So glad to see that Juan Williams is now free to say what he’s paid to say. It must be a relief.

Yeah, suddenly it’s all the rage to be completely outraged that the President of the United States goes on trips.

I guess this is part of the collective Bush hangover effect–he did not leave the United States until he became president. Likewise, the Wasilla Gorilla didn’t get out of the U.S. until after she ran for VP.

Speaking of The Alaskan Grifter, apparently her spawn was too busy lead-footing across the dance floor to send in her absentee ballot.

I see a bright future in Republican circles for young Newhaven now that she has met the second criteria (the first, of course, was being young and having a decent rack).

Rachel led with the same story tonight, which led to video of some Republican talking head saying “go to the Internet” to verify the facts of the India trip. Because the Internet is true and stuff. btw, the birthmarks on Rachel’s neck? Proof that she’s really really hot.

Hi TBogg. This is Colby. Happy to address you critique, and own up to my words. I do not hide behind anonymity. What say you? Oh right, you are an anonymous Internet coward. AKA, douchebag.

Regarding the post in question. What part of my pointing out the absurdity of the whole affair did you miss? I guess all of it.

Your entire act wreaks of failure and beyond this response, you are not worth my time. That’s right “Tbogg” – you are a loser. Own up to your real name, or forever languish in your own loserdom.

Douchebag.

My Dear Mr. TBogg:

You have hurt Colby’s feelings.

Bad TBogg.

you know what? I own my words. If you have a critique, fine. Let’s just discuss our differences in a civil manner. TBogg’s act is so lame its laughable. I embrace the confrontation with the sort of loser who doesn’t even own his or her own words and hides behind a bullshit moniker.

I’m here. Bring it asshole.

Let’s just discuss our differences in a civil manner.

…

I’m here. Bring it asshole.

I am sooooo glad Michelle Malkin is branching out.

Also.

I AM TBOGGICUS!!

It’s dayja voo all over again.

Is your sense of irony broken, or did you just never bother to have one installed at the factory?

Oooh, fight. Fight. Fight. My money is totally on the guy with the dogs. I hear on the internet that he’s got a black belt in rhetoric AND a potty mouth to boot.

“I embrace the confrontation” — that’s sort of cute, could make a great t-shirt. Or an asshat.

ColbyHall killed the in-ternet star.

Damn, doesn’t take much to make Cheddar “pop up.” I mean, it’s not like we’re talking about a man, who was just working as a gay male prostitute, that now mysteriously has access to the White House as a “reporter.” No, no, no…I’m not talking about Les Kinsolving, who our erstwhile critic presents as some legit journalist, but Jeff Gannon/Guckert. Funny, I don’t seem to remember that story having much “legs” in the MegaMedia or “conservative” blogs. Quite the opposite….move along, nothing to see here was essentially the response.

Yet, here we are for the umpteenth time, watching the MegaMedia and conservative-leaning pundits like Mr. Hall, give life to a completely made-up lie about a Democrat or Liberal, and presenting it as if it’s worthy of discussion. The super-secret agent man Tbogg stated as such quite clearly in the above post that this was his critique. Oh and by the way, I am using my real name, at least that’s what the boys who put the jacket on me each night call me down in Ward #13.

Mr Hall: Is it true what I read on the Internet about you diddling little boys? It’s just a simple question that some people are asking. After all, it’s out there, ya know.

Lighten up Colby….and take heart that, in a few years, when the Koch Brothers buy the internets, you won’t have to worry about anyone making fun of your crappy insights.

You know what’s really lame?

When “an anonymous Internet coward. AKA, douchebag” has a wider following than a stalwart, upstanding-type who stands up for his own words (not knowing well enough to be embarrassed) and doesn’t hide behind anonymity because the anonymous Internet coward AKA douchebag can actually write coherently while at the same time entertaining people. Not just any people, but smart people.

