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It seems like a distant memory now – Howard Dean’s headline grabbing ascent to Democratic frontrunner – the internet fund-raising rock star of the Grassroots. If only they had known that the chorus of voices that bustled on the Dean blog forum were in fact, the only ones who would actually show up to vote for him in the primaries. But the Blog For America soldiers on. Today, this astute observation in a message signed by the good doctor himself.

“And a record number of us voted to change course – more Americans voted against George Bush than any sitting president in history.”

There’s the spirit, Howie.

Via Drudge: this MTV interview;

Yago: Last time we talked, in March, you said that it’s important to listen to hip-hop because it gives you a sense of what’s going on in the street. Have you heard the new Eminem song that’s been out?
Kerry: You know, I heard Eminem on “Saturday Night Live” last night. I heard the song that he did. I don’t know if that’s part of his new [album] or not. I liked it. But that’s the only thing that I’ve heard in the last weeks. I’m on the trail. I’m campaigning every day.

Partial lyrics to Mosh;

…
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c’mon)
[Chorus]
Imagine it pouring, it’s raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone’s tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin’ we’re responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin’
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six…
Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain’t loyal
If we don’t serve our own country, we’re patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they’ve been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight.
[Chorus]
And as we proceed,
To Mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements, if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And Mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator
Do you guy’s hear us…hear us…[laughing] (Hailie)

Senator Kerry, did you hear him …. hear him?
I have my doubts.
Added to Wizbang linkfest

A good deal has been made of the exchange between Jon Stewart vs Tucker Carlson on CNN’s Crossfire.

STEWART: It’s not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. And I will tell you why I know it.

[In our next segment, Genius Jon accuses Food Channel of recipe mongering.]

CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you’re accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: Absolutely.
CARLSON: You’ve got to be kidding me. He comes on and you…
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: You’re on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.
(LAUGHTER)
STEWART: What is wrong with you?
(APPLAUSE)
CARLSON: Well, I’m just saying, there’s no reason for you — when you have this marvelous opportunity not to be the guy’s butt boy, to go ahead and be his butt boy. Come on. It’s embarrassing.
STEWART: I was absolutely his butt boy. I was so far — you would not believe what he ate two weeks ago.
(LAUGHTER) (CROSSTALK)
STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.
STEWART: You need to go to one. The thing that I want to say is, when you have people on for just knee-jerk, reactionary talk…
CARLSON: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.
STEWART: No. No. I’m not going to be your monkey.
(LAUGHTER)
BEGALA: Go ahead. Go ahead.
STEWART: I watch your show every day. And it kills me.
CARLSON: I can tell you love it.
STEWART: It’s so — oh, it’s so painful to watch.
(LAUGHTER)
STEWART: You know, because we need what you do. This is such a great opportunity you have here to actually get politicians off of their marketing and strategy.
CARLSON: Is this really Jon Stewart? What is this, anyway?
STEWART: Yes, it’s someone who watches your show and cannot take it anymore.
(LAUGHTER)
STEWART: I just can’t.

I can’t take Jon Stewart anymore, either. Why? Not because he’s a partisan hack, which he is – but because in the friendly studio in which he practices his hackery, he’s forgotten something fundamental about his trade – to be genuine, satire requires unwavering honesty.
Jon Stewart’s “satire” fails that test. His pieces are too often based on falsehood or half truth. He relies on discredited memes and convenient headlines. He uses Iraqi casualties to make “funny” with a partisan audience – not in so many words, but if you watch the segment called “Messopotamia”, that’s what it is. Anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with current events cannot find much to laugh at watching the Daily Show. You know too much. His shallow cheap shots are offensive – because they insult the intelligence.
Jon Stewart may offer up the defense that he does comedy, in order to deflect criticism of the insincerity of his satire, but for someone who has built a show based on “fake news”, he really ought to follow the news a little more closely, if only to retain his professional integrity.
The Wall Street Journal’s James Bowman doesn’t buy it either.

