Looks like the Comedy Central boys are having fun using people’s words against them. And it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy than Beck.
Why?
Well, Beck is really taking advantage of 9/11 with his “9/12″ project and Colbert does what no journalist can.

Flawless victory.

I heard O’Reilly describe it as “boring” and even Anderson Cooper talked about people falling asleep.
And then, of course the grandaddy hack of them all has this to say…

I’m sorry, but when was it the media’s job to decide whether or not a Presidential press conference was exciting?
And, by the way, when has a Presidential [...]

I didn’t know it was getting this bad.

Yes, Beck is trying to position himself as a modern day Howard Beale, but the problem is he’s pushing crazy conspiracy theories instead of telling it like it really is.
And Fox is letting it happen behind the guise of some crocodile tears.
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum has [...]

More fun from the neo-conservatives.
Here’s the transcript…
MATTHEWS: The polling that took place before we attacked, conducted by “Time” and CNN, showed that 72 percent of the American people, nearly three quarters, believed it was likely that Saddam Hussein was involved in the attack on us 9/11. How do you think they got that idea, that [...]

It’s sad to see, but I think it pretty much cements the common wisdom that Rush runs this party right now…
Steele told CNN host D.L. Hughley in an interview aired Saturday night: “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh — his whole thing is entertainment. He has this incendiary — yes, it’s ugly.”
Steele, who [...]

“I think it’s pretty sad.”
That’s Paul’s response to the idea that Limbaugh is the de facto leader of the Republican party.

So will Paul run for President again in 2012? He says he doesn’t think so, but it’s kind of a non-answer at this point.
We shall see…
(h/t: Below The Beltway)

No?
Well tell that to Rush Limbaugh. Because he apparently thinks you do.

Remember when talk like this was called anti-American and traitorous? Personally, I don’t think what Limbaugh is saying is either of those things, but is it tired and sad? Most definitely.
By the way, I understand that many of you have a certain economic philosophy [...]

Okay folks, I don’t care what party or political philosophy you subscribe to, but it’s time we all roundly shun this clearly fascist hack.

Here’s the transcript…
Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em. And there’d be nothing said about that, because they knew [...]

Looks like Rush really thinks that Jindal could be the guy to lead conservatives out of the wilderness. Otherwise he never would have gone this far out on a limb to defend such an indefensible performance.

I wonder if we’ll start to see some backtracking about Jindal’s speech from the right-wing media after Limbaugh’s call to [...]

“There is no such thing as a neoconservative foreign policy.”
- Richard Perle talking to a gathering sponsored by National Interest magazine.
WTF?!
Dana Milbank digs through this nonsense…
So what about the 1996 report he co-authored that is widely seen as the cornerstone of neoconservative foreign policy? “My name was on it because I signed up for the [...]

Oh, how I would love to have been there:
['Joe The Plumber'] Wurzelbacher opposes the stimulus and said he questioned why the government can’t just cut its bills like other people do. He also advised staffers to take a harder line on the legislation: “Republicans on the Hill are afraid of saying too much,” he noted.Further [...]

Yes, GOPers are getting economic advice from a guy who lied about buying a business on the campaign trail and agreed that voting for Obama would result in the death of Israel. And I’m not even going to get into his little jaunt over to Gaza.
From Politico:
Fresh off his stint as a war correspondent in [...]

You know what really grinds my gears?
Andrew Card.
(okay, so that’s more of a ‘who’ rather than a ‘what’… but I digress)
In an interview with Michael Medved, the former White House chief-of-staff to George W. Bush said:
I found that Ronald Reagan and both President Bushes treated the Oval Office with tremendous respect. They treated the Office [...]

One day after a Republican Congressman criticized Limbaugh, well, I think you know where this is going…
From Politico:
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) apologized Wednesday to “my fellow conservatives” for comments critical of talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh – saying he sees “eye-to-eye” with Limbaugh and that his remarks defending House Republican leadership came across more harshly than [...]

Alex Massie, right again:
Now it’s true that immigration reform is a tough subject for conservatives. True too, that when it comes to immigration there are some many on the restrictionist wing who consider Bush to be either a) a sentimentalist or b) corporate America’s pawn or c) both of the above. Equally, the orthodox Republican [...]

I’ve been pretty harsh on philosophical neo-conservatism over the last year or so. In fact, it’s safe to say that of all the various (actual) political philosophies that form a significant portion of our governing political coalitions, I have consistently held neo-conservatism in by far the most contempt.
And without a doubt, the basic tenets of [...]

Me, elsewhere:
Over the last few months, there has been much finger-pointing as to which particular sect of the old GOP coalition is to blame for the policy failures of the last 8 years and the electoral failures of the last 2 years…..I think these accusations are deeply misplaced – the problems have not been caused [...]

O’Really?
Well, if true, boo-f**king-hoo. Murdoch and Ailes created that fakey-populist monster, so they’re ultimately responsible for all the backwards nonsense Bill spews night in and night out.
From Michael Wolff’s new book “The Man Who Owns The News” comes this via Politico:
“It is not just Murdoch (and everybody else at News Corp.’s highest levels) who absolutely [...]

And the results are hilariously profane.
I won’t post those bits here, but definitely jump over to FiveThirtyEight for the entire, unedited transcript of their conversation.
To begin…
I had the chance this afternoon to speak with John Ziegler, a documentary filmmaker and former radio talk show host who built the website HowObamaGotElected.com and is promoting a [...]

“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force. I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism [...]