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TPM Turns 10

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This weekend is the 10th anniversary of one of my favorite sites, TPM. Its format has grown from a simple one-person blog to a full-fledged news site, and they’ve done a good job of changing the perceptions of how news sites can be done. Joshua Green has a fun recounting of the early days of the site.

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  1. TPM is one of my favorite national political sites. Washington state needs something like this. It strikes me as doable, particularly if the site drew upon recent journalism grads.

  3. Not to be overlooked is the Coffee Party movement, a progressive movement created to counter the Tea Party. It’s having a series of events, sponsored by MoveOn.org, over the next three days. I received an e-mail about this one:

    “Dear Coffee Party members and supporters,

    “I just signed up to host a Other 98% Potluck for Progress run by MoveOn.org Political Action.

    “The election results have been disappointing, but not surprising. … It’s an important time to discuss how we can most effectively build support for our issues and strengthen the progressive movement overall. …

    “So on November 14-16, we’ll gather together in living rooms across the country. We’ll share some home cooking, reflect upon this election, and start planning what progressives can do to forge ahead and win over the next few years.

    “Host your own Potluck for Progress or sign up for the one I’m hosting at

    http://pol.moveon.org/event/ev....._id=111411

    “Here are the details of my event:

    Potluck for Progress Kenmore
    19215 58th Ave. NE
    Kenmore, WA 98028
    Sunday, 14 Nov 2010, , 6:00 PM

    “Hope to see you soon!

    Jonathan”

  4. There’s a post currently up on TPM regarding the traitorous Cantor:

    US opposition leaders don’t usually tell foreign heads of state that they’ll help the foreign leader provide a check on the American president. And they certainly don’t announce it to the press.

  5. @4
    Yeah, that is something worthy of an entire post. Could you imagine an Hispanic-American congressman doing the same thing with the President of Mexico?

  6. 4, 5 – What’s new about Republicans committing treason? They do it all the time. See, e.g., Valerie Plame …

  9. @5 and 6, Or a Catholic congressman with the Pope?

    Rog @ 8, That one had to steep for a minute before it sunk in.

  11. Valerie Plame

    Richard Armitage – Lefty

  13. Yeah DeadToad from your WikiPedia link

    In the September 4, 2006 issue of Newsweek magazine, in an article titled “The Man Who Said Too Much”, journalist Michael Isikoff [leftist MSM – Puddy Emphasis], quoting a “source directly familiar with the conversation who asked not to be identified because of legal sensitivities”, reported that Armitage was the “primary” source for Robert Novak’s piece outing Plame. Armitage allegedly mentioned Ms. Wilson’s CIA role to Novak in a July 8, 2003 interview after learning about her status from a State Department memo which made no reference to her undercover status.[14] Isikoff also reported that Armitage had also told Bob Woodward of Plame’s identity in June 2003, and that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald investigated Armitage’s role “aggressively”, but did not charge Armitage with a crime because he “found no evidence that Armitage knew of Plame’s covert CIA status when he talked to Novak and Woodward”.

    And…

    Patrick Fitzgerald began his grand jury investigation three months later knowing Armitage was a leaker (as did Attorney General John Ashcroft before turning over the investigation).

    Yep Richard Armitage DeadToad

    Armitage, a well-known gossip who loves to dish and receive juicy tidbits about Washington characters, apparently hadn’t thought through the possible implications of telling Novak about Plame’s identity. “I’m afraid I may be the guy that caused this whole thing,” he later told Carl Ford Jr., State’s intelligence chief. Ford says Armitage admitted to him that he had “slipped up” and told Novak more than he should have. “He was basically beside himself that he was the guy that f—ed up. My sense from Rich is that it was just chitchat,” Ford recalls in “Hubris,” to be published next week by Crown and co-written by the author of this article and David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation magazine.

    Yep Richard Armitage DeadToad

    The confirmation of Armitage’s role has provoked criticism of both him and the special counsel, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who learned of it shortly after his appointment in 2003. Some have questioned why Armitage waited so long to speak up about it, and why Fitzgerald spent two years appearing to chase a question that had already been answered.

    Yep Richard Armitage DeadToad

    Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the C.I.A. leak case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday.

    Yep Richard Armitage DeadToad

    Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the C.I.A. leak case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday.

    Yep Richard Armitage DeadToad

    The “16 words” in Bush’s State of the Union Address on Jan. 28, 2003 have been offered as evidence that the President led the US into war using false information intentionally. The new reports show Bush accurately stated what British intelligence was saying, and that CIA analysts believed the same thing.

