Stand Back, Chuck C. Johnson Is Going to Sue Politico

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Today, dear readers, I’d like to direct your attention to Politico’s profile of hirsute hate-monger Chuck C. Johnson, because even though it’s irritating to see this cretin getting media coverage, Jacob Silverman nails Chuck pretty well:

Is Charles Johnson a Digital Darth Vader?

I don’t know about the “digital Darth Vader” title, though. Chuck’s more like a digital Dark Helmet.

In any case, Silverman interviewed me as well for this piece, and here’s what I had to say:

Some people have little choice but to engage Johnson. Another man named Charles Johnson, who writes the political blog Little Green Footballs, is sometimes confused for his more inflammatory counterpart. “It’s like he’s damaging my brand with his behavior,” the proprietor of LGF said. Last month, Charles C. Johnson showed up at a Los Angeles apartment where the other Johnson used to live and tweeted a photo of it. The former resident was unamused: “He’s been so incredibly vicious towards me on Twitter that it’s hard to feel that this is just a harmless prank,” he said, describing Charles C. Johnson as an “egomaniacal bully and a malignant narcissist whose behavior borders on and sometimes crosses into outright stalking.”

If you had to guess, how do you think Chuck is reacting to this article? That’s right! Stand back, HE’S GONNA SUE.

In case you were wondering, the Internet has now been free of lawsuit threats from Chuck C. Johnson for just over 44 minutes.

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139 comments
1 dog philosopher  Dec 12, 2014 12:35:50pm

o.t.

any chance the wingnuts have figured out that the budget allows wall st to underwrite risky gambling using “mah tax dollars”?

i thought not

2 b.d.  Dec 12, 2014 12:36:15pm

Can’t they just have a chainsaw fight instead?

3 dog philosopher  Dec 12, 2014 12:37:37pm

is chuckie the boy named “sue”?

4 Kragar  Dec 12, 2014 12:38:00pm

Suing someone for libel even though you haven’t got a case?

5 iossarian  Dec 12, 2014 12:38:42pm

re: #1 dog philosopher

o.t.

any chance the wingnuts have figured out that the budget allows wall st to underwrite risky gambling using “mah tax dollars”?

i thought not

Any subsequent bailout will be blamed on Democrats.

“Obama signed it into law.”

6 Targetpractice  Dec 12, 2014 12:39:29pm

re: #4 Kragar

Suing someone for libel even though you haven’t got a case?

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What, his call to the law offices of Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe didn’t get returned?

7 b.d.  Dec 12, 2014 12:40:20pm

re: #6 Targetpractice

What, his call to the law offices of Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe didn’t get returned?

Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer that freely represents racists, Chuck should hire him.

8 Ace-o-aces  Dec 12, 2014 12:41:17pm
9 blueraven  Dec 12, 2014 12:41:43pm

OT

At least 2 shot at Portland OR high school.

kgw.com

10 b.d.  Dec 12, 2014 12:44:37pm

This suing of Politico needs to happen, I love some wingnut v. wingnut action.

p.s.- I thought wingnuts hated lawyers?

11 dog philosopher  Dec 12, 2014 12:46:52pm

re: #8 Ace-o-aces

Chuck’s lawyer: 1) Picks up phone, 2) Listens to Chuck rant, 3) Hangs up phone, 4) Goes back to Minesweeper

bills $200 for the 5 minute phone call

12 Targetpractice  Dec 12, 2014 12:47:04pm

Really, in a fight between Chucky and Politico, who is it I’m supposed to be cheering for? Can’t they both lose?

13 makeitstop  Dec 12, 2014 12:50:05pm

Hey, thanks for the h/t on the image, Charles!

Now I feel like I’ve finally contributed something around here. :)

14 Ace-o-aces  Dec 12, 2014 12:50:54pm

re: #11 dog philosopher

bills $200 for the 5 minute phone call

Oh, like Chuck is ever going to pay that.

