Your Liberal Media

Strikes again.

Marchons!

Here's your Bastille Day treat:

Yep

Tbogg gets it right:

"Sarah Palin isn't smart in what we might call conventional ways, but she has grifter smarts and knows that she can make a better living working the wingnut welfare circuit preaching to the already converted than she can in politics. She'll never be President; you know it and she knows it. Everyone should know it. But there are a lot of rubes out there who think she's got a shot and they're just dumb enough to pay good money thinking it will happen. That is what she's counting on."

Things Are Always Bigger in Texas

From today's Dallas Morning News story about the local Tea Party:

"A promotional company director helped arrange T-shirt sales and donations. Others helped line up speakers and entertainment, such as former Monkee Mickey Dolenz.

'We wanted to go big,' Dennis said."

Sanford Emails

I kow some people are going to have a problem with TPM and other outlets publishing Sanford's emails. In most cases, I would have been opposed to releasing these very personal communicaotins. They are excruciating to read for a number of reasons. But this piece of crap has invaded and politicized the private lives of women and gays over choice and marriage equality, and he has damaged the lives of thousands of South Carolinians through his hard-hearted refusal to take the stimulus money. So anything that destroys his own life, both personal and political, is ok with me. No mercy. Not this time.

Yglesias on the Villagers

I know this is right:

[T]he kind of reporters who basically sit around and in virtue of the fact that their employers are important get to ask not-very-interesting questions of powerful politicians and then dutifully write the answers down (or record the answers on tape and have an intern transcribe them) are facing a kind of crisis of prestige and authority. It turns out lots of people can do the job perfectly well, even people who haven’t “paid their dues” or gotten a job at an established media outlet.

Animal People. . .

. . .will get it.