Barack Was So Heavy, Man, He Lived On The Strand
James Taranto pooh-poohs the whole double-standard thing in the media’s reactions to Barack Obama and John McCain for using the word “wasted” to describe the deaths of thousands of American lives in Iraq. To do so, Taranto presents a careful study of stories pulled from a LexisNexis search, which he then painstakingly — Oh my God, I’m so totally fucking with you. Actually, Taranto says McCain got off relatively easy because his apology sounds more polished than Obama’s. No, seriously, that’s pretty much his argument:
Obama’s initial statement was crystal clear; his “explanation” was a cloud of smoke. Obviously he meant what he said in the first place. He also belongs to a party that has adopted a policy of near-total cynicism when it comes to matters of war, as evidenced by (bwa-ha-ha, etc., etc.) …
Elsewhere on the Journal’s editorial page, Peggy Noonan laments the loss of McCain’s inevitability. Was it really just last week that she breathed a sigh of relief over Hillary’s derailed inevitability?
Holy crap. It really was last week. An earlier draft of this post said “two weeks ago.”
Gavin adds: Dude, at least you correct your drafts. Check Noonan from last week:
Usually Mrs. Clinton is a tough little tank, but on Tuesday she seemed less large, less formidable.
Usually the tough big McCain is less, like, small too, I guess. (?!)
“inevitability”?
Noonan on Bush:
“George W. Bush in 2000 felt he had to seem down-the-line conservative (though this involved some head faking). He had to tell you who he was because you couldn’t see it by looking at his history. ”
Sadly, Nein! You could indeed see it by looking at his history. A history, that is, of failure, mendacity, inability to accept responsibility, and–
Sorry. It’s the Pegster, after all. She summarizes McCain’s history in the exciting, you-are-there present tense. And while you or I or our dogs would refer to McCain’s kowtowwing to Falwell etc. as “pandering to the yahoos and selling out your intellectual honesty,” she calls it “embracing the religious right.”
Wotta gal.
But, but… haven’t you seen McCain’s feet?!?!?!
Remember Michael Kinsley’s famous dictum: a gaffe is when a politician inadvertently tells the truth. If the war is gigantic mistake, then those lives were wasted. This is why we’re really pissed off. Simple.
I’m old enough to remember the same shit during Vietnam. “Those 40,000 lives were not wasted, so we have to stay until anouther 10,000 are.”
i’ve got to agree with taranto on one thing, the dems ARE the party of near-total cynicism. and they will not get my support until they are the party of utter cynicism..
and props on the CVB ref
Monks of Doom?
via rawstory
so, ann cunter calls edwards a faggot. at least she didn’t call him fat
Dude, who hasn’t she called a faggot yet? First Clinton, then Gore, now Edwards. Obama shouldn’t be far behind (HA- no pun intended.)>
Ohmyfuckinggod, check out some of this shit from the rawstory article– fucking priceless.
Controversial columnist Ann Coulter had some sharp words to say about some of the Democratic presidential candidates and contenders during a speech at the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Coulter mocked former Vice President Al Gore for appearing to gain weight during his lay-off from politics and referred to Senator Barack Obama as “B. Hussein,” but her harshest words were reserved for former Senator John Edwards, whom she implied could be gay.
“When I look for moral guidance I look to Hollywood,” Coulter facetiously told her conservative audience in the Omni Shoreham Hotel’s Regency Ballroom in Washington DC on Friday.
“What’s Al Gore up to these days?” Coulter rhetorically asked, before answering, “Four hundred pounds.”
Coulter asked, “Did Al Gore actually swallow Michael Moore?”
“Obama is half-white and half-black,” Coulter said, before comparing the Illinois senator to former President Bill Clinton. “Clinton was half-white, half-trash.”
Before concluding her speech in order to take questions from audience members, Coulter took a final shot at Edwards.
“I was going to have a few comments about John Edwards but you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,'” Coulter said.
Okay, I just have to say it– Ann Coulter is a fucking cunt. She is the cuntiest twat in all of the annals of cuntery. Don’t any of you dare say she doesn’t deserve what I just said.
At this point, whenever a wingnut refers to the incivility of “The Left”©, please direct them to these remarks.
Those aren’t even jokes– it’s just pure hate. She is cut from the same cloth as Hitler. Pure fucking evil.
“Usually Mrs. Clinton is a tough little tank…”
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…
No, wait, that was a train.
But either way, I didn’t know that Pegeen was also writing children’s books.
davis said:
If the war is gigantic mistake, then those lives were wasted.