15 ObsidianB  Dec 12, 2014 12:52:17pm

re: #6 Targetpractice

My first thought was Wolfram and Hart, but they might be too ethical even to take HIM as a client.

16 Areopagitica  Dec 12, 2014 12:52:35pm

I wonder if Orly Taitz (sp) is his attorney…that would be a dimwit match made in heaven.

17 makeitstop  Dec 12, 2014 12:53:46pm

re: #16 Areopagitica

I wonder if Orly Taitz (sp) is his attorney…that would be a dimwit match made in heaven.

Taitz wouldn’t even have to represent herself in order to have a fool for a client.

18 Ace-o-aces  Dec 12, 2014 12:54:10pm

re: #16 Areopagitica

I wonder if Orly Taitz (sp) is his attorney…that would be a dimwit match made in heaven.

Nah, Taitz would have filed. It would be laughed out of court and she would be warned not to waste the judges time again, but she would have filed.

19 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 12:55:02pm
20 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 12:55:55pm

re: #19 FemNaziBitch

On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law, was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.

21 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 12:56:02pm
22 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 12:56:40pm
23 lawhawk  Dec 12, 2014 12:57:37pm
24 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 12:59:14pm
25 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:01:02pm

America is a Business

26 Timothy Watson  Dec 12, 2014 1:02:05pm

I think state delegate Jim Morrisey is going to lose his law license (again):

Del. Joseph D. Morrissey, D-Henrico, entered an Alford plea Friday to a misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and was sentenced to 12 months in jail with six suspended but will be allowed to participate in a work-release program and could be free after three months.

An Alford plea acknowledges the prosecution has evidence sufficient for a conviction but does not concede guilt on the charge stemming from accusations that he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl who worked in his law office. The special prosecutor in the case told reporters after the hearing that the girl, now 18, is pregnant and that Morrissey is “perhaps” the father.

timesdispatch.com

27 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 1:05:24pm

God’s on a roll…

28 blueraven  Dec 12, 2014 1:07:37pm

Oil hits stocks; worst week of 2014 for Dow, S&P 500
Dow drops 300 points.
Oil below $58, first time since May 2009.

cnbc.com

On a side note, a gallon of gas here in the Austin area below $2.40

29 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:08:47pm

Hubby and I have a work-related (obligatory) Xmas function to attend tonite.

Same thing every year. At first it was fun, now, it’s the only time I get to see people we ran around with before children.

30 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:08:59pm

re: #27 darthstar

God’s on a roll…

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I like this god.

31 The Vicious Babushka  Dec 12, 2014 1:09:31pm

re: #3 dog philosopher

is chuckie the boy named “sue”?

Heh

32 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:09:50pm
33 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 1:10:37pm
34 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:11:13pm

Not only the US, but much of the world.

It seems the world economy depends on US borrowers making their monthly house payments.

35 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2014 1:12:47pm

re: #32 FemNaziBitch

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fun medical factoid: the Bible was (and probably still is) an effective treatment for ganglions. The bigger and heavier the Bible used to smack the ganglion, the more likely the ganglion will burst.
For foot and ankle ganglions, running over the affected area with a fully loaded baby stroller was also used.

You’re welcome!

36 Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2014 1:13:13pm

This is truly hilarious: chuckcjohnson.info

37 3eff Jeff  Dec 12, 2014 1:13:54pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is why those are sometimes called “Bible Cysts”

38 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2014 1:14:13pm

re: #37 3eff Jeff

This is why those are sometimes called “Bible Cysts”

yep

39 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:14:35pm
40 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:15:51pm

re: #36 Dr. Matt

Defamation lawsuits filed to date: 0.

41 b.d.  Dec 12, 2014 1:17:35pm

re: #40 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Defamation lawsuits filed to date: 0.

Chuck is going to file them all at once, in bulk, his lawyer gives him a better rate that way.

