September 3rd, 2010

The other day, Vanity Fair published a 10,000-word hatchet job about how Sarah Palin is history’s greatest monster. It was so bad, so shoddy and error-filled, even Palin-haters are bashing it. Even Palin-haters who helped the VF writer with his story are bashing it!

Yesterday, Palin was on Sean Hannity’s radio show and said this about the story:

“Impotent, limp and gutless reporters take anonymous sources and cite them as being factual references. It just slays me because it’s so absolutely clear what the state of yellow journalism is today that they would take these anonymous sources as fact.”

Whoa. Criticize the media all you want, Sarah, but what’s with the gay-bashing? That’s right, I said gay-bashing. Just ask The Advocate:

Is Sarah Palin using code words to slam gay journalist Michael Joseph Gross, a frequent Advocate contributor who wrote the much-buzzed-about profile of the former vice presidential nominee in this month’s Vanity Fair?

Palin didn’t mention Gross by name while talking Thursday on Sean Hannity’s WABC radio show, but she seemed to be referring to the article — and pointedly used emasculating words that have long been used as euphemisms for homosexuality — when she called reporters who publish “rumors” about her “impotent,” “limp,” and “gutless.”

Now, everybody knows I love The Advocate (which I read for the articles), but if you’re gay and you think “impotent” and “limp” are words that people use to describe your sexual activity, well… maybe you guys aren’t having as much fun as we all thought.

P.S. Gross incompetence, at best.

September 3rd, 2010

Hey, that’s not me saying it. Talk to The Paper of Record:

Two-thirds of New York City residents want a planned Muslim community center and mosque to be relocated to a less controversial site farther away from ground zero in Lower Manhattan, including many who describe themselves as supporters of the project, according to a New York Times poll.

The poll indicates that support for the 13-story complex, which organizers said would promote moderate Islam and interfaith dialogue, is tepid in its hometown…

67 percent said that while Muslims had a right to construct the center near ground zero, they should find a different site.

Which, as we all know, is un-American and mean and bad. It states quite clearly in the U.S. Constitution that you can say whatever you want unless you disagree with people who matter more than you do. The people who matter think that it’s a great idea and that you should shut up. So why are you still talking? Why do you hate America?

Speaking of people who matter, nobody matters more than President Barack Obama. And if you thought 9/11 caused you problems, get a load of this:

Every year it’s a challenge for the White House: how to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. This year is especially awkward, given the controversy around President Barack Obama’s remarks in support of an Islamic cultural center and mosque planned for a neighborhood near ground zero in lower Manhattan.

The White House has not yet announced the president’s plans for next week, though a source familiar with the matter was doubtful Obama would travel to New York.

Why would he want to? If the New York Times is to be believed — and it is, you redneck — two out of every three people in that place are subhuman hatemongers. Plus, they’d probably just ask if he’s a Muslim, which is a horrible accusation even though there’d be nothing wrong with it if he was.

By the way, whatever happened to that wave of anti-Muslim hate crimes? It was just getting started, and then everybody stopped talking about it. Why the coverup?

P.P.S. “Fox 5 News reported Thursday that one of the financial backers of the Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan once contributed to a terror group, although the investor says the contribution was made because he thought he was giving money to a harmless charity.”

September 3rd, 2010

He’s got a new movie out this week:

What, was ER on in the '70s?

He looks pretty good! The guy’s pushing, what, 80? I remember when he was one of the hosts on AMC back in the ’90s, and he doesn’t look much older than he did back then…

What’s that? It is? Nuh-uh. Are you sure? Okay, if you say so.

Sorry about that, George.

Well, the movie’s called The American, and since it’s Clooney playing the title character, presumably The American is a bad guy. Let’s hope this flick does almost as well as his buddy Matt Damon’s latest disaster, Green Zone. What is it with all these movie stars making movies nobody wants to see? Men Who Stare at Goats? Really? The Informant? Seriously? Back in the old days, movie stars used to play characters that people liked, and they didn’t crap all over their own country.

Jeez, listen to me. Sorry, guys. The bad knee’s got me walking like an old man, and now I sound like one. Get off my lawn, etc.

September 2nd, 2010

Pyramus and Thisbe. Romeo and Juliet. Angel and Buffy. And now, a new pair of star-crossed lovers

Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) said he loves President Obama on a personal level, and believes that the president likes him very much, too.

Cao, a Republican elected in 2008 in a heavily Democratic district in New Orleans, said that he gets along very well with Obama on a personal level, though many other GOP lawmakers are more critical of the president.

“I love the president, and I believe he truly likes me,” Cao told the New Orleans Times-Picayune in a profile published on Thursday.

