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Rightbloggers Declare Democratic Convention a Failure -- Which May Be Why It Succeeded

A week after the party of Kang had their national convention, the party of Kodoshad theirs in Charlotte, NC. It was a lively affair, with a floor fight strong-armed by party bosses, and big speeches by Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sandra Fluke, and some guy running a crap economy who nonetheless no ... More >>

When Rightbloggers Tell You the Battle of Chick-fil-A Isn't About Gay Rights, It's About Gay Rights

In years to come, rightbloggers will tell their grandchildren many stories of the glorious summer of twenty-twelve. They'll tell 'em how they warned America about the socialist menace of the Olympics. They'll tell 'em how, in the wake of the Aurora shooting, they defended assault weapons against Dem ... More >>

Bloomberg Signs Off on Chick-Fil-A in NYC

On Sundays, Chick-fil-A closes its door to respect the Sabbath - the day God gave mankind to rest after a long week. The assembly line of chicken sandwiches stops its engines and customers take the day off from consuming the famous Chick-fil-A sauce. Along the Bible Belt, where a majority of the Atl ... More >>

Justice Department to Investigate Newark Police, Just After Chief Garry McCarthy, ex-NYPD, Gets Top Job In Chicago

​The Justice Department says it's going to probe misconduct and poor internal oversight in the 1,300-member Newark Police Department. The announcement came just a week after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced he had selected Newark Police Chief Garry McCarthy, the former NYPD Deputy Commiss ... More >>

Dan Sinker, Founder of Punk Planet, Was @MayorEmanuel Twitter; Andrew Sullivan Leaving The Atlantic For Tina Brown

via Daniel O'Neal​Just about everyone on the internet (including us) has already praised the Twitter account @MayorEmanuel, which ended its journey when the real Emanuel won last week's election for Chicago mayor. That fanfare makes today's victory lap and collective celebration entertaining o ... More >>

Barack Obama's Shift on Gay Marriage, and What It Means

​ Today's announcement that President Barack Obama's Justice Department will stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) seemed to come out of nowhere — unless you think the administration was emboldened by the election of alum Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago. ... More >>

Rahm Emanuel Wants a Word With the Asshole Behind @MayorEmanuel on Twitter

​The real Rahm Emanuel, who could be voted the next mayor of Chicago in less than a week, wants to meet the person responsible for the foul-mouthed fake Twitter account @MayorEmanuel. So much so that on the Roe & Roeper show, Emanuel offered to donate $2,500 or $5,000 as a "personal contributi ... More >>

Rahm Emanuel Back on Goddamn Ballot For Chicago Mayor

​Yesterday an appeals court in Illinois ruled that notoriously short-tempered, foul-mouthed Rahm Emanuel was not eligible to run for mayor in the election on February 22 because he does not qualify as a resident. Today, Emanuel's legal team took their case to the Illinois Supreme Court (you ca ... More >>

Rahm Emanuel Can't Run For Mayor of Chicago

​An appellate court ruled this afternoon that former Obama Chief of Staff and U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel does not meet residency standards to run for Mayor of Chicago. The Sun-Times reports that a panel voted 2-1 to scrap Emanuel's name from the upcoming vote despite the fact that he is ... More >>

Rahm Emanuel Announces Run For Chicago Mayor Via YouTube Video

Ex-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who left his post on Friday, announced Sunday via YouTube what everyone already knew: he's running for mayor of Chicago. Watch your goddamn backs, "gangbangers."

Rahm Emanuel to Announce Motherfu**ing Resignation From G*damn White House Tomorrow

​Senior White House correspondent Jake "The Octogon" Tapper of ABC News just Tweeted that President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is going to announce tomorrow that he's leaving the White House to begin "looking at" (or "begin") his run for the great, distinguished office that i ... More >>

Rahm Emanuel, Mayor-To-Be of Chicago, Now with Awesome Twitter Doppelganger

"So this happened" indeed! The description for Rahm Emanuel's fake Twitter account, @MayorEmanuel, which one would imagine -- if done correctly -- could provide for the general public a great source of Fake Kaplan-level amusement: "Your next motherfucking mayor. Get used to it, assholes." Oh, beli ... More >>

Joe Barton, GOP Back Off BP Apology -- But Rightbloggers Insist: Defeat or Death!

You've heard that old fable -- favored by Orson Welles, among others -- about a frog whom a scorpion asks for a ride across a stream. The frog reasons that the scorpion won't sting him while they're both in the water, because then they would both drown. So he consents. But the scorpion stings him ... More >>

Put the Fucking Curse Words in the New York Times Already

​It's time for the New York Times, the paper of record, to stop being so ridiculously prude with regards to printing curse words, especially when they're used in titles or within quotes. No one is saying that Tom goddamn Friedman should start writing like Gavin fucking McInnes, but from kids t ... More >>

BP Chief Tony Hayward is Attending a Yacht Race; Now Everyone's Really Mad

​For Tony Hayward, after dealing with the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history every day for 60 days, it's vacation time. He's currently attending a yacht race around England's Isle of Wight, where his 52-foot boat named "Bob" is participating. "He's spending a few hours with his family ... More >>

You're Fired, Sarah Palin!