Mr. Stewart used his appearance on “Crossfire” to make a serious point, yet when it was taken up seriously he tried to retreat into his characteristic pose as a harmless comedian. “You are on CNN,” he said to Mr. Carlson when accused of sucking up to Mr. Kerry; “the show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.”
So then we shouldn’t pay any attention to him when he tries to be serious? I don’t think he quite meant to say that, and yet he is saying it, in effect, all the time. Under the cover of humor, his show routinely makes vicious points about, say, the Iraq war. Are we meant to think of the puppets when we hear such “Daily Show” bits or when Mr. Stewart endorses Mr. Kerry for president?

The underlying theme to Stewart’s comedy isn’t the bashing of conservativism and the current Republican administration – it’s deeper. In his presentation of “facts” , Stewart treats his decidely left-leaning audience like uniformed morons – and, judging by the applause he generates, they generally are. And that is where the real satire of the Daily Show resides. Not with the quality of the news, but in the quality of the audience.
I just wish it were funnier.

… and he types with one finger.

Marijuana activist Marc Emery was released from jail today. He was a guest on John Gormley Live, where he compared the “persecution” of his “culture” by “Europeans” to the civil rights movement, slavery and the Holocaust.

“We’ve arrested more people for marijuana since 1960 than Stalin sent to the gulags.”

That ladies and gentlemen, is your brain on drugs. (Emery is also of the opinion that the climate in Saskatchewan was too harsh for white men and that Europeans should have left it to the Indians and sought more “civilized” places to live. Like Vancouver’s Hastings Street, I presume.)
By and large, I’m ambivalent towards the decriminalization of marijuana, but I have enough past experience with the effects to know that I don’t want pot smokers behind the wheel, taking care of children, or responsible for heavy machinery – and until there is a roadside test for pot intoxication, arresting people for possession is just fine with me.
What I’m not ambivalent towards are those who choose civil disobedience to make a political point, who then mewl like babies when they suffer the anticipated legal consequences. In the case of the self-described “Prince of Pot”, he really needs to be treated to the reality of the Soviet gulag to get a better understanding of how obscene his pathetic, self-pitying comparisons were.
My advice to the advocates of decrimilization is to dump this loser, and fast. At best, his logic is convoluted – at worst, one suspects he’s suffered brain damage. It may be a simple chicken-egg question – perhaps his stupidity predated his marijuana use. It’s conceivable that Mr.Emery was destined to be as dense as a soggy post from the day he first drew breath – but whatever the case may be, inhalation of marijuana has not enhanced his mental capacities.

So, what’s new?
The insufferable Mr. Kinsella pulled the same stunt when he was a “guest” on a talk radio show in Saskatchewan last year after the retirement of Jean Chretien. A caller raised the fact that Chretien’s daughter was married to the son of Paul Desmarais (of Bombardier and Power Corporation fame), and was promptly interrupted by Mr.Kinsella who threatened to sue both the station and the caller.
Once a Librano always a Librano.
Oct.19 update and more links here.

Paul, at Wizbang, catches an“expert” creating “proof” that the discredited TANG memos could have been produced on a typewriter, and has advice for him.

Here is a hint for the good Professor– If you are going to forge documents DON’T LEAVE THE EVIDENCE on your webserver.
And if you don’t think that TH nailed him, feel free to download the PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT he was working on when he created the forgery.
Not only did he forge the document but he let the work in progress in an open web folder.
And Professor, if you are reading this- and I know someone will mail it to you, I have downloaded your entire website as evidence and I saved screen caps of it, so don’t bother delete it. I also had an interesting phone call with the head of your department. You might give him a call.

The entire post is hilarious as the updates continue… the good professor trying to play catchup, editing his pages, adding disclaimers, while the blogosphere crushes him like a skunk on the dotted line….
update – Wizbang does a little digging and finds a familiar name attached to the photoshopping professor – CBS producer Mary Mapes

You know, with this many recent appearances by der Fuehrer, I’m surprised that little black mustaches aren’t making a fashion comeback. Today, rock producer and accused murderer Phil Spector finds himself in the clutches of the Third Reich.

Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, Spector criticized the prosecutor’s decision to seek a grand jury indictment, saying: “The actions of the Hitler-like district attorney and his storm trooper henchmen are reprehensible, unconscionable and despicable.”

For those keeping score: President George W. Bush is Hitler, Attorney General John Ashcroft is Hitler, and now Hitler has even trickled down to little ol’ Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley.
At this rate, the late, great Adolph is on the brink of being rehabilitated into Defender Of Justice and Fighter Of Crime.

