Drives me crazy when my students opt for this kind of essay, because I usually end up wanting to shake them around saying, “What made you decide to compare a trebuchet with a pomegranate? Why, why, WHY did you make me read this? Have I been cruel to you?” Nevertheless, Dan Riehl makes a good point here.
It appears that there’s been a ginned up report of David Vitter pitching a fit at an airline gate, duly reported by Roll Call, on the very same day that news broke of Nancy Pelosi’s practice of using air force flights as her own personal airline, and lying about it. One of these things ought to be a much bigger story than the other. Can you figure out which one?
Okay, then let’s move on and consider the Bristol Palin story, that she and Levi whatsisface have called off their engagement. That breaks on the same day that it’s reported that John Edwards has reared his silky little head to lecture the nation on poverty at Brown University. One of these babies has a father and was born to a teen out of wedlock. The other one doesn’t, and was born to a crazy lady hired to film the candidate (rather than boink him) as he jetted from campaign event to campaign event while his wife’s cancer was in remission. I don’t want to belabor the point, but one of these pairs of biological parents screwed the pooch more bigtime than the other.
I’ve already flogged the fact that in the Hughley broadcast where Steele condescended to call Limbaugh’s show ugly and incendiary, the host stated that the Republican National Convention looked like a Nazi Party event. Ugly? I’ll show you ugly.
Carville said he hoped Bush would fail? What is he, some kind of talk show host?
Do you discern a pattern here? Are you feeling me, yet?
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 7:17 am #
You know, I am so shocked by Bristol Palin behavior. I just don’t think anymore that I’m going to look towards her as a leader among men. I’m disappointed that, yet again, we’ve been hoodwinked by a political leader who advocates morality, yet fails to live up to it.
SHAME ON YOU BRISTOL. I hope you never again get elected to serve the public.
Comment by The Oracle on 3/12 @ 7:18 am #
Linking the RNC with the Nazis takes a hell of a lot of nerve, considering that the final night of the Democrat National Convention at the stadium in Denver was practically indistinguishable from “Triumph of the Will.”
Seig “Change!”
Comment by McGehee on 3/12 @ 7:48 am #
Dan, why are you wasting time and energy about this when RUSH LIMBAUGH SAID SOMETHING SIX MONTHS AGO THAT CAN BE INTERPRETED AS MODIFYING WHAT HE CLAIMS TO HAVE MEANT WHEN HE WAS MISQUOTED AS SAYING SOMETHING THAT WAS TOTALLY REASONABLE UNTIL HE WAS MISQUOTED!!!!1!!!!
(insert “eleventy” as desired)
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 7:51 am #
I want Terrell Owens to fail.
Comment by Gulermo on 3/12 @ 7:55 am #
You may not consider them your enemies, but their actions speak volumes. Acting passively only encourages them.
Comment by Techie on 3/12 @ 7:58 am #
I’ll take “Having the magical totem “-D” behind your name is a great cure-all for public ills” for $400, Alex.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/12 @ 7:59 am #
Wait. Dan, are you suggesting there MAY, and I stress the word may, be a slight democratic bias in the main stream press? I think I’ll need more info to sort this all out. Off to MSNBC and the New York Times, I go. They’ll set the record straight on this.
Comment by Joe on 3/12 @ 8:03 am #
If you were famous* Dan the headline would be: “Crybaby Conservatives.”
I want to see someone slap the shit out of Chris Matthews. Is that too much to wish for?
* one day Dan, one day.
Comment by Pablo on 3/12 @ 8:03 am #
Karl Rove demonstrates the foolishness in letting your opposition control the argument, and does so without even trying. Why wouldn’t you call them out? Why not make it our strategy to destroy their tactics — and in so doing, reaffirm the very principles at the heart of classical liberalism?
I stole that last bit from some guy.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 8:04 am #
Perky tits, Dan. (The compare and contrast: sagging bags) Oh, and you get nothing.
Comment by Pablo on 3/12 @ 8:04 am #
I’ll pay extra if Baracky does it.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 8:21 am #
O/T but an Here’s an interesting article about Charles Murray and Progressive Education. Kinda long- it’s in three parts.
