Bye Bye Judd!
Bye Bye Judd!
ThinkProgress would like to bid a fond farewell to our dear friend, mentor, and editor, Judd Legum. Judd has accepted a position to become the research director for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. (Some of our savvy readers have already picked up on this.)
Judd founded ThinkProgress two years ago and served as its guiding force. He aimed high and usually hit his mark. The quality of research you have seen (and will continue to see) on this site and the strong progressive community that visits ThinkProgress daily are a lasting testament to Judd’s success.
Please send your goodbye wishes to byebyejudd@gmail.com. He’d love to hear from you.
As a token of our appreciation, we’ve compiled some of our favorite blog posts authored by Judd over the years. Here’s a trip down memory lane:
42 Pages of Silly [link]
Thank You For Fighting For The Truth [link]
White House ‘Cuts And Runs’ on ‘Stay the Course’ [link]
A Challenge To Jonah Goldberg [link]
Michelle Malkin Unhinged [link]
Is John Hinderaker Nuts? [link]
Drudge’s Slime and Weave [link]
Buchanan Argues For Immigration Moratorium To Preserve White Dominance [link]Hastert Too Busy To Commemorate September 11 Until September 13 [link]
Inaugural Fundraising Fiasco (Judd’s first post) [link]
VIDEO: O’Reilly Attacks ThinkProgress As “Far Left Smear Website” That Published “Out-of-Context Garbage” About Tony Snow [link]
O’Reilly on ThinkProgress: ‘All Decent Americans Should Reject These Haters’ [link]
Kathleen Parker: If We Don’t Ignore Blogs, We’ll Die [link]
Think Digg [link]
FactCheck.org Needs A Head Check [link]
Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way [link]
The NeoCon Motto: Never Lose Faith In Someone Who Tells You What You Want To Hear [link]
Elton John Threatens Rick Santorum’s Marriage [link]
We’ll miss you Judd!
– Faiz, Nico, Amanda, and Payson
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thank you for everything, & i am proud of you.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:38 amim also impressed that hilary knows quality when she sees it.
Godspeed,Judd.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:40 amGood luck, but it’s a damn shame that HRC doesn’t believe in the netroots or in the Progressive movement. She’s a DLC democrat to her core, which is nothing better than Republican-lite.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:41 amAdios muchacho.
Enjoyed your work greatly.
-GSD
January 26th, 2007 at 10:41 amThanks Judd, but now you’re a shill too.
Screw fighting the good fight on the grass-roots level, he’s gotta go make some serious dough.
A big loss for TP, and the Center for American Progress.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:43 amWe’ll miss you Judd!
– Faiz, Nico, Amanda, and Payson
And we hope to see you alot more on the tube.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:43 amI’ve really enjoyed Judd’s posts, but I had no idea he was so cute!
Best of luck, Judd.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:46 amGood luck, Judd, and have fun.
You’re right, Princess Sparkle Pony, he’s damned cute. I had no idea….
January 26th, 2007 at 10:50 amGood luck, Judd!
January 26th, 2007 at 10:52 amwhose this Judd dude?
Kidding, of course.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:53 amGood Luck to ya, Judd, in your future endeavours!
HRC….nothing better than Republican-lite.
Comment by Proud Liberal
Just remember,especially on this thread dedicated to Judd,that ANYTHING is better than THIS Bozo currently occupying the White House.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:57 amLet’s just hope our nation survives to see someone else in that position.
Wait a minute……what about the solution to the troll problem? Maybe Judd’s the crazy-assed troll, and he needs to go spend more time with his family…..er, Hillary.
Yeah, it makes perfect sense…..
January 26th, 2007 at 10:58 amworking for Hillary… really? reeealy?!
damn :o/
January 26th, 2007 at 11:04 amThis means we can talk about 9/11?
Seriously, thank you, Judd for so much. Congratulations for the new job, but dont forget that justice must be first than politics. Hope you dont become another politician.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:05 amGood luck Judd…
January 26th, 2007 at 11:06 amThank you Judd,
I have found worlds of new and stimulating things here on TP.
Best of luck and congrats on the new position.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:08 amGood job on pumping out truth for the past 2 years… would have prefered you announcing your new job on the GORE campaign…. oh well…
January 26th, 2007 at 11:09 amGood luck Judd! Happy trails!
You did good work for the Center of American Progress. Let’s see you do more work towards the American Progress part.
We’ll miss you.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:09 am“Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once – the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.”
