Archive for February, 2005

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Rall Changes the Rules, but the Challenge is Met

Ted Rall, no doubt overwhelmed with examples of left-wing moonbat ranting, now says only a violent threat to specific political or media personalities (Rall laughingly must consider himself one of the latter) counts towards his challenge (and then tries to cover up his Little Green Footballs snafu with the new rule that comments count). He […]

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Friday, February 25th, 2005

Rall Slanders Little Green Footballs

Ted Rall, as part of his ‘Rightwing Challenge’, uses as an example comments left at the site Little Green Footballs as if they were posts by Charles, who, of course, is much too classy for these remarks. If this is the best Rall can do, the challenge is complete (see PoliPundit’s entry here).

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Friday, February 25th, 2005

Are You Up To The Challenge?

Ted Rall is asking rightwing bloggers to prove the left is more hateful than the right by sending him the worst examples of lefty vitriol (with the link); he claims he will post them at his blog. I suggest we all take him up on it. (Send your entries to: rightwingchallenge@rall.com).

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Friday, February 25th, 2005

Friday Morning Quick Shots

At OpinionJournal, Europe as a whole joins the ‘Hey, Maybe Bush Was Right’ meme…
Nominees are in for The Week magazine’s second annual Opinion Awards, and they have a category for single-issue advocacy; nominees include Michelle Malkin on immigration, Christopher Hitchens on Islamofascism, and Claudia Rosett on the United Nations oil-for-food scandal. Wow, hard to choose […]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Ward Churchill Advocates Terror on Tape

Michelle Malkin has the transcripts of four audio clips of Ward Churchill spewing his venom. I covered the Ted Rall opinion piece earlier today; Rall talks about all the hatred in the rightwing blogosphere, but 90% of the time, what the other side calls hate is merely the act of shining a light on the […]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Rather Excellent Tales: On to CBS

1962 - Rather joins CBS as Chief of its Southwest Division in Dallas. In 1963, he becomes Chief of the Southern Bureau in New Orleans, where he becomes the first reporter to report the death of President Kennedy.
Hmm, Dallas, New Orleans - two areas where Lee Harvey Oswald lived. Rather is with the New Orleans […]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Miscellanea - More Good News from the Middle East Edition

The Iraqi democracy experiment has influenced the leader of Lebanon’s Druze Muslims to break with Syria and push for freedom (while Syria makes a half-hearted commitment to pull out) (hat tip to RealClearPolitics)…
For more on Syria and Lebanon, here’s Jim Geraghty with an excellent post…
Slate has started a Today’s Blogs column…
In the ‘give them credit […]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

A Virus in the Blogosphere : How a Thirty-Year-Old Idea Forced Out Eason Jordan

In his 1985 book Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, Douglas Hofstadter (best known as the author of Godel, Escher, and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid) talks about ideas floating in what he half-jokingly refers to as the ideosphere, where they self-replicate by planting themselves in the brains of others, through […]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Quick Shots - Bush On Tape = No Big Deal

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorializes on the Bush tapes and finds no surprises. Similarly, Mickey Kaus observes that a few more revelations like this and Bush’s approval ratings will skyrocket. The taper himself is sorry he made such a ruckus and promises to be a good boy now…

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Going Fisking with Ted Rall

Ted Rall is one of the meaner liberal cartoonists; in his work, he has ridiculed the families of 9/11 victims, parodied right-wing bloggers by showing us defending a President Bush who partakes in bestiality, compared the U.S. to a dictatorship, and taken shots at Pat Tillman, the former NFL star killed in defense of this […]

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Miscellanea : Two More Weeks Edition

Templar Pundit (talk about your vast right-wing conspiracies!) is counting down the days ’til we say goodbye to Dear Ol’ Dan…
Courtesy of Chrenkoff, Der Spiegel joins the ‘Hey, Maybe Bush Was Right’ meme…
It’s sure been quiet on the Michael Moore / Barbra Streisand front lately, hasn’t it?…
In the ‘credit where credit is due’ department, the […]

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Twelve: Sheila Jackson Lee

Sheila Jackson Lee, for those who don’t know, represents the Eighteenth Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House. Lee is the consummate publicity seeker, ready to hype any perceived outrage, no matter how ridiculous, to the extreme, and never missing a chance to get in front of the cameras. Her official homepage is a […]

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

The Virtue of a Short Memory

There are elements on both sides of the Israeli - Palestinian divide that are skeptical as to the meaning of recent events. This skepticism is hard-won and difficult to surmount. If there is ever to be (relative) peace in that troubled land, this skepticism must be overcome. There are times when it […]

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

A Weekly Jackass Teaser

If you’re just absolutely unable to sleep from the anticipation of tomorrow’s Weekly Jackass crowning, I’ll throw you a hint; she (yes, she) can be found in this excellent list rating all the U.S. Congress members according to relative ‘conservatism’, or lack thereof. A second hint - she strongly lacks thereof - i.e., she’s a […]

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Rather Excellent Tales: A Star is Born

1959-1962: Rather makes the fateful move to television on KTRK-TV in Houston. His rise is swift; by 1962 he has become the news director at rival station KHOU-TV.
FUN FACT: Rather gained a lot of attention in 1961 covering Hurricane Carla in Galveston, where the wind speed reached 117 mph; Rather appeared on air ‘drenched and […]

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Miscellanea - What Did Lawrence Summers Really Say? Edition

If, like me, you’re too busy solving the world’s problems to read the Lawrence Summers transcipt, William Saletan has a good synopsis…
Similarly, Just One Minute has just what you need to get up to speed on the Guckert / Gannon kerfuffle…
If the Hinchey comments have got you fired up, Carpe Bonum stays on the beat…
Arthur […]

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Quicks Shots - What Do Bill Parcells and John Kerry Have In Common?

For starters, I mentioned them in the same question (a little self-referential joke for you Godel fans). The real answer is they both have apparently worn out their welcome (okay, for most of us, Kerry wore his out a long time ago). Parcells is skewered in this piece by Jeffri Chadiha, and PoliPundit […]

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Remembering One of the Great Ones

A quick roundup of Hunter S. Thompson tributes:

The great Tom Wolfe
Mark Shaw, in the Aspen Daily News
The New York Post
The New York Times
Dennis Duggan’s One Wild Night With Hunter
A selection of Hunter’s more memorable turns of phrase

(hat tip to RealClearPolitics for many of these links)…

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Monday, February 21st, 2005

What’s Wrong with the Democrats? Look No Further Than The Nation

No magazine compares to The Nation when it comes to being jarringly wrong on every major issue. Christopher Hitchens used to file his Minority Report there (and you can find some of those columns in his new collection). The Hitch said goodbye to his old ‘progressive’ comrades when he rightly surmised that they would […]

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Monday, February 21st, 2005

Miscellanea: Secrets of the Daily Kos Edition

Markos Zuniga reveals all: “One of my dirty little secrets — I read very few books.” Stop the presses! - and yet you’re such an astute observer of the political scene, Markos. I grudgingly concede that Markos has a point in labeling Hunter S. Thompson the ‘first blogger’, though no blogger, right or left, […]

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