are playing on Shale and hold licenses hostage.

The mules are funny they love the notion the 2d amendment needs I can only have a musket...

Okay fine let's play that game...

hey newsies you can ONLY have a newspaper.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:35 AM (LRFds)

46 41 LOL neocons pwned #iheartpalestine

Posted by: ChuckHagelTweets at February 28, 2013 01:33 PM (60GaT

That made me chuckle and feel enraged at the same time. Nice socking.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:35 AM (UOM48)

47 1959's Pravda called: They want their ethics back.

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 09:35 AM (MMC8r)

48 Reporters have been biased and slanted since I have been old enough to read a newspaper and watch Douglas Edwards on CBS News.

***

Back when I was a kid I was warmonger, tool. I used to watch The Big Picture, The Twentieth Century, Victory at Sea and their ilk which were military history documentaries. I believed every word. When I grew older and realized that there was a lot of fudging of the facts, such as showing a dramatic aircraft allegedly during the Battle of Midway when that aircraft type wasn't operational until years later, I was absolutely stunned. The bias then was pro-American and, especially, pro-dramatic footage but I couldn't believe it when I found out they had been lying to me all these years.

P.S. Cronkite hosted The Twentieth Century.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 28, 2013 09:36 AM (XUKZU)

49 Given who is in the White House, I'd recheck the numbers. If they're admitting a tenth of a percent growth, it means the actual numbers were negative. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 28, 2013 01:29 PM (e0xKF) And it will be revised later to show that... but next report will be negative, and all over the news, and RETHUGLIKKKAN SEQUESTER caused double dip recession!!11!

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 28, 2013 09:36 AM (UZQM8)

50 And stop and think: We're at the point where .1% growth is being spun as a victory.

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 09:36 AM (MMC8r)

51 So put yourself in the seat of a senior White House official. Why wouldn't you yell at and insult and threaten a reporter? They're mostly assholes and rat faced suckups. Hollering at a reporter in person has to be more satisfying than yelling at the tv all the time.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at February 28, 2013 09:36 AM (+lsX1)

52 I think part of the reason the Left has gone bug shitting nuts is that Woodward's accusations cut across the whole Leftist mode of the press; narrative is more important than fact, and personalities are more important than narrative.

Their Saint of the Holy Order of the Typeset, a bigger than life personality, just shat on their mission.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 28, 2013 09:36 AM (Ipj15)

53 Posted by: soothsayer at February 28, 2013 01:33 PM (gtTDa)

1) Who knows what magic the ~~Cout Magicians~~ Government Economists can do?

2) Does ursus arctos horriblis defecate in the forest?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at February 28, 2013 09:37 AM (xN73L)

54 Journos remind me of the Our Gang movies (Little Rascals).

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 28, 2013 09:38 AM (8Hnjw)

55 ATF seizes airsoft guns. Says they can be converted to 'machine guns.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y2sWiZ8BizI

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 09:39 AM (MMC8r)

56 The pen reveals the author. Social media is the same.

Posted by: USA at February 28, 2013 09:39 AM (RIg+t)

57 55 nam Grunt,

Jim Messina reminds me of John Wayne Gacy

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:39 AM (LRFds)

58 55 Journos remind me of the Our Gang movies (Little Rascals). --- Hey Richard, who is your favorite Little Rascal? Is it Spanky?

Posted by: Tommy Callahan at February 28, 2013 09:40 AM (e0xKF)

59 ATF seizes airsoft guns. Says they can be converted to 'machine guns.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y2sWiZ8BizI

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 01:39 PM (MMC8r)

(Lord, please pardon this blasphemy)

Jesus H. Christ.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:40 AM (4df7R)

60 SMOD fans should Google Clube and Napier. I'm an amateur catastrophist in that I do not think our ancestors made up fables of huge floods and fire from the sky because they were stupid or high. Also Google Firestone Younger Dryas Clovis impact theory.

Posted by: Beagle at February 28, 2013 09:40 AM (kuYox)

61 Aaaannd the head guy embeds a video and brings the tiny print. "teej, you say that all the time" you say. "Whatever are you talking about" you ask. Break out a phone, mine's a galaxy s2, come to teh HQ and click on the comments. You'll see. Later.

Posted by: teej at February 28, 2013 09:40 AM (M7Cfv)

62 If you look at the type of shitbird that goes into reporting, it comes as no surprise that reporters are shitbirds.

Posted by: maddogg at February 28, 2013 09:40 AM (OlN4e)

63 tasker, do you have any further clues from @rockmom about where I'd find this exchange?

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 09:40 AM (LCRYB)

64 56 ATF seizes airsoft guns. Says they can be converted to 'machine guns.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y2sWiZ8BizI --- *facepalm* Seriously?

Posted by: Tommy Callahan at February 28, 2013 09:41 AM (e0xKF)

65 "Be yourself" is the worst advice you can give to some people.

Posted by: Phinn at February 28, 2013 09:41 AM (8Ywth)

66 P.S. Cronkite hosted The Twentieth Century.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 28, 2013 01:36 PM (XUKZU)

And he was a flaming liberal. Douglas Edwards came along before Cronkite's news days. Cronkite took over from him in the early 60s.

Posted by: Vic at February 28, 2013 09:41 AM (53z96)

67 59,

Buckwheat toure is one of the gang for sure.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 28, 2013 09:41 AM (8Hnjw)

55 Journos remind me of the Our Gang movies (Little Rascals).

Any one of the Little Rascals could clean a modern journo's clock.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:41 AM (4df7R)

69 Oh and Ace the designated heroes and villains bit...

that needs expanded upon....

we need a demonized but not wholly controversial guy in history who has a mixed record but was cast against type as a Villain...

maybe Shah Reza Pahlavi or perhaps Pinochet....?

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:41 AM (LRFds)

70 44 tasker-- great great tip (You're a great american.) I'm trying to track down Rockmom to get the provenance of it. Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 01:34 PM (LCRYB) _______________ Thanks. LOL! Also do you remember the Rosa Brooks thing with McDonough? She wrote an article with the title something like "Get Rid of the Jerks") --this guy has a reputation and now he has been elevated to Obama's Chief of Staff. (IIRC Brooks worked at the Pentagon--but for Obama) McDonough is also the "national security advisor" pictured with Obama and Biden that the CBS reporter Sheryl Atkinsson (spelling) found on the night of the Benghazi attack.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 09:42 AM (r2PLg)

71 Social Media Is Hard Liquor for "Reporters" And they're all underage drinkers.

Posted by: t-bird at February 28, 2013 09:42 AM (FcR7P)

72 SMOD fans should Google Clube and Napier. I'm an amateur catastrophist in that I do not think our ancestors made up fables of huge floods and fire from the sky because they were stupid or high.

***

I think those tales are metaphors for "and then we elected a community organizer."

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 28, 2013 09:42 AM (XUKZU)

73 tasker, do you have any further clues from @rockmom about where I'd find this exchange?

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 01:40 PM (LCRYB)

I suspect it was either on Twitter or at Mediaite itself, ace.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:43 AM (4df7R)

74 the chick in that video, has she been sucking on helium? Seriously, what an odd voice

Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 09:43 AM (Dnbau)

75 I think everyone needs to be clear on one fact: all modern reporters and media outlets worry about party a whole lot more than about facts. If the facts damage their party, the facts can be disposed of.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 28, 2013 09:43 AM (JfxJx)

76 Oh and Ace the designated heroes and villains bit...

that needs expanded upon....

***

We need a cabinet level department to designated heroes and villains.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 28, 2013 09:44 AM (XUKZU)

77 64 Ace,

It was in the Woodward/Lanny Davis thread at 11:56

http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=337942#c20264218

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:44 AM (LRFds)

78 74 MWR,

I think she was Tweeted it by mediaLite...

the exchange is at my link above from minx....

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:45 AM (LRFds)

79 we need a demonized but not wholly controversial guy in history who has a mixed record but was cast against type as a Villain... maybe Shah Reza Pahlavi or perhaps Pinochet....? --- You rang? I helped depose a tinfoil-hat wanna-be dictator at the cost of my political career and got demonized because that asshole was in with Obama.

Posted by: Roberto Micheletti at February 28, 2013 09:45 AM (e0xKF)

80 64 tasker, do you have any further clues from @rockmom about where I'd find this exchange?

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 01:40 PM (LCRYB)

Here ace: (I'm sure this is going to come out a mess but.....)

@NoahCRothman

COLUMN: Judging by near universal sneers from media elite, it's clear Bob Woodward will probably "regret doing this."

11:51 AM - Feb 28, 2013 · Details " data-mentions="NoahCRothman">@NoahCRothman Media elite? Bob Woodward IS the media elite! Any of his critics have multiple Pulitzers, movies made of them, bestsellers?

11:51 a.m. - Feb 28, 2013 · Details " data-mentions="rockmom">

@rockmom Maybe not, but the do have Twitter accounts. And they're not afraid to use 'em

.@NoahCRothman In other words, the junior varsity trying to bring down the senior All-American.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 09:45 AM (X6akg)

81 56 ATF seizes airsoft guns. Says they can be converted to 'machine guns.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y2sWiZ8BizI

Jeez Louise. Idiot ATF agent in the video....no words.

What's next, paint ball guns?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:46 AM (UOM48)

82 >>>ATF seizes airsoft guns. Says they can be converted to 'machine guns.'

A 200lb chunk of iron ore can by "converted" into a "machine gun" then. Like an onion, layers, of, stupid.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Now With More DOOM! at February 28, 2013 09:46 AM (0q2P7)

83 Awww crap....that's a bigger mess than I anticipated.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 09:46 AM (X6akg)

84 76 Vashta Narada,

98.975% bang on...

there are rare exceptions, fact is tapper trapped Obarka on several occasions hard that should have been devastating but the media tolerates a tapper for the illusion of restraint and Tapper is perhaps happy to be thwarted.

