JABbering Stooge

Michael Reagan argues that the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim:

Notice his response to the caller who calls in to complain about his advocacy for “sticking grenades up their babies’ butts and light ‘em.”

REAGAN: If they’re going to raise the children that way — to kill me and my family, I really don’t care.

CALLER: OK. Just listen to the rest of the discussion. I’ve talked to some Israelis here in Las Vegas… you know… and I asked if they think there will ever be peace in the Middle East.

REAGAN: Yeah, when they’re all dead.

CALLER: They say, “No,” because the mothers of the Islamic extremists teach their children [Reagan makes an “I told you so!” gesture] to fight the Israelis. The mothers…they’re doing it. That comment of yours is just—

REAGAN (interrupting): So we kill the mothers and the babies.

CALLER: So your comment is just—

REAGAN (interrupting again): So what’s wrong with killing the mothers and the babies?

What’s wrong with killing the mothers and the babies? What’s wrong with killing the mothers and the babies, you piece of shit? You’re advocating genocide, you sick fuck! That’s what’s wrong with it! We put Nazis to DEATH for doing EXACTLY WHAT YOU’RE ADVOCATING, YOU GODDAMN SHITBURGER!!!

The person who posted the above YouTube video had it right:

Radical Arabs celebrate in the street. American radicals get their own talk shows.

Oy. I need a stiff drink.

John Stewart on the “librul” media’s eagerness to smear Obama:

Heh. Indeed.

It’s the only thing I can come up with to explain why Newsweek is covering for Teflon John on charges that his policies will essentially represent a third Bush term. This is, after all, the guy who says “Hell, yeah” to the idea of having Dick Cheney involved in his administration. This is, after all, the guy who, in spite of endless favorable coverage from the “librul” media, has squandered his “maverick” image among ordinary Americans. This is, after all, the guy who has voted with Bush 100% of the time in 2008, and 95% of the time last year. This is, after all, the guy who has flip-flopped on a wide range of issues, from Bush’s tax cuts to torture to whether or not Jerry Falwell was an “agent of intolerance” — whatever opportunistic pandering was needed to secure political power.

But I guess none of that matters to Newspeak Newsweek, since they have their heads so far up Teflon John’s posterior that they can’t hear rational thought. Nor do they care for it.

While we’re at it, here’s an educational video from The Jed Report that Newsweek should watch, but probably won’t.

Yep, the surge is working, alright.

I didn’t want to say anything yesterday because this story came out while I was busy linking to and quoting Associated Wankers articles (ZOMG! I’m a criminal!), but I think Atrios has the right idea. Going RIAA vs. Napster on bloggers is not a good move by the “venerable” news wire service. As Jeff Jarvis put it:

This comes out of the ethic of the link and quote that I have learned from blogs. It says to our readers: Don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself. And: Here’s what the source said; I won’t rephrase it but I will quote it directly so you can see for yourself.

*snip*

The AP was calling bloggers unethical even while the bloggers were operating under their own ethic of the link and the quote. The bloggers believe they are doing the right thing in quoting directly and they think they are doing the generous thing — generous to both their readers and to the AP — in providing links to the source material. The bloggers will also say that this is an ethic the AP itself violates when it homogenizes and commodifies news, rewriting it and stripping it of the identity — and now the address — of the original reporting done by its members and other sources.

Would that the Associated Wankers feel the same way about their so-called ethics. Then again, this is the wire service that gives Nedra Shit-Pickler a paycheck.

The Jack Cafferty of the Austin American-Statesman schools Teflon John on the Clayton “Lie Back And Enjoy Rape” Williams fundraiser that never was.

The money quote:

Don’t the clowns at McCain headquarters know how to Google? How could they not know about Williams’ most infamous political moment? This would be like knowing about Patrick Henry and never having heard of “Give me liberty or give me death.”

And while we’re on Clayton Williams watch, here’s the campaign commercial that the late, great Ann Richards ran in the waning days of the 1990 gubernatorial election: