Donald Douglas’s lengthy post on the Arizona SB1070 protest really points out why we need to rely on what reputable outfits like the LA Times, NY Times, and Rachel Maddow tell us, and not the defective output of perhaps well-intentioned, but poorly equipped civilian reporters like Don.
Somebody could walk away with the mistaken impression that a bunch of KKK- and swastika-laden imagery meant a disdain for American sovereignty and personal attacks, when really all that was meant was a show of concern for healthy potassium intake by a bunch of Hindus and Budhhists.
Mr. Douglas is admonished to make a proper study of the Holy Narrative before contributing more of these unhelpful reports.
In all seriousness, there is slight merit in the media not inflaming the reports of these rallies. A tactically difficult situation could develop faster than you can say “Ron Gochez is a knob”. Strategically, the situation is even worse. Beyond the suckiness of the situation is the leadership vacuum besetting the country.
“Love thy neighbor as thyself” is not a foreign policy statement, yet we’re mis-applying that ethic in a couple of ways:
Lack of meaningful (i.e. enforced) immigration laws
Lack of attention to borders
The one picture proclaiming the right to migrate anywhere on the continent represents a notion that must be gently refuted.
Border security, like energy security, is a hard problem. The country is going to have to insist on candidates with platforms, not platitudes, to address these issues.
Or just learn to speak Spanish. It’s really not a bad language. At least the alphabet is familiar, and it’s not tonal like Far Eastern tongues. So ya got that goin’ for ya.
Faced with more and more people asking really hard questions about the second most expensive hoax in human history (what can top Marxism?) the Anthropogenic Global WarmingClimate Change community has been forced to explore new means of re-inflating the guilt-bubble:
IT’S not just for the last century that humans have been messing up the climate. It may have been going on for thousands of years.
When hunters arrived in North America and drove mammoths and other large mammals to extinction, the methane balance of the atmosphere could have changed as a result, triggering the global cool spell that followed. The large grazing animals would have produced copious amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from their digestive systems. They vanished about 13,000 years ago.
Noble Savage Myth spokesman Norbert W. Imboodaga was having none of this. In a statement delivered to this blog on a clay tablet inscribed by a stylish stylus and then baked, Imboodaga said:
Tish-tosh. Our myth dates at least to 1672, and thus has centuries of seniority. While we bear no overt animosity to the Climate Change community, and in fact support their cause to the extent of enjoying a lifestyle that makes the Amish look high-tech, we must object to the notion of man, living in a purely natural state, as somehow being outside of nature, and therefore culpable for any side effects of our existence. We live so close to Mother Nature that the Good Mother blesses all of our endeavors by definition. The Climate Change people should just Gaia way.
After delivering this clay missive, Mr. Imboodaga picked up his spear, adjusted his primitive animal-skin clothing, and vanished back into the woods to rejoin his clan.
You may remember these text messages about Nikki Haley from South Carolina GOP consultant Wes Donehue to Will Folks:
From: Wes Donehue
To: Will Folks
Sent: May 13, 2010 2:55 PM
I just don’t know who has told more people, you or Nikki.
From: Wes Donehue
To: Will Folks
Sent: May 13, 2010 5:01 PM
Here my promise to you, man to man. If you tell me that a story will f*ck up your marriage, I’ll do everything in my power to kill it.
From: Wes Donehue
To: Will Folks
Sent: May 14, 2010 10:36 AM
Now, I don’t give a f*ck [if] you believe me or not. [You’re] the one who screwed her. You’re the one who bragged about it. She’s the one who told BJ. Yall point fingers at your own damn selves and leave me the f*ck out of it.
From: Wes Donehue
To: Will Folks
Sent: May 14, 2010 11:50 AM
I’m going to try to kill it. You need to get BJ to back down. Nothing good will come of this getting out. I’ve already helped bust up one family. No need to take down another one.
From: Wes Donehue
To: Will Folks
Sent: May 14, 2010 12:28 PM
I didn’t start this. I just told too many people that it was happening.
OK, so Donehue said he would do what he could to kill the story, but wanted to be left out of it. And as he he says in this video (beginning at 0:42), Donehue “was drug into something I don’t want to be drug into.”
