Conservative blogs today are all out-of-joint because certain people have attacked Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a black Republican. The Washington Times is stirring the brew, with articles saying things like this: Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the … Read More
Ignoring Whig
My jaw dropped when I read this crap from Glenn Reynolds at MSNBC: Perhaps Reid should look at this Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraqi WMD, which found that errors in intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction didn’t stem from White House pressure, but from groupthink and systematic failure within the Intelligence Community: The Committee found significant short-comings in … Read More
Michelle Malkin – Queen Of Bullshit
Wow. Just when you think she can’t out-do her slimy self, Michelle lowers the bar. As a promotion for her new book about "unhinged" Democrats, Michelle posts mug shot photos — 26 of them by my count — of people you never heard of, but who supposedly are Democrats. They include people like Samuel Meseck. Who is Samuel Meseck, you … Read More
I Wish I Said That
This item relating to the 2,000 death in Iraq is soooo two days ago*, but it just came across my radar now. I’m speaking of blogwatcher Peter Daou, who critized Michelle Malkin, Little Green Footballs and others for describing the left’s anti-war "vigils" as "parties": "I find this rash of posts suggesting that anti-war activists ‘celebrate’ the deaths of American … Read More
BREAKING NEWS IN PLAMEGATE!!!
Four trays of doughnuts have been brought in to the grand jury!!! Thank you, Fox News, for your masterful journalistic scoop!!
Jonah Goldberg – Hypocrite
Hat tip to Shake’s Sister (who is on a roll lately). If you’re going to call [someone] a Nazi, show me the children with tattoos on their arms. Show me the stockpiles of emaciated corpses. Show me files cabinets full of memos detailing how [they] plan on disposing of millions of dead American citizens killed with poisonous gas. If you … Read More
Malkin Dislikes Round Numbers
Michelle Malkin, in her Townhall column, asks: The anti-war Left couldn’t wait for the death of the 2,000th soldier in Iraq. Peace activists have been gearing up for protests, vigils, and other events this week to mark the completely bogus milestone. Why 2,000? Was the 2nd or 555th or 1,678th death not as worth mourning as any other death with … Read More
Hindrocket Wins Wanker Of The Day Award, Again
From Is That Legal, via Atrios: John Hinderaker, yesterday: Tomorrow may bring indictments of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby on charges that can charitably be described as trivial. Tonight, one of our readers urged us to link to President Bush’s great speech to the Joint Armed Forces Officers’ Wives’ group rather than being distracted by the minutiae of the day. … Read More
The Credibility Gap
Yesterday, eternally-outraged Michelle Malkin wrote a long post entitled "Al Franken Is Cracking Up". Her thesis was that Al Franken is "cracking up" because he took part in a silly skit in which he symbolically beats up a conservative (actually an Air America studiohand). It was a silly skit and promotion gimmick for Franken’s new book "The Truth . . … Read More
We Saw This Coming
I’m not sure who it was, but somebody expected that Republicans would downplay the possibility that members of the Bush Administration would be indicted for "only" perjury. Yet, when it was Clinton, perjury was a terrible terrible thing. Well, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson wins the award. Via Think Progress, we learn what she said in February 1999: [S]omething needs to … Read More
Fun With Kaye
Time to see what one of our favorite wingnut columnists thinks about this whole Miers nomination thing. So bring out Mrs. Kaye Grogan: If President Bush picked Jesus Christ for the U.S. Supreme Court, the liberals would crucify him again. You mean crucify Jesus again . . . right? As opposed to, you know, Bush? Because I don’t think we … Read More
Wingnuts At Powerline Discover “Thought”
Quote of the week: As I’ve been suggesting, the fascinating thing about the Miers nomination is the way it forces politicians, pundits, and bloggers into uncharted territory, requiring them/us to think, whereas it’s normally enough just to react. Speak for yourself, pal. But it’s nice to see an actual admission that Powerline contributors don’t think before they opine.
Things That Make You Go “Hmmmmm”
What do this newspaper editorial, this one, this one, and this one all have in common? All of them are unsigned editorials, which makes it look like they’re original opinion pieces for each paper. (The Colorado Gazette even says it’s "our view.") And they all happen to say exactly the same thing, beginning with this paragraph: One of the smartest … Read More
Terrorism Hysteria
Cathy Young has posted a very sane analysis of the recent phenomenon of prominent right-wing bloggers jonesing for a new domestic terrorist attack. (Via Is That Legal): Michelle Malkin, Powerline, and The Jawa Report flogged the story relentlessly, picking up every sensational detail and railing against the "mainstream media" for ignoring and covering up the story. In a typical passage … Read More
Jonah Goldberg Rewrites History
Conservative NRO writer Jonah Goldberg doesn’t like Miers, but he’s resigned to it for the time being: When the nomination was first announced, I hurled myself onto my computer keyboard like the Phantom of the Opera to bang out an evil melody about the president’s folly, Miers’s lack of qualifications, and my abiding love for constitutional niceties and nuance. Even … Read More