And, now for a little levity - Olbermann swipes at the Focus on the Family

[Clark2008]

Schneeberger observes that I’ve “devoted six pages on (my) Web site - over two days - to savaging the men and women who sent more than 30,000 e-mails through our CitizenLink Action Center.” We’ll skip the incongruity of pages in a blog and focus on that 30,000 number. Schneeberger does not state this (it would be inconvenient) but that number is clearly a total of emails generated to me and the four other reporters targeted. That would be an average of about 6,000 apiece, and now I feel left out, because the actual number received here is less than 2,000, and that includes 10%-20% blanks and 5-10% letters supporting our coverage and denouncing “Focus On The Family” as, in the words of one correspondent, “the American Taliban.”

Still, let’s give ‘em that 6,000 figure they claim. That’s embarrassingly small for an email generating device, especially over the course of five days. Most of my blog entries induce about 1,000 hand-crafted emails, and during the post-election period the responses ran closer to 5,000 per day. If you’re setting up a spam campaign and providing people with everything up to and including cut-and-pastes to stick inside the message generator, and you can’t do better than 1,200 a day, you should give up and open a 7-11 somewhere.

I might add before I’m accused of trying to answer philosophy with addition, that Mr. Schneeberger’s piece claims the spam campaign was a success because of the “1,674 words he’s spent addressing the subject on his Web site this week.” If we’re going to calculate and reward who’s bigger, sir, you’re going to lose.

Having failed math, Mr. Schneeberger now tries extra-sensory perception.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6844293/#050129a

[MnFats]

1. That's pretty sweet. Of course, now....

...Dobson will add him to the public figures who "hate God" and "hate God's people."
It's OK. He'll be in good company -- people who don't actually hate God but have been designated so by Dobson, a loon if ever there was one.

[wellstone dem]

4. I can't believe it

someone with "mn" in his name denigrating the Minnesota State Bird, the loon.

[hfojvt]

8. I thought the unofficial (or real) Minnesota state bird

is the mosquito.
Yes, I know that "bats are not bugs."

[Dr.Phool]

2. I liked the part

where he said they don't want to believe their own lousy parenting is at fault. Not the schools, or tv.

[BR_Parkway]

3. C.R.A.C.K.P.O.T - my new word for the fundies - from a little further

down in the blog:

—MSNBC.com columnist Michael Ventre, who called Christians

"creepy, rigid, arrogant, cruel, know-it-all, pompous, obnoxious and treacherous
-- better know by the acronym CRACKPOT."

He added: "They are giving Jesus Christ a bad name."

It sums them up and I'm going to use it from now on.

[Clark2008]

5. Beautiful

MSNBC has moments of lucid insight - too bad they also have Scarborough and Fineman to mess it all up for them.

[WillyT]

12. I'm Liking "American Taliban" A Whole Bunch !!!

Describes the Christo-Fascist, Neo-Con Death-Cult very well. Gonna start using it myself!

:bounce::kick::bounce:

[crispini]

6. What? An Olbermann thread with no floaty hearts?

Can't have that!

[Clark2008]

9. Heh!

Is he back on tonight?
I'll floatie heart him tons!

:loveya:

But, hey... right now I'm searching for Gary Schneeberger's e-mail address. I've got a doosy of a complaint to send that shithead. You should read what he said about Keith.

I don't have the link handy, just Google Schneeberger Focus on the Family and you should find it. Besides, I really don't want to post a link to that trash here.

[crispini]

11. Urgh.

Just read it. If you find his email add'y, post it here. I'd like to charbroil him.

[bettyellen]

7. Hey Ladies... is there going to be a thread tonight?

I promise not to post while intoxicated for at least another month. No more dancing on tables or Ann Coulter pinatas.
Just some of these.
:loveya:

[crispini]

10. Of course! Here, or in Election Results -- dunno which.

Should we move tonight, or announce tonight and move tomorrow?

[Miami Liberal]

13. kick

:loveya: