Kos. cough-cough : (

Oh, great. Shoddy journalism, with added expletives. What a combo.

Newsweak

He may be more coherent than other diarists at the Daily Krap, but not by that much. Newsweek is a decent mag, and this will only drag them down.

What? You expected any better from Newsweak?
/snort

Did you just call yourself a wingnut? lol

I'm very interested to see who Newsweek picks as Kos' counterpart, if they do at all.

Man, he's weird.

Not that his addition will bring any editorial diversity to that rag...

Charles - maybe you can get a commentary gig for Time or better yet, AFP ;-)

Does Soros control Newsweek too?

re: #6 n00ser

Did you just call yourself a wingnut? lol

I'm very interested to see who Newsweek picks as Kos' counterpart, if they do at all.

They'll get somebody from the opposite side of the ailse, like Richard Armitage.

Newsweek is a pathetic rag, so their association with a sniveling weasel like Kos is a no-brainer. Why would Charles want to hire on with the MSM? It's almost as bad as hooking up with VB and SD.

This is excellent news. It will only hasten the eventual, inevitable demise of Newsweek, Time, and all the other "unbiased" weekly news rags.

Newsweek has been a far left leaning liberal rag for as long as I can remember, so this really comes as no surprise. Sad that they still think of themselves as an unbiased news source.

re: #4 marwan's daughter

Newsweek is a decent mag, and this will only drag them down.

Compared to what?

I stopped reading Newsweek years ago when their bias became so obvious they didn't even try to pretend to hide it.

Where are wingnut heads exploding? Show me a blog where this is occuring? Nevermind...

Newsweek CAN have good articles, sometime, but not often enough to make me want to pay for it.

I think my last issue of Newsweek had John Belushi on the cover.

Just hire him to do 'hard hitting commentary' and turn the cartoon area over to Ted Rall and get it over with.

Maybe then they'll die quick and painlessly as opposed to slow and painful

Also announced: Newsweek will now be re-named Newsfuckinweek.

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

Last time I checked, I didn't give a shit.

re: #16 Wendya

re: #4 marwan's daughter

Newsweek is a decent mag, and this will only drag them down.

Compared to what?

I stopped reading Newsweek years ago when their bias became so obvious they didn't even try to pretend to hide it.

Well compared to, say, The Nation. I do think Time can beat the pants off of Newsweek though.

That's an awesome photoshop!

re: #6 n00ser

Did you just call yourself a wingnut? lol

I'm very interested to see who Newsweek picks as Kos' counterpart, if they do at all.

How about Michael Savage? LMAO!

re: #24 Ward Cleaver

How about Michael Savage? LMAO!

Just put a wrestling ring at the convention and let them fight to the death

re: #23 Killgore Trout

Kilgore, congrats on your mention in the Charles interview posted yesterday...

commies hiring commies ?
what a surprise !

nothing will change...

I see no reason why any "wingnut" would explode over this. It would be like saying astronomers heads "Explode" at discovery that the sun is bright. Yeah, so another liberal is on staff at Newsweek, and it rained in the Amazon today. So what?

I needed a good laugh today, thanks newsweak.

re: #25 Defector01

re: #24 Ward Cleaver

How about Michael Savage? LMAO!

Just put a wrestling ring at the convention and let them fight to the death

Savage cracks him over the head with an expensive bottle of wine, and it's over.

/not.advocating.violence

/satire

Kos covers campaign
Affirmative action hire
Fills need for moonbat

re: #26 Sponge

Thanks. I'm happy enough that anyone even reads my posts. To be quoted is an honor.

re: #20 Dead Sea Squirrel

Also announced: Newsweek will now be re-named Newsfuckinweek.

Ha! Ha!

Could you imagine the kossack krew on Newsweek's editorial staff?

"Not enough expletives in that copy, Bob. And where's my multiple exclamation points? Besides, I thought we were doing this issue in ALL CAPS WITH LOTS OF RANDOM BOLDFACE AND MISPaLLINGS!"

Signed,

The Jinxmedic.

re: #32 cosmo

Kos covers campaign
Affirmative action hire
Fills need for moonbat

Brilliant!

My head exploded. Actually, it did that other thing. Emitted a mild chuckle is the term.

Is there even a pretense of objectivity in the MSM any more?

re: #16 Wendya

I gave up on Newsweek when the language it was written in became so thick with "PC-speak" that I realized it no longer bore any resemblance to English and I literally could not understand what the f*ck they were talking about.

/That was 25 years ago...

Newsweek will lose more readers than it gains from this. But whatever, their call.

I've only ever read Newsweek in the doctor's and dentist's offices anyway.

Newsweek? I don't even read that shit waiting at the dentists office. A brochure on gingivitis provides better insight.

The Daily KKKos and the Liberal Democratic Propaganda Machine, aka the MSM are a perfect pair. A match made in Dante's Circle of hell. I'm quite sure it will be un biased and truthfull...(GAG ALERT)

re: #35 Ward Cleaver

I call it "Haikos." I've found my calling.

re: #36 v the k

My head exploded. Actually, it did that other thing. Emitted a mild chuckle is the term.