NELSON, British Columbia — Plans for a bronze monument and festival to honor U.S. draft dodgers in 2006 in this picturesque lakeside town have generated a wave of anger in the United States, local officials say.
[…]
In announcing Our Way Home, a celebration set for July 8-9, 2006, director Isaac Romano said the purpose was to honor “the courageous legacy of Vietnam War resisters and the Canadians who helped them resettle in this country during that tumultuous era.”

This calls for a photoshop contest – put your creative juices to work, and help the good people of Nelson in their quest to make absolute asses of themselves.

Q: What do you get when you cross Pierre Pettigrew with a French Foreign Minister?
A: Would you wait just a minute? They aren’t finished banging each other.
(Added to the Beltway Traffic Jam)

I won’t spoil the surprise.
hat tip – Flea

Carolyn Parrish’s anti-Americanism may be a clever front to deflect attention from her anti-semitism.
David Frum was all over her in February 2003.

This past June, for example, she joined a delegation of nine MPs on a trip to the West Bank and Gaza paid for by Canadian Palestinian radicals. On her return, she told the sponsors of the trip: “You got your money’s worth. You have nine members of parliament who’ve come back completely and totally convinced that what’s going on over there is a crime against humanity.”
The point of the June mission was to publicize the Palestinian claim that the Israelis committed unspeakable atrocities during their raid into the city of Jenin. (One of the 9 MPs on the trip referred to Jenin as the Palestinians’ own “ground zero,” a phrase that at one and the same time spreads a lie about Jenin while denying the truth about 9/11.) Four months later, Parrish attacked a Canadian reporter named Stewart Bell for his work debunking the Jenin hoax, suggesting that his independence had been compromised by his acceptance of a press award from the B’nai Brith. Her own junketing, presumably, affected her judgment not at all.

There’s more.
Hat tip to Kathy Shaidle at the Shotgun

The Liberal Party’s Minister Of Official Anti-Americanism is at it again.

Canadian Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish had said she hated “damned Americans” and called them bastards in the run- up to the Iraq war. She found a new moniker, idiots, on Wednesday in discussing the planned U.S. missile defense system.
“We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise,” the Liberal legislator told a small group of demonstrators.

One of her coalition partners spoke about the incident today during his Afternoon Show on 650 CKOM. Reportedly, the grrrrlll power female members of caucus are firmly against Canada’s participation in the missile defense plan. Noting the fragile nature of Paul Martin’s minority government, Leavins offered this bit of brilliant analysis;

Do ya think this missile defense plan has a chance, in the long run?”

Kurt is onto something, I think. It could well be that Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is going to “pull the plug” on the $40B US Missile Defense System.
Right after he raises Pierre Trudeau from the dead.

This just in:
Canadian Bar Association affirms lawyer’s right to screw client.

Searing memory, updated;

“Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968, eating kutia, varenyky and pampushky on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared–seared–in me. And this pysanky my Baba sent me.”

Memri follows up on the case of Ranya Al-Baz, a Saudi TV host.

On April 4, 2004, Yunis left her in a hospital in a state of unconsciousness. The story received extensive media coverage in the Arab world, and the abusive husband was arrested. He was first accused of attempting to kill his wife, but the charges were subsequently reduced to the use of severe violence. Yunis was sentenced to six months imprisonment and 300 lashes.
However, Ranya decided to pardon her husband – a measure allowed by Saudi law. Yunis was spared the lashes and was released in early July after three months imprisonment.

The domestic abuse experts weigh in;

Sheik Abd Al-Hamid Al- Muhajir who asked rhetorically: “[In the case of] a wife who endangers her husband and her own life, what’s better, that she gets slapped or that she ruins her family, herself, and society?”
Egyptian Sheik Muhammad Al-Massir of Al-Azhar University also explained the circumstances in which a husband is allowed to beat his wife. If a woman is disobedient, he explained on the Saudi-based channel Iqra TV, ” a woman for whom marital life is important suffers when she is left alone in the bed. If we get to a point where abandonment [in bed] does not pain her and words do not deter her, we may have come to the stage of beatings.”

More here, including insight into the subject from Muslim clerics in North America.

Via The Monger.

Based on an old classic;
“Take your 65,000 jobs and shove it…”