Dana Perino puts that hag Helen Thomas in her place
Why her bosses haven’t put her out to pasture, or sent her to the moonbat equivalent of Rainbow Bridge, is beyond me. From NRO:
Q [Thomas] (off mike): Why should we depend on him?
MS. PERINO: Because he’s the commander on the ground, Helen. He’s the one who is making sure that the situation –
Q (off mike): — You mean how many more people we kill?
MS. PERINO: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front-row position bestowed upon you by your colleagues to make such statements. It is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we as the United States are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.
Q: Do you know how many we have since the start of the war?
MS. PERINO: How many — we are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed, we have expressed regret for it.
Q :Well, regret it doesn’t bring back a life.
MS. PERINO: Helen, we are in a war zone, and our military works extremely hard to make sure that everyone has the opportunity for liberty and freedom and democracy, and that is exactly what they’re doing.
Q (off mike): — Oh, regret. It doesn’t bring back a life.
MS. PERINO: I’m going to move on.
Put that in your bong and smoke it, you horrific and childish troll!
Happy Veterans Day
Here’s a big “Thank you” to all veterans of the armed forces. Your service to this country is very much appreciated!
Exit question: since those knuckledragging irrational morons who try the intellectually vacuous “chickenhawk” slur say that you can’t support the soldiers unless you are a soldier, doesn’t that mean there should be no Veterans Day, since most of the country has never served in the military? I mean, we can’t go honoring former soldiers unless we ourselves have been one, right?
Maybe I should take back my “Happy Veterans Day” wishes. Nah…I think I’ll just laugh at the “chickenhawk”-slinging moonbats for being the imbeciles that they are. Happy Veterans Day!
Strange political day
In highly conservative Utah, the voters sided with the liberal teachers union and rejected school vouchers.
In liberal Oregon, voters rejected a massive cigarette tax increase that would have required adults to kill themselves with lung cancer in order to fund children’s health insurance. Who knew Oregonians hated children? For those of you on the left, the prior sentence was sarcasm.
In liberal New Jersey, voters rejected a stem cell proposal.
In conservative Kentucky, a Democrat was elected governor.
In liberal Indianapolis, a Republican was elected mayor.
Strange days, indeed.
TNR: The Army publicized documents that…uh…we wanted publicized!
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here we have TNR trying to blame the Army for TNR’s own malfeasance. As Allah characterizes it, “TNR very angry that Army didn’t let them pretend Beauchamp conversation never happened.” Observe:
Reminds me of when Dan Rather said, in the midst of Rathergate, with a very straight face, that if the memos turned out to be fake he’d like to be the one to break that story.
Sometimes those big scoops need to be “helped along” a bit by outside parties, n’est-ce pas?Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic, said in an interview that the documents Matt Drudge posted this afternoon–and removed several hours later without explanation–could have only come from the Army.
Mr. Foer said he called TNR’s contact there, Major Kirk Luedeke, as soon as the documents appeared on Drudge’s Web site. According to Mr. Foer, Major Luedeke told him that the Army was “investigating the source of the leak,” though they did not explicitly take responsibility for it.
“It’s maddening to see the Army selectively leak to the Drudge Report things that we’ve been trying to obtain from them through Freedom of Information Act requests,” Mr. Foer said. “This fits a pattern in this case where the army has leaked a lot of stuff to right wing blogs.”
Mr. Foer said TNR had been trying since July to get access to some of the documents Mr. Drudge posted, but that the Army had not cooperated.So Foer couldn’t report on a conversation he himself participated in because the record wasn’t complete yet? Re-read that transcript again. Foer and Scoblic are telling Beauchamp, with no little amount of desperation, that they’re going to have to walk away from the piece if he doesn’t talk to them. Which he doesn’t. By their own formulation his protracted “no comment” is hugely significant and thus, one would think, should merit some kind of mention in TNR, whether or not a new report might be warranted later if further documents were released.