Is there even a pretense of objectivity in the MSM any more?

Nope.

Hey Victor!

Yep, Time and Newsweek--two birdcage liners of equal worth.

Just another example of the MSM trying to pander to the radical left.

It will be interesting to see how their circulation reacts- and how willing they are to potentially lose revenue.

Why would the right's head explode when a left leaning print mag invites a leftist, hate mongering filth spew to it's convention? It's EXPECTED you jackass...markkos, you give yourself WAY too much credit...

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.

I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

And the diminishment in reporting integrity, news value, balance and accuracy of the mainstream media ... CONTINUES...

As the enterprise values of these formerly powerful news franchise brands plummets to unimagined lows.

And they wonder why?

.

zombie has a great pic of the Kos-Sucker on the Folsom Street Fair page.

He looks so cute in those patent leather thigh high boots.

His lil' sperm bank of a rump is adorable!

My head's not exploding while I'm laughing my ass off.

I guess Markos is having no problem overseeing all of the posts on his web site...like he promised to do.
Therefore he has all this free time to cover politics for Newsweak.

re: #12 buzzsawmonkey

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

Maybe that just proves, by the Moulitsas Litmus Test (patent pending), that you are not a "wingnut."

Monkey don't bring formal logic into any discussion regarding Kos...

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding”

It's more like a gut buster.

NONewsThisweek is going to go away very soon unless they adapt to the cycle that todays news happens. They haven't been an important news organization or source for well over ten years.

re: #45 shibumi

Just another example of the MSM trying to pander to the radical left.

It will be interesting to see how their circulation reacts- and how willing they are to potentially lose revenue.

They should just put dKos's URL in huge letters on the cover. That'll help.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Evan Thomas of Newsweek was obviously upset that his magazine and other MSM Democrat-cheerleaders were not able to drag Kerry over the finish line in 2004. They are making sure that this doesn't happen again.

No doubt that they will hire someone like Pat Buchannan (who hates Bush, the neo-cons and probably all of the other GOP candidates) to show their dedication to "balance."

...and I have long ago taken the money we used to spend on subscriptions to rags like this and the local paper to send to LGF and National Review On-line.

Newsweek was alarmist before being one was cool...

Hey Newsweak, remember Ned Lamont?

20 dead sea squirrel -that is right. F-bomb Kos

Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company. Nuff said.

The MSM keeps on inflating this guy like a blow up doll.

They're going to pay for his opinion?

Why? Is Newsweek that solvent that it can afford to throw money Kos's way? I don't blame Kos for accepting the gig (it's a high profile paying writing assignment), but I do have questions for why Newsweek thinks that adding him to their roster improves the magazine.

1) "Screw them." Does that ring a bell? Guess not. Or if it does, they have no problem with it. Newsweek, your bias is showing.
2) Political pontificating from someone who is Ofer in having his preferred candidates win elections isn't a smart move unless you're calling on your readers to do precisely the opposite of what Kos say? He's gotten the politics wrong and has backed the wrong horse so often that he's bound to get it right eventually. No one can be that awful in predicting winners and backing them. Kos is trying to disprove that notion.
3) Is Newsweek that in need of yet another leftist that they had to extend it to Kos? Again, their bias is showing.

Altogether, it shows just how silly Newsweek is and how unserious they are about political coverage.

"We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition," said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. "He will give our readers in print and online a unique perspective. As always, our job is to create the most energetic and illuminating magazine possible, and Markos will help us do that as the campaign unfolds."

So Newsweek wants to have good nutroots coverage without having a staffer dirty their hands?

Newsweek?

People still read week-old news?

Just before this "news" was broken by Kos yesterday, I could swear I noticed an item on that spy Prouty in the Kos Kid headlines, but the name didn't register until I saw the item on Prouty here.

I went back later to check and there was no sign of it anywhere, and I searched DK and found nothing.

Knowing the children, perhaps it probably was something siding with the spy, and maybe it would have caused embarrassment to Newsweek's latest hire and thus disappeared down the memory hole.

I could be wrong and mistakenly was looking at another blog in the Ajax links.

karnak Holds envelope up to head

"DAILY KOS"
"NEWSWEEK"

Ed mcmahon..."Daily Kos...Newsweek"

karnak gives ed a dirty look

Karnak tears envelope edge. Blows into hole. opens envelope. reads contents of envelope

"WHAT ARE TWO THINGS NOBODY READS"

My head is not exploding. If Newsweak readers give any value to what he has to say I'd be surprised. Maybe kos can hire Ron Paul's old ghostwriter to liven things up a bit.

Unintentionally funny quote of the day:

"We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition," said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham.

They just don't get it.

RIP, MSM.

It is the Washington Post co that owns Newsqueak, isn't it?

re: #65 JammieWearingFool

Speaking of Prouty, did you notice the wrist slapping she got? Nice.

re: #64 NoSubmission

Newsweek?

