I love these staged Morning Joe debates in which Joe cajoles an expert to come on the show to, first, stroke Joe for his paint-by-numbers cookie-cutter issues book, then to "debate" one of the...
Author - Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Balls.
New Huffington Post Column
The Health Insurance Mafia Deserves A Good Screwing Enjoy and Digg often! Go!
Radio Show
Me and Lee Stranahan discuss the shooting at the Holocaust Museum and the general state of far-right insanity. Listen live at 10 p.m. EDT. Call the show: (347) 945-5235 Or participate in the comments...
Prime Time Thread
Wednesday night open thread for blogotubing and such as. (Late -- but not intentionally so.)
Another Right Wing Terrorist Attack
Tragedy at the Holocaust Museum today. WASHINGTON - At least two people were shot at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on Wednesday, authorities say. D.C. police spokeswoman Traci...
Fox Business Fail
This is a remarkably epic fail video. Clearly none of the anchors has any clue what a "stay" is, but what's utterly damning is that they're dishing out financial advice and yet they can't hold it...
Quote of the Day
"What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." —Charles Krauthammer accidentally admitting the truth
Civil Discourse
Joe Scarborough claims to be all about civil discourse -- not resorting to hyperbole or personal attacks. Except, of course, when he does it. All the time. This morning, for example, Joe thinks Jon...
The Canada Lie
Contrary to the lies you might've heard on Fox News this morning, Yglesias cites actual evidence indicating that Canadian healthcare outcomes are about the same -- if not slightly better in some...
McAuliffe Loses Badly
Terry McAuliffe was soundly defeated in the Virginia Democratic primary race for governor. I guess the super stupid campaign sign trick didn't work.
Dick Pillars
Remember when Joe Scarborough and his people spent an entire show ripping the Obama campaign for the greek pillars on the stage at Invesco Field? Here's the cover of Scarborough's cookie-cutter book:
Protecting Joe
Newsweek protecting their morning buddy from controversy. I'm continually shocked by how people -- liberal or otherwise -- have been duped by this guy.
Morning Awesome
MGMT - "Kids" From Oracular Spectacular That kid was a real trooper, no?
Doof Quote of the Week
"You know people say, “Hey, Alaska! Eight-five percent of your state budget is based on the price of a barrel of oil. Aren’t you glad the price is going up?” I say, “No!” The fewer dollars that the...
Prime Time Thread
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Obscene
The salaries of the highest paid health insurance CEOs: * Ron Williams - Aetna - Total Compensation: $24,300,112. * H. Edward Hanway - CIGNA - Total Compensation: $12,236,740. * Angela Braly ...
Predictable Coward
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) doesn't support the public option. Duh. "I am not open to a public option, however I will remain open to a compromise - a full compromise," Landrieu told reporters...
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Their Crashed Car
Yglesias on the ultimate impact of the TARP bailouts: At the end of the day, the valuable thing that systematically significant institutions got from TARP was not so much the TARP money as investors...
At Least They're Being Weeded Out
Last year's King of the Mountains winner at the Tour de France, Austria's Bernard Kohl, describes his pre-Tour doping/cheating diet: “Apart from the caffeine, pseudo-ephedrine, painkillers, EPO...