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Their defense here is obviously going to be that Beauchamp did offer to “talk” to them, sort of, by promising to release the statements he gave to the Army and that they were simply waiting until they had that material to report the conversation. But … why don’t they have that material yet? Beauchamp agreed to release it to them in part 2 of the transcript, but here we are six weeks later and still no report from TNR. Like Ace says, there are only two possibilities:1) Beauchamp never authorized the release of these documents to TNR, and TNR is trying to claim the Army has a special duty to give them to TNR, even with Beauchamp stubbornly refusing to sign the release.
2) Beauchamp did authorize the release of all documents specifically pertaining to himself, which is all he could authorize, but that authorization does not cover the statements made by other troops in the unit. So TNR is spinning its failure to get permission from the other soldiers to view their statements as A) due to Army non-cooperation and B) absolving them from having to report any further on the story until they get these documents (which they never will).They’re “waiting for all the facts to come in” before they do any further reporting on the story, in other words. And since there are no more facts forthcoming, voila: story’s over. Frankly, I’m surprised the Army didn’t leak Beauchamp’s statements and the report of its investigation to TNR just to call their bluff and force their hand.
Update: Says See-Dub, “So we are to believe that the army was previously stonewalling on these documents that show that A: the troops aren’t psychopathic dog-smashers and B: their effete liberal critics were printing falsehoods about them? Documents numerous sources had already FOIA’d? But now they ‘leak’ it?”
Update: Captain Ed’s on the same wavelength. “Just the fact that TNR needed an FOIA request to find out what the Army discovered should have informed them of Beauchamp’s credbility.”
To summarize: the Army is evil for killing dogs, mocking disfigured women, etc., and then they’re evil again for not letting TNR’s slander go unanswered by proving (to the MSM’s chagrin) that the Army doesn’t kill dogs or mock disfigured women. Got it?
Hiatus until Monday
I’ve been at the E.R. since 12:30 a.m., and I’ve had about two hours of sleep. I’ll return to blogging on Monday. Don’t worry, I’m fine. Everyone, enjoy your weekend!
Reflections six years later
There’s a plethora of columns out there that are much more eloquent than what I have to say, so I’ll keep this short and sweet: I don’t like the direction we’ve gone since 9/11/01.
Back then, we were united. Now, we’re as divided as we’ve ever been. I mean, our survival is at stake, and we’ve got elected officials who are invested in defeat so as to score some political points for themselves and their party. Their myopia is lethal, and I pray that God has mercy on us and saves this nation from peril through these idiots’ faulty leadership.
By “idiots”, I mean on both sides of the aisle. Bush has squandered the unity that this country has, through at-times ineffective leadership and communication. Weak-kneed Republicans, dealing with a war-weary electorate, are now opting for political expediency rather than sound (if unpopular) policy decisions. As for Democrats, their shameful behavior is too lengthy to fully address, and for those of you who come here often, you know what I mean.
In short, I question Republicans’ vision and spine, and I question Democrats’ patriotism and sanity.
We the people are not without blame for the current state of the union. We live in an ADHD society, not having an attention span sufficient to see the big picture. We want what we want and by gosh, we want it now. We like our wars the way we like everything else done for us these days: quick. Though our president leveled with us and told us in 2001 that the war against terrorism would be long and would continue after he was gone, we must not have believed him, because we’re acting like the whining and nagging children on a car trip: “Are we there yet?”
Some columnist recently opined that we needed another terrorist attack to unite us. That’s a stupid thing to wish for, and my reaction then is the same as it is now: We would be united again, until the next season of American Idol came along to distract us again.
I will never forget that day in infamy six years ago. I wish to God that we could be united in the way that we were back then. But if such a horrific event didn’t keep us unified, I don’t know what will.
Evil genius leaving Bu$hCo
Throwing a bone to the moobats with my headline. Your welcome, in advance. Anywho, from WSJ:
Karl Rove, President Bush’s longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, he said in an interview with Paul Gigot, editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page.
