• February 15, 2012

politico

Politico gossip Ben Smith recently graduated to … what is it, 4chan? Fark? One of those sites. And now he is free to “tell the truth” about being a political reporter covering political campaigns: It’s not a lot of fun, because of the voters (and the politicians) being such craven idiots. This is why it’s [...]

Buried halfway through this rumor-heavy Politico INSIDE SCOOP about the implosion of Herman Cain’s campaign is one particularly fun piece of total hearsay alleging that Cain’s Iowa staff is crumbling “after weeks of swirling rumors between Cain’s staff and volunteers in the Hawkeye State accusing each other of affairs, homosexuality and professional misconduct.” Yes, why [...]

“President Barack Obama will visit Ground Zero in New York City on Thursday for the first time as president,” starts off Carol E. Lee in the Wall Street Journal. Okay, sure, that makes sense! Troops just killed Osama bin Laden under Obama’s command. Probably as fair a time as any to drop by there. But [...]

Our neo-Marxist former editor Alex Pareene was driven crazy by the Politico today, which is one of many reasons we don’t ever look at the Politico. Going crazy hurts. Trump! Palin! More Trump and more Palin! Mama Grizzly back on the prowl! Gary Busey: I’m voting for Trump! Does Sarah Palin redesigning her website mean [...]

Roger Simon is paid a six-figure salary to be right about politics, so expect him to resign November 7, 2012 if this prognostication of his does not happen: Republicans are so worthless they may not even field a candidate for the first presidential election since 1852, and next year’s contest will be a showdown between [...]

Our terrible news media and terrible politicians like to get together for fancy dinners sometimes to dress up nice and feel glamorous and very lightly poke fun at how terrible they all are. Last night, indecisive but would-be serial killer Ben Quayle opened his sad effort at reading jokes he paid a guy to write [...]

Rep. Peter King (R-Xenophobia) is finally starting up his very special hearings today, in which he calls before his committee a bunch of Muslims so King, an IRA terrorist, can be filmed telling them their religion is pure murder. But that’s not all! To sweeten the spectacle, King “revealed” to Politico that he has been [...]

THE TWIN PILLARS OF OUR DEMOCRACY ARE AT WAR: Politico said Rick Santorum said Sarah Palin is busy spending her time making money and having children, and Rick Santorum tweeted that Politico was “garbage.” This is a very serious national security issue, as these two forces control most of the federal government, the rest being [...]

Ben Quayle is a Politico op-ed contributor? Of course Ben Quayle is a Politico op-ed contributor. “When I was a child, President Ronald Reagan was the nice man who gave us jelly beans when we visited the White House.” Sure, the nice old man’s mind didn’t always seem to be there, and half the time [...]

Guess what? Politico got to talk to Ben Quayle! Ooh, what is he like? Do you think he’ll like Politico? Will he want to be friends with them and stuff? He’s so cool because he’s the only member of Congress who hasn’t had at least one bout with prostate cancer in his life so far. [...]

Barack Obama’s Arizona speech may have seemed like a way to “memorialize the victims” or “call for a new way for us all to treat each other” or “lead the country like a president does,” but really, of course, it was a way to deliver his huge, #1, “MUST CREDIT OBAMA!!!!” scoop: Gabrielle Giffords opened [...]

A weeklong canvass of the party’s governing board by POLITICO revealed 88 members who have decided not to vote for Steele, either opting to support one of his opponents or simply ruling out Steele as a choice in the race. But this is TEH POLITICO after all. They treat everything like a horse race and [...]

Hey look, it’s “POLITICAL COLUMN” from The Politico. According to Roger Simon, he knows Hugh Hefner! Whoa, that is like someone famous! It is very important to politics that Roger Simon be paid money to let us know that Hugh Hefner likes spending money on things. Just like you, follower of politics! You spend money [...]

Sarah Palin has had it with the irresponsible media, especially when they’re not fulfilling their constitutional duty of writing fluff pieces about her wayward pregnant teen-aged children dancing like harlots on the teevee. No longer will Sarah just sit there typing hieroglyphics on Twitter while the anti-American monsters of The Politico quote her fellow Republicans [...]

Important news! According to Politico, Obama has a relative named “Bo Obama” who — no, wait, they’re talking about that fucking dog. Never mind. This publication put two whole reporters to work tracking down that dog’s trainer, because they are a newspaper that concerns itself with governmental affairs. And they called this article “THE REAL [...]