Poor Marie. She so badly wants to write an article with insightful political analysis about Hillary Clinton, the current Democratic frontrunner for President ’08. But she just can’t. Or can she? Just say no to socialized Hillary Care Ah, well, that’s a good start. A thought-provoking critique of Hillary’s plan for improved health care. Let’s see how far Marie can … Read More
The Education of Edward Daley
Rightwing columnist Edward Daley penned a column this weekend entitled "A Few Questions For Liberals". No doubt these questions will be as loaded as "When did you stop beating your wife?", but having nothing better to do, I am happy to answer Mr. Daley, and maybe he will learn something. 1) The modern American "peace movement" is responsible for the … Read More
Bumfuzzled
I want so badly to make fun of Kaye Grogan’s latest screed, "Smoking mirrors . . . or a real firestorm?", but I seriously have no clue as to what she is talking about. Apparently, though something serious is happening. Classic Kaye Gorgan metaphor-mashing though. Check out this paragraph toward the end: We are rapidly moving toward the greatest firestorm … Read More
Saving Private Beauchamp
The blogosphere is abuzz over Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s Iraq blogging. Mr. Beauchamp blogged some controversial posts about his military unit for The New Republic, under the pseudonym of Scott Thomas. The posts were deeply disturbing. In one, an Iraqi boy who calls himself James Bond has his tongue cut out for talking to Americans; in the other, dogs feast on … Read More
Marie Jon Apostrophe – Fact Fabricator
Marie Jon’: Terrorism is not spawned from Christianity or Judaism. There is no upheaval emulating from Baptists, Lutherans, Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostals, Mormons, Catholics, Church of Christ, Presbyterians, or Orthodox, Conservative or Reform Judaism. Oh, Marie. Don’t you read my blog? Three Burleson men who belong to a "radical Christian activist group" were in the Johnson County Jail on Friday … Read More
The Washcloths Of Lower Manhattan
I’m not going to make fun of Marie Jon Apostrophe’s latest editorial, because she’s being all patriotic and stuff by reminding her readers that this is a great Christian nation which tolerates atheists. Far be it for me to hurl snarky comments at my benefactor who allows me to live here. I will, however, laugh loudly at this sentence: As … Read More
Ann Coulter Should Be Sodomized With A Cactus
Yeah, I know that’s harsh, but the woman is vile, even by right-wing pundit standards. Her personal attacks on people are simply the basest of the base. Yesterday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Coulter said, “[I]f I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” She has … Read More
Everything I Know About Life I Learned From Nathon Tabor
Hard to believe that this guy can’t get elected to the North Carolina legislature, considering his overwhelming mastery of crime and its solutions: If schools, courthouses, and municipal buildings don’t post the command, "Thou Shalt Not Steal," it stands to reason that children would grow up believing that stealing isn’t all that bad. To Nathan, every societal problem can be … Read More
Fisking Noonan
Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush: Yep, we conservative Christians are just a bunch of hijackers… HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right- wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division. "Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and … Read More
Fact Checking The Fact Checkers
Right-wing columnist Andrew Ferguson wrote a hit piece on Al Gore’s new book for the Washington Post, which started this way: You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, "The Assault on Reason." It’s a sprawling, untidy blast of indignation, and annotating it with footnotes would be like trying to slip rubber bands around … Read More
Kaye Saves A Slow Friday
Just when I thought there was going to be nothing interesting to comment, rave, rail, or blather about, along comes a Kaye Grogan column. Happy days. What’s on Kaye’s mind today? Give half of Congress pink slips That’s the title of her column. Note the stylistic avoidance of capital letters. Kaye’s getting all e.e. cummings on us. Unduly some things … Read More
Malkin = Fearmongerer
Excitable rightwing blogger and occasional-Bill-O’Reilly-substitute-on-Fox Michelle Malkin castigates NY Mayor Bloomberg and New Yorkers in general for being "ostriches" about the whole foiled JFK bombing plot. What set Malkin off? This quote from Bloomberg: "There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry … Read More
The “Bush-Is-A-Liberal” Meme
Two great back-to-back posts by Glenn Greenwald — here and here — about the current "great rightwing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush". His thesis? That the conservative moment, upon (finally) admitting the failures of the Bush Administration, are now trying to prop up the theme that "Bush is not a real conservative" or — amazingly — that "Bush is … Read More
Lou Dobbs Has A “Flexible Relationship With Reality”
Lou Dobbs reported in April 2005 (and repeated several times since then), that 7,000 immigrants into the U.S over the past three years have been diagnosed with leprosy. FACT: There have been only 7,000 cases of leprosy in the United States over the past thirty years, and not all of them are from immigrants. Lou Dobbs reported in November 2003 … Read More
Oh, How I LOVE Kaye Grogan!
My favorite conservative columnist has come back after a far-too-long absence. Guess what? She’s really riled about something. Who would have thought??? She’s angry about immigrants, a favorite topic of hers. Here’s how she starts: While everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off, sending "say no to amnesty" faxes to their representatives, the only way to … Read More