We have a refrain here: "Betters trolls, please." You provide that. Most of our trolls are nothing but burrs under the saddle, or dog or cat shit on the shoe. Who the hell needs that? 'Thanks for playing'. Seriously.

I think Britney was meant to be called Brittany (so Celtic French!) but someone couldn't spell.

If they could, it would have been "Bretagne". I remember seeing mock graffiti on a wall there saying "Free the Bretagne political prisoners!" In English too, IIRC....

Click sig for the lovely flag of Bretagne.

Cheers,

GG:

I'm more than happy to let Chait's words over the years speak for themselves and let others decide if the characterizations here are accurate.

Incredible. It's as if they really do think it's a series of tubes and everything they've written leaves the public record and swirls down the drain. I'd say he makes your point for you. Witness this from digby today, too:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/scrubbed-by-digby-look-whats-been.html

They'e their own worst enemies; Google and YouTube just help the blogosphere prove it.

"Arrogant", "presumptuous", etc. code words. They're code words for "uppity Negro." If it doesn't stop, what the Obama campaign should do is cull the news archives for footage of race baiting and racists statements from white supremacists during the Civil Rights years, edit them together interspersed with recent footage of McCain surrogates and journalists using the same language.

David Letterman's "Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident"

10. Proposed bill to change Oklahoma to "Oklobama"

9. Offered Bush 20 bucks for the "Mission Accomplished" banner

8. Asked guy at Staples, "Which chair will work best in an oval-shaped office?"

7. The affair with Barbara Walters

6. Having head measured for Mount Rushmore

5. Guy sits around eating soup all day

4. He's voting for Nader

3. Offered McCain a job in gift shop at Obama Presidential Library

2. Announced his running mate will be Andy Dick

1. Been cruising for chicks with John Edwards

Billmon: Shizzamn!

In this infamous July 9, 2006 LA Times article (http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/09/opinion/oe-chait9) Chait correctly chides the "lefty bloggers'' for supporting Ned Lamont against Joe Lieberman.

He huffs, "The whole anti-Lieberman blog campaign has a self-fulfilling quality: They charge that Lieberman isn’t a Democrat, they drive him from the party, and they declare themselves to be correct. The more ex-Democrats they create, the more sure of their own virtue they become."

Jon hit another one out of the park with this synopsis of the liberals, Bush and the Iraq War - from an 11/20/05:http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/20/opinion/oe-chait20

""I believe that liberals loathe the war because they loathe Bush, rather than vice versa. What they want above all is for Bush to admit he made some huge mistakes in Iraq. It’s not a big thing to admit; everybody knows it’s true. A simple admission of the obvious would sate his foes – or enough of them, anyway."

Here's Jon rationalizing his sparkling decision to support the Iraq War. From Nov. 2005. To summarize, not only was he a little wrong about Iraq, but So Was the entire world...

"Everybody was wrong about the basic outlines of Iraq's weapons capability. Foreign intelligence agencies believed that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction. The Clinton administration had issued dire warnings. UN weapons inspectors had issued warnings that Iraq had not accounted for weapons that it had previously declared."

And he's a Liberal, or so I'm told.

Use Paris Hilton in an unflattering way in an ad against your opponent... and offend her parents who are (or were) contributors to your campaign.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/31/hiltons-support-mccain-re_n_116212.html

For your viewing pleasure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPEV6twzxmE

Or click my name, enjoy!

link to a story about how much better Obama's ground game is, and how that translates into better local coverage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/31/obamas-field-domination-p_n_116096.html

Remember in 2006 when the beltway groupies all thought that the GOP would somehow pull it out? I don't see how this November is any different... except that it may be an even bigger disaster for the GOP.

Rove's personal math proved to be invalid last time.

It's an eyeopener to read comments on youtube. It's not like here. This is what one person posted in, seemingly, all seriousness in reply to that video:

"She is pretty and smart girl..."

Ummm, yeah. At least on one count.

Dana Milbank, you, sir, are fired. Clean out your desk, put your tail between your legs, pour yourself a tall one. You, sir, are fired.

http://www.veracifier.com/episode/TPM_20080731

On which count? Surely not smarts. As for looks, beneath it all she is as average as you or I. Christina Aguillara, now there's a good looking woman!

Spears is a great metaphor for the Bush presidency -- throughout her career she always had some Karl Rove figure applying makeup, keeping her in shape, choreographing her every move; an entourage of producers, song writers, image consultants and executives propping up someone with scant natural talent.

Hopefully, Obama will turn out to be our Justin Timberlake -- talented, witty, likable and bankable despite his dubious boy band origins.

I just read several comments here that mention Ms. Spears.

The mere fact that folks at a political blog are bringing her up is enough to bring up my damn dinner.

Since I don't want to toss my cookies, please don't give her (or Justin Timberlake) any more attention than she already receives. The only woman in the world more overexposed than Britney is Ms. Jolie. I need no further information or speculation regarding these people. I'd rather skinnydip in the Potomac. In January.

As for the ubiquitous and disgusting "presumptuous and arrogant" meme... These media whores are too cowardly to come out and say what they mean. One thing the following three had in common: at least George Wallace, Michael Richards and David Duke were upfront about their predilections and prejudices.

He reeks of it, and it has nothing to do with the color of his skin. Just because Republicans say it doesn't mean it's not true. Why should they lie when the truth works better?

The "reality-based community" has truly jumped the shark.

Hey Glenn, here's an idea: For you next column why don't you discuss how the meme that "presumptuous" = "uppity" is mindlessly repeated on progressive blogs?