Comment by jcw46 on 3/12 @ 8:23 am #
Steele is showing that the RNC can elect it’s own “magic negro” just like the “party of the people” did.
1. skin color black – check
2. big friendly smile – check
3. says whatever the audience wants to hear – check
4. claims to be for opposite positions – check
5. makes statements, then has to issue “clarifications” – check
6. disavows those who have supported him – check
7. raises huge amounts of money from …. oh, wait.
Okkayy then, now we’re all set for 20 yrs of dems in the white house.
Isn’t it obvious that michael steele was not elected chairman because of his leadership skills, staunch republican ideals and his ability to articulate them but because of the color of his skin?
I suppose I’ll be accused of racism; so be it. I’d say the same things (except for the “magic negro” part) about any “conservative” democrat masquerading as a moderate republican.
If you look up RINO in the dictionary, michael steele’s picture is there along with a lot of misbegotten liberals that didn’t want to run as democrats for one reason or another.
I think that this is an unexpected benefit of the O hole being elected; now we find out who the real conservatives are and who has just been paying lip-service for the power or money.
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 8:26 am #
There are the progressive elite, and then there are the hoi polloi. There is no compare there. The contrast is so great that all detail is simply lost in the glare of their perfection.
Please make your obeisances accordingly, otherwise some penance will be required.
Comment by Cowboy on 3/12 @ 8:27 am #
I’m feeling you, Dan.
But when I say that, I mean In understand you. So don’t misinterpret what I’ve said here, intentionally or unintentionally.
Comment by Salt Lick on 3/12 @ 8:31 am #
Mugabe does not own a Portuguese water dog. Obama does.
Comment by Cowboy on 3/12 @ 8:31 am #
I, not In
When, oh when, will the painkillers finally kick in?
Comment by JD on 3/12 @ 8:33 am #
I am sure that Pelosi is about to catch a lot of heat over this …
Comment by Pablo on 3/12 @ 8:40 am #
No. If that were the case, he’d be forgiven his inconsistencies. As it is, he’ll be lucky to keep the job. I count myself among those disillusioned with Steele.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 8:43 am #
I was watching CNN yesterday (at the gym, you folks know I don’t even know where to find CNN on my home tv)- and the teaser for the Pelosi story was (I’m paraphrasing) Why some are looking at Pelosi’s plane trips with a critical eye.
See, CNN wasn’t questioning her use of jets at the taxpayer’s expense. Just some people. Prolly those evil, obstructionist Republicans. And RUSH.
Comment by scooter (still not libby) on 3/12 @ 8:48 am #
Carin, that Canadian rock band doesn’t give a shit about Pelosi and her planes.
Well, maybe Neil Peart. But Geddy Lee definitely doesn’t.
Comment by JD on 3/12 @ 8:53 am #
Olbergasm had a segment about Vitter, but was remarkably silent on Pelosi – but I have to admit that I did not get to watch the whole show, due to the violent wretching and dry heaves that he induced.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 8:58 am #
JD, the way to make it through such segments is to get on a treadmill (or, in my case, and elliptical) and to use that negative energy to burn off that Angry Whopper (or Swiss Cake roll) you had at lunch.
I have to say, it doesn’t always work. At times, I have to leave and go run the track.
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 8:59 am #
“The Other McCain” keeps moving up my blog bookmark list. That link brought him into the top ten. Good stuff, thanks Dan.
Comment by Curmudgeon on 3/12 @ 9:05 am #
jcw46: You got it. On the bright side, at least it wasn’t the typical futile Hispandering. And in fairness, Ken Blackwell would have been a much better RNC chief than Mr. Steele, and he’s African American too, for those who care.
Whatever happened to standing on real principle?
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/12 @ 9:07 am #
I want the “Fairness Doctrine” to fail!
“Bring it on!”
Comment by JD on 3/12 @ 9:09 am #
Carin – That is a great idea, thanks. I can use them as negative motivation.
Comment by Techie on 3/12 @ 9:42 am #
All our wishes in the world can’t stop the train wreck.
Breaking News: FBI raids offices of Obama’s Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/FBI_raids_office_of_DC_CTO_Obama_appointee.html?showall
It just keeps getting better.
