NewsBuster’s News Bust Busted
goes near collapses into a pile of shit
Watching one of the buffoonish media watchjackals at NewsBusters post an alleged liberal media gotcha only to discover that the whole post is really just an exercise in self-busting is more fun that watching a Baptist minister get caught in a gay three way. So, we had more than a few giggles when Tom (“Mr. BizzyBizzyBizzyBlog”) Blumer piddled on himself yesterday and then tried to erase the evidence before anyone saw the growing damp patch on the front of his trousers. Blumer may have yanked the post, but my RSS Feed Reader had grabbed it first and has allowed us to save Blumer’s be-piddling for posterity and for our amusement.
Mr. BizzyBlog gave the post in question a favorite NewsBluster’s tag: “Name That Party.” Posts tagged with “Name That Party” try to demonstrate that the Islamodemosocialisticexpifascistdocious MSM always omits party affiliation when a Democrat steps in some dog poop but blares that affiliation in the headline when it’s a Republican with poo on his penny loafers. Usually, of course, there is a reasonable explanation for the absence of party affiliation. Often the party affilation of the alleged Democrat isn’t clear. Or just as often the party affiliation is irrelevant because the miscreant isn’t an elected official. (“The lieberal MSM refused to reveal that Michael Vicks was a Demonrat!!!”)
Let’s roll the tape of Mr. BizzyBlog’s wipeout:
Mama-mia, hold the anchovies on this one.
We have a county prosecutor in Florida, one David Ranck, who was arrested this past weekend for allegedly yelling at, punching, and completely frightening a pizza delivery woman. Naturally, Ranck’s Democratic Party affiliation is nowhere to be found in media coverage of his, uh, rank behavior.
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Naturally, Mr. BizzyBlog, as a media watchdog did what the media he is watching would do. He called Ranck to verify his party affiliation before reporting it, right? Oh, don’t be silly. Why do that when you’re a blogger with super gazoogling powers?
A Google News search on [“David Ranck” Democrat] (typed as indicated between brackets came back with absolutely nothing.
Jackpot! Mr. BizzyBlog now has proof both that Ranck is a Democrat and that the media ignored it, because the fact that not one single news story mentioned that he’s a Democrat is both proof that he’s a Democrat and that no media mentioned it. After all, if he were a Republican, the stories would have mentioned that fact, right? How cool is that?
Actually what the Google News search shows is that Ranck was a career employee, i.e., not an elected official who ran as either a Democrat, Republican, Independent or Homomarxistfascist. Nor is there a shred of evidence anywhere that Ranck is actually a Democrat.
After discovering Mr. BizzyBlogs fuck-up, Newsbusters did what any of the news organizations that they claim to hold accountable would do, right? They immediately issued a correction saying that they improperly reported that Ranck was a Democrat. Oh, don’t be silly. That’s what the “delete post” button is for, you silly lefties.
Goddamn, Republicans are stupid these days.
I don’t remember the Repugs being this dumb back when I was younger. What the hell happened to ’em?
In da memory hole!
The picture is priceless.
I don’t know if anything happened to them. It’s the Intertoobs. Before, they would be the guy (or gal) that waited to speak at every school board meeting (or Planning Board or Water and Sewer Commission). They would approach the microphone, dog-eared files or yellow legal pads in hand, and begin rambling about sex edumacatrion or socialized central planning or the Comminess plot to fluoridate the waters. Much watch gazing, paper shuffling and feet shuffling ensues among the listeners. A familiar, comfortable routine for all particpants.
Man says – I bet there’s a needle in this haystack. My gazoogle-ometer will tell me. Oh look, my gazoogle-ometer says there’s no needle in this haystack… Which means haystacks are biased against people trying to find needles! Eleventy!!!1
That’s what the “delete post” button is for, you silly lefties.
The “delete post” button = the 1984 “memory hole” for wingnuts, as I discovered myself last year.
Should have used a news-buster-buster-buster, I guess…
Class picture of the world’s oldest eighth-grader
Becoming outraged over accusations they just made up has to be one of my favorite behavioral traits of the common North American wingnut. Indeed, it is central to their point.
