JABbering Stooge

Ann Althouse on a recent Hillary Clinton campaign video (well, technically, ANY Hillary Clinton campaign video, but this one in particular - hat tip, TBogg and Amanda):

“This one’s for the girls, who love without holding back….” At what point in the song did you start thinking of the girls the Clintons don’t want you to think about, the ones Hillary wasn’t for? If you reached 1:39 without thinking of Monica Lewinsky, you might be a Hillary Clinton voter.

You know, I feel cheated that I can’t have a happy 4 minutes of easy feminist warmth gazing at these images. I would have liked to feel a glow of excitement over the first strong woman candidate for President. But Hillary Clinton sold out women to build and salvage her husband’s power, and I am disgusted by her efforts to use us now.

Three words: Clinton Derangement Syndrome.

Some folks from CNN showed up at Drinking Liberally tonight. They interviewed our Fearless Leader™ and one of Ezra’s former co-bloggers, and took some footage of our Mötley Crüe — er… motley crew. I was told by the CNN people that the spot will air on Thursday on CNN’s morning show. I’m not sure, but based on the camera angle, I’ll probably be stage left of Fearless Leader.

Chris at AMERICAblog, noting the buyer’s remorse Australian conservatives are exhibiting over Kyoto, ponders this of the Bushies:

One can only wonder how many Bush people are going to moan about their regrets on climate change, torture, rule of law, failed economy and invading Iraq.

None.

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Aww, yeah!

The always-outspoken, unapologetic professional basketball star Charles Barkley came out swinging on today’s Situation Room on CNN. His target - the Jerry Falwells of the world, calling them “fake Christians” and hypocrites who need to go back and read what Jesus said about “not [judging], lest ye be judged in equal measure.”

Teh awesome.

Naturally, certain segments of the wingnut population are up in arms about Sir Chrarles’ comments. Fuck ‘em. Maybe if they acted more like Jesus than the Pharisees, I could be convinced that they actually believed the teachings of a 2000-year-old zombie instead of trying to use those teachings to club anyone who dares disagree with them.

That’s how I felt about Keith’s special comment last night. But that’s only because, as he had warned at the start of the special comment, that it was mostly a remix of his previous special comment. Even so, I liked that Olbermann openly called Resident Bush a fascist. About time someone in the “librul” media called a spade a spade.

And no, Jonah, Olbermann didn’t call Resident Bush a liberal.

The fine folks at Sadly, No! might want to take note of this letter-to-the-editor that I found in the local fishwrap:

Candidate carry-ons

Re: Feb. 6 commentary “When gender counts against you.”

Paula Poindexter opines that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s negative press is because she is a woman. Poindexter has factored out the person and focused on gender politics. The fact is, Clinton carries more baggage than the Orient Express.

WILLIAM [REDACTED]

It’s Gary Ruppert!!!

"Justice" (or is that "Just Us?") Antonin "Vaffanculo!" Scalia weighs in on torture:

Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles [And then we get to watch the bomb go off in New York because the terrorist lied as a big "Fuck you!" to his inquisitors. - Ed.] is prohibited under the Constitution? Because smacking someone in the face would violate the 8th amendment in a prison context. You can’t go around smacking people about. [Has Scalia never bothered to read Article VI of the Constitution? It makes it crystal clear that any treaties we sign have the force of a Constitutional Amendment - that means all treaties banning torture, such as the Geneva Conventions! - Ed.]

Is it obvious that what can’t be done for punishment can’t be done to exact information that is crucial to this society? It’s not at all an easy question, to tell you the truth.

Sadly, Scalia wasn’t the only one to approve of The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible’s undermining of national security (by pissing off the entire Muslim world and making them all the more determined to blow us all to hell). Senator John McCain — once the victim of Vietnamese torture — took cowardice to whole new depths by voting against a bill explicitly outlawing waterboarding.

I can only guess that McCain feels that the sauce that’s good for the goose is as good for the gander. I’m sure our soldiers who get waterboarded by any present or future enemy will be sooooooo appreciative of him for standing by his principles.

Or perhaps this is a recognition by McCain that the GOP is objectively pro-torture, and that he’d better do the same if he wants to have a snowball’s chance in hell of moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. on January 20, 2009. Either way, it puts him in the running for Worst Person in the World™.

Via the fine folks at Crooks and Liars, Bernard “Any media that doesn’t publish only pro-GOP goodfacts is biased” Goldberg compares Keith Olbermann to Pillz-E and The Savage Weiner:

Notice how Goldberg suggests whines that MSNBC wouldn’t have Pillz-E anchoring their election coverage. It turns out that Goldberg either has selective amnesia, or is out-and-out lying — Limburger was one of NBC’s chief correspondents/political analysts during the 2002 midterm election. But then, selective amnesia and confirmation bias are par for the course for the “journalist” who almost exclusively blames liberals for “screwing up America.”

Are you quite done using the Constitution as toilet paper?

Does anyone know whether or not the telecoms threatened to lay off their grunt-level employees if they didn’t get immunity for helping The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible illegally spy on, well, pretty much everybody?

And while we’re on the subject, would it kill the co-dependent Democrats to stop giving Resident Bush everything he wants without a fight?