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I've Made A Decision
I've decided to stop commenting on pro-Obama blogs that don't attack Hillary.
Back in Texas, we have a bird called a grackle that's common to the South and Southwest. There's a story in Texas political circles -- probably apocryphal and usually applied to the opposition -- that grackles don't build their own nests. Instead, they take over other birds nests by crapping in them until they're not fit to live in by anyone but a grackle.
I've seen a lot of grackle behavior at TPM, particularly in the blogs. And I'm sure I've joined in. Way it works is someone puts up a blog with something good to say about their candidate. Right away, the grackles move in, hijacking the comment thread with criticism and insults directed at their candidate's opponent, the post and the post's author.
I've been so impressed by the grackle behavior here at TPM, I've considered giving out little Greta Grackle awards for the best performances by grackles. Grackling is an art beyond the capability of common trolls and deserves to be recognized. It takes a lot of savvy to find a post that has some positive energy going and suck the positive energy out of it. A rare skill. Unfortunately, my source of little plastic grackles, The Oriental Trading Company, is out of grackles. They had to send them all back to China because the plastic was contaminated with lead.
I've also decided to ignore the personal trolls I've picked up over the last couple of months. I think they know who they are, but, being trolls, they may not. So here is how you'll know. If I'm responding to other people but not to you, I probably consider you to be a personal troll. I'm sorry to have to do this, but I can't talk to you anymore. Don't have the time.
So, I will continue to support and defend Hillary, and, occasionally, I'll write something critical of Obama. But I'll try not to act like a grackle and rain on other people's parades.
Of course, it continues to be open season on our resident satirists. They can take it.
Comments (164)
I saw a thread this morning where there was just an atrocious demonstration of the behavior you describe.
You were briefly in the thread and very civil, but I did unleash a Lanny Davis reference to some of the other threadwriters, who were insane people.
So I commend your post. Hell, I re-commend it.
I assume it was not my suggestion that you return to 1854 that prompted it. I thought that was somewhat more clever than the guy this morning who told the woman to get looser panties.
April 24, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Such civil discourse should be commended. I applaud you for your integrity and objectivity. Now here's a funny story I heard about another critter from Texas:
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Barack Obama and his bid to be our President.
The old rancher said,"Well, ya know, Obama is a 'post turtle'."
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was.
The old rancher said,"When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'."
The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.
"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just want to help the dumb ass get down."
April 25, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Post turtle" seems a more appropriate term for our current president.
April 25, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Billy, you may snark on my snarky blogs anytime you want. And in my rare unsnarky ones, I wouldn't take umbrage at a little smack. Because, yeah, echo chambers are dangerous.
April 24, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
The story of the grackle reminds me a lot of the cowbird...
"In order for the birds to remain mobile and stay with the herd, they have adapted by laying their eggs in other birds' nests. The cowbird will watch for when its host lays eggs, and when the nest is left unattended, the female will come in and lay its own eggs.
"The cowbird eggs do not look much different from the hosts' eggs, and the host will normally incubate the eggs. The cowbird chicks grow quickly, and may consume most of the food the host brings. If starvation does not kill the other birds, in some species the cowbird will use its large size to push the other chicks out of the nest."
April 24, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Posting in order to shit in the thread.
(Kidding. Enjoy your new elightened posting style.)
April 24, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
April 24, 2008 11:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Astute as always.
April 25, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, thanks for the fascinating news.
April 24, 2008 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where are my personal trolls? Even if I can't talk to them anymore, I like having them around. I didn't consider the possibility they might ignore me back!
April 24, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aw, it's hard to be mean when you're being so nice.
Good point about hijacking, and great name.
April 25, 2008 12:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay. I can get some sleep now.
April 25, 2008 12:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, well, well! Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!
Sleep, you say. What's that under the bed? It's your polter-troll.
April 25, 2008 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excuse, a momentary lapse in me German/Dutch, that would be your doppel-troller.
April 25, 2008 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thou currish rough-hewn writhled shrimp!
April 25, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thou scandalous swag-bellied withered-hag!
April 25, 2008 1:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on?
April 25, 2008 8:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
You use a random Shakespeare insult generator, don't you. That's cheating.
http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/a1-shakespearean-insults-generator.htm
April 25, 2008 12:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, I like that Shakespeare thing, thou vain plume-plucked whey-face!
