December 2012
2 posts
November 2012
22 posts
#bidenatcostco, Because It Kept Happening
From: Clark, Lesley
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:21 AM
To: Allen, Liz
Subject: VP pool report 5 — more Biden
Biden is back at the WH for briefings and tonight will speak at a memorial in the Russell Senate Office Building for former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-NH.
Biden was greeted by Costco CEO Craig Jelinek and Co-founder Jim Sinegal, who were at the grand opening ceremony...
#bidenatcostco VP Pool Report, Because It Really...
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From: Lesley Clark
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 10:36 AM
To: Allen, Liz
Subject: VP pool report 4
Motorcade rolled from Costco at 10:12 am, w VP stopping to talk toreporters after wheeling a cart filled w among other things, childrens’ books, fire logs, a 32 inch Panasonic tv and a big apple pie to the registers.
He called...
On the Occasion of Shirley Chisholm Day
“Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.”
“I ran for the Presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a...
#Thankstumbling (Like it's a tradition or...
Not in order, except when they are.
My dad (who would actually be first, if this list were in order), who never gave up on me
The boyfriend and his incredible family (Jersey tough, Jersey sentimental, Jersey generous), who never gave up, period
The many, many friends, some of whom I will forget to list: Tracy, Amy, Elise, Chris G., Shannah, Ted, Seth, Choire, Jason, Fabian, Kat, Ross, Olivier,...
#iwatchfox: Noonanism
Peggy Noonan probably deserves a post of her own. I’m watching without a DVR and am missing some gems, I’m sure, but here’s something I loved. Start with an acknowledgement of your audience:
I’m hearing the pessimism of the guests but there’s a lot to go yet.
Add a little melodrama:
The way [the Obama team thought] could win was to drive a stake through the...
#iwatchfox: Yes, Vagina
So we come to the part of the evening when the Fox crew must grapple with Virginia not falling neatly into the Romney column. THEY HAD FEELINGS THAT IT WOULD. And now the feelings are hurt.
Tucker Carlson, who is a friend and I suspect also some kind of performance artist, points out — correctly! — that there are a lot of blacks in Virginia! Also in Pennsylvania. He makes this point,...
#iwatchfox: O'Reilly O Rilly
This might be my favorite moment so far, just because I love cranky old men with no self-awareness (yes, this explains why I cover the GOP, mostly). Bill O’Reilly, expounding on how Sandy blew Romney off the teevee screen:
I TOLD their campaign, and this is not self-aggrandizement, I TOLD them, do you realize you’re invisible? I don’t think that registered for them.
Bill...
#iwatchfox: Mourdock on the Offensive
This is how Bret Baier framed the results coming in from Indiana (at 6% in, Mourdock leading Donnelly by a few points). It’s a closer race than it had been, he said, since “Mourdock made some comments on rape and abortion that Democrats used against him.”
Yes, “that Democrats used against him,” like it was a controversial vote or something weird he did in college...
#iwatchfox: Bizarro World
Fox News’ emergence as a watchdog of voting rights and defender of the popular vote is one of 2012’s totally expected yet still weird developments.
Really, my experiment in watching Fox News for my election news is not a perfect one. I have no “control,” really — just the stuff that I pick up from our consensual reality, which I find hard to let go of. But...
Newscat Gif
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I feel more like the ball than the cat, really.
Gagged
I am in Twitter jail.
#iwatchfox: Uptalking the Election
I have some respect for Megyn Kelly. It’s true! She is not a dummy. But today she is sounding like a Valley Girl being told Orange Julius is going out of business: each sentence is a raising-pitch exclamation.
Everything with respect to polling is manipulation! 2004! 2004! They congratulated John Kerry for being president! The only person we can trust is is Rassmussen! And he says he...
#iwatchfox: Hayesian
This is a thing that someone on Fox said this morning, mocking pollsters: “‘This state is in play, that state in play’ — they don’t know! Let’s look at the election of Rutherford B. Hayes.”
#RomneyDisappointments: The End
Proud, as always, to be a part of a hashtag movement, but today discovered that one can Tweet OVER THE LIMIT FOR THE DAY. It’s a little embarrassing, like being kicked out of an all-you-can-eat buffet.
So I could not post my last, favorite, #RomneyDisappointment. Thus it is here, Tweeterless:
“Whites not, in fact, getting whiter.”
Goodnight and goodbye until tomorrow,...
#iwatchfox: It's a Gut Thing
Panel on Greta Van Sustren show has burgeoning consensus that Romney wins Wisconsin. Sober nodding to AB Stoddard’s reflection that she “feels” this is true. Byron York receives a transmission from our universe through his fillings or something, and spurts: “We should point out, that in all these poll [from Wisconsin], Pres. Obama is ahead.”
