Sadly, No!

Nathan Tabor is one of my all-time favorite wingnuts. In the past, he has advocated outlawing adultery; he has blamed abortion for illegal immigration; he has attacked Abe Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson while standing up for segregationists; and he has blamed human trafficking on pornography.

And now, he’s decided to run for North Carolina State Senate.

Yosef, would you consider running against him? Seriously, you don’t want your home state to be this humiliated, do you?

From The Corner:

It is a privilege to present the following excerpt from Very, Very Happy‘s classic post, The Corner Unleashed:

Goldberg: Who do you think? I kicked it down the chain to Robinson. I’m a busy man. I got things to do. Know’um’sayin’?

Dreher: Word up!

[laughter]

Goldberg: Um…’Word up’ does mean ‘I agree’, right?

Dreher: Yeah, I think so. Doesn’t it?

Goldberg: I could have sworn that it did.

Dreher: Shit. Maybe we should ask someone? I mean, messing up something that basic would conflict with our trendy image as the cool young kids of conservatism, wouldn’t it?

Goldberg: Yeah, seriously. Shit, you got the clicker? Flip over to BET. They talk like that all the time there! I bet we can decipher the meaning from context clues.

Dreher: Good idea!

[silence, TV noises]

Goldberg: Shizzle my what?

Dreher: Dude, black people confuse the shit out of me.

Goldberg: This isn’t even English!

Dreher: Screw this. I can’t even spell half these peoples’ names.

Goldberg: Seriously. Find some news, would you?

Dreher: On it.

[pause]

Dreher: Look, see? There’s a black person I can understand. Thank God for Lester Holt.

Goldberg: Lester Holt speaks so well, doesn’t he? Damn, I wish he was on Fox.

Dreher: Yeah…we need more blacks on Fox. We can’t leave it all up to…up to…say, what’s the name of that black anchor on Fox?

Goldberg: Oh, you mean the black guy?

Dreher: Yeah! Him!

Goldberg: Um…dammit, it’s right on the tip of my tongue.

Dreher: Something with an ‘S’…

Goldberg: Sam…Steve…Sm- Smith! That’s it – oh, dammit, I was thinking of Shepard Smith.

Dreher: Fuck! That’s who I was thinking of too. Why do you suppose that is?

Goldberg: Well, he is pretty tan – even in winter! Do you suppose he’s half black?

Dreher: No, I think he hits the tanning beds too much.

Goldberg: Hmm…maybe. I’ll write a Corner post later, see if anyone knows if Shepard is part black. I’ll say it’s for an article or something.

Dreher: Good idea. Hey! There’s Willie the Intern! Hey, Willie the Intern, come here!

Willie: Whatup, guys.

Goldberg: ‘Whatup’! Perfect! So, Willie the Intern, here’s your first journalistic task of the day…

Willie: Okay, seriously Goldberg –

Goldberg: Mr. Goldberg.

Willie: [pause] Mr. Goldberg. My name is Willie. Just Willie.

Goldberg: Whatever, Willie the Intern. Anyway, check this out. If someone said ‘word up’ to you, what would you think it meant?

Willie: ‘Word up’? No one says that anymore, except maybe middle-age white guys trying to be cool.

[silence]

Willie: What? What’d I say?

Dreher: Go take these donuts to my office.

Over at NRO, Bill Roggio takes aim at the Washington Post:

Why doesn?t the Washington Post correct some simple facts?

This is gonna be good!

Guilt by association. It is a common tool used to discredit those deemed a threat to the established order. Recently, I’ve found myself on the receiving end of such a tactic courtesy of a piece by Jonathan Finer and Douglas Struck in the Washington Post.

What did the Post do?

The authors report that I was credentialed by the American Enterprise Institute, when in fact this is impossible, as a think tank cannot provide media credentials ? this must be done by a recognized news organization. I was credentialed by The Weekly Standard and the Canadian talk-radio show The World Tonight.

What did the Post write?

After military officials in Baghdad said Roggio could not be issued media credentials unless he was affiliated with an organization, the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning research organization in Washington, offered him an affiliation, according to an entry on Roggio’s blog.

According to an entry on his blog. This one, perhaps?

I have received media credentials, thanks to Dr. Michael Ledeen and the American Enterprise Institute.

Yeah, it would be hard to conclude from that, that he received credentials from AEI. Bad Post, bad! We especially enjoyed how, in his NRO article, Roggio avoided any mention of why the Post would have concluded something so outrageous about his credentials. (For extra fun, you can contrast the credentials story Roggio posted here.) Anything else?

The piece claims that I had retired from the military, when in fact it requires 20 years of service to retire. […] And finally, contrary to the report, I was not in Iraq when the article was published. I had been home for nearly a week.

That’s a proof of bias? Sounds like someone could get a job at the Youppi Media Research Center.

The good Dr. Black writes:

Pajamas media has been so boring that sadly the volume of quality blogging making fun of them has been considerably reduced.

I was going to take up the challenge and make fun of PJ’s Media myself, but after perusing the front page, I realized that Atrios was right- it really is a very, very boring website. So to get my chuckles, I decided to visit PJ’s Media superstar Atlas Wanks instead. Here is what I found:

This from the left leaning, America hating, Guardian, yup the Guardian

Secret services say Iran is trying to assemble a nuclear missile

Document seen by Guardian details web of front companies and middlemen

The Iranian government has been successfully scouring Europe for the sophisticated equipment needed to develop a nuclear bomb, according to the latest western intelligence assessment of the country’s weapons programmes.

