"People keep steal Judge Lance Ito’s nameplate."

Too late. I noticed.

Just because Ito is Asian doesn't mean you need to make the headlines sound Asian. FAIL

"People keep steal Judge Lance Ito’s nameplate."

What the hell? Ellie did you actually go to law school? how about high school?

what about "removed . . . gets." Not "removed . . . got"?

Of course you would want to remove someone's glasses before spraying them in the eyes with pepper spray. What's the big deal? Oh, the fact the kid was a retard? All the more reason to remove his glasses first in order to avoid injury when he falls to the ground screeming from the pain in his eyes.

I love the hypocrisy. Mark Canford should resign, but Bill Clinton's impeachment was a joke, right? Last I checked, Clinton perjured himself before the federal grand jury, and his law license was revoked. But Sanford's the lowlife? The double standard is breathtaking.

Moreover, as MSNBC beats the Mark Sanford drum, we still have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gitmo remains open and effectively 18% of the nation are unemployed and 25% of its homeowners are underwater. Yet, the best that liberal NY Pravda rag can come up with is Mark frigging Sanford, a governor of some backwater state. You liberals do understand that you are being exposed for the elitist hypocrites you truly are, do you not?

Herro, this is shitty wok. How can I helrp you?

United Homeless Organization = The Human Fund.

New York's top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn that includes a new arena for the New Jersey Nets.

In a 6-1 ruling Tuesday, the Court of Appeals said the Empire State Development Corp.'s finding that the area was blighted was enough to justify taking the land.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6737304.html

7, "a governor of some backwater state." But you say liberals are the elitist ones? Not you, certainly. Not at all. You're not elitist -- you just know there are some states and people that matter and some that are irrelevant backwaters. Yup, no hypocrisy coming from you at all.

11-- I was being ironic.

7.

10--- can't wait. the winless nets soon to play in Bklyn. Another Stuytown waiting to happen.

Elie -- I am sure you were equally up in arms about Clinton's continued occupation of the White House after revelations about his scandal. Why don't you focus on your stupid job facilitating gossip among spoiled biglaw associates?

How about this crazy idea: Clinton's offense was serious (who should have lost his job) AND Mark Sanford should be out of a job.

I know its a little radical to not take a partisan stance, but lets just try it.

I'm from North Carolina, and I can say for certain that South Carolina is a backwater state, with little or nothing to write home about. The best thing about South Carolina is that there is little reason to go there, except to pass through on the way to Atlanta.

Why do Black people like puffy coats so much?

Obviously it is much more serious to have sex with a 43-year-old woman living far away than to have sex with your intern half your age over whom you're in a position of power. And then lie about it in front of a grand jury.

-- liberal feminist egalitarianism secure

For you Clinton haters, there's a big difference between getting a blowjob from a fat white chick in the Oval Office versus traveling to South America to fuck a tan skinny chick. If you don't know the difference, then you obviously don't know shit.

15--Not a crazy idea. But you fail to mention that neither NYT nor MSNBC (or CNN, its incarnation at the time) was calling for Clinton to resign. Thus, the effective double standard.

Of course both should (have) resign[ed]. Yet you heard none of that from NYT as to Clinton. None of it, even as the bombs rained down on Sarajevo.

Why can't black people speak English?

"But he removed the kid’s glasses first, just to make sure the spray really gets in there."

"Gets"? "GETS"? How does a native English speaker even make such a mistake?

21, what did you say, boy?

Chappy

How dare he insinuate that the homeless folks at the UHO are frauds. They cannot be frauds. They are victims. We all are. Its the fault of the Bush Administration, dont you see that? You have all been deluded by Fox News. Luckily, Fox is the one news outlet to which the FIrst Amendment does not apply so that the executive branch may freely make war upon it.

20 - yeah but I don't what NYT, MSNBC, or CNN say or call for. They all aren't fit for even toilet paper. I mean is it really shocking that they are all going down the tubes? You produce a shitty product and no one buys it, imagine that. But I think our new Central Planners will fix this "problem"
--15

How dare he insinuate that the homeless folks at the UHO are frauds. They cannot be frauds. They are victims. We all are. Its the fault of the Bush Administration, dont you see that? You have all been deluded by Fox News. Luckily, Fox is the one news outlet to which the FIrst Amendment does not apply so that the executive branch may freely make war upon it.

