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SMACK-DIDDLY-ACK

Friday, March 19th, 2010

poopyDEBBIE SCHLUSSEL SMACKS DOWN SEAN HANNITY: “Conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel has accused Sean Hannity’s Freedom Alliance charity of unethical fundraising practices and use of money. Schlussel points out how less than four percent of Freedom Alliance’s earnings in 2006 went to the nonprofit’s listed causes — college funding for the children of fallen soldiers and care for wounded veterans.” SMACKDOWN! [HuffPo]


ENLIGHTENMENT

It’s ‘Ideas Friday’ At Politico!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

In the future, the default 404 Error page will look like this. [The Awl]


SMACKDOWN FRIDAY

Anthony Weiner SMACKS DOWN Peggy Noonan, With SMACK DOWN

Friday, March 19th, 2010

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The prodigal video, it has finally arrived, praise Jeebus: delightful Rep. Anthony Weiner yelling at old moron Her Highness Madame Regina WordGod Peggy Noonan, who is piiiiiiiissssssed. Sit through about 30 seconds of Howard Dean not knowing what he’s talking about process-wise (You can’t pass the whole thing through reconciliation! George Bush had trouble passing domestic legislation too!), and then watch Anthony Weiner try not to beat the shit out of all of these people. [TPM]


AMERICA'S LOYAL OPPOSITION

Friday, March 19th, 2010
  • KEEP TALKING, ASSHOLES: “WASHINGTON — Conservative talk show hosts and columnists have ridiculed an 11-year-old Washington state boy’s account of his mother’s death as a ’sob story’ exploited by the White House and congressional Democrats like a ‘kiddie shield’ to defend their health care legislation.” Well, they’re pretty much right. It was the manipulative Democrats who forced Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck to publicly mock an 11-year-old boy and his dead mother. [McClatchy]

FINALLY!

GOP Congressmen Start Throwing Civil War References Around

Friday, March 19th, 2010

The best part about passing this health care bill, AND THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD PARTS, is all the assassinations and torrential violence we’ll have across the country, from confused people! FOR IT HAS HAPPENED HERE BEFORE: you know of what we speak. The “War of Yankee Aggression,” as Georgia Rep. Paul Broun calls it here. The old health insurance system will go the way of the Confederacy, he says. Good? [Washington Monthly]


GOOD FOR HIM

Anderson Cooper Loses All Of CNN’s Wealth On Jeopardy

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Look at that sad face. That’s the face of a CNN anchor who just lost to Cheech Marin on Alex Trebek’s Canadian Trivia. Which is completely fine! Cheech Marin is smart, maybe! This isn’t nearly as bad as Wolf Blitzer’s last appearance. [Philadelphia Will Do]


EXTREMELY PLAUSIBLE RUMORS

Oh Noes Sarah Palin Got Assaulted By Sam Donaldson’s Wig Maker!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Tim Burton is hard at work on a movie about a beast made of human hairIf you ever needed proof that Sarah Palin is totally going bald, feast your eyes upon this confection, courtesy of the Roadside Mulletry and House Of Hair Hats. [Foxnooz/Rumproast]


THIS WEEK IN JOB NEWS

Christiane Amanpour Is Your New George Stephanopoulos!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

LOVE the shirt.In your continuing coverage of teevee anchors who work on shows you don’t watch, here’s some news on the foreign correspondent with the bangs and the weird accent! Christiane Amanpour, “the thinking man’s Scud Stud,” will replace George Stephanopoulos as the host of ABC’s “This Week.” MORE »


DAILY BRIEFING

‘America Is Annoying’

Friday, March 19th, 2010
  • President Obama and the other president, Hillary Rodham Clinton, have forged a strong partnership in spite of their bruising campaign battle because maybe both are adults or something? [New York Times]
  • A new poll shows that many Israelis are in the tank for Barack Obama, while quite a few are not so sure about their own leader. How terribly anti-Semitic of them! [Washington Post]
  • The healthcare showdown! It’s on! Cards are on the table, ducks are in a row, etc! (This vote will never be held.) [Wall Street Journal]
  • If your ten-year-old child weighs as much as you do, congratulations! The youngling has scaled the ranks of the extremely obese, and will now get his own TV show where he dances away the pounds with mid-list British celebrities. [WebMD]
  • President Obama canceled his plans to visit Indonesia on account of the Health Care Showdown, which did not sit well with certain commenters on the Facebook page of the American embassy in Indonesia. [Reuters]

ARM YOURSELF WITH KNOWLEDGE *AND* GUNS!

Thursday, March 18th, 2010
  • GOOD HEALTH CARE BILL OVERVIEW: Here is what you need to know about the major components of the final health care reform bill. It is a good bill and it will help more people than any bill in recent memory. It is not scary. It is so, so comically un-scary. [AP]

GREAT CONVERSATIONS OF OUR TIME

This Is Starting To Get Exciting!

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Fun:

“They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty that we have right from God,” [Steve] King said.

“Faith has been perverted,” [Glenn] Beck responded, then repeated. “They are going to vote for this damn thing on a Sunday, which is the Sabbath, during Lent.”

Beck continued:

“Here is a group of people that have so perverted our faith and our hope and our charity, that is a — this is an affront to God.” [...]

“I think it’s absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday — something our founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God.”

God is dead. [Huffington Post]


RUMORS ON THE INTERNETS

‘American Exceptionalism’ And ‘Miley Cyrus,’ Interconnected, Obviously

Thursday, March 18th, 2010
  • A 90 second video about the Democratic Congress and its illegal parliamentary trickeries. [RedState]
  • Another one of those romantic candlelit riverboat cruises with K-Lo and Michael Mukasey. [The Corner]
  • Matt Yglesias is quite enraptured by the cryptic lyrics of Miley Cyrus’ songwriter. [Matt Yglesias]
  • The U.K. uses the price of processed fish to calculate inflation rates, because they don’t have to worry about Ron Paul or the Federal Reserve and can basically do whatever they want. [Hit & Run]
  • Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) is having a super day because: 23 seasons of C-SPAN, now free and downloadable, woah! [Twitter]

JOBS THAT GET HARDER BY THE DAY

White House Press Briefings Now Just Show Whatever’s On The Teevee

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

CNN’s beloved Ed Henry shares this picture from today’s White House Press Briefing, where everyone is just watching teevee. Those lazy slugs! It’s a beautiful day outside, and everyone should go play on Sasha and Malia’s swing set. CORRECTION: It’s a beautiful day outside, and everyone should go play Xbox on Sasha and Malia’s swing set. (Is it actually a beautiful day? We just read about it on the Internet.) [TwitPic]