Entries Tagged as 'Stupid Pundit Tricks'

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Pundit Logic

Okay…get this straight:
- John McCain lost his appeal among independent voters because of his unwavering support of a now unpopular war.
- Joe Lieberman was forced to leave his party because of his unwavering support of a now unpopular war.
- Joe Lieberman endorses John McCain, largely because of McCain’s unwavering support of a now unpopular war.
- Joe Lieberman’s [...]

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

I’m Surprised He Could Even Get The Question Out, Given Where His Mouth Must Have Been

As Rusty points out, I don’t watch Fox News, so I missed this one this morning. The folks at Salon’s War Room blog managed to pick it up. It’s Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade, with a question from his hard hitting interview with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani:
Mr. Mayor, this is an odd question but I [...]

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Imus Be Going

MSNBC has just discontinued his show, and CBS may do the same soon. So, I’m trying not to pile on too much, but I’ve always been lost on the fascination with Don Imus. He seemed to be always a run of the mill curmudgeon, a dime a dozen in any decent sized media market. What made [...]

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

That Liberal Media…

This morning’s Arizona Republic features an article about Kyrsten Sinema.  The article had some silly aspects, such as Warde Nichols saying that Sinema is out of touch and lets her emotions guide her rather than doing things at an “intellectual level.” Geez, Nichols, have you looked at your own caucus? Check out the who actually [...]

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

More “Wisdom” From the Aptly Named Mike Barnicle

I suppose I should appreciate Mike Barnicle’s writting, but he sucks as a political commentator. His recent turn as a sub on Hardball was untouched by any knowledge of American political life and the inept questions almost ventured into territory previously explored by The Chris Farley Show.
His political commentary gives us such “gems” as this, [...]

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Barack and Roll

I can tell that Barack Obama must be scaring the Republicans, because they have already made a couple of butt-stupid attacks on him over the last couple of weeks.
Most of you already heard the one about Obama’s middle name being Hussein. So effin’ what? Other than the bozo that said it, it doesn’t seem to [...]

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

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 [...]

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

And Here is Another…

So, here is another media “meme” I’m trying to figure out:
The Republicans had contests for all three of their leadership postions. John “Merkle” Boehner defeated Mike Pence 168-27 for Minority Leader, Roy “Insert Cheech & Chong Reference Here” Blunt defeated our own John Shadegg 137-57 for Majority Whip, and Adam Putnam had to beat back [...]

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

And These Guys Wonder Why They Lost?

Some of the students I work with have, well, a history with our justice system. Inevitably, they are always blameless for their arrests, or, they were arrested because the victim “snitched.” I don’t know why it counts as snitching when it’s the victim, but that’s how it goes.
Republican lobbyist, strategist and svengali Grover Norquist, from [...]

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Why I Get Frustrated

I haven’t had a chance to comment on a few things I saw in the media on Thursday.
Is the name Hardball supposed to refer to the fact that going on the show is tantamount to something that is difficult? The only thing difficult on that show is wading through the thick substance created by Chris [...]

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