Too funny for words.
I would just add that European neo-fascist groups accusing American Islamophobes of creeping leftism because they don’t also hate Jews probably won’t show up as a data point in the next edition of Jonah Goldberg’s book.
Archives for January 2008
Will Farrell Would Have Been a Better Choice
Oliver Stone is making a new movie:
According to Daily Variety, Stone is in the process of developing a script about the current president that he hopes will hit theatres in time for the general election next fall.
And he’s tapped Josh Brolin — most recently of “No Country for Old Men” to play the commander in chief.
Oliver Stone sets his sights on Bush
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Open Thread
NFL Open Thread
As far as the Giants/packers, I am rooting for the Packers. While the Giants are a classy organization, I have always rooted for Green bay in the NFC, and how can you not root for Favre.
As far as the patriots/Chargers, I am indifferent. Nothing good can from the game. Either the Patriots win, which for obvious reasons is bad, or they lose and I have to spend the next month listening to meathead former NFL announcers say things like “That is why they play the game,” then we get to spend the next six months psycho-analyzing why the Patriots did not win. As you can see, neither is a desirable outcome.
Sunday Open Thread
Porn on CBS Sunday Morning. Who woulda thunk it?
Open Thread
Do the right thing.
Hunh?
If you needed anymore evidence that the right-wing really is clogged with people who are little more than authoritarians with a built-up need to be servile to their leadership, check out this Captain Ed post in which he agrees that the reporter I linked last night was right on the facts, but still was wrong:
Earlier this week, AP reporter Glen Johnson acted unprofessionally by essentially heckling Mitt Romney during a press conference when Romney said that he would not be beholden to lobbyists if elected President. Even a bystander called Johnson “rude and ugly”, a moment caught on YouTube. However, the Boston Herald — a paper with a rightward bent — believes that Johnson may have won on the facts while losing on the visuals…
Does this make Johnson look any better? No, but it makes Romney look a little worse. Politicians like to deride lobbyists and claim that they will have no favors to repay when they get to Washington, but it’s hard to make that argument when more than a dozen of them raise funds for the candidate. Regardless of whether they “run” the campaign, these lobbyists have helped fund it, and that makes the anti-lobbyist rhetoric somewhat hypocritical, regardless of the parsing of the word “run”.
Got it? Romney lied out his ass, even right-wing newspapers are calling him on his bullshit, and Ed claims it was Johnson who was “rude and unprofessional.”
Apparently, the professional response would have been to swallow Romney’s bullshit and say nothing like a good little stenographer. I mean, how dare someone have the temerity to call a liar a liar? So rude!
This attitude really is appalling. It is not rude and unprofessinal to ask tough questions. it is not rude and unprofessional to argue with a candidate when they are lying (or, if you prefer it, “spinning.”). It is not rude to call bullshit. Mitt Romney is asking us for OUR vote. We owe him nothing, and he has to earn our respect.
He could start earning that respect by being honest. Until then, I encourage some more “unprofessional” and “rude” behavior.