Comment by cranky-d on 3/12 @ 10:01 am #
Breaking News: FBI is part of an organized campaign against Teh One!
Comment by blankminde on 3/12 @ 10:06 am #
In a war of robots vs. zombies, nobody wins.
Comment by JD on 3/12 @ 10:17 am #
Carin – How do you manage to run on the treadmill while watching Olbergasm, and not hurl all over the place.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 10:21 am #
Truth be told … I never watch Olberdouche. CNN is hard enough.
Comment by cranky-d on 3/12 @ 10:24 am #
I never thought I’d buy an IPod, but the teevees at the gym, tuned to a constant stream of stupidity, did not provide enough of the right kind of distraction to make the bike ride go quicker. CNN infuriates me, and the rest of it makes me feel even less for my fellow human beings.
Comment by JD on 3/12 @ 10:26 am #
Techie – Isn’t his HUD nominee, Carrion, under FBI investigation as well?
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 10:27 am #
iPods are proof that God loves us. Actually, what drives me away from the cardio machines toward the track more often is when some idiot has tuned in VH1 or MTV. OMG – I shudder for our youth.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 10:38 am #
The problem with Olbermann is he’s blissfully unaware of actual bad things happening in the world. Anyone who’s so obsessed with politics that they can even jokingly call people like Coulter or Limbaugh The worst person in the world needs to get out more, and possibly get on the list for a perspective transplant.
But probably any “The worst person in the world” segment that consistently pointed to the actual worst people in the world would start to repeat fairly quickly, and it probably wouldn’t be quite so amusing to the easily amused.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 10:39 am #
I dunno – perhaps they should change it to the “Worst Person of the Day.” It would be nice to see Monica Conyers and those of lesser evil get their day in the spotlight.
Comment by takeshi kovacs on 3/12 @ 10:56 am #
To quote a line from Woody Allen’s films, back when he was amusing; Olbermann’s a ‘travesty of two mockeries of a sham’, the real life version of the O’Reilly
parody in Colbert. John Edwards knocked up his documentary maker, had lobbyists come up with the tab for her and her family; while his wife’s cancer was in remission, a point a level Ithought Newt had plumbed showing his wife divorce papers in the hospital. Yes, that Newt, who said Rush was crazy for wanting Obama’s policy’s to fail; or something like this.
Comment by Robert Stacy McCain on 3/12 @ 11:06 am #
OK, Dan, whatever I did to piss you off, I apologize now, and will ask questions later. Mucho linky-love is on its way, I promise!
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 11:08 am #
Bristol Stomp [oldies song]
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 11:16 am #
Better pissed off than pissed on, I always say.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 11:18 am #
OMG, we’re ruined. Headline at Huffpo -Former GOP Official Found With Two Prostitutes In Playroom, Beaten By Wife: Police
With moral turpitude going all the way up to the former chairmen of the Cook Country Republican Party ….
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 11:21 am #
You didn’t do anything to piss me off, Stacy! Unless you were being that weirdo troll last night.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/12 @ 11:22 am #
RSM, I’m still liking shrew better, I mean, hell’s bells, I can infer shrewd but would’ve missed shrew altogether once the d’s on there. Or maybe “shrew (d – wv) opportunist would work?
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 11:50 am #
It’s Cook County, there be no Republicans there. Only Democrats running undercover ops.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 3/12 @ 11:52 am #
Carin,
A former GOP County Chairman? Is that the best the Paint Huffers can come up with?
Meanwhile, they dutifully ignore the inconvenient news that Obie can’t seem to nominate anyone to his Cabinet who isn’t a crook, a liar, or a tax cheat.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 12:06 pm #
RUINED. RUINED WE ARE.
I am RIGHT now trying to formulate my rebuttal to all the libs who are, I’m sure, going to ask me how I can be in the same party as the former Cook County GOP official who hired a hooker.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 12:07 pm #
Of course, adding to the confusion is that I’m a “former Republican, now an OUTLAW”, but I doubt they’ll understand the nuance.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 12:18 pm #
Just ask them how they feel about sharing a party with former Democratic precinct captain John Wayne Gacy.
