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There is tension and turmoil in DUmmieland! I know, I know, you're saying, "So what else is new?" But the normal turmoil has spiraled out of control! SOMEBODY SHOOK UP THE ANTS!! They've been at each other's THROATS lately! It's the Obama-PelosiCare bill, of course, that has got them all shook up. The DUmmies have discovered that the devil is in the details, and the details are now becoming known. So the DUmmies have been taking it out on their fellow DEMOCRATS there on DEMOCRATIC Underground, in their usual vitriolic style. TA DA! Peace Piper Pitt rides to the...

The gasbag has landed! No, not the good ship Jiffy Pop. No, I'm talking about "Baloney Boy" Will Pitt. Mr. Pitt has just gotten back from his honeymoon! Our Little Willie is now a married man! WOOOO HOOOO!!!!! Congrats, Will! We here at DUmmie FUnnies are very happy for you and your bride, and we wish you all the best. I'm series. If I could, I would buy you a beer at Bukowski's and raise a toast in your honor. Li'l Beaver would give you a cigar. We may have our political differences--oh, kind of like the difference between...

This is a short but shocking DUFU edition today. William Rivers Pitt apparently opened up his Trust Fund checkbook and purchased his way into giving a speech at an Eleanor Roosevelt Awards Dinner held by Denver area Democrats. I could post his overlong boring speech which was my original intention but I just couldn't get over his voice. You can't hear him by clicking the pic above but if you go to TRUTHOUT, just scroll down to the video and click on it. If you had ever heard Pitt's voice before his throat started getting eaten away by the...

Our boy Pitt is BACK, in a big way! In recent weeks, the erstwhile Logorrheal One has gotten off his barstool at Bukowski's and hit the keyboard. The disgraced journalist-wannabe has been pumping out columns for truthoutthewindow, mostly puff pieces kissing the rear end of the Obambi Misadministration (and attacking conservatives, of course). Maybe Will the Shill, reliable party hack that he is, is looking for a paying job. Fuggedabout it, Will! That ship left the harbor on May 12, 2006, when you reported with full assurance that Karl Rove had been indicted. Well, even if it only wins...

It is May 12. Pied Piper Pitt Day! Let the bells ring out in joy! Gather up your family for the celebrations! Today we honor the man who on May 12, 2006, just 24 business hours ago, broke the big journalistic scoop that Karl Rove had already been indicted.It was shortly after this revelation and arrest of Rove that William Rivers Pitt became the toast of the journalism world. He quickly left Truthout behind to become a regular guest on MSNBC and a respected pundit published far and wide. He could often be spotted in Peter Luger's steakhouse holding...

It seems like William Rivers Pitt has forgotten his role in perpetrating one of the biggest journalistic frauds (Karl Rove "indictment scoop") of the 21st century. Having conveniently removed that episode from his memory banks, Pitt has now jumped back on his soapbox to lecture conservatives as you can see in his latest DUmmie THREAD, "Idiot Wind." You want some idiot wind, Pitt? Well, this edition of the DUmmie FUnnies is going to blow your own idiot wind right up your butt with your own words. Yes, every single reply will consist entirely of Pied Piper Pitt quotes so...

It's not Christmas, really, without a visit from that nimble little elf, Wee Willie Pitt. Pitt knows this, of course. He EXPECTS his DUmmieland faithful to be looking forward to such a visit, so the Unusually Reticent One feels compelled to post. (The Formerly Logorrheal One was so quiet this year that voting for him as one of the Top Ten DUmmies of 2008 was something akin to, as one person noted, Cal Ripken getting voted to the All-Star team when he was past his prime.) Pitt's missive is found in this THREAD, "This might be me picking a...

Wee Willie feels he must weigh in on the eve of this momentous occasion, since he is, after all, WILLIAM RIVERS PITT. Here is the Logorrheal One waxing inspirational, using many words to say nothing, in this THREAD, simply and solemnly titled, "Tomorrow...". And the Pied Piper's eloquence moves his DUmmieland sycophants to tears! So let us gather round the Sage of Bukowski's and soak up his wisdom, in Bolshevik Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, reminding you DUmmies that Democrat Voting Day is actually the day AFTER tomorrow, is in the [brackets]: Tomorrow......