Donehue has been consistent: He wanted no part of this story. So why would Will Folks attempt to portray Donehue as an “instigator”? We don’t know. Perhaps he was attempting to draw as many people as possible into his personal melodrama.
However, so that you might assess Donehue’s personality and character, here is the latest episode of the South Carolina online video program, “Pub Politics,” which Donehue co-hosts:
[A]pparently a little less than a year ago, Folks got himself all worked up in a lather thinking that we were going to break the story that’s consuming so many people these days. But we weren’t. Never were. Never even considered it. Whole thing kind of caught us off-guard at the time.
After all, the blogger kiddo of S.C. politics has been doing everything short of going to the corner of Gervais and Main to wear a sandwich board to get the dumber people interested in state politics to pay attention to his bullsh*t. . . .
And, let’s not forget that it looks like the anti-social whinerhas pissed off one of his last backers, the S.C. Policy Council, a so-called “non-partisan” (yeah, whatever) group chaired by Rick Quinn. The second that started falling apart, the child started ripping Quinn’s boy’s site, The Palmetto Scoop . . .
If Folks was any more needy, he’d be the kitty from Thundercats, sending up a signal to call Lion-O back home. So, by all means, please justify this a**hole’s existence! Otherwise he might go back to fatty coffee beverages and fried chicken!
So Folks is an “anti-social whiner,” and in April 2010 had lost “one of his last backers.” In addition to his low opinion of Will Folks, Wolfe expressed contempt for Folks’ patron, Gov. Mark Sanford and Sanford’s protege, Haley:
Will Folks is a world-class wuss. Coward. Dipsh*t. He hides behind his high-priced attorneys and the imbeciles who give him information, and acts like he’s hot sh*t. That’s most likely why another world-class coward and dipsh*t, Mark Sanford, hired this idiot to begin with. Also likely why his joke of a protégé, Rep. Nikki Haley, did the same.
In the same post, Wolfe says he believes the rumor of a Haley-Folks affair, but understands Haley’s denial:
Why Haley is lying isn’t a surprise. If you f—-d that bald ugly fool, whether you’re married with children or not, would you want the world knowing about it? Doubtful.
Ah, if — the most powerful little word in the English language. But there is nothing tentative, hypothetical or equivocal in Wolfe’s assessment of Will Folks. See Rule 6.
Stunned by his ‘unexpected’ performance as a pitcher, major league baseball batters have taken up the challenge of assuming a more contemplative, thoughtful style while facing men on the mound.
This has resulted in the second perfect game of the season, this one going to Roy Halladay of the Phillies.
Batters are pleased at the increase in nuance at the plate. Jimbo Toraborawycyz of the Washington Nationals: “We’re parsing these pitches with more style than ever.” To fans who crave something with a little more substance, JT said “We credit Barack Obama with curbing the scourge of substance abuse in Major League Baseball. The de-emphasis on tired old ideas like ‘winning’ and ‘losing’ has helped us re-organize our emphasis along cooperative, harmonious lines to ensure positive end-states for all participants, regardless of race, color or creed.”
Rule 5 Sunday salutes Gary Coleman and Dennis Hopper. May the Almighty rest their souls. Memorial Day is the other substantial occasion before us. The liberals are particularly amusing at times like this, as they pause from hating America to admiring actual courage to put action behind love of liberty. After the holiday, they can return to their typical America-hating, hating themselves and the country afresh for having paused in their hatred briefly to admire full, robust, mature American courage of a sort they cannot emulate, and must therefore hate.
But Rule 5 is about anything but hate.
TrogloPundit that even being pretty like Danica doesn’t make an Obama Blame Shift work well. Perverse incentives have drawn out Chinese hotties for protests, he notes. Some sort of weird Wisconsin religious ritual here.
The Daley Gator has featured an impressive top 25 countdown of lovelies:
Mark in Spokane has a lovely bit of Bach to lift the spirit.
Gateway Pundit pointed to his sporty niece and beach volleyball. And also the moon of Venus. Most sadly for the causes of free speech and Rule 5, KrisAnne Hall was fired.
