Above: Very important lecture that we are listening to
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Above: Applauded Pantload’s quoting of “the historian [sic]
Richard Pipes” without disclosing that Dick’s his Daddy.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Bonus Crack Pipes’ huffing and puffing, in RE: Obama = Muslim. New fumey formula: If you ever set foot in a mosque as a child, you’re a Muslim.
Ol’ Michelle is trying to be funny again:
Help pick Hillary’s new campaign theme song
By Michelle Malkin
January 7, 2008 03:04 PM
Update: I like Don Surber’s “Muskie.”***
Hey, remember back in May when Hillary asked supporters to help her choose her new campaign theme song?[…]
She picked Celine Dion’s “You and I,” but dropped the tune earlier this month. It’s time, in light of her teary-eyed performance today, to pick a new one, don’t you think?
She suggests ‘Tears of a Clown,’ ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry,’ and other songs that nobody would ever have thought of, being as they’re so super-clever. (If asked, we’d contribute Lesley Gore’s ‘It’s My Party [And I’ll Cry If I Want To],’ but Michelle never asks us to help with things for some reason.)
Okay, enough mucking around, then. It comes to our attention that Barack Obama doesn’t even have a campaign song — and being all planny-aheady, we’ve been sitting on this particular suggestion since, like, two years ago. Hello, Obama staffers: Could there be one more perfect? You must admit no. It is your official campaign song!
Above: Motörhead — ‘Barack Obama Official Campaign Song’ (4:07)
Ain’t a hope in Hell,
Nothing’s gonna bring us down,
The way we fly,
Five miles off the ground,
Because we shoot to kill,
And you know we always will,
It’s Obama, it’s Obama!Scream a thousand miles,
Feel the black-death-rising moan,
Firestorm coming closer,
Napalm to the bone,
Because, you know we do it right,
A mission every night,
It’s Obama, it’s Obama, it’s Obama…No night-fighter,
Gonna stop us getting through,
The sirens make you shiver,
You bet my aim is true,
Because, you know, we aim to please,
Bring you to your knees,
It’s Obama, it’s Obama, it’s Obama!
It really kind of advances the expectations of the campaign, don’t you think? Second choice: ELO – ‘Hold On Tight To Your Dreams.’
A while back, our Jillian noted Doughy Pantload’s conveeeeenient distinction between good and bad populism:
Frum Pro-Elite, Anti-Populist [Jonah Goldberg]
David Frum has an interesting column on the limits of populism and the upside of elitism. These are two of my favorite themes. And since Huckabee seems to be a champion of the former and a foe of the latter, I thought (in the spirit of bloggy self-promotion) I’d call attention to one of my broadsides against populism and one of my defenses of elitism.
Regardless, I agree with David that populism is a useful and healthy passion when aimed at the liberal elite. But conservatives can get drunk on it when they proclaim that elites are bad simply because they are elites. Conservatives respect authority — the authority of ideas, traditions, morals, religion, customs, reason, law, excellence and so on. One cannot believe in this kind of authority while having a blanket hostility to elitism in any form.
12/18 03:02 PM
Translated from the Wingnutese, ‘good’ populism comes from anger against liberal elites, while ‘bad’ populism comes from anger at wingnut elites — Wall Street, Corporate America and its media whores, the perpetually wrong, the war cheerleaders, the wingnut welfare-collecting beneficiaries of nepotism like.. well, like Jonah Goldberg and David Frum.
Frum: The beginnings of a paunch under an ominous sky.
Or, as Brit Hume put it:
This is a party that if you’re going to be a populist, you better be for a lot of things that say, Ronald Reagan was for. You better be in favor of a lot of the…you don’t want to be a candidate associated with possible tax increases, policies that would require increased regulation and so on down the line. You can’t…I don’t think the anti-corporate message…it isn’t even selling very well in the Democratic party and I certainly don’t think it’s going to sell in the Republican party.
Seeking Psychological Victory in the ‘Global War on Terror’
Above: Features migrating in manner of flounder
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Clif adds: Do ya think that Tony “The Hutt” Blankley got any royalties from George Lucas for being such an obvious model for Jabba?
This pretty much seals the deal (via Big Matty Y):
Above: Hillary and Michael O’Hanlon.Facing the prospect of defeat in tomorrow’s primary, Hillary Clinton just made her strongest suggestion yet that the next president may face a terrorist attack – and that she would be the best person to handle it.
She pointed out that the day after Gordon Brown took office as the British prime minister, there was a failed attempt at a double bombing in London and Glasgow.
“I don’t think it was by accident that Al Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister,” she said. “They watch our elections as closely as we do, maybe more closely than some of our fellows citizens do.”
Ye gods, I’m sick of this shit.
The standard bed-wetting GOP line against Democrats since 9/11 has been, “ZOMG YOU CAN’T VOTE FOR THEM THE TERR’ISTS’LL THINK YER WEAK AND THEN THEY’LL KIIIIIIILL YOOOOOOU!!!!” In reality, the terrorists could give two shits who we vote for, and if they did have a preference, they’d probably prefer that we keep electing incompetent Bushian ideologues who give them far better recruiting fodder than, say, John Kerry ever could have.
Now Hillary, look: I have nothing against you, but I really want you to lose. And it’s not just you; it’s the entire cadre of Villager foreign policy “experts” that you’ve got swimming around you as well. Check out Ari Berman’s excellent piece on the Clinton foreign policy team:
As [former UN ambassador Richard] Holbrooke found his footing on Iraq, however, he remained one of the leading hawks in Hillaryland on Iran. In 2004 he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, “The Iranians are an enormous threat to the United States, the stability in the region, and to the state of Israel” and claimed the European Union would “never get their act together.” Holbrooke has twice spoken at rallies against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York, comparing him to Hitler. At a November 27 speech in Toronto, Holbrooke listed the reasons the Bush Administration would not attack Iran but called the country “the most pressing problem nation” and “the most dangerous country in the region,” accusing the Iranians of exporting explosives “that are killing Americans in Iraq.”
Little Holbrooke said about Iran could have prepared one for the latest National Intelligence Estimate, which found that the country had abandoned its nuclear program in 2003 as a result of diplomatic pressure.
None of this is to say that Obama and Edwards are exactly angels in this category; as Berman’s piece goes on to show, they clearly aren’t. But Hillary is the official candidate of the liberal hawk foreign policy community, and I’d personally like to see them marginalized as much as possible in any new Democratic administration.
In a display of logic only possible by a true wingnet, Michelle Malkin manages to turn having a quote misattributed to her by William Kristol into an opportunity to complain about the New York Times:
Since I never usually appear on the New York Times op-ed page unless someone’s calling me a fascist, I was pleasantly surprised to see the quote.
Of course, when the NYT does mention Michelle (on any page), it’s not “exactly” like that:
- On Fox News, Michelle Malkin reported that a number of blogs had declared Mr. Allen to be the winner.
- …including a video entry from the doyenne of right-wing blogs, Michelle Malkin
- …wrote Michelle Malkin, a prominent conservative blogger.
- But Michelle Malkin, one of the bloggers who have strongly criticized the Frosts…
- The charge was led by Michelle Malkin, who according to Technorati has the most-trafficked right-wing blog on the Internet, and in addition to blogging has a nationally syndicated column, writes for National Review and is a frequent guest on Fox News. (Paul Krugman, op-ed page)
- …Michelle Malkin, the conservative blogger, noted that he had said not one word about the failed effort to name Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, to the Supreme Court “or the undeniable stumbles in post-Iraq invasion policies. And not a word about the spectacular disaster of the illegal alien shamnesty, which will be the everlasting stain Rove leaves behind.”
- Yet backed by strong support from military blogs and right-wing pundits like Michelle Malkin…
- Michelle Malkin, another conservative blogger who wants all the Republicans to join the YouTube debate…
- One popular conservative blogger, Michelle Malkin, mocked Rove and his interviewer, Paul Gigot, […] Malkin, an Asian-American in her 30s, comes from a far different place than the Gigot-Fred Barnes-William Kristol axis of Bush-era ideological lock step. (Frank Rich, op-ed page)
- His encounters with Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter went viral on YouTube.
- Bryan Preston of the Hot Air blog, run by Michelle Malkin, characterized the investigation as proving that carbon credits are ”nothing but a scam”…
- Even Michelle Malkin, Coulter’s fellow pinup girl on the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute’s 2007 ”Great American Conservative Women” calendar, blasted her words as ”rhetorical fragging” and a ”tired old schtick.” (Judith Warner, op-ed page)
- The conservative author Michelle Malkin did not attend.
- BEST SELLERS: November 17, 2002, INVASION, by Michelle Malkin…
- National Taxpayers Union and Regnery Publishing, home to conservative authors like Tony Blankley and Michelle Malkin…
- which were posted on the Web site of Michelle Malkin, a conservative syndicated columnist…
- Mr. Domenech works full time at Regnery Publishing, a publisher of conservative authors like Michelle Malkin and Tony Blankley. Ms. Malkin, whose latest book was edited by Mr. Domenech, posted a column on her blog yesterday…
- …debunks the right-wing pundit Michelle Malkin’s post-9/11 revisionist take on the Japanese-American internment and racial profiling in general…
- … editorials in The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal, as well as by a column in The New York Post by Michelle Malkin (a contributor for Fox News, CNN’s rival)….
- Michelle Malkin, a syndicated columnist, found the book appalling.
- Michelle Malkin’s “In Defense of Internment,” a warm look back on the mass internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. (Adam Cohen, op-ed page)
- Were they ignorant of the controversy?” Michelle Malkin wrote in her blog. She is the author of ”In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World…
- The syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin argues persuasively that the I.N.S.’s decision to release John Lee Malvo after his December 2001 arrest by immigration authorities was ”in clear violation of federal law.” (Frank Rich, op-ed page)
- But until Michelle Malkin, an editorial columnist for The Seattle Times, raised the issue, the news media seemed not to have noticed.
