Fat Tim and Me...
Tim Russert was on Imus this morning.
In contrast to his usual crude put downs and tasteless references to impotence and senility, Tim was acting all solemn today.
And why not?
Like Tom Brokaw Tim now has a book to flog endlessly, "Big Russ and Me" which is apparently a memoir about his "larger than life" Dad.
Tim was earnest, Tim was sentimental (if that concept makes you nervous, then join the club)...Tim was serious.
The NBC reporter was preciously proud to have tracked down the specifics behind a horrific air crash his Father had survived back in World War II.
He even went so far as to get the relevant files from the Pentagon and everything.
Whotta reporter, I'm impressed.
Except...does anyone else get the impression that Tim did more research for this work of calculated hagiography than he did during the entire expanse of the Clinton impeachment scandal?
I mean back in the day, the RNC could pretty much feed Tim any amount of mendacious nonsense with the sure knowledge that he'd regurgitate it faithfully the following Sunday.
This is the same wise guy who derided the Florida Democratic Party's 2002 convention as "irrelevant" and was still making Whitewater jokes as recently as last year.
***
Well why flog him?
He is a media whore a pretentious mediocrity and a bit of a bully....in other words it's just plain fun to dump on him and his predictable by the numbers best-seller.
And besides when these hacks start soul-searching and wallowing in sentimental trash it's hilarious it just is.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Monday, May 10, 2004
Friday, May 07, 2004
Mad Ann Speaks to the Current Crisis
"No civilized society allows women in the military--this is separate and apart from the fact that you should not be allowing women to fight. "
Ann Coulter from an interview with KABC radio's Al Rantel 5-5-04
Does this mean Ann Coulter thinks Israel is not a "civilized country"?
Last I heard, Israel was way out in front of America in terms of fostering gender equality in the armed forces-they actually draft women.
Maybe this foreshadow a break between the dementia right and the Jewish State?
Perhaps Miss. Coulter is agitating for the U.S. to join the Arab boycott...after all, women are kept out of the armed forces in many-many Arab countries...by that logic Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Taliban's Afghanistan are all civilized nations.
***
I usually refrain from chasing after Ann Coulter's outrages, she makes herself too damn easy a target and besides, everyone goes after her...she is like the electric rabbit at Wonderland.
Anyway, the way she smokes she'll soon be dead of lung cancer so it's no fun dicking on the sick and unable like that.
Laura Ingraham though, is fair game to the Chimes at Midnight. Here I confess a mercenary construction, I'm down on Laura mostly because she makes herself unavoidable to me thanks to her many appearances on the Imus in the Morning program.
Moreover there is just something tragic and pathetic about this lonely dipsomaniacal Ivy Leaguer doing her comical impersonations of liberal politicians like a tourettes victim into the phone in some wretched bedroom somewheres.
Laura is sad and broken, Ann is just plain desperate for attention.
There is a difference.
In that above quoted interview, Ann also denounces her gender as being "vicious"....too vicious for the army by extension.
IF you follow her logic though you have to ask...is there such a thing as being too vicious for punditry?
If she thinks women shouldn't carry guns, then why the hell should they be allowed to opine on the public airwaves?
Ann's thinking leads inevitably to a perfectly smooth inescapable intellectual cul-de-sac...one even she can't get out of.
Well if you want the rest of the interview it was blogged here.
Check yesterday's posting for the details.
Happy Mother's Day...
Elias
"No civilized society allows women in the military--this is separate and apart from the fact that you should not be allowing women to fight. "
Ann Coulter from an interview with KABC radio's Al Rantel 5-5-04
Does this mean Ann Coulter thinks Israel is not a "civilized country"?
Last I heard, Israel was way out in front of America in terms of fostering gender equality in the armed forces-they actually draft women.
Maybe this foreshadow a break between the dementia right and the Jewish State?
Perhaps Miss. Coulter is agitating for the U.S. to join the Arab boycott...after all, women are kept out of the armed forces in many-many Arab countries...by that logic Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Taliban's Afghanistan are all civilized nations.
