Big News, Wonkers! The editorial board of the Iowa State Daily, Wonkette’s Pet College Newspaper, has made an innovative, nay, a MOMENTOUS editorial decision! In the midst of this contentious political season (not to mention the feathery distractions of swanning time), these intellectual heirs of the great Paul Harvey have bravely decided to “buck the trend” and to not endorse a candidate for President in the 2012 presidential election of America. While this editorial non-endorsement lacks the fiery conviction of the paper’s recent jeremiads against political messages written with chalk upon the public side-walks and its timely reminder that Bruce Springsteen is not a serious political expert, it does have its charms.
To begin with, it prefaces its case for bravely saying nothing by presenting a longish history of the very notion of “journalistic objectivity,” noting, quite accurately, that “Despite popular belief, newspapers are under no obligation to present political matters fairly” and suggesting what seems to us a novel view of where that assumption came from:
With the invention of radio and the advent of broadcast media (which would eventually include television), the question became whether or not radio stations could broadcast anything they wanted to, politically speaking, just as newspapers could print anything they pleased. It was eventually decided the airwaves were public property, not private property as a newspaper, and therefore stations had to give airtime to various political positions and persons.
Over time, the broadcast journalism ethic of “fair and balanced” reporting spread to newspapers, where today we find Americans constantly griping about how liberal or conservative this or that paper is.
See, as we remember’d it, the laudable-but-ultimately-unreachable goal of “journalistic objectivity” has a much longer history, dating back at least as far as the 19th century and reactions to the “yellow journalism” of the Hearst papers; we have a feeling that suggesting it was all just spillover from the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine” says more about the editorialist’s note-taking in “Intro To Journalism” than it does about actual history. In any case, we simply want to give a hearty “Bravo!” to the editors’ defense of their Constitutional right to take sides.
Which they immediately follow with this statement:
So once again the Daily is faced with endorsing a presidential candidate: This year, we endorse no one.
Way to make the tough choice, there!
OK, we get it: it’s not a refusal to choose, it’s a principled abstention, a statement of institutional conscientious objection:
Our parties are becoming more partisan, our media fails to report facts and instead chooses to entertain, and Americans are increasingly clueless about political issues, themselves choosing to follow propaganda despite knowing how rotten the system is becoming. Until this changes, the Daily refuses to choose an evil.
That oughta learn ‘em, all right. We can only imagine that both campaigns, and the American public, are at this very moment wondering what they can do to win back the trust of the Iowa State Daily.
Following this shattering rebuke of the shallowness and nastiness of American politics on Monday of last week, the Iowa State Daily went on to take firm stances supporting sidewalk reform on campus (“People finding a better or faster way to do something has brought humans out of the caves”) and calling for civility on campus buses (“Rule one: When the bus driver says move back, pick up your feet and move back!”).
We can only conclude that the future of journalism rests in fearless hands.
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I'm sure the Clemson Tiger has endorsed Nikki Haley for President.
If she makes it chase her around a tree will it turn into butter?
And I guess the LSU Tiger has endorsed Bobby Jindal? What is with these tigers and East Asians?
And how long until an East Indian Auburn grad becomes governor of Alabama?
Well, no. But the Reveille (LSU's paper) did drop a fucking HILARIOUS football comparison to predict the presidential outcome.
Roll Tide!
Hey man, lay off the Tiger. The political journalism may not be that great, but they give out Hardee's coupons in every issue.
And it's magical.
I hope they have the guts to take a stand on ethanol subsidies (which are probably keeping them in newsprint).
It's official: Wonkette's pet newspaper is really the Dayton Daily News in disguise.
Seems like a missed opportunity to allow Jill Stein to "ruin" the election.
Gary Johnson or GTFO!
Ugh. Some dipshit is writing "Live Free Gary Johnson 2012" on the sidewalks (in chalk!) around the square in Madison. Where's the Iowa State Daily's editorial on that?
It's not easy supporting the greens.
Over time, the broadcast journalism ethic of “fair and balanced” reporting spread to newspapers, where today we find Americans constantly griping about how liberal or conservative this or that paper is.
For journalism students, they have a shitty knowledge of the history of the fucking industry they purport to represent.
The American newspaper business was heavily influenced by the British press, which has papers of every conceivably political bent. The idea was that while *hard* news would be reported factually, analysis and political content would be clearly marked as an editorial.
It's this last that people are complaining about now, but here's the thing: we decided that informing the public was a for-profit venture and not "in the public interest."
I F Stone is spinning in his grave over these asshats.