People still read week-old news?

Now that is a succinct appraisal of the condition in which the contemporary (accent on the temporary) MSM finds itself. Bravisimo.

re: #66 shug

karnak Holds envelope up to head

"DAILY KOS"
"NEWSWEEK"

Ed mcmahon..."Daily Kos...Newsweek"

karnak gives ed a dirty look

Karnak tears envelope edge. Blows into hole. opens envelope. reads contents of envelope

"WHAT ARE TWO THINGS NOBODY READS"

Shug Rules!

It is the money. The lefties are finding a way to support him

re: #73 big L

It is the money. The lefties are finding a way to support him

Yup.
Picture Markos, had he lived before the internet...sort of a Maynard G. Krebbs charater.
"Work?!?!"

Anyone said it yet?
ok, ok...let me do the honors!

ROVE YOU MAGNIFICANT BASTARD!

bwahahahahaaa...

can't wait to see how his first article plays out. Any guesses to the title?

" Army kills babies" or maybe " Bush makes mistake, forked tail shows", or perhaps..." blogs like Daily Kos are the real voice of America".

bwahahahahah. idiots.

re: #61 RobCon

The MSM keeps on inflating this guy like a blow up doll.

And you don't want to know where the valve is.

re: #47 JammieWearingFool

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.

I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

Alan Colmes

Don't forget the Washington Post has already been a forum for the "mainstream" Kos.

He also opined on the dragon lady there.

Hillary Clinton has a few problems if she wants to secure the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She is a leader who fails to lead. She does not appear "electable." But most of all, Hillary has a Bill Clinton problem. (And no, it's not about that. )

Moving into 2008, Republicans will be fighting to shake off the legacy of the Bush years: the jobless recovery, the foreign misadventures, the nightmarish fiscal mismanagement, the Katrina mess, unimaginable corruption and an imperial presidency with little regard for the Constitution or the rule of law. Every Democratic contender will be offering change, but activists will be demanding the sort of change that can come only from outside the Beltway.

Hillary Clinton leads her Democratic rivals in the polls and in fundraising. Unfortunately, however, the New York senator is part of a failed Democratic Party establishment -- led by her husband -- that enabled the George W. Bush presidency and the Republican majorities, and all the havoc they have wreaked at home and abroad.

Expect a fawning column completely contradicting this one.

I hear their first story will involve a soldier who claims they make fun of disfigured women, target dogs while driving armored transport vehicles, and wear the skulls of children under their helmets.

re: #75 mean Gene

re: #73 big L
Picture Markos, had he lived before the internet...sort of a Maynard G. Krebbs charater.
"Work?!?!"

Weird coincidence. My son's high school is putting on Dobie Gillis as their fall play this weekend.

re: #70 lawhawk

re: #65 JammieWearingFool

Speaking of Prouty, did you notice the wrist slapping she got? Nice.

Yes, I did. Good behavior and maybe she'll be done in eight months, just in time to cast her absentee ballot for the Democrats.

re: #77 Ward Cleaver

re: #61 RobCon

The MSM keeps on inflating this guy like a blow up doll.

And you don't want to know where the valve is.

Posts like this are the reason I don't eat or drink while reading.

I prefer a spew free experience

re: #49 bp sf

zombie has a great pic of the Kos-Sucker on the Folsom Street Fair page.

He looks so cute in those patent leather thigh high boots.

His lil' sperm bank of a rump is adorable!

"Little sperm bank of a rump" I gotta write that one down. I'll be wearing it out. LOL.

re: #68 comment #17.1

Unintentionally funny quote of the day:

"We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition," said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham.

They just don't get it.

RIP, MSM.

The editors will have to replace their keyboards, after the asterisk keys wear out in a week (f***, f***, f***, etc.).

re: #71 cosmo

I hear Rush and Hannity talking about stuff and calling it "breaking"...but the Lizard Nation( thanks to alot of hard work by Charles and other Lizard Minions) get teh scoop sometimes days before it hits the major players...my dear Mother is always amazed at how I've already heard about xyz story. :) ( I just can't get her off of 60 minutes and the nightly MSM news - she's just not a computer person - but I can't blame her - she's 71 after all. )

re: #78 tommygum

re: #47 JammieWearingFool

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.

I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

Alan Colmes

Skeletor & Kos. I like it!

Just what Newsweek needs. A columnist who types expletives in ALL CAPS.

Newsweek loses 1/2 million subscribers?

HAHAHAHA
Kos coverage should bring it down even more!

re: #19 Defector01

Just hire him to do 'hard hitting commentary' and turn the cartoon area over to Ted Rall and get it over with.

Maybe then they'll die quick and painlessly as opposed to slow and painful

Also, the quicker their collective death is, the less nauseating for us it will be.

the stalls in the mens room at the minneoapolis airport has a larger readership than newsweek.

Perhaps it's a shrewd business move and they're simply trying to appeal to their homosexual demographic.

