Sadly, No!

I’ve concluded that Gary Ruppert must be a parody troll. No actual right-winger could really be this stupid:

It’s not surprising that you all have ignored this article, but that’s probably because it’s so true that you can’t refute it.

Here’s my favorite part of that article:

“Christiane Amanpour, Cindy Sheehan, CNN, The New York Times, Michael Moore, Newsweek, CBS et. al. are now, in huge measure, directly responsible for the ongoing death toll of Americans in Iraq […]

The American Media are Democratic Party operatives who make W.R. Hearst look like E.R. Murrow. They are killing our young, they are killing my friends, wounding my friends. They have ripped my flesh, spilled my blood, physically impaired me for life, and are doing the same to the Iraqi people. And they are going to cause more terrorist attacks at home. That is the ultimate problem.”

So our soldiers aren’t actually being hurt by IEDs or mortar rounds. No, they only get hurt because the media reports that they get hit with IEDs and mortar rounds.

Seriously, is anybody in the world really this stupid? This can’t be for real, right?

Seems like as soon as you’ve fixed it all, some new crazy mistake pops up. Sheez. I tellya.

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While the other goobers at Powerline have had their moments of greatness, John Hinderaker today demonstrates again why he is still the final authority on all things wingnutty:

Here is why I think so many liberals are anxious for President Bush to replace Rumsfeld: they have staked a great deal on the proposition that the Iraq war has not gone well, and, in fact, has been a disaster. But they are troubled because they are not at all sure that is true.

Please. We are 100% sure that the Iraq war has been an enormous waste of resources and has produced a theocratic Shiite government that is waging a war against its minority Sunni Arab population.

By any reasonable standard, casualties have been low and Iraq’s progress toward democracy has been impressive.

If you think electing the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq is a step toward genuine democracy, hey, more power to ya.

[Gavin adds: Hey, which should be the new Hinderaker crazy-spiral? I like the one on the left because it’s low-budget, but the one on the right has a Dr. Who time-tunnel thing going on…]

[Gavin adds Dr. Who theme: Dun-da duddada, dun-da duddada, dun-da duddada, dun-dun-dada…]
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|xXxthe swamp in whom fevers breedxXx|

(An open thread for Satday ante-meridian)

From Hugh Hewitt’s chat today in the Washington Post* (my emphasis):

Seattle, Wash.: How do you think the effects of the new media–aka blogs will play out with the more established media–aka MSM in the future?? And how will it benefit or hurt conservatives??

Don’t you love it that wingnuts–aka Hugh’s audience can write grammatically jumbled sentences and still think they’re qualified to replace the MSM–aka real reporters in the future?? Anyway, why don’t we read Hugh’s response??

Hugh Hewitt: Thelefty blogs are like lead pipes, posioning the information they serve up to the Democrats. Just this morning Kos was touting the Democratic candidate running against J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s 5th. I hoep that the KosKids run off and contribute a bunch of their limited resources to a doomed candidate, just as they did in California’s 50th.

On the other hand, sine the center-right blogs are both better written, better argued, and funnier –and avoid the vulgarity and profanity that dominate so many of the lefty blogs— they are copper pipes and are significant assists to the GOP in every cycle.

I know you’ll be shocked, but I’ve found some, shall we say, flaws in Hugh’s thinking.

[Gavin adds: Hugh Huwett’s “argument” is AD hominim strawman it is rediculous on it’s face……. PRIMA FASCIE…….what a moran he has no leg’s to stand on…BWAHAHAHAHAHA]
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I could see where you might think this argument in favor of an attack on Iran, as advanced by one of the non-Hindrockets at Powerline, came from the bottom of the barrel, but I checked –- and I’m pretty sure this barrel has a false bottom:

There certainly are risks associated with taking such action against Iran, but these risks stem mostly from the fact that Iran has developed (and at times used) the capacity to cause much harm in the region. Thus, citing these risks tends to underscore how much we have to fear from allowing Iran to gain the additional capacity to cause harm that nuclear status would confer.

Let that sink in for a minute, after you’ve read and re-read it a couple of times for clarity. (Don’t waste too much time, though, because you’ll never quite shake that wearing-somebody-else’s-glasses feeling.) Basically, what he’s arguing is that, if we were to attack Iran, they might respond militarily, and their ability to respond militarily justifies our attack — for instance, if we attack Iran with nuclear weapons, that attack is justified by the possibility of Iran’s developing nuclear weapons, which could then create a nuclear-weapons crisis in the Mideast.

Or, to reduce the scale from geopolitical to interpersonal, let’s say you’re at a bar, drinking a whole bunch of beer and about eight or nine shots of tequila, and you lean over and tell your buddy: “I should go punch that guy over there. Yeah, that guy with the mustache, shooting pool. He thinks he’s so bad, he thinks he’s so tough, just because he’s got a mustache and he’s punched other people before. But if I punched him, he’d probably punch me back. And hard, too. Thus, the risk that he might punch me back only serves to underscore how much I need to punch him right now, before any trouble starts.â€?

At which point, your logic has become so circular that you and your buddy both get the spins something awful, you barf on each other, no one punches anyone and you stagger out of the bar, arms around one another, alternately cursing and hiccuping. (Results may vary as scale increases.)

But whatever the scale, it’s when people in that state operate vehicles, surgical instruments, heavy machinery or deadly weapons that tragedies can occur.

Atlas Wanks writes:

I happily interrupt my Passover holiday to express my unabashed admiration for John Bolton. Yes, again. A fine man indeed. Intestinal and testicular fortitude in one giant of a man. The left hates him because he makes them look so positively small, spineless, petty and limp wrist-ed. Which of course they are.

I don’t deny it. Just looking at John Bolton’s rippling muscles and his verile “Quaker-Oats-are-good-for-you” mustache makes me ashamed to have ever thought of having sex with anyone ever. In fact, I’m going to quit having sex and donate my tiny, insignificant liberal penis to scientific intelligent design research, so Real Men can study it and say, “OMGROFLMFAO!!!11! Muslamonazis suck, LOL!!!”

“What’s that, sugar? You want John to give you a Boltin’ like you’ve ever had before? Fo’ shizzay!”

Over at D-Ho’s Smack Factory FrontPageMagazine, Robert Spencer has compiled a brilliant list of things that Muslims can do to make everyone stop hating them. Let’s check it out:

If Muslims around the world don’t want Islam to be perceived as encouraging violence, they should take these five steps:

1. Stop committing violent acts.

A sound first step. I called a couple of my Muslim friends just now and said, “Hey! Assholes! Y’all aren’t planning to commit violent acts right now, are ya?” And they were like, “What the fuck are you talking about?” And I’m like, “Robert Spencer says y’all need to stop homicide bombing us white people if y’all want respect. Y’all weren’t planning to homicide bomb my white ass this weekend, were you?”

They hung up after that, but I think they got the message.*
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So many things need fixing, it’s a wonder that it all gets done.

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Things are simmering over at Bérubé’s, oh yes indeed, with David Horowitz about to arrive on Michael’s own home turf, at Penn State.

And Horowitz has been needing a spa day lately anyway — preferably at a spa whose waters run with natural mineral lithium. This comes after a string of successful TV appearances:

* This is the moment in a comedy after the guy slips on a banana peel into a shopping cart, rattles down the hill, wipes out into a truck full of chickens, and lands in wet cement amid a hail of straw and feathers, looking up groggily as the soundtrack switches into a light suspense theme, and says dramatically into the camera, “This couldn’t be worse…”