January 21, 2013
— andy Excerpting these pieces really doesn't do them justice, so be sure to read them both in their entirety.
First up, Jeff Goldstein leaves Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall battered, bruised, and looking for the tag number of the truck that hit him.
... Marshall is overtly proud that heÂ’s surrendered his duty as a first responder for himself and his family and, in extremis, his community or nation, for the cheap grace of claiming no taint from the demon metal / polymer killing machine so fetishized by those who donÂ’t recognize that arms are for hugging (and aborting fetuses), not for the pleasure or yahoos who believe themselves some bulwark against imaginary tyrannical evil. Besides, everyone knows the best weapon is an ostentatious new law coupled to a good, hearty Twitter sneer campaign. Drop bon mots, not bombs!
Not to be outdone, Michael Moynihan dismantles the snotty Piers Morgan and leaves him stacked in nice, tidy little pieces ready for shipment back to whatever hole he crawled out of.
According to Politico, Morgan feels set upon, annoyed that his critics focus only on his interviews with conspiracy theorists like Jones and former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura. “Why don’t people watch my interviews with Justice Scalia, President Clinton, President Carter, the Dalai Lama, Michael Bloomberg, any of the Republican candidates for the nominee race, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.” It’s a question that CNN’s top brass would also like answered—his ratings have ticked up recently, though are still well short of his competitors at MSNBC and FOX—but it also rather misses the point. The act of interviewing clever and important people doesn’t, on its own, confer respectability. If The View were to spend twenty minutes discussing literature with Philip Roth, the only lesson to be drawn is that ABC hired a terrific booker—and that Roth was perhaps getting desperate in retirement.
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Posted by: G. at January 21, 2013 06:08 AM (s9+la)
Posted by: teej at January 21, 2013 06:12 AM (k4ET0)
Proggs really are the ultimate in supremecists, aren't they...
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at January 21, 2013 06:14 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: G. at January 21, 2013 06:15 AM (s9+la)
Posted by: Peerless Morgan at January 21, 2013 06:17 AM (fDKXE)
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 06:18 AM (53z96)
The only thing that matters is how the great unwashed perceives this.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 21, 2013 06:19 AM (GsoHv)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 21, 2013 06:21 AM (++kZl)
Posted by: G. at January 21, 2013 10:15 AM (s9+la)
So, it looks like we should side with the barbarians. Morons = Barbarians?
Posted by: tcn at January 21, 2013 06:21 AM (VLG62)
6 [Dramatic Pause] How dare you criticize greatness, I'm a well respected journalist. A celebrity. A paragon. Who are you? You're nothing. You nasty little pile of wombat doo.
Posted by: Peerless Morgan at January 21, 2013 10:17 AM (fDKXE)
Yeah, explain to me again why you're no longer a British journalist?
Posted by: BCochran1981 at January 21, 2013 06:22 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at January 21, 2013 06:23 AM (WGFsn)
9 Posted by: Mr. Pink
so we STOP RESPONDING! I'm so sick of hearing the rigth try to defend flash charges from the left. Find 5 good talking points and stick to them and stop trying to prove we're not racist.
Posted by: Talibill at January 21, 2013 06:25 AM (09GrE)
Posted by: gigg at January 21, 2013 06:27 AM (41VCE)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 21, 2013 06:29 AM (MPjT8)
Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2013 06:31 AM (BBWjt)
Posted by: Hopeless at January 21, 2013 06:32 AM (71nnc)
Posted by: Hopeless at January 21, 2013 06:34 AM (71nnc)
Posted by: tcn at January 21, 2013 10:21 AM (VLG62)
No, I'd say your modern day barbarian spends most of their day watching springer wondering where they can score their dime bag of weed while the basis for the tribute we pay them (welfare) run around unattended and terrorize our schools.
Posted by: Jollyroger at January 21, 2013 06:34 AM (t06LC)
Posted by: blaster at January 21, 2013 06:34 AM (J7koW)
You want to bring down the EBT system . . . .
Posted by: RoyalOil at January 21, 2013 06:37 AM (imtbm)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 21, 2013 06:37 AM (++kZl)
Sorry, but not responding to Dem attacks has worked for us pretty much never.
