- The new Missile Defense Agency logo looks exactly like one of those terrible muslin moon things. Coincidence or BARACK OBAMA? [Big Government]
- No fewer but probably no more than two conservative bloggers agree that Jeb Bush should definitely run for president. [The Corner]
- Don’t pretend like you’re too busy or something: Take this fun political quotations quiz. [True/Slant: Michael Shermer]
- The State Department has taken a “neutral” position in regards to who owns Margaret Thatcher’s Falkland Islands. We can’t even send over a “neutral” Predator drone or something? Come on! Why does Hillary Clinton hate the Queen? [RedState]
- Matt Taibbi goes plum crazy and nearly mutilates some poor man’s face with a scalding cup of decaf. [Daily Intel]
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Yeah but that psycho bitch makes me laugh with his writey things and words and stuff.
Yes, this country needs more Bush.
Matt Taibbi is a vengeful, egotistical bitch? Not that I think of writers’ personalities much (excepting odious vermin such as Fred Barnes) but really, it’s not surprising. Think Mailer and Vidal — Taibbi’s probably not half the vengeful bitch as either of those two.
Can’t have too many Tiabbi types. We can have too many Evan Bayh types.
OMFG, I have just for the first time visited this ‘Big Government’ website and read the rantings of one ‘Frank Gaffney’, and I am really, truly, staggered at the flagrant psychopathology in evidence. Am I to understand that people actually take this stuff seriously, and even resonate to it? God Almighty, I pray we have them outnumbered.
“I really enjoy his articles, but have no doubt that he is an insufferable douchecanoe in real life.”
Awesome comment!
Yes, Big Government; how dare Nobama cut a non-workable project to defend us from a threat that does not exist. And if it wasn’t for your powers to imagine hidden messages in images, we wouldn’t know that he’s admitted to being a sekrit Muslin.
It’s nice to see that retro 80s fever is gripping Argentina. Maybe we can create an nostalgia-based foreign policy, too; let’s re-invade Grenada and start up a few Central American death squads!
The logo also looks like goatse.cx
[re=520242]Big Liver[/re]: Andrew Breitbart is the Tea Bagger Jeebsus. They read that when the can’t find a copy of The Turner Diaries.
The State Department taking a ‘neutral’ stance on who won the Falklands Islands War is the same attitude some in the South have toward the Civil War.
Hot coffee in the face?
LITIGATE MAH MAN
Having a logo for the missile defense program kind of gives the impression that it works.
Goddamn sneaky quiz.. [facepalm]
Yes, by all means, let “The Smart Bush” run for pres. After all, the first two did such a fine, outstanding job when they held the office.
Taibbi ordered a milkshake? WTF? Oh, it was made with milk and two scoops of Dana Perino’s frozen ass, so that’s cool.
[re=520260]Canmon (the Inadequate)[/re]: X’sucies, but are you referring to the war of northern aggression?
Shermer: What’s the point of my juxtaposing these quotes? Think about it and then comment on it.
I guess the point is that while the government sucks in many ways, it takes a rich paranoid asshole with a small business, a history of tax evasion, and the liquidity to buy a fucking airplane, yet who still thinks he’s one of the oppressed little people, to be driven to murder by such ideas — notwithstanding that a) it was the state revenue services (of both CA and TX) that shut his businesses down; and b) the guy he murdered and the people he maimed probably made a lot less money and had a lot more reason to gripe than that asshole.
And while that’s definitely not Shermer’s point, none of the quotes he offered seemed like incitements to violence — unlike, say, declaring that a certain doctor is a baby killer and has blood on his hands. There’s a difference between hyperbole and incitement, and O’Reilly’s quotes about Dr. Tiller are on the other side. Joe the Killer, though, was just a thoughtless homicidal idiot.
I suppose it could be an Arabic Crescent moon, if said moon were backwards, upside down and had its tips extended until they nearly met. It could also be an astronaut’s helmet, a diamond ring or a cupcake.
