GOoPers for Obama

Here’s an eyewitness update to the rice “shortage” situation here in the Twin Cities. Walking through an Asian food warehouse just now, I saw three quarter-block long aisles packed with pallets, each stacked ten feet high with bags of rice. 

Shortages are created by hysterical reporters and exacerbated by lying cameras. There is NO shortage of rice in Minnesota, and fuck any halfwit who says otherwise.

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Lilibet Hagel, Sen. Chuck Hagel’s wife, is donating money to Obama.

Draw your own conclusions, but mostly I think she’s a gender traitor cruisin’ for a bruisin’ from Hillary’s enforcers.

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How bad is the one-handed typing from wingnut bloggers over Obama’s technical error regarding which death camp his uncle liberated? Sadly, No! has the most loathsome comment thread this side of Free Republic.

Otoh, who better to judge nuances of evil than the assclowns who’ve had George Bush’s dick parked up their asses these last several years?

John Cole has more.

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For Winston, an Allofmp3 update.

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Colbert does the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins.

“Why,” he asks Perkins, “do these judges keep seeing gay things in the Constitution?”

“They’re afforded the same rights and privileges as you and I are,” Perkins responded. “They don’t have a right to marry just as you and I don’t have the right to marry anybody we want to. We don’t have a right to marry our first cousin…”

“No, no, no,” Colbert countered. “I’m from South Carolina.”

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More on Howie the Whore’s stunning ethical lapse.

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Via Techno, the Masters of War are confronted with a mountain of quotes from before and during the war. My faves:

“Now that the combat phase of the war in Iraq is officially over, what begins is a debate throughout the entire U.S. government over America’s unrivaled power and how best to use it.” (CBS reporter Joie Chen, 5/4/03)

“We had controversial wars that divided the country. This war united the country and brought the military back.” (Newsweek’s Howard Fineman–MSNBC, 5/7/03)

“We’re all neo-cons now.” (MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, 4/9/03)

“Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?” (Fox News Channel’s Alan Colmes, 4/25/03) 

“This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. To hope for defeat meant cheering for Saddam Hussein. To hope for victory meant cheering for President Bush. The toppling of Mr. Hussein, or at least a statue of him, has made their arguments even harder to defend. Liberal writers for ideologically driven magazines like The Nation and for less overtly political ones like The New Yorker did not predict a defeat, but the terrible consequences many warned of have not happened. Now liberal commentators must address the victory at hand and confront an ascendant conservative juggernaut that asserts United States might can set the world right.” (New York Times reporter David Carr, 4/16/03) [Note: David Carr has a lot of media friends here in the Cities, and it was quite clear they were very annoyed by the rude treatment Carr got in the blogs. For some reason certain local reporters seem to think that "good guys" who get it wrong deserve more of a break. Fuck that shit.]

Media whores, each and every one of them.

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Right on cue:

GRETCHEN CARLSON: Scott McClellan better not have any skeletons in his closet. I hope he didn’t do anything that he doesn’t want the world to know about because we all have, and all of his secrets are going to be coming out. 

“Coming out” — no, that’s not at all suggestive. And Carlson’s secret? She’s Barbara Walters’ identical twin brother, only with a better plastic surgeon.

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The Baltimore Examiner is going with City Pages old blogging contract:

“You understand that you will not initially receive any other compensation for performance of the Services. However, if the Web Page obtains traffic levels and/or other performance metrics determined by Examiner.com from time to time, you may be eligible for a performance-based incentive.”

Except that City Pages never got around to implementing this plan, probably because they never committed themselves to promoting the part of their online presence that took them from a 30,000 to a 5,000 Alexa ranking in just three months.

Without local promotion and marketing, all you get is a readership scattered from all over the world, and that’s not the target market for a local drug store chain. 

Newspapers need to work with web content providers to create an appropriate synergy advertisers will find attractive.

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A court has ruled that it’s legal for people who buy software to resell that software. 

This could be the end of the brutally obscene business model that made Bill Gates into a multi-multi-billionaire. The notion that you should pay hundreds of dollars for software that was designed to be obsolete in a year or two was always bad enough. The conceit that you were only licensing the right to use that software never made sense, or was in any way a desirable distribution model.

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From Denny in CR, this is actually a very handy page to have bookmarked. Still, just googling up the address isn’t very hard, unless you’re spelling impaired.

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More from Black on Hatch.

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Had my arm twisted to come to Drinking Liberally tonight, but instead I’ll be hanging out with buddy Don while he kills time between work and symphony practice. And then it’s intertubes radio time for San Antonio at L.A. (the Lakers are looking to close out Tim Duncan and his thuggish pals).

 

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