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Hillary Plagiarizes ‘Black’ Politician, Too!

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Invisible Hawaiian Shark GhoulsDo you still remember the “Presidents Day Plagiarism Outrage” of 2008? Well now there’s another one — and this time, instead of fancy word-user Barack Obama being blamed for repeating such phrases as “I have a dream” and “The Declaration of Independence,” which were earlier spoken by a different black politician, it’s Hillary Clinton who got caught biting rhymes from yet another “black” politician: ex-president and “first black president” Bill Clinton! MORE »


NYT Columnist Just Pasting In The Same Crap Every Week

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Cut and Paste BobYes, it’s boring having to write about the poverty or the economies twice a week for the New York Times and make big money and win Pulitzer prizes and all, but is it so much to ask that this week’s Bob Herbert column not plagiarize last week’s Bob Herbert column? MORE »


Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

CHECKING IN WITH FORMER WONKETTE EDITOR ALEX PAREENE: It is just like the old days when Pareene & Layne would spend Election Nights typing horrible things to each other over G-Chat. But this time, it’s apparently about John Edwards refusing to ever concede to anyone, because of the Mill, and Pareene works for Gawker in New York.


Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

“The Democrat candidates Barak Obama, John Edwards and Bill Richardson have just informed the Michigan Democratic Party that they will not participate in the public Michigan Primary Election scheduled for January 15, 2008.” [Political Machine]


MSNBC Graphics Department Acknowledges Existence of Second America

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Good news, America! - WonketteThe jobs report is in and everyone in America works at a shitty fast food place! So take advantage of the tight market and ask your shift manager for some health insurance, or at least a clean apron.

Will big U.S. job gains raise inflation risks? [MSNBC]


Oh, Hey There, Just Ignore Whatever’s On John Edwards’ Official Website

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

John Wesley Harding was a friend to the poor ... - Wonkette

From: Tracy Russo
Date: Jun 7, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Edwards Blog Post
To: Wonkette

Hey there -

Just wanted to make sure that you know that blog post from the Edwards Blog you folks write about is the Edwards blog equivalent of a diary on DailyKos, right? From the community, not from the campaign?

Thanks,
Tracy

Oh, hey,

Yeah, we kind of noticed you let any crazy retard post ridiculous bullshit on John Edwards’ official campaign site. That was kind of our point. MORE »


John Edwards Has a Crappy New ‘Second Life’ HQ

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Homebound Geeks Saddened By Other Geeks’ Virtual Attack On John Edwards’ Make-Believe Computer-Game Cyber Headquarters

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

This represents something, somewhere, in a computer. - Wonkette
It’s so great that presidential candidates have “blogs” where “idiots” write a regular stream of gibberish that’s at least tangentially related to an election to be held in November 2008 — otherwise, how would we know John Edwards’ “Second Life” headquarters was vandalized in the alternate dimension of computer-game world? MORE »