Well, let’s see. I’d planned to jot down a few thoughts about the latest RatherGate revelations, but Allah has already covered those in excrutiating detail—and with that same sodden sense of jittery, overtired bemusement I find myself swimming in these days. So no need.
Meanwhile, Bill INDC sharpens his beak and takes a few hungry pecks at that giant, stunned CBS eyeball (the one that crazed loon Bill Burkett hopes to own one day, at which point he’ll affix it to his roof like some freakish satellite dish and instruct it to keep a lookout for black helicopters, limber government spies, and squadrons of flesh eating nano-marauders from the planet How in the Hell Could Anybody Ever Take This Crazy Fucker Seriously?
Speaking of which, angry, frantic Kerry pimp Oliver Willis puts down his cream cheese sandwich long enough to add his special blend of insight and golden sponge cake to the mix:
So CBS is saying not that they have been proven fake, but that they shouldn’t have run them. Fine, though I do wish our media was less sloppy. Fox News outputs the journalistic equivalent of the Bush memos every day, but that seems to never be covered.
…and
If you’ve ever wondered how useless the American media is, yesterday was a superb illustration. I’m not saying that the CBS memo story wasn’t newsworthy – but on the same day Kerry made a major foreign policy address, and Bush responded in kind, and a man was beheaded in Iraq – was Dan Rather’s mea culpa really the top issue of the day?
The media’s malfeasance was the story of Election ‘00, and it will be the tale of Election ‘04.
Well, if anybody knows useless, Oli, it’s you.
Meantime, for those of you who missed Kerry’s “major foreign policy address,” the gist of it was, “today I wouldn’t have gone into Iraq. Today. And in the name of all that is tough on terror, I ask that you please ignore some of the other positions I’ve taken on this very issue. For the time being, I mean. Terms and conditions subject to change without notice. Some restrictions apply. Vietnam. Now, who wants a fudge pop?”
There. All caught up. Now we can begin our day.
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The Clintonistas told Kerry to stop talking about Vietnam, so what does he do? He starts talking about Iraq as if it were Vietnam.
But then again, that whole “cut and run” strategy got President McGovern elected in a landslide, didn’t it?
Jeff and other bloggers, just wondering, when yall started your blogs were yall swarmed with lefty rantings and personal attacks? Cuz they are downright hurting my feelings! And if you have read my blog, I am super nice like. Maybe they just want to discourage me? Too bad. Aint gonna happen.
Not when I started, but by the time I stopped for about 18 months, yes.
Now I just alter their comments, then ban them. Because I honestly don’t care what they have to say.
It’s good to be the king.
Sorry Jeff, but you got something wrong…
There is no way Oli qualifies as a Kerry pimp. No self-respecting pimp would be caught in a racist T-shirt like his. Although, if he actually wore the feather headdress, that would be a different story.
Oli wearing a headdress with a purple feather boa standing next to Kerry in a French maid’s outfit on a corner in DC. I see a new CBS sitcom…
> He starts talking about Iraq as if it were Vietnam.
He didn’t just start—he has been. Permit me to demonstrate:
Kerry: “the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time”
Author #2 (name postponed to add suspense): “It was the wrong fight, at the wrong time, in the wrong place, against the wrong people, for the wrong reasons, with the wrong strategy, the wrong tactics, and the wrong weapons. It was the wrong approach, to the wrong situation, betraying the wrong motives, from the wrong perspective, with the wrong attitude, to the wrong end, using the wrong means, effecting the wrong result. It was both the wrong twist and the wrong turn, arriving inexorably, of course, at just the wrong moment. It was the wrong choice, the wrong answer to the wrong question, altogether the wrong way to take care of business. And it wronged just about everybody it touched: it wronged the wrong and it wronged the rest of us as well.”
And now to relieve the suspense: Author #2 is named David Harris, and the quote is from “Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us,” published 1996.
The only thing more sickening that watching the liberal bias in our media is to hear liberals complain the media ISN’T BIASED ENOUGH!!
For the record:
Forged memos by Fox News: 0
Forged memos by CBS News: 4
And now to relieve the suspense: Author #2 is named David Harris
perhaps better known as the former Mr. Joan Baez (he spent most of their marriage in jail; I’m not sure which of the two of them was more grateful for that).
The Kerry speech was less a speech than an opportunity for MSM to cherry pick one-liners.
If you listened to the whole speech it sounded like a prose slam from Noam Chomsky’s kegger. It could only appeal to Deaniacs; is Kerry worried about losing them, too?
Oh, and how ‘bout all those Dem senatorial and house candidates clamoring for air time along with Kerry?
Hooglie, my fork please….no need for the Holland and Holland drilling. This one is done.
Great, Kerry’s new plan to win in Iraq. An UN Oil for Troops program. Swell!
Kerry made a major foreign policy address… was he refering to the Letterman appearance? ‘cause Letterman’s on CBS. just pointin’ that out.
I’m posting here because I didn’t go through the registering part just to congratulate Allah on his awesome boiling down of the whole Rathergate debacle:
“…when they make the movie of this story, the whole soundtrack is going to be calliope.”
heh.
Okay, my use of the word “starts” might be properly regarded as irony. If I hadn’t, you know, totally overlooked the fact that to John Kerry everything is Vietnam.
“Teresa, that was the wrong fork in the wrong place at the wrong time. Please remove it from my eye.”