Talking Points Memo

Will Whoever Kidnapped Josh Marshall please return him, stat?

Because the replacement body is doing a really, really poor job and wrecking the TPM brand. WKJM — readers, I’m not making this up — trots out a Harvard sociologist to defend Obama against charges of elitism MR SUBLIMINAL Haw! I almost spilled my latte! It seems that Theda Skocpol, in the extremely spontaneous fashion so characteristic of TPM’s “reader writes” shtick, threw some mail over the TPM transom, and WKJM printed it! WKJM Memo to self: Invoice Axelrod. Hilarity ensues! I’ll excerpt the high points:

… absolutely over the top … smash Obama … pretending … lurid publicity … claws her way to the nomination … over-the-top crudity … MR SUBLIMINAL Haw! Sure you didn’t mean crudité? … desperately wants the nomination … We all know that.

What you mean, “we”?

And now, the best part of all. Wait for the rhetorical question:  Read more