Go get ‘em.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:10 am“Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once – the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.â€
Oh man that sounds great. Yeah go get ‘em.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:13 amoooooh… (blushing) “savvy” ! … i’ll take it… thanks!
judd, thank you for all you’ve done to help get the TRUTH out!
between ThinkProgress and AirAmericaRadio, i am assured of getting the
REAL STORY and can pass that along with reliable sources…
about your being “cute” – from your picture that WAS posted under the ABOUT banner, you have aged well, very well indeed! … that pic was of such a young puppy and now there’s this handsome man shown in the pic above…
and, from the ABOUT banner, i see that FAIZ is due congratulations…
and so, CONGRATULATIONS to the new TP EDITOR, FAIZ!
GOOD WORK ALL OF YOU!
January 26th, 2007 at 11:14 amyou announcing your new job on the GORE campaign….
Comment by ggibson
No doubt-Gore/Judd ‘08
January 26th, 2007 at 11:14 amJuan C (#14), the Judd rules on 9/11 still stand.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:16 amThat explains why the Democratic support of supression of Habeas Corpus was not covered. Good riddance, Judd.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:23 amWe’ll miss you Judd! Thanks for all your efforts.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:24 amPsst – HRC doesn’t have to wait until she’s (maybe) prez to offer a healthcare bill for all.
Great work, man. You’ll be missed here!
January 26th, 2007 at 11:27 amJuan C (#14), the Judd rules on 9/11 still stand.
Comment by Faiz
Oy. Jumped right on that one, eh? :)
January 26th, 2007 at 11:29 amJudd, thanks for all you’ve done at TP. I hope your anti-impeachment stance changes, however. Let’s not forget the recent statement by Cheney that “decision by committee” isn’t workable. That happens to be part of Democracy. With everything else that this administration has done with their ripping the Constitution into pieces and their illegal behavior (i.e., spying on Americans without a warrant), they cannot be controlled by the political process and “pressure.”
#
HRC….nothing better than Republican-lite.
Comment by Proud Liberal
Just remember,especially on this thread dedicated to Judd,that ANYTHING is better than THIS Bozo currently occupying the White House.
Let’s just hope our nation survives to see someone else in that position.
Comment by [B!] — January 26, 2007 @ 10:57 am
Sorry, I don’t agree. This administration is the most dangerous ever to both the well-being of the American people and world peace. But it IS possible to have worse. Not saying HIllary is, by any stretch of the imagination, but she IS a politican FIRST. We need a true American patriot in the White House; someone like Russ Feingold. I’m sorry he’s decided against running.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:29 amit’s really too bad to see a bright young star of the progressive movement abandoning it for the greener pastures of DLC “centrism”
best wishes
January 26th, 2007 at 11:38 amYour work for progressive principles will bear fruit for years to come.
However, I am disappointed that you did not go to work for Dennis Kucinich, whose ideals and values are closer to yours.
Your new employer will not get my vote. Before the vote for the invasion and occupation/destruction of Iraq, I pledged to her that I would never vote for anyone who supported that damnable vote. I haven’t, and I won’t!
January 26th, 2007 at 11:40 amMay the White House Press Corps appreciate you on a daily basis in the future.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:56 amThere’s a good thread about the dying DLC on Dkos…
January 26th, 2007 at 11:57 amMaybe we just don’t understand Judd. Perhaps he’s going to Hillary as as a covert op to assist in the final collapse of the DLC…not
“But it IS possible to have worse.”. ….
Comment by impeachcheneythenbush
Maybe it is;but remember,he’s not done yet.
January 26th, 2007 at 11:58 amPlease man,you’re splitting hair.
Juan C (#14), the Judd rules on 9/11 still stand.
Comment by Faiz
I kind of suspected that.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:30 pmGood Luck, Judd, from the other side of the pond.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pmPeace and Blessings on your new path, Judd.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:43 pmThis proves this site is a DNC propaganda hack site. This site is nothing but Leftwing propaganda for thr Clinton/Soros machine. Ha ha thanks Judd for proving us on the Right, correct!
January 26th, 2007 at 12:44 pmWTF? blessings? good f. ridence. working for hillary is working for the criminal. folks this ought to tell you something.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:46 pmGood luck to you Judd, but tell Sen. Hillary Clinton that she better join the bandwagen against the Iraq Fiasco War, or activists like myself cannot support her run for the presidency. She must demand cutting off funding for Iraq occupation and call for all the troops to be removed back to US!
January 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pm37
bfd. you want what for your grand prize since judds departure to shillary confirmed your what, your assumptions were right? you speak as if there is no reichwing propaganda site? come on now
January 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pmCongratulations, Judd. Remember us little people when you’re working for President Hillary Rodham Clinton.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:57 pmbs,
January 26th, 2007 at 1:00 pmBetter the Reichwing, than the Stalinist-Left!
Judd, I send Blessings and good luck to you….Believe me, you are going to need them…Like other posters here I would of hoped you would join someone like Kuchenich, Obama, Finegold, Edwards or Gore. Oh well, good luck anyway…….Blessings
January 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pmJudd has been exposed as a Cliton hack! ha ha ha!
January 26th, 2007 at 1:12 pmNEWS FLASH:
Judd may have joined the wrong team.
Hillary’s Hollywood Friends Switch Sides
Steven Spielberg and David Geffen Invite Hundreds of Stars to Their Big Barack Obama Fundraiser
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2819848
GOOD ON THEM!
January 26th, 2007 at 1:14 pmJudd,
Congratulations and Best Wishes! This is a great site. You should be very proud.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:17 pmand if anyone remembers all the bashin of shillary on here they wouldn’t be in a hurry to congratulate him.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:19 pm49 to 45
January 26th, 2007 at 1:23 pmThe ideas that are being discredited are those of the “official†story.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire — January 26, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
I have a feeling this post will find the TP. memory hole.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:28 pmGreat news!
Hillary knows to pick the best.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:29 pmDamn,that was fast.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:30 pmBest of lucks, Judd!
See you on “the internets”…
January 26th, 2007 at 1:36 pmC’mon, guys.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:15 pmTake it easy on him.
If it wasn’t for Judd, you wouldn’t even have this forum.
Good luck to you, Judd. Hopefully we’ll still see you as a “Guest Blogger”
Good luck Judd. Hillary should be very happy to have you on her team.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pmComment by Briseadh na Faire — January 26, 2007 @ 1:17 pm
I have a feeling this post will find the TP. memory hole.
Comment by oceana — January 26, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
You were right.
Faiz, I leave you to the trolls. Bye all.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:04 pmI don’t exactly know what Judd’s new job responsiblities will entail. I assume part of his job duties will be researching Republican operatives.
I have a feeling Judd just may spending a little time in Switzerland investigating Republican Swiss bank accounts.
Gee, maybe Judd can play Robin Hood for a while. I’ll have my hand out for a few dollars. The check should be in the mail in a year or so. OH HAPPY DAY!
Good luck to Judd, and good luck to Hillary, too.
A million good lucks.
PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON SURE HAS A NICE RING TO IT.
OH HAPPY DAY!
John
January 26th, 2007 at 3:12 pmGood luck Judd. Thanks for the forum…..but Hillary……oh well. She is lucky to have you. Keep yourself true.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:34 pmBye Judd,
Here is a parting gift for you.
LIBERALS HATE TRUTH
Liberals never let facts get in the way of a good argument. That is just one of the undeniable truths of life that must be accepted by all conservatives. A recent posting on this web site from a chronic Bush hater called “bushisacrook†offers up W’s “resume†and accomplishments as president. Unfortunately this posting was full of lies and half truths, witch is the typical basis for a liberal arguments. It would take to much space to address them all individually,
GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
1. I attacked and took over two countries. Yes, this is what Bush did. Without being provoked, George Bush took it upon himself to attack and take over two countries….and we would like to apologize to Canada and Mexico.
2. I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 2-month period. I set the all-time record for the most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. Hey, did you hear? We’re bankrupt. I guess the Wall Street Journal missed that story, and for the record, the deficit, as a percentage of GDP, which is the only important measuring stick, is still lower than it’s been in decades. (It’s called Economics 101. Take it. Learn It. Live It.) It is an economic fact that George Bush inherited a U.S. economy that was stalling and beginning to tumble and had to deal with a world that was in a death spiral from Germany to Japan. Then 9/11 wreaked havoc on the the economic center of the universe….All in all, I’d say Bush has done a pretty good job protecting us from a Carter-like malaise.
3. In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history. After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history. Any third grader probably understands that a president, never has a vacation. Ever. All they do is move the headquarters for the running of the free world from one location to another. If you call having constant, 24 hour, security presence and daily briefings from everyone who works for you a vacation, then you’re right. ( What a bullshit complaint. I probably shouldn’t even have acknowledged it.)
4. In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history. See Economy 101. And for the record, in the last 8 months nearly 1.5 million new jobs have been created, thanks to Bush tax cuts and economic policy.
5. I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other president in US history. After Economics 101, check out Civics 102. Amending the constituion requires a super majority vote of both houses of congress, then ratification by the legislative branches of two thirds of the states. It’s a little harder than just a pen stroke.
