Drudgico is just that. Sludge. Make sure no one forgets that Drudgico is backed by right-wing money. So much for that “librul” media.

I stopped visiting Politico or taking their reporting seriously about mid-way through the election last year. I find it amazing how much credibility they have compared to other internet sites and am baffled as to why. Their reader comments alone show what kind of an audience they cater to, or at least enable by a complete lack of moderation.

Telling someone they can “Kiss my A__” can be called sexual harassment by an accuser. Big ta-do about nothing I’m guessing.

Politico is a useless Republican virtual rag that has no purpose outside of slandering anyone left of Cheney.

Luke Russert was giddy yesterday on MSNBC that his sources were saying this was just the “tip of the iceburg” I look forward to his chilling report today.

No reference to the name “Politico” should come without the tag
“owned by the scandal-ridden Republican Albritton family, past owners of the failed Riggs Bank, which was a favorite money laundry for Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin-Laden.”

Anyone who wants serious political commentary avoids Politico like the plague. Nothing more than a bunch of gossipy, snippy b.s. intent on dissing anyone not in the Republic pantheon. Ho-hum.

And the fact that they’d take pride in jumping on Massa, who is suffering from a recurrance of cancer, is par for the course for conservatives. They don’t give a shit. Just ask Max Clelland.

I don’t know if Clelland was ever dissed by Politico, but I am commenting on how conservatives are venal mendacious shits who will stoop at nothing to take down a Democrat. They have proven over and over that they have no pride, honor, morals or integrity. Hence, I’m not surprised by this Poltico crap. I didn’t bother to go read it yesterday, bc I never read Politico and I never will.

References in news reports to the unidentified complainant’s gender stoked assumptions that sex is in some way relevant to the story. (This would have been true as well if the reports had said, “female.”) We know nothing of the sort, much less whether the still-unspecified allegations have merit.

I’ve witnessed, and taken inspiration from, Rep Massa’s fiery rhetoric. I can fully believe that this matter consists of nothing more than the momentary misdirection of such fire toward a staffer.

Somewhat O/T

Replacing the replacement

Speaking of disappearing,Pete Stark has been replaced – by Sander Levin, as of this A.M.

Has this been posted here yet?

If I’m not mistaken, Massa is the only member of congress who refused to accept the “cadillac health plan” that the pampered congresscritters and senators enjoy.

One thing I’ve never understood – ever – is why no one asks a member of congress if he or she is willing to accept whatever POS health care “solution” they pass. That is, to willingly give up their current plan. And if not, why not. I certainly don’t expect the mainstream media to ask a good or pertinent question, so I guess I’m pointing that at bloggers.

Politico will probably look to Roger Stone, Larry Craig or Mark Foley for comments on this story.

Meanwhile in California another GOP family values dinkweed has been arrested for DWI after an alleged evening at the local gay bar.

There is no news to indicate if he’s gone to the police station to get his two wetsuits and a dildo out of the evidence locker.

Have I mentioned that Politico sucks?

Politico seems to be the go-to place for tee vee commentary, of the “sting the democrats” variety, delivered by some guy with a salesman’s face. Cable news loves them, pretends they’re legit. Go figure.

Not so fast. Look at the “Update” here. Peter doesn’t appear to agree.

yea that sweaty PHUCK cud barely contain himself

I get really annoyed (at some blogs, not necessarily here) when a Politico item is not flagged as “Politico” in any way. I refuse to knowingly go to Politico. I try to get in the habit of checking when I hover my cursor on a hyperlinked word to see what it goes to, but sometimes I forget.

Links to Politico should always be called out as such, IMHO.

When did Americans become such wimps when it comes to language? Come to my workplace and your ears will explode on a regular basis. I work in the media and am married to a journalist. Both of us come from backgrounds where the daily language used at our jobs would get us fired a thousand times at other workplaces. This is the reality of high pressure work — people yell at each other and call each other “bad words” on a regular basis. Honestly, if you can’t handle it, take a job where people say “gosh darn” and “Oh, sugar” while they dab at their lips with frilly handkerchiefs.

I’m sorry if this is a rant but to think that we are living in society where people can only express themselves in an officially prescribed way makes me angry.

Thanks a mill, fatster. I was surprised that Pete would go gently into that not so good night.

For Politico to make the jump from “sexual harassment charges” to “sexual advances on a male aide” is shameful. There’s lots of things nowadays that constitute sexual harassment: a male subordinate can claim a hostile work environment because of sexual-related language, favoritism shown to an employee of the other sex, or observation of unwanted touching.

Nothing gets clicks nowadays like same-gender sexual advances of an unwanted nature, I guess. I wonder when we’ll see a withdrawal of the allegations from Politico; Howie Kurtz has picked them up for his daily drivel WaPo linkfest.

And let’s not forget employer of Jonathan Bush and enabler of funding Saudis through Bandar Bush, former Saudi ambassador to the US and frequent hand-holding pal of Dubya Bush, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

No reference to the name “Politico” should come without the tag
“owned by the scandal-ridden Republican Albritton family, past owners of the failed Riggs Bank, which was a favorite money laundry for Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin-Laden.”

I just wanted to see that in print again. I had no idea this was the case.