tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post1923323175410552763..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Down: Carly Fiorina's Blood Libeldriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20998509884283898452015-09-29T03:21:51.157-05:002015-09-29T03:21:51.157-05:00Good morning, Neo Tuxedo.
Never heard of that sto...Good morning, Neo Tuxedo.<br /><br />Never heard of that story before. But after doing a quickie Wiki read, it sounds like something I could see Mr. Glass referencing in the future.<br /><br />Enjoy your day.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-29365102613718545962015-09-28T17:49:02.873-05:002015-09-28T17:49:02.873-05:00I think you might better understand "Meet the...<i>I think you might better understand "Meet the Press" if you think of it as a gathering of lunatics after they've taken over the asylum, calmly comparing their psychoses.</i><br /><br />Or by reading Philip K. Dick's <i>Clans of the Alphane Moon</i>?Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57187574612581985142015-09-28T13:41:14.453-05:002015-09-28T13:41:14.453-05:00Focusing on one sliver of your commentary.
How t... Focusing on one sliver of your commentary.<br /><br /> How they "report" on "the voters", "their mood" and how the candidates project "their anger" to coincide "with said mood".<br />Republicans have always been angry and hateful toward Americans (by divided groups). The conservative Wedgies.<br />I am not an angry voter!<br />Disgusted, strong desire to correct, making it better, thoughtfully evaluating my slim choices.<br />But be clear,<br /> Never have I made a good decision while angry or angry like a republican.<br /> I declare here and now, I have made better choices practicing recreational self medicating than I ever made angry or even angry while sober. <br /> There is a difference in discourse (disapproval) than republican anger with it;s bigotry, self aggrandizing, self loathing and so on down that nasty angry cesspool........ Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20919732310909473402015-09-28T05:35:33.066-05:002015-09-28T05:35:33.066-05:00Hmm. "Chuck Todd and the Merchants of Madnes...Hmm. "Chuck Todd and the Merchants of Madness." Pretty cool band name. :)Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-3654952936722255042015-09-28T05:12:10.041-05:002015-09-28T05:12:10.041-05:00Good morning, Mr. Glass.
1. In all yer Photoshopp...Good morning, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />1. In all yer Photoshoppin', have you ever portrayed the hippie straw man that the Centrists need for the "both sides" gig to work?<br /><br />2. I know I've brought this up before, but...<br /><br />"I may state the system, then, in general terms, as one in which the patients were menages-humored. We contradicted no fancies which entered the brains of the mad. On the contrary, we not only indulged but encouraged them; and many of our most permanent cures have been thus effected. There is no argument which so touches the feeble reason of the madman as the argumentum ad absurdum. We have had men, for example, who fancied themselves chickens. The cure was, to insist upon the thing as a fact -- to accuse the patient of stupidity in not sufficiently perceiving it to be a fact -- and thus to refuse him any other diet for a week than that which properly appertains to a chicken. In this manner a little corn and gravel were made to perform wonders."<br />---"The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether" by Edgar Allan Poe<br /><br />I think you might better understand "Meet the Press" if you think of it as a gathering of lunatics after they've taken over the asylum, calmly comparing their psychoses.<br /><br />Be seeing you.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75601004095161191532015-09-28T03:47:39.740-05:002015-09-28T03:47:39.740-05:00Also, too, I think it was This Week with Martha Ra...Also, too, I think it was This Week with Martha Raddatz presiding, Matthew Dowd questioned the timing of the State Dinner and criticized Michelle Obama's Vera Wang dress because, oh, because how dare she FLOTUS While Black. His Twitter followers lauded him for his courage. Yes, because in a world where a pundit gets away with calling President Obama a "dick" on a cable news show criticizing the Obamas is indeed "gutsy". Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141640791663745884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26224324524116773672015-09-28T02:05:29.922-05:002015-09-28T02:05:29.922-05:00You have to remember that Ms. Raddatz is from NP a...You have to remember that Ms. Raddatz is from NP and thus, predisposed to both siderism.Striderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14891568020027487586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22553735977923098692015-09-27T23:42:50.079-05:002015-09-27T23:42:50.079-05:00"Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Do you be..."Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Chuck! Do you believe this is not happening? Does Hillary Clinton believe this is not happening?!"<br /><br />WTF is wrong with this woman??! And why won't Tuck Choad challenge her and say "No, of course I don't believe this! Because it doesn't happen. You're at best deluded, at worst lying to pander to a base you neither respect nor really want on your side but are willing to harvest that base's tiny brains just like the tiny brains you accuse PP of harvesting!"