Cf., the latter Bush years, the 2008 election, and the 2012 election.
Posted by: AD at January 21, 2013 06:37 AM (pcUFD)
Posted by: The littl shyning man at January 21, 2013 06:38 AM (PH+2B)
We are.
Why do you think I say Run red, for self-reliant people to not be overran by free shit army we need to get a certain density and refuse to play the collectivist games.
Refuseniks, and the Russian mob were quite capitalist IN Soviet Russia.
There are prices to be paid to be certain but it can be done.
That is why Texas MUST stay red.
Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 06:38 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at January 21, 2013 06:38 AM (OktDr)
@20
Morgan has somewhere around 500,000 viewers. In primetime. If you factor out all those places like airport terminals where they keep CNN on, what does that really mean? 100,000 maybe? After the publicity stunts post shooting?
Cancelbait.
Posted by: Jollyroger at January 21, 2013 06:38 AM (t06LC)
Posted by: ette at January 21, 2013 06:39 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 21, 2013 06:39 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 21, 2013 06:42 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 21, 2013 06:44 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: Bill at January 21, 2013 06:45 AM (xFYVW)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 21, 2013 06:46 AM (MPjT8)
Posted by: Popcorn at January 21, 2013 06:46 AM (uIpSF)
Also Obama caught tweeting from the church service.
That's two more fiascos and the day is young!
You may now resume your discussion.
Posted by: Miss Marple at January 21, 2013 06:48 AM (GoIUi)
Urge to kill...rising....
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at January 21, 2013 06:49 AM (ZKzrr)
Conservative Earp: No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.
Posted by: There's a movie quote for everything at January 21, 2013 06:49 AM (53z96)
So He doesn't really hear our prayers. Who knew?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at January 21, 2013 06:50 AM (ZKzrr)
He's sending "suggestions to God to improve His word.....
trust me Giggles is that smug
Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 06:51 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Julian I'm a Sausage at January 21, 2013 06:52 AM (Oi60j)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at January 21, 2013 06:53 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: ette at January 21, 2013 06:53 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 21, 2013 06:54 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 21, 2013 06:56 AM (x59Gv)
Posted by: ette at January 21, 2013 06:56 AM (nqBYe)
My credit card number but someone else's name on the card.
Fucking Michigan
Posted by: H Badger at January 21, 2013 06:56 AM (n/0Nw)
Posted by: teh Wind at January 21, 2013 06:57 AM (HBU8E)
Posted by: The littl shyning man at January 21, 2013 06:58 AM (PH+2B)
Posted by: H Badger at January 21, 2013 06:59 AM (n/0Nw)
Posted by: Clemenza at January 21, 2013 07:01 AM (x59Gv)
Ha Ha.
The good news? I still have my Special Edition Obama Chia head, maybe I'll put it on ebay.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 21, 2013 07:01 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 21, 2013 07:02 AM (RuUvx)
put it through a flame thrower first, it will probably sell for more that way
Posted by: chemjeff at January 21, 2013 07:02 AM (BBWjt)
I think that makes you a "farmer" under Pigford rules.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at January 21, 2013 07:03 AM (ZKzrr)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 21, 2013 07:03 AM (oe1aw)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 21, 2013 07:04 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: Vic at January 21, 2013 07:04 AM (53z96)
Phil Mickelson:
Well, it's been an interesting offseason. And I'm going to have to make some drastic changes. I'm not going to jump the gun and do it right away, but I will be making some drastic changes.
Q: Meaning leaving from California?
Mickelson:
I'm not sure.
Q. Moving to Canada?
Mickelson:
I'm not sure what exactly, you know, I'm going to do yet. I'll probably talk about it more in depth next week.
Posted by: Jimmie the Greek at January 21, 2013 07:05 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 21, 2013 07:05 AM (MPjT8)
>>I dunno Piers. I'd rather watch myself getting a root canal than spend a minute watching you.
Piers Morgan or Obama?
Posted by: Mama AJ, not quite playing the Headline thread game correctly at January 21, 2013 07:06 AM (SUKHu)
Morons = Vikings.
