In Markos Moulitsas's first column for Newsweek, the proprietor of the liberal website Daily Kos sadly personified exactly what's wrong with today's Democrat Party as well as the media: the inability to see things beyond the grips of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
In fact, you could diagnose the malady right in the headline, "Make the Bush Record the Issue." Maybe more surprising, Markos also pointed his pen at Ronald Reagan.
Someone ought to tell Moulitsas, who was hired to offer commentary concerning the 2008 elections, that neither of these former presidents is running for office next year.
Unfortunately, much as the Party members he supports, Kos seemed totally oblivious to this fact, and actually wrote a column about the current campaign that didn't mention a single candidate in it (emphasis added throughout):
Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, more people strongly disapproved of George W. Bush than any previous president since the advent?of polling-and, really, how could things be any different? Bush can boast of an unwinnable quagmire in Iraq, a decimated housing market, economic instability and a collapsing dollar, a dysfunctional health-care system, a still-devastated Gulf Coast, a wealth gap of a scope unseen since the Great Depression and a pervasive and disturbing image of America as a hapless, blundering giant, rather than a beacon of freedom and morality in the world.
Yet despite this dismal rap sheet, Republicans refuse to distance themselves too far from Bush and his record lest they take a hit from the fringe voters who still support his presidency.
The validity of such criticisms or lack thereof aside, what was clearly apparent is that in his first column in his new assignment, Moulitsas was speaking to his Daily Kos readers, and not to a larger audience more interested in what the current candidates stand for rather than the typical invective about Bush regularly published at liberal blogs.
In fact, Markos seemed so unaware of this that he even attacked former President Reagan:
In his first Inaugural Address, Ronald Reagan remarked that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." While the quip has provided Republicans with a cheap slogan for two decades, the philosophy behind it is beginning to box them in.
A cheap slogan? Does Markos think so referring to this important statement by one of America's most beloved Presidents will appeal to readers outside the Netroots?
This seems especially absurd given the historically low favorability rating of all federal government officials today thereby indicating that the overwhelming majority of citizens on both sides of the aisle do indeed see government as the problem.
But that was just the first insult Moulitsas disgracefully hurled at Reagan:
When Bush chose a head for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, did he select a competent administrator experienced in disaster management? No, he appointed Mike Brown, an attorney previously fired as the "judges and stewards commissioner" of the International?Arabian Horse Association for gross mismanagement. He was an incompetent horse lawyer, yet Bush deemed him capable of running the nation's top disaster relief agency. Reagan, who once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'," might have approved the choice, but the abandoned residents of the Gulf Coast would undoubtedly beg to differ.
Amazing, wouldn't you agree?
In the end, if all Newsweek readers get from Moulitsas is Bush and Reagan bashing, editor John Meacham should be concerned with his new hire.
Of course, the cynical flipside is that this is exactly what Meacham wanted: Netroots-style vitriol pointed at Republicans for the next twelve months.
Stay tuned.
For myself, not that he or his followers care, I'm very disappointed with Markos.
Regardless of how much I disagree with virtually everything he supports, one of Moulitsas's strengths during the 2006 election cycle was profiling candidates in states and districts around the country.
With that in mind, in future columns, Moulitsas should stick to the differences between the visions being offered by those seeking the most powerful office in the land, while shying away from the real or imagined failings of the Bush and Reagan administrations.
Such is a great strategy when trying to unseat an incumbent, but quite foolish during a cycle when all candidates are vying for that which they currently don't possess.
As such, when the sun rises on the first Tuesday in November 2008, the character and vision of those on the ballot will exclusively be on the minds of voters as they enter polling stations across the fruited plain.
The sooner Markos realizes this, the sooner he'll be preaching beyond his typical choir.
Carpe diem, Kos!
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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Markos Moulitsas the Junior Reagan who failed the Bush test
November 18, 2007 - 13:33 ET by Lame CherryPeople have to understand who Markos is in his soul. As I stated, he stated on Charlie Rose exact positions which are mirror images of Ron Paul who the anarchists are so lathered up about on Rense etc...