Since this is a media thread, ponder the following:

If CBSNews writers go on strike, will anyone notice?

Here in New York, it would affect WCBS 880 AM and WCBS FM, the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" and "The Early Show" - along with all Ch. 2 newscasts.

Radio station 1010 WINS is also owned by CBS - but wouldn't be affected, since its writers work under a different contract.

"Hopefully, this will make CBS a little more willing to negotiate, since a strike is an option for us," Goldman said.

"CBS News is prepared for the possibility of a writers' strike," a CBS spokeswoman said yesterday.

"We will continue to produce quality news programs for our viewers."

*cough*

re: #89 Le_Patriot

Newsweek loses 1/2 million subscribers?

HAHAHAHA
Kos coverage should bring it down even more!

Any more, and they'll be printing it at FedEx-Kinko's.

re: #87 Ward Cleaver

re: #78 tommygum

re: #47 JammieWearingFool

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.
I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

Alan Colmes

Skeletor & Kos. I like it!

I just had a vision of Kos standing over Skelty yelling " I HAVE THE POWER! ", while Skelty looks at his crotch. Can I say that here? Crotch?

/ heheheheh...he said "crotch"...hehehehe...calm down Beavis!

heh

Funny how things they consider a great triumph, I dont really give two shits about in the first place. Havent read Newsweek in years, dont plan on getting it in the future

re: #86 Owl

re: #71 cosmo

I hear Rush and Hannity talking about stuff and calling it "breaking"...but the Lizard Nation( thanks to alot of hard work by Charles and other Lizard Minions) get teh scoop sometimes days before it hits the major players...my dear Mother is always amazed at how I've already heard about xyz story. :) ( I just can't get her off of 60 minutes and the nightly MSM news - she's just not a computer person - but I can't blame her - she's 71 after all. )

We here in the rightwingnoisemachine don't need no stinking layers of editors and finely crafted nuance like the dinosaur media.

The Washington Post Compost Co. (NYSE: WPO), which owns Newsweek, reported a 1.1 percent drop in third-quarter profit earlier this week, led by declines at its print divisions, including the Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek.

Bwahahaha

re: #60 BrianA

Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company. Nuff said.

Yeah, and I guess Wall Street has heard about the new Kolumnist.

/maybe kos meant 'stock-traders heads would be exploding'

Do people still buy weekold new york times posing as "News Magazines".

re: #96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

last time I saw one was at a place where I was getting a hair cut. I've cut my own hair for about 3 years now. It was full of BDS, and I put it down after a half a page. I believe it was an issue from 6 months prior and it looked like no one had touched it...but the Popular Mechanics mag was almost torn to shreds...as was the car magazine.

hello? newsweak? hello? meh.

re: #93 lawhawk

If CBSNews writers go on strike, will anyone notice?

Yeah, but maybe we'd be better off if the news-makers went on strike.

Actually . . . a potentially very shrewd business move by Newsweek.

Newsweek needs subscribers . . . and while Kos likely won't drive away any existing subscribers, it will likely boost subscriptions . . . no doubt Kos will encourage his lemmings to follow.

re: #93 lawhawk

Since this is a media thread, ponder the following:

If CBSNews writers go on strike, will anyone notice?

Here in New York, it would affect WCBS 880 AM and WCBS FM, the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" and "The Early Show" - along with all Ch. 2 newscasts.
Radio station 1010 WINS is also owned by CBS - but wouldn't be affected, since its writers work under a different contract.

"Hopefully, this will make CBS a little more willing to negotiate, since a strike is an option for us," Goldman said.

"CBS News is prepared for the possibility of a writers' strike," a CBS spokeswoman said yesterday.

"We will continue to produce quality news programs for our viewers."

*cough*

If the corporate titans just put in a call, I could write all the above "news" shows for them during my lunch hour.

Once they discover the spike in ratings, I'll gladly negotiate a fulltime contract.

/

Newsweek has been hemmoraghing readers for years

Guess they figure, now that their pathetic partisan hackery is out of the closet, might as well go the whole nine, cash in on what their marketers and PR team have no doubt described as the "phenomena of KOS" and his 10 billion hits a second

re: #99 SlartyBartfast

re: #60 BrianA

Newsweek is owned by the Washington Post Company. Nuff said.

Yeah, and I guess Wall Street has heard about the new Kolumnist.

/maybe kos meant 'stock-traders heads would be exploding'

Ha!

Newsweek Hires Kos, Stock Value Plummets

re: #89 Le_Patriot

Newsweek loses 1/2 million subscribers?

HAHAHAHA
Kos coverage should bring it down even more!

Yes, the next chapter number to be developed will be 11.

Newsweak hiring KOS to write liberal nonsense for them is like NYT hiring MoDo to write liberal nonsense for NYT - oh, wait, NYT already has MoDo and dozens of other barking moonbats writing liberal nonsense for them. Where is the head exploding factor? Just normal MSM happenings.

re: #104 JammieWearingFool

You and me both! (I think we've got minor gigs writing for Malkin these days btw, especially on the Spitzer steamrolling).

