I think you’ve got me confused with Jay non-Tea.

In which case, you REALLY need to lay off the crack.

J.

Repack, Lieberman is very much a liberal.

As you were quick to inform me: put down the crack pipe.

J.

“Perhaps “stole the money” was a bit of an exaggeration, but it was a hell of a lot shorter than typing “the chairman of Progressive Media, the company formed to own Air America, who was also on the board of a city-funded non-profit, arranged for that non-profit to make an $875,000 interest-free loan to Air America, a for-profit entity, in violation of city, state, and federal laws. And though the illegal ‘loan’ was exposed in July 2005, Air America didn’t repay it until September 2006.”

There, happy now, Quaker??

Just shorthand…with the added benefit of being defamatory toward people who never had anything to do with the loan (but you don’t like them anyway).

The chairman of Progressive Media, who dumped Air America on new owners without informing them of the loan. And the new owners who repaid the loan even though they had no legal obligation to do so.

Sure, Mr. Tea. That’s how “ripoffs” always work out.

Oliver, I dunno if it’s a plugin or just some commands, but if you like, I can tell you the commands we use to activate it.

J.

You should ask P6 to share his devoweling software program with you.

I never thought that was a good idea.

1) Lieberman is not, as I understand it, a member of the Democratic party. He caucuses with them and votes with them most of the time, but he is not a member of that party.

2) As I noted before, Lieberman takes the progressive side on most issues. So for most things, he is a reliable voice for the progressive cause.

3) I suspect a good chunk of conservatives’ admiration for Lieberman is based not on his stand on issues (as noted, he opposes the conservative side most of the time), but it’s guaranteed to piss off the Democratic leadership and the nutroots. Lieberman, like Zell Miller, is a classic liberal, an old-school Democrat, a leftover from the days when you could respect your opponents, even like them. (Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill were great buddies after hours.)

J.

If you’re a member (albeit in in poor standing) of the Democratic Party, but are actively supporting the Republican candidate for President and are being courted to speak at the Republican convention, then you don’t get to be counted as a spokesman for the Democratic party of progressive principles on a talk show.

If you can point to a time when John McCain was publicly supporting a Democratic candidate – for any office – over the Republican candidate, then I’ll grant you those the appropriate fraction of those “875″ appearances. Which I suspect will be a big fat 0.

I love Oliver’s reasoning: if you’re a liberal but you’re there in opposition to other liberals, you count as a conservative. If you’re a conservative, but you’re there in opposition to other conservatives (like all 875 John McCain appearances over the last 8 years), you count as … a conservative!

J.

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Well, I certainly feel better.

Oliver, at 3:06 you supported your position on how terribly biased Meet The Press is by… linking to Media Matters. So it’s all right for you to cite them to bolster your position, but I can’t refer to them to support mine?

J.

But that does prompt me — I think I’ll take the opportunity here to disclose all my business affiliations, grants, paychecks, conference calls, favors, and all other compensation I’ve received for endorsing the positions I’ve held, and attacking those I disagreed witH:

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Wow, that was cleansing. I feel so much better with that burden off my chest.

And Quaker, sorry I used shorthand. But it’s a matter of record that the Gloria Wise Boys And Girls Club, a tax-exempt non-profit that got a lot of its money from the city of New York, loaned Progress Media, the owner of Air America, $875 million interest-free. The loan was authorized by Evan Cohen, Progress Media’s chairman, who was at the same time Gloria Wise’s Director of Development. This was so illegal that Wise was stripped of its non-profit status and its right to the “Boys And Girls Club” name, and triggered a criminal investigation that resulted in the fugitive Cohen being arrested in Guam.

Perhaps “stole the money” was a bit of an exaggeration, but it was a hell of a lot shorter than typing “the chairman of Progressive Media, the company formed to own Air America, who was also on the board of a city-funded non-profit, arranged for that non-profit to make an $875,000 interest-free loan to Air America, a for-profit entity, in violation of city, state, and federal laws. And though the illegal ‘loan’ was exposed in July 2005, Air America didn’t repay it until September 2006.”

There, happy now, Quaker?

J.

You know, all that blather about “principles” kinda loses its bite when you toss in cheap lies like this one.

Save Ferris.

I kid you not.

What are you smoking? It’s a lot better than the crap I get.

what happened to the guy who was enough of a good Democrat to be Al Gore’s running mate in 2000?

Liberals have been asking that question since 2003, when he went seriously off the rails. He lost a Democratic primary in 2006, and needed Republican votes to retain his seat. Now he is being seriously considered as a speaker at the GOP convention, because as everyone knows, they like liberal speakers.