Captain Ed -- Exposed! -- Several weeks ago a diarist at the DailyKos mentioned that the reason Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters was able to post as frequently as he does was because he uses special blogging software. Intrigued, I was hoping to find out the truth during our JS2 coverage. Instead, I discovered something far more disturbing. The secret to the Captain's prolific (and profligate) blogging is that he outsources his work; all of his posts are written by sweatshop laborers in Nicaragua. 
Because the event was live, though, Ed resorted to using domestic child labor (Tennessee has no laws against such activity.) In this shocking photo a young child is forced to smile for the cameras as she types furiously into the template used to generate the posts about Air America. (The wicked looking gent in the picture is not Ed, but his evil lackey, Lance McMurray. When this photo was taken the Captain was in the church's GOP lounge sipping strawberry daiquiris with Tom Delay.) I’m hoping that some seeker of truth and justice - Markos Zuniga, Al Franken, Nick Coleman - will follow up on this story and expose this shameful (and shameless) blogger.
Post Title of the Day -- SEC to Investigate Dwarf Employment by the Super-Rich
Brain Death and Brain Life -- OMF Serge has an excellent post outlining the reasons why the parallel between brain death and brain life fails.
Operation Bless Our Troops -- Justin Taylor has information on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's new program for servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
VideoBlogging -- Trey Jackson, one of the great guys I had the pleasure of meeting at JS2, has an intriguing video of his talk with Bishop Harry Jackson ("If we get 16% [of the black vote], you can destabilize the Democratic party on a national basis.") Trey also interviewed me an some guy named Ed who has a small blog in Minnesota. There's no need, though, to waste Trey's bandwith viewing that one.
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Sorry Joe - your expose' of Ed just went down in flames. You said:
When this photo was taken the Captain was in the church's GOP lounge sipping strawberry daiquiris with Tom Delay.
You were in a major Southern Baptist church and they had "strawberry daiquiris" in a "lounge" no less. No way, Southern Baptist churches don't have lounges and there is no way they would let the demon rum on premises, I don't care who asked for it.
Therefore, your credibility is shot on this piece - if we can't believe you about the strawberry daiquiris how are we supposed to believe you about Ed.
Unless of course, this was a non-alcoholic daiquiri similar to Jesus' unfermented "wine" at the wedding in Cana.
posted on 08.17.2005 11:58 AM4
David,
You were in a major Southern Baptist church and they had "strawberry daiquiris" in a "lounge" no less. No way, Southern Baptist churches don't have lounges and there is no way they would let the demon rum on premises, I don't care who asked for it.
I can certainly understand your credulity. But I saw a lot of stuff at JS2 that I wouldn't have expected to find in a SB church (was that really a Catholic standing behind the pulpit?). I too was surprised to find alcohol being consumed on the premises. But I guess the deacons let it slide since it was confined to the "Martin Luther Lounge."
posted on 08.17.2005 1:20 PM5
OK I know we were joking but that really does blow me away that there was alcohol in an SBC church, especially one pastored by the VP of the convention. I know of a few SBC pastors who, if they found out about this, Two Rivers would have hades to pay.
posted on 08.17.2005 1:31 PM6
OK I know we were joking but that really does blow me away that there was alcohol in an SBC church, especially one pastored by the VP of the convention.
Whoa, hold on. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea; I am only kidding. I am a Southern Baptist myself so I know how sensitive the issue can be. So just so that there is no confusion let me make it clear: the church does not have a lounge made after Martin Luther.
(Oh, and of course there was no alcohol either. A SB church in Tennessee allowing daiquiris to be served? That would definitly stretch the limits of plausibility.)
posted on 08.17.2005 1:39 PM7
Joe was slightly misquoted. it wasnt the GOP lounge it was what Tom brought himself and of course knowing how prominent a blogger that Ed is felt obliged to offer him some but see where this sis going? It completely takes away from Captain Ed's shameful use of child labor. I saw that child sitting there typing out no less than 3 hundred words per minute and the pages of her thesaurus whirring about and knew that she wasnt on Sesame Street .com. She was in typepad hammering through a post on able Danger. the whole thing left me shaken. . . but not stirred
posted on 08.17.2005 2:02 PM8
I thought the post about Capt. Ed was hilarious. Then I read the comments and just about busted a gut! As the farmer said to his boy looking at the broken egg: "It's a yoke, son!"
posted on 08.17.2005 7:35 PM9
Hmmm . . . so some people may have smuggled some alcohol into the Southern Baptist church. Maybe that is happening on Sunday mornings at my church and maybe that explains the glazed eye effect I get when preaching sometimes. I suppose it could be my preaching that is causing the glazed eye effect - nah! couldn't be, could it.
posted on 08.18.2005 11:32 AM