Crack investigative reporter Spencer Ackerman observes that Howard Wolfson looks like Chris Elliot. I would also note that the sweater he's wearing is absurd. The man's a professional, he should wear a suit when he goes on television.
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08 Jan 2008 11:26 pm
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It's New Hampshire!!! They don't trust "suits"!!!
Be glad he didn't do the full plaid shirt and mukluks.
Not just a sweater, but, to paraphrase Jack Black:
Mr. Wolfson, I'm telling you this for your own good, that's the worst effing sweater I've ever seen, it's a Cosby sweater. A Cooooosssssssby sweataahhhh.
RSH - Matt is making a subtle move here to maintain his cred as an amateur, a man-of-the-people blogger rather than a punditocracy elite. He may work for the Atlantic and appear on TV, but... he doesn't wear a suit!
Believe me, his cred as an amateur is safe with me!
Indeed! I had the exact same series of thoughts (Chris Elliot... horrible sweater .. where's the suit?)
No one is talking about how the polls actually nailed Obama's number. Obama didn't lose this election. He stayed steady and Hillary surged ahead.
jeesh!
matt gets more puerile by the week -- not to mention showing his true colors as a fooking preppy poseur psuedo-liberal.
too bad. i used to think this dude had potential, but since moving to the atlantic, his blog has tanked. when not simply being boring or incoherent (i.e. stoned), he reaches, at best, the heights of sophomoric smugness.
Everyone apparently 'does' LL Bean-style for NH.
Though that fucking sweater looked like something his 102-year-old grandma knitted.
Stepping back, the obvious media fallacy here is that there's a national narrative to create 'upsets'. Hillary was ahead in NH until Iowa, and she won.
I definitely don't want a coronation, but it may prove difficult for Hillary now to skim some of the scum at the top of her campaign.
tek: the sweater was really hideous. It was distracting--the kind of awkward sweater your grandma gave you for Christmas right before you hit puberty.
It's the type of sweater someone would wear at a Christmas party trying futilely to get a laugh.
and know him by the company he keeps.
it needs be noted that spence ackerman is the racist former acolyte of josh marshall, the one-time earnest idealist who sold out his once respected talking points memo to the profit-driven star-fuckers behind huffington post.
what an excellent dog's breakfast of hypocritically grubby (as in fleet street tabloidists) disappointments this once promising crop of young wannabe journalists has become.
i actually admired the guy for having the balls to wear that sweater on national t.v., and tasteful or not, i'd rather watch that look any day over the plasticine perfection of a tony snow or a dana what's her name.
My guess is he was wearing the white t-shirt underneath for the past 96 hours straight and threw on the hilarious sweater at the last minute to cover it up.
i actually admired the guy for having the balls to wear that sweater on national t.v., and tasteful or not, i'd rather watch that look any day over the plasticine perfection of a tony snow or a dana what's her name.
-- AND the guy is plenty bright enough to know perfectly well that it is a goofy sweater and choose to wear it anyway, despite the certainty the gap-clad bourgeois conformist clones would be unanimously appalled.
personally, i'd sure as hell rather sit down for a drink with howard than any of the tight-asses making disparaging remarks about his sweater, for chissakes.
pardon the quadruple-dipping, but gotta say i think bob called it right-on.
Not to miss an opportunity to throw a slam at "crypto-Zionist" snark expert Josh Marshall, but I have to agree with teknozen.
I got banned at HuffPo a day after Marshall banned me, when I tried to reveal on HuffPo how hypocritical Marshall was for banning me without warning, despite having spent the previous week promising his readers he'd never do that.
Meanwhile he still has every Zionist flake in country posting over there.
And he never had the balls to engage his readers on the IP issue anyway, scared he'd lose his ad revenue. Not that he'd ever criticize Israel anyway even if he did. He relied on "drive-by snark" to make his (occasional) points, then ran and hid behind his front people.
To Dick Hack. Josh runs MJ Rosenberg's stuff which consistently points to the horrors of the occupation and the need to get Israel back to the '67 lines. Do you not like his stuff because MJ is a Jew or because he favors the existence of Israel?
I guess I wasn't the only one who caught this. The whole time I was watching I was expecting Bill Murray to show up and start making fun of him.
to richard steven hack:
just for grins, i checked back this morning to see if there had been any nibbles on all the troll bait i tossed around last evening . . .