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

And in any event, you aren't a wingnut.

I will go out on a limb and predict Kos's first contribution to Newsweak will go something like this.

Screw them. BushMchallibuton/CheneyBlackwater all suck. Progessive Progressive. Grass roots! surrender to our new overlords.

Will Kos write fake stories about Korans being flushed?

Just checked, head still intact. I'll check later, too, just to be sure.

Her in Phoenix MessNBC is channel 65. Because of this discussion, I remembered that by pushing "menu," "channel select," "skip," I could eliminate MessNBC from the channel-flip mode. Thanks all. By the way, Paul Krugman was on CNBC yesterday as a "guest commentator." It was painful to watch him try to hatch a thought during their discussion.

I see this as a kind of positive.

The continued admission by leftist news sources that they provide more partisan commentary than news will accelerate the death of the myth of press objectivity.

The sooner it dies, the sooner it can be replaced by people who actually give a damn what the facts are.

Not that such a result is guaranteed, but some chance is better than none.

In other periodical news, People Magazine just named their Sexiest Man Alive - Matt Damon. Once again, I failed to make the cut. What's it gonna take?!?

OT, but too good not to post:

Making connections:
Activist sets up telephone talks between US, Iranian citizens

A Somerville peace activist with a knack for political theater set up a display yesterday with a simple proposition: Let anyone who passed by pick up the phone and talk to Iranian citizens, giving regular citizens in both countries a chance to do what the activist said the country's leaders have failed to do: talk to each other.

But the comity dissipated when Walsh switched topics: "What's Iran's problem with Israel?"

As Walsh became agitated, Jehlen encouraged him to pass the phone to the next person.

Good thing he didn't ask about gays and lesbians.

re: #103 nolocon

Actually . . . a potentially very shrewd business move by Newsweek.

Newsweek needs subscribers . . . and while Kos likely won't drive away any existing subscribers, it will likely boost subscriptions . . . no doubt Kos will encourage his lemmings to follow.

KOS members will not subscribe - reading hard copy is not part of their lifestyle of instant gratification.

This calls for my wishes to Newsweak in Arabic (and Hebrew slang):

A Daily Koos-Amak to all of you.

(Amak= "your mother"/"your mother's")
(Kus/Koos = coarse word for a certain part of the female anatomy)

"Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this"

Exploding? Well, maybe n a paroxysm of laughter.

Its actually a match made in heaven, the ever increasingly irrelevant Markos teamed up with the ever increasingly irrelevant NewsWeak. What more could you ask for.

Newsweak needs to hire more Kos kiddies so that their chapter 11 filing can happen sooner.

Crappy magazine hires crappy pundit. Yawn.

Kos: " So, President Thompson, what did you know and when did you know it?"
President Thompson: THWACK!

/ markos needs a nose job

What more could you ask for.

RON PAUL 11!1!1!1!1

ok, that's really getting old, i know, i know. :) But you ASKED!

Again, OT but it's Good News:

Visa denied for South African scholar

BOSTON -- The U.S. government has denied a visa for a South African scholar and political commentator, claiming he "engaged in a terrorist activity" -- an accusation he vehemently denies.

Adam Habib, a deputy vice chancellor at the University of Johannesburg, has been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston in September, the American Civil Liberties Union said U.S. authorities were letting his visa application languish because of his political views.

Officials gave no details of the alleged terrorist activity in an Oct. 26 letter sent to Habib. The ACLU filed an amended lawsuit Wednesday, asking the State Department to substantiate its claim about Habib.

"We are really demanding that the government come forward with a factual basis for what it's doing or otherwise, grant him a visa," said Melissa Goodman, a staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project.

[Link: www.michaeltotten.com...] read this.

Who cares? Everybody he backs ends up losing.

I can't wait for the Hildog endorsement.

Remember...
You can't spell "Newsweek" without swekeNwe.

Yeah, I was confused when I read that too. Sigh.

re: #125 buzzsawmonkey

You've got to admire Moulitsas' ability to fail upward.

Jumping one sinking ship to a larger one buys more time to ponder the inevitable fate of the rising horizon.

The last presidential election, USA Today did a Right / Left thing.
Ann Coulter was the conservative. They dropped her for being extreme.
The Liberal was ... Ta Da!... Michael Moore!

Sounds like a good marriage of two losers. Bottom line, who gives a s&*t!

re: #89 Le_Patriot

Newsweek loses 1/2 million subscribers?

HAHAHAHA
Kos coverage should bring it down even more!

my guess is that most subscribers are old people or doctor's offices who haven't the faintest idea what they are subscribing to.

re: #13 Ward Cleaver

Why would Charles want to hire on with the MSM? It's almost as bad as hooking up with VB and SD.

Fixed that for you.

re: #116 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

In other periodical news, People Magazine just named their Sexiest Man Alive - Matt Damon. Once again, I failed to make the cut. What's it gonna take?!?

