Stunningly awful Washington lawyer/lobbyist-cum-pundit Lanny Davis, who demands everyone take a pledge to be civil while he literally does whatever X corporation pays him to do, uses his latest column in The Hill to condescendingly lecture Markos “Kos” Moulitsas about how he didn’t properly apologize to a congressman for an error he made in his own column in The Hill, recently. Does The Hill have a veritable donnybrook on its hands?
Even though The Hill is a newspaper, Lanny uses the opportunity to teach Kos and other bloggers about ethics and civility:
I write columns and post blogs regularly, and I’ve made my share of factual mistakes.


So I do not sit in judgment of someone who goofed. But if you make a factual mistake, there are certain rules of the road that responsible writers and bloggers should follow: (1) immediately correct the error as soon as you find out — and in the same publication; (2) if it was also a personal attack in any way, which turned out to be based on a false statement, then personally apologize — no ifs, ands or buts; and (3) learn a lesson for next time — be more careful.


These rules apply to all — not just people who are journalists for respected news organizations but, even more so, for the many bloggers who don’t have a fact-checking infrastructure or editor to catch the mistakes before they hit the Internet. Even those who insist on anonymous comments on the blogosphere should care about truth and facts, but the fact that they choose anonymity to vent their spleen means they probably don’t care.


YES.
Now everyone write terrible things about Lanny Davis, in the comments!
[The Hill via Balloon Juice]
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Uh, newspapers laid off their fact-checking infrastructure. And nice use of one of the ugliest neologisms in modern English (infrastructure,) asshole.
Lanny Davis writes a column for Newsmax, which took several hours to conclude that sedition was a bad idea. This is a true fact.
http://www.newsmax.com/lanny_davis/
The problem is that every terrible thing I am thinking about posting about Lanny Davis is verifiably true.
Yes, but, if everything you write is wrong, you will always be writing corrections, which will be wrong anyway and you’ll be writing corrections for those mistaken corrections and so on.
It must be hard to be Lanny.
Lanny rhymes with tranny.
[re=424680]GIJoeIce[/re]: Maybe he should call on them to apologise?
FACT: Lanny Davis is actually Hillary Clinton’s vagina.
I don’t see Lanny apologizing to that raped dead girl, from 1970.
Lanny Davis is a human blowjob cunt rag*
*fact checking will not be necessary on this claim
Are we still using the hoary old standby “Eat a bag of lightly-salted poison rat dicks”? Because I have a whole mess of ‘em sauteeing nicely in a lovely Thai basil, pig urine, and dog shit marinade, just ready to be grilled and served to Lanny on a platter.
skoal rebel is lanny davis’ son. skoalrebel is trig palin. therefore lanny davis fucked todd palin. civility wins.
Lanny Davis might be a pedophile. He hasn’t denied it, therefore we cannot rule it out.
Thanks, Lanny. Because of your f***tardist comments, we really do risk running out of bags of lightly salted poison rat dicks.
Perhaps you could suck on a tube of Tabasco-drizzled giant wooly cockroach semen in the meantime?
Needs more condescension.
Also, Jim Newell, kudos for “cum pundit.” I SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE.
you had me at cum-pundit.
If someone is paying you to lie, it’s cool.
Hey, Lanny, why don’t you go put on your grandma’s clothes? It might give you a little more authority on this subject.
[re=424687]Prommie[/re]: Nor yet to the first wife he killed so as to be able to marry Carolyn Atwell. It is probable that these misdeeds go unpunished because of the fondly remembered blowjobs he used to give GW Bush when he was pledging Delta Kappa E at Yale.
LanŸny
Lanny Davis is kind, intelligent, and good looking.
[re=424692]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: I totally agree with you, and I am straight. Except for asian trannies, but they don’t count, right?
[re=424678]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Hey at least he didn’t say ‘synergy’.
At least Moulitsas stands for something, which is more than can be said for Davis, who spends his life preening about his “bipartisan” wonderfulness while selling out to the highest bidder on each and every issue. Why either of Clintons ever chose to spend five minutes with this rodent is something I’ll never understand.