Cao has backed Obama on several major initiatives, voting for Wall Street reform and a repeal of the ban on openly gay and lesbian members serving in the military.

Don’t let him steal your heart, Joseph. He’ll only hurt you. Just ask the voters.

September 2nd, 2010

Which fascist said that? Glenn Beck? Rush Limbaugh? Sarah Palin? Nope. From WTKK radio in Boston:

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(Hat tip: Hot Air)

September 2nd, 2010

Nobody's fault but mine.

James Jay Lee, the Discovery Channel would-be bomber who was shot and killed by police yesterday, left behind an online trail of radical environmentalist and outright anti-human propaganda. He had been yelling at the Discovery Channel for years to stop doing Shark Week and start doing Put Sterilizing Agents in the Drinking Water Week. He wanted us to stop having “filthy babies” and killing the planet. He claimed to have been educated by, among other things, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Does that mean Al Gore made him do it? Does it mean that the scare tactics employed by global warming believers caused him to flip out? No, it does not. The guy was nuts. If he hadn’t latched onto global warming and The Population Bomb and so forth, he would’ve latched onto something else. Plenty of people believe the same things James Jay Lee believed without resorting to violence. He alone was responsible for his own actions.

You may recall that this is the same attitude I had toward Michael Enright, the drunken art-school student who stabbed a cabbie in midtown Manhattan after asking if he was a Muslim. Except in that case, a mere week ago, we were told Enright was driven to it by “the climate of anti-Muslim bigotry in America.” And then the news got out that Enright volunteered for an organization that supported the Ground Zero Mosque, and everybody cleared their throats and shuffled their feet and tried to forget about the whole thing.

Do those same people believe that the climate of global warming alarmism in America drove James Jay Lee to commit such a terrible act? I’m not saying they should be yelling about that. I’m saying that if they don’t, if they only apply that standard when it suits them, they’re either unthinking demagogues or unprincipled hacks.

In sum: If you lamented how “the climate of hate in America” drove Michael Enright to violence, but now insist that James Jay Lee was acting alone and how dare anyone say otherwise, you are not to be trusted.

P.S. Lee thought of himself as a filmmaker. Judge for yourself (courtesy of Tim Blair):

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P.P.S. We really suffered a loss to humanity yesterday:

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P.P.P.S. This guy just keeps getting better and better

September 1st, 2010

This afternoon James Jay Lee, a crazy person with a gun, a bomb, and an anti-human manifesto inspired by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, took hostages at the offices of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring. He was shot and killed by police. The hostages were freed, unharmed.

Buh-bye, James.

Hot Air has more.

P.S. This one’s for you, James:

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P.P.S. Gunman’s Web Postings Show Longtime Hatred for Discovery, Overpopulation Alarmism

September 1st, 2010

In honor of Meghan McCain’s new memoir, Check It Out I Totally Wrote a Book LOL, here’s a rerun from my old blog last October. As you may recall, the noted political thinker ran into some trouble over a self-pic she posted on Twitter, and a couple of the involved parties tried to sort it all out:

September 1st, 2010

The pyromaniacal pundit spoke at Al Sharpton’s rally the Dozen Dude Dud last Saturday, and apparently he’s not happy about the turnout compared to that other rally. Radio Equalizer:

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Schultz will get started on that right after he dunks on LeBron, hunts and kills Bin Laden, and bangs Megan Fox. It ain’t no big shakes!

September 1st, 2010

FoxNews.com:

In a major upset, Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded her GOP Senate primary race Tuesday night to Tea Party Express favorite Joe Miller.

Oops.

Congratulations, Mr. Miller. But also condolences. Remember Joe the Plumber? You are now Joe the Miller. You are now The Enemy.

August 31st, 2010

Witness this glittering exchange (courtesy of Hot Air):

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An enormous lie, nervous laughter and faux-indignant sputtering over being called out on his lie, capped off with the sort of piercing riposte that really must’ve wowed ‘em back in 3rd-grade recess. I hope they keep Gibbs on board at least until November. Of 2012.

August 31st, 2010

Last week it was his Christopher Cross reference that sent me on an all-day bout of nostalgic introspection crying jag. This week it’s…

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When that song came out, I promised myself that once I turned 16, I would hold onto it as long as I could. Considering my level of emotional maturity, I’m proud to have kept that promise. I can also wear the same jeans, if only as a hat.

What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Labash. You should read his advice column every week. Since I started reading it, only one really bad thing has happened to me. So the odds could be worse!

August 31st, 2010

That’s what we were called 8 months ago, and now it’s Glenn’s turn. He just started a site called The Blaze, “a news, information and opinion site brought to you by Glenn Beck and a dedicated team of writers, journalists & video producers. Our goal is to post, report and analyze stories of interest on a wide range of topics from politics and culture to faith and family.”