Mr. Rove, who has held a senior post in the White House since President Bush took office in January 2001, told Mr. Gigot he first floated the idea of leaving a year ago. But he delayed his departure as, first, Democrats took Congress, and then as the White House tackled debates on immigration and Iraq, he said. He said he decided to leave after White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten told senior aides that if they stayed past Labor Day they would be obliged to remain through the end of the president’s term in January 2009.
“I just think it’s time,” Mr. Rove said in the interview. “There’s always something that can keep you here, and as much as I’d like to be here, I’ve got to do this for the sake of my family.” Mr. Rove and his wife have a home in Ingram, Texas, and a son who attends college in nearby San Antonio.
In the interview, Mr. Rove said he expects Democrats to give the 2008 presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom he described as “a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate.” He also said Republicans have “a very good chance” to hold onto the White House in next year’s elections. …
Naturally, the moobats’ conspiracy theories have begun. Warped minds never rest, ya know.
MN bridge collapse due to design failure?
Someone call Ed Schultz and let him in on the disappointing news: the bridge collapse was NOT Bush’s fault! From the Old Gray Hag:
Investigators have found what may be a design flaw in the bridge that collapsed here a week ago, in the steel parts that connect girders, raising safety concerns for other bridges around the country, federal officials said today.
The Federal Highway Administration swiftly responded by urging all states to take extra care with how much weight they place on bridges when sending construction crews to work on bridges. Crews were doing work on the deck of the Interstate 35W bridge when it gave way, hurling rush-hour traffic into the Mississippi River and killing at least five people.
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If there was a design error in the 1960s, failure to identify it before the bridge collapse indicates a problem with the federal inspection program, said Thomas M. Downs, who was the associate administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 1978 to 1980.
If only that Chimpy McHitlerburton hadn’t been partying in college or flying around in the Texas Air National Guard, he could have done something back in the late ’60s and early ’70s about that bridge. Heck, he didn’t even do anything as governor of Texas about the Minnesota bridge in the 1990′s! He’s got 40 years of blood on his hands from this catastrophe!
For those of you on the left, the prior paragraph was sarcasm.
Quote of the day
This is from last week, but you’ll have to forgive me for only being able to get around to it right now. The Young America’s Foundation had a gathering last week, and invited Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch to speak. Spencer has been quite critical of Islamic terrorism and has provoked the ire of CAIR, the pro-terrorist Hamas-linked organization who also happen to be unindicted co-conspirators in a Hamas funding case.
Anyway, so CAIR hires themselves a lawyer who just so happens to be general counsel for the Democrat National Committee , and this guy basically threatens to sue YAF if Spencer speaks. YAF’s response qualifies as “Quote of the Day” and is brought to you by YAF spokesman Jason Mattera:
“CAIR can go to Hell and they can take their 72 virgins with them.”
Ouch! That’s sure to get Ibrahim Hooper’s turban in a bunch.
Vacation
I’m out of town for the rest of the week, so the next update will be Monday, August 6. I don’t think I’ll have access to the Internet where I’m going, so to prevent the moobats and trolls from taking over, comments will remain moderated and will be cleared on Sunday evening.
Have a great week, everyone!
Light posting over the next day or so
Posting may be light over the next day or two because I’ve got strep throat, so I’ll be in bed quite a bit. I’ll moderate comments as often as I can, so please, keep the comments coming.
Absurd question of the day
The question posed on the cover of the Esquire magazine that tabbed Silky Pony as “Sexiest Woman Alive” is this: “Can a white man still be elected president?”
Let me think about that. Total white men elected president thus far: 43. Total who don’t fall into the “white man” category elected president thus far: 0.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the answer to such a patently absurd question is “Yeah!”
New host for "The Price is Right"
Fortunately, Rosie O’Qaeda wasn’t chosen to replace Bob Barker. However, it looks like Drew Carey is going to be the guy. Bob Barker is said to be pleased with the choice, so if it’s good enough for Bob AND it’s not Rosie O, then it’s good enough for me.
"Non-political" meets "headline"
Headline: “Women drawn to men with muscles”. What ever would we do without “experts”?