***
I usually refrain from chasing after Ann Coulter's outrages, she makes herself too damn easy a target and besides, everyone goes after her...she is like the electric rabbit at Wonderland.
Anyway, the way she smokes she'll soon be dead of lung cancer so it's no fun dicking on the sick and unable like that.
Laura Ingraham though, is fair game to the Chimes at Midnight. Here I confess a mercenary construction, I'm down on Laura mostly because she makes herself unavoidable to me thanks to her many appearances on the Imus in the Morning program.
Moreover there is just something tragic and pathetic about this lonely dipsomaniacal Ivy Leaguer doing her comical impersonations of liberal politicians like a tourettes victim into the phone in some wretched bedroom somewheres.
Laura is sad and broken, Ann is just plain desperate for attention.
There is a difference.
In that above quoted interview, Ann also denounces her gender as being "vicious"....too vicious for the army by extension.
IF you follow her logic though you have to ask...is there such a thing as being too vicious for punditry?
If she thinks women shouldn't carry guns, then why the hell should they be allowed to opine on the public airwaves?
Ann's thinking leads inevitably to a perfectly smooth inescapable intellectual cul-de-sac...one even she can't get out of.
Well if you want the rest of the interview it was blogged here.
Check yesterday's posting for the details.
Happy Mother's Day...
Elias
Thursday, May 06, 2004
An Irony Poor Diet...
Isn't it funny how on the same day that "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" accused Senator Kerry of "lying about atrocities in Viet Nam" their employer President Bush was "outraged" on Arab TV over allegations that our troops were sticking brooms up the bungholes of Iraqi prisoners-among other sundry brutalities.
John O'Neill (a Chuck Colson discovery back in the heady days of the White House Plumbers) calls John Kerry "unfit" to be President. Meanwhile the man who is now paying his bills goes hat in hand to Arab television promising "justice" for those Iraqis who were saddled and rode like donkeys by U.S. Troops.
Yet somehow at the same time, Bush manages to not apologize for these gruesome activities....being the Overseer of Plantation USA apparently means never having to say you are sorry.
We are truly reached post-irony civilization in this country.
In the good old days poor threadbare hypocrisy would pay a few shekels to a demigod named virtue and go on hustling for a bite to eat.
Now, hypocrisy has knifed virtue and dragged it's carcass up and down Pennsylvania Avenue live on national television.
We are so beyond mere revulsion at hypocrisy, these days a blatant double standard is enshrined as the norm and guarded jealously by a legion of pundits, activists, paid private security forces and ghod knows how many campus conservative bundists.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Isn't it funny how on the same day that "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" accused Senator Kerry of "lying about atrocities in Viet Nam" their employer President Bush was "outraged" on Arab TV over allegations that our troops were sticking brooms up the bungholes of Iraqi prisoners-among other sundry brutalities.
John O'Neill (a Chuck Colson discovery back in the heady days of the White House Plumbers) calls John Kerry "unfit" to be President. Meanwhile the man who is now paying his bills goes hat in hand to Arab television promising "justice" for those Iraqis who were saddled and rode like donkeys by U.S. Troops.
Yet somehow at the same time, Bush manages to not apologize for these gruesome activities....being the Overseer of Plantation USA apparently means never having to say you are sorry.
We are truly reached post-irony civilization in this country.
In the good old days poor threadbare hypocrisy would pay a few shekels to a demigod named virtue and go on hustling for a bite to eat.
Now, hypocrisy has knifed virtue and dragged it's carcass up and down Pennsylvania Avenue live on national television.
We are so beyond mere revulsion at hypocrisy, these days a blatant double standard is enshrined as the norm and guarded jealously by a legion of pundits, activists, paid private security forces and ghod knows how many campus conservative bundists.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Not that I wanna...
indulge vulgar Freudianism or anything, but does anyone else out there think that George Bush suffers from a sort of displaced penis envy when it comes to John Kerry's many medals from the Viet Nam War?
The current GOP propaganda line which includes the usual "troubling" doubts about JK's first purple heart and a "spontaneous" appearance by an anti-Kerry group of Viet Nam vets has all the hallmarks of repressed homoerotic longing.