American Power was inspired and joined in the Sela Ward revival.
I consider David Weigel a friend, and have often praised him as one of the best young reporters in Washington. But Weigel’s “See-No-Evil” attitude toward Joe McGinniss, who moved in next door to the Palin family to work on his anti-Palin book, seems absurdly naive.
While you can’t fault a journalist for associating with potential sources, a commenter in a previous post called my attention to something strange — perhaps the better word would be “skeezy” or “hinky” — about Joe McGinniss.
Well, guess what? Joe McGinnis is a “huge fan” of Jesse Griffin, as confirmed by none other than . . . Jesse Griffin:
I found the table that our host Phil Munger had reserved for us and sat down with some of his other guests, who I did not know, but who turned out to be fans of both IM and Mudflats. (Oh did I mention that AKM was with me?)
Soon I was introduced to author Joe McGinniss, who is up here researching HIS Sarah Palin book, and who also turned out to be a huge fan of both AKM’s and I. (I swear I will NEVER get used to hearing that.)
— Jesse Griffin, a/k/a “Gryphen,” October 3, 2009
In case you didn’t get the reference, “IM” is Jesse’s “Immoral Minority” blog where he described his ironclad certainty that Sarah Palin’s fifth child “was not conceived in her uterus,” declared how much fun it is to “wank off” to amateur porn, advised youngsters that “your penis will respond more readily” if you practice by “watching porn on your computer.” and told the world that “it brings me joy to work with these children.”
You betcha!
When this porn-blogging Trig-Truther obsessive Palin-hater was forced to resign from Trailside Elementary School in Anchorage in August 2009, it wasn’t exactly a secret. so why — two months later, in October 2009 — was Joe McGinniss raving about being a “huge fan” of Jesse Griffin’s Immoral Minority blog? Why is McGinniss laughing it up with Griffin at the “celebrity table” all night?
And why doesn’t it bother Dave Weigel that McGinniss is such a “huge fan” of a vile joke like Jesse Griffin and the obnoxious gadfly “AKM” (Jeanne Devon)?
Patterico has the play by play of the confiscation of O’Keefe’s phone within the office of Sen. Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu, the “destruction” of that footage by U.S. Magistrate Daniel Knowles III, and the return of the phone to O’Keefe.
The key piece of evidence is supposed to be that
One of Senator Landrieu’s staff members (WITNESS 1) told BASEL and FLANAGAN that she did not report any phone problems and that the office was not experiencing any issues with the phone system.
Yeah, that could make the O’Keefe-as-Watergate campaign look as credible as the Asher Doctrine.
The exciting news is that O’Keefe was able to email the video off of the phone before the confiscation and subsequent deletion from the hardware. Our team of over-caffeinated lab forensics propeller-heads, working at an undisclosed location, have confirmed the following Big Scoop:
In the background of the video is a hardly recognizable Bill Clinton, with a rather interesting bit transcribed here:
Bill: I was able to shake Hillary’s goons for about 5 minutes. Prostate problems suck, but make for believable getaways sometimes.
[…] Bill: OK, I’ll make this fast. Top Ramen, if you know who I mean, heh, wants to figure out if you’re interested in, now, listen carefully, a Senior Executive Council National Advisory Volunteer position. Repeat that back to me and write it down for further research. I want to make sure you got it. Heh. Yeah. Don’t worry about salary. Seriously. We went to a lot of trouble to recruit Snarlin’ Arlen for our team. So it would be quite a stain on the dress if you were to, you know, sink his battleship in the primary. Hahahaha.
[…] Bill: Look, I’m no fan of Specter, either. But you gotta realize, he’s an old hand and a certified Bad Mike Foxtrot, as you military guys say. When I was President, I told Arlen to lay by his dish, but I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you I kept an eye on him.
[…] Bill: I gotta go. There’s this goofy kid with a big nose causing a ruckus. You take care, Joe. You always were Hillary’s and my favorite Admiral.
We’ll post the whole thing just as soon as it’s released by O’Keefe’s email recipient. . .Will Folks. Oh, balls: never mind.
