You’ll never guess the latest thing the ridiculous Muslamonazi hordes are upset about this time.
It looks like some new construction in New York resembles the Ka’aba, and so offends the unwashed Islamic rabble, ignorant fools that they are.
Honestly, how silly. What kind of idiot would get worked up just because some construction looks to them like a holy Islamic symbol?
Glad to see we’re all so much more reasonable here in the civilized West.
SCHIP, Graeme Frost, and the Bloggers
Above: Ridenour on July 22, 2005, testifying in regard
to her involvement in the Abramoff scandal
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
* Apparently, this includes veterans as well.
Spend a bit of time in La Malkin’s flying monkey proving ground, and you can only come to one conclusion:
You people need to kiss our asses a whole lot more. And by ‘our asses,’ I mean ‘my ass.. Not Gavin’s or Bradrocket’s or Seb’s or Mencken’s or Leonard’s or Jillian’s or Clif’s or Traviseseses’. . .mine. The guy who does by far the least around here.
Here’s why. If Michelle Malkin — Michelle-fucking-Malkin — can be the recipient of more bowing and scraping by her commenters than some Pharoahs I know, then why not me? I’m roughly as useless to the body politic as that harpy. Less useless, in fact, since she actually takes things off the table of our national discourse, whereas I just occasionally put the salad fork where the dess***ert fork is supposed to go.
Seriously, take a look at the comments for her most recent post. Keep in mind that this is a post in which she cravenly declines an invitation to debate an ideological foe in a neutral venue. Not that you would know that from the hosannahs of ‘Courage, thy name is Malkin!’ issuing forth from her kowtowing gang of sycophants.
On October 11th, 2007 at 12:29 am, StephC said:
Michelle, I really don’t know how you do it. I don’t think I would have the resolve to keep doing, day after day, what you do. You bring so much to light about what is wrong in politics today. And you put up with more crap than probably anyone else. I couldn’t do it. I have much respect for what you do, and how you handle yourself.
On October 11th, 2007 at 12:37 am, gatewaypundit said:
And, there you have it. That is why there is no one better than Michelle Malkin!
On October 11th, 2007 at 12:41 am, Thomas said:
… I only wish I had half the strength to deal with such disagreeable people that you have.
On October 11th, 2007 at 12:59 am, Alphonse said:
Ezra Klein? Never heard of him. Is a response necessary? The eagle does not do battle with the fly.
On October 11th, 2007 at 1:02 am, Chad Castagana said:
I would terrorize prominent liberals with fake anthrax letters to the ends of the earth for you, m’lady!
Okay, I made that last one up. Still, the other ones are real, and all that pathetic brown-nosing happens within the first 12 comments on that post.
So again, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Brad and John Cole have already laid out the reasons why we need to fight fire with fire in battling these character-assassinating garbage-sifters. So where in the hell are the comparisons of me to an eagle? What about my ‘resolve, to keep doing, day after day’ what I do*? If Malkin’s commenters wish they had ‘half the strength’ of their heroine, my commenters better fucking wish they had ‘a quarter of the strength’ of me! Shit, I’d even take ‘three-sevenths the strength’! I’m not asking for a lot here, people.
I’m just asking for you to get off your cynical asses and do your small bit in showering me with undeserved praise. You do want to win our country back, don’t you?
Instead, the typical Sadly, No! commenter’s M.O. is to one-up my posts with better snark and more informed commentary. Thanks a fucking lot, wiseasses. I’ll tell you what — Malkin thanks you. The War Party thanks you. The Religious Right thanks you. They love the fact that lefty comedy blog readers spend all their time out-clevering their hosts instead of telling me what a courageous, high-soaring Eagle of Truth I am.
So here’s a thought. How about putting your mad rhetorical skillz to work one-upping yourselves on what an Ace Blogger I am? I need you to do it. This blog needs you to do it. A little place called America** needs you to do it.
*Graciously allow others on this site to break news and make jokes that I could totally beat them to, if I wasn’t so unselfishly lazy.
**Maybe you’ve heard of it in passing, when something distracted you from being funnier than me and not blowing me in the comment threads of my posts. Traitors.
***UPDATE: Friggin’ pedants. Also, this screws up the natural order of the footnotes. Hope yer happy, spelling Nazis.
With all the trifles that’ve been typhooning around lately, we’ve been neglecting our core business of starting blog fights and making fun of Pastor Swank.
Here’s Matt Yglesias:
Since I don’t like Radiohead very much, I think we can pretty safely say that without the “name your own price” gimmick I wouldn’t have bought In Rainbows. But given the gimmick I did buy it and I . . . still think they’re “okay” at best. Which would be fine, except they have this legion of super-devoted fans who sometimes make me want to stake out bolder “Radiohead Sucks!” kind of claims.
Right, whereas The Arcade Fire reminded young Ivy League professionals of those way-out kids at Bard and Vassar, and were therefore a band of great relevance. Only here was the thing: They were not only Canadian, but even had marimbas and an organ-grindy device. I say, fellows: At last a Jonathan Fire*Eater that lived up to the hype.
