Sadly, No!

Call the waaaaaaaaahmbulance! Marty Peretz has lodged his cranium directly up his rear end… and he’s still trying to blog! Hurry, hurry, there’s not much time!

But, if Lamont is trying to put himself forward as a new face in the Democratic Party, the two men who planted themselves right in back of him on the stage at the victory party gave it all away. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are hustlers, and racist hustlers at that. They have accomplished nothing for African-Americans, nothing. Jackson keeps himself alive by conning big corporations out of bags of cash… And, of course, Sharpton was the chief incendiary of the utterly fraudulent Tawana Brawley case in which vicious lies tripped off his mouth for a year and more. Ned Lamont, the candidate from gentle-mannered Greenwich, should be ashamed to have had two such thugs as his intimate supporters.

[Gavin adds: Hey ‘Tardo, doesn’t Peretz apparently have a little problem with black people?]

Lieberman, of course, has such measured and dignified supporters as Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin.

(And BTW, it’ll be so much fun to see how quickly they abandon Joe once there’s a Republican running against him.)

Above: ‘Marty Peretz’ is a phonetic goldmine.

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Anti-Defamation League
July 28, 2006

Keith Olbermann
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
MSNBC

Dear Mr. Olbermann,

We are deeply dismayed by your ongoing use of the Nazi “Sieg Heil” salute, both on your program and in public appearances — including the recent Television Critics Association press tour — while holding up a mask of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly.

While we understand that your aim is to entertain your audience by taking pot shots at Mr. O’Reilly, your repeated use of the Nazi salute has resulted in many complaints from our constituents, including Holocaust survivors and their families who find the use of this gesture offensive and repugnant in any context.

The Nazi salute is more than just a remnant of history, but serves as a calling card for modern-day neo-Nazis and white supremacists. We believe that the use of gestures and imagery associated with the Nazis – even in jest – only serves to trivialize the Holocaust and denigrate the memory of the six million Jews and others who died as a result of Hitler’s Final Solution.

As a respected and well-known media personality, your actions have consequences and can set a standard for others to emulate. We are especially concerned that young people viewing your program might take their cues from your free use of the “Sieg Heil” salute.

In light of these concerns, we hope that you will reconsider your use of the Nazi salute in the future.

Sincerely,

The Anti-Defamation League

SadNo Research Labs
August 9, 2006

Dear The Anti-Defamation League,

Jumping Jehoshaphat on a Hoppity-hop. What the hell is wrong with you folks? I mean seriously, crack is wack, aright? No hope in dope.

Sincerely,
SadNo Research Labs

PS:

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Drunken party going on at FDL . W00T!

Update:
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Via Ed Driscoll, Marty Peretz confirms to Hugh Hewitt what many have known a long time: he hates the Democratic Party.

HH: Do you want the Democrats to win majorities in the House or the Senate, Martin Peretz?

MP: I’m…I’m appalled by some of the people who would become head of Congressional committees.

HH: Is that a no?

MP: Uh, but I’m also appalled by some of the shenanigans…

HH: But is that…I’ve got five seconds. Is that a no, Martin Peretz?

MP: It’s a cowardly refusal to answer.

HH: (laughing) Okay. We’ll carry it on, later. Martin Peretz, thanks.

Marty, Joe Lieberman’s bulldog, doesn’t want the Democrats to win.

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Sometimes when I read things about how the Bush administration is not-so-quietly consolidating power into a streamlined federal apparatus with a unitary executive’s hands placed loosely on the controls, I feel like that guy in the Tom Waits song, skulking around outside his neighbor’s house, wondering, “What’s he building in there?”

A provision in section 511 of the House-passed DoD Act would allow the President to federalize the National Guard of the states without the consent of the governor. Specifically, this clause amends Title 10 of the United States Code to give the President the authority to take control of the Guard in case of “a serious natural or manmade disaster, accident, or catastrophe that occurs in the United States, its territories and possessions, or Puerto Rico.”

Of course, to make the Tom Waits allusion completely accurate, the reclusive neighbor would need to keep bending nails and repeatedly banging his thumb while reaching for increasingly large hammers.

…I gotta admit there are certain people whose executions don’t exactly move me to tears. This guy is one of them:

A man who said he worshipped Satan and enjoyed killing three people, stabbing and beating them and stomping on them with steel-toed boots, was executed Tuesday.

I will note that by executing him, you’re sending him right to hell, which is where he wanted to be all along in the first place.

Or maybe God makes certain exceptions for Satanists, and instead of sending them to hell, He makes them hang out with people like Pat Robertson for all eternity. That would be punishment.

