Astonishingly, Joke Line still exists and is receiving a pay check.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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His big advice is for the President, and by extension, the Democrats, to simply stop fundraising?
Words fail.
“Joke Line?”
More like “Talking Point Line,” the inside PermaGov version thereof.
Here’s how it works:
The country is tired of this whole DemocRatpublican charade. Why? Because it’s not working. When nobody wins, everybody loses.
What to do? What to do?
Here’s what to do:
First have the centrist media agree with the American public. Little Joe is good at that.
Then run a new flag up the flagpole and see how many people salute. Joe will, for sure.
Watch.
The next fix.
Watch.
Do the numbers.
We talk about minorities, right? Coalitions that win elections? Get the Hispanic vote, get the Black vote and so on?
What is the largest underrepresented majority?
Uhhhh….DUH!!!
Half of all factions.
Tired of being second class citizens.
It’s gonna be a landslide.
Watch.
Will things get any better?
I dunno.
Time will tell.
If she runs, she wins.
Bet on it.
AG
Seriously? Dude wrote an entire column about getting mass e-mails asking for money? And wrote it as though this is some sort of marker of his special insiderdom?
I get various Tea Party as well as Democratic fund appeals. They’re all hyperbolic. The Tea Party ones also have the advantage of being unhinged from reality, as with the ones today wanting money to right the shocking, illegal vote fraud in Mississippi (“It’s not over! And Chris McDaniel needs our help!”) and the socialist tyrant Obama’s evil plans to thwart Rick Perry’s brave effort to send toy soldiers to the Rio Grande to shoot at jackrabbits with their M16s.
Honestly. All fund appeals are like this. At least the threat of impeachment is a real (if unhinged) thing. But to go from “this crazy thing is happening – send money!” to “We wanted this crazy thing to happen so we could use it to ask for money” is insane. Not least because the Democrats have an endless – no, truly endless – supply of examples these days of Outrageous Things Republicans Say and Do that they can use to scare the faithful into donating.
Now, it may be that the Dems think impeachment proceedings will work in their favor. They may even try to bait the Republicans into it. I don’t think either of those things is true, but those are reasonable arguments. But to conclude them based on Little Joey’s very special e-mails is about as lazy and absurd as extrapolating the thoughts and motivations of whole populations on what you (maybe) heard from your airport taxi driver. Who speaks English and makes a living telling foreigners what he thinks they want to hear.
Gawd, I hate our vacuous, self-important, wealthy media elites. I will never understand how Krugman survives in those circles without just punching people. Or why he hasn’t been chased from his platform years ago for using facts and evidence and shit instead of the kind of meaningless personal anecdotes lazy fuckers like Joke Line spew so effortlessly.
I will never understand how Krugman survives in those circles without just punching people.
That’s just the thing. As any regular reader of his blog knows, he’s slowly coming around to just how unhinged even his supposed buddies like Hubbard and other “mainstream” right-leaning economists are. One wonders what he says to his wife about that, since he can’t tell the truth in public, otherwise he’d never get invited to all those fancy conferences.
An almost never ending problem with certain liberal segments is the inability to deal with the concept of humans as not “at least mostly rational individuals as a species.”
So they see the unhinged Republicans and Tea Party Supporters, listen to the unhinged non-sense that emanates from the general vicinity of such persons, understand it to be crazy, but simply can’t mentally and emotionally deal with the fact that all the reason, rational thought, and logic in the world won’t change the minds of such people. They just can’t handle that kind of world.
A critical corollary to this is the staggering number of progressive activists who are convinced that their preferred policy (whatever it is) should carry the day simply because it makes the most sense and has the best argument. (C.f. single payer advocates, among many others.)
Political issues are never settled by which side has the most facts in its favor. Never. At best it’s a nice bonus to be able to wave around, but emotion, organizing, and power (whether grass roots, financial, or political) always wins the day.
At best it’s a nice bonus to be able to wave around, but emotion, organizing, and power (whether grass roots, financial, or political) always wins the day.
And most progressive orgs would rather kiss the ring of power(see WFP in NY re: Cuomo) then attempt real change.