As we've been chronicling, our DUmmie Ants are growing increasingly antsy over the possibility of losing what should be an easy win for them. Thus they are preparing their excuses "just in case"--primarily "election fraud" and "racism." Pied Piper Pitt is warming up the "racism" excuse, as seen in this THREAD, "Counting Our Chickens." Yes, it's the old Pied Piper Pitt essay we've haven't seen in a while: pedantic, prolix, ponderous, pregnant with profound insight into American history (as in Pitt's laughably classic "Third American Empire"). For today's drinking game, the magic word is "The Great Migration." Oh, BTW,...

It must have been a rough night at Bukowski's the other night. Maybe Kevin Spacey wouldn't give him an autograph. Maybe Ty the Bouncer had to help him off the floor. Whatever the reason, William "Cry me a" Rivers Pitt was in his cups and in a foul mood. At times like that, Bottomless Pitt is wont to get on the internets and vent his spleen. When he does, Pie-eyed Griper Pitt is likely to take it out on his fellow DUmmies. And that, my friends, is one of Wee Willie's TWO entertaining and DUFUable personae. You see, to...

There was a striking moment during the interregnum last November/December (2000) that has stayed with me ever since. Inside Politics was running 24 hours a day on CNN, you will recall. I was watching one evening, several days into the theft, and there was Judy Woodruff interviewing conservative columnist Bob Novak. The question of the hour was whether or not Al Gore should just quit and go home. On this night, Novak was pointing to a public poll that had been running on the CNN.com web site. You know these polls: log on to a news site and give your...

I am having a back and forth with Japan Today regarding their publishing of an article which appeared in Capitol Hill Blue that has subsequently been exposed to be false.Japan Today did not get the article from Capitol Hill Blue though. They got it from Truthout.org, a leftist propaganda outfit.I wanted to see if Truthout.org even had the story up on their site. I went to their main page, Truthout.org and checked. Nothing. I noticed a search box up at the top. So I took a phrase from the original article, sought significant quantities and hit search.Bingo.Here is what the...

Representative William J. Jefferson has always liked to talk about growing up in an impoverished farm community, picking cotton for $3 a day and hitting the books hard enough to win his ticket out — a scholarship to Harvard Law School. But even as Mr. Jefferson built a reputation as one of Louisiana's brightest, most effective leaders, a less flattering view began to emerge, one signified by his nickname in political circles, "Dollar Bill." Early in his career, as a state legislator, he was criticized for enriching his law firm with contracts from state and local agencies. He also ran...

A strange thing has happened over the course of the past year. Whenever I search the name of either Karl Rove or Patrick Fitzgerald in Google News, another name keeps popping up, JASON LEOPOLD, who appears as the reporter of some amazing (but wildly inaccurate) insider information on the CIA "Leak" case. Often Jason Leopold appears as the SOLE source of information which NO OTHER reporter has been able to unearth. So who is this intrepid reporter that is constantly on top of the CIA "Leak" case ("Leak" in quotations since it is NOT a crime to reveal the...

Here is the latest blast of Hot Air from DUmmie Temporary SockPu...uh, I mean Pied Piper Pitt. This bloated heat wave emanating from his mouth is pretty much his standard Apocalyptic routine mixed in with a strange feeling of a Swan Song. It is almost as if Pitt is bidding farewell in his current incarnation before Dark Forces conspire to prevent him from fulfilling his "destiny." It is the dark foreboding tone of Pitt's latest overblown treatise that ends up saying really NOTHING that distinguishes this missive from his usual bilge. Is Pitt, perhaps, planning on a trip for...

Twenty-one Spring days proved that the armed forces of the United States led by the brilliant duo of President George W. Bush, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield , is unmatched in today's world for the ability to gather resources, gather combat men and to attack and deliver victory in short order. Another factor is their ability to coalesce the support of the American people for the Iraq enterprise. However, there are some in the American population who objected and continue to object to the war. Recent polls indicate that about 22-25% of the American public objected and continue to...

It looks like I might actually have to award Pied Piper Pitt a Kewpie Doll for having a very brief moment of mental clarity. Why? Because he is now admitting the VERY REAL possibility that Karl Rove & Co. WON'T be indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald as you can see in his DUmmie THREAD titled, "HEY: Brace yourselves..." For what crime they could be indicted on, I have NO idea since it is NOT a crime to reveal the identity of a CIA agent who is NOT covert. Let us watch Pied Piper Pitt toss cold water on...