Markos likes guns, he likes western lifestyle, he likes isolationism and he likes loads of attention. He is a libertarian at heart, but at his heart something happened to skew his entire emotional support to hate "Republicans" when he is more a Rudy, Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul group of the GOP.
Somewhere in Markos' background, you will find a Latino born of Greek and Hispanic parents who loved America. You will find this in another strange fellow named Dinesh D'Souza who is like a computer imprinted with "Americanism", but has no love for it except for the money it brings in.
Each of these two infamous people have one great rift in their hearts and that is they loved America, expected America to adore them..........but when they failed they found that like in the 3rd world where whining was appreciated, America instead told them to get off their butts and try harder.
D'Souza has rejected Conservatism and only holds out for profit and Hoover his position in churning out books for fame. Markos instead turned on the GOP and took to a party which felt his pain.
In both cases these people suffer from a grande psychopathy of the little kid needing attention to prove they are someone. They both have an American skin they put on in to make them comfortable here in their Americanisms.
People ALWAYS talk about first what is on their hurt scale and in Newsweek Marcos took aim at the people who abandoned him. Ronald Reagan and the Bush family. He is like another infamous person in Ronald Reagan Jr. People will remember his pout fest going to the Democratic National Convention, because George W. Bush "took my daddy from me in making his legacy his own".
All of these people are failures. Ron jr. because he abandoned his dad. D'Souza because he never lived American and Markos because he abandoned America for the Soviet state.
Markos' core beliefs are still like D'Souza in 3rd world Catholic. Markos in all honesty as I have stated before with his military background just needs a man to be friends with him and take him out for a Col. Townsend Whelen ride around the Rockies for a few weeks. He needs to understand that Reagan and America did not abandon him, but instead were giving him the tough love he deserved.
Markos is a failure at life, but in Reagan's fundatmentals as much as America he is a wonderful success in his family and his business.
He just needs a man to sit down with him and explain he is suffering from a Stockholm type syndrome in a child like Ron Reagan jr. taking the side of liberals when his ideals were attacked just like many Latino's do in feeling not a part of America.
Markos should be praised for success, but also taken to the woodshed sternly and explained the damage he is doing to his children and that means the nation by associating with the people he is. Those Democrats hate him and he needs to come home to a nation which does love him in an adult way.........not feeling his pain, but telling him we all have pain but to leave it behind.
God bless this kid to figure it out in Jesus Name. Amen.
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Alex is staying with the
November 18, 2007 - 13:39 ET by Sonny LykosAlex is staying with the Democrat "template".
Consider the ignorant masses. By that I mean look how many people really feel our economy is bad, we're losing in Iraq, Bush lied, etc. When elections are relatively cole, all the Dems have to do is convince the dumbest 5-10% of the masses of their "template" and elections are theirs.
The 2008 elections will prove to be a major turning point in America. I am convinced that after the elections, America will, thru the left, begin a self-destruct process that will be irreversible.
I am not a doomsayer, but a realist.
Noel
November 18, 2007 - 13:46 ET by balboaI agree with you on Kos and that there's really no point in discussing Bush's presidency in relation to the next election, but would you say that Rove should also write to "a larger audience more interested in what the current candidates stand for" instead of being so specific about how to beat just one?
B
November 18, 2007 - 13:53 ET by Noel SheppardB,
Sure, and I think he will. I think what you'll hopefully see from Rove is criticisms of how all candidates are running their campaigns. As such, I hope to read his conceivably negative views about the GOP candidates' strategies and short-comings moving forward.
Look, despite what happened last November, Rove has been a very successful campaign strategist, correct? So, let's get his real, unadulterated views of all the candidates, not just Hillary.
Fair enough? ns
I would hope that Rove would
November 18, 2007 - 14:00 ET by balboaI would hope that Rove would share that, given his great track record. It could provide great insight.
Kos has, whether intentionally or not, courted the kooks, which will be a label he'll have to wear for a long time.
B
November 18, 2007 - 14:09 ET by Noel SheppardB,
Well, there's another side of this, and the reason I ended the piece with "Carpe diem, Kos!"
This is a great opportunity for Markos to show the world that bloggers can be serious writers and journalists. As such, I want him to be more than what he is at DKos. Get passed the BDS, and seize the day.