April 25, 2008 1:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thou latte-drinking prius-driving Obamatron!
April 25, 2008 1:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Birkenstocks! Don't forget the Birkenstocks!
April 25, 2008 1:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll leave it to Billy to discern the true source of that turn of the phrase, but it leaves me feeling a might old, if not quite as old as me wee friend Will Shakespeare.
And for the rest of you ruffish lot, damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
Sakes alive, before we fall prey to premature bouts of amour, fawning passion and rutting like sheep in the gilded spring, it might behoove us to read the whole passage, at the very least to remind ourselves of how the game of politics, like life, is played - to the finish! Game on!
Act 5. Scene VIII
SCENE VIII. Another part of the field.
Enter MACBAMA
MACBAMA
Why should I play the Roman fool, and die
On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes
Do better upon them.
Enter MACHILL
MACHILL
Turn, hell-hound, turn!
MACBAMA
Of all women else I have avoided thee:
But get thee back; my soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already.
MACHILL
I have no words:
My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out!
They fight
MACBAMA
Thou losest labour:
As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,
To one born a woman.
MACHILL
Despair thy charm;
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, MACHILL was from her mother's womb
Untimely ripp'd.
MACBAMA
Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,
For it hath cow'd my better part of man!
And be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.
MACHILL
Then yield thee, coward,
And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:
We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,
Painted on a pole, and underwrit,
'Here may you see the tyrant.'
MACBAMA
I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being as woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, MACHILL,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
Exeunt, fighting. Alarums
Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours, MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS, the other Thanes, and Soldiers
MALCOLM
I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.
SIWARD
Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,
So great a day as this is cheaply bought.
MALCOLM
MACHILL is missing, and your noble son.
ROSS
Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:
He only lived but till he was a man;
The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd
In the unshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he died.
SIWARD
Then he is dead?
ROSS
Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow
Must not be measured by his worth, for then
It hath no end.
SIWARD
Had he his hurts before?
ROSS
Ay, on the front.
SIWARD
Why then, God's soldier be he!
Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
I would not wish them to a fairer death:
And so, his knell is knoll'd.
MALCOLM
He's worth more sorrow,
And that I'll spend for him.
SIWARD
He's worth no more
They say he parted well, and paid his score:
And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.
Re-enter MACHILL, with MACBAMA's head
MACHILL
Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, King of Scotland!
ALL
Hail, King of Scotland!
Flourish
MALCOLM
We shall not spend a large expense of time
Before we reckon with your several loves,
And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland
In such an honour named. What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,
We will perform in measure, time and place:
So, thanks to all at once and to each one,
Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.
Flourish. Exeunt
April 25, 2008 5:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary can be King of Scotland if you really want her to be. BHO will settle for POTUS.
For your next trick, I challenge you to spoof one of the following:
Coriolanus
Troilus and Cressida
Julius Caesar, with Bill Richardson as Brutus and BHO as Cassius. Gaius Julius Caesar's victorious return from Gaul can be symmetrical with HRC's service in Bosnia, until her assassination by Senators Brutus and Cassius.
April 25, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
HRC's Service in Bosnia, as told by True American, John J. Rambo.
April 25, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, Coriolanus would be brilliant, but a little too complex for American politics.
April 25, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Joe Lieberman pulled a Coriolanus on Ned Lamont, if Ned and the Democratic party are the defenders of Rome.
Some people here have accused Hillary Clinton of being an R-word and using R-word talking points and doing JMcC's work for him. So in their narrative she would be Coriolanus - not that I agree with their assessment of Hillary or anything. I'm curious to hear how YOU would cast it, Desidero.
April 25, 2008 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought we decided that - she's Rocky II. A little bit low-brow for Shakespeare, but what do you expect from a gun-totin', whiskey chuggin' gal?
April 25, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh Farq, that was my secret weapon.
:(
April 25, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.
April 25, 2008 8:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Your Own Personal Troll" is that set to the tune of the Depeche Mode Jesus song?
April 25, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oy...I really grackled that one.
April 25, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Utah Phillips wrote a prescription for this technique a while back.
He called it the Low Social Cholesterol Diet: No Fatheads.
