Wonkette
NEW THING DEBUTS, ON INTERNET! Tina Brown has a Webzine! It is called The Daily Beast, which is an elitist reference to an Englishman’s books. It looks nice, and kind of busy, and tabloidy, which we always like. Somebody read it and tell us about it, okay? [The Daily Beast]
I just had a seizure.
I presume it will keep track of the war between the Patriots and the Traitors.
Jeebus Christmas, she’s got that douche Tucker Carlson writin’ for her! That’s enough to damn the dame in my eyes.
OK, I did what Teh Wonkette told me and looked at it. Here was one interesting thing (which links us back to fivethirtyeight.com):
“Why McCain’s Mud-Slinging Will Fail
Nate Silver, the number-cruncher at FiveThirtyEight.com, has been an indispensible voice in this election. So pay attention when he says that McCain’s coming wave of negative attacks probably won’t work. The problem: McCain can’t ‘make this election about Obama,’ as his supporters hope. The election is also about McCain—his integrity and distance from the GOP brand. With every negative attack, McCain’s own negative numbers tick up—Silver provides a handy chart. Obama’s dilemma, meanwhile, is how and how much to respond. Today, he fires off an ad calling McCain’s leadership ‘erratic.’
Get it @ FiveThirtyEight.com”
I do like the WALNUTS! is erratic theme that Obama has been pushing. “Hey America, this is a crazy old coot” works for me.
Finally I know what Walnuts and Mooselini mean by “rearing its head”.
shortsshortsshorts: Delirium Tremens will do that Shorts. Get thee to a liquor store.
That site was dumb.
In honor of our craptastic Monday DOW fall I have changed my avatar to hobo wine.
Sucks. Another Huffington Post, meaning elite money people showing off how many elite money friends they have.
shoeho: Pffft. I think it’s great that Asspucker Carlson can take time off from his role as Andy Bernard on Teh Office to write for Teeeeeeeeena.
shoeho: A long time ago — nine years ago! — Tucker Carlson was a good magazine-feature writer. Maybe he will go back to that, now that everybody else fired him.
Kev-O-Tron: I, for one, welcome our barley-wine overlords.
Eh, not bad.
I thought the title was a reference to bowel movements. Whatever.
Who is Tina Brown? Wasn’t she on MTV back in teh day?
I thought The Daily Beast was a 3p Rudy Giuliani press blitz for McShitOnHimself…
Well, not to confuse this douchebag tucker with the other douchebag tucker, or yet another douchebag tucker, do ya think mccain has some sort of thing for tuckers?
What can Brown do for you?
Nothing that ain’t been done before, and better, apparently.
Tina Brown’s ok, but Tina Fey is better and Tina Louise is bestest of all time.
Harrumph! Wonkette wasn’t on the Sites We Like, Fuck you, Elitist Beast!
Y’all are on the list of ‘Sites We Like’!!!!!!!!
Um, is that good?
Tommy Says Soooo: Ken Layne: Yahuh, but he’s still, well, HIMSELF!
monty:So many Tuckers, so little gray matter between them. Do y’all think it is illegal for a progressive elite to actually be named Tucker? Because all of them seem to be conservative pukes.
There was no crazy eyes paultard girl on this site. I was misled. It fails.
OKAY BEEEEST!
Kev-O-Tron: shortsshortsshorts: I’m sticking with my elitist martini avatar. I’ll just switch to bathtub gin when it all hits the fan.
Why would UPS start a magazine? At least they’re on top of the Bill Ayers story no one cares about.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
I can’t respect a Tucker that’s not Southern, and a girl.
It’s like the Philadelphia Daily News with a gradient! Lovely.
freakishlystrong: ihasasad: Further proof that some of us are on different planets yet are able to communicate via the wondrous tubes of the Internetz. (Or Tina Brown monitors freakishlystrong very closely.)
It is filth-ridden, therefore i loves it.
nurple: You got half your wish with Carlson.
CrunchyKnee:
From the Jan. 20, 2002 on-line edition of the Independent:
Michael Wolff (in The New Yorker): “…[Brown is] a woman in an outsized raincoat with a refugee-like scarf around her head.”
[Author] Jamaica Kincaid: “Tina is a vulgarian who has turned The New Yorker into a version of People magazine.”
Garrison Keillor: “[Editor] Tina Brown hasn’t changed The New Yorker, she has obliterated it… Once, The New Yorker was meant to be read; now it is only meant to be talked about.”
Hillary Clinton: “Tina Brown is the junk food of journalism.”
White House communications director Dan Bartlett: “[Tina Brown] openly opposed and even mocked the First Family’s desire to keep the lives of their daughters private.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/now-the-talk-is-how-the-curtain-came-down-on-the-tina-show-664049.html
Isn’t “The Daily Beast” just an euphemism for masturbation?
Heh. I’m waiting for The Daily Beast with Two Backs.
BTW: I see that Brown is using the title of her autobiography to name her webzine.
From ABCnews.com:
—- “I [Tina Brown] want this to be a speedy read that captures the zeitgeist,” Brown says in her machine-gun patter. “We’ll be smart and opinionated, looking to help cut through the volume with a keen sensibility. We’re aiming for a curious, upscale and global audience who love politics, news and the media world.” —-
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Hate to tell you this, Teenz, but the contents of the National Enquirer and Extra are copyrighted.
Well, when you bail after running the Beast to ground, there will always be Mode Magazine.
This is a GREAT time to be starting a business.
S.Luggo: “Machine-gun patter”….mmmmm…50-cal will cut you in two, but not very cleanly or neatly. And it’s shameful to know this, but Boot of the Beast is the title of an Evelyn Waugh novel from the 30s about a journalist (Boot) of a mythical London paper (The Beast). So you see Tina Brown, Destroyer of Magazines, is making an elitist inside joke about a moderately funny book no one reads anymore. Oh she’s sooooo sophisticated. Yuck.
Ha ha, this is hilarious:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/8/
“Smart people recommend” Dennis Miller’s podcast. Oh, right!
i found the angelina jolie interview very edifying.
I wonder how clever it is to name your site after a newspaper in a book that makes fun of everything that is wrong with journalism.
“The British public has no interest in a war which drags on indecisively. A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colourful entry into the capital. That is The Beast policy for the war.” (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, p.42)