In the end, his failure or success could have far-reaching implications on many who look to advance their careers via this medium. If he just continues to act as the stereotypical, angry liberal blogger, I don't think he's doing himself or his fellow new media journalists a favor. Make sense? ns
Carpe Scrotum, Kos.
November 18, 2007 - 15:24 ET by heldmyw...and hang on! The moonbats are in full flight over at Newsweek, and it looks like Leftie-Hysterical-Flame-Anything-Reunion Time!
They forget this is MSM, not fringe fever swampland.
Whooo! Break out the Prozac and nets, folks. I don't think Newsweek can stand the strain, and I'm pretty sure the nutroots won't benefit from this kind of exposure.
Hello moderate Dems! Have a glass of cool sanity with a side of dignity and politeness in the Republican Big Tent!
It may be true.. or not really.
November 18, 2007 - 13:49 ET by Gary HallOne of the attention-grabbing areas of economic anger in the worker group which the MSM and the Democrats are capitalizing on is:
Noel, the numbers (depending on how you crunch them) are such that technically, perhaps, it forces one to say, "this may be so," but that issue, and many more like it, are only fodder for the Democrats when it happens during a Republican administration. In reality, the wealth gap - between workers and the rich, between average worker pay and CEO pay, etc., which the MSM has run so many stories on in the past year or so, were only recently a return to the level that we approached at the end of the Clinton era dot.com bubble economy. When it collapsed in the spring of 2000, all of these comparisons collapsed. It's only been in the last year, or so, that the pay gap returned to the Clinton levels, and perhaps in a few comparisons slipped a bit above.
Here's but one example: Average CEO rate to Average Worker rate. The MSM and the Democrats, and I suspect Daily Kos, shrill over the wonderful and "fair" Clinton economy and their fantasy that none of this "rich get richer scheme at the expense of anything else" was occurring then. In fact, their bias is so loaded, that when they look at that chart, the average Democrat can't even see.
Now look at that chart again folks. Anyone remember the MSM and the Democrat candidates screaming about how the rich were running away with the dough during the 1990's?
In the recent report by the Tax Foundation, Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data, Gerald Prante notes:
Wow! It's taken 7 years for the top 1% of the rich to get back to where they were at the end of the Clinton era. Somehow, I suspect that not even 1% of Democrat voters know that.
And I suspect that they don't know that the top 1% of income earners now pay almost 2% more of the total federal income tax than they did in 2000.
The only gap that is larger today than Moulitsas' alleged, "wealth gap of a scope unseen since the Great Depression," is an intellectual gap - among the self declared "intellectuals."
LOL Noel
November 18, 2007 - 14:02 ET by acumenSomeone ought to tell Moulitsas, who was hired to offer commentary concerning the 2008 elections, that neither of these former presidents is running for office next year.
....and actually wrote a column about the current campaign that didn't mention a single candidate in it.
LOL - what's to add?
Well...maybe this equally keen observation - ...this is exactly what Meacham wanted: Netroots-style vitriol pointed at Republicans for the next twelve months.
Newsweek or Hatespeak?
Kos
November 18, 2007 - 14:06 ET by d1carterThis guy is waaaaay over his head...
I Saw Kos' Grandfather on TV Last Night
November 18, 2007 - 14:29 ET by Del DolemonteOne of my PBS stations was showing the old movie "The Best Years of Our Lives" last night, which I had never seen in its entirety, so I watched for awhile. Then, all of a sudden, Kos's grandfather showed up! Here's a synopsis of the scene I found online:
"At the soda fountain in the drugstore, where Fred has returned to work from Butch's Place, Homer joins him at the counter. A disgruntled, radical-leaning customer (Ray Teal) asks the good-natured, jovial Homer a "personal question" about his hooks, and then loudly and scornfully criticizes the integrity of the country's leaders who led servicemen into a senseless, worthless war:
Homer: I know what it is. How did I get these hooks and how do they work? That's what everybody says when they start off with 'Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?' Well, I'll tell ya. I got sick and tired of that old pair of hands I had. You know, an awful lot of trouble washing them and manicuring my nails. So I traded them in for a pair of these latest models. They work by radar. Look. (He takes a scoop of his ice cream sundae with a spoon.) Pretty cute, hey?