April 25, 2008 12:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Billy Glad, I highly recommend your new policy as well as the term grackle which, as I have lived almost everywhere in the country except, for what I deem to be obvious reasons, Texas, I did not know.
But I must say that you have been one of the great gracklers of TPM. There is scarcely a pro-Obama post that you have not grackled with merry shouts of "echo chamber". So, as you launch your anti-grackle campaign, I ask you to first apologize to the American people for your past grackling activities and to pledge that your grackling days are done.
April 25, 2008 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
PS Who are your personal trolls? You've been alluding to them for a week, but I always assumed that it was merely self-important blather. Personal Billy Glad trolls, please come forward and announce yourselves!
April 25, 2008 12:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Replying to your own comment = echo chamber.
April 25, 2008 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Replying to your own comment = echo chamber.
April 25, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love your meta-postings!
April 25, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would like to count myself among them if I may.
April 25, 2008 7:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
See? I really have them. Followed me home one day. They don't ask for much. Bowl of warm milk, old shirt to sleep on. But the best one isn't here yet.
April 25, 2008 9:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I count one. LBP doesn't count.
And, hrebendorf, your avatar freaks me out.
April 25, 2008 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nah. I always respond to lbp, whenever I can think of a response that is.
April 25, 2008 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know! It freaks me out too! I've been through a bunch of them, but I just can't seem to find one that's got the right, you know, feng shui.
April 25, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, you have to read the fine print. I said pro-Obama posts that don't attack Hillary. I think I'll still have plenty of posts to comment on around here in the .....
April 25, 2008 9:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Notice how many recommends the Magical Unity Pony gets. Ah, civility.
Get ready for the summer of love, as Obama and Clinton lovers are reunited, and it feels so good . . .
April 25, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Consider your nest taken over.
May-ree! May-ree!
April 25, 2008 12:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
If you mention "sniper fire," it's going to kill this whole truce.
April 25, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Damn! And I've been wanting to talk about the difference between "coming under snark" and "snark in the area" all week.
April 25, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. That took a lot of work. What's your motivation?
April 25, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's what I'm thinking too!
April 25, 2008 12:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is that Billy's personal troll?
It looks a bit like a raven. Nevermore.
April 25, 2008 8:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
The verb form is known as 'grackling', I believe. I have used this verb since late childhood.
April 25, 2008 1:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't pick it up until I got involved in Texas politics. That's also when I began to appreciate the use of a flat stick.
April 25, 2008 9:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, this is great. It's too bad Hillary would never be so conciliatory, though. 'Cause really Hillary Clinton is the grackle of the Democratic Party. She shits all over the party so no one else can sit in it. She's a grackle. A Hillackle. Or maybe a Gracklarry. How can you possibly support the Gracklarry when all she does is lie?!
What if Hillary murders 14 people tomorrow?
All right, it's official. I HATE Hillary Clinton.
April 25, 2008 1:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Or I guess it would be a Gracklary. I had to correct myself because no Hillary supporter was going to be smart enough to catch it. God, I hate her.
Anybody else hate Hillary Clinton for all her lies? I swear she would do anything to win.
April 25, 2008 1:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
May-ree! May-ree!
April 25, 2008 1:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Billy, I welcome your civility and anti-gracklebility. ( And I can forgive you most, you're damned funny.) And, Genghis, I think Billy Glad was actually trolling for trolls.
April 25, 2008 2:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think you're right. I'm always happy to oblige.
April 25, 2008 7:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
All for the best . . . your decision will free up time for you to scour the papers and inter-tubes for news of Hillary superdelegate endorsements!
April 25, 2008 3:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
The problem, Billy, is that you rarely tend to add to the conversation. You generally sit on the sidelines, like a sniper, and toss in your devil's advocate snark grenades, but you don't usually have the cojones to take any real position.
It's not that anyone disagrees with you, exactly. It's just that you're so incredibly annoying. Like a fly.
April 25, 2008 7:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Or like a cross-dressing feline wearing a strap-on.
Tim: There he is!
King Arthur: Where?
Tim: There!
King Arthur: What? Behind the cat?
Tim: It *is* the cat!
King Arthur: You silly sod!
Tim: What?
King Arthur: You got us all worked up!
Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit.
King Arthur: Ohh.
Tim: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Sir Robin: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
Tim: Look, that pussy's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Sir Galahad: Get stuffed!