Lanny, Lanny bo banny, bonana fana fo fanny, fee fie mo manny, Lanny! Not an insult, but just try getting that out of your head now. Heh.
What world events and political structures conspired to bring us Lonny Davis. Is there a greater waste of a human being? Find me one.
“lobbyist cum pundit” – thank you for making my day.
[re=424714]Crank Tango[/re]: Drinking and Wonkette don’t mix. Let that be a lesson to everyone.
What is ‘Lanny’ short for? Lancaster? Because I think Lancaster Davis would be a totally cool name, and he even fucked that up. What hope did his life have?
(I have no idea if his name is Lancaster, and there is no way in hell I’m googling it.)
So, according to Lanny, Glenn Beck and Malkin really DID have 1,700,000 teabaggers on 9/12, because y’know, they’re so truthy and facty and all.
[re=424730]mephistopheles jefferson[/re]: It’s short for Lance Me I’m a Boil on the Ass of Humanity.
[re=424716]magic titty[/re]: Or “sustainable.” Because I can’t sustain any more “sustainable.” My infrastructure may crack under the unsustainable weight of all the “sustainables” it’s having to bear.
Several weeks ago, on these pages, I remarked that I would rather have a couple of rabid weasels crammed up my ass than read any more of Lanny Davis’s drivel. That claim was incorrect. I would only wish one such weasel thus crammed. I apologize to any who were misled by this claim, and especially I apologize to weasel #2.
“Why, in my ideal Honduras-style military dictatorship, such error-makers would be the first to be dragged off to secret subterranean prisons!”
Lanny is a senior advisor and spokesman for the Israel Project, and serves as a lobbyist for the Pakistani government. What do Israel and Pakistan have in common that would make them both hire the same cum pundit?
Stunningly awful Washington lawyer/lobbyist-cum-pundit Lanny Davis…
You forgot holy Joe Lieberman’s knob polisher, Jim.
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[re=424741]WadISay[/re]: Now you need to apologize to the House of Representatives.
[re=424718]penalcolony[/re]: The Clintons also hired that whore’s toe-sucking guy, Dick The Dick Morris, currently masticating weeners on FOX. Go figger.
Lanny also really needs to get around to scolding the Honduran people for being so rude. I mean there is no reason to be so uncouth just because the army kicked out your president and shutdown opposition newspapers.
[re=424746]Aurelio[/re]: Pakistan manufactures weapons for Israel.
[re=424729]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: LOL well, regardless, I am still gonna make sure to point out my straightness for no apparent reason. And besides, there is not a straight man alive that hasn’t exposed himself to a gay friend in return for lunch at subway, for what that’s worth.
Keep fucking that chicken, Lanny.
[re=424678]hobospacejunkie[/re]: [re=424716]magic titty[/re]: [re=424740]V572625694[/re]: All valid complaints indeed, though the newfangled usage of “is concerning” (as in “The overabundance of assholitude that Lanny Davis puts forth is concerning to us”) is bounding up my “abuses of the English language” chart.
Lanny needs to be fact-checked upside the head, and hard.
Jim, can you just shorten it to cum-pundit? That’s how most of us think of Lanny anyway.
His son’s not too terribly annoying as a college basketball analyst. That’s the kindest thing I can say about Lanny.
I am a fair enough person that I will attempt to meet halfway on this one. I pledge to be civil if Lanny pledges to let me punch him in the genitals every time he lies.
[re=424752]hobospacejunkie[/re]: wow, Dick Morris and Lanny Davis– now there’s a black hole of humanity for you
[re=424683]magic titty[/re]: [re=424737]SayItWithWookies[/re]: [re=424690]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: [re=424759]YesWeKant[/re]: Now you all have to take Lanny out to dinner and buy him jewelry, and next time be more careful.
I’d like to choose a rusty shovel to vent his spleen, for the sake of anonymity.
“but the fact that they choose anonymity to vent their spleen means they probably don’t care.”
3,000 Commenters, One Spleen.


Whoooeee, looks like someone wants to ride “the tone argument” (cf. Derailing for Dummies) into the sunset to avoid having to take responsibility for his own crap.
