I'm watching Meet the Press and it's reminding me what a wormy, fidgety disrespectful liar Dick Armey is. Every time Maddow speaks, Armey smirks and plays with his fingers and never looks her in the...
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Propping Up the Crazy Talk
Former Reagan and Bush 41 official Bruce Bartlett in a conversation with Steve Benen: ...the media don't treat Republicans as if they are discredited. On the contrary, they often seem to be treated...
Flowers for Algernon
Tbogg noticed the wide disparity between Sarah Palin's classic "position flexible" random phrase babble and her recent Facebook posts which somehow are more grammatical and polished. At the risk of...
Beck Keeps Lying and Losing Advertisers
More than a dozen advertisers have bailed out of the Glenn Beck show. Yet he continues to flagrantly lie on his show. This time, on Friday's show, he claimed that Hawking never enjoyed government...
O'Reilly Attacks 11-year-old Girl
What a big man you are, O'Reilly. Not only does O'Reilly call out this little girl, but he also refers to her as "dumb" -- or a nominee for something with "dumb" in the title. As does the blonde doof...
Salon Debunks Kent Conrad Story
Salon debunks the initial reporting about Senator Conrad's pledge to vote against a "government-run" healthcare system: The Sun's story never quoted Conrad directly about the public option, and the...
Best. Healthcare. Ever.
In the first two days, more than 1,500 men, women and children received free treatments worth $503,000 (£304,000). Thirty dentists pulled 471 teeth; 320 people were given standard issue spectacles;...
My First Football Post
The hiring of Michael Vick gives me a substantive, real-life reason to root against the Eagles this season. Yes, he did his time. But the Eagles have hired someone who tortured and murdered dogs for...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Giant Gila Monster" The first ten minutes (give or take)
Go Lawrence O'Donnell
O'Donnell totally ripped into Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) this evening on Hardball. This is truly riveting. Once backed into a corner, Culberson resorts to very typical Republican tactics. Rather than...
Kent Conrad Is A Hack
But he might very well be a clever hack. News came down this afternoon that Senator Conrad pledged to vote against "government-run healthcare." Both TPM and Firedoglake, for example, are reporting...
I Might Actually Watch 'Meet the Press'
Dick Armey was forced to quit his gig at DLA Piper, a lobbying firm, due to his association with the town hall wingnuttery. Rachel Maddow is partly responsible for exposing his connection to...
The President's Montana Town Hall
In his opening remarks, the president really nailed the idea that this is about fixing health insurance for the people who have it. Almost nothing about the uninsured -- just the dangers of the under...
I'm An Idiot Child
...At least, according to this extended screed by a revved-up wingnut blogger. Most revealing is that, once again, he never proves me wrong. But one thing he does prove is that Malkin and Fox News...
Damon Weaver Gets His Interview
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Glenn Beck Is A Wingnut Fraud
This takedown of Glenn Beck on healthcare represents The Daily Show at its best. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Glenn Beck's Operation www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full...
Deals with the Devil
We've spent some time here on the blog debating the deal between the White House and PhRMA and I wanted to jot down a clarification of my position on this whole thing. First, the deal should come as...
President Clinton's Speech at Netroots Nation
Matt Osborne liveblogged the speech here. And some heckling on DADT. You'd think with the town hall hooligans resorting to these tactics, we'd be deliberately more civil. But okay. President Clinton...
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SNL - "Jon Hamm's John Ham" New season of Mad Men starts Sunday.