It reminds me of the complaint that politics used to be more civil. Like when a sitting VP killed someone in a duel.
Hey, fucking Alexander Hamilton needed killing! Those Federalist Papers and the worshippers thereof, fuck him.
How dare you impugn the goood Nevisian name of the first Treasury Secretary! Pistols at dawn?
I presume you mean voting pistols?….
Yeah, but they totally called each other "sir" and "gentlemen" so it's different. lol
"I regret that I have but one evil to choose…"
"Don't fire until you see them take both sides."
"We must all hang together, or we will all hang around taking sides separately."
our media fails to report facts and instead chooses to entertain
You mean like, say, whining about chalk on the sidewalk?
That wasn't all that entertaining, except to us Godless Snarxists.
Wait, they could have NOT written the paper and done exactly the same thing?
College should be teaching kids to work smarter, not harder. Oh fuck you Obama for ruining edumacahatsion
My guess is that after graduation, the Daily's editors will will chose not to sully themselves with the chaos and corruption of the "real world" by "getting a job" and will continue to write missives from the ideologically pure environment of their parents' basements.
I'm guessing these are the same people who go to blogs and post comments about how uninterested they are in the topic of the current article, instead of just skipping it.
Your comment really bores me, and I wish you'd write about something I'm interested in, like maybe Star Trek.
OK, let's see who was the bestest everest starship captain. Kirk? Picard? Vijay Amritraj? Spock?
I endorse none of them at this time.
Come, it's Sisqo, no contest.
Sisko, for sure.
(But now I'm not sure how to spell it.)
Hey, Dok?
I call bullshit, you made this article up.
There's not one single word here that little Johnny Reportage looked up in his thesaurus.
WHO KILLED JR?
Who are the candidates? What are the issues? AND BE SPECIFIC.
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")
When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
("no!")
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
("I didn't!")
And gallantly he chickened out.
doesn't he sing "he buggered off and he chickened out"? I love that song…used to sing it to rip on a friend of mine who liked to act all brave and hardass..
Over time, the broadcast journalism ethic of “fair and balanced” reporting spread to newspapers
You mean the Wall Street Journal, right?
And that little boy…nobody liked…grew up to be…Roy Cohn.
So what was the rest of the story?
There were many closets and backrooms involved.
"Wow!"
And I hope everybody knows how that story ended.
Whatever, guys. Where's tonight's kegger?
My house.
I'll being the raw fetus to barbecue!
Just make sure you don't talk about it tomorrow on the bus
Good grief. This editorial board needs to get drunk and/or laid.
Will the Wonkette Bazaar be selling "The Princess – A New Little Phone That Lights Up"? Cause I can't make any decisions about who to endorse without that.
I know you want one.
I have a sock I call 'Princess'.
My Little Phoney?
Yes, our parties are too partisan! It looks like someone is already an expert Broderite and gunning for a spot on the Washington Post Op-Ed page.
i have an image of you and misstaken sitting next to each other dueling with wonkette comments.
but then, i'm a romantic.
We have done so in the past, but she is at work right now.
The vacuuming and dinner better be done by the time I get home!
The vacuuming is all done, don't worry! I'll be good, Mistress.
Shit yeah, there's quite a pile of money to be made making bland, banal observations about the current state of politics. Broder, the 'stache of Concern…those guys have huge homes from essentially telling us our parties are mean poopy-pants who can't get along like Raygun and Tip O'Neil (a comparison I'm really getting tired of hearing about, mind you). These same people invariably argue that bipartisanship looks a lot like Dems giving in to everything Republifucks want to do. This kid is jockeying for a bright career contributing nothing to the discourse while making a lot of money…
Do they put an aspirin between their knees when they are politically abstaining?
Noone is a known Communist. Everybody fucking knows that.
Responded the student body of ISU:
"There's an election coming up?"
shit it's ISU…they probably vote via cow-tipping or cornholing…why doesn't their paper bitch about the lousy fucking football team they field every year? It's not because they're in Iowa, either…the U of I usually has a quite respectable to strong team. Certainly that would be more enlightening than sidewalk chalk…
Maybe this paper should ask the school paper at Oklahoma who to endorse. The Cyclones sure were the Sooners' bitch on Saturday, why not take it to its natural conclusion?
Now, now…Oklahoma got owned by Notre Dame so really they both should take cues from the Irish. Shit…works for most drunks anyway…
As a screechy Canadian man once sang:
"If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice!"
I must choose a path that's clear. I MUST CHOOSE FREE PILLS.
