Chuck C. Johnson’s Latest Attack Piece Is a Vicious Deliberate Lie, and His Own Video Proves It

The word for this is “lying”
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Yes, folks, hirsute hate-monger Chuck C. Johnson is at it again, still trying to attack and smear the author of that Rolling Stone article about rape at the University of Virginia. His latest is another “BREAKING” report (based on a 2-year old video clip), that attributes the following words in quotes to author Sabrina Erdely:

BREAKING VIDEO: #RollingStone #UVAHoax Author #SabrinaRubinErdely: ‘I Absolutely Shop for Victims’.

Here’s a screenshot of this dishonest piece of trash:

I don’t know where he dug up the video that accompanies this article, and I don’t really want to give it hits it doesn’t deserve at YouTube, but I’m including it because if you watch it you’ll see that Ms Erdely never says the words, “I absolutely shop for victims.”

In fact, this discussion has nothing to do with “shopping for victims.” Someone asks Erdely about her writing process; if she’s interested in a particular topic, does she ever “shop around” for concrete examples of it for her story? And she says, yes, she does investigate and try to find specific examples.

That’s IT, people. That’s what Chuck is trying to picture as “shopping for victims.” Here’s Chuck’s video that shows his own post to be a complete and utter lie. He put words in quotes and attributed them to Sabrina Erdely that she neither said nor implied.

YouTube

I almost have to give Chuck kudos for turning himself into the premier bottom feeder in the very crowded, very fetid right wing swamp.

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333 comments
1 Amory Blaine  Dec 10, 2014 1:27:31pm

Smear has taken on a whole new meaning with this guy.

2 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 1:27:54pm
3 Bubblehead II  Dec 10, 2014 1:28:51pm
4 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 1:30:36pm
5 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:31:02pm

Mean girls are mean to the ginger furby!!!

6 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:32:23pm

Andddddddddd…he’s still beating that dead non-existent horse:

7 makeitstop  Dec 10, 2014 1:32:27pm

Stick to poopin’ on the floor, Chuckles. You don’t really have a handle on this reporting thing.

8 Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2014 1:34:04pm

To calls Chucky a hack would be a disservice to hack writers.

9 lawhawk  Dec 10, 2014 1:34:44pm

Reporting and journalism. How does it work? Apparently the “esteemed poopologist Chuck Johnson thinks that journalism is writing things that don’t exist in reality, putting them in headlines that don’t stand up to scrutiny, and then move on to the next outrageous outrage.

He does this day after day. Week after week.

And his latest nothingburger is exhibit (aw heck, I’ve completely lost count), of how Chuck simply makes stuff up to fit his preconceived notion of what he wants reality to be, not what it is.

Reporting means taking comments made in context. At no time did the poopologist do that.

More to the point, any reputable journalist will work sources - both developing them from contacts and from those who contact them independently to develop stories.

And just like that, he’s on to one of the last nothingburgers to try and prop up the current one.

10 Franklin  Dec 10, 2014 1:35:32pm
11 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:36:02pm

Maybe if he had actually taken a journalism class in college, he’s know the definition of “libel”:

12 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 1:36:17pm

Off topic: I’ve posted this before, but it really puts the Torture Report and what we did in perspective:

When about two dozen veterans got together yesterday for the first time since the 1940s, many of the proud men lamented the chasm between the way they conducted interrogations during the war and the harsh measures used today in questioning terrorism suspects.

…

“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.

Blunt criticism of modern enemy interrogations was a common refrain at the ceremonies held beside the Potomac River near Alexandria. Across the river, President Bush defended his administration’s methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects during an Oval Office appearance.

…

“I feel like the military is using us to say, ‘We did spooky stuff then, so it’s okay to do it now,’ ” said Arno Mayer, 81, a professor of European history at Princeton University.

…

“I am deeply honored to be here, but I want to make it clear that my presence here is not in support of the current war,” said Weiss, chairman of the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy and a human rights and trademark lawyer in New York City.

13 Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2014 1:37:49pm

re: #9 lawhawk

Reporting and journalism. How does it work? Apparently the “esteemed poopologist Chuck Johnson thinks that journalism is writing things that don’t exist in reality, putting them in headlines that don’t stand up to scrutiny, and then move on to the next outrageous outrage.

He does this day after day. Week after week.

And his latest nothingburger is exhibit (aw heck, I’ve completely lost count), of how Chuck simply makes stuff up to fit his preconceived notion of what he wants reality to be, not what it is.

Reporting means taking comments made in context. At no time did the poopologist do that.

More to the point, any reputable journalist will work sources - both developing them from contacts and from those who contact them independently to develop stories.

And just like that, he’s on to one of the last nothingburgers to try and prop up the current one.

I’d say that the man is the “New Media” equivalent of a tabloid journalist, but that would imply that he’s a journalist. No, the man is just a smear artist whose modus operandi is throwing outrageous shit against the wall and then moving onto the next handful by the time people have begun to realize what it is that’s actually smeared on the wall.

14 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:39:32pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe if he had actually taken a journalism class in college, he’s know the definition of “libel”:

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This is what has him pissed off at this particular moment:

Media conservatives won’t claim derisive blogger Charles Johnson

15 EPR-radar  Dec 10, 2014 1:41:07pm

re: #13 Targetpractice

I’d say that the man is the “New Media” equivalent of a tabloid journalist, but that would imply that he’s a journalist. No, the man is just a smear artist whose modus operandi is throwing outrageous shit against the wall and then moving onto the next handful by the time people have begun to realize what it is that’s actually smeared on the wall.

Sounds about right to me. Amusingly enough, his floor pooping episode is completely consistent with this picture.

16 lawhawk  Dec 10, 2014 1:43:07pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Only hits matter. That’s his sole goal.

17 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:43:44pm

re: #16 lawhawk

Only hits matter. That’s his sole goal.

That’s why I love “donotlink” and AdBlocker
:D

18 b.d.  Dec 10, 2014 1:44:38pm

Heh, cue the treats of a lawsuit.

Media conservatives won’t claim derisive blogger Charles Johnson

That story caught the attention of Kathleen McKinley, a conservative politics blogger for The Houston Chronicle in Texas.

“I started following him then,” she told the Washington Examiner. “I thought, ‘Oh, wow, he got this big story. It’s great.’ But it wasn’t long before I realized that he’s completely [nuts]. So I quit following him pretty quickly after that.”

washingtonexaminer.com

19 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:44:57pm

bwahahaaa!
game on…

20 makeitstop  Dec 10, 2014 1:47:04pm

Did the Politico piece that our Charles was interviewed for drop yet?

21 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:49:35pm

re: #20 makeitstop

Did the Politico piece that our Charles was interviewed for drop yet?

haven’t seen it yet.

22 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 1:49:46pm
23 Bubblehead II  Dec 10, 2014 1:49:52pm
24 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 1:50:20pm

The Washington Examiner’s right wing writers are completely whacked out themselves, by the way.

25 Minor_L  Dec 10, 2014 1:50:51pm

I just saw someone comment on a FB post by my cousin stating that Michael Brown was charged with 2nd degree murder. This Erdley thing will now become gospel. That’s why Charles is right that we can’t just ignore Chucky and his ilk.

26 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 1:51:35pm

*sad face* Furby ginger apparently blocked me because I can’t follow him.

27 Minor_L  Dec 10, 2014 1:52:13pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

It is hilarious to me that someone who posts reputation-damaging falsehoods about others day after day is the first one to shout “libel” when anyone dares criticize him.

28 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 1:53:05pm
29 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 1:53:20pm

I need a contextual menu browser extension that lets me open hyperlinks with donotlink.com appended by right clicking on them.

How is this not a thing yet?

30 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 1:53:22pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

The Washington Examiner’s right wing writers are completely whacked out themselves, by the way.

“I started following him [Ginger Blogger] then,” she told the Washington Examiner. “I thought, ‘Oh, wow, he got this big story. It’s great.’ But it wasn’t long before I realized that he’s completely [nuts]. So I quit following him pretty quickly after that.”

31 EPR-radar  Dec 10, 2014 1:54:16pm

re: #27 Minor_L

It is hilarious to me that someone who posts reputation-damaging falsehoods about others day after day is the first one to shout “libel” when anyone dares criticize him.

Just like how racists in the GOP are more troubled by people pointing this out then by their own racism.

… there seems to be a pattern here…

32 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:55:10pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

The Washington Examiner’s right wing writers are completely whacked out themselves, by the way.

That’s why I did a “donotlink” in my #14.

33 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 1:55:13pm

Not once has any of these torture apologists mentioned the fact that what was done was inhumane, even Hayden, during his extensive interview on Morning Slow. Bastards have no ethical core.

1 of 2 psychologists who devised George W Bush-era interrogation program, James Mitchell, says Senate report ‘took things out of context,’ makes some accusations that are ‘not true’ - @Reuters
end of alert

34 Amory Blaine  Dec 10, 2014 1:55:57pm

That is the best Washington Examiner article I have ever read.

35 Bubblehead II  Dec 10, 2014 1:56:13pm

re: #26 Dr. Matt

*sad face* Furby ginger apparently blocked me because I can’t follow him.

Welcome to the club. Have you been blocked by Bryan Fischer yet?

36 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:56:57pm

OK, I will now admit to being officially old (since I’m just a few years older than Pugsley):

Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on ‘Addams Family,’ dies at 59

37 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 1:57:06pm

washingtonexaminer.com “If the liberals at Salon or MSNBC were to create a caricature of a conservative reporter, it would be Charles Johnson,” remarked one reporter from The Daily Caller.

38 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 1:57:23pm

re: #35 Bubblehead II

Welcome to the club. Have you been blocked by Bryan Fischer yet?

A loooooong time ago,

39 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 1:57:28pm

re: #34 Amory Blaine

That is the best Washington Examiner article I have ever read.

It is brilliant

40 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 1:59:38pm

re: #34 Amory Blaine

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

WOW. That article pretty much destroyed Chucky. Seriously. That is the definition of a public beat down.

41 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 2:00:13pm

The article is good, but it’s not a picture of reality. The idea that media conservatives are rejecting the Ginger Avenger is ludicrous. He’s being pushed by Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, and the Daily Caller too.