42 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 1:17:58pm

re: #36 Dr. Matt

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This is truly hilarious: chuckcjohnson.info

The tab icon looks like a turd.

43 Targetpractice  Dec 12, 2014 1:18:42pm

re: #39 FemNaziBitch

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Yeah, no surprise there.

44 3eff Jeff  Dec 12, 2014 1:20:05pm

re: #42 darthstar

The tab icon looks like a turd.

It’s the poop emoji. In fact, one of the best uses I’ve seen of the poop emoji.

46 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:21:11pm

re: #42 darthstar

The tab icon looks like a turd.

Dunno, to me it looks like Chuck.

47 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:22:07pm
48 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 1:22:34pm

off to don clothing I will never wear again. . .

bbl

49 Kragar  Dec 12, 2014 1:24:05pm
50 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 1:24:52pm

re: #36 Dr. Matt

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This is truly hilarious: chuckcjohnson.info

The best entry:

12/11/2014, 12:38 PM: Gawker/Deadspin; Eddie Scarry/Washington Examiner; Rosie Gray/Buzzfeed; all persons, entities, or nations with vowels in name; the sun god Ra. [Source: Daily Caller]

51 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:26:31pm
On top of that, freakish homunculus / award-winning journalist Chuck C. Johnson attached himself to the story like a sleazy online remora
Read more at wonkette.com

Thanks, I needed that.

52 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 1:29:21pm

re: #39 FemNaziBitch

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Yeah, I wondered yesterday who does the booking for Costello’s show—one day, idiot Joe Walsh to share his vast insight on torture, then the Princeton Mom moron to talk rape. (I guess Joe the Plumber and Christine O’Donnell were unavailable.)

Let’s keep legitimizing illegitimate bullshit—that’s how the MBF gets her wings!

53 Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2014 1:33:48pm

re: #50 BeachDem

The best entry:

12/11/2014, 12:38 PM: Gawker/Deadspin; Eddie Scarry/Washington Examiner; Rosie Gray/Buzzfeed; all persons, entities, or nations with vowels in name; the sun god Ra. [Source: Daily Caller]

The footnote: “Not affiliated with or endorsed by Chuck C. Johnson, serious journalist. Here’s his website so you can give him the attention for which he thirsts. Links to the allegedly libelous material causing hurtfeels may not be the material Chuck C. Johnson, serious journalist, believes to be defamatory. Just guessing here. Deter frivolous and abusive libel threats. Contact your state representatives and encourage them to adopt anti-SLAPP legislation.”

54 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 1:37:10pm

re: #53 Dr. Matt

The footnote: “Not affiliated with or endorsed by Chuck C. Johnson, serious journalist. Here’s his website so you can give him the attention for which he thirsts. Links to the allegedly libelous material causing hurtfeels may not be the material Chuck C. Johnson, serious journalist, believes to be defamatory. Just guessing here. Deter frivolous and abusive libel threats. Contact your state representatives and encourage them to adopt anti-SLAPP legislation.”

It will frost upchuck’s ass that they donotlinked to his goatnews site. Heh.

55 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:37:55pm

Yes, SCOTUS.

For here you have Scalia who thinks your Constitution doesn’t prohibit torture:

huffingtonpost.com

The moron employs the ticking bomb.

56 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:39:57pm

Such a great legal thinker… not.

Reminded me of this rape hypothetical (via PZ):

Image: wizardnuke.png

57 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 1:43:23pm

re: #55 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Yes, SCOTUS.

For here you have Scalia who thinks your Constitution doesn’t prohibit torture:

huffingtonpost.com

The moron employs the ticking bomb.

Scalia’s long been a proponent of ruling via Jack Bauer of “24.”

“Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. … He saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Judge Scalia said. Then, recalling Season 2, where the agent’s rough interrogation tactics saved California from a terrorist nuke, the Supreme Court judge etched a line in the sand.

“Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?” Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. “Say that criminal law is against him? ‘You have the right to a jury trial?’ Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don’t think so.

theatlantic.com

58 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:45:34pm

That last example - with the wizard - is extreme, but it is in effect a type of a ticking bomb scenario.
Plus one can easily imagine a “wizard with a nuke” scenario where the wizard says: “Build extermination camps for 10,000,000 people of ethnicity/religion X or all 7 billion will die!” So what does that prove, that genocide is not evil?

59 iossarian  Dec 12, 2014 1:50:54pm

Enjoy your weekends, everyone!

(Except rape-wizards. They can GO TO HELL!)

61 goddamnedfrank  Dec 12, 2014 1:54:02pm

re: #58 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

That last example - with the wizard - is extreme, but it is in effect a type of a ticking bomb scenario.
Plus one can easily imagine a “wizard with a nuke” scenario where the wizard says: “Build extermination camps for 10,000,000 people of ethnicity/religion X or all 7 billion will die!” So what does that prove, that genocide is not evil?

When you’re a wizard, and the only tool you have is a magical rape button, every problem looks like a crazy woman with a nuclear weapon.

62 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2014 1:54:18pm

At University of South Dakota, there’s a small problem:

One of USD’s free speech zones doesn’t exist.

USD lists in its “Free Speech Policy” (PDF) the “Areas available for Free Speech”: Inman Field, North of Old Main, and “Other areas as approved.” Old Main is easy to find, but we couldn’t find Inman Field on USD’s campus map. So my trusty colleague David Deerson called USD’s main office and its director of parking services—neither had heard of Inman Field.

Searching the USD website for Inman Field yielded a university library document stating that sporting events used to be held in “Inman Field (no longer standing).” Another result displays an issue of USD’s alumni magazine, which features a historical look at USD, including references to football at Inman Field in the 1970s. How long exactly has Inman Field been gone?

Broadening the search to the rest of the Internet brought me to this gem: a blog post about USD sports that cites the book A Celebration of One Hundred Years of South Dakota High School Activities and Athletics and says: “From 1907-12, state meets were held at Dakota Field (later site of Inman Field and today where business and law schools sit) at The University of South Dakota….” Let’s get this straight: At the very least, Inman Field has been out of commission long enough that buildings now sit on it.

63 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 1:54:21pm

re: #57 BeachDem

Scalia’s long been a proponent of ruling via Jack Bauer of “24.”

“Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. … He saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Judge Scalia said. Then, recalling Season 2, where the agent’s rough interrogation tactics saved California from a terrorist nuke, the Supreme Court judge etched a line in the sand.

“Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?” Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. “Say that criminal law is against him? ‘You have the right to a jury trial?’ Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don’t think so.

theatlantic.com

It’s pretty fucking pathetic that a SC justice quotes a fictional character.

We’re doomed…

64 Lidane  Dec 12, 2014 1:54:45pm

re: #60 Varek Raith

Union Leader Suggests Those Who Released CIA Torture Report Are “Wusses,” Cites Jack Bauer From 24

HOLLYWEIRD IZ LIBRUL EXCEPT FOR TEH SHOWZ THAT REINFORCE MY NARRATIVE!

65 Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2014 1:55:20pm

The creator of this website chuckcjohnson.info needs to create a script that automatically sends out tweets with the numer of hrs, mins, and secs since Chuckty threatened a lawsuit.

66 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:56:40pm

re: #63 Justanotherhuman

It’s pretty fucking pathetic that a SC justice quotes a fictional character.

We’re doomed…

Which is why voting for the Dems is important. Even for the shitty ones.

67 bratwurst  Dec 12, 2014 1:57:05pm

re: #57 BeachDem

“Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?”

Absolutely.

68 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:57:29pm

“Vote for the crook, it’s important”. Some folks will remember that.

69 Varek Raith  Dec 12, 2014 1:57:44pm

re: #66 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Which is why voting for the Dems is important. Even for the shitty ones.

