I haven't seen this article cited elsewhere, but Jane Hamsher points to the inspiration for MoveOn's "Betray Us" headline, about which many an indignant fist has been shaken today.After being hailed as King David, the potential saviour of Iraq, the US commander General David Petraeus...
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Oh, my!Of course, this is my favorite (even though the search term in question is not technically on Carlin's list...)
The horror!But at least he didn't announce that he was going to fill bin Laden with his "hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit." . . . and for those who wonder.
I see that Joe Lieberman towel boy Dan Gerstein has deigned to share some high-Broderite musings about the phony Edwards blogger scandal. If you had never encountered Gerstein before, you might expect that a claim that "the left’s bigger digital diatribers never stopped to address...
Any garden variety Republican operative can run with the farcical non-scandal ginned up from someone requesting on behalf of the Speaker of the House of Representatives the legal privileges claimed.
Ah, first Treason-In-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee shared his pensees on civility, and now self-appointed protector of online integritude Josh Trevino has weighed in. Sure one could--and somebody probably will--note the cherry-picking worthy.
Shorter Bob Owens: The fact that Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan oppose using state coercion to enforce reactionary conceptions of human sexuality, sometimes using language that should only be used by Republican Presidential candidates, shows that they are beyond the pale of legitimate political discourse...