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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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    10/08/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    Det. Russert's cousin from Homicide is dead!?
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    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    I'm just glad they have that smirking chimp David Gregory in his chair, so I know the Republic is safe.

    Bwahaha. Fuck Gregory. Shame about the ratings. Has there been time enough past to say Tim Russert was a hack and a courtesan of the powerful, without a single original thought as he introduced endless guests telling us how we needed to brutalize the people of Iraq without mercy or human decency? Because of fake imaginary weapons?

    Yes, it's time enough. Fuck Tim Russert, salesman for the Iraq war. Too bad there's a line of people waiting to replace him. Talking the hawkish tawk on behalf of the military-industrial complex. Genial spokesperson for blasting the fuck out of some other foreign country.

    Oh, but apparently he was a jolly fellow when he wasn't inviting people on camera to advocate a disastrous war. Ho-ho, Tim was one them, that tiny Beltway crowd with their entitlement and heads firmly up their own asses.
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    10/09/09

    @Baroness: I must admit I've not once watched Gregory on MTP (my Sunday mornings are otherwise occupied) but I feel that these recaps distill his essence quite nicely.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    The exhibit would be perfect if Carville and Matalin were sitting in the mock-office, as if they were waiting for Big Tim to show up. To pass the time, they could bicker in their campy way over some nonsense.
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    10/07/09

    @MrInBetween: lovely, yes. with pat buchanan denying the holocaust, bill o'reilly denying the loofah and rush limbaugh denying the drug addiction and the sex trips.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    tv news: crap squared
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    10/07/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: also: how to be a corporate ass kissing toadying shill 101
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    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    Sorry, but I just don't get the ALL-CAPS hostility towards Russert, just like I didn't get it when it was directed towards Rather. I mean, its a fucking display at the Newseum. He's not getting his own wing at the Smithsonian. Calm down.
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    10/07/09

    @Atilla the Bun: It's not directed so much at Russert as it is the failed state of today's news media. The idea that Russert is the best we have to offer against the news giants of the past generation is more than slightly disappointing. It's nothing personal against Russert, but he just wasn't that good of a newsman.
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    10/07/09

    @anonymousryan: It seems pretty directed at Russert to me--that he "wasn't that good of a newsman." Which is fine, but the tone still seemed rather over the top and harsh. It's kind of like beating up on Santa Claus.
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    10/07/09

    @Atilla the Bun: For some of us the problem last year had nothing to do with Russert and everything to do with the reaction at NBC and MSNBC, where his surprise passing was treated as the end of the world as we know it. Big time journalists were unable to separate the personal and the professional and viewers across both platforms were treated to nearly all-Russert, all the time beatification. Now? I don't really care what the Newseum does so long as it keeps those Front Pages available onlline.
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    10/07/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: "and everything to do with the reaction at NBC and MSNBC, where his surprise passing was treated as the end of the world as we know it."

    Well, you have you seen David Gregory host, right? If I was an NBC suit, I'd have been shitting bricks too.
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    10/07/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Santa Claus brings gifts to children.

    Tim Russert was a disservice to the news industry. Jack Welch and his Irish-cabal at NBC are notoriously bad at actual news, Russert included.

    He was a terrible newsman who never actually did any good reporting and served to misinform the public under the guise of being a "nice guy." He may have been a nice man in person, but he was indeed a terrible "newsman." Hence, the tone of the post.

    Next thing you know, Olbermann will close his show with Morrow's signature line.
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    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    THE LATE TIM RUSSERT: You've expressed unease with my posthumous deification.

    Yet you wrote this on October 7, 2009:

    "He was a ... a watchdog ... an institution ... a towering genius."

    Is there not an inconsistency here?

    PS. - GO BULLS!
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    10/07/09

    In reply to The Beatification of St. Russert of Buffalo
    I used to work for the Newseum. Tim Russert was on their board before he passed. He was a highly respected board member and liked a lot there, so I'm not surprised that they received some of his things (now the merits of putting up his office as is. . .).
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    10/07/09

    @hfree: I should add that folks were really, really excited to get that dry-erase board. It was like it was the holy grail or something.
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    08/07/09

    In reply to Behold the Power of Alan Greenspan
    I watch This Week EVERY WEEK - if only because George Stephanopoulos is still as cute as he was in The War Room.
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