Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Ahh, the NY Times:
First Vice chewed out The Times for accurately reporting that the 9/11 commission said there was no collaborative relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Then Paul Wolfowitz called the reporters risking their lives in Iraq craven rumormongers. Then came Mr. Cheney’s F-word. (Not Fox, the other one.)
Discuss.
At least the Democrats can quit whining about not having enough money (a lie they have peddled for years):
John Kerry may be only a candidate for president, but he and his entourage travel like kings. A month ago, his campaign began chartering a gleaming 757, packed with first-class seats, fine food, sleeping accommodations – even a stand-up bar. They hardly shy away from fancy hotels, like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach and the St. Regis in Los Angeles.
Late last year, Mr. Kerry’s campaign was so broke that the senator had to mortgage his own home to keep the presidential effort in motion. Now its finances are soaring, the result of a surge of more than $100 million in contributions after the Super Tuesday primaries in March. That has given Mr. Kerry the distinction of being the best-financed challenger in presidential campaign history.
The swelled coffers, spurred by money raised over the Internet, has allowed Mr. Kerry to pour money into the race at a pace that rivals spending by President Bush’s campaign. In fact, he spent more than the president in both April and May.
Again, factor in the unions, the NEA, the NAACP, NOW, the advocacy groups, George Soros.
This may be the dumbest post I have ever read. Surprisingly, it is not one of my own:
Vice President Dick Cheney shouted “go fuck yourself!” at inoffensive Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, at a photo opportunity on the Senate floor earlier this week. On Friday he told Fox Cable News, “I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it.”
Now, it seems to me that the Senate floor is public space, paid for by the public. And in this regard, there is no difference between it and the public airwaves, which the public also owns…
Howard Stern no doubt feels better when he gets some blue language off his chest, too. So I propose that Mr. Cheney be made to pay $275,000 for fouling the air of the Senate in the way that he did. Should he feel the need to feel good again, he should be aware that the second offense in the Senate bill costs $500,000.
And, I propose that the fine go to vocational training for the disadvantaged people that Cheney has made a career of stomping all over.
“Inoffensive Pat Leahy.” Heh. Informed comment.
Dave Cullen discusses the Jack Ryan scandal (via Talk Left).
And, by all means, read Cullen’s Columbine Almanac. Everything you think you know about Columbine- well, you are wrong.
David Brooks on the man the Democrats are embracing with open arms:
Like Hemingway, Moore does his boldest thinking while abroad. For example, it was during an interview with the British paper The Mirror that Moore unfurled what is perhaps the central insight of his oeuvre, that Americans are kind of crappy.
“They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet . . . in thrall to conniving, thieving smug [pieces of the human anatomy],” Moore intoned. “We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing…”
In the days after Sept. 11, while others were disoriented, Moore was able to see clearly: “We, the United States of America, are culpable in committing so many acts of terror and bloodshed that we had better get a clue about the culture of violence in which we have been active participants…”
In an open letter to the German people in Die Zeit, Moore asked, “Should such an ignorant people lead the world?” Then he began to reflect on things economic. His central insight here is that the American economy, like its people, is pretty crappy, too: “Don’t go the American way when it comes to economics, jobs and services for the poor and immigrants. It is the wrong way.”
I wonder if any Democrats have ever read the Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
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You just knew this was going to happen (via Dean Esmay):
I guess we are just going to have to keep mocking some Democrats until they grow up and understand what fascists really are and what they really think. I sitll can’t believe the mainstream press has not called Gore on his remarks.
Funny place, Washington, DC. Only place I know where a man can call you a war profiteer, a war mongerer, and a liar, and then try to cozy up and be your best buddy, and when you tell him to “Go fuck himself,” you are seen as wrong.
Funny town, indeed.
The Instapundit has a post up in which he notes the incredibly dishonest Memo from Mary Beth Cahill about the GOP’s “Coalition of the Wild-Eyed,” and readers point out that it is rather amusing to watch the Kerry campaign trying to distance themselves from MoveOn, Michael Moore, and the DU, when the DU is linked to the Kerry web site, a former front man for MoveON is now Kerry’s Director of Internet Operations.
Zach Exley is the fringe left, and has been traveling in loony left circles for years. How many of you remember “Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President?” A lot of you probably don’t, because it was written by James Hatfield, who claimed any number of bizarre things in the book. Hatfield’s chief claim to fame was his charge that Bush had been arrested for possession of cocaine, but his father’s powerful ties interfered and cleared the whole things up.
That is ground zero for the cocaine rumors. Unfortunately, it turns out that the author is a fraud and a two-time felon, and after numerous things in the book did not check out, St. Martin’s Press stopped printing and issued a recall. A small fringe publishing company, Soft Skull Press, then picked up the book.
The documentary “Horns And Halos” films the lunatic running Soft Skull, a chap named Sander Hicks, and James Hatfield running around trying to get the book published. Featured several times in the film is a mutual friend who gives advice. That mutual friend is none other than Zach Exley.
At any rate, Front Page has a lot more on the ‘colorful’ Mr. Exley.
The point of this post, btw, is not to limit who people speak with- that is fine. If John Kerry and Terry McAuliffe want to be at the Fahrenheit 9/11 premiere, fine. Freedom of speech and freedom of association. If John Kerry wants to hire Zach Exley- fine. But that doesn’t mean I have to forget that he refused to disavow the Hitler MoveOn commercials. That doesn’t mean I can’t point out all the outrageous things Moore has said and done.
Just quit pissing down my leg and telling me it is raining.