"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
by Smitty
Thaddeus McCotter is heroic. He starts off with an “simple country lawyer” reference, going back to Anatomy of a Murder, and continues through a rousing speech with punchline sufficiently arid for Steven Wright.
Thaddeus McCotter: because not all rhetoric has to be served in ALL CAPS with a shot of adrenaline.
Update: Moelanche!
This is hilarious. Potential Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is gayer than the first three rows at an Indigo Girls concert, and yet the White House acts all outraged that conservative writer Ben Domenech incorrectly described the unmarried 49-year-old as “openly gay.”
Kagan is not officially so open about it, and this gives the White House a chance to pretend that Domenech is part of a right-wing homophobic whisper campaign. In the process, as Moe Lane notes, the White House reacted “in a manner that explicitly and authoritatively denies that Ms. Kagan is gay” — a denial that thereby makes it legitimate news if, in fact, Kagan is gayer than your average NCAA Division I varsity women’s softball team.
Allahpundit figures all the angles, but I personally doubt Obama will pick Kagan for the Stevens slot. I expect him to do the smart thing, which is to promote an appeals-court judge.
UPDATE: Omri at Mere Rhetoric:
Did the WH not get the memo that Kagan’s not only a lesbian, but that she’s not really concerned about who knows it? Two days ago it would have been totally unremarkable if she walked out of a Georgetown or Cambridge restaurant holding her girlfriend’s hand. Now it would be a national event.
Because the Obama administration decided to make Kagan’s sexual orientation a capital-t Thing, she’s now in a position where either it looks like she’s hiding her homosexuality to advance her judicial career or – if she acknowledges she’s a lesbian – it looks like she’s being chased out of the closet.
The point is, it wasn’t hateful homophobic wingnut Ben Domenech who “outed” Kagan, it was her gay-friendly liberal friends. But because the White House is in the habit of automatically attacking conservatives as hateful homophobic wingnuts, Domenech’s description of Kagan as “openly gay” pushed the red-alert button at Obama spin HQ, which then automatically denied Kagan’s lesbianism as if it weren’t already a widely known fact.
Hope and Change and Irony. Lots and lots of irony.
UPDATE II: Dan Riehl notices that Kagan slightly resembles Bob Costas. NTTAWWT.
Allahpundit notes that New Orleans police have denied telling blogger Pat Dollard that they suspect a political motive in the brutal April 9 beating of Alexandra “Allee” Bautsch and her boyfriend, Joseph Brown, after they left a fundraiser for Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal. Michelle Malkin says:
It doesn’t help to insist on making this a partisan cause celebre and reducing the victims to political pawns when the evidence remains murky — and especially when one of the victims himself heard no politically-motivated taunts.
OK, I don’t want to make it a partisan cause celebre, but I’ll be very interested in seeing who (if anyone) gets arrested for this crime. Bautsch, who works for Jindal, had her leg broken and Brown suffered a broken nose and broken jaw.
The fundraiser they had attended had drawn a crowd of anti-GOP protesters. According to the police report, the man who beat Brown was a “white male, late 20s” with a ponytail. And the crime itself was rather bizarre: The couple walked out of the French Quarter restaurant where the fundraiser was held, and were evidently pursued by a group of people shouting things like “little blonde bitch,” “f—ing faggot,” etc., before the attack occurred.
So if there was no political motive for the attack, what other possible motive could there be? There was no robbery or sexual assault. Under what imaginable circumstance would this couple have been randomly targeted for such abusive treatment?
Crazy things happen in New Orleans all the time, but when two Republicans leave a GOP fundraising event that has been targeted by protesters, