9/7/2011

16 Comments

1. Kudos to Kevin Drum, who is having none of it.

   Comment by Patterico — 9/7/2011 @ 8:37 pm

2. lies lies lies yeah they’re gonna gitcha

   Comment by happyfeet — 9/7/2011 @ 8:38 pm

3. In other words, water is wet.

   Comment by JD — 9/7/2011 @ 8:39 pm

4. Brad Friedman has his head firmly embedded in Mother Jones butt which goes fart fart fart.

   Comment by DohBiden — 9/7/2011 @ 8:40 pm

5. “Heavily edited and deceptive” – The deuce you say.

   I am totally shocked. Brad vouches for his own character every day and tells himself he is completely above reproach.

   How could this happen?

   Where are the layers and layers of fact checkers?

   The horror, the horror.

   Comment by daleyrocks — 9/7/2011 @ 8:56 pm

6. I am so sick of these people.

   They never stop lying.

   Comment by Dustin — 9/7/2011 @ 8:58 pm

7. Seems like deliberate misinformation to me.

   Oh Noes!

   Comment by daleyrocks — 9/7/2011 @ 8:59 pm

8. Brad was also hyperventilating about how it was a “secret” meeting. Well, I guess it was not a secret to the 300+ attendees. If it was secret, how did they get there? Maybe the new definition of secret on the left is when they are not invited or something.

   Comment by daleyrocks — 9/7/2011 @ 9:03 pm

9. But remember, folks: it’s Andrew Breitbart who deceptively edits things for political advantage!

   So if the Left can try to create terms like “breitbarting,” what can we do with Brad Friedman?

   Comment by Simon Jester — 9/7/2011 @ 9:14 pm

10. Freidmanization?

    Comment by DohBiden — 9/7/2011 @ 9:22 pm

11. But remember, folks: it’s Andrew Breitbart who deceptively edits things for political advantage!

    They always accuse others of doing what they do themselves, because they’re convinced that “everyone does it”. I noticed this in the Clinton years, when his favourite defense against any accusation was to claim that “everyone does it”. One example was when the Senate was holding hearings into the Clinton/Gore campaign’s fundraising from foreigners, and the Democrats called Haley Barbour to testify about some money he’d raised in Hong Kong. He patiently explained that that money was not used for campaign purposes, because that would be illegal, so it was carefully segregated from any account used for campaigning; his Democrat interlocutor couldn’t believe he was serious, and was all “yeah, yeah, we know the drill, but we all know you used it for the campaign, right?”, and Barbour explained again that no, they didn’t, because it was against the rules. It was clear that the Democrat couldn’t believe this because he knew that his side lied about this stuff routinely, so how could the Republicans not be doing the same?

    Comment by Milhouse — 9/7/2011 @ 10:21 pm

12. So if the Left can try to create terms like “breitbarting,”

    Is that like “swift-boating”, meaning to tell the truth about long-ago lies? Perhaps to “breitbart” means to catch someone on film telling the truth about himself.

    Comment by Milhouse — 9/7/2011 @ 10:23 pm

13. Brad Friedman is a pimp.

    Comment by daleyrocks — 9/7/2011 @ 11:27 pm

14. Saddam didn’t say Mother of all Wars, he said Mother of all Battles. Which he predicted if US forces attempted to expell his occupation troops from Kuwait.

    The following is from Wikipedia:

    The phrase “the mother of all…” was popularized in recent years, though not introduced, by President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Bulletins to Iraqi citizens advised them to prepare for an invasion and “the mother of all battles” promised in a speech “the mother of all battles” if the US-led coalition forces attempted to evict his army of occupation from Kuwait. The phrase “mother of all battles” in this instance was a translation of the Arabic expression Umm al-Ma’arik. This is a common trope in Arabic public rhetoric. As Saddam’s audience would have understood, it refers to the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in AD 637, when an Arab army defeated the Persians.

    Comment by ropelight — 9/8/2011 @ 5:27 am

15. Daleyrocks, as a professional pimp; I resent that!

    Comment by BarSinister — 9/8/2011 @ 7:52 am

16. Given Brad’s well-known penchant for accuracy at the expense of partisanship, you can expect a correction posthaste.

    I actually laughed out loud. I swear.

    Comment by John — 9/8/2011 @ 11:37 pm

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