Jim Newell
Jim Newell is Wonkette's beloved Capitol Hill Typing Demon. He joined Wonkette.com in 2007, left for some other dumb job in 2010, and proudly returned in 2012 as our "Senior Editor at Large." He lives in Washington and also writes for things such as The Guardian, the Manchester paper of liberals.
Former chair of the Florida Republican Party Jim Greer, most “famous” nationally for flipping out over Obama’s socialist plan to tell American children “education is good for you” on their first day of school last year, was “arrested Wednesday morning at his home, though charges against the disgraced chairman were not immediately available.” Indeed, anyone [...]
Fancy New York City glossy Vanity Fair has a new profile of Washington’s Premier Hostess & Greatest Newspaper Writer, Sally Quinn, describing the turmoil this gal went through when her husband’s newspaper, The Washington Post, decided to end her insane print column, “The Party,” after she had used her space one week to describe a [...]
There is a super-big primary tonight in the great state of Alabama! The state’s wealthy, white, land-owning males will decide which candidate becomes their official GOP candidate for governor. Everyone in Alabama is so excited, according to the Anniston Star: “Election officials say Alabama voters planning to participate in the primary election don’t have to [...]
MAJOR, MAJOR SCOOP AT BILL KRISTOL’S NEWSLETTER: “THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained Sarah Palin’s imminent Facebook post on the Israeli Flotilla incident.” Thank god, we couldn’t wait ten more minutes or whatever, to not read it. (GUESS: SHE SUPPORTS ISRAEL BIG-TIME.) [Weekly Standard]
Hollywood Film Magician James Cameron will now stop the oil spill, so everyone stop whining and shut the fuck up. No but really, check out this AP lede: “‘Top kill’ didn’t stop the Gulf oil spill. How about something ‘titanic’?” Ha ha, for that was a film that James Cameron directed, “The Titanic,” about some [...]
NEW POLL FINDS THAT AMERICANS DON’T KNOW STUFF: Did you know that a large portion of the United States citizenry doesn’t know shit about anything? According to Internet thing FindLaw.com, “Nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot name any members of the U.S. Supreme Court.” Which is not really a huge problem, because Americans don’t vote for [...]
In today’s Judicial Branch news, the American Supreme Court has ruled that “suspects must explicitly tell police they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations.” Ha ha, that doesn’t sound… cool… come on, WHAT? HUH? Man, if you’re a conservative (hi all three of you reading this!), the Roberts appointment kind [...]
Look, the War on Terror’s “funniest” recurring joke… recurred! This particular Al Qaeda #3 got nabbed in the ass by one of Obama’s science-fiction robo-death birds, what a loser. Isn’t it just terrible that this recurring joke is still recurring five years after it was coined as a recurring joke by freaking Slate Internet magazine? [...]
WHAAAAA? “Al and Tipper Gore, whose playful romance enlivened Washington and the campaign trail for a quarter century, have decided to separate after 40 years of marriage, the couple told friends Tuesday. In an ‘Email from Al and Tipper Gore,’ the couple said: ‘We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and [...]
Hooray, it’s… an ugly Blingee! It depicts America’s Fence, keepin’ those perverts away from America’s Piper Palin, except for the ones that can moondance through the large, large gap. Happy Memorial Day weekend to the troops, as well as regular humans! Everyone walkin’ around the beach, stone drunk, no pants, no nothin’… (Also, your departing [...]
DOES ANYONE DETECT A TOUCH OF GLOATING IN THIS ASSOCIATED PRESS ARTICLE? “NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has urged that a copyright dispute between an artist and The Associated Press over the Barack Obama ‘HOPE’ image be settled quickly. Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein said Friday at a hearing in New York that he has [...]
Self-centered alien turd Joe Lieberman is so happy that there’s a Connecticut Senate race not involving him right now! Why? Because now he gets to be back in the spotlight over which candidate he’ll endorse: Richard Blumenthal, who’s a pretty good candidate (aside from his Vietnam bullshitting) as well as a member of the same [...]
MORE BOOKS FOREVER: Mark Leibovich, the same New York Times writer that put together that insanely insider-y, obnoxious 8,000-word profile of Politico‘s Mike Allen because they’re friends, is apparently so DISTURBED by the “media-industrial complex” of Washington — it’s reached “a tipping point of self-celebration,” he writes — that he will now write a book [...]
