The Music: Dire Straights, Brothers in Arms:
See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he’s a millionaire
Perhaps somebody ought to send a note to the John Edwards for president campaign, suggesting that one as a campaign theme song.
I’ve always liked Dire Straights anyway…Mark Knopfler’s playing is among the best around. I’ve always wondered what would have happened if Vince Gill had taken up Knopfler’s offer as the lead singer for the band.
* A first, at Outside the Beltway’s Caption Contest. And before you ask, no, I didn’t plan it this way….
* Ann Coulter’s Column of today is a keeper:
It was not a crime to reveal Valerie Plame’s name because she was not a covert agent. If it had been a crime, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could have wrapped up his investigation with an indictment of the State Department’s Richard Armitage on the first day of his investigation since it was Armitage who revealed her name and Fitzgerald knew it.
With no crime to investigate, Fitzgerald pursued a pointless investigation into nothing, getting a lot of White House officials to make statements under oath and hoping some of their recollections would end up conflicting with other witness recollections, so he could charge some Republican with “perjury” and enjoy the fawning media attention.
As a result, Libby is now a convicted felon for having a faulty memory of the person who first told him that Joe Wilson was a delusional boob who lied about his wife sending him to Niger.
This makes it official: It’s illegal to be Republican.
Since Teddy Kennedy walked away from a dead girl with only a wrist slap (which was knocked down to a mild talking-to, plus time served: zero), Democrats have apparently become a protected class in America, immune from criminal prosecution no matter what they do.
As a result, Democrats have run wild, accepting bribes, destroying classified information, lying under oath, molesting interns, driving under the influence, obstructing justice and engaging in sex with underage girls, among other things.
Meanwhile, conservatives of any importance constantly have to spend millions of dollars defending themselves from utterly frivolous criminal prosecutions. Everything is illegal, but only Republicans get prosecuted.
Ain’t it real. Now, combine that column, with my writings of earlier today about Matt Sanchez, and you begin to understand the kind of hypocrites were dealing with one we deal with the Democrats. I see Fran’s on this one too.
* Speaking of the Democrats, I see there trying again to get us to lose in Iraq. I’m telling you, people, that’s what this is all about. Defeat, at all costs. They are not even bothering to deny, anymore that the policy they’re calling for is in fact, cut and run.
* I see also, that CBS, and NBC have decided to fire the producers of their suppose it news programs. Both of them have been losing viewers. CBS was particularly embarrassed after having made a major investment in Katie Couric. Joyner suggests a death of a thousand cuts is what’s killing them off so quickly.
Conversely, the explosion in the number of television options during the dinner hour means that what Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charlie Gibson have to say has a lot more competition than did their 1980 counterparts Walter Chronkite, John Chancellor, and Frank Reynolds.
Well, most of that competition isn’t news, being instead reruns of MASH, and HAPPY DAYS. (I know, arguably, neither are NBC/CBS, and I have my doubts about ABC)
The question becomes, though, will they can Couric when her numbers still refuse to come up? I doubt it.
* This has to be the most complete disemboweling I have ever witnessed. completely deserved, of course. It is simply astounding to me, the level of hypocrisy that goes on from the left of these days.
And Billy, I have to tell you something:As good as you are, on this kind of thing, I have to wonder if you truly realize how solidly you nailed it, here; The issue is and always was about enforced cultural change…. and forced by the socialist left. That culture, being the foundation of western civilization. It is that which they are fighting against.
* You know this politically correct nonsense has gone completely around the bend, when you see stuff like this:
Attention Fred Flintstone and the Geico cave guys: “Stone Age” is no longer acceptable, joining the list of other words and terms deemed offensive in polite society. “Primitive” also is considered, well, primitive by some.
“All anthropologists would agree that the negative use of the terms ‘primitive’ and ‘Stone Age’ to describe tribal peoples has serious implications for their welfare,” the British-based Association of Social Anthropologists said Tuesday. “Governments and other social groups have long used these ideas as a pretext of depriving such peoples of land and their resources.”
You just knew that this was going to come out, eventually, when they started running those caveman spots to hawk insurance. Eventually, some bozo had to take offense to the whole thing and start an argument. Once again, we prove that according to the left, there is only one type of person who is politically correct to make fun of: white Christian conservative males. If you think I’m kidding, sit back and watch how this argument is going to develop.
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