From Jesse Taylor at Pandagon, we learn that conservative Christian blogger LaShawn Barber (pictured at right) is making sure that everybody acts as the no-insult-Barber police: LaShawn Barber has a set of rules for tracking back to her site that have me giggling a little bit. Here are the good ones: 4) Trackbacks leading to offensive, ad hominem-laced, and/or libelous … Read More
We, Robots
Shorter John Ponderhatz: "I’ve written 12,000 words on a subject I don’t understand, and for some reason, robots are attacking me and pointing out my errors." I’m not following the Able Danger scandal much, which is why I don’t write about it. If John doesn’t like robots, he should do the same. Robots thrive on ignorance.
So Where Are The Reporters?
On–air admission from Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: What I keep doing here is asking people on and off camera who come on this program, high-ranking officers, enlisted, former officers. I get sometimes, not all the time, two different versions, the version they give me on the air and the version they give me the minute when we’re off the air. The … Read More
Ann Coulter: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I love her: To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush’s Crawford ranch. I don’t think she went to Crawford to "cheer herself up". But note that we’re only one sentence in, and we have more amature psychology from the … Read More
Can Dish It Out But . . .
… can’t take it, apparently. It has been 10 days since I first posted on Cindy Sheehan, and after sticking my neck out and taking massive amounts of ongoing abuse and ridicule for giving her the scrutiny she deserves, I am more than happy to let others pick up the slack. Then she links to others who continue continue slamming … Read More
Right Wing Newspaper Hearts Dictator
This just in: Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) — Leader Kim Jong Il Tuesday received Joo Dong Mun, president of the Washington Times Corporation, on a visit to Pyongyang. On the occasion the president offered his congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the 60th anniversary of Korea’s liberation. Kim Jong Il welcomed the Pyongyang visit of the president, had a cordial … Read More
Another Grieving Mom
Courtesy of The Green Knight, here’s a picture of another grieving Mom: Green Knight adds: …this man went to his death voluntarily and heroically. He was an adult when he did it. Apparently, according to the modern pro-war right, most of which thinks it’s Christian, his mom shouldn’t have been unhappy about it. Green Knight, with apologies to Cenk Uyger … Read More
Wingnuttia Of The Day
A.W. at Freespeech.com has been on trial lately (he says), so he’s been a little late in playing the Cindy Sheehan smear game. But what he lacks in punctuality, he make up for in both verbosity and wingnuttery: I’ll lay out my evidence shortly, but here are the pertinent points in my book. The proper reaction, I think, should be … Read More
Michelle’s Lame Response
As I reported yesterday, intellectually dishonest Michelle Malkin reported about Cindy Sheehan’s divorce claiming that "like it or not, it is news", a seeming contradiction of her previous "hands off" policy when it came to the mentioning of Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter and the New York Times inquiry into John Roberts’ kids. Today, Malkin lamely responded to the obvious hypocrisy: … Read More
The Lower Depths
Just when you think Michelle Malkin can’t get any lower in her smears of Cindy Sheehan, she does: Like it or not, the dispute between Cindy Sheehan and some of her family members is news. Malkin then goes on to note that divorce proceedings have been filed by her husband against Ms. Sheehan. Others have pointed out what I’m about … Read More
Chronicle Of A Non-Scandal
PHASE ONE: The Able Danger "scandal" as first mentioned by Kevin Drum on August 11: The story was about a U.S. Army military intelligence program called "Able Danger" that had supposedly used data mining techniques to identify the al-Qaeda cell run by Mohamed Atta a year before 9/11. Unfortunately, as the story went, nothing was done about it because Defense … Read More
Wingnuttia Of The Day
From a commentor at The Poor Man Cafe: I know this isn’t going to [be] popular on this website, but may I just point something out? A soldier’s #1 job is to stay alive. If you die, you can’t accomplish the mission, and you weaken your team and put your buddies in danger. Obviously Sheehan’s son, I forget his name … Read More
Sheehan
There’s so much out there on the left blogosphere about Cindy Sheehan, and it’s all good. But Steve Gilliard focuses on the predictable smear tactics of the right, and how it is backfiring: The thing about the Right Wing noise machine is that it only has one tactical mode. Full bore attack. Which against a woman who lost her son, … Read More
Kaye Habla English, I Think
It looks like Kaye Grogan is struggling with the English language again: Have you ever wondered why English is not the official language in America? After 200 plus years of English being the predominantly spoken language — what else would the native tongue be? And the last time I read the U.S. Constitution it was written in English. Actually, it … Read More
Heh, heh! He Said “”Bullshit”!
UPDATE: Bob Novak’s potty mouth is, according to Bob Novak, "poisoning America". (But then again, so is mine).