Just remember: Pillage first, THEN burn. You get more workable stuff that way.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 21, 2013 10:42 AM (GFM2b)
Also, remember to burn before you rape........because it's more romantic in the firelight.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 21, 2013 07:06 AM (TIIx5)
Shit I thought the link was going to be to Pixy's new site. You remember.
http://tinyurl.com/2fubqn7
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 21, 2013 07:06 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at January 21, 2013 07:07 AM (21TJo)
Posted by: Fourth Virginia at January 21, 2013 07:07 AM (wbmaj)
Posted by: USS Diversity at January 21, 2013 11:05 AM (MPjT
NO. You are already covered for fraud. $50 is your max liability on a card. Life Lock is a con.
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 21, 2013 07:08 AM (wR+pz)
What Powell and Ogabe have in common is they both got a lot of power through benefit of things set up to try to ease our guilt on slavery despite bith not having a single slave in their bloodline.
"irony"
Posted by: sven10077 at January 21, 2013 07:09 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: gigg at January 21, 2013 07:10 AM (41VCE)
Posted by: somejoe at January 21, 2013 07:11 AM (SSWdi)
So true. Interesting, the two most famous "Blacks" have no US Black blood in their bodies.
So, that begs the question. Where are the X Slaves?
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 21, 2013 07:11 AM (wR+pz)
I noticed on Adam Baldwins twitter that he is mentioning Rochelle Richie,
Just great, she is a local newsreader here.
Another media personality what needs to just read the prompter, and otherwise shut up.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 21, 2013 07:15 AM (jlngc)
I had a heated discussion with my boss and another manager at work about their wish to ban the evil 'assault' weapons and high capacity mags as reasonable regulations.
My tactic is to turn it on them and ask what makes them think they have the right to dictate to me, a law abiding citizen, what I can and can't have, especially rights afforded to me by the Constitution. I ask them if this is not the definition of tyranny?
I ask if they also want to ban Jet Skis and ATVs as they cause more deaths than any 'assault' weapon and yet there is no 'reason' for someone to have them.
It always ends with the same non answer - " Well (stutter,stammer, stutter) I just don't think anybody needs them and that's my opinion. "
Posted by: polynikes at January 21, 2013 07:15 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 21, 2013 11:11 AM (wR+pz)
Isn't one on the Supreme Court?
Posted by: Hrothgar - LIB (for the Children, of course) at January 21, 2013 07:22 AM (Cnqmv)
Chapter one of "Butter-Poached Lobster For Me But None For Thee: Become A Sneering, Petty Tyrant In 21 Easy Lessons."
Posted by: T.Hunter - laisser brûler at January 21, 2013 07:27 AM (EZl54)
Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 21, 2013 07:27 AM (RuUvx)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 21, 2013 07:28 AM (vDbBE)
Posted by: scottst at January 21, 2013 07:29 AM (e1HyS)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 21, 2013 07:47 AM (miBZu)
Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 21, 2013 07:49 AM (miBZu)
Posted by: Hopepess at January 21, 2013 07:50 AM (NSO0r)
Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 21, 2013 07:55 AM (RuUvx)
Who is this 'Morgan' fellow of which you-all speak? I have just arrived here from the planet 'WhereZit' and am not yet 'tuned' into what/who/where is the most gratifying.
Is He someone I should be getting * 'real close' * to?
We're all really radioactive, you know and *this* is how we show affection, and good feelings.......
Posted by: Uncle Kevvie says : Howdy All at January 21, 2013 07:57 AM (gZD5/)
Because no matter who you're interviewing, you're still a criminal fraud from a tired old island whose employment by CNN remains a matter of mystery unless it is for your willingness to spout the right lies.
Because, when all is said and done, Robin Leach did it first and better years ago.
Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 21, 2013 07:57 AM (qvify)
Posted by: ejo at January 21, 2013 08:07 AM (GXvSO)
We shouldn't be judged by the things we possess, but on the content of our character.
Posted by: Marmo at January 21, 2013 08:23 AM (pcgW1)
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Posted by: bill at January 21, 2013 01:02 PM (f/qE7)
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