JABbering Stooge

First McCain calls Obama a traitor, then his campaign launches a below-the-belt assault on Obama’s comments at Israel’s Yad Vshem Holocaust Memorial. Is there no low that McRove won’t stoop to?

According to Keith Olbermann, CBS has apologized for sacrificing any and all standards on the altar of St. McBBQ. While I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of Olbermann’s reportage, I have yet to confirm this via independent sources.

At the same time, assuming Olbermann’s reporting is true, I very much doubt the sincerity of CBS’ apology. It seems to me the only thing they’re sorry for is getting caught with their lips around St. McBBQ’s dick.

On the first day of Netroots Nation, I didn’t leave the house until about 8 o’clock. Because of fighting traffic, that meant that I pulled into the parking garage across the street from the Austin Convention Center right at 9. Counting the time it took me to get registered and receive my ID tag and swag bag, that made me fashionably late for the Lurkers’ Caucus. Not that it mattered.

I’ve been meaning to get around to writing about my experience at Netroots Nation this past week, but real life has sadly gotten in the way. Nevertheless, I shall endeavor to collect my notes and regale you with my tale of fun times. Given that the conference ran for four days, I shall make my report in four parts. I don’t plan on going into detail, as I’m not that good at giving detail, and others have done it better. However, I will give my impressions of and reaction to various events at the conference.

1. Day 1: What the F*#% am I Doing Here?!

2. Day 2: You Think I’ve Been Intemperate? I’ll Show You Intemperate!

3. Day 3: An Inconvenient Surprise Guest (At Least, as far as Bill-O The Clown is Concerned!)

4. Day 4: Break It Down

You know, I’ve had op-eds rejected by newspaper editors. And while I may have vociferously disagreed with the reason(s) for the rejections, I’ve never whined that such refusals signify a vast conspiracy to silence me on behalf of an opposing ideology.

John McCain and the right-wing blogger freakshow supporting him need to grow the fuck up.

I don’t think “time horizon” means what Bush thinks it means:

A time horizon, also known as a planning horizon, is a fixed point of time in the future at which point certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end.

Time horizon entry on Wikipedia

* Cf.

Neal Boortz cites an Austin Hill piece over at America’s Second-Shittiest Website™ in order to channel the Doughy Pantload on the possibility of an Obama defeat in November.

Yeah. It’s that bad.

I was on my way into work this morning, and I heard KLBJ recycling a month-old “Morning Update” from Pillz-E:

But don’t let that happy science talk fool you. Critics warn that turning this thing on might lead to an Armageddon-type disaster! The collider could spawn a black hole, which would swallow up the whole Earf. Poof! We’re gone. Or it could release particles that could melt the planet and us, of course, right along with it.

The collider-science guys dismiss these predictions but [the “doomsday” predictions are] not being made by your run-of-the-mill kooks. One critic, Walter L. Wagner, a lawyer and a physicist, has filed a lawsuit here in the States to stop this thing before it’s too late. He says there’s a “significant risk” that there might be “unintended consequences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet.”

Yep. You heard him correctly, folks. Never mind the professional scientists, people who actually know what the hell they’re talking about, they’re a bunch of incompetent boobs who will kill us all! I guess Limbaugh would have a natural home with the anti-vaccination kooks. Maybe he can join the Savage Weiner in smacking around autistic children.

I forgot to mention this on Friday when it was fresher, but there were a couple of new web sites announced that day. The first, set up by the fine folks at Brave New Films, is sendkarlrovetojail.com. The other site, which was being heavily promoted by former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman at his panel session on Friday, is ContemptforRove.org. Check ‘em out!

Shorter Austin American-Statesman Editorial Board (Via Burnt Orange Report):

Netroots Nation converges on Austin
Liberal bloggers come to Texas this weekend to debate their role in the Democratic Party.

• Liberal bloggers are just a bunch of feces-flinging, foolish children who are incapable of learning anything about policy or political strategy. Sen. Obama would be wise to run away from them — far, FAR away!

Alternate shorter:

Netroots? More like “nutroots!”

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™