Forgetting that he himself is a third-rate talk show host (and not, say, a rocket scientist, or a law professor, or a medical doctor, etc), conservative radio personality Mike Gallagher joins Ted Rall in branding bloggers “geeky losers in their basements cranking out crap on a computer,” confiding to his audience that he is “worried about this trend of legitimizing bloggers.” Chief among blogging’s faults? “Anybody can do it.” Whereas
February 24, 2005
BREAKING: BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT THE HYPOCRISY AND THE AFFRONT TO JOURNALISTIC ETHICS (AND NOT—I REPEAT, NOT—ABOUT THE GAY MAN COCK), A LEFTY WEB SITE AND A LOCAL WASHINGTON SOCIALITE ARE REQUESTING YOUR HELP IN FINDING JEFF GANNON’S ADMINISTRATION BOY TOYS! BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY! AND BECAUSE WITHOUT SUCH EVIDENCE, THE REPUBLIC IS SURE TO CRUMBLE BENEATH THE WEIGHT OF THE DECAYING JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS EVINCED BY THIS SCANDAL! GAY PORN? —NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS! THIS IS ABOUT DEMOCRACY!
Rusty at the Jawa Report sends along a link to this astounding post in which blogress Kelly Ann Collins asks readers, with regard to Republican quasi-Messiah Jeff Gannon and his GAY PORN COCK OF LIES: […] have you seen this man? Have you slept with this man? Do you know this man? A local socialite, who wishes to remain anonymous, has teamed up with this site to offer a $10,000
February 24, 2005
University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor and anti-American firebrand Ward Churchill and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack contemplate the notion that racial identity—rather than being some essentialist blood project—is more a matter of adopting culturally-defined constructs
“The thing is, Billy, it doesn’t even matter what kind of ‘blood’ I have in me, y’know? Because the essence of my Native-Americanness—the essence of all Native Americanness—is a desire to fight the Establishment, and to do it on my terms. I believe in an organic societal structure—not the forced inequities of a market system responsible for more genocide in the world than all of history’s Hitlers combined. That’s the
February 24, 2005
Overheard inside a Ramadi bunker, Thursday, Feb 24
First militant: “May I ask you something, Hassan…?” Second militant: “What is it now, brother? Can you not hear the American military aircraft screaming overhead? We are at war, Tamir. You must concentrate.” First militant: “Well, that’s what I was going to ask you about. When the Jews and dogs in the American media report that the Great Satan is targeting ‘insurgent strongholds’ with 500 lb. bombs, does this mean
February 24, 2005
Creating new terrorists: Chimpy McHitlerBurton’s smirky rodeo ride through history continues
Erstwhile Lebanese intifada leader Walid Jumblatt, quoted in the Washington Post: “It’s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq,” explains Jumblatt. “I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world.” Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt
February 24, 2005
Meditation upon woman
As I survey the vast expanse of the cyber universe—my muscled man-chest puffed proudly before me, my ample penis pressed flush against my taut thigh, straining against its leather binding to point outward at the sprawling binary fields of my bailiwick—I, like Beowulf the Dane before me, am saddened before the site of my earthly burdens, and long to find women to bring to my realm so that I may
February 23, 2005
Ted Rall to the denizens of cyberspace: “I’m, like, so much BETTER than you!”
Sensing his own declining celebrity, serial smirker Ted Rall pokes his limp little stick at a new target: blogs: Bloggers are ordinary people, many of them uneducated and with nothing interesting to say. They’re sitting in their rec rooms, regurgitating and spinning what real journalists have dug up through hard work. They don’t have sources, they don’t report, and no one holds them accountable when they make mistakes or flat
February 23, 2005
Overheard inside a Ramadi bunker, Wednesday, Feb 23
First militant: “In the unlikely event I am killed by the toothless paper tigers of the American military juggernaut, Hassan, do you suppose Allah will allow me trade my 72 virgins for, say, a Playstation 2 with ‘Grand Theft Auto’…?” Second militant: First militant: “…Because honestly, the last virgin I bedded just sorta lay there like a wet palm frond. Whimpering from time to time. And bleeding quite a bit
February 23, 2005
BREAKING: FOX NEWS’ WASHINGTON EDITOR BRIT HUME ORDERS A PASTRAMI SANDWICH AND A SIDE OF FRIES AND GRAVY, CONTINUES TO FLOUT LEFTWING CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION; OLIVER WILLIS REPORTEDLY “OUTRAGED” BY HUME’S RECALCITRANCE, “REALLY JEALOUS” ABOUT THE PASTRAMI SANDWICH AND FRIES THING
A philosophical aside: If a tree falls in the forest—but no one’s around to hear it—can we implicate Jeff Gannon’s COCK in this obvious rightwing attempt to keep the SOUND OF TRUTH from THE PEOPLE? update: Or, alternately, are THE PEOPLE being duped into hearing manufactured sounds created by a sinister network of right wing Jesus freaks whose aim it is to camouflage the TRUTH in a cacophony of carefully-crafted
February 23, 2005
BREAKING: GANNON IMPLICATED IN KENNEDY ASSASSINATION COVER-UP; BRIT HUME “VERY LIKELY ‘THE BEAST’,” CRITICS SAY
World O’Crap blog presents the lefty counterpoint to Tom Maguire’s “Gannon / Guckert for Dummies.” Among the revelations?—the citings of both a March 6, 2004 Free Republic post [in which Gannon appears in the comments] and a March 9 Talon News article (also posted to Free Republic) as sources proving Gannon and his GAY MAN COCK really were subpoenaed in the Valerie Plame leaked document investigation, a charge Gannon has