I just don't know anymore.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:46 AM (LRFds)

85 Journalists = Our Gang White House = Butch and the Woim

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 09:46 AM (MMC8r)

86 OMG, Tami. Teh Barrel.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:46 AM (UOM48)

87 Awesome, Tami. Even if the formatting is a mess.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:47 AM (4df7R)

88 It's nearly impossible to post more than one tweet in a row here.....

*shuffles off to barrel*

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 09:47 AM (X6akg)

89 >>>Posted by: Tami at February 28, 2013 01:45 PM (X6akg)

You see that barrel over there. While you're in it, think about how pasting to notepad then copying the text from notepad removes all embedded formatting from text.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Now With More DOOM! at February 28, 2013 09:48 AM (0q2P7)

90 Tami, while you're in the barrel, would you look for a silver hoop earring? I may have lost one in there a few days ago.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:48 AM (UOM48)

91 Ace-- Oh I thought you were joking--about the finding the source of "You're a Great American!" I think you are getting me mixed up with MWR. I left you some stuff--don't know how good it is from reporters at Time.com and the Daily Beast that --IMO--back up Woodward. at comment #21

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 09:48 AM (r2PLg)

92 Soooo.

Ace.

Remind me about how much time you're spending on Twitter these days again?

Hmmmm?

Just curious.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 09:48 AM (qyv02)

93 Ace, it's in her timeline about 2 hours ago. I'll retweet the tweet from the other guy.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 28, 2013 09:48 AM (SUKHu)

94 80 Roberto,

Pretty much...I mean the key is not to have a totally genuine "good guy" inasmuch as such things exist but dear God they demonized Reza Pahlavi as designated evil and feted the Ayatollah....

please share....

I can give example after example of the Shah trying hard to live up to the pap the left said mattered....

and they paid him back by blowing the Usurper....

surreal.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:48 AM (LRFds)

95 What's next, paint ball guns?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 01:46 PM (UOM4

"Cheese it! It's the feds!"

-Kids at a friend's 16th birthday party at Funspot

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:49 AM (4df7R)

96 This site needs another, some kinda, award, for that video, alone.

Posted by: beach praise at February 28, 2013 09:49 AM (XYSwB)

97 Jane, I'm looking. You would NOT believe the crap in this barrel. And I don't think you're gonna want that earring back....it's stuck in.....somethin'.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 09:50 AM (X6akg)

98 Okay, Ace I retweeted the comment from NoahCRothman.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 28, 2013 09:50 AM (SUKHu)

99
Toon town party seems about right. And the media and the dem socialists are one party. And they are kicking our ass. I am absolutely sure some of the old Pravda people still alive are impressed.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 28, 2013 09:51 AM (p/cQy)

100 In a nation of celebrity-fixation and instant gratification where even the crappiest reporter has instant access to thousands of people on Twitter, becoming a self-stroking celebrity is the only way to be, baby. Facts, schmacts...it's all about meeeeee!!!

Posted by: DangerGirl - Stop this thing, I want off at February 28, 2013 09:51 AM (x1L8S)

101 Here is my Twitter exchange with Noah Rothman from Mediaite: @NoahCRothman COLUMN: Judging by near universal sneers from media elite, it's clear Bob Woodward will probably "regret doing this." @rockmom @NoahCRothman Media elite? Bob Woodward IS the media elite! Any of his critics have multiple Pulitzers, movies made of them, bestsellers? @NoahCRothman @rockmom Maybe not, but the (sic) do have Twitter accounts. And they're not afraid to use 'em

Posted by: rockmom at February 28, 2013 09:51 AM (Ea7Up)

102 Jane, I'm looking. You would NOT believe the crap in this barrel. And I don't think you're gonna want that earring back....it's stuck in.....somethin'.

Posted by: Tami at February 28, 2013 01:50 PM (X6akg)

Oh man, be careful! I hope you're wearing a hazmat suit.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:51 AM (4df7R)

103 Okay, here's that story, but it fizzled.

Rockmom clarified that she thinks the author @noahcrothman meant it "tongue in cheek." In fact noah rothman seems to tilt conservative and now that I see the tweet, I believe he is goofing on teh Juicebox Mafie -- he says THEY have twitter accounts and THEY'RE not afraid to use them (not we/we're).

So it's a joke at the Juicebox Mafia's expense. Not a statement BY the Juicebox mafia.

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 09:51 AM (LCRYB)

104 Hard Liquor? Jack Daniels Party. Drink early and often.

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at February 28, 2013 09:51 AM (wbmaj)

105 He previously worked for Salon.com, Mother Jones, and the Daily Hampshire Gazette. A native of San Francisco, he graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

'Nuff said.

Posted by: Citizen.Cain at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (Q8Wa9)

106 I like dat one eyed monster, snatching up all those men.

Posted by: bawny fwank at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (XYSwB)

107 I thought the airsoft thing was from a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (hLRSq)

108 My "Visiting Angel" stole my goddamned silverware. Bitch.

Posted by: Fourth Virginia at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (wbmaj)

109 These tools wouldn't know a fact it they saw one.

Posted by: dogfish at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (N2yhW)

110 I'll say it:

I found "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart overly laconic.

_

There. I said it.