JACK BAUER1!11!11ty

70 Egregious Philbin  Dec 12, 2014 1:58:20pm

I hope Chuckie baby sues. What better way to fail than to spend what money he has? Bankrupt his ass and see how long he lasts publishing his daily bilge.

71 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 1:59:43pm

And it’s exhausting voting for the crooks just to avoid a worse fate, I know. But who said life’s fair.

72 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:00:32pm

After reading those emails between Pascal and Rudin, I don’t have a lot of sympathy.

Sony tells US authorities they fear new hacking attacks after release of ‘The Interview’ - @Recode
read more on recode.net

73 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 2:00:54pm

Some Ukrainians are having fun:

74 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2014 2:01:52pm
75 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:02:19pm

re: #70 Egregious Philbin

I hope Chuckie baby sues. What better way to fail than to spend what money he has? Bankrupt his ass and see how long he lasts publishing his daily bilge.

He has no case. What grounds would he sue on anyway? People should be suing him.

76 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 2:03:44pm

So Heaven is a Jurassic Park-cum-Noah’s Ark?

77 b.d.  Dec 12, 2014 2:03:58pm

re: #75 Justanotherhuman

He has no case. What grounds would he sue on anyway? People should be suing him.

I think the 1st thing they teach you in law school is to not sue poor people.

78 jaunte  Dec 12, 2014 2:04:15pm

re: #49 Kragar

“freakish homunculus / award-winning journalist Chuck C. Johnson”

79 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 2:04:19pm

re: #60 Varek Raith

Union Leader Suggests Those Who Released CIA Torture Report Are “Wusses,” Cites Jack Bauer From 24

Ah, they’re just coat-tailing on Scalia. (I always thought Fox had an ulterior motive in running “24.”)

80 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 2:05:59pm

Hey, steak. We’ll meet in Heaven.

81 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:06:06pm

I paid $2.45/gal today. Yes! Glad gas prices are down—it allows me to spend money on other things, like food and xmas gifts. : ) Don’t know why stocks should drop—people are buying cars, furniture, houses, all kinds of consumer goods. The economy is kicking. No one industry should rule the economy of any country.

US stocks hammered by drop in oil prices; Dow drops over 300 points - @CNBC
read more on cnbc.com

82 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 2:06:53pm

re: #65 Dr. Matt

The creator of this website chuckcjohnson.info needs to create a script that automatically sends out tweets with the numer of hrs, mins, and secs since Chuckty threatened a lawsuit.

It could automatically tweet every time the # goes back to zero…It would be a pretty active twitter account.

83 goddamnedfrank  Dec 12, 2014 2:07:41pm

re: #75 Justanotherhuman

He has no case. What grounds would he sue on anyway? People should be suing him.

He doesn’t seem to understand that discovery works both ways. Once he sues an entity with Politico’s deep pockets he’s properly fucked.

84 Charles Johnson  Dec 12, 2014 2:08:07pm
85 Franklin  Dec 12, 2014 2:11:42pm
86 EPR-radar  Dec 12, 2014 2:12:18pm

re: #71 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

And it’s exhausting voting for the crooks just to avoid a worse fate, I know. But who said life’s fair.

I think this lesson will have to be learned the hard way in the US (again).

3 years of the Hoover administration doing diddly + squat in response to the Great Depression is why we had a long period of Democratic dominance in the US.

Had McCain/Palin been elected in 2008 it is likely they would have repeated history by totally botching the response to that recession + bank crisis.

Unfortunately, today’s Republicans are much worse than Hoover et al. back then, and giving them years to prove just how awful they are may be a disaster than cannot be recovered from.

87 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 12, 2014 2:12:23pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

At University of South Dakota, there’s a small problem:

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Interesting co-inky-dink that the location of the non-existent free speech zone is where the law and business schools now reside.