Then the moment passes...
#iwatchfox: Palin Gets Evangelical on Your Ass
Palin quotes Corinthians 7:14 in explaining the SURPRISE EVANGLICAL TURNOUT that is going to break the Nate SIlver-bank. She abridges it a bit: “As it says in Corinthians 7:14, ‘If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face…then I will heal their land,” and then chirps, “And I think that’s what a lot of...
#IWatchFox: So It Begins with an Apology to Dick...
AS FOR THOSE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES not adding up right (325-219, I said Dick Morris said, which is wrong)!
In fairness to Dick Morris (a collection of words I will not likely put in that order ever again), I am “watching” Fox News out of the corner of my eye as I hobble around my hotel room, trying to un-high-heel myself.
I am going to make a more serious project of this as the...
October 2012
7 posts
Gotham
gawkercom:
When the winds died down last night, at about 11 p.m., I drove down to Dumbo/Brooklyn Bridge Park with a few friends to see the blacked-out cityscape from across the river. The view was eerie and surreal—a bit like the mid-point of any apocalyptic movie ever set in New York.
Here are a few photos from our walk, all courtesy Yujin Yohe.
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Incredible. Sobering.
“Fox News anchor Jon Scott promoted the debunked claim that Secretary of State...”
– — From the election cycle that brought you that guy talking to an empty chair, Fired Big Bird, the Great Cher-Halperin Smackdown, the world’s most beloved Amazon reviews and a magazine correction that upgraded someone from an “interior designer” to Deputy Secretary of State...
“[Y]ou go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for,...”
– I believe the applicable King James quote here is, “Jesus wept.”
Romney Rebuts Romney On Uninsured And Emergency Rooms | TPMDC
September 2012
8 posts
F. Scott Fitzgerald on behalf of the 47 percent →
Who are all these ‘real people’ who ‘create business and politics’? and of whose approval I should be so covetous? Do you mean grafters who keep sugar in their ware houses so that people have to go without or the cheap-jacks who by bribery and high-school sentiment manage to controll elections. I can’t pick up a paper here without finding that some of these ‘real people’ who will not be satisfied...
Guardian Comment: Britishisms in American English?... →
guardiancomment:
The Nation’s DD Guttenplan wrote for us about the invasion of “Britishisms” in the American language. Hilarity (in the thread) should ensue…
The British are coming! The British are coming! For decades, you British have been kvetching (or as you might say, “whingeing”) about the way we Yanks…
THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME.
A Rising Tide Lifts All (of the Very Wealthiest)... →
“‘Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream. And we got into the docks and they were all full and I looked around, there was no place to park, so we stopped at the end of a dock. They all jumped off and ran up the dock. And I realized there was nobody in the boat...
“I’m kind of a Snooki fan. Look how tiny’s she’s gotten. She’s lost weight. She’s...”
– These are words Mitt Romney actually said today. (via theatlantic)
Hey, it’s never too early to stand up for American values! Or, uhm…
Exclusive: How Karl Rove's Super PAC Plays the... →
“You read all these articles—it makes it sound as if this is some sort of you know, dirty endeavor, or wrongful thing to do. This is a patriotic endeavor.” Rubio closed with a joke: “Did I break any laws, in that speech?” — Sen. Marco Rubio, to the American Crossroads breakfast in Tampa during the RNC
The Best Internet of All Time →
“A corgi staring at a stool and the POTUS sitting next to an empty chair did not have a semiotic relationship until Gehrke and Cox invited the Internet to go #eastwooding.”
August 2012
7 posts
“Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the...”
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Opens Tom Morello in a scathing Rolling Stone op-ed lashing the VP nominee (via tpmmedia)
It is also amusing for less tangible but equally funny reasons. IE: PAUL RYAN LIKES RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.
“The First Lady said the election could come to the ‘last few thousand...”
– I assume the right-wing is already on this.
FLOTUS Pool Report #2 - Montgomery County, PA August 9, 2012 5:45:03 PM CDT
July 2012
14 posts
And Then There's This
Note from earlier: On the way to tonight’s fundraiser, the press van spotted a New Yorker giving the motorcade his middle finger. Unclear whether it was for the president, the press, the traffic jam or something else entirely.
White House Press Office, Fw: Travel pool report #8, July 30, 2012 8:30:59 PM CDT
“THE PRESIDENT: This does also remind me of the season that we’re in. Jim...”
– White House Press Office, Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event, July 30, 2012 7:56:22 PM CDT
Rafalca, Mon Amour
I return to television this afternoon, just in time to be replaced by video of dancing horses. (I am available to dance like a horse, should MSNBC lose its satellite feed.)