42 EPR-radar  Dec 10, 2014 2:00:33pm

re: #37 Dr. Matt

washingtonexaminer.com “If the liberals at Salon or MSNBC were to create a caricature of a conservative reporter, it would be Charles Johnson,” remarked one reporter from The Daily Caller.

In other words, the Examiner’s main concern appears to be damage to the conservative cause.

On the issues, CCJ the Clown is a standard-issue wingnut. He just doesn’t bother to engage in obfuscation like the NRO crowd et al. do.

43 Timothy Watson  Dec 10, 2014 2:00:50pm

I swear the more McChuckleNuts speaks, the more I think of the Tom Cruise caricature on South Park: “I am so going to sue you! I’ll sue you in England!”

44 Bubblehead II  Dec 10, 2014 2:00:55pm

Even the Free Bacon wants nothing to do with him.

Lachlan Markay, an investigative journalist with the Washington Free Beacon, said Johnson represents what more mainstream and liberal outlets want to believe about conservatives. The blogger “conveniently confirms their worst preconceptions about conservatives,” Markay said.

45 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 10, 2014 2:01:01pm

Dead threaded below so…

46 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 2:01:23pm

re: #42 EPR-radar

In other words, the Examiner’s main concern appears to be damage to the conservative cause.

On the issues, CCJ the Clown is a standard-issue wingnut. He just doesn’t bother to engage in obfuscation like the NRO crowd et al. do.

Exactly, the article is damage control.

47 Amory Blaine  Dec 10, 2014 2:01:24pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Exactly. He is very useful, even more-so on the margins.

48 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:01:55pm

re: #40 Dr. Matt

WOW. That article pretty much destroyed Chucky. Seriously. That is the definition of a pubic beat down.

chock full of fun:

In late June, back when Johnson threatened to publish the nursing home photo, he got into a Twitter fight with Alyssa Farah, a communications aide to Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.

“I hope this is a parody account,” Farah tweeted, linking to one of Johnson’s tweets.

Johnson called Farah, who once worked as a producer for conservative radio firebrand Laura Ingraham, a “bitch.” When Farah alerted her followers, Johnson followed up, tweeting that he was just being “descriptive.”

49 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:02:11pm

Maybe if the CIA had given the Senate Committee all the information in the first place this might not have been necessary? Amazing that the torture apologists are trying to say that the Committee received everything it needed to back up its decision to approve what the CIA was doing.

The Senate Torture Report Cost at Least $40 Million. But Whose Fault Is That?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is firing back at allegations that her committee is the reason for the torture report’s costly price tag.

nationaljournal.com

50 Romantic Heretic  Dec 10, 2014 2:03:20pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Off topic: I’ve posted this before, but it really puts the Torture Report and what we did in perspective:

That was a great article, and those were great men.

That reminds me of a thought I had the other day.

It occurred to me that one of the reasons our countries (Canada and the US. I can’t speak for Europe) are splitting apart is that the WWII veterans are dying off.

From what I’ve read WWII was a great homogenizer. The Armed Forces grew to a gigantic size, and that size required using men and women from all over the country.

A stick of paratroopers jumping from a plane included someone from every state in the Union. The people working in the engine rooms and bridges of ships all over the world were people who would never have met otherwise. The aircrew and ground crew of aircraft had a dozen different accents. Even non-combat jobs would throw people together from all over the country.

The result was that the rest of the country, indeed the rest of the world, became real. Before that California was somewhere on the West Coast, New York up East, Georgia Down South. They were places as real to one another as Narnia.

So every one became Americans, or Canadians as the case may be. Now that everyone was real and not imaginary it was possible to do things together that benefited the whole country.

Those people are disappearing. Most of their children and grandchildren don’t know anybody from somewhere else. So the country is dividing up again because the rest of the country is now imaginary, and scary.

Just a thought.

51 b.d.  Dec 10, 2014 2:03:55pm

re: #42 EPR-radar

In other words, the Examiner’s main concern appears to be damage to the conservative cause.

On the issues, CCJ the Clown is a standard-issue wingnut. He just doesn’t bother to engage in obfuscation like the NRO crowd et al. do.

I hate it when Mommy & Daddy fight.

:(

//

52 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:04:25pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Exactly, the article is damage control.

Chuck still isn’t going to get over #poopgate especially since he keeps bringing it up over and over and over.

53 allegro  Dec 10, 2014 2:04:37pm

re: #44 Bubblehead II

Even the Free Bacon wants nothing to do with him.

Lachlan Markay, an investigative journalist with the Washington Free Beacon, said Johnson represents what more mainstream and liberal outlets want to believe about conservatives. The blogger “conveniently confirms their worst preconceptions about conservatives,” Markay said.

Preconceptions? After years of this bullshit and the child they birthed, aka ChuckiePoo, they’re definitely post-conceptions. I believe it’s also called reality. It’s who they are.

54 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:05:39pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Exactly, the article is damage control.

It sounds like a caution—“Use more discretion, my brother.”

55 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:06:13pm
Johnson has created a mass of fans (he has nearly 18,000 followers on Twitter)

My Sad Cat has 212K followers.
Chuck is gonna have to hustle to catch up…

56 b.d.  Dec 10, 2014 2:06:16pm

Chuck will end up being aligned with the InfoWars crowd before it is all over.

57 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 2:06:42pm

re: #56 b.d.

Chuck will end up being aligned with the InfoWars crowd before it is all over.

58 EPR-radar  Dec 10, 2014 2:06:46pm

re: #47 Amory Blaine

Exactly. He is very useful, even more-so on the margins.

CCJ is a small and easily replaced part of the right wing noise machine that has been in place for decades. The RWNJ lunatic fringe is fed and watered by the GOP establishment to provide a constant froth of crazy that can be inserted into the mainstream media on an “as needed” basis.

Any smear that doesn’t get traction in their core audience of haters and bigots never happened, while any smear that does work in that sewer is propagated to the media as a whole.

59 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 2:07:21pm

re: #45 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That photo is missing something….try this one:

@ChuckCJohnson: Author, Clowntroll Blogger, Furby Ginger, and #Floorshitter. #poopgate
60 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 10, 2014 2:08:43pm

re:
#48

In late June, back when Johnson threatened to publish the nursing home photo,

Ah, yes. Now that was some classic awardwinning journalism there, folks. Going after a Senator’s wife who resides in a nursing home. Journalism. Award winning.
/////

And what’s with Chuckie referring to certain women as the B word? Didn’t his mama teach him any manners?

61 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:09:01pm

re: #59 Dr. Matt

That photo is missing something….try this one:

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Really, that book title needs to be ‘shopped to say “Why Stoolidge Matters”.

(again, h/t to whoever came up with that title last night)

62 darthstar  Dec 10, 2014 2:09:27pm

Bad news: They canceled the Winter Storm Warning for the Sierras.
Good news: It was replaced with a Blizzard Storm Warning.

I was watching 15 foot curlers on my way to work this morning along the coast - those are getting bigger. Bodega buoy was at 12.5ft/16sec an hour ago - now at 13.5ft/16sec. It’s going to be a glorious storm and gorgeous along the coastline. Hoping to get some time outside with my waterproof camera to take some shots of the waves swamping the jetty across the street from my house.

63 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 10, 2014 2:10:04pm

re:
#59

CSPAN should hang it’s head in shame that it would cover such a person and event. Heritage should be ashamed, too, but I doubt they do shame.

64 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:11:06pm

re: #62 darthstar

Maybe your day will come. : )

Photo: ‘Phantom’ sells for $6.5 million, setting record for most expensive photograph of all time - @BuzzFeedNews
see original on buzzfeed.com

65 darthstar  Dec 10, 2014 2:11:34pm
66 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:12:47pm

Chuck retweets:

Someone get opinions from Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly and Michelle Dugger on this!

67 EPR-radar  Dec 10, 2014 2:12:50pm

re: #63 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#59

CSPAN should hang it’s head in shame that it would cover such a person and event. Heritage should be ashamed, too, but I doubt they do shame.

If CSPAN covered that event properly (e.g., having a separate panel demolish the RWNJ lies in real time while pointing and laughing), I’d have no problem.

However, I’m sure the coverage was neutral to positive, which is really getting to be unacceptable when dealing with wing nuts.

68 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 10, 2014 2:13:18pm

re:
#61

The actual former president is no doubt rolling in his grave at the association with Chuckles.

69 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:13:41pm

re: #65 darthstar

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31-years-old at the time, if I remember correctly.

70 Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2014 2:15:15pm

To go back to the thread lead: There is nothing wrong with ‘shopping’ for victims. Zola had no link to CPT Dreyfus except his exceptional ability to advocate against the injustices done to the officer.

Notes:
1) CCJ is not Emile Zola.
2) “I’m gonna sue you” is not “J’accuse”.

en.wikipedia.org

71 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 2:15:43pm

re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chuck retweets:

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Someone get opinions from Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly and Michelle Dugger on this!

72 Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2014 2:20:34pm

re: #65 darthstar

This is Margaret Hamilton, NASA lead software engineer, and this is the Apollo guidance program she wrote.

Nice gams.

73 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:22:39pm

re: #72 Decatur Deb

Nice gams.

A far superior brain. : )

74 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 2:22:56pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe if he had actually taken a journalism class in college, he’s know the definition of “libel”:

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Now see, there’s one of the problems. I don’t believe his alma mater even offers journalism courses.

(I know the J-school I went to had a 5-credit hour required course in ethics, responsibility and libel.)

75 Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 10, 2014 2:24:12pm

What the hell does he mean “special treatment” anyway? You mean the way the defense counsel gets to make them out to be sluts who were just asking for it? Yeah, that’s special.

So maybe we SHOULD stop giving them “special treatment”.

We could start asking victims of burglaries whether they weren’t just asking for it by having, say, a nice stereo and playing it so others could hear it. Or, by watching their big screen TV in the front room, weren’t they inflaming larcenous passions in otherwise innocent potential thieves?

76 Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2014 2:24:37pm

re: #73 Justanotherhuman

A far superior brain. : )

Women are good at detailed, repetitive, niggling tasks.

