Sadly, No!

There was an objectionable user diary at Daily Kos that was quickly deleted.

It is therefore certain that the diary revealed the true and hidden beliefs of Markos Moulitsas and his readers, which, as the diary proves, are shockingly objectionable, and had to be disappeared in a blatant coverup!

Ace of Spades says Blaa!

LGF says Howl-gargle-gargle!

Newsbusters says Mooo!

Bonus points to Ace, dear Ace, for sneering at the Kos diarist for perhaps believing an unspecified conspiracy theory possibly relating to the JFK assassination — thus demonstrating (not at all defensively) that he, Ace, is a feet-on-the-ground kind of guy who doesn’t fall for any of that wacky conspiracy stuff.

We believe you, Pichka.

Update: Circa last Saturday, Ace didn’t know how to do a basic Google search, and suspected a leftist conspiracy to erase him from Google.

Shortly after, chastened by readers, he came back all like, ‘Um, well, my bad: I guess you’re supposed to put quotes around the searchy-thingies.’ Nota bene: This is a right-wing blog that gets over 22,000 visits a day.

[Hanx! His Grace]

More tuneless tinkling from the Steynway piano:

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Above: Mark Steyn

[Dean Barnett]: Now Mark, we have some hard news to get into. Yesterday, as you probably know, Hugh had General Petraeus on for about an hour, in a very interesting interview. And yet your good friend, and your former colleague at the Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan, said that Petraeus’ appearance on this show pretty much announced him as a GOP tool. What are your thoughts on that?

MS: Yes, I think that’s a ridiculous thing to argue. I mean, you go where you think you can make the case and get a fair hearing. And the thing about Hugh is yes, he makes no bones about his particular political predisposition[…]

Sure. Like how HH refers to himself as “center-right”. He’s so up-front and honest he tries to present his batshit-insane reactionary politics as practically moderate!

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Above: Hugh Hewitt

but he does give people a fair hearing,

Absolutely. Like he was fair to, say, Joel Achenbach.

he’s been tough on Republicans with whom he disagrees

Only if they say something less than enthusiastic about the war, or if they stop short of a “kill teh Mexicans” approach to immigration, or if they oppose Mitt Romney 4 Prezdint. In other words, he’s only “tough on Republicans” on those rare occasions when they aren’t wingnutty enough or when they criticize the candidate for whom HH is a paid publicist.

and the idea that somehow this is a show that Hugh should be persona non grata for reasonable and serious people, I think is disgusting.

It is sooo disgusting! I mean, who could be more reasonable than a person who claims that just calling Bush’s domestic surveillance program illegal is “reckless behavior” “of the sort” that caused the Roman Empire to fall? Who could be more serious than a person who argues that in his brave act of sitting in a radio studio, he’s effectively on the front lines of the war on terror?

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Yglesias:

For someone who actually spent several years living in France, Mitt Romney is remarkably ignorant about the country if he really thinks Hillary Clinton is running on a platform that’s too left-wing to win an election there. He also called her a Marxist, demonstrating once again that Romney’s key strategy to winning the GOP nomination despite his moderate pre-campaign political profile is to say a lot of crazily dumb stuff.

The thing is, Romney’s neither crazy nor dumb. He’s definitely a sleazy opportunist, but he’s not a stupid lunatic like, say, George W. Bush. Just trust me: I watched him in action for four years here in Massachusetts.

So when Romney says a bunch of crazy dumb stuff, he knows exactly what he’s doing and whom he’s trying to appeal to. The question is, why the hell does it work? Do we have that many paranoid and ignorant white people in this country?

Gavin adds: I dunno, let’s make an estimate.

Clockwise from top left: Redneck, Roger Williams U. College Republicans, Famous
Celebrity, Dumb Girls, Dumb Guys, 2005 Nat’l Chairman, College Republicans,
“Security Mom.” Center: Investigative Journalist John Stossel. Decorative border:
Smug Technocrats.

That leaves a lot out, but my math says we’re already up to about 50 million.

This sums up everything that’s wrong with American culture:

Pentagon tries to learn from Madison Avenue

By Karen DeYoung

In the advertising world, brand identity is everything. Volvo means safety. Colgate means clean. IPod means cool. But since the U.S. military invaded Iraq in 2003, its “show of force” brand has proved to have limited appeal to Iraqi consumers, according to a recent study commissioned by the U.S. military.

Uh, yeah.

See, I’m not sure if this sorta thing is something that can be solved through re-branding. At the end of the day, nobody likes having their country invaded, even it’s by giant bunnies who give away free carrots and celery sticks to children in order to liberate them from crappy nutrition. I mean, you can’t sell people shit sandwiches just by putting them in pretty packaging. Instead you have to, you know, make them not be shit sandwiches.

The key to boosting the image and effectiveness of U.S. military operations around the world involves “shaping” both the product and the marketplace, and then establishing a new identity that places what you are selling in a positive light, said clinical psychologist Todd C. Helmus, the author of “Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation.”

Again, Step Numero Uno in this program should be, “Don’t expect to invade and occupy other countries and be loved.” Period. No one likes having their country invaded.

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It’s another day at Little Green Footballs, which means that a new astonishing event has just confirmed that the Neo-Semite Peril is this | | far away from killing us all, and indeed they at LGF warned us and warned us, but we laughed in scorn — so when Falafel Armageddon finally comes and washes all the scum off the streets, they will feel only pitiless fury toward those who weakened under the brutal iron boot of the Muslim swine who. . .

But enough small talk. Let’s see what the Global Muslim Death Hitlers have been up to this time.

