Official 2012 GOP Primaries Shitshow

[Durham]

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/09/michele_bachmann_is_swiss_now

[darger]

oh jonah:

Conservative author Jonah Goldberg has an impressive resume. He is the founding editor of National Review Online and its current editor-at-large. He’s a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

But take a look at the dust jacket of his latest book, “The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas,” and you’ll find another accolade: two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.

The problem? Goldberg has never been nominated for a Pulitzer. His work has simply been entered. “I’ll check it out and have ‘em remove it if you’re right,” Goldberg told msnbc.com, who first reported the story. “Happily. If it’s not kosher, I shouldn’t have it in there. Period.” Goldberg did not immediately respond to TPM’s request for comment.

The book’s publisher, Penguin Group (USA), insisted it was an “honest mistake.”

[Snatch]

couldn't find it in a quick perusal, so: more goldberg takedown

this one veers a little bit into taibbi-ism but not too much

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/10/jonah_g ... singleton/

[Durham]

WAR IS OVER
(if you want it)


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/ron-paul-suspends-campaign-revolution-rnc-tampa-republican.php

[addison]

lal

[orange farmer]

Holy shit, a video filming a tv show filming a camera phone playing a video.

[clothbound]

Holy shit, a video filming a tv show filming a camera phone playing a video.

meta meta?

[Amblin]

the Liberty Forest is in complete turmoil right now

i guess my lurking there is going to wind down now. will miss those guys.

[palmer eldritch]

Republican Party, USA Left Unrevoluted

[black drum]

is it wrong that I feel compelled to spray ejaculate all over michelle bachmann's pancake makeup face? something about her just gives me such a hate boner.

[Amblin]

palmer you must have missed this businessweek article/infographic

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-26/the-ron-paul-effect

[Amblin]

hey no one has posted a dan lacey original around here for a while

[husbands]

bachman's swiss citizenship thing betrays her latent aryan pride

[Ted Pikul]

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/05/14 ... r-machine/

[acapelli]

Newt Gingrich’s campaign is so dead Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids.

unused joke from when jimmy kimmel hosted the white house correspondant's dinner

[ssshhhooo]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/300152/jon-lovitz-capitalist-noah-glyn

maybe should've posted this in the best URL thread

[WHITEBOYWASTED]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/300152/jon-lovitz-capitalist-noah-glyn

maybe should've posted this in the best URL thread

noah glyn wrote the conservative op ed once every week at my school paper. he would just pick fights with middle eastern activities/clubs and there would be a back and forth for a week. it was so depressing. I can't believe he's getting money from someone for this.

maybe paddington can come and help me come to terms with this, there is probably something I did wrong that directly caused this

[staple]

lovitz strikes me as a micrpenis kinda guy

[carlperkins]

[Amblin]

does 9-9-9: AN ARMY OF DAVIDS have an audiobook?

[Amblin]

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2012/05/comicpalooza_day_1_ron_paul.php

[darger]

too good

As U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter's short-lived presidential run fizzled last year, the Livonia Republican turned to another aspiration: writing a TV show.

"Bumper Sticker: Made On Motown" starred McCotter hosting a crude variety show cast with characters bearing the nicknames of his congressional staffers and his brother. They take pot shots about McCotter's ill-fated bid for the White House while spewing banter about drinking, sex, race, flatulence, puking and women's anatomy. It features a cartoon intro and closing snippet with an Oldsmobile careening through Detroit and knocking over the city's landmarks. The double-finned car has a Michigan license plate reading: "Made on MoTown."

The News obtained a copy of the script from a former staffer who offered it as evidence of what the five-term congressman was pitching while in elected office and the tawdry humor unbecoming of a public official who had become disinterested in serving the 11th Congressional District.

McCotter told The News the work was unfinished and was given to a reporter without his permission. He said the show was a "cathartic" creative outlet that helped him through the humiliation of the presidential campaign flop. "Bumper Sticker" brought to life a possibility of something that could be worse than his political failure — being trapped in a bad TV show that takes away "any shard of dignity left," he told The Detroit News.

McCotter maintains he didn't write the show on the taxpayers' time: "Most of my writing is done in my garage … where I can smoke." He circulated the idea to at least one filmmaker and shared the script with some staffers, he said.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120705/POLITICS02/207050379

[palmer eldritch]

that Thaddeus McCotter exists seems impossible

[Jeremy]

McCotter has somehow come out of this whole thing looking the least like an idiot.

[shirts optional]

newest member of the choom gang

[Jeremy]

I'm going to write a TV show about Thaddeus McCotter producing a TV show.

[Durham]

Well, it's happened. The worst thing in the world has happened.

[the genius king]

Snooki was in the bag for McCain last time (I remember them having a twitter discussion where McCain promised he wouldn't be taxing her tanning beds like Obama), maybe having a child will help her understand the error of her ways.

[orange farmer]

This thread still needs 16 pages before we lock it. I guess the convention will cap it off, but I went back to this thread this time last year just now. We were freaking out about Perry's potential to steamroll the other candidates and laughing at Bachmann's threats about the debt ceiling.

[delgriffith]

I think Martinez might tear down the house later.