Speaking of brews… I think I’ll uncork a bottle of Chimay (blue label) Ale … God Bless the Trappist Monks (and Hot Air, of course). It’s time to celebrate!

Zorro on June 28, 2007 at 6:23 PM

Oh man… that blue label Chimay is good stuff!

Bryan, we need a cafe’ section to HotAir.

“Whoever has the gold makes the rules.”

Everyone can see HA and MM changing the rules so they must have the gold. Right?

Hmmmmm, maybe the new ‘gold’ has more to do with intellect than shiney metals.

Switching Votes

Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican from Kansas switched

Didn’t mention switching during the actual vote, just from Tuesday to Thrusday!

Three of the Senate’s newest members switched sides—Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, Virginia Democrat James Webb and Wyoming Republican John Barrasso, who was sworn in this month.

Incorrectly stated that Barrasso switched his vote! Barrasso voted against cloture as his first vote on Tuesday!

I call it the Gateway. It’s fresh from our super-shadowy digital guerrilla gear pipeline known only as “Tiger Direct.”

lmao

Nurse, get the patient a new sarcasm drip.

Mary Lu needs to lose her job–and her journalism license…

urbancenturion on June 29, 2007 at 3:17 AM

Nevermind Carnevale’s job, except to say that I’m still in favor of Ms. C’s working for whomever will hire her. This talk of her “journalism license” is a much more interesting matter, urbancenturion, in the same way that unicorns are more interesting than ponies. You’re just joking about her losing her license, right? I mean, she doesn’t have one. If you don’t already know, she’s practicing journalism without a license, and that’s the way we like it. If you have access to “a press,” you can press whatever you want onto a piece of paper. And your editor can tell you, “Hey, that’s great” or “Hey, that svcks,” and you can say, “Thanks, boss” or “Okay, I’ll fix it” or “Okay, I quit.” And you can go find another press, or even just press pen to paper, and there’s nothing the U.S. Congress can do about your freedom to press ink onto paper, unless they change the Constitution–or just ignore it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press….
No license is required. John McCain, a frightening but absurd martinet in the U.S. Senate, has tried to change that with his “campaign finance reform.” It’s just one of many attempts that people have made to “regulate,” i.e. abridge, your press freedom. So far, the Americans’ system has largely withstood such attacks. Please remember which side you’re on, urbancenturion.

There’s quite a difference between “producing” and “sponsoring.”

But after reading the parts you quoted, aren’t they still saying its “unclear” who’s behind the ads? A real correction would explicitly state who funded/sponsored/created/produced the ads, not continue the obfuscation! Does the WSJ still not know the facts behind the video???

run by blogger Michelle Malkin

They call her a blogger to marginalize her, of cource. They couldn’t say that she was a nationally syndicated columnist…

She’s have credability then…

Attack ads aren’t effective unless there is something there to stir.

They’re totally oblivious to the fact that only 20% supported this piece of crap.

And does it on a startup budget of about what the WSJ Editorial Staff spends on a single working lunch.

That is why dinosaurs like the WSJ are going to go extinct; They are unable to grasp what a few very talented and savvy people are able to do with modern consumer-level technology and shoestring budgets.

LegendHasIt on June 29, 2007 at 6:12 AM

In other words, Hot Air does more with less, the WSJ does less with more. It’ll be interesting to see how things stack up in, say, five years or so.

It took me a minute to figure out that you were ‘just funnin’ with that $300,000 & $450,000.

Man, I’m getting so mentally defective that if I can just lose another 20 or 30 IQ points I’ll be qualified to write for the Wall Street Journal.

So what do you call it when a blog, started less then 18 months ago, completely POWNS a major newspaper?

And does it on a startup budget of about what the WSJ Editorial Staff spends on a single working lunch.

That is why dinosaurs like the WSJ are going to go extinct; They are unable to grasp what a few very talented and savvy people are able to do with modern consumer-level technology and shoestring budgets.

Bryan needs to edit the humping robot video to include the robot having his way with a copy of the shamnesty bill and the WSJ. The more debauchery the better.

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

I wonder how long before they vote to boycott Israel, and America while they’re at it.

Thank goodness our secret backer can cover it.

Dang it AP! You weren’t supposed to rat me out like that!! You can just forget getting anymore cash from me!

heh heh heh.

Fred File; “For a while, it didn’t look like Washington was going to listen to us regarding real immigration reform. Thankfully, we’ve been spared a serious mistake, but I wonder if things would have turned out the way they did……

Bwwaaahahahahaa!!! Beautiful, Bryan. Congratulations on a job well done, and I hope you’re celebrating.

I am.

Pablo on June 28, 2007 at 9:15 PM

Me too Pablo! Viva la Estados Unidos!

I’m having a big old bowl of American vanilla ice cream with whole bunch of American chocolate syrup!

I call it the Gateway. It’s fresh from our super-shadowy digital guerrilla gear pipeline known only as “Tiger Direct.”

Next time Michelle invites us to participate in another one of those surveys aimed at “enhancing our understanding of the readership,” maybe these sorts of questions should be included. I guess I’m the nosy, meddlesome sort, since I simply MUST know if Slappy Sue shops at “Tiger direct”. Hmmm. I wonder if the Humping Robot uses a Gateway?

My collie asks:

CyberCipher, you’re not following every move that Paris Hilton makes too, are you?

Anyone else?