Customer: You got plenty of guts. It's terrible when you see a guy like you that had to sacrifice himself - and for what?
Homer: And for what? I don't getcha Mister?
Customer: ...We let ourselves get sold down the river. We were pushed into war.
Homer: Sure, by the Japs and the Nazis so we had...
Customer: No, the Germans and the Japs had nothing against us. They just wanted to fight the Limies and the Reds. And they would have whipped 'em too if we didn't get deceived into it by a bunch of radicals in Washington.
Homer: What are you talkin' about?
Customer: We fought the wrong people, that's all. (Pointing at his newspaper, with headlines: "SENATOR WARNS OF NEW WAR") Just read the facts, my friend. Find out for yourself why you had to lose your hands. And then go out and do something about it.
Overhearing their discussion, Fred intervenes and firmly asks the haranguing customer, who espouses "plain, old-fashioned Americanism," to pay and leave. When Homer and the man continue their disagreement and begin scuffling at the cash register, Fred punches the customer in the mouth - sending him crashing into a glass case. Because "the customer's always right," Fred is subsequently fired by Mr. Thorpe.
Kos just needs a good editor to clean up his work
November 18, 2007 - 14:34 ET by Junk Science SkepticTo wit:
See, just a little clean-up and suddenly he's spot on.
Thompson/Giuliani 2008
Good editing
November 18, 2007 - 22:59 ET by Cape Conservativejob, JSS! Maybe there's room for one more new employee at Newsweek.
I am torn...every week I want to see what far left views they've come up with - and then, after reading it, I want to just let my subscription run out!!!!
P.S. And...they really do need my proofreading skills!!
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November 18, 2007 - 14:33 ET by dahliatraversHuh. Looks like strike-stricken Hollywood is not the only medium turning to re-runs.
Bring it on, Moron
November 18, 2007 - 14:58 ET by fitzfongBring it on, Moron Moulitas. Please, please, please, please...keep talking about the Republicans and Reagan...and how the Republican candidates are bringing his principles back. The more you say that Reagan is bad and that the Republicans are channeling him in '08, the more the "undecided" types are going to flock back to us. We'll kick you a** next year.
Oh, and please remind us how good Jimmy Carter was, too!
"Bush can boast of an
November 18, 2007 - 14:58 ET by blingbling65"Bush can boast of an unwinnable quagmire in Iraq, a decimated housing market, economic instability and a collapsing dollar, a dysfunctional health-care system, a still-devastated Gulf Coast, a wealth gap of a scope unseen since the Great Depression and a pervasive and disturbing image of America "
What about this statement isn't true again?
bling
November 18, 2007 - 15:07 ET by botgonly the made up parts. If you make a staement you back it up not us. The old i assert and you get the burden of proof is an old troll tactic.
bling you may start with proving that "Iraq is an unwinnable quagmire"
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
Sorry, I guess that
November 18, 2007 - 15:28 ET by blingbling65Sorry, I guess that statement was meant for those living in reality, those people who can accurately assess the world around them.
So to be fair I'll help you understand, the grass is green, the sky is blue, Iraq is an unwinnable quagmire. We know all these things by opening our eyes, it just that simple.
I envy you though, the reality of the past 7 years is hard to deal with, I wish I could live in a fantasy world too
bling troll
November 18, 2007 - 15:37 ET by botgyour post is high troll of the first degree
The surge is working, we are winning in Iraq.
Time to put up or leave bling-troll prove "Iraq is an unwinnable quagmire" as you assert.
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -Chief Justice John Roberts
botg
November 18, 2007 - 16:20 ET by well99When I was going to college I worked with Developmentally Disabled.It was my job after school.If you put the effort and time in you could help teach them life skills and better understanding of how the world works.It was worth it.They were willing to learn.
Good luck with Bling Bling since that is a challege I wouldnt even think about trying.
We're doing much better
November 18, 2007 - 16:51 ET by balboaWe're doing much better right now in Iraq compared to before, thank goodness. Petraeus seems to have us on the right path finally.