Actually, I’m not all that excited about Radiohead either — although I totally think Tex Haper is due for a comeback. With that accomplished, here’s the latest from Pastor Swank:
U.S. Senate Chaplain: USA Collapse As Rome
Grant Swank
October 10, 2007It’s makes moral sense and is frightening.
So far it’s makes no grammatical sense, and is only off-putting. Then again, we’re still only one sentence in.
“U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black says the United States, like past great civilizations such as the Roman Empire, could collapse due to a decline in family values, a decline in religion, a preoccupation with pleasure and overspending on militarism,” per AP.
This twenty-dollar bill says that the good Pastor will make it through the rest of the column without exploring the ‘overspending on militarism’ part of Chaplain Black’s statement. Any takers?
Black offered biblical warnings when he delivers an address such as put to the Montana Faith Community Impact Summit in Kalispell, Montana.
Black is, in fact, so impactful that he be change verb tense at whim.
He is forthright while ethically on balance with Scripture.
Let’s try to get this syntactical construction down. It seems to go like this:
[Pronoun] is [quality] while [adverb] on [noun] with [book title]
She is parsimonious while gleefully on bicycle with Joy of Cooking.
Above: Feel free to try your own!
All the while theological liberals enhance the fall of America with their defense of immoral issues such as homosexual lifestyles divinely blessed and killing womb infants.
And also the spending excessive on armies military, no? Okay, forty bucks — who’s in?
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It’s getting funnier and funnier. She’s plunged straight off the deep end with this one:
Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein and his Pavlovian (Yet Respectable) boosters are treating my 2004 post as proof-positive of my utterly flabbergasting HYPOCRISY!
Look! The wingnut complained about the health insurance market! Ergo, she is a HYYYYPPPPOCRITE. And stupid! And a Nazi bitch!
Continue flinging your peas. I do have a spit shield now.
Gad, it’s like watching one of the Heathers write in her personal pity diary. All that’s missing is angry complaints about Confederate Yankee and Ace turning into Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads.
“Debate” Ezra Klein? What a perverse distraction and a laughable waste of time that would be. And that’s what they really want, isn’t it? To distract and waste time so they can foist their agenda on the country unimpeded.
Last point: Let’s take the costume off, Mr. Klein, shall we? More than a year ago, I informed Respectable Liberal Blogger Ezra Klein that he had printed false, libelous claims about my run-in with the thugs at UC Santa Cruz.
Hey Michelle? If he printed “libelous” information about you, then sue him. Please, please, please, PLEASE sue him. I’ve been laughing at your expense a helluva lot lately, and this would only give me more fodder. So, por favor. Sue. Him.
And of course, she couldn’t let it go without one more gratuitous whine about how cruel and mean everyone is to poor old her:
Good faith, eh? What would Ezra Klein know about it?
Now, run along and thump your chest over your “victory” at BloggingHeadsTV or something.
I have to get back to work. You know, “stalking.” “Assault.” “Savagings.” “Howling. “Braying.” “Hateful orgies.”
That stuff.
That stuff does seem to be your only recognizable talent.
I’ve become convinced that Michelle Malkin is capable of feeling precisely two emotions: blood lust and self-pity. And the self-pity only comes around when people point out how bloodthirsty she really is.
Anyway, I expect her to have a complete meltdown by the end of the week. Look for breathless dispatches about Mrs. Frost’s Friday night trip to the grocery store: “Update: She’s looking long and hard that steak! I guess eating fancy meat is more important than treating her injured kid. Snort.”
UPDATE: This picture really needs another showing:
UPDATE II: Publius writes:
Coulter, by contrast, is smarter and far smoother. She couldn’t care less about any pushback — she wants the pushback. That’s why it’s rarer to see Coulter engage in defensive, rage-filled rambling. Attacks don’t make her mad — even if she’s factually wrong. She’s not a believer in the cause, or her journalistic integrity — she’s an entertainer. Malkin, however, does care on some level. She craves to be respected. And she knows on some level that she’s been knocked down on the canvas — and she’s deeply embarrassed. But, she’s decided to double down rather than acknowledge the mistake and move on to other battles. It’s as if she were the commander-in-chief or something.
I’d note that both of them really seem to enjoy hurting other people on a personal level. They’re not journalists, they’re assassins. Coulter at least knows this about herself and can have fun when liberals get outraged at the things she says. Malkin thinks she’s something nobler, and when people call her on her BS, she retreats into pathetic self-pity.
Also, John Cole is again making sense:
But like all schoolyard bullies, when punched in the mouth, they back down. Given the chance to debate the policy she clearly feels so strongly about, Michelle wimped out. She turned her tails and fled. One could say she gave the French response.
I hope a lesson has been learned this week- when Malkin and her cohorts attack, you stiffen your spine, put on your hip waders to deal with their bullshit, and you throw it back in their face. Behind all that bluster, there really is not much there. Just scared, petty, loudmouth bullies.
Heh-indeezy.
So after all the angry blogging I’ve done this week about the Frost saga, I need to make myself happy by blogging about miserable, depressing music. Fellow Radioheadheads, feel free to leave your impressions of the new album on the comments.