That sound you just heard was all the lefty heads in America that hadn’t exploded yet this week, exploding. Some reaction:

“If there’s one thing it’s hard to get on the web, it’s news, opinion, and video.” — Gawker, suddenly self-aware

“What I don’t see is how Beck is monetizing it. The guy never seems to sneeze without figuring a way to earn money and promote himself so it’s hard to believe that some self-aggrandizing, profit-making scheme won’t be far behind this launch.” — News Hounds, who don’t like it when you call them socialists

“The site — which is already live — is already running ads for Goldline International.” — Will Bunch at Philly.com, which is completely ad-free except for all the ads

“Awwwww. The bigoted, anti-American psychotics get their own little website. How cute.” — Scytherius, commenter at The Wrap who is dreading November

“Guys like Beck scare the s**t out of me. It is not so much their actual politics as their evil-geek qualities – they are close-minded, frustrated and persnikety uncivil, lacking in gentility, angry failures on some level, and hostile toward anyone who has an opinion even slightly different from theirs. And they love to appeal to, and stir up, the unwashed masses. Remind you of anyone? A little mustachioed painter from Austria?” — SebastianCanada, commenting at nymag.com and being Canadian

So they seem to like it. Beck is also getting slammed for having so many stories on The Blaze about… Glenn Beck. Which is a bit rich coming from a site like Media Matters, which would collapse in on itself like a black hole of dumbness if it didn’t have Beck to complain about. Plus, this new site has existed for a day. Breathe into a paper bag already, libs. You sound more hyper and paranoid than… Well. You know.

August 31st, 2010

You are a racist.

ABC News:

Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.

U.S. officials said the two appeared to be travelling with what were termed “mock bombs” in their luggage. “This was almost certainly a dry run, a test,” said one senior law enforcement official…

The men were identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, of Detroit, MI, and Hezem al Murisi, the officials said.

I knew it. Mormons.

All kidding aside, what’s up with this anti-Muslim bigotry? I’ve long advocated the “Not All” rule for these types of stories:

Not All Muslims Arrested on ‘Preparation of a Terrorist Attack’ in Amsterdam
Not All Muslims Kill 14 in Fort Hood Shooting Rampage
Not All Muslims Put Bomb in Underpants and Book Transatlantic Flight
Not All Muslims Fly Planes into World Trade Center, Murdering Thousands

But instead we have this 21st Century lynching party. Do you really want to live in a world where the cops can arrest guys just because they happen to be Muslim and happen to be carrying stuff that looks like bombs? And I’m sure the arresting officers will deny up and down that they’re racists.

Be advised, America: This is what happens when you let your drunks wander into mosques and pee on stuff. This is your fault.

August 30th, 2010

This is not one of them.

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Looks like sometime between the first clip and the second, someone there in the overwhelmingly white offices of CNN took Ted Baxter 2.0 aside and explained that he’s too old to learn a useful skill and start all over again.

August 30th, 2010

As you may recall, a week ago we were informed that Joe Miller would “probably get trounced” by Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary for her Alaskan Senate seat, and that it was going to be “an embarrassing defeat” for Sarah Palin, who has endorsed Miller.

How’s that working out?

Libertarians say no to putting Murkowski on ticket

By DAN JOLING (AP)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The vice chairman of the Alaska Libertarians says his party will not consider putting U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on his party’s ticket in the general election.

Harley Brown says Murkowski’s positions do not reflect the values of the Libertarian Party…

Murkowski is running second to Fairbanks attorney Joe Miller for the Republican nomination.

It appears to be working out just fine.

P.S. James Taranto asks: “Why is everyone saying Miller did well? The way he’s going, he’s almost sure to finish next to last.”

August 30th, 2010

Who knew? Here’s what you see when you click this link at Arianna’s place, from former Air America editor-in-chief Beau Friedlander:

Editor’s Note: This piece was published directly to the Huffington Post by its author. It didn’t meet our editorial standards and has been removed from the site.

Wow, it must have been really good! Newsbusters caught it before they took it down, and you might still be able to read the cached version here. Friedlander throws in all your favorites: Halliburton, Rupert Murdoch, neocons, war for oil, “if you disagree with me you’re a racist,” etc. Nothing out of the ordinary over there. But it looks like one thing in particular made HuffPo think twice:

$100,000 For Glenn Beck’s Sex Tape

Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are happy to throw money at the rising tide of right wing lunacy. Breitbart offered $100,000 for JournoList, the email listserve that brought down WaPo blogger Dave Weigel this June…

It is time to pop the tea baggers’ favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)

If you have the goods, or if you want to contribute to a slush fund to buy more takedowns (probably not tax deductible), please contact me at: glennbecksextape@gmail.com.