So that means it's time to invade another country! Woo-hoo!
liberal logic
November 18, 2007 - 17:01 ET by RJ...can't defeat the argument, so change the subject.
Don't want to "defeat the
November 18, 2007 - 17:25 ET by balboaDon't want to "defeat the argument."
Oh, that's always obvious, bal
November 18, 2007 - 17:29 ET by RJ...it's perfectly clear to everyone what it is that you "do"...
Shoo, fly. Don't bother me.
November 18, 2007 - 17:33 ET by balboaShoo, fly. Don't bother me.
Here you go Bal
November 18, 2007 - 17:40 ET by well99http://play.rhapsody.com/songskidslovetosing/25toddlersongs/shooflydontbotherme
Wonder where I heard that before....glad I am in my second childhood...or is it 3rd?
Ha, your unintended irony is funny, bal
November 18, 2007 - 17:40 ET by RJ...that you, of all people, would accuse others of being flyweights.
Get those talking points
November 18, 2007 - 16:27 ET by fitzfongGet those talking points from your college professor? Look, son, you're 21 years old. You've been a teenager for most of the past 7 years...that's as close as life gets to a fantasy world (unless, of course, you're making the ultimate sacrifice by fighting for this country...but judging by your naive, childish recitation, you're more likely another unremarkable product of the university system simply taking dictation from some washed-up hippie prof). Live some life in the real world before you start lecturing your superiors.
Hey fitz, give junior
November 18, 2007 - 16:47 ET by BlazerHey fitz, give junior there a break. Most everyone was a liberal and got tired of sucking from mama's teat and living in her basement.
They turned conservative when they realised that when they became succesful , and got to a certain platitude in life, there were plenty on the left who thought they were entitled to suckle from their teat's.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
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November 18, 2007 - 16:34 ET by dahliatraversAnd you lose credibility for this: You are reveling in the perceived downfall of the United States because you believe it was caused by the object of your Derangement Syndrome.
bling Clearly you do live in a fantasy world,Quit wishin'.
November 18, 2007 - 18:18 ET by Army BratYour barking is annoying...but so is any dogs constant barking. It would be nice if you actually had something to say instead of barking and yapping just to be annoying. But...that's what some dogs and all trolls do so...have fun! You won't find me barking back at you. Typical lefty...Nothing but insults and derision instead of meaningful communication. "unwinnable quagmire". Got that from some anti-war site from the 60's. I guess ole bling doesn't keep up with the current news broadcasts. It's blings brain that is a quagmire.
And if you couldn't get that bling, I'll put it in your idiom...bow wow. bark bark. yap yap yap.
Have fun now..OK? But that's all the barking you'll get from me. You twit.
Happy Trails...
It's all classic overstated
November 18, 2007 - 15:08 ET by fitzfongIt's all classic overstated lib garbage. Your mob is always more concerned about creating perception than in dealing with reality. You don't solve any problems, you just overstate the ones that exist under a Republican administration. Then, when in power, you Democrats steal our money, put it down another government rat hole and make any perceived problems actual disasters.
What about this statement isn't true?
Choke! Gasp!
November 18, 2007 - 15:31 ET by heldmywbotg and fitzfong! Coffee on my monitor, dagnabbit!
Refusing to be baited and pointing out the fallacy of this Level I trollery and then using the same tactic as an object lesson! Smack!
Caught me by surprise, though.
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November 18, 2007 - 16:35 ET by dahliatraverslol
Bling is OWED!!!
November 18, 2007 - 20:44 ET by UnsaneSo, bling is owed a job, the unalienable right to steal from anyone who dares to make more than he does, is entitled to as much complete and total government pampering and coddling as possible...
...AND he also in the same breath is whining about a weak dollar?
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Oops...reading impaired
November 18, 2007 - 20:58 ET by BlondeI thought you said "bling is PWND".
My bad.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
"Amazing, wouldn't you agree?"--NS
November 18, 2007 - 15:00 ET by SeptemberNo. Such a cliche but: A leopard does not change his spots. Or, wherever you go, there you are, as in Kos' case. He does indeed sound like his blogs. I think that's what the Newsweek people wanted, more BDS. They didn't have to print it, but they did.