I am so glad Cuomo is going after UHO. The fewer people who harass me for money, the better. It's about time they enforce the permit requirement.

26,

Yeah, except that the Bush administration declared war on MSNBC just over a year ago. Good job with the hypocrisy, though.

18-19,

It's not cool to spend the SC taxpayers' money to frequently fly down to South America to bang whores, and it's not cool to lie about it. Hell, there are whores all over SC Sanford could have banged.

more people watch wheel of fortune that watch MSNBC. In most cases, its many of the same people.

28. Right. First of all, just over a year ago Bush had already lost the election. Second, can you imagine the outcry from the mainstream media if Bush had attempted to deny NBC access to a senior executive branch official after granting that access to the rest of the pool. Third, your ilk can continue with your disinformation but the American people are waking up. Your Messiah is at 45% approval and declining as people wake up to his real agenda.

Utilized < Used

Why are Michelle Obama's arms bigger than her husbands?

Is it frightening anyone else that as far as tactics (not policy) Obama's model seems to be Nixon?

31---he's at 39% among white people. but, of course, we're all racists.

35, I agree, all balck people are racists.

31 - Bush hadn't "lost the election" a year ago. Apparently you, like the rest of the American people, have trouble differentiating Bush from McCain. Furthermore, none of your feeble arguments justify why it's perfectly fine for one president to exclude a news network but socialism when another President does the same.

pepper spraying a retarded kid, full in the face,... what an asshole

37 - it's b/c 31 is a "real" Amurikan and thinks the country would thrive with someone like Palin at the helm. 31 is probably just another blow hard in a fly-over state, one generation removed from the corn field.

37 -- I am sure 28 meant McCain. But that doesnt really matter. The tactic of focusing on the trivial to distract from the consequential -- whether done by you or your Messiah -- is ineffective. Either way the election was lost so why would Bush choose then to attack MSNBC? Second, he didnt attack MSNBC, but facts never seem to matter to you folks. Third, no one is calling this socialism -- thats what is going on in the economy -- this is a violation of the First Amendment. I know its hard for you but try to keep the concepts straight.

19 - FTW. best point of the week on ATL

Can we get a survey of what folks are doing this weekend? I'll be in the office Friday, Saturday and part of Sunday.

Well done, 6.

7, you could have just written "insert typical right wing screed here" and saved yourself alot of typing.

39 -- "Just another blowhard in a flyover state." You forgot to mention how I cling to my guns and my religion because I am such an idiot. Not to mention the fact that I just do not appreciate caviar or foie gras or the genius. Its a relief you liberals are not elitist and are so open-minded (unlike us). Also the force of your argument is palpable (clever use of "Amerikun") and your supreme intelligence is manifest. I guess that is why we folks need you liberals to make all our decisions for us. We would be lost without you.

Agree w 41.
19 = best use of irony in a long while.

39 -- "Just another blowhard in a flyover state." You forgot to mention how I cling to my guns and my religion because I am such an idiot. Not to mention the fact that I just do not appreciate caviar or foie gras or the genius of Arianna Huffington (who was a conservative until see realized there was a better market opportunity in liberalism). Its a relief you liberals are not elitist and are so open-minded (unlike us). Also the force of your argument is palpable (clever use of "Amerikun") and your supreme intelligence is manifest. I guess that is why we folks need you liberals to make all our decisions for us. We would be lost without you.

40 - I guess facts never matter to conservatives. You apparently prefer creating a false reality to structure your arguments. Bush did attack MSNBC. Go ahead and check your favorite "news" network's coverage on May 24, 2008, when Fox News' Cal Thomas applauded Bush for doing the same thing Obama's doing now. Dumb fuck. Second, Glen Beck and his pack of cronies have spent the past month claiming Obama's attacks on Fox News are part of a socialist agenda.

Maybe you should look into actual facts before you post your fabricated, retarded drivel in the future.