88 Timothy Watson  Dec 12, 2014 2:12:41pm

re: #79 BeachDem

Ah, they’re just coat-tailing on Scalia. (I always thought Fox had an ulterior motive in running “24.”)

Except that they had two of the biggest liberals in Hollywood in it. Kiefer Sutherland is the grandson of the politician, Tommy Douglas, who created Canada’s health care system and James Morrison is extremely liberal:

89 sagehen  Dec 12, 2014 2:13:15pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Except aardvarks, fire ants, mosquitoes, locusts, and pomeranians.

90 Charles Johnson  Dec 12, 2014 2:13:39pm
91 Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 12, 2014 2:14:02pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Bast wants to know who let all the damn dogs in!
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92 jaunte  Dec 12, 2014 2:14:56pm

Dr. Frankenstein worrying that his creation is acting abbie normal.

93 Targetpractice  Dec 12, 2014 2:15:07pm

re: #90 Charles Johnson

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They’ll deny connection to him, but you can be sure none of them will stop believing that Chucky “proved” Michael Brown had a criminal record.

94 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:16:05pm

re: #88 Timothy Watson

Except that they had two of the biggest liberals in Hollywood in it. Kiefer Sutherland is the grandson of the politician, Tommy Douglas, who created Canada’s health care system and James Morrison is extremely liberal:

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My recent ancestors were all raving reactionary racists, so ancestry sometimes means little. I reversed the trend.

Sutherland probably needed a continuing paycheck.

95 Franklin  Dec 12, 2014 2:16:18pm

If you dig legislative strategy, inside baseball, etc check out today’s Kagro in the Morning:

96 GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 12, 2014 2:16:32pm

His lawyer probably has a 976 phone sex number.

97 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 2:18:48pm
98 GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 12, 2014 2:18:51pm

Better yet. Here’s ChuckyPoo’s lawyer answering his call.

99 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:21:35pm

re: #98 GlutenFreeJesus

Better yet. Here’s ChuckyPoo’s lawyer answering his call.

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Jackie Chiles (Phil Morris) should have gotten his own show.

100 Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2014 2:22:11pm

LOL!

101 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 2:22:21pm

re: #88 Timothy Watson

Except that they had two of the biggest liberals in Hollywood in it. Kiefer Sutherland is the grandson of the politician, Tommy Douglas, who created Canada’s health care system and James Morrison is extremely liberal:

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Just shows that they’re excellent actors!

102 Ace-o-aces  Dec 12, 2014 2:24:47pm

re: #60 Varek Raith

Union Leader Suggests Those Who Released CIA Torture Report Are “Wusses,” Cites Jack Bauer From 24

From the UL:

Regarding the politically motivated and highly questionable U.S. Senate report on the CIA released this week, we wonder:

What would Jack Bauer make of these wusses?

Bauer, of course, is the fictional character from the TV series “24.” He regularly and single-handedly saved America by beating the daylights and the information out of the bad guys with little regard for civil niceties.

We know, real life isn’t like television make-believe. But that is precisely the point here. The liberal politicians behind this report are either terribly naive or terribly cynical or both.

Read that last sentence again. I dare you make less sense. “Real-life isn’t like TV, but how dare the Senate judge the CIA based on what happened in reality”.

103 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:26:44pm

We’ll see…

St. Louis police say they’ll discipline officer who wore ‘Wilson’ name tag at City Hall protest

stltoday.com

“We know if Santa were black or brown, we know he’d be shot and killed for breaking and entering,” said Elizabeth Vega, one of the protest organizers.

More

104 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Dec 12, 2014 2:32:32pm

There is sort of an old analogy to Bauer in Soviet/Russian cinema - Gleb Zhiglov, a detective in the post-war Moscow of 1945, who is ostensibly good but uses underhanded methods. In a bus he and his young sidekick catch a notorious thief who, nevertheless manages to throw away a stolen wallet just in time. At the militsiya station he is cocky because he thinks they have nothing against him. During a search the wallet is found in his pocket. Zhiglov’s young colleague is shocked and argues with him about his methods. Lots of Russians are, of course, on Zhiglov’s side.

