Fitz! Fitz! Fitz!

fitz

Jesus, I guess Chris needed a new pair of pants after wearing out the knees with this one.

I thought Luntz was on the outs with the Repugs? Guess not.

Erm, shouldn’t DeLay apologize as well? Not that Matthews shouldn’t but his mouth is otherwise occupied.

jesus, jane…

didja hafta go to the visual? delays gnarly knob isn’t anything i wanted to think about… i wonder if he rested his ample gut on chris’ blond locks… no i don’t - not really…

but anyway… funny how the abc producer takes a suspension… matthews is teflon

Yuk!!!!!!!! I am too weary to be clever.

abc producer of the emails a coupla weeks ago, that is

Saw the clip over on the Kos. Matthews was barely able to contain his glee at the thought of giving Delay some juicy useful information. His obsiquious partisan gushing made me want to puke. I think even Delay seemed a little disgusted by his shameless fawning. Matthews has just got to go. Boycott him, particularly if you are a Nielson monitored viewer.

Tweety learned from Monica that fellatio can get you access…

>but really, couldn’t he just have worked DeLay’s joint with his hand for a few minutes while he bleated some feable disagreement?

Don’t know why I had trouble with that. Meant to add: Best line so far this month. LMAO!

Jane, equally bad as comments revealing that Tweety is a misogynist is this exchange at the beginning of the video:

MATTHEWS: Hey thank you for calling me. It was a good thing for me, mostly.

DELAY: Oh really.

MATTHEWS: Oh of course it was.

A reporter thanks an interview subject for offering to come on the show because it is “a good thing for me, mostly” and then says “I owe you one”?? !! !!

(Those quotes are over at Huffpo where you get to watch the “found video” of Tweety and his hammer schmoozing and follow along with the transcript at the same time.)

If this isn’t ombudsman material, what is?

Now this is exactly the kind of response we need to each and every instance of ass kissing by these servile media hacks.

God, I love me some Jane Hamsher…

Will Matthews get conjegal visitation rights? Then he can go give his ‘wife’ a blowjob.

conjugal, whatever….

Minor “housekeeping” thought:

This post is “Uncategorized”. I would argue that it qualifies for inclusion in the “Media” category, even though an it is only one example of how crappy the corporate, GOP Shill-filled “Media” is these days.

snarktacular, Jane!

And a possible meme:

Crime is not Christian and it’s not conservative.

(Delay, Reed, etc.)

Or perhaps: It’s not just a culture of corruption. More and more, it appears that many Republicans in the Congress have created a culture of crime.

Alliteration and all that.

Thanks, Jane, for your reaction and recommended action. I had asked for some such response below.

Time to start sending cases of kneepads to some of these so called”news”people.Or those little foam kneeling pads that gardeners use(those are much cheaper than the sets of kneepads.I’m a gardener,I love mine,I think it cost me two bucks,three at most).

I’m growing weary of hateful liars,I really truly am.

I’ve been waiting for the Jane Treatment on this - thanks - every word pure disgusted perfection.

Seriously, knowing what we know about DeLay and his degree of corruption (total), not to mention his utter lack of basic human values (see: Marianas Islands), Chris Matthews ought to have to choke back the vomit to even have the guy appear on his program.

Instead, look at the treatment he gives DeLay. It speaks volumes about Matthews’ own character. And the embarrassing towel-snapping banter only makes me want to punch him in the nutsack.

Chris Matthews is a pathetic excuse for a man.

I heard Ol 60 grit asked Chris for a snowball after Delay left.

Chris has some personal grudge/dislike for Hillary.

I have never heard anything positive about Hillary from Chris on either of his shows.

OT: Yesterday, I posted this reply to a self-congratulatory e-mail from the Democrats about Tom DeLay. Today, a resolution of sorts occured. I received this from my ISP’s mailer:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail1.XXXXX.net.
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
….
<XXXXX@XXXXX.democrats.org>:
Sorry, I wasn’t able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I’m not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

[certain phrases XXXXX’d out for privacy and anti-spam reasons.]

In other words, they deliberately included a bogus “reply-to” address in the e-mail. Standard practice for spammers, but I thought a political party would know better than to do this without explaining how to reply.