77 b.d.  Dec 10, 2014 2:25:28pm

Well that 55 gallon drum of popcorn is about empty, better restock.

78 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 10, 2014 2:25:29pm

I haven’t bothered to look, but I am almost sure there are plenty of RWNJs accusing Chuck of running a lefty inspired “false flag” operation to discredit the right-wing media.
I will give the ginger one the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is not the case, but what would be different if it were?

79 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 2:25:41pm

re: #13 Targetpractice

I’d say that the man is the “New Media” equivalent of a tabloid journalist, but that would imply that he’s a journalist. No, the man is just a smear artist whose modus operandi is throwing outrageous shit against the wall and then moving onto the next handful by the time people have begun to realize what it is that’s actually smeared on the wall.

I’d liken him to the “New Media” equivalent of some crank with a sandwich board standing on a street corner raving to whoever will listen to him.

80 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:25:53pm

re: #74 BeachDem

Now see, there’s one of the problems. I don’t believe his alma mater even offers journalism courses.

(I know the J-school I went to had a 5-credit hour required course in ethics, responsibility and libel.)

At the university where I was a journalism professor back in the day, I taught the journalism ethics classes and special seminars.
CCJ wouldn’t have gotten out of my intro journalism class alive.

81 darthstar  Dec 10, 2014 2:26:10pm
Never wear a red shirt on Star Trek…bad luck.
82 BlueGrl21  Dec 10, 2014 2:26:12pm

I SOOO want to create a spoof Twitter account of alleged stories about the Ginger Furby (I love TBOGG)

Breaking: CCJ: Lesbians all really want ginger dick, “won’t ever go back.”

83 Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2014 2:26:19pm

re: #78 Shiplord Kirel

I haven’t bothered to look, but I am almost sure there are plenty of RWNJs accusing Chuck of running a lefty inspired “false flag” operation to discredit the right-wing media.
I will give the ginger one the benefit and assume that this is not the case, but what would be different if it were?

Better proofreading.

84 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:26:24pm

re: #76 Decatur Deb

Women are good at detailed, repetitive, niggling tasks.

Only because that was what was required of us for centuries. : )

85 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:27:37pm

re: #79 BeachDem

I’d liken him to the “New Media” equivalent of some crank with a sandwich board standing on a street corner raving to whoever will listen to him.

Yeah, he’s gone all the way back to yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater.

86 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 2:27:46pm

WTF is wrong with these people?

87 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 2:29:49pm
88 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 2:29:51pm

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

89 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:31:27pm

re: #76 Decatur Deb

Women are good at detailed, repetitive, niggling tasks.

We women are also exceptionally better at Morse Code, but most people don’t know that.
The military did, however.
CCJ likes bragging about his IQ. I like bragging about my MC listening speed: I generally don’t have to pick up a pen and paper to transcribe the individual dits and dahs until I get over 55 wpm, and then just to make sure I have lesser known to me names, places, etc. transcribed correctly.

90 Iwouldprefernotto  Dec 10, 2014 2:32:15pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

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THANK YOU!

91 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 2:32:49pm
92 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:33:00pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

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YAY!!!!!!!!!!

93 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 2:33:06pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

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YEESSS!!!!!!!!

94 Iwouldprefernotto  Dec 10, 2014 2:33:25pm

re: #90 Iwouldprefernotto

THANK YOU!

Quibble. He can’t be overrated, because he’s not a journalist.

95 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 2:33:56pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

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Heh I’d change overrated because to be overrated you have to have some talent to begin with. CCJ has no actual talent as a journalist.

96 Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2014 2:34:07pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

We women are also exceptionally better at Morse Code, but most people don’t know that.
The military did, however.
CCJ likes bragging about his IQ. I like bragging about my MC listening speed: I generally don’t have to pick up a pen and paper to transcribe the individual dits and dahs until I get over 55 wpm, and then just to make sure I have lesser known to me names, places, etc. transcribed correctly.

During my draft induction, I hit some threshold that made the Army test me for Morse skills. Thank god I flunked. Strangely, I found out 50 years later that my dad had been an aircrew radio operator.

97 Bubblehead II  Dec 10, 2014 2:34:31pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

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I am so stealing that.

98 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 2:34:43pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is what has him pissed off at this particular moment:

Media conservatives won’t claim derisive blogger Charles Johnson

Just read it (thanks for the donotlink) and it seems there were quite a few conservatives who were quoted by name in the article. Upchuck should thank his lucky stars that the ones who declined to comment did just that—especially since they were mostly from the BlazeDaily Caller and Breitbart; they probably would have said even more damning things about him, as they probably know him better than most of the others.

99 Amory Blaine  Dec 10, 2014 2:35:07pm

re: #58 EPR-radar

CCJ is a small and easily replaced part of the right wing noise machine that has been in place for decades. The RWNJ lunatic fringe is fed and watered by the GOP establishment to provide a constant froth of crazy that can be inserted into the mainstream media on an “as needed” basis.

Any smear that doesn’t get traction in their core audience of haters and bigots never happened, while any smear that does work in that sewer is propagated to the media as a whole.

Are you saying he’s some kind of poo thrower?

///

100 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 2:36:16pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

P.S. There is a typo: “overrated”.

101 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 10, 2014 2:36:17pm

re: #65 darthstar

And Ms. Hamilton’s guidance program ran on 16bit hardware. Cellphones today are running 32bit and 64bit hardware.

102 ipsos  Dec 10, 2014 2:36:20pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Shouldn’t “Journalist” be in quotes?

103 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:36:56pm

This isn’t sounding good.

U-Va. students challenge Rolling Stone account of attack

washingtonpost.com

104 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 10, 2014 2:38:12pm

re:
#14

Charles Johnson — labeled by media reports as a “conservative” writer — is described as a joke, toxic and derailed. Not by liberals but by others in Right-leaning media and the blogosphere.

See, it’s really true American patriot conservatives who are leading the charge against this faux conservative journalist who’s doxing people on social media. Such good hearts these RWNJ media types…

///

105 Bubblehead II  Dec 10, 2014 2:38:13pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

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Also posted a link to it on twitter.

106 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:38:26pm

re: #99 Amory Blaine

Are you saying he’s some kind of poo thrower?

///

He’s a Kung Poo Fighter.

107 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 2:38:45pm

I’ve been seeing this a lot lately. The assertion that someone else lowered the bar so what you’re objecting to doesn’t matter.

108 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 2:39:23pm

re: #100 Dr. Matt

P.S. There is a typo: “overrated”.

Or maybe he overate.

109 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:40:00pm

re: #108 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Or maybe he overate.

Well, he can choke on what he’s feeding the public.

110 Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 10, 2014 2:40:36pm

re: #108 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Or maybe he overate.

Or maybe that he’s over eight.

111 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 2:40:57pm

re: #110 Blind Frog Belly White

Or maybe that he’s over eight.

Doubtful.

112 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 2:42:34pm

re: #109 Justanotherhuman

Well, he can choke on what he’s feeding the public.

Who knows, he may enjoy this kind of thing :)

113 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:43:17pm

and,

Oakland, Calif., becomes 3rd school district in San Francisco Bay Area to cancel classes Thursday ahead of storm - @KTVU
end of alert

114 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:44:57pm

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

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I’ve been seeing this a lot lately. The assertion that someone else lowered the bar so what you’re objecting to doesn’t matter.

115 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 2:45:12pm

Dammit!!!

Working too fast…

It is fixed. I swapped out the original image.

Charles…if you are out there. Is there any easy way to swap the images instead of renaming it and reloading it?

116 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 2:45:35pm

re: #112 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Who knows, he may enjoy this kind of thing :)

well, he has been known to poop on the floor…

117 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 2:45:47pm

re: #105 Bubblehead II

Also posted a link to it on twitter.

Oh man…it went out with the typo…since changed. Sorry about that.

118 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 2:46:20pm

re: #67 EPR-radar

If CSPAN covered that event properly (e.g., having a separate panel demolish the RWNJ lies in real time while pointing and laughing), I’d have no problem.

However, I’m sure the coverage was neutral to positive, which is really getting to be unacceptable when dealing with wing nuts.

The right-wing has SOOOO many of these events and C-Span seems to cover them all. Whenever two or more teabaggers get together to whine, C-Span is there.

Compare and contrast to the lack of coverage of any progressive event and/or protest. It’s kind of startling.

119 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 2:46:25pm
120 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 2:46:50pm

re: #108 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Or maybe he overate.

Now fixed.

121 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 10, 2014 2:48:02pm

If I were running ChuckC as a false flag, I would have to make some changes. Target selection would shift to favorite internal targets of the nut right, RINOs, neo-cons, establishment types, ie basically anyone who is not at least borderline Infowars material. The idea is to feed a cannibalistic feeding frenzy in the kook-o-sphere. Secondly, he would have to stop using tactics I would not approve for my worst enemy, like doxing. This still leaves a lot of leeway, though. He also has to quit threatening to sue people. False flag does not mean idle threats.

One thing wrong with the false flag concept is that few serious activists would spend good money on such a thing. However, “good” money is relative, and there is a fair possibility Chuck would work cheap. His offer of five hundred bucks for real dirt is laughable: Ufool writers, for example, were paying Roswell “witnesses” at least a grand for their stories more than 30 years ago. It may, however, reflect Chuck’s own standards of acceptable payment.

Hmmmm…

122 Bubblehead II  Dec 10, 2014 2:48:04pm

re: #117 ObserverArt

Oh man…it went out with the typo…since changed. Sorry about that.

Shouldn’t be a problem.

123 Lidane  Dec 10, 2014 2:49:50pm

Terrorist sympathizer says what?

124 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 2:50:49pm

Somebody wants to play!

125 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 2:51:08pm

Have to agree with him there. O’Keefe is a festering pile of odious bullshit on youtube an upchuck is an equally festering pile on twitter.

126 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 10, 2014 2:51:50pm

re: #107 goddamnedfrank

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I’ve been seeing this a lot lately. The assertion that someone else lowered the bar so what you’re objecting to doesn’t matter.

And why not? The cons have lowered just about every bar there is to the earth’s molten core.

