Not everyone on Pajamas Media wears them. [;

Are you wearing slippers too?

She should have said the moonbats in Pajamas.

You also have to remember that it was a blogger who kept her in the running for the selection.

Bananas In Pajamas?

Bananas in Pajamas!

re: #3 winston06

She should have said the moonbats in Pajamas.

Why can I easily picture moonbats running errands in PJs?

re: #5 gmsc

Jinx!

Governor Palin, the word "media" is PLURAL.

re: #8 Mich-again

Jinx!

Buy me a coke!

Heheh. What an insult -- the mainstream media as water carriers for bloggers.

She can blog my pajamas.

/did I type that IRL?!

Pajamas are fine. Pajamas with feet are the problem.

re: #9 MandyManners

Governor Palin, the word "media" is PLURAL.

The singular is "medium", so called because it is neither rare, nor well done.

I LOVE YOU, GRETA! YOU'RE GONNA' OUT-DO THE CAPONE-SAFE-CRACKER.

Hey! What's wrong with blogging in pajamas?

I do some of my best thinking in pajamas.

Waiting for new Palin hatred thread by PJ sporting, cheetos-scarfing moonbats in Koz-land in 5...4...3...2...

What about the baseball cap, Charles?

re: #12 esch

She can blog my pajamas.

/did I type that IRL?!

A FPIL?

re: #13 HelloDare

Pajamas are fine. Pajamas with feet are the problem.

Always looked a little odd to me. And down right creepy on an adult blogger.

That is rich. I'd be loving it more if she was saying it whilst planning her transition to the white house. But I'm still loving it. I hope she gets active nationally. I would like 2010 to be a repeat of 1994, only this time with the Republicans taking advantage of victory instead of resting on laurels.

Speaking of PJs. Goodnight all. Thanks again for a great blog, Charles.
-Taq

re: #14 gmsc

The singular is "medium", so called because it is neither rare, nor well done.

*rimshot*

what are these "pajamas" of which you speak?

re: #17 Intrepid

Waiting for new Palin hatred thread by PJ sporting, cheetos-scarfing moonbats in Koz-land in 5...4...3...2...

You have a problem with cheetos?

What is everyone doing for Veteran's Day?

Pajamas with feet are okay if you're smoking a pipe. Other than that, no.

re: #22 MandyManners

*rimshot*

Thank you! Try the veal!

These are not the pajamas that I know.

re: #23 hermit

what are these "pajamas" of which you speak?

blog naked

sounds like a band

Palin is the future of the Republican party, if not its DOA. She just got my vote, good ole McCain did not.

Was going to do a riff on Governor Cutie Pie and pajamas, but I bet by the time this post hits the thread, it's been done to death.

re: #3 winston06

She should have said the moonbats in Pajamas.

True. There are good blogs and bad blogs. I think she is a bit surprised at the way she was pounced on. Wasilla appears to have a very low moonbat ratio. The first encounter with moonbat hatered is often a real shock for well adjusted people. It wasn't for me, but then again I'm not well adjusted.

I'm wearing pj's. But I'm not living in my parents' basement.

re: #24 legalpad

You have a problem with cheetos?

Oh heck no! But dang if that orange dye doesn't stick to your fingers like white on rice!

/more of a Planters' Cheeseballs fan, myself.

re: #19 MandyManners

A FPIL?

I think it was a Freudian Slip. That's where you say one thing, but mean your mother another.

re: #20 freedombilly

Always looked a little odd to me. And down right creepy on an adult blogger.

Hey! I have hardwood floors. The rubber pads on the bottoms keep me from slipping.

re: #25 logboy

What is everyone doing for Veteran's Day?

Glad you asked, here's a site with lists

[Link: www1.va.gov...]

re: #31 Noam Sayin'

Was going to do a riff on Governor Cutie Pie and pajamas, but I bet by the time this post hits the thread, it's been done to death.

Do it.

re: #10 gmsc

Buy me a coke!

Sorry but I checked and You Lose. Good day SIR!

Rules

A jinx can be initiated when at least two people in casual conversation unintentionally say (or type, in the case of Internet jinx) the same word or phrase at the same time. If one of them (the "jinxer") yells "Jinx!" before any further conversation has begun, the other person (the "jinxee") is in a state of being "jinxed" and may not speak further until they are "released" from the jinx. The rules for what constitutes such a release vary. Traditionally, a jinx is ended when anyone speaks the jinxed person's name. However, a common variation says that only the jinxer can free the jinxee from their obligation to remain silent. (This is sometimes called a "private jinx" or "jinx personal lock".)

The game ends when either the jinxee is released from the jinx or when the jinxee "breaks" the jinx by speaking while in a state of being jinxed. In the latter case, the Jinxee loses the game, and often a penalty is exacted.

re: #34 Intrepid

Oh heck no! But dang if that orange dye doesn't stick to your fingers like white on rice!

/more of a Planters' Cheeseballs fan, myself.

