Quote of the Day #2

I'm guessing that Shields, a liberal, was being sarcastic.

What Mark Shields similar critics don't get is this IS 'afterwards.' It's been 'afterwards' for years now. But we never got around to the 'ask questions' part. This in-depth review is long overdue.

Watch the tape. Shields is being sarcastic. Amazing how many of the comments on the Think Progress site missed it -- explains why sarcasm is a dangerous form of communication.

Cripes, Kevin, can't you at least read the comments at the sites you steal this stuff from??? Seems pretty clear Shields was being sarcastic, and lots of people said that.

I'm guessing any decision now about troop levels couldn't be implemented until next March or April--same difference if decision is made in January.

This is why I can't stand ThinkProgress. They've done this shit before and worse. Bunch of fucking ignorant moralistic prigs whose main worldview is they are liberal and so their first take on any issue is correct and you're just a goddamned fascist if you disagree.

In this issue they showed the smallest clip necessary to convey their point, not allowing anyone to see the actual context.

And then look how their regular commentators all buy into Mark Shields being a conservative further showing what a bunch of fucking idiots we like to hang out with.

And then look who bought into it, hook line and sinker: Duncan Black, because it fits his worldview so nicely, regardless of it being completely atypical for Shields.

If you had any guts Kevin, you'd of titled this post, Wanker of the Day, Duncan Black and Think Progress.

He's not doing to for this reason but something Sully said made me think. We live in the culture of 24-hour news cycles and instant gratification. This kind of lengthy deliberation is totally foreign to the entire country right now. We can't stand it, it drives us crazy.

So I wonder how much of it is Obama trying to get people to break out of that culture? That was certainly his strategy in the campaign.

I don't know if it will work, I continue to believe his campaign strategy in that respect had failed. But I guess we'll see.

This is troublesome. What makes the current wingnut whirlitzer so entertaining/bathetic is their Pavlovian literalism. This characteristic makes the Tbogg, the Poor Man, Sadly No! etc., snark the only pleasurable aspect of my otherwise miserable existence. I can revel in conservatives' complete lack of irony or self-awareness. The right's self-victimization and eagerness to punish their own also provides its share of chuckles.

Now think progress is engaging in the same type of oppo research perfected by the Bush campaign: utilize a literal reading of a nuanced statement as a cudgel. "Al Gore invented the Internet!", "Tire gauges!" ad nauseam.

The right wing noise machine displays a disconcerting ability inject the "stupid" into our national discourse. Their effectiveness would be admirable if it wasn't paralyzing our nation. But I worry that those who sympathize with my politics are taking on the worst of their attributes.This country does not need a left wing Fox News/ or a left wing NewsMax. It needs media/political institutions that can explain the grave problems facing our society in a coherent fashion.

That and a pony. Maybe I am naive, but I prefer our meme generators to act like adults, or better yet, convey adult concepts in a childish way.

Think Progress does good work countering canards, but they should do their homework before posting. Anyone who watches Mark Shields on PBS Newshour sees his sarcasm every Friday. Even David Brooks is sophisticated enough to recognize it.

Face it, a Tbogg entry on this episode almost writes itself: Literalist, accusatory, knee jerk links. Then a Balloon-Juice screen cap from memeorandum. ( Does it exist already?) Fortunately, the irony deprived wingnut base does not seem to have anyone who can exploit it.

You've been a bad Internets and you need to go to your room and think about what you have done.