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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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    06/16/09

    In reply to Typo, Filler Ad, Mainstream Movie Herald New York Observer's Second Very Short List
    Maybe they thought DO was a new section in the 'revamped' Observer. Fun fact that you might have been able to discover if Pediaite had launched (or searched the DO archives): the character of Miles Drentell from thirtysomething (it's a television Foster -- we used to watch them) was perhaps based on DO editor Bill Drenttel.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06/16/09

    @ninety_nine: What? Is that a Hills spinoff? Do not get.
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    06/15/09

    In reply to 'The Observer's Very Short List' Proudly Brought to You by the New York Observer
    High-brown? What is going with Gawker lately?
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    06/15/09

    @The Dominant Glee Club: It's a typo. They happen, and people have been giving Gawker and blogs in general shit for them for years now.


    At least it wasn't "high-yaller".

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    06/15/09

    @The Dominant Glee Club: Thank goodness we have you, little anal-retentive pedant, to point everything out! You are going straight to heaven!
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    06/15/09

    @The Dominant Glee Club: I kind of like it. It’s like how Fox News would describe our eloquent elitist spicy-mustard loving (brown) President. High flown + (over-)blown + brown = high-brown. Genius!
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    06/15/09

    In reply to 'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
    D. Duh.
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    06/14/09

    In reply to 'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
    Ethical question. You were just canned. The new you is on the phone, asking how to do the job you'd performed competently and admirably. Do you


    A. Oblige helpfully. What do you care, anyway? No use burning bridges.


    B. Oblige, but only answering direct questions. Why offer advice? Help a brother out, but make sure they miss you leave one last time.


    C. Tell'em to fuck off. It's not your problem and, hell, they're the one's who burned the bridge down, not you.


    D. It doesn't matter because you're at the back door when the phone rings, smoking a (to be banned, probably) Marlboro Light while trying to work out whether you want to just say to hell with all media and move back home with mom and dad.

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    06/15/09

    @Awesome X: E. "I'll have to call you right back - I have someone on the other line". Then make sure to check caller ID and not answer.
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    06/14/09

    In reply to 'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
    The Observer buying VSL is like Governor Patterson hiring Sarah Palin to improve his ratings.


    When you've chosen to buy not just one, but two money-losing businesses, well - I guess I shall just stand awe-struck at Jared Kushner's incisive business acumen.

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    06/14/09

    In reply to 'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
    Despite not providing any of the deal terms, Gawker has been adamant about Kushner being worked over by Diller. How does Gawker know this? How much did Kushner pay?


    Come on, let's get some facts.

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    06/14/09

    @resipsaloquacious: Unless Diller paid Kushner to take it, I'm pretty sure he got rolled.
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    06/14/09

    @Foster Kamer:


    Maybe the money paid was a negligible amount that Diller accepted to save (some) face? Even if the email list is only 20,000 or so (rather than the 200,000 or whatever VSL alleged it to be) very well off people, that is still a valuable item worth some amount of cash.


    I guess it is easy to assume given Kushern's recent ill advised business moves (i.e., purchasing the Observer and over-priced real estate) that he got the shaft in this case too.

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    Image of Nick Denton Nick Denton
    06/15/09

    @resipsaloquacious: The only reason to assume Kushner was rolled is IAC's sketchiness on the open rate. If the Observer negotiators saw through that, then I'd assume they got VSL for almost nothing. Otherwise, who knows?
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    06/14/09

    In reply to 'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
    The best piece of reporting here is the excellent use of emoticons. Well done!
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    Image of SuzyPaulaPasena SuzyPaulaPasena
    06/14/09

    @mangopickle: Here, here! I think reporters should start using assicons too, don't you? You know (_x_) which I think may be kiss my ass (or no ass for you tonight, I'm not sure), but deftly inserted into an article, you can avoid saying something crass yet get your point across....hmmm, this could work.
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    06/15/09

    @SuzyPaulaPasena: I tried using (!) once but it got censored.
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    06/14/09

    In reply to 'Very Short List's Been Sold To Jared Kushner, We're All Fired.'
    E-mail newsletters.. sound very 1999. I realize Candy did very well, but so did those crooks hassling you about your auto warranty expiring on your mobile, apparently.


    Beating a dead horse, but Kushner's Observer is so dull. What was once a sprightly, witty broadsheet seems more like Elderly Mensch Real-Estate Weekly. I can't even find my Simon Doonan on that mess of a website anymore. Whatever Kushner paid for VSL is probably too much- and firing the staff, well what exactly is he buying, then? E-mail addresses? Pretty nonglamorous, but young Kushner doesn't seem a particularly imaginitive publisher anyway.

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