Damn, after looking at that PDF, now I want some good pizza.
Ranck was a career employee, i.e., not an elected official who ran as either a Democrat, Republican, Independent or Homomarxistfascist
It only strengthens his point. And pulling the story only proves it true, to infinity.
And to be clear, I don’t think they were all Republicans. There is this type (the confused, fearful, superstitious and confused-dare I say “peasant?”) that has always been around, regardless of party affiliation. The Republican Party has been very good at both exploiting and embracing these people (perhaps that should read: “Embracing and THEN exploiting.”)
That’s what the “delete post” button is for, you silly lefties.
You have a ‘delete post’ button?!? You lucky duckies. I have to lurk in the front garden with an air-rifle and shoot at the postman.
I hear this meme tossed around by the few semi-reasonable (translation: not frothing at the mouth, but about to put the Alka Seltzer in to fake it) conservative friends I have.
I always point out that the articles they mention, like, say, in the NY Times, presume their audience has half a brain and if the, say, NY Times identifies the governor of NY State as trapped in a scandal with a hooker…THEY PRESUME THEIR READERSHIP KNOWS THEY ELECTED A GODDAM DEMOCRAT!
Actually what the Google News search shows is that Ranck was a career employee
Excuse me, TinTin, but I have to defend the wingnut in this instance.
After all, ALL Democrats live to suckle off the teat of government, so every single career employee of any municipality anywhere simply HAS to be a democrat! It’s written into the AFSCME contract, don’t you see? They’re union! Also, They’re SUCKING OFF the statist welfare stateism state, also!
*deep breath*
Whoa. The colors. That’s some damn fine KoolAid those wingnuts brew up…but why does it bubble so?
Now that’s accountability we can believe in! I mean you don’t actually believe that any Republican is going to embrace actual accountability, do you?
What’s even more amusing is how irrelevant this person’s party affiliation is.
He committed assault, a crime yes, but does it come to bear on his politics? Did he do it on the steps of the capitol? Had he recently introduced legislation to declare pizza delivery workers a protected minority? Did he do it because the other person was gay? Did he scream “That’s what you get for fucking with the Children of Kennedy, bitch!” before hoisting a Soviet flag?
If not, then I’m not really sure that I could care less.
Otherwise known as the Southern Strategy©.
Wipeout rocks, also. I don’t care how many times I see somebody fall off the Big Balls, that shit is always funny.
But Thomas! That’s central to his point! Crappy pizza = liberal fascism!
Crappy pizza = liberal fascism!
Ahem… Domino’s.
Crappy pizza = liberal fascism!
Ahem… Domino’s.
In the Heartland, that’s gourmet pizza. Ask Gary!
It’s relevant because all bad things that happen are the direct result of bad people existing in society, and with the exception of millions of false-flag voters and politicians, all bad people are card-carrying members of the Democrat Party.
Duh.
I’m afraid I have to agree. It’s VITALLY important that party affiliation accompany ANY and ALL news storys including but not limited to that of the alleged perp, the witnesses, the authorities involved, and CERTAINLY the reporter, his boss, his editor, the owners of the paper and/or station, the corporate affiliates, and all concerned advertisers (and their agencies). Only THEN will we have TRUE TRANSPARENCY!
Damn, after looking at that PDF, now I want some good pizza.
Not Dominos.
Why did they omit the party affiliation of the delivery woman, I ask you that?
…and don’t forget the techs…
Yet another classic from America Shittiest Website Editor:
“Famous Speeches”
Obama’s Thursday speech in Cairo is already on the Wiki list.
It’s his fifth on the list.
1) the ol’ “Wiki-is-biased” whine never gets old.
2) It’s Obama’s fourth “on the list”. My guess is, in a nod to Freud, she counted Nagin’s speech as one of Obama’s.
g, it’s obvious that she is one of the much-oppressed Republicans.
or maybe a Christian. So it was an anti-religion crime.
Obviously.
Makes sense: I’m guessing all she (like anyone else) remembers about it is “chocolate city” and then a couple of days of inchoate shrieking about blacks.
“Hi, this is Mandy of Domino’s pizza. I’m 23, a graduate student at Tennessee Farmer’s College. I’m 36C-22-34. My likes include kittens, sunbathing, and nude ice hockey. My turn offs are beards, smelly guys and loud cars. I’m a Democrat.
May I take your order, please?”
LOL, well, of course, as W plainly illustrated, conservatives and right-wingers don’t make mistakes, none at all. If something they do is perceived by you as a mistake it is because of your own Homomarxistdemonrat prejudice. And as long as the objective evidence of this alleged “mistake” is promptly erased, only a real IslamoGayFascist could even claim a mistake was made. The “logic” is great, I want to be infallible too.
And LOL @ “Becoming outraged over accusations they just made up has to be one of my favorite behavioral traits of the common North American wingnut. Indeed, it is central to their point.” Absolutely. 🙂
So if I search “Tom Blumer” Goat blower and don’t get any hits that PROVES the media is covering up his goat blowing.
Gotcha.
Tom Blumer is a goat blower?!
1) the ol’ “Wiki-is-biased” whine never gets old.
A rare kinda-funny bit of Wiki-vandalism:
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
Can I join the Homomarxistfascist Party even if I’m not attracted to men? I could be in the “Log Cabin” wing of the party.
I guess what I’m asking is, how big is the tent?
(Still messed up on benadryl and viruses over here.)
Every time you buy a Domino’s pizza, you’re helping fund anti-choice idiots.
Every time you buy at Dunkin’ Donuts, you’re helping the Bush Crime Syndicate via Carlyle Group ownership of D.D.
Every time you buy at Walmart, another small town dies.
Every time you buy at Home Depot, more money goes into repig coffers.
BUT…..
Lowe’s & Costco are kinda less evil, so use them for big box shopping.
But the MSM doesn’t post it’s corrections in a headline above the fold. They hide it on the page reserved for corrections. So it’s the same as deleting. So there. Gotcha! I win!!
The guy is both a prosecutor and an asshole. I am gonna go out on a limb here and say he votes Republican.
Crappy pizza = liberal fascism!
Ahem… Domino’s.
Be fair – the comment was “crappy” pizza, not “goddamn fundie-funding scraped off the bottom of the meatwagon carboard flapjack coated lightly with cheap shitty ketchup”pizza.
And why is that eldritch fog pouring out of it, along with the disembodied voices whispering “eeeeeevil….eeeeeeevil…..”
C’mon, everybody knows that.
There are goat blowers? Whatta they have, like, Corvette engines? I’d hate to strap one of those on my back.
I just read on the interwebs that Tom Blumer is a goat blower.
“Class picture of the world’s oldest eighth-grader.”
My vote: Looch(I-Notgoatblowingastahn)
You notice the MSM never mentioned Ted Bundy’s name without attaching “well-known Republican activist and campaign worker” to his name. Which is central to my point! (Am I using that right?)
I must say he appears to be a very thoughtful W.O.E-G. Except the part where he drove Grampa’s tractor through the barn. We’ll just “delete post” that last little bit, shall we?
He’s probably just pissed that this fine fellow got tagged by his party affiliation, or rather that of his boss.
Which is central to my point! (Am I using that right?)
There is no wrong usage. That’s its beauty.
Oh, leave the poor man alone. Look at how he has to hold his own head up with his hand, lest it fall over and go boom.
Does the word “empathy” mean nothing to you people?
Blumer likes to pretend to be an expert on business matters. When dealing with wingnuts who claim to be savvy in economics it’s always fun to go back to their blog archives and check entries from late summer 2008 just prior to the financial meltdown. Blumer loyally follows the Larry Kudlow / Donald Luskin party line, and mixed in with Sarah Palin worship and hackish election predictions (“A change in the party controlling Congress is not out of the question.” on September 12), he supplied a steady ooze of breezy, upbeat economic posts.
Like this gem from August 28:
“ Dude, where’s my recession?
Y’know, the recession that Barack Obama claimed we “almost certainly in” back in mid-July?
…we have claims by economists that we can be in the third quarter of a recession while growth is registering over 3%! What in the world are these guys putting into their coffee? (I know, Democratic kool-aid.)”
That was posted a little over two weeks before Lehmann Brothers declared bankruptcy and the shit truly hit the fan.
Fucking brilliant.
Five Minutes of Gazoogle and after reading three entries there is this from the Miami Herald (“MSM!!!MSEMMMMM!!!)
Miami-Dade prosecutor charged with punching pizza delivery woman
A controversial Miami-Dade prosecutor is under scrutiny again after he was charged with punching a tardy pizza delivery woman.
BY DAVID OVALLE
dovalle@MiamiHerald.com
For Miami-Dade County prosecutor David Ranck, a Domino’s pizza accomplished what courtroom outbursts and a whistle-blower lawsuit against his own boss could not: It got him temporarily thrown off the job.
Ranck, 54, was suspended without pay Monday after he was accused of punching a tardy pizza delivery woman trying to deliver a pie to his Miami Beach condo.
According to Miami Beach police, officers on Saturday found Ranck standing next to the car of pizza woman Yudisceus Rodriguez de Armas, who was locked inside “shaking and in tears.”
He was charged with misdemeanor battery and signed papers promising to appear in court.
ANOTHER COUNTY
To avoid a conflict, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has asked the governor to appoint a prosecutor from another county to handle his prosecution.
Ranck was in the news after he filed a federal lawsuit last fall against his bosses, claiming he was unfairly suspended for posting on the Internet an internal memo detailing his misgivings about a fatal police shooting.
Reached by e-mail Monday, Ranck said: “I am sorry, but I cannot comment under these circumstances.”
His lawyer, Allan Kaiser, declined to comment on the case. But he did say: “At this point, I’m wondering where his pizza is. He never got his pizza.”
This is what happened, according to Miami Beach police reports: Ranck ordered a pizza Saturday night. When Rodriguez arrived, she called Ranck’s cellphone because she could not get into his gated condo building.
From the balcony, Ranck began yelling at her, she told police. She speaks Spanish and did not understand Ranck. Ranck came downstairs and knocked off Rodriguez’s Domino’s visor, then punched her in the arm, ”leaving a bright red mark,” the report said.
A neighbor, roused by the commotion, witnessed the battery, the report said.
Ranck admitted hitting Rodriguez, but only after she struck him with her cellphone, he said. When Ranck stepped in front of her car, he claimed, Rodriguez drove it toward him, tapping his thigh.
”These cases are always disappointing anytime anyone — support staff or lawyers in this office — engage in this behavior that violates the law,” State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle said Monday, declining further comment.
TUMULTUOUS
Ranck has a tumultuous history with the office in recent years.
In 2005, he was disciplined after cursing at a defense lawyer during a murder trial. A mistrial was declared and the accused killer was freed by an appeals court earlier this year.
Last August, Ranck sued Fernández Rundle and her top two assistants after she suspended him without pay for 30 days because he posted an internal memo about a controversial police shooting on an Internet legal blog.
In the memo, Ranck expressed misgivings about whether the shooting was justified, and protested his removal from the case after intervention from a Miami-Dade police major. A key hearing in Ranck’s federal lawsuit is set for June 12.
Yeah, definitely a Republican.
But how are we going to fire people for partisan reasons if you don’t identify them for us? Also we need people to stand up and be counted for one side or the other, so everyone can see what happens to you when are on the wrong side!
Of course, to be fair, if Arlen Specter is now a Democrat, our Republican governor Dan Evans, that Ted Bundy campaigned so assiduously for, would be considered ~10,000 light years to the left of Pol Pot.
Which is central to my point! (You’re right, Rusty! Thanks!)
On a side note…
Newsbusted with Jodi Miller? Good Lord, why? It’s just horrible. Beyond horrible, it’s like being waterboarded with Chunky soup. I watch it and “Why?” by Annie Lennox immediately plays in my head. And yes, I do cry.
It’s just another version of rightwing curmudgeons noting bad behavior and concluding that those engaging in it must be “liberals.” Like Dennis Prager getting upset by “liberals” who dare to eat ice cream cones while walking on the public sidewalk.
It’s the “I don’t like those people they must be liberals” – tactic. It takes some guts, though, to base an entire column on it.
Now that caught my eye.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421718930
Well there ya go. Questioning police conduct? He must be a Democrat.
Yeah, definitely a Republican.
His boss, an elected official, is a Democrat. He probably is too, for what it’s worth. The important thing, however, is the issue raised by his attorney: Did he get his pie?
One thing we know for sure is he isn’t a Muslim or an Arab.
Yep. I read that correctly after I posted it. I will now go and drive the tractor through the barn.
Tom Blumer is a goat blower?!
This farm ain’t big enough for the two of us …
It’s the “I don’t like those people they must be liberals” – tactic. It takes some guts, though, to base an entire column on it.
Guts, and the nervous system of C. elegans
That was posted a little over two weeks before Lehmann Brothers declared bankruptcy and the shit truly hit the fan.
‘S funny – just before things became blindingly obvious to even the stupidest (i.e. wingnuts) that the economy was going to shit, it was a article of faith among the Right that it was all just the MSM making trouble to sell papers/get web hits/sell commericals/whatever.
As soon as the light dawned – *BING!* all of a sudden it was the fault of ACORN and Fannie/Freddie OH NOES TEH BROWN PEOPLE R STEELIN YR MONEYZ, in a way we haven’t seen since the Communist Party-line flip-flops of the late 30’s.
at NewsBusters: Blumer’s Bum Booms, Blasts Barn
Feeling very popular!
Blumer’s Bum Booms, Blasts Barn
Bitchin’!
The Memory Hole worked like a charm in 1984 because those were the only existing hardcopies of state “data” (as I recall, the media for the proles was video & nobody had a VCR) so you just popped the hatch, pitched it down the handy-dandy History-Hibachi & VOILA! Memetic Hygiene!
With strings of ones & zeros whizzing around the globe, it’s a completely different kettle of sharks. Trying to categorically erase anything once it gets onto the Interwebs is like trying to undetonate an exploded firecracker. Someone somewhere can always screencap or cache your two-bits’-worth, so “Think First, THEN Post” is a good rule-of-thumb.
This might explain why Sarah Palin’s been laying relatively low since the election – she’s holding out for interviews that include access to her own personal “Delete” button.
Bet she sure as fuck wishes she’d had a backspace key after “I’ll get back to ya on that.”
The Ho and I were discussing the impact of data retention just the other day. We were focused on pols, and decided that most of them just haven’t figured it out yet. They’re still doing what they’ve always done, not recognizing that just about anything they’ve said and done is on record, indexed and available to just about everyone.
Apathy is the new censorship.
Or suchlike.
I wonder if the “delete post” button would work on the entire Bush presidency….
The lamestream media makes no mention of whether someone put cilantro on this man’s pie so I’m going to assume it was befouled with the fecking shite and therefore he’d have been justified if he’d gone down to the pizza joint and attacked everyone there. Fucked ’em all up and such as.
With strings of ones & zeros whizzing around the globe, it’s a completely different kettle of sharks. Trying to categorically erase anything once it gets onto the Interwebs is like trying to undetonate an exploded firecracker. Someone somewhere can always screencap or cache your two-bits’-worth, so “Think First, THEN Post” is a good rule-of-thumb.
To a certain extent – someone has to do the screencap before the fact, and while the Internet Wayback Machine is always there it’s at least 6 months behind… it isn’t an absolute that you can hide anything, but it isn’t an absolute that it’ll be retrievable without a not-insignificant amount of work, amount usually being of the “not worth it” category for purposes of slagging a wingnut. Especially since you merely have to wait about 5 minutes and they’ll pop off something equally as stupid/false/self-incirminating anyway.
From the balcony, Ranck began yelling at her, she told police. She speaks Spanish and did not understand Ranck. Ranck came downstairs and knocked off Rodriguez’s Domino’s visor, then punched her in the arm, ”leaving a bright red mark,” the report said.
Wait, she was a Domino’s employee? And Domino’s is a well-known front for
misogynist fascist Holocaust denyingconservative Republicans????Well, see, there you go! Factual evidence that he MUST have been Democrat!
And the delivery woman must have been a babe, aslo.
Did he scream “That’s what you get for fucking with the Children of Kennedy, bitch!” before hoisting a Soviet flag?
This should be the new litmus test for Democrats.
pizza woman Yudisceus Rodriguez de Armas… speaks Spanish and did not understand Ranck
If it turns out he’s an R I bet the coverage alterations will be ever so subtle, just ask Gordon Liddy.
The intertubes are abuzz with the recent rumor that Tom Blumer is a goat blower. I have multiple anonymous sources so it must be true.
The Ho and I were discussing the impact of data retention just the other day. We were focused on pols, and decided that most of them just haven’t figured it out yet. They’re still doing what they’ve always done, not recognizing that just about anything they’ve said and done is on record, indexed and available to just about everyone.
Strange but apparently true. Heck, Jon Stewart has practically made a career out of revealing politicians’ hypocrisy by cutting and pasting together publicly available clips. He hardly has to *do* anything.
Yeahbut, yeahbut, that’s not the kind of transparency we were talking about! No it’s not! Different.
FWIW, it’s my understanding that the Dominionist asshole who owned Domino’s sold it a while back, and that while it might still be substandard pizza by pizza snob standards, it’s no longer tied to anti-abortion terrorist funding. I’m way too lazy and don’t care nearly enough to do any gazoogling, however. For today, I’m in the Blumer school of journalism. Research? What research?
Hey, is there any truth to the story that Blumer blows Mickey Kaus? I’ve heard troubling stories, which, if true, would confirm this fact.
I can confirm that such stories exist.
So he does! Wow! And he has the nerve to be out in public, knowing where that mouth has been?
This
farmherd ain’t big enough for the two of us …Fished.
Who is Daniel James Murray, and when will they report on him? Oh wait, he is a white christofacist terrorist, so they wont.
Markus, you mean the guy who threatened to kill Obama?
It was all over the news this morning.
according to internet sources it’s so windy out that small goats have been seen flying about??
I’m so confused.
There must be some truth in the Blumer/goat discussions because people wouldn’t be discussing it if it wasn’t there.
Proof!
Holy shit! Blumer and Kaus have been in a cabratic threesome with Bucky from Dairyview Farms! I just read that here!
I hear that Larry Johnson has a taped interview with the goat. Chief Editor Korrir will be releasing it as soon as negotiations are complete.
Even if Dominionist Monaghan sold Domino’s, you can bet that a lot of their profit goes straight to him anyway. I doubt if he got a check for the whole amount right off.
And if the delivery woman was late, why wouldn’t he just shut up & enjoy his free pizza?
M. Bouffant raises an excellent point:
He is more concerned with bashing women, showing what a big important guy he is, and breaking things than with the economics. Clearly a Republican.
Domino’s hasn’t done the 30 minutes or less free pizza thing for years. Too bad, it was the only thing which made their pies tolerable.
Wouldn’t his long-form COLB include his party affiliation?
In his defense, at least Blumer isn’t denying he’s a goat-blower.
I think republicans are Dem plants to make all republicans look like total dumbasses.
Oh wait
Republicans dont need any help.
wrongwinger inevitably remind me of some funny fictional character. For example, Tom Blumer instantly made me think of Grandpa Munster.
The publicity photo of Blumer in front of the collapsed farm building bothers me. I keep wondering, “And will this blowing be so mighty as to lay waste the goat barns of the earth?”
And also too, why the cheap ugly shirt? The knuckles to chin pose must be meant to present him as a serious intellectual thinker person who has already or will maybe someday soon publish a killer refutation of all things liberal, but the shirt keeps saying that he really should have taken his wife with him the last time he went to Target.
Only good democrat is a dead democrat.