Martin Peretz makes the case to the readers of the most reactionary newspaper editorial page on Earth that not only is Joe Lieberman a not-so-secret Republican, but the forces that push Lieberman’s opponent, Ned Lamont, represent everything that WSJ types have classically detested.

‘Marty Peretz’ is often a relevant subject/verb pairing

[Lamont] is a middle-aged patrician, seeking office de haut en bas, and almost entirely because he can. It’s really quite remarkable how someone like Ned Lamont, from the stock of Morgan partner Thomas Lamont and that most high-born American Stalinist, Corliss Lamont, still sends a chill of “having arrived” up the spines of his suburban supporters simply by asking them to support him. Superficially, one may think of those who thought they were already middle class just by being enthusiasts of Franklin Roosevelt, who descended from the Hudson River Dutch aristocracy. But when FDR ran for, and was elected, president in 1932, he had already been a state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy and governor of New York. He had demonstrated abilities.

On one level here Marty could be describing G.W. Bush rather than Lamont — a silver spooned, inexperienced politico who assumes he can buy an election. But everyone knows the WSJ has no problem with people who can buy elections, thus Marty’s grace notes to his general riff here: Lamont is not like G.W. Bush because Lamont is a class-traitor, descended from other class-traitors.

So what we have in this candidacy is someone, with no public record to speak of but with perhaps a quarter of a billion dollars to his name, who wants to be a senator. Mr. Lamont has almost no experience in public life. He was a cable television entrepreneur, a run-of-the-mill contemporary commercant with unusually easy access to capital.

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Demogenes Aristophanes is a bloody genius who should blog more often. Witness:

We have always been at war with the Mole Man.

Fortunately, we have just the team to defeat him:

Donald “Mr. Fantastic� Rumsfeld … watch him stretch our troops too thin!

Condi “The Invisible Girl� Rice … she disappears whenever there’s a crisis!

Dick “The Thing� Cheney … under that rocky exterior is a heart of stone!

George “The Human Torch� Bush … he’ll throw gasoline onto every fire!

Heh. Read the whole thing.

Uhm. Oh. That was the whole thing. Well, read it again.

Kevin Drum writes:

[T]he more peculiar thing… is the underlying assumption that you can’t be considered reliable on national security issues unless you’ve supported every single war that’s ever been proposed. In fact, this view seems to pretty much underly the entire conservative project these days.

Pretty much.

It’s truly bizarre that in order to be considered “strong” in America, you have to have supported every war we’ve ever fought, no matter how disastrous, corrupt or bloody. The people who protested against the Vietnam war are still seen as dangerous parasites intent on weakening America’s moral fiber, despite the fact that history has proven them 100% right. I mean, if Ross Perot had been elected president in 1992 and had decided to wage war against the Mole People living in Hollow Earth, it would still be considered taboo for a politician to publicly denounce it. Weird, weird country we live in.

Above: Our next foe after we defeat Muslamonazism. As fiver writes, “We have to fight the Mole-o Fascists below ground so that we don’t have to fight them on the surface!” Indeed. I hear the Left is objectively pro-Subterranean.

My God, Iraq is screwed up:

Iraq’s prime minister sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack Monday on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, breaking with his American partners on security tactics as the United States launches a major operation to secure the capital. […]

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s criticism followed a predawn air and ground attack on an area of Sadr City, stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia.

Police said three people, including a woman and a child, were killed in the raid, which the U.S. command said was aimed at “individuals involved in punishment and torture cell activities.â€? […]

Al-Maliki, a Shiite, said he was “very angered and pained� by the operation, warning that it could undermine his efforts toward national reconciliation.

“Reconciliation cannot go hand in hand with operations that violate the rights of citizens this way,� al-Maliki said in a statement on government television. “This operation used weapons that are unreasonable to detain someone — like using planes.�

He apologized to the Iraqi people for the operation and said, “This won’t happen again.�

If the prime minister is going to get upset every time we go after Shiite death squads, then I don’t see any way to avoid a giant and catastropic civil war between the Sunni and Shia.

Part of me thinks it would be deeply irresponsible to cut and run from Iraq, especially since we quite literally broke the country. In this regard, I think it is our obligation to provide them with a reasonably stable country that, at the very least, isn’t ravaged by constant bloodshed and sectarian violence. But on the other hand… well, I don’t see what other alternative we have, other than to keep our troops in the middle of what is going to be a very nasty bloodbath. Things are going to get much, much worse.