The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Like Chris Crocker and Britney

Posted on | September 28, 2011 | 9 Comments

T.C. Lynch says, “Leave Fatty McAwesome alone!”

You know a Republican is weak when even Conor Friedersdorf can hurt him. Myself, I agree with 34% of American racists, as opposed to the 39% of anti-American racists who support Obama.

Let’s face it: We’re all racists now.

Category: Chris Christie, Election 2012

‘It Brought Tears to My Eyes’

Posted on | September 28, 2011 | 6 Comments

Ali Akbar and Doug Hoffman

Ali Akbar’s open letter to Morgan Freeman is now a Memeorandum thread, linked by Big Hollywood, Pundette, Ed Driscoll, Underground Conservative and Kat McKinley at the Houston Chronicle. As the story goes viral, Americans are sending Ali e-mails like this:

Ali,
I don’t write many letters but after reading your letter to Mr. Freeman, it brought tears to my eyes.
I grew up in New Orleans. I appreciate that you recognize we do live in a different time.
The Democrat party wants to divide the nation, and you are the glue that puts it together.
Thank you for your wonderful, wonderful letter. You hit it right on the spot. I’m 63, white, born poor, and this a great nation, keep working.
[Signed]

And like this:

Hello brother (said this white man).
I read your letter to Morgan and it brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart.
God bless you (says this agnostic).
You give me hope my man, you give me hope. …
Double blessings on you.
[Signed]

As I told Ali in an e-mail of my own, there may have been more wildly improbable narratives in political history, but none that come to mind right off the bat. Longtime readers who saw Ali’s message may be thinking to themselves, “Hey, that name rings a bell” — as well it should:

“OK, while Eric [Odom] was on the phone with his source, I got a call from my source, officially confirming Dede’s withdrawal. While Eric and Steve Foley went west to Watertown, Ali Akbar took the 100 mph thrill-ride with me on State Route 86 to Plattsburgh.
“Ali changed his plans, and will now be hanging in through Wednesday. [Dave] Weigel is flying into NY23 on Sunday, and will hook up with our posse. Because we rock.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Oct. 31, 2009

Yeah, NY-23, a story I recall at The American Spectator:

Whenever I introduce Ali Akbar to friends, I usually feel compelled to add the explanation that he’s a Southern Baptist from Texas, which leaves him to relate the backstory: His African-American mother was a college student in Texas when she met and married an Arab exchange student, who subsequently abandoned his wife and son to return to his native country. Given the events of recent years, it is perhaps somewhat ironic that Ali grew up to become a Republican campaign strategist.
Ali’s specialty is New Media, which explains how I met him in October 2009 during Doug Hoffman’s historic third-party congressional campaign in New York’s 23rd District. It was my second trip to the district, and I arrived in the wee hours of Oct. 30 at a rental house in Lake Placid, N.Y., where I had been granted sofa-crashing privileges. The crew in the house were Eric Odom, Steve Foley and Ali — who were working on the Tea Party news site 73Wire — and Yates Walker, who had been brought in by Dan Tripp to run the Hoffman campaign’s Plattsburgh office. . . .

Read the whole thing. And remember that it was you — the readers who hit the tip jar — who sent me to upstate New York to cover that wild-and-crazy campaign where I met Ali. Thinking back on it now, I guess we owe some thanks to Charles Johnson for our introduction. But that’s another story too long to tell here.

UPDATE: Did I tell you Ali is a New Media genius?

YourMoveMorgan.com
“For every $5 you donate, we will send
a Gadsden flag to Morgan Freeman.”

Which is to say $25 for five Gadsden flags, $50 for 10 Gadsden flags, $100 for 20 Gadsden flags — I’m thinking they’re gonna need a pretty big truck to deliver all those Gadsden flags.


Category: Tea Party

Insert Obscene Epithets Here

Posted on | September 28, 2011 | 34 Comments

G–d— bastards in Florida threaten to f–k up everything:

Florida will likely hold Jan. primary,
threatening presidential calendar

Never mind how this dumbass stunt could affect the Republican primary outcome. If those bats–t crazy motherf–kers do this, I’ll be spending Christmas in Iowa.

