The Liberal Media are so civil, aren't they?

[Lumi]

And so a day that began with news of the Journolist all-stars celebrating Obama?s election win by sneering at ?f***ing Nascar retards? and fantasizing about throwing conservatives through plate-glass windows ends with a lecture on decency and ethics from the most tinpot left-wing demagogue on the airwaves. Ethics? This is a guy who runs an echo chamber so notorious that it actually qualified as news when Dave Weigel told him something about Sarah Palin that he didn?t want to hear. Decency? This is a guy who compares Fox News to Al Qaeda (unfavorably!) and right-wingers to terrorists and derides the tea-party movement as some sort of neo-Klan at every turn, yet has the mammoth balls here to lament conservatives? ?fomenting of hatred of Americans by Americans.? Even some of his own regulars couldn?t take it anymore and cut ties to MSNBC in the interests of ? ethics and decency. And of course, on the critical question of just how culpable ?Fixed Noise? or whatever he?s now calling Fox is on Sherrod?s firing, he?s wrong on his facts. As noted earlier, Vilsack pulled the trap door on her before Fox ever ran the clip.

 

[Lumi]

DAVID ROBERTS, GRIST: It?s all I can do not to start bawling.
LUKE MITCHELL, HARPER?S: I?m picturing something like VJ Day in Times Square. Seriously!
JOHN BLEVINS, SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW: It?s all I can do to hold it together.
Nov. 4:
MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I?m looking across the street at my polling place, and the line is wrapped around the block. I nearly burst into tears when I saw it. I?m feeling like today is closing the door on a terrible era, and opening another. I?m glad you started this thread because I was feeling kind of like I was the only one who is deeply emotional today.
HENRY FARRELL, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: I had to close my office door yesterday because I was watching YouTube videos of elderly African Americans saying what this meant to them and tearing up.
JOSH BEARMAN, LA WEEKLY: 11 months ago I burst into tears by myself on a plane while watching Hardball when my mind wandered to the image of President Obama being sworn in. I?ve been fighting it ever since.
EZRA KLEIN, AMERICAN PROSPECT: OHIO!
ALEC MCGILLIS, WASHINGTON POST: If you need further proof that VA is looking to go blue, check out what?s going on in VA-5 in deepest Southside Virginia, where Tom Perriello, my college roommate and a very good guy, is now up .06 percentage points ? 2,000 votes ? against Virgil Goode with 88 percent reporting.
GREG ANRIG, THE CENTURY FOUNDATION: This is really happening.
ADELE STAN, THE MEDIA CONSORTIUM: At last I can breathe.
SPENCER ACKERMAN, WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT: YES WE DID!
STEVEN TELES, YALE UNIVERSITY: I?m not sure why, but this part of the Battle Hymn of the Republic came to me . . . . Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.
SPENCER ACKERMAN: [quoting Obama] ??we may not get there in one year or in one term, but America I promise you, we as a people will get there.?
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT.
MICHAEL TOMASKY, THE GUARDIAN: I?m just jelly. Lord!
HAROLD POLLACK, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: I am awed by the responsibility we have taken on. Tomorrow a desperately ill African-American woman will present at my university hospital for care, and she will be turned away. She will expect us to live up to what we feel tonight. So we?ve got a lot to live up to.
ADAM SERWER, AMERICAN PROSPECT: My take.
SPENCER ACKERMAN: Goddamn, did an Obama speechwriter ghost that post? That?s pitch-perfect, Adam. Take a bow.
RYAN DONMOYER, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Best quip I heard today, courtesy of a Facebook friend: ?I wonder if Sarah Palin is still unclear about what a community organizer does.?
Nov. 5

SETH MICHAELS, MYDD.COM: there are flag-waving whooping crowds around the white house. afl-cio hq is insane here.
KATE STEADMAN, KAISER HEALTH NEWS: i can?t imagine anything like it except a world series/superbowl win, and several of my co-walkers told me it never gets the entire city so riled. i think what makes it even more amazing is the incredible diversity in this city and how we all came together for this, especially in victory.
MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I?ve never felt anything like U Street tonight. Huging, kissing strangers?everything.
ALYSSA ROSENBERG, GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE: I?ve gotta be all non-partisan on GovExec, so I hope you?ll all indulge me a minute here. On Monday night in Manassas, the band warming up the crowd before Obama arrived played ?I Need You To Survive.? I think the core lyrics are pretty good statement of principles for progressives, especially going forward from a victory like this one:
It is his will, that every need be supplied.
You are important to me, I need you to survive.
You are important to me, I need you to survive.
I pray for you, You pray for me.
I love you, I need you to survive.
I won?t harm you with words from my mouth.
I love you, I need you to survive.
It is his will, that every need be supplied.
You are important to me, I need you to survive.
A lot of horribly ugly stuff got repudiated tonight. But it doesn?t end here. We need to keep making the case to the folks who disagreed with us, the folks who booed McCain during his concession speech tonight.
MATT DUSS, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: [Mccain aide] Randy Scheunemann Fired [last week]
LAURA ROZEN, MOTHER JONES (NOW POLITICO): Can you imagine if these bozos had won?
Nov. 7

