September 2011
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Elizabeth Warren already reaping benefits of TDF...
On Friday, we swung Our Considerable Weight behind Comrade Elizabeth Warren’s US Senate bid. Today, the whip of the lash fell on now former rival Setti Warren, the current something from somewhere in Massachusetts. He/She dropped out of the race late this afternoon after being “eclipsed” by the TDF-backed candidate.
The first of many, we’re sure.
-GJK
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THIS IS HAPPENING!: The Jogging Man
Touch gloves!
When most guys want to see a dick, they have to unbuckle their pants, shimmy out of their underwear, put chin to chest and… behold. For Chris Christie, it’s much easier. He just looks in the mirror. Alas, that’s probably the only knob the N.J. governor has seen in the last decade or three, not counting those he’s encountered on his computer monitor during...
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THIS IS HAPPENING!: Elizabeth Warren's 'Real...
THIS, TIMES A THOUSAND!
You think you know a guy. After about a month of people screaming at us that A) Rick Perry is a monster, B) Rick Perry is going to be the next president, and C) Rick Perry has an elephant dong (OK, that was us yelling at us), the Texas governor’s Spider-from-Goodfellas-esque performance at last night Debatathon has effectively ended his campaign. Seriously,...
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Reading the Tea Leaves on Wall Street →
For a group initially dismissed as fair-weather warriors, the September 17 “occupiers” of Wall Street are now set to spend a sixth soggy night in the Financial District’s Zuccotti Park. And while this particular action is riddled with flaws — the call to “End Corporate Personhood” is noble, but obtuse — it would be a mistake to dismiss the durability of...
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THIS IS HAPPENING!: I'm sorry I'm not sorry for...
The campaign is beginning to take its toll on Gov. Perry
One of the great pleasures of any campaign, though especially delightful in Big Vote years, comes from watching Proud Men and Women in the pathetic act of refudiating* their proudest achievements.
You could about the see the last puddles of Mitt Romney’s soul drying up during the California debate as he broke into his well-honed...
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THIS IS HAPPENING!: Another gathering of the...
Sit still little one, Governor Perry wants to give you a poke.
As noted in last night’s edition, The Dark Fields made the executive decision to bypass a first-run viewing of the Republicans’ Tea Party-Sponsored Debatathon, opting instead to watch live the more tame exchanges presented by the National Football League. But now having enjoyed all 112 inglorious minutes of this latest...
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THIS IS HAPPENING!: Gone and forgotten
The Republicans get together tonight for another Electathon debate, but we’re going to skip this round, two of these events in less than a week being a little rich for our delicate blood. For you brave kind with more resilient metatarsophalangeal articulations, please do enjoy. The Dark Fields will piece together the ugliness tomorrow after a lunch hour whiskey.
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The 10th annual...
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we got into this thing with the best intentions. →
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THIS IS HAPPENING!: I'll have what he's having
President Obama took Congress over the knee last night and in the process delivered his most compelling argument for anything since he was asking The America to vote for that hopey-changy stuff back in November, 2008.
His new American Jobs for Americans Without Jobs and Who Need Jobs Jobs Jobs Act is a more subtly crafted mini-stimulus — payroll tax cuts, tax credits for companies adding...
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Soul-smashing Political Tweet of the Day
Cillizzzzzzzzz….a. Our first repeat winner with this dispatch from Obama’s Major Speech tonight.
@TheFix It is obviously really hot in the House chamber. LOT of sweatiness.
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THIS IS HAPPENING!*: A field of Barbaros
There is a 15-year-old pubescent with an emerging priapism astounded at the ferocious rounds of self-abuse the political press inflicts upon itself at the mere suggestion it is under-cooking its National Electathon coverage; that it might be treating the Actual Important Thing That It Is more like a quadrennial Cherrypop Stakes at Hollyoaks.
The Dark Fields, cluttered and stunted by shame and...
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Soul-smashing Political Facebook Post of the Night
Huge skirmishes, folks. Later: mini World Wars.
Talking Points MemoSome HUGE skirmishes at this debate tonight:
Romney Defends Social Security, Condemns Perry’s ‘Fed Up’ Rhetoric2012.talkingpointsmemo.comMitt Romney styled himself as a staunch defender of Social Security in Wednesday’s debate, taking a huge bet that Republican seniors will go for a more moderate position than Rick Perry on...
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THIS IS HAPPENING!*: A note on Rick Perry's Hose
So it seems Rick Perry has denied tindering Texas a few hours in the cool shade of his massive hose, instead electing to beat off any comparison to John McCain’s hilariously “suspended” campaign of 2008 and get his debate on in California.
Rarely has a (I don’t know if what I’m about to say is true, but it might as well be) Frontrunner stepped into the cross hairs of...
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Soul-smashing Political Tweet of the Day
Well, from yesterday, but Cillizza was busy collecting his lifetime achievement award, so it had to wait a cycle.
@ErinBurnettCNN: S&P downgrade: a needed wake-up call. Now, let’s replace partisanship with patriotism and get our confidence back. We’re a city on a hill!
Erin, like Campbell Brown and Eliot Spitzer before, will begin hosting a news and opinion program on CNN...
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New (daily) feature: THIS IS HAPPENING!*
Open up wide, America, because this is happening.
Everyday at 6 p.m.
THIS… this is the 2012 Presidential Electathon; it’s the rubber-to-road campaigning; it’s the dick-to-dick debating; it’s the pun-to-pun p-p-punditry; it is the sound and the fury and the Nothing. It’s Nirvana, and by the simple fact of its absence, it’s all here.
At six. Everyday. Clear?
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New feature: Soul-smashing Political Tweet of the...
WaPo’s Chris Cillizza is our first champ, owing some, to be fair, to his already remarkable body of work. Mr. Fix ALWAYS sniffs out the bullshit… then publishes it credulously as his hook or lede.
@TheFix: Romney jobs plan has 59 specific proposals(!). Why not go for an even 60?
No, for real. Why the fuck not, Romney? WHY NOT?
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“No festival of martial glory or warrior’s renown is this; no pageant pomp...”
– Peter J. McGuire, early AFL leader and “father” of Labor Day.
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Fall Movie Season Arrives... Our favorite trailers...
Above: Anders Danielsen Lie in Oslo, August 31st, the second feature from Reprise director Joachim Trier. There’s still no U.S. release date for this one, but please check out its excellent trailer.
To follow - throughout the weekend - are a handful more from other movies set to be released this fall, be it here or somewhere else in the world. Those with no date attached, like Oslo, still...
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No Joke →
Power lines cross when comedians, capitalizing on the element of surprise, may insinuate that forced sex is surprise sex; power lines cross when comedians, capitalizing on the element of truth, imply that rape starts and ends. Rape only starts.
-Anonymous
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Exterminating Angels - The Jets in 2011 →
The maudlin pre-game prose?
The anguished post-game trill?
No more. Now it belongs (listen careful!) to the ages.
Here it is, for RexSanchez.com, a season preview of sorts.
-GJK
