Do you know what time it is?? It is HALF PAST SERIOUS O’CLOCK, right now and forever, on the HuffingtonPost.com. Yeah, you’re goddamn right someone embedded little countdown clocks that correspond to unpunished Congressional ethics violations somehow! “In the public interest, HuffPost is launching a congressional ethics clock to note the number of days (and hours and minutes and seconds) it’s been since a potential ethics violation has been probed or brought to the attention of Congress’s self-appointed watchdogs.” Uhh, and guess what Charlie Rangel? That clock embed is going to continue to tick until there are some big BIG CHANGES around here. Mmhmm. We’ll wait. [HuffPost]
TIME THE SUBTLE THIEF OF YOUTH
October 26, 2009
HuffPost’s New Citizen Journalism Ethics Clock Thing Is Exactly As Important As It Sounds
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why do I feel like we need a .gif of GOB dancing around a stage flinging cards?
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e209/feliciajoy44/109-gob-magic2.jpg
Mmm, unethical probing. MOO HA HA! *prod*
Looks like it’s half past scandal on the ethic’s clock.
I can’t wait for when, on C-Span, Charlie Rangel finally cracks. “Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! It is the hideous beating of that telltale HuffPo clock!”
shit, link no worky
http://happyhourvalley.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/arrested_development_gob_magic.jpg
Worst season of 24 evah!
Finally, Javascript will accomplish what 2+ centuries of federal gov’t have been unable.
its all very teabaggery
Huff really really really needs to tone back the Hermione Granger year one tsk tsk tskiness.
Shouldn’t they put up one that counts the time between David Vitter’s diaper changes?
[re=443476]Extemporanus[/re]: Win!
If a matter is “brought to the attention of Congress’s self-appointed watchdogs” does the clock go back to zero?
[re=443488]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Every time the clock strikes, a little brown angel gets its wings. Or whatever.
[re=443471]Noodle Salad[/re]: It must be hard legistlating on the run, living under the constant fear that you could get pinched by the Edgar Allen Po-Po at a moment’s notice.
Stay strong Charlie, and keep on Ranglin’!
That’s the trouble with probes and probing, it leads to questions like “how long will this take?” Sounds so clinical.
Hell, I just visit HuffPo for the T&A and girl-on-girl smooching — now I can visit to get some ineffectual political grandstanding too? How versatile those folks are.
[re=443488]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Nice idea, but what happens at the end of day 999?
Wow. Huffpo knows down to the second exactly when Ensign stuck his peen in that staffer lady.
That’s actually kinda creepy.
Huffpo has gone to the dark side…Ensign, (R-selfimportantblowhardhack), is a douchewad. That is all.
[re=443470]TGY[/re]: It’s half-past scandal somewhere, sailor…drink up!
Wow! This sort of timely information will surely tick off the public.
To pass the time until this works, let’s have our friends at HuffPo entertain us with a song.
one hundred bottles of cock on the wall,
one hundred bottles of cock,
take one down,
tastes just like rat!
ninety-nine bottles of cock.
[re=443514]user-of-owls[/re]: ARGH! Awful! And filed for future reference.
[re=443524]TGY[/re]: We really need to get some investigative journalists on the case. Like, say, 60 Minutes.
This is why I don’t wear a watch.
the sf chronicle used to have something like this (they may still do it, i just gave up on reading that turkey) for things like a park’s broken water fountain, or a pothole, and they would literally post the picture, name, addy and phone number of the city/county employee responsible for that shit. we called it the “rich people problems” column.
With the transformative power of Javascript on our side, how can we lose?
Speaking about this clock–what do y’all thinks going to happen at 3am?
I love how the identical ticking fields for “hours, minutes, and seconds” reveal that all Ethics Committee votes and notifications dealing with Congressional malfeasance takes place at precisely 1:00 A.M.
Seriously. This is like my high school science book reporting that the sun was precisely 149,668,992 kilometers from the Earth because they took “93 million miles”, plugged in a conversion to metric, and utterly failed to understand the concept of “significant digits.”
HuffPo: You are not counting the minutes and seconds since anything. You are counting days. The extra fields just reinforce the stereotype that liberals don’t understand math.
They should create an all inclusive HuffPo Irrelevancy Calendar that combines all of their asinine attempts at self-promotion such as:
- Ethics Clock,
- Arianna Huffington Events Schedule,
- “Game Changers”(aka who ARE these people?) poll,
- Celebrity Tits: Real or Fake? Quiz,
- Countdown to when Joe Biden is not going to resign and other moronic Arianna proposals that are not going to happen
Never underestimate how seriously Huffington Post takes itself–they will bring the crooks down–or at least keep trying until the next shot of Amy Winehouse appears in WWN.
WELL???
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