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You may have viewed this film on other Internet blogs, but if not, prepare to cry. We have attempted several times in the past week to write about all of the mean news journalists — chiefly Dana Milbank, a dreadful clown — accusing HuffPo’s Nico Pitney of asking Barack Obama a “planted question,” from the Iran, but it gets us all hot and bothered, so just watch the fun video, right up there. [YouTube]
Up until this point, I had thought “Dana Milbank” was a character portrayed by the hilarious Ed Helms, of “Hangover” fame.
Or, as Andrew Sullivan described the video when he posted it yesterday: “Ayatollah Milbank responds to green revolutionary Nico Pitney.”
I wish I were kidding. #Iranelection
The important question is, “How do these people look in bathing suits?” All else is unfair distraction and chaff.
We expect journalists to be fairly smart — and then we find out they can’t tell the difference between a planted question and one who announces in advance that if he has the opportunity, he’ll ask a question sent to him from an Iranian. Actually I think what caused people to stumble is that we now have a president who reads the internets and so knows about this sort of thing. They’re still so used to having a guy in the Oval Office who’s like an ancephalic beagle who every bit of news hits like a dull surprise delivered in a foreign language, that one who has actual awareness just stuns them.
Also Dana Milbank has the willful ignorance of Bill Kristol without any of his personal charm.
What, no dick talk? No #dickwhisperer?
lightninglouie: I see no reason for you to have changed your mind.
I am a little confused - is Nico Pitney An Hero, or what? I need guidance.
I wonder how it smelled in the studio after this.
Here we go. Newsies and reputed news organizations that subscribe to AP will probably use this discussion as fodder for the lack of journalistic credibility in blogger circles. I can really see this argument lining up atop every opinion page of every major daily.
Where it won’t be read, ever, because newspapers are dead as Plastic Mike.
Oh Nico Pitney, just look at me with those soulful, tough-yet-vulnerable eyes and I’ll believe anything you say. I’ll be your Argentine. Hike my trail, Nico.
It is meet that he doth bear the name of Dana, for he doth be a bitch. Verily.
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I shall never again be able to refer to Dubya as anything but this…perfection.
Nico would probably have been more convincing if “he” went back to the blonde hair, low voice, and vagina. Conservatives love those chicks.
BobLoblawLawBlog: I’m pretty sure Nico won’t be invited to All Tomorrow’s Parties, at least at the Press Club.
lightninglouie: Totally thought I was watching an episode of “The Office” for a second
PopeyesPipe: If pomposity and smugness has a smell, then I think Dana was rather ripe during the interview. Also, I think Dana was all butch in the interview ’cause he wanted to impress Anderson Cooper.
Dana Dillweed holds in his doughy hands proof that he was not always a stenographer for the w whitehouse! Proof, dammit!
Milbank of “if something big happens it’ll be brought to my attention” fame, must by implication have assistants who bring to his attention important stuff like how everyone looks in bathing suits.
And Pitney comes out swinging, he’s landed a hard right, a left, an uppercut, and DOWN GOES MILBANK!
It’s been 30 minutes without dick talk. What’s wrong with you people?
You know, if your best defender is Dana Milbank, maybe Conservatives are right, the mainstream media is dead.
lightninglouie: And that is not true, why?
Here, I fixed one of Dan’s statements: “what I have never done in my lifee, Howie is
work in collusion with a White Housereport anything. ” Dana then went on to add that he mainly writes humor columns for people with no sense of humorMilbank was a regular contributor to Keith Olberman’s “Countdown”. Then one night Olberman dismissed him and said he’d no longer be on the show. I can’t find the clip, but Milbank had apparently manufactured or manipulated a quotation to completely alter the meaning.
So much for Milbank’s credentials.
Poor little Nico just a typical tool of the Huffingtoon Compost out of his element and unable to think of lies fast enough to cover his ass.
Notalib:
What’s a matter? Huffpo kick you off or something?
Why do you love the Iranian Mullahs so much?
Notalib: So what’s that bubble you live in made of? Do you have to pipe in oxygen or does it get absorbed through the membrane? As long as it doesn’t let the stupid out, I really don’t care, but was just curious.
