Captain Ed and Michelle Malkin have found other reasons to complain about the Flight 93 Memorial. No doubt shamed by the laughter generating from the left and the right, the whole Islamic crescent controversy has been relegated to the back seat. Now the problem with the memorial is that it is all faggy and new-agey. You know, windchimes ‘n shit: … Read More
Katrina: Right Wing Myths Debunked
Think Progress has a link-o-riffic debunking of some right-wing Katina memes. Here’s an example — there are many more: CLAIM — STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS WERE MOSTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILURES: “White House Shifts Blame to State and Local Officials” [Washington Post, 9/4/05] FACT – BUSH PUT FEMA IN CHARGE OF EFFORT BEFORE KATRINA STRUCK: “Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, … Read More
More On The Flight 93 Memorial Design
Shorter Michelle Malkin: The plight of Flight 93 makes me cry, so you can understand why I was so shrill about the Flight 93 Memorial Design. Except I wasn’t being shrill. And just to prove that I wasn’t being shrill, here’s some polite emails and letters on the subject, none of which I wrote.
Flight 93 Homage To Mecca Update
The hysteria has reached epic proportions, and therefore, epic hilarity. The wingnuts are now convinced that the Flight 93 memorial points to Mecca. Liberal Avenger reports the latest here and here.
The Islamic State of South Carolina
The manufactured breathless "controversy" about the crescent-shaped Flight 93 memorial (which I wrote about here) continues. Liberal Avenger, who graciously linked to me, is on the case. Read his post, and pay particular attention to the moonbats his comments section. They’re going ballistic. The funny think about the right wing here is that they apparently "see" Islam embopied in a … Read More
Paranoia Of The Day
This amuses me to no end. Take a look at this picture. It is what the proposed Flight 93 memorial will look like from the air (Flight 93, as you recall, was the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11). The image-over-substance wingnuts are absolutely freaking out about it. Why? Because it’s sorta shaped like a crescent! You know — … Read More
More Katrina Punditry
Today, we’re going to have some fun with Renew America columnist Karen Pittman, living proof that beauties and brains tend not to run together. Or not run at all. Keep in mind as you read that, according to her bio, she’s known as the "Lay’s Potato Chip of political punditry". Which is saying something. I have heard it all now. … Read More
Kaye Grogan And Katrina
We knew Kaye wouldn’t disappoint us when she got around to writing about Katrina. As the convoys of the U.S. National Guard arrived in New Orleans, their first priority was to try and restore civility, law and order, before they could begin to perform their rescue operations in a timely manner. If the convoys wanted to do anything in a … Read More
Shorter Michelle Malkin
Shorter Michelle Malkin: Al Franken signed a settlement agreement with a guy who screwed over Al Franken and other Air America investors; therefore, Al Franken is corrupt. I don’t get the breathlessness that the rightosphere has over this story. Basically, it boils down to this: (1) There’s a guy named Evan Cohen. He was, among other things, a venture capitalist … Read More
Kristol Clear
I’ve seen a lot of Bush apologists in the past several years, but this beats all. William Kristol, the conservative publisher of The Weekly Standard, said of Mr. Bush: "I do think people think he could have showed stronger leadership." But Mr. Kristol expressed doubt that the hurricane would have much lasting effect on the president’s personal and political fortunes, … Read More
Dolls, Not Rap
Rebecca Hagelin at Townhall.com sees the Katrina disaster as an indictment of the gangsta culture. Let’s have fun with her: Throwing out the thugsRebecca Hagelin This famous, selfless cry for the safety of others is best associated with the tragedy of the Titanic, when thousands lost their lives in the frozen waters of the sea so many years ago. Yes. … Read More
Whither The Right Blogosphere
I’ve noticed lately that there is a certain "circle-the-wagons" and/or "flee-for-the-hills" mentality among those in the right blogosphere. For example, I occasionally post at a non-politically-aligned group blog called Freespeech.com, which has had its share of conservative posters doing the whole smear-liberal-and-defend-Bush thing. Starting in the middle of the summer, they’ve slowly disappeared. Furthermore, I increasingly notice that many conservative … Read More
Delinking Glenn
There are wingnuts, and there are wingnuts. Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) stirred up a hornet’s nest when he wrote: I think that demonizing the ACLU is a bit silly. I do feel that they’ve become overly partisan in recent years, but they still do good work (I’ve worked with them in the past, on the New Orleans rave case for example, … Read More
Oy
According to Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon, there’s an email making the rounds. It carries the picture below and the following text: The image of the hurricane above with its eye already ashore at 12:32 PM Monday, August 29 looks like a fetus (unborn human baby) facing to the left (west) in the womb, in the early weeks of gestation (approx. … Read More
An Open Letter To Mr. Prager
Dear Mr. Prager: It’s kind of easy to win a debating point when you get to speak for *both* sides of the debate, as you’ve done in your latest piece. It allows you to misprepresent the position of your opponent, who is not there to correct you. (Do you now see why some liberals refer to the right wing media … Read More