Four of the Most Satisfying Non-Pornographic Minutes of Internet Video You'll Ever Watch

Well, it's virtually pornographic. Joe Scarborough demands to know why the media doesn't know if Barack Obama ran Blago's 2002 campaign -- and notes that Blago was already under investigation for years, so the press should have had some interest in this.

And he wants to know why hundreds of reporters were sent to Wasilla to dig up dirt on Palin and none, apparently, were sent to Chicago.

Scarborough's questions are damning -- but Barnicle's and the NYT's John Harwood's answers are more damning yet. Link fixed.

How do we know Obama wasn't intimately involved in Blago's 2002 run?

"Instinct," says Barnicle. And that's sufficient, he feels.

It was instinct that told the MSM that Sarah Palin was a snake-handling subretard and thus required hundreds of reporters digging through the most picayune details of her life. It was also instinct that that told the MSM that Barack Obama was the Risen Christ and needed to be worshipped.

Instinct.

They make much of this virtue. It doesn't occur to them that their instincts almost all trend the same way -- to supporting liberalism and undermining conservatism.

Posted by: Ace at 05:23 PM

Comments

1 Aaaaand, would there be a link?

OK, I'm lazy, but so what?

Posted by: notropis at December 16, 2008 05:25 PM (81VGH)

2 link?

Posted by: Contributor X at December 16, 2008 05:25 PM (+bxIM)

3 Actually, given his talents as conservative blogger-of-the-year, ace's descriptions satisfy me completely.

Posted by: notropis at December 16, 2008 05:26 PM (81VGH)

4 Did you mean 404 Error minutes of video?

Posted by: myiq2xu at December 16, 2008 05:26 PM (fD3XI)

5 Too excited & forgot?

Posted by: d at December 16, 2008 05:30 PM (UCFL3)

6 Figured it'd be at HotAir

Posted by: notropis at December 16, 2008 05:30 PM (81VGH)

7 WTF is the linky please.

Posted by: BillyBob at December 16, 2008 05:30 PM (7HyI+)

8 linky linky... I think HotAir has it...

Posted by: Kaptain Amerika at December 16, 2008 05:31 PM (7S1f8)

9 http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=ydpr8zQukU

It's here

I'de still bone Mika... Just FYI.

Posted by: Joe mamma at December 16, 2008 05:33 PM (14wBu)

Instinct . . . like Barnicle's killer instinct for knowing when Mike Royko really nailed a column.

Seriously, Scarborough is asking this plagiarist for an honest opinion? This is as pointless as kabuki theatre.

Posted by: PalinFan at December 16, 2008 05:33 PM (5Ig1V)

11 Media cocksuckery

Posted by: vinman at December 16, 2008 05:35 PM (idc+/)

You linked, you linked, you linked 5 motherfucking things today.

The posts get working links. That's just, the fucking, way, it is.

Don't make a fucking maniac out of me.

Posted by: Entropy at December 16, 2008 05:35 PM (cok/k)

13 Where are the t-shirts?

Posted by: adamthemad at December 16, 2008 05:37 PM (kIjlp)

14 "It was instinct that told the MSM that Sarah Palin was a snake-handling subretard and thus required hundreds of reporters digging through the most picayune details of her life. It was also instinct that that told the MSM that Barack Obama was the Risen Christ and needed to be worshipped."

Dude, that's what they get paid for. It's called a "nose for news."

Watch old Kolchak reruns if you don't understand....

Posted by: notropis at December 16, 2008 05:37 PM (81VGH)

Mornin' Joe was spot on with those media idiots. Instinct my ass. Too bad his admonishments and queries are too late. One could wonder why Joe did ask these questions earlier. Then again, I'm just friggin amazed that he was allowed to ask them at all, given this was msnbc. Indeed, a very statisfying four minutes (though seven minutes is preferred); I'm lighting my cigarette now.