47 -- Ad hominem attacks. Excellent. Right out of the Olbermann school. Nice work. You will make an excellent Democratic operative.

47 -- I would say this. Whether or not Bush did it is irrelevant. He was an idiot. It is good of you however to admit that the great Messiah is trying to silence a news network in violation of the First Amendment. Not exactly the platform he ran on, is it?

48 - Ignoring the substance of the comment makes a fine rebuttal.

To recap:

- It was racist to write a suspicious "keep steal" blurb about Judge Ito that seemed to mimic the diction employed by English-speaking Asians

- It was racist of 5 to point out Elie's failure to match the "removed/gets" verb tenses

- It was hypocritical to accuse liberals of being elitist hypocrites while calling South Carolina a "backwater state."

- It was not hypocritical for Elie to support President Clinton for having sex with an intern half his age over whom he wielded power and then lie about it to a grand jury, yet call for Mark Sanford's resignation

- Likewise, it's not hypocritical for the NYT, CNN, or MSNBC to call for Mark Sanford's resignation today, but not for Clinton's a decade ago

- It is racist to call a fraudulent group for homeless people frauds

- We have been deluded by Fox News into not buying into Obama; therefore, it's perfectly acceptable for the President to openly declare war upon it as not being a "real" news organization

- Obama's approval rating is now down to near 45%, but that is only because of racist white people, whose support of the President has dropped to 39%

- Michelle's arms are bigger than Barack's because she is "toned"

- Black people like puffy coats because they are warm

Anything else, you racistly bigoted hate-mongers? I'll take you all on.

EQUALITY SECURE

Is the central tenet of American conservatism that you have to angrily whine about liberals all day? We get it -- you think there's a conspiracy of hypocritical elites who want to ruin the country and destroy everything you stand for. But doesn't it get tiring after awhile to just keep repeating this day after day? Do conservatives ever just say to themselves, "hey, let's set next Tuesday aside to talk about our kids" or "you know, let's try smiling once and awhile?" No?

52,

The conservatives realized all they've been doing for a while is saying "no," so they added whining to spice it up.

39-- I suppose you think the country is "thriving" now? Wait, its Bush' fault, yes?

affirmative walrus --i almost did a spit take. keep it up.

44/46 - You're welcome ;)

-39

Hey Walrus, guess what my wife Nuk-Nuk is serving for thanksgiving.

The Most Interesting Eskimo in the World

52--you obviously don't live in my NYC burb where the liberals anre the angriest and most humorless bunch you'd ever want to meet.

nothing more pathetic than an aging liberal my friend.

47 -- You dont even realize the irony of relying on the idiots Cal Thomas and Glenn Beck to make your argument, do you? Cal Thomas is really the source you are relying on to prove that Bush tried to silence MSNBC? Glenn Beck is the excuse you are using for your ridiclous conflation of constitutional and economic policies. 46 is right. Its lucky we have folks like you to make decisions for us.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjMMNXSw9O0HVpF-_d4qmwucnQpwD9C6JAM00

here elie--i'll do your job for you.

59 - so you agree Fox News isn't a news network?

52 -- I guess you missed the years 2000-2008 during which liberal media outlets never once whined about the right-wing conspiracy or George Bush, and were always offering constructive ideas for moving the country forward.

59--liberals think all conservatives drool over ruch limbaugh, hannity and glenn beck. i listen to none of them but i'm still a conservative. primarily because i believe in basic common sense things like my taxes should be lower, not higher, abortion really is killing a baby and the second amendment really does mean what it says. until the democrats start believing in these simplr truths, i have little use for them.

61. Yes I agree Fox is terrible. Just as terrible as MSNBC. But the United States government should not attempt to silence either.

"nothing more pathetic than an aging liberal my friend"

Agree completely, 58. But nobody -- including an Obama voter like me -- takes those people particularly seriously. They're certainly not making policy. Let them have their bagels and Arlo Guthrie LPs and be done with it.