That would explain the ready guide in some celestial voice, wouldn't it?
I knew y'all wouldn't let me down.
Blame IS better to give than receive, after all.
I choose Tom Hanks! http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2010/12/13/7608…
This image search also led to this, which is awesome: http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimatecl…
2112 libelz, eh?!?!!
You can choose from partisans, I'm smarter than you all.
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Ron Paul.
Friend of mine once characterized Rush perfectly using their own lyrics:
"An ounce of perception, a pound of obscure."
It's like the old adage that "a point in every direction is no point at all."
Our parties are becoming more partisan, our media fails to report facts and instead chooses to entertain,
If only there was something like, I don't know, maybe a college newspaper that was available to inform their readers about facts and politics. If only.
Now every time a media figure engages in the time-honored whining about how the media sucks, they obviously are special snowflakes who the problems do not apply to because they're just so special and awesome.
My mommy said I'm special. Now where's my award?
You are special! As for your award, well let's not discuss that in public.
Oh, is that what Clapton meant when he sang about "I'll give you my dull surprise"?
Bruce Springsteen should take tips from political expert Clint Eastwood, by the way.
This "Vote for Nobody" trend is SO EFFING OBVIOUSLY yet another karl rove type tactic to steal yet more votes. Youtube has at least 10 vote for nobody videos. The ones I saw are not only WAY too slick to be homemade; they "nobodies" they represent (headless figures) have Obama-like bodies and play basketball. Targeted in the video are youths, radicals, and minorities. Really pisses me off when idiots adopt the smug attitude, declare they're just gonna show 'em by NOT VOTING, and essentially then, cast a vote for Romney. Idiots. i'd say they deserve what they're going to get, except it's the REST of us who are going to get it too. Arrgh.
About the only worse thing you can do is vote for the Greens, Libertarians or Roseanne Barr.
I saw an editorial today from a mid-size town nearby endorsing the Libertarian candidate for president. My immediate thought was "What is fucking wrong with these people?" Now I see it's part of a Rovian conspiracy.
Roseanne Barr Syndrome, isn't that some horrible, debilitating disease?!
Or, if you're in Virginia, Virgil Goode who's running on the "Constitution Party" ticket. Goode is really nothing but a extreme right-wing Republican, really, so has his own special brand of crazy.
"none of the candidates are cool, all grown ups are mean to us, politics is so immature, we are going to hold our breath and turn blue until the election is over"
Plus they're all phoneys!
"If I were registered to vote, I'd send those fat cats a message by staying home on election day!"
Barack Obama’s inexperience and naivete has led to an ineffective presidency, and the Republican Party has failed to produce a qualified and competent alternative, choosing instead to select a nonpolitical, flip-flopping, quasi-liberal corporatist as their candidate.
An ineffective presidency? SCHIP, the ARRA, Healthcare reform, the GM and Chrysler bailout, an explosion of clean energy production, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, getting out of Iraq, killing Osama bin Laden, three free trade agreements, overthrowing Qaddafi and not treating every other country like a potential imperialist snack — if any president had accomplished that in eight years he'd have parks named after him in every state. Obama managed to do that in four, with the most filibustering Senate in American history fighting him every inch of the way, which makes him the fuckin' John Riggins of chief executives.
But just because it's not raining violet petals, I guess things didn't work out. Oh well.
Quasi-liberal lol
"Rick Santorum or bust" must be this newspaper's motto.
"quasi-liberal corporatist". Yeah. What's next, a "quasi-conservative communist"?
An ineffective presidency?
But he didn't bomb the ever-loving shit out of a nation that had nothing to do with us!
it's not raining violet petals because the president is a near.
(great list btw).
Because as we all know African Irises are always white, blue or pink.
Purple Rain Libel!!
Or even daisy cutters.
Looks like somebody found an opportunity to use "quasi-liberal corporatist" in a sentence.
Whatever it means…
What sad little cowed young people we are raising these days. You really can't identify any grounds to objectively say one of these candidates is better than the other? Focused on not upsetting anyone, this undoubtedly virgin boys club will just sit it out, and hope they get Koch jobs.
"In summary, the nation faces a great many contentious issues, any one of which might determine the future of not only us but our children and children's children. We owe it to the future to make these decisions definitively and circumspectly.
Or, ya know, not."
When I was a college journalist many, many years ago, there would have no one on the staff sober enough to craft an endorsement editorial. Now, since I'm old, who gives a damn what those dope smoking, date raping little greaseballs think anyway. And get off my lawn or I'm gonna hit you in the head with an empty Scotch bottle.
