Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like A Hole" Live at the Reading Festival 2007
Author - Bob Cesca
Tonight Show
Other than the cringe-inducing bowling remark, the president was pretty damn great on the Tonight Show. Highlight video here.
Doof Quote of the Day
"It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." —President Obama on the Tonight Show describing his bowling skills Oh my.
A Tea Bagger Responds
One of the official tea bagger blogs (the one that inaugurates the Coward Rick Santelli as the Chief Tea Bagger) responded to my Huffington Post column. He or she suggests: [The Democratic Party] is...
Quote of the Day
"Atlas Shrugged is a stupid book, Ayn Rand is a stupid woman, and John Galt’s ideas are stupid." —Matt Yglesias
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for mocking the constant variety of cable news hackery and whatever else you're up to on this fine, fine Thursday night. Achtung! Don't forget: Elvis Dang-L-deen's radio program is on...
Gulp.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CNN Thursday his department asked Sen. Chris Dodd to include a loophole in the stimulus bill that allowed bailed-out insurance giant American International...
Taxing The Shit Out of Them
The House voted 328-93 to tax bailed-out executive bonuses of $250K or more -- at a massive 90 percent tax rate. For what it's worth, a move like this is supported by a margin of 76-17 in a recent...
Afternoon Awesome
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This Is Bad
Hamsher and Greenwald are reporting that it was Geithner and Larry Summers who pushed for the softening of executive bonus/compensation limits. There's even a ThinkProgress piece from February...
Rewarding Failure
There's no better illustration of the insider "who you know" nature of cable news than a guy like Tucker Carlson, who has failed miserably on two networks, being invited back onto both CNN and MSNBC...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"I don’t believe Al Gore is trying to gas or round up Jews, I don’t believe the result is going to be the same thing. Just understand that the tactic used was a device used by the Nazis. For...
Firing Geithner
It's hilarious that John Boehner and other Republicans are calling for the firing of Tim Geithner because of the AIG thing. Question: was anyone in the Bush administration fired for failing to thwart...
More McCarthyism
I didn't see much of Morning Joe so I don't know whether Scarborough mentioned McCarthy with regards to the AIG hearings, but just now on MSNBC, Monica Novotny asked whether Limbaugh is right about...
On the AIG Thing
I don't think I've been clear about my position on the AIG bonuses. In brief, I'm disgusted by AIG -- but I'm not surprised at all, so that's tempered my reaction. This is exactly how these...
Morning Awesome
The classic Star Blazers opening title sequence. I so badly want to reboot this series.
Radio Show
Lee Stranahan and I will be on Blog Talk Radio at 10 p.m. EDT. Stand by for action! Call-in number: (347) 945-5235 Or add your thoughts in the comments here. UPDATE: Show's over. Continuing in the...
Go, Beck and Malkin, Go!
Keep on defending AIG: Excellent job! Adding... Mob rule? Aren't these people the ones who are calling for a revolution? A revolution of tag bagging? For me, their glaring contradictions and crazy...
'The New McCarthyism'
Wow. Media Matters is a treasure trove of crazy tonight. Rush Limbaugh along with the same FOX News anchor who aired the doctored clip of the vice president rolled out the McCarthy references today...
Go, Hannity, Go!
Keep on defending AIG: "Chuckie [Schumer] is coming for you. The government is coming to get your money. [...] In other words, we're going to just steal their money." You're doing great, Hannity!