If Bush can't have what Kerry earned in battle, then the President (ever the spurned lover) will tear our candidate to pieces like an enraged drag queen.
***
And not for nothing but who are these hammerheads that La Famiglia Arbusto hired to staff "Swift Veterans for Truth" or whatever it is...?
The media is spinning this as an attack by "every one" of Kerry's superior officers in Viet Nam.
In fact three of the heavy hitters in this group , Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, Captain Adrian Lonsdale, and Lt.Commander George Elliot (who nominated Kerry for the Silver Star) all but ENDORSED Kerry during his hard fought re-election fight
in 1996!
Now of course these yobs are all up in arms about Kerry's work with the Viet Nam Veterans against the War....activities that they knew all about in 1996.
If they were that hung up about Kerry's antiwar activities then why did they endorse and defend him?
It's all on the front page of today's Boston Globe if you want tor ead about it.
Honest to Ghod Karl Rove must be desperate to dredge up a howler like this.
Oh I'm under no illusions here, the headline for the next week will all be about "NEW TROUBLING ALLEGATIONS" and all like that.
The simple truth is though, you've got to walk some hard miles in the Bush White House before you can find anyone with as heroic a record as John Kerry's was in Viet Nam.
He earned every medal while our current President was drunk before noon in the Texas Air National Guard's infamous "champagne unit".
That remains the starkest contrast between the two men...and I devotely hope the American people hear about it soonest.
indulge vulgar Freudianism or anything, but does anyone else out there think that George Bush suffers from a sort of displaced penis envy when it comes to John Kerry's many medals from the Viet Nam War?
The current GOP propaganda line which includes the usual "troubling" doubts about JK's first purple heart and a "spontaneous" appearance by an anti-Kerry group of Viet Nam vets has all the hallmarks of repressed homoerotic longing.
If Bush can't have what Kerry earned in battle, then the President (ever the spurned lover) will tear our candidate to pieces like an enraged drag queen.
***
And not for nothing but who are these hammerheads that La Famiglia Arbusto hired to staff "Swift Veterans for Truth" or whatever it is...?
The media is spinning this as an attack by "every one" of Kerry's superior officers in Viet Nam.
In fact three of the heavy hitters in this group , Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, Captain Adrian Lonsdale, and Lt.Commander George Elliot (who nominated Kerry for the Silver Star) all but ENDORSED Kerry during his hard fought re-election fight
in 1996!
Now of course these yobs are all up in arms about Kerry's work with the Viet Nam Veterans against the War....activities that they knew all about in 1996.
If they were that hung up about Kerry's antiwar activities then why did they endorse and defend him?
It's all on the front page of today's Boston Globe if you want tor ead about it.
Honest to Ghod Karl Rove must be desperate to dredge up a howler like this.
Oh I'm under no illusions here, the headline for the next week will all be about "NEW TROUBLING ALLEGATIONS" and all like that.
The simple truth is though, you've got to walk some hard miles in the Bush White House before you can find anyone with as heroic a record as John Kerry's was in Viet Nam.
He earned every medal while our current President was drunk before noon in the Texas Air National Guard's infamous "champagne unit".
That remains the starkest contrast between the two men...and I devotely hope the American people hear about it soonest.
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Ideological notes to the fall campaign in Massachusetts:
The fall campaign for the state legislature is slowly taking shape:
At this point it seems clear that Romney's handpicked collection of GOP candidates, bindlestiffs, video store night managers, unemployed consultants, and pantry boys from campaign 2002...will be running on a three pronged program:
1.) The Death Penalty. Today's proposal for a DNA based level of certitude in capital cases is naught but a harbinger of bloodthirsty rhetoric to come. No doubt the Kolobian Viceroy and his hand-picked sock puppet will be whistlestopping in villages like Menotomy atop a portable gallows.
2.) Fag-bashing. Initially tarted up in lofty syrupy phrases like "the defense of the sacred rite of marriage"...but as the campaign lurches into October look for the usual porcine squeals and grunts from Governor Decaf and his toadies about "queers and nancy-boyz".
