Fair and deluded

Shorter Pantload: They probably print conservative stuff too, but how can NPR.org be fair and balanced if they print hysterical lefty rants about soccer?

Via Roy.

You say you want a revolution? Really?

DH Riley, on the latest burblings from the DPL himself (of which we've spoken earlier):

Really, if eight years of disaster is not enough of an answer to the perpetual campaign for hollow insincerity, then someone kindly remind this fuck just how much it accomplished when his side was in control. Weren't we all Georgians just last August? Weren't we Orange Revolutionaries and Cedar Revolutionaries before that? Is is at all peculiar that We weren't all Kurds as well, back when that would have been inconvenient for a Republican administration? Isn't it bad enough that a large chunk of American foreign policy is dedicated to the proposition that we can control the rest of the planet with our high-powered brain emanations? Does it have to be Jonah's brain?

Watching the news from Iran play out, I find myself unsurprised that the same self-absorbed fucks who led the chearleading for invading Iraq now want President Obama to be more "forceful" in renouncing the 12th century religious regime in control of the government and in announcing our BFF status with the students risking their lives to demand a fair election. With the same blissful ignorance with which they supported unleashing six years of hell on Iraqis, the neo-onanists now demand that we throw the full obese weight of American support behind a political campaign we'd paid no, none, nada, attention to one month ago, since all our attention then was on bombing those selfsame Iranians.

Now, I am no "Iran hand." I do not speak Persian, Farsi, or, truth be told, English. But I will venture that, as I look at the pictures and listen to the voices that manage to escape out of that country, our support -- or the UK's -- is the last thing the protesters want or need. Nevermind the obvious fact that in inserting our own goutish nose into their affairs will only give ammunition to the fundamentalists' charges that the students are, at best, dupes of the West and, at worst, provacateurs employed by the West (consider the response on the Right if the USSR had proclaimed its solidarity with the protesters in Chicago in 1968). The truth is they are protesting for a politician who is perhaps a moderate when it comes to the laws and values of the Islamic Republic. These protests are not an attempt to undo the revolution against the Shah or to overthrow the mullahs. They are protests to demand that their votes are counted fairly (something we ought to consider trying sometime). I don't know if the many women seen in the photos want to throw off the veil or simply to throw out a politician who seems to hate their sex, supporting legislation to permit a man to unilaterally announce his divorce and to outlaw alimony. I don't know if the students are marching for Whisky Sexy Democracy or simply to support a politician who might use a slightly less heavy hand and might have a slightly better clue about improving the Iranian economy.

I don't know. What I do know is, this ain't about us.

Jonah and the whore

Maybe I'll start a series called "Jonah Goldberg quote Fridays:"

If you haven't seen it, it's probably because you don't care, so I'm not going to spend too much time describing it.

That formulation in itself is classic JG. But, there's more. Long paragraph describing "Dollhouse" later we find,

[spoilers below the fold]

Keep reading this post . .

And who says conservatives are plumb outta ideas.

But The Corner is nothing if not an Equal Opportunity Dumbployer. So, not to be outdone, there's

The Culmination of the Socialist Agenda [Mark Krikorian]

They want us to pee sitting down.

02/27 02:17 PM

Culmination, indeed. You can't deny the global CommieSocialist agenda your fluids any longer.

Kicked to the corner

The doughy pantsload, in all of his glory.

My column today is on the selection of Biden as Obama's veep. I know it seems dated because of the convention and all that. But the thing is it only happened on Saturday. While I don't get into it in the column, I think the Obama campaign is very fortunate that they were able to change the subject so quickly from their VP pick. I think if they'd done it a week earlier it would have been torn apart. I also think they benefit mightily from the fact that the DC press corps personally likes Biden so much. We've heard Brit Hume, Chris Wallace and Fred Barnes all speak favorably of the guy on a personal level. That's fine. But it gives you a sense of how well liked he is by the DC establishment. I suspect it's partly because he is charming at the retail level. Lots of people say how good he is connecting with people in coffee shops and firehouses and all that. Fine, I take them at their word. But here's the problem. That charm does not translate on TV. It just doesn't. On TV he's a bore.

[...]

Biden is an awful pick and I think that will be obvious by the Fall. Though, as I said Saturday, I think he'll probably give a good speech tonight.

Impeccable logic.

And, by the way, the Biden pick was, as Sir Loadalot admits, Saturday. He writes a column for a Daily. Newspaper. He had plenty of time to draft a more newsworthy piece, like how Michelle Obama saying "the world as it is just won't do" really means she hates America. C'mon!

The infamy of Tommie Smith and John Carlos

The doughy pantload has those pants up in a knot over...wait for it...ESPN's coverage of the 40 year anniversary of the black power salute during the 200 meters awards ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics.

" In 1972, Palestinian terrorists — grateful for 1968’s lesson in the propaganda value of Olympics media attention — slaughtered Israeli athletes."

Click the link above for Doghouse Riley's explosive rant about Goldberg's lazy historical analysis, overt racism, and just plain ignorance -- a rant that will make you long for the days of the three martini afternoon. But I ask you this: Does Adolph Hitler, when he reads this stuff in imaginary Hell, sigh and think, "What am I, chopped liver?"



More cultural analysis for the brain dead spawn of Lucianne:

They enforce phys ed, don't they?

Shake off your chains, elementary school students!

"Ha, ha, Ted"

Jesus Christ, Goldberg is a fucking idiot.

Let's see. Ted Kennedy said the tapes were destroyed in response to the Democratic victory in 2006 in order to cover administration tracks in a Watergate-like cover-up. The tapes were actually destroyed in 2005, on the decision of career CIA officials (You know: the Valerie Plame crowd) and the lawyers gave them a greenlight. Nice try Ted, thanks for playing and please take this home version of the Bloviator is Wrong as a consolation prize.

The key takeaway from the destruction of these tapes is 1.) It can't be a "Watergate-like cover up," because it took place in 2005, and 2.) it's a perfect opportunity to discredit....Valerie Plame...a nuclear proliferation expert.

Glad we cleared that up.

And this is from an op-ed writer for the LATimes. We live in a modern Athens.