Archive for 'Weekly Jackasses'

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Apocalypse Watch: Fifth Sign?

Be afraid…be very afraid (hat tip to Academic Elephant)…

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Monday, October 17th, 2005

And Now, A Brief Literary Digression

Terry Teachout argues in the Wall Street Journal in favor of Harold Pinter’s Noble Prize; his politics are atrocious, but he still merits recognition, says Teachout (are you listening, Acephalous?):
Granted, I can think of a number of other authors at least as deserving (starting with Tom Stoppard, an even greater British playwright whose politics are […]

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Friday, October 14th, 2005

Who Said It?

“…[T]he invasion of Iraq [is a] bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of International Law. An arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public. An act intended to consolidate American military and economic […]

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Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Seven: Harold Pinter

Let us now praise famous men…British playwright Harold Pinter is the recipient of the latest Nobel Prize in Literature, and while I’m not concerned with his literary merits here, I’d like to add yet another award to his mantle.
Here’s Pinter in 2003 (hat tip to Little Green Footballs):
The playwright said: “The US is really beyond […]

20 Comments » - Posted in Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Weekly Jackasses by Mark

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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Six: Molly Ivins

Maybe it’s because I’m a Texan myself, and one with a pretty heavy accent to boot, but I am particularly annoyed by that certain breed of aw-shucks, cornpone punditry typified by former Weekly Jackass Jim Hightower and our newest award-winner, Molly Ivins. These faux populists with their folksy, belabored mannerisms (reminiscent also of the […]

17 Comments » - Posted in SCOTUS, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Weekly Jackasses by Mark

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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Five: Charlie Rangel

This may be the shortest Weekly Jackass ever…some statements, after all, speak for themselves. May I present Charles Rangel:
Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: “George Bush is our Bull Connor.”
Mr. Rangel’s […]

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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Four: Ted Rall

Ted Rall is angry. Now, that’s nothing new; Rall is a fine specimen of that breed known as the angry progressive; he’s mad at Bush, he’s mad at America, he’s mad about Iraq, he’s mad about the latest Family Circus cartoon; you name it, he’s hacked off at it.
This time he’s really, really mad, […]

13 Comments » - Posted in Hurricane Katrina, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Weekly Jackasses by Mark

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Monday, September 12th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Three: Howard Fineman

Okay, we have a winner after all…
Here was Howard Fineman in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, practically salivating over the prospects of a crippled Bush:
…[J]ust after Labor Day, hearings will start in the Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. Expect the Democrats to drop their caution and go after him […]

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Monday, September 12th, 2005

Watch Out, George…

…the Hitch is getting warmed up! In case you’ve forgotten, on Wednesday, the great Christopher Hitchens takes on former Weekly Jackass and apologist for tyrants George Galloway mano-y-mano. Hitch gets warmed up here at Slate (I can’t even print the best parts - as you know, I try to keep it relatively clean […]

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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Two: Kanye West

No doubt there is much to criticize about the response to Hurricane Katrina (there is also much to praise, including the response of ordinary Americans, who have once again stepped up to the plate in the biggest of ways). Problems clearly existed with the evacuation and response plans, and the blame goes from the […]

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Saturday, August 27th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number 41: Ann Coulter

For the second straight week, I feel compelled to give the award to someone on the right. Here’s Ann Coulter on the flypaper strategy:
As Republicans were saying repeatedly – captured on Lexis-Nexis for a year before it showed up in a Frank Luntz talking-points memo in 2004 – the savages have declared war, and […]

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Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Forty: Arlen Specter

To the more conservative readers of this blog, it will come as no surprise to see Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter join the ranks of our Weekly Jackasses; indeed, to them, the question would be, “What took you so long?” Specter has long been the right’s least favorite Republican, particularly given his pro-choice stance on […]

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Sunday, August 21st, 2005

A Weekly Jackass Update

I know it’s keeping you up nights - what’s become of Janeane Garofalo, you ask as you toss and turn mercilessly? Oh, sure, we all know she’s engaged in some sort of career-ending gig at Air America, but what else? Well, wonder no more; she’s about to appear on the oh-so-liberal-in-such-a-pleasant-way West Wing […]

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Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Some Call It Treason…

Eugene Volokh has an interesting discussion about the public statements of recent Weekly Jackass George Galloway; specifically, whether (in the context of U.S. law, mostly) Galloway’s speech would be considered treasonous. I’ve drawn my conclusions, how about you? (hat tip to the Instapundit)…

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Monday, August 15th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Thirty-Nine: Cindy Sheehan

Many times, I take great pleasure in awarding a Weekly Jackass; after all, the intellectual shennanigans of a Noam Chomsky or a Gore Vidal just scream out for ridicule. I take no pleasure at all in awarding this one, because there’s nothing funny about a grieving mother. Ask yourself this, though: if Cindy […]

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Sunday, August 14th, 2005

An Anticipated Jackass…

…is all the sweeter, wouldn’t you agree? (And if you do agree, could you please tell me what that meant?) Yes, Virginia, there is a Weekly Jackass, but I’m running a bit behind…and it’s the fault of all the old jackasses.
I discovered, belatedly, that all of my Weekly Jackass links (if accessed under Jackasses, […]

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Saturday, August 13th, 2005

How Forgettable is Paul Krugman?

Last week, I mentioned that I was giving Paul Krugman a reprieve from being named my Weekly Jackass; while categorizing my past posts (a very lengthy task, alas), I realized he had already earned the distinction! (I’m going to ignore the muttering I hear in the background about how maybe it’s my own writing […]

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Saturday, August 6th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Thirty-Eight: George Galloway

Even in the exalted world of the Weekly Jackass winners, there are gradations. Some jackasses are more intrinsicially jackassical than others. This week’s honoree belongs to the upper stratum of jackassdom, by virtue of a lifelong ability to be on exactly the wrong side of most every issue. He is a man who has been […]

12 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Weekly Jackasses by Mark

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Sunday, July 31st, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Thirty-Seven: Simon Jenkins

At Arianna Huffington’s vanity project known around these parts as Huff’n’Puff, you will currently find a denunciation by Simon Jenkins, columnist and former editor of the London Times, of the ‘useful idiots’ who ‘have signed up to the League of Friends of Terrorism.’ Strong words, those - but naturally, some backlash against the politically collect […]

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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Thirty-Six: Frank Rich

Has anyone ever seen Frank Rich and Paul Begala in the same room? Seriously…because Rich might as well have ‘DNC hack’ stamped on his forehead. Rich’s subject this week, predictably, is the Plame scandal, but he has nothing to add (equally predictably), so he does his usual routine of slinging out everything but the kitchen […]

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