Tim: He'll do you up a treat, mate.
Sir Galahad: Oh, yeah?
Sir Robin: You manky Scots git!
Tim: I'm warning you!
Sir Robin: What's he do? Nibble your bum?
Tim: He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones!
King Arthur: Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
Sir Bors: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
Woman: Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here!
[after Bors is killed by the killer pussy]
Tim: I *warned* you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you *knew*, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little transvestite *kitty*, isn't it?
April 25, 2008 8:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are outdoing yourself
:P
April 25, 2008 9:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Er... what was it then? A rabbit or a cat? (it's rabbit in the original of course)
April 25, 2008 9:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
In some states, strapping ears like that on a kitty is considered pet abuse.
:D
April 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hear these kind of sex toys are banned in Alabama.
April 25, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's MY cat, and he picked those ears out himself.
April 25, 2008 2:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Racist.
You obviously know that the great-tailed grackle, the one in Texas, is long and black, whereas the female is short and slender (in her dreams). Can't we keep this clean?
April 25, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I see 2 grackles sitting in a fouled nest knocking back Crown Royale somewhere's about November, and moving into an even more fouled once-White House come January.
What's good for the goose is good for the grackle, they say.
April 25, 2008 10:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
"...grackles don't build their own nests. Instead, they take over other birds nests by crapping in them until they're not fit to live in by anyone but a grackle."
So far no one has noted that your wonderfully vivid description of the grackle describes precisely what your candidate is doing.
If anyone is giving out a Greta Grackle award, it needs to go to Hillary.
April 25, 2008 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Snap Grackle Pop! I detect an oDrama Queen. Curtain.
April 25, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I commend your anti-grackle stance and recommend your post wholeheartedly.
May I also deject and renounce the NYC rock dove (also known as "flying rats") tactic of perching on bridge eaves and streetlamps and pooping on the passerby's down below. Very uncoooth. You know who you are.
April 25, 2008 10:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Grackle? Is that like Hillary laughing?
April 25, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
One more lost soul to the Matrix.....it was nice knowing you billy.
April 25, 2008 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's coming for you too Louisville. It's only a matter of time now.
(I think that the Borg would make a better metaphor.)
April 25, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love the Matrix series sorry. Guilty as charged. Where else do you get to see Jada Pinkett Smith that much on screen?
April 25, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
You say you are going to continue to support HRC. May I ask, At what point do you plan on supporting the Democratic nominee. Or do you plan on voting for McBush in November to spite Senator Obama?
April 25, 2008 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps supporting the Democratic nominee becomes germane when there is one.
April 25, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is "germane" now as the Democratic party does have a presumptive nominee as does the GOP.
April 25, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Presumptive. Does that mean he or she has a sense of entitlement?
April 25, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Presume and you make a Pres of you and me (boilerplate bad pun apolologies).
April 26, 2008 12:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm feeling very sad. I never got to become a personal troll...
April 25, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Shucks, Billy...I guess I'll have to start attacking Hillary in my pro-Obama blogs just so I can keep you around.
And I don't think you've responded to my posts for a while. Can I conclude that you consider me one of your personal trolls? I hope not, although I do like to use the term "echo" a lot more now because of you.
April 25, 2008 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know you're not. You're my moral compass who keeps me supporting Hillary when I'm finding new ways to let her lose. Because of you, after narrowly winning PA, we have to stay in until the convention to keep me from being ridiculed.
April 25, 2008 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Win it for the Kid"?
April 25, 2008 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Surely you don't think that will keep me from ridiculing you.
April 25, 2008 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
From the title of the blog entry, I mistakenly thought that Senator You-Know-Her had "won" something significant and that a self-anointed apologist had stopped commenting in this venue because the obviousness of You-Know-Her's "victory" made further remarks unnecessary. Then I saw that the "decider" in question had bravely kept ducking imaginary sniper fire while continuing to comment anyway. This only convinced me that You-Know-Her had finally lost -- something that became apparent to most sentient carbon-based life forms on planet earth at least two months ago.
