Tuesday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said

TWO honorees today. First, John Cole again, though I really ought to stop reading Balloon Juice if it's going to make me do things like go to the liquor store next to the Trader Joe's and spend eight bucks on a bottle of Southern Tier Pumking -- and I don't even LIKE beer most of the time, drinking only a sip or two of Sam Adams scrounged occasionally from Mr. Brilliant when the Jets are stinking up the joint on the TeeVee; or a tiny Kölsch beer with colleagues when I'm in Germany.

Anyway, he didn't write the beer post, so he gets today's award for this money quote:

All that is left now is for Chuck Todd and David Gregory to explain how this is a failure on the part of Obama. And no, I am not watching the damned debate tonight.

Second, the Almighty Driftglass, with some truly frightening Photochopping as he takes on Bobo again. Drifty has a fundraiser going, if you want to throw him a few shekels. But save some for #OWS.

More Jeremy Scahill, please

Watch Jeremy Scahill demolish that bloviating hack Chuck Todd on Bill Maher's show this week:

Note how Todd tries to dodge the issue of Afghanistan, claiming credit for what Helen Thomas does. Note how he talks about lack of trust in government and equivocates between lying about an affair and lying to send over 4000 Americans to their deaths. Chuck Todd, who wasn't always like this, is emblematic of everything that is wrong with political journalism today. Now he gets invited to the parties, and refuses to ask tough questions. He too falls into the "He said, she said" model of journalism, in which truth and utter horseshit become one and the same.

The problem is, who actually HEARS Jeremy Scahill other than those who already know what he's talking about?

In which Chuck Todd remembers that he has a brain in his head

Chuck Todd has shown himself to be perfectly capable of selling out to his corporate masters and parroting the party line about Barack Obama, that he's Public Enemy #1, the most polarizing president in history, and going to ruin this country and turn it into a Homosexual Muslim Godless Socialist Communist Fascist Hell.™

So it's nice to see him remember every now and then that he does have some gray matter in his brain: