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Herman Cain Chief Of Staff Mark Block Proving To Be A Serial Screw-Up Artist [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics

Read More: 2012 Speculatron, Herman Cain 2012, Video, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Allegations, 2012 Election, Herman Cain Mark Block, Herman Cain, Elections 2012, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment, Idiots, 2012, Mark Block, Politics News

Yesterday, as Herman Cain continued to fend off multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, Cain's chief of staff Mark Block went on Sean Hannity's epo...

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They Can't All Be Idiots!

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 11.19.2011 | Politics

Read More: American Jobs Act, Bill O'Reilly, Ben Stein, Donna Brazile, Reporting, Name-Calling, Political Discourse, Politicians Name Calling, Fox News, Civility, Idiots, Politics News

What has been lost in public discourse is the use of hard facts to make the point we want to get across. Reporting is too often simply the restating of what someone else says without checking the facts.

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Rep. Paul Broun Highlights Plight Of Country Club Members In Debt Ceiling Kabuki Play

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.26.2011 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Paul Broun, Country Club, Debt Ceiling Talks, Video, Debt Ceiling, Idiots, Politics News

Everyone at the center of the fake negotiations over the fake debt ceiling crisis has their own bad metaphor that they use to describe what the "conse...

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GOP Rep Says The 'Period Of Crisis' Provided By Default Might Inspire Lawmakers To Actually Do Their Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2011 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Devin Nunes, Debt Ceiling Default, Debt Ceiling, Idiots, Debt Default, Default Deniers, Video, Politics News

It seems to be the consensus among sane individuals that if the United States defaults on its debt, the result would be somewhere between calamitous and apocalyptic. It's the sort of thing that I would recommend avoiding at all costs, but Representative Devin Nunes from California apparently doesn't feel that way. In fact, it seems as if he believes that the "period of crisis" catastrophe provides is just the prescription our log-jammed legislative process needs to start functioning again.

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Polls Show That Many People Apparently Believe Health Care Reform Has Been Repealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, Polls, Polling, Health Care Reform, Basic Middle School Civics Lessons, Affordable Care Act, How Did This Happen, Idiots, Kaiser Family Foundation, Video, Politics News

Do you remember that time that the House passed a symbolic repeal of the Affordable Care Act, that didn't go anywhere, because Harry Reid is still the Senate Majority Leader and Barack Obama is still the President of the United States? Now, if you are aware of that vote, riddle me this: Are you left with the impression that the Affordable Care Act was actually repealed? If you answered "No," congratulations -- you are apparently in the smarter four-fifths of Americans.

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Richard Cohen Explains Why Egyptians Can't Have Nice Things

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egyptian Protest, Richard Cohen, Egypt, Media Criticism, Hosni Mubarak, Eat the Press, Idiots, Media News

The images coming out of Egypt today are as powerful as any that we've seen during the past week. Few are unmoved by what's going on. But at least o...

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Slight Uptick In Pedestrian Deaths Is Apparently Michelle Obama's Fault [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Daily Caller, Michelle Obama, Washington Examiner, Media Criticism, Pedestrian Deaths, Eat the Press, Idiots, Media News

The Daily Caller's Amanda Carey is pretty sure that a tiny uptick in pedestrian deaths all stems from that time Michelle Obama urged children, "Let's Move!" as though she meant, "Let's move right in front of some moving cars!"

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Health Care Reform Opponents Say The Darndest Things

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Health Care Reform Repeal, Health Care Reform, Hypocrisy, Eat the Press, Michael Grimm, Idiots, 112th Congress, Politics News

Today begins the House GOP's latest kabuki pageant, entitled "Let's Repeal Obamacare Despite The Fact That Most Americans Prefer It Or Want It Expande...

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Politico Writer Whines About 'Class Warfare' That Top One Percent Decisively Won Years Ago

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Roger Simon, Politico, Income Inequality, Media Criticism, Tax Cuts, Eat the Press, Obama Tax Cut Compromise, Idiots, Media News

People who live outside the Beltway may not be aware of the fact that in Washington, DC, we have a local competition to see who can write the most sha...

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Richard Cohen Criticizes WikiLeaks, Lies About Michael Hastings

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Richard Cohen, War in Afghanistan, Michael Hastings, Media Criticism, Stanley McChrystal, Julian Assange, Eat the Press, Wikileaks, Idiots, Media News

The Washington Post's most inexplicable contributor, Richard Cohen, today attempts to grapple with the phenomenon that is WikiLeaks. It's a mess! He...

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Pretend Democrats Advise Obama Not To Run For Re-Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Patrick Caddell, Barack Obama, Doug Schoen, Bad-Advice, 2012 Election, Idiots, 2012 Speculatron, Media News

Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell are best known for going on the Fox News Channel, where they pretend to be "Democratic strategists." But unlike virtually every other Democratic strategist in the Western world, the two men show a studied disinterest in and a complete antipathy for any of the philosophies for which the Democratic Party is best known. Their advice for President Barack Obama? Quit. That's sure to send a powerful message of leadership and responsibility.

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David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: David Broder, Barack Obama, Eat the Press, War With Iran, Idiots, Media Criticism, Politics News

So, David Broder has concerns! The economic situation in America is presenting a "daunting situation" that could prevent President Barack Obama from ...

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How Will The Media Cover The Rally To Restore Sanity, Which Apparently Terrifies Them?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Rally to Restore Sanity, Jon Stewart Rally, Jon Stewart, Media Criticism, Huffpost-Sanity-Bus, Sanity-Bus, March to Keep Fear Alive, Npr, Stephen Colbert, Media News, Eat the Press, Idiots, Stephen Colbert Rally, Media News

Looking over the various guidelines that news organizations are laying out so that their reporters will know what to do about the upcoming Rally To Re...

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Dinesh D'Souza Docks In America's Safest Harbor For Lackwits [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Media Criticism, Dinesh D?Souza, Washington Post, Fred Hiatt, Idiots, Eat the Press, Media News

What is there left to say about Dinesh D'Souza, who, weeks after his Forbes piece ruminating on President Barack Obama's supposed "Kenyan anti-colonia...

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Larry Kudlow: Obama Hugging Rahm Emanuel Will Embolden Our Enemies!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Chicago Mayoral Race, Tom Dart, Rahm Emanuel, Larry Kudlow, Eat the Press, Idiots, Politics News

Because we could all use a periodic reminder that one of the benefits of being a walking joke is that you have free rein to make addlepated criticism ...

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Louis Gohmert's Exquisitely Dumb Solution To The Unemployment Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Unemployment, Louis Gohmert, Farm Subsidies, Eat the Press, Idiots, Politics News

Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Tex.) is a spectacularly unserious legislator, but Adam Serwer finds him pitching a solution to the unemployment crisis that tips even his decidedly screwed-up scales.

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The Washington Post's Demented Take On The Warren Appointment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Media Criticism, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Washington Post Editors, Washington Post, Eat the Press, Idiots, Media News

The piece begins with the editors stating that they have "qualms" with Warren. Why is that? Well, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection will have a big budget and regulatory power. But so do lots of agencies!

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Obama Demeans His Own Supporters

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Eat the Press, 2010 Elections, Internecine Squabbling, Idiots, Professional Left, Elections 2010, Politics News

Obama, and some of his defenders, seem to think that all of the people who built a career criticizing Bush for abuse of executive powers should just give Obama a pass -- never mind that he ran on a platform of dismantling those powers.

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MSNBC Deploys Jon Meacham To Warble Theology At Quran-Burning Pastor, For Some Reason

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Jon Meacham, Morning Joe, Qu'ran Burning, Media Criticism, Terry Jones, Eat the Press, Idiots, Video, Media News

It seems that while I was working on emptying all my chambers into cable news professionals for letting two-bit crank cult leader Terry Jones get so p...

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9/11 Exploitation Advertising: Still A Bad Idea

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: September 11, 9/11, Eat the Press, Advertising, Idiots, Media News

I'm not sure that the 9/11 attacks should ever be used as an advertising hook for anything, but this advertisement for a French newspaper surely isn't going to win any fans by combining 9/11 iconography with smart-assed self gloating.

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Congressional Budget Office: Sometimes Wonks Have To Explain Their Work To Morons

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, Cbo, Health Care Reform, Mike Crapo, Innumeracy, Congressional Budget Office, Idiots, Eat the Press, Politics News

Allow me to state for the record that I have great sympathy for the dedicated professionals at the Congressional Budget Office. In Washington's parti...

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The Enemy Within! (?)

Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Muslim, Tea Party, Hate, Tea Baggers, Ground Zero Mosque, Morons, Nativist, Alarmism, Republicans, Cretins, Mosque, Idiots, Politics News

The rich have always manipulated the ignorant for political (in the service of financial) gain. And things have more or less worked out in the long run.

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Mark Halperin Worries Social Security Rhetoric Will Affect Bipartisanship

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Elections, Beltway Obsessions, Social Security, Bipartisanship, Mark Halperin, Idiots, Eat the Press, Elections 2010, Politics News

As you know, everyone inside the Beltway has sized up America's economic problems and has decided to get hysterical about the debt. Not the debt that...

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Sue Myrick's Latest Conspiracy Theory Is Like The Plot Of A Bad Movie

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Sue Myrick, Video, Fearmongering, Idiots, Eat the Press, Media News

Anyone remember the terrible 1997 movie The Jackal, in which Bruce Willis played an international assassin with a secret identity and the propensity f...

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Birthers Plan To Storm Washington For March On 'Obama Birth Certificate,' 'Obamacare'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Birthers, Fearmongering, Obama Birth Certificate, Barack Obama, Birther March, Birther-Movement, Birther Conspiracy, Idiots, Eat the Press, Video, Politics News

At long last the Birthers are coming to DC to have a protest. The date is Saturday, May 29. The cause is to jibber incoherently at the scores of media professionals who will be pointing cameras at them.

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