Archive for January, 2005
Bob Novak: Shut the Fuck Up!
File under Worst Excuse Ever: James Carville: The Bush administration doubled that amount [spent on public relations] in its first four years. Hey, you little 3-year-old juvenile diabetics, you better get a little skin in this game, so these boys can pay off Armstrong Williams. When I went to Catholic school at St. Joe’s parochial, [...]
Top 500 Singles
Known sadist Matthew Tobey asked us to provide him with our respective favorite 100 singles of all time for his 500 Best Songs List. Reading the end result is much more fun than trying to think of 100 songs, trust that. In addition to the big list, he posted each panelist’s top 100, and here [...]
All Cabinet Nominations All The Time
Geoffrey: “As if it matters how a man falls down.” Richard: “When the fall is all that’s left, it matters a great deal.” -The Lion In Winter The Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzales action continued in the Senate on Wednesday with Rice’s nomination passing the full Senate by a vote of 85-13. While this is [...]
Public Policy Needs Public Relations
The Armstrong Williams controversy, where the commentator shilled for the Department of Education without disclosing the financial ties, was bad enough. Now comes news that another syndicated columnist, Maggie Gallagher, was under contract for the Department of Health and Human Services to promote the Bush Administration’s marriage policies. Though the Gallagher story seems to be [...]
CNN and Joementum: Just Left of Fox News
Thanks to Media Matters, I no longer have to pull double shifts looking out for the latest talking-head transgressions. Still, some things slip through the cracks. Tuesday morning, CNN‘s leading story was the Senate floor debate on Condoleeza Rice‘s nomination for Secretary of State. They started by taking great care to play video of Joementum [...]
State of the Union
I know the State of the Union address is coming up pretty soon. So I was thinking about the inaugural address and how quickly administration sources came out of the shadows to make it clear that it was just a bunch of words (mostly “freedom”) and that nothing new would come of it. I’m predicting [...]
Indecency! Perversion! Help!
Since the world of blogs has yet to come under the jurisdiction of the FCC or any of the rabid watchdog groups that want to take television back to the age of married couples sleeping in separate beds, I have no problem with saying the following: Fuck the Parents Television Council. Preferably with something rusted [...]
The Net Result of Four Years of a Republican Administration
“The drugs were much better at the 2001 inaugural rave.” “Well, at least they put carpet down this time so we didn’t have to sit in the rave gravy.” Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
I’ll Be Voting Against This $80 Billion Before I Vote Against It Again
So which senator or representative is going to stand up and point out the Enron-like off balance sheet transactions the administration is again using to fund the war? The latest $80 billion comes on top of the $25 Billion approved in August and pushes the total Iraq War cost to $235 Billion. As you will [...]
Errr…
We’ve been nominated for “Best Weblog About Politics” in the 2005 Weblog Awards. The other nominees are Low Culture, Watchblog, Wonkette, and Pandagon. I’m unfamiliar with Watchblog and Wonkette, but Low Culture was an early inspiration for us, and Pandagon features some very good writing. I’m not really sure how we ended up pulling a [...]