Will people save money this winter by yes we canning? The New Politics thread.

[jebreject]

Oh my that Keen piece is one of the most absurd things I've ever read

[elpollodiablo]

"The 1930s fascists were expert at using all the most technologically sophisticated communications technologies—the cinema, radio, newspapers, advertising—to spew their destructive, hate-filled message. What they excelled at was removing the the traditional middlemen like religion, media, and politics, and using these modern technologies of mass communications to speak with reassuring familiarity to the disorientated masses."

That paragraph alone is astounding


Also:

"Even before the October crash, Americans had become ever-increasingly suspicious to all institutional forms of authority—from traditional political parties to mainstream media organizations to Wall Street executives, educators, and lawyers. As Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership reported late last month, 80 percent of Americans believe there is a leadership crisis in the countryAnd that research was conducted in the fall—before AIG, before Lehmann Brothers, before the public humiliation of Detroit’s elites."

1) You spelled Lehman Bros. wrong
2) They failed in mid-September

[andronicus]

I just gloss over it, giggling at the childish diction.  Ever-increasingly?

[elpollodiablo]

He's also super proud that he could work in zeitgeist, you can tell.

See, I know I'm a better writer than this man. I just have to find something sufficiently stupid to say, and say that loudly and often, and I could have a career as a pundit. I'm sure of it.

[Good Intentions]

Us using the internet to mock him probably just gives more grist to his mill. A mill which makes hilarious noises.

[elpollodiablo]

Check out this quote from his WP entry:

"[Web 2.0] suggests that everyone — even the most poorly educated and inarticulate amongst us — can and should use digital media to express and realize themselves. Web 2.0 'empowers' our creativity, it 'democratizes' media, it 'levels the playing field' between experts and amateurs. The enemy of Web 2.0 is 'elitist' traditional media."

Good god the "irony"

[Good Intentions]

It's like the quotation marks are supposed to be read like those lightbulbs that pop up over cartoon characters' heads when they have a bright idea.

[elpollodiablo]

It's the increasingly devastating effect of the zeitgeist, what can you do

[andronicus]

that previous article blucas quoted did a hilarious similar thing with the term 'West Bank'.  Yes, the soi-disant 'West Bank'.  It is well known that the very existence of the Jordan River is an Islamo-fascist conspiracy; the fact that the 'Palestinians refer to the region to the west of that river as the 'West Bank' is simply further proof of the insidious logic of Muhammado-communard doublespeak.

[elpollodiablo]

Ahahaha you guys should check out his blog. He refers to someone "self-evidently" doing something

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

It's like the quotation marks are supposed to be read like those lightbulbs that pop up over cartoon characters' heads when they have a bright idea.

I picture it as a Crank-esque subtitle for pronounciation: de - mo - cra - tiz - es

[jebreject]

"The 1930s fascists were expert at using all the most technologically sophisticated communications technologies—the cinema, radio, newspapers, advertising—to spew their destructive, hate-filled message. What they excelled at was removing the the traditional middlemen like religion, media, and politics, and using these modern technologies of mass communications to speak with reassuring familiarity to the disorientated masses."

That paragraph alone is astounding

Just ...

How the fuck?

You know?

[FreddyKnuckles]

Mr. Obama,
I didn't want to remove myself from your mailing list, but YOU'RE THE FUCKING PRESIDENT ELECT STOP ASKING ME FOR MONEY MOTHERFUCKER
Best,
epd

My Friend,

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[dieblucasdie]

I think you're looking for the "stupidest thing I've read today" thread

[dieblucasdie]

Oh Sweet Mother of Christ

So apparently Joe the Plumber is going to be a blogger for Pajamas Media now (for those not familiar, that's the well-funded Glenn Reynolds/Instapundit conservative webring thingie).

Ahahaha these next four years are going to be amazing.

edit:

Oh Jesus, I just saw that he was joining them.  Then I actually read the article.  They're sending him to Israel as a war correspondent. ahahahahahahaha what the fuck

[dieblucasdie]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel's '''Average Joes' share their story.''

ahahahahaha I can't WAIT to see those reports.

[WhereTheSlimeLive]

a bunch of assholes

[alistarr*]

THEY'RE FLANKING!!



obama picked his spot badly.

[Augo]

a bunch of assholes

Needs more beards.

[Greg Nog]

Bush junior's tie is unflattering.  Carter looks like a Christmas elf.  Bush Senior, Obama, Clinton, good wardrobes, pat yourselves on the backs, fellas.

[dieblucasdie]

Clinton and Carter aren't wearing flag pins

[Greg Nog]

That's because they're secret Muslims.

[Thermofusion]

Carter looks like he's being held at bay by an invisible forcefield encircling the other four presidents

[auto-da-fey]

I just figured he had gas--the looks on his, Clinton's, and GWB's faces sort of support this theory.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Richard Wolffe was talking about that last night on Olbermann and mentioned that it's an open secret in DC circles that Carter and Clinton hate each other.