Breaking: Missile Launcher Discovered in New Jersey

A missile launcher has turned up in the front lawn of a house in New Jersey, along the flight path to Newark Liberty International Airport: Feds Seize Rocket Launcher In NJ.

From the description it sounds like a shoulder-launched SAM.

Wow. Could these spastic squirrels finally have blundered into a nut? Let’s see:
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Pst. If you’re on Facebook, so are we.

O’Reilly Again Smears YKos and Gets It Wrong about the JetBlue Sponsorship

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.

Update: Kos just posted that JetBlue has caved to O’Reilly. We’re pretty sure there’s more to the story that hasn’t come out yet, but fortunately we came prepared for just such an event:

Additionally, one more such iteration remains within the scope of our initial planning.

Trouble With the Neighbors

Bush (l): “Good job, but it oughta mention Petraeus.”

• We would like some ‘fury’ in support of the disputed intelligence through which we are hoping to expand the war into Iran and Syria.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.

Note: Gerson, until last year the chief White House PR guru and speechwriter, now writes op-eds for the Post with no identifying bio.

Don’t let the Dems kill the John Doe amendment Update: House Dems kill John Doe amendment…fight moves to the Senate Update: 8:55pm Senate Dems kill John Doe amendment…roll added
By Michelle Malkin • July 19, 2007 06:59 PM

Malkin: “Oleander, coriander, sis-boom. . .FUCK!”

[…]

Andy McCarthy and Audrey Hudson report that Democrats are attempting to water down the “John Doe” amendment–the legislation sponsored by Rep. Peter King that would protect citizen whistleblowers who act to protect our national security and who are threatened by lawsuits from CAIR and their grievance-mongering ilk. Time is short. You need to make your voice heard in…

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McCarthy sums up why this is so critical: “As Pete King’s office notes, in a post-9/11 reality, passenger vigilance is essential to our security. Given the variety of threats we face and terrorists’ history of targeting mass transit systems, encouraging passengers to report strange behavior to authorities is really just common sense. Failing to report strange behavior to authorities is really just common sense. Failing to report suspicious behavior could end up costing thousands of lives — and while the “flying imams” don’t seem to understand this, the American people do. We must make certain that brave citizens who stand up and say something are given the protections they deserve. The King amendment does exactly that, and Democrats musn’t be allowed to strip it from the…

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Frank Gaffney e-mails:

Fresh from their all-night effort to force surrender on the U.S. military in Iraq, some Democrats on Capitol Hill appear intent on using the dark-of-night (figuratively, if not literally) to another, grievous misdeed: Trying to eliminate one of the most important anti-terror provisions adopted by Congress since 9/11. This legislation is the so-called “King amendment,” which is designed to ensure that public-spirited citizens are not discouraged, let alone penalized, for doing their civic duty by informing the authorities of activities that could be associated with terrorism.

As the brilliant former counterterrorism prosecutor and legal analyst Andy McCarthy observes in a posting on National Review Online today, the King amendment’s opponents in the congressional leadership understand that the overwhelming, bipartisan support for this legislation in the House and Senate leave them few options.

In fact, as a practical matter, the only way they could dispose of a provision which was initiated by the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Pete King of New York, after the insidious Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) brought suit against several…

Well, here’s one less thing we have to worry about:

POLICE BLOTTER
Poor Service Results in Charges Filed
July 15, 2007, 3:30 pm — Michelle Malkin, 37, and a group of friends received poor service at the Salt & Pepper Grill located at Lincoln and Wrightwood.

“We — me and Bryan and Allahpundit — all came in Sunday afternoon for a late lunch. And right away this girl was all attitude. I asked her for an ice tea with lemon and she brought the tea….WITHOUT LEMON. When I told her my silverware was dirty it took her, like, three days to bring me new utensils. I ordered the chicken Caesar salad with the lite dressing on the side. She brings the salad without the dressing on the side…I mean, how am I supposed to eat all that dry greenage? What do I look like? An ungulate? And when she finally does bring it, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t lite. I could see the fat just glistening in that little plastic cup. Plus, I’m pretty sure she was looking at Bryan’s acne the whole time. It was just awful. And she was all arty-looking, too, with a lip ring and blue streaks in her hair, all stinky with patchouli. Probably some art major at Montgomery or something.”

“She was just a difficult customer,” says server Halley Riordan, 21, a performing arts major at Montgomery College. “It was my first day and I was still getting used to everything. I made a few mistakes but I was quick and polite the whole time…even when I heard her call me a “skank” under her breath as I left the table one time. When I brought the check, she asked to see the manager and things just got completely out of hand.”

When the manager came over, Malkin demanded free meals for her and her friends.

“The manager offered to comp my meal, but said he wasn’t going to comp Bryan and Allah. I was shouting at him too, giving him my best dirty look. He wouldn’t budge. I was all like, f— this, you obviously don’t know who you’re dealing with, I’m calling the cops on your ass. So I whipped out my cell phone and dialed Homeland Security.”

A counterterrorism squad arrived on-scene and attempted to mediate the situation. Finally, a compromise was reached: Malkin and her friends agreed to pay only half of the total accumulated bill if Riordan was fired on the spot.

“I thought [manager] Dan should’ve stood up for me,” said Riordan. “But he just caved in to the cops and these three classless idiots.”

When told of Riordan’s comments, Malkin replied, “She should really keep her mouth shut. My husband Jesse is considering turning her in on suspicion of money-laundering. She’s just digging a hole for herself.”

[Text repurposed from teh venerable Lincoln Park Trixie Society]