The Mississippifarian

The endorsement also drew a rebuke from Emily’s List, which endorses only women who support abortion rights and which has endorsed Mrs. Clinton. Ellen R. Malcolm, the president, said in a statement that it was “tremendously disrespectful” of Naral not to give Mrs. Clinton “the courtesy to finish the final three weeks of the primary process.”

NYTimes

Maybe, if Emily’s List hadn’t kept their belief that Clinton has lost such a secret, NARAL wouldn’t have felt obliged to endorse Obama.

Just sayin’. 

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Toles reminds us that the Republicans have much worse problems than this business of how HRC makes her exit.

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Big Tent Democrat, formerly known as Armando, is still going through the grieving process. I think he’s got a few more steps to go before lucidity intervenes.

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Sorry guys, but if you want to keep your bloody little fucked up war/occupation going, you’re going to have to vote to pay for it yourselves.

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A follow up look at the Texas family Swiftboaters.

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Bob Novak, lying to us for 45 years now.

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When a Pulitzer Prize winner signs a petition calling for a newspaper columnist to be fired, the national media takes notice.

But not to the point of anyone actually running a news item about it in a dead tree publication. No, that turf belongs to our corporate masters, and they don’t have any problems with Kersten’s political or cultural illiteracy.

I’m not qualified to be a dead tree columnist either, but if I ever fell into such a position, I’d bust my butt to learn the ropes. There is absolutely no reason — based on her work product — to think that Katherine Kersten has ever cracked open any books about basic journalism. Her column continues to read like it has from day one, as a receptacle for unbalanced polemics, political payback and hatchetry.

UPDATE: Just dandy. Now the meatheads on the right are launching their own petition drives, predictably going after Nick Coleman. And, being wingnuts, they each have to make their own little speech, like this jackass writing as David Hanners, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who most certainly did not sign the Coleman petition.

2:45 pm PDT, May 15, David Hanners, Minnesota

As a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, I have to say, Nick Coleman writes like a toddler after sniffing a hardwood floor cleaning chemical. The man strings together sentences that make sense only to a select few people suffering from a combination of explosive diarrhea and paranoid schizophrenia. Coleman’s not so much a journalist as he is a hemorrhoid that has inexplicably developed the ability to type.

Because that’s exactly how Pulitzer Prizing winning reporters write. (In crayon, during recess.)

UPDATE: More gas for the fire from E&P. If Kersten were an actual reporter, she’d be mortified. As it is, I’m not sure she even knows what E&P does, or who Jim Romenesko is.

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Because speaking the truth is such a Klannish thing to do. Bill O’Reilly isn’t the worst person in the world, just a tired flack with a head full of bile.

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Demko has more on Stephanie Shriock. Interesting analysis, and way more insightful than the crap I’ve seen coming from our dead tree folks.

Needless to say, I’m thrilled that Chuck Schumer’s getting a second butt buddy from Minnesota to carry Wall Street’s water in the coming new Congress.

Just because Schumer’s a Democrat doesn’t mean he’s not the enemy. Nothing New York does benefits the Midwest; Wall Street is a carrion eater, and they love the taste of our farms and small towns.