Vlogorrhea, With Jason And Ana: Decline And Fall

With nine days to go before the election, Ana Marie Cox and I gathered together with Liz Glover and Nikolas Schiller and made some vlogs. Why not, right? In the first two, which appear below, we concentrated on the ends of things. First, barring a miraculous electoral comeback, it appears as if these are the last days of John McCain's eight-year long quest to attain the Presidency. Ana and I take in Robert Draper's account of the shifting McCain narratives from this weekend's New York Times Magazine, to assess how well he captured the campaign and discuss how careful you have to be when you decide to cross Mark Salter.

On the second piece, we discuss the abrupt demise of RADAR Magazine, and its RADAROnline website, which, up until last Friday, was one of Ana Marie's employers. We pour one out for an idea too beautiful for this world to sustain. By the way, have you read today's Fresh Intelligence? If you think of it as a secret Alex Balk/Choire Sicha penned parody of emptyheaded journalism, it's pretty funny! But it's not that. Seriously. Read this, and this. It's just AWFUL. Writing so bad that it makes one yearn for the sweet relief of alien, brain-devouring prions. Anyway, there's our topics for today.

[WATCH, Part one.]

[WATCH, Part two.]

Comments

[wasabichimera]

Could you stop banging your arm on the counter top -- please.

[PineyWoods]

Ya'll are in love with Ana Marie Cox??? Really??? The same Ana Marie Cox who admitted that she went on the Don Imus show even though she was uncomfortable with his rhetoric because, quote, "I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge."

The same Ana Marie Cox who cares less for reporting and personal integrity, and cares more about looking cool and being a celebrity and part of the whole DC-New York gliterrati?

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1609447,00.html

Ana Marie Cox is precisely what's wrong with the media today. Snooty, out-of-touch and more interesting in dictating what's cool to you rather than shedding light on anything significant.

[GabrielVH]

it seems too many of us love Ana Marie Cox, huh? the Rachel Maddow show is good, but it gets better when Ms. Cox is on.

[planetmango]

Ditto, Ditto, Ditto!!!

[ProgressiveinBerlin]

Ms. Cox is awesome and I hope she has luck finding work and goes on The Rachel Maddow Show more often.

As for the Radar "Fresh Intelligence" links included..­. WOW.

No wonder they went under (unintentional rhyme). It's like they were running on a budget so low that they headhunted one of the writers from TMZ. One of the writers who was too untalented for TMZ (if that's possible).

And BTW, the former Clinton worker quoted was wrong, Obama didn't speak at the Brandenburg gate, and neither did Kennedy. JFK spoke at Rathaus Shöneberg and Obama spoke at the Victory Column.

Not like I would expect a "reporter" of this lack of caliber to take the thirty seconds necessary on google to check the facts or anything. That might require pretending to pay attention.

[Islandtime]

I'm in love with Ana Marie Cox

[Georgiamitch]

Love down to Earth people that are smart.

yeah! to both of them.

[steve-annie]

I love Ana Marie Cox. Are you listening MSNBC?

[burndtdan]

heh, yes.

[MotherGinSling]

Yowsa!...p­lease.

[mamiller]

I fell in love with her as Wonkette, the only female reporter ever to sucessfully mix politcal discourse with abundant references to anal sex (literal not figurative). She has only gotten cooler and smarter with time.