Comments on: Quotable Quotes from Brian Tierney vs. Will Bunch

By: phillygrrl

phillygrrl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:29:27 +0000

Haha, okay Anil. No problem.

By: Anil

Anil — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:10:23 +0000

Awesome. Had I known I would’ve skipped listening to it and just waited to read this post. (That’s P-H-I-L-L-Y-G-R-R-L, right? Just checking. Feel free to remind us as necessary.)

By: phillygrrl

phillygrrl — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:54:37 +0000

Brendan, that makes hella more sense. Yay, you!

By: brendancalling

brendancalling — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:06:18 +0000

they should hire me instead.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:51:08 +0000

I have not had a chance to listen to the interview yet, so big thanks for excerpting all of this. I know it was a lot of work.

One could not expect a substantive defence of John “Permanent Organ Damage” Yoo because such is impossible.

It’s like defending Jeffrey Dahmer based on his cooking skills.

By: phillygrrl

phillygrrl — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:19:52 +0000

My fav?

“His claim to fame is the fact that he’s on the faculty of Berkeley for 20 years.” BT

Oh yeah, and this gem.

“He has cheese steaks when he’s back in town!” [On John Yoo’s being an actual Philadelphian or not.] BT

By: brendancalling

brendancalling — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:52:56 +0000

reading tierney’s poorly reasoned defenses of John Yoo, I am more enlightened.

Enlightened about why the paper is entering bankruptcy, that is: the publisher is not the brightest bulb in the christmas tree.