Strategy to Dems: Appeal to emotions, not facts or reason
I know we discussed this before, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere in my posts. Anywho, from Neal Boortz:
I really think that this is one of the big stories of the day. Maybe because it is something I’ve been saying for years … about liberals, that is.It looks like we have a high-powered brain scientist serving as the latest advisor to the Democratic party. Drew Westen conducted research which leads to his conclusion that politicians – liberal politicians — should try and appeal to people’s emotions, rather than bogging them down with data and facts.
Where did we first find out about this research? Why, at the ultra-left wing “Take Back America” convention, that’s where. The study was presented by researcher, Drew Westen, a psychologist and brain researcher at Emory University in my hometown of Atlanta.
Here’s the ironic part of his study. It sounds to me like Dr. Westen is basically telling democrats that their constituents are stupid. He is telling democrats to appeal to constituents’ emotions because “it doesn’t make sense to argue an issue using facts and figures … or to count on voters to make choices based on sophisticated understandings of policy differences or procedures.” And there you have it. Avoid the facts, just go right for the heart!
Dr. Westen is suggesting that manipulating a voter’s emotions is better than boring them to tears with sophisticated understandings. “Sophisticated understandings? What’s that? Sounds to me like just a phrase denoting basic worldly knowledge, or being an educated citizen. Mr. Westen says, “[The brain] prefers conclusions that are emotionally satisfying rather than conclusions that match the data.”
Message to Democrats. Don’t bore your constituents with facts. Just tell them whatever makes them comfortable, warm, happy and all fuzzy.
Hmmmmm …. Not boring constituents with facts. Does that sound at all like the global warming cultists? But, I digress ……
So what’s a good politician to do? How about just scrapping all of the data and research on global warming, socialized healthcare, voting rights, government education … what’s the point? If I want to be a good liberal, I should just get up here and appeal to your emotions. Forget trying to actually understand an issue … that would just be too complicated.
You know why this works for democrats, don’t you? Because if their voters actually did the research into any liberal platform issues, they would realize that the Democrats are wrong. I’ve been telling you for years that liberals (that means Democrats) like to argue from the position of emotion and feelings rather than fact and logic. You’ll find it in my book “The Terrible Truth About Liberals,” and that’s more than 10 years old! So let’s all just sit back and listen while the “progressives” offer us their preachy little sound bites that play on your emotions and not your intellect.
The sad reality here is that Dr. Westen probably has this thing figured out pretty well.
I have always said that liberalism is a “feeling, not thinking” ideology, and now we have a psychologist confirming this.
Click to enlarge (picture, not brain…the liberal brain cannot be enlarged)
TSA screeners confiscate water bottles, miss bombs
I still recall the Jesse-like words of the deposed former Senate Dem leader Tom Dasshole: “You don’t professionalize unless you federalize.” From Albany, NY:
Federal inspectors were able to slip a fake bomb through a checkpoint at Albany International Airport during a test of the facility’s Transportation Security Administration screeners, according to individuals familiar with the incident.The unannounced inspection by TSA officials took place early last week. The airport’s security measures failed in five of seven tests, most of the problems occurring at the passenger checkpoint, the sources said.
In one test, TSA inspectors hid the components of a fake bomb in carry-on luggage that also contained a bottle of water. Passengers are prohibited from carrying containers holding more than three ounces of liquids, gels or aerosols through airport checkpoints.
The screeners at Albany International confiscated the water bottle but missed the bomb. In all, the inspectors slipped four banned items through the main checkpoint during the test, sources said.
The TSA, which took over security at the nation’s commercial airports after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, conducts random tests of its workforce on a regular basis and failures are common, officials said.
Paul Varville, the TSA’s security director at Albany International, could not be reached for comment.
Happy 4th!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Independence Day. The City Troll has a great post today about the greatness of this country and its roots. Be safe, be thankful, and enjoy!
Babies are liars?
From the UK:
Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected.Behavioural experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life. (Such as Democratic politics? – Ed.)