Oops
November 18, 2007 - 15:09 ET by ChenZhenMemeorandum screwed up the authors of the two Newsweek pieces.
Thanks Noel
November 18, 2007 - 15:32 ET by ricklailI don't know how you stomach having to read the garbage from all those leftie web sites. I know it is your job and you do it well but I'd be throwing up if I had to read that trash everyday. Thanks for doing it and letting us in on it.
How do you hold your nose that long?
Southern by birth, Tarheel by the grace of God!
Honestly,
November 18, 2007 - 16:30 ET by heldmywI keep up with DU and dKOS
Once you get past the chronic use of profanity, and the constant repetition of unattributed rubbish, you get down to a real hard core of ... well, stupidity, dementia and hysteria.
Everything is a plot, or a disaster, or exploding... Nothing ever "could be better", or "needs some work". Doesn't have sufficient drama, you see.
Now, they are starting to beat each other up. Kucinich supporters, Hillary haters,"pragmatists" who just want to win, purists, and so on, all slashing away at each other.
It's entertaining in a "watch the monkey's fling the poo", sort of way.
I read DK fairly regularly
November 18, 2007 - 17:17 ET by JerI read DK fairly regularly and find a great number of the comments to be intelligent, insightful, and funny...just like here at NB.
Jer
You're comparing steak with a hot dog
November 18, 2007 - 17:26 ET by RJ....not that you seem to be able to tell the difference. ;^)
...and just like a Hot Dog,
November 18, 2007 - 17:34 ET by fitzfong...and just like a Hot Dog, DK is riddled with rat parts. :-)
Maybe that's the problem...
November 18, 2007 - 17:53 ET by JerMaybe that's the problem...it's been a couple of years since I've eaten either one. So, what's your beef, RJ?
Jer
I thought I was clear, jer
November 18, 2007 - 17:58 ET by RJ....but maybe I should be asking where's your beef? ;^)
Quarantined by the heart doc
November 18, 2007 - 18:07 ET by JerQuarantined by the heart doc.
Jer
Aw, now, jer
November 18, 2007 - 18:13 ET by RJ...if you're gonna give a serious answer to our little reparte, the rules clearly state that you have to answer both parts of the double entendre.
It's over at DK...you don't
November 18, 2007 - 18:16 ET by JerIt's over at DK...you don't have to look too hard to find it.
Jer
well, they do claim to sell "all-beef" hot dogs over there
November 18, 2007 - 18:32 ET by RJ...but any discerning reader knows they use Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) as filler....
Before I forget, RJ
November 18, 2007 - 18:23 ET by JerBefore I forget, RJ...
Belated congrats to your BoSox for another stunning WS performance.
Jer
Thanks, jer
November 18, 2007 - 18:34 ET by RJIt was fun...now, if the Pats are equally one-sided in their victories...and, dare I say it...are the Celts back at last?
RJ
November 18, 2007 - 18:37 ET by BlondeIt seems as though your teams are having a Gatorish run. Nice. And fun, while it lasts.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Celts, yes...dare...they're
November 18, 2007 - 18:44 ET by JerCelts, yes...dare...they're BACK! Is Danny out of the dog house?
Jer
Blonde and jer, what's particularly sweet about the Celts
November 18, 2007 - 19:06 ET by RJ(if they are resurging) is the acquisition of a very popular Connecticut Husky.....Ray Allen.
And, speaking of the Connecticut Huskies the #20 AP football team is on the verge of winning the Big East...if they win next week. This for a team that only a few years ago went 1-A.
And our Women's Basketball team (stuff it, leon) has a fun new player to watch. Maya Moore has a huge amount of bb smarts and may be even better than Diane Turasi...but, unfortunately, sans D's great sarcastic sense of humor.
Yup, a good time for sports around here... :^)
Good for you, RJ
November 18, 2007 - 19:13 ET by BlondeAnd I mean that, sincerely. It's great when your teams are on a run.
I know what you mean about the Celtics. The ex was a huge Celtics fan. We saw "THE" Celtics back in the day when Miami was a rookie team. Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish. They were awesome. I didn't know (or care) about basketball...until I saw those guys in person a few times.