Youtube Video

105 BeachDem  Dec 12, 2014 2:41:32pm

Via Charles P. Pierce:

…Long-haul truck drivers will now drive longer shifts with less time for rest in between. (How the hell did that get into an appropriations bill? Shut up, they explained.) The sage grouse’s time on this earth is just about up. Campaign finance took another step inside the gates of Mordor. And, of course, thanks to some impressive arm-twisting by a Democratic administration hell-bent on helping out a Republican speaker, the Unleash The Hounds derivatives provision sailed through.

And so sad, but true:

And the slow, steady and inexorable campaign to render this president a non-person in the long sweep of history continues apace.

They will be doing some of it in order to curry favor with theoligarchs. They will be doing some of it just because they’re mean…

The basic goal of the political opposition in Congress, having thrown so much sand in the gears that it’s a wonder the president got anything done, and the stated goal of the newer, more radical Congress that will be assembling in January, will be to undo everything he did accomplish until the presidency of Barack Obama vanishes from history as a kind of failed experiment.

It is important to these people that the country not remember that it elected (twice) an African American Democratic president. It is important to people who have spent 40 years constructing their own private American history that their own private American history not include him.

esquire.com

106 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:42:30pm

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says they are ready to finish work on the spending bill tonight; Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., says, ‘we’re not going to finish tonight’ - @frankthorpNBC
see original on twitter.com

107 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:44:04pm

re: #105 BeachDem

Gawd, that was good.

108 Mattand  Dec 12, 2014 2:45:59pm

Jre: #90 Charles Johnson

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Just finished reading the Politico piece. Pretty much what I was thinking. To see the idiots at Breitbart running for the fainting coach over the monster they helped create is beyond idiotic.

109 #FergusonFireside  Dec 12, 2014 2:46:25pm

OK gang, I’m leaving work a little early to compare my driving skills to the So Cal crazies in the rain.

Wish me well.

110 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 2:50:07pm

FBI warns businesses that Iranian hackers may target US energy, defense firms - @Reuters

reuters.com

111 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 2:54:36pm

re: #63 Justanotherhuman

It’s pretty fucking pathetic that a SC justice quotes a fictional character.

We’re doomed…

At least it wasn’t Jesus.

112 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 3:05:17pm

re: #111 darthstar

At least it wasn’t Jesus.

“You’re looking at me as though I’m weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It’s in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.”
― Antonin Scalia

goodreads.com

Not exactly a quote, but wowser. : )

113 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 3:08:05pm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., files cloture on spending bill, setting up a vote in 2 days - @ArletteSaenz
see original on twitter.com

114 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:08:28pm
115 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 3:14:18pm
116 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 3:14:59pm

Apparently, “Don’t jerk and drive” has a double meaning…and doesn’t just refer to jerking the wheel on icy roads.

117 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:15:26pm

re: #116 darthstar

Apparently, “Don’t jerk and drive” has a double meaning…and doesn’t just refer to jerking the wheel on icy roads.

ya think?

118 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:16:31pm

re: #112 Justanotherhuman

“You’re looking at me as though I’m weird. My God! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the Devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the Devil! It’s in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the Devil! Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.”
― Antonin Scalia

goodreads.com

Not exactly a quote, but wowser. : )

Evil is in all of us, some of us just show it more than others, Justice Scalia.

119 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 3:16:50pm

re: #116 darthstar

Apparently, “Don’t jerk and drive” has a double meaning…and doesn’t just refer to jerking the wheel on icy roads.

Sounded faptastic.

120 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:17:48pm

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL!

[Embedded content]

Hate and God don’t really go together, do they?

