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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    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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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    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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    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    Don't forget Tom Cruise's enthusiastic love declarations for Katie Holmes...
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    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    about a young man in a concentration camp who was thrown an apple a day (to keep Dr. Mengele away)


    I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at the Holocaust since Hogan's Heroes.

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    12/29/08

    @BullfightsOnAcid: Yeah, Richard's totally gonna burn for that one.
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    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    There's an Oprah born every minute.
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    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    It's not that hard to fool Oprah. Just ask Stedman.
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    12/29/08

    @Andy Matter: [uk]
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    12/29/08

    @Andy Matter: I thought he was the beard.
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    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    Don't forgot that other liar, Wiesel. Dude totally didn't have it hard in the camps.
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    Image of JinxyMcDeath JinxyMcDeath
    12/29/08

    @IndianSlipper: Not funny.
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    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    I hesitate to say this, as she might send her Dark Helicopters (of Empathy!) to bedevil my tower, but it's inescapable:


    Oprah has horrible, horrible taste in books.


    She's a sucker for moving, uplifting tales, weepies that always have to teach some moral lesson. This is pretty much the opposite of any first-rate work of literature or art, or in any case quite beside the point. She has no time for quality of prose, or ambiguity; the books she favors are really TV movies in another form.

    She likes the "high-concept" Hollywood pitch of them, but "books" seems to add some sort of classy legitimacy for the outlandish, sentimental, and often false dreck she's peddling.


    I don't think it's cynical or intentional, and I'm sure there have been exceptions. But she really needs to wake up to avoid embarrassments like these.

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    12/29/08

    @Baroness: Dark Helicopters of Empathy. Love it.
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    12/29/08

    @Baroness: I have to totally disagree with this comment. It is true that she has had some sappy, bad books but she also has had some GREAT ones, like the Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Awesome), As I Lay Dying, and Middlesex. And you forget, putting her stamp on a book actually gets people to READ.
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    12/29/08

    @DesirooForYou: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was also an Oprah book, at least for awhile. That's one of my favorite Oprah stories, actually. Franzen apparently agrees with Baroness, and asked that he be de-selected. He didn't want the stickers on his book either, or at least that's what the book store guy told me. Maybe he was just trying to seal the sale, seeing as the copy I was buying DID have the sticker and I have to say, knowing that would piss Franzen off made me that much happier to have that particular copy. That, and I'd already heard the book was funny. Which it was.
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    12/29/08

    @DesirooForYou: Well, I did say there were exceptions, and you nailed them, and I agree with you. And yes, getting people to buy and read books is wonderful. But overwhelmingly, she loooves self-help books disguised as lit.

    It'd be great if she went with more like the 3 (wonderful) exceptions you pointed out. Shame only one of the 3 is contemporary, for the author's sake- good for Eugenides.
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    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    Opes loved my book HOAX: Story of a Fake until she realized it was true.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    12/29/08

    In reply to Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
    Does Oprah actually read all of these books, or are they just summarized by aides, CIA style? If so, how do I get that job?
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    12/29/08

    @m4ximusprim3: and who vets these people, anyway? the same ones who brought us Sarah Palion? how many times must she be taken before she and the rest of realize that Oprah is not to be trusted with books?
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/29/08

    @Hydroceph: I have a feeling that a large part of her audience also buy into astrology and Rhonda Byrne's "The Secret," so, um, there's no hope for those people.
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    12/29/08

    @Claire Buoyant: i realized this morning that one of my coworkers is part of the Secret set. That certainly explains the yawning chasm between her ears. I think you're right. We need to keep in mind that on some level Oprah approves of that shite. OK, whatever, her latest Holocaust gut-wrencher is made up, so what, it's just Oprah.
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