To wit: “wreak: 1 a archaic : AVENGE b : to cause the infliction of (vengeance or punishment): EXACT 2: to give free play or course to (malevolent feeling) 3: to bring about : CAUSE

Failures reek; that is, they stink. Much like your comment, Mr. Non-Anonymous Colby Hall.

Lest anyone from right-of-center media outlets get too aggravated by this report, WSJ’s Jonathan Weisman throws some water on anger with the following debunking post…

“…throws some water on anger…”

I gotta agree with “kind of passively pooh-poohing” on that one.

Now, now, this feller is using his real name,* and he publishes at a real, gen-yoo-ine media site. So just back off on criticizing the content of his writing – he has established his authoriteh, and it cannot be questioned. He has a license to write crap, if you will.

* Pseudonyms have been used for centuries for a variety of reasons – heh, historical loozurs, every one. But to achieve some measure of gravitas for my own modest contributions, I now reveal my true identity – I am Monterey Jack, Marquis de Camembert. Suck it, secretive libtardz!!

Ever tried to water anger? It can kill the metaphor roots.

Hmmm…for whatever reason, my name doesn’t appear in my posts. In the spirit of anti-anonymity, these were posted by innocentbystander.

Lee Siegel called. He wants his critique of “blogofascism” back, and for you to meet him in 2006.

To begin with, you narcissistic little shitwhistle, it ain’t about you. It’s about the words you write, and the damage that your laziness does to society. Here’s what discourse has come to be; a right winger makes some outlandish statement, then says “well, prove me wrong”. Well, that isn’t how civilized society works. Do a little footwork and prove yourself right – and “some people say” isn’t proof.

If you handed in this paper to a middle school teacher, with this obviously unsupported research, what grade do you think you’d get? (assuming you’re not home schooled).

Legendary thread.

Btw Colby Hall, why do you keep trying to touch me in my bathing suit area?

Also and as mentioned, “serious” journalists like you should learn how to spell.

Off to take a shower. I wreak.

Your entire act wreaks of failure and beyond this response, you are not worth my time. That’s right “Tbogg” – you are a loser. Own up to your real name, or forever languish in your own loserdom.

Douchebag.

T’s real name has been out there for, oh, forever. Of course, finding it would have taken about 12 seconds of internet research, which you apparently couldn’t be bothered to undertake (hint: his real name isn’t “Fenway”).

You should quit while you’re behind.

Douchebag.

My mind wreals with sarcastic replies.

I must admit that I’m shocked that a sleazy tabloid writer is illiterate. Wait, no I’m not.

Looks like Mr. Hall has “jumped the snark” over here. (Was that a door slamming?)

Why is it that the people who could most benefit from anonymity (by not having to drag around the ball-and-chain of stooopid their online blatherings form in real life) are most opposed to the time-honored practice? Hall is hardly the first hack to cough up that particular hairball and pretend it’s a devastating retort.

I think you should all lighten up on Colby. You might be twitchy, too, if ur mom named you after a character on Dynasty.

What I love about Colby’s replies is the “you’re not worth wasting my precious time on!”…after which he follows the comment thread and comments AGAIN.

Self-refuting arguments, that’s what puts the ‘tard’ in the Conservitard movement!

I think it’s priceless how Colby circles by to leave comments not just once, but twice, for that extra double-helping of mockery and ridicule that he so richly deserves.

In the great Internetz battle of wits, Colby can’t even manage to bring a knife to the gunfight … he shows up armed with a box of paperclips.

Even without the illiteracy it’s hilarious.

“If you have a critique, fine. Let’s just discuss our differences in a civil manner, douchebag*. Asshole. Coward. Lame loser.”

It’s like someone with Tourettes and amnesia.

*one of the recommended closings from “Salutations and Forms of Address for Young Gentlemen, First Edition” under “Proper letter closings when addressing someone with whom you wish to discuss differences in a civil manner”.

Colby? Mrs. Clarence Thomas called. She wants her gin back.