I really eat popcorn, nachos, etc.

re: #36 Noam Sayin'

Hey! I have hardwood floors. The rubber pads on the bottoms keep me from slipping.

Like the MFM (formerly MSM) your facts don't fit my template!

Blogs have become the media's bane.

That was clumsy. It could have been a theme and a meme, but it came out badly.

Whenever the bloggers in pajamas theme arises, I imagine them as Christopher Walken playing "The Continental."

They should have flashed up a subtitle that said "Daily Kos" while she said that.

re: #32 Dark_Falcon

True. There are good blogs and bad blogs. I think she is a bit surprised at the way she was pounced on. Wasilla appears to have a very low moonbat ratio. The first encounter with moonbat hatered is often a real shock for well adjusted people. It wasn't for me, but then again I'm not well adjusted.

And the level of the hatred this time was shocking to me. The whole Trig parentage thing was disgusting, and Andrew Sullivan has not yet retracted any of it, I don't think. He was the first and most vociferous in his wackitude about Trig/parentage.

Apparently the source of Palin smears is not a real person, the whole thing is a hoax.

Details and links at smalldeadanimals.com

re: #35 gmsc

Possible.

Palin rocks my caucus.

re: #20 freedombilly

Always looked a little odd to me. And down right creepy on an adult blogger.

Is the trap-door issue, right?

re: #39 Mich-again

Mich-again is never short on facts!

re: #42 Sharmuta

Blogs have become the media's bane.

Fucking-A.

re: #38 MandyManners

Do it.

Was going to be a "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" kind of thing. But dang it if I don't admire Mr. Palin so much.

The problem isn't that people are in their PJ's all day, the real problem is that people take them off when they wake up.

re: #39 Mich-again

i speak the name - "gmsc"
/there that should do it

re: #49 MandyManners

Is the trap-door issue, right?

PJ's trap-doors are almost as creepy as clowns!

The "right wing bloggers" (Charles included/apologies) were more than kind to Palin.

re: #51 MandyManners

In 2004 they didn't take blog seriously, and that was a problem.

In 2008 they took blogs seriously, and that was a problem.

re: #55 freedombilly

PJ's trap-doors are almost as creepy as clowns!

Didn't you know those will be the standard uniform for producers under ODL.

Handy.

re: #44 jaunte

Whenever the bloggers in pajamas theme arises, I imagine them as Christopher Walken playing "The Continental."

Christoper Walken?

re: #42 Sharmuta

Blogs have become the media's bane.

Yes when they aren't getting hoaxed and suckered by hysteriablogs they are getting their asses fact checked by the big blogmind.

re: #56 Killgore Trout

The "right wing bloggers" (Charles included/apologies) were more than kind to Palin.

yeah, but she was talking about the KosKidz vel sim. Actually, the whole blogging reference was a lead-in to a nice critique of the MSM.

I was given some pajamas for Christmas last year. They're green, so sometimes I wear them cuz they go with the place.

Congratulations Governor Palin, you've just discovered that the 'blog world is no different than any other media.

Like anything other media, there are well reasoned, well researched blogs, and there are the rumor mongers. Newspapers are no different, nor are TV news programs. The NYT is a pale shadow of what it once was. The Baltimore Sun is only useful if you want to read a mouthpiece of the Democrat party. The Washington Post is a shill for Obama, even if they are honest enough to admit it.

And the Kos Kidz? They're Hopeless Kozes. I wish them nothing but peace and understanding, though the latter might be a mind-blowing experience for most of them.

re: #23 hermit

what are these "pajamas" of which you speak?

They are made of the finest evil Zionist thread you could ever lay your jooo hands on, and paid for by our Zionist checks!

//

re: #59 MandyManners

Christoper Walken?

A timeless classic.

So, if Charles doesn't wear pajamas, could that possibly mean he's blogging...NEKKID?

No we don't have pajama's, we wear Boxer's.

re: #66 RememberSekhmet?

He blogs 'commando.'

re: #39 Mich-again
and often a penalty is exacted...

what have you done with him?yooouuu bathtard

re: #9 MandyManners

Governor Palin, the word "media" is PLURAL.

True, but in conversational English it is often treated as singular.
"The media is biased against Bush." Sounds okay for chit-chat.

Sarah got it right. The leftard, pj wearing, cheetoes eating kkkoskkkids made up a bunch of crap about her and the msm ran with it instead of doing any kind of research. msm too lazy, too inept, too in the tank for the Zero to do their job.

It's funny - most of the kids I teach, Obama voters to a kid, show up to class at 10 am or even noon in their pj's.

Pajamas. We don't need no stinking pajamas.

re: #56 Killgore Trout

The "right wing bloggers" (Charles included/apologies) were more than kind to Palin.

I don't believe it's the right wing bloggers she's referring to here. I'd reckon the most important PJ wearing blogger was that UT kid who hacked her e-mail and posted private family photos and her family's cellphone numbers.