Hot and smart and a douche? How come none of my exes have written books????
As Laurie Metcalf said in Desperately Seeking Susan, “Take a valium like a normal person!!”
Mmmm. Milkshakes.
Riely, God love you boy, you have to stop reading Big Government or any other of Breitbart’s sites. Especially if it is something written by Frank Gafney (often considered the stupidest person in DC, which says a lot).
You might want to have children some day.
[re=520242]Big Liver[/re]:
A sane person seems to have left a comment at that site:
“This just in, South Carolina revealed to be Islamic State (crescent moon on flag).
Also revealed, New Orleans Police Department found to be militant Islamic wing of Hamas (crescent moon and star badge).”
Once Obama has control of all the logos, our journey to communism will be complete.
Taibbi’s behaviour sounds like classic passive-aggressive, without the passive part, though. That said, his rants never fail to entertain me. However, maybe he should switch to mother’s milk.
What was Gaffney expecting, a Crescent with a Star of David?
I heard Jeb was supposed to (groomed for it I read) run for POTUS but I hear tell ‘ol George beat him to it (sibling rivalry they call it).
I swear, I will fucking leave the country if another fucking Bush is president. Swear to God.
Having a President Jeb will bring us one step closer to Idiocracy. Discuss that next time you stop by Starbucks for a hand job.
[re=520275]gurukalehuru[/re]: Cry havoc and let fly the cupcakes of war!
[re=520273]SayItWithWookies[/re]: What is it about killers, though, that makes them write in the first place? Obviously self-justification is part of it, but it’s like they gotta write a manifesto or something.
Joe the Killer::Dirtbag
My wife literally hates Taibbi. Not sure why, but I guess she sees some mean-spirited jerk or something.
Oh Jesus fucking Christ. This idiotic Muslim Missile Defense Bullshit has permeated every single fucking retard drooler blog.
Of course the Fox shit site did this yesterday even though the spokesman from the MDA was quoted IN the article as saying,
“It’s ridiculous,” Lehner told Fox News. “It isn’t a new logo to replace the official logo. It’s a logo developed for recruiting materials and for our public Web site. Also, it was used prior to the 2008 election and it has no link to any political campaign.”
But that hasn’t stopped any of these fuckers from continually repeating it.
I like Taibbi’s articles, but now I’m dying to run into him when he’s on his period, and just fuck with him.
[re=520291]bitchincamaro[/re]: It’s kind of funny that he left his beverage behind. I would have bought it, just to say I drank Matt Taibbi’s milkshake.
[re=520304]Escape Goat Nation[/re]: Oh, gosh. Thanks for typing “retard drooler blog” because you reminded me of a question I have for Wonkette. What’s the deal with that cheesy “National Debt Road Trip” video all over the drooler blogs? I hate math, but the self important narrator sounds like someone I need to punch in the face. Is that shizz for real? I can’t count.
Matt was probably served regular instead of decaf. Happens to me all the time and it’s brutal.
I have often felt I would enjoy Matt Tiabbi’s writing more, if only he were a better writer.
It’s all about product placement. You know, like those bible verses on the gunsights.
[re=520307]Mojopo[/re]: WIN of the afternoon, or is it you have won the afternoon? Either way, good job.
DECLARE WAR ON THE MOON NOW
[re=520311]Jim89048[/re]: Or “Testamints” the after dinner mint with snippets of “scripture” on them. No, I’m not kidding! Here: http://www.testamints.net/product.html
[re=520275]gurukalehuru[/re]: [re=520299]comicbookguy[/re]: Cupcakes? I love cupcakes!
Wow, MIchael Shermer is a GENIUS! Today we are all plane crashers.
*spoiler?*
[re=520302]proudgrampa[/re]: Personally I blame society — our current glorification of the unreliable narrator has left many a half-witted narcissistic reactionary with the impression that he will be believed and that people care. Which I guess might be more merciful than finding out he’s just a self-aggrandizing asshole who doesn’t care how many people he hurts and who will be loathed far more in death than he was ever even known in life.
