Idiots

Jason Linkins

Referring To Marathon Winner As "Technically American" Has Become A Disturbing Trend [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media


It really takes a special kind of irredeemable pigheadedness to read about American marathon runner Meb Keflezighi's victory in the New York City mara...

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Roland Burris Basically Contributing Incoherent Babbling To The Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics


We really should take a minute today to appreciate the greatest contribution made by disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to America: the gift of Roland Burris.

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Fake Obama Thesis Story Goes Viral, Because Of Stupidity

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media


Okay, let's get you up to speed on the incredibly true story about how a bunch of right-wingers got taken in by some satiric blog post on Barack Obama...

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NRO's John Derbyshire Speaks Out Against Women's Suffrage

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


John Derbyshire, who provides the National Review with its chief source of Old Country lackwitticism, has a new wingnut-welfare tome out called We Are...

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WaPo Reports On Environmental "Debate," Fails To Note That One Side Of Debate Is Bunk

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media


An article in today's Washington Post reports that a "fractious debate" is brewing! What the article fails to report is that on one side of this debate are lying energy industry shills.

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Glenn Greenwald Has Said Kind Things About The Armed Forces, As It Turns Out

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media


Time's Joe Klein levelled a significant and ugly charge: that he had "never seen [Greenwald] write a positive sentence about the US military." But Greenwald has.

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Joe Klein Is Now Warblogging With Critics, Forever

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


Klein is upset about all the mean things being said about him on the Internet, and the litigation of his hurt feelings is somehow considered news by Time, for reasons passing understanding.

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Max Baucus Is Scared Of "The YouTubes"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Max Baucus, who will play a large part in determining whether you get to see a doctor, is scared of the Internet.

No One Wants to Talk About Their Idiots

Bill Shireman | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Bill Shireman

We need a third political movement in this country -- not today's ideological right or left, who pander to idiots, but a group of radical centrists who step past their initial ignorance, fear, and prejudice, and actually think through solutions to our problems, borrowing ideas from all sides.

Jason Linkins

WaPo Kills "Mouthpiece Theatre" After Controversy, Relentless Unfunniness

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media


Days after Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza presented their "Mouthpiece Theatre" take on President Barack Obama's beer summit, repellently referring to...

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Milbank And Cillizza Record Unfunny "Response Video" To Outrage Over Last Unfunny Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Last Friday, WashingtonPost.com consumers were treated to another one of those "Mouthpiece Theatre" videos, in which reporters Dana Milbank and Chris ...

Dana Milbank Suggests Hillary Clinton Should Drink "Mad Bitch Beer"

Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


UPDATE: The Washington Post has removed the video in question from its Web site. Kris Coratti, Director of Communications at the Post told TPM: "The ...

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Richard Cohen Can't Be Bothered To Understand This "Health Care Reform" Thing

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media


You know, too often people speak about The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, bandying about phrases like "worst columnist in human history" or "the re...

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Rep. Pete Hoekstra Complains About Late Night

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics


Ahh, the life of a typical member of Congress is pretty sweet. You are well paid, you get your own nice office, a staff to do the heavy lifting, lobb...

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Heidi And Spencer Go On Conspiracy Theory Radio, Are Baffled By The Federal Reserve

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media


Via Wonkette, I find that Joseph Weisenthal of Clusterstock has posted a YouTube of famous celebrity human-animal hybrids Heidi Montag and Spencer Pra...

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Brownback And Landrieu Introduce Bill To Ban Mermaids

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


Great news, everyone! At some point last week, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) must have finished fighting all the terrorist...

Fox News Host: Americans "Keep Marrying Other Species" (VIDEO)

Posted 08.08.2009 | Media


OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people? According to Gawker, the bright and shiny lights have once again dazzled Fox & Friends host ...

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Glenn Beck Guest: Osama Bin Laden Should Attack Again (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics


As many of you know, the modern and civilized life that we lead in America, as sensible people, has long clashed terribly with the panoply of phantasm...

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Dana Milbank Shows Nico Pitney What A Serious Journalist Looks Like

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media


As you may have heard, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank is outraged at the White House "staging" a question from our own Nico Pitney at yesterday's ...

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Pat Buchanan Mocks Sotomayor During Appearance At English-Only "Conferenece"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics


Hey, kids! Remember last Friday, when I warned all of you who live in the Washington Metropolitan area that Pat Buchanan and his most race-baitingest...

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Drudge Concerned Over Suspicious Mustache (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media


Seems like it was only yesterday that I, along with the rest of the world, were setting our hair on fire in panic at the news on the Drudge Report tha...

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Pat Buchanan Criticizes Sotomayor For Learning English (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics


Via Crooks and Liars comes this video of Pat Buchanan basically demonstrating why everything he says on teevee about politics should be dubbed out in ...

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Whoopi Goldberg Calls Glenn Beck A 'Lying Sack Of Dog Mess' [UPDATES]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media


Glenn Beck went on "The View" today. It did NOT go well. Nevertheless, it was DELIGHTFUL, by God. In the clip below, watch as Barbara Walters and W...

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Obama Mustard Attack Becomes Full-Blown Right-Wing Talking Point

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media


Egads. This whole Dijon mustard thing is turning into a far bigger and more ridiculous thing than I suspected when I warned yesterday that it might b...

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Carrie Prejean Gay Marriage Ad Airs (VIDEO) [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics


[UPDATED, below] [Via Ben Smith] Unintentionally hilarious anti-gay organization National Organization for Marriage has ramped up their activities by...