In case anyone is wondering if we left out the bad stuff — this list is comprehensive. Until Kristol’s column (make it #25), the NYT’s archives held 24 hits for “Michelle Malkin.”
But hey — complaining about the NYT is a full time job for some. The best part is you don’t even need to have any factual reason to do it!
Dr. Atrios sez:
Negro Uprising
Aside from the racism, the real issue is that the breakdown of civil society is the perpetual wet dream of gun nut glibertarians like Reynolds. They imagine themselves guarding their horde of HDTVs and digital cameras with their
penis extendersgun stash, heroically shooting the “bad guys.”-Atrios 10:33
Above: Post-Apocalyptic Yoshi image by Salvage
Uh-huh. Well, guess who‘s joining the club:
The race will be ugly and chaotic. Indeed, I would not be at all shocked if it was the first Presidential race in a very long time to be marred by actual violence.
Because of a negro and Islamic homo uprising, of course:
Frankly, Obama is a Republican’s dream. All of us were already tried of Hillary Clinton. The GOP has already torn that woman down and apart – an election with her as the nominee would have been spent refighting old battles – fighting for yard after yard of shattered ground like the poor bloody infantry in the Great War. With Obama, on the other hand, we get a whole new – and hitherto unexplored – life to exploit.
[…]
Is it really all that implausible that a young black man – especially one with as intense an interest in his family background as Obama professes – wouldn’t have flirted with the faith of his fathers at some point during his young adult years?
Indeed, we know – thanks to Hillary Clinton’s discovery of a youthful ‘essay’ – that Obama had political ambitions from a very early age. Islam has a specific doctrine, known as “al-Taqiyya”, which permits the followers of Allah to conceal their true faith when among unbelievers. Now, let’s be very clear – I’m not saying that Obama is a concealed Moslem, a Manchurian candidate, waiting to seize the office of the Presidency in the service of sinister interests. But, on the other hand, it’s impossible to rule it out. These things are, after all, unfalsifiable by their very nature.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
UPDATE: Yes, this is exactly right:
Kristol is just a neocon, using Republicans and now the New York Times as his useful idiots to salvage the Iraq war and get us into another one with Iran.
Neither Kristol, nor Jonah Goldberg, nor Bolton, nor Krauthammer, nor Gaffney, nor Pipes, nor any of the rest of that gang care about anything but the Middle East. The rest of their supposed political philosophy is nothing but embroidery, a lampshade really to prevent too much light from shining on what they are really about.
The Republican party is their vehicle. But that is all it is. That is why Kristol’s writing is so artless, his phrases so utterly trite (“nanny state”). He believes none of it. He’s all about Iraq and Israel and Islamophobia.
Basically, yes. Sick freaks like Kristol have only one agenda: using the power of the US government to invade countries and kill people. Kristol doesn’t give a damn about whether Huckabee’s “fair tax” is unworkable economic hogwash, or whether a Huck presidency would finally obliterate once and for all the wall between church and state. As long as he keeps pumping funds into the War to Show the Sand People Who’s Boss, he’ll earn Billy K’s undying support.
According to the friendly and helpful Officer Nicola Dalliday of the Bedfordshire Police Department, deranged hateblogger Lionheart is indeed to be arrested on suspicion of displaying written material contrary to Sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act of 1986.
Sadly, No! regrets the implication that he might have been making the whole thing up. We do, however, stand by our claim that he deliberately lied about the seriousness of the offense, as well as our claim that he is a lunatic racist dimwit who constantly uses his blog to smear an entire culture, compare dark-skinned foreigners to savage animals, and fulminate non-stop for all-out war against anyone who disagrees with his apocalyptic Christian world view.
We wish Lionheart and his attorney, a race-baiting, hate-mongering former associate of the National Front, all the best in defeating this charge, despite the fact that his guilt can be established by looking at any random entry on his website. We join Mr. Bennett in affirming that the case of his former drug-dealer client should in no way be compared with that of Samina Malik. Just as he says, she “of course” was “glorifying terrorism” with an “incitement to violence” for which “she was rightly punished”, whereas his client is a martyr of free speech who merely has “the courage to speak out against Islamist militancy and terrorism” and who should “be handed medals and bravery awards”. We hope our readers will join us in wishing this heroic man a swift and easy victory so he can go on writing about the entire Muslim religion in terms eerily reminiscent of the way Julius Streicher wrote about the Jews, as befits a true English patriot like himself.
There! That wasn’t so hard, was it? We’ll even let him have the last word:
This situation that I now face, is a situation that ever single blogger around the World now faces as we speak out against the ‘Evil’ of this generation that is calling for another Holocaust and the destruction of our civilization, the civilization in the future where our children and grandchildren reside.
I have not called for murder or bloodshed, but I have said if they want a war can we not let them have it!!
If someone wants to kill me and take my country over is it not my right to ask that question considering my life and my country is at stake?