The kid who was indicted...what the heck was his name? David something.

re: #13 HelloDare

Pajamas are fine. Pajamas with feet are the problem.

and them flaps in the back?

re: #66 RememberSekhmet?

So, if Charles doesn't wear pajamas, could that possibly mean he's blogging...NEKKID?

NO, it means he sleeps in his clothes. You do sleep, don't you Charles?

re: #64 lone_wolf_in_illinois

They are made of the finest evil Zionist thread you could ever lay your jooo hands on, and paid for by our Zionist checks!

//

November 10, 1975: United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).

/The Edmund Fitzgerald sank the same day

re: #64 lone_wolf_in_illinois

this place has a nice, high thread count...kinda comfy

re: #66 RememberSekhmet?

So, if Charles doesn't wear pajamas, could that possibly mean he's blogging...NEKKID?

How about Charles? Boxers or briefs?

re: #74 Intrepid

David Kernell

re: #66 RememberSekhmet?

Quick, get me the eye bleach! ;)

re: #62 Sharmuta

I was given some pajamas for Christmas last year. They're green, so sometimes I wear them cuz they go with the place.

Don't they clash with the blue-tinted skin?

re: #74 Intrepid

I don't believe it's the right wing bloggers she's referring to here. I'd reckon the most important PJ wearing blogger was that UT kid who hacked her e-mail and posted private family photos and her family's cellphone numbers.

The kid who was indicted...what the heck was his name? David something.

I thought it was established she or one of her staff were quite obviously reading these blogs.

But, she encountered more than her share of crapola from leftist blogs for sure.

re: #77 gmsc

thank g_d you're okay!

re: #70 wolfie

True, but in conversational English it is often treated as singular.
"The media is biased against Bush." Sounds okay for chit-chat.

So what?

Why must we consent to the dumbing-down of the knowledge of our language?

re: #70 wolfie

True, but in conversational English it is often treated as singular.
"The media is biased against Bush." Sounds okay for chit-chat.

Perfectly acceptable to give collective nouns singular verbs (as they are in ancient languages...). In the UK it would be, "The media are," "the band are," etc.

re: #71 newsjunkie_ky

Sarah got it right. The leftard, pj wearing, cheetoes eating kkkoskkkids made up a bunch of crap about her and the msm ran with it instead of doing any kind of research. msm too lazy, too inept, too in the tank for the Zero to do their job.

Andrea Mitchell even told me it was the fault of bloggers. So I told her that didn't mean they had to report it. She didn't really have a response to that. Go figure.

re: #86 arethusa

one of my favorite quotes overheard when living in the UK "Well, you know the Americans -- ain't no noun what can't be verbed."

re: #82 Intrepid

Don't they clash with the blue-tinted skin?

No- blue and green are complimentary colors. ;)

re: #80 neocon hippie

David Kernell

D'OH! Thanks. His father is a legislator in my home state.

When I was a kid, we had a cat named Pajamas. It would eat figs that fell out of the fig tree. When it was full, it was a bad idea to pick it up.

It stunned me when Katie Couric dumbfounded Palin by asking her to name some of the newspapers she read. I could have rattled off a dozen, not because I actually read newspapers, but because I link to newspaper articles from around the world every day. Some like der Spiegel or Hindustan Times I go to just to see their take in things. So when Palin couldn't actually name any newspapers I started to wonder if she used the internet much.

I need to be chilled, nauseous and running a high fever before I slip on those polo suckers.

Charles, I notice you deny the pajamas part, but not the parents' basement part. Just sayin'...

/kidding! I was kidding! Have mercy on me chief lizard! I am not worthy to pick up the crumbs under your parents' table.

Anybody know where I can buy adult sized "Dr. Dentons"...:) The PJ's with feet...:)

re: #91 Ojoe

THAT needed a Spew Alert - now i have to clean my monitor! red wine, too!

re: #72 arethusa

It's funny - most of the kids I teach, Obama voters to a kid, show up to class at 10 am or even noon in their pj's.

I have seen young women wondering around Walmart in their dirty pajamas (the cuffs were worn down like they wear them out all the time).

True. Las Vegas.

re: #88 hermit

one of my favorite quotes overheard when living in the UK "Well, you know the Americans -- ain't no noun what can't be verbed."

Verbing weirds language.

re: #77 gmsc

November 10, 1975: United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).

/The Edmund Fitzgerald sank the same day

Thank you.

Thank U charles.

re: #77 gmsc

November 10, 1975: United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).

/The Edmund Fitzgerald sank the same day

I almost tear up every time I hear this song, being a sailor myself.

My parents' basement is more like a crawl space. You'd have to be Bad Ronald to want to live there.

And if anyone else remembers that movie I'll be surprised.

re: #97 Racer X

I have seen young women wondering around Walmart in their dirty pajamas (the cuffs were worn down like they wear them out all the time).

True. Las Vegas.