Many, many years ago, I briefly joined the college newspaper because during our freshman tour, we met the editor who was a very attractive senior guy(or so I thought after 4 years in a girls school). Turns out he had a girlfriend on the staff and they assigned me to ad getting- I quit after the first week,
"And get off my lawn or I'm gonna hit you in the head with an empty Scotch bottle."–Me, in twenty years during the Tagg Romney Presidency.
God damn it. I finally relent and get super stoned and then eat most of a pizza from Little Ceasar's and watch an episode of that accursed cartoon, and then suddenly Dok decides to stop using them for his posts after all.
WTF.
I like Pinkie Pie.
I like pie, too.
But what's a Pinkie? Is that a thing now?
Overshare!!
Pinkie Pie reminds me of several of my friends, who are bipolar. Incidentally, so does Fluttershy. The exact same friends, I mean.
And one of them lived in a place that as jammed full of books as Twilight Sparkle's home, only it was actually a dorm room that that we (ostensibly) shared.
See? This show speaks to me, because my friends are literally mentally ill.
I started weeping after your "get super stoned" part. Fucking randoms…
I do not often smoke the Devil's Marihuana, but when I do, I end up spending most of the afternoon eating and watching cartoons.
These two facts are actually not entirely unrelated.
hahaha
… and watch an episode of that accursed cartoon…
Thanks for taking one for the team, Joe!
It's only Monday afternoon, man.
Now we'll never know who the ponies endorsed for President.
Without Applejack's vote, a broad mandate it is not.
OK, I'm calling an intervention and pulling your man card before you go all brony on us.
You should watch Friendship Is Witchcraft instead: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=frien…
I AM ONLY THIRTY SECONDS IN AND IT IS ALREADY AMAZING IN ALL OF THE WAYS.
ALL OF THEM.
This reminds me of that one time, when we were voting for student council, and I lost by one vote because someone wrote in "Pie" as a joke. That kid is probably now running this paper.
Just remember this about elections: Dubya is still dumb, and Gore has an Oscar.
And a Nobel
I found their archives!
Dec. 8, 1941 — Because FDR has so badly mangled our national security and the borders of this great nation and has been unable to stimulate our economic activity, we hereby recommend complete capitulation and surrender to the overwhelming forces of Japan and Germany.
"The popularity of the songs (and associated lecherous gyrations) of the hirsute crooner Elvis is but a passing fad, like the rest of this 'rock & roll'. The Iowa State Daily demands that the Administration take steps to have this cacophonous and disruptive sound banned from our virtuous and seemly halls, dorms, and fraternity-houses."
"Nov. 1, 1960 — While we like the war record of the challenger, John F. Kennedy, he is a member of an exotic and secretive religion with bizarre rituals that defy normalcy and the rock-ribbed conservatism of the electorate, and the scion of a wealthy aristocratic political family out of touch with the values of the American heartland with his belief in fairness and equality for all.
Richard M. Nixon, however, has shown time and again his bona fides as an upright and honest man, someone who would never stoop to dirty tricks to win an election."
I know someone who wrote a magazine article about how the Dave Clark Five would forever be rock icons, long after also-rans like The Beatles were forgotten.
He framed it and had it on his study wall to remind himself not to be smug in future.
Your move, Bartleby the Scrivener.
I named my first cat Bartleby. It really is the perfect name for a cat. They say they are not particular, but all in all, they would prefer not to.
A literary reference that is sadly lost on about 99% of our countrymen, alas.
We know stuff!! "Bartleby the Scrivener" is off Genesis's 2nd album, right?
Damn, I thought it was an unreleased track from Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick recording sessions.
That is the awesomest thing I have heard in a long time.
Graham Spanier, no relation to Muggsy, is a graduate of iowa State.
At least they didn't endorse "YOU" or "THE COMPUTER"
Wolf Blitzer was right, it's a TIE!!
"Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos".
I guess their apathy really tied the election together.
I wonder if their thinking will be more clear after the interest rate on their student loans is jacked to 20 percent or so.
"Barack Obama’s inexperience and naivete"
Ya know who I go to when I want to have some inexperience and naivete explicated to me? That's right, fucking college students. Man, when I think back to some of the opinions and knowledge I held dear to me when I was a college student, I blanch in embarrassment, as this young editor will doubtless do someday 20 years hence. Unless he goes to work at NRO.
At some schools, the college students exemplify inexperience and naivete combined with idealism and excitement about their future. I think these journalism students got short-changed.
Maybe these were children left behind?