LAURA ROZEN: People we no longer have to listen to: would it be unwise to start a thread of people we are grateful we no longer have to listen to? If not, I?ll start off: Michael Rubin.
MICHAEL COHEN, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: Mark Penn and Bob Shrum. Anyone who uses the expression ?Real America.? We should send there ass to Gitmo!
JESSE TAYLOR, PANDAGON.NET: Michael Barone? Please?
LAURA ROZEN: Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich (afraid it?s not true), Drill Here Drill Now, And David Addington, John Yoo, we?ll see you in court?
JEFFREY TOOBIN, THE NEW YORKER: As a side note, does anyone know what prompted Michael Barone to go insane?
MATT DUSS: LEDEEN.
SPENCER ACKERMAN: Let?s just throw Ledeen against a wall. Or, pace Dr. Alterman, throw him through a plate glass window. I?ll bet a little spot of violence would shut him right the fuck up, as with most bullies.
JOE KLEIN, TIME: Pete Wehner?these sort of things always end badly.
ERIC ALTERMAN, AUTHOR, WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA: Fucking Nascar retards?
Nov. 12

MICHAEL HIRSH, NEWSWEEK: so many of you still seem tied down to your old ideological moorings. on the early evidence obama is not similarly tied down on any level, whether diplomatically or economically (or politically: note his big-tent approach to joe lieberman). a post-ideological presidency ? what a novelty, and what a relief! but this new obamian world view, i fear, also puts many of you who are part of this group in danger of imminent irrelevance. cheers, mike hirsh


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[Chadman]

I realize you are working hard at posting things because you are interested in the country, which is great. I'm guessing it's to try to convince people to leave the two party system, right? And support your guy Ron Paul? Right?

I honestly do understand some of your positions, and share some of your concerns, Illum, but there is one-sidedness and radicalism in most of our probable candidates, including Paul.

Blind identification with the Constitution is definitely arguable, IMO, after studying more about it and those who created it over the past few months. I know the essence of the tea party movement is about the adulation of the constitution... my fear is that much of it worships the original Constitution, and parts of that are extremely problematic, in my view.

That being said, I think a sensible alternative is a good thing for this country right now, in many ways. The concern I have, is having our ultimate decision-making process become more cluttered and less productive, and our country is less equipped to react quickly to the serious issues we face now - which are VERY serious at this point in time. I think if somehow our country could elect enough mid-streamers not associated with either of the two parties to affect the voting process, it would be exciting. And I'd hope that the newbies would make the right decisions for serious situations. But who knows? It could be as obstructive to getting something done as helpful.

Just thought I'd put up some rambling thoughts - didn't think this through too thoroughly. Enjoying some beers and ka-bobs tonight - which is the REALLY important thing for a late summer Saturday here in Minnesota.

 

[Lumi]

Just thought I'd put up some rambling thoughts - didn't think this through too thoroughly. Enjoying some beers and ka-bobs tonight - which is the REALLY important thing for a late summer Saturday here in Minnesota.

No better way to enjoy a Saturday Night, no matter where you are. I was at a kids birthday party, the son of an employee. Still over 105 degrees out, aaargh ! But nice to get out.

Interesting thing as the party wound down, I did not bring it up, the childs grandfather did. He asked one of the many cousins :shrug: about SB1070, and Jose, got really pissed off about it. His response was, "Fucking Wetbacks are fucking it up for the rest of us who are hard working Americans." Pete, the Grandfather was in agreement, as were other cousins and uncles. I just observed and took mental notes of this conversation. Pete has a son who is a Deputy Sheriff in Phoenix, who wasn't there, but Pete was repeating info he had received from him. "This is so fucked up dad, Obama is suing the Arizona over a law that is already in effect."
I was still silent, hard to believe huh?

These are hard working people, of Mexican decent, they do not like to be identified as Mexican-Amercans, Hispanic-Americans, or any other Hyphenated American euphanism. They are are American, 4th Generation, they have been here than my family.

Ron and Rand Paul, and Sarah Palin are certainly polarizing individuals, and they are easy targets for the oppostion. No matter where a middle of the road candidate pops up from, some asshole with a key board will attach the candidate to some sort of extremist type activity.

It can be a florist who has had enough of the crap who delivers an unbelievable speech at the local level. Boom, city council. 2 years later State Senate, he or she continues the march. Someone, some group is going to attack this persons integrity, either being a racist, duh... that's the easiest charge. A tax cheat, but why should that matter these days, look at Barry's Cabinet :shrug: Anyone who is out of the mainstream of the One Party System will not survive.

Here is something to ponder on....

I was thinking about this last night.

Are Border Patrol Agents Racist?

Based on all the false claims of the Soetoro Admin. and DOJ and MSNBC rally cry, PAPERS PLEASE, The Border Patrol sits and waits for soon to be illegals to commit a crime. Sometimes the BP will pull people over 100+ miles inside the US.