And why is sacrifice such a better word to describe our dead soldiers? According to Taranto, “To sacrifice is to give up something of value to oneself for the sake of something more valuable that transcends the self,” but it is not necessarily true that “something” is more valuable than what you gave up, unless you want to argue that the people sacrificed by the Aztecs really did appease the gods. This is just a backhanded way for conservatives to continue arguing that opposition to the war is unpatriotic.
Well, at least Ann has made it fair for us to mock her Adam’s apple, yet again.
And y’know, hearing Peggy Noonan is unhappy about something makes my day a little brighter.
Although, I still think the proper way to mock Ann is to note that she looks more and more like Ross Perot every day.
Well, Coulter may be a cunt, and a frothing homicidal fascist on top of it, but she doesn’t represent conservatives and republics like uncivil anonymous blog commenters represent Teh Left and Democrats. So we’re lucky there, I guess.
Wasted, sacrificed, thrown out like an old pair of socks. It’s a calculation of value, or more accurately Return on Investment. To most of us who think the entire endeavor was complete vapid idiocy, their lives, each and every one, lost, damaged, broken, ruined, taken or given up, American or Iraqi, were well and truly wasted. To cheney, however, who I come to believe more everyday has gotten exactly what he wanted out of all the horror, those lives, like funds and equipment, were spent, used as currency to purchase a future where America dominates the Gulf Oilfields with a huge military presence. Where China will have to behave geoplitically and economically if they want to buy some of that oil. And if countries holding large amounts of American debt decide to engage in economic warfare, we can simply turn off the tap. And Dick will be happy to tell you, the price was dirt cheap…
mikey
So, wait a minute– is Barack like, Black Flag wasted or Circle Jerks wasted?
Elsewhere on the Journal’s editorial page, Peggy Noonan laments the loss of McCain’s inevitability. Was it really just last week that she breathed a sigh of relief over Hillary’s derailed inevitability?
“There’s no pleasing some people.”
“That’s just what Jesus said, sir!”
Hey, leave me out of this! Ann Coulter is nothing like me!
Doc you bastid. A theread with both Noonan and Black Flag and now ‘you say you don’t want it’ is gonna be stuck in my head all night.
Erg.
Usually Mrs. Clinton is a tough little tank, but on Tuesday she seemed less large, less formidable.
While I have no love for Senator Clinton (please note that, Noonette. She’s a Senator. That trumps the Mrs.), what’s with describing her as a tank? I mean, whooaarrr, look at those gun turrets, baby, check those all-terrain treads. And how many grunts does she carry?
Honestly, is it too much to ask that those very very civil commentators on the Right describe anyone to the left of Genghis Bush as humans? Just now and again?
Doc, definitely Black Flag wasted. Those Jerks are just amateurs…
I’m thinking more Camper Van Beethoven Wasted
I was so heavy I lived on the strand…
Um, 1981 is calling, something about group sex?….
But CVB wasted has a bit of Black Flag to it…
All this makes me want to print out the lyrics to “White Minority” and send it to La Noonan.
Or maybe just “World Up My Ass”.
She is the cuntiest twat in all of the annals of cuntery. Don’t any of you dare say she doesn’t deserve what I just said.
Sure, SHE deserves what you said, but the cunt? What did the cunt ever do to deserve such abuse? I bet the cunt’s been pretty nice to you many a time and this is how you repay the cunt? That’s it, you’re cut off. No cunt for you!
Obama’s initial statement was crystal clear; his “explanation� was a cloud of smoke.
Taranto forgets to mention if the smoke is Kools or Newports.
“So, wait a minute– is Barack like, Black Flag wasted or Circle Jerks wasted?”
Ah Grasshopper, Black Flag wasted -is- Circle Jerks wasted, because Keith Morris sang that song for Black Flag before he sang it in the Circle Jerks. When you snatch this Einsturzende Neubauten tattoo from my hand, you may leave this place.
To cheney, however, who I come to believe more everyday has gotten exactly what he wanted out of all the horror, those lives, like funds and equipment, were spent, used as currency to purchase a future where America dominates the Gulf Oilfields with a huge military presence. Where China will have to behave geoplitically and economically if they want to buy some of that oil. And if countries holding large amounts of American debt decide to engage in economic warfare, we can simply turn off the tap. And Dick will be happy to tell you, the price was dirt cheap…
Except, of course, that Cheney fucked his Secrit Plaaan up as badly as he’s fucked up every other job he’s ever been paid to do: He and his corporatist assbuddies have sold America’s resources, treasury, and future to the Chinese to pay for Operation Enduring FUBAR. And, as was made clear to Wall Street this week, from now on, when China says “jump” we are expected to ask “how high sirs” while in mid-leap. Fifty years from now Cheney’s name will top Benedict Arnold’s on the All-American Traitors list — assuming our beleagured nation survives that long.
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