Hey Look, It’s Another Reporter Telling Us This Race Will Get Nasty!
Monday, October 6th, 2008
D’you ever notice how our journalistic reporters such as Mark Halperin spend a full week, every week, telling us about how “nasty” the campaigns are going to get in the next week, and then the next week comes and no one cares because the “nasty” attacks are basically the same shit as usual, and then the cycle starts again with an EVEN BIGGER FOREBODING DRUDGE SIREN? Mmhmm. MORE »
D’you ever notice how our journalistic reporters such as Mark Halperin spend a full week, every week, telling us about how “nasty” the campaigns are going to get in the next week, and then the next week comes and no one cares because the “nasty” attacks are basically the same shit as usual, and then the cycle starts again with an EVEN BIGGER FOREBODING DRUDGE SIREN? Mmhmm. MORE »
Last night was the annual Radio/Television Correspondents Association Dinner in Washington, where all the famous teevee stars and radio voices come and make dumb jokes with the Feds. And who was there but Mittens “Mitt” Romney, our favorite hilarious presidential candidate from 2007. And for the first time, he was actually *trying* to be funny. He did this by interrupting some poor CBS news guy and then giving a top 10 list. He calls Al Gore “fat” and it’s mean, because Al Gore is going to be 
Remember when the New York Times lost to the Washington Post by a million points in the Pulitzers today? Well here’s your 
Hooray, Washington’s newspaper beat New York’s newspaper in Pulitzers by four. The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes today, 
Yes yes, the War in Iraq is now five years old and has reached 
You may have forgotten that George Bush is still the president — and judging from his 
Whenever the Democratic primary season heads to a new state, the excited local press is set up for a letdown. “O, O, Barack Obama is going to give glorious, exclusive quotes to me,” the local town reporter dreams, “and I will win many Pulitzers and Barry will be my new bowling partner.” Then Barack Obama gets to town, gives a lovely speech, and doesn’t talk to any reporters anywhere. Then the reporters get depressed and write whiny articles about how Barack will not talk to them or bowl with them or even care that they exist. Today’s example: the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader! 
After months of careful edits, cooperation with the McCain campaign, professional insights of several world-class reporters and editors, the New York Times printed one of the worst, most inadvertently 
Last night, the New Republic teased that they were working on a story about those crippling newsroom politics at the New York Times surrounding the 
The NSA, the domestic intelligence agency that really wishes you still hadn’t heard of it, was frustrated by their growing inability to keep their close-kept secrets out of the newspapers. So between 2002 and 2004 they held some off-the-record “media seminars” where they explained to reporters that they really shouldn’t report anything they know about the NSA and its many probably unconstitutional programs. And then, a couple years later, the New York Sun is reporting the details of those seminars. Meta! 
Dan Bartlett, the President’s longest-serving aide, celebrated his 36th birthday by announcing his resignation. Bartlett is “counselor to the President,” which means he tells Bush when his suit is ugly and then lies to the press in a very friendly manner. He has promised not to write a book, which is good, because he’s apparently gone completely nuts. 
Dick Cheney’s trip to Baghdad has been chock full of all the laughs and hijinks we’ve come to expect from that jolly old character and his neocolonial pet project. After the jump, join us in some entertaining tidbits of Cheneyania to sprinkle into your sparkling happy hour conversation tonight.