McCain’s blogger rips bloggers ’sitting in mother’s basement, ranting into the ether.’
McCain’s blogger rips bloggers ’sitting in mother’s basement, ranting into the ether.’
Yesterday, the New York Times’ editorial board blog, The Board, wrote a post criticizing a McCain campaign ad. McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb — who writes and edits the campaign’s blog — ripped into the Times, comparing the editors to “the average Daily Kos diarist” “ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons”:
But in their new role as bloggers, the paper’s editors seem to have all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons.
Goldfarb claimed that the fact the editors posted the critique on the blog rather than in the paper “indicates that they either knew the charge was bogus or they didn’t have the nerve to make their case in full view of the public.” The idea that blogs are the proper place for “bogus” charges that can’t stand up to public scrutiny perhaps explains a lot about Goldfarb’s own work.
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And the Lord sent his only fried cheese stick to save liberal bloggers. Only the Jesus Cheeto ended up in a conservative blogger's lap. Sure, this would usher in more God inspired wealth, the Freeper put the holy snack on E-Bay.
The word of the Prosperity Gospel...
August 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pmyes but are they wearing underwear and eating Jesus shaped cheetos?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pmShit. #1 got there first!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:30 pmMichael Goldfarb wrote this where... in his mom's basement?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:31 pmMost bloggers I run into are more well informed - and balanced - than the villagers and the beltway asshats.
Blogging is scaring the life out of those who dismissed this idea of 'independant' news sources - separate from the MSM. Theie feifdoms are starting to crumble - and their lazy, stenographic note taking is becoming more obvious, even to those who don't know what a blog is.
Blog on folks. We are making a difference.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:32 pmWith the E-bay proceeds, the Freeper will be able to purchase clean underwear. Halleleujah! Praise the Jesus Cheeto!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:33 pmHow come it's never in father's basement?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pmProject much, o Exalted Master of the Raven Horde...?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:36 pmDad lives in his girlfriend's mother's trailer. There is no basement. He also drinks Natty Light and his F-150 needs new struts...
August 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pmI'm just curious. Can I see a show of hands?
How many of you are currently sitting in your mother's basement?
How many of you just got done playing D&D (or are about to)?
How many of you are eating Cheetos?
How many of you are sitting in your underwear (and only your underwear?)
August 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
How many of you are eating Cheetos?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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Does Pirate's Booty count as Cheetos? It's somewhat Cheeto-like.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:40 pmNope, nope, nope, nope. But I did surf the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, the BBC, WaPo, NUT, Bloomberg, Chevron's second quarter earnings, and the Jesus Cheeto.
It turns out the owner won't part with the divine cheese treat. But Jesus is going to jail, a bank safe deposit box. How can he save liberal bloggers when he's locked in the dark?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:41 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I’m just curious. Can I see a show of hands?
How many of you are currently sitting in your mother’s basement?
How many of you just got done playing D&D (or are about to)?
How many of you are eating Cheetos?
How many of you are sitting in your underwear (and only your underwear?)
For me, none of the above.
I am fully clothed, sitting in a very nice office, sipping my coffee, and doing my work - which does not involve playing an obsolete computer game.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pmI guess there is only relevant blogging information when it comes from a NeoCon Repug's Mom's basement, huh?
I used the 'Internet tubes' and blogs after 9/11 to find out REAL information and have quit listening to any Network news (unless I want to get a few laughs and tears of rage).
I find BBC online quite informative, among others.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pmMissMolly - for the record:
My mom lives in another country
I've never played D&D
I don't eat Cheetos (it's chips & salsa for me!)
I don't have a basement
I'm fully clothed....at the moment anyway
So who are they describing again?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:47 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I’m just curious. Can I see a show of hands?
How many of you are currently sitting in your mother’s basement?
How many of you just got done playing D&D (or are about to)?
How many of you are eating Cheetos?
How many of you are sitting in your underwear (and only your underwear?)
My mom lives in a retirement home. No basement, doggone it. I've never played D&D, although I have played Duke Nukem. I don't like Cheetos, but I do like Cheez-It White Cheddar crackers. Hmmm. Maybe I should go get some at the store.
I am, I confess, sitting in a t-shirt and jammy pants, having taken the day off to, well, sit around in a t-shirt and jammy pants.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pmMccain's staff are so very desperate, knowing that their man can't even get an intelligent sentence out. They are really reaching. And what's with the racist card, Obama doesn't look like any President on our currancy. Why is it so hard to say out loud, He is Black so what ? He is miles above mccain or any republican in intelligence. Just the fact that he actually listens to experienced people to obtain his ideas is refreshing to me after 8 years of stupid.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:49 pmUhmmm how does mccain's staff know whether bloggers are wearing clothes or not ? Could someone pass the cheetos ?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pmNot me, MissMolly. I'm at home, in a tank top and shorts, eating a bowl of Total.
What can I say? Too many calories in Cheetos.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:52 pmtexaslady - sorry no cheetos here but here, taste this delicious homemade salsa!
August 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pmA blog is not public? Well hell, maybe I wil say something really nasty about McCorroded.
No basement here, and no Cheetos. Last time I ate Cheetos the crown of thorns tore up my upper palate something nasty.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pmThanks, hussein toasterhead, stateofthedivision, and StratRat -- it appears finding an example of this stereotype is harder than I thought. Perhaps if our trolls chime in?
I am also fully clothed, and posting from work (which explains why I go long periods of time between posts - I have actual work to do). I can't play any kind of games here, but I did have microwaved Hormel Chili and a small bag of Doritos for lunch -- does that count?
I am amused by attempts to put down bloggers as a monolithic group. We are as diverse as any other collection of people on this planet. There are some of us who are nothing but idiotic sock puppets, capable only of parroting tired sound bites -- and doing it with a poor command of the English language besides. There are also those of us who are amazingly eloquent, who do their homework, who aren't afraid to point out that the emperor is buck nekkid, and who skewer propaganda with intelligent questions and point out absurdities with surgical skill. And the rest of us fall all over the scale in between those two points.
The fact that an actual blogger made this ridiculous comment is ironic. And what makes him think that blogs aren't in full view?
August 1st, 2008 at 2:53 pmMOM! MOM!
I'm out of cheezy poofs dammit!
Get me more cheezy poofs!
And, turn on the dehumidfier on your way back upstairs, it's damp in the basement and it bothers my sinus.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pmActually, I am a small business owner, well dressed and conducting business as professionally as I know how. Oddly many of my customers are republican. I take a sick and vicarious delight when it comes billing time.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pmmary does the salsa have peppers in it ? Watching out for that salmanella you know. If homegrown pass it over.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pmMaybe OT, but I really wonder if we will find the polls even more off target in actual counts in November because so many of the 'blogging community' are moving away from land lines and listed numbers? Since it tends to be the more 'Progressive' folks that are working this way, maybe we will see that come November in larger than projected Dem votes.
I have not had a personal land line for over 3 years now, do all my work off my cell/Blackberry, my work line and the Internet.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
How many of you are currently sitting in your mother’s basement?
- - I'm actually crouched down behind a window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, surveying the street below, waiting for Cheney to come visit Dallas.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pmBadmoon,
Kinda creepy post, not in our best interests to have that one broadcast as a typical TP effort.
Just sayin'.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pmGeeze. Louise. What earthly difference does it make what bloggers wear or where their computer is stationed or what they eat between keystrokes? It is the quality of their thoughts and their comments that count. Methinks that McSourGrapes spokesperson Michael Goldfarb is projecting...
August 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pmHey! I resemble that remark!!!
Granted, I bought the house and it's called World of Warcraft now, but...
Makes me laugh at them even more!!!
August 1st, 2008 at 3:13 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says
August 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Geeze. Louise. What earthly difference does it make what bloggers wear or where their computer is stationed or what they eat between keystrokes? It is the quality of their thoughts and their comments that count. Methinks that McSourGrapes spokesperson Michael Goldfarb is projecting…
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Exactly. I love reading different points of view thoughtfully presented, and I really don't care what the poster is wearing, eating, or where he/she is sitting. I figure if their keyboard is covered with orange greasy dust, it's their problem.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:13 pmtexaslady, four different kinds of peppers! But, don't worry, the jalapenos are from my garden! Would you like a cold beer to go with that?
RE: stereotyping bloggers, does anyone recall hearing or reading about people who write letters 'to the editor' being slammed? I know that people have looked at me a bit funny when I've admitted writing to the newspaper on occasion. Not sure why that is exactly.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pmMe thinks that McCain's blogger doth project too much
August 1st, 2008 at 3:21 pmPersonally I am grateful to this forum and several other sites that keep me informed and add to my interest in events past and present. daryl and his friends always provide a laugh at his/her tunnel vision.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:21 pmmisshusseinmolly
Parents are dead, I don't have a basement, and my computer is upstairs, I've never played D&D and don't eat cheetos.
And, I am not sitting in my underware blogging, I'm naked!!
August 1st, 2008 at 3:22 pmThis thread provided the inspiration to act on this morning's idea, a Gospel-like take off on the Divine Cheeto. Should anyone want to peruse my offering for inclusion in the Bible 3000, to be assembled at the Council of Shanghai in 2992, click on the link below:
http://arisfreedomswitch.blogspot.com/2008/08/freedom-to-record-spiritual-events-for.html
August 1st, 2008 at 3:23 pmOne really has to wonder about the McCain campaign. It's like they are determined to lose. McCain is thinking that the press isn't giving him enough positive attention, so what does he do? Why he insults the press every chance he gets. Now that's a good strategy if I have ever heard one!
August 1st, 2008 at 3:23 pmmary it is twelve o'clock somewhere, pass the margaritas !
