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Posts Tagged ‘making shit up’

THE HILL

Harris Item Fails to Meet Our High Standards, ‘Hill’ to Blame

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Someone forwarded us this Hill column about Katherine Harris (we have the grassroots equivalent of Google News alerts for her). Frankly, as far as Harris items go, it doesn’t quite meet the standard she’s set for herself. As an opportunity to trash The Hill, though, it’s beautiful. Because the lovely and talented Betsy Rothstein is either purposefully misrepresenting shit or she’s just kinda dumb.

You want details? We got details.

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SCANDAL

Underaged Gay Sex Scandal!

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

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This is one in a series of emails some anonymous and semi-literate blogger claims are from Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) to a 16-year-old male House page. MORE »


REMAINDERS

Remainders: The Tin-Foil Hat Culture

Monday, May 15th, 2006

* Karl should’ve been doing Scotty’s job this whole time. Way to stonewall’em Karl! [Think Progress] MORE »


CRIME

Today In Crazy Talk: Married To the Mob

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

There’s nothing we love more than reprinting your unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo — seriously, we love that stuff, and we’re always looking for more of it. But sometimes, even we have to draw the line. A pretty good illustration of that line arrived in our inboxes earlier today. Here, for your edification: The Campbell Brown Rumor Too Hot Even For Wonkette:

Is this why we spotted several hard-core mafia-types passing through the Denver, Colorado area just a week or two ago? Seems that Campbell Brown (not her original birth name) [we're pretty sure it is --ed] and her sister Kyle Dwyer (not her original birth name) [actual name: Kyle Dyer --ed] [oh yeah, not Campbell Brown's sister, we're pretty sure --ed] at the NBC news affiliate Kusa in Denver, Colorado share a brother who is mafia hit man [ha ha ha ha ha --ed]. Ms. Dwyer [sic] bragged that her family is from the DC area and thererfore she, Ms. Dwyer [sic] is expert about government and law and knows everything that goes on there as did her co-worker Ms. Christiansen [check out the hair on Ms. Christiansen! --ed] who also bragged the same. Campbell Brown, while at that religious university in Denver, Colorado said that she supported trafficking in human beings, illegal weapons, and illegal drugs [uh.... --ed]. It appears that her new husband is in a marriage of convenience for himself in that he probably hopes to get lots of finder’s fees from attorneys and such by contacts with Campbell Brown’s family and friends and referral for litigation of her family and friends. As he is not related to Campbell Brown, he is not her family [first correct assertion so far? --ed]. The two entered a stranger marriage–marriages between strangers rather than the marriages common among at least 40% of the population on earth who wed from within their kinship group, and especially wed cousins or uncles or aunts) [uh..... --ed]

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SENATE

Kyl and Graham to Claim That the Congressional Record is “Totally a Wiki”

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

record.jpgThose guys on the Supreme Court — they’re old, yes. Some of them are very old, in fact. But despite that, you can’t fool them by just making shit up, Senators Kyl and Graham. So while your brief on Hamdan might look very much like it’s from Senate floor debate, well, there are cameras and things that will prove that it never happened. Even if you try really hard to make it convincing: MORE »