To be clear – DBagg’s original post implied that I somehow supported the ridiculously out of proportion cost of Obama’s trip to India, when in fact, I debunked it in a post that served only to present a ridiculous moment in the WH Press Briefing. Then it devolved into name calling and douchebaggery (of which I was a willing participant)…however “butthurt”? I guess I had no idea that DBagg’s little area of the Internet was the province of sophmoric loserdom.

Good day.

Well, thanks for proving that you can’t read worth beans. It’s good to know for future reference.

He just can’t quit ya TBogg

Mr. Hall, as long as you’re here, would you perhaps care to explain how it’s legal or ethical to take Comedy Central clips of entire interviews and rebrand them with Mediaite logos when there’s an embeddable version on the Comedy Central web site? As in this example? And it’s not the only network that your crew seems to be depriving internet revenue from by not using their branded videos.

kthanxbai,

an anonymous internetizen

Mr Google asks: Did you mean sophomoric?

Dude (or miss? Colby’s one of ‘those names’ isn’t it?) — you work for Dan Abrams. I mean, you oughta know from douchebags.

teh Googles says it’s a he.

Okay so just to engage you in response to what was at least an adult-level post, this time:

To be clear – DBagg’s original post implied that I somehow supported the ridiculously out of proportion cost of Obama’s trip to India,

That’s not true. Here’s what Tbogg wrote about you:

That above stuff would take work and connecting the dots and shit like that and then, at the end of the day, what do you have? Bo-ring. So here’s Colby kind of passively pooh-poohing the story so he can post a video of Robert Gibbs responding to some Fox douchebag about the trip because, you know, “fireworks”!

What he was accusing you of was sensationalism and giving lip-service to “debunking” the ridiculous right meme smear du jour just so you could move on to using it to get page hits. Whether you believed it or not wasn’t part of the accusation — and the fact that you didn’t care either way was actually the point.

The sum total of the “name calling” on his part was the accusation that you did a minimum of investigation and instead “kind of passively pooh-poohed” a story so you could get a chance to post the “fireworks”, which is a word you even used and thus not really a terrible reach on his part if you ask me.

So I agree with your admission that the discussion descended into douchebaggery and name-calling but only once you got involved and only pretty much on your part.

People are just sick of this, by the way. Beneath the best satire lies a genuine critique, always, and this one sang out for me loud and clear.

Oh somehow I missed that last line of his. So, not so adult after all, I take it back.

Let me just say that this thread is a fantastic way to start a Friday.

I love civil internet discussions.

Exactly which word or words do you own there skippy? How much did you pay? Did you get some kind of title evidencing your ownership? Did you eat all the Crackerjack that came with it? Were you named after cheese?

You know, the first hit if you google (it’s up there on the right) “tbogg” and “name” is the blog post where “tbogg” says what his “name” is.

Investigative journalism. It’s hard.

I AM TBOGGICUS!!

Aw, geez. Do I have to be TBogg now? I’m not completely recovered from being Atrios yet.

Hmmm, judging by the repeat visits, it looks like you’re worth Hall’s time after all, Tbogg. And valuable time it no doubt is, too!

Note to Hall: To execute a proper flounce, you have to stay flounced. Got it?

His name is Thomas Bogg. Everyone knows that, except you.

Beautiful. Just beautiful. You nailed it on the head exactly. And, I would add, a call for ‘civil discourse’ means the person has nothing to bring to the table. Nada. Especially when said person then starts spewing invectives.

But, thank you to the commentariat for the brilliant takedown of the asshat. I have been assiduously avoiding politics since the election, and this post made me smile.

Illiterate jackass!

(and, I AM NOT ANONYMOUS. I’m an ACRONYM…)

So there.

Stay flounced! I love it! And, yes, someone has the vapors and needs the smelling salts, indeed!

I’ve got some cheap, candlewax pearls that can take a lot of twisting….

