I Don't Like You Either

McArdle Watch: "Markets R Dumb" & "Let Them Eat Bubble Packs"

by Blue | Procrustean economics major and so-called "libertarian" Megan McArdle has attracted more than her usual heaping helping of well-deserved loathing and contumely.   I have collected a few of them here for posterity.

Nobel Winner Krugman Talks About His Meeting with Bush

Snark O' the Day: "Raging" "Impotent" Netroots, Eh?

by Blue Stockings |  I don't think so.  But it's a meme that's emerging since the Lieberman thing and the media are running it for all it's worth.  Here's a piece by James Kirchick in The New York Daily News to prove it, all "Obama isn't afraid of the raging, impotent netroots because Joe Lieberman blah blah netroots furious rah rah blah dee blah blee." Read it yourself. 

Katie Couric Talks to David Letterman About the Palin Interview

by Teh Nutroots | Hey, it's Sarah Palin day!

This is pretty awesome too.

Maureen Dowd: But I'm a Frenemy Tooo!(Mean Girls Part ####)

by Teh Puppet Mistress | Ah God.  Well, you knew she wasn't going to be able to keep quiet once the rumors started going round that Hillary might still be asked to the prom.  Here's some first rate concern trolling, along with my translation.

Full text:  Team of Frenemies

A Swift Examination of Mr Obama's Serial Gaffes

by Mr J.Q. Public | On the heels of Powerline's concern about Obama's recent unseemly gaffes comes Jon Swift's withering summation of Obama's disastrous press conference.  It seems that Mr Powerline---I do not believe that is his name, but I haven't time at present to look him up---may be right after all, despite the mockery to which his piece was subjected by my liberal co-blogger.   Obama does require tutelage in speaking without going awry and should probably take W as his model, as Mr Powerline (again, apologies) suggests.

More Tales from the Nutterdammerung: Are You a Socialist or a Dupe?

by Teh Nutroots & Damozel | Roy Edroso has a post up at The Village Voice about the division of opinion on the right about the end of the world as they know it:

When the end came, rightbloggers were at first torn as to its meaning.

Shorter Bill Kristol

by Damozel |  Full version of article:  GOP Dog Days

Nutshell version:  While I shall stubbornly go on contending that it wasn't that much of a victory for Obama and the left, and that the public has not thoroughly repudiated me and my noxious brand of conservatism, I can no longer deny it:  Obama is as cute as cuddly puppy from the pound---if a puppy had a dry wit and charisma---and therefore formidable, and we conservatives can but trust that the worldbeating recession that we have willed to him may yet bring him down.

PS.  The country is still center right and Obama must govern accordingly.  That's the meme, and I'm sticking to it.

Blogger reactions at Memeorandum

Shorter Maureen Dowd (The Tracks of Our Tears)

by Blue Stockings |  MoDo likes nothing better than a sentimental-yet-wryly-tongue-in-cheek journal of self-discovery.  Are you wondering what MoDo is thinking now that her secret dorky crush has been elected president? (O Brave New World that has such people in it!) See The Tracks of Our Tears.

Shorter nutshell version:

Am I the only white person who finds it awkward talking to black people, now that electing Obama has made it de rigeur for the fashion-forward?  Strangely, some interpret well-intentioned attempts to probe their feelings about the election as false or condescending.  I must ask my African American friend to explain to me what her people want.

Tweety Tears Eric Cantor a New One

by Blue Stockings | Oh, Chris Matthews.  All is forgiven.  While we mention this video elsewhere, I just had to post it here and for prosperity.  Or if not for prosperity, for my own entertainment.  When I'm feeling blue, or down, or pessimistic that the wingers will go on causing trouble, I want to have it within easy reach.

H/t Rising Hegemon, where Res Ipsa Loquitur writes:

Wow, I just read at John Cole that this jackass is in line to lead the House Republicans? You know, I'm trying not to get all puffed up, what with president-elect Barack Obama, the increased Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, the impending smackdown of Joe Lieberman, and the coming civil war in the Republican party, but these guys are just making it too easy.

