The Other McCain

Borrowing Jimmie Bise’s meme once more, it’s been a heckuva few days, with offline work stacked up like cordwood, various Dad-the-taxi-driver errands to run, etc., and so many trolls and feminists to smack around.

Honestly, I’d ignore those pests, but it’s Holiday Traffic Suckage Season. At this time of year, the potential traffic lost by not blogging every breaking political development is not so great a loss compared to the pleasure provided to regular readers who love to watch me work out on a troll.

Anyway, there’s a backlog of stuff I was thinking of blogging about, but never got around to:

• Obama held a press conference yesterday, punk-smacking liberal critics of the tax compromise and generating some of the most insanely watchable programming in MSNBC’s history. Chris Matthews, Ed Schulz, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell — they gave Obama pummeling that would have been branded a hate-crime had any conservative done it. (If you missed it, just wait until you see video of Olbermann’s “special comment.”) For conservatives, it was an all-you-can-eat schadenfreude buffet after two years of hearing how the Republican Party is handicapped by its grassroots base of uncompromising extremists.
• Da Tech Guy did a total roundup of the tax-cut compromise story. There was also a press conference roundup from Professor Glenn Reynolds.
• Organizing For American, the shadow 2012 Obama campaign, released the president’s video explanation of the tax-cut compromise, FWIW.

• Danielle Crittenden decided to take up her husband’s favorite hobby, bashing Sarah Palin, during which she transposed to Palin (and Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham) a bowdlerized version of the theme of Dinesh D’Souza’s most recent book. Crittenden thus imputes to Palin the notion that Obama is “seeking vengeance against the white man on behalf of his African ancestors.”
• “Helen of Oy!” — That there’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
• Like herpes, the Julian Assange controversy just won’t go away, and I think I’m starting to see why I keep getting whacked as a pro-rape misogynist: I’ve been out of the game too long. After reading Kate Harding’s post at Salon, it becomes obvious that young folks have been indoctrinated into the Latex Cult of the Divine Condom, against which I have blasphemed. I hung up the spurs in 1989, just about the time “Thou Shalt Use Protection” became Holy Writ. By criticizing the feminist rage against Assange’s transgression of Prophylactic Gospel, therefore I became a heretic in the eyes of every woman who has ever suffered from a herpes/ chlamydia/ HPV infection after belatedly discovering that “safe sex” isn’t always safe. And I was crucified on a condom cross.
• “Special Report: STD fears sparked case against WikiLeaks boss” and “After All the Drama Over State Secrets, It’s Sex With a Radical Feminist That Screws Assange” — See what I mean? In the Age of the Hook-Up, virtue has been re-defined, so that things like courtesy, kindness and loyalty are inconsequential, in comparison to requisite obedience to the “Thou Shalt Use Protection” imperative. One imagines that, at some point in the future, members of Generation Y will be buried beneath tombstones declaring: “Josh Dettweiler, 1993-2074. Always Wore Condoms.”
• Andrew Sullivan manages to use the Assange story to take a jab at Sarah Palin. But you saw that coming, right?
• Allahpundit notes the possibility that Julian Assange will be Time magazine’s “Perpetrator Person of the Year.”
• One of my pet peeves about the MSM is the seldom-noted habit of allegedly neutral journalists of making anything Republicans do seem shady and scandalous. There is no activity so mundane or routine that it can’t be tarted up into a Blockbuster Exclusive Front-Page Scoop, as long as it involves Republicans. The latest? Newly-elected GOP congressmen are raising money in a sinister attempt to get re-elected! Quick, somebody notify the Pulitzer committee.
• Joe Fein at Valley of the Shadow catches up on his fisking of “60 Minutes,” so it’s a two-weeks-for-one deal. Be sure to hit Joe’s tip-jar while you’re over there.
• Reboot Congress blogged the Barrett Brown beatdown, while my suggestion that somebody needs to transcribe Brown’s “Project PM” video was cruelly mocked by Sam Foster at Left Coast Rebel.
• You may ask yourself, “What could possibly induce a man to dump Kim Kardashian?” The answer: Mayra Veronica.

So that’s the roundup. Please hit the tip jar, or you’ll make my children cry.