Passed out under the coffee table with a William S. Burroughs novel tucked under his chin.  Which is about what you’d expect from a monkey who spent the better part of today eating corn chips and huffing model glue out of an Arby’s bag.

John Kerry responds:  “Quite obviously you underestimate the trauma a well-flung toast point can cause to a dictator’s unsuspecting retina.” update: “…Or for that matter a shrimp fork, wielded with the appropriate conviction.  Peasant.”

**** update:  Heh **** update 2:  Gghah.

Evidently the upcoming elections are that important to him.

I don’t know what to make of this, exactly—but I do feel safe in saying that with ruddy cheeks and a fetching smile, I’d make a far more delightful Hummel figurine than that litigous bunny lover Kerry’s always fawning over… **** from SarahW, who needs to get to work on my doll and collector’s plate.

Victor Davis Hanson, NRO: Worse than being duped, worse than cobbling together a highly politicized hit-piece during a war and in the waning days of an election, worse than the shady nature of the “unimpeachable” sources and the likely sordid origins of the story, and worse even than the pathetic nature of CBS’s “expert” witnesses — worse than all that was Rather’s ten-day denial of reality, culminating in the surreal

During their single phone call, Joe Lockhart tried to persuade Bill Burkett to pass CBS the forged¹ TxANG documents, Mr Burkett tells the Mercury News (registration required). In the interview Thursday, Burkett, a West Texas rancher and known critic of Bush, denied that his work with CBS was done at the behest of Democrat John Kerry’s presidential campaign. He said, however, that during the meeting in which he gave the