    Yep Richard Armitage DeadToad

    July 14 Novak’s column published: Plame outed to public

    * Robert Novak, a Right-Wing pundit and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, publicly “outs” Valerie Plame as a CIA operative. His article “Mission to Niger” says

    “Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Plame, is an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. Two senior administration officials told me W

    Yep Richard Armitage DeadToad – What’s so funny about this movie Fair Game is Novak and Armitage are NOT depicted in the movie. Now why would Sean Penn do that? Oh yeah Sean liked Saddam, and still likes Fidel & Hugo! He hates anything conservative. Also we now know when Sean brags about helping people in Haiti he lives in a 15 foot high walled compound with the tops of the walls strung with barbed wire and policed with AK-47 packing “guards”.

    The FACTS, a continual embarrassment to leftist pinheads like DeadToad!

  14. Now why would DeadToad want Puddy to stop again… Maybe because his little Scooter Libby world would explode?

    KABLAM!

  15. @ Spuddy et al

    Does your mother know what you are doing on her computer?

    Noodles almighty, you really are just a fucking nut.

  17. Really slingshit? That’s what you do each time you post.

    Notice when presented the facts now DeadToad reverts to ad hominem attacks through Puddy’s mother.

    If presenting the facts is nutty then Puddy provides factual nuts to the nutheads of HA. Puddy even used Daily Kooks to slap the DeadToad silly.

    Watch now… Pavlov predicts the above sentence will be hijacked out of context.

  18. I would like to know if ad revenue is tpm’s only revenue stream? It seems like they employ around 10 full-time employees with not insignificant overhead.

    How do they/Josh do it? That’s just as impressive as the content of their news.

  19. Don’t you HA progressives remember this from Josh Marshall on his James O’Keefe smear?

    * O’Keefe was allegedly using his cell phone to film the attempt to bug Landrieu’s office as it happened.

    * And let’s say they got something really juicy off of Sen. Landrieu’s tapped phone line. What exactly were they going to do with it?

    * But they were never going to protect you from an investigation into bugging the office of a United States senator.

    * Now, one might speculate that they were going to use the bug to get leads that they would then report out and surface by other means.

    -And filming the bugging as it happened definitely suggests they didn’t plan on keeping the thing a secret.

    Oh wait looks like Josh was wrong again…

  20. @17
    Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? None of the comments you’ve left in this thread have made any sense whatsoever. I should honestly be marking them as Spam.

  21. Here is another “amazing” TPM critique

    Hard work. But that’s okay if you are a leftist president, you have more to “do”.

    But what about your words in 2004 Josh?…

    But if you are a conservative president your done after the hard work so move along.

  22. @21
    Again, this comment makes no sense. Are you going to leave a comment in this thread that makes sense? You can do it, Puddy!

  23. Dude, what the fuck are you talking about?

    Again Lee can’t read

    Does your mother know what you are doing on her computer?

    Ad hominem attack against Puddy and his dead mother. Of course that’s A-OK with Lee.

    None of the comments you’ve left in this thread have made any sense whatsoever.

    First from Roger Rabbit…

    6. Roger Rabbit spews: See, e.g., Valerie Plame

    Puddy’s response

    Valerie Plame
    Richard Armitage – Lefty

    Then Dracula appears…

    12. Deathfrogg spews: @ 11

    Oh, you mean this Richard Armitage?

    So Puddy responds with so many leftist paper and blog facts on Ricard Armitage…

    Yeah DeadToad from your WikiPedia link FACTs galore

    Then Dracula’s ad hominem attack against Puddy’s dead mother.

    I should honestly be marking them as Spam.

    Since you have serious comprehension issues you need to mark all those comments as SPAM.

  24. Oh Lee @21, Josh gives Clinton and Odumba a pass for working hard as presidents and Odumba should keep working hard while dissing Bush working hard as president.

    Do you actually read TPM?

  25. @23
    No, Richard Armitage is not a lefty, and none of your links or comments show otherwise.

    @24
    No, that’s not even remotely what any of those links mean.

    Man, this is really hard for you. Just one comment that makes sense, that’s all were asking. Can you do it? Are you capable? Do you have it in you?

  28. @27
    What?!? How does that make any sense at all? Did Rush Limbaugh not sing that song?

    Again, Puddy, just one comment! It’s soooo easy. Anyone can do it. Can you?

  29. Lee Richard Armitage was considered a lefty. He hated Cheney. He hated the Iraq war. And he outed Valerie Plame. And he IS A LEFTY.

    Then in hindsight he claims there were meetings with Colin Powell on torture, which Powell outright rejected.

    Many indisputable facts.

  30. @29
    Lee Richard Armitage was considered a lefty. He hated Cheney. He hated the Iraq war. And he outed Valerie Plame. And he IS A LEFTY.

    No, he’s not. Lots of people not on the left hated Cheney and hated the Iraq War.

    Again, Puddy, this shit ain’t hard. Just leave one comment in this thread that makes sense. Some combination of words that isn’t incoherent dribble. I believe in you. You can overcome your mental disability.

