Times Readers Agree: Obama's Being Pimped

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Sunday December 13, 2009 · 11:28 AM PST

2009/12/13 · 11:28

Frank Rich has a great piece today, as he usually does, mentioned in the pundit round-up here. Read it. It's good. But when you finish, check out the readers' comments. I did, and after doing so I felt a bit lost, which is why I'm posting this.

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Which avatar best fits the poster of this diary?

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Which avatar best fits the poster of this diary?

Chicken Little

9 votes

Tieresias

2 votes

Patrick

0 votes

Pollyanna

6 votes

Charlie the Unicorn

1 vote

Rip Van Winkle

1 vote

Rocky

4 votes

Bullwinkle

5 votes

Who or what is a "Thundercat"?

0 votes

James Cameron

1 vote

I'm Rick James!

6 votes

Your choices suck. I put mine below.

1 vote

What's really important is not your avatar, diarist. It's mine, which I have put below.

2 votes

Same as above.

2 votes

No, really.

3 votes

David Brooks' Delusions of Grammduer

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Friday February 13, 2009 · 6:03 AM PST

2009/02/13 · 06:03

David Brooks seems to be toking on the same bong as Phil Gramm today. Feast on this pearl of wisdom from our resident Nostradamus today, speaking in the future tense of our current economic woes:

"The crisis was labeled an economic crisis, but it was really a psychological crisis. It was caused by a mood of fear and uncertainty, which led consumers to not spend, bankers to not lend and entrepreneurs to not risk. No amount of federal spending could change this psychology because uncertainty about the future remained acute."

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 5:35 PM PST

2009/02/06 · 17:35

Maybe you've heard it. Of course you've heard it. You're a Kossack. You've heard it from Tweety. You've heard it from Morning Joe. And Lou Dobbs. Pat Buchanan. Mike Barnacle. And perhaps even Jim Webb. And you've seen it repeated here on blog after blog here at DKos. It's a hip meme and those passing it along seem to think it makes them sound "smart" and "tough" and "serious". It shouldn't. It should make them sound, like, so sixty years ago.

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Why are shovels so stimulative?

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Why are shovels so stimulative?

1) Read Freud; 2) Look at shovel.

7 votes

Come here and I'll show you.

10 votes

I dunno. Ask Pat.

5 votes

The way they feel in yo HANDS!

13 votes

Lulz for Kossacks: GOPundit Fail 2008 - HNY!!!

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Wednesday December 31, 2008 · 8:25 PM PST

2008/12/31 · 20:25

I did this ages ago (B.E.) and it fell in a hole.

Hope you find it merryful and joyifying.

Happy 2009 to the best folks on the planet!

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Tuesday November 25, 2008 · 11:37 PM PST

2008/11/25 · 23:37

NOTE: Someone killed this diary. Guess it's because I took the trollbait. Next time: recipes!

Anybody know?

I thought I saw him down at the laundromat but it was Rob Reiner. Meathead. If I wanted a Reiner I would have checked into Methodist!

Then I saw him at the mess hall, but it wasn't him either, just some guy spitting mashed potatoes all over the place. I think it was Quayle.

Some say he's down by the front, but just as many swear they saw him up by the back.

We have airplanes, you know. And mechanical horses too. The airplanes gallop underground and sniff glue. The horses fly. Somebody's gonna bill Richardson for the whole thing.

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Sunday November 23, 2008 · 5:34 PM PST

2008/11/23 · 17:34

Over the last eight years we have witnessed the slow elimination of world news from American television. International bureaus have been closed, reporters and photographers let go or reassigned...even the Daily Show does more "on location" pieces from foreign lands than any of the cable channels, and I'm not sure all of those are really "on location"!

This seems preposterous given the increasingly global nature of our existence, but in Bush's America the preposterous became commonplace, and so we tend to get used to some really ridiculous results. To this Kossack it seemed to fit with the overall Bushian attitude that "the rest of the world doesn't matter." Well, those days are gone, and now, it seems, the rest of the world may now start to return to American television.

Christiane Amanpour just got her own show on CNN International. Nightly. Weekends on CNN for the rest of us. And the focus will be international news. It's not a huge deal, but it's a start in the right direction.

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What could be better than this?

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What could be better than this?

Lou Dobbs gets fired.

170 votes

It runs opposite Mika's 1600 Penn. Ave.

15 votes

Morning Noam.

22 votes

Swope!

2 votes

FBI Director Harold Ickes

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Tuesday November 18, 2008 · 4:57 PM PST

2008/11/18 · 16:57

I think I got this thing. Now that Lieberman is back in the saddle and Hillary is headed for State, I think I understand the way this Administration is being composed, and I'm almost positive I have the correct picks for a number of the remaining slots, including CIA, HUD and OSHA.

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 11:57 AM PST

2008/11/07 · 11:57

The world changed a little this week, and that left some wondering where it would leave them.

Racists were in a jam; and when in a jam, racists usually end up in blackface.

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 9:08 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 21:08

If you like video, this campaign was really rich.

From viral videos to straight campaign ads, this year has rewritten the rules of the game in ways that will be studied for years to come.

Everybody has a favorite, and there's so much out there that nobody (except Jed) has seen it all, so I thought I'd start a thread and encourage Kossacks to share the videos that made a difference in 2008.

Here are my personal top ten favorites, in no particular order, and definitely forgetting some classic that one of you will remind me of soon:

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Which of the above ten videos is the most incredibly flicking awesome?

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Which of the above ten videos is the most incredibly flicking awesome?

Wassup 2008

8 votes

Sarah and the Wolves

7 votes

Our Sarah (SIlverman)

3 votes

Techno-challenged McCain

0 votes

Empire Strikes Barack

5 votes

Baracky

7 votes

John's Wandering Eyes

6 votes

Kay Hagan's "Belief"

7 votes

Bob Schaffer smokes too much weed.

0 votes

Bring A Friend To Vote

1 vote

Something Else I Have Posted Below

9 votes

I am concerned that this diary will make us lose the election.

2 votes

Drung...k

1 vote

Chicken Parmagiana vs. Plate of Offal and Broken Glass? Gimme a minute!

1 vote

UK: Townsfolk destroy Palin effigy with explosives (+ No-Drama Obama Lemur)

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 7:52 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 19:52

Not sure if anyone diaried this, but I found it on the CNN website.

Townsfolk in England have delivered their explosive verdict on Sarah Palin, stuffing a giant effigy of the U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee with fireworks and blowing her up to raucous cheers.

Um, wow?

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 1:01 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 01:01

First, check to see if her mouth is open.

Then, check her syntax.

I teach writing. I have spent thousands of hours helping students straighten out tortured syntax, and through a strange kind of Stockholm syndrome have developed an affection for it. So I thought it was kind of cute when I heard Sarah Palin mangle a sentence on the economic crisis:

"It's a toxic mess, really, on Main Street that's affecting Wall Street."

Which brought to mind the ending of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" But it was another syntactic reversal, on climate change, that really caught my attention, and it ought to catch yours, too.

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Scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail that best describes the current state of the Palin/McCain campaign:

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Scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail that best describes the current state of the Palin/McCain campaign:

"Bring out your dead!"

36 votes

The Trojan Rabbit

20 votes

French Taunting

10 votes

"If she...weighs the same as a duck..."

38 votes

"We demand...a shrubbery!"

22 votes

"A mere flesh wound!"

85 votes

Hilarious Palin Debate Prep Photo!

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 6:38 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 18:38

I saw this photo on Countdown tonight and I nearly fell off my chair. I have no idea why I find it so hilarious, but I hope you agree.

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In this photo, Sarah Palin is:

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In this photo, Sarah Palin is:

Keeping an eye on Mexico.

71 votes

Burgers or hotdogs?

45 votes

Wondering where all the paddles went.

17 votes

Visualizing Joe Biden as a moose.

91 votes

Deciding where to conceal the weapon.

32 votes

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