3.) You know it, you love it...olde reliable the blunderbuss of an issue that tamed and bankrupted a proud republic, yew guessed it A TAX CUT.
Oh that'll jut be the crowning touch...Romney atop his gallows promising dire punishment for the Commonwealth's dykes and homos. When he isn't fagbashing The Man from Kolob will be promising to make money by way of tax cuts rain from the heavens liken unto the biblical deluge.
Don't know what the response to this should be quite yet...but it's pretty clear to me that Mitt is running all out and state wide again.
In part to restrict the opportunities for Kerry loyalists to campaign for our guy out of state...but also even the least pick up of votes in the Great and General Court can be spun into a huge victory for "team reform".
On the other hand, the municipalities are strapped for cash with more unfunded state mandates being cooked up all the time...the tax cut may seem like an odd ill timed proposal if people start counting the pot-holes on the way home from work.
The death penalty is inevitable in Massachusetts even if our passive aggressive archbishop speaks out against it.
My main problem with it is operation, Romney is such a lowlife skank do we really want him with the power of life and death over anyone?
As for the fagbashing...that has to be met head on, and it's not a question of candidates who are willing to engage it requires the plain people of Massachusetts gay and straight to stand up and be counted.
Overall it's a mixed bag as platforms go...a devisive social issue, usual demagoguery about crime, and the glittering lure of free money.
Not sure how well any of it will play in Romney's beloved suburbs...and moreover these "Romneyettes" he has recruited for the campaign are a green, weird, and lackwitted bunch.
A lot of things could condition this, no one is running state wide save Bush and Kerry and there are no big ballot initiatives that I've heard off...the state legislative races might not generate much heat from now until November.
That may not work to Mitt's advantage...he needs a noisy sense of outrage to for the above platform to work.
Well we will see.
The fall campaign for the state legislature is slowly taking shape:
At this point it seems clear that Romney's handpicked collection of GOP candidates, bindlestiffs, video store night managers, unemployed consultants, and pantry boys from campaign 2002...will be running on a three pronged program:
1.) The Death Penalty. Today's proposal for a DNA based level of certitude in capital cases is naught but a harbinger of bloodthirsty rhetoric to come. No doubt the Kolobian Viceroy and his hand-picked sock puppet will be whistlestopping in villages like Menotomy atop a portable gallows.
2.) Fag-bashing. Initially tarted up in lofty syrupy phrases like "the defense of the sacred rite of marriage"...but as the campaign lurches into October look for the usual porcine squeals and grunts from Governor Decaf and his toadies about "queers and nancy-boyz".
3.) You know it, you love it...olde reliable the blunderbuss of an issue that tamed and bankrupted a proud republic, yew guessed it A TAX CUT.
Oh that'll jut be the crowning touch...Romney atop his gallows promising dire punishment for the Commonwealth's dykes and homos. When he isn't fagbashing The Man from Kolob will be promising to make money by way of tax cuts rain from the heavens liken unto the biblical deluge.
Don't know what the response to this should be quite yet...but it's pretty clear to me that Mitt is running all out and state wide again.
In part to restrict the opportunities for Kerry loyalists to campaign for our guy out of state...but also even the least pick up of votes in the Great and General Court can be spun into a huge victory for "team reform".
On the other hand, the municipalities are strapped for cash with more unfunded state mandates being cooked up all the time...the tax cut may seem like an odd ill timed proposal if people start counting the pot-holes on the way home from work.
The death penalty is inevitable in Massachusetts even if our passive aggressive archbishop speaks out against it.
My main problem with it is operation, Romney is such a lowlife skank do we really want him with the power of life and death over anyone?
As for the fagbashing...that has to be met head on, and it's not a question of candidates who are willing to engage it requires the plain people of Massachusetts gay and straight to stand up and be counted.
Overall it's a mixed bag as platforms go...a devisive social issue, usual demagoguery about crime, and the glittering lure of free money.
Not sure how well any of it will play in Romney's beloved suburbs...and moreover these "Romneyettes" he has recruited for the campaign are a green, weird, and lackwitted bunch.
A lot of things could condition this, no one is running state wide save Bush and Kerry and there are no big ballot initiatives that I've heard off...the state legislative races might not generate much heat from now until November.
That may not work to Mitt's advantage...he needs a noisy sense of outrage to for the above platform to work.
Well we will see.
Laura "hollow gam" Ingraham on Imus this morning...
And I'm prepared to say it flat out, she sounded terrible.
Hoarse, creaky, tired, dispirited, and worst of all repetitive.
Her one memorable bon mot was a tattered comparison of John Kerry to R2 D2...which was straight out of the dog eared anti-Al Gore playbook.
I think she is finally building up a tolerance to Dartmouth's famous secret hangover cure.
Either that or the salubrious locality she indwelleth is experiencing a nux vomica famine.
Whatever the reason, Laura was down in the dumps today...even that senile fraud Don Imus sensed it.
At one point Laura roused herself to do one of her signature inane impersonations, this time of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan and Imus just growled low into the microphone..."You know I don't like it when you do voices..."
Laura dropped the comedy routine immediately.
Pretty big climb down for a one time apex predator maximum damage monkey...I mean when feeble old Don Imus starts slapping you down it's time to check into Betty Ford. She was also compelled under the circumstance to express a patently phony shock and horror at the allegations that U.S. troops have been torturing Iraq prisoners in Baghdad.
And yet I can recall in palmier times a mere three months ago Milady Tedium thundered righteously into Imus' telephone:
"George Bush DIDN'T ignore the screams of Iraqi women and children in the torture chambers!!!!"
What a difference a mere ninety plus days makes eh?
NOW TODAY on Imus Laura the Loud was trying to be all grave and judicial...dumping on General Karpinsky, the head of the military prison system in Iraq for being a fool and a dimwit.
It's always funny in a sad way when an obnoxious case of arrested development like Laura tries to act all mature-like.
The results are NOT pretty my friends.
However I don't quite understand Laura's sudden conversion to the cause of justice and human rights.
I mean think about it?
Said General has countenanced the torture of Iraqi P.O.W.s and accused terrorists.
What is the problem...isn't torture and mayhem a major plank in rightical chic talk radio's platform?
Ghod Every day Jay Severin is screaming for jihad along with a chorus of other AM yakkers and social climbing rightical chic pudknockers.
Why all the squeamishness now?
It is always disconcerting when a radio demagogue flip flops like that.
For what it's worth take Laura's "shock and horror" act as a signifier as to how much of a setback this whole horrific situation is for her beloved La Famiglia Arbusto.
That is all I can take out of it.
Meanwhile let tomorrow's headline read "Drunken Fembot Denounces Torture in Iraq"
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the Congressionally Licensed
Public Airwaves
And Elsewhere
5-4-04
7:52am EST
God Save the Republic...
And I'm prepared to say it flat out, she sounded terrible.
Hoarse, creaky, tired, dispirited, and worst of all repetitive.
Her one memorable bon mot was a tattered comparison of John Kerry to R2 D2...which was straight out of the dog eared anti-Al Gore playbook.
I think she is finally building up a tolerance to Dartmouth's famous secret hangover cure.
Either that or the salubrious locality she indwelleth is experiencing a nux vomica famine.
Whatever the reason, Laura was down in the dumps today...even that senile fraud Don Imus sensed it.
At one point Laura roused herself to do one of her signature inane impersonations, this time of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan and Imus just growled low into the microphone..."You know I don't like it when you do voices..."
Laura dropped the comedy routine immediately.
Pretty big climb down for a one time apex predator maximum damage monkey...I mean when feeble old Don Imus starts slapping you down it's time to check into Betty Ford. She was also compelled under the circumstance to express a patently phony shock and horror at the allegations that U.S. troops have been torturing Iraq prisoners in Baghdad.
And yet I can recall in palmier times a mere three months ago Milady Tedium thundered righteously into Imus' telephone:
"George Bush DIDN'T ignore the screams of Iraqi women and children in the torture chambers!!!!"
What a difference a mere ninety plus days makes eh?