Posted by: BumperStickerisrt at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (J8DGo)

111 Oh man, be careful! I hope you're wearing a hazmat suit.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 28, 2013 01:51 PM (4df7R)

NOW you tell me?!

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (X6akg)

112 It is not a new phenomena.
Posted by: Vic at February 28, 2013 01:24 PM (53z96)

What's new is they're all leaning the same way, they conspire on the stories (which ones they'll tell and how they'll tell it), they conspire against anyone attempting to report what's important and interesting despite who's ox is gored, and they're not interested in scooping anybody about anything (well unless it's a Republican).

That's what's new. Other wise yes. they press has always been two faced back stabbing two timing untrustworthy skunks.

but in the olden days they did to each other and not the nation.

Now they're more like a guild or compact. And it's them against us.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 09:52 AM (qyv02)

113 NOW you tell me?!

Posted by: Tami at February 28, 2013 01:52 PM (X6akg)

Sorry!

If you see any puddles of unidentified viscous fluid, just... just stay away.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:53 AM (4df7R)

114 33 SMOD teased us, and then turned out to be a big, fat nothing burger. I won't be had again. ------------ When you least expect it, expect it.

Posted by: Stuff Arnold Horshach Said at February 28, 2013 09:53 AM (IrbU4)

115 is anyone going to admit they like that song or am I the only one with BALLS here?

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 09:54 AM (LCRYB)

116 Journos remind me of the Our Gang movies (Little Rascals).
Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 28, 2013 01:38 PM

Let's spiffy up the ol' barn, put on a play and save the world, Darla.

Posted by: Alfalpha at February 28, 2013 09:54 AM (bGlsD)

117 The Press: Arnold Drummond and Dudley Ramsey

White House: Bicycle Shop Molester

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 28, 2013 09:54 AM (Ipj15)

118 Ah, Thanks for all the space, Tami.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 09:54 AM (qyv02)

119 Tami, enjoy the nude poster of Ted Kennedy. I put that in there for the ladies.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 28, 2013 09:54 AM (uhftQ)

120 We've got to do something about those internet bloggers.

Posted by: tom brokawesomeness at February 28, 2013 09:55 AM (XYSwB)

121 If you see any puddles of unidentified viscous fluid, just... just stay away.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 28, 2013 01:53 PM (4df7R)

I'm standing it one...they're everywhere.

And....there are several forms of weasels in here.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 09:55 AM (X6akg)

122 108 I thought the airsoft thing was from a couple of years ago. Ope! You're right. I got it from a friend's feed today but didn't note the date on the vid. Still, take it as a marker of Our Nation Being in the Very Best of Hands.

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 09:55 AM (MMC8r)

123 SMOD WAS A BUST, THE MAYANS WERE A BUST.....NOW THE SCOAMF HAS ADMITTED THAT SEQUESTER IS NOTHING...... WHEN WILL IT BURN?

Posted by: phoenixgirl member of WAVAWA at February 28, 2013 09:55 AM (GVxQo)

124 I think the compulsive Barky and Donk in general knob-gobbling is ratcheting up with the old-line media because they're scared spitless the next coaster they use for their non-fat double soy latte will be their own pink slip. Scared people are easier to manage. And with King Klueless driving down the economy as fast as his little soft hands can manage, and the general lack of demand for Big Media BS these days, we'll see footage of Barky stumbling over Michael Sherer down on his knees shining his shoes before the year is out.

Who knows, he might get a Pulitzer for it.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at February 28, 2013 09:56 AM (DLu2s)

125 is it Pat Benatar?

Posted by: soothsayer at February 28, 2013 09:56 AM (8dspl)

126 104 Ace,

yeah that clarification seemed pretty self-apparent but bears restressing. My follow on to Rockmom in our thread was simply that to too large and a likely previously underestimated portion of the electorate the Juicebox mafia and BirdFeed ARE NEWS.

I'd love to hear your pondering of the paradigm I am sensing if you think there is anything to it...or give me an Ewok tap to get back to thinking on other stuff.

best wishes,

sven

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 09:56 AM (LRFds)

127 Hey I hate soap operas but this Arias trial on CNN is good stuff: Sex, violence, and Sex. All we are missing is Rock & Roll

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 28, 2013 09:57 AM (9Bj8R)

128 Reporters have been biased and slanted since I have been old enough to read a newspaper and watch Douglas Edwards on CBS News. It is not a new phenomena. Posted by: Vic at February 28, 2013 01:24 PM (53z96) But now they have Twitter and there's no editor to censor their tweets. I've long heard stories about editors tamping down on reporters' crude and obvious bias.

Posted by: AmishDude at February 28, 2013 09:57 AM (T0NGe)

129
I hated that song the first thirty seconds and then it got me. I like it, has a good beat and you can dance to it, I give it an 82 out of 100.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 28, 2013 09:57 AM (p/cQy)

130 New spin: The Republicans let Obama force them into the sequester, so it's their fault they let him cut Grandma's cat food allowance.

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 09:57 AM (MMC8r)

131 >>>111 I'll say it: I found "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart overly laconic. Ditto.

