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skahammer
07/20/09

In reply to New Social Network to Make Capitol Hill Socializing Even More Incestuous
Hill staffers might be mainly just screwing and hiring one another in a giant inbred clusterfuck, but everyone likes to maintain hope of one day nailing or working for someone on the outside

Reached for comment, the entire media world said, "Oh. Right."
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Aaron Altman
07/20/09

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CTREPINTERN: Hey all!
MTSENATORINTERN: Yo!
IowasFinestCongressIntern: Wassup?
SchumerInternHalp!: Hey,guys.
CTREPINTERN: Whatchall up to?
MTSENATORINTERN: I'm at work.
IowasFinestCongressIntern: Same.
SchumerInternHalp!: Me too.
CTREPINTERN: Reading Wonkette.
MTSENATORINTERN has left chat.
IowasFinestCongressIntern has left chat.
SchumerInternHalp! has left chat.
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Claire Buoyant
07/20/09

@Aaron Altman: MFoley: I have a stiffy.
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Aaron Altman
07/20/09

@Claire Buoyant:
MFoley has requested a Video Chat. Y/N?
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
04/16/09

In reply to The Most Expensive Magazine You Can Buy Is a Wannabe
I look forward to the May cover story: Doberman Pinschers or Electricty? Keeping The Riff-Raff Out
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Rumpelstilskin
04/16/09

In reply to The Most Expensive Magazine You Can Buy Is a Wannabe
At long last, a magazine to celebrate the amazing, prescient, judgment-giving Mary Worth. I will get my new,clean hundred dollar bills ready. Long live La Worth!
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lobstr
04/16/09

In reply to The Most Expensive Magazine You Can Buy Is a Wannabe
There are some cool design mags that are insanely priced.. some well above $20 -- like "HOW" who routinely has a special issue of some sort that runs in the $30 range... but then again it's full of actually useful shit and not a bunch of Rolex and Infinity Pool ads geared at assholes..

well.. ok.. design assholes, but still ... :[]
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StuckInThe215
04/16/09

@lobstr: Yeah, how much does Monocle sell for these days?
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lobstr
04/16/09

@StuckInThe215: haha.. I just remembered a special issue of Emigre that was like $100 .. the price of a print pub with no ads. ..just full of fucking fonts..

badass fonts though ..
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
04/16/09

@lobstr:

I was gonna say...

just a different sort of asshole!
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MisterHippity
04/16/09

In reply to The Most Expensive Magazine You Can Buy Is a Wannabe
The newsstand price is $20 for people with a net worth of less than $2 million, but whose income is above the poverty level.

If your income is below the poverty level, the newsstand price is $200.

If your net worth is more than 20 million, they'll pay you $200 to take a copy of the magazine off their hands.

They call it "anti-Robin-Hood economics."
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Disco-Johnson
04/15/09

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Haha their fucked. My boss has a home he bought in Westport, CT for $1.9M 3 years ago and qualifies (and owns a home in IL). I hope he gets it, they don't know that the house couldn't sell now for $1.2, and that his renters aren't paying either.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
04/16/09

@Disco-Johnson:

You sound zillow zavvy.
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Rasselas
03/27/09

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Christ, what a toolbox. Racism is "really,really, really fucked"? The devil you say, rebel son!
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eatsshootsleaves
03/27/09

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How much do you want to bet that one of those [[REDACTED]]s is Mickey Kaus?
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@eatsshootsleaves: A sucker bet if ever I've heard one. You're not getting me to take that. Also, while one of the "redacteds" in this thread is probably Mickey, in the next thread that's leaked, I'll bet ALL of the "redacteds" are him.
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MissVolare
03/27/09

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That Clay might be Shirky.
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Choire
03/27/09

@MissVolare: Far more likely to be Clay Risen.

Also this makes me scream UNSUBSCRIBE with every fiber of my being.
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graciousplum
03/27/09

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They sound like asses but I'd pick them any day over the Jesus-humping nutcases who listen to Sean Hannity while touching themselves.
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@graciousplum: You sound like you're okay with those being your only choices.

One comments that they sound like junior high school students. At least every now and then in junior high someone gets beaten up for this kind of catty whining and everyone cools it for a bit. Is there a single person quoted above who you don't think would be a better person after getting backhanded across the mouth and told to shut the fuck up? I nominate "facial lover" [too funny, Ryan, thanks] Eric Alterman to be the first.
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graciousplum
03/27/09

@DaveCrabtree: I will second that nomination, and no, I'm not content with the two party system. But I'm a realist and know that throwing my support behind a 3rd or 4th or 17th party candidate is not, at the moment, likely to get me anywhere.
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@graciousplum: Hmmm. Silly me, I was thinking these guys were journalists and not just operatives of a political party. That those are now pretty much indistinguishable and nobody seems to care is one of the saddest things we can say about politics in our time.
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eatsshootsleaves
03/27/09

@DaveCrabtree: Well, they're advocate journalists -- they're SUPPOSED to have an ideology (here it's liberal).