Yeah, I recall that I was a knew-it-all dipshit when I was 19 & wasn't even a student at some fancy college like Iowa State.
See also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/college-newspape…
Yeah, I'm basically just cribbing everything from The Onion anyway
I bet Ma Bell's new Princess phones still work in a fucking power outage!
I'm sorry, what were we talking about again?
Ill Communication.
Translation: Sit on it, Potsie.
This year, we endorse no one.
Kegger at the moon tower!!!
They are college students. Their political affiliation is with the Beer Pong Party.
Well, dagnabbit, we totally missed their Halloween editorial which proclaims that "Zombie movies dangerously desensitize."
This one was clearly written by the same guys that wrote the chalk one:
"Of course, in part we jest."
"Zombie movies dangerously desensitize."
But that's the plan!
You watch a zombie movie and get a good laugh at the silliness of it all, and then decide to head out to the local bar for a few beers with friends. You meet a stranger and start to chat him up, talking about the weather and how about them Cowboys…
Theyre softening us up, making us lower our guards and then *CHOMP* and next thing you know, you're shambling down La Cienega with half your femur exposed to the sky.
"Reconsider the party you imagined — or, if you’re cooler than us, the one you went to."
This guy is fucking pathetic.
"Ghost Hunter" and "Shutter Island" are the examples he uses. Please, somebody hold this guy down and make him watch "Human Centipede".
In fairness, this douchenozzle is so….candy-assed…that he blacked out during the Blair Witch Project.
The Mothman Prophecy probably gave him nightmares for weeks unless Mommy put him in his footie jamjams and gave him hot cocoa
He's still having nightmares from that one episode of Grimm he watched.
Hey, Mothman Prophecies was kinda scary.
Worse, make him watch The Human Centipede II, which is far more disgusting than the original, and then A Serbian Film.
What? None of those 3 are zombie movies.
It is true that pride and prejudice and zombies dangerously desensitizes people to the horrors of Jane Austen.
God knows I have to watch Sense and Sensibility stewed to the gills.
Oh let up, man, it wasn't that bad.
Maybe the author is a blinded cyclops.
O how I miss Paul Harvey, every day at noon:
"Hello America! Stand by for news!"
And at the end of his newscast, an interminable pause (killing the remaining portion of his allotted time) before his closing line; "Good DAY!"
Page..TWO!
On which he would blur the line between stentorian-voiced authority figure and cheesy pitchman through the rest of his show by hustling whatever consumer product sponsored him at the time, selling it with every insincere fiber of his ancient frame.
Good times!
Slag on Harvey all you want, but you must admit that Huskvarna Chain Saws have a pretty cool name.
The mysterious and infrequent Chichi, emerging from the mists and striking — then gone again, in a flash!
I actually remember his newscast from *before* he did that whole "voice trailing up" nonsense on the "Day" part….*koffkoff*
Hey, What are you doing on my lawn????
Was Paul Harvey broadcast on some frequency that only White Folks can hear? Because I never stumbled into him on the dial, even accidentally.
Home station was WLS (890 AM) in Chicago, a Top 40 outlet during my youth there. His show was syndicated by the ABC Radio Network from 1951 until he died in 2009. There was also a syndicated feature called “The Rest of the Story” that appeared on many stations.
Oh, I know WLS quite well, Larry Lujack and all that (in the late '70s/'80s). But I never heard Paul Harvey.
He had five minutes at 8:00 AM and 15 minutes at noon on Saturday.”Crank Letter of the Day” FTW!
I think that from 1967 to 1994 the FCC required it be carried on all small-town AM stations.
I’m sure there is great future ahead for these brave young journalists as long as it doesn’t involve having an opinion, making decisions, doing research or growing a pair.
Way to change the world guys.
These are the students that drop Psyc 101 as soon as they realize that they aren't going to learn to read minds.
They missed the more subtle lessons in how to manipulate them, obviously.
Please, please, please tell me that's a joke.
Only barely.
I think they're perfect for FOX News or any other place where they merely have to transcribe blast faxes.
Our parties are becoming more partisan, our media fails to report facts and instead chooses to entertain, and Americans are increasingly clueless about political issues, themselves choosing to follow propaganda despite knowing how rotten the system is becoming. Until this changes, the Daily refuses to choose an evil.
And somewhere, there is a string of pearls in desperate need of clutching.
And that is really some elegant journalistic prose, dontcha think?
Oh please. I haven't seen that much swooning and reaching for the smelling salts since Ashley Wilkes dumped Scarlett in favor of the Tarleton Twins in Gone With the Wind.