Posted by: Taggart at February 28, 2013 09:57 AM (Puqto)

132 Look here is the thing. Woodward is believable. How many years--has he been doing this--and he says that he felt bullied now? IOW--he doesn't do this lightly. Also--honestly--how does this White House do it? Hillary Clinton --in her first sit down interview after Benghazi--when she was still Secretary of State--sat down with Barbara Walters for an interview on ABC and- there was not ONE question about Benghazi? Thaat's unheard of in recent memory. All of these inside the beltway reporters--on our side--btw--saying essentially that this is no big deal have lost-- all perspective. Again--how the hell does the Secretary of State go on prime time television after a historic attack on a US consulate--and death of a US ambassador get away with not even having to hear one question about Benghazi--from an established reporter such as --Barbara Walters? In that light--what Woodward is claiming- is--absolutely--chilling.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 09:57 AM (r2PLg)

133

Hmm, interesting, ace. But far from saying the story "fizzled," I think it simply lends credence to what you're saying here. Being a "reporter" these days isn't about actually reporting the stories. It's about MAKING the stories. And you're not the only one who sees it; Rothman is saying essentially the same thing in his response to rockmom.

I find it interesting that, in all other things, the left is obsessed with "credentialism." But when that credentialism is used in a way that might damage their precious narrative, it's discarded and used as a club instead of a badge of honor. "Woodward USED to be great. But now he's just old and senile. His years of experience? Meh. He's washed up."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 09:58 AM (4df7R)

134 >>>I'd love to hear your pondering of the paradigm I am sensing if you think there is anything to it...or give me an Ewok tap to get back to thinking on other stuff.

drew has thoughts on it. Drew's actually sent me a plan that I haven't read yet.

I don't know, my default setting is "Hopeless."

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 09:58 AM (LCRYB)

135 Exactly. I can almost hear the echoes of, "I know you are but what am I!" Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 28, 2013 01:28 PM (4df7R) I hear: Mother: Hon, your dinner's ready! And, did you do your homework, yet?

Posted by: beachese at February 28, 2013 09:58 AM (XYSwB)

136 good lord that video is awful, made it 1:05....my ears hate me now

Posted by: ghostofhallelujah at February 28, 2013 09:58 AM (XvrTA)

137 I won't be had again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 28, 2013 01:32 PM (UOM4

Ahem....

Posted by: John D'oh at February 28, 2013 09:58 AM (GsoHv)

138 You found schmaltzy synth pop I've never heard. Kudos. I thought I knew everything crom Human League to LEN.

Posted by: Beagle at February 28, 2013 09:59 AM (kuYox)

139 Barrel.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, the future Pope Ampersand I at February 28, 2013 10:00 AM (GBXon)

140 113 Bitter Clinger,

Correct, openly partisan media is arguably better for a democracy and the media because what happens is that the intelligent voter when events do not transpire according to an editorial narrative is tempted to rethink his analysis of the events being reported and strategic implications in play.

This is basic game theory stuff.

The media when challenged by partisan rivals has a responsibility to balance the best partisan gain with the proper blend of fact and PR work for their cause.

What has happened in the broadcast era is corporate domination by rent seeking agencies hiring one editorial bent.

There is one hand clapping and what does it sound like?

A monkey flinging poo at the zoo....

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 10:00 AM (LRFds)

141 Okay, I can't watch the video b/c I'm at work. What is it? Everyone's comments have me burning with curiosity!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 10:00 AM (4df7R)

142 >>>m, interesting, ace. But far from saying the story "fizzled," I think it simply lends credence to what you're saying here. Being a "reporter" these days isn't about actually reporting the stories. It's about MAKING the stories. And you're not the only one who sees it; Rothman is saying essentially the same thing in his response to rockmom.

yes, but it was a joke. I thought I had a BIG CATCH. I showed it to someone and she said "OMG!"

Not to knock Tasker or Rockmom of course -- of course I want these tips. But sometimes they fizzle out.

But I still want them.

Only took 10 minutes to track it down so no big deal.

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 10:00 AM (LCRYB)

143

Secretary of State--sat down with Barbara Walters for an interview on ABC and-

there was not ONE question about Benghazi?

-

As I said, the MSM is a party mechanism. I have literally heard editors discussing how to present a story so as to minimize the damage to the democrat party.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 28, 2013 10:00 AM (JfxJx)

144 Woodward is done. He has no friends in his profession. Not when stacked up against their plastic Jesus. He will get squeezed out of the coverage. Written off as senile. Put out to pasture and forgotten. Wait and see.

Posted by: maddogg at February 28, 2013 10:01 AM (OlN4e)

145 uh...Ace...I'm not sure those are balls....you should prolly see someone about that. (runs....hides)

Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 10:01 AM (Dnbau)

146 These damn inside the beltway reporters--even our own--need recalibration. If they have to be harassed incessantly via Twitter by the plebeians so be it.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 10:01 AM (r2PLg)

147 SMOD teased us, and then turned out to be a big, fat nothing burger. depends on the billiard math re: the meteor hitting mars

Posted by: dominoes at February 28, 2013 10:02 AM (XYSwB)

148 I'm standing it one...they're everywhere.
And....there are several forms of weasels in here.

Posted by: Tami at February 28, 2013 01:55 PM (X6akg)

ACK!

