OH, DENBY’S STILL STINKING UP THE NPR SHOWS? Chronic masturbator and greedy day-trading halfwit David Denby continues to lie about his libel/slander against your Wonkette. Los Angeles Times book-blogger Carolyn Kellogg has an amusing update, and you can skip right ahead to 2:55 to see how Denby was telling more dumb lies on WNYC on Monday. What a bore. [LA Times/BuzzFeed/Jewcy/Time Out New York/Dallas Observer]

Alright, so we caved. We were at Borders and noticed New Yorker film critic David Denby’s new book, Snark, about how he hates bloggers, Sarah Palin, Maureen Dowd, Tom Wolfe and others for the exact same undefined reason. We actually bought the book (YOU’RE WELCOME DENBY) and were planning to skim for the Wonkette part, giggle, and then give the slender volume away to the nearest hobo. So, OH MAN. First he references one of your male associate editor’s posts about Chelsea Clinton and suggests that the “young women” who wrote it must have some catty jealousy issues, with their vaginas. Then he writes that we made fun of Ted Kennedy on the day of his brain tumor surgery, citing a post about something else entirely that was written seven months before Kennedy even got cancer. Damn those bloggers, always trying to ruin other peoples’ reputations with false information! MORE »

This may be the single worst interactive feature we’ve ever seen on a high-profile Politician’s website. It’s from Jim Webb’s “Born Fighting” PAC, and it seems to be designed for filthy jokes, libel, and anonymous insults — all of which are displayed, continuously updated, on the front page of the website. MORE »

We’ve heard now, from a number of equally credible (read: not particularly credible) sources, variations on the following three rumors about Representative Jerry Weller (R-IL). Because the last time we checked this nation was still a democracy, we are letting you, the people, vote on your favorite.

Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.

Polls close whenever we feel like it, or when we get sued.

powered by ODEO MORE »

Due to an editing error, a post yesterday incorrectly attributed a quote to Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-MI). According to his Press Secretary: MORE »