Sadly, No!

Fellow America hater and reader Blair sends us this link to the trailer of Michael Moore’s Farenheit 9/11.

One Republican explains why his party lost the special election held in South Dakota this week:

“If you take out the Indian reservation, we would have won,” said Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), former chairman of the NRCC.

If you exclude the people who didn’t vote for us, we would have won! This type of insightful election analysis, for those not familiar with it, was first brought to our attention by the good people of Monty Python:

Palin: Well pretty much as I predicted, except that the Silly party won. Er, I think this is largely due to the number of votes cast. Gerald.

Don’t blame us, blame David Warren. (Linked to by Donald Sensing and InstaPundit, bien s?r.)

The Bush administration has handled the transfer of power in Iraq more cleverly than anyone expected, including me. The summoning of the U.N. envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, looked like very bad news (a poisonous old Arab League chauvinist who brokered the sell-out of Lebanon to Syria in 1982). In grim moments, I believed the Bush people were cynically using him to wash their hands of Iraq, and as it were, dump the quagmire back in the swamp of the U.N. Instead, they froze the ground beneath Brahimi’s feet, and skated rings around him, haggling behind his back with Iraq’s new political heavyweights to leave him endorsing a fait accompli. If it were not vulgar, I would say the Bushies suckered the U.N. into signing on to the New Iraq through Brahimi. [Emphasis added]

Bush-Cheney campaign chairman Marc Racicot, on May 28:

Now, wait a minute. We’re not picking the people. The United Nations is picking the people. They’re designing the structure and picking the people, so this is a international effort to provide a transitional government until elections can be held. [Emphasis added]

If you’re Mike S. Adams, the answer is: act like a total asshole. To wit:

Recently, I wrote an article called ?Summer Reading,? which was intended to motivate my readers to take some time to read classic literature over the summer. While mostly apolitical, it did close with the following line, which was deemed offensive by one of my readers: ?(Go out and) pick up a great work of classic literature and enjoy the reading. You know, like the kind they used to assign in college when English professors taught English instead of homosexuality and feminism.?

The offended reader, from Ithaca, New York, called my above assertion ?sexist, heterosexist, and gratuitous.? So, naturally, I apologized. No, I?m just kidding. Instead of apologizing, I decided to search the webpage of the nearest university English department to see what I could find. Naturally, I went looking first on Cornell.edu. Here is a summary of what I found out about the English faculty at Cornell University:

Mike then goes on to list several members of Cornell’s faculty, along with their research interests which, he presumably thinks, supports his assertion. (That, by the way, is his entire column besides the two opening paragraphs quoted above.) Can you see where Mike used some creative editing? According to him:

Laura Brown is an expert in feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, and cultural critique.

According to Cornell’s web site:

Scholarly and Professional Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, especially matters of generic history, ideology, and form; feminist criticism; Marxist criticism, cultural critique.

Another one? Here’s Mike:

Mash Raskolnikov is an expert in feminist and queer studies.

Here’s Cornell:

Scholarly and Professional Interests: Middle English literature, allegory theory, medieval philosophy and rhetoric, contemporary critical theory, feminist and queer studies.

Not only did Mike edit out the content of the web site that didn’t support his thesis, he added “…is an expert in…” to everything, although that text does not appear anywhere on Cornell’s web site. Everything he quoted comes from the “research interests” section of the faculty.

Even that, however, is somewhat off topic. Mike claimed they don’t assign great works of literature anymore. So what do they assign at Cornell? A lot of the classics, it turns out. Imagine that.

PS: Fixed link (merci Blair.)

Last week, reader J Edgar mentioned The Virgin Ben Shapiro’s appearance on KGO-AM’s Ronn Owens show. For your pleasure and convenience, our favorite quotes are presented here. (And yes, there went one hour of our lives we’ll never get back.) [Note: The Virgin Ben is a registered trademark of TBOGG GmbH, used without permission.]

On abortion, why Ben should be able to tell a woman she cannot have one:

The Virgin Ben: You chose to have sex and mistakes were made…

On sex:

The Virgin Ben: What’s the difference between a 14-year old having a sex with a 12-year old, and a 30-year old having sex with a 12-year old.

On sex, again:

The Virgin Ben: What you need to procreate is a man and a woman.

On morality:

The Virgin Ben: The prevailing ideology that is being taught on the campuses is moral relativism, with the absence of moral absolutes.

On getting ready to be bitch slapped:

Ronn Owens: If you’re a moral absolutist, it’s wrong to murder, correct?
The Virgin Ben: Yes.

After Ronn gives the example of a beaten woman who one day murders her husband:

The Virgin Ben: Obviously, uh, ah, murder is a complex law. Moral absolutism doesn’t mean there aren’t complexities… but there are degrees of wrongness. [This sentence originally read “…there are complexities…” Our apologies for the error.]

On getting double bitch slapped:

The Virgin Ben: … what I do in my book, Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth.
Ronn Owens: Hang on… Did your publisher tell you to do that […] say “in my book, and then give the title?”
The Virgin Ben: My publisher told me.
Ronn Owens: Don’t do that again.

Bonus Trivia: Ben’s mom is a reality TV producer, and her company has produced America’s Funniest Home Videos and “the cop show in Los Angeles.”

Tim Lambert gives John Lott a day off and turns his attention to Philip Morris, the Clinton Health Care Plan, Bruce Bartlett, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute and Microsoft:

As part of the Tobacco Settlement Agreement Philip Morris (PM) agreed to release millions of documents about their operations. These detail how ADTI was hired by PM to conduct a public relations campaign against the Clinton health plan in 1994. ADTI provided PM with regular progress reports to prove that PM was getting value for its money, so they also let us see how these campaigns are conducted.

We hate to say “read the whole thing” — but you really need to.

Added: In the comments, Bruce Bartlett writes:

Read the document. ADTI only ASKED for money from PM. To my knowledge, it never got any.

This PDF document posted by Tim Lambert seems to indicate the opposite however. Updates to follow…

No More Mister Nice Blog links to this NRO piece by Mark R. Levin posted yesterday and writes:

At National Review Online, Mark R. Levin reproduces excerpts from four dire stories that ran in The New York Times after the end of World War II (e.g., “Germans Reveal Hate of Americans”) Meanwhile, Jessica over at Kultursmog reproduced the cover story from the a postwar issue of Life: “Americans Are Losing the Victory in Europe.”

Steve has some things to say about this argument, to which we’ll add this: that Maginot line of defense wasn’t any better last fucking year when the very same articles were quoted by countless bloggers. After raising $50,000 one would think NRO could at least afford to publish pieces that aren’t recycled shit. Zum Beispiel:

From a Q&A with Bush-Cheney campaign chairman Marc “Mom, the other kids are being all negative and stuff” Racicot last week:

The actual job loss began before this president became president. The recession actually started before this president became president. … Well, the official celebration [sic] of the recession is March ’01 but the job loss began before ’01.

Did it Mark?

Close, but not quite. (IOW: Sadly, No!)

Thanks to Blair for the link to the Racicot interview.

We’ll let you guess the author of this line:

Eminem’s politics, and the politics of HSAN, are Leftist, but we’re talking the Left side of hell.

Last month, we wrote about what some have called the “archeological find of the century,” one Brian Cherry.

While Brian hasn’t written any new articles since (as far as we know,) we are happy to report that our efforts have now been rewarded by Google itself.