Conservatives really do seem to treat everything as an anti-liberal teaching moment. They're more ideologically negative. Reading the WSJ or the comments to this post, or listening to the "leaders" of the GOP, it's like old Soviet propaganda that treated anything from the West simply as further proof of the decadent capitalist-imperialist system. There's nothing appealing about an ideology that simply tells you that its invented enemy sucks.

Fox News' best trait is that it exists. For decades, we've been subjected to liberal media spigots treating us like action figures. Fox' mere existence is an anathema to the self proclaimed media omnipotents.

Whyar peopr steah Juh Ito nameplate?!!! Is lidiculou!!!

I don't understand what the problem is with pepper spraying a student, even if he's "special needs," whatever that means. The Supremes ruled last year you can strip search a 13 year old girl looking for ibuprofen with impunity, so why not just start chaining the tards to the portables in the back of the school?

Just remember, you have no rights under the age of 18. Unless you commit a crime, at which point you're a sophisticated adult regardless of your mental capacity.

I don't watch cable news but I am curious to know what Obama is doing to silence Fox news.

65 I guess you also missed the years 2000-2008 during which liberal media outlets never once whined about the right-wing conspiracy and George Bush, never did anything to weaken this country in the eyes of the rest of the world, and were always offering constructive ideas for moving the country forward.

i am a gun-loving rich white male who supports barack obama. why? because i'm not racist. sorry, truth hurts. there's no other reason for all this messiah nonsense. he isn't screwing anybody, he isn't making our country "socialist" by any stretch of the imagination. there is no way we will expand the fed govt as much as bush did, and i would bet my right arm he'll do a better job with any expansion he does do. and he has not and won't touch our guns.

giving a good guy some respect doesn't mean he's a messiah. fer chrissake losers. take off those silly aluminum foil hats.

Walrus - #51 was your magnum opus. I cannot express kudos sufficiently.

Everything about Michelle Obama is bigger than her husband. Everything.

Why do Black people like puffy coats so much? Easy - helps to conceal the Glock.

71- again with the "you're racist if you disagree with Obama" argument. Its hollow my friend. I disagree with tax increases during a recession (or ever frankly). I disagree with extending health care coverage to folks who do not earn it and I disagree with public abortion funding and 2nd amendment restrictions, all of which he lauds. if thats racist then I'm James Earl Fuuckin Ray.

Holy shit I'm fucked

75- I disagree with keeping a shit-eating grin on your face while you are serving as the President of a nation being driven down the toilet- blame it all on Bush- i'm fine with that, it's mostly his fault- but don't smile when you're doing it- he's too smart for that.

Because this kind of attitude trickles down and you have mental midgets like Nancy Pelosi engaged in ludicrous self-congratulating speaches about health care "reform"- reform is not needed, not properly planned, and a disaster waiting to happen

75 = racist

Liberal. Conservative.
Conservative. Liberal.
You say to-ma-to, I say to-mah-to.
Who's to say who's right?

I am.
Liberals are wrong.
End of story. Now let's call the whole damn thing off.

In honor of Alphonse, that giant of a senator from NY in the 80s:

You say Da-ma-to, I say Da-mah-to

(Did he occupy the seat that Hillary now has? How fitting if true)

how in the christ do these people expect job creation when both taxes and ancillary costs (i.e. healthcare) are going to be foisted upon startups? they simply will not hire or, at best, keep the hiring to a minimum. these idiologues simply do not care.

its bad enough that banks were authorized and egged on to lend to deadbeats to cause this fiasco. Now we want to cripple business altogether. What they want is to be like disinflationary europe going forward. that is their stated goal. this is why smart money moved to asia.

Well, let's face it: Obama sucks. Who cares about Bush. He's gone, been gone. Obama is President, and he's fucking things up on a grand scale. That's all that matters now.

@71: by any stretch of the imagination?

so⋅cial⋅ism  

noun 1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.

Obama may not be actively moving the country toward socalism, but he has taken measures that are socalist in nature if not in practice. Oh, and Mix in some Ritalin.

1,Can someone explain why ELIE still has a job?

2, The "public option" is socialism. No, it won't simply be 'another competitor' in the market; that's preposterous, and not even Democratic congressmen could believe it.