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    Image of Grandpapular Grandpapular
    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    The war with Fox seems understaffed. Where are the ground troops when you need em? #media
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    Oh, dear. Expect another column mocking "Obama the Effeminate" from MoDo on Sunday.

    Nobody puts Modo in the corner . . . unless there's a fifth of scotch in it. #media
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    If you watch that one show on Fox less than regularly, when you hear Mara Liasson, you think NPR.

    One assumes that she got her invite because like a lot of Americans, Ms Liasson has been the White House staffers' commuter buddy for years #media
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    11/07/09

    @Magister: Still, as a true NPR -listening, insufferable liberal, it is very hard to fathom that she works for Fox. #media
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Did You Have an Off-the-Record Lunch With the President Today?
    that's fitting, because Marshall's about as grown up as it gets. #media
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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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    Image of ModestProposal ModestProposal
    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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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    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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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    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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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    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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    Image of NorthernLite NorthernLite
    10/16/09

    In reply to A Goodbye Pizza for Fading Balloon Boy
    This just in - people who like to be on "reality" shows are odd.

    Meanwhile, I hear the "news" networks interrupted coverage of Obama's Louisiana trip for this. (Remember Obama? Remember NOLA?)

    Hmmm, maybe more people in this country would understand the real news if we presented it like a "reality" show. News about the economy could be slipped into a show called American Idle. Then you could have Survivor: American Healthcare. Or C-Span's I'm a Senator - Get Me Out of Here ... #4chan
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    Image of oneninesevenfour oneninesevenfour
    10/17/09

    @NorthernLite: I prefer "I'm a Voter -- Get Me Out of Here... " #4chan
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/16/09

    In reply to A Goodbye Pizza for Fading Balloon Boy
    Did we figure out if he's the same Richard Heene who lived about 13 miles from CIA headquarters in mid 90's?

    Is he related to the guy who runs AdPay.com? If so, are they in cahoots?

    Was this just a test to study how information about events flow through the networks?

    Or is it part of a larger campaign to demoralize the country by messing violently with its trust?

    Bonus: How is this whole episode related to Harold Pinter's play, The Birthday Party? #4chan
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    10/16/09

    In reply to A Goodbye Pizza for Fading Balloon Boy
    The Heenes are exhausting even in small doses, the kids are basically nasty and rude people. I've seen their handiwork on quite a few clips on various shows--sucks to be them, really. #4chan
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    10/16/09

    In reply to A Goodbye Pizza for Fading Balloon Boy
    I am still fairly concerned that this was an episode of Arrested Development. A flying machine that loses control? A child hidden in a crawl space? A father who looks like he's from 1990? Twenty bucks says Lucille Austero has a thing for the little one. #4chan
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/17/09

    @ampersandparade: Did somebodya order apizza pie?

    ... GEEEENEEE!
    #4chan
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    10/17/09

    @Conchie Birdie: Her face at that moment... it's almost likewatching the joy of an extremely drunk child's first birthday. #4chan
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