Fish onnnnnnnnn! Tell Mrs. T to get the big net. I think we may have a giant snakehead. I can tell by the slime and glassy dull stare of inherited stupidity.

Mr. Hall:

Man, you’re looking pretty weak here. I’ll give you points for showing up, but dude, you’ve got to bring something way better than name calling to this group. These people have eaten your lunch while you clutch your pearls and circle the fainting couch.

You might want to reconsider that whole *anonymous* deal in order to benefit yourself.

You definitely brought out the “Butt in Coby” .

Jeez, man. That alone would make my dady. Kudos!

http://www.dadinleftfield.com

You unlock this door with the key of douchbaggery.

Behind it is another dimension: A dimension of laziness, a dimension of partisanship, a dimension of brainlessness, a dimension of carelessness.

You’re moving into a land of all shadow and no substance, of stupidity and tepid journalism.

You’ve just crossed over into………… the Punditry Zone.

Out of curiosity, did Colby actually go to school to learn how to transcribe other peoples words (and if so, was it journalism or stenography)? Because looking through his articles (ugh), it reads like a third grade book report about the movie based on the book. He could be replaced by the video clip at the bottom and no one would notice, while they could add his “commentary” on the bottom of the video screen, it would be cheaper and more accurate to replace it with closed captioning..

In any case, any dumbass who can’t tell the difference between ‘wreak’ and ‘reek’ should really stop writing. Anywhere.

I mean, like, seriously, dude.

What?! Say it ain’t so.

I always thought it was TB Ogg.

And you would be correct. 1- The L&T Casey attended university in Hawaii. 2- the code for Kahului International Airport is OGG. Coincidence? I think not.

Colby? Do you call yourself a journalist? Because there’s I-let-Drudge-write-my-stories-for-me lazy and then there’s your kind of lazy.

What?! Say it ain’t so.
I always thought it was TB Ogg.
What?! All these years I have been mentally reading it as Theodore J. Bogglesworth the IV

this isn’t going to be quite as good as the Rawls contretemps, is it? Because if it is, I may go back to the office and start drinking again.

and Colby, if the Mediaism doesn’t work out, Cooks Source may be looking for new staff in the near future.

Who was that contentious block of cheese?

No, you’re all wrong – our esteemed host’s full name is Tularemia Boggswamp, of the San Diego Boggswamps..

Be a man, TBOGG!!1!!one!

Show. Us. Your. Countertops.

Whatever.

It’s Friday. Where are the damn dog photos???? Video would be even better.

Well, if we’re all “let’s use our real names” now (don’t nobody tell Mark Twain), I guess I should fess up, too.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Roumania.

Ah, you mean the stunningly clever “reveal yourself so my friends who post at FreeRepublic can post your social security number and credit card info online” gambit? Yeah, they always fall back on that to distract from their own boo-boos. What is he, a toddler?

Well, since Mediaite apparently exists to be yet another right-wing puke funnel, lack of journalistic chops is not exactly a bug, but a feature.

Remember how, when David Brock finally couldn’t stomach being part of the Republican noise machine and wrote a piece for a mainstream outlet exposing it, he was astonished to get a call from a fact-checker? In all his years of right-wing writing, he had never once been fact-checked. Hell, he got a $2 million check for his Hillary book before he’d written a single word, simply because the guy giving it to him expected a hit piece.

Hi Colby,

Have you always been such a whiny pussy? I wouldn’t know since I never f’n heard of you before.

I really needed a good laugh today — it’s been that kind of week (and not just the election).

Thanks, TBogg, for setting this up, and thanks to everyone else for knocking it out of the park.

To be clear – DBagg’s original post implied that I somehow supported the ridiculously out of proportion cost of Obama’s trip to India,

What does that sentence even mean? Does it mean the implication was he “supported” the cost of the trip, no matter how outrageously expensive? The implication was that he believed an outlandishly inflated figure? I guess he means that the implication was that he believed an alleged cost, which was ridiculously inflated.