Hats off to the good people of Texas, though, for awarding Senator Obama more delegates than You-Know-Her in a primary/caucus/convention extravaganza that, for some strange reason, many people who ought to know better keep claiming that she "won." As King Pyrrhus (the Fool of Hope) once said after losing his army winning a tactically insignificant battle: "One more victory like this and we are undone!" I'll leave that as a fitting epitaph for Buffaloed Girl and any who presume to "decide" for her bogus benefit what others have already placed beyond question in the country at large.
April 25, 2008 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
April 25, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only one left to check in.
April 25, 2008 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, the timing of this post gives something away: idiotic must be one of your personal trolls.
Don't worry: idiotic is everyone's personal troll.
April 25, 2008 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not Idiotic! No way. But I won't buy a t-shirt.
April 25, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do I qualify?
Seriously, though, for the great promoter of the echo-chamber, this is a curious stance to take. Consider, if you will, that if Obama folks stick to the Obama threads, and Clinton supporters to the Clinton threads (though they'll need to start posting a few) this place will be pretty dull.
As an alternative, why not continue to engage in a vigorous and open exchange of views - but in lieu of snark and trolling, substitute reasoned and respectful argument? I'd hate to see you, or others with whom I frequently disagree, vanish from most of the threads on the site. I'd much prefer you went right along posting, but tried to elevate the level of the conversation.
Come, Billy. Embrace change. Know hope.
April 25, 2008 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, in principle I agree. But in practice, the time for reasoned and respectful argument between Democrats is way past. First of all, those of us posting here have *heard* all the reasoned and respectful arguments from the other side, and we *still* hate the other candidate's guts.
The other thing -- between you and me -- is that this discussion has become a zombie film. The primary is not quite dead, but it's, like, living dead -- too alive for HRC to concede, but too dead for any of us to enjoy fighting. The primary doesn't want a nominee anymore, it just wants brains.
It's much more fun to rewrite Macbeth. Though personally, I would have cast HRC as Macbeth -- because I think Bill would make a great Lady Macbeth.
April 25, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
O yes!
Out out damned spot on damned blue dress!
April 25, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know what Mick always said. When in doubt, go for the bj. Bill was just following good advice.
April 25, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Subtlety goes a long long way. "Out out damned spot" would have quite sufficed. Rule #4d.
April 25, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
And there's the rub, Billy.
Because there aren't any pro-Obama blogs that don't attack Hillary. Some people, like Soy Toy and Connie Insanes, post about 30 Hillary-smearing blogs a day.
Strangely, there aren't any pro-Obama blogs, period.
They're all about Hillary, including Eric Bolton's The Tides Have "Turned" and Dave Morgan's A Sincere Apology to Clinton Supporters (although these two diaries refrain from attacking Hillary, they are still about her).
As proof of what I'm saying, here's the rest of the top Recommended Reader Posts as I write:
Hillary Lied About the Weather Underground - No Mention at TPM by billysumday
No Sense of Decency - The Clinton Campaign by Andrew Reilly
Rush Limbaugh's Call for Race Riots in Denver by JackieinCA
What Hillary Clinton And the Media Are Hiding From Voters (Re-do) by BionicSoy
WSJ: Barack Obama is the Nominee (Corrected Verison) by thejoshuablog
Circularity Ensues by houlios1
BREAKING - Clyburn - Hillary Hell Bound To Make It Impossible for Obama to win by Connie Manes
So, it looks like you'll be doing some non-stop commenting.
April 25, 2008 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I must denounce and reject more pro-Obama blogs. They're usually dull, slobbery, love letters. That said, the anti-Clinton screeds are starting to get to me too. Bionic Soy, in particular, seems to be just coherent enough (or just prolific enough) to get his posts regularly recommended by people who auto-recommend Clinton hate.
Sadly, I don't think that the end of the primary will improve the quality much. The hatred will just be redirected against McCain and the Republicans. Better to hate McCain than to hate Clinton, but it still makes for dull reading.
FYI, Limbaugh race riots is not about Clinton. Circularity ensues is about Clinton, but it's not a screed.
April 25, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Political campaigns regularly employ huge teams of people whose job it is to fire off angry letters to the editor every time their candidate is treated unfairly in the press. Is this really any different?
April 25, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
No.
Look at the blogs - no anti-Obama. Well duh.
Look at the complaints - mostly Clintons supporters.
Again - well duh.
The loser's people are gonna whine.
April 25, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
FYI, Limbaugh race riots is about Clinton:
April 25, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink