Jezebel: Jim Webb

Chris Rock's Daughters Want To Be BFF With The Obama Girls

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST

To try to come in like a lamb and go out like a lion, today Ana Marie Cox and I talk puppies, pedicures, Elvira, Bill Kristol, and the death of journalism. Do lions cry? More »

Bulls And Withdrawal Strategies

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:00:01 EDT

There's probably some economic metaphor to be had in a story about 13 people being trampled by bulls in Pamplona, but then again it might be a cautionary tale about what the tourism industry can convince you is "fun." [Washington Post]
Speaking of a snow job, guess who is the latest politician calling for a withdrawal timetable in Iraq sooner rather than later? Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that's who. No worries, Bush and McCain will find other reasons not to withdraw yet. [Washington Post]
Jim Webb, though, is totally withdrawing from VP consideration, though. [HuffPo]

A League's Fixed Game, A Nation's Lost Innocence

Moe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:30:00 EDT

Okay, I realize I'm taking a wild gamble here, but this is Mike Bibby. Of all the dreamboats on the 2002 Sacramento Kings he was the dreamiest, although I'll always carry a torch for Vlade Divac and Bobby Jackson also rules... anyway, so. Everyone hearts the Sacramento Kings this year. Moreover, everyone hates the Lakers. (Except Lakers fans, but they don't count.) And the Kings are winning the Western Conference Finals, which in those days de facto meant winning the championship, but the refs keep fucking things up, launching new waves of conspiracy theorizing among anyone who actually still watched professional basketball. Anyway, and then Game 6 happened, and Mike Bibby got a huge bloody nose from Kobe Bryant, and the refs called a foul...on Bibby...and yeah, well if that wasn't just a harbinger of things to come! (That and the 2000 election, but you know.) Ralph Nader called for an official investigation. I drowned my sorrows in 2 a.m. World Cup beers. And today, a few thousand days and a few hundred million dollars short for the NBA, it turns out Game 6 was, indeed, probably fixed, so you can dedicate tonight's beer to David Stern. Him and George "Man of Peace" Bush, Hugo "Black Power" Chavez, Abu Dhabi and the really dumb thing EMILY's List stands for with me and Megan after the jump. More »

I Know, If Only You Could Write In "Pabst Blue Ribbon" For VP…

Moe — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT

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It's speedmating, readers! The weekend's New Republic has a big veep-speculation package and Megan and I — well, mostly Megan — read it so you don't have to! Sad notes: they don't think Hillary's in the running; Satan conquerer Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is not profiled. But Ed Rendell is! Rendell's sick jokemaking, Mike uckabee's guitar, Tim Pawlenty's "plush" mullet and Jim Webb's (invariably described as "scrappy") Scots-Irish upbringing are belabored; Sam's Club, cheap chardonnay and What's The Matter With Kansas are invoked; add a scene at an outsourced meatpacking plant and a few nights at various American Legion outposts and you've got one rollicking serenade to all the folksily vapid traditions, accessories and consumer goods that make representative democracy so great. That and Geraldine Ferraro's fascinating rationale for voting McCain, with me and the admittedly glamorous Megan Carpentier after the jump. More »

Oh Jesus, Don't, Like, Most People Suffer Existential Crises When They Get Fired?

Moe — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

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You know how yesterday I said What Happened was a good name for the Scott McClellan book? Yeah well WTF would have obviously been better. So anyway: Day Two of Scott McClellan WTF patrol. This morning he went on Today and seemed pretty fucking sincere. Of course, high-minded idealists such as the New York Times editorial board and Dan Bartlett think he's full of "total crap". But like, how weird is it, really, that a dude would spend six years being alternately (simultaneously) brainwashed and publicly debased by the Most Cynical And Singlemindedly Power-Greedy Not To Mention Idiotic Group Of People In the Universe, then get released and have a bunch of second thoughts about the whole thing? No one gets mad when the FLDS wives do it! Seriously, if you can emerge from such a job in such an Administration without suffering an existential crisis, what does that say about you? That and who Obama should pick for VP — not Jim Webb — and whatever happened to that crazy anti-war weapons inspector, with me and Megan after the jump. More »