Fortunately, they did explain how to get myself off their mailing list, which I’ve now done.

If he’s referring to the article I read it said that of the four 2004 presidential candidates Cheney came across as the most honest.

Does he know he’s being played? Or does he just not take the ethics of his profession seriously? I would think that, you know, this would get you fired. Surely the BugMan can get his own focus group information on the Democrats without the help of a news reporter.

If Matthews wants to help him, can’t he just pick up dog turds off his lawn or something?

“Wednesday April 05, 2006–Forty-one percent (41%) of American adults approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President. Fifty-eight percent (58%) disapprove.

For the first time ever, approval of the President fell below 70% among Republicans (down to 69%).

Overall, just 18% strongly approve of the President’s performance. Forty percent (40%) strongly disapprove”

Rasmussen.

This gooper pollster consistently shows an inflated JAR for GW Clusterfuck- about six points- so his 41% actually means about 35%- but his comments about goopers jumping off the Clusterfuck ship are interesting.

Jane,

You are terrific. Please never shut up.

jef

Jane, Christy,

Possible future pictures:

Elmer Gantry: http://images.rottentomatoes.c.....174_rt.jpg or http://www.art-posters.net/pos.....-00199.jpg and http://www.musicbaron.com/elmer.jpg

“Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all…”

Is Ann Coulter aware of Delay’s remarks?

OT and oh boy–
DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University’s lacrosse coach resigned Wednesday and the school canceled the rest of the season amid a burgeoning scandal involving allegations that three players raped a stripper at an off-campus party.

Mike Pressler spent 16 seasons at Duke and won three Atlantic Coast Conference championships. Last year, his team appeared in the national championship game.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....tigation_5

Just one minor thing. I think, from watching the tape, that the exchange went on BEFORE the interview. That, of course,would make it even worse.

Chris Matthews is a GOP political operative if I ever saw one.

Liberal bias, my ass!

So I guess this is how things usually work in the journalism business? A journalist (OK, I know, we’re talking about Tweety here) gets hold of some research done by a pollster, and the first thing he does is pass it along to the now-disgraced leader of the opposing party? “Here, you’re gonna love this.”

This is what passes for objective journalism these days?

(Rhetorical question, of course)

Tweety has always liked Delay- don’t know why- but he has.

He did a show after Delay’s indictment where he interviewed the bug man in the street in his neighborhood.

Delay lives in an upper class Houston suburb- when he’s in Texas.

Tweety said “How can people think that you’re takin money when you live just like normal people” or something to that effect.

Tweety’s tone deaf.

If most normal people saw Delay’s house they would think “mansion”.

“Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all”

DeLay really is for conservative values - sexism.

I meant to say two presidential and two vice presidential candidates.

As for the subject at hand, yes, Chris Matthews is an obsequious little asshole. At least, he is when Republicans not named Dick Cheney are on his program. If you want to write to some of his sponsors as well, there’s a list of them at Open Letter To Chris Matthews. They have an article somewhere about how to do that.

Howard Dean on Tweety just fired off that we need people who will put America before political party - unlike the Republicans!

I suspect Matthews has been the recipient of many gifts from DeLay. I will bet some of his children are getting great job offers from the DeLay machine, or getting internships on those permanent bases in Iraq with all the fastfood shops and swank hotels. He is getting something — besides what Jane mentioned. Yup, he certainly is. His need to be ‘loved’ is a bit too apparant.

A prediction:

If by November, oil is above $80 per barrel

And if thirty year fixed mortgage rates are above 7%

Goopers will lose both the house and the senate.

Errr. What’s to LIKE about Hillary? This a serious question. As far as I can tell, she’s not on the bus of peace & justice.

Reminds me of another disgusting bit of sexism coming from MSNBC- where Scarbourgh discuses what a better “housewife” Laura is than Hillary. I mean have these people heard of Eleanor Roosevelt!? Jesus, never in my life did I think that we would be subjected to crap like this in 2006.

I thought I was lucky that I wouldn’t even have to have the “you can be whatever you want to be” discussion with my 8 year old daughter because it would be so obvious to her. Guess not.

“Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all…”

Meanwhile over at Faux Neeeews, the complaint is that Hilary neglected her housekeeping duties. Since when is the First Lady the First Maid?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200604050002

Another thing we need to jump on Tweety for the next time it happens (and it will), is when he fluffs his brother Jim Matthews on his show(s). Brother Jim is Lynn Swann’s running mate on the republican ticket for the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. I’ve seen it happen twice already, and I only watch Matthew’s shows sporadically. Perhaps y’all in the community can document this EGREGIOUS (hat tip to egregious for the nice word :-) ) pandering the next time it occurs, or find transcripts of previous times, and get a complaint campaign going to: NBC, MSNBC, FEC?, FCC?, sponsors?

forgot the link from Media Matters- here it is

timewarp-

great minds think a like.

The only correction I have for you is that actually the discussion of Hillary was on MSNBC- not Fox.

Oh right, Scarborough is on MSNBC not faux! Though I don’t watch any of it, so how would I know!

Fox- MSNBC- CNN

same difference.

When are we going to get an Air America of TV?

This isn’t too surprising considering that the Tweety bird is a species of SWALLOW.

Tweety likes Delay and Chimpy and McCain and Laura Ingraham and Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Tweety doesn’t like Cheney and Hillary and always goes after Katrina vanden Huevel.
Cheney must have slighted him once or twice; otherwise it appears he is a rethug tool and a dangerous wittle birdie.
ps— I am not a fan of Hillary now– I thought she was a darn fine first lady though and handled herself well during a very difficult time. Laura would have probably cried on teevee and run over chimpy with a big, black shiny Escalade had the same happened to her.

Wasn’t Tweety scheduled to speak at some event with links to Abramoff? There may be more to this “love that dare not speak its name” than a simple blowjob….

Add on to prediction- if oil is above $80, mortgage rates above 7%, AND american casualties in Iraq have hit 3,000 (656 to go)–then goopers will lose the house and the senate by substantial margins.

These are the “metrics” as Rummy would say- and there’s not much Clusterfuck can do about ANY of em fast enough to matter.

Nothing will make me like Hillary more than reading about what a bad housekeeper she was in the White House.

I realize a lot of the Hillary hating just is pretty blatant sexism- what and upity women she is!

I can’t stand her because she voted for the war and won’t really fight the administration- probably like everyone else here. However that shouldn’t stop us from pointing out how sexist the right is.

Q. What is the anagram for Tweety?

A. Wet Yet?

Well done. calvin is very happy to share your work with mrs. calvin because she thinks calvin is the only one who talks like that. Obviously, she was not a farm cat, but rather was raised in the genteel city where she was fed canned food. Although calvin must say that her experience with the current administration is close to turning her into a farm cat.

Oh yeah, Hillary is uppity.. and I HATE that new afro!

Goopers hate the Clintons- both of em. They specialize in nuetralizing gooper issues- eight more years of the Clintons- and goopers won’t have an issue left.

And speaking of woman know-it-alls, if we want to start comparing something substantive regarding the “duties” of the two First Ladies, how about their performance as “mother?” I mean look at the Bush twins as compared to Chelsea Clinton. I know who I would rather my daughter hang out with…

Remember “it takes a village to raise a child?”

Raise yer kids on a pig ranch- and what do ya expect ta get?

And wrt to this blowhardian whackjob and religion– I am so sick of Tweety, Timmeh and Bill Bennett touting their Catholic ole boys club– it gives the religion a bad name and is no different than the fundies’ constant proclamations of faith.

I heard that tape but I got the feeling that he was simply repeating what was reflected in the poll. It was that “I owe you one” part that really bugged the shit out of me.

Knob…

OT
Look what Howard Dean has been spending the DNC money on: click here

I wonder if Delay is thinking about that “know it all woman” who headed Tony Rudy’s case?

Anyone notice Tweety hide his face in laughter when Dean mentioned not needing DeLay as a poster child when you still have Rove with his security clearance? That moment revealed the absurd conflict between Tweety upholding his outside relationship with Rove sphere and acknowledging the absurd degree of corruption being discussed in his interview with Dean. He broke down, and his giggle was repulsive.
.

