Reality Check With Grant Swank

Ken AshfordElection 2008, Right Wing Punditry/IdiocyLeave a Comment

The Reverand Pastor Grant Swank had a great column yesterday.  A totally incomprehensible column full of ten dollar words…. Obama’s Cult "’As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I’ll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day,’ McCain said, referring to Democrat Barack Obama’s recent visit to … Read More

Kiss The Girl

Ken AshfordRight Wing Punditry/Idiocy, Sex/Morality/Family Values1 Comment

I’m still vaguely aware of popular songs on the charts, although typically, I’m not in that demographic anymore.  When I heard of a song called "I Kissed A Girl", sung by a woman (Katy Perry), I knew it was only a matter of time before the moral majority heads would spin.  And now that it is #1 on the Billboard … Read More

Let Us Not Bicker About Who Killed Who

Ken AshfordCrime, Right Wing Punditry/IdiocyLeave a Comment

Wow.  This paragraph is astounding: In other words, the Adkisson case provides a case study in the secular demonology of the left. We’re seeing the politics of hatred in action. It’s marked by demands for vengeance and modes of discourse seeking to protect the perceived purity of the liberal sensibility. It is irreligious and opportunistic. It is the repudiation of … Read More

Oy Vey, Maria

Ken AshfordElection 2008, Race, Right Wing Punditry/Idiocy4 Comments

Oh, Marie Jon Apostrophe.  You’re so self-parodying, it’s not even fun anymore: Hope and change worth having without an Obama racial test Ok.  So I’m going to gather from Marie’s awkwardly worded headline, that she is in favor of hope and change.  Not in favor of Obama’s racial test (I guess we’ll have to wait and see what that means), … Read More

Better Conservative Columnists, Please

Ken AshfordElection 2008, Right Wing Punditry/IdiocyLeave a Comment

Jonah Goldberg starts his column in today’s L.A. Times this way: Forced servitude in America? The U.S. already has high rates of volunteerism, but that’s apparently not good enough for our presidential candidates. There’s a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to … Read More

Michael’s At It Again With The Gay Thing

Ken AshfordRight Wing Punditry/Idiocy, Sex/Morality/Family ValuesLeave a Comment

From Thursday, it’s Michael Medved: The act of sexual intercourse between a man and a woman is the only human interaction capable of producing offspring, and therefore enjoys recognition in every culture as the most significant form of intimacy. "Significant" is a nice wishy-washy word.  Frankly, I didn’t know that we ranked various forms of sexual intimacy, in this culture … Read More

Dunkin Donuts Is Being Ridiculous

Ken AshfordImmigration and Xenophobia, Right Wing Punditry/Idiocy, War on Terrorism/Torture1 Comment

OMG!  Look!  It’s celebrity spokesperson Rachael Ray talking about Dunkin Donuts!!  And look what she’s wearing around her neck!  That looks vaguely middle eastern!  It looks like a keffiyeh.  Is she a terrorist-supporter?!?  Does Dunkin Donuts (by inference) support terrorism?!?!? Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk … Read More

Michael Savage Is An A-Hole

Ken AshfordRight Wing Punditry/IdiocyLeave a Comment

Here’s why: On the day it was announced that Sen. Ted Kennedy had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage opened his show by interspersing audio of Kennedy singing "Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes" with clips of news reporters discussing Kennedy’s diagnosis and audio from Kindergarten Cop in which Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character says, "It’s … Read More