Um, okay. Stay calm. Just... look, don't move, all right? They can smell fear.

Okay. Breathe. But don't breathe too deeply because, you know, poisonous fumes.

Now, these weasels: Are they also standing in the viscous fluid? If so, how high would you say you can go in a vertical jump?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 28, 2013 10:02 AM (4df7R)

149 Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 02:00 PM (LCRYB)

Satire is funniest that is closest to the truth.....

The twitter comment is exactly how they see the world.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2013 10:03 AM (GsoHv)

150 You see that barrel over there. While you're in it, think about how pasting to notepad then copying the text from notepad removes all embedded formatting from text.
MikeTheMoose Now With More DOOM! at February 28, 2013 01:48 PM (0q2P7)

Also, you can clean up any pastes by clicking on the lesser-than and greater-than arrows on the far right at the top in the tool bar of the comment box. (I'll put them in here to show you but I don't think they'll get thru the filter: <>

that will bring up a box that will show you the "raw" html of what's in the comment box so far.

You can then delete the offending paras and other nonsense out then click "apply" in that window and then "ok" and you're back to the comment box with clean text. Now you can insert spaces and returns to format your comment.

The one thing left to us that works for the comments. (no ampersands though)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:03 AM (qyv02)

151 Woodward is done. He has no friends in his profession. Not when stacked up against their plastic Jesus. He will get squeezed out of the coverage. Written off as senile. Put out to pasture and forgotten. Wait and see. Posted by: maddogg at February 28, 2013 02:01 PM (OlN4e) Maybe but it should make good meat for another book and Woodward will be laughing all the way to the bank

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 28, 2013 10:03 AM (9Bj8R)

152 Not to knock Tasker or Rockmom of course -- of course I want these tips. But sometimes they fizzle out. ______________ Dude--you are mixing me up with MWR. I left you the quotes from articles by reporters sort of backing up Woodward's bullying claims at comment #21 They were written prior to Woodward's claim.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 10:03 AM (r2PLg)

153
Her voice grates on you at the beginning but then it kinda gets you interested, like meth.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 28, 2013 10:04 AM (p/cQy)

154 135 Ace,

Amen. I made a point shortly above this post about the "game theory" implications of the media bobsled course Ace.

I am not being a nut or a psycho militia bomb throwing retard.

I have serious plans to try to build something down in Allen G's part of the world at some point. No matter what structural differences you and I have had over this decade and change of perusing each others' posts your output far more worthy of mine never forget I have always been a fan and respected you. You are definitely if not "the leader" the first among equals in many ways.

I do hope if the day ever does get dark enough in your analysis you will come south and try to make a go of things locally.

We need to try to grow something real and it will be far easier together than apart as an entire group.

The ground is choppy and the sea may be nigh unpassable but together our side of the aisle on the notion of inherent rights of man can likely weather ANY storm.

Anyway enough hyperbole I look forward to your and the CoBloggers output.

Sven

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 10:04 AM (LRFds)

155 laconic?

laconic my eye.

Posted by: eleven at February 28, 2013 10:05 AM (KXm42)

156 I'm sure that song is teh awesome when its 1:30 am and you are really really drunk

Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 10:05 AM (Dnbau)

157 Her voice grates on you at the beginning but then it kinda gets you interested, like meth

And she has sporty boobies.

Posted by: eleven at February 28, 2013 10:05 AM (KXm42)

158

>>is anyone going to admit they like that song or am I the only one with BALLS here?

Ha! I've heard it a million times. My kids listened to it while playing Disney ToonTown.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 28, 2013 10:05 AM (SUKHu)

159 Ace, you HAVE to see Greg Sargent throwing poo now at Ron Fournier. I mean, come on. Fournier is probably #2 on the Washington journo pecking order, behind only Woodward. Sargent's a punk ass bitch in comparison. These kids have done lost their minds!

Posted by: rockmom at February 28, 2013 10:06 AM (Ea7Up)

160 I found "Strategic Air Command" starring Jimmy Stewart overly laconic.

Ditto.

Posted by: Taggart at February 28, 2013 01:57 PM (Puqto)

------------------------------------------------

Who cares about that. The reason I watch it over and over again is that it has the best film footage of 1950's airpower I've ever seen. It was when America was strong and grateful for it's freedom.

