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Heritage Action Encourages GOP to Stop Doing Their Jobs
Earlier this week, the Heritage Foundation’s political activist arm, Heritage Action, actually gave some sound advice to GOP congressional leadership: “Don’t legislate,” Heritage Action said. We paraphrase: “Just go on ahead and stir up stupid asinine scandals about nothing, you are way better at that stuff.” And for once, your Wonkette wants to go on [...]
Work: Should You Pay to Do It?
Oh good, the whole thing is settled: the Atlantic does not want to pay Nate Thayer to write, and turns out, Nate Thayer did not write anything in the first place, so all is well that ends well, right? No, not quite, this whole thing is not over yet, we are still discussing an important [...]
Serious Book Club Live Chat No Poop Jokes Allowed: The Arab Spring, Social Media, And Them Damn Twitters
Coming up at Noon, EST: Andy Carvin is joining us in the Sekrit Wonket Chatcave for a Livechat until he gets sick of our questions / poop jokes. Please leave your questions in the comments section; we will copy the best questions into our live chat, then bloog the answers below! One of the most [...]
Wonkette Book Club Update: We’ve Scored A Livechat With Author, NPR Guy, And New Puppy Owner Andy Carvin
Just a quick reminder, Wonkeratti, that you have a bit over a week to get ahold of and read our Book Club’s first selection, Andy Carvin’s Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution. Carvin became something of an Interwebs phenomenon in 2010-11 when his familiarity with a number of prominent bloggers [...]
Nice Old Woman At Romney Event Just Wants A First Lady Who ‘Looks Like A First Lady’
Poor Mitt Romney. The day of his big speech to the Republican National Convention, and he learns that he’s got supporters like this: at Romney’s speech to the American Legion national convention yesterday, NPR reporter Ari Shapiro spoke to a nice retired lady from Manassas, VA, who shared her observations on the First Family: “I [...]
Liberal NPR Won’t Cover Wall Street Protests, So Read This Instead
If, by now, you haven’t read the incredible public response from NPR regarding the intentional decision to ignore the Occupy Wall Street protests now in their second week, prepare to be repulsed even if you automatically deride liberal protests as dumb hippies who need a bath or less piercings: We asked the newsroom to explain [...]
Arkansas Sets Fire To Devil NPR Station
An unknown arsonist broke into the transmitter building of NPR affiliate KUAR in Little Rock on Saturday and briefly liberated the slave state’s airwaves from such Devil’s programming as jazz “music” (no banjos?) and Garrison Keillor. “Saturday around 5:30 p.m., the KUAR transmitter went off the air. Nathan Vandiver, who was on duty, notified Tom [...]
Glenn Beck’s Website Reveals NPR Lunch Video Was Edited To Ruin NPR
Whenever that James O’Keefe guy puts out another heavily edited video against some liberal bogeyman, both the White House and the Washington/New York media quickly fire everyone involved — because the only rational way to deal with claims made by partisan pranksters is to simply punish anyone targeted. That’s why Shirley Sherrod was immediately fired [...]
Aspen Institute Informs Wonkette That Ron Schiller Can’t Work There, Either
Did we even mention that NPR’s Ron Schiller had left the network to work for that Aspen Institute elitist think tank thing? No, we did not mention it. (Who cares, right?) Still, somebody at the Aspen Institute sent an individual email to your editor just now, to make sure we know that Ron Schiller has [...]
Tea Party Racists Will All Start Listening To NPR Now
The swirling toilet of American Public Life gained another floater this morning as NPR announced the immediate resignation of CEO Vivian Schiller — no relation to NPR executive Ron Schiller, who was secretly videotaped giving an accurate description of the Tea Party people and already left NPR. Again, this is because Ron Schiller said the [...]
Pamela Geller Was Tricked By James O’Keefe’s Sharia Website
Top GZ Mosk bigotry advocate Pamela Geller is always on the lookout for Sharia sneaking into American law, which is why she sleeps at night with one arm around stacks of legal code and the other holding a shotgun. When she ran across the fake website James O’Keefe set up for his “NPR employees also [...]
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