Given this language, why don't they endorse Cthulhu or General Zod? I mean, if you have to choose between two evils, it seems to me the correct choice is evil.
Well I'm against it
I'm against it
Well I'm against it
I'm against it
I don't like politics
I don't like communists
I don't like games and fun
I don't like anyone
And I'm against…
I don't like Jesus freaks
I don't like circus geeks
I don't like summer and spring
I don't like anything
ramones on iowa state daily…
Or the Marxist version:
I don't know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it!
(Groucho, in Horse Feathers)
i love you.
Supposedly, Iowa is the most literate state in the country. You'd think the editors of the Iowa State Daily would shy away from tarnishing that hard-earned reputation.
Literate, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
How is Iowa the most literate state? Currently, I believe only what my pretend son Nate Silver says and he hasn't said that about Iowa
Iowa has been ranked high in literacy, forever. In fact, they are proud (and rightfully so) of their tradition of primary education.
The literate types are at the other state university – in Iowa City.
AMES LIBEL!
Chip and his buddy seem to be making a tremendous effort to remain clothed.
Little did Chip know that his editor's tip about the new 'Princess phone' would lead him into a dark underworld of bestiality and murder that would force him to reevaluate everything he has ever known…
David Lynch, is that you?!
Actual Transcript of the Sekrit Wonkette Chatcave:
Rebecca S. this series needs to find its readership, it's so perfect!
Dok Z. heh… Yeah, it's like a roundtable for improving journalism, led by a blog that focuses on the intersection of politics and buttsechs
Dok Z. We're the Chlamydia Journalism Review
Rebecca S. YESSSSS
It might help to survey more college papers, instead of whipping the same boy every time.
That's a good idea! These guys feel like the platonic ideal of collegiate blatherskite, though, so they'll retain a special place in our hearts.
OK, I'll even throw you a little something: I just went and looked at the college paper of my alma mater, (BIG REVEAL!) Mediocre State University In The Cornfields, and found the gamboling innocence of this young lady's Opinion Column on Opinions:
http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_d4719c50…
I… Oh, dear.
It's just a little heartbreaking that there are no comments on the piece, either.
Right, but at least Mediocre State University In The Cornfields has an excellent football program, unlike Atheist Liberal College, which dissolved its football program long ago.
We rooted for our soccer teams ::cringe::
Meanwhile, Dame Peggington Noonington, in the Wall Street Urinal, sees Willard winning this and thinks he is "sweetly patriotic." Gag me!
Once Willard loses, and Noonington writes a story about it through her martini-infused tears, we need Jim back stat to do her justice like only he can.
FYI
UAz and AzSU endorsed Bamz.
NAzU ….couldn't find any endorsements there.
"None of the above?"
MONTGOMERY BREWSTER LIBEL.!!!
Clearly, you've been fortunate enough to get to the bathroom before your partner wakes to the piss hard-on you built up overnight…
Nader 2000!
It was so embarrassing when I got Nader 2000 and Cherry 2000 confused.
If the paper had endorsed Romney, Obama, who controls the weather, would have sent cyclones and tornadoes Iowa's way. If they sided with Obama, then Iowa would see an economic boom in firearms sales. But no, they sat this one out. Therefore, nothing of great or remote importance will happen in Iowa for the next four years.
Therefore, nothing of great or remote importance will happen in Iowa for
the next four yearsever.Fixed.
This must be Generation Zzzz.
I see where some on the right are already getting set to blame Sandy if Obama wins. My thought on this is, if their God sent this storm and Obama benefits from this storm, what does that tell us about their God's political affiliation?
Alas, I suspect Wonkette will not be liveblooging the 3rd Party Presidential debate tonight, but you can still watch it online: http://freeandequal.org
This time, the only candidates participating will be Gary Johnson & Jill Stein. 9pm EST.
I'll keep that in mind just in case the Saints/Eagles gets out of hand early.
Unfair to Vermin Supreme!
Well, I can tell you, it was different when I was in college, and we had The Clash to tell us what to think!
It sounds like you had some groovy times.
Aqua Bhudda strikes again!….
well. andrew kohut is seeing a 'late surge' for bamz.
i guess it's better to cover your ass at the 11th hour than be completely wrong, but still pretty bad.
Why, those little Mavericks.
So this is good news for John McCain?
I'm thinking Pullitzer. At least a Peabody.
To go with the peabrain?
Hannity/Coulter 2016
/ too soon?
My parrot will be so disappointed not to have an endorsement at the bottom of his cage tomorrow morning. He so enjoys shitting on all them.