127 Lidane  Dec 10, 2014 2:52:04pm

Please proceed:

128 Decatur Deb  Dec 10, 2014 2:52:57pm

Evening dogwalk. BBL

129 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 2:53:10pm

re: #127 Lidane

Please proceed:

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Can we just lock Steve King out of Congress? I’d settle for that.

130 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 2:53:50pm

re: #127 Lidane

Please proceed:

Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch
Follow
Steve King OKs government shutdown since voters will either reward the GOP or just forget it ever happened bit.ly
4:42 PM - 10 Dec 2014

Cantaloupe head says what???

131 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:53:56pm

re: #123 Lidane

Terrorist sympathizer says what?

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I’d wager to say that the average person would say that torture is “worth it” as they go to church on Sunday.

And the same ones are probably angry that Taylor Swift didn’t get the “Person of the Year” cover on Time.

132 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 2:54:57pm

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

At the university where I was a journalism professor back in the day, I taught the journalism ethics classes and special seminars.
CCJ wouldn’t have gotten out of my intro journalism class alive.

When I taught at Ohio State, I never would have let him INTO my class. (And even though I taught in the advertising/copywriting track, if he had made it into my class, he’d have flunked because of his poor writing skills.)

133 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 2:55:04pm

re: #123 Lidane

Terrorist sympathizer says what?

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To rephrase Abe Lincoln on slavery,”Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery torture I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

134 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 2:55:17pm
135 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 10, 2014 2:55:45pm

Washington DC Marijuana Law Goes Up In Smoke
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

136 Minor_L  Dec 10, 2014 2:56:20pm

re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also, they have complained about those articles. Why is it suddenly okay when one of theirs does it?

137 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2014 2:57:39pm

re: #65 darthstar

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Wow, she became a NASA engineer after she played Wicked Witch of the West. She’s another Hedy Lamarr!!
//

138 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 2:58:31pm

re: #136 Minor_L

Also, they have complained about those articles. Why is it suddenly okay when one of theirs does it?

It’s all bile-laced “fun and games” to them.

139 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 2:59:38pm

Oh, well if the Daily Fail confirmed it…

140 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 2:59:39pm
141 Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2014 3:00:44pm

re: #139 BeachDem

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Oh, well if the Daily Fail confirmed it…

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The Daily Heil?

142 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:02:04pm

re: #141 Targetpractice

The Daily Heil?

We would have never defeated the Third Reich in this day and age.

143 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 10, 2014 3:03:05pm

re: #139 BeachDem

The Daily Mail article makes no mention of Crapman.

144 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2014 3:03:30pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

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Grabbed & Tweeted!

145 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:10:42pm

Senator Publicizes Classified CIA Report To Prove The Agency Is Lying

thinkprogress.org

“Director [John] Brennan and the CIA today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent the efficacy of torture,” Udall said, reiterating his call on Brennan to resign. “In other words, the CIA is lying.”

“In January of 2014, CIA officials accused the Intelligence Committee of improperly accessing the review and later admitted hacking into the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers in a possible effort to intimidate committee staff working on the torture report. Democrats charged that the hacking was really an effort to strip the Panetta review from Senate computers. Udall disclosed the existence of the review last year.

“In his speech, the Colorado senator revealed — for the first time — that the Panetta review confirmed the Senate’s conclusion that “the CIA repeatedly provided inaccurate information to the Congress, the president and the public on the efficacy of its coercive techniques.” Former Bush administration officials and the CIA have publicly disputed this claim.”

More

146 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:12:00pm

re: #145 Justanotherhuman

Isn’t it a crime in itself?

147 darthstar  Dec 10, 2014 3:12:43pm

re: #125 BeachDem

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Have to agree with him there. O’Keefe is a festering pile of odious bullshit on youtube an upchuck is an equally festering pile on twitter.

148 Pawn of the Oppressor  Dec 10, 2014 3:13:06pm

I notice he only picks on women and dead people.

What’s the matter, Chucksie? You know that if you talk to a guy like this, he’s statistically more likely to come to where you live and bust your pasty white ass to pieces… Don’t you.

149 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:13:14pm

re: #146 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Is what a crime?

150 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:14:12pm

re: #149 Justanotherhuman

“the CIA repeatedly provided inaccurate information to the Congress, the president and the public on the efficacy of its coercive techniques.”

151 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:14:48pm

re: #148 Pawn of the Oppressor

I notice he only picks on women and dead people.

What’s the matter, Chucksie? You know that if you talk to a guy like this, he’s statistically more likely to come to where you live and bust your pasty white ass to pieces… Don’t you.

I’m a woman, and while I wouldn’t resort to violence, I’d make his life a living hell legally.

152 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:14:53pm

re: #150 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Scratch the public off the list of course, but aren’t they obliged to tell the truth to the Congress, and some such technicalities?

153 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 3:16:33pm

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

Grabbed & Tweeted!

Oh no…I am going to get sued!!!

/

154 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:18:03pm

re: #144 The Vicious Babushka

You can also try the poopgate tag, seems popular.

155 b.d.  Dec 10, 2014 3:18:44pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Hot off the Photoshop Press! Sure to be a best seller!!!

Embedded Image

Oh that is beautiful!!

Hahahahaha!

156 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:20:12pm

re: #150 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

“the CIA repeatedly provided inaccurate information to the Congress, the president and the public on the efficacy of its coercive techniques.”

“inaccurate” could easily be explained away. Lying to Congress, however, is a criminal offense, but the onus would be on Congress to prove it, and that won’t get done, considering the shift in to a majority Republican Senate and House. At least, that’s my humble opinion.

157 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:21:45pm

re: #156 Justanotherhuman

Oh, that’s for sure. But in principle, a crime.

158 unproven innocence  Dec 10, 2014 3:21:57pm

“Chuck C. Johnson’s Latest Attack Piece Is a Vicious Deliberate Lie, and His Own Video Proves It”

I seriously doubt that CCJ owns that video. /nitpicking; English is messy

159 TedStriker  Dec 10, 2014 3:22:16pm

re: #65 darthstar

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Cute and smart…too bad I was a couple of decades too late.

160 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:24:31pm

Darth Vader speaks…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Senate CIA report: ‘3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11 because of what these guys did, and I have no sympathy for them’ - @BretBaier
see original on twitter.com

161 BongCrodny  Dec 10, 2014 3:25:48pm

Allow me to be the first one to suggest a new nickname for Chuckie:

THE LUNATIC GINGE.

162 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:26:07pm

re: #160 Justanotherhuman

Darth Vader speaks…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Senate CIA report: ‘3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11 because of what these guys did, and I have no sympathy for them’ - @BretBaier
see original on twitter.com

Uh, it’s not about these guys or having sympathy to them. It’s about the torturers and torture enablers that should be in prison. Like Cheney.

163 meteor  Dec 10, 2014 3:27:18pm

So, when is this guy going to get sued? Right now, immediately?

Pretty please with sugar on top?

164 sagehen  Dec 10, 2014 3:28:47pm

re: #160 Justanotherhuman

Darth Vader speaks…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Senate CIA report: ‘3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11 because of what these guys did, and I have no sympathy for them’ - @BretBaier
see original on twitter.com

What about the several dozen “mistaken identity” detainees, or the “neighbor wanted his property so lied about him” detainee”, the (at minimum) 26 totally innocent people we tortured for months on end, some of them died of it?

Does VP Cheney have any sympathy for them?

165 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 3:28:50pm

re: #160 Justanotherhuman

Darth Vader speaks…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Senate CIA report: ‘3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11 because of what these guys did, and I have no sympathy for them’ - @BretBaier
see original on twitter.com

“Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

166 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:28:52pm

BTW, I have no sympathy for Cheney. Doesn’t mean I should be allowed to do whatever I see fit with him.

167 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:29:33pm

Couldn’t happen to a worse trust fund douche-nozzle.

Self-proclaimed ‘King of Instagram’ Dan Bilzerian released from jail after being arrested at Los Angeles airport Tuesday on suspicion of possessing or manufacturing explosive devices - @BuzzFeedNews
read more on buzzfeed.com

168 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 10, 2014 3:29:45pm

re: #156 Justanotherhuman

“inaccurate” could easily be explained away. Lying to Congress, however, is a criminal offense, but the onus would be on Congress to prove it, and that won’t get done, considering the shift in to a majority Republican Senate and House. At least, that’s my humble opinion.

Um about those Senate computers… Might trigger a showdown.

169 Jenner7  Dec 10, 2014 3:30:08pm

re: #160 Justanotherhuman

Except some of them didn’t do anything! Dick, you are pure evil.

170 Lancelot Link  Dec 10, 2014 3:31:14pm

re: #141 Targetpractice

The Daily Heil?

Not too far from the truth, considering their publisher at the time.

(he’s the one on the left)

171 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:31:36pm

re: #168 Rightwingconspirator

Um about those Senate computers… Might trigger a showdown.

Do you really think the RW is going to rattle the CIA?

172 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 3:33:45pm

re: #151 Justanotherhuman

I’m a woman, and while I wouldn’t resort to violence, I’d make his life a living hell legally.

I’m a woman. A liberal progressive woman. One with a gun. UpChuck’s worst nightmare.

173 Jenner7  Dec 10, 2014 3:34:18pm

[Updated with video] Sorry if this has been posted already….but wow.

174 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:34:24pm

re: #169 Jenner7

Except some of them didn’t do anything! Dick, you are pure evil.

You did notice which network he said it on? His go-to…

175 Archangelus  Dec 10, 2014 3:35:58pm

#164 sagehen

What about the several dozen “mistaken identity” detainees, or the “neighbor wanted his property so lied about him” detainee”, the (at minimum) 26 totally innocent people we tortured for months on end, some of them died of it?

Does VP Cheney have any sympathy for them?

Coming from him, the answer would be:
Short form: “Nope.”
Longer form: “Hahahahahaha, nope. ”
/

176 RadicalModerate  Dec 10, 2014 3:37:27pm

I think CCJ might be aiming for a special distinction - that being the first person to be named as a sole defendant in a class-action libel lawsuit. I think that it’s approaching a slam dunk that he is repeatedly and with malicious forethought (a) publishing statements that are demonstrably false and (b) has been making those assertions with the sole purpose of causing harm to the subjects of the statements.