[re=520313]StoneAge[/re]: Thanks Stone Age. You look snappy today, too. I like those pants!
I bet Matt Taibbi is sexy when he’s angry.
As long as he keeps the baseball cap on, that is.
I’d post, but I have to throw away my crescent wrench and Lucky Stars before Big Government names me as an Islamic traitor.
Were it not for that unfortunate Al-Fayed Family foofaraw, Thatcher could’ve had Harrod’s customer service department fax over a copy of her receipt, and resolved this matter by tea time.
Taibbi vs. Verini: which was sent to the E.R. with the deeper papercut? Inquiring minds etc.
Many goblets of the finest Pinot Noir shall be raised at Elaine’s tonight as this tale is told and retold by flickering candle light.
[re=520289]rachelv[/re]: Dear God…., so Limbaugh, Beck and the Teabaggers have been right about Lindsey Graham all along?
[re=520284]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Beg to differ, but Gen Tommy Franks labeled Doug Feith as the “stupidist fucking person on the face of the earth,” and it’s hard to countermand that. But their both neocon architects of the stupid war in Iraq, and therefore Gaffney’s at least a place or show in the Dumb Derby.
I can’t believe they haven’t noticed that the giant red tongue licking the star and crescent looks almost how Allah is written in Arabic. I love it even more now.
[re=520325]Lawtalkinguy[/re]: They’re magically delicious
[re=520335]zenferret[/re]: You got there first. Good work.
well I’m on Taibbi’s side; who is this jerk to cut up on his book, then insist on his cooperation with an interview, critique of all his past work etc. because why, some NY Times weenie should be listened to calmly?
the logo looks like a teabaggers dream, i.e. put a huge hole in the Obama logo.
who is this NY Times hack that wants to write about 15-20 year old Taibbi articles he did in Moscow when he was a teen? As if that’s some major journalistic scoop with great relativity today? A mug of coffee in the face is too good for the hack…
[re=520242]Big Liver[/re]: Gaffney gets to be on the teevee shows that aren’t faux news–that’s the only familiarity I have with him. Now I learn he is a great big creepy winger.
BTW–Young Riley certainly earned his pay today. While the rest of us were screwing around making fun of the Death Panel Summit, he was cruising one creepy web site after another.
To put my feelings into the parlance that a youth such as Riley would understand, Eeuuuuwwww. Gross.
Yes, thank the Lard for continued links to dumbfuck miscreants.
[re=520309]Oldskool[/re]: I’m pretty sure all milkshakes are decaf, though.
I never liked Taibbi, but that was because I thought he was nuts and not because I thought he was a vicious little shit, so I guess I only get get to gloat a little. Still gonna claim full gloating privileges if it later turns out he’s also nuts though.
[re=520356]pampl[/re]:
Still, sexy. As long as he covers up the comb-over, that is.
[re=520356]pampl[/re]: He was drinking coffee, the milkshake was prolly dessert. Come to think of it, chocolate milkshakes might have plenty of caffiene. Irregardless and other non-words, his friend sounds like an annoying little shit so I don’t hold it against Taibbi. Nope, I admire his restraint.
Awesomest comment on the Breitbart site:
Whenever any kind of symbolism is attached to Mr Obama it is never the traditional symbols associated with America (you know, the American flag, or an eagle, or the block type lettering USA). Its always some kind of abstract or artsy O this or O that. And the blue used is never the deep blue like you will find on our flag, its a lighter more “UN” blue.
I can’t even tell if that’s satire or genuine home-grown right-wing paranoid delusion.
Peace on Earth. Protect our essences.
[re=520331]V572625694[/re]: Paul Arcangeli, who served as an officer in Iraq before being medically retired (and now, I think, doing humanitarian demining work) on Paul Wolfowitz: “I blame him for all this shit in Iraq.” [He's] “dangerously idealistic. And crack-smoking stupid.”
