• February 13, 2012

Hi thing!NEW THING DEBUTS, ON INTERNET! Tina Brown has a Webzine! It is called The Daily Beast, which is an elitist reference to an Englishman’s books. It looks nice, and kind of busy, and tabloidy, which we always like. Somebody read it and tell us about it, okay? [The Daily Beast]

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shortsshortsshorts October 6, 2008 at 12:50 pm

I just had a seizure.

llyn October 6, 2008 at 12:51 pm

I presume it will keep track of the war between the Patriots and the Traitors.

shoeho October 6, 2008 at 12:53 pm

Jeebus Christmas, she’s got that douche Tucker Carlson writin’ for her! That’s enough to damn the dame in my eyes.

Doglessliberal October 6, 2008 at 12:54 pm

OK, I did what Teh Wonkette told me and looked at it. Here was one interesting thing (which links us back to fivethirtyeight.com):

“Why McCain’s Mud-Slinging Will Fail

Nate Silver, the number-cruncher at FiveThirtyEight.com, has been an indispensible voice in this election. So pay attention when he says that McCain’s coming wave of negative attacks probably won’t work. The problem: McCain can’t ‘make this election about Obama,’ as his supporters hope. The election is also about McCain—his integrity and distance from the GOP brand. With every negative attack, McCain’s own negative numbers tick up—Silver provides a handy chart. Obama’s dilemma, meanwhile, is how and how much to respond. Today, he fires off an ad calling McCain’s leadership ‘erratic.’

Get it @ FiveThirtyEight.com”

I do like the WALNUTS! is erratic theme that Obama has been pushing. “Hey America, this is a crazy old coot” works for me.

Tommy Says Soooo October 6, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Finally I know what Walnuts and Mooselini mean by “rearing its head”.

Kev-O-Tron October 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm

[re=122272]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Delirium Tremens will do that Shorts. Get thee to a liquor store.

That site was dumb.

In honor of our craptastic Monday DOW fall I have changed my avatar to hobo wine.

Delicious October 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Sucks. Another Huffington Post, meaning elite money people showing off how many elite money friends they have.

Tommy Says Soooo October 6, 2008 at 12:56 pm

[re=122280]shoeho[/re]: Pffft. I think it’s great that Asspucker Carlson can take time off from his role as Andy Bernard on Teh Office to write for Teeeeeeeeena.

Ken Layne October 6, 2008 at 12:58 pm

[re=122280]shoeho[/re]: A long time ago — nine years ago! — Tucker Carlson was a good magazine-feature writer. Maybe he will go back to that, now that everybody else fired him.

shortsshortsshorts October 6, 2008 at 1:01 pm

[re=122286]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: I, for one, welcome our barley-wine overlords.

jinmoom October 6, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Eh, not bad.

SlouchingTowardsWasilla October 6, 2008 at 1:02 pm

I thought the title was a reference to bowel movements. Whatever.

CrunchyKnee October 6, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Who is Tina Brown? Wasn’t she on MTV back in teh day?

magic titty October 6, 2008 at 1:02 pm

I thought The Daily Beast was a 3p Rudy Giuliani press blitz for McShitOnHimself…

monty October 6, 2008 at 1:04 pm

Well, not to confuse this douchebag tucker with the other douchebag tucker, or yet another douchebag tucker, do ya think mccain has some sort of thing for tuckers?

Canuckledragger October 6, 2008 at 1:10 pm

What can Brown do for you?

Nothing that ain’t been done before, and better, apparently.

Tina Brown’s ok, but Tina Fey is better and Tina Louise is bestest of all time.

freakishlystrong October 6, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Harrumph! Wonkette wasn’t on the Sites We Like, Fuck you, Elitist Beast!

ihasasad October 6, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Y’all are on the list of ‘Sites We Like’!!!!!!!!
Um, is that good?

shoeho October 6, 2008 at 1:18 pm

[re=122289]Tommy Says Soooo[/re]: [re=122293]Ken Layne[/re]: Yahuh, but he’s still, well, HIMSELF!

[re=122305]monty[/re]:So many Tuckers, so little gray matter between them. Do y’all think it is illegal for a progressive elite to actually be named Tucker? Because all of them seem to be conservative pukes.

Mista Eko October 6, 2008 at 1:20 pm

There was no crazy eyes paultard girl on this site. I was misled. It fails.

OKAY BEEEEST!

Cogito Ergo Bibo October 6, 2008 at 1:26 pm

[re=122286]Kev-O-Tron[/re]: [re=122296]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I’m sticking with my elitist martini avatar. I’ll just switch to bathtub gin when it all hits the fan.

Miller October 6, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Why would UPS start a magazine? At least they’re on top of the Bill Ayers story no one cares about.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

nurple October 6, 2008 at 1:36 pm

I can’t respect a Tucker that’s not Southern, and a girl.

dmac October 6, 2008 at 1:38 pm

It’s like the Philadelphia Daily News with a gradient! Lovely.

qaf October 6, 2008 at 1:42 pm

[re=122319]freakishlystrong[/re]: [re=122325]ihasasad[/re]: Further proof that some of us are on different planets yet are able to communicate via the wondrous tubes of the Internetz. (Or Tina Brown monitors freakishlystrong very closely.)

MathewBrooks October 6, 2008 at 1:47 pm

It is filth-ridden, therefore i loves it.

S.Luggo October 6, 2008 at 1:51 pm

[re=122360]nurple[/re]: You got half your wish with Carlson.

S.Luggo October 6, 2008 at 1:53 pm

[re=122301]CrunchyKnee[/re]:
From the Jan. 20, 2002 on-line edition of the Independent:
Michael Wolff (in The New Yorker): “…[Brown is] a woman in an outsized raincoat with a refugee-like scarf around her head.”
[Author] Jamaica Kincaid: “Tina is a vulgarian who has turned The New Yorker into a version of People magazine.”
Garrison Keillor: “[Editor] Tina Brown hasn’t changed The New Yorker, she has obliterated it… Once, The New Yorker was meant to be read; now it is only meant to be talked about.”
Hillary Clinton: “Tina Brown is the junk food of journalism.”
White House communications director Dan Bartlett: “[Tina Brown] openly opposed and even mocked the First Family’s desire to keep the lives of their daughters private.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/now-the-talk-is-how-the-curtain-came-down-on-the-tina-show-664049.html

Lionel Hutz Esq. October 6, 2008 at 1:56 pm

Isn’t “The Daily Beast” just an euphemism for masturbation?

Tommy Says Soooo October 6, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Heh. I’m waiting for The Daily Beast with Two Backs.

S.Luggo October 6, 2008 at 2:00 pm

BTW: I see that Brown is using the title of her autobiography to name her webzine.

S.Luggo October 6, 2008 at 2:04 pm

From ABCnews.com:
—- “I [Tina Brown] want this to be a speedy read that captures the zeitgeist,” Brown says in her machine-gun patter. “We’ll be smart and opinionated, looking to help cut through the volume with a keen sensibility. We’re aiming for a curious, upscale and global audience who love politics, news and the media world.” —-
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Hate to tell you this, Teenz, but the contents of the National Enquirer and Extra are copyrighted.

Well, when you bail after running the Beast to ground, there will always be Mode Magazine.

WagTehGod October 6, 2008 at 2:06 pm

This is a GREAT time to be starting a business.

V572625694 October 6, 2008 at 2:17 pm

[re=122397]S.Luggo[/re]: “Machine-gun patter”….mmmmm…50-cal will cut you in two, but not very cleanly or neatly. And it’s shameful to know this, but Boot of the Beast is the title of an Evelyn Waugh novel from the 30s about a journalist (Boot) of a mythical London paper (The Beast). So you see Tina Brown, Destroyer of Magazines, is making an elitist inside joke about a moderately funny book no one reads anymore. Oh she’s sooooo sophisticated. Yuck.

V572625694 October 6, 2008 at 2:27 pm

Ha ha, this is hilarious:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/8/

“Smart people recommend” Dennis Miller’s podcast. Oh, right!

ladymacbeth October 6, 2008 at 3:01 pm

i found the angelina jolie interview very edifying.

dasNeonlicht October 6, 2008 at 4:58 pm

I wonder how clever it is to name your site after a newspaper in a book that makes fun of everything that is wrong with journalism.

“The British public has no interest in a war which drags on indecisively. A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colourful entry into the capital. That is The Beast policy for the war.” (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, p.42)

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