Since the right is having such fun celebrating Augusto Pinochet’s life and legacy today, it’s a good time to remember (as The Clash once mentioned) Victor Jara (1932-1973), in the Santiago stadium.
Victor Jara – ‘Te Recuerdo, Amanda” (3:00)
I wonder if Mark Noonan of Blogs For Bush has lowered the world average of human reason and decency today.
Oh, who am I kidding. I saw him out bounding through the meadows at sunrise, already carrying a full basket marked ‘woe betide.’
Above: Foolish consistency, hobgoblin, etc.
Setup follows:
Happy Holidays?
By Mark Noonan at 09:02 AM[…]
The reason we Christians must reclaim Christmas and restore its Christian content is that by so doing we are striking a blow against all those forces who want to mold humanity into a shapeless morass of moral equivilancy.
Punchline follows:
Pinochet is Dead
By Mark Noonan at 06:48 AMDying at 91, 18 years after he voluntarily surrendered power when the people of Chile voted to end his rule.
Since the end of his rule, various leftwing groups have been after Pinochet to try him for crimes committed under his authority. None of these groups have made a move to indict Fidel Castro, and that is all anyone really needs to know about them.
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Above: Noonan in exact same position as before
I suppose I shouldn’t complain. That would be like getting cross at the candy machine because I went and pulled the handle and it gave me a Snickers bar again.
Don’t click on the link yet — you’ll appreciate this more if you bask in the radiance of the text first.
It is a regrettable fact of the current American political age that too many Republicans have failed to continue an aggressive fight for the principles which bring us together as Republicans and as conservatives. The election of 2006 was an example of what happens to a party and a movement when we fail to fight for the principles that brought us together in the first place. In short, it is time for true conservatives and Republicans to go back on offense.
L. Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center broadcasts the following terrifying action-alert:
CBS Plugs France’s Paid Maternity Leave, Subsidized Child Care
Saturday’s CBS Evening News featured a story, filed by correspondent Sheila MacVicar, which highlighted the French government’s policy of entitling all mothers to three years of paid maternity leave and subsidized child care as a way to increase the birth rate and thus provide more young taxpayers to pay for the pensions of the elderly. MacVicar pointed out that in America, “federal law entitles some working mothers to twelve weeks unpaid leave,” before cautioning that “the rest get nothing.” MacVicar relayed that French women enjoy more benefits than their American counterparts: “Take a look at what all French families, regardless of income, are entitled to: Up to three years paid maternity leave with a guarantee that mom’s job will be there for her when she returns. There’s subsidized child care, a whole host of tax credits, and for baby number three brings twice the government allowance of baby number two.”
OMG. Like, eek.
This is Republican dog-whistle politics in transition from its high-baroque period — in which operatives like Bozell whipped up gales of conservative spite among their low-information constituencies, against teh socialist MSM cheese-eating liberal-elitist John Kerry media surrender-frogs of teh foreign French Democrat Party — to a new, gestural stage in which we’re apparently supposed to understand, prima facie, that maternity leave and child care are Frenchbad.
As a service to the Media Research Center, we’ve highlighted the relevant action-words in this action item, in order to help their slower readers catch up and share the exhilaration of campaigning against their own interests:
Saturday’s CBS Evening News featured a story, filed by correspondent Sheila MacVicar, which highlighted the French government‘s policy of entitling all mothers to three years of paid maternity leave and subsidized child care as a way to increase the birth rate and thus provide more young taxpayers to pay for the pensions of the elderly. MacVicar pointed out that in America, “federal law entitles some working mothers to twelve weeks unpaid leave,” before cautioning that “the rest get nothing.” MacVicar relayed that French women enjoy more benefits than their American counterparts: “Take a look at what all French families, regardless of income, are entitled to: Up to three years paid maternity leave with a guarantee that mom’s job will be there for her when she returns. There’s subsidized child care, a whole host of tax credits, and for baby number three brings twice the government allowance of baby number two.”
Which leaves but one question:
Above: Which one was baby number three?
From the right-wing humor site, Hatemonger’s Quarterly:
Going Negative, Part One: Sadly, Yes!
It’s high time that we let a poorly kept secret out of the bag: Negative campaigning works like a charm. Sure, the politicos in DC won’t tell you that on the record, but it’s truer than Spandau Ballet.
If you don’t want to take our word for it, you don’t have to—just ask Michael Dukakis. That poor bastard received such a savage Willie Horton-ing that our spellchecker doesn’t even recognize his surname. Man, that’s harsh; perhaps it’s so tough that his wife will take to the bottle.
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In today’s humble “post,� then, we’ve decided to take aim at one of our competitors. Since a “weblog� called “Sadly, No!� is currently in first place, we figured that we’d start with it. (Of course, we when say “is currently in first place,� we also mean “is the only lefty ‘weblog’ amongst a sea of right-leaning ‘websites.’� That is a sure-fire way to success in the “Weblog Awards,� as anyone who can say Jesus’ General can attest.)
Above: Hatemonger’s Quarterly
Also, they should use more quotation marks; those are teh funny.
Update: Michael Bérubé is in a cage match with a right-wing Christian homeschooling blog:
At the bare minimum let’s help SpunkyHomeschool avoid being “crushed� by these elitist, secular blogs and let them know that homeschoolers don’t “suck� as another polite commenter on the IvyGate blog recently said.
Then again, what if we do the opposite…?
Star Parker, you are a first-class kook:
A return to the politics of fear and envy?
Now that Democrats are back in power, the politics of fear and envy are back in vogue.
Yes, the politics of fear and envy were certainly dormant during the last six years of Republican rule, weren’t they?
Pastor Swank is taking a break from usual his Muslim-hatin’ to once again write about his favorite topic: sweaty gay guys and the corporations who love them. The results are predictably LOLMFAOROFL-worthy:
SEARS SUPPORTS HOMOSEXUALS
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.Sears’ two-minute infomercials aid LOGO air shows which in turn aids homosexual lifestyle becoming mainstream acceptable.
I bet I can make more sense of that sentence by switching around all the vowels:
Seirs’ twu-monate onfumircoels eod LUGU eor shuws whoch on tarn eods humusixael lofistale bicumong meonstriem ecciptebli.
Well, I wouldn’t say it makes more sense, but now you can at least pretend that Swank is trying to broaden his cultural horizons by writing in ancient Welsh.
Bonus Swankery:
Sears has put its backing to the LOGO network, the latter showing “Sex 2K Drag Kings,” “The Gayest and Greatest ofr 2006,” and “Transgeneration.”
Don’t forget “My Big Fat Greek Homo Nup.”
This is totally a metaphor. Is teh boy’s name ‘Bill Clinton?’
Bringing teh fight to the enemy.
Stupid Daffy! Western Civilization must stand as one.
The liberal MSM scoffs at the good news from Iraq.
We yet face many challenges.
I have a new piece posted over at the American Prospect Online. It’s about how the Democrats should use their newfound congressional powers to destroy Christmas once and for all. Give it a read if you feel like it 🙂