I believe the baby used in the study was named William Jefferson something…
2000th post
This is post #2000 here at the Crush Liberalism Objective World News Service (CLOWNS). I’ve been henpecking at the keyboard now for almost three years, and I’ve got two thousand posts to show for it. Some might say that’s pretty darned sad…and, well, they’re probably right! 
Be that as it may, this is a milestone. Granted, not a huge milestone, but a milestone nonetheless. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be doing this, but until I wake up one morning and say “I don’t feel like blogging anymore”, I thank you for putting up with me for this long.
Home Depot fires employees for stopping shoplifters
Home Depot employees obviously don’t want to do what’s right for Home Depot! From Moonbattery:
Bob Stewart of Midwest City, Oklahoma has been fired along with three other workers from their jobs at Home Depot for helping police apprehend shoplifters in violation of company policy:
An internal memo from Home Depot outlines that associates cannot accuse, detain, chase or call the police on any customer for shoplifting.
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The loss-prevention guy at our Shields (Boulevard) store turned around and told me all we need to do is tell the shoplifter to have a good day as they leave the store. I said that just doesn’t make sense.Actually, in light of our policy on border security, it makes perfect sense. Our Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff must be moonlighting as a security consultant for Home Depot.
As commenter V the K observes, “It’s not amnesty. It’s a path to ownership.” I mean, these shoplifters work hard and pay their taxes, so if they break the law, shouldn’t we look the other way?
I, for one, hereby refuse to shop at Home Depot until they remedy this situation. Lowe’s, here I come.
Caption it
Caption this picture from the Dem debate. Mine are in the Comments:
Noonan: "President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder"
I don’t know why the left hates Bush so much, considering that he has been largely responsible for the crack-up of the right and the left’s recent rise to power. According to Peggy Noonan, Bush has done serious damage to the right. Excerpts:
What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker–”At this point the break became final.” That’s not what’s happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.The White House doesn’t need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don’t even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.
This next part summarizes beautifully my sentiments on this administration:
For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don’t like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don’t like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.But on immigration it has changed from “Too bad” to “You’re bad.”
Noonan’s ephiphany:
What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom–a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history we don’t need hacks.
Noonan on wasting the inheritance and on letting go:
One of the things I have come to think the past few years is that the Bushes, father and son, though different in many ways, are great wasters of political inheritance. They throw it away as if they’d earned it and could do with it what they liked. Bush senior inherited a vibrant country and a party at peace with itself. He won the leadership of a party that had finally, at great cost, by 1980, fought itself through to unity and come together on shared principles. Mr. Bush won in 1988 by saying he would govern as Reagan had. Yet he did not understand he’d been elected to Reagan’s third term. He thought he’d been elected because they liked him. And so he raised taxes, sundered a hard-won coalition, and found himself shocked to lose his party the presidency, and for eight long and consequential years. He had many virtues, but he wasted his inheritance.Bush the younger came forward, presented himself as a conservative, garnered all the frustrated hopes of his party, turned them into victory, and not nine months later was handed a historical trauma that left his country rallied around him, lifting him, and his party bonded to him. He was disciplined and often daring, but in time he sundered the party that rallied to him, and broke his coalition into pieces. He threw away his inheritance. I do not understand such squandering.
Now conservatives and Republicans are going to have to win back their party. They are going to have to break from those who have already broken from them. This will require courage, serious thinking and an ability to do what psychologists used to call letting go. This will be painful, but it’s time. It’s more than time.
RNC donations are off by 40%, so obviously, the base is talking with their pocketbooks. Seriously, how long did the GOP “leaders” expect the base to keep grabbing their ankles and taking the “shut up and give us money, you ‘quacking’ bigots” treatment?
Looks like I’m not the only one who can’t wait for this faux conservative to get the hell out of the White House.
Dems finding out that leading isn’t their cup of tea
It sure is a lot easier to b#tch about problems than actually doing something to fix them, isn’t it? From the Washington comPost:
In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats’ domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol: Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage and student loan interest rate cuts all passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.But now that initial progress has foundered as Washington policymakers have been consumed with the debate over the Iraq war. Not a single priority on the Democrats’ agenda has been enacted, and some in the party are growing nervous that the “do nothing” tag they slapped on Republicans last year could come back to haunt them.
