If everybody in my blogroll is covering it, then by law I must cover it too
Okay, not everybody, but quite a few folks:
- The Confluence: Dana Milbank says Hillary should drink “Mad Bitch” beer
- Shakesville: Charming
- Echidne: “Mad Bitch”
- Tennessee Guerilla Women: Dana Milbank: Hillary Can Drink “Mad Bitch” Beer
- Corrente: Fuck The Washington Post, Part II
This is what they’re all talking about:
Suggesting that Hillary Clinton drink Mad Bitch beer is offensive and sexist, I agree. But frankly I’m distracted by another issue: sweet god in heaven, what the fuck is the purpose of this thing? Does the Washington Post have a comedy channel now? Is Richard “I’m a funny guy” Cohen in charge of it?
Something is seriously wrong at the Post, people. I cannot believe that this video was written, shot, edited, and uploaded without someone along the line saying, “you know, this is maybe not quite as mind-blowingly hilarious as we thought it would be.”
I have to go bake a peach cobbler for my mother, but I’ll be back to discuss.
27 Responses to “If everybody in my blogroll is covering it, then by law I must cover it too”
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sister of ye says:
I miss having a mom; been 20+ years since mine died. Tell your mom I said hi and hope she enjoys the cobbler.
As for Milbank, got my fill of him during the months I watched Countdown. Come out to the heartland, Dana. I have a cane that would fit nicely upside your empty head.
Where do they unearth these idiots? Is there an IQ and sensitivity test you have to flunk to join The Village?
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Violet says:
Thanks, ye. My mother is very happy with the peach cobbler. So am I! It is yum.
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JeanLouise says:
Does every “reporter” really see himself as a character on Saturday Night Live? Where did these people go to school? Where were they taught their ethics? Where are their bosses?
Oh, according to the Daily Howler, their bosses at WaPo are busy taking the side of their business partner, Skip Gates, by publishing op-ed columns by Gates’ buddies.
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Adrienne in CA says:
Significant portions of this silly bit got quoted in my local paper. All I can guess is it’s the last, pathetic gasp of a dying medium.
*****A
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SYD says:
I have been so pained by the “news” of late… that it makes me want to choke back a Mad Bitch. And I hate beer, as it were.
Good thing there is wine in my wine rack…. looks like I will have to avoid all politics for at least a few more days. Can’t handle all the race card/ sexism being thrown around since the Pretendent’s numbers started to dip.
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thistle says:
Well, traditional media are now catering to the young males, and as we all know sexism sells.
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Three Wickets says:
Where did these people go to school?
Milbank went to Yale, was initiated into Skull & Bones in the years before that inane club, long schooled in misogyny, began admitting women and minorities in the 90s. He’s an idiot. Have no idea what’s going on at WaPo.
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BDBlue says:
I know why Milbank is at the Post - he’s an idiot. That’s not a disqualifying, it’s a requirement.
As I mentioned in my Corrente post, it’s had to believe these folks wonder why their business is dying. Here’s an idea, instead of putting on unfunny videos that insult half the population’s sex and all of the population’s intelligence, why not actually, you know, cover the news? Then someone might want to read you.
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Swannie says:
Perhaps they are just ahead of the pack … after all wouldn’t Wolf ,Chris , and Keith look better in smoking jackets ??? Larry king has had his suspender look for a while now , and the equivalent of Playboy Bunny suits wuold be great on Katie and Andrea ; oh what the heck why not the real thing for them ?? They could wait on the guys in the smoking jackets and be the newsgirls next door ……… just sayin
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yttik says:
I want to say this is incredibly juvenile, but that would be insulting to kids. Most people in junior high school wouldn’t find this funny, they’d be embarrassed to post something this bad on the internet. So WTH is wrong with the Post??? The sexism is annoying, but that’s not what really bothers me. I’m terrified that there were people who really thought this would be amusing. And they walk among us!
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B. Dagger Lee says:
I agree with Adrienne in CA, above, that it’s the last pathetic gasp of a dying medium.
Unfortunately, I think we’ll be treated to this dementia for quite awhile before it dies.
This has tipped me over the edge to wanting newspapers to die. How sad is that?
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Joan says:
Good point, Violet. I was so enraged by the sexism directed at our SoS that I forgot to loathe the entire piece for being completely moronic! Forest, meet Trees.
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sharonevolving says:
Aw jeez. So Saturday Night Live skits are so effective at replacing news (Palin can see Russia from her backyard, anyone? Fey said, Palin never did, but it’s become so attributed to Palin that no one questions it came off SNL) that now reporters are trying to do the SNL knock-offs?
Holy crap.
Infotainment reigns supreme, replacing reality with kitz. Aristophanes would be screaming. We’re supposed to MOCK the politicians with comedy, not supplant them with a new hyper reality contrived on video that becomes more real than what politicians actually say.
I am sick. I guess I will go buy a bottle of Bitch wine.
Hmmm. There’s gotta be a way to use this same trick to our advantage, to make bitch something women are proud of and want to aspire to, a fearful angry archetypal fearful goddess thing where men run with penis in hand for cover, whimpering like boys, and wussie women start standing up straighter and demanding what they want.
Is the O channel still on? I say we start the B channel - for bitches that want stuff, and know how to get it, kick ass, and look good doing it.
I want bitch, or rogue women, to be the new black, darn it.
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paper doll says:
Their misogyny is so deep and serious , it can’t be presented formally or in a serious manner… so they do it as a “joke” . That’s why so often the likes of Lettermen and other comedians are on the front lines of attacking Hillary and Palin.
I’ve always said Dana was a joke
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Violet says:
B. Dagger Lee! THE POPE SPEAKS!
Pope, I hope you noticed that the MEEGLA is still protecting the blog from its new location down in the footer.
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B. Dagger Lee says:
Violet, I did notice the MEEGLA! That’s a great place for it.
Here’s my concise version of what Adrienne and BDBlue and others say above:
Word to Newspapers: Want to save yourselves? Cover the news, motherfuckers! Just cover the news!
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mdmdstork says:
Tey are such weenies. They couldn’t even say her name. They put the almost subliminal picture of her up as they did their little man-giggle. Too pathetic!
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Doc Merlin says:
Oh, just as a note… you have been linked from Instapundit. Expect an avalanche of hits to your site pretty soon.
Also, forgot to say, it really annoyed me the flack that Hillary got during the election. The press was constantly verbally felating Obama while constantly making snide remarks about Clinton. I don’t agree with either of them politically, but the last election was a shame on part of the press, it saddened me to see the superior democratic candidate defeated by one who was coronated by people who didn’t even bother who vet him out.
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toad says:
Well as far back as the 1980s when I was last full time at a university, a long discussion amongst some under grads and grads on what department of the school was the most intellectually challenged led to a tie between the Media and the Education Dept. I voted Media, because at that time their were math requirements for the PE majors.
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frew says:
There was a laundry list of beer-personality associations in the piece.
Koucinich = “Insanely Bad Elf”, Waxman = “Grumpy Troll”, Sarah Palin = “Arctic Devil”, Byrd = “Old Peculiar”, Skip Gates = “Double Black Stout”, and Dana Miller himself = “Jackass Oatmeal Ale”
It’s not the first time Miller has tried to be whimsical. Take the time he showed up for an interview on CNN about Cheney’s shooting mishap wearing one of those orange hunting caps. He’s a wannabe comedian, I suppose.
But the video appears to be a production of Media Matters, not the WaPo.
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Simon Kenton says:
“As I mentioned in my Corrente post, it’s had to believe these folks wonder why their business is dying.”
– BDBlue
The readers here are likely to have gone through that moment when they say something apt in a meeting and it sinks into utter silence. 4 minutes later it is repeated, word for word, by some guy, and the meeting ejaculates little cries of “Brilliant. Brilliant, JP!”
If you go to sites where professional journalists are pawing through the exta of their prospective death, they say,
– It’s Craigslist.
– It’s the business model.
– It’s upstart crow pseudo-journalists.
– It’s the whole damned internet.Commenters say, “You migrated the editorial page onto every other page of the paper. You excluded at least 48% of the potential customers. Much more, counting the Hillary supporters. If you went to a business that turned away 48% of the customers, what would you think? Dumb, eh?”
The flow of commentary from the professionals parts smoothly and resumes unaffected on the other side of these pebbles. “It’s craigslist.” “No, it’s not, it’s the damned internet.”
Well, with woman-meeting idea-hijacks, at least the others in the room realized the idea passed the theft threshold. BDBlue, I really don’t think these people have any idea. (I’m trying to resist mentioning the apatasaurus, which is sometimes thought to have developed a second walnut-sized brain back in its hips to help steer its bulk, the second brain being not a lot smaller than the first.)
Full disclosure: my tv died in a hail of .45 slugs almost 30 years ago. My newspaper subscriptions have abated to a local.
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Jason Watts says:
With the Daily Show being the most watched and respected “news source”, this sort of devolution of the media was and is now inevitable. Journalists, like your predictible everyday American hipster, desire to be “cool” more than impartial, informative, or, heaven forfend, boring.
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JeanE says:
I agree that the WaPo would be better off spending their time reporting news (what a concept- a newspaper reporting the news!), but I don’t know that this is particularly sexist. Yes, the beers for Clinton and Palin were “Mad Bitch” and “Arctic Devil”, but they suggest “Insanely Bad Elf” and “Grumpy Troll” for Kucinich and Waxman, and a variety of hellish brews for the Republicans. In all fairness, this is equal opportunity lampooning- it’s lame, but it isn’t sexist.
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Weary G says:
I can sum this up easy.
The New York Times used to be the ideal all reporters looked up to, the paragon of their profession which gave them guidance on what to report, how to report it, and the allure of the writing for the Grey Lady itself, and becoming a “New York Times Reporter/Columnist”.
This continued well after the Times began its pathetic slide into slippy writing, copy-editing and partisanship. BUT, the Times, despite best wishes and misguided attempts to “relativize” her, is less and relevant. The Zues of journalism has paled and weakened and will become the stuff of weak legend.
The new gods are John Stewart, Stephen Colbert and the faux journalists of their ilk where the young, hip kids get their news! Snark and superficial examination of issues is fun, easy, and when your get called on it, you can say its all about humor, baby!
Think I am stretching? How often Daily Show clips get played on “serious” news channels, the anchors yucking it up even if they are the butt of the joke.
Dana Milbank and what’s his face just want to join in on the hi-jinks and popularity, but they unfortunately lack the talent to be actually funny or witty.
Hope that helped..
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Toonces says:
Holy crap, someone is trying to argue that bitch isn’t a sexist insult. It’s that normalized. *sigh*
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RKMK says:
We can’t blame this on the Daily Show. The Daily Show is what it is because mainstream media outlets hadn’t been practicing real journalism - TDS engages in some political analysis, but what they’re really lampooning is the media and their absurdities, and not doing their job.
Of course, the lesson the media takes isn’t to get back to real news and real news “investigation” and “reporting” to make themselves relevant again. No, they try to become The Daily Show, failing miserably, and then they sink further into irrelevance.
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Monchichipox says:
Who’ll hold my hair back while I puke?
