Do you think you were put on earth to bust my chops?

Maybe you should find someone else to annoy…

You’ve certainly gone way over your quota of nastiness for a lifetime.

You really are a vicious, narcissistic, sociopath, aren’t you, Paul?

Of course, if I’m right, and I’m sure I am, you’re just the type that would never know it about himself, or admit it, if he did.

The Huff Post article was written by a journalist complaining about the APs plagiarism. She is the managing editor of Raw Story. Do you even think anymore before you hit submit?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/msm-plagiarism-strikes-ag_b_17873.html

Yes, and so are you. If you find it so yawn-making why don’t you … move along?

Maybe if you keep looking you can find somwhere people are discussing burning current issues like…. Aaron Burr, Robert Byrd’s moth-eaten Klan robes, Chappaquiddick, Ruby Ridge, Whitewater, filegate, fellatiogate, and Vince Foster.

I’ll bet you there isn’t one congressperson or senateperson who was making less than 100K per year when they were elected. They will never make less than again as long as they live. Why confine it to Domenech and Bush?

I’ve always said about all these power – hungry thieves, that “their feet never touch the ground,” because they walk on red carpets to and from limos. Figuratively, not one of them knows how the “teeming masses” live, and they never will.

Why can’t you admit that this is not a partisan thing?

Are you guys still talking about this?

Well, except for rheinhard, who has been shilling for a little more income redistribution….

Like I said, move along….

I m sure he doesn t feel too  privileged right now.

Regardless of whether he “feels” it, there is no doubt that he absolutely is. Because as you’ve stipulated, he is going to land on his feet and keep on going at some other high paying conservative gig.

Any “real American”, when found out that he had plagiarised half his work, would not only be fired, but would also find it very difficult to obtain any kind of new job in the same general field of endeavor. And that is why I say that Box Turtle, and Goerge W, do not and cannot understand the real concerns of the real Americans they pretend to represent. Their simplistic solutions to every problem, telling people that they shouldn’t need any kind of assistance in times of trouble, that everyone should just suck it up and move on, is born out of their experience that every time they got in trouble, there was always a monied hand there to bail them out. They have no conception whatsover that when a “real American” loses their job, they also usually lose their health insurance, and so may very rapidly go bankrupt. The “real American” doesn’t often have a billionaire to waltz in and save them if they’re on the verge of bankruptcy. So, to Box Turtle and W, people who are going bankrupt are just wastrel libertines, the unemployed are just lazy parasites, none deserving of any concern or assistance.

Sure, let’s pass more laws so that poor people can’t escape from debt, they deserve the consequences for “spending too much.” Why not slash assistance for higher education, since the top colleges are just turn out more brainwashed liberal elitists? The important thing is to keep the oil flowin’ and the homos from marryin’! We understand you, working class!

Not content to be a ” plagarist, a liar and a hypocrite, the trifecta of intellectual dishonesty”–when he was finally exposed, what did he do? He blamed liberals and former editors and others.

Everyone except Benny-boy.

Boo fucking hoo. You’re right though. There are too many sons of priviledge in politics. What’s disgusting, however, is the lenghts to which assholes such as Bush and Domenech go to mask their priviledge while attacking the priviledge of people like Kerry and Kennedy. What’s astounding is just how many “regular” folks lap it up.

“It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son …”

I don’t care where he got or how he got there… He s where he is, and that’s that.

I’m sure he doesn’t feel too “privileged” right now.

If he lands on his feet real soon, he’ll be doing what dozens of politicians, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, have done in the past. It is by no means a partisan thing.
It’s an “Inside the Beltway thing, and comparing him to Bush makes it sound like he and Bush are the only two that have been in these circumstances.

It’s what’s wrong with American Politics. Pick out 10 names of formerly well known politicians Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative — doesn’t matter) from, say 1980 to 1990, obviously still alive and able to work, and see where they are. I’ll bet they’re not “sales assistants” at Wal – Mart.

They’re all living high on the hog awaiting their life – long full pay pension and enjoying a lifetime of free medical care.

Now that’s something to be pissed off about.

http://www.al.com/unseen/unseen.pdf

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The Washington Post’s former conservative blogger Ben Domenech who resigned yesterday amid allegations that he plagiarized past work has ripped into his former editors, calling them “fools”.