There's a great example of whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!

re: #91 Ojoe

When I was a kid, we had a cat named Pajamas. It would eat figs that fell out of the fig tree. When it was full, it was a bad idea to pick it up.

as opposed to figs that fell out of an apple tree?

re: #90 Intrepid

D'OH! Thanks. His father is a legislator in my home state.

Where are u, Intrepid? And didn't I read that it is your birthday in an hour or so?

re: #95 Dustyvet

Anybody know where I can buy adult sized "Dr. Dentons"...:) The PJ's with feet...:)

Mistress Belindas Adult Baby Needs Emporium

re: #105 sattv4u2

as opposed to figs that fell out of an apple tree?

Heh.

re: #105 sattv4u2

as opposed to figs that fell out of an apple tree?

Rare, but tasty. And enough fiber to turn one into a human rocket.

re: #98 gmsc

hahahahaha - watterson was a genuis!

re: #95 Dustyvet

Anybody know where I can buy adult sized "Dr. Dentons"...:) The PJ's with feet...:)

Try CheapFootedPajamas.com

re: #96 hermit

Wait! Stop! Don't pick up Pajamas! we yelled to Aunt Mildred.

_{Too late.}

re: #87 Sharmuta

Andrea Mitchell even told me it was the fault of bloggers. So I told her that didn't mean they had to report it. She didn't really have a response to that. Go figure.

Andrea Mitchell considers herself a news reporter? Does she not understand the responsibility she bears to investigate any lead she gets? That's what blog posts should be treated as, story leads. They only point in the direction of a story, but the onus is on the news organization to do their dad-gummed jobs and get their sources straight!

re: #86 arethusa

Perfectly acceptable to give collective nouns singular verbs (as they are in ancient languages...). In the UK it would be, "The media are," "the band are," etc.

Oh yes! I hadn't thought of that British usage. I am always jolted by
things like "the company are selling more widgets this year."

re: #101 eddiespaghetti

Thank U charles.

(((eddiespaghetti)))

Welcome back, eddie.

re: #112 Ojoe

you bathtard! i was almost finished!

re: #103 Mich-again

My parents' basement is more like a crawl space. You'd have to be Bad Ronald to want to live there.

And if anyone else remembers that movie I'll be surprised.

Is that the one where a teenager accidentally kills a girl who was teasing him, so bis mom seals up a bathroom for him to hide/live in?

re: #109 Gearhead

Rare, but tasty. And enough fiber to turn one into a human rocket.

You needed to give us a *spew* alert before reading that one. What a word picture.

"short-dicked fruitcake freakshow with unresolved Freudian issues" or "punk-ass little bitch Democrat" wouldn't go over as well. She kinda had to say the "pajamas" thing.

This reaction of Palin's should be thought through carefully.

I appreciate the irony, and recognize the dismissal. But she is also pointing out how effective the attacks on her were by Andrew Sullivan et al, even though they were not fact based or in any way rational.

Charles has had several breakout stories because he does take great care to establish facts before posting, and is clear about speculation. He has thereby built a reputation. You can scan the referrer logs from time to time and still see people linking old posts on Fauxtography and Rathergate.

But what about Kos and Sullivan? The basis of their reputation lies in "analysis" and "opinion making". In other words - emotional content that riles up readers.

The instinct is to fight fire with fire, but I think that, if the right is to get some power back, it has to turn to doing the job that the media has refused to. While doing that, we need to point out that the left (like the media) exists on generating emotional response rather than facing the trade offs of rational decision making.

We have to introduce the buyers remorse that comes after the high of buying something very new and cool and then realizing you paid too much, got it on credit, and it doesn't actually work.

We have to be the rational alternative to the "get angry, act out, then feel good until the bill comes" ride that the left and the media has America on.

re: #105 sattv4u2

Just making really sure.

BBL

"Footies" as we called them are just way too much trouble if you REALLY have to go, like quick!

re: #102 lone_wolf_in_illinois

I almost tear up every time I hear this song, being a sailor myself.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

by Gordon Lightfoot

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane West Wind

When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

The Captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the words turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.

They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.

© 1976 Moose Music, Inc.

re: #70 wolfie

True, but in conversational English it is often treated as singular.
"The media is biased against Bush." Sounds okay for chit-chat.

Did the Governor mis-speak? As I hear it, she said,

"...things that could have, should have been so easily corrected if, if the media would [have] taken one step further and, and investigated a little bit, and not just..."

It seems that she dropped a "have", but the don't see the singular/plural mismatch.

re: #109 Gearhead

Rare, but tasty. And enough fiber to turn one into a human rocket.

ELP - Explosive Liqui-poo
/occasionally i have to work with the pre-school kids...

re: #71 newsjunkie_ky
Absolutely correct post.

Sarah got it right. The leftard, pj wearing, cheetoes eating kkkoskkkids made up a bunch of crap about her and the msm ran with it instead of doing any kind of research. msm too lazy, too inept, too in the tank for the Zero to do their job.

For the first time in years I watched a Fox News show in primetime and when Palin said what she did about bloggers, my Mom turned to me and said "She sure wasn't talking about LGF was she!"
And no, she wasn't.
And yes when she talked about bloggers in their basements I knew she meant people like the Koskids and that idiot who hacked her e-mails. But the BIGGER POINT is that she was spot on when she said the MSM didn't catch up to or investigate stories about here and the baby and all for a LONG time and sometimes never at all.

re: #24 legalpad

You have a problem with cheetos?

A guy goes to the doctor for a checkup.
The doc gets to the point where he looks over his private parts.

The guys Johnson is orange.

The doc thinks it is strange. Looks up in the med books and prescribes a drug to cure the condition. Tells the guy to come back in a week.

A week later, no better.

Back to the Physicians Desk Reference and a new RX.

A week later the guy comes back. No better.
The doc tries one more drug
and again a week later, no luck.

Sends him a a specialist.

Specialist is stumped.
Asks the guy if he works around radiation, no
around dangerous chemicals, no again
any kind of an injury happen ? again no

so he says
ok, in your own words
tell me what you do on an average day

ok, Doc
I get up at 6, eat a piece of toast and coffee and go to work
we have catered food every day, never the same stuff twice

then I come home from work at 5:30
open a beer and turn on some porn
and grab my bag of Cheetos

re: #106 Wishing

Where are u, Intrepid? And didn't I read that it is your birthday in an hour or so?

Tennessee, and no - it's my birthday today. Somebody else earlier said their BD is tomorrow. Can't remember who it was...

re: #92 Mich-again

It stunned me when Katie Couric dumbfounded Palin by asking her to name some of the newspapers she read. I could have rattled off a dozen, not because I actually read newspapers, but because I link to newspaper articles from around the world every day. Some like der Spiegel or Hindustan Times I go to just to see their take in things. So when Palin couldn't actually name any newspapers I started to wonder if she used the internet much.

Couric was playing a game where she was going to keep digging into the same question until she hit an "I don't know."

"What papers do you read?"

"The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the LA Times."

"What was the headline on the New York Times this morning?"

[Palin cites the headline.]

"How about yesterday and the day before? What were the headlines on the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times for the last three days?"

Whatever newspapers Sarah Palin had cited, Couric the Vicious was going to dig for an "I don't know" until she found one.

re: #101 eddiespaghetti

That's a pre-emptive hug.

re: #123 Dustyvet

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the words turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.

My favorite part.

The rumor was that she met her staff at the door to her hotel room wearing only a towel. While a fabrication, thank goodness it wasn't fabricated about the other VP candidate: my imagination has suffered enough already.

re: #125 hermit

ELP - Explosive Liqui-poo
/occasionally i have to work with the pre-school kids...

So funny I had to tell my 8 year old son. You know how they are, anything with pee, poo or fart is really great.

re: #120 karmic_inquisitor

This reaction of Palin's should be thought through carefully.

I appreciate the irony, and recognize the dismissal. But she is also pointing out how effective the attacks on her were by Andrew Sullivan et al, even though they were not fact based or in any way rational.

Charles has had several breakout stories because he does take great care to establish facts before posting, and is clear about speculation. He has thereby built a reputation. You can scan the referrer logs from time to time and still see people linking old posts on Fauxtography and Rathergate.

But what about Kos and Sullivan? The basis of their reputation lies in "analysis" and "opinion making". In other words - emotional content that riles up readers.

The instinct is to fight fire with fire, but I think that, if the right is to get some power back, it has to turn to doing the job that the media has refused to. While doing that, we need to point out that the left (like the media) exists on generating emotional response rather than facing the trade offs of rational decision making.

We have to introduce the buyers remorse that comes after the high of buying something very new and cool and then realizing you paid too much, got it on credit, and it doesn't actually work.

We have to be the rational alternative to the "get angry, act out, then feel good until the bill comes" ride that the left and the media has America on.

Well said.

re: #124 Opilio

I was just replying to Mandy, who was said Palin used media as a singular noun. (I didn't go back to the clip to listen!)

re: #120 karmic_inquisitor

Excellent post, Karmic. Well said.

re: #128 Intrepid

Tennessee, and no - it's my birthday today. Somebody else earlier said their BD is tomorrow. Can't remember who it was...

Well then Happy Birthday! I am over in NE TN...You?

The term "MSM" is discussed as a singular noun all over the internet.

re: #135 wolfie

I was just replying to Mandy, who was said Palin used media as a singular noun. (I didn't go back to the clip to listen!)

Okey-dokey.

re: #133 poopeedoo

So funny I had to tell my 8 year old son. You know how they are, anything with pee, poo or fart is really great.

We have two boys - 6 and 4. If they aren't doing one of those three things, they're talking about them.

re: #140 Gearhead

We have two boys - 6 and 4. If they aren't doing one of those three things, they're talking about them.

So true!

