Yup, she sure is Bible-readin’ Sunday-go-to-meetin’ Just Plain Folks!

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Well, meepmeep09, this:

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Suggests that he may have come down with a case of acute hurt feelings.

For the most part, he was over-wrought, and had convinced himself that PB 1.0 needed to apologize for their role in the 2008 Primaries, or… something.

He also was in the habit of heavily moderating comments, deleting anything he didn’t agree with. Why PB 2.0 doesn’t feel the need to participate in open debate and discussion is beyond me.

@AltHippo,

Heh, thanks, you clearly are more familiar with the blogger than I am.

Um, what’s ‘PB’? {/clueless}

Actually, it’s a long story. But, I’ll try to summarize.

After the Dem primaries, Lambert attempted to form PB 2.0 (short for Progressive Blogosphere 2.0). The theory was that PB 1.0, particularly Kos and Open Left, but marginally including FDL, Digby, Atrios, etc., had become so thoroughly corrupted by their role in labeling WJC and HRC racists that they were essentially permanently defiled.

PB 2.0 would be composed entirely of PUMAs, and demi-PUMAs (Cannon, Lambert, and BTD). Because, I suppose, they were the only ones who retained a true progressive vision.  By coincidence, they didn’t like B0 very much.

Thanks!  Didn’t intend for you to do all that typing, but it’s muchly appreciated.

Shoulda known Lambert the Pure was involved in all this somehow.

AltHippo - great summarization.  Don’t think anyone could have put it better!

Re: Joe Cannon, I’ll add what I posted in the Rumper Room:

As Joe wrote on his blog, it ain’t our business and he doesn’t owe anyone an explanation…even though a lot of us are very concerned.

And as the passing of Jon Swift reminded us this week, Reality still trumps the Virtual World every time. All of us at Rumproast just hope that this is a matter of Joe imposing demands and conditions on Life, and not the other way around.

Joe stood up for us on at least one important score, for which he has my personal thanks.

As for his routine gig as an Obama/Obot antagonist, you have to admit Rumproast would only be half as much fun without people like that.

As bloggers, we fight. As humans, we pray even for those we disagree with.

Sarah’s getting it but good in the comments at the NYP, so I heartily recommend Strange’s link.

As for Mr. Cannon, he was good enough not only to call BS on a particularly scurrilous bit of business that affected me personally, but to provide a forum in his comment section.

So, he has my gratitude for that, and good wishes for whatever is going on in his personal life.

The NY Post now says Sarah donated her swag to Haiti…although there are no details on how this transaction was executed.

I’m sure the Haitians will appreciate the facewash and the 40 sets of earphones but the details on how Bristol’s haircut was donated would have been fascinating.

How this was arranged is baffling

I’m baffled too.  I’m aware of the axiom that the richer you are, the more discounts you get and that invitees to events like the Oscars are generously rewarded with loot-bags for their achievements in, I presume, getting invited.

But how does this swag suite situation work?  You can get Oscar loot without even showing up at the Oscars?  If it’s for the Oscars, how’d she get in?  And given how presumably blasé the presenters of these gifts must feel towards their free-loading clientele by now, how piggy did she have to be to startle even them?

She’d ply a nickel out of her dead mother’s hand.