Posted on February 16th, 2007 by Brad
Howie Kurtz pens a love letter to Michelle Malkin today. Damn liberal media:
A Hard Right Punch
Michelle Malkin’s Conservative Fight Has Others Coming Out Swinging
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 16, 2007
Michelle Malkin has seen her head electronically grafted onto a photo of a bikini-clad body.
She had to cancel a Berkeley book signing in the face of 200 shouting protesters.
YouTube banned one of her videos. And she felt compelled to move after critics posted online her Gaithersburg area address and pictures of her home.
Clearly, this is a woman who arouses strong emotions.
“They’ll ridicule my looks, ridicule my ethnicity, go after my family,” the 36-year-old blogger says of her critics. “They’ve attacked my husband relentlessly. There’s a strong sexist strain among my liberal critics, who think it isn’t possible I could have gotten anywhere without my Svengali husband, or some white man, embedding ideas in my head.”
Make no mistake, though: This daughter of Filipino immigrants plays pretty rough herself. Whether on her blog, her Internet talk show or her Fox News appearances, Malkin delights in sticking her finger in the eye of the liberal establishment. And she is convinced that her detractors don’t play fair.
“Particularly when you’re a minority conservative,” she says, “you get a lot of ugly, hysterical, unhinged attacks, because you’re challenging so many liberal myths about what people of color should think.”
Good God, Howie.
This is a woman who sneeringly posted Cindy Sheehan’s divorce papers on her website in a sickening moment of bwah-ha-ha gotcha “journalism.” She laughably accused the New York Times’ travel section of aiding and abetting would-be assassins of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. She wrote a shoddily researched and overtly propagandistic “history” book defending mass racial internment. And let’s not forget her loony conspiracy theories about Mexicans plotting to retake the Southwestern United States in a full-scale reconquista.
Gavin adds: Let’s not forget the incidents of death threats from her supporters when she posted people’s personal information, the Chad Castagana domestic-terrorism case (Castagana ‘idolized’ Malkin), the Denise Denton suicide… ’06 was a pretty busy year for Michelle. Clown Central Station has more.
What I’m trying to say, Howie, is that Michelle Malkin is a first-class wacko. This is not even a debatable point. But instead of challenging her with peoples’ legitimate criticisms of her “work,” you let her blather on about the random assholes who have left racist comments about her in blogs. Bloody hell. By letting her whine incessantly about the evil, nasty, unhinged wiberal bwoggers, you let her off the hook for all the crazy-assed crap she’s done over the last few years. Stop being a chump, homey.
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by HTML Mencken
GODDAMNIT!!! Fuckface fucktart cocksmoking chickenfucking FUCKETTY FUCKING SHITSICLE THIS PISSES ME OFF!!!
[Slams head repeatedly against wall, eyelid twitches, starts muttering about being the Angel of Death, with the time of purification being at hand*]
Wingnuts can’t do this to me; only neo-liberals can turn this trick.
This time it’s Brad DeLong, and yeah, I know he’s smarter than me, and he’s a very decent man but this kind of shit drives me batty.
Right at the start the post mentions ‘social democracy’ in this country and I’m thinking, hmmm, DeLong’s idea of ‘social democracy’ is not much more than a progressive income tax and quite a bit of education spending — which is fine, but not really social dem; more like, Eisenhowerian. But whatever.
Then I see this and my head explodes:
American politics aren’t… logical
[…]
One would have thought that initiatives like Barney Frank’s “grand bargain”–the left supports trade liberalization if the right supports social democracy–would have gained more traction with a left that realizes that trade restrictions are negative-sum when they aren’t smoke-and-mirrors and a right that recognizes the potential economic and soft-power security gains from an even more interdependent world. But they haven’t.
GAAAAAAAH
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Posted on February 16th, 2007 by HTML Mencken
It’s the day after St. Valentine’s — V-Day for us, VD-Day for the wingnuts, and I’m about to put on my rubber gloves, rub some VicksSalve under my nose, and sift through the debris…
Above:Potential parents of the Batshitz-hagwhack, the
universe’s superwingnut.
Pammy wanted to start the day off with a bang — literally: She might as well have said ‘Me so horny’ — but settled for a whimper, to every non-basementdwellingwingnut’s relief.
Settled for a while. Contented herself with thoughts of her previous evening, spent making sweet, Muslim-hating lurrve with Mark Steyn. All was quiet for a few hours (I suspect a session with the silver bullet, a fresh batch of batteries and pictures of dead Palestinians, but your milage may vary), then finally, she composed a Valentine for John Bolton so adhesive that — well, suffice to say, it makes her previous sloppy blogjobs on her John look like tame affairs. She’s more than usually inarticulate; she’s discombobulated by passion; she is a batshit yenta in heat and she will devour Mr. Bolton!:
Did you catch BOLTON on Fox earlier today? […] He tells it like it us and his authenticity is not to be believed. White-hot reality. If, as Mark Steyn said in our conversation last night, policy and principle is what’s really sexy, then John Bolton is People Magazine’s Next Sexiest Man Alive.
Jesus Christ, that’s disgusting! What gives (besides Pammy, offering Bolton virtual head)? Can it be explained simply by holiday spirit? Sadly, No! Bolton’s VD-Day gift to Pam was attacking Dear Leader from the Right! When you’re more fascist than George Bush, that’s when Pam reaches for her kneepads.
Do you feel like your retinas are scarred and your DNA mutated from just reading that? Yeah? Well, I’ve got more.
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Posted on February 16th, 2007 by Gavin M.
Rep. Don Young (R AK) quotes Abraham Lincoln: “Congressmen who
willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine
the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.”
Why, that’s not even a good Lincoln quote.
As Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, was often known to remark, “Joe Lieberman’s ass smells like a dying weasel crawled up there to have his last cigar.”
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by HTML Mencken
Ferguson: “Really, Agent Liberal, you think you can dissect
my wingnut heroes with this blunt little tool?”
‘New York Magazine’s Head Doctors Analyze Bush’
- Watch me complain about a whole grocery list of pundits who psychoanalyze politicians without ever mentioning Charles Krauthammer.
Plus, Bonus Shorter from a ways back in the S,N! fridge:
‘The Secret of Obama’s Appeal Stays a Secret’
- That Barack Obama preaches moderation strikes me with horror and revulsion.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by HTML Mencken
Above: Steyn: ‘Peace. Good God, y’all, what is it good for? Aaabsolutely nothin, say it again!’
‘A Ford Not A Lincoln’
- Everyone’s talking about his anti-Semitism, but let me tell you about Henry Ford’s real crime against humanity: In 1915, he was a peacenik! Now I shall rant about that era’s version of the Dixie Chicks…
Plus, Bonus Fun: Steyn, tireless in his capacity as an officer in the 82nd Chairborne Brigade, doesn’t like Jack Murtha’s proposal that actual soldiers be given a breather. In response to this stance, a real soldier writes in to suggest that the Chickenhawk Wingnutien STFU.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by Gavin M.
From John Hawkins at Right Wing News:
Big Announcement: I Am Now Consulting For The Duncan Hunter Campaign
A little more than a week ago, I mentioned that I had gotten a gig helping one of the presidential contenders build up his web presence, but that I couldn’t mention who it was at the time. When they gave me the go ahead, I promised to post again and give you all the details. Well, at long last, that time has now come.
On February 3, Nathan Tabor from TCV Media got in touch with me and asked if I’d be interested in consulting for the Duncan Hunter campaign. We bantered back and forth, came to a basic understanding that Saturday, and then finalized the…
Wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wait. Wait just a second here.
On February 3, Nathan Tabor from TCV Media got in touch with me and asked if I’d be interested in consulting for the Duncan Hunter campaign.
Hold on.