AND i was amazed (and pleased) to see that i am not the only person around to notice the egregious disintegration of talkingpointsmemo and the ruthless ambition of would-be blogistan baron josh marshall.
for a while, i had some respect for matt yglesias for not enduring the crypto-zionist meme -- the one the automatically brands you as anti-semetic should you dare to criticize either israel or the u.s. lunatic policy of underwriting the zionist military.
which is why i still look at matt's blog from time to time, but it has long since dropped off my daily read list -- as have tpm and huffpo; matt i stopped reading because he was boring me with his diffuse focus, to put it as generously as possible, or perhaps the lousy ratio quantity to quality he has lately been churning.
tpm and huffpo, on the other hand, are of the most despicable variety of trendoid tabloidism -- more heinous even than drudge, because at least he make no bones about being anything but a sensationalist.
anyway . . . thanks, richard, for your comment. let's hope you and i are not the only ones paying attention.
regards,
tek
Actually, the case of Rosenberg is interesting.
When he first started posted there, at one point some anti-Semites or somebody sent some nasty email or something and he went off the rails big time in one of his posts. He insulted most of the TPM readers by claiming they all wanted Jews dead.
This naturally didn't go over very well with the readers and many complained directly to Josh, including me, since under no circumstances have I ever said anything of that sort. It was simply an overreaction on MJ's part to some incident the readers didn't even know about.
However, later, MJ seemed to have mellowed out or something, as his posts for some time now have been considerably more reasonably. Not that I necessarily agree with him on everything he says, but I don't automatically disagree with him.
I don't believe in the basic "Zionist dream" which MJ clearly does. But I don't think that makes him a bad guy. He's what I call a "classic Zionist", as opposed to what I call the "fascist Zionist". He's somebody who thinks the Jews need a homeland of their own, that Israel is it, and that it should have a chance to do what it was intended for. And he disagrees with the Zionist thugs who are in charge of the occupation, who start wars with Lebanon, who try to pressure the US to attack Iraq and Iran and Syria, and so forth. Fine with me. I don't think "classic Zionists" understand the real situation but at least they're not thugs.
The problem is not MJ, it's Josh Marshall. He's an intellectual coward and intellectually dishonest. It's that simple. He banned me and has accused me in private emails of "despising Jews" which is not an opinion I hold and never expressed anything of the sort on TPM. It's all entirely in his head, based on his own "hot buttons".
Yet he has allowed any number of Zionist supporters on his site to repeatedly accuse everyone critical of Israel of being "anti-Semitic" without doing anything about it, no matter how vitriolic the comments.
Just recently, it appears that one such, a troll named Davai, may finally have been banned after even MJ Rosenberg called for his readers to ignore him and Andrew Golis repeatedly told him to cool it.
Marshall made a big deal back in late 2006 about trying to "civilize" the conversation in the TPM Cafe threads. He promised they would establish new, explicit rules, that no one would be banned without first being warned, that the reasons would be explained, etc. Then THAT WEEKEND he violated ALL of those promises simply because one of his "hot buttons" were pressed by a conversation on the IP situation. I was banned with no warning, no discussion, no questions about what I said, nothing. I'm not sure if anyone else was banned at the same time.
Previous to that, during discussions of the IP situation, he had occasionally engaged in "drive-by snark" where he dropped off a one-liner to me dripping with contempt, then refused to respond to any questions about his actual opinions. This reveals his contempt for his readers, which is reflected in most of the authors he has posting there, who almost never engage in the comment threads - with the much appreciated exceptions of Rosenberg and Larry Johnson and occasionally others.
I still read TPM and HuffPo, as well as Matt's blog because some of the comments are made by rational people and I frequently learn things by doing so. I even agree with Marshall when he gets something right in his analysis of current events.
But he's still an intellectually dishonest coward when it comes to the issue of IP. And that's a characteristic of most Zionists, if not all.
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Did you wear a suit tonight?
Never seen you in a suit.
Really don't want to, either.
Not all "professionals" wear suits, dude.
If you're judging people by whether they wear suits, that really lowers your judgment credibility - not that it was all that high before.
Posted by Richard Steven Hack | January 8, 2008 11:32 PM