• May 26, 2012

memos

by Jim Newell  5:44 pm March 4, 2010

POLITICO MEMO: HOW RAD ARE WE? WE’RE THIS RAD: “VandeHarris” — yes, the two kings of THE POLITICO do self-apply that nickname — have sent out a tubular faptastic memo to congratulate their staff for THE POLITICO’S accumulated CONSTANT WINS and uber-pwnage of motherfucking everything. *Air guitar solo!* A selection: “Gang, There is nothing we [...]

Just days after Barack Obama admonished Republicans for paying exclusive attention to GOP pollster/”message guru” Frank Luntz’s push-polly memos about how to kill each piece of major Democratic legislation, Frank Luntz has produced a push-polly memo about how to kill the latest piece of major Democratic legislation, which Republicans will pay exclusive attention to. From [...]

by Jim Newell  7:36 pm April 16, 2009

‘INSECTS PLACED IN A CONFINEMENT BOX’: We made a light joke earlier about Glenn Greenwald goin’ nuts with the highlighter on those four Bush Administration torture memos released today — almost completely unredacted — and man, he did just that. You are required to read some of the shit in these memos. This is our [...]

It may be your lucky day, libtards! All you want are DoJ torture memos, uncut, NO REDAX, and now look at the breaking news: “In the fullest account to date of the questioning of al Qaeda suspects, government officials issued long sought documents that catalogue a list of tactics — from sleep and food deprivation [...]

The popular New York City blog Gawker has posted this leaked memo to the staff of AIG, about the things they should do to avoid their immediate death when in public. It includes such oldies as “If you think you are being followed, immediately dial 911.” But why does AIG management assume that the police [...]

We know that a few of you might consider this “inside baseball,” so if that’s the case, then don’t read any more of this post and go do something else. Easy! Now: The New Republic heard the kids’ clamoring and has decided to release the full, insane Politico memo quoted in its new story, about [...]

by Jim Newell  4:28 pm August 22, 2008

WELL OK THEN: The McCain campaign issued a creepy memo today about how awesome Obama’s speech will be and that they expect it to give him a 15-percentage point bounce in Polls. Oh the expectations! Remember when Hillary’s campaign people kept moving the goal posts, as they say, for Obama’s performances like every few hours? [...]

For the last few days, the folks at the Atlantic magazine have been hyping a piece from senior editor Joshua Green about the (not so) mysterious inner workings of Hillary Clinton’s terrible campaign staff, claiming Green had procured 200(!) internal e-mails and memos. Such teases! This is sort of like waving crack in front of [...]