Crack-smoking stupid. I like that But it applies to so many Republics.
[re=520275]gurukalehuru[/re]: Nothing says missile defense like a cupcake. Hell, a red velvet cupcake is probably more effective against an incoming ICBM than those multi-billion dollar schemes they’ve got going on now.
Re Matt Taibi: Did their dicks touch?
[re=520320]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Let’s go do some crimes!
The number of times Dan Spencer (Profile) refers to the US-Britain “special relationship” just makes it sound “special” in a Caroline Kennedy “special” olympics kind of way. That seems to be the way Britain sees us anyway.
It’s possible that the Vanity Fair writer was really annoying. On the other hand, I dare anyone to read the Exile book. Whether you enjoy Taibbi’s writing or not, whether you are hoping for a post-U.S.S.R. “Great Shark Hunt” or not, the book doesn’t deliver.
It’s like a meta-conversation about the things you want to read, without the things themselves.
[re=520337]carlgt1[/re]: [re=520340]carlgt1[/re]: lol u mad~
We need more Taibbis, not less.
I’ve only read a few Taibbi pieces. Each was rather shrill and seemed loaded with cherry-picked facts and not quite fair mischaracterizations.
Sort of a mirror image of Faux News commentors.
[re=520456]commiegirl[/re]: Yeah — let’s get sushi and not pay.
Matt Taibbi gets all these very unwarranted comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson. I’ve long thought Taibbi’s style was essentially just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. He just seems pissed off. The good Doctor, on the other hand, was pissed off but never a juvenile name-caller. His writing was grounded by his sharp observational skills. Taibbi doesn’t have that. You can sense him getting more and more confused by a topic and finally just throwing up his hands, saying fuck it, and spraying a bunch of funny insults all over the page.
It was worth reading the comments to see “Burqa Hussein Ovomit just has to splash his bling all over everything”
The new Missile Defense Agency logo looks exactly like some silly little symbology designed by a third-rate government employed graphics geek, like when a local health department redesigns their letterhead. Can’t really see the musglin thing too much but if you say so…
Well, Barry had better make sure never to step in Satan’s General Store when his term expires. I forced myself to click over to Mrs. Breitbart’s site, and the comments are pure comedy gold.
The_Great_Satan 91p · 1 day ago
It also looks like an abstract Hammer & Sickle. Hussein is a national disgrace. If there’s any justice he’ll become a national pariah when he’s kicked out of the White House in 2012. God knows he better never step foot into my place of business
New Yorkers are weird. I don’t know of a single writer from the Southeast U.S., even from ATLANTA, who wouldn’t have taken a swing at Taibbi if he did that. Including the women. OTOH, I can’t imagine a Southerner calmly saying, “Your book sucked musty donkey balls, and here’s exactly why.” Violent societies ARE more polite (it’s BS that merely armed societies are polite; they have to know that you’re likely to use that weapon).
[re=520523]Lazy Media[/re]:
which is why it’s probably a BS story. It’s laughable that this NY writer is giving all these critiques on Taibbi for work he did when he was a teenager.
plus it seems the Taibbi story is at best very exaggerated since if you read the article Matt finally does discuss his teenage years/writing/publishing in Moscow after the alleged “boiling cup of jo’ in reporter’s face” incident.
[re=520246]JMP[/re]: WIN! Let’s ignore all the many GAO Reports – that this incredibly expensive system doesn’t work, can’t work and never will work! It doesn’t work so badly that the people in charge of it eliminated any benchmarks for genuine progress because there just hasn’t been any!
Although the system does appear to work as long as the attacking rocket has the flightplan of the rocket it is supposed to shoot down.
So, if the enemies we don’t have gave us their plans ahead of time we might be able to make this whole thing work. Maybe…
BG: The word you need is “nonfeasance.” Maybe “misfeasance.” NOT “malfeasance.”
I noticed the religious symbol in the old Missle Defense Symbol. Look at the earth its a big blue and green Yin-Yang.
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