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more about #crappyhour more comments → southernbitch: gah. the whole reason i came over from wonkette to jezebel was you. now i have to add another website to my daily internet readings/listenings to fo... more » girl.of.your.dreams: Megan, I've always loved making it halfway through a post, realizing it was incredibly insightful and well-written, and then scanning to the top so th... more » gangey: Megan's Brain, I think I'll miss you the most! Seriously, best of luck and I'll try to keep up with you over at Air America. more » Ipomoea: I just registered at Air America so I can follow you wherever you go. Apparently I learn best when intelligent and thoughtful political analysis is p... more » margareita metermaid: Megan, I also want to chime in to say that I was unable to load this page when you were taking comments, but that your brevity, wit and intelligence w... more » KatyLou: Megan, thank you so much for CH, and all of your other truly wonderful political pieces. As a lazy as hell twenty something who only got interested in... more » Lymed: We will miss you hear Megan, but we will also follow you over to Air America. I hope Jezebel keeps up the great health care reform coverage you have ... more » BearDownCBears: Is this like the final Cheers, where all the editors will come out into the audience and sing the Jezebel themesong with us? more » dreamweave: Dangit, Megan. Can't believe the postings were all jacked up when I came into work all saddened and excited for your final Crappy Hour - AND it was au... more » GeorgeFayne: 1. The front page still isn't loading, but I backdoored my way in with Google reader. 2. Megan, you are awesome, and I for one will miss you, your ... more » dianersb was bit by a zombie: I knew that this day was coming. I knew that this was going to be the last Crappy Hour, but why do I still feel like this kid*? *gif more » Lymed: It was like the internets were trying to keep us from the last Crappy Hour. more » NefariousNewt: *Playing Taps* more » NefariousNewt: I was trying to figure out what to say to you, Megan, all the way to work. For once, I'm not sure I can come up with adequate words to describe how I ... more » rah29: Boo, I'll be on a 12 hour plane trip for commenter crappy hour and for Megan's last day! Sadface. more » -
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Crappy Hour Goes Live When Clinton Goes To Africa
With the curtain about to fall on Crappy Hour, it's up to you to set the agenda today! Ask questions or make comments on the days news, and I'll answer. Clinton in Africa? Birthers? Health Care? It's all here! More » -
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Bill's Business Connections, Right-Wing Wackos Still Dominating The Day
Almost two years ago, former staffer Moe Tkacik (now at True/Slant and Clusterstock) created Crappy Hour, in which participants opined on everything from Britney, to baseball, the Clintons, and oral sex. Some things have changed, but many stayed the same. More » -
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Bill Clinton's Swagger Gets Things Done
Bill Clinton may be off to one side watching Al Gore hug the recently-released Laura Ling, but Bill Clinton's swagger has dominated the news, including today's Crappy Hour, co-starring the Huffington Post's Jason Linkins. More » -
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Chuck Norris Falls Victim To Pathetic Political Pandemic
Today, Gawker's Alex Pareene and I mourn the passing of American action star Chuck Norris's brain, which has been infected with and ravaged by a scary sickness. R.I.P. Chuck! In happier news: Did we mention it's President Obama's birthday today? More » -
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Birther, Detainee Issues Rear Their Ugly Heads Again
Another day, another dollar, another fake birth certificate from Kenya emerges from the birther morass and the Administration continues to wonder where to put our detainees. The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman comes by for a talk, and a goodbye. More » -
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Isn't There Something More Important Than Beer And Birthers?
Barack Obama can list the real issues facing our country: health care reform, a shitty economy, climate change and a bankrupt government program for auto trade-ins, for starters. But, still, all anyone wants to talk about is beer and birthers. More » -
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What Sort Of Beer Would A Black Racist Drink?
We've got domestic terrorists, scuttled health care reform initiatives, racists in the Cambridge P.D. and lawyers everywhere, but all anyone cares about is what beer Obama drinks! Suffice it to say, Racialicious' Latoya Peterson and I are sick of it. More » -
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Wingnut Michelle Malkin Brings Misery, Mania, To Morning "News" Show
Michelle Malkin brought her own brand of potentially ghost-written crazy to the Today Show today, advancing wild conspiracy theories about race, nepotism and the Obamas. The Huffington Post's Jason Linkins and I parsed the insanity so you wouldn't have to. More » -
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Truth Is No Obstacle To A Terrific Obama Conspiracy Theory
The Obama birther story is the story that just won't die. (And why would it? It's filled with such delicious craziness!) Since we can't kill it, this morning, Gawker and True/Slant's Alex Pareene helps me mock it. More » -
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Hillary Clinton Is Kicking Ass, Taking Names
While Sarah Palin's busy taking potshots at Hollywood actresses, Hillary Clinton is remaking American foreign policy, starting with Iran and China. And the Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman and I are all over it. More » -
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Wingnut Racist And Birther Nonsense Is Making Everyone's Head Hurt
Who cares about war, peace or health care reform when one can debate structural racism, Henry Gates and/or the circumstances of Obama's birth? No one! (Certainly not me or my brain on the last day of a very long week.) More » -
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What Health Care Plan? Press Goes Crazy Over Obama's Cambridge Remark
Last night, Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet used Obama's health care presser to ask him about the arrest of Harvard professor "Skip" Gates. This morning Racialicious' Latoya Peterson helps me parse it - and the press corps' rabid reactions. More » -
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Obama Birthers Bring The Crazy To The Airwaves...And No One Is Immune
This Crappy Hour, the HuffPo's Jason Linkins and I torture one another with Lou Dobbs slashfic, make tortured confessions to the sounds of Barney the Dinosaur, and discuss GOP career suicides related to the Obama birther movement. More » -
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Today In Washington Dickery
Talk about strange days: My Crappy Hour comrade, Gawker's Alex Pareene, is on a highway heading south...and text messaging me as he goes. After the jump, the Gawker/TrueSlant editor and I take on Biden, Ensign and bow-tie loving Tucker Carlson. More » -
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Of Course Obama's Poll Numbers Are Plummeting — He's The President
There are certain definites in American politics: a President's popularity will decline after his election; Republicans will oppose health reform; Congress will spend money even when it doesn't have to. This morning, Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman and I dig in. More » -
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It's A Day For Republican Sex Scandals And Hillary Rants
It's another battle between me, myself and I, as caffeine deprivation and Justice Committee ennui take their inevitable toll, leading to profanity, punnery, discussions of Republican sex scandals and a rant about how Hillary Clinton is just doing her job. More » -
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Finally: Race-Baiting Repubs Get Honest About Their Racism
Are you sick of the Sotomayor hearings and stoking of racial tensions? Racialicious' Latoya Peterson and I are as well, but we talk about it anyway, in addition to Mark Penn's elitism, Mark Sanford's latest disappearance and Rahm Emanuel's allure. More » -
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Oral Arguments In White Privilege V. Wise Latinas
Is Jeff Sessions an evil leprechaun? Will Frank the Firefighter get his cookie? Will the Supreme Court let me keep my nunchucks? This morning, the Huffington Post's Jason Linkins helps me answer these, and other, pressing political questions! More » -
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Firefighter Frank Ricci Angling To Be New Joe The Plumber
A new day is dawning for the GOP! And by "new" day, I mean the same old racist stuff, via the Repubs' newest icon, New Haven's Frank The Firefighter. Gawker's Alex Pareene and I break it down, after the jump. More » -
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Will Republicans "Whitemouth" Sotomayor At Her Confirmation Hearings?
The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman had to coin a new phrase to describe what we expect Republicans will do to Sonia Sotomayor today, but only after we got done discussing CIA programs that may or may not involve Jennifer Garner. More »

