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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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    10/15/09

    In reply to A Long, Dark Early Evening Of The Soul With Keith Gessen
    Well, here we go!
    #delusionalselfimportance #byeee
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
    No big deal but I bet they stole his overcoat.
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    04/27/09

    @belltolls: /thread
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
    From Russia, With Sad
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
    So is it safe to make the "But back home, he can't even get arrested!" jokes yet?
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
    They're releasing him.
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
    Wow, a fifteen-person unit, huh? They do take writers seriously over there.
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    04/26/09

    @skahammer: the bad old soviet union produced fine dissident fiction


    snark aside i hope gessen is safe


    writers/reporters here are simply lied to

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    04/26/09

    @skahammer: Just sad ones.
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    04/26/09

    In reply to Keith Gessen Said Taken by Russian Special Forces (UPDATED)
    Grim and nasty. First Roxana Saberi in Iran, now this. Considering how journalists who dare to piss off the government have fared in Russia lately, I hope that anybody here in the US with any connections will do their best to help him. Please keep us informed about this, and let's all spread the word on the web.
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    04/26/09

    @SarahHeartburn: Don't forget Euna Lee and Laura Ling in North Korea. My thoughts and prayers are with all the journalists out there in hostile parts of the world. I admire you, even when you annoy me. Especially when you annoy me.

    Come home soon, Keith, Roxana, Euna and Laura.
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    04/26/09

    @SarikaJalope: And all journalists who risk their necks on the job. BTW, let's not forget about a Spanish reporter who died in Baghdad

    in a US attack on the Palestine Hotel in 2003. It's a story that's barely come to light in the US, despite the efforts of the international press. You can read about it here:


    [www.counterpunch.org]


    José Couso was his name.

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    04/26/09

    @SarahHeartburn:


    It was just a few years ago they were advertising jobs in the clandestine service in the newspapers and on the web to build the human intelligence force back up. So we sent them out and they're getting arrested all over the place (well two places?). Maybe they need better teachers.

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