That’s worse than anything else HuffPo has ever published? Huh. Well, if a Glenn Beck sex tape ever surfaces (which I believe was predicted by Nostradamus), one thing’s for sure: it’ll be overwhelmingly white.

P.S. I’m told that Beck mentioned Friedlander’s post on his radio show this morning. That might have factored into HuffPo’s editorial decision-making…

P.P.S. Doug Powers says:

“I’m gonna make ‘em an offer I can’t afford.” Not exactly The Godfather, is he?

A liberal who wants to buy something and use somebody else’s money to do it? Gee, you never see that. Why did the HuffPo delete an article by a guy who is simply living up to a major plank in the Democrat platform?

P.P.P.S. Friedlander apologizes, pretty much.

August 30th, 2010

I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS

John Cusack has been in a bunch of movies.

Okay, now that we’ve got you caught up on the background, here are some of the, ahem, highlights from Cusack’s Twitter feed last night. All spelling, grammar, and punctuation are in the original:

think its a tea party issue.. .totally jive… curches arent illegal yet, thank god. RTyou for or against the mosque at ground zero?

I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS

think of our the us treasury as the last frontier to be stripped mined if only pesky gov itelf wasn’t in the way.

taht’s the gop philospy.. gourge the stae while claiming to be rugged individuaist who live by the free market – biggest joke there is..

if anyone has my inerview with naomi klien i will repost by all those shcoked conservatives who are calling me cute names.

so nice to weed out all the little trolls who can’t bare it when someone has an opinion they dont like.. the such sensitive souls!

RT @CocosButter @johncusack Couldn’t find the video….but here is the transcript!–> http://huff.to/9wuxM9

thats for all the fact challenged souls who dont like opinions –you may not like me but never had one person debate the facts.

@GettinTheFEAR71 oh people like to rant from behind there keybards i guess..

ok guilty pleasure over will no longer feed the trolls just block them– ive had my fun with those tofuti cuties

If I may be so bold: There totally jive.

P.S. Iowahawk shows why he’s just another tofuti cutie on Twitter:

#JohnCusackProjectPitches “Spew Anything”: 48 y/o teen stands outside internet’s window, holding aloft hysterical screamining boombox

P.P.S. More Cusack pitches from Iowahawk.

August 29th, 2010

How come they never note the racial makeup of, say, anti-war rallies?

Presented without comment:

“Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King’s message.” — Associated Press

“Attendees at the rally Saturday largely honored organizer requests that they not bring banners or political signs. Instead, the predominantly white crowd, many seated on folding chairs and accompanied by their children, wore t-shirts with slogans including ‘Got principles?’ and ‘Restoring Honor.’” — AFP

“Meanwhile, many in the predominantly white crowd bent over backward to insist that they are not racists and to note that the crowd was courteous, despite heat and density.” — James Hohmann, Politico

“Beck says he and his overwhelmingly white followers ‘are the inheritors and protectors of the civil- rights movement.’” — Ben Adler, Newsweek

“Though the audience at the event was overwhelmingly white, many of the speakers were African-American, including a woman who sang a song about unity.” — Brian Montopoli, CBS

“Claiming the legacy of the nation’s Founding Fathers and repeatedly evoking civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., the speakers at the ‘Restoring Honor’ rally exhorted a vast and overwhelmingly white crowd to concentrate not on the history that has scarred the nation but instead on what makes it ‘good.’” — Philip Rucker & Carol Morello, Washington Post

“A relatively dense and overwhelmingly white crowd stretched from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial out past the Washington Monument.” — Mark Benjamin, Salon.com

“The speaker list was diverse, including African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans; Jews and Christians; clergymen, military veterans and sports stars, including Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white.” — Michael A. Memoli and Kim Geiger, LA Times

“Out in the overwhelmingly white audience… politics was everywhere, with Tea Party supporters describing the damage they envision for President Barack Obama’s Democrats in upcoming midterm elections in November.” — Mitch Potter, Toronto Star

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

August 28th, 2010

Courtesy of Inside Cable News, here’s a screencap from CNN’s coverage of that Glenn Beck rally you might have heard about:

How many mistakes can you spot in this picture?

At some point Sarah Palin changed her name to Sara, revealed that she secretly ran for president, and transformed into a pudgy, overcaffeinated dude with a crewcut. And CNN has the exclusive!

In other Washington rally news: Al Sharpton has gone from the Million Man March to the Dozen Dude Dud.

P.S. Glenn Beck Rally Picture Guaranteed to Drive Media Crazy

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