Thanks for the oblique shout-out to Monty Python’s Very Silly Party sketch, wherein candidates such as “Fintin limbim ole biscuitbarrel (etc. etc.)” vyed with the simply silly candidates like “Jethro Walrustitty”.

Now that I think about it, “Jethro P. Walrustitty” is a pretty good alternative moniker for CY (along the lines of “Doughy Pantload” and “Dr. Sammich”).

How much more frenzied are the reality-deniers likely to become in the next few months, as more and more GOP apparatchiks glumly eye the polls and the 2008 elections, and start to jump ship? You can’t even say that they are clinging to straws anymore, to justify their dedication to the Iraq disaster. They’re all pretty much at the Wile E. Coyote stage, frantically pedaling their feet in mid-air above the abyss, hanging their with a woebegon expression on their mugs.

S,N! in this particular simile, would play the part of the Roadrunner, standing safely on the cliff, sticking its/our collective tongue(s) out and taunting their latest ridiculous Acme purchase…

Why does he call himself “Confederate Yankee” anyway? Was “northern white-trash bigot” already taken?

The League of the South, the main ideological outpost of the old confederacy, has nothing good to say about this carpetbagger war or Rebbe Menachem Mendel Bushowitz.

Um, someone call a cab; Mr. Dershowitz is drunk-trolling again…

The League of the South, the main ideological outpost of the old confederacy, has nothing good to say about this carpetbagger war or Rebbe Menachem Mendel Bushowitz.

Oh, do. Do!!!

So the idea is (sorry, I can’t bring myself to actually read the guy) that stories of ONE massacre is damaging to the US, so it’s manufactured by the reporters with a defeatist agenda (I’m looking at YOU Jamail Hussen!) but the stories of ANOTHER massacre is positive for the US and the biased media is suppressing it?

How does that work exactly?

What if the reporting were going his way, and the only massacres in Iraq were the positive ones? Would that make it better?

It’s a far cry from stories about Painting Schools.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. The MSM reporters clearly did not buy a program at the Baqubah massacre. You can’t tell the insurgents from Al Qaeda without a program!

It’s not like the terrorists wear names on the backs of their jerseys. Just numbers and Nike swooshes and team logos of birds and animals and cute little cartoon suicide bombers.

Ace ponied up the three clams for his program*, and that’s why he knows the MSM is retarded.

*Also, he got crackerjacks and a big foam ‘Shi’ites No. 1′ finger.

A massacre in the town of Khurtaylah 75 miles from Tikrit? But according to Google Earth Khurtaylah is over 130 miles from Tikrit! Do these people even bother checking their stories before helping the terrorists?

I’m surprised he didn’t argue that he was spreading false information in case the Islamofascists were planning to attack NYC via Albany.

there is a much more appropriate circle of Hell awaiting mr. CY.

It would be merely tedious if they applied the same standard to all news stories, but whereas stories they don’t like get the Chuckles Treatment, ones that shore up their beliefs are treated as revealed wisdom from the hand of god (even if the pro-wingut-meme story comes from a news org/reporter they were saying is a liar and a traitor just the day before).

Shorter Reich-wing bloggers: We’ve always been at war with Eurasia. *One week passes* We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) is the point. Its not so much about the accuracy of any particular story, its about maintaining the illusion that its all going just peachy over there and the only reason people don’t think so is because the is the press is lying or inaccurate.

Its the Chuckles Johnson school of media crit: Hypercritically comb every sentence in a story for apparent inconsistencies/imprecise language, then, if you find one (no matter how incidental to the meat of the story) you use that as “evidence” to attack the credibility of the story/reporter/news org/mammals in general.

It would be merely tedious if they applied the same standard to all news stories, but whereas stories they don’t like get the Chuckles Treatment, ones that shore up their beliefs are treated as revealed wisdom from the hand of god (even if the pro-wingut-meme story comes from a news org/reporter they were saying is a liar and a traitor just the day before).

What a wiener. Whenever they try to be witty, they just sound angry and venal.

Yep. Just below the one for people who darken smoke or screw with font kerning.

On another note, a headline from Newsweek, via Slate:
Hirsh: Exploring Islam’s ‘Death Cult’
Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:01:32 GMT

This, a story produced for consumption in a country that, while not Islamic, nonetheless holds much reverence for images of a guy with a sucking chest wound nailed to a piece of wood, dying, goes with a headline that implicitly suggests something exotic about death-cultery.

As one Sadly Nosian so aptly put it: *headdesk*

7/06/07 Update: Ever able to miss the overall point, an observant liberal snarks via email that the distance from Albany to New York City is 130+ miles, and so my analogy is geographically inaccurate–as if a cop in Fishkill, NY would be any more knowledgeable about an event in NYC than the cop in Albany would. Whatever. I’m sure you all understand the analogy just so much more now that it is geographically precise. Right?

lolcats

Damn right. It’s between the circle for people who leave THREE FUCKING CAR LENGTHS between them and the car in front at stop lights, and puppies.

Yeah. Puppies? Straight to hell. It’s a contractual thing, mostly. We don’t like to talk about it.

But is there a correction?