177 Rightwingconspirator  Dec 10, 2014 3:41:31pm

re: #171 Justanotherhuman

Maybe. This is a threat to them as well. I don’t think the wildest TP Congressman likes the idea of the CIA scanning their hard drives and search histories. These are the very things that suborn civilian oversight.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called the allegations “dangerous to a democracy,” if it’s substantiated that the CIA interfered with a congressional investigation.

“Heads should roll, people should go to jail, if it’s true. … I’m going to get briefed on it. If it is, the legislative branch should declare war on the CIA, if it’s true,” Graham said.

Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

178 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 3:42:56pm

#WINNING

179 The Ghost of a Flea (R)  Dec 10, 2014 3:43:09pm

“Disavowing” Chuck is like the over-hyped exile of the Birchers: the ideas—or in the case of CCJ, the blatant lies—are still part of the private, amongst-friends conversations, but just aren’t good for optics.

Chuck C Johnson is the level of discussion, not some aberration. His shitty “exposes” are at exactly the same level of rhetorical deceit as Breitbart, giant chunks of the Religious Right, and the Tea Party. His recent utterly vile conduct and statements regarding rape align perfectly with “respectable” social conservatives.

He only differs in not having a filter installed such that he spouts sexist, racist crap only within designated safe areas.

All this “he isn’t one of us” stuff is weak fucking sauce. It’s not “this is not conduct we engage in,” it’s “no, don’t demonstrate how nasty our sausage making process is!”

180 Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2014 3:44:32pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Most telling part of that for me is:

Johnson did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.

Kind of surprising for a guy who’s so damned outspoken.

181 Jenner7  Dec 10, 2014 3:47:11pm

digital.library.okstate.edu

182 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 3:47:24pm

re: #180 Eclectic Cyborg

Most telling part of that for me is:

Johnson did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.

Kind of surprising for a guy who’s so damned outspoken.

BECAUSE HE KNEW IT WAS A HIT PIECE!!11!!

183 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:47:44pm

re: #177 Rightwingconspirator

Maybe. This is a threat to them as well. I don’t think the wildest TP Congressman likes the idea of the CIA scanning their hard drives and search histories. These are the very things that suborn civilian oversight.

People should go to jail, sure, but what about torture?

184 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 3:50:07pm

re: #160 Justanotherhuman

Darth Vader speaks…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Senate CIA report: ‘3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11 because of what these guys did, and I have no sympathy for them’ - @BretBaier
see original on twitter.com

So, is Nicolle Wallace writing for Cheney now? Or do all of the torture excusers just read from the same disgusting page?

185 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:50:42pm

“The ends justify the means.”

Video: Former Vice President Dick Cheney responds to Senate CIA report; says ‘we did exactly what we needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and prevent a further attack. And we were successful on both parts’ - @BretBaier
see original on youtube.com

187 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:51:31pm

re: #184 BeachDem

So, is Nicolle Wallace writing for Cheney now? Or do all of the torture excusers just read from the same disgusting page?

Well, from what she was saying on Morning Slow, maybe she is still writing for Cheney.

188 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 3:51:56pm

re: #186 Amory Blaine

Oy vey! Scott Walker ends menorah letter with: ‘Thank you … and Molotov’

Well one of his predecessors was Tommy Thompson.

189 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 3:52:47pm

re: #186 Amory Blaine

Oy vey! Scott Walker ends menorah letter with: ‘Thank you … and Molotov’

Oy gevalt!

190 Kryptik  Dec 10, 2014 3:53:05pm

re: #186 Amory Blaine

In all fairness, I’m sure many of his constituents wouldn’t mind greeting him with a molotov.

191 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:53:21pm

re: #173 Jenner7

Sorry if this has been posted already….but wow.

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She seems nice.

192 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:54:42pm

re: #185 Justanotherhuman

“The ends justify the means.”

Video: Former Vice President Dick Cheney responds to Senate CIA report; says ‘we did exactly what we needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and prevent a further attack. And we were successful on both parts’ - @BretBaier
see original on youtube.com

Um. Obama did. Not you, war criminal.

193 Eventual Carrion  Dec 10, 2014 3:55:10pm

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s a Kung Poo Fighter.

He craps like lightening.

194 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 3:55:48pm

re: #192 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Um. Obama did. Not you, war criminal.

The same Obama that Dickhead Cheney refuses to give any credit and continues to call soft on terrorism. You know why I think Cheney constantly bitches about Obama’s FP is because deep down the motherfucker has a conscience and he realizes that Obama’s FP was much effective than the stupid cowboy shit that him and Bush did.

195 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 3:56:03pm

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

#WINNING

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And speaking of the Washington Post, as somebody said yesterday, if they’d devoted as much time, effort and due diligence into the runup to the Iraq War as they have into the Jackie story, all of our lives might have been very different.

196 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 3:56:32pm

re: #195 BeachDem

And speaking of the Washington Post, as somebody said yesterday, if they’d devoted as much time, effort and due diligence into the runup to the Iraq War as they have into the Jackie story, all of our lives might have been very different.

If any of the media really.

197 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 10, 2014 3:56:41pm
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Senate CIA report: ‘3,000 Americans died on Sept. 11 because of what these guys did, and I have no sympathy for them’ - @BretBaier
see original on twitter.com

Darth and his apologists just don’t get it. John McCain, President Obama, and millions of others do not speak out against torture because they have sympathy for terrorists, they do it because they are worried about us and our institutions. The question is not whether the terrorists are evil and barbarous- they are. The question is whether we are. It is too easy to go down that well traveled road. All you have to do is ignore the many warnings from the past.

198 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 3:56:51pm

re: #186 Amory Blaine

199 Kryptik  Dec 10, 2014 3:57:55pm

re: #173 Jenner7

But remember, all the other witnesses were unreliable and totally fed all the violence with their vicious slander and irresponsibility, McCulloch and others said so.

200 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 3:58:21pm
201 Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2014 3:59:47pm

re: #200 Kragar

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I’ve not looked deep enough into the news yet, but have any of the supposed “front runners” for the GOP nod next year actually come out and supported the release of this report, instead of turning it into a partisan bitchfest?

202 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:00:47pm

re: #200 Kragar

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Well of course. Cruz is such a fucking sad piece of shit. And lol at Democrats always blaming George W. Bush. Ted your fucking piece of shit party still rags on Jimmy Carter and the man’s been out of office since before you entered puberty.

203 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 4:01:18pm

The main problem with that witness wasn’t even the overspilling racism. It was that she admitted to having a bad memory and filling the holes in her memory from internet.

204 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 4:02:02pm

re: #179 The Ghost of a Flea (R)

All this “he isn’t one of us” stuff is weak fucking sauce. It’s not “this is not conduct we engage in,” it’s “no, don’t demonstrate how nasty our sausage making process is!”

Exactly! Take a bit of the “race realism/Bell Curve” bullshit from NRO, the unsubstantiated, twisted quoting from James O’Keefe, stir in a little Rush-esque bloviating, some racist/sexist/victim-bashing a la SMOTI and the gang at Fox and voila—upchuck emerges from the slime, full-grown.

205 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:02:19pm

re: #203 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

The main problem with that witness wasn’t even the overspilling racism. It was that she admitted to having a bad memory and filling the holes in her memory from internet.

Yeah but somehow McCulloch didn’t have a problem with that. Agree though, that’s the problem more so than the disgusting racism.

206 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 4:02:31pm

re: #200 Kragar

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Then why doesn’t he get out of politics and spare the rest of us?

207 jaunte  Dec 10, 2014 4:03:41pm

James Woolsey and Chris Matthews currently raising the stale question “Is waterboarding actually torture?”

208 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:03:44pm

re: #206 Justanotherhuman

Then why doesn’t he get out of politics and spare the rest of us?

Ask his Daddy, apparently our country needs Teddy to “save” us from Obama.

209 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:04:26pm

re: #207 jaunte

James Woolsey and Chris Matthews currently raising the stale question “Is waterboarding actually torture?”

Again I’ll quote Mr. Lincoln on slavery, do Misters Woolsey and Matthews prefer hot or cold water.

210 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 4:05:16pm

re: #185 Justanotherhuman

“The ends justify the means.”

Video: Former Vice President Dick Cheney responds to Senate CIA report; says ‘we did exactly what we needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and prevent a further attack. And we were successful on both parts’ - @BretBaier
see original on youtube.com

Um, did Big Dick forget that it was Obama who took out Bin Laden and not the Bushies?

211 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:07:01pm

re: #210 BeachDem

Um, did Big Dick forget that it was Obama who took out Bin Laden and not the Bushies?

Furthermore, has Cheney ever given Obama ANY credit for the Abbotabad raid? Rhetorical question since I know that fucker is obsessed with the hideous lie that Obama is sympathetic to Al Queda.

212 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 10, 2014 4:08:35pm

re: #207 jaunte

James Woolsey and Chris Matthews currently raising the stale question “Is waterboarding actually torture?”

Because there’s no possible way that they could have themselves waterboarded and then report.

213 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 4:08:47pm

re: #210 BeachDem

Um, did Big Dick forget that it was Obama who took out Bin Laden and not the Bushies?

He’ll never give Pres Obama credit.

For anything.

214 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 4:09:46pm

re: #200 Kragar

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well, to be fair, Ted only became 100% American citizen this year (if reports of him denouncing his Canadian citizenship are true).
So, he still needs time to get up to speed on all this current event American history (while his father still needs to explain how he was a freedom fighter with Castro, then came illegally into the US and immediately went on the lecture tour telling Americans how great Castro was, until Castro became “inconvenient” and Ted’s dad moved to Canada…)

215 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:10:27pm

Amusing to see conservatives who love to go to things like the “Value Voters Summit” and love thumping their noses about how they’re a moral bunch of people because they believe in Jesus, a Christian God, and the Bible condoning the use of torture but these same people flip their collective shit if you suggest that LGBT people and women have the same rights. Way to go conservatives. You’re such a forward thinking ideology.

216 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 4:10:43pm

It torture was so effective, why did it take 12 years to find bin Laden?