6. I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Are you starting to understand why school vouchers are so important. Apparently the person who posted this was not alive when Jimmy Carter was president. I remember gas rationing and the “odd/even†method of being told what day you could buy gas. If Bush would have emptied the national oil reserves the day he took office, it would be making it to the pump right about now….but then again, you’d have to understand a little bit about how the oil industry works to get it.
7. I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. It’s good to be the king.
8. I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. Thank you. And would the jackasses who kept us in those outdated, irrelevant treaties please stand up.
9. I’ve made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. How do you know? I mean, wouldn’t the most secret and unaccountable presidency, still be a secret….and unaccountable?
10. I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. Again, the Wall Street Journal must be sleeping on the job to miss this one.
11. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any market in any country in the history of the world. No, that would be Bill Clinton. On two counts. The Enron and World Com debacles were at fever pitch under Clinton….and do you recall under which administration Ken Lay and all his ilk were exposed and prosecuted?…..
12. I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community. Okay take Economics first period, Civics second period and American History third period. We’ll leave the schedule open after lunch.
13. I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. The United Nations rendered itself irrelevant by failing to do what it said it would and then actively try to thwart enforcement of it’s own directives. By the way, you should also do some reading on the Oil For Food scandal that receives virtually no media attention in this country. The reason the U.N. fought against invading Iraq is because so many U.N. officials and world leaders were making so much money off Sadam being in power, to lose it would be unthinkable.
At this point I’m just tired. If there were at least some factual basis to the remaining claims made by this crazed Bush hater I might enjoy the debate, but when an argument is based on lies, ignorance and willful distortion…there is no debate. In fact, there is nothing worthy of debate, a point I prove with a final challenge.
Our visitor wrote; In a little over two years I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the civil war. This is from the same write who called Bush a liar, a crook, a drunk, a deserter, a murderer and a moron. Who’s dividing the country?
January 26th, 2007 at 4:15 pmAll the best Judd! Keep on fighting the good fight.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:24 pmMs. Doe,
Nice try! Nice try! Your defense of daddy fell a little short. A little????? A LOT!!!!!! Did you finally find your fancy purse/purses in Buenos Aires?
Jenna and Barbara, you have too much times on your hands. We know it’s you. Who else could it be?
I can count on my one hand the number of George’s friends. They’ve all deserted him? Slowly, his family will, too. You’ll be coming around soon.
Jenna and Barbara, serve your country and take your fancy purse/purses to Iraq.
GO TO ‘BAD DAD.’ Bad Dad, Iraq.
That’s what the both of you have. You both have a bad dad.
BAD DAD, IRAQ
BAD DAD, IRAQ
BAD DAD, IRAQ
BAD DAD, IRAQ
BAD DAD, IRAQ
BAD DAD, IRAQ
BAD DAD, IRAQ
Your dad may be bad, but you both have the chance to be good girls. Be good girls! Serve your country!
SURGE on down to your local enlistment office.
John
January 26th, 2007 at 4:47 pmGood luck to you, Judd. You will be welcomed back here after Hillary loses the primary. I won’t be voting for her and neither will most of the Democrats that I know.
January 26th, 2007 at 5:11 pmUh, so this guy claims to be a progressive and he’s going to work for Hillary Clinton? That does not compute. If you are REALLY “progressive” then you wouldn’t work for a triangulating war hound like Hillerah. So long sucka.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:28 pmWe all know Hillary is doomed, and will not receive one vote from anyone at this site, but let the poor man have his dream.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:35 pmEveryone needs to fall a couple of times before they can truly stand alone.
I like Hillary, and she is most definitely electable.
In November of 2008, even I could be elected as president. I have no credentials to be president just like George Bush didn’t have credentials in 2000. A lack of credentials didn’t stop George Bush, BUT IT WILL STOP ME. I know when I’m in over my head. George didn’t have a clue.
George Herbert Hoover Bush has been a disaster for the Republican Party. I didn’t used to like Texas; all of those blow-farts with big egos.
NOW, I LOVE TEXAS.
Texas, you had it coming from Enron to George Herbert Hoover Bush.
John
January 26th, 2007 at 11:17 pmGood luck Judd, I have really appreciated your work. Hillary, however, my complaints are slight. When she declared shortly after Obama’s declaring, and operatives said that that had nothing to do with it… It struck me as the same bald faced lieing that Bush does on a regular basis. And that is what people are so sick of. So anyway Judd good luck and good fortune. But please, if you have any influence, discourage the lies that a three year old wouldn’t buy. After Bush everyone is so sick of them.
January 27th, 2007 at 11:18 pm