VIDE0- Chris Matthews: Netroots 'Get Their Giggles' From 'Bitching'

By GottaLaff



"Sit in the back seat and bitching"? Not running for office?

What does he think Howard Dean has done? He's about as netrootsy as you can get!

And Firedoglake sits back and complains without getting out there and doing something? Tell that to my inbox and Tee Vee Machine. And Act Blue? And Kos? And so many more? Really?

Troublemakers, right. Chris is drawing attention to his projectile salivator crankypantsitude, and it's very unbecoming.

Yesterday, Matthews tried to smack Howard Dean around, and now this. He needs to remove whatever has recently crawled up his punditiocracy.

Update via Think Progress:

A Senate staffer tells ThinkProgress that the reason Franken cut off Lieberman is because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) office has been asking all presiding chairs to enforce the 10-minute rule for both sides. Franken was simply following the direction of leadership.

Obama Transition Team Staffs Up Internet Outreach Crew

By GottaLaff

Via TPM:

Now this is a good sign: The Obama transition team has just signed up two leading Web types for the transition's Internet outreach team, a welcome indication that the Obama team is moving to transfer its astonishing online successes during the campaign over to the world of governing.

A transition source tells us that that Macon Phillips, a key Obama campaign Web official, has been tapped to head new media for the transition, and Jesse Lee, a leading Web operative who handled Rahm Emanuel's DCCC internet outreach operation during the 2006 take-back of Congress, has been hired to do online communications. Obama's transition team confirms the hires.

Phillips helped run Obama's general election new media shop, which raised huge sums of money and used social networking tools to organize in all sorts of innovative ways.

Lee, meanwhile, is highly regarded by liberal bloggers. He wrote the first-ever blog for the House Speaker, and in the closing days of the campaign he did online rapid response for the DNC, helping the Obama camp frame its message outreach to the blogosphere.

Here's what John Aravosis at AMERICABlog says about him (hint: he likey):

Jesse is wonderful. Joe and I know him from when he was working for the DCCC (the group in charge of electing Democrats to the House), and more recently we worked with him while he served at the DNC and then the Obama campaign. Can't say enough good things about Jesse. He knows the Netroots, knows politics, knows how to fight back.

I feel all kinds of secure about this.