Media Bitchfest

A Funny Little Thought For The Weekend

The intensely incredible econ-blog Cafe Hayek sent this letter to the Wall Street Journal.
16 November 2006
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
Dear Editor:
Re “Pelosi and Pork” (Nov. 16):
Reflecting on the recent election, I conclude that people can be divided into three groups. Members of the first group (consisting of left-liberals and […]

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America Finally Gets The Shrill Catholic Mother It Always Secretly Wanted

So the Dems actually pulled it out. They had an opportunity and they capitalized on it. Wow, I have to say I am kind of in shock. Listening to the radio last night as the results came in I began to understand how the original War of the Worlds broadcast frightened people. It was just […]

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Election Day Like A Motherfucker

To be brutally honest, today marks the first day I vote. This is not because I’ve been trying to make a grand statement or anything, timing and legendarily reliable Florida absentee ballets have been the culprits, but it all ends today.
No matter which side of the aisle you sit on, if you’re reading this site […]

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This One Kind Of Speaks For Itself

Stephen Colbert decides to brandish his snark sword and spill the entrails of Good Morning America and The Today Show. In your face.
However I think we can all agree as Americans that The Colbert Report has easily outpaced The Daily Show (except John Hodgman) at this point. Every time Jon Stewart does a predictable, hacky […]

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Okay…

Come up with a new bit.
? Bush, impersonator banter at D.C. gala (again) [Seattle P-I]

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Three Stars of the Newscycle: 6.8.06

The World Cup begins tomorrow in Deutschland and I am jacked because I can finally play the Team America theme without irony and pump my fists inside a grocery owned by a Ghana native for no reason. That is until we are eliminated from the intense Group E and sent home crying. But until then: […]

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Syracuse New Times Flirts With Relevance

I kid, I kid.
But seriously, they kind of are. Editor and Publisher chronicles the tale of Salt City’s weekly and its rocky relationship with new Bush domestic advisor Karl Zinsmeister. Long story short, SNT ran a story with some incendiary quotes from The Zins including this choice nugget:

“People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty […]

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