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What Kind of Totalitarian A–hole Would Object to ‘Downfall’ YouTube Parodies?

If you guessed “Hitler,” you’re a winner: Tim Cavanaugh at Reason‘s Hit & Run: The thousand-year reich of Downfall parodies has ended in ruins. Constantin Films, the German producer of the 2004 film Der Untergang, has compelled YouTube to start taking down the popular Hitler-rants-about-funny-thing-X clips. . . . The 4.3 million-view original, in which […]

Republicans for Arlen Specter*

* – Offer expires 5/19/2010. Attention, members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: We’ve got an unanticipated problem developing in Pennsylvania, where the long-awaited Arlen Specter meltdown appears to be beginning prematurely. A recent poll by Rasmussen shows that Joe Sestak has now closed to within the margin of error in his Democratic primary race with […]

James Manzi Will Regret This But Once, and That Will Be Continuously

He has written a very dismissive attack on Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny. Levin will surely respond, as always, with overwhelming rhetorical force. Manzi focuses his attack on Levin’s chapter about anthropogenic global warming (AGW), a topic on which Manzi considers himself something of a lay expert. While I have no personal quarrel with Manzi and […]

Take a Chill Pill, Phil

My friend Philip Klein of the American Spectator goes into Eeyore mode over the prospect of a three-way Florida Senate election with “independent” Charlie Crist: Yet, while a Quinnipiac poll taken last week found that he trailed Marco Rubio by 23 points in the primary, it also found that in a general election, Crist leads […]

How to Lose Your MSNBC Anchor Gig

Describe Keith Olbermann as “angry”: A week-long anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel’s No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier. Mr. Deutsch had labeled his hour on MSNBC “America the Angry,” […]

Dear Andrew Sullivan

You don’t have a uterus. That’s not your fault, but it’s not Sarah Palin’s fault either, and it’s long past time for you to stop obsessing about the governor’s uterus. “Legitimate questions of fact! Relevant questions!” You’re sick, Andrew. Get help.

How to Get Re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano

No, I still haven’t succeeded in my seven-month-long crusade to get re-Tweeted by Alyssa Milano (she’s got nearly 800,000 followers), but I continue studying her Twitter habits, like a lion watching a gazelle beside a watering hole on the Kalahari plain. And it appears that celebrity sleaze-merchant Perez Hilton has broken the Milano Code. Evidently, one way […]

Liberals Scream: ‘No Fair! Conservatives Are Infringing Our Monopoly on Gay-Baiting Republican Closet Cases!’

As Professor Donald Douglas points out, that is the essence of liberal blogger Steve Benen’s concern-troll post at Washington Monthly: I’m not generally in the habit of defending Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), but some of the abuse he’s been receiving from the right is ridiculous. . . . For the record, I neither know nor […]

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