NOW TODAY on Imus Laura the Loud was trying to be all grave and judicial...dumping on General Karpinsky, the head of the military prison system in Iraq for being a fool and a dimwit.
It's always funny in a sad way when an obnoxious case of arrested development like Laura tries to act all mature-like.
The results are NOT pretty my friends.
However I don't quite understand Laura's sudden conversion to the cause of justice and human rights.
I mean think about it?
Said General has countenanced the torture of Iraqi P.O.W.s and accused terrorists.
What is the problem...isn't torture and mayhem a major plank in rightical chic talk radio's platform?
Ghod Every day Jay Severin is screaming for jihad along with a chorus of other AM yakkers and social climbing rightical chic pudknockers.
Why all the squeamishness now?
It is always disconcerting when a radio demagogue flip flops like that.
For what it's worth take Laura's "shock and horror" act as a signifier as to how much of a setback this whole horrific situation is for her beloved La Famiglia Arbusto.
That is all I can take out of it.
Meanwhile let tomorrow's headline read "Drunken Fembot Denounces Torture in Iraq"
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the Congressionally Licensed
Public Airwaves
And Elsewhere
5-4-04
7:52am EST
God Save the Republic...
Monday, May 03, 2004
So let me get this straight...
Rene Gonzalez alleged graduate student in political science at Umass Amherst penned at editorial for the Daily Collegian calling the late Pat Tillman "an idiot" who "got what he deserved"?
And in Karl Rove's America, this is offensive exactly why?
Okay I jest, it is always churlish to speak ill of the dead...and if a graduate student at Umass Amherst hasn't learned that fact yet then said solon is probably too stupid to pound sand down a rat hole.
Nevertheless you have to love the predictable tidal wave of rightical chic indignation that this editorial generated....now the movement conservatives of America finally know how we feel when La Famiglia Arbusto persists in denigrating the military service and patriotism of Senator John Kerry.
Or they would know how it felt if they weren't all on a seriously demented power trip that'll end badly for us all unless the electorate does something about it this Fall.
Ah but let me wax nostalgic for a moment, you see I went to Umass Amherst back in the late 1980's...is the poli sci program still located in that rat's maze Thompson Hall?
I think the architect of that building got his start doing rodent memory experiments in the psych department or something.
I remember the Daily Collegian with particular sentimentality...a terrible rag edited by earnest and humorless undergrads...it was unintentionally funny on a daily basis.
I recall with intense nostalgia a weekly column by a born again christian asserting fervid prayer was enough to raise the dead to life...he had witnessed such miracles.
Oh it was a jolly time believe me.
Ah...Umass Amherst....nobody got along, no-one was paid what they were worth, and none can forget it.
:)
Rene Gonzalez alleged graduate student in political science at Umass Amherst penned at editorial for the Daily Collegian calling the late Pat Tillman "an idiot" who "got what he deserved"?
And in Karl Rove's America, this is offensive exactly why?
Okay I jest, it is always churlish to speak ill of the dead...and if a graduate student at Umass Amherst hasn't learned that fact yet then said solon is probably too stupid to pound sand down a rat hole.
Nevertheless you have to love the predictable tidal wave of rightical chic indignation that this editorial generated....now the movement conservatives of America finally know how we feel when La Famiglia Arbusto persists in denigrating the military service and patriotism of Senator John Kerry.
Or they would know how it felt if they weren't all on a seriously demented power trip that'll end badly for us all unless the electorate does something about it this Fall.
Ah but let me wax nostalgic for a moment, you see I went to Umass Amherst back in the late 1980's...is the poli sci program still located in that rat's maze Thompson Hall?
I think the architect of that building got his start doing rodent memory experiments in the psych department or something.
I remember the Daily Collegian with particular sentimentality...a terrible rag edited by earnest and humorless undergrads...it was unintentionally funny on a daily basis.
I recall with intense nostalgia a weekly column by a born again christian asserting fervid prayer was enough to raise the dead to life...he had witnessed such miracles.
Oh it was a jolly time believe me.
Ah...Umass Amherst....nobody got along, no-one was paid what they were worth, and none can forget it.
:)
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