    Conceive. Believe. Achieve! Just leave one comment in this thread that makes sense.

  31. The p’dumbski makes a complete ass tou of himself for the express amusement of the HA community.

    Thanks for the comic relief, buddy.

  32. it was from black LA Times columnist David Ehrenstein!

    And where did Ehrenstein get “it”?

    He may have gotten “it” from a right winger!

    The magical negro is a subset of the more generic numinous negro, a term coined by Richard Brookhiser in National Review.[5] The latter term refers to saintly, respected or heroic black protagonists or mentors.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro

    Typical.

  33. Again, Puddy, this shit ain’t hard. Just leave one comment in this thread that makes sense.

    Comment #19 easily answers your question!

  34. @33
    Comment #19 makes no sense at all, but I believe in you. You can do it, man!!

    And if you need some extra help, here’s a page from the Special Olympics that’s used for inspiring people with handicaps to strive to do their best:

    http://www.encourageomar.co.uk/

    Go for it Puddy!

  35. He may have gotten “it” from a right winger!

    What? You’ve got to be kidding…

  36. Sorry Lee, ain’t gonna continue to play your silly games.

  37. 36. Puddybud identifying useless Moonbat!s since 2005 and identifying rujax as an arschloch! spews:

    Sorry Lee, ain’t gonna continue to play your silly games.

    11/14/2010 at 1:50 pm

    What an arrogant fuck you are p’dumbski.

    I’m sure Lee could give a fuck.

  38. his James O’Keefe smear?

    Pffft. No one can “smear” a scumbag like that. The idiot JOKIII does a perfectly good job of doing that to himself on his lonesome.

  39. “Richard Armitage was considered a lefty”

    Yeah, I’m sure. Probably another member of the Alan Greenspan wing of the Democratic Party.

    My, but the strangest shit comes out of Puddy’s head. And it’s all in an failed attempt to convince himself and others here that wingnut shit doesn’t stink. Here’s a clue, Puddy. Wingnut shit stinks to high heaven. Eh, what more proof do you need than your own comments?

  40. @11 “Richard Armitage – Lefty”

    Holy shit, putz, would you please fact-check before you go off half-cocked (or with half a cock)? Armitage was in the Defense Department in 2001-2005. If he’s a lefty the Bush surrounded himself with pinkos.

  42. @23 “Puddy’s response

    Valerie Plame
    Richard Armitage – Lefty

    Yeah puddy, we all know that’s what you posted, but you see puddy, the thing is, Armitage was one of Bush’s and Rummy’s men … that material fact seems lost on you.

  43. MoveOn.org sponsored a number of meetings today for progressives to discuss the recent elections. Mrs. Rabbit was under the weather today so we couldn’t attend. Therefore I’ll post my 2 cents here.

    I think voters feel the American Dream is slipping away and they don’t believe higher taxes or more government will help bring it back. They want leaner government in lean times. Progressive arguments won’t sway these folks. The time to talk about more government spending is when people have more money, not when they’re struggling on less money.

    I think progressives should focus on the things they do well, such as protecting workers and consumers from the predators who stalk unregulated markets. Big spending programs aren’t going to fly in this environment. But keeping our food supply safe resonates.

    Locally, there were some bright rays of sunshine in the election results. Voters rejected turning over worker’s compensation to private insurance companies and privatizing state liquor stores. Nationally, I don’t think there’s any groundswell of public opinion to privatize public schools or dismantle Social Security. And this election certainly didn’t replace liberal social democracy with theocracy.

    Progressives should continue to be social reformers who crusade against meat packers who sell rat meat as hamburger.

  45. Puddy will put up any kind of links to try and justify his absurd views. Just like the idiot LaRouche “democrats” who put swastikas on Obama and argue that he is like Hitler.

    These people have no real contact with reality. They are convinced (like Puddy) that they are right and NO facts will ever get in their way. They dismiss any facts that dispute thier world view and they cite irrelevant facts or think they cite facts that don’t prove what they think or say.

    Puddy does not even check his own links – that is not just sloppy but it is dishonest to put up a link that does not say what you claim it does. I truly believe that Puddy is just too dumb to understand that his arguments are crap – but some of the time he must be aware that he is lying….

  46. “None of the comments you’ve left in this thread have made any sense whatsoever. ”

    So what’s new about that? Puddy’s never made any sense, except to himself.

  47. TPM has always struck me as rather like the TMZ of politics. This seems perfectly reasonable, since in recent years an increasing number of political figures on the right have proven to be far more bizarre and perverted than Hollywood celebrities.

  48. puddy @ 11

    Richard Armitage

    Advisor to Republican administrations, member of Project for a New American Century, unrepentant war monger, etc.

    Not a lefty.

    Not a matter of opinion.

    You keep using the word indisputable.

    I’m pretty sure that word doesn’t mean what you think it means.

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