Not since the five-week recount in 2000 will political reporters have had so much reason to hate those c–ksucking Florida sons of bitches.

Category: Election 2012, Florida

House GOP: ‘Instead of Raising Taxes, Why Don’t We Stop Funding Abortion?’

Posted on | September 28, 2011 | 24 Comments

An excellent suggestion!

A Congressional committee has taken the first steps in investigating the Planned Parenthood abortion business over abuses ranging from financial disparities to its compliance with federal regulations on taxpayer funding to concerns that it is covering up cases of sex trafficking.
In a September 15 letter LifeNews.com obtained, Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Florida Republican who is the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations, writes to Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood.
“Pursuant to Rules X and XI of the United States House of Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Commerce is examining the institutional practices and policies of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and its affiliates, and its handing of federal funding,” Stearns writes. “That Committee has questions about the policies in place and actions undertaken by PPFA and its affiliates relating to its use of federal funding and its compliance with federal restrictions on the funding of abortion.”
The letter asks Richards to comply with current federal regulations and legal obligations by providing Congress with a wide range of documents within two weeks of the date of the letter.
“Please provide all internal audit reports conducted by PPFA and its affiliates from 1998 to 2010. If not clearly indicated in the audit reports, please detail how much PPFA and each affiliate expended and received in Title XIX Medicaid funding, Title X family planning, and any other federal funding,” the letter says.

In other words: “Just askin’ questions,” IYKWIMAITYD. Planned Parenthood has never been forced to account for their expenditures of federal money, and pro-lifers have a hunch that once taxpayers find out what they’ve been paying for, they won’t want to pay it any more. But the people who sold their souls to the Abortion, Inc. stay bought:

Reps. Henry Waxman (Calif.), senior Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), the ranking member of the panel’s Oversight subcommittee, claim Republicans have “singled out” the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) “as part of a Republican vendetta against an organization that provides family planning and other medical care to low-income women and men generous campaign contributions to Democrats.”

Fixed that for you, Henry. And here’s a statement from Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life:

“AUL welcomes the news that Congress is investigating the abortion mega-provider Planned Parenthood for financial improprieties and its poor handling of the public trust. AUL’s groundbreaking report on Planned Parenthood released this summer outlines a template for investigators and provides extensive information on the abortion giant. The American taxpayer does not want to be in the business of abortion, and this investigation is an important first step toward ending public funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider.
“We also want to congratulate Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, for his leadership on this issue and for his willingness to look more closely at Planned Parenthood and its affiliates for their fraudulent use of taxpayer dollars, as outlined in AUL’s report.”

UPDATE: This goes to show, BTW, why fiscal conservatives should pay attention to social conservatives. Many of the government policies that social conservatives find objectionable have a fiscal component that generate the instinctive taxpayer response, “They’re spending my money on what?”

And if you think deeply about these issues, you have to ask yourself why it makes sense to spend taxpayer money to kill future taxpayers, which is what Planned Parenthood has been doing for decades.

PREVIOUSLY:

Category: Abortion, Congress, Planned Parenthood

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO Reveals U.S. Navy’s Secret Weapon in War Against Taliban

Posted on | September 28, 2011 | 13 Comments

Yes, we’re talking about our hero, Admiral Smitty, who returned yesterday from Afghanistan and shared the stirring tale of his conquest of the Taliban Navy. You may be saying to yourself, “Wait a minute — the Taliban don’t have a navy!”

Not any more, they don’t, because FOBbit Smitty and his top-secret Navy task force of Stealth Ninja REMFs wiped out the enemy fleet.

Not since Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar has any naval force triumphed so decisively against such formidable odds. Details of this decisive battle remain classified, but a grateful nation will long remember the immortal words with which the Admiral concludes this inspirational video:

UPDATE: Our demobilized hero has asked me to add a disclaimer: Smitty is earning exactly $0 from the blog and the U.S. Navy does not endorse our opinions. Or my jokes.

“Humor + Pentagon” has never been an easy mixture.

Category: Aghanistan, humor, Military, Video

LIVE AT FIVE – 09.28.11

Posted on | September 28, 2011 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Governor Christie Slams Obama, Talks Foreign Policy In Reagan Library Speech

Governor Chris Christie at the Reagan Library last night.

Still not running; neocons and RINOs hardest hit

Related: Five Things Conservatives Would Hate About Chris Christie (h/t Tammy Bruce on Twitter)





Israel Rejects Freeze As Talks Precondition
Netanyahu: “We gave at the office.”

At Stop In Denver, President Calls Self “Warrior For The Working Class”
Presidential preposition fail!



POLITICS
Mitt Romney Lures Away 100 Obama Donors

Mitt benefits as Wall Street financiers turn their back on the President

“It’s going to be very hard for the president to bash the rich and create jobs at the same time.” – Anthony Scaramucci, Skybridge Capital

Ron Paul On “The Daily Show”: My Supporters Are Hardcore



Obama Support Tumbles In California

Axelrod: In Titanic Re-Election Struggle, Economy Could Be Iceberg

Facebook Files Paperwork To Set Up PAC

In A New York Minute, Ed Koch Changes Tune On Obama



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
European Markets Open Lower On Eurozone Uncertainty
Groupon Rolls Out Loyalty Program
Dallas Fed Head Says Central Bank Under Bipartisan Attack, Singles Out Ron Paul, Barney Frank
Asian Shares Mostly Up; Demand Tempered By Euroworries
In “Dash For Cash”, Gold ETF Investors Hang Tight
Apple Sends Out Invite To October 4 Event, iPhone 5 Release Imminent?
Amazon’s Gamble: Why A Tablet Comes Next
Microsoft And Mindshare: Can Mango Be Cool In The Mall?
Oracle Seeks Sun Revival With Sparc T4 Servers
Apple Loses “Multi-Touch” Trademark Bid
Intel, Samsung Get Behind New Linux Phone Software



SPORTS
Triple Play Keeps Rays Tied With Red Sox

Matt Joyce homers for Tampa Bay in last night's 5-2 win over the Yankees

Yanks’ Martin hits into triple play, and one inning later Joyce goes yard to put Rays ahead for the night

Staggering Sox Beat Orioles 8-7, Stay Alive In Wild Card Race

Braves, Cardinals All Tied Up On Last Day


NBA Labor Talks End After 2 Hours, Will Resume Today

Derrick Rose Ponders Playing In Europe

Big 12 ADs Determined To Solidify Shaky Conference

LeBron Gets “Big 3” Back Together For Charity Game

Last Bullfight In Barcelona: Matadors Hold Final Corrida After Catalans Outlaw Bullfighting

Nats’ Bid For Winning Season Ends With 3-2 Loss To Fish



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Ulster Farmer Tells Rihanna To Put Her Clothes Back On

Alderman "felt things were getting inappropriate"

Video filming cut short after farmer objects to pop star stripping down

Nancy Grace Denies Wardrobe Malfunction On DWTS



Amazon Adds Buffy, Other Fox Shows To Instant Videos

Jessica Simpson’s Expecting!

Big Trouble For Ashton Kutcher As One-Night Stand Lawyers Up

Andy Rooney To End Regular “60 Minutes” Appearances



FOREIGNERS
Manila Cleans Up After Typhoon Kills 20
50,000 Indians Deported From Saudi Arabia During Immigration Amnesty
Saudi Woman Driver Vows To Appeal Flogging Sentence
EU Powers Drop UN Syria Sanctions Call
Islamists Call In Chips As New Libya Emerges
Shanghai Subway Accident Injures Hundreds
Pakistan Promises To Strike Anti-PRC Jihadis In Tribal Regions
Tymoshenko Trial Marks Fork In Road For Ukraine



