Swampland Invitational: The Week That Was

If I promise to "think small" will these pop up adds go away?

Froomkin, Dan
•The torture debate would be over if we had better reporting.
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Nope. "Todd, Chuck,..." e.g., "...contemptible media effort" does it for me.

Philidelphia, MS
-Town that inspired Mississippi Burning elected first black mayor of
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http://www.neshobademocrat.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=297&ArticleID=18865

Pelosi, Nancy
The Pack of press hounds in their relentless pursuit of the lawbreaking as revealed by the release of the OLC memos are tragically sidetracked when the Speaker of the House happens by eating a bag of Cheetos.

BTW, sucks about Mary-Louise Parker. Feminists should get more involved against Hollywood and their constant arm-twisting of needless nudity from actresses.

Gingrich, Newt
-ugly mug of is seen by vapid, lazy, traditional press as a legitimate source of opinion, despite Gingrich's own dismissal from political leadership because of an ethics scandal and his well-documented history as a liar and serial adulterer, to rely on EVERY SINGLE DAY on such disparate topics as whether Nancy Pelosi is ethical, and whether on 60% of Californians showing support for higher taxes on the rich constitutes a tea-bagging revolt against taxes.

What an excellent idea for a post, KT.

Slansky, Paul
Trivialization of actual news by – through mixing same with pop culture garbage indiscriminately (see also Media, Mainstream).

KT:
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Time Magazine
Pi$$ing off of blog readers by – through necessitating endless manual deletion of Verizon pop-up ads.
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Seriously, are the Sheriffs that willing to alienate us?

Karen, you're a hack.
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Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Mancow-Takes-on-Waterboarding-and-Loses.html

Humor -
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Commenters on Swampland seem to have lost sense of

Dick Cheney
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Because he has gotten rid of,President Bush says he "feels liberated" in retirement.

Paul Slansky takes that same approach to give us a hilarious summary of what has been, let's face it, a pretty wacky week.
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Does anyone else have speeded-up images of a waterboarding set to Benny Hill music running through their heads when they read that?

endless manual deletion of Verizon pop-up ads
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Mozilla Firefox + Adblock Plus = what pop-ups?

Global Warming:
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http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE54I6PF20090519
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Oh sh*t.

Nice link Cin, but I thought that dude was a Stern wannabe rather than conservative. Never heard the show, just heard his reputation.
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Also liked that the story referred to Chistopher Hitchens as conservative.

Vicious, you're a genius, that's brilliant! Thanks for the tip.

Cheney, Liz
Public profile in MSM of continues to rise inexplicably.

sexagenaria
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woman in her 60's; see also joyomama
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http://twitpic.com/5g3bb
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OK it's not national news, but this was MY week!

He's a Stern wannabee AND a right winger.

Somewhat amusing until:
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Gordon, Lucy
•suicide of
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Funny because?

Paul Slanky
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Writes summary of weekly event in inscrutable index-speak; journalists are titillated.

vicious:

May your tribe increase.