The rest of the perceiving world thought Nico wiped the floor with the pompous fool, but I guess there’s a reason you people think tax cuts are the answer to everything.
After that press breifing,Obama could have flown to Peru,picked up some local talent,flown back to Georgia,walked the appalachian trail to Maine,flown back to Washington and these guys would have never known.Too busy snarkin about who gave the teacher a bigger apple.Will these self appointed press stars ever know that they are not the story.btw who was the babe in the Mao outfit?
Are you kidding me? Milbank would have wet himself if he got to ask a q at the briefing. What an asshat.
Meh. I thought they were both pompous fools.
spoiler alert: the video is boring is shit.
saucemaster: *as shit*
Sooo…Nico Pitney was calling Dana Milbank a fag with that comment about the bathing suit question, right?
Notalib: Oh wow, bro, you totally pwned Nico good!!1 “Huffington Compost?” LOLOLOLOLOL jejejeje!!!
Milbank is such a dick, even Olbermann kicked him off his show.
Dana Millbank thinking of himself as a “serious journalist” is as foolish as George Bush thinking of himself as a “statesman”. They have (or had, in GB’s case) the office, they dress the part, they even show up on TV - but everyone knows they’re a couple of shallow, overpaid twits who aren’t really capable of doing their jobs.
Dana is just pissed off because he didn’t get to ask Barry if he’s letting down ex-smoker American voters by sneaking a quick puff behind the Rose Garden when Michelle isn’t looking. He’s Maureen Dowd with a smoking jacket.
Insecure much, Dana? Realizing since you don’t do any actual reporting/work, you’re basically an unfunny blogger with a big salary?
The more I see Dana Milbank go up against Nico Pitney, the more I think Pitney should have his job. We’d get better journalism and break even on funny names.
I haven’t seen action that un-riveting since the Glass Joe vs. Little Mike bout in 1987.
Dana should shut the fuck up and shave the back of his neck more often.
I hope this doesn’t get me banned, but one of us needs to have the courage to step up and give Jim the bitter truth:
Jim–Terrible typo in that headline, one that is so egregious that if you said it on Keith O, he’d kick you off forever.
I’m referring, of course, to the fact it should read the “. . . Fight Everyone Is NOT Talking About.”
Except for the two involved in a slap fight on that douche’s lame show, of course.
Dana Milbank clearly didn’t understand the difference between email and posting on social sites and Twitter. It’s all teh Intertubes to him. That’s why he was reading Nico’s announcement. What a dinosaur, he’s worse than Walnuts because he’s (supposedlly) a journalist for Christ sake. The rethugs and neocons are grasping at straws. Read Paul Krugman’s column in the Times today. That’s worthy of discussion. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/opinion/29krugman.html
stew: Now if Overblown would just kick himself off the show it would actually be watchable……oh wait i take that back pMSNBC is the network of stooges and completely unwatchable.
Town Without Pity is one my favorite Pitney songs. When did he join the Fourth Estate? Also, I do not care for this Milhouse fellow, one bit.
Dana’s just pissy because his parents gave him a girl’s name, and not a cool girl’s name like Nico.
Nico is as cute as his name. I was riveted by his Iran coverage, and he deserves a happy ending. (212) xxx.xxxx (redacted) eves and outcalls preferred.
Dana’s just pissy because he’s been out-Investigative-Journalisted by Ed Henry.
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Nico Pitney is the new Jeff Gannon!
SayItWithWookies: “Dana Milbank has the willful ignorance of Bill Kristol without any of his personal charm.” Remind me never to piss you off. That’s one hell of an insult.
wheelie: Hey hey — he’s mine!
This is the 24 hour news cycle at its finest.
lightninglouie: That is EXACTLY what I thought! He should have colored coded his “facts” so he wouldn’t have to rifle so desperately!
I loved Pitney in Knocked Up, SuperBad, that Forgetting Sarah Marshall film, and the digital short with Andy Samberg on SNL. Awesome that he’s also a celebrity blogger on Huffpo.