So I hope these Celtics live up to your expectations. Those are some mighty HUGE shoes to fill.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
RJ...my golfing buddy here
November 18, 2007 - 19:45 ET by JerRJ...my golfing buddy here in Atl was a defensive tackle for UConn 35 years ago. He was listed 6' 1", but with his 'fro [white guy, brown 'fro] he went about 6' 8". [I don't know where they found a helmet to fit his gigantic head.] Needless to say, he's on cloud 9 over the Huskys this year.
I was beginning to think my Lady Vols would never beat UConn again. Finally broke the streak.
Jer
So what's up with the Vols backing out, jer?
November 18, 2007 - 19:48 ET by RJThe UCONN/Tennessee game was an annual premier event. What's up with that? Sour grapes because UCONN has been getting the recent cream?
To be honest, RJ, I didn't
November 18, 2007 - 19:53 ET by JerTo be honest, RJ, I didn't know about it. Sad to hear. UT has historically played about as tough a schedule as possible. I'll try to find out the 'back' story.
Jer
"as tough a schedule as possible"
November 18, 2007 - 20:11 ET by RJTrue. Pat acting out of fear is unlikely....a snit is more probable.
Roadblock
November 18, 2007 - 20:46 ET by UnsaneThe Celts have a tiny little roadblock in TX to worry about. And it isn't Dallas, and it isn't sure as all hell isn't Houston.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
So is it Nolanville?
November 18, 2007 - 21:14 ET by well99I know they use to have a speed trap there.It is NW of SA.Well quite a bit a ways.Near Ft.Hood.I am glad my Celts are doing good.Hope they keep it up.Red Aubach is smileing somewhere.
Selma
November 19, 2007 - 15:09 ET by UnsaneSelma must be what you are talking about; just northeast of San Antonio on I-35. (A ways from Ft. Hood, though.) They were very heartbroken when they lost the 55 mph speed limit in favor of the 70/65 mph one. Still, the Selma cops do their best to harass drivers in their desire for money, I mean, public safety.
Go SPURS!!!
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Actually I was joking
November 19, 2007 - 15:53 ET by well99Nolanville was a big speed trap when I was at Ft.Hood.I knew you were talking about Tim and the Spurs.Now that my Celts have lost I guess there goes the Perfect season.I actually have a tough time since I like both the Spurs and Suns.The west actually has the best teams.I just glad my Celts are doing good.
You are a better man than
November 18, 2007 - 17:48 ET by BlazerYou are a better man than me Jer, and obviously more tolerant of pain.
When overindulging myself to the brainmush over there, I find myself getting this sharp pain right in my cerebral cortex like someone turning a dull, rusty steakknife in there, and then have to do something more taxing on my intellect to feel better, like watching re-run's of the Anna Nicole Show, or playing Tic Tac Toe.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
I can imagine, Blazer...
November 18, 2007 - 18:01 ET by JerI can imagine, Blazer....like me getting stuck on an elevator with Mark "The Great One" Levin.
[sorry, fitz]
Jer
Touch'e Jer ! That type
November 18, 2007 - 18:31 ET by BlazerTouche' Jer ! That type of truth and intellect from Levin would no doubt be intellectually tantamount to your flea's motorcycle of a mind, running out of gas while motoring around a raindrop.
In the word's of someone I'm sure you worship, " I feel your pain" !
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
God said that? Yes, I
November 18, 2007 - 18:36 ET by JerGod said that? Yes, I believe He did.
Jer
Well we all know that in
November 18, 2007 - 18:47 ET by BlazerWell we all know that in the Liberal world Bill Clinton is God, so your belief's certainly do not betray you.
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"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
JFK rolling over in his grave.
November 18, 2007 - 15:33 ET by charlietexasJFK "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do
for your country". Too bad people like Markos and his followers
have reversed this great mans saying. Markos wont change until
the money goes away from DKo's. Hopefully that will be next year. The
left wing of the democrat party has really fallen off the cliff and if
the rest of us don't wake up we will too.
MOM
JF Who?