The man is not a writer.

All those ID’s aren’t ya’lls real names? shit.

Colby? Mrs. Clarence Thomas called. She wants her gin back.

So then she’d just be “nie”?

So that’s what the Knights were going on about. Nostradami, they wuz, trying to warn us.

Good point. I miss Fenway.

Colby, you’re wanted in the UncertaintyVicePrincipal’s office.

And that IS his/her real name.

What?! Say it ain’t so.
I always thought it was TB Ogg.

No, you’re all wrong – our esteemed host’s full name is Tularemia Boggswamp, of the San Diego Boggswamps..

You’re all correct, in fact. The important thing is to get the pronunciation correct. It’s pronounced “Mangrove Throatwarbler.”

Wow! This is just … well, words fail, but in a much different manner than Colby’s.

I miss the bassets.

It’s especially lovely with that little “To be clear” at the front of the sentence.

“To be clear, gobbledygookandotherrandomgargleysounds. Hey, look over there! ANONYMOUS PEOPLE ARE USING THE INTERNET!”

Best thread ever, or bestest thread ever?

Best thread ever, or bestest thread ever?

Is there such a thing?

One of my most favorist threads was T picking on the FattyWing of the TeaTards and the ensuing flag-waving-rage-fest!

So many good times at the expense of others, the best type-o-fun! Also!

Now this brings back the glorious blogspot days of Patterico and Alex Rawls. But it doesn’t quite reach those heights.

Patt was very edgy in his rage-o-ramas, a special blend of psychofucknuttiness….

Weird. I remember “Pop Up Videos” as being kind of clever and funny, but it’s hard to imagine that being the case with anything that Colby Hall touches. I’m going to have to go check out some Pop Up videos on Youtube and make sure I’m not suffering from some 90s nostalgia-induced brain fart.

Well, I went and checked out some “Pop Up Videos” and they were kind of clever and funny after all. However, when I checked the Wikipedia page for “Pop Up Videos” I don’t see our Colby mentioned at all. The show was actually created by Woody Thompson and Tad Low and Colby was a producer which is apparently music video speak for “provided hand jobs and pastries”. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Colby. After all, if Woodward hadn’t provided the very same service, it’s hard to imagine Bernstein breaking Watergate.

Your entire act wreaks of failure and beyond this response, you are not worth my time.

Yes, you should spend more of your valuable time learning how to spell. Repeat after me- r-e-e-k-s.

Idiot.

Today – Mediaite.com is a frothy mix of original reporting, data driven charts and graphs, and contextual curation from mainstream media souces.

Ewwww – the last time I saw the words “frothy mix” used to describe something was here. No wonder Mr. Cheese got his panties into such a bunch. And calling for civil discussion while using the words “douchebag” and “loser” and “asshole” is a sure sign of the time-honored tradition of a small-dicked human lashing out at his betters. Fuck you, you sleazy smarm-meister.

Oh, and this:

Abrams’ vision was to create a new category of coverage – to cover the folks who report on the media.

…is typical of the amnesiacs of the media, who totally ignore the rich history of media criticism on the intertubes, from the dear departed Media Whores, to the Daily Howler, to CJR, and pretend that their latest incarnation is something totally new that has never been done before in such detail or with such care.

Fuck you, you sleazy smarm-meister.

Bravo!

May I add: “Hey, Colby! Show us your tits!”

Colby’s parents felt that naming their son Monty was too presumptuous so they went for the cheese instead.

But goddamn wasn’t Let’s Make A Deal good wholesome Family Values entertainment!

curious

indicates that I know nothing of a interesting back story because I find nothing all that evil – or all that interesting – or all that dull – at the Colby Hall site devoted to reporting on what media leaders/names are doing and how they do it. And the story at http://www.mediaite.com/tv/robet-gibbs-pressed-to-defend-reported-cost-of-president-obamas-trip-to-india/ seem to just report the facts.