BLOGS & STUFF
Ed Driscoll: Would You Like Sprinkles On Your Klan Hood?
Power Line: Democrats Come Out Of The Closet, Oppose Democracy
Confederate Yankee: Good News – When It Comes To Hanging Tyrants, I Won’t Have Far To Drive
NRO Corner: Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio Agree With Perry On In-State Tuition
PJ Tatler: Ari Fleischer – It’s Too Late For Chris Christie To Run Anyway
Hit & Run: White House Bullies Ford To Take Down Ad Slamming Government Motors
Michelle Malkin: Chicago On The Potomac
Don Surber: No MTV For You, Barack
Weasel Zippers: US Intelligence Reports Over 20,000 Advanced SAMs Missing From Libya
iOwnThe World.com: Don’t Know Much About Geography
Legal Insurrection: Sorry Ted, You Can’t “Talk Our President Down Off This Rhetoric”
Jawa Report: Spanish Guardia Civil Arrests 5 Accused Of Financing Jihadis
Sister Toldjah: Video – Young Woman Brags About Abortion; Congress To Investigate Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Business
Reason: Elizabeth Warren’s Voodoo Economics


SOTD: Down To The Wire

Category: Live at Five

Ali Akbar’s Invitation to Morgan Freeman

Posted on | September 27, 2011 | 17 Comments

He wants him to come to a Tea Party:

Dear Mr. Freeman,
My name is Ali Akbar. I’m a 26 year-old African-American small business owner and a tea party activist. . . .
I idolized you as a boy. Growing up without a father, you were one of the strong black men in my life who gave me a model to follow. Each of the characters you played had dignity and confidence. I tried to emulate the strength you projected. . . .
I’ve attended dozens of tea party events. I’ve helped organize them, and I’ve even spoken at a few. The tea party is not what is often depicted in the news. It is people of all colors who are terribly concerned about the direction that America is heading. We don’t trust big government to make decisions for us. And we fear that the present administration’s spending is going to lead our country down a path to insolvency, much like what Greece is currently facing. . . .
I’m hoping that you’ll come to a tea party in Tennessee — the place of your birth. Really anywhere in the country that works for you; I’ll set it up with the one of the thousands of activists I know around our great country. I’d be delighted to introduce you to good people who will welcome you with open arms, disagree with you, and then feed you some of the best barbeque you’ve ever tasted. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Category: Tea Party

‘Discovery Is a Bitch,’ as They Say, and Doug Mataconis Is …

Posted on | September 27, 2011 | 42 Comments

. . . well, he’s badly mistaken, in my opinion, because if I called him an “obnoxious a–hole,” he might sic his lawyers on me. Truth is the ultimate defense in such cases, of course, but his apparent prejudice against Sarah Palin seems to be clouding his judgment.

Now, let’s count the weasel words: “in my opinion” Mataconis is sadly mistaken, and calling him an “obnoxious a–hole” is merely suggested as a hypothetical. I say he “might sic his lawyers on me,” but the “might” relieves me of having to prove that Mataconis is a litigious pest who files nuisance suits at the drop of a hat. (An assertion I have not made.) His “prejudice,” I describe as merely “apparent” — he certainly gives the appearance of being prejudiced against Palin — and it only “seems” that his judgment is clouded by this.

You see? Long years of practice at avoiding libel come in handy at a time like this, so that if Mataconis accuses me of calling him an “obnoxious a–hole,” it would be him who has defamed me.

OK, so I spent about two hours working on a long item at The American Spectator about Sarah Palin’s potential defamation case against Random House. And then Mataconis pops up on Twitter derogating my work, as if he were indeed an obnoxious a–hole.

It is not my habit to engage in arguments 140 characters at a time, when I might as well get a blog post of it. My American Spectator item was written in response to a column today by David Magee:

But here’s the problem with suing [Joe] McGinnis and the publisher: Palin would have to prove that the allegations in the book are all lies if she proceeded with a lawsuit.
She’s a public figure — considerably so — and it’s hard to prove libel when you are in the public eye in the first place. . . .
She would have to clear her name completely.

And here’s what I wrote at The American Spectator:

This is absurd. If the Palins do sue, their suit will specify defamatory statements in McGinniss’s book that they believe they can prove false. They do not have to prove every allegation false, nor would Sarah “have to clear her name completely.” Only evidence and testimony relevant to those disputed allegations will be admissible, and so there is no basis for Magee’s assertion that Palin would have to address every lurid claim in the McGinniss book.