What’s the fastest four-handed game on the Chris Matthews show?

When it slips out.

Dear MSNBC Editors:

The below transcript of yesterday’s “Hardball” interview w Tom Delay is an embarrassment to MSNBC and an insult to the very viewers you so condescendingly purport to care about.

Your host, Chris Matthews, should apologize to you and his viewers for one, and resign for two.

It’s quite explicit — he is not an “objective” interviewer or supposed “journalist” and his conduct is unbecoming of the former and the latter.

This is not the first time and I, for one am an outraged FORMER consumer of MSNBC because of it. What fraudulent, naive, childish hero worshiping DRIVEL, Mr. Matthews.

It’s fraud, plain and simple

MATTHEWS: Have you seen this new focus group stuff on the candidates?

DELAY: No I haven’t

MATTHEWS: It’s great stuff. I’ll send it to you — it’s great — yeah it’s great stuff. Hillary, John Kerry. All these guys, all these democrats, and how they do. And, uh, Frank Luntz did it…

DELAY: who I like

CM: …and Hillary did not do well. Kerry did well.

DELAY: You’re kidding.

MATTHEWS: I am NOT kidding. They didn’t like Edwards — they thought he was a rich lawyer, pretending to care about poor people…

DELAY: Too slick. Too slick.

MATTHEWS: …and Hillary was a know-it-all.

DELAY: Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all

Fellow DUers are grateful for the links; as you can see, some are delivering rather blunt messages to tweetalinsky and his MSNBC enablers:

http://www.democraticundergrou.....215;852480

Thanks.

IMO, that NSFW link should have a warning. Way too much for me.

Yep,

Here is the focus Group that Mathews was quoting from (pdf)

Mathews was correct. Here is the quote from the focus group regarding Hillary:

“Negatives: Clinton comes across as highly partisan, overly negative – and often bitter. There is a tone of accusation that runs through much of what she says today. Perhaps she is held to a different standard, but regardless, her remarks often come across as bashing, angry, harsh and calculated. Democrats find some of her language to be too wonky and too hard to follow, at times verging on “know-it-all.†And that leads some to dismiss her as unelectable.”

Thanks for Tweety’s Email cjmatthews@msnbc.com … I just sent him a mash note ;-} I even invoked Monica’s name!

Maybe Tom is laying out his wife’s and daughter’s defense plea:
They aren’t ‘know it all women’ your Honor– they are real dumb– they both stuck with me and just aren’t clever enough to know right from wrong. I have it on the public record that I believe that there is “Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all.” You can watch the video and talk to my good friend Tweety Matthews.

Yeah, but didn’t you hear? A black woman shoved a security guard!!!!

Here’s the Frank Republican Luntz report.

Luntz focus group tests the early 2008 Dem field
WARNING: .pdf http://images.dailykos.com/ima.....z_2008.pdf

No wonder he was so righteous about Monica. Reaction formation. I think Lewinsky has suffered enough, or I would urge people to refer to Matthews as Monica.

I’ve got to ask this for all the “Simpsons” fans out there. Since Harry Shearer was the one who got the video first, do think he rubbed his hands together and went “excellent” after he found out what it was?

Well, SOMEONE had to ask.

the McKinney thing is orchestrated by Denny Hastert, the GOP House Speaker. When I heard that night the Speaker’s spokesperson Bonjean holler about the incident I knew it was a counterattack. Normally a Congresscritter could piss on a Capitol Hill cops shoes and the cop would have to apologize…

Tweety sprang a major bone for Chimpy’s codpiece too, remember that? He was yelling it from the top of Brokeback Mountain!

Heck, I dont subscribe to Cable TV and I don’t even watch Chris Matthews. But I read about him on blogs and I agree with all the ranting against him.

What I dont understand is the lack of insight by posters here as to why he has folks like DeLay and O’Beirne on his show. One reason was brought out (I think) on Kos: All the politics talk shows have more conservative talking head guests than liberal or even independent ones.

A big reason is the success of Fox TV. Like the flies-to-shit type of business electronic media can be, it only makes sense that its competitors would try to imitate Fox’ formula because they think it will bring them the same ratings gold.
Truth and information be damned–this is about $$$$$.