217 Romantic Heretic  Dec 10, 2014 4:10:43pm

re: #60 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#48

Ah, yes. Now that was some classic awardwinning journalism there, folks. Going after a Senator’s wife who resides in a nursing home. Journalism. Award winning.
/////

And what’s with Chuckie referring to certain women as the B word? Didn’t his mama teach him any manners?

Manners are for mortals.

218 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:11:26pm

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, to be fair, Ted only became 100% American citizen this year (if reports of him denouncing his Canadian citizenship are true).
So, he still needs time to get up to speed on all this current event American history (while his father still needs to explain how he was a freedom fighter with Castro, then came illegally into the US and immediately went on the lecture tour telling Americans how great Castro was, until Castro became “inconvenient” and Ted’s dad moved to Canada…)

I actually wasn’t aware of this regarding Raffy. Seems to me that Cruz and his Dad are everything the wingers want to make out Obama and Obama Sr to be. Plus Rafael Cruz is a genuine nutcase as well.

219 jaunte  Dec 10, 2014 4:11:48pm

re: #216 Dr. Matt

It torture was so effective, why did it take 12 years to find bin Laden?

They didn’t torture everybody. That would be the only way to be certain you had all the information.

220 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:11:50pm

re: #216 Dr. Matt

It torture was so effective, why did it take 12 years to find bin Laden?

Isn’t Mullah Omar also still at large?

221 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 4:12:07pm

Bush may have been president de jure but Cheney considered himself president de facto, esp when it came to prosecuting the war in Iraq. He gloried in it.

222 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 4:12:23pm

re: #207 jaunte

James Woolsey and Chris Matthews currently raising the stale question “Is waterboarding actually torture?”

And the never-changing answer is YES. Always has been, always will be, no matter how hard the fucking warmongers want to parse things.

223 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:14:39pm

Ain’t it funny how the biggest apologists for torture are the same people who did everything possible to get out of service that would have put them in harm’s way themselves? Wait feature not a bug. Torture apologists like Cheney are cowards plain and simple. Cheney was a cowardly weasel fifty years ago and he still is now.

224 Kragar  Dec 10, 2014 4:15:05pm
225 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 4:15:57pm

Face it, if torture was authorized under the Obama admin, the RWNJs would be shitting themselves in faux outrage. They are in a 24/7 hissy fit over drone killings, but utterly silent about the 10s of thousand of civilians that died from carpet and indiscriminate aerial bombing under the dubyah admin. They are a walking, talking hypocrisy.

226 Romantic Heretic  Dec 10, 2014 4:16:17pm

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s a Kung Poo Fighter.

He does bear a resemblance to an orangutang.

227 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:17:43pm

re: #224 Kragar

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And yet they’re perfectly fine with blaming Bush when Bush is a “RINO” but it’s somehow wrong for Democrats and the present administration to bring up how the past administration’s actions had great implications.

228 Romantic Heretic  Dec 10, 2014 4:18:47pm

re: #123 Lidane

Terrorist sympathizer says what?

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I am the only person who thinks he looks like Leonid Brezhnev, only meaner.

229 Minor_L  Dec 10, 2014 4:21:54pm

re: #215 HappyWarrior

Based on a recent incident I was involved in, you’d be surprised at the vicious threats and horrific name-calling Christians can engage in when anyone says that there are limits to religion in schools.

230 FemNaziBitch  Dec 10, 2014 4:23:31pm

Guaranteed to make you smile

231 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 4:24:48pm

re: #230 FemNaziBitch

Guaranteed to make you smile

A nice, brief distraction from thoughts of rectal feeding.

232 Skip Intro  Dec 10, 2014 4:25:26pm

So many assholes now, who can keep count?

Florida St. communications lecturer resigns after bemoaning ‘Northern fagoot elitism’ on Facebook

Deborah O’Connor was responding to a post by Colin Lively, a New Yorker, about Holder’s decision to investigate the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy carrying a toy gun.

“YOU elected POTUS, Holder et al. And they are supposed to represent all Americans, not just blacks. Why don’t these ass clowns insert themselves into their stories?” O’Connor began by asking.

After Lively and others answered, she said, “[t]ake your Northern fagoot [sic] elitism and shove it up your ass. You are an intellectual fraud, just like your Messiah. Obama has single-handedly turned our once great society into a Ghetto Culture, rivaling that of Europe. France is almost at war because of his filthy rodent Muslims who are attacking Native Frenchmen and women.”

“I teach at a University, you asshole. What do you do?” she asked.

Not anymore. Now she’ll be working at Heritage.

rawstory.com

233 jaunte  Dec 10, 2014 4:26:53pm

Chris Matthews to David Corn:

“But David, does it work? I wanted the debate tonight to be about that, right or wrong we all have our feelings about that…”

234 Kryptik  Dec 10, 2014 4:27:07pm

re: #232 Skip Intro

I’m sure she’d fit in fantastically at Liberty U.

235 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 10, 2014 4:27:58pm

re: #232 Skip Intro

So many assholes now, who can keep count?

Florida St. communications lecturer resigns after bemoaning ‘Northern fagoot elitism’ on Facebook

Not anymore. Now she’ll be working at Heritage.

rawstory.com

“Fagoot?” Must be related to “honco.”

236 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 4:28:28pm

re: #232 Skip Intro

Cheeeezus!

The only reason it was the “only black mark” (so she claims) on her teaching record is because before now, FSU put up with her bullshit.

237 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 4:30:37pm

re: #233 jaunte

Chris Matthews to David Corn:

It’s always total fail when Tweety tries to debate a real thinker. Corn is pretty damned sharp, IMHO.

Tweety should retire already.

238 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 4:31:16pm

Chucky is now claiming he’s going to end Sabrina Rubin’s career tomorrow. What journalistic standards!

239 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:33:17pm

re: #232 Skip Intro

So many assholes now, who can keep count?

Florida St. communications lecturer resigns after bemoaning ‘Northern fagoot elitism’ on Facebook

Not anymore. Now she’ll be working at Heritage.

rawstory.com

She sounds reasonable.

240 Skip Intro  Dec 10, 2014 4:34:34pm

re: #239 HappyWarrior

From the comments:

More proof that Florida is confusing advanced degrees with open carry permits.

241 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 4:34:50pm
242 Romantic Heretic  Dec 10, 2014 4:37:28pm

re: #232 Skip Intro

“I teach at a University, you asshole. What do you do?” she asked.

Just goes to show that education, empathy and ethics are not the same thing.

243 HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2014 4:39:08pm

re: #242 Romantic Heretic

Just goes to show that education, empathy and ethics are not the same thing.

Typical filled with rage conservative too. Maybe if they didn’t hate everyone, they wouldn’t be so angry all the time but then again they wouldn’t be conservatives then.

244 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 10, 2014 4:40:33pm

re: #238 Dr. Matt

Chucky is now claiming he’s going to end Sabrina Rubin’s career tomorrow. What journalistic standards!

I’d think that a crusading two-chinned journalist would want to build his rep closer to home first and then move out into the world. In Chucky’s case that would mean focusing on Fresno which isn’t going to happen because doing so would put him in imminent danger of being kicked in the junk.

245 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 4:40:44pm

re: #235 Shiplord Kirel

“Fagoot?” Must be related to “honco.”

She sounds Canadian.

246 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 4:40:49pm

re: #62 darthstar

Bad news: They canceled the Winter Storm Warning for the Sierras.
Good news: It was replaced with a Blizzard Storm Warning.

Believe me brother, I’ve been snowdancing my ass off (easy to do with a free heel!) for snow in California! I’mma keep doin’ it, too.

I call this dance “Muscles.”
247 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 4:41:28pm

Hey, it’s FSU business school:

Fine Print, Restrictive Grants, and Academic Freedom
The limits to “free” in free-market foundation donations at Florida State University.

aaup.org

248 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 4:44:17pm

The Ginger Avenger is going to end Rolling Stone tomorrow.

249 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 10, 2014 4:45:55pm

re: #248 Charles Johnson

The Ginger Avenger is going to end Rolling Stone tomorrow.

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“The Ginger Avenger” sounds like a 3rd rate superhero from some 4th tier publishing house. “The Ginger Avenger goes out for Thai Dinner”

250 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 4:46:25pm
re: #232 Skip Intro

“I teach at a University, you asshole. What do you do?” she asked.

What poem is that from? Is that James Joyce?

251 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 4:46:50pm

re: #230 FemNaziBitch

Guaranteed to make you smile

Not commenting on the photos, but that’s a vomit-inducing blog community.

252 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 4:47:09pm

re: #248 Charles Johnson

253 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2014 4:47:10pm

re: #248 Charles Johnson

The Ginger Avenger is going to end Rolling Stone tomorrow.

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How will he top that last failed video he has of her?

254 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 4:47:29pm

re: #245 b_sharp

She sounds Canadian.

She sounds Groot.

255 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 4:47:57pm

Ha Ha Ha! This comments section is the go-to place on the internet to view the best of people making fun of UpChuck! I’ve had a very giggly five or so minutes just now!

256 Skip Intro  Dec 10, 2014 4:48:12pm

re: #248 Charles Johnson

The Ginger Avenger is going to end Rolling Stone tomorrow.

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He’s a vicious little shit, isn’t he?

257 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2014 4:48:52pm

re: #186 Amory Blaine

Oy vey! Scott Walker ends menorah letter with: ‘Thank you … and Molotov’

Apparently this letter was written years ago. I did not find any mention of it on the Chabad website because it’s not news.

258 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 4:49:16pm

re: #233 jaunte

Chris Matthews to David Corn:

Matthews has always been a waste of atoms.

259 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 4:49:54pm

re: #173 Jenner7

[Updated with video] Sorry if this has been posted already….but wow.

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I’m really pissed at the Justice Dept. They let this shit go down. There had better fucking better be repercussions and yes, justice.

260 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 10, 2014 4:49:57pm

re: #255 teleskiguy

Ha Ha Ha! This comments section is the go-to place on the internet to view the best of people making fun of UpChuck! I’ve had a very giggly five or so minutes just now!

You’re not going to break into interpretive dance or anything like that, are you?

