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The Faulty Reasoning Almanack: Shuster Is Polite To PUMAs....but....

Taylor Marsh, formerly one of Hillary's most stalwart  advocates, has the intelligent and tactful take on this:

Colmes Being Awesome

Posted by Blue Stockings |

I wrote this up last night.  Here's the You Tube.

Wonkette:

John Derbyshire is Alarmed! And Other Things Beginning with 'A'!

by Cockney Robin | You've got to hand it to him for always being able to come up with new ways of being a pillock.  Here is exhibit A (for 'arsehole'), from his comments about the cowardliness of the students who got slaughtered at Virginia Tech, with some reactions from across the spectrum.

First he quotes a discussion of a recent study concerning the disappearance of America's white majority.

"If we don't invest in educating and training African-American kids, immigrants and Latino kids, we won't have a middle class," said Mark Sawyer, the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. "We'll have a very, very poor disposable class that's largely black or brown."[link]

 

Hillary: What, She's Not the Evil Scheming Genius MoDo Would Have Had You Believe?

Posted by Teh Nutroots | At our sister blog, Buck Naked Politics,  Deb Cupples saw off Maureen Dowd's Hillary-based fiction about the Democratic convention in fine style yesterday. (Maureen Dowd Talks out of her ... Ear Again ).   Dowd, as we all know, is wicked envious of just about everyone, so her stock-in-trade is undifferentiated mockery from the sidelines   If she told us the sun was shining, we'd assume she meant, er, out of her "ear."

Here at IDLYE, our credo is:  "Maureen Dowd is always wrong."

Joe Gandelman does a reality check today at The Moderate Voice:

Andrew Sullivan on McCain

by Teh Nutroots | As he mulls over his former support for the war in Iraq, provides a summary of McCain's militarism  in a nutshell .

For him, it is always 1938 somewhere; America's duty is to control, occupy or intervene wherever any rival seeks influence and any group does not share our alleged values. And so American power must be brought to bear in Georgia and Iraq and Iran and Burma and Darfur and Bosnia and anyplace else where American interests are threatened or democratic allies seek help. And for militarist American exceptionalists, this all makes sense. This is the higher purpose McCain lives for: the glory of liberation, the thrill of conquest, the adoration of the soldier, the defeat of evil.

I've never understood in the first place why this attitude was ever meant to be "conservative."   The only thing they're conserving is American arrogance at the expense of everything else.

Colmes Fights Back Against Hannity's Double Standard for McCain

Posted by Teh Nutroots | Good for Colmes.  Didn't think he had it in him.  We generally type his name in the manner suggested by Al Franken:  Colmes.   But today he gets him some full-sized letters for talking back (reported by Crooks and Liars).

John Amato says: "The wingnut mentality is a wonder to behold, no?"  Yep.  For example, there's this.

Arkansas Chair Bill Gwatney is Shot in His Office; Collateral Damage: Malkin's Feelings Get Wounded

Posted by Blue Stockings | Deb Cupples deals with this tragedy at our sister blog, Buck Naked Politics, here.

To add to the anguish, poor little Malkin received a mean email accusing her and her wingnut cronies of complicity.  In a post entitled "I Shot the Arkansas Democrat Party Chairman," she was so upset by a mean email arguing that her gospel of hatefulness might have something to do with this that she "forgot" to remove the emailer's address.  Well, that emailer will know better next time. 

It's way premature to be talking about complicity since nobody even knows the gunman's motive.

And Maureen Dowd Knows Narcissism

By Blue Stockings |   We already know there isn't enough shut up in all the world for Maureen Dowd.  But John Edwards should probably be grateful to her.  If there's one writer who can probably bring everyone together on his side, it's her.  Certainly Dowd is one person everyone writing at this blog agrees on, even if we can't agree on anything else.

Every time I swear I'll never read her self-referential musings again, I find myself pulled in by curiosity to see whether she can outrage me further.  So far, the answer always turns out to be "yes."

You know, I'm annoyed with John Edwards.  I said so.  He stands accused of hypocrisy at the very least.  I draw the line at presuming to read his mind or to judge him based on this one act.  Maybe he was carried away with himself.  I easily believe that.  But is there really no understanding anywhere for the pathos of the situation and its aftermath?

But it has occurred to me since then that men whose wives are seriously ill sometimes do very shocking and unbecoming things....out of fear.  Men who fear losing their wives often seem to try to put some distance between themselves and the beloved.  Who's to say that isn't what was going on with Edwards?   It might be true and he might not even be consciously aware of it.  And if he were, it's not really something he could ever say.

But yes, yes, yes:  by all means.  Let's all go ahead and sit in judgment on John Edwards.  He's been a hypocrite---we would never do that.  He's been disloyal to a spouse---we are all paragons of faithfulness and loyalty.  He's betrayed his own standards---none of us have ever done that.

Ride the Wayback Pony: Michael Moore's Advice to Obama in Today's Guardian & His Open Letter to Al Gore in 2000

Blue Stockings | I like Michael Moore, and some of what he says in this piece in The Guardian is dead on, but the following annoys me.  It's flat out hypocritical.

[Y]ou would think, with more than 200 million eligible voters, the Dems would be cleaning up, election after election. Obviously not. The Democrats appear to be professional losers. They are so pathetic in their ability to win elections, they even lose when they win! Al Gore won the 2000 election, but for some strange reason he didn't become the president of the United States. (Guardian)

Some of us think that Ralph Nader spoiled the election for Al Gore in 2000, bequeathing to us our present ills.  And do you know who was standing right out there on a soapbox in the middle of the ring, banging his knee cymbals, and yelling through a  megaphone about the uselessness of Al Gore and the importance of voting for Nader?  Guess.  Go on.  Guess. 

Um, Michael?  Remember this?

Ride the Wayback Pony: Tweety Luuurved George Bush in His Flight Suit

by Teh Nutroots | Because I don't think we can be reminded too often (courtesy of Media Matters, 4-27-06), which named Chris Matthews its 2005 "Misinformer of the Year" and number 1 softball player.