Also from the Chicago area, FWIW.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 12:22 pm #
Mr. Veit pointed me to this which is a lot interesting.
my favoirite part was this…
Comment by happyfeet on 3/12 @ 12:23 pm #
*favorite* … but I didn’t actually read the whole thing cause of the attention-span problem I have today.
Comment by pablo on 3/12 @ 12:28 pm #
“The documents cover the period from January 2007 to November 2008 and show that Pelosi made the equivalent of 20 round-trips between Washington (Andrews Air Force Base) and San Francisco. That’s an average of less than one round-trip per month. In contrast, former Speaker Hastert traveled home to his Illinois district virtually every weekend and, his former aides tell ABC News, he would almost always travel on military aircraft.”
Comment by geoffb on 3/12 @ 12:31 pm #
Debbie Stabenow’s husband. NTTARWT.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/12 @ 12:31 pm #
Depends on the aircraft, Pabs. Military != plush.
Trackback by Jon Swift on 3/12 @ 12:34 pm #
Why Bristol Palin Is Different…
If there is anything that conservatives reject it is the idea of moral equivalency….
Comment by Ric Locke on 3/12 @ 12:35 pm #
Not strictly true for Gulfstreams. Or Lears, for that matter. They may not have Saudi-equivalent gold taps in the hot tub, but no G leaves the factory with Naugahyde™ upholstery.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 12:38 pm #
Jon Swift doesn’t seem to understand that a) I’m arguing moral inequivalence, and b) we’re none of the extremists that he finds, somehow, best illustrative of what we express here. So, don’t bother.
Comment by Pablo on 3/12 @ 12:45 pm #
pablo @ #52 is not me. Is it anyone we know, Dan?
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 12:48 pm #
THANK GOD, Pablo. I mean, I never doubted you, but #52 left me cold, confused, and alone. How could you quote something unattributed like that.
I am so relieved. I’ll see ya tonight. Leave the curtain open a crack, k?
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 12:49 pm #
Used to go by the name of “nate.”
Comment by alppuccino on 3/12 @ 12:50 pm #
Is it anyone we know
That’s little pablo.
Comment by Carin on 3/12 @ 12:50 pm #
But, Jon Swift really convinced me. THROW BRISTOL PALIN OUT OF OFFICE. I just can’t stand the hypocrisy anymore.
But, I have an idea on how to get Bristol into the good graces of the media.
1) Create a blog.
2) Announce that she’s now a liberal.
3) VIOLA. She’ll be on Olberdouche’s show by the end of the week. Or maybe “The View.”
Comment by alppuccino on 3/12 @ 12:54 pm #
Tortilla salesman.
Comment by Pablo on 3/12 @ 1:05 pm #
I try to keep little pablo away from the keyboard, alp.
Comment by alppuccino on 3/12 @ 1:19 pm #
******awkward silence******
Comment by cranky-d on 3/12 @ 1:23 pm #
TMI about little pablo from Pablo.
Comment by JD on 3/12 @ 1:25 pm #
Juan Swift is nothing, if not consistent.
Comment by Squid on 3/12 @ 1:41 pm #
Juan is nothing. Consistency is his hobgoblin or something.
Comment by takeshi kovacs on 3/12 @ 2:04 pm #
lasy time, I checked Bristol Palin wasn’t in office, unless this is a dispatch from 2021; or something, Oh wait, I get it now.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/12 @ 7:39 pm #
sorry/rhyming dictoid here
heinie
snowblindie
[cough-spit]
if i could weigh in
about the loony bin
i must
must play my mandolin
[hee haw-i'm a grinnin]
’tis no win
tryin/ to spin
the recent run in
of bristols chagrin
but if we [u]
can hang in
or write in[stop the bathtub gin]\
discipline
Comment by guinsPen on 3/12 @ 7:46 pm #
rhyming dictoid here
Indeed.
Comment by guinsPen on 3/12 @ 7:48 pm #
My turtle ate my essay, Mr. Collins.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/12 @ 7:55 pm #
That’s all right. Send me a copy of your turtle and I’ll see whether I can’t recover it.
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Seriously, sir, it was spectacular.
Why, I was “workin’ on words, phrases…”
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