Scientists in Tehran are also shopping for parts for a ballistic missile capable of reaching Europe, with “import requests and acquisitions … registered almost daily”, the report seen by the Guardian concludes.

There are many reactions one could have to this story. My personal reaction is, “Why the hell did we invade Iraq in the name of taking out a non-existent nuclear weapons program, all the while letting Iran and North Korea develop nukes of their own?” Let’s see if Atlas has similar concerns:

This the is the most significant issue of the day. We have got to get a grip on or priorities and stop wringing our hands over the New York Times shriek fest over “domestic spying” on intercontinental calls between Al qaida and Osama.

Because letting the President spy on American citizens without a warrant is the best way to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. You’re so right, Atlas.
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Oh yes!

Lonnie Latham, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church, was booked into Oklahoma County Jail Tuesday night on a misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness, police Capt. Jeffrey Becker said. Latham was released on $500 bail Wednesday afternoon.

Latham, who has spoken out against homosexuality, asked the officer to join him in his hotel room for oral sex. Latham was arrested and his 2005 Mercedes automobile was impounded, Becker said….

When he left jail, he told Oklahoma City television station KFOR:

“I was set up. I was in the area pastoring to police.”….

Via AMERICAblog, with thanks to Alan.

I know it’s not kosher to praise people who blog for “the other side,” but Gregory Djerejian is very interesting and always worth reading. Here he is writing on the Abramoff scandal:

It’s clean up (Abramoff, Frist, DeLay etc) and competence (Miers, Brownie, Rumsfeld) time people. Who can step up to bat and pull us out of this bog of shit, to put it bluntly? McCain and Rudy? McCain and Graham? […] God knows, no one in the White House has the conviction, apparently, to do so. After all, isn’t Bush still on the record cheerleading a DeLay return to his leadership slot? How sad, and low. But, hey, the money Abramoff contributed to POTUS is going to charity now. So what’s all the fuss?

I hate to tell you this, Greg, but the only thing that’s saving the Republican Party from total collapse is the fact that the Democrats are so lame. If the Dems can shape up and start effectively campaigning with a unified message, the GOP is toast in November. (Note to Democrats: please, please, please, please, please get your shit together. I cannot bear the thought of watching these corrupt boobs run all three branches of government any longer.)

At any rate, this got me thinking: what’s going to happen to some of our craziest wingnut pals- Marie, Jeff Gannon, Pastor Swank, Kaye Grogan- as they watch their GOP heroes get tossed in the slammer? And let’s keep in mind, these people aren’t phonies like Hannity and Rush and Hindrocket who understand their roles as shameless partisan liars. No, folks like Marie are the true believers who think that Kool-Aid is served best when drunk from a big, stinky crock of shit. Will the Abramhoff scandal splash ice water on their faces and force them to face reality? Or will they continue to burrow further and further down the rabbit hole? Stay tuned.

UPDATE: While still certifiable, Joseph Farah shows he’s not completely out to lunch:

A major scandal that touches the president and many members of Congress ? including the Republican leadership ? is unfolding in Washington. Though lobbyist Jack Abramoff bought favors from both Democrats and Republicans, it is clear that, when the smoke clears, the party in power will pay a much higher political price. […]

These factors, and others, lead me to believe Republicans will be punished badly in this year’s mid-term elections ? worse than anyone now imagines.

OK, Democrats, if you can’t take back the House this year then you are the most worthless party ever, and I’m gonna start voting for Ralph Nader, no matter how many times it puts a Republican in office. You got that, losers?

I didn’t think anything could top last night’s Orange Bowl. I was wrong. Congratulations, Longhorns 🙂

Is it easy picking on Renew America? Yes. But I’ll be damned if it’s not enjoyable. Fred Hutchinson’s latest column is a good example of what I’m talking about:

The traditional definition of the sociopath is one who is “morally insane.” When a culture becomes morally insane, it descends into barbarism, and the civilization moves towards collapse. The sudden collapse of the Soviet Empire is an example of how a system can eventually fall apart after the culture sinks into depravity.

Is the West becoming morally insane? Well, it is safe to say that it is morally weird. The fear of saying “Merry Christmas” in a society in which 95% of the people celebrate Christmas in some form is an irrational, if not a paranoid fear.

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. OK, Fred, I’ve said “Merry Christmas” four times now, and George Soros’ secret police have yet to haul me away in their black helicopters. I think it’s safe to say that someone’s irrational and paranoid here, and it ain’t me.
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Here’s a choice bit from Marie’s latest stinkbomb:

Congressman Murtha, a septuagenarian with a penchant for crying in public these days, told “Nightline” recently: “Let me tell you, war is a nasty business. It sears the soul.” So searing, perhaps, that Murtha, a 37-year veteran of the Marine Corps, has taken to discouraging Americans from enlisting into the armed services, as the above illustrates.

Whoa. Wait. Wuh,wuh, wait. Marie. Do you honestly believe that the average soldier joins the army because he thinks war is just like a life-sized version of Chutes and Ladders? OF COURSE WAR IS A NASTY BUSINESS. Why do you think so many Iraq veterans are suffering from brutal combat stress trauma (hint: it’s not because Howard Dean called the war unwinnable)? I mean, my God, are you fucking serious?
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Thanks to S.Z. for pointing me to Human Events Online’s Top 10 Movies for College Republicans. My personal favorite is #9:

9. Zulu – Heroism in the face of overwhelming odds, 139 Welshmen fight off 4,000 Zulu soldiers.

Never mind that the Welshmen were invading their fucking land. Killing dark-skinned people is always a good time!