Liar, liar, pants on fire...

That was ...carrying swastikas and symbols like that...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/pelosi-wasnt-hallucinating-ctd.html

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/07/pelosi-swastikas/

So far the feds have taken over the banks, insurance, autos,...

Tell me again how and why that happened? Gee, how did that come to be?

re: reply to harpie

It ain't there yet, and I don't know if it will get there but, for some folks, it really wouldn't be that big a step from Here (and at sig):

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=111086&catid=8

The problem, to me, is there are so few prohibitions, that inhibitions are becoming frictionless.

Ain't you the lucky one. Congrats ... I think. You're right. That Glenn-ism ought to come in handy. So handy, in fact, you ought to have it printed on a business sized card to hand out. Improves department efficiency and all.

I'm looking forward to them, and to their reliable thread participants who don't normally comment at Salon. Had a ball the last time you arranged for substitutes (Pam, AL, and Chris Floyd). Assigning them specific days will make it a little easier on your readers... Last time, with nearly all three posting long form on every day made it something else to keep up. It was wunnerful, wunnerful but I was plumb tuckered at the end. I always wondered if that wasn't by design.

Have an terrific vacation!

The War We Can’t Win
Afghanistan & the Limits of American Power
Andrew J. Bacevich

http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2609

Via Sully, Cillizza has an epiphany.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/fix-notes/a-word-on-mouthpiece-theater.html

and, @ sig

Score one for the Two Dudes who were Trenchant as hell..

The Washington Post has brought down the curtain on "Mouthpiece Theater."

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/spitting-out-mouthpiece-by-dday-where.html

Post'd!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/us/06jefferson.html

Right. The "loot" stashed in the freezer guy.

n/t

We are waiting, we are disappointed [...] To resolve this issue internally is preferable to losing control of this. - Hillary Clinton

Did she plotz™ (H/T Derbig Mooser) when she said it?

If blatant hypocrisy is going to be the New and Improved Amerikun value, with which we are going to present ourselves to the world, by the Jayzus, we need civil servants and elected officials who can spout this shit without pulling a Mukasey**. If she could pull off that performance without collapsing and needing medical attention, then she is a better woman than Mukasey is a man. We'll have no freakin' pantywaist professionals in The Great One's (blessed be his name) administration. We'll show those conservatives how it's done by doG.

** http://jonathanturley.org/2008/11/27/before-attorney-general-mukaseys-collapse-a-judge-stood-up-and-called-him-a-tyrant/

When some loud braggart tries to put me down
And says his school is great
I tell him right away
Now whats the matter buddy
Aint you heard of my school
Its number one in the state

So be true to your school now
Just like you would to your girl or guy
Be true to your school now
And let your colors fly
Be true to your school

I got a lettermans sweater
With a letter in front
I got for footbal and track
Im proud to where it now
When I cruise around
The other parts of the town
I got a decal in back

[refrain]

On friday well be jacked up on the football game
And Ill be ready to fight
Were gonna smash em now
My girl will be working on her pom-poms now
And shell be yelling tonight

[refrain]

Rah rah rah be true to your school
Rah rah rah be true to your school
Rah rah rah be true to your school
Rah rah rah be true to your school

-The Beachboys

Sorry, All. Couldn't resist. Done and out ;-)

...it feels unfair to have an elephant on one end of the teeter-totter and an anorexic leprechaun on the other end. When I feel there's an actual "fair and balanced" media, then I'll be all for going after anyone and everyone who uses chicanery and thuggish tactics to achieve their ends. - WM

It feels unfair, because it is unfair. Although, I'm not sure what fairness has to do with anything. Facts, such as they are, are neither fair nor unfair. Facts can support or fail to support. Facts don't care if they're fair. And, someone reporting the facts shouldn't care, either.

If we could ever get down to just plain unedited facts, we could begin to worry about the interpretation of those facts, which is where wielding an even-hand might enter the equation. But, we can barely get to a complete recounting of the facts. I can understand why folks might reach for fair and balanced as some kind of holy grail. But, I'd ask, fair and balanced in regards to what, exactly?

We'll all be dead, I suspect, before any semblance of a complete reporting [sic] of the facts appears in a corporately owned media whose primary interests lie elsewhere. And, I doubt the corporately owned media has any intention, ever, of offering a "fair and balanced" interpretation of the facts. There are some folks around here who need to think (hard, apparently) about why GE is even in the media business. I sincerely doubt that Olbermann is anything more than a Potemkin village to make MSNBC appear fair and balanced. He, and what he is supposed to represent, is an illusion, and the illusion there to serve GE's interests. Olbermann is an image that people get to identify with, and, Oh! do people identify.

Like whiskey, I prefer my facts neat. I need no additives. I want no enhancements. I'll take 'em straight up. And, I don't care who delivers them.

The thread is infested with concern trolls!

That's in addition to the normal, garden variety trolls. And, those proudly wearing their progressive high school letter jackets, and singing their progressive school fight song.