Election Night Hilarity at BBC News: Gore Vidal vs. Anchor David Dimbleby

by Nicholas | "Mad as a box of frogs," said the bloke who posted it, and he didn't mean Dimbleby.  I cannot improve on this as a summary.

The Wingnut Punditocracy's Long, Discreditable Slide Into Irrelevance

by Blue Stockings | John Amato has an awesome illustrated roll call of shame and perpetual wrongness at Crooks and Liars. 

Thanks for the memories, but you were all completely "Irrelevant" during the historic victory that Barack Obama achieved during 2008 Presidential election. All your smears failed to change the course of history...Kudos to all. Thanks to you, conservatism itself is now ... Irrelevant.

Ride the Wayback Pony 4-15-2008: Why Was Bush Absent from the Torture Committee?

Let me say that again to you:  we don't torture people, except in the lawyer-created space between cruelty and enhanced interrogation techniques.

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

House of Pain

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Colbert: A Recap of the Final Week of the Campaign

The Daily Show: Has McCain Let His Exasperation Turn to Sarcasm and Derisive Air Quotes?

McCain nails it, after stumbling over the names of Secretaries of State who endorse him and uses air quotes--"or as we call them, "dick fingers""--to mock Obama's environmental concerns.

We Don't Like You Either: Scary Rictus-Grinning Bill Kristol (The Daily Show Interview)

Talk about your Halloween horror shows....

HuffPost:

Bill Kristol knocked his own paper, the New York Times, on "The Daily Show" last night, and repeated his prediction that John McCain will win the White House on Tuesday.

Jon Stewart joked with the error-prone Kristol, who he has mocked before, "You can't look at past performance as a predictor, otherwise you wouldn't be, obviously, still a pundit."

"You're reading The New York Times too much, Jon," Kristol told Stewart, only for Stewart to remind him that he works there. "Oh, it's a very fine newspaper — on one day of the week.

Rachel Maddow Interviews Obama

Another excellent interview for posterity.

part 1:

The Joe the No Show Haiku Project

by Damozel | Okay, everyone's read about Joe the No Show and has seen this:

But we  thought Ambinder's poetic tribute was a whole ship full of awesome, and maybe you didn't see that:

"Joe's with us today,"
Joe. Where are ya? Where is Joe?
Is Joe here with us?

Sadly, he has now been called out by Progressive Accountability---rightly---for calling it a haiku when it is NOT a haiku. 

CLAIM - Marc Ambinder Claims He Has Written a Haiku

FACT - A Haiku is 5-7-5, Ambinder dangerously misleads the American people by writing a "Haiku" that is 6-7-5.

Statement - "With only five days until the election this misuse of Japanese poetry could unravel the very fabric of American democracy.  We immediately demand that the first line be amended to "Joe's with us today" to comply with the use of syllables that the American people deserve and expect from The Atlantic."

I suggest these changes:

Joe?  Where did you go? today....
Joe. Where are ya? Where is Joe?
Is Joe here with us?

I think this is even more plangent than the original.

Colbert Joins Other Prominent Republicans in Endorsing Obama

Heh.

Right-Wing Jabberers Gloat, Moralize Over Murder

by Teh Nutroots | You might have heard the horrific story of HuffPost blogger Carol Anne Burger's brutal murder of her lover.  What you probably need to top it off is a good round of sanctimony and hypocrisy from Teh Right, courtesy of Roy Edroso.   

The paradox of wingnuts:  Even when they're as wrong as they can be, they're always so Right-eous.

Biden's Orlando Interview

by The Puppet Mistress |  I'm going to agree with Thers:

Pretty much all you need to know about why the GOP is losing this election is to be found in the high-fiving among "conservatives" about this interview where a ridiculous local TV host from Orlando asks Joe Biden completely asinine leading wingnut questions about why Barack Obama is just like Karl Marx. Biden came across like a grownup; the interviewer looked like, well, someone from the Onion News Network, only not funny and all too real.

The only part where I disagree is this:  the self-satirizing interviewer was funny.  I doubt it did Biden any harm with non-Republicans.

Colbert Interviews David Frum!

Frum says McCain can't win; though Obama can lose.  He shares his plan for a new consrvative comeback because he has no sense of humor or irony.

Colbert:  "Love does not alter when it alteration finds."  Heh.

Wow, this is kind of a strange interview--- especially given Frum's criticisms of Comedy Central and of Colbert specifically.

Chris Matthews Roughs Up McCain's Nancy Pfotenhauer

Heee hee hee hee heee heee heee heee.  He makes Pfotenhauer watch the clip of Palin (once again failing to understand what the VP does) not once but twice!

Jezebel has a piece called  Dear Nancy Pfotenhauer: Please Wipe That Smile Right Off Of Your Face.  Tweety wipes it off for her. 

Ladies in Red: Bachmann & Palin Both in Trouble?

by Blue Stockings | First, check out Bill Maher's dis:

Then check out these reports of current woes:

The Daily Show on "Real America"

Jon Stewart is on to Colin Powell and the two Virginias (real and unreal)! "Even if John McCain doesn't get elected, he'll still be president of the real America that matters."

A Local Story: Mark Foley's Replacement ---Now With His Own Scandal?

by Teh Nutroots | As Jon says, Mahoney's old school.  His dangerous liaison was a woman who worked as his, um, "staffer."  Thanks so much, Mahoney, for proving---as if John Edwards hadn't taken care of that---that Dems can be hypocrites just as much as Republicans.  I'd say the whole thing was stupid, but if you make a selling point of your faith and virtuousness, you got to stand behind it.

Colbert on the Final Debate

David Frum Takes on Rachel Maddow; Has His Arse Handed to Him

by Teh Nutroots | ....and doesn't even know it.  This is, of course, the man who gave the world "the axis of evil" and who feels that The Colbert Report isn't "serious" enough.  Of course, only a self-important humorless git could have said this about his career as a speech-writer for Bush:

"I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything." (truthout)

Seriously, watch this:

Jon Swift is Afraid: Obama Will Censor Free Speech

by Blue Stockings |  Goodie goodie, more Swiftian goodness from the master!

“Conservative-friendly media better get ready,” warns Brian C. Anderson. “Should Barack Obama win the presidency and the Democrats control Congress, as now seems likely, they will launch a full-scale war to drive critics — especially on political talk radio — right out of legitimate public debate.”

He cites some shocking proof of Obama’s intention to curtail the free speech rights of conservatives. When the NRA tried to run ads targeting Obama, his lawyers sent “bullying” letters to stations that ran them, according to Anderson. If Obama is elected, lawyers will be free to send bullying letters to anyone they want. You will have to be careful of what you say or write lest a lawyer get wind of it and fire off a bullying letter.....

National Enquirer has Another Exclusive; Right Wingers Show What They're Made Of

by Teh Nutroots |  Right. I wasn't going to touch this.  But the Far Right's Finest weren't going to let it go. I realise that most of them are stressed out from being betrayed by reality.  They've lost their bearings in the face of the coming realignment.  They're clinging to their guns and the Rovian Republican Jesus.  They're bitter and shit-scared anticipating the final ass-kicking humiliation that's to come when all they stand for is kicked to the curb by the economic meltdown and the next election.  And after that, the slide into irrelevance. 

It's kinder just to pretend not to notice.

But there are some lines nobody ought to cross. 

It started with an article in The National Enquirer.  I won't quote from it---read it yourself if you want more---but it's easy to summarise.

Shorter  National Enquirer (via Memeorandum);

So it seems that Obama's childhood friend and "mentor"---introduced to Barack when Barack was 10, or two years older than when Ayers was doing his terrorism thing--- is an admitted sexual deviant who molested children and practiced bondage. 

Draw your own conclusions.

The Right's Finest rushed right in.  Want to know what they had to say?