121 Kragar  Dec 12, 2014 3:17:58pm
122 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:18:45pm
123 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 3:22:17pm

re: #117 FemNaziBitch

ya think?

Explains why people in Wisconsin drive with their eyes closed.

124 Zamb  Dec 12, 2014 3:22:57pm

re: #115 darthstar

It is a long drive through that state.

125 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:23:46pm
Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died, Francis told him in a recent public appearance on St. Peter’s Square, “Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures.”

Still silent on women.

126 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:23:59pm

re: #123 darthstar

Explains why people in Wisconsin drive with their eyes closed.

and Indiana … ?

127 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 3:24:19pm
128 darthstar  Dec 12, 2014 3:25:16pm

re: #126 FemNaziBitch

and Indiana … ?

Do people in Indiana actually masturbate? I didn’t know it had been introduced there.

129 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:28:46pm

oops!

130 coin operated  Dec 12, 2014 3:28:51pm

Somebody mentioned it above, but discovery goes both ways. If I was a Politico attorney, I would be *begging* Chucky to file this lawsuit just so I could have a little fun with the douchnozzle on the stand.

131 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:29:11pm

re: #128 darthstar

Do people in Indiana actually masturbate? I didn’t know it had been introduced there.

I think you may be right. I hadn’t thought of it before.

They do have a lot of guns.

132 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 3:29:55pm

re: #118 FemNaziBitch

Evil is in all of us, some of us just show it more than others, Justice Scalia.

If you mean malevolent, I’ll agree, as long as it’s not some kind of “supernatural” thing. We simply, as humans, have the capacity to think of, or do, good or bad deeds, and to hate and to destroy others, many times without thinking.

I mean, look at what Chuckles is trying to do. : )

133 dog philosopher  Dec 12, 2014 3:31:15pm

A chance discovery by a group of repairmen in Boston has led to the unearthing of a centuries-old time capsule, believed to have been buried there in the 1790s by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.

containing im sure the original intent of the founders and the secret clauses to the constitution establishing snake handling, gun worship, and capitalism as the official religions of the united snakes

134 FemNaziBitch  Dec 12, 2014 3:32:22pm

bbl

135 Justanotherhuman  Dec 12, 2014 3:37:11pm

Attorney General Won’t Force New York Times Reporter to Reveal Source

nbcnews.com

“Attorney General Eric Holder has decided against forcing a reporter for the New York Times to reveal the identity of a confidential source, according to a senior Justice Department official.

“The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed a CIA effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

“The government wanted Risen’s testimony in the trial of a former CIA official, Jeffrey Sterling, accused of leaking classified information.” More

Do they already know it’s Sterling who was Risen’s source?

136 urbanmeemaw  Dec 12, 2014 4:41:56pm

re: #135 Justanotherhuman

Attorney General Won’t Force New York Times Reporter to Reveal Source

nbcnews.com

“Attorney General Eric Holder has decided against forcing a reporter for the New York Times to reveal the identity of a confidential source, according to a senior Justice Department official.

“The reporter, James Risen, has been battling for years to stop prosecutors from forcing him to name his source for a book that revealed a CIA effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

“The government wanted Risen’s testimony in the trial of a former CIA official, Jeffrey Sterling, accused of leaking classified information.” More

Do they already know it’s Sterling who was Risen’s source?

Poor Risen. Now he’ll need to concoct another reason why Obama is evil.

137 gocart mozart  Dec 12, 2014 5:05:41pm

Free legal advise for Politico:

Truth is a defense to defamation and even if you printed something false, since Chuckie is a public figure, he would have to prove that you knew it was false when you published it. I wouldn’t sweat it.

138 Chez Ko Pe  Dec 12, 2014 5:06:22pm
139 gocart mozart  Dec 12, 2014 5:07:54pm

re: #8 Ace-o-aces

Chuckie’s lawyer must be being paid by the hour. See Fool-money-parted.


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