I'm not much of a blogger and my home has no basement, but I do wear PJ's.

/...I'm wearing 'em right now in fact.

re: #77 gmsc

November 10, 1975: United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).

/The Edmund Fitzgerald sank the same day

Other Notable Chicago event on November 10th:

1924: Dean O'Banion is murdered in his State Street flower shop by Frankie Yale, John Scaliesi, and Albert Anselni. This event, called the Handshake Murder, is the catalyst for the Southside vs. Northside gang war that culminates in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929.

re: #142 Ringo the Gringo

I'm not much of a blogger and my home has no basement, but I do wear PJ's.

/...I'm wearing 'em right now in fact.

ditto!

re: #132 amateurpundit

The rumor was that she met her staff at the door to her hotel room wearing only a towel. While a fabrication, thank goodness it wasn't fabricated about the other VP candidate: my imagination has suffered enough already.

Yikes! That's as bad a mental image as Donald Trump with wet hair.

Brrr!

Hello Night Lizards! It was FREAKIN' COLD in Near Iowa this morning. The the sun came up and it got a little better.

Mandy, I enjoyed Christopher Walken.

How are you-all tonite and what are we talking about?

re: #137 Wishing

Well then Happy Birthday! I am over in NE TN...You?

Thanks! Northern Middle TN, about 30 miles out of Nashville.

re: #122 Wishing

When I bought them for my kid (when he was little) they were called Blanket Sleepers.

and I want one for me.

re: #122 Wishing

"Footies" as we called them are just way too much trouble if you REALLY have to go, like quick!

In my day they where called "Dr. Dentons" and they had sort of a built in bedroom slipper in each foot. Mafe for going to the bathroom very easy, and sneaking into the fridge for a cookie very easy. God I'm old...:(

re: #123 Dustyvet

That song has a resonance.

Here in the Puget Sound region, shipwrecks are noteworthy.

We recently lost a fishing boat.

These things, even when it is just a small boat with a small crew, reach out and touch us.

We may not have known them personally, but they are our neighbors and our townsmen. We feel the loss.

We have the big gray ships here also. Ships with crews that number in the hundreds to the thousands.

Heaven forbid that we should ever lose one of those. It would be devastating.

re: #124 Opilio

Did the Governor mis-speak? As I hear it, she said,

"...things that could have, should have been so easily corrected if, if the media would [have] taken one step further and, and investigated a little bit, and not just..."

It seems that she dropped a "have", but the don't see the singular/plural mismatch.

I tend to agree. It sounded fine to me. All this picking at such detail seems to indicate pre-formed conclusions about the Governor in some cases, and fear of being accused of blind faith in her in other cases. We just don't have a consistent standard. When we chose people to run for office, we have to choose from those who will run, not just anybody we can think of. We choose from those available. Her basic philosophy and integrity seem fine, the question is her electability. Of course, if you can get someone who is more electable and has the principles too, of course you do. That is why it remains to be seen what happens next. The Republicans have a long way to go in forming a cogent party.

52 48

so lets,,,like ...be all rainbow and friendly...kiss and make up now that we, the 52 have shown you 48 the O...sorry..we mean way. We all want to give u a BIG group hug and let u know
that we hope u have no hard FEEELLLings for the way "u" have been treated these last four years...come on what-ya say?

"click-click"

re: #21 Taqiyyotomist

That is rich. I'd be loving it more if she was saying it whilst
planning her transition to the white house. But I'm still loving it. I
hope she gets active nationally. I would like 2010 to be a repeat of
1994, only this time with the Republicans taking advantage of victory
instead of resting on laurels.

Speaking of PJs. Goodnight all. Thanks again for a great blog, Charles.

-Taq

Fox News (maybe D Morris?) implied tonight that perhaps Newt G. will become head of RNC. If so, who better to engineer a repeat of '94 "Contract w/ Am., then my old history prof from Tulane. But, more Repubs are up in '10 then Dems, or so I've read lately. Sarah emoted well tonight.

Charles, nah! Palin was talking about those who still live with their Mommy and hide out in the basement, never getting up and out for the day, those who don't like people. In other words, those McCain staffers who couldn't run a bingo game if they tried but certainly know well how to back-stab and start ignorant gossip!

re: #66 RememberSekhmet?

So, if Charles doesn't wear pajamas, could that possibly mean he's blogging...NEKKID?

Oooo! A man after my own heart! :D :D :D

/house nudist

(please forgive me, Charles)

I understand why she was a little defensive and bitter. The poor woman was slagged in every direction. In my memory, there has never been an election so ugly.
It's alright to wear pyjamas, if that's your thing, but not when you go shopping. That's why God invented pants.
Just saying.

re: #156 Joan Not of Arc

(please forgive me, Charles)

I understand why she was a little defensive and bitter. The poor woman was slagged in every direction. In my memory, there has never been an election so ugly.
It's alright to wear pyjamas, if that's your thing, but not when you go shopping. That's why God invented pants.
Just saying.