Posted by: Soona at February 28, 2013 10:06 AM (RpHr+)

161 The media has always been biased, yes, but it has changed for the worse as the last old-style liberals have been replaced by post-modernist neo-Marxists. The old liberals, for the most part believed in objective truth. When you accused them of bias, they got upset, not just because they were silly enough to believe they were objective and thought the accusation unjust, but because they still thought bias was wrong. The neo-Marxists have no conscience about this. They only care about what works. They like to maintain the illusion of "objective news" because they know it bamboozles the knuckle-dragging masses, but they do not aspire to be objective. There is no Truth, no reality. Note that Woodward got in trouble, not for (God forbid!) dissing Dear Leader, but for insisting that 2+2=4. For insisting that there is Reality.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 10:06 AM (C8mVl)

162 Sorry ace, couldn't get through the first half minute before my annoyance meter reached the "Stop This Sh*t" level.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Now With More DOOM! at February 28, 2013 10:07 AM (0q2P7)

163 oh...I see. It is not about the song, its about the chick singing it. K. Now I get it. Plus lyrics, but mostly the girl

Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 10:07 AM (Dnbau)

164 You know what's funny? The MSMs ridiculous monument to itself in D.C., the Newseum. Dedicated to mythologizing the protective role of the media over democracy in American history. My irony meter pegged when I went into that 3-dimensional sick joke while the JEF exercised his glorious reign down the street.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at February 28, 2013 10:07 AM (APkRP)

165 Now, these weasels: Are they also standing in the viscous fluid? If so, how high would you say you can go in a vertical jump?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 28, 2013 02:02 PM (4df7R)

They're eating the viscous fluids.

Vertical jump? Maybe you could just lower a ladder down?

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 10:08 AM (X6akg)

166 160,

This entire country has lost it's mind, not the one I fought for as a youngster Combat NCO on my 1st tour in Vietnam for sure.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 28, 2013 10:09 AM (8Hnjw)

167 Shoot--last night it looked better--only the second part looks all that great now. --This is also about Obama's new Chief of Staff Denis McDonough-- Source: The Daily Beast by Daniel Klaidman Ask a reporter about Denis McDonough, President ObamaÂ’s new chief of staff, and thereÂ’s a good chance youÂ’ll get an eye roll followed by a story about being on the wrong side of a tongue lashing. Though McDonough is said to have mellowed over the years, many Washington journalists can trade stories about his caustic broadsides and occasional bullying tactics in defense of the president he serves. That's from an article written Jan. 25, 2013- I just thought it would back the Ron Fournier stuff that you wrote at Breitbart.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 10:10 AM (r2PLg)

168

Woodward is an Icon.

He was played by another Icon, Robert Redford, in the movie about him.

An Icon, you guys.

And now, Barky's thralls are going to say that Woodward is...suddenly senile?

How does one get 'Suddenly Senile'?

Does that mean that Robert Redford is now...Suddenly Senile?

Is Bill Clinton now...Suddenly Senile?

Posted by: wheatie at February 28, 2013 10:10 AM (vlkOo)

169 Vertical jump? Maybe you could just lower a ladder down?

Posted by: Tami

***

Rules say that any such ladder must be made of angry rattlesnakes.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 28, 2013 10:10 AM (uhftQ)

170 162 Margarita DeVille,

Yup, and as I once said to Tapper "A is A" Tapper was not instantly geared to accept that there is in fact "truth." My read of Tapper is that his ethical bent is based mostly on analysis of historic precedent not a deeply pondered and reasoned read of philosophy or the understanding of the role of epistemology in the cognitive construct of "news." The Marxist media has tried throughout history to bend reality to the Party's needs and thus far because there was a beacon on the hill to crib Reagan reality always won...and relatively quickly.

I still believe reality will win, but I don't think so quickly or relatively painlessly sand our being the beacon.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 10:10 AM (LRFds)

171 >>>Dude--you are mixing me up with MWR.

ah, sorry-- what happened is that you said you had a tip coming, and then MWR delivered a tip, so my brain just said "tasker."

Okay I'll check your tip.

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 10:11 AM (LCRYB)

172 the JEF will have an underling throw himself under the bus, and they will all kiss and make up. They are progs first before anything. Lets not get too excited.

Posted by: thunderb at February 28, 2013 10:13 AM (Dnbau)

173 They're just dying to call Woodward a 'birther.'

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 10:13 AM (MMC8r)

174

Anyone who speaks the truth about Barky...is stricken with Sudden Senility Syndrome!

Oh noes!

Posted by: wheatie at February 28, 2013 10:13 AM (vlkOo)

175 It's being bandied about that this is Woodward trolling for hits so he can sell his book.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:14 AM (qyv02)

176 Not to knock Tasker or Rockmom of course -- of course I want these tips. But sometimes they fizzle out.

But I still want them.

Only took 10 minutes to track it down so no big deal.

Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 02:00 PM (LCRYB)

-----------------------------------

Okay! Have you heard that Baraka's birth certificate that he presented might be fake?

Posted by: Soona at February 28, 2013 10:15 AM (RpHr+)

177 172 >>>Dude--you are mixing me up with MWR. ah, sorry-- what happened is that you said you had a tip coming, and then MWR delivered a tip, so my brain just said "tasker." Okay I'll check your tip. Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 02:11 PM (LCRYB) ___________ Ace Totally get it. I think people could search for prior to Woodward bulling stories. Also damn it Jonah Goldberg is getting wobbly but in light of the fact that Hillary sat there with Barbara Walters--icon--and didn't even have to HEAR a question about Benghazi--right apres Benghazi-- wtf? Goldberg needs to figure out or explain--how does the Obama White House get away with at? Thanks Ace for all that you do.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 10:15 AM (r2PLg)

178 171--- I still believe reality will win, but I don't think so quickly or relatively painlessly sand our being the beacon. Posted by: sven10077 at February 28, 2013 02:10 PM (LRFds) --------------- Yes. It always wins in the end --- but not without pain and destruction.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 10:15 AM (C8mVl)

179 176 What was that character assassination Carville tried about dragging a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park?