RAT DISCUSSION THREAD PJ-COMIX EXPOSURE THREAD ====================================================================== MIDI - RHINESTONE COWBOY Will Pitt's ready for the long plane flight...he hopes he'll score late tonight He has vaseline and in his suitcase some sex toys There's a cute earring in his ear...that's shouting out "Look, I'm queer" He's been naughty indeed He doesn't like the baby sitter...like his pervert pal Scott Ritter Big muscles and big derriere is what William needs A Northeast gay cowboy...he is ready to take a nice ride with a Texas man A Northeast gay cowboy...some line dancing with a big smile while he shakes his...

July 6 - 12, 2005Two Cases of Bile Voter activist Andy Stephenson's pancreatic cancer has generated both love and hate on the Internet.by George Howland Jr. Andy Stephenson in happier, healthier days, March 2004(Karen Steichen) The Internet saved Andy Stephenson's life. In May 2005, the voting-rights advocate's online community came together and raised $50,000 in 11 days to pay for surgery to treat Stephenson's pancreatic cancer. Now, the World Wide Web has spawned a bizarre campaign that accuses the nationally renowned activist of faking his illness. Stephenson, 43, who could pass for talk-show host Conan O'Brien's brother, became active on...

DUMMIE ALERT! DUMMIE ALERT! DETERIORATION OF DUMMIELAND HOT TOPIC ON MALLOY! HEAD WARDEN "SKINNER" TO ADDRESS THE EROSION? TO PINPOINT THE PROBLEM? GREATAUNTOFTRIPLETS AN UNCLE? COMPARISON OF 2001 MEMBERS OF democraticunderground WITH 2005 DUMMIES SHOWS DISTURBING TREND! NEARLY ALL THE GOOD ONES GONE!

DUMMIE ALERT! DUMMIE ALERT! A HOT SUMMER! ANDYITES FEELING THE HEAT? SOME ALREADY ABSCONDED FROM THE KITCHEN?

When I was in high school, every once in a while, our class would be visited by a graduate who was currently attending a college as a Freshman or Sophomore. As this college student would speak with his former teacher, we would be somewhat impressed with the “vast knowledge” of this person who seemed like a man of the world in comparison to us mere high school kids. Of course, these college guys weren’t really all that knowledgeable but they still appeared to make an impression on us little high school kids who didn’t know any better. And now...

In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last Thursday. The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of: Al Franken and his wife Franni; Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker; David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker; Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time Magazine; Howard...

I get daily e-mail updates from a Web site called truthout.org. William Rivers Pitt, the site's editor, has been relentless in his criticism of the Bush administration and the war with Iraq. But the site also features well-reported articles from established mainstream newspapers like the New York Times and the Guardian of London. In the e-mail Pitt sent out on Wednesday, he included a link to a letter and obituary he had received from Jane Bright, a resident of Southern California's San Fernando Valley. Bright had a son, 24-year-old Evan Ashcraft, who was killed in Iraq in August. Ashcraft was...

More evidence that Spamcop-listed Truthout is indeed spamming Annalee is a careful reporter and a reliable source. Others also have told me Truthout has spammed them, which means the evidence so far strongly indicates that the folks at Truthout are unrepentant, litigious spammers. Small wonder, then, that Spamcop is listing the site, and shame on Truthout for threatening litigation against Spamcop if all it is doing is, ah, putting the truth out. (Naturally I will give the fokls at Truthout the opportunity to reply.) Note that no bill in the U.S. Congress that I'm aware of (and I believe...

Spamcop blacklists truthout.org (for a good reason?) --- From: "Ben" <bmw@xxxxxxxxxx.com Subject: Spamcop blacklists truthout.org Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:55:05 -0400 I thought I'd let you know about this considering your dealings with Spamcop, but speaking only for myself I have to tell you that the issue may not be as simple to judge as it was when Spamcop blacklisted Politech. That's mostly because, despite never signing up for truthout's newsletter, I get it regularly. I don't know how it happened, and I'm certain no one I know would've had any reason to sign me up. I also...