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…as I had been, and have been off-line, too, it can be hard to know exactly what story most deserves your attention when you return to the civilized online world. So many stories to choose from, but such a finite amount of time in which to post…
Via Twitter, I see that Howie Kurtz is still obsessed with David Letterman’s tawdry, but somewhat innocuous sex/work scandal, as opposed to John Ensign’s, which involves real money–rather than a fake blackmail check–as well as serious corruption and perhaps even bribery. To each his or her own… I guess.
As for me, I was fascinated to learn that some Rahmnonymous WH Aide thinks that bloggers should grow up, take off their pajamas and get serious. Serious about what? Letterman’s scandal?
What is most fascinating to me about that cowardly and anonymous comment is how much it reveals about how little that aide knows about what the A-list bloggers really do.
For example, he apparently does not know the amount of live-blogging that goes on, or how often bloggers actually appear in public, dressed not in pajamas, but in street clothes, in order to gather information that they will synthesize and analyze for posting.
He must have been out of town (or maybe just out of power) during the entire trial about Scooter Libby’s outing of a CIA agent’s identity. Otherwise, he’d have known that actual bloggers were there, on-site, alongside actual reporters, live-blogging the event. And how many more such events has this aide missed? Too many, I’m thinking. Clearly, he has not been watching when bloggers have been invited to appear on TV, and have worn their street clothes. Not a single pair of pajamas have I seen on any TV program featuring a blogger.
But for those bloggers who may wish to know exactly what they should do with their pajamas should they decide to take them off, I offer this video from YouTube, which actually deals with tops, not bottoms.
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Thanks! Looking forward to the video on how to fold up a shopworn cliché prior to mothballing.
If I were technically able, I’d take that one on myself, ralph, but, alas, I am not.
Thanks, Karen. Now if the Dems would only take some lessons on when NOT to fold…
I’m not holding my breath for that to happen, Jim. If it even happens in my lifetime, I may be stunned.
After I responded to one of Kurtz’s tweets about Letterman vs. Ensign myself, I discovered that Marcy had been all over his case about his choice to write about Letterman instead of Ensign.
And today, CNN received some kind of an award for news reporting I learned via Twitter. That one merited a response with a link to Stewart taking them to task for fact-checking SNL, but not bothering to do the same for those appearing on their 24-hour news station. If you haven’t seen it yet, just check this one out. It is hilarious. Well, it would be even more hilarious, if it weren’t so horribly & sadly true.
Are you trying to say Dems fold like an accordian, all the time and with lots of awful noise?
Welcome back Karen
I’m thinking we should get together with someone like Cafe Press and sell Torch & Pitchfork jammies on the interwebs as a fundraiser
I love that idea! It would have to be a fundraiser, of course, and for what? ActBlue?
Maybe a better plan would be to raise money for bloggers without health insurance… like Susie Madrak, of Suburban Guerilla.
People could wear them to demonstrations, too! ;~) Unless, of course, the pitchforks and torches would be considered too inflammatory and make the police bring out their riot gear and tasers.
Don’t forget, Karen, that the CHNN Team also does a lot of original reporting, although sometimes I might have pajamas on under the fur, and RMP keeps forgetting to bring a photographer…..
Nice to see you’ve emerged from your cocoon as sharp and funny (but subtly, like Joan) as ever.
CH, when you’re wearing a fur, the jammies don’t matter, but you already know that.
No cocoon… I was away, working at a conference, something I do every year with a friend. It’s a lot of fun.
And thank you for the very high compliment. I know how much you miss Joan.
I don’t own a lot of furs, but why on earth would one want to spoil that wonderful feeling against one’s skin by wearing jammies???
I love that video. One of my fondest memories of my dad is the day he gave me a lesson in folding my suit coats for travel. It is a family tradition, passed on from him to me to my son.
Hmmm. Did that woman get paid to produce that video….
I’m not sure if she got paid, but I seem to recall seeing something of a “recruiting” nature on YouTube when I found it.
I suspect there is some kind of market for how-to videos.
If I were more technically savvy, I’d try to make one for ralphbon in the first comment… on “how to fold up a shopworn cliché prior to mothballing.”
Just the lack of imagination and or ignorance displayed by the anon WH aid in that comment about pajamas and bloggers makes it clear who is in the know and who is an ignoramus jerk.
The video is a blank white space on my computer. Are others able to view it?
Hi, Kitt:
Yes, I can see the video. If you still can’t, I can email it to you.