At the same time, dont discount the fact there are media consultants out there telling producers at these networks the same thing: You need to be more like Fox TV, so spoon feed your audience the conservative personalities who will incite them into righteous indignation that will result in ratings gold.

James Wolcott covers all of this brilliantly in his book “Attack Poodles.” And let me repeat, Tom DeLay talking with Chris Matthews is not supposed to be journalism—its about getting the viewers riled on both sides, which leads to great ratings.

It’s also plain that DeLay had an open line with Chris to complain about coverage.

On the tape, Chris says that when his aid told him DeLay was on the line she said “don’t worry -he’s not calling to complain”.

Past time for an organized national netroots/grassroots full board boycott of MSNBC.

Until and unless the hopeless Chris Matthews show is canned we can and should boycott every MSNBC sponsor on his show. Simple as that.

Warm up with letters to his sponsors with cc to the network. The next wave of letters could be done in reverse order.

We can do this folks!

OT (repost), but a bit more important than Tweety & DeLay’s Brokeback Molehill…

Snip from the new James Fallows Atlantic Monthly article on Iran:

“…As it has watched Iran’s evolution, the United States has delivered more and more studied warnings that “all options remain openâ€â€”code to the Iranians that they should worry about an attack. In different ways, George W. Bush and two aspiring successors, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, have expressed this view. Government officials in Israel have been more explicit still, with the defense minister saying that Israel “will not accept†Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Intellectuals, activists, and out-of-power politicians from Newt Gingrich to Benjamin Netanyahu have all urged their leaders to stand firm.

The biggest change has been in what Soviet strategists used to call the “correlation of forces.†Every tool at Iran’s disposal is now more powerful, and every complication for the United States worse, than when our war-gamers determined that a pre-emptive strike could not succeed. Iran has used the passing time to disperse, diversify, conceal, and protect its nuclear centers. Instead of a dozen or so potential sites that would have to be destroyed, it now has at least twice that many. The Shiite dominance of Iraq’s new government and military has consolidated, and the ties between the Shiites of Iran and those of Iraq have grown more intense. Early this year, the Iraqi Shiite warlord Muqtada al-Sadr suggested that he would turn his Mahdi Army against Americans if they attacked Iran.

Economically, Iran also has far greater leverage than before. Through 2004, the price of a barrel of oil averaged less than $40. In 2006, it has been above $60, an increase of more than 50 percent. Rising demand from China, India, and, yes, the United States has left virtually no slack in the world’s oil markets. OPEC’s “spare†production capacity—the amount it could quickly supply beyond current demand—is about 1 million barrels a day. Iran now supplies about 4 million barrels a day. If it chose to, or had to, remove much of its oil from the market, a bidding war could send the price of a barrel of oil above $100. Eventually, everyone would adjust. Eventually, the Great Depression ended.

Perhaps the American and Israeli hard-liners know all this, and are merely bluffing. If so, they have made an elementary strategic error. The target of their bluff is the Iranian government, and the most effective warnings would be discreet and back-channel. Iranian intelligence should be picking up secret signals that the United States is planning an attack. By giving public warnings, the United States and Israel “create ‘excess demand’ for military action,†as our war-game leader Sam Gardiner recently put it, and constrain their own negotiating choices. The inconvenient truth of American foreign policy is that the last five years have left us with a series of choices—and all of them are bad. The United States can’t keep troops in Iraq indefinitely, for obvious reasons. It can’t withdraw them, because of the chaos that would ensue. The United States can’t keep prisoners at Guantánamo Bay (and other overseas facilities) indefinitely, because of international and domestic challenges. But it can’t hastily release them, since many were and more have become terrorists. And it can’t even bring them to trial, because of procedural abuses that have already occurred. Similarly, the United States can’t accept Iran’s emergence as a nuclear power, but it cannot prevent this through military means—unless it is willing to commit itself to all-out war. The central flaw of American foreign policy these last few years has been the triumph of hope, wishful thinking, and self-delusion over realism and practicality. Realism about Iran starts with throwing out any plans to bomb.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200605/fallows-iran

Such are the fruits of allowing an incoherent dilettante into the U.S. Presidency.