What Magee (and Mataconis) are thinking about is the old legal axiom, “Discovery is a bitch.” Before you sue someone for defamation, you have to think about what evidence the defense might be able to demand you, as the plaintiff, produce in the discovery phase of the suit. But they can only demand evidence that might be relevant to the truth of a statement that you have claimed is false and defamatory.

So if Palin’s suit doesn’t dispute, for example, McGinniss’s cocaine-and-adultery tales, then Random House can’t go on a fishing expedition in that area. Assuming that her suit would be very specific about which statements she disputed — cherry-picking those most easily proven false — then the “discovery is a bitch” factor would be no deterrent to suing.

Certainly her lawyers would advise her very carefully in such a matter, and they might even advise her against suing. But if she does sue, she need not “clear her name completely” or prove herself a virtuous Saint Sarah in order to prevail. If she exposes McGinniss as having published multiple lies, she destroys his credibility even as to the truth of accusations that she does not specifically dispute. McGinniss’s e-mail to Jesse Griffin appears very damaging to Random House, and the letter Palin’s lawyer sent to Random House suggests a suspicion that there may be other e-mails equally damaging.

And as I have repeatedly said, McGinniss’s known association with Griffin is damaging. In my item at The American Spectator, I call Griffin a “lying pervert” — without fear of libel. It is an objective fact that Griffin lied about his “exclusive” that Palins were divorcing. (More than two years later, they’re still married.) So there’s your “lying” and as for the “pervert,” permit me to remind you:

“You know the reason that many people enjoy adult movies is that it is sexy to watch people making love. . . . I think that this trend toward real people having real sex is definitely the way to go. I always had a little guilt watching an adult movie and wondering if the female performer was a drug addict, or victim of molestation, just prostituting herself to make a buck. I am not Jewish, so guilt and sex don’t really go together for me. But when you see a video of an amateur couple having sex you can tell that they are simply doing it for the sheer excitement of sharing their passion with a bunch of middle aged pervs who are going to wank off to their sexual exploits. Well great here comes that guilt again.”
— “Gryphen,” a/k/a Jesse Griffin, June 3, 2007

“Yes I DO work in a Kindergarten class during the school year. My main job affords me some time during the day and I have chosen to use it teaching children to read, and helping them to become more independent.”
— “Gryphen,” a/k/a Jesse Griffin, Aug. 2, 2009

“Having somebody reveal your “secret identity” can be a little unsettling . . .”
— “Gryphen,” A/K/A, Jesse Griffin, Aug. 4, 2009

“All of the fun of sex is drained by making all of these rules and labels. If sex is not naughty then it is almost not worth doing. I love kids, but in my opinion they are just a side effect of a healthy sex life.”
— Gryphen,” a/k/a Jesse Griffin, June 14, 2007

“And your penis will respond more readily if you take it out and put it through its paces more often. Duh! So the next time your girlfriend/wife/mother bust you for watching porn on your computer, simply tell her that you are exercising and you would appreciate some privacy.”
— “Gryphen,” a/k/a Jesse Griffin, July 7, 2008

“That’s right I am promoting self pleasure. Does that really surprise anybody?”
— Gryphen,” a/k/a Jesse Griffin, Oct. 17, 2007

“I do it because it brings me joy to work with these children and I believe, and have been told, that I am very good at it . . .
“[Y]ou now know my dirty little secret. I am an assistant teacher in a room full of five year old children. . . .”
— Gryphen,” a/k/a Jesse Griffin, Aug. 2, 2009

“I am teaching my boys to wear dresses and swish when they walk because being ignorant or drug addicted is no longer a guarantee of being passed over. If your not willing to suck cock then pack up your going to Iraq.”
— “Gryphen,” a/k/a Jesse Griffin, June 10, 2005

It seems Griffin has attempted to scrub his archives, but Dan Riehl still has all the cache files of the “Gryphen” blog he downloaded back when Jesse was forced out of his kindergarten job. The fact that McGinniss turned to Griffin for help in vetting his “tawdry gossip” is just about all you need to know about what kind of journalism McGinniss was doing.

If I were a Random House executive, I’d be very worried right now.

And if I were an oxnoxious a–hole . . . well, let’s don’t talk about Doug Mataconis. He might sic his lawyers on us.

Category: Sarah Palin
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