Matt Damon?!? Puh-leeze.

Parakeets don't like the shiny paper. Besides, there's never enough of the magazine to line the bottom of the cage.

re: #134 JamesTKirk

re: #13 Ward Cleaver

Why would Charles want to hire on with the MSM? It's almost as bad as hooking up with VB and SD.

Fixed that for you.

I was just thinking they should merge, and become BS-VD.

Kos is just using wishful thinking. He wishes our heads would explode.

I just do not understand why he thinks he is worth that much... I pretty much thought he was the opposite.

re: #122 Globular Cluster

Crappy magazine hires crappy pundit. Yawn.

Women and minorities hardest hit ...

And this is something new?
Like their biases and just a little more to the left with Marcos there? I haven't read or trusted a story that appeared between their covers in decades (1974) so adding him to the staff really doesn't change the equation here.

re: #126 loppyd

{SNIP}

a staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

re: #13 Ward Cleaver

Newsweek is a pathetic rag, so their association with a sniveling weasel like Kos is a no-brainer. Why would Charles want to hire on with the MSM? It's almost as bad as hooking up with VB and SD.

Or getting VD or an STD! : )

re: #142 JohnSteele

re: #126 loppyd

{SNIP}
a staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

No. "ACLU's National Security Project" is to "National Security" as the "American Cancer Society" is to "Cancer".

Newsweak and Kos. More proof that Stupid sticks to itself.

I'm sure ol' "Screw them" will do for Newsweek what he did for Ned LaMont.

Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas...editorial...
Newsweek...articles...

Who's gonna tell the difference?

If a Markos blathers in NewsWeak and no one reads it does he still make a point?

re: #144 JamesTKirk

re: #142 JohnSteele

re: #126 loppyd

{SNIP}
a staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

No. "ACLU's National Security Project" is to "National Security" as the "American Cancer Society" is to "Cancer".

Thanks for the clarification, I always have trouble with those oxymoron thingamajigs ... :-)

re: #142 JohnSteele

re: #126 loppyd

{SNIP}

a staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

Very much so.

Actually, my head IS about to explode over this story; I had no idea that Newsweek was still in business.

#151 rp1138 11/14/07 11:04:19 am reply quote report 0

Actually, my head IS about to explode over this story; I had no idea that Newsweek was still in business.

Your teeth might need a cleaning. re: #151 rp1138

re: #4 marwan's daughter

He may be more coherent than other diarists at the Daily Krap, but not by that much. Newsweek is a decent mag, and this will only drag them down.

Righttt...And the NYT's editorial page is "middle of the road".

/Channeling Dan Rather...

Doesn't Newsweek know about his kiss-of-death?

My head is very much intact. In fact I don't see this as much of a development at all, as Newsweek's bias approaches that of Kos's moonbat insanity anyway.

What's really news is the fact that Newsweek also plans to appoint a right-wing counterpart to Kos, who will also cover the election for them. What a novel idea, allowing for diversity of ideas at Newsweek!

I think there was once a time when the news media considered the pursuit of imparitality and reporting of the truth to be essential to journalistic integrity. Those days are long gone, but I guess we'll have to view the employment of blathering partisans from opposite sides of the political spectrum as a sign of progress.

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this,...

That would presume that one read or even gave a shit about Newsweak.

/now that the parrot's dead, I have little or no use for hard copies

re: #36 v the k

My head exploded. Actually, it did that other thing. Emitted a mild chuckle is the term.

Is there even a pretense of objectivity in the MSM any more?

Ummm, no. Next question?

re: #44 SlartyBartfast

Yep, Time and Newsweek--two birdcage liners of equal worth.

Actually, no self-respecting bird would want to shit on either of those two rags.

re: #39 Pawn of the Oppressor

I've only ever read Newsweek in the doctor's and dentist's offices anyway.

I don't even read it there. I prefer Modern Dentistry Today.

*** *** ***
If Clinton gets the nomination and loses, we will be told how the United States is sexist. If Obama gets the nomination and loses, we will be told how the United States is racist. As it looks now, the 2008 ticket for the Democratic party appears it will be a Clinton/Obama ticket. When they lose, it will only be because the United States has yet to 'grow up' and that we are all still a bunch of sexist and racist bigoted intolerant xenophobes. It will make the whining about the 2000 elections pale in comparison because this election cycle will contain the seven deadly sins that liberals use to shut down any debate: Sexist, Racist, Xenophobe, Islamophobe, Homophobe, Bigoted, and Intolerant.

There will be no debate about the 2008 loss, they will move to immediately shut down discussion. Even worse, if the Clinton/Obama ticket won. Any dissent from their policy will also be shot down using those same terms.
*** *** ***

-- Joel

re: #47 JammieWearingFool

Newsweek is also in bed with MessNBC, correct? Can't wait for the Olberdunce-Kos convergence.

I've been too busy snickering for my head to explode.

BTW, anyone have an idea who the "conservative" is they'll be adding?

Arianna Huffington?

