Shouldn't we be counting our blessings right about now, and for longer than it takes to say the words "bankruptcy" or "foreclosure"?
We can easily find more than a few quotes from the year of political and cable news hackery that were almost totally overlooked, along with too many hacks, hoopleheads and outright doofs who weren't given a full turn at the flogging pole.
The web changed forever the moment that Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush. Or at least it changed for two or three days as the animated gifs and games flooded the Internet.
Guess the media reporting the truth that Levi was a dropout did in fact "harm" his chance for "good work opportunities," in Palin's spin-filled world.
Well, it could've been worse. As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium.
If you watched the Palin interview and weren't scared out of your mind, then you're mentally ill. What you are not is responsible, informed, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious.
By now you have surely heard of Sarah Palin. If it wasn't because of her reproductive escapades or her daughter Bristol's, then maybe you heard her n...
Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.
There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands these days--a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at President-elect Barack Obama.
Noonan's "clueless class" slur is a boomerang. It is Noonan, class or not, who is clueless. The clue that Caroline radiates is precisely what she said when she endorsed Barack.
In a story about potential vice presidential picks, the AP referred to Joe Lieberman as "the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000."
For me, a WTF moment can be either good or bad, but has to be in some sense a little bit unbelievable, as in "You can't write this stuff." So behold -- my first annual list of WTF moments.
Sarah Palin spent the last day of the year emailing the Associated Press and the Anchorage Daily News and calling People magazine to counter the impression that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are high school drop-outs.
I'm not saying that getting laid is the agenda at every political event. But when everybody's drunk on America, there's a good chance to engage salaciously with legislators or the fit security staff.
In a brilliant move, President Bush found almost the only way possible to make people forget the tenure of John Ashcroft: naming Albert Gonzalez his successor.
I'm not a socialist. Or at least not entirely so. As an American, I've got a little Al Capone in me. I like the idea of individual achievement -- just not against a background of hopeless oppression.
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I can't stand David Shuster, he shouldn't even be a reporter....In fact I think they should fire Morning Joe, all of the many other Shusters, Harwoods, Mitchell's and the rest of them who refuse to actually spit out some real facts instead of Gossip. Jon was right, MSNBC is the new Fox News.
How silly and "yesterday". Why isn't Huff talking about the ass Shuster made of himself in the segment with Cliff May and James Zogby? The segment started out with how the world was very anti semitic with pics on freaks calling for the end of Jews, Israel, "back to the ovens" and other horrible and I believe non usual attitudes about Jewish people and Israel. Great set up to be sympathetic to Israel in this latest conflict. May was so off and pointing his finger in the face of Zogby, and then tried to mesh the throwing of acid on the face of women in Afghanistan with Hamas. Ridiculous. All the time Zogby is stating there is no defense of Hamas and tried to move on from there. No one really wants to talk about the Palestinians unless it's that they are evil and completely in relation to terrorists such as Hamas and the Taliban. Quite a shame to our cowardly news people.
CLEARLY - good word.
It's so cute how Schuster tries to act like a grown up. You got owned David.
I wonder if Zeigler talked with Palin about her genitalia, as that's a favorite topic of his.....
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