​Failed VP candidate Sarah Palin is very big on telling people they should be axed from their jobs--a bizarre role to assign yourself in this economy. The downsizing queen just went to Nevada to announce "You're fired, Harry!"--meaning that right-wing voters should gather to bump Democratic M ... More >>

Eric Massa: The Final Indignities

Saturday Night Live got on the Massa thing, and even hauled in Jerry Seinfeld for the snorkeling jokes. Other late coverage has similarly devolved to the fanciful. Queerty asks "Why Does Every Cable News Chatfest About Rep. Eric Massa Have to Suck So Bad?" and notices that Bill Press, one of th ... More >>

Danny Meyer Launches Hospitality Quotient

Getty ImagesDoes anyone else think Meyer is a Rahm Emanuel doppelganger?​After a rare loss on Friday--no Shake Shack in Nolita-- Danny Meyer is on the move again, launching Hospitality Quotient, a "learning business" that will hold classes designed to help companies improve their customer serv ... More >>

Obama Pleads for Civility at Prayer Breakfast, Despite Outbreak of Apologies

President Obama appeared at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning and made a plea for "civility... learning how to disagree without being disagreeable." (As shown in the TPM clip above, he also made a mild joke about birthers.) This comes at an interesting time, as high-level apologies for ... More >>

Rahm Emanuel Apologizes for Bad Words After Sarah Palin Chastisement

​Yesterday on her Facebook page Sarah Palin attacked Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel for calling liberals who planned to attack conservative Democrats over health care "fucking retarded." This is believed to be the first time Palin has defended liberal Democrats, though she seemed more exercised ... More >>

Rightbloggers See Chicago's Olympics Snub as Obama's Foreign Policy Crisis -- Which They Cheer

Last week rightbloggers were outraged when President Obama struck a conciliatory tone in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. They didn't like that, nor did they like Obama's warm reception there, and predicted this love-fest would only encourage our adversaries, with dire consequences for th ... More >>

Barrett: Schumer Protects Gillibrand from a Primary Challenge Citing His Record On Such Matters -- So We Checked That Record

Image from Howie Klein's "Down With Tyranny" blog (downwithtyranny.blogspot.com)As my colleague Tom Robbins explained last month, Chuck Schumer has been flexing his  considerable muscle to make sure that no elected Democrat challenges Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the accidental incumbent, in a 2 ... More >>

Wall Street Guy to Run City Housing

Tino Hernandez, who quit as the head of the Housing Authority last year, had a background in social services, and is returning to managing the drug treatment center he'd worked at before. John Rhea, whose appointment to chair the NYCHA was announced today, has a background in investment banking; he ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 4 through 10

Voices in the wilderness: Bill Moyers and Simon Johnson take on 'American oligarchs'

Lost in the babble about the Wall Street rubble was last week's provocative piece on Bill Moyers Journal. Beyond its hackneyed title, "Following the Money," it gets to the heart of the global financial meltdown (video, transcript). Last night's Frontline episode, "Inside the Meltdown," was an int ... More >>

Obama signs the stimulus bill, talks about 'foreign dictators,' not the ones here at home

You don't expect President Barack Obama to reveal the sharp split inside the White House between those who want to rescue Wall Street's bankers and those who want to smack 'em upside the head. Americans just want a rescue from the onrushing Great Depression II, so the public's not clamoring in an ... More >>

Ready on Day One: Rightbloggers at the Inauguration

This week rightblogger Robert Stacy McCain said: "So far as I can tell, conservatives aren't going through anything like the grief/angst/outrage that Democrats went through after the 2000 and 2004 elections. There may be activists who would like to generate that kind of reaction, but most conserv ... More >>

Don't Leave, George W.!

Screw the public. We need you to bail out the press by staying in office.

A Blue Fitzmas for Rightbloggers -- But Wait'll Next Year!

Happy holidays: Madoffs shop, Gov. Paterson gallivants

Wayne Barrett: Why Bloomie is Campaigning for Caroline Kennedy

Obama Over, Bush Vindicated, and Other Rightblogger Alternate History Stories

Bush makes Iraqis want to hurl

Times Seeks to Please People Who Hate It

State secret: Is it Secretary's Day for Hillary?

Moving over for Henry Waxman

Henry Paulson ends bailouts, saying, 'Mission accomplished!'

Putting Hillary Clinton in her place -- and that doesn't mean the State Department

Daily Flog: Democrats go shopping for GM; Obama storms White House

More Clintonites in Obama White House?

Daily Flog: Obama installs Rahm to boot up Congress

Obama Presidency Already a Disaster

Sweet Relief

You asked the politicians for help with student debt. And maybe, just maybe, you're about to get it.