The fellows VH1 staff on pop-up videos career, and his Don Abrams (formerly MSNBC) relationship was interesting but so what? I am missing something obviously.

Butthurtiness is one thing.

Cockslappiness is another.

Choose yer weapons, bitchez!

He’d probably say same shit to me about hiding behind a blog name and shit. Well fuck him. The Beerfarts came over over on The Mayfuckingflower and have been in this country longer than any assholes at Mediatit.com.

*heh* Did somebody mention Fireworks…? ;-)

And I went to all the effort to get FDL to send me a new password just too find out that JennofArk, Bardic, UncertaintyVicePrinciapal (and many others two) just had to wreak my fun. To console myself I will get totally recked until I wreak of alcohol.

Now I have nothing against people who can’t spell and aren’t anonymous. I can’t spell and I’m not anonymous.

There is a pattern to the right-wing feeding frenzy.

The underlying right-wing theme is that President Obama and the Democrats are corrupt, corrupt, corrupt. How do I know this? Because this, or a variation of it, is what one hears daily, hourly on Faux News as well as on all the right-wing talk radio programs. This was the message drummed into the minds of potential voters before this past election via right-wing political campaign ads and billboards. Catchwords like Death Panels and Baby Killers feed this right-wing feeding frenzy.

And yet, before the last mid-term elections in 2006, Democrats called the Republican Party what it is, culture of corruption, and Democrats won back control of Congress. A majority of U.S. citizens were disgusted with the outright criminality and thievery of the Bush/Cheney administration, so calling the Republican Party the culture of corruption party temporarily broke through the right-wing noise barrier.

But this truthful labeling of the Republican Party didn’t last. Speaker Nancy Pelosi who used culture of corruption often before the 2006 mid-terms to accurately describe Republicans, stopped doing so after becoming House Speaker. Instead, she took impeachment of culture of corruption Republicans like Bush and Cheney off the table, while at the same time helping pass retroactive immunity for all the telecom companies who participated in culture of corruption Republican illegal spying on U.S. citizens.

Similarly after the 2008 presidential election and once sworn-in in January 2009, President Obama has gone out of his way (and some say out of his liberal, progressive mind) to work with culture of corruption Republicans and other hard-right conservatives. No investigations into Bush/Cheney crimes. No trials. No convictions. And nary an instance of culture of corruption being uttered in the same sentence as Republican Party. Plus, President Obama and his administration have kept in place many of the policies (not all, granted) of the previous Bush/Cheney right-wing crime syndicate.

On the other said of the ideological aisle, though, all one hears (for those that choose to listen) is how corrupt President Obama is, how corrupt all the Democrats are, how their corrupt and criminal policies are going to destroy America, impeach Obama, impeach Obama, impeach Obama, even though he hasn’t done anything even remotely close to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” committed numerous times by his Republican predecessors in the White House.

And culture of corruption Republicans are getting ready to take back control of the House of Representatives, with subpoena power, with control of House committees.

Elections do have consequences, Mr. President and soon-to-be former Madam Speaker. Just as dropping a perfectly accurate description, like culture of corruption Republicans, has consequences. We will see shortly whether or not our nation can weather this approaching storm of even-more-insane right-wing lunacy (and corruption).

Good one!

“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome cheese?” Henry II, 1170

Confucius say, Internet tough guy equal real life yellabelly.

who is this “robet gibbs” and what does he know?

I think what that means is that our man Colby sees this particular pile of puke – the story about Obama’s trip – not as something true or false, but as something to be “supported” or “not supported”. Further he wants you to know that he wasn’t a “supporter” – he was just attempting to siphon some traffic from it.

Also, he appears to have gotten his journamalism degree from a Crackerjack box, wears his ego on his forehead, has the same thick skin (and research skillz) sported by Sarah Palin, and is dumb enough to think that showing up here is some sort of “bring it! eleventy” manhood substitute.

Oops.

I said Good Day, sir.