Growing Up Brzezinski - life at Mika's house

Dr. Z paints Joe's face: "'You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it's almost embarrassing to listen to you.'"

Joe, like countless other TV bloviators, relies on hiding behind the ignorance of his audience rather than tackle the requirement of his calling - presenting information distilled with judgement. But that would mean he would have to stand behind his story and behind that judgement.

Be a pro, Joe! It's not news that the public is very satisfied with being uninformed; very content to hear its' superstitions respected and its' ignorance serenaded and celebrated. But it's dishonorable to rely on these facts and think of yourself as a professional, doing your job. As Mika's dad said, "If you are going to judge your knowledge by collective standards of 300 million people don't be surprised if you are embarrassed."

Now that's good television!

HuffPo commenter TstormVA explains his take on Dr. Z's statement: "Meaning if you are not going to be a responsible journalist and take the effort to be more informed than the average person on the street before spouting off at the mouth then don't be so sensitive when the Chief big dog taps your nose with a newspaper. The Republican party has made a living at talking to the ignorant masses with ignorance."

Pass the Magic Asshat

...and drown the GOP; they wallowed when they should have served, and lied to you and me.

"'The core play in the GOP playbook for 44 years has been the magic negro playbook,' said Simon Rosenberg, head of Democratic organization NDN and one of the most well-versed party figures on racial politics. 'They don't have another play or another playbook. Whether it is Willie Horton, or welfare queens and tax and spend, or the way they have dealt with immigration... they don't have a play in their playbook that doesn't start with the exploitation of racial divisions... They are going to have to reject 44 years of GOP politics in order to have any chance in the 21st century America.'"

Spot on, that Simon Rosenberg.

Wet Dreams of Russian Thugs

Professor/KGB Retiree Predicts End of U.S.: "He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in."

It's all very cinematic, certianly possible, and...

Sell His Blood

He Made Off With My Friend's Security:

I have a dear friend that has lost everything because of this dirtbag. She is 61 and has for years served the arts community, all the while building a retirement income fund from what she believed to be secure, steady, diversified investments managed by a highly recommended fund manager named Madoff. And, let's get this straight, she also believed - as I would, that the SEC and other government entities were run by professionals who knew their duty and, at the very least, were capable of detecting some of the most obvious criminal scenarios - like the world-famous Ponzi scheme.

My friend has been attacked and is devastated and is in great pain, and it is yet more painful to know that Madoff is not in jail at this very moment. He should not be in his home under house arrest. The crime is too great, and the accusations against him involve the ruination of people suddenly financially disemboweled, with fear and poverty staring them right in the face.

That he walks around his home - while so many others will lose theirs, is hard to stomach. Somebody in the justice system must lead the way in getting this monster behind bars before he enjoys the mercy of taking his own life, and certainly before he lives another moment believing he belongs among us.

Is it illegal to yell RUSH! in a Caribbean brothel?

It used to be, but then a good man spoke up:

Powell isn't after media adulation - or even exposure. What kind of idiot would think that? Oh yeah, that kind.

Let's review, ok? Day one: Colin Powell says he is supporting Obama. Day two: Powell elaborates on why America is on the chopping block in the hearts of god-zillions of the world's citizens. Day three: ...there is NO day three because that was it - Powell did not do anything else. He did not court the press, did not book himself on every Lenoman nightshow; in fact became a notable supporter of sanity and anti-excess, and a no-show on the unsane cable news circuit.

So what is Limbaugh talking about? Nothing important, but his voice takes the place of ours when we let the little pervert sleep well.

The Tall Puke in the Man Suit

A Pounder for the Right:

When the actual story comes out about the Blago-Obama "connection", we will all get to verify the quality of Joe Scarborough's thinking; the power of his discernment. In the next act, we'll get to see Joe re-chewing the scenery until it looks like he didn't say what he actual did say.

Charles Joseph Scarborough is the confederacy's yellow journalism queen, come to life in our time to entertain the throw-back righties we all know and love.

Way to go, Charlie Joe !

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12-16-2008 - another thought...

Joe Scarborough and his littler repeater, Mika, are off the deep end with their constant sniggering and outright misstatements about Obama-Blago.

Joe is the perfect definition of what the GOP looks like today: doing his job as the Glans Mignon of the uber-righties, exposing bias at every turn of the camera, all the while as Mika stutters and grimaces and then - like Oliver Hardy, looks into the camera as if to complain that "here's another fine mess he's gotten me into."

He didn't get her into a mess; she crawled there herself. That she sits beside him is all the information one needs about where she's coming from.

But, who am I kidding? There's no way to insult Joe, because he really doesn't exist - not as a real person; he's a controlled foil.

Please tell the Third-Class passengers that we'll miss them terribly

Dear Cable News Personality Currently Bloviating On My Screen:

Please. Just stop. Stop your speculation on the auto industry's errors and problems. Some of us can't stand your snarking at working people and their desire to have realistic health-care options, retirement security, and dignified citizenship.

But I bet you'll listen with attentive consideration to the thoughts of self-serving political junkmen like the retreaded Senator Shelby.

Are you guys as good as it gets? Did Jesus pass your village by?

Fuck The Workers, Pass Me The Bonus

To hear on-air network personalities dump on the workingman makes me sick to death. 700 billion for Wall Street and it's horde of boring jerks, and for autoworkers? - cut their pay, cut their benefits, cut their retirement, cut their dreams in half.

These on-air 7-figure income carnival hacks have no IQ beyond what it takes to sneer, unknow and rant. They all stink on ice.

The Unsanity of the GOP Marches On...

"Capitol Visitor Center Fails to Honor Faith", says GOP Senator Jim DeMint: Commenting on this in The Hill," Eric writes "This is exactly what's wrong with today's GOP and the reason it's hard for people like myself, who want limited government, to get excited about the party. Worry about your superstitions at home, on your own time. Stop bringing that garbage to work. There are all kinds of problems facing our country and this clown takes the time to issue a statement regarding his disdain for secularism. If you want religion in government, move to Iran, jackass."

"I don't think we did enough"

"Campaign Boogeyman" starring William Ayers

comment by: TruEngineHearing: (from Huffington Post)

"From reading some of these posts, one would think that an entire generation of war resisters didn't know what they were doing.

From reading some of these posts, you can imagine the writers doing anything their leaders told them to do. When you read some of these posts, you can hear the arguments of those that will go and kill and die for bad reasons.

You see, Timmy, sometimes the only holy thing to do is keep names off a black wall."
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... then ...

reply from: reliant1:

"Sometimes Timmy, the only holy thing to do is tear down the government that is intent on drafting and killing kids. Sometimes good people are supposed to stand up and fight for what is right and give everything they have for it if needed.

Not here. The good people looked away. The good people shut their eyes. The good people sold the soul of their nation for a wall.

Sorry Timmy, nothing holy is left, anywhere."

Honor the Dead - Make More

I Did Not Compromise My Principles: George Bush says "'I listened to a lot of voices, but ultimately, I listened to this voice: I'm not going to let your son die in vain,' he said. 'I believe we can win. I'm going to do what it takes to win in Iraq.'"

Letting others get killed in order to improve the lot of a dead person is the mental setup of people I am always against.