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Submitted by lambert on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 3:04pm

Shorter Booman, and shortening this one is a blessing, believe me: Vote for Obama, because whacking US citizens without due process is good. Anyhow, it might be!

For all the subtlety and nuance and yadda yadda yadda, that's a key point Greenwald makes that BooMan doesn't engage. For obvious reasons, I would think.

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Submitted by katiebird on

There ARE commenters who don't go along with Booman's logic

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Submitted by CMike on

The most surprising thing to me these past several years is to discover that for years I've been aligned with people who are pretty much the mirror image of the wannabe bullies on the right. I knew going in that a lot of my teammates were stuck in some sort of unending fantasy that they were heroes in the thick of an ongoing '60s civil rights drama but I never realized they could throw a switch and become such obnoxious swaggering front runners.

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But, there are some who stood up for Glen so I thought I should mention it.

(sighing) I guess Progressive officially means Remote Controlled Drone Bombing and Tuesday Morning Kill Meetings.

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Submitted by katiebird on

Thinking about the handcuffed frog ** and (pardon the expression) laughing my ass off. Presumably there's an exception for politicians who participate in the Kill Tuesday Meetings and support Robot Drone Bombings.

Frog March 'em out!

** From the Booman Tribune FAQ:

What’s with the Frog?

"It's of keen interest to me, to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.'' - Joseph C. Wilson IV.

To learn the etymology of the term frog-march you can read this column by Bill Safire. He may have spent his career shilling for the Republicans and our intelligence services, but he is a reliable source on language.

In any case, Booman Tribune encourages its users to band together to do the investigative journalism that the mainstream media has forgotten how to do.

The frog is a reminder that politicians do occasionally get drummed out of office for corruption or unethical behavior. And we would like to speed that process along.

In fact, our motto is "We Won't Rest Until They're Frog-Marched Out" So, even if the amphibian is a criminal, you must learn to love the frog.

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Submitted by lambert on

... back in the beginning. Sad! Corrente has become, I suppose, a place for "users to band together to do Op-Eds" -- or books, actually (and serials, too, like Plantidotes and Unemployed Cats). Both good!

Investigative journalism takes real funding, though..

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