Tuesday, December 12th, 2006...6:15 am
Barnicle and DeLay Play Wiffleball
I was going to wait for a transcript to be posted, but it appears it won’t be until later today.
As some of you know, Boston-based curmudgeon and plagiarist Mike Barnicle has been hosting the show while Chris Matthews does whatever Chris Matthews does when he ain’t working. Yesterday, we viewers were told that Tom DeLay would be playing “hardball.” I guess I misunderstand the word “hardball.” I thought “hard” as in, I dunno, difficult, or more intense than say, softball, cricket or jarts.
I suppose you can check the transcript yourself when it gets posted this afternoon. The line that stands out most in my mind is when Barnicle told DeLay “You’re a teriffic guy.” Hey, if Barnicle wants to slather praise on the guy, great. Maybe he likes his politics, but please don’t call it “hardball.”
The impression I get from Barnicle is that he is a bit naïve about politics, too naïve to be doing serious political interviews. At one point he even posited that DeLay would like Barack Obama. Yeah, DeLay and Obama, they hang together. I think they were in a band back in ‘83.
One interesting revelation was about DeLay’s new blog. For those that don’t know, Mr. DeLay has a blog, and apparently had the comments section open for a total of 75 minutes before he realized that people who don’t like him might post. Anyway, DeLay went through the normal, this is the way to get out of the beltway (of course, he’s moved to the DC suburbs permanently now) and get with the real people, yadda yadda yadda. Then he admitted that he doesn’t actually write the thing.
Okay, it’s a blog…but he doesn’t write it, and he doesn’t take comments. Dude, that ain’t a blog, that’s a press release.
NB - Someone named James J. Risser managed to mirror the site before the comments were taken down. The best post was from a guy named Marc:
Everyone already assumes bloggers are unemployed losers… thanks for reinforcing that stereotype…
4 Comments
December 12th, 2006 at 7:23 am
If bloggers are unemployed losers, what does that make those of us who read blogs and post comments at them?
December 12th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Hey, Jarts is not for sissies. People have actually been killed playing Jarts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts
December 12th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
sirocco,
I think it makes us a sort of cult following to unemployed losers.
December 13th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Jarts? Why are they called jarts or do I have to actually copy and paste the link you have not learned to html yet?
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