Turn off the damn TV redux

Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:19pm — DCblogger

We said it last summer, now Atrios and Yglesias are saying it. Democrats on Capitol Hill need to turn off the damn TV.

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my darling, pigs will fly from my ass, and monkeys write

By chicago dyke on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 5:35pm

new shakespeare sonnets on typewriters, before Dems (or any member of the Village) turn off their teevees. let's face it, most of them live and hope for the Precious: being a Famous TeeVee voice/face who is loved by the other people on teevee. everything else is a distant second.

nice to see others finally catching up with what we've been saying, tho. again.

You're Not Calling Howard Dean a Liar Are You?

By BDBlue on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 8:19pm

He said he wasn't aware of all the sexism against Clinton (and leveraged by Obama) because he didn't watch cable news.

Yeah, I'm not really getting over that one. It's not so much the lie as it is the insult to my intelligence.

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