Needz moar platonic ideals and buggery.
Why not endorse R-money because the blah man said "REVENGE!!11!!1!!"?
Ok dipshits, am I " increasingly clueless about political issues"? or am I "choosing to follow propaganda despite knowing how rotten the system is becoming"? Because if I literally know how rotten the system is becoming then I guess I'm not clueless, am I?
Triumphantly pressing "publish", Doktor Zoom began brainstorming the opening paragraphs of his scathing critique of the neighborhood tricycle races.
Those kids are lucky their tricycles don't have bumpers for their parents to display bumper stickers on…
Okay, that was funny, and a burn……..and gave me pause………..but these students can vote. And if they're willing to put this stuff in their campus newspaper, we should respect them enough to ridicule them.
Shows what you know! I am in fact preparing a strongly-worded riposte to the latest "News From Lake Wobegon." Keillor is going down.
Thank God. Stop him before he sings again.
It's IOWA. They're just happy someone who writes about politics pays attention to them. Wait, what?
Leave the Iowa State Daily ALONE! Dok Zoom is so mean, y'all!
Land of the Free? Home of the Brave?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/poll-wat…
These are journalism students, or is it some kind of performance-art mashup that is scribbling cock drawings on the corpse of journalism's face, much like one does to another passed out fratboy?
Slightly OT but the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison endorsed Mittens in the weakest most idiotic way. Actual quote:
"Romney showed as the Republican governor of Democratic-leaning Massachusetts that he can find agreement across the partisan divide. And his vice presidential pick — Wisconsin's U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville — suggests Romney is serious about tackling America's fiscal mess."
Some of the comments are glorious. One begins: "The only reason I buy your worthless newspaper is to get the New York Times Sunday crossword."
If'n you wanna: http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/editorial/ou…
It takes One to No one.
Also, why are we all piling on a POS student newspaper from a mediocre state school? Yeah, their editorial board is stupid. Probably there is a unresolveable disagreement among the board and a this was the only political way forward. You figure a few Republicans are in key positions in the newspaper and threatening scorched earth if the paper endorses Obama, and the EC is a dull humorless centrist whose top priority is for everything to run smoothly until he hands the reigns over. Throw in a several other dissenting types like maybe a "principled Libertarian" dbag and a couple of Green party advocates (love you guys!) , and guy who doesn't give a shit about politics and just wants to bang the up-and-coming "Megyn Kelly" who's threatening to lose her shit about Nobama. You can start to see why its better to just punt on the whole endorsement project. Get back to opining about some tawdry inoffensive bullshit like sidewalk chalk or how Iowa gays are torn in their opinions about Chick-Fil-A.
I think they should aspire to be the next Harvard Lampoon; perhaps it would bring out any latent journalistic talent that may exist.
Assume Iowa State Daily idiocy stuttered dumbly.
I wish I could be a fly in the wall when (if?) they figure out that Wonkette has made them into stars!
I read that too quickly and thought you said, "Wonkette is made of stars."
To which I say, Yes, yes it is.
This kid will be a lot happier when he admits that he is gay.
3:35 is quitting time? Has Wonkette gotten some Big Bank bailout money?
I think they've got kind of a big day and night tomorrow.
It's 3:38 PST. When do California liquor stores close?
2am
It's gonna be hard getting used to that to that after being used to 9pm, 7pm Mondays and Tuesdays, and closed Sundays for so long.
Idiots
Out
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Articles
So, I do have a confuse about one thing…
So this editorial begins by castigating the idea of the Fairness doctrine and of false "balance" in general, as an obstacle to true journalistic objectivity, which is about discovering the actual facts and reporting those, rather than just reporting two opposing viewpoints and just shrugging, and one could even make the case that false balance, far from permitting journalists to report free of any internal bias, simply makes it easier to disguise said bias by presenting "both sides" as equally faulty and the real truth" as something somewhere in the middle.
Which leads me to the second part of the editorial, which reads, "both sides do it, both sides are partisan, blah blah blah the SYSTEM is the problem, man." Isn't saying "both sides do it" and just shrugging simply an extremely lazy version of that thing they just criticized print and broadcast media for becoming? I would say yes, but that makes me a wacko fringe extremist. We should get somebody else to say the opposite, so that we can figure out where the middle is.
I liked this bit of journalism: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/…
Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney – no relation to Mittens) started the 'Nobody for President' campaign 1976: http://www.nobodyforpresident.org/index2012.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Zdy1BGi78
"Until this changes, the Daily refuses to choose an evil."
