This item relating to the 2,000 death in Iraq is soooo two days ago*, but it just came across my radar now. I’m speaking of blogwatcher Peter Daou, who critized Michelle Malkin, Little Green Footballs and others for describing the left’s anti-war "vigils" as "parties": "I find this rash of posts suggesting that anti-war activists ‘celebrate’ the deaths of American … Read More
Jonah Goldberg – Hypocrite
Hat tip to Shake’s Sister (who is on a roll lately). If you’re going to call [someone] a Nazi, show me the children with tattoos on their arms. Show me the stockpiles of emaciated corpses. Show me files cabinets full of memos detailing how [they] plan on disposing of millions of dead American citizens killed with poisonous gas. If you … Read More
Malkin Dislikes Round Numbers
Michelle Malkin, in her Townhall column, asks: The anti-war Left couldn’t wait for the death of the 2,000th soldier in Iraq. Peace activists have been gearing up for protests, vigils, and other events this week to mark the completely bogus milestone. Why 2,000? Was the 2nd or 555th or 1,678th death not as worth mourning as any other death with … Read More
Hindrocket Wins Wanker Of The Day Award, Again
From Is That Legal, via Atrios: John Hinderaker, yesterday: Tomorrow may bring indictments of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby on charges that can charitably be described as trivial. Tonight, one of our readers urged us to link to President Bush’s great speech to the Joint Armed Forces Officers’ Wives’ group rather than being distracted by the minutiae of the day. … Read More
The Credibility Gap
Yesterday, eternally-outraged Michelle Malkin wrote a long post entitled "Al Franken Is Cracking Up". Her thesis was that Al Franken is "cracking up" because he took part in a silly skit in which he symbolically beats up a conservative (actually an Air America studiohand). It was a silly skit and promotion gimmick for Franken’s new book "The Truth . . … Read More
We Saw This Coming
I’m not sure who it was, but somebody expected that Republicans would downplay the possibility that members of the Bush Administration would be indicted for "only" perjury. Yet, when it was Clinton, perjury was a terrible terrible thing. Well, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson wins the award. Via Think Progress, we learn what she said in February 1999: [S]omething needs to … Read More
Fun With Kaye
Time to see what one of our favorite wingnut columnists thinks about this whole Miers nomination thing. So bring out Mrs. Kaye Grogan: If President Bush picked Jesus Christ for the U.S. Supreme Court, the liberals would crucify him again. You mean crucify Jesus again . . . right? As opposed to, you know, Bush? Because I don’t think we … Read More
Wingnuts At Powerline Discover “Thought”
Quote of the week: As I’ve been suggesting, the fascinating thing about the Miers nomination is the way it forces politicians, pundits, and bloggers into uncharted territory, requiring them/us to think, whereas it’s normally enough just to react. Speak for yourself, pal. But it’s nice to see an actual admission that Powerline contributors don’t think before they opine.
Terrorism Hysteria
Cathy Young has posted a very sane analysis of the recent phenomenon of prominent right-wing bloggers jonesing for a new domestic terrorist attack. (Via Is That Legal): Michelle Malkin, Powerline, and The Jawa Report flogged the story relentlessly, picking up every sensational detail and railing against the "mainstream media" for ignoring and covering up the story. In a typical passage … Read More
Jonah Goldberg Rewrites History
Conservative NRO writer Jonah Goldberg doesn’t like Miers, but he’s resigned to it for the time being: When the nomination was first announced, I hurled myself onto my computer keyboard like the Phantom of the Opera to bang out an evil melody about the president’s folly, Miers’s lack of qualifications, and my abiding love for constitutional niceties and nuance. Even … Read More
Malkin Using Up Nation’s Supply Of Tin Foil
What the hell is the matter with Michelle Malkin? It seems that she can’t read a single story without implying it is some conspiracy. Here’s the latest: Bunch of readers and bloggers are sending word of this weird story: A man who fatally shot himself in his University City condominium during a standoff with San Diego police was identified Saturday … Read More
Red Alert AGAIN?!?
I’m not the only one who has noticed that Michelle Malkin is fucking scared of everything these days: Michelle Malkin: BOMBS AT GEORGIA TECH The scary bombs at Georgia Tech sound like Coke Bottle Bombs – a prank. You take a two-liter empty plastic Coke bottle and throw a bunch of dry ice into it… Screw on the cap and … Read More
Captain’s Ship Sailed Off The Edge Of The Flat Earth
When I read sentences like this, from a supposedly prominent conservative blogger, I just want to bang my head against the wall: When members of the Democratic caucus used religion, disguising it as they did, to filibuster people like John Roberts and Janice Rogers Brown for their staunch Catholocism, everyone knew it — and we Republicans rightly called them out … Read More
Irony, Thy Name Is Malkin
Michelle Malkin made her name by writing a book suggesting that the United States was correct in locking up American citizens of Japanese descent back in World War II, even though there was no legal justification for doing so. She makes similar claims regarding the profiling of Muslims in the post-9/11 world. Well, it now appears that we have spies … Read More
Stupid Quote Of The Day
Captain’s Quarters on Harriet Miers: Inasmuch as a nomination to the Supreme Court has no prerequisites other than Presidential approval, she cannot be described as unqualified. Other than Presidential approval, there are no prerequisites for FEMA director either, but that doesn’t make Bush’s selection qualified for that position.