Trump Derangement Syndrome: Asshat of the Day: Kurt Eichenwald (warning strobe effects) Update: Kurt Eichenwald admits he made it all up (aka lying)

Hot Air: Tucker Carlson interviews Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald for great entertainment effect

John Sexton: "This is probably the least productive, most entertaining interview you’ll see for some time. It’s an instant classic."

John did not lie. This is exchange is pretty funny, yet also sad. Kurt Eichenwald warrants Asshat of the Day for this performance.

Update: AoSHQ Kurt Eichenwald admits to George Stephanopoulos it was all a joke...(Kurt's a liar)

AoSHQ: Kurt Eichenwald wears a soiled diaper on his head and Eichenwald melts down completely after the interview with Carlson

Lem's Place/CL: Kurt Eichenwald claims to suffer seizure following Carlson

Instapundit: Kurt Eichenwald's secret scoop backfires horribly, Must See TV and Eichenwald caught deleting his Post Interview Asshat Tweets

Wombat: Twitchy: Tucker Carlson has on air fight with Kurt Eichenwald

JWF: Kurt Eichenwald After Tucker

Kurt Eichenwald melts down on Carlson's show, meltdown on Twitter, and news orgs have him on as a serious guest now. Why Fake News thrives https://t.co/W3tGNzAXa4

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 20, 2016

Update: Kurt is suing!

The Blaze: Kurt Eichenwald is suing Jew Goldstein over strobe effects? 

Thanks to Twitter, the phrase "aka @jew_goldstein" now appears in filed legal documents in the great state of Texas. pic.twitter.com/ggmw2buntO

— Wokieleaks (@jrireland1) December 19, 2016

Whom does Kurt Eichenwald sue for having made him a pompous jerk

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 19, 2016

Update:
Heat Street is reporting the FBI arrested "Jew Goldstein" over the alleged Eichenwald strobe tweet?

Separated at Birth: Tina Brown and...?

 Inspired by The Other McCain:  That Tina, she is such a piker!

Tina Brown
Profligate spender of scores
of millions of other people's money...

U.S. Congress (with a lot of Obama help)
Profligate spender of a score
of trillions of other people's money...

H. L. Mencken: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

Well except for the country and the American public!

Update:
Tina Brown mourns the loss of Hillary Clinton before her actual passing... (Tina is just ripping off an idea from Mark Twain...)
Tina Brown clean up of Newsweak/Daily Beast not yet complete...

Niall Ferguson responds to his critics on why President Barack Obama is not worthy of reelection.

First, duck the argument. 
Second, nitpick. 
Third, vilify. 

"That’s what Niall Ferguson says liberal bloggers did after reading his Newsweek story on Obama’s record. Here, he offers a point-by-point defense of his argument."

Prior EBL post:  Obama finds out the media are not always his friends...

Instapundit linked it already.  Every conservative and Republican blogger should be linking this story too.  

Barack Obama finds out the media really aren't his friends...

Tina Bites?

Not that Tina Brown and the liberal media are suddenly going to turn pro Romney or Ryan, but they can see how turning on Obama might sell some copy and work in their favor.  So they a publishing Niall Ferguson's article critical of Obama being re-elected and gave him the cover.  

Of course, expect Frum, Sullivan and others of the Daily Beast's monkey menagerie to shortly come out with the argument for Obama.  Update:  Ferguson responds to his critics.

That said I am still glad Ferguson got his article and cover.  Especially when you have a Newsweek cover article saying this about Barack Obama:  

The voters now face a stark choice. They can let Barack Obama’s rambling, solipsistic narrative continue until they find themselves living in some American version of Europe, with low growth, high unemployment, even higher debt—and real geopolitical decline.

It is about time that the media started facing the truth.

Tina Brown's flailing $1 newsrag has deathbed conversion thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/… h/t @jtlol
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 19, 2012

Update:
The Lonely Conservative
Rio Norte Line
Weasel Zippers
Right Scoop

Blogger Kudos! Ace of Spades and JohnE outdo themselves: A tale of two covers...

Newsweek goes out of its way to show how in the bag they are for Barack Obama.  Ace and Ace contributor John E respond appropriately.

First here is the cover that Newsweak ran:  

Just a tad of bias guys?

 And here is the one John E made for Ace of Spades:

Here are some Presidential comparisons!

Update:  Instapundit has a link to this cover...

David Frum Gets The Mark of the Beast!

Useful Idiot or Shameless Sell-Out?

Now dance for me!

They make a great couple!   Tina uses her telekinetic powers to control her new acquisition in his most vulnerable spot.  Tina presumably said she was thrilled to get a new addition to her gladiator stable.   I hope for David's sake he got her to contractually agree to a "safe word."

The Daily Beast has scored another influential voice. David Frum is joining Newsweek and The Daily Beast, writing for both. Frum, who is a conservative D.C. blogger and former George W. Bush speechwriter, will be launching a new Beast blog on the heels of FrumForum, which boasted hundreds of contributors and reached more than 5 million readers. "When we launched, Sarah Palin was a leading candidate for president and Glenn Beck was broadcasting conspiracy theories on cable TV," Frum wrote in his farewell post. "Three years later—not so much. OK, maybe we can’t claim all the credit. But we won’t refuse some fair share." Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown tweeted, "Excited to welcome the brilliant writer and commentator* @davidfrum aboard the NewsBeast! Look fwd to a blog on Web & essays in the mag." Frum will bring contributor Noah Kristula-Green with him.

*  Did Tina think Frum was so brilliant when he was in the Bush Administration?  (I took the editorial liberty of striking a certain word and adding a " * "  to above).  

Sardonic.

Jonah Goldberg speaking of David Frum back in March 2010:

But here is my problem with what [Frum's] doing. If I were convinced by his analysis — and I am not — I still wouldn’t argue my points the way he does. If you think Rush, Beck, Hannity, Palin, et al. are bad for conservatism, that’s fine. If you think that the Right is too committed to tax cuts or that its emphasis on social issues is hurting it with the young and the affluent, that’s totally reasonable (if not necessarily persuasive or dispositive). But time and again David seems to relish and glory in the GOP’s “failures.” And this makes no sense to me... 

Instead, we get an almost giddy excitement at GOP failures or, worse, a sometimes absurd effort to spin GOP successes into failures (again, as with the McDonnell election). On the conservative front, it’s almost impossible to reconcile the Frum of ten years ago with the Frum of today. And while I don’t study the FrumForum too closely, I’ve seen little effort by David to explain his apparent philosophical transformation or why he thinks the base of the party should abandon theirs. Instead, one gets the sense that he read the polls and the long-term trends, and decided to defenestrate a lot of his old core convictions — and many of his personal and professional allegiances — to become the leader of a movement (that basically doesn’t exist).

Message to Jonah:  Hence my editting that word from the Daily Beast press release excerpt above.