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It is a well-known fact that Big Media Erick “The Erick” Erickson keeps a stable of half-human wingnut slaves trapped in his basement cranking out poorly reasoned RedState posts in exchange for food pellets and the half-eaten bagels that Erick steals from the Green Room at CNN where he draws a paycheck for promising to not call Supreme Court justices “goat fucking child molesters” because that is, like sooooo immature. Now.
Today Erick noticed that one of his unpaid minions was so weak with hunger that he could no longer type “Obamacare is worse than the Holocaust” without coughing up phlegm and fragments of CNN bagel bits.
This was very disturbing to Erick:
It may come as a surprise to many of you, but RedState writers do not get paid. Well, I do, and I forever remain guilty that I’m the guy getting the check living off the fine writing of others in this community. Unlike many blogs, we also don’t have a regular PayPal tip jar or reader pledge drives.
We do help out where we can and hopefully one day will be able to pay more of our contributors.
Right now though, one of our own has an immediate need and while he may prefer we say nothing, considering he’s not on the internet today, the rest of us will say something.
Caleb Howe is one of the valuable members of our community who does tremendously good work. As you know, Caleb has put many hours of time and effort into RedState and broken major stories you’ve probably read here. If he was a left-winger, he’d be one of scores of full-timers bankrolled by George Soros and left-wing interest groups, and wouldn’t have to worry about making a living. And right now he could use some help. The Obama economy has done him and his family no favors and he has been without a job for some time. With bills to pay, including a mortgage, kids to feed, and an internet connection that has to be paid for, its tough.
Here’s the paypal link to Caleb’s account. I’m sure he’d be all Caleb-ish about us saying anything, but dammit we need him in the fight.
We help politicians all the time. Let’s help one of our own today.
This might explain those cries for help that Caleb has been twitter-twatting:
Drunk, stupid, and working for Erick Erickson for free is no way to go through life young man.
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Even Fox isn’t hiring? Tough times.
“That’s what I love about these wingnut bloggers, man: I get richer, they stay the same pay rate.”
How’s that galt thingy workin out for ya there fella, also too? Surprised?
you’d think he’d just go Galt on us. what a wuss
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I’d like to help, but I’ve got too many Republican deadbeats looking for handouts. Whatever happened to self reliance? With those Bush taxcuts 8 years ago, I’m surprised they’re not all multimillionaires living off their well executed investments.
This pleading from Erik smacks of socialism to me. Did Rush clear this?
I can’t believe Dreck the Dreckinson is paid by anyone for any reason. He should be someone nobody but his immediate relatives knows.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/18/tea-party-protesters-bera_n_504183.html
Suck on it, Caleb.
I’d recommend Caleb for a job proofreading the Pennysaver, but somebody might have dooshbags for sale and he’d get fired from that, too.
so … this is what that “personal responsibility” thingy looks like that they’re always on about – “work” (using the term very loosely in this case) for free, then whine and complain when you can’t support your family and ask others for a handout.
Whoops.
Disappointed he didn’t go all the way and end with “…pants on fire” the way all the school kids do. Is he one of the team or isn’t he?
That’s quite a non-apology by the self-proclaimed newly mature Erick Erickson.
Get drunk, tweet for the death of a Congressman — get a link to your pay pal account.
And as a left-wing blogger I’d like to note I must really suck because George Soros hasn’t even sent me a fucking Blue Mountain E-Card.
So they get paid what they’re worth. Isn’t that the way capitalism is supposed to work. BTW, how do I get on that Soros gravytrain?
Blue Mountain makes fucking cards?
Caleb must have misplaced those famous bootstraps I’m ALWAYS hearing about. The hypocrisy is freakin’ blinding.
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What’s your crisis, Caleb? Red Eye rejected your audition reel? The one where you puked on the webcam?
Speaking of “Red Eye” and Caleb, a musical salute…
Republicans. Uh-Hunh.
I was under the impression that right-wing failures are richly rewarded. See, e.g., AEI, Heritage, Cato, Liberty, and the Washington Post.
So, other than Eric, redstate follows that conservative bon mot: you get what you pay for.
Geez I’d love to help out, but giving up a little of what we have to help people in need is fucking socialistic – innit?