Course, if one lived in Cap d'Agde (pronounced "cap dag"), one could actually go shopping wearing no pants at all... in fact, wearing nothing at all.

What a diverse world we live in, eh? :D

re: #92 Mich-again

Not me, I though at that time, it was a trap question by Perky. I would have retorted that: "perhaps like you , Katie, my staff, just as yours, scans the press daily, many newspapers, and red circle the articles that I need to see. So, yea, Katie, I read lots of papers - just like you, right?

Had she said: "well... the NYT", Perky would have twisted the next question.

But the first retort would have turned the tables on Perky, Smirky.

The fact that Sarah's handler for this interview used to work for Katie implies too much. The entire thing could have been a trap/setup, especially now that someone, (a handler?) is now leaking despicable smears.

Pink Bunny Pajamas with feet are a problem...

re: #159 LTC8K6

Pink Bunny Pajamas with feet are a problem...

Yeah, but are the feet... lucky...? :D

re: #143 Dark_Falcon

Just up ticked to you Dark Falcon,

Sigh, a long night is upon us. I have to laugh, for I am the Nightwatch.
So much work to be done. So much work...

do I want to watch the clip? Does she clear up the wolves thing?

re: #161 Nightwatch

Just up ticked to you Dark Falcon,

Sigh, a long night is upon us. I have to laugh, for I am the Nightwatch.
So much work to be done. So much work...

Just remember who the Nightwatch were on "Babylon 5." We don't wanna be that sort of Nightwatch.

re: #30 Ayatrollah

Lots of people are saying she's just not that bright. I knew lots of smart Republicans; why don't they run for office?

Let me leave the stream of PJ's ,

Veterans Day! What be your plans to celebrate what our Vetreans have given to you?
Are you going to do something that signifies the freedoms you enjoy because of them?

I hope so. How better to honor their Sacrafices then to spend the day being FREE to do the things you love to do! Like a day at the range with your rifles and pistols, BBQ with steaks grilled, beer from a cooler with fanily and friends, visiting War Memorials, seeing a VET and THANKING him or her for their duty to this Country! Call off work if you must, because YOU ARE FREE TO DO SO because of a VET!

re: #103 Mich-again

My parents' basement is more like a crawl space. You'd have to be Bad Ronald to want to live there.

And if anyone else remembers that movie I'll be surprised.

That WAS scary. Both the movie and that I get the reference.

re: #163 NomadOfNorad

Sir,

I do not deal in the relm of a TV show. I make statements that reflect on the day to day of my
Country. Sorry if you were mis-directed.

re: #134 Charles

Thanks.

re: #167 Nightwatch

Sir,

I do not deal in the relm of a TV show. I make statements that reflect on the day to day of my
Country. Sorry if you were mis-directed.

Wasn't accusing you OF it. Just that some people will remember the really, really sinister group on that show instead of what YOU'RE talking about. Best to be aware of unintended connotations so you can counter them.

So are we now trashing Palin and all social conservatives around here or what?

re: #169 NomadOfNorad

Actually, now that I think about it, there was also a good-guy character in the BBC TV version of "Robin Hood" known as the Night Watchman (or a name close to that), who was sort of a local, independent, backup version of Robin Hood, who went around at night wearing a mask and helping the maltreated serfs. I'd say you're definitely much closer to that in concept than the brown-shirts-ish group on that space-opera.

Forget what I said earlier, then. There's probably LOTS of different characters named Nightwatch, or Night Watchman, or the like out there. For all I know, there's possibly even a superhero by that name... hehe...

Hmmm... actually, that might be a nifty idea for a comic book... :D

Of course, as I said in 2004, I never wear pajamas. So I’m sure she wasn’t talking about me.

Clearly, I am deprived, because I got a mild thrill reading that.

My Male has much to answer for!

Ha, Charles. I remembered instantly - Armani.

re: #169 NomadOfNorad

No offence, given the NEW day of represent-Gov. thinking, one must be ...careful

re: #167 Nightwatch

Actually, let me apologize further: When I posted that, I didn't notice that your NICK was Nightwatch... so I thought you were proposing, with tongue in cheek, that we start a voluntary civilian group called the Nightwatch... but I now realize you weren't saying that.

/takes off his glasses and cleans them.

re: #174 Nightwatch

No offence, given the NEW day of represent-Gov. thinking, one must be ...careful

Yeah, and so must I.

/starts slapping self silly.

re: #175 NomadOfNorad
If you look, and then search out the name, you see what is the total of a society who wishes to protect themselves from the invaders of the night. Hence...

re: #176 NomadOfNorad

hard drive drag and all ...mock?...so evident with the mis-spelled and all... lets agree to be...

re: #177 Nightwatch

If you look, and then search out the name, you see what is the total of a society who wishes to protect themselves from the invaders of the night. Hence...

Yup. It's also the name of the graveyard shift aboard the starship Enterprise.