All Hail the Kingmaker, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga Shrum the Progressive!

Everything he touches turns to LaMont.

Forget Newsweek.

IBD is doing a great job with their media bias series. Here's a link to yesterday's front page story:

Dramatic Turn For Better In Iraq (Cue Sound Of Crickets Chirping)
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

When looking at media bias, it's important to realize it doesn't crop up in one area. A review of coverage in just the last few weeks shows how it infests a wide array of issues — from war and foreign affairs to economics and science.

[Link: ibdeditorials.com...]

.

Was Chomsky in the running?

re: #118 Piglet-U93

re: #103 nolocon

Actually . . . a potentially very shrewd business move by Newsweek.

Newsweek needs subscribers . . . and while Kos likely won't drive away any existing subscribers, it will likely boost subscriptions . . . no doubt Kos will encourage his lemmings to follow.

KOS members will not subscribe - reading hard copy is not part of their lifestyle of instant gratification.

There ya go Piglet, fixed it for you...

How is this surprising?

re: #159 markx

re: #39 Pawn of the Oppressor

I've only ever read Newsweek in the doctor's and dentist's offices anyway.

I don't even read it there. I prefer Modern Dentistry Today.

Those models holding drills wearing nurses uniforms...mmm, me likey...

The only way Markos the Moron would believe "wingnut heads are exploding" over this would be if he actually believes Newsweak is somehow "conservative".

Heh. He is truly clueless.

The only heads that are going to explode are the editors' when they have to make his columns sound literate.

Ann Coulter did a great job of defusing that BS of having an absolute moral card. They can yell all they want.

re: #160 JRHelgeson

I'm sure Senator Ned Lament sends his congratulations.

re: #116 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

In other periodical news, People Magazine just named their Sexiest Man Alive - Matt Damon. Once again, I failed to make the cut. What's it gonna take?!?

Impossible. Damon's a liberal, and we all know that no REAL man is a liberal...Maybe sexiest metrosexual?

I'd have to put myself in the more conservative group, even here at LGF.

So, if anyone's head was going to explode over this KOS at Newsweek bit... it'd be me.

But no. I'm not suprised.

Newsweek hiring karl rove... that would suprise me. That they hired KOS suprises me as much as the UN being ineffective.

re: #126 loppyd

Again, OT but it's Good News:
Visa denied for South African scholar

BOSTON -- The U.S. government has denied a visa for a South African scholar and political commentator, claiming he "engaged in a terrorist activity" -- an accusation he vehemently denies.
Adam Habib, a deputy vice chancellor at the University of Johannesburg, ...

Is there any info about Adam Habib's terrorist connections? I spent a while looking -- but all I could find was leftist sites screaming bloody-murder and obfuscation.

A confirmed 'whack job' Socialist working for a major MSM outlet. That make perfect sense. What would make even better sense is if he was hired by Time to pick next years 100 most influential people by himself.

Newsweek falls further into oblivion...they just dont get it...

Big deal. I dismissed both Time and Newsweek years ago as liberal ragsheets.

I get real news from the internet.

mah hed no asplode kthxbai

Seriously, as if anybody's surprised.

Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this

Markos is the definition of the annoying "it is all about me" attitude.

Newsweak (spelling intentional) has been birdcage liner for the better part of two decades now. They wear their bias on their sleeve like no other "news" weekly that I know of.

There is no left bias in the main stream media,
that is why they ask left wing bloggers to work with them.

need I say this is sarcasm...

re: #28 buzzsawmonkey

Is there any confirmation of the rumor that Newsweek is also re-branding by changing its name to "Newspeak?"

Nope. Actually I heard that Pravda was seriously in the running.

re: #158 Bob in Breckenridge

re: #44 SlartyBartfast

Yep, Time and Newsweek--two birdcage liners of equal worth.

Actually, no self-respecting bird would want to shit on either of those two rags.

I would argue lining a birdcage with drivel that is far beneath their intelligence, would be animal cruelty. You would know if your bird read it however, as there would be puke all over it.

"Markos crows that 'wingnut heads are exploding' over this,"

Markos is a liberal and cannot lie. News at eleven.

From Washington Business Journal - 11/2/2007:

Newsweek magazine plans to cut its guaranteed paid circulation by 500,000 copies, according to industry magazine Advertising Age.

The 16 percent reduction would lower the number of paid subscribers Newsweek promises advertisers from 3.1 million to 2.6 million, Advertising Age reported, citing people with knowledge of the move.

I'm sure Markos can save them, just like he did with Ned Lamont.

re: #102 commander_vimes

re: #93 lawhawk

If CBSNews writers go on strike, will anyone notice?

Yeah, but maybe we'd be better off if the news-makers fabricators went on strike.

Clarified

The current Newsweek cover says "1968: The year that made us who we are."

I took one look at it and said, "yeah, made you guys at Newsweek who you are."

I would have thought that Kos was already a "Political Contributor" to Noosweak?