November 18, 2007 - 19:35 ET by NoMoreClintons"this great mans "
Charlie, you need to read "The Dark Side of Camelot" (written by Seymour Hersch, who is not exactly a conservative). Not so great, to say the least. He makes Bill Clinton look like an amateur, sorry to say. And this from a guy (me) who shook hands with him 3 times as a kid.
But . . . the myth does live on.
I knew Kos was gonna'
November 18, 2007 - 16:11 ET by BlazerI knew Kos was gonna' play it vanilla and try not to bite his lapdog's back. I expected Rove to be have a better perspective on the issue's at hand and if Newsweak will tolerate him his articles should get better week after week.
Kos on the other hand will try and not attack any Democrat in a public publication, if he does it will go against his own mantra of not attacking Dem's, which he so passionately hold's other Democrat's to, although far be it from any liberal to not be a hypocrite. Plus if he does he may turn off the mainstream Democrat support, ones who do not visit the moon-bat cave of DKOS, from voting for a particular Dem candidate he may lambaste. Plus he doesn't want to have to eat his short's when the candidate's he endorses don't win, cause they never do.
He recently wrote some fairly scathing stuff concerning Hillary, the plant's and the MSM shilling for her, and I was hoping he would have the backbone to do something similar to it in national print but that type of attack will be exclusively reserved for his digital bannana republic, The Democratic Peoples Republic Of Kossackstan (DPRK).
He will save his attack's for DKOS where he can offer up his Cool-Aid to his nutroot constituency therefore he's on safe ground. Expect only attack's on Republican candidate's or the Right in general. Kos my be a fruit-bat in more than way, but he's not stupid. He wont' bite the hand's that feed him, and give him relevancy. Kos would support Satan if he had a (D) in front of his name.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
I would just like to add I
November 18, 2007 - 16:59 ET by BlazerI would just like to add I think it's fitting that Kos is sitting in front of a shot of the Sham Francisco skyline in the photo.
It would have been more fitting if he gave the interview perched upon the Trans-America tower using the point as his seat.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
One look at that pic...
November 18, 2007 - 18:21 ET by Army BratAnd I swear I could hear him whinin'.
Happy Trails...
Misleading statements about two people
November 18, 2007 - 18:26 ET by Gat New YorkMarkos mentioned two examples of Iraq “hires.” He stated: “A 24-year-old with no finance experience was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange. The daughter of a prominent neoconservative—with no background in accounting—was put in charge of Iraq's $13 billion budget.”
Regarding the 24 year old that is very misleading. Jay Hallen, a graduate of Yale University did major in political science, but he did not initially go to Iraq to reopen their stock exchange. He went over as a senior economic development advisor. In plain English that is business development which does not require an economics degree.Hallen was eventually given the task of re-establishing Iraq’s stock exchange, but he did not do it alone by a long shot. He worked with a team of volunteer financial experts and lawyers from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York and Philadelphia stock exchanges to revise and modernize the trading rules and disclosure requirements for the new market. He created a watchdog agency for the exchange modeled on the SEC, and an association of Iraqi securities brokers. He met with every Iraqi company that wanted to be listed on the new exchange.
Regarding the daughter of a neoconservative that is not just misleading it is an outright lie. Her name was Simone Ledeen, daughter of "neoconservative" Michael Ledeen, and she did have a background in accounting and a master's in business administration. She also did not manage the budget, but rather executed it, handling issues such as payroll.
As a so-called journalist, Markos needs to do something he does not need to do with his lunatic blog – fact check.
KOS...
November 18, 2007 - 18:32 ET by danybhoyThis is very simple, Markos=Marxist. If you buy into the crap this self important schmuck is selling, you are a marxist. The daily-kos is little more then the news from downtown Berkeley, & how the rest of America should bow down to the greatness of marxist-eeeerrr I mean "progressive" ideas.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
dan...i agree.....if you
November 18, 2007 - 19:12 ET by charlietexasdan...i agree.....if you look behind Marcos its the liberal left wing city in the US......San Fran-freako
demokkkrats love
November 18, 2007 - 19:40 ET by wiwfdemokkkrats love markkkos
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