First up: Marsha West, a "freelance writer specializing in Christian worldview". Let’s see what her Christian worldview is: Radical feminism: The kiss of death Oh, this isn’t going to be pretty. The "great strides" made by the feminist movement have been lost on young celebrities. Britney Spears has been spotted frequenting nightspots with actress Lindsay Lohan and heiress Paris Hilton. … Read More
Marie Jon Apostrophe on “Democratic Defeatism”
Marie Joh Apostrophe has some thoughts about the State Of The Union and Iraq: After hearing the State of the Union address, many people came away with very positive feelings. The president gave an excellent speech. Under the president’s watch, the State of the Union is well. Marie knows that the State of the Union is well because Bush said … Read More
Shorter Townhall Columnists
Shorter Mary Graber: "Prompted by the New York Times story that 51% of women in America are unmarried, I stayed up all night drinking black russions and talking to my cat about the Playboy Mansion." Shorter Burt Prelutsky: "Dogs, Jews, and Christians — good. Pigs, Muslims, and Nancy Pelosi — bad. Any questions?" Shorter Rich Galen: "Republicans worry too much … Read More
Novak: Democrats Are “Rude”
Novak is very cantankerous and grumpy today. More so than usual, that is. When President Bush called for a bipartisan "special advisory council" of congressional leaders on the war against terrorism in his State of the Union address, he had in his pocket a rude rejection from Democratic leaders. Thank you very much, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate … Read More
CNN Does What News Organizations Are Supposed To Do
CNN decided to investigate the facts of a story, rather than report rumor as fact. Good for them. While Fox News and The Washington Times peddled the story that Barack Obama went to a “madrassa” when he was six years old, CNN actually went to the madrassa and discovered that it is not some school where they teach students to … Read More
Anatomy Of A Smear
The Washington Post has a nice story about the latest Obama smear. It’s about a "story" (that Obama went to a radical Muslim school and is, hence, a radical Muslim) that leapt from spam e-mail to a conservative magazine to the mainstream media — despite having anonymous sources, and devoid of actual fact. The silly season has started.
The Obama Smear Campaign In Its Early Stages
Here’s my attempt at an answer: Look, with all that is going on in the world, and with the importance of the next President affecting your finances and (in many ways) your life, if a candidate’s smoking habits (or lack thereof) operate as a relevant factor for you, then you should simply be denied your right to vote. Plain and … Read More
Wingnut Blog Of The Week
The site Shelley The Republican is so outlandishly hilarious that I’m not quite sure if it is a parody site or not. Here’s a smattering — Shelley’s take on Iowa Governor and Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Vilsack. For those who don’t know, Vilsack was orphaned and placed in a Catholic Church orphanage, alter raised by adoptive parents. The highlighted sentences … Read More
Terrorist Appeasers On The Right
At long last, I can say this: The far right conservatives in America actually hate this country and are terrorist appeasers. I know, I know. That’s the sort of hyperbolic criticism that usually gets said about those on the left. But the exact opposite is true, and I can say it is true. I can say it is true, because … Read More
Timing Is Everything
Looks like Nathan Tabor picked the wrong day to write this: Democrats attempted to embarrass the President and portray him as being out of touch with the American public by forcing a vote on a federal funding plan for embryonic stem cell research that he had promised to veto. Embryonic stem cell research has resulted in zero successful treatments. That’s … Read More
Ann Coulter Fraud Investigation Update
From Bradblog (who has more documents):
Shorter Jonathan Chait (Updated With Dreher)
Shorter Jonathan Chait: Okay. Okay. I was wrong about the Iraq War, and the anti-war liberals were right, just as they were right about Vietnam. But you should listen to hawks in the future, because one of these days we’ll be right. Seriously, this has to be one of the most embarassing mea culpas in the history of op-ed pieces. … Read More
Eating Crow
It doesn’t get better than this: Packs of right-wing bloggers spent the last several weeks trying to destroy the credibility of Associated Press’s war reporting by claiming that one of its sources, an Iraqi policeman named Jamil Hussein, does not exist, that AP simply invented him. As it turns out — and as AP itself had the great pleasure of … Read More
Reading The Right
Shorter Felilcia Benjamin: "Women who bear children out of wedlock are dishonoring the generations of soldiers who died on the battlefield preserving womens’ right to marry. Also, immigrants suck." Shorter Lisa Fabrizio: "I found God at a dude ranch." Shorter Chuck Colson: "We Christians are more compassionate than non-Christians and fuck anybody who says otherwise." Shorter Cal Thomas: "The 2006 … Read More
Marie Jon Apostrophe Gets All Bookish
I curse (and thank) the folks at Sadly, No, for they beat me to the punch on Marie Jon Apostrophe’s latest screed. Enjoy it.