"Begin night watch." --Lieutenant Commander Data

...and since it's that time of night, I really should be heading to bed before I make any MORE gaffs... :-D

re: #178 Nightwatch

hard drive drag and all ...mock?...so evident with the mis-spelled and all... lets agree to be...

Mock? Mock? I was mocking myself in post #176, not you.

Actually, what I was saying there was that I must be more careful to not misread someones post like I did message #161, such that I make myself look silly.

Peace?

Pajamas ? I spent too much time in southeast Asia, wear sarong. Can I still blog? Gotta find the rule book...

I blog totally nude.
Just thought I'd let the rest of you know.

re: #76 blangwort

NO, it means he sleeps in his clothes. You do sleep, don't you Charles?

I'm guessing that he sleeps in his clothes. so that he's able to respond immediately when the LGF SUL perimeter alarms go off.

I could be wrong.

re: Charles
Of course, as I said in 2004, I never wear pajamas. So I’m sure she wasn’t talking about me.

I truly believe she just might read us here (as if she had the time!). She used the phrase [adlibbed] "bloggers in their pajamas in their mother's basement..." ...a phrase oft-spoken here.

hmmm...

re: #66 RememberSekhmet?

So, if Charles doesn't wear pajamas, could that possibly mean he's blogging...NEKKID?

NEKKID.
Love that word. There's just something, you know, really RAW about it!

re: #182 Irish Rose

I blog totally nude.
Just thought I'd let the rest of you know.

Yeah, me too. but then at my age...
  ^{_{ahhh shit! Tripped over another body part...}}

It happens me to blogging, when I am wearing pajamas. :)

Uh, gang?

Maybe she has a point.

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re: #182 Irish Rose

I blog totally nude.
Just thought I'd let the rest of you know.

Me too. I am totally nude under my PJ's.

For those of you that need new footie jammies, here ya be... Can be a bit pricey, but there is the next Zionist check coming on the 15th and it should have last months' commission included.

Thank God for bloggers. They are, indeed, the bane of the media. Of course, she has a point about checking facts, something the media has forgotten how to do.

I say we design special pajamas for blogging.

re: #113 Intrepid

Andrea Mitchell considers herself a news reporter? Does she not understand the responsibility she bears to investigate any lead she gets? That's what blog posts should be treated as, story leads. They only point in the direction of a story, but the onus is on the news organization to do their dad-gummed jobs and get their sources straight!

In my experience, the general herd of reporters are lazy and shallow. They basically write from the press releases and media kits, show up for some Joe Blow quotes and sound bites from the "stars" This is the run of the mill. Then there are the real professionals, these strive for excellence and even when their research and interviews tend toward a general conclusion, some gesture to balance is made by quotes and reference points to alternate interpretation. It is true that 80% of traditional media, from print to cable, failed miserably in their role as watchdogs, or the loftier Fourth Estate. They are propaganda hacks, and should labor as hard to rehabilitate their sullied honor as the did for two years leading up to this Presidential election. People like Charles Johnson and Glenn Reynolds are the Fourth Estate. People like Andrea Mitchell and the L.A. Times editorial staff are nothing more than apparatchiks for Minitru

re: #120 karmic_inquisitor

...The instinct is to fight fire with fire, but I think that, if the right is to get some power back, it has to turn to doing the job that the media has refused to. While doing that, we need to point out that the left (like the media) exists on generating emotional response rather than facing the trade offs of rational decision making...We have to be the rational alternative to the "get angry, act out, then feel good until the bill comes" ride that the left and the media has America on.

Excellent. I wish that Sarah Palin, effective immediately, would go into lockdown and turn her entire attention to governing her state. It is the smart thing to do. She's telegraphing her intentions too blatantly, too prematurely. She had her moment to stand up and shout back, she was entitled to that moment. That moment has passed.

By the way, allowing Newt Gingrich to step right up and be the face of the future for us is a mistake. It isn't a smart move on our part, he is the past. I'm not saying he isn't smart and an asset. I'm saying that it will take less than 48 hours for the leftist hate machine to reactivate the Manchurian Candidates in media and the activist network. No matter what he proposes, says, attempts to implement it will all come down to his personal failings, God help him, and the Contract On America.

Let's move, but plan our moves for a change.

I blog from my kids' parents' basement.

I am pretty sure she was talking about kos kids of course, in their parents basement.

re: #20 freedombilly

Always looked a little odd to me. And down right creepy on an adult blogger.

What about PJs and bunny slippers? A little formal for some occasions, I'll grant, but one should blog in style.

My pajamas have matching slippers!

I got my PJ's on my 1st birthday... when it gets cold, I use a robe.

This house doesn't even have a basement.

So Charles doesn't wear pajamas? So what do you sleep in Charles? Inquiring minds want to know ... :P

I would call Sarah out on this one.

As if the professional moonbat journalists wearing ties were any kinder to her in the MSM..

I'm just happy "I never wear pajamas." wasn't in blue letters.