Bonnie Erbe Got Paid to Write This

Bonnie Erbe seems intent lately on challenging that dumb bastard Andrew Malcolm for the title of The Absolute Worst Professional Poliblogger in the World®.  In recognition of her efforts we’re going to start an ongoing series titled “Bonnie Erbe Got Paid to Write This.” Here’s the first installment:

I would like to add, however, that one reason President Obama slid into office was due to his incredibly lucky timing: Anyone but Bush was going to win the ‘08 presidential elections.

If President Bush had not mangled his job for eight years, and if the country had not finally awoken to that fact, President Obama would not have been able to win office. As a result, any coattail effect President Obama produces is dependent on anti-Bush sentiment. American voters have very short memories. President Bush has been out of office for almost one year (and if you recall, President-elect Obama started acting like the president even before he took the oath of office, again due to anti-Bush sentiment).

That said, with anti-Bush sentiment waning, President Obama’s coattails are frayed and weak.

THE END.

That concludes today’s edition of “Bonnie Erbe Got Paid to Write This.”

Posted by Kevin K. on 11/03/09 at 09:14 AM • Permalink

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Anyone but Bush was going to win the ‘08 presidential elections.

My.

Can’t really argue with that!

Hell, Bush sucked so bad McCain would probably have beaten Hillary by less than 5 million votes.

Really, he was that toxic for the GOP brand.

Thank God Bonnie has her finger on the pulse of shit that happened late last year. I can’t wait to read her next year, so I can find out what’s happening now.

Be sure and relive the magic with the HBO documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama screening tonight.  Word is, have a box of tissues handy.

I hope Bonnie liveblogs it.

Oh, and Amy?

Thanks for bringing up W for us.

Really.

Any time you use your pulpit to remind people he was ever president, you buy Obama more good will from a relieved nation.

Sorry, Bonnie.  Not Amy.

I get the various heads of the hydra confused at times.

@Allan—I hear Obama’s going to run on a platform of “Hope & Change.”

If that’s true, I think I may develop a full-on Hillary-hating, White-Guilt-absolving, Kool-Aid-engorged chub.

If you ask me, he’s the fucking New Messiah.

with anti-Bush sentiment waning

Right, Bonnie:

a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds just 20 percent blaming Obama’s policies for current economic conditions, compared to 63 percent who say this is a situation Obama has inherited.

Comment by Steve M. on 11/03/09 at 11:11 AM

I just left a comment that probably won’t make it through the filter, calling her the Harriet Christian of columnists and suggesting that she just go ahead and call the president an inadequate black male.

It made it through, O, as did mine pointing out that even if Obama is the 2nd coming of FDR sans internment camps, Erbe will never give him an ounce a credit because he’s not HILLARY!

Credit where it’s due: Whomever operates the mod button over there has a light touch. Meanwhile, I have sworn off HuffPo forever because of their wildly inconsistent mod policies. I’ve been kicked out of classier joints than that.

And yes, the idea that somebody paid Erbe for this tripe feeds into my ongoing internal conflict about the death of traditional news media. On the one hand, a lot of good people have been losing work. On the other, Erbe being put out to pasture (or to her own fact-free-screed zone on Wordpress) would be a good thing.

Speaking of frayed and weak…

I wish you wouldn’t remind me people get paid to squat over a keyboard, strain a bit and publish the result of the turds hitting the keys.

HTP, you just made me simultaneously feel a little bit ill and have an epiphany about rightwing bloggers. That’s confusing.

One reason it’s infinitely more fun over here than at Shakesville: I can say FUCK BONNIE ERBE! here without being told that I’m triggering people, violating safe space, etc., etc.

So again: FUCK BONNIE ERBE!

Can’t wait for the next PBS fundraising letter, so I can inform them exactly why I won’t be giving another dime as long as this disgraceful woman has a platform there. Let her join her cretinous brethren at Fox. (I never thought U.S. News and World Report was any great shakes—definitely the worst of the major weekly newsmagazines, and since none of them have much to recommend them, that’s pretty shabby.)

Also, FUCK BILL KRISTOL! You betcha.

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