Some D list wingnut radio host was yelling about Obama being an appeaser, and Matthews, credit where credit is due, destroyed him. Matthews called him out and demanded that he explain what Chamberlin did to make him an appeaser, and the wingnut couldn't say anything except "He was an appeaser!"
Eventually he gave up and admitted he didn't know what he was talking about. Most satisfying pundit exchange that I've seen in a long time!
I'll get video when it replays at 7pm, but I just had to give Tweety props. He was clearly sick of this dumbass, and tore him a new one!
Just heard on MSNBC. Nagin just got the superdelegate slot over Mitch Landrieu last week.
BATON ROUGE -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who defeated Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu for the city's top job two years ago, beat him again Saturday.
At a meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee, Nagin was elected as a superdelegate to the Democratic Party's presidential nominating convention.
The committee picked Nagin over four other candidates, including Landrieu. Nagin won 83 votes, Jerry McKernan of Baton Rouge had 50 and Landrieu had 28.
Nagin will be one of 10 Louisiana superdelegates to the convention. Like the others, he does not need to pledge his support to a candidate beforehand, although both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been actively courting superdelegates nationwide.
On September 30th, 2000, a mere 38 days before the Presidential election, then Presidential hopeful George W. Bush put forth the energy policy. Barely a month before the election, and a full three months after Al Gore laid out his energy proposals, the American public hardly had a fair chance to evaluate the merits (or lack thereof) of his proposals. The question of whether the media or the public were interested in evaluating the merits of either proposal is another one entirely, with a probably depressing answer.
One of the things that I really hate about a lot of debates is when the moderators get some rube to ask a question so silly and asinine that even clowns like Stephenopalous and Gibson wouldn't ask it. Of course, it's not that they don't want it asked, just that it's so stupid that they don't want to ask it themselves. So they launder it through some yokel that they get to read it in a video.
You try to troll rate Bill Kristol. Let me explain.
I took a break from some homework to surf the internets, and for some reason I ended up reading Bill Kristols NYT piece. Nothing particularly noteworthy about it, but when I got to the end, well, I did what any Kossack would do: I tried to troll rate Bill Kristol!
It wasn't just a brain freeze though. Rather, I think it was the natural reaction of a Kossack to a Bill Kristol tip jar.
Just check out this screenshot of the bottom of the column:
Last night's debate had a lot of objectionable stuff from the Republicans, but I thought that we should all take note of their responses to one particular question.
Tim Russert asked each candidate if the Iraq war was worth the cost and a good idea. Here is what they said.
First, an apology for deceiving you. This isn't actually a major endorsement. It's my endorsement, but it convinced me to vote for him! I know we've all read long, thought-out, impassioned personal endorsements on dKos for months now, and most of us are sick of them. I figured one more can't hurt. They're practically primary open threads.
It's that time of the election year where the primary endorsements have just about finished rolling in, and the "regular folks" take a week off and then emerge to caucus in Iowa. My own personal preference has been months in the making, but I've known for some time who I intend to vote for, if I have the chance in our late voting state.
If I lived in Iowa, I would caucus on Januray 3rd for Barack Obama.
At Drexel University we just wrapped up our fall term, but over break the Drexel College Democrats are going to be putting together our strategic plan for 2008.
Many of us are kossacks (lurkers, mostly), and we thought it might be worthwile to reach out to the Kos community for input and ideas about how to have an impact. I'll explain below the fold.
(Cross posted at Drexel Democrats)
Short diary, I just wanted to share this funny video of Kathy Griffin slmming Bill Donohue. Donohue is the head of the Catholic League, and I'm sure most of us are familiar with his "work."
I just learned yesterday, via Skeptico, that the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Peurto Rico is facing closure because the National Science Foundation (NSF) cannot find funding for approximately $4 million dollars, half of the facilities budget for the next three years. According to the Washington Post,
The National Science Foundation, which has long funded the dish, has told the Cornell University-operated facility that it will have to close if it cannot find outside sources for half of its already reduced $8 million budget in the next three years -- an ultimatum that has sent ripples of despair through the scientific community
$4 million dollars. That's it. According to Petraeus's testimony, every day of the IRaq war costs the U.S. $300 million dollars. We spend $4 million dollars for every 19 minutes that we are in Iraq, but we can't find the money to fund Arecibo for three years?
I read this article from the Boston Globe earlier, and it got me thinking- always a dangerous proposition. The article describes how presidential campaigns are spending money on Internet advertising, specifically through Google Adwords.
Those small text ads, which appear on the right side of the screen under "sponsored links," or "sponsor results," and connect to candidate websites, are cropping up more often as campaigns seek donors and volunteers among people searching the Internet. Some campaign officials and consultants spend hours trying to figure out which words will get the most people to click on their ads - something businesses have done for years to find customers.
Of course, this is pretty obvious stuff, but what suprised me was how expensive the click through rates were.
Breaking today on Fox News is this story that details a South Carolina man suing Michael Vick over issues relating to illegal dogfighting. The suit was filed in US District court on July 23rd, and plaintiff is asking for $63 Billion!
Update:mcjoan just diaried about this on the front page, and she correctly identified the culprit as Peter Boyer, not Josh Green as I had originally thought. Apologies to Mr. Green. I have edited the post.
Zombie lies are those untruths that just won't die, no matter how many times they are killed. Al Gore was eaten alive by zombie lies, and to this day they crawl from the mouth of insipid talking heads. I just watched Hardball, and heard a nasty zombie lie about us!
