tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post3012255271784485600..comments2024-03-29T09:31:19.088-04:00Comments on the daily howler: THREE DAYS IN THE LIFE: Rachel Maddow just wants to have fun! <b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88105065677674844172015-10-18T06:36:19.701-04:002015-10-18T06:36:19.701-04:00outlet moncler moncler shop moncler down jackets m...<a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="outlet moncler" rel="nofollow"><strong>outlet moncler</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler shop" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler shop</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler down jackets" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler down jackets</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="men moncler jackets" rel="nofollow"><strong>men moncler jackets</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose sale" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose sale</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose jackets" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose jackets</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose outlet" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose outlet</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose down" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose down</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose online" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose online</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="goose down jackets" rel="nofollow"><strong>goose down jackets</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose outlet online" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose outlet online</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose toronto" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose toronto</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="doudoune canada goose" rel="nofollow"><strong>doudoune canada goose</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="parka canada goose" rel="nofollow"><strong>parka canada goose</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose jakke" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose jakke</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="winter jackets canada" rel="nofollow"><strong>winter jackets canada</strong></a> <a href="http://www.canadagoosejacketsoutletonlinesale.com/" title="canada goose outlet stores" rel="nofollow"><strong>canada goose outlet stores</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler men" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler men</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler jackets" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler jackets</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler women" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler women</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler outlet" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler outlet</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler sale" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler sale</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler jackets mens" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler jackets mens</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler jackets sale" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler jackets sale</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler jackets outlet" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler jackets outlet</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler online" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler online</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler jackets women" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler jackets women</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler doudoune" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler doudoune</strong></a> <a href="http://www.monclerjacketsoutletsale2015.com/" title="moncler femme" rel="nofollow"><strong>moncler femme</strong></a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00440261967887444918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84861790804900283942015-07-28T15:58:59.685-04:002015-07-28T15:58:59.685-04:00Thanks for responding 1:36. I don't agree exa...Thanks for responding 1:36. I don't agree exactly but it's too much to go into and I take your point. Best regards,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71697753961577903652015-07-28T13:48:37.684-04:002015-07-28T13:48:37.684-04:00Golly gee, Mr. Anonymous. I don't think so.Golly gee, Mr. Anonymous. I don't think so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10668566143276409452015-07-28T13:44:53.394-04:002015-07-28T13:44:53.394-04:00From Policy.Mic, which wrote an article about Sand...From Policy.Mic, which wrote an article about Sanders showing in Dallas and Houston:<br /><br />"Crowd size is an imperfect science, but we're drawing upon news stories at the time citing event and campaign officials' best estimates...[chart omitted]...What it means: While Sanders ability to attract huge crowds is a key narrative of the campaign so far, crowd size is a notoriously imperfect indicator of a candidate's prospects in a coming election. In the days leading up to the 2012 presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney played to roaring crowds in a number of states, including Ohio. On Election Day, he would lose there by more than 100,000 votes.<br /><br />Some campaigns are purposefully eschewing large venues, hoping to connect to voters in smaller, more intimate settings. Hillary Clinton's campaign has made a point of hosting relatively small events and roundtables with voters — her largest rally to date was her campaign launch on Roosevelt Island in New York, after weeks of small get-togethers with caucus-goers and voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.<br /><br />For Sanders, though, the calculus is much different. He is seeking to build a national movement. Large turnout has a number of pragmatic values, like juicing up his email lists and forcing the Clinton-obsessed pundit class to keep an eye on where he goes — and what he is saying there."<br /><br />Just as Cruz managed to put himself on the bestseller list by having his campaign buy large quantities of his book (to give out to donors or supporters), who knows what Bernie is doing to attract his crowds. There was some suggestion that Trump (for example) was paying people to attend his. It may also be that people are curious about him. It remains to be seen whether he can translate those crowds into votes. Personally, I doubt it.<br /><br />Note that Clinton has been deliberately limiting herself to small venues on purpose. That makes a direct comparison of their crowd sizes specious.<br /><br />It is a low bar for a presidential candidate to be saying "Look, I can fill up a room." That should be a given for anyone seriously running for the highest office. That he thinks it means something is odd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17220860069744333762015-07-28T13:36:13.502-04:002015-07-28T13:36:13.502-04:00Over concern with Europistan is a conservative tro...Over concern with Europistan is a conservative trope. If certain Middle East countries want to remain in the 3rd world, let them. I don't see the major developed countries of Europe going fundamentalist Muslim, so no Europistan. France has made headscarves illegal, for example. I cannot see ISIS gaining a foothold there. They are welcome to flourish in whatever Muslim nations have tolerated their brand of Islam and we will try to help their refugees, but I don't see why any of this is NEWS to the point that Maddow or anyone else needs to "cover" it. News for us should be why major candidates are not interested in saying anything about how to address global warming (Clinton excepted). It is why major candidates are funning around instead of proposing ways to increase jobs (and prevent robots from stealing them). These are not just domestic issues but issues with far more relevance to us than what city in Iraq ISIS is currently occupying. Kudos to Maddow for finding a new source of irrelevance to babble about. I'd be more interested if she had a serious discussion about why a Muslim terrorist in the US is different than a White Supremacist terrorist, and the differences in coverage of the two home-grown terrorists in the news lately. For example.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64021132616982864352015-07-28T13:26:19.196-04:002015-07-28T13:26:19.196-04:00BeaverBeaverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23831163481839099902015-07-28T12:11:10.877-04:002015-07-28T12:11:10.877-04:00If cicero was on Leave It to Beaver, who would he ...If cicero was on Leave It to Beaver, who would he be, Eddie Haskell, Fred Rutherford, of just Whitey?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-27533428662791927382015-07-28T12:03:20.225-04:002015-07-28T12:03:20.225-04:00And Beaver had his own TV series.And Beaver had his own TV series.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31462021484000200502015-07-28T12:02:03.186-04:002015-07-28T12:02:03.186-04:00Europistan may go easier on the Greeks than the Kr...Europistan may go easier on the Greeks than the Krauts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43740722346507382015-07-28T11:49:21.721-04:002015-07-28T11:49:21.721-04:00He was in The Long Goodbye.He was in The Long Goodbye.waylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169019514161120820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-421821363777203542015-07-28T11:43:12.700-04:002015-07-28T11:43:12.700-04:0011:24 - It matters here if it is of great importan...11:24 - It matters here if it is of great importance to Europe. You think Europistan is going to be our ally?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21063703853730944282015-07-28T11:42:33.572-04:002015-07-28T11:42:33.572-04:00OK. I looked up Jim Bouton. I had never heard of...OK. I looked up Jim Bouton. I had never heard of him. He is a baseball player even older than Bob Somerby. He wrote a book that seems to have broken guild rules. According to the Encyclopedia Somerby:<br /><br />"<strong>Ball Four</strong> named names and described a side of baseball that was previously unseen. Bouton did this by writing about the way a professional baseball team actually interacts; not only the heroic game-winning home runs, but also the petty jealousies, the obscene jokes, the drunken tomcatting of the players, and the routine drug use, including by Bouton himself.<br /><br />Upon its publication, baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn called Ball Four "detrimental to baseball," and tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying that the book was completely fictional. Bouton, however, refused to deny any of Ball Four's revelations. Many of Bouton's teammates never forgave him for publicly airing what he had learned in private about their flaws and foibles. The book made Bouton unpopular with many players, coaches, and officials on other teams as well, as they felt he had betrayed the long-standing rule: "What you see here, what you say here, what you do here, let it stay here." <br /><br />Naming names, it seems "provoked Bouton's eventual blacklisting from baseball."<br /><br />Your comment was apparently a lame effort at a crude vaginal reference but you have inadvertently shown something about Somerby's point about the press.<br /><br />To use a theme from this post, people who pee where they work are not popular in any profession. Which may be why no bloggers link or even mention Somerby anymore.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_BoutonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39614018838753045052015-07-28T11:34:47.859-04:002015-07-28T11:34:47.859-04:0011:24 Wow. That's a very American response. ...11:24 Wow. That's a very American response. Wow.<br /><br />I'll let you figure it out for yourself or just see the results as they happen. Meanwhile you can laugh about dog pee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-53786728151137220602015-07-28T11:24:23.979-04:002015-07-28T11:24:23.979-04:00What are the real implications of ISIS victories o...What are the real implications of ISIS victories or defeats for the US? I just don't see the connection. This is of great importance to Europe and the Middle East, and certainly important to Muslims, but why does it matter here, to the point that our news should be covering the day-to-day changes in the battles for political control in Syria or Turkey or anywhere else over there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-38252208493906263922015-07-28T11:19:36.986-04:002015-07-28T11:19:36.986-04:00I think @ 4:43 asked you some questions you did no...I think @ 4:43 asked you some questions you did not answer. Two were in very simple sentences. The third was asked following a phrase that was an incomplete sentence, so it was very complex but I think I can figure it out. He/she said:<br /><br /><strong>"And all those Texans the next day in Dallas and Houston. Are they desperate or what?</strong><br /><br />This seems to imply Sanders spoke to a large number of people in Texas and it must have been right after talking to those non everyday people in Arizona. The question suggests they might not be everyday Texans either and thus have something like desperation motivating their attendance rather than attending a progressive convention. @ 4:43 appears to want your take on the matter. <br /><br />I am not sure there was disagreement expressed which warranted a grammatical critique. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-56398019558041188392015-07-28T11:16:53.955-04:002015-07-28T11:16:53.955-04:00There's a lot to cover about ISIS (Daesh is th...There's a lot to cover about ISIS (Daesh is the real name). I was surprised the 25 teenage executioners in Palmyra was barely covered. Maddow is cable news so you can't expect much but the NYT did only an ambiguous AP report.<br /><br />12:18 That's funny you should say that because it wasn't just Maddow that covered ISIS yesterday. Clearly, all her content is pegged from print and other sources. ALL the media covered ISIS last night because "U.S. and Turkish officials" released a press report. In other words, the State Media told them they could cover it and how. I guess my complaint is that they should cover it when we lose battles too. Not just when "U.S. and Turkish officials" announce an offensive. But I don't specifically fault Maddow here. Her work speaks for itself. The entire media is to blame for this one and we all miss out of a real story that has real implications. Not dog pee which feels good but isn't important as we all know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71504497554846372392015-07-28T09:28:41.472-04:002015-07-28T09:28:41.472-04:00Why don't you try saying something with declar...Why don't you try saying something with declarative sentences, if you disagree? Stringing together phrases from other people's comments isn't communicating. If you think Sanders is doing better than I proposed, just say so. That "Are they desperate or what?", a phrase applied to Maddow, makes no sense the way you tacked it onto the end of your paragraph. From what you wrote, you followed my point just fine but you seem to think Bernie is appealing to people in Texas and Arizona. Just say so without the cutsie crap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-47543780881637968192015-07-28T09:24:33.546-04:002015-07-28T09:24:33.546-04:00What is there to "cover" about ISIS?What is there to "cover" about ISIS?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60746427690388474062015-07-28T00:18:24.198-04:002015-07-28T00:18:24.198-04:00Hey @ 11:07 did you catch Maddow tonight? She cov...Hey @ 11:07 did you catch Maddow tonight? She covered ISIS and Shell's arctic drilling woes.<br /><br />You get results!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30866672225401053052015-07-28T00:15:20.760-04:002015-07-28T00:15:20.760-04:00Next to man on dog sex, yes, they are the best.Next to man on dog sex, yes, they are the best.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46813551216376611902015-07-28T00:13:03.856-04:002015-07-28T00:13:03.856-04:00I never knew Gail Collins was a Brit. Or did she m...I never knew Gail Collins was a Brit. Or did she marry one with a title? So what do you now call the President's spouse?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21790354545285131392015-07-27T23:54:14.716-04:002015-07-27T23:54:14.716-04:00I agree with Maddow that snarky, partisan put down...I agree with Maddow that snarky, partisan put downs are the best way to represent liberal ideas to the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4649142406136549732015-07-27T21:20:21.023-04:002015-07-27T21:20:21.023-04:00@ 9:10
Have to defer to your familiarity of all t...@ 9:10<br /><br />Have to defer to your familiarity of all things porn. cicerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12472612909567425204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84597060231859811782015-07-27T21:10:55.145-04:002015-07-27T21:10:55.145-04:00Ha!
You wish. As the SCOTUS famously said: I know ...Ha!<br />You wish. As the SCOTUS famously said: I know it when I see it.<br />Keep on lying to yourself.<br />You can't admit it. Just another (gutless worm) republican.<br /><br />LGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-4905330615714906152015-07-27T19:25:10.899-04:002015-07-27T19:25:10.899-04:00Refer to her as Hillary Clinton, former First Lady...Refer to her as Hillary Clinton, former First Lady and former Secretary of State, the first woman to hold both positions. Referring to a woman as a lady anything is offensive, unless she is British and that is her title. You may think you are being cute but you are behaving like an oaf.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com