Ya know, Tbogg, I’m gonna get all sentimental and jinx ya, butchur rilly establishing a kinda Mark Twain thing here…I’ll lecha know in a couple hundred years…

I don’t think the NYT factchecks any of its permanent op/ed columnists. The editors also let several questionable practices slide, such as the abundant use of anonymous quotes from political operatives, friends, strangers, emailers, etc to bolster whatever argument/theme/narrative they’re cranking out that day.

According to my informal and unscientific tracking, Maureen Dowd still holds the record: quotes from five anonymouths and several second- and third-degree emails (ie, an anonymouth’s email to MoDo regarding the anonymouth’s emailed response to some other anonymouth’s email).

That’ll win you a Pulitzer every time.

ALL are WINNERS, and ALL must have PIES!

I don’t think the NYT factchecks any of its permanent op/ed columnists. The editors also let several questionable practices slide, such as the abundant use of anonymous quotes from political operatives, friends, strangers, emailers, etc to bolster whatever argument/theme/narrative they’re cranking out that day.

According to my informal and unscientific tracking, Maureen Dowd still holds the record: quotes from five anonymouths and several second- and third-degree emails (ie, an anonymouth’s email to MoDo regarding the anonymouth’s emailed response to some other anonymouth’s email).

That’ll win you a Pulitzer every time.

Hubris.
What goes around come around.
Do unto others as you would be done by.
Pride goes before a fall.
Honesty is the right policy. (by “right” I believe it means “correct”).

More please?

Here is another Bloody Whopper:
But over the longer term, it can’t be in Obama’s interest to divert voters from a focus on gas prices or health care to the question of what he hopes to achieve by negotiating with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Let’s see, since the price of oil is about 50% higher due to speculative anxiety over unrest in the Middle East — and sit downs with the Iranians might ease this anxiety — it’s obvious that lower gas prices would be one objective in talking to Iran.

It never ceases to amaze me how much solace these nitwits take in their own ignorance.

I can’t find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party’s nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin.

On Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008, Mike Huckabee defeated John McCain in the Arkansas primary by . . . 41 points.

How does this guy get by with this kind of dumb. In the New York Times, yet. They obviously don’t fact check this moron. He’s the perfect example of how far genes will carry one in the Republican Party.

If you talk to political pros in D.C. these days, you’ll hear them say that “gravity” — voters’ apparently settled low opinion of the Republican Party — will eventually drag McCain down. Perhaps.

Hah! Stupid political pros in D.C.! They believe in “gravity.” Just because voters have a “settled low opinion of the Republican Party,” that’s supposed to harm the chances of the Republican Party’s Republican nominee for President on the Republican ticket? They need to listen to Billy, and clap louder, so that Tinkerbell can fly! McCain is not really a Republican! Or, at least, not one of those “bad brand” Republicans! He can fly! Keep clapping!

On Wednesday I received an acerbic e-mail message from a disgusted young G.O.P. loyalist: “I just have to say that Republicans are a dumb party that chooses stupid candidates. With the exception of McCain.” Who says the young lack wisdom?

That’s pure comedy gold!