RBS

261 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 4:50:22pm

re: #222 BeachDem

And the never-changing answer is YES. Always has been, always will be, no matter how hard the fucking warmongers want to parse things.

I heard a quote from Hannity that he would prefer waterboarding over being killed by a drone.

Everyone still seems to be waiting for him to do the demonstration of how easy it is to get waterboarded.

Maybe the drone strike will happen first.

/

262 Shiplord Kirel  Dec 10, 2014 4:50:24pm

re: #186 Amory Blaine

Oy vey! Scott Walker ends menorah letter with: ‘Thank you … and Molotov’

This made my day. Since Walker has done his best to figuratively burn the state down, he may not be completely off base.

The Molotov cocktail was popularized and named, but not invented, by Finnish forces during the Winter War of 1939-40. The device was named in “honor” of Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Similarly a crude cluster bomb used by Soviet forces was called the “Molotov breadbasket,” since Molotov had claimed at one point that Soviet forces were simply dropping food parcels on Finnish civilians.
The Finns were so taken with the improvised incendiary device that they started mass producing them in factories, apparently putting the local bottlers to work on the war effort. A friend of mine asked how you could keep the rag in the neck of a factory Molotov while it was shipped. The answer of course is that the bottles were capped just like Dr. Pepper or cheap vodka and the oily rag was wrapped around it.

263 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 4:50:49pm

re: #215 HappyWarrior

Amusing to see conservatives who love to go to things like the “Value Voters Summit” and love thumping their noses about how they’re a moral bunch of people because they believe in Jesus, a Christian God, and the Bible condoning the use of torture but these same people flip their collective shit if you suggest that LGBT people and women have the same rights. Way to go conservatives. You’re such a forward thinking ideology.

The New Testament promises eternal torture for the sinners, so it’s not unprecedented.

264 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 4:51:16pm

Yeah, I’m going to play catch up here.

265 b.d.  Dec 10, 2014 4:53:00pm

Wait….What exactly did Chuck do to uncover and end the UVA “hoax”?

266 Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2014 4:53:32pm

So I can still see Chucky’s tweets from my iPhone, but I’m blocked on the PC. Odd.

267 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 4:53:59pm

re: #194 HappyWarrior

The same Obama that Dickhead Cheney refuses to give any credit and continues to call soft on terrorism. You know why I think Cheney constantly bitches about Obama’s FP is because deep down the motherfucker has a conscience and he realizes that Obama’s FP was much effective than the stupid cowboy shit that him and Bush did.

No. Way. In. Hell.

268 b.d.  Dec 10, 2014 4:54:51pm

So Matt Taibbi will be looking for another job tomorrow after Chuck makes Rolling Stone close up shop?

269 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 4:55:54pm

re: #260 RealityBasedSteve

I wouldn’t put it past me, it is my day off.

:-D

270 jaunte  Dec 10, 2014 4:56:40pm

Because we didn’t lose enough money out of our 401ks in 2008:

The Citi-drafted legislation will benefit five of the largest banks in the country—Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. These financial institutions control more than 90 percent of the $700 trillion derivatives market. If this measure becomes law, these banks will be able to use FDIC-insured money to bet on nearly anything they want. And if there’s another economic downturn, they can count on a taxpayer bailout of their derivatives trading business.

271 Skip Intro  Dec 10, 2014 4:56:46pm

re: #215 HappyWarrior

Amusing to see conservatives who love to go to things like the “Value Voters Summit” and love thumping their noses about how they’re a moral bunch of people because they believe in Jesus, a Christian God, and the Bible condoning the use of torture but these same people flip their collective shit if you suggest that LGBT people and women have the same rights. Way to go conservatives. You’re such a forward thinking ideology.

272 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 4:57:28pm

re: #266 Dr. Matt

So I can still see Chucky’s tweets from my iPhone, but I’m blocked on the PC. Odd.

I can see and respond to all his tweets by making a separate column of user:@ChuckCJohnson in TweetDeck.

But yeah, he canned my ass too, sometime in the last couple of days.

[edited]

273 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 4:57:41pm

re: #230 FemNaziBitch

Guaranteed to make you smile

The dragonfly is exquisite.

274 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 5:00:44pm

Report: Walmart managers in California illegally punished employees for going on strike, National Labor Relations Board judge rules - @nytimesbusiness
read more on nytimes.com

275 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 5:00:46pm

re: #272 teleskiguy

I just noticed the official Twitter iPhone app doesn’t show search results for people who have blocked you. I think this is new.

The search functions of Tweetbot and TweetDeck still show tweets from people who you’ve blocked or who have blocked you.

276 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 5:01:06pm

re: #268 b.d.

So Matt Taibbi will be looking for another job tomorrow after Chuck makes Rolling Stone close up shop?

Jann Wenner right now.

PANIC! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!
277 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:01:33pm
278 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 5:02:33pm

re: #275 Charles Johnson

I just noticed the official Twitter iPhone app doesn’t show search results for people who have blocked you. I think this is new.

The search functions of Tweetbot and TweetDeck still show tweets from people who you’ve blocked or who have blocked you.

Yup. I can see his tweets on my iPhone and iPad and TweetDeck just fine. But on their own website?

279 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 5:05:33pm

Tarnation I hate it when I put the wrong image in a comment! And types too, those are annoying!

[edited] TYPOS!!! Criminently!

280 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:05:37pm

I caught up, because y’all slowed down. :(

281 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 5:06:02pm

This is super stupid.

282 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 5:06:46pm

re: #278 teleskiguy

Yup. I can see his tweets on my iPhone and iPad and TweetDeck just fine. But on their own website?

Embedded Image

Yep, this is new. Of course you can still see their tweets by logging out.

283 goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2014 5:08:51pm

So, how about that Mike Cernovich douche? I’m pretty sure he’s suffering from long term steroid induced brain damage.

284 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 5:11:33pm

Oh c’mon Nick, UpChuck’s evidence isn’t even corroborated by facts yet. And you work for the New York gawdamm Times!

285 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:12:00pm

re: #280 #FergusonFireside

I caught up, because y’all slowed down. :(

We’re busy winding up & feeding the gerbils.

286 allegro  Dec 10, 2014 5:14:42pm

re: #285 b_sharp

We’re busy winding up & feeding the gerbils.

Considering the prevailing topics of news/conversation the past 24 hours or so, gerbils are perhaps an unfortunate mention.

287 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:16:42pm

re: #286 allegro

Considering the prevailing topics of news/conversation the past 24 hours or so, gerbils are perhaps an unfortunate mention.

Why?

288 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 5:16:47pm

At least Richard Gere didn’t poop on the floor.

289 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:17:30pm

re: #288 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

At least Richard Gere didn’t poop on the floor.

Some of his movies…

290 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:17:57pm

Bookstore, no doubt.

291 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:19:16pm

It’s my understanding that Better Call Saul replaced The Walking Dead. Anyone watch?

292 allegro  Dec 10, 2014 5:20:19pm

re: #287 b_sharp

Why?

en.wikipedia.org

293 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:20:28pm

re: #291 #FergusonFireside

It’s my understanding that Better Call Saul replaced The Walking Dead. Anyone watch?

I thought it replaced Breaking Bad.

294 BeachDem  Dec 10, 2014 5:21:40pm

re: #277 #FergusonFireside

I know some here are not Keith Olbermann fans (I am), but you gotta admit, when KO goes on a rant, he GOES ON A RANT.

Keith Olbermann blasted former colleague Doug Gottlieb on Wednesday for complaining about NBA star Kobe Bryant and his teammates’ show of support for the protests against the Eric Garner grand jury decision.

“It’s called empathy, Doug, and you don’t have it,” Olbermann said…

Olbermann blasted Gottlieb’s “narrow-minded, cold-hearted, stupid” opinion, while admitting that it pained him to do so, given that they had worked together a few times during Gottlieb’s stint as a basketball analyst for ESPN.

“So, somebody who makes a lot of money is not only not allowed to protest on behalf of those who don’t, but he should be criticized for sticking out his neck when a problem may not necessarily be his problem?” he asked sarcastically. “Because, of course, unless something bad has happened to you personally, it hasn’t really happened…

Olbermann also noted that Gottlieb did not even spell the #ICantBreathe hashtag correctly while trying to question Bryant.

“On top of everything else, Doug, you made yourself look like not just insensitive and elitist and cold, you made yourself look like a high-school dropout,” Olbermann said. “Your hashtag should have been #ICantSpell.”
rawstory.com

295 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 5:21:49pm

re: #292 allegro

en.wikipedia.org

Hydration is the next best thing.

296 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:22:11pm

re: #293 b_sharp

I thought it replaced Breaking Bad.

Yah, I’m talking the time slot on AMC.

Literal Man.

297 makeitstop  Dec 10, 2014 5:23:03pm

re: #285 b_sharp

We’re busy winding up & feeding the gerbils.

I was busy with a wingnut on Facebook. He was explaining to me that Jeb Bush could lose all of the primaries and still get the GOP nomination in 2016.

It was oddly spellbinding. For a while.

298 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:24:37pm

re: #294 BeachDem

I know some here are not Keith Olbermann fans (I am), but you gotta admit, when KO goes on a rant, he GOES ON A RANT.

Keith Olbermann blasted former colleague Doug Gottlieb on Wednesday for complaining about NBA star Kobe Bryant and his teammates’ show of support for the protests against the Eric Garner grand jury decision.

“It’s called empathy, Doug, and you don’t have it,” Olbermann said…

Olbermann blasted Gottlieb’s “narrow-minded, cold-hearted, stupid” opinion, while admitting that it pained him to do so, given that they had worked together a few times during Gottlieb’s stint as a basketball analyst for ESPN.

“So, somebody who makes a lot of money is not only not allowed to protest on behalf of those who don’t, but he should be criticized for sticking out his neck when a problem may not necessarily be his problem?” he asked sarcastically. “Because, of course, unless something bad has happened to you personally, it hasn’t really happened…

Olbermann also noted that Gottlieb did not even spell the #ICantBreathe hashtag correctly while trying to question Bryant.