“We cannot be a one-trick pony,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), who helped engineer his party’s takeover of Congress as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “People voted for change, but Iraq, the economy and Washington, D.C., [corruption] all tied for first place. We need to do them all.”
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The voters seem to have noticed the stall. An ABC News-Washington Post poll last month found that 73 percent of Americans believe Congress has done “not too much” or “nothing at all.” A memo from the Democratic polling firm Democracy Corps warned last month that the stalemate between Congress and Bush over the war spending bill has knocked down the favorable ratings of Congress and the Democrats by three percentage points and has taken a greater toll on the public’s hope for a productive Congress.“The primary message coming out of the November election was that the American people are sick and tired of the fighting and the gridlock, and they want both the president and Congress to start governing the country,” warned Leon E. Panetta, a chief of staff in Bill Clinton’s White House. “It just seems to me the Democrats, if they fail for whatever reason to get a domestic agenda enacted . . . will pay a price.”
Leon Panetta has a quote that even I can agree with: “This leadership, these Democrats have shown that they can fight,” he said. “Now they have to show they can govern.”
NY Post: VT shooter was Dateline’s fault
We don’t have nearly enough conspiracy theories, do we? From the NY Post:
The following are facts. Make of them what you choose.On Sunday night, April 15th, 12 hours before Cho Seung-Hui began his killing spree on the Virginia Tech campus, “Dateline NBC” devoted its entire show to telling the story of psychotic murderer Robert Hyde.
Hyde was a bright young man from Albuquerque who began to suffer a steady mental deterioration until, one day, in 2005, at different locations, he shot and killed five people.
Beyond the murders, the NBC show stressed that Hyde was a time bomb who was released from police custody and hospital care despite frightening episodes and warnings from many, including his family, that eventually there would be hell to pay, that eventually he would kill.
Hyde’s story, it turned out, was roughly the same as Cho’s life story, except for the killing part. Cho hadn’t killed anyone, not yet.
The morning after NBC’s show aired, Cho, described by schoolmates as an all-night TV watcher, shot and killed two people.
He then returned to his dormitory to mail a parcel to NBC. It included a note from Cho that began, “You forced me into a corner.”
Then he traveled to a different section of the Virginia Tech campus, where he shot and murdered 30 more people.
Surely, Cho’s diseased mind was prepped and primed to commit mass murder, at some point. But did NBC’s show, the night before, serve as his prompt? In his afflicted state, did that “Dateline” installment push him over the edge? It’s unlikely that we’ll ever know.
Yet, the numerous similarities between the Hyde and Cho stories are inescapable. So is the timing. Cho’s rampage began fewer than 12 hours after NBC’s episode about Hyde ended. And Cho interrupted his rampage only to send NBC a you-pushed-me-to-do-this missive.
But even if it’s all just a matter of bizarre, chilling coincidences, those coincidences seem too great to ignore or dismiss. (Oh yeah? Watch me. – Ed.) They’re worthy of your attention.
No, they’re not “worthy of your attention”, Mushnik. The guy was a psycho, and he plotted the whole thing out and executed his plan…nothing more, nothing less.
Spellin’ iz tuff
At least, it’s tough if you’re Tim Russert. From Media Bistro:
Russert Spells “I-R-A-K”
Wednesday on NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams and Tim Russert were discussing the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, specifically the very bad right track/wrong track (22/66) numbers, when Williams asked: “And Tim, among the issues that would drive a number like that, that severe, what’s the leading candidate?”Watch what Russert said:
(Video clip here)
Memo to Dan Quayle: If you have not yet done so, you may now officially get over the “potatoe” gaffe. At least Quayle’s word was more than four letters long.
"Bush fatigue"
From CNN:
Former President George Bush told CNN’s Larry King Monday that the electorate may be experiencing “Bush fatigue.”