The Rant is very alarmed by these findings.
Hard-line Islamic books that justify violence against non-Muslim societies – including texts used as terrorist “recruiting tools” – are freely available in New York City public libraries.
A Daily News spot check found a book by an Islamic theorist who inspired Osama Bin Laden and terror Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, as well as others that promote the hatred of other religions and one with the misogynistic title: “Women Who Deserve to Go to Hell.”
Several of these texts can be found at the Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch, a mile from the Al Farooq mosque, where Rahman once inspired followers to try to blow up New York.
What kind of fiend allows books to be put in a library? And what was the librarians’ defense of this heinous act?
“We don’t censor what people read,” said Mary Haines, director of the South Country Public Library in Bellport, L.I., which just added “Milestones” to its collection.
Brooklyn Public Library spokeswoman Ruth Wagner said libraries have the responsibility to be inclusive, and “efforts are made to represent the widest possible diversity of views.”
Right…like librarians are supporters of free speech or something.
Just for the reporter’s peace of mind, I hope he didn’t go looking amongst the shelves for this, or this, or this, or…well, you get the idea.
Coming soon from the crack reporting squad at the Daily News: “Breaking: Some Cabdrivers Have Surly Personalities”.
Kevin Drum, whom the squishy-sensible-liberal side of me really likes, makes the following point about the politics of rage:
[I]t’s still something that ought to be etched onto every liberal forehead in the country: we can’t beat conservatives at their own game. Appeals to besiegement and rage make people more sympathetic to conservatism — “smaller and less generous” — no matter what words happen to be coming out of our mouths at the time.
I forget this too often. We all forget it too often. We shouldn’t.
My question for Mr. Drum is this: then what do you suggest?
I assume that you’ve watched Hannity and Colmes, yes? Then that means you’ve seen the spectacle of what happens when a nice-guy squishy liberal guy goes up against an authoritarian right-wing bully? If you haven’t, then I’ll show you. It looks something like this:
When Michelle Malkin and her Freeper buds start posting the home addresses of families like the Frosts and subjecting them to harassment, I get angry. When they gleefully post Cindy Sheehan’s divorce papers on their website and snort about it, I get angry. When they talk trash about people who recently committed suicide, I… OK, you get the point.
You can’t fight these people by being calm and nice. You have to let people know that they’re vile, hateful scumbags with no sense of standards or simple human decency. You have to stand up to them and (rhetorically speaking) punch the sick SOBs right in the nose. Otherwise, they will walk all over you for the rest of your life.
My first favorite scene in this movie is the one in the beginning where Michelle pees standing up next to Jesse. But my second favorite scene is this one:
Sulkin’ Malkin, August 27, 2004:
America’s Broken Health Insurance System
[…]
I certainly am not convinced that a government-run system is the answer, but I do agree with Krugman that there are serious problems with our health insurance system, particularly in the market for individually-purchased (non-group) coverage.
After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad), we had a choice. We could either buy health insurance from his former employer through a program called COBRA at a cost of more than $1,000 per month(!) or we could go it alone in Maryland’s individual market. Given our financial circumstances, that “choice” wasn’t much of a choice at all. We had to go on our own.
We discovered that the most generous plans in Maryland’s individual market cost $700 per month yet provide no more than $1,500 per year of prescription drug coverage–a drop in the bucket if someone in our family were to be diagnosed with a serious illness.
With health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured.
VERSUS…
Stalkin’ Malkin, October 9, 2007:
Democrat Poster-Child Abuse, The Nutroots’ Pushback, And The Continued Campaign To Silence The Right
[…]
The bottom line remains:
This family made choices. Choices have consequences. Taxpayers of lesser means should not be forced to subsidize them.
BONUS QUOTE, BULIMIC CRY-FOR-HELP DEPT.:
America’s Broken Health Insurance System
[…]
In the end, we decided to purchase a very high-deductible plan (sold by Golden Rule Insurance Co.) coupled with a tax-sheltered Medical Savings Account (MSA). We couldn’t qualify for the preferred rate because Golden Rule says I am underweight. Hmph!
Gavin adds:
Above: Hmph indeed.
[HANXXORS: Ken in Ezra Klein’s comments]
These things sometimes don’t come off, but I may be discussing the Frost / S-chip issue on CNN tonight.
It would be nice if the good folks at CNN decided to ask Dan why he felt the need to call the Frosts “spoiled brats” because they both have careers that Dan does not personally approve of.
Furthermore, you may want to ask him why he felt the need to call Mr. Frost “a simpering wimp” because he didn’t rely upon his wealthy father to pay for his son’s medical expenses.
And finally, you might want to ask him whether his favorite role was as the zombie police chief in Plan 9 from Outer Space or as the radioactive monster in the Beast of Yucca Flats.
El Cid provides an update from Dan:
Update: While the CNN show is being bumped due to a school shooting in Ohio, I’ve been asked to debate on Alan Colmes’ radio show tonight at 11 PM.
We can’t imagine why CNN didn’t keep Dan booked — he’s an expert on school shootings too.