Now I have been a little disappointed with Hillary, but I can’t stand Republican-style attacks on her. They are misogynistic. & Bill O’Reilly seems obsessed with getting Hillary alone on the “No-Spin Zone” in a peach pantsuit, and he had the gall to write about this women-hating tainted fantasy in one of his books.
CT news. Traffic was better than I would’ve expected given Chimpy’s visit, although I am loathe to give Chimpy any credit for “good planning.” Shays got dissed by Chimpy & Gov.Rell. Chimpy gave him lukewarm praise in Bridgeport & said,” er, uh . . .he’s independent.” I smell a rat & it’s not just Ann Coulter.Shays supports the war, but doesn’t always vote Republican. Oh, I think Bush’s healthcare talk was given to all Republicans and one Dem. In Bridgeport. In the spirit of the full moon . . . Ow, ow, ow.

Keep in mind what we have here. We’ve got a guy on his way to prison, resigned in disgrace, surrounded by his fellow crooks trooping off to prison. And not only does Matthews suck up to him in every way possible, Delay treats him like a powerless sycophant. Which, apparently, he is.

The sooner we recognize Matthews’ plan, the sooner we can work to stop it. He’s not going to be at Hardball forever, but that’s his last stop in broadcasting before he runs as a Republican for Specter’s seat in 2010. He’s from PA, his brother is building a campaign network now in HIS run for LT. Governor of Pennsylvania, and I’d be willing to bet that by 2009, Matthews quits his show and moves full-time to PA. Conveniently, he’ll be able to use the 2008 Presidential election to further push his name recognition.

Too very good. Way to Harry S.

I just sent Chris an email:

Hey Chris Matthews, nothing worse than a blog
know-it-all, huh?

Ooooooo, that was too funny. Now we all know.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....18506.html

Tweety sprang a major bone for Chimpy’s codpiece too, remember that? He was yelling it from the top of Brokeback Mountain!
Tweety and that other character, er uh . . .Gordon Liddy. They *loved* the Chimpman’s codpiece.

EW!!

EW! EW! EW!!

Afterglow pillow talk with these two men constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Chris Matthew, that “sweet” little canary for the right-wing. Sing, tweety, sing.

Bobby G - great find. I have a hard time using as innocousous a word as dilettante though.

“dilettante” is way too French … “dabbler” is what we call them in Indiana … “fuckup” is what we call the Preznit !

BTW - here in the heart of red, Dems (and some REps) do like Edwards. Of course, they like Bayh too, but still. I think he’s going to get Rep. hits bc he is attractive on a ticket, but that’s jmo and I’m not in the political league of most here.

What is the deal with Hillary? Hillary drove that poor Mr. Safire stark raving mad, you know. Right there in the editorial page of the New York Times -we went nuts.

I think we need to have a Democrat not named Clinton to win the WH. Then maybe some people on the right will quit attributing dark satanic supernatural powers to the Clintons, and see that a Democrat can legitimately be president. Then their heads will blow up, I suppose.

dark satanic supernatural powers to the Clintons
I am wondering if that makes Poppy Bush an acolyte by mere association.

sorry HE went nuts. We went nuts too, whenever we tried to read him, but that is a different matter.

Matthews run for political office????? That’s a joke, right. No way ever in a million years could be get elected. Late night comics would love it, but that is about all.

LOL, yeah “dabbler”… he dabbled at being the Oilman, the Texas Rangers “Owner” (w/a 2% stake, haha), Texas Governor, now our Play President. Next stop(assuming he doesn’t suspend the Cosntitution and stay on)? MLB Commish. Perfect gig for his dabbling ass.

I would boycott everything on MSNBC (#83) ‘cept Olbermann. The best hour of news on television (Daily Show is only 30 min)

Maybe HE could make Tweety “worst person in the world”

” innocousous ” LOL That’s what happens when bad typist, lazy proofer, has dinner and cous cous on their mind. Btw, the lag time on the typing is making me nuts. The cure for all of it I guess is to type in something else, then copy over? Or do I get “special” lag time bc I rant about how much I liked living in a country that had a working Constitution?

Good times.