Like writing for a publication that seriously considers sedition.
[re=424697]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]:; [re=424699]Crank Tango[/re]: I read it as “cum bandit”. This too pertains, says I.
Is it true Lanny Davis survives on a strict diet of santorum and goat urine? I read it just now on the Internet, so it must be true.
Lanny Davis is an enormously overstuffed ratbag of fermented pig feces. He should be microwaved until he explodes
[re=424718]penalcolony[/re]: It will come, the day of your disillusionment, when you realize, the Clintons are evil cumstains themselves, just like Lanny.
Obviously, it would be uncivil of me to write “Lanny, you’re a cocksucker.”
Therefore:
Mr. Davis, you’re a cocksucker.
I heard Lanny Davis was David Denby’s bottom. (Will this rumor show up on one of Denby’s endless Google searches of himself? If so, I apologize in advance, Wonkette.)
[re=424711]responsible commenter[/re]: HillRat, is that you?
“…respected news organizations” – WTF? Other than the Onion who’s he talking about?
[re=424789]bitchincamaro[/re]: I just don’t have enough proof to debunk it. He just may be a cum bandit. Apologies to all the fine upstanding cum bandits out there. Don’t let this asshole make you feel bad about yourselves and your trade.
[re=424829]Crank Tango[/re]: I think cum-pundit is probably right. He’s probably a huge bukake fan, but criticizes everyones technique. He looks like that kind, anyway.
[re=424683]magic titty[/re]: I believe the relationship goes a little deeper than that.
[re=424711]responsible commenter[/re]: Now it is exactly that kind of baseless, irresponsible commenting that will get you banned from a place like this. Take your anonymous spleen over to huffpo.
[re=424845]Gopherit[/re]: must be a real chore to get those glasses clean afterwards, also.
After reading this post and the previous posts regarding Derbyshire and Bachmann, and noting that Thuglicans have adopted “You lie!” as a mantra to be shouted at any non-winger speaking from a public platform, I suggest the following as a shout-out at Thuglicans and other dick-headed critters, a’la Henry II:
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent [insert occupation]?”
Regarding Lanny, one could shout, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent bag-o-dicks-eating lobbyist?”
If anyone says this forments violence, just say it’s a literary reference to an historic part of white Anglo-Saxon culture.
Why are we surprised that the Clintons made love to this guy, again?
[re=424826]steve[/re]: You left out the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, but that was probably a simple oversight.
[re=424758]Crank Tango[/re]: Huh, all my gays friends ever gave me was a Slurpee.
(And I’m a straight-as-a-pine-tree bona fide he-man hetero, BTW. I wanted Roscoe to know that.)
Maybe sometime when Lanny is between jobs, we could pool our money together and hire him to go on teevee dressed in a furry suit and beg for tweener cock.
[re=424758]Crank Tango[/re]: You exposed yourself to someone for a footlong? Paging Dr Freud.
Personally, I think it’s terrific that The Hill now has a cum pundit – and Lanny Davis sure knows his “cum” – and not only his own, but half of K Street’s too!
Mr. Newell,
May I point out, in the most civil manner possible, that you made a regrettable factual error in your Web Post of October 1, 2009? You referred to Lanny Davis as “lawyer/lobbyist-cum-pundit.” I believe the accurate term is “lawyer/lobbyist-cum-dumpster.”
Best regards!
Joe
“In the spirit of civility, I would like to suggest that Lanny Davis may or may not enjoy rubbing fresh dog shit all over himself with a loofa, before fellating said dog.”
(The beauty of such a statement is that both options are presented, so no fact checking is necessary. And no apology will be forthcoming, unless there are actually two dogs involved.)
[re=424691]NixonNow[/re]: Nothing would be more fun than leaving skoalrebel and Lanny Davis together in an empty room and webcamming the whole thing. Forever.
[re=424927]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: I, too, am totally straight. But crazy chicks still turn me on, it’s a weakness.
[re=424959]Gopherit[/re]: sometimes a sub is just a sub…meat ball sub…
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