His fiery retort comes in a story on the …

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/

Ben on Dan Froomkin:

“If one spends any amount of time reading the columns of washingtonpost.com’s Dan Froomkin – whose status as leader of the hack is without compare – it’s easy to realize that, on any given day, the cut and paste function has to be a tiring chore.”

I guess Ben would know.
http://www.redstate.com/story/2006/3/2/16536/28064

“Mr Domenech did something stupid, and he got caught; his career is probably ruined.”

Ha! Would that it were so. As a commenter on another blog put it, I m sure Mr. Domenench will have to endure whole agonizing days of unemployment before being offered a nice six figure sinecure at AEI or Heritage. Hell, as far as I know he still has his  editing gig at Regnery.

And that s really the thing which most pisses me off about this guy, and the others like him ( Pierce Bush ), which is going to be totally overlooked in the followup hand-wringing and whining on redstate.org about us cruel leftists.

This guy, like many right-wing bloviators, lectures us  liberal elitists over and over about how  real Americans feel about things. Yet the lives of guys like this in no way whatsover resemble those of  real Americans , and I m convinced that this is a big part of why they have no empathy whatsover for the poor and working classes.

Box Turtle Boy got every single damn thing in his life handed to him courtesy of Daddy s money and political connections. He has never, for a single day, had to worry about where his next meal is coming from, whether he would be able to see a doctor if he got sick, whether he would get accepted into college, whether his parents could afford to pay for said college, or whether he d be able to find a good job when he graduated.

Not that he even bothered with the latter. I ve now read that it s confirmed that Box Turtle didn t even bother to graduate from William & Mary. Yet before even the 10th reunion of the class he would have been in had he gotten the diploma, he is writing speeches for Senators, playing editor at Regnery, being  the youngest Bush appointee , and has a cushy writing gig at the Washington Post, one of the principal papers of record of our national discourse. Now, I agree with Atrios in that I think the importance of the college degree is overrated and it shouldn t in general be considered a barrier to entry to a lot of professions; however I m quite certain that there is no way on God s earth that any other person without a degree could have gotten a fraction as far as Domenench without Daddy s connections or something like.

Hell, the vast majority of people with fancy degrees couldn t get so far so fast without connections. I attended an Ivy League university (U. of Pennsylvania – Go Quakers!, though I know this makes me another  elitist ), took up what most people would consider a somewhat rigorous field of study (physics), graduated with honors, and went on to post-graduate study in the same field. Nevertheless, upon graduation, I had some trouble finding a job and had some financial difficulties because of it (since resolved). There s certainly no way I could have walked into the Senate or the Oval Office and said  OK, give me my gig now.

Further, the only reason I could afford to attend such an  elitist school is because of a combination of (a) scholarship money, (b) financial aid including Pell grants and work-study programs, (c) student loans, and (d) the  Penn Plan , allowing tuition and fees to be payed over longer terms in installments, rather than in a lump sum at the start of the semester. Without all these, there is no way my family could have sent me to this school. My grandparents all immigrated here in the 1920s, and struggled to make it in a foreign land. My father, an Army veteran, could never have afforded our house payments and my college tuition, even spread out over a number of years, without being able to work overtime almost every day for decades at his job as a tool & die maker (a blue collar job which he always felt needed a Union because of how the workers were frequently shat upon by management). The very financial aid programs I mentioned that allowed me to attend an  elite university have been severely cut by Ben s patrons in this administration. Ben and his rich conservative friends insist they re more in tune with  real America than progressives like me, yet I somehow doubt he had to take out a single dime in student loans.

I came to my progressive (but overall fairly moderate, IMO) views precisely because of thinking about and understanding the kinds of struggles my parents and grandparents had to face. Yet, in the heated rhetoric poisoning our national discourse every day thanks to Box Turtle and his apologists, I am a crazy, America-hating, barking leftist moonbat elitist who is out of touch with  real Americans . I defy anyone to look at the lives of Box Turtle, or Pierce  soon-to-be Senate intern Bush, or President George  Connecticut raised but plays a cowboy on TV W. Bush, and explain to me how they are more American, or more in touch with  heartland values , or anything, than I am or millions of people like me are.