Becoming Paul Krugman: How A Google+ Account Tricked Twitter
The world of media reporting is, often enough, something of a clusterf... fiasco, with media people reporting on the personal views or slip-ups or extracurricular activities of their colleagues. Those who report or present the news become newsworthy themselves, and, as such, hold a certain level of celebrity: not enough so that E! is guaranteed...
Twittastrophe: The Internet Rounds Up The Best East Coast Earthquake Tweets
Barely an hour after a (now-downgraded 5.8) earthquake hit the East Coast, the internet began congratulating its own sparkling wit by publishing Top Earthquake Tweets lists. While this is a decidedly narcissistic exercise, some of them are actually pretty funny. As a public service, we've culled through the lists to present some of our...
The Herman Cain Gospel Album You’ve Been Waiting For Is Finally Here
Watch your back, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter! Another 2012 Republican candidate's attempt at making sweet music has appeared on the internet, and it's a doozy-- introducing Sunday Morning*, a gospel album recorded by former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain. Precious little is know about the 13-track album, which appeared on the internet today, but the soulful...
Peace In Our Time: Dave Weigel Sort Of Makes Up With FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein
It might be an overstatement to say that Slate's Dave Weigel and FishbowlDC's Betsy Rothstein have been engaged in a long-running Cold War (perhaps a chilly skirmish?), but however you characterize it, Rothstein reports that a slimmed-down Weigel was considerably warmer toward her at MSNBC's 15th birthday party.
Willie Nelson Withdraws Gary Johnson Endorsement To Support Kucinich 2012
Legendary musician and outspoken drug legalization advocate Willie Nelson endorsed fellow outspoken drug legalization advocate Gov. Gary Johnson for president earlier this week, only to retract that statement earlier today and choose to endorse no one (yet). This is all fairly humorous, except most of the media outlets reporting this story have been burying the...
Lawrence O’Donnell And Dave Weigel Dissect The Slim Pickings In The GOP Primary
The hearty liberal mockery of Thursday's Republican primary debate took center stage on last night's Last Word, and it's hard to see how Lawrence O'Donnell could resist being snide about a Republican field where even the head of the RNC was openly hoping other people run. O'Donnell discussed whatever it was that happened last Thursday...
Dave Weigel: Low Turnout At Tea Party Rally A Sign Group Sees Things ‘Going Their Way’
Lawrence O'Donnell smelled blood in the water today, and decided to take yet another bite out of the Tea Party. Mocking what he considered paltry numbers at a rally in Washington, D.C., O'Donnell declared it evidence of certain doom for the American right, though his guest, Dave Weigel, begged to differ: having attended...
The NYT Ignores Shortening Generation Gaps In DC ‘Brat Pack’ Profile
What's in a generation? The New York Times took a gander at profiling the famous-for-being-young crowd of political bloggers in Washington, DC now rapidly approaching their thirties on Friday, alternately referring to them as "brat packers" the "juicebox mafia," and analogs to the characters (not actors) of St. Elmo's Fire. But in labeling them...
Wisconsin Senate Pass Anti-Union Half Of Controversial Bill Absent Democrats
Looks like the Democratic senators' move to leave Wisconsin in order to block a vote on the state's controversial union bill has backfired. As their presence was needed solely because the bill was fiscal in nature according to the state's constitution, Republicans took all the fiscal material out of the bill and split it in...
Countdown Previews The ‘Hannitization’ Of Sarah Palin Monday
Ah, finally: a neologism related to Sarah Palin not coined by her. With the help of Slate's Dave Weigel, fill-in host Chris Hayes gave a spot on Friday's Countdown to the reinvention of the fake verb "Hannitize"-- once used by the man Sean Hannity himself to describe the process by which...