Uh, the only thing that is gonna assplode is my ass, 'cause that's all that Markos is worth. A load of Poo.

[Link: www.dailykos.com...]
It's kind of cute that the wingnutosphere thinks Newsweek would "balance" me out with one of theirs.

But no, the conservative they are going to announce at some point soon has actual accomplishments under his/her belt.

Said Mar(ITSALLABOUTMEEE!)Kos.

Hmmm, let's see... I am either not a wingnut, or I have not sufficiently assimilated the important information regarding the idiotic extreme left blatherer joining lack-of-forces with the leftist-pontification-in-print-circulation-failing magazine that few humans purposefully read outside of enforced boredom while sitting in various medical office waiting rooms.

After careful consideration of both possibilities, I have concluded that the truth of the situation is as follows: while most likely a wingnut, I simply don't care about the aforementioned matter of no importance.

Okay, next!

So now Newsweek will feature shoddy, biased journalism and obscenity.

This only reminds me about why I let my subscription lapse a long time ago. If an asshole farts in the woods and there is not body to smell it? Does it stink? Probably does and since it contains methane that is 20X as effective a global warming gas as CO2 it ruins the environment also. This will only give me an opportunity to let other people know why Newsweak (sic) is not worth the read.

I will only have the chance to read Newsweek if I am in the doctor's office and there is nothing else to read and nothing better to do.

/I think Kos will be preaching to the choir on this gig.

Meh. The echo chamber just added another iteration. *yawn*

re: #160 JRHelgeson

*** *** ***
If Clinton gets the nomination and loses, we will be told how the United States is sexist. If Obama gets the nomination and loses, we will be told how the United States is racist. As it looks now, the 2008 ticket for the Democratic party appears it will be a Clinton/Obama ticket. When they lose, it will only be because the United States has yet to 'grow up' and that we are all still a bunch of sexist and racist bigoted intolerant xenophobes. It will make the whining about the 2000 elections pale in comparison because this election cycle will contain the seven deadly sins that liberals use to shut down any debate: Sexist, Racist, Xenophobe, Islamophobe, Homophobe, Bigoted, and Intolerant.

There will be no debate about the 2008 loss, they will move to immediately shut down discussion. Even worse, if the Clinton/Obama ticket won. Any dissent from their policy will also be shot down using those same terms.
*** *** ***

-- Joel

Man, you're scaring me.

Absolutely horribe! So if they are going to give him a big salary, and they are looking for his counterpart on the right, are they going to offer Charles Johnson the posiition to represent the conservative blog?

There is absolutely no aspect of having Mr.Molitsas as a political adviser/commentator that I do not enjoy! This is going to be great! What a win-win situation! This is like Hillary having a '73 pinto as her campaign car! I love it.

Newsweek is a waiting room mag.

The only place I have seen Newsweek in the last several years is in libraries and in waiting rooms.

How much of their total circulation ends up in libraries and waiting rooms?

Does anyone actually really read it?

. . .

May Kos do for Newsweek everything he did for Ned Lemont.

At Daily Kos, Markos crows that “wingnut heads are exploding” over this, but last time I checked, my head was still very much intact.

This doesn't surprise me that they'd find each other. What I am surprised about is that newsweek still wishes to keep going left and peg there.

newsweek was the magazine pushed in my public schools current events civics class as a reliable source..hehe.

re: #192 cookielady

Hmmm, let's see... I am either not a wingnut, or I have not sufficiently assimilated the important information regarding the idiotic extreme left blatherer joining lack-of-forces with the leftist-pontification-in-print-circulati on-failing magazine that few humans purposefully read outside of enforced boredom while sitting in various medical office waiting rooms.

After careful consideration of both possibilities, I have concluded that the truth of the situation is as follows: while most likely a wingnut, I simply don't care about the aforementioned matter of no importance.

Okay, next!

I think the koslings like to use projection a lot, especially in this case. Just because they lose their head over little things they can't control, they think normal people will do so too.

What a daytime soapfest this whole campaign has become...but Kos will NOT be able to maintain his kover for long, and this will come back to haunt the Dems:

Join us now as NewsWeak and MoveOn.Arrgh present another episode of As the Worm Turns

One would have to care about "Newsweek" to give a crap about this.

The only thing any of the leftist rags are good for, are target backstops at the range.

Circulations continue the downward trend since the great majority of Americans have figured out that the msm is nothing more than a socialist leftist tool.

Does anyone still read Newsweek?

I suppose we should be grateful they didn't ask Robert Fisk or Ahmadinejad.

I would have thought they would hire Charles to be the Kos counterpart.

Re #173, Lance:

I'd have to put myself in the more conservative group, even here at LGF.

So, if anyone's head was going to explode over this KOS at Newsweek bit... it'd be me.

But no. I'm not suprised.

Newsweek hiring karl rove... that would suprise me. That they hired KOS suprises me as much as the UN being ineffective.

Get ready for your head to pop. According to THIS link at NewsBusters, they are doing just that!

(I can't believe that I'm the first to post this here!)