<br /><br />Fark Tuck Choad. And the whole lot of them. Horrible people. They do the bidding of their masters all too well.<br /><br />SO glad I didn't see this this morning. The bad vibes would have tanked the whole day.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128460666564857113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-54882180729333006572015-09-27T21:34:13.260-05:002015-09-27T21:34:13.260-05:00So apparently a stage in San Antonio collapsed aro... So apparently a stage in San Antonio collapsed around Carly (she wasn't injured). Suppose it was divine retribution for bearing false witness on such an enormous scale? Me neither, but it's fun to think about...<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-17516221836662548422015-09-27T20:53:53.229-05:002015-09-27T20:53:53.229-05:00Have you noticed that in all the continuing furor ...Have you noticed that in all the continuing furor over Emailghazee!, no one EVER mentions those deleted 22 million emails (in violation of the Presidential Records Act and the Hatch Act) in Dubya's White House?<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy<br /><br />All right class, repeat after me, "IOKIYAR"!bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-46944525764309393432015-09-27T19:41:47.766-05:002015-09-27T19:41:47.766-05:00Yes David Brooks once again putting the smiley fac...Yes David Brooks once again putting the smiley face on the horror and newt gingrich once again etch a sketching his way through life, one a veritable walter lippman of modern "journalism" the other a persistent recurring sore on the lip of government. As groucho once limned "I'd like to get a license to hunt them. They would look alongside my moose".ELSKYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16656331592416370067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89308558536725798162015-09-27T19:37:44.814-05:002015-09-27T19:37:44.814-05:00"the ethos of the country right now." I..."the ethos of the country right now." Is Brooks channeling Walter Sobchak? "Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." <br /><br />So much of the electorate, indeed, the vast majority, are so busy with reality, they haven't paid any attention to The Grand Contested Election of the President of the United States, circa 2016. What they are calling the electorate is that less than 20 percent of the country Republican primary voter that needs romancin' by a bunch of dimwitted thugs.<br /><br />"Bill Kristol wrote this great column yesterday" Wow. Does Toddy get a kickback for that promo? Gotta go read that flapdoodle.<br /><br />"She's basically has a defensive posture. And that means she's erecting walls, not trusting people, and there's no romance. People, especially this year, they want a little romance, they want a lot of ideological action going outward." Isn't this just about Brooks settling in to being really divorced??? (I am not going to let my kids watch Meet the Suppress, if they are gonna be this explicit.)<br /><br />RADDATZ: "You, of course, resigned the speakership in '99. What's different here?" What's different??? Doesn't Raddatz know her history?? Malfeasance is one BIG reason Gingrich got Newtered in more ways that one. "Use of tax-exempt organization for political purposes; provided false information to House Ethics Committee." Imagine Raddatz as a Bank Dick, doling out money to the robbers, no questions asked.<br /><br />Great Post Drift! It makes me want to sing the Canadian National Anthem. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07847529025861701877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84201588851994158232015-09-27T18:57:12.000-05:002015-09-27T18:57:12.000-05:00Honestly, Driftglass, I don't know how you can...Honestly, Driftglass, I don't know how you can bear to watch these charades, though I am happy at your reporting so that I know what is going on.<br /><br />The "private" right wing control here is horrifying; by abolishing The Fairness Doctrine, the Government has ceded media power to a corporate oligarchy that runs riot with reality, and does everything to tilt the scales in favor of the Crazy Party and Pig People. This material is a macabre as <a href="http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Caesar_Flickerman" rel="nofollow">Caesar Flickerman's presentations in The Hunger Games</a>. <br /><br />The American Fourth Estate is dead as a mackerel.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880308031096340258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31482417735800702022015-09-27T18:38:10.437-05:002015-09-27T18:38:10.437-05:00That's honestly such a brilliant representatio...That's honestly such a brilliant representation of the Sunday Morning Shit Shows that it almost makes you wonder if there is even the smallest hope to ever change anything. Because I would argue that there isn't. Carly Fiorina knows she's lying, the panelists and the host know she's lying. It's so blatant that they can't help but admit that it is the case. So they just decide to say that lying isn't really that big of a deal anyway. Except when Hilary Clinton does it (or doesn't). And they are able to flip that switch, without shame, with literally only seconds between the two positions. It's all a ruse. jjstrakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04056030673102120613noreply@blogger.com