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Posts Tagged ‘weekly standard’

Begun This Political Blog War Over Dungeons & Dragons Has

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Michael Goldfarb is starting a war, on the Internet! Do you know who Michael Goldfarb is? He’s this cocksucker who recently took a leave of absence from Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard, where he was online editor, in order to serve on the McCain communications team. He writes a blog on JohnMcCain.com called the McCain Report. It is awful. And a couple of days ago — for the second time this month! — he referred to people at Daily Kos and other liberal outlets as Dungeons & Dragons nerds. And now everyone is freaking and making tee shirts because why not. MORE »


Was John McCain’s Ad Racist Because It Didn’t Include Tiger Woods?

Friday, August 1st, 2008

There’s been a hilarious debate on the Internet the last couple of days, as per usual, about whether the McCain “Celeb” ad was Racist because it chose two young white gals, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, as Barack Obama’s alter egos instead of the actual two most famous celebrities in the world. It is, apparently, a similar situation to the attack ad on Harold Ford in 2006, where he is constantly talking to loose white women on the telephone. If John McCain were to *objectively* pick the two most famous people in the world, the liberals argue, at least one of them would have been TIGER WOODS, the GOLFER. The conservatives do not believe Tiger Woods counts, however, because he has accomplishments!

Prepare to rock and/or roll. MORE »


Republicans Continue To Call America A Bunch Of Unemployed Whining Serfs

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Jesus, we almost feel sorry for John McCain having to deal with these hacks on the right who are agreeing with Phil Gramm’s characterization of America as a “nation of whiners.” Here’s Fred Barnes, executive editor of Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard, calling Gramm’s comments “straight talk” and saying that American’s are “whining all the way through” the current Great New Depression. Surely keeping this issue alive and expanding on it is a great way for the Republicans to overtake Barack Obama in the polls. [YouTube via Think Progress]


This Must Be Embarassing

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

13-17.Jan14.Cover.small.jpgThough they backpedaled a bit on their website this morning, this stupid Weekly Standard cover is sitting on a shelf right now at a newsstand near you. It will be there for the rest of the week, in fact. This is exactly the kind of political astuteness that earned editor Bill Kristol a spot in the pages of the New York Times. We can’t read the story because it’s behind a subscriber wall, but we imagine it’s full of the same kind of masturbatory wishful thinking the headline suggests. If you do have access to this thing for whatever reason, please send it to us so that we might mock it further. [Weekly Standard]


NYT Op-Ed Page Dissolves Into Stinking Heap of Neocon Shit

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

we should invade the country over there, tooHuffPo reported late yesterday afternoon that William Kristol — the glib neocon editor of the Weekly Standard and founder of the Project for the New American Century, in addition to his active work the last seven years helping the Bush Administration work out the particulars of destroying the world — will be a columnist for the New York Times in 2008. It’s not that the current op-ed columnists are any great shakes, but if you’re looking for a litany of reasons to cancel that print subscription you’re still stubbornly holding onto, I recommend this, this and this, for starters. Just wanted to pass the news along in case you haven’t banged your head against the wall today. [HuffPo]


Rudy Voted for McGovern Because He Wanted to Vote for Nixon

Monday, November 26th, 2007

i'll mcgovern you, iranYou almost feel sorry for Rudy when he’s trying to explain his less-than-palatable libtard history to the Republican base. And then you remember that he’s Dick Cheney on a higher dosage of vengeance pills. And while he can’t shake away questions about his support for the rampant annihilation of fetuses or his nurturing of the taco taco Mexicans in NYC, the explanation he offers for his McGovern vote in ‘72 should keep the naysayers at bay: I voted for McGovern, but I wanted to vote for Nixon. MORE »


Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Remember the fake soldier The New Republic hired to write about how terrible our troops are who turned out to be a real soldier? Well The Weekly Standard hired a gay escort-turned-con man to discredit him. [Media Matters]


Heroic Cheney Shill Will Write Heroic Cheney Biography

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Cheney-enabling fearmonger Stephen Hayes will take some time off from writing White House propaganda for the Weekly Standard to write Dick Cheney’s “biography,” according to U.S. News & World Report.

Cheney’s bio will presumably be as full of VP propaganda and disinformation as another Hayes’ book, “The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America.”

The relationship works like this: Cheney releases “intelligence” to a friendly coconspirator, said coconspirator types it up for the Standard or WSJ or (in Judith’s case) the New York Times, and Cheney then quotes the article in question as justification for whatever batshit evil scheme he’s currently cooking up.

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Party Report: Weekly Standard’s Tenth Anniversary

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Elven RupeThe most impressive aspect of the Weekly Standard’s 10th anniversary party last night was what they didn’t do. There were no speeches, no awards, no toasts. The magazine’s founders — Bill Kristol, Jon Podhoretz, and Fred Barnes — didn’t need to remind themselves (or their guests) of the magazine’s accomplishments: We’re living them. Nothing says “Republicans control all three branches of government!” like Here, have some lobster! I think the mini-brownies represented self-congratulations over invading Iraq. And the postcard-perfect view of the Capitol from the party’s rooftop locale? “Fuck you, Nancy Pelosi.”

Continued after the jump.

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Remainders: Wank On, Wank Off

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

It’s not getting served with a subpoena at your reading but finding the original WH deed when your novel is about the original WH deed? Nifty. [eBay]
Also, someone recently ordered 20 pizzas to be delivered to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. [Craigslist]
The power of the modern day minutemen: “Bryan Barton Caught Me Crossing the Border And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt.” [Weekly Standard]
Hey, Cindy Sheehan got two admin visitors, and the counter protesters? Well, “Two members from the administration stopped by while I was there and offered to bring food and drinks to those in attendance.” [Buzz @ NRO]
You wanna read a really hard-line attack on wanking off? Yeah, it got us hot, too. [Off the Top (We know! That's what we call it too!)]


Weekly Standard’s Bait and Switch

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

When parody becomes reality. From the July 7, 2003 edition of the Weekly Standard:

Helpfully Labeled Parody-2
From the Weekly Standard’s current website promotion:
frankly the first one sounded more fun

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Metro Section: Indignities

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Radley Balko becomes a fascist. [The Agitator] MORE »