Erick the Newly Reticent admits he has made money off the backs of his staff of crayon scribblers in the past while they starved. He cashes in at CNN for jebus knows how much. He then begs for alms while lighting up another monte cristo with his newly minted Ted Turner bucks.
It’s this type of pre-parodied work that is killing the left wing snark world. I am sorry, but I cannot be a party to the destruction of another great American industry . I’m afraid it is medical experiments for the lot of them.
Yeah, let nature thin the herd.
Anyone else, I’d be more sympathetic.
My heart, it bleeds for Caleb. Oh wait, that’s just where I spilled some coffee; nevermind.
“With bills to pay, including a mortgage, kids to feed, and an internet connection that has to be paid for, its tough.”
Notice how elegantly Erick omits the mention of the cost of health care, which would totally have fucked up the “pay for it yourself, you lazy socialists” narrative that Erick and his brigade of unpaid word wankers have been pushing for the past year? That’s talent, yo, real editorial talent. CNN sure knows how to pick ‘em.
Surely you could find in yourself to share some of your Soros billions?? Come on, Tom, we all know you’re living close to San Simeon-type luxury, there in your castle on the beach…Gawd, Erickson is really going off the rails, ain’t he? Must be tough to live your life in such a sad state of delusion…
Dear Caleb,
If you’re really hard up, do what Palin does. Steal shit.
Later,
JN
I don’t get the joke. We’re making fun of someone for having problems and then drinking? that sounds like something I’d do….
honestly could the hypocrisy of the right get any worse?
lots of people,my son included, are out of work.
I almost felt sorry for him till I saw the tweet.
If it weren’t so funny, your boss is asking for handouts for you and you are out getting drunk, it might have been funny.
Hows that pulling yourself up by the bootstraps working for ya?
…and then you’d tweet about it, and then Tbogg would bleg for you while talking about all the tall coin he’s been raking in? Probably not so much, I’d hope.
“We’re making fun of someone for having problems and then drinking?” Uh, no. We’re making fun of someone who has spent his time as a digital douche dissing the poor and unfortunate in public, and now has his pimp & e-Overlord begging on his behalf while emphasizing how big his own CNN-ified editorial dick is these days.
Though I’ll grant you that Caleb’s feeling compelled (even while claiming to be a “writer/journalist”) to repeatedly tell the world how drunk and shitfaced he was or was about to get is pretty entertaining in its own sophomoric and sad way…
First couple of comments on the beggin’ bowl post:
Sometimes the snark writes itself.
Not happy with the making fun of Caleb Howe or the idea of people helping him out. Hell yeah, my sympathy for his condition is tempered (almost obliterated) by the fact that he’s on the side that hates the idea of a social safety net. And I’m way pissed that his non-paying blogboss decided that asking for *other people* to help Caleb has to include a lying-ass reference to “scores” of on-payroll lefties (Ya rly, Erick? I’ll spot you Media Matters. Now name two who don’t work for a magazine/newspaper website, ‘cuz Jeebus knows the right has plenty of those) and blaming Bush’s recession on the people trying to fix it. But Caleb is still another out-of-work dumbass like a few million others who are out there trying to manage something.
Yes making fun of the guy (who wants the Congressman who is working for a better social safety not only dead, but “deservedly dead”) is beyond the pale.
Yeah, so? I’m in that boat too. But I’m not writing illiterate screeds trying to scare people into violent resistance to non-existent socialist health care. And I’m not asking my well-paid boss to beg his readers to support me so I can continue to write bullshit. Fuck him.
Obviously, these poor creatures ARE NOT READY for the ultimate test of the FLEA MARKET, which will no doubt RECOGNIZE the obvious BRILLIANCE of their BUSINESS PLAN, which, will… what? (short muffled conversation)… AHHH FREE MARKET… never mind…
If he was a left-winger, he’d be one of scores of full-timers bankrolled by George Soros and left-wing interest groups, and wouldn’t have to worry about making a living.
I keep hearing about these, but can never find the right ‘bankroll’ or ‘interest group.’ I’m starting to take it personally.
RedState = Underpants Gnomes -( humor) + (hypocrisy) + cigar exploding in face.