Wonkette
Hey kids, the State Department has just learned of the hot new trend from 2001, “the blog.” And like everything else in Condi Rice’s best-ever Department of State, this blog is an almost comical failure. Start with the name: DIPNOTE. As proven by the approximately 200 e-mails we just received about this thing, the immediate reaction to that ridiculous name is “More like dipshit.”
But we are not so puerile — well, we are, but it’s also fun to quote the Blog World’s “first responders” (also known as “jackass commenters”) as they take stock of the fine new diplomatic propaganda effort and give it a resounding “FAIL.”
- “Excellent Idea. BLACK text and WHITE background. Communications 101 - Your computer folks could make the change in minutes. Don’t call an inter departmental or inter agency meeting, don’t bother with feasibility studies or focus groups. ‘Just do it.’” — Don in Virginia
- “Hello. I am a journalist. Do you think it will be easier to get replies to inquiries if we ask questions on the blog than over the phone to State Department Officials ?” — Corine in Washington
- “This blog is absurd. Please, the Department that brought us the Iraq war and allows Blackwater to run free drunkenly killing civilians is going to provide unbiased news? Get real.” — Tom in “USA”
- “Great! Another Govt propaganda site… just what America needs… MORE LIES. great job!” — Anonymous
- “I hate to post such a mundane first comment, but the color scheme of white text on a black background will keep me from coming back to see what is posted. Please change it. My eyes aren’t 20 years old any longer, and they are only going to get worse over time.” — Sandra in Virginia
- “Please change the color scheme! The white on black is VERY hard to read. Increase the font size as well, if you will.” — Anonymous
- “Uh, guys. The DipNote name is a shining example of your serious disconnect from the world of public discourse. Believe me, “Diplomatic” is not the word that springs to mind when hearing/reading ‘Dip.’ It’s ‘Dipstick.’ Look that up in The Urban Dictionary.” — Anonymous
- “I feel this is going to be a great blog. The comments in here are excellent reading. I think this will end up being one of the highest visited government websites.” — William in Canada
We could spend all day reading these comments, but there is more work to be done, so maybe you should waste the day going through these crazy comments and adding them to our comments. Meanwhile, Cheney is readying his strike on Iran ….
DIPNOTE [State Dept.]
Comments
Dip. Note. Dipnote.
*bzzzt!*
DOES NOT COMPUTE
?SN ERROR IN 10
Isn't white text on black background actually EASIER to read, technically?
"I feel this is going to be a great blog. The comments in here are excellent reading. I think this will end up being one of the highest visited government websites."
Oh Billy in Canada, you are so wrong. blogs.Dipshit.gov will never top the number of hits on blog.Hotteens.gov, blog.Lesbians.gov, blog.analsex.gov, blog.bathroomencounters.gov or blog.fasterblackwaterkillkill.gov.
It's dipfucks, not dipshits, you morons.
@ManchuCandidate:
I so want a "Faster, Blackwater! Kill! Kill!" t-shirt!
Couldn't they have taken their cue from Dipset, at the very least?
dipnote.blogspot.com is already taken. I guess they were predicting the worst.
This is going to get interesting. And the boys and girls at State must be very, very proud of themselves. Just wait until they meet the cast and crew of Wonkette.
Release the hounds...
@dickdogfood: All hail President Cam'ron and his Pink House. No homo.
how about "dipsomania-note"?
Everything is black and white in the mind thought of the current administration.
Just think how many layers of review go into each blog note.
But it's better they occupy themselves doing blogs than screwing up the world.
it was originally going to be called FRIED RICE
Oh, remember Rice and Bean. That was amazing. So long ago. @fileunder:
Oh give them a break. If you'd signed up for the diplomatic corps, say, 10 years ago, you'd have trouble getting out of bed to design a diplicking blog yourself. State has to be the most shit upon dept (okay, next to the EPA) in gummint.
I was surprised that Rice decided to comment but liked her attitude
"First Bitches!"
Condi
DO NOT WANT
FUN DIP!
Diphthong. Diphthong. Diphthong.
My friends tell me that LOLState is next.
So exactly WHEN will the Dipnote v Wonkette dance-off commence?
Nice to see that Haliburton got ANOTHER $100 million contract.
@IanJ: Here. Try this:
Dip.Shit.DIPSHIT.
Uh-oh. Did your harddisk just fry?
Just another rousing example of how everyone at State's heads are so far up their asses that not one person raised a hand and tremulously stammered, "Uh, could I point out...?"
Points for honesty, though, which is something you don't get much of from these people.
So in keeping with this line of thinking, will W.'s blog be called DUMBASSNOTE?
@Laura Ingalls Wildest: No doubt. They're probably still trying to figure out our response to the Lebanon crisis--the 1958 Lebanon crisis, that is.
To be fair, the Warren Christopher State Department - aww, hell, pretty much any other State Department - has done a lot of good. Of course, Bush, threatened by over-educated - aww, hell pretty much any education - destroyed the capacity of the department to affect matter of state.
Hey, fuck you all anyway (not trai_dep, mediahohoho, and some others)--whyncha give the Foreign Service a break? For Wonkette DC inbreds & armchair foreign policy jockeys to be calling State Dept. employees a bunch of weenies is like the pot calling the kettle black. How much is this vitriol from wannabe diplomats who failed the Foreign Service test and who live and breathe DC policy nonsense inside the Beltway anyway? I don't hear any of you standing up and getting your asses on a plane for Baghdad to volunteer for your country, leaving your family, getting no training, risking your life standing side by side your DOD pals in a conflict you can't comprehend and probably don't support. I'm hearing a lot of crickets now. I'm one of those FSOs who got the call that I would be directed into an Iraq PRT, but luckily I haven't been forced into an assignment yet. I don't want to go there, but I would if I had to. In any case, I was already volunteering to go to places that snobs like you would hardly want to take your own kids to in Africa or Central Asia, before that all got put on hold over this Iraq assignment bullshit. I don't expect you to understand.
Oh, and lay off the blog name, okay? Sorry that we gave it a name that actually meant something to us--you might have learned something about the State Department and the work of diplomacy rather than just churlishly mocking us for a term of art that we actually use in the field. Maybe typical for the 6th grade developmentally challenged crowd that appears to have been trolling this site. If you don't care about what we do, don't bother reading our blog; it's easy, right? That'll leave you more time to fiddle with yourselves in the bathroom.
Comment on this post
Reply by EmailLogin with your username and password below. Or comment on this post via email.
Forgot your username or password? New User?