Ya think?? Continuing:
And it may be the reason his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is sitting out the 2008 presidential election, the 41st president said.“There’s something to that — there might be a little Bush fatigue now,” former President Bush told CNN’s Larry King when asked if he agreed with a recent assessment from GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney that Jeb Bush would currently be a frontrunner for the Republican party’s presidential nomination if his last name wasn’t Bush.
But the former president predicted his youngest son may enter politics again in the future.
“I hope that Jeb, who left office looking good, is not through with politics,” the elder Bush said. ” I think he’s a good man, most other people think that, a man of principle. And I think he’s got a future.”
I agree. Jeb left office with high approval ratings, but he knows full well that running as a Bush in 2008 would be a huge liability. Jeb might have been better served had he challenged Bill Nelson last year for FL’s Senate seat, since he would have kept a high political profile. Laying low until 2012 or 2016 probably doesn’t help him.
Va Tech shootings postpone Gonzales inquisition…er, questioning
Headline: “Va. Tech tragedy delays Gonzales testimony”
How long until the moonbatosphere concocts conspiracy theories linking these two events (or, more appropriately, this event and non-event) together? Maybe Chimpy McHitlerburton planted the shooter (you know, the way he bombed the Twin Towers and Pentagon on 9/11?) to take the heat off of Gonzo! That evil b@stard!!!
I’ve been tagged to do a Meme
I’m not much into memes, but my new friend and visitor Ev has kindly requested me to do so, and so I shall.
Why are the 5 reasons we blog?
1. To educating America to the pitfalls and perils of the “feeling, but not thinking” ideology known as modern American liberalism.
2. I’m passionate about politics.
3. I’m passionate about writing.
4. I like to entertain. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
5. Because no one in his/her right mind would ever pay me to write my crap for a living, so I have to do it gratis. 
Wolfowitz to be fired from World Bank?
Looks like the former second in command at the Pentagon has some ‘splaining to do. From FNC:
Can World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz survive in his job? Increasingly, there is speculation that he cannot.Wolfowitz, 63, is facing the biggest crisis of his career: a scandal involving promotions and pay hikes to his girlfriend that threatens his control of the world’s largest and most influential anti-poverty institution, which doles out some $20 billion annually in loans and grants to developing countries.
After a week of shifting explanations by bank officials, a clearly-beleaguered Wolfowitz on Thursday announced at a Washington press briefing that he made “a mistake for which I am sorry” over his handling of a promotion and huge pay increases for bank staffer Shaha Riza, who had a romantic relationship with Wolfowitz that precedes his appointment to the bank’s helm in 2005.
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The pressure has been building rapidly on Wolfowitz, following allegations that he may have broken bank rules in ordering hikes in job status and pay for Riza. (Both are divorced.) The main problem is that Wolfowitz may have done this without consulting organs of the bank board that would otherwise deal with such conflicts of interest.
One word comes to mind when I think of Wolfowitz in this story: dumb#ss!
Seriously, dude, did you think that giving promotions and perks to the woman with whom you bump uglies isn’t going to attract any attention? Did you not think “You know, it might be a good idea for me to recuse myself from this process”? What a serious lapse in judgment!
BTW, is it just me, or does anyone else think that Wolfowitz looks a lot like Peter Coyote?
NJ guv Corzine critically injured in car wreck
From CNN:
New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine won’t be able to walk normally for months because of a car accident that left him hospitalized with serious injuries, a doctor said.The doctor said it will be at least several days before Corzine can resume his duties as governor.
Corzine, 60, was in critical condition Friday after undergoing two hours of surgery Thursday night to repair his broken leg and other injuries sustained in the crash on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township. (Watch helicopter footage of the crash aftermath )
“He’s got a pretty significant rehab in front of him,” said Dr. Robert Ostrum, who performed the surgery at Cooper University Hospital in Camden.
He said a rod was inserted in Corzine’s leg, and additional operations were scheduled for Saturday and Monday.
Here’s hoping that Gov. Corzine has a speedy and full recovery, and that he and his family remain strong for the coming months of rehab.
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