Kirby! You live in Central right? Any word there on the Day of the Chimp?

Ya think they’d let Keith loose on Tweety?

“…another story my producers are FORCING me to cover…”

Nah.

“worst” is too much credit. “Most pathetic syncophant on TV”, maybe.

Jane, please. “Joint” is Jeff Goldstein’s favorite synonym for tallywhacker. Be a little more discriminating, will ya?

Agree with Mary in 71.

I suspect the lag is coz of an overloaded or underpowered computer … I’m running a superfast whizbang and I can barely detect a lag in the preview window…

Bobby–great article- makes sense.

GWClusterfuck seems to be trying to intimidate the Iranians-with negative results..

Lots of speculation that he might try to lure Iran into a provocation that would make a strike more excusable. If this article is accurate- that seems like a doomed strategy..

I suspect that he will do SOMETHING to flex his muscles publicly before the election- a provocative naval move? Carriers off shore?

Perhaps Tweety should get a new name for his show.

May I suggest Teabag?

BobbyG,

Re: “LOL, yeah “dabblerâ€â€¦ he dabbled at being the Oilman, the Texas Rangers “Owner†(w/a 2% stake, haha)”

THANK YOU! I’m still SHOCKED that the so called Major League Baseball “expert”, Keith Olberman said this Monday night…

“The former majority owner of the Texas Rangers going National League on us, ceremonially opening the season before the Reds hosted the Chicago Cubs in Cincinnati, calling the toss his, quote, “best pitch, which was kind of a slow ball.†His words, not ours.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12150659/

“Majority owner” hahaha

“Duke University Lacrosse Coach Resigns”
By DUFF WILSON and VIV BERNSTEIN
Published: April 5, 2006
DURHAM, N.C., April 5 — Duke University’s president canceled the men’s lacrosse team’s season and accepted the resignation of its coach today, hours after Durham County authorities disclosed an e-mail message written by a team member saying he planned to invite strippers to his dorm room, kill them and cut off their skin.
The e-mail message was sent shortly after a party three weeks ago at which a woman has said she was raped by three members of the team. The message was disclosed this morning when the authorities unsealed a search warrant that was executed March 27 on the student’s dormitory room and vehicle…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04.....-duke.html

McKinney case goes to the GJ– jeebus.

Howard Dean said some great things on Hardball today. I think if the Dems focus on what he said they have a good chance at not only taking back the Senate, but maybe the House and the Presidency.

I don’t know if it’s especially ironic, but did anyone notice that the list of contacts provided above did not include one single woman?

DELAY: Nothing worse than a woman know-it-all
Yeah, hottub guy! Maybe “uppity” is the word he almost used. Delay needs to go to jail, right now!!!

rwcole -

This will a very dangerous period. Iran is 3x the geographic area and 2x the population of Iraq. Now that Bush-Rumsfeld have eviscerated our ground force, the only Game we got is bombs and missiles. Unlike Iraq, they will be able to answer, in multiple ways (and, don’t forget, we used up our entire inventory of cruise missiles invading Iraq. While we’ve re-stocked, we’d quickly shoot the wad again. You don’t simply order up 10,000 more for delivery next week).

Cozumel -

Yep, 2%, bought mostly with a sweetheart insider loan that he repaid when they sold the team for a huge profit after sticking the taxpayers with the new stadium.

The “Owner” !!! LMFAO!!!

OT (as usual) Was wondering about the lag — I have a “spare parts” computer taped together with my son-in-law’s computer spare parts from his job. Which is (shshsh) computer security. But it was free, sooooo … I was in a computer store and looking at a brand new computer ‘in a box’ and I asked the salesman if this will play computer games. He said he did not know. What a computer store -geesh.

Confession — I have many of the old Tomb Raider computer games and this spare part computer will not play them. I really liked to play them too. [Hangs head.]

Mary #100: Guess I am not the only one having problems with the slow typing. This morning I could enter only about 2-3 characters per sec. Anybody know what’s going on? Is the software checking for troll behavior even as we type? Say it ain’t to, Jane/Christy!

http://justoneminute.typepad.c.....060405.pdf

New Libby filing

I haven’t read it yet, don’t know what it is.