Kausfiles: A mostly political weblog.

@kausfiles--Does the Right Resent Glenn Beck?

Amplified and edited entries from the kausmickey Twitter feed. ... Just don't call them "curated."

My friends on the Right don't like Glenn Beck either. In private, they say he's a careerist phony. about 15 hours ago

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I don't think the last line of this Andrew Sullivan post will make Bartlett's http://bit.ly/2EtsLJ12:17 AM Sep 11th  

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The 'M' Word! "Did that clerk just call you 'ma'am'?" Subtle anti-Boxer shot in Mitsubishi Lancer ad before KCAL scandal report video? http://bit.ly/hcwa6 1:44 PM Sep 9th  

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Is Tom Wilson--who produced Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" et al--wildly undersung or did he just preside and not do that much? 3:52 AM Sep 9th

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Poor L.A., off in its own little corner of Chris Wilson's News Dots news map. http://bit.ly/d2reS That's sure how it feels to us out here! 11:13 AM Sep 8th

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Even Van Jones' friend Arianna says, after talking to him and presumably getting his side of the story, that "it was stupid of Van to put his name on a very stupid '9/11 Truth Statement.' " 1:06 AM Sep 8th     

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Note to Slate ad corps: Wouldn't a 3 sec. ad that made you like H-P be better than a 10-15 sec. screen-hog ad that made you hate H-P? 11:29 PM Sep 7th     

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Got new ish of Automobile. Have a) glossy car mags gotten dull, or b) do opinionated blogs like Truth About Cars just make them seem dull? It's not only (b)! When these magazines get desperate for ad dollars, as they are now, they become scared to exist. ... 10:10 PM Sep 7th

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How Slow Was It?

Slow enough for the following selected entries from the kausmickey Twitter feed. 

Local powrhouse KCRW debuts 'rethought'' music channel. I was skeptical, but so far it's good. http://bit.ly/18jnm Not yuppie sludge! Yet. ... Ghst of Nic Harcourt almst exorcised. 

Does NYT not know what a Truther is? http://bit.ly/YRqbN Or did they ... deliberately allow an error as a pretext for war with Glenn Beck? about 22 hours ago

 

What you'd expect when Joe Klein and Laura Ingraham run into each other. http://tinyurl.com/kwdbtu 3:04 AM Sep 6th

 

Joe Hicks: A level-headed ex-Commie conservative. But shorter please! Says don't worry abt Obama school speech, worry abt 50 new civ rights attys http://tinyurl.com/lup37h 1:01 AM Sep 6th    

Did anyone sign both the Truther petition and the Birther petition?2:27 PM Sep 4th

"Why not just delete every other Orszag-bashing item?"-ed. How do you know I don't? http://tinyurl.com/mfa4og 1:46 PM Sep 1st

EJ Dionne, "How Obama Can Win On Health Care" http://tinyurl.com/lu8y3s Now I'm really depressed! What's the plan to un-scare the elderly?11:37 PM Aug 30th

Just accidentally put on my jeans inside out. Looked v-ironic. Why isn't that a fashion trend in Brooklyn? Or did I miss it?4:26 PM Aug 30th

Slow news day on MSN: "Test your tomato IQ"3:32 PM Aug 27th

October is the new September.1:04 PM Aug 27th

Pseudoheads Unite! http://tinyurl.com/l8quac Why do I think this will turn out badly for us in the oppressed Sudafed-using community?1:26 PM Aug 25th     

Some entries augmented in order to make the actual point.  ...10:52 P.M.

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kf is Behind!

kf is falling behind its self-imposed 15-items-per-week quota. ... Time to play catch-up!** ...

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Everyone hates the teachers' unions now. ... 5:42 P.M.

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I thought tomorrow was the ideal day to bury embarrassing news: "It was killed in Washington."   5:44 P.M.

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Fear of karmic retribution prevents me from quoting the unfortunately very funny part of this Pareene post. ... Update: Gore Vidal showed up yesterday at the Nixon library. So there. ... 5:45 P.M.

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Creepiest kicker of the week? Year? ....5:50 P.M.

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Jennifer Rubin spots K-Street Make-Work ... on her side of the cap-and-trade issue. ... P.S.: My old boss Charles Peters would say this scare-your-client/save your client theater is a form of  "Washington Make-Believe"--and that, in Washington, "Make-Believe = Survival." ... I mean, imagine you're the poor lobbyist hired to fight "cap and trade" on behalf of industry. You've accidentally won, only 6 months into the administration. But you still have kids to put through college. What to do? ... 6:11 P.M.

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**-- If I start posting items from my twitter feeed you'll know things are really desperate. ...

Palin Had a Point. ... Plus More Twitter-like Substance.

Lehanism's Biggest Failure? Here's a thought: What if Obama said, to the health care protesters and worried seniors, "I understand your concerns" instead of letting his press secretary and party allies sneer at them (for being "well-dressed" or thugs or dupes who don't know "the facts," etc.)? Isn't that more the Obama Way, as opposed to the Lehanist "fight club" way?  Obama might even  fire Orszag order up a few changes in the proposed legislation to alleviate some of the seniors' worries. ... P.S.: We can always control long term costs in the long term--i.e. later--just as Orszag's curve-bending schemes, even if they pass intact, could always be repealed by a new Congress and President. These are all things that will happen at least ten years from now! They aren't worth blowing universal health care over. ... P.P.S.: Hillary Clinton's plan, if I recall, did not make the mistake of making a big deal of long-term medical cost control. Maybe if she were still in the Senate she'd be making that point. ...

Backfill: Marc Ambinder may want some of his twitters back one day. ... 10:32 P.M.

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Change in Blog Dress Code: Effective immediately, readers are requested not to read kausfiles in a suit. We are trying for a more artistic atmosphere. This ban also applies to the fancier kind of pajamas--you know, the ones with the piping. Thank you for your cooperation. 10:16 P.M.

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Sarah Palin had a point!  [via JTlol] 1:30 A..M.

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Chuck Lane: House health bill's free end-care "consultations"--not so innocent! A subsidized and scripted "nudge" toward a DNR order from a white-coated authority figure. ... 1:28 A.M.

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WaPo: "[B]arely one-third of seniors support a health-care overhaul, several polls found." Why? They like Medicare as it is, they're scared of Obama's changes, and Obama has conspicuously failed to reassure them. ... But the Post's Ceci Connolly seems (at least at one point) to assume, Beltway-style, that seniors' fears must be due to the $563 billion in Medicare savings over the next decade, as opposed to Orszagist curve-bending after that. ...

P.S: Connolly reports the White House is considering "reaching out to skeptical seniors" through a ''myth-busting' Web site." That'll do it! Game over! ... Even assuming a web site could have a big impact, "myth-busting" sites don't tamp down paranoia,in my experience. They stoke it. If an answer is only 85% satisfying, the other 15% suddenly seems very significant. Take Obama's recent attempt to reassure Karen Tumulty on the "rationing" question:

[T]his is my point, I think that there's this perception that you either have rationing that is very stringent and sort of makes you wait for months before you can get your cancer treated or you can never get your knee replaced, right, all the horror stories you hear from the British model or the Canadian system that people who are opposed to reform always trot out. Or, alternatively, you just have this bloated system in which we don't even try to make it rational, we just sort of live with what we have. And what I'm trying to suggest is, is that there's this huge space in between where we could make the system much more efficient, much more cost-effective, make people much healthier, and still not have to resort to some of the rationing that people are fearful of. ..

So we don't go all the way to Britain. We go halfway to Britain! ... Obama can't bring himself to say we won't ration. But we won't resort to "some" of the rationing. ... Reassuring! ... 1:26 A.M.

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For @jayrosen_nyu: What was so bad about the L.A. Times' "wikitorial"? How was it "arrogant"?  My impression is they shut it down because they got hacked, not because it wasn't a potentially interesting experiment. ... Update: Rosen's response. ... Who's arrogant again? ...

P.S.: Actual kf Twitter feed is here. ...1:25 A.M.

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@kausfiles--Twitter Workaround Edition

Friday, August 7, 2009

Twitter seems to be down. That doesn't stop the All-Platform Journalist! Here's what I would have posted:

Friday afternoon shocker!  http://tinyurl.com/ks7f7g 4:44 P..M.

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Lloyd! Before you let them call Lou Dobbs "immigrant-hating" in your intro you should maybe come up with at least one (1) example of Dobbs hating immigrants. Don't let The Beast turn you into a cliche ball of lib elite prejudices! ... 1:47 P.M.

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A good campaign song for practically any Democrat. Ignore lame intro. ... 1:46 P.M.

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Not my finest two minutes on Bloggingheads. ... I guess the short answer I couldn't come up with is that our system is biased against change. It's easier to block something by populist demonizing than it is to enact something by populist demonizing. ...Plus, at this point, the "demons" voters are most scared of are not insurance companies but Obama's own oh-so-rational cost-cutters. ... 1:45 P..M

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@kausfiles #2

Last week's twitters today at kf:  

Next CW: Is delay so bad for health reform? Economy recovers. Obama, Dems get more popular. Pass health care then (2010).4:37 PM Jul 30th from TweetDeck 

Dutch welfare state breeds Smart-tipping hooligans http://tinyurl.com/nz5do 23:07 PM Jul 30th from TweetDeck

Patterico thinks he can make out what Gates is saying on that 911 tape. http://tinyurl.com/lsggqq 6:29 PM Jul 27th from TweetDeck

Cong. misses pre-recess health reform deadline. Does anyone seriously think there'll be a vote when they get back in Sept? Didn't think so 2:30 AM Jul 26th from web

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@kausfiles

Last week's twitters today at kf:  

A national conversation on race! The NPR pledge drive of American politics.4:36 PM Jul 24th from TweetDeck     

Does your doctor order up unnecessary tests? I have to pry them out of mine.12:03 AM Jul 24th from TweetDeck     

Just realized that pedestrians should always go around intersections counterclockwise. Otherwise left-turners get you. You're welcome.3:03 AM Jul 23rd from web    

Kevin Drum's health care pitch better than Obama's. http://tiny.cc/RsqRg Hire Drum. Let Favreau date starlets.6:29 PM Jul 21st from web    

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