On February 3, Nathan Tabor from TCV Media got in touch with me and asked…
One sec.
On February 3, Nathan Tabor from TCV Media got…
It’s coming.
…Nathan Tabor from TCV Media got…
Here it comes.
Nathan Tabor
So John Hawkins was actually, in real life, hired by our old Renew America pal, Nathan?
Above: Family apparently bought him a consultancy firm
after his State Senate primary campaign flamed out
This is going to be excellent.
PS: Here’s Nathan’s latest.
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by Gavin M.
Teh entries are up in the Pam Atlas Photoshop contest, and the voting has begun!1
Above: Atlas Shrugs interviews the President and former UN Ambassador John Bolton
Posted on February 15th, 2007 by Brad
Hey all.
I’m sorry again for being so absent of late, but a miraculous thing has happened to me.
See, when last week’s DOS attack hindered my ability to blog, I actually stopped reading right-wing blogs and websites for a few days. For a while, this felt strange. I had become so used to reading Instapundit, Renew America, Powerline, Malkin, Dan Riehl, WorldNetDaily and Newsmax on a regular basis that spending some time away from them made me feel rather sad, as though there were a gaping hole ripped into my daily routine.
But then funny stuff began happening to me. I started noticing the birds sing. The sky looked a little bluer. Every woman I met became a little bit hotter. I stopped getting the urge to kick random dudes in the balls.
What I’m trying to say is, not reading right-wing blogs made my life a hell of a lot better. The estimable Roy Edroso had a very similar experience recently. This is what he wrote:
I recently apologized for the paucity of my posting, but actually, when I look at the right-wing blogs that usually spur my bloggage, I do so with the horrified incomprehension of an amnesia victim who has just been told by his doctor that, in his forgotten life, he was addicted to dogshit smoothies. […]
How any of them can fart without suffering a brain hemorrhage is beyond me. Refresh my memory: Why did I start writing about them?
This is a sentiment I know all too well. I mean, I take a break for just a teensy-weensy liittle bit, and what happens? Why, the Ole Perfesser starts encouraging our government to fund secret assassination squads in Iran. What the hell, man.
Above: Glenn Reynolds, the plenipotentiary of the wardorks
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Posted on February 15th, 2007 by Gavin M.
Stephen Spuiell, boy genius of the National Review’s Media Blog, demolishes doubts about the anticipated attack on Iran:
Bush Calls Claims of Manufactured Evidence “Preposterous”
He also mocked NBC’s David Gregory, who (probably under orders from Chris Matthews) had just asked him if he was trying to gin up a pretext for war with Iran:
BUSH: The idea that somehow we’re manufacturing the idea that the Iranians are providing IEDs is preposterous, Ed. My job is to protect our troops. And when we find devices that are in that country that are hurting our troops, we’re going to do something about it, pure and simple. Now David says, “Does this mean you’re trying to have a pretext for war?” No. It means I’m trying to protect our troops. That’s what that means.
“Ed” refers to CNN’s Ed Henry, who had just asked a similar question about Iran.
It might be hard for sane people to immediately perceive from this brief statement how gibberingly around-the-bend Spruiell is, even in the context of The National Review. He’s cheering that the President ‘mocked’ a journalist (at least in his mind, if not in the actual transcript), while implying that when George W. Bush says something, it’s a priori true. ‘Monitoring the media,’ for Spuiell, means accepting official Government statements at face value, while attacking journalists or opposition leaders who question them.
Spruiell doesn’t think about issues, per se, or even act according to a coherent conservative ideology — his way of doing kritik is to identify the politically-correct ‘conservative’ stance on an item, and to express it with the unexamined confidence of a talk-radio host.
In case you’ve been wondering what kind of professional media critic could have watched as the rationalizations for the Iraq War collapsed in every agonizing, tragic detail, only to fall unhesitatingly for an even crappier attempt to gin up a conflict, here’s one answer.
Above: Stephen Spruiell, prime military age