Sadly for our good friend and regular commenter, the Pravda-lite National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences caved in to Bush Derangement Syndrome and orchestrated a Kremlin parade for the Dixie Chicks.
This despite the good doctor’s masterful “Neil Young (Have You Forgotten?)” being the talk of one entire tiny corner of the Internet.
For shame, Grammy voters!
Wingnut history being what it is, there are often several layers of jokes-at-their-expense to peel away when one is confronted with their latest lines. An example: Clif at Outside the Tent points and laughs at John Podhoretz, who said, sarcasto-sneeringly, to Andrew Sullivan the following:
Andrew Sullivan Is Right [John Podhoretz]
Honestly, with all the pain in the world, how dare anyone laugh at anything? I agree, Andrew. You’ve sold me. I will never again make fun of anything. That is, except for your obsession with hairy backs. I reserve the right to laugh at that.
Clif of course is right to laugh at this, coming as it does from someone who could, like, have cornrows braided on his shoulders.
Above: Behold the unintentional comedy of a Human-Wookiee hybrid
William Kristol on Fox News Sunday:
Above: William Kristol
We’re electing a war president in 2008. If I can go back to Obama and Lincoln for just one second, Lincoln’s “house divided” speech in 1858 was a speech saying we cannot live as a house divided on slavery. And he implicitly says well have to fight a civil war if necessary on this.
Obama’s speech is a “can’t we get along” speech–sort of the opposite of Lincoln. He would have been with Stephen Douglas in 1858.
Fine then. How about this instead?
Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy.
Did we brave all them to falter now? — now, when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail — if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.
Kristol, for one, is still disciplined, proud, and pampered, but even he seems to be turning desperately snappish at the notion of an Obama candidacy. If it starts in early 2007 with charges that Obama was trained at a terrorist madrasah, that he belongs to a black-supremacist church, and that he would have stood on the side of slavery, you have to wonder what the smears and insinuations will be like once the campaign season starts rolling.
Despairing Lefty: “Dammit, extremist wingnuttery is mainstream! Gaaahhh!”
‘Centrist’: “Bosh, flimshaw! I’m merely and exactly, in my sober way, determining the precise point between two extremes. So I’ll match the Charles Mansonism you’re hyperventilatingly pointing to with this flagrant instance of jaywalking!”
San Francisco Values
By Mark Noonan at 07:16 AMWhen I write that the other side is insane, this is what I’m talking about –
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Hullo? Oh no, just poking around on the Internet, why?
It’s the red one. Behind the paint cans and oily rags, on the rickety Ikea shelf in the garage.
Yeah, with the bare wiring exposed. Be careful climbing the shelf; it’s rickety.
Oh, sure. Just bring it back when you’re done. Talk t’you later, Brad.
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Huh. Okay, where were we?
…WTF!?
…I propose we sell San Francisco to Hamas and Hezbollah. Seriously, wall it off and then transport as many Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists who care to come – let the good and wise people of San Francisco see what life under their heros is like.
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Official Blogs for Bush Commentary on Sen. Obama’s Presidential Announcement
As opposed to all those raw, unofficial Blogs For Bush commentaries that keep lighting up the Internet with their sassy and irreverent approach to American politics, circa Generation-Now.
This must be from their main office. We’ve gotten used to the wild daily hoots from their anything-goes, thrill-an-instant rapid response team (i.e., Noonan and Margolis, with whatshername and sometimes that other guy). We ought to pay extra attention to this one.
1. He hasn’t the experience: Certainly the most impertinent Presidential campaign since Wilke in 1940.
Then again, there was Steve Forbes in 1996 and 2000, who was never elected to any office above and including dog-catcher. Actually, for 2008, there’s presumably Giuliani, who never held a state office. Come to think of it, actually, for 2008, there’s also, presumably, that one-term governor, Mitt Romney. Actually, there’s also Cox and Smith, for the GOP in 2008, who were never elected to a single office above, below, or including municipal sewer commissioner. Come to think of it, there’s also that one-term Republican governor, Gilmore…
But point taken, yes.
2. Should he get elected, his ultra-liberal policy proposals will just be more-of-the-same political gamesmanship when placed into practice.
I’m not sure what this means, but the individual words seem to add up to something worrisome.
3. Democrats would be monumentally stupid to nominate anyone else because ONLY Obama can win at least two or three States won by President Bush twice.
Duh, okay. Gee, it looks like we’re in a real pickle then, huh?
Posted by Mark Noonan at February 10, 2007 07:04 PM
Drats! It was Noonan the whole time. If only there were some way to tell!
There’s a Pam Atlas Photoshop contest ramping up over at Marita’s place…
Hey everyone, this is Brad. If you think I’ve been pretty quiet of late, you’re right. For some reason, the DOS attack we got hit with on Monday has wiped out my ability to post from home. I am currently looking at the site via a proxy server, but I can’t actually log into it. Gav is posting this message for me. If anyone knows how to fix this problem, or has dealt with something similar before, please let me know how to fix it.
Some random thoughts:
1.) This whole Amanda mess was really awful, and good for John Edwards for sticking with her. Amanda has said some things that I’ve found to be downright wrong and illogical, especially regarding the Duke case, but for God’s sake she shouldn’t have to lose her job for it. And seeing that some of the people leading the charge against her are known to say things like “a douche like Greenwald helps a pussy like Retardo stay fresh” and “after I beat you like a bitch, I will hold you down and smack you across the face repeatedly with my cock“… well that just makes it all the more ridiculous.
2.) The Pelosi plane “scandal.” My gods. Is there nothing our national media won’t pay attention to if the Moonie Times dangles it in front of their face?
That is all. Hopefully, some nice person in the comments will be able to tell me how to fix whatever the hell this DOS attack did to my computer so I can start posting again in short order.
Above: We were sad that this disappeared!
Apparently, someone’s quite sensitive about something. After a fairly trouble-free afternoon, in which we followed our usual policy of being collegial and nice to everyone while on sites not our own (we take this very seriously), we were banned at HotAir 1.32 seconds after mentioning the foundation money and the paychecks.
Of course, since we’re now banned from the HotAir forums, we have no way of saying anything anymore.
Oh, wait.
Because, wouldn’t it be interesting if Malkin and HotAir’s readers didn’t know that it was all a foundation-funded operation…?
If only we had Lexis-Nexis.
Um. Oh, wait…
UPDATE: Bryan put the comments back up (see screen-cap above) and said this:
So we have a lying smear artist among us accusing us of deleting comments and being paid by a foundation, both of which are false accusations. Eeeenteresting. That kind of thing is actionable, ya know.
As for “Sal,� you want to be banned? That can be arranged. But I’m content to watch you hang yourself first. I know you’re a sock puppet, and I’m pretty sure I know who you actually are. You’re not too skilled at covering your tracks. So be a good little boy and buzz off before you cross a line.
Bryan on February 9, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Whee!
Bro’s before ho’s, as they say. This’ll get you back up over the weekend, man:
It’s true about the longer you aren’t doing it, the more you think about not bothering. Gotta make that first step. No Fear, a’ight?