Also, Ezra Klein and Brad DeLong and Jonathan Chait are pretty decent and intelligent people.
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eatsshootsleaves
03/27/09

Eric Alterman@eatsshootsleaves: Eric Alterman, on the other hand, definitely seems like a douchebag. It takes a certain amount of egomaniacal delusion to believe that the CAP website is a more influential publication than The New Republic.
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@eatsshootsleaves: I think there's a difference between advocate journalist and being a political partisan. One should be all about intellectual consistency and reflective inquiry, while the other is all about winning elections, ideology be damned.

I don't know any of them, but I read Jonathan Chait and have a lot of respect for him, even though we rarely agree, because I believe he's intellectually honest and has some professional distance and perspective. (He writes well, too, let's not forget that.) The others on this list, not so much.
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@eatsshootsleaves: I think it's great that no matter how much we may disagree politically or philosophically, we can all come together in support of one of the basic principles of American democracy -- that Eric Alterman is an insufferable douchebag. That should be engraved on the pediment of the next federal office building that goes up in DC.
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eatsshootsleaves
03/27/09

@DaveCrabtree: I agree with your definition, and, actually, I think very few of the journalists on this list are political partisans. I read some of their blogs regularly, and many of them are quite critical of the Democratic party (usually, their criticism comes from the left).
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graciousplum
03/27/09

@DaveCrabtree: In a fairytale land filled with cotton candy rainbow glitter, maybe there exists a lone, solely objective journalist. In ALL journalism there exists some modicum, at least, of bias, as we all know. I'm not voting for these guys, but yeah- they're leftists, and I'm voting for their side. Does that mean I'm grouped with them in their douchebaggery by others? Maybe. I'm loyal to the left for now.

Though I feel kind of vomitous when reading posts like this morning's on the faux FT, and how true your statement about general apathy is.
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@graciousplum: I think you're letting journalists off too easily. I agree that nobody's perfect, and I'm not asking for journalists to be immaculately unbiased and objective. I'm just asking for them to TRY for a little objectivity and intellectual honesty. If we can't tell the difference between journalists and spokespeople of a political party, then it's not journalism.
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graciousplum
03/27/09

@DaveCrabtree: What's their motivation? I doubt even pissy letters to the editor will force change, because all they do is move into the online realm- as shown here.
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@graciousplum: I think their motivation is dignity and self-respect. They should be writing about what they believe regardless of this week's polls, rather than whoring themselves out for the graft-siphoning machines that political parties are these days. Maybe that's another belief from fairy-tale land, because they're just trying to earn a living, but there are plenty of ways of doing that and being true to yourself. Fucking investment bankers are more true to themselves than most journalists; they may be whores but they know and admit it.
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graciousplum
03/27/09

@DaveCrabtree: Because they're rich as fuck, no one can touch them! Journalism though, that's not usually a field one enters expecting to buy a yacht by their 25th birthday with their earnings. This discussion obviously does not include all journalists- I heart local newspapers- but power corrupts, and sadly I think more often than not those who make it to the big names in journalism are too often forced to compromise morals for money.
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DaveCrabtree
03/27/09

@graciousplum: I don't think many of the people on this list are hurting financially, and there are plenty of investment bankers who are earning half of what these people earn (and I don't mean the unemployed ones). I know we all think of Wall Street masters of the universe when we think of investment bankers, but there are actually a lot of them who basically hang out shingles and work by themselves or in small groups.

My point is not to garner sympathy for investment bankers. They can all go fuck themselves as far as I'm concerned. But the folks on JournoList have made it and can afford to have half the scruples of your local newspaper reporter. (My dad was one, and I'm sure that wherever he is he's tipping his hat to thank you for your sentiment.)
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lobstr
02/02/09

In reply to Goodbye, Sad Davos
does Richard Branson really believe that the poors in the 3rd world, er, anywhere walk around with their arms in a perfectly clean white sling -- carrying a fucking dogfood bowl??
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lobstr
02/02/09

In reply to Goodbye, Sad Davos
Why does Mark Zuckerberg always wear that faggy zippered sweater with the high collar?
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Trixie from Toronto
02/01/09

In reply to Goodbye, Sad Davos
Oh look. There's Julia not drinking again.
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gladys_kravitz
02/01/09

In reply to Goodbye, Sad Davos
Did someone invite her as a paid escort? The demure string of pearls is secret code for the pearl necklace she's offering - with the boobs that are so prominently on display tit fucking is on the Davos agenda.
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kitkatsplash
02/01/09

@gladys_kravitz: Big chuckle. It looks as if nothing more than titty fucking was on the agenda, even in these hard economic times.
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gladys_kravitz
02/01/09

@kitkatsplash: For some reason I'm imagining her hooking up with Clinton. Although even he must know she can't keep her mouth shut about her exploits.
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kitkatsplash
02/01/09

@gladys_kravitz: Gawker made that connection when she was pin up of the month in 2007, I believe? She suckled a big cigar on an old man's lap in one of the shots. Wearing only her undies and bra.
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gladys_kravitz
02/01/09

@kitkatsplash: @Auntie_Meme: She is foul and "tits rolling around" is my new favorite saying. So which married guy do you bet flew her in on the private jet?
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