Decoding the Note: Give ‘Em Another Day, They Need Time to Bring the Smarm
Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
This is what happens when you are required to sound properly cynical on very short notice: MORE »
This is what happens when you are required to sound properly cynical on very short notice: MORE »
Decoding Taking a Cheap Shot at The Note
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Halperin and co. inadvertently reveal Tom DeLay’s cunning plan to preserve the Republican majority:
Alternatively: Nice to know someone else is as hungover as we are today. MORE »
Halperin and co. inadvertently reveal Tom DeLay’s cunning plan to preserve the Republican majority:
Alternatively: Nice to know someone else is as hungover as we are today. MORE »
Decoding the Note: Outsourced
Monday, February 27th, 2006
See, this is why we don’t let well-meaning liberals read The Note. It just upsets them: MORE »
See, this is why we don’t let well-meaning liberals read The Note. It just upsets them: MORE »
Decoding the Note: We’ll Start Talking About the President’s “Agenda” When It Starts Being Funny
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
We weren’t going to bother today, but their tireless insistence that people really oughtta care about whatever the hell Bush is going on about this week is kinda cute. MORE »
We weren’t going to bother today, but their tireless insistence that people really oughtta care about whatever the hell Bush is going on about this week is kinda cute. MORE »
Decoding the Note: Special Decoder Ring Sold Separately
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Actually, today The Note doesn’t need decoding. Today The Note gets honest. Here’s an excerpt: MORE »
Actually, today The Note doesn’t need decoding. Today The Note gets honest. Here’s an excerpt: MORE »
Decoding the Note: Somebody Out There Likes Him
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
A Deep Cover Wonkette Operative notes The Note’s rather far-flung search for positive reactions to last night’s Big Speech: MORE »
A Deep Cover Wonkette Operative notes The Note’s rather far-flung search for positive reactions to last night’s Big Speech: MORE »
Decoding the Note: We Can Stop Anytime We Want Edition
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
We tried, honestly, on what promises to be our swan song in Wonkette guest-blogging, to lay off the devoted practitioners of the Halperinite Tendency over at ABC. Be gracious in retiring, we told ourselves; spare a kind word, or at least a circumspect silence for the language-mangling media elitists who thrill to each fresh beat of Dan Bartlett’s heart. But our better angels did not conquer. As we let our eyes rest on the practiced vacuities slithering out of the many-fingered beast that is Team Note, we could remain silent no longer. Consider, first of all, today’s Notely overture:
There is some elaborate seasoned-pol style throat clearing to the effect of “the Clinton White House was leaky; the Bush one not so much.” Only, you know, delivered in three hundred so words of preening self-congratulation, for having been so close to so many powerful apparatchiks for so long. Then, the irrelevant, though no less irritating aside:
Out goes the elaborate lede we had written based on yet another leak (the early reviews of Tim Kaine’s State of the Union response preps, which we will save for a non-rainy day). Instead here is our insider report on this morning’s White House senior staff meeting.
Yes, because the lead (or, if you must, Note, “lede”) you have selected instead is so much less fucking elaborate. And correct us if we are wrong, but aren’t you all publicly congratulating yourselves for receiving a White House-orchestrated piece of pre-debate smear in the classic Rove-Bartlett vintage? This tickles your pride as journalists how, exactly?
More Notely questions after the jump.
We tried, honestly, on what promises to be our swan song in Wonkette guest-blogging, to lay off the devoted practitioners of the Halperinite Tendency over at ABC. Be gracious in retiring, we told ourselves; spare a kind word, or at least a circumspect silence for the language-mangling media elitists who thrill to each fresh beat of Dan Bartlett’s heart. But our better angels did not conquer. As we let our eyes rest on the practiced vacuities slithering out of the many-fingered beast that is Team Note, we could remain silent no longer. Consider, first of all, today’s Notely overture:
There is some elaborate seasoned-pol style throat clearing to the effect of “the Clinton White House was leaky; the Bush one not so much.” Only, you know, delivered in three hundred so words of preening self-congratulation, for having been so close to so many powerful apparatchiks for so long. Then, the irrelevant, though no less irritating aside:
Out goes the elaborate lede we had written based on yet another leak (the early reviews of Tim Kaine’s State of the Union response preps, which we will save for a non-rainy day). Instead here is our insider report on this morning’s White House senior staff meeting.
Yes, because the lead (or, if you must, Note, “lede”) you have selected instead is so much less fucking elaborate. And correct us if we are wrong, but aren’t you all publicly congratulating yourselves for receiving a White House-orchestrated piece of pre-debate smear in the classic Rove-Bartlett vintage? This tickles your pride as journalists how, exactly?
More Notely questions after the jump.
Decoding the Note: The Origin of Obama
Thursday, December 15th, 2005
We didn’t make it past the Note’s hilarious fake Iraqi election exit poll. The one they funded by selling off on “vintage, eBay-ready Note Notebooks.” Complete with fake exit poll hotline! There will likely be fake results! Not unlike 2004. MORE »
We didn’t make it past the Note’s hilarious fake Iraqi election exit poll. The one they funded by selling off on “vintage, eBay-ready Note Notebooks.” Complete with fake exit poll hotline! There will likely be fake results! Not unlike 2004. MORE »
Decoding the Note: Gutbusters
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
Today’s echt-insider installment of the Note’s advice to the White House macher class has inspired us to compose our own coy rhetorical Notley query to our fetching president: Really, why have Don Rumsfeld kick around the press, when the Halperinite Retinue of Livery-Clad Servants will do the same job, for free? Yes, Gang of 500, the twittering Notesters sure do have your number–laying out their own expert channeling of your innermost desires, based, as they report, on: MORE »
Today’s echt-insider installment of the Note’s advice to the White House macher class has inspired us to compose our own coy rhetorical Notley query to our fetching president: Really, why have Don Rumsfeld kick around the press, when the Halperinite Retinue of Livery-Clad Servants will do the same job, for free? Yes, Gang of 500, the twittering Notesters sure do have your number–laying out their own expert channeling of your innermost desires, based, as they report, on: MORE »