Former Dan Quayle speechwriter Lisa Schiffren: You know what? Deep in my psyche, in the place that kind of misses the toothache I’ve been prodding at with my tongue, I am having a tiny little pang of missing Hillary. Not her, but hating her. Hating Hillary has been such a central political impulse for so long now — 15 years … Read More
More Goldberg
This one makes my head explode: Seeing as how I am both a white male and one of the "liberal fascists" that Goldberg writes about, I think the thing for me to do is to check myself in a concentration camp.
Fascists Everywhere
Via Sadly, No!, a look at the dustcover of Jonah Goldberg’s forthcoming book entitled "Liberal Fascists". This is the book that Jonah himself described back in March with these words: My book isn’t like Dinesh’s latest book. It isn’t like any Ann Coulter book. It isn’t what the Amazon description says or what the Economist claims it is. Or what … Read More
Makris V. O’Reilly: The Opera
Someone took the sexual harassment allegations against Bill O’Reilly — including the taped phone call in which he described how he would seduce Ms. Makris — and set them to an operatic area. Here is the result, performed live:
Right Wing Blogs Mindlessly Parrot White House Talking Points
So says Dan Bartlett, former Bush White House Director of Communications: That’s what I mean by influential. I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It’s a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we’ve cultivated and have really … Read More
The Klein/Time Controversy
In a nutshell: Joe Klein printed something in Time about the FISA bill that was clearly objectively wrong. Rather than read the bill and report what it actually said, he transcribed what a Republican told him it says. Klein originally wrote: Unfortunately, Speaker Nancy Pelosi quashed the House Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan effort and supported a Democratic bill that — Limbaugh … Read More
Journamalism
Real journalists hate bloggers. From today’s Washington Post: Citizen journalism is bringing folks, young and old, into the public square, giving voice to those who, in the pre-Internet era, may have felt voiceless. But some challenge the value of all this citizen involvement. Questions pop up. Is it really "journalism"? Are "they" really "journalists"? What’s the difference between citizen journalists … Read More
“As Far As I Know” Being The Operative Phrase Here
Bill O’Reilly, criticizing the USO: "As far as I know, the only famous people in the past year were (country music singer) Toby Keith and me." The facts from the USO (PDF format): Just through September of this year, we produced 37 overseas tours with 241 performances for 98,000 troops in 14 countries, 9 stateside tours, 15 celebrity education events … Read More
Shorter Mike Adams
Shorter Mike Adams: "The greatest civil rights leader in America wasn’t Martin Luther King, but a guy who invented a gun that can kill shitloads of deer."
The Golden Wingnut Award
Over at The Washington Monthly, A-list blogger Kevin Drum has been holding tallying the votes for the Golden Wingnut Award, an award he just made up for the wingnuttiest blog post ever. The winner by a substantial margin was John Hinderaker of The Corner for his July 28, 2005 masterpiece containing these words of unforgettable wingnuttery: It must be very … Read More
“Think Of The Children!!!”
Carol Platt Liebau is concerned about morals, particularly those of young girls. The sky is falling. Seriously, it is. Before we get to her column, let’s first look at something written a few years ago in the San Fran Chronicle: Teen suicide is more than a personal tragedy; it’s a powerful reminder of adults’ own fear of the future. Ninety … Read More
Shorter Townhall Columnists
Shorter David Strom: "OMIGOD!!1!! Government of Minnesota is going to the Arctic!!!1!!" Shorter Burt Prelutsky: "The Nobel Peace Prize would be much more relevant if they gave it to people who waged war." Shorter David Limbaugh: "Hillary is not indecisive; she’s inconsistent. Oh, and a man, too. Zing!!" Shorter Lorie Byrd: "I haven’t quite been able to connect the whole … Read More
Here We Go Again….
The rightosphere is pushing the meme that Hillary is a lesbian. I remember hearing that one as far back as 1992. This time though the lesbian in question is a Muslim!! (More rumor-mongering here) Ten bucks says it will be on Fox News within a week. They won’t report it as fact. That’s not how it works. Instead, they’ll just … Read More
Yet This Is The Harangue
I’m warming up to the writings of Pastor Swank. First of all, he’s prolific. Second of all, he butchers the English language like no other Renew America columnist (except for, of course, Kaye Grogan). Take, for example, the opening graf in yesterday’s column: It is stupid for supposedly intelligent persons so flippantly to blame parents of children who murder or … Read More
California Boy Is Al Qaeda, Apparently
Fox News and conservative blogs have been falling all over themselves trying to — forgive the pun — fan the flames of fear by suggesting that the California wildfires were intentionally set by (cue dramatic music) al Qaeda. Read here and here and here and here and here and… all these. While evidence suggested arson, nothing other than paranoia suggested … Read More