Posted by: zsasz at February 28, 2013 10:16 AM (MMC8r)

180 Isn't that what used to happen in the Old USSR?

Make an unwise comment in a public place about Stalin or Lenin or Khrushchev and suddenly you're in a hospital being diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression and getting a horse tranq.

And THAT'S if you were lucky.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:16 AM (qyv02)

181 177 Not to knock Tasker or Rockmom of course -- of course I want these tips. But sometimes they fizzle out.But I still want them. Only took 10 minutes to track it down so no big deal. Posted by: ace at February 28, 2013 02:00 PM (LCRYB) ----------------------------------- Okay! Have you heard that Baraka's birth certificate that he presented might be fake? Posted by: Soona at February 28, 2013 02:15 PM (RpHr+) ______________ LOL!--I'm going to hunt you down and spank you--you Okie!

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 10:16 AM (r2PLg)

182 >>>While you're in it, think about how pasting to notepad then copying the text from notepad removes all embedded formatting from text

This is my standard practice, and yet......

I've been in the barrel three times in the last four days. Not sure why this isn't working. Oh and Tami, I hope you enjoy the new bar I installed. And the moose head over the bar, and the stuffed grizzly in the corner.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at February 28, 2013 10:17 AM (4Mv1T)

183 An Icon, you guys.

And now, Barky's thralls are going to say that Woodward is...suddenly senile?

How does one get 'Suddenly Senile'?

Does that mean that Robert Redford is now...Suddenly Senile?

Is Bill Clinton now...Suddenly Senile?

Posted by: wheatie at February 28, 2013 02:10 PM (vlkOo)

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The fuckers.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at February 28, 2013 10:17 AM (RpHr+)

184 181 --- But, but that was the underlings doing! Stalin didn't know about that!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 28, 2013 10:17 AM (C8mVl)

185 Designated Hero/Villain. Good stuff. Meanwhile the horde races ahead and a poor old man struggles to keep up.

"twitter account and not afraid to use it"

Which cliche applies :
"He who hesitates is lost"
or
"Fools rush in where angles fear to tread".
or
"Pride goeth before a fall"
or
"Out of the mouth of babes"
or
An expert is someone from out of town. (Fallacy of the unidentified expert; appeal to authority, Credentials, certification, and pedigree.)

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at February 28, 2013 10:18 AM (4ILQs)

186 And that lying bitch of a wife of his claiming that her let's move is reason for the musheads weight loss is beyond the pale, liars all of them in this admin.

Posted by: 'Nam Grunt at February 28, 2013 10:18 AM (8Hnjw)

187 It's all a show. They're all meat puppets.

Meanwhile, Rome burns.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at February 28, 2013 10:20 AM (qyv02)

188 Ya know....this barrel place kinda grows on ya....literally.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 28, 2013 10:22 AM (X6akg)

189
Hey, Nam--pleasant surprise! Good to see you, how you be?

Posted by: irongrampa at February 28, 2013 10:30 AM (SAMxH)

190 189 Ya know....this barrel place kinda grows on ya....literally. Posted by: Tami at February 28, 2013 02:22 PM (X6akg) ________________ LMAO--uh Tami--you have to look up that "Joke"--it's a military joke and it's pretty gross.

Posted by: tasker at February 28, 2013 10:31 AM (r2PLg)

191 Back when I was a kid I was warmonger, tool. I used to watch The Big Picture, The Twentieth Century, Victory at Sea and their ilk which were military history documentaries.

I used to watch them too. I loved them. However the caveat was my WWII combat vet Dad. He liked to watch them too, but filled in the details of how much it sucked.

It didn't make me that much less of a tool...except I probably was a bit more sanguine then the average tool when I enlisted in '68. My Dad's advice on how to survive was quite politically incorrect nowadays, but obviously valid.

Posted by: trainer @ LIB at February 28, 2013 11:02 AM (QbdUW)

192 I couldn't help it, really.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner Excuse #-------- at February 28, 2013 11:04 AM (r3g6C)

193 Ace-I can't even even begin to describe how frustrated I am with Obama holding national security hostage over the sequester, and how angry I am at the so called journalists who suck the Chosen One's dick-and swallow, and do ass to mouth too. But you sir put up an Aqua song. Well played

Posted by: Danny at February 28, 2013 11:10 AM (caXxE)

194 Twitter is the Babelfish.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at February 28, 2013 11:13 AM (evdj2)

195 This brings us back around to Bob Woodward. He is a master of making himself central to every story he reports. That's been very good for Bob Woodward's public reputation and his bank account. Matt Lewis tried to make this point in typical Matt Lewis fashion, planting the suspicion that Woodward was running some PR grift in this controversy just to promote an upcoming book. Jealous much, Matt.

Posted by: Esau's Message at March 01, 2013 02:51 PM (6c62F)

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