“On top of everything else, Doug, you made yourself look like not just insensitive and elitist and cold, you made yourself look like a high-school dropout,” Olbermann said. “Your hashtag should have been #ICantSpell.”
rawstory.com

I love Keith. Especially his rants, and his encyclopedic knowledge of baseball.

I wouldn’t want to work with/for him tho.

299 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:26:15pm

re: #296 #FergusonFireside

Yah, I’m talking the time slot on AMC.

Literal Man.

Nah, I’m Virtual Man.

300 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 5:26:47pm

Kadyrov’s thugs in Donbass:

301 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2014 5:29:19pm

re: #275 Charles Johnson

I just noticed the official Twitter iPhone app doesn’t show search results for people who have blocked you. I think this is new.

The search functions of Tweetbot and TweetDeck still show tweets from people who you’ve blocked or who have blocked you.

Tweetdeck randomly unmutes people that I have blocked and muted. It’s very annoying.

302 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:32:01pm

FYI..ha….We are supposed to be slow at the holiday. But I guess that’s in 2 weeks. We are slammed at work.

I’m taking off the 2 weeks of Xmas & New Years with my remaining time off, and will double dip working as the waitron I’ve always wanted to be. Free from debt by 1/30/15 my goal.

On another subject, I’m missing WW and hope she’s doing ok. Damn it.

303 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 5:32:04pm

I almost have to give Chuck kudos for turning himself into the premier bottom feeder in the very crowded, very fetid right wing swamp.

304 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:32:21pm

re: #292 allegro

en.wikipedia.org

I would never treat a gerbil like that.

305 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 5:33:12pm

If it were the Nazi flag, would it still be free speech?

Supreme Court to Hear Confederate-Flag License Plate Case

theroot.com

Hey, idiots, you lost the war. This shouldn’t even be a battle.

Only a RW group would push something like this that glorifies a failed, treasonous “confederacy” that celebrated slavery.

306 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 5:33:19pm

Old “culture minister of DNR” has been arrested for whatever reason, this is the new one (no joke):

307 Chez Ko Pe  Dec 10, 2014 5:34:45pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

I worked with someone like Ginger Furby during my stint in the Air Force. He started showing up for work one week without showering, and on the third day, after complaints from visitors, he was ordered to leave the facility (a communications center about five miles off-base), return to his barracks, clean up, and come back. Less than five minutes later, we got a call that he was running through the comm center in tears, yelling “Smell me! Do I stink?” at everyone.

He came back two hours later—dripping wet as he had run his uniform through the washer instead of changing, and his face red as a beet as if he’d been bawling the entire way back. He claimed he was being unfairly “persecuted” after “floating an air biscuit” near a supervisor, but the reality was no one was willing to reprimand him on paper because within the system that amounted to confessing one’s personal failure to change unacceptable behavior in subordinates.

And the next day—and a couple of days afterwards—he came to work stinking like a wet gym bag, grinning vacuously as if he thought he was Triumphing Against The System. I don’t know what they did to make him stop, but I suspect it wasn’t in the books. His entire existence was alternately hilarious, infuriating and heartbreaking to anyone unfortunate to be near him.

Come to think of it, he also sounds like the incompetent pig who murdered Tamil Rice; no matter what he was told to do, he would just reprocess it through his broken noggin until it came out completely different, everyone was out to get him, and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. And he would cling to and bring up his embarrassments long after everyone else had let it go.

308 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:34:50pm

re: #302 #FergusonFireside

FYI..ha….We are supposed to be slow at the holiday. But I guess that’s in 2 weeks. We are slammed at work.

I’m taking off the 2 weeks of Xmas & New Years with my remaining time off, and will double dip working as the waitron I’ve always wanted to be. Free from debt by 1/30/15 my goal.

On another subject, I’m missing WW and hope she’s doing ok. Damn it.

What’s a waitron.

309 Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2014 5:35:01pm

re: #301 The Vicious Babushka

TweetDeck still has a few weird issues; it also occasionally misses tweets when they should have appeared in a column. I still find it the best way to keep track of several topics of interest in one place.

310 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 5:35:40pm
311 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2014 5:36:57pm

re: #305 Justanotherhuman

If it were the Nazi flag, would it still be free speech?

Supreme Court to Hear Confederate-Flag License Plate Case

theroot.com

Hey, idiots, you lost the war. This shouldn’t even be a battle.

Only a RW group would push something like this that glorifies a failed, treasonous “confederacy” that celebrated slavery.

HURR HURR THEY WAS ALL DEMOCRATS!!!!! GOP FREED TEH SLAVES!!!!! WHY WON’T TEH LIBRUL DEMOCRAPS ADMIT THIS!!11!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!

312 ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2014 5:37:00pm

I want to thank everyone for all the updings for the Photoshop of the
“Why Stoolidge Matters” book cover takeoff in #88.

That’s my highest score yet for a photoshop. Woot!

313 Belafon  Dec 10, 2014 5:37:15pm

re: #305 Justanotherhuman

If it were the Nazi flag, would it still be free speech?

Supreme Court to Hear Confederate-Flag License Plate Case

theroot.com

Hey, idiots, you lost the war. This shouldn’t even be a battle.

Only a RW group would push something like this that glorifies a failed, treasonous “confederacy” that celebrated slavery.

Since I’m in Texas - which is, surprisingly, fighting those that want the license plates - I’m going to get a bumper sticker and shirt that have the surrender flag with the statement “The only Confederate flag that matters”.

314 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 10, 2014 5:37:56pm

re: #269 teleskiguy

I wouldn’t put it past me, it is my day off.

:-D

If you promise NOT to dance, you get some fresh homemade bread….

Bread….

I got tasked at 2 this afternoon to prepare and deliver an hour long “webinar” on SharePoint. When I was asked “What aspect of SharePoint?”, the person doing the tasking said, “Doesn’t really matter, we scheduled a webinar, and need you go an hour.”

I’m pulling a whitepaper off of the MSDN site regarding SP Governance and Best Practices. Toss it into PowerPoint and I’ll be satisfied with it.

It’s good to be good, it’s better when it’s not taken advantage of. :)

RBS

315 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2014 5:39:19pm

re: #314 RealityBasedSteve

If you promise NOT to dance, you get some fresh homemade bread….

Image: Bread….I got tasked at 2 this afternoon to prepare and deliver an hour long “webinar” on SharePoint. When I was asked “What aspect of SharePoint?”, the person doing the tasking said, “Doesn’t really matter, we scheduled a webinar, and need you go an hour.”

I’m pulling a whitepaper off of the MSDN site regarding SP Governance and Best Practices. Toss it into PowerPoint and I’ll be satisfied with it.

It’s good to be good, it’s better when it’s not taken advantage of. :)

RBS

Jesus Christ, an hour-long webinar on Sharepoint? I’d slit my wrists.

316 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:40:05pm

re: #308 b_sharp

What’s a waitron.

A more regulated Waitress.

317 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:41:14pm

re: #316 #FergusonFireside

A more regulated Waitress.

Why does a waitress need to be more regular?

318 b_sharp  Dec 10, 2014 5:42:33pm

re: #316 #FergusonFireside

A more regulated Waitress.

Your poor feetses are going to complain bitterly about being a waitron.

319 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 10, 2014 5:43:09pm

re: #308 b_sharp

What’s a waitron.

Ultron’s part-time job in his youth.

320 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:43:47pm

re: #317 b_sharp

Why does a waitress need to be more regular?

Regulated. Corporate.

321 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:44:57pm

re: #318 b_sharp

Your poor feetses are going to complain bitterly about being a waitron.

My bank account will soften the blow. I bought really good shoes.

I’m a hyper person. It’s working out.

322 calochortus  Dec 10, 2014 5:45:44pm

re: #321 #FergusonFireside

My bank account will soften the blow. I bought really good shoes.

I’m a hyper person. It’s working out.

May you receive many good tips.

323 Belafon  Dec 10, 2014 5:46:26pm

re: #322 calochortus

May you receive many good tips.

With most of them being money.

324 #FergusonFireside  Dec 10, 2014 5:47:52pm

re: #323 Belafon

With most of them being money.

I’m also gonna troll for dates. Haha. Not really/really.

325 RealityBasedSteve  Dec 10, 2014 5:48:10pm

re: #315 The Vicious Babushka

Jesus Christ, an hour-long webinar on Sharepoint? I’d slit my wrists.

I am truly LOLing at this one. That’s the kind of vote-of-confidence that trainers live for. BRRRRRRRTTHHHF

RBS

326 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 5:49:04pm
327 William Barnett-Lewis  Dec 10, 2014 5:50:43pm

re: #326 teleskiguy

Why am I tempted to quote Sturgeon’s Law about that?

328 teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2014 5:52:07pm

re: #327 William Barnett-Lewis

Why am I tempted to quote Sturgeon’s Law about that?

Because you’re most likely correct.

329 Justanotherhuman  Dec 10, 2014 5:53:33pm

Today would have been my son’s 54th birthday. My other son called me to see how I was doing and I told him we would raise our glasses to D on xmas when we all get together. Still, I think of him every day. The tree went up today, and I have an ornament I hang on it with a candid photo of the 2 brothers around 5 & 6—beautiful kids, as they all tend to be at that age. He would love that tree.

And with that,

Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!

Later. : )

330 freetoken  Dec 10, 2014 5:57:37pm

re: #303 Charles Johnson

I almost have to give Chuck kudos for turning himself into the premier bottom feeder in the very crowded, very fetid right wing swamp.

CCJ is the alpha Polychaete?

331 compound_Idaho  Dec 10, 2014 6:05:49pm

re: #274 Justanotherhuman

Report: Walmart managers in California illegally punished employees for going on strike, National Labor Relations Board judge rules - @nytimesbusiness
read more on nytimes.com

Amazon in an attempt to one up Walmart doesn’t have to pay workers while waiting in security lines on their way home for the day. Nice. I guess that is one way to cut costs.

washingtonpost.com

332 Higgs Boson's Mate  Dec 10, 2014 6:29:58pm

re: #327 William Barnett-Lewis

re: #328 teleskiguy

333 Shazam  Dec 10, 2014 6:31:42pm

Where was Chuck on June 30th?

huffingtonpost.co.uk


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