Posted by: C In Az at December 16, 2008 05:39 PM (qIOmI)

16 People who try to dig up dirt in Chicago politics tend to wake up dead.

Posted by: markytom at December 16, 2008 05:39 PM (ZG9as)

17 These same fucking idiots also scream:
1) about falling readership
2) public's statement that they lack credibility
And they of the intelligencia still wonder WHY?

Posted by: GarandFan at December 16, 2008 05:40 PM (237hA)

�Let me put on my newspaper editor hat and tell you why it was important to go to Wasilla and not Chicago�. I had to stop the video there before I puked.

I haven�t see spin like this since the Clinton impeachment for lying. Could that be a harbinger of things to come?

Posted by: Vic at December 16, 2008 05:40 PM (q8aAJ)

19 "There is absolutely no legal impediment or injunction that Fitzgerald could put on them," said Stanley M. Brand, a Democratic lawyer with experience in such scandals. "They've decided not to talk."

Robert Luskin, a Washington white-collar defense lawyer who knows Mr. Fitzgerald well, said he doesn't doubt the prosecutor would have asked that Obama officials keep quiet until his investigation is further along. That is to prevent witnesses from tailoring their stories to what they learn others are saying. But, he said, Mr. Obama and his aides don't have to comply. They are using the prosecutor as a "fig leaf" to avoid answering questions just now, Mr. Luskin said. They could just as easily have decided that assuring the public about their actions is more important than acceding to the prosecutor's request.

And Christmas week is a good time to bury news, added Robert Bennett, another prominent Washington defense lawyer."

http://tinyurl.com/5jlsca

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at December 16, 2008 05:43 PM (LOYTQ)

Let's try this link

Posted by: Vic at December 16, 2008 05:43 PM (q8aAJ)

21 Picture it now: Joe is going to be discovered, after a few days missing, dead from a single vehicle car accident. How dare he question...

Posted by: C In Az at December 16, 2008 05:43 PM (qIOmI)

22 Don't make a fucking maniac out of me.

Relax, Entropy. Try this link. It will calm you down.

Posted by: chemjeff at December 16, 2008 05:44 PM (wy+AE)

23 Wouldn't the question as to whether or not he ran his campaign be something easy to find out? I mean, if the trolls who were sent to Wasilla can find out that Todd Palin had a DUI 20 years ago...

Posted by: The Oort Cloud at December 16, 2008 05:44 PM (nOQXA)

It is ironic that The One originated the phrase "You Betcha" way back in 2002 when he was stumping for Blowjobovitch:

"On the Chicago TV show "Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz" on June 27, 2002, state Sen. Obama said, "Right now, my main focus is to make sure that we elect Rod Blagojevich as Governor, we..."

"You working hard for Rod?" interrupted Berkowitz.

"You betcha," said Obama"

Posted by: Home of Joe Biden at December 16, 2008 05:45 PM (RtQiY)

said Stanley M. Brand, a Democratic lawyer with experience in such scandals

LOL, if he is a Democrap lawyer I�ll bet that he has a wealth of experience working �scandals�.

Posted by: Vic at December 16, 2008 05:45 PM (q8aAJ)

26 Talk about overreaching.

Posted by: allheavens at December 16, 2008 05:47 PM (wFJvd)

27 Actually, Barnicle's "instincts" are right on, here. Obama did not WORK on Blagojevich's campaign, for the simple reason that he hasn't WORKED on one goddamn thing in his entire life.

He "voted present" on Blagojevich's campaign, at best.

Posted by: notropis at December 16, 2008 05:48 PM (81VGH)

Single vehicle car accident? I'll gut that mother%#*&ing heretic myself!

Enjoy your freedom while you can. You'll all be in camps 21 January 2009!

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 16, 2008 05:49 PM (VmtE9)

29 I can no longer pretend that anyone in that profession isn't a lying, self serving jerk.

Posted by: The Obvious at December 16, 2008 05:50 PM (1g+FW)

30 I'd say Harwood and Barnicle were thoroughly embarrassed by Scarborough except that Harwood and Barnicle obviously have lost their capacity for such sentiment. Reporting for The NYTimes or Newsweek/HuffPo, respectively (so to speak) does that to media personnel Obamabots.

Oh well, watching clowns is still entertaining. Knowing their futures are fading fast as they beclown themselves is some consolation.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 16, 2008 05:50 PM (sI5Ho)

31 Holy crap, that was good!

Well, MSM, my 'instinct' tells me that you've been screwed big time! And this is only the beginning, folks.......

Posted by: 8starsnorth at December 16, 2008 06:00 PM (mIcGp)

32 Barnicle, the Clown Prince of morally bantrupt journalism, has never actually researched or written of his own stories. Despite being caught for blatant plagiarism and outright theft of other peoples' intellectual property he still has a job thanks to the libtards here in Massachusetts. I swear that cockholster must be someone's personal receptacle to have kept a job this long despite violating every fucking tenet of journalism. Well at least journalism as it was deffined before every journalism school had its intellectual capital skull fucked out by the shriveled crooked cock of Marxism.

/Yes this is a 'very smart' military and other blog, but we as commentors have a reputation for legendary profanit uphold. It's kind of like the Gold State Warriors and sucking.....

Posted by: Blue Falcon at December 16, 2008 06:00 PM (SMD8k)

33 Well, my instincts told me that Obama was a true dumb Chicago political hack. My instincts also told me that Obama is an obvious world class pretender who had to have the Chicago political machine in order to get as far as he did. My instincts also tell me that a guy who says sin is when he is " being out of alignment with his values" is a douchebag with a God complex.

Posted by: mare at December 16, 2008 06:02 PM (X1fsj)

34 Where's Ace? Where's Ace with all this no linking bullshit? Please don't make Ace move, cuz when he does, he slices like a fucking hammer.

Posted by: ricky at December 16, 2008 06:03 PM (TERmA)

People who try to dig up dirt in Chicago politics tend to wake up dead.

Or, as we call it in Chicago, become 'frequent voters'.

Posted by: Entropy at December 16, 2008 06:03 PM (cok/k)

36 "Media cocksuckery"

At least we can get together on the Internet and bitch about it. Imagine what it must have been like for conservatives during Carter or Johnson without some place to go and scream about the media being a bunch of liberal cocksuckers.

Posted by: Kensington at December 16, 2008 06:09 PM (fhJCy)

37 Back in the Carter era we just screamed and the TV ... or fired a shot into it. And TV's were damn expensive back then.

Posted by: Max at December 16, 2008 06:14 PM (oSBvm)

38
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Heh. After me, that is...

Mika's totally hot.

Posted by: thebronze at December 16, 2008 06:14 PM (cwNXc)

39 I don't normally want to cuss on these comments thingys but these sorry sacks of siberian sheep shit really get my dander up. If I weren't such a gentleman, I would really let'em have it. They're not reporter, they're a bunch of dihimiKKKrats� who worship The One True Lightworker^TM.

A pox on them. May their beards (or other hairy parts, preferrably) be infested by the fleas of a trillion camels.

Posted by: TennDon at December 16, 2008 06:19 PM (TTjg8)

40 Would have been nice to have that version of Scarborough around all of last year.
It was kinda' fun watching that harpie's face while Joe was going off. It looked like a combination of the stinkeye while also sucking on a lemon.

Posted by: aubrey at December 16, 2008 06:22 PM (1YVnX)

41 "Back in the Carter era we just screamed and the TV ... or fired a shot into it. And TV's were damn expensive back then."

Actually, thanks to being a Broncos fan in the 70s, I had a foam brick that saved me a lot of money.

(Trying to find a link on google, but failing, for now.)

Posted by: notropis at December 16, 2008 06:23 PM (81VGH)

42 "Back in the Carter era we just screamed and the TV ... or fired a shot into it. And TV's were damn expensive back then."

On top of that, it was possible, perhaps even probable, that douchebags like Cronkite could go through their whole professional lives insulated from the fact that a large number of people thought they were cocksuckers.

That's not true anymore. You think Olberdouche can resist checking out Johnny Dollar's place every night and seething over what they say about him there? Fat chance! For another example, we all know damn well that Dan Rather knows what people say about him.

It's a beautiful development.

Posted by: Kensington at December 16, 2008 06:24 PM (fhJCy)

43 Liberals are so amazing. I can remember arguing with one about how the media ignored the John Edwards story for a year as well as the Rev. Jerimiah Wright story. They bought every excuse the media made and actually believed them. Liberals are impervious to truth.

Posted by: 7HEAVENS at December 16, 2008 06:26 PM (ngLyu)

44 I swear, I didn't tell them ANYTHING!!!

Posted by: Instinct at December 16, 2008 06:27 PM (TdxSZ)

45 I think he copied that instinct thing.

Posted by: lonetown at December 16, 2008 06:30 PM (Gphqr)

46 I have to say that I was incensed when I read what Zer0bama himself said about his internal investigation and there being no evidence of wrongoing, especially in light of Sarah Palin and what she and her family went through, not the least of which was Troopergate!

I know, it's too much to ask for the MSM to put Zer0 through at least a bit of what they've put President Bush through these past 8 years. Watch, it's going to be all kisses, hearts and flowers, and we're all going to do fine as long as we hold hands and just belieeeeeeeeve enough in Zer)s magic powers.

Posted by: THeREsaD at December 16, 2008 06:41 PM (MO2LE)

47 CNN busy acquitting JJJ, not mentioning that the "informant" part only applies to pre-Senate seat discussions and is ONLY from JJJ's side, not Fitz.

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48 You know, I've gotta say, I know she's a big liberal, but Mika is fucking sexy. Plus, I think she was making those faces just for me. If she and I can just avoid talking about politics, we might have something good together.

Posted by: Kensington at December 16, 2008 06:45 PM (fhJCy)

49 "If she and I can just avoid talking about politics"

Just keep her mouth full.

Posted by: notropis at December 16, 2008 06:54 PM (81VGH)

50 17 These same fucking idiots also scream:
1) about falling readership

Posted by: GarandFan at December 16, 2008 05:40 PM (237hA)

Hopefully they'll all be unemployed and sucking cock or taking it up the ass for a living, since none of them have any skills or intelligence of any value in real life.

Posted by: ol-dirty-/b/tard at December 16, 2008 07:21 PM (Yf3BU)

Since Blago is already on tape calling Obama a "motherfucker" and saying "fuck him" because Obama is asking about the Senate "for nothing," how is this bad for Obama right now?

Of course it could go bad for the Republicans if they keep beating this drum and Obama and Emanuel end up telling off Blago on tape, their shit smelling like roses.

As far as delaying the release of details, what is the problem of going along with a non-binding request by Fitzgerald? Of course, Fitz might come out and say how great Obama has been in the whole mess.

Posted by: icus at December 16, 2008 07:21 PM (mOFr4)

52

My instinct tells me Monsieur Barnacle has a bit of explanations to do on the importANCE of his instinct over my instinct because I do not believe his instinct is as great as my own, you know.

Posted by: Senator, Advisor Chief Insp. Rev. Dr. E. Buzz Miller at December 16, 2008 07:26 PM (sibOH)

53 >>I'de still bone Mika... Just FYI.

Posted by: Joe mamma at December 16, 2008 05:33 PM (14wBu)

I'd hit that shit too.

Posted by: ol-dirty-/b/tard at December 16, 2008 07:35 PM (Yf3BU)

54 icus, it's bad for the Lightworker because it's the story right now rather than whatever dipshit (alternating Chicago thug/Clinton retread) he's appointed today. How much did you hear the other day about his big important ideas about Global Warming? If you did I bet it was after the story about Blago not stepping down yet.

Your grasping for straws hoping Zero's people were on tape denouncing the illegalities being discussed. At best, they didn't play ball because they're to arrogant to pay. If they had objected to Blago's game, why didn't they go public the day after he asked for the pay off? Why claim that there were no discussions at all.

Of course it doesn't really matter whether this particular scandal burns down the Obama administration. Once Blago is facing the prospect of life in prison, he is going to give up anyone he can to buy a break. And then he'll sing some more to get back at those who have wronged him in the last week. The fun thing about Chicago/Illinos Democrats is that they pretty much all hate each other and corruption is the only thing holding the whole house of cards together. Even if Blago doesn't have dirt on the Golden Calf, which is unlikely given their associations in the last 6 years, someone in the web that Blago squeals on will.

And that will be the story.

Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2008 07:58 PM (cvMcH)

55 Ah fuckit.

Posted by: oompah at December 16, 2008 08:02 PM (H1t5a)

56 Back during the Clinton years, Howie Carr, a local talk radio host and Boston Herald columnist had a term for the preferential treatment given to Democrats by the media.

He referred to it as "the journalistic equivalent of unsafe sex".

Some things never change...

Posted by: Rich at December 16, 2008 08:35 PM (GLpvN)

57 The Cowardly Barnacle: Instinct! What makes a king out of a slave? Instinct! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Instinct! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Instinct! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Instinct! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Instinct! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?

Instinct.

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Posted by: Methos at December 16, 2008 09:55 PM (cvMcH)

62 Barnicle = world class sucker of cock

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 16, 2008 10:42 PM (Z0HFQ)

63 By the time this all gets around to how Obama fits in, it will be long enough for the media to declare that this is old news that has already been dealt with and that people are just piling on the Lightworker. Let's take a pqge from the Clinton years and move on.

Posted by: Bob at December 16, 2008 11:22 PM (8nB5X)

Even if Blago doesn't have dirt on the Golden Calf, which is unlikely given their associations in the last 6 years, someone in the web that Blago squeals on will.

We will see. A lot of scandals end up being disappointments, because the chain stops a lot shorter than you think it will. Like that whole Duke Cunningham thing. Sometimes it's just one or two assholes. Plus "knowing" something and having first hand knowledge to testify to it are two different things.

Posted by: icus at December 16, 2008 11:31 PM (mOFr4)

to have kept a job this long despite violating every fucking tenet of journalism.

I thought there was only one tenet--don't get caught.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 17, 2008 12:01 AM (CZaaY)

66 All Obama has to do is stonewall and stonewall and stonewall, and with his MSM lapdogs covering for him, it will all blow over in a few days or weeks.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 17, 2008 12:45 AM (XUV9W)

67 A lot of scandals end up being disappointments, because the chain stops a lot shorter than you think it will

Yeah, and with our legendarily incurious MSM on the job, you can bet any journalistic investigation about this is going to be desultory at best.

Plus, look at the Clintoon years. Fuck it all, they had some guy named Craig Livingstone running around the White House with access to sensitive FBI files, and the investigators never could get an answer as to who actually hired him. You'd think the crack MSM legion of super-duper journalists would want to find out the real story behind that, but no, they just shrugged and moved on to the next story about Newt's divorce.

So I'd say we pretty much know how this is going to play out.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 17, 2008 12:53 AM (XUV9W)

68 A lot of scandals end up being disappointments, because the chain stops a lot shorter than you think it will.

And yet, the left is still trying to hang me for Abu Ghraib.

Merry Fitzmas, assholes.

Posted by: Dick F'n Cheney at December 17, 2008 09:26 AM (ATBwB)

69 Gotta wonder how many reporters would have been dispatched to cover the crime against humanity if Rev. Wright's church had been torched.

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