August 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pmI happen to be wearing my ACU with my M9 Beretta snug but accessible in my cross-draw vest whilst popping the tab on a cold Budweiser with the tip of my tactical-black Ka-Bar Tanto, on the second floor of an apartment building whilst I consider either a +10 charisma upgrade or a healing charm---dammit!
August 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pmGood thing blogs aren't public!
At least we know daryl won't join in on this thread, with all the talk of alcohol and shhhhhh (nakedness) OMG !
August 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pmI e-mailed to our one paper today with DOL's numbers after yesterday the paper assured this community that the economy is just wonderful and the unemployment numbers haven't gone up. Can you tell what political persuasion this editor is ? Bet they read one line and hit the delete button. Well I do have to admit we have help wanted signs but we are talking fast food and dry cleaner jobs.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:29 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I’m just curious. Can I see a show of hands?
How many of you are currently sitting in your mother’s basement?
How many of you just got done playing D&D (or are about to)?
How many of you are eating Cheetos?
How many of you are sitting in your underwear (and only your underwear?)
Nope, I'm at work. Wouldn't want to spend time in my mother's basement, only because she's a born again Catholic Republican. There's only so much I can take.
Hell, I'm still uneducated on Guitar Hero, and my 6 year old son beats the living snot out of me SnowBoarding for the Game Cube. You think I could manage D & D? yah, me neither.
My kids love Cheezie puffs, I don't.
Right now, I'm in business casual, but it if it helps, I've imagined ya'll in your undies.
Oh, and I've never inhaled ether, but I do remember in school sniffing exam papers that were freshly printed (yeah, I'm sadistic).
On a more serious note, I do find this ironic, because that's my usual attack on trolls here, especially when they get childish.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:32 pmSaint Augustine Says
August 1st, 2008 at 3:22 pm
And, I am not sitting in my underware blogging, I’m naked!!
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LOL -- I'm glad you don't have a webcam...
August 1st, 2008 at 3:36 pmMichael Goldfarb, presidential candidate John McCain's official blogger admitted today that he works mostly from his mother's basement, dressed only in orange food-dye stained underpants.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:40 pmDoes Goldflab really think people could sit buck naked in a computer chair all day?
August 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pmI don't know many people who do.
tony andlido
Nah... I'm on the pavement, thinkin' 'bout the Government.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:44 pmDRxJ Says:
On a more serious note, I do find this ironic, because that’s my usual attack on trolls here, especially when they get childish.
It makes you wonder, doesn't it, whether the wingnuts have been reading these comments for a year or two? My original contention was that Mr Pee was amped up on Doritos and Red Bull, but I'm willing to go with Cheetos. The whole "basement in his underwear" thing, though, is creepily familiar.
If they start talking about p!ss-soaked bloggers, Zooey will have to sue.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:47 pmVectoring of messages? This week we had numerous talking points pushed from a wide range of groups. They include:
1. The fiction over offshore oil drilling and its impact on gas prices
2. America's crumbling infrastructure and the need for "public private partnerships", including private equity. However, the referenced declining toll concessions means the government has to give the privates a better deal.
3. The troll smear, intended to create a storm surge that takes out thoughtful independent bloggers
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Keep your eyes open!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pmhey...what's the matter with dungeons & dragons???
:)
August 1st, 2008 at 4:27 pmI must confess, its not a big deal, but it is a lot cooler!!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:43 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I’m just curious. Can I see a show of hands?
How many of you are currently sitting in your mother’s basement?
How many of you just got done playing D&D (or are about to)?
How many of you are eating Cheetos?
How many of you are sitting in your underwear (and only your underwear?)
I'm on the second floor in my study. My house -- which does not belong to my mother -- doesn't have a basement.
D&D is old school... I prefer PS3, PSP, and Wii nowadays. I'll even be nice and not challenge McCain to Wii Sports, since it requires moving your arms all around.
I don't like Cheetos, but I have been known to eat sushi at my computer.
And I am fully dressed, and with underwear this time!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:55 pmPlease let us beat this Ahole in a landslide!
August 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pmTest...
August 1st, 2008 at 7:27 pmMichael Goldfarb loves Israel! He is not loyal to this country.
August 1st, 2008 at 8:26 pmMcCain’s blogger rips bloggers ’sitting in mother’s basement, ranting into the ether.’
Well, John, it beats sitting on your rich wife's lap, ranting into the ether.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 pmTime for someone to step up and defend Dungeons & Dragons and most of its player base (numbering more than three million worldwide, thankyouverymuch).
I've enjoyed tabletop role-playing games (as opposed to their more recent online descendants like World of Warcraft) for more than 30 years. I've also managed to hold down a successful career, serve seven years in the U.S. Army, earn a Masters' Degree and survive a 10-year marriage.
And I am far from alone.
In my time, for every gamer I've met who comes close to fitting the nasty and ill-informed stereotyping, there've been a dozen or more who are just regular folks. Many of them, in fact, are conservatives. None that I know of (including myself) are dKos diarists.
Michael Goldfarb, your comments earn a FAIL.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pmD&D'ers unite against tyranny!
Join the POD&DC!
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 am