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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    08/03/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    Thank God for Amy Goodman.
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    08/03/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    "... the big picture in all of this: that we now shamelessly live in an age when ..."

    Where you been, son?
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    Oh, and Glenn Greenwald is actually principled and honest -- not to be mentioned in the same breath as the toady Rose and whore Wolffe.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    I guess I'll have to read the Glenn's column to get some instances where Wolffe had, and didn't acknowledge, a conflict of interest. Until I do, I'll have to be scouring my internal tapes for times I thought he was sucking up to power. My superficial memory can't bring one up to me now.

    But, yeah, Dan Bartlett? Really?
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    I admire Glenn Greenwald. I think he over-writes by about 25%, but it's part of his wonkish knowledge to lay it all out. I appreciate his sincerity and his sense of justice in this compromised world. He has an intense sense of right and wrong, and is not afraid to offend powerful people in pointing it out.

    Disappointed about Wolffe- I had rather liked him on TV. But I suppose Washington is full of whores, nothing new there.
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    08/04/09

    @Baroness: Well said. GG's posts occasionally seem to be written in such a furious reverie of indignation that he skimps on the editing, but I am a loyal reader. I even flipped him a few nickels during his last fund drive so he could buy the equipment required for him to be more of a presence on American television from his home in Brazil.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    The Glenn (la-de-da he has an extra n) Greenwald I know is not doing this for altruistic reasons, yo.

    He never says anything without an ulterior motive. Probably to keep the feud going.
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    08/02/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: Substantiate! Seriously. I'd like to hear more. What do you have?
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    08/02/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: Uh... What the fuck are you talking about? Greenwald is one of the few political bloggers who actually knows something about the law.

    If you're a right-wing knob, just say that...
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    08/02/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar:

    Glenn is only 20% superfluous letterage, while Wolffe is 33%, since he has that extraneous f and a silent e.
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    08/03/09

    @WretchedGnu: He knows the law. Read what I write and then figure out what the words I mean say.

    I stand by he's not doing it for altruistic reasons.

    Stop. Go to MerriamWebster.com and learn those words.

    Not one of them mentions the law. Awww. Don't cry about being spanked.
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    08/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: I'm not saying you are wrong in your analysis.

    I'm not saying Glen(n) is wrong in his analysis.

    I'm simply making a qualitative analysis (geez, never expected to use that phrase on Gawker) based on my experience debating Glen(n) on multiple blogs that he is pushing this to destroy the agreement.

    Keep the left/right shout machine going. Shame then rally the troops to continue. Just my opinion based on my experience.

    Give me a sec to goog from 2006 for the perfect example.
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    08/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: I got 21,800 google results to go through.

    Send Glen(n) an e-mail and tell him to defend himself and we can have a mano e mano right here.
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    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: One could say this about any kind of political criticism, that all it does it "keep the shout machine going." So what's the alternative, if we want to avoid such an interpretation? To never be critical?
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    08/03/09

    @skt.smth: When I'm critical I'm clear about it. When some are critical they are disingenious about it.

    This is just my personal opinion, but I prefer an open battle of ideas that lets people decide on their own.

    Regardless of the outcome. My ideas win, YAY! My ideas lose, I sucked at presenting them or the ideas sucked. No biggee. The audacity of informed choice.
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    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: We're not understanding why you think Glenn Greenwald is disingenuous, though. That's the problem.
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    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: If he's correct and reporting stories other media can't or won't touch, why would his motives matter? I think it's very much in the interest of Fox News viewers and MSNBC viewers for him (for someone) to report this story. Same with his work on privacy and torture, both during Bush administration and continuing, sadly, under Obama.

    I'm not sure if that fits your definition of altruism, but it does strike me as a mark of integrity, which is something I value a lot more than altruism in any case. Especially in a journalist.
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    08/03/09

    @Mediahohoho: We are starting to get very loose with who is a reporter and who is an editorialist, now aren't we?
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    08/04/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: I'm not. He reports stories.
    You, on the other hand, are just kind of an ass.
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    05/21/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Hates Buckling Down for Work
    I'm sure that's what she means, britney, although proper spelling is just such a bore for these Twitterverse people. I'm torn here: one part of me hopes she finished the story and lives to discover her mistake, the other that she has to put her threat in practice...
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    05/22/09

    @disreputable: Japanese --> English transliteration can be difficult, so I think a misspelling is forgivable. My peeve, is that every time this act is referenced in the west, it is spelled and pronounced: Harikari (like the late Chicago Cubs announcer)


    The Japanese pronounce it: Harakiri

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    05/20/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Hates Buckling Down for Work
    I had my first tweet dis today. Some asshole cold-called me from a number that is quite similar to that of one of my clients. So I picked up even though I was on my way out the door. He tried to sell me something related to something we don't do. So I said, "Sorry, we don't do that. Gotta go." Minutes later he sends a long finger wagging email to the Contact Us email on our website. THEN he tweets "Lizawithazee from Broadway: 'we don't do this thing I sell that obviously she is stupid to do even though they are not even in that business.' Really?"


    I'm sure you get what I mean. But anyway, I am pissed.

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