In Soviet Iowa, evil chooses YOU!
OT but super-important. The most significant political detente of my lifetime has been achieved!
Gov. Crispy Creme has just announced that he had an extra-special experience while chatting with his new boyfriend today. As he concluded his daily conversation with Bronco Bama conducted on the First Fone of Air Force One, Bronco said, "There's someone else here who would like to speak with you." And who got on the miracle airwave but the governor's most historic crush object, yes indeedy, Citizen Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen of Colt's Neck, New Jersey, aka The Governor's Boss. It's super-secret what they talked about but you can bet a chill went up Crispy's leg, he saw shooting stars, and rainbow-colored ponies began dancing around him in a way Rafalca could never duplicate. Everyone in New Jersey is now required to join a union. Or something.
The things a President has to do to get a vote. It's stomach churning.
I hope you get to vote in two states.
And you should have seen the death-glare Bruce gave Bronco when he found out who was on the line.
(Nicely done, btw! And here's a link.)
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/obam…
Bronco probably told Bruce it was Bob Dylan on the line. Bruce got Chris-rolled.
That was exactly my thought.Maybe Bruce didn't go into that conversation willingly.And the Prez probably handed him the phone thinking, “I've had enough of this asshole.Let Bruce do his duty for New Jersey.”
Glory daze.
My cats refuse to endorse anyone either. And they're pissed that now that the power's back on, the no-jumping-on-counters rule has been re-instated.
Tyranny!
Dammit! Now No One will win tomorrow and we will never be done with this god-awful race.
Oh, hell…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-mcgonnigal/obama-res...
*sniff!* I hate it when ninjas sneak in and slice onions while I'm on the computer !
Jeez, I freekin' know, right?
I'm sitting here, doing my homework, I happen to see that, and *boom* tears are running down my face.
We've *G*O*T* to re-elect this guy.
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated
been waiting to post that one.
Rest easy fuflans, Nate Silver now has Bamz chances of winning tomorrow north of 90% (Obama 91.4% : Prince Hair Gel 8.6%). Not quite straight flush odds, but pretty solid.
That said, Mrs. weejee who was raised on a dairy farm and knows a thing or three about handling a pitchfork has gone home to sharpen the tines just in case some forking is required.
Oh, gawd, I'm going to be singing that all day tomorrow.
Ayn Rand was also into objectivity-ism in her two books, "Russian Idiot Loves Architect Rape" and "Something Somethinged"
Hey, what ever happened with that Osama Bin Laden guy anyway?
He moved in with Breitbart.
Why do I get the image of a smug asshole in a bow tie?
I know! He writes like a really wet behind the ears Tucker Carlson – who after DECADES is still, to this day, wet behind the ears.
Damn, I thought it was "dull surprise" too. I mean, if you can carve deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind, you can have dull surprises.
The editorial board consists of 3 hogs and an ear of corn.
well i was a part of nobody for president in 1976 – he was of course the famous hog farm nominee – i'm sure it's still part of wavy gravys web site. – someone could have helped back then like today – hell anyone could have but of corse nobody did and that is why he was our nominee
I came out of my "day before" Xanax, Scotch, repeats of The Mentalist coma (dont judge) to zip over to Nate. … 91.4%
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
Sweet Gentle Jeebus
Wait, so you punish the presidential candidates, because of how the media reports on them? Am I understanding this correctly? Who's the editor? Because we all know that when papers speak of the opinion of an editorial "board" that it simply means the strong-willed editor rights the piece, and then passes it around so everyone can nod and let him publish it.
I am bravely following their example by not giving a fuck about their endorsement or non-endorsement.
Here I thought he was talking about the Kathy Ireland range of emotions guessing game.
Perhaps swords of suffrage would be more appropriate.
Electoral rubber bands.
The stars aren't aligned, and the gods are jackasses.
I came out of my seat in joy, watching Crow's eyes fly out of his head. Thank you for that delightful romp back in time.
Get a room!
Get a Roomba!
I'll always remember some rock critic, probably in Musician Magazine, making fun of the audible gulps of air that guy took between flute phrases while waning in the '80s.
"Animal Stories, Little Tommy!"
Heh. Friday & Saturday nights they're open until 10 pm here. Hell, some stores are open from noon until 6 pm on Sundays. Say what you will about Virginia but the state (which runs the stores) isn't stupid about getting that revenue. They know that Virginians be a drinkin' bunch.
Probably not good news for your liver.
Really? 10:00 p.m. is an hour before date time in Miami.
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