Comments on: Is Larry Summers Taking Kickbacks From The Banks He’s Bailing Out?

By: Mish

Mish — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:01:46 +0000

Hey Ames, there’s a new Bret Stephens editorial about Putin today in the WSJ - “Putinism’s Piranha Stage.” Check it out, you’re sure to get a few laughs at Bret’s expense.

By: mark nuckols

mark nuckols — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:24:18 +0000

I am a nuckolhead which is why I’m still trolling this site. Name is Mark Nuckols, by the way. Weird, ain’t it, how I’ve been stalking these guys for 10 years. Some day I should get a life.

By: rick

rick — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:57:55 +0000

@ alien name guy

I’ve had similar thoughts on newspapers. Brecher’s maybe the best columnist in the world, and his employment is just as mechanically unthinkable, by any “moral”ly imbecilic institution in our grotesque world. Ames is up there. His bits in the eXile book (and beyond) are probably the best autobiographical novel shit I’ve ever read. I’m pretty sure I’m the best novelist of the generation, but very uneven essayist. I’ve written for this fine publication, and nobody will publish what I’m actually good at. Let Them Die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swvf3w6hcY4

But why are you bringing up Israel? WHAT THE FUCK DOES ANYTHING HAVE TO DO WITH VIETNAM?!?!? I mean what do you want? It’s a “moral” trainwreck, like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlaFJvW74Wc

Israel and Palestine are worthy of Keyboard Cat, nothing more. Big moral narratives are grotesquely stupid.

By: Baked Dr. Luny

Baked Dr. Luny — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:27:06 +0000

Of course it’s worse than the Bush years. By the end of his term Bush was somewhat kept in check by the fact that everyone hated him, but with approval ratings in the 60% range Obama could eat out Osama bin Laden’s asshole and be praised in the media for being diplomatic. Keep in mind that Bush and Obama are both backed by pretty much the same people, some of the corporate slugs might be different, but they’re just as committed to fucking America in her collective ass.

By: Armen

Armen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:57:16 +0000

Jesus Christ, this is turning out to be worse than the Bush years. At least then I had the consolation that other people–way more stupid than I am–voted for him…

By: 'Disastrous for America'

'Disastrous for America' — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:39:06 +0000

Would be interesting if Ames could temporarily use mr Brecher as a journalistic partner to investigate any Summers-aircraft carriers lobby connections.

By: Cri-cri

Cri-cri — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:12:36 +0000

nice article

Ames at his best finding bad people in our government and destroying their public images, ideologies, reputations (or what’s left of them). Hard work of a post-industrial information age warrior but somebody has to do it.

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By: xymph disciple

xymph disciple — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:58:21 +0000

The reason why most journalists don’t even attempt these stories is because they’re so afraid of losing what little work they have: and when they do write them, editors kill them out of political considerations.–Matt

Damn straight. I have had no pity whatsoever whenever these nonsensically pious discussions about the demise of the newspaper come up. Newspapers could save themselves any time they felt like it by being newspapers and instead they are a maddening form of advertising which you must pay the advertised party for.
People didn’t go to blogs just for an echo chamber, they went to get away from our detached and antidemocratic ruling caste’s echo chambers in the mass media. Newspapers have the resources to trump nearly any blog with investigative reporting and international offices and instead they choose to run Israeli propaganda so lazily thrown together it makes Jews throw up and human interest stories that might propaganda be from anti-human robots.
The loss of the newspaper is tied to that phony Fearless-Nazi-Hunter pseudo-moral superficially-liberal culture, the kind that worships meaninglessly vague Twilight Zone episodes about “fascism” being “bad,” and clucks in a superior manner about how relevant that is today. This moralistic rather than moral mindset was in part behind all of the worst American crimes of the latter half of the twentieth century, from the health care scam to Vietnam to the war on drugs and the Reagan Revolution.
Until AT&T kills the internet it must terrify our masters to think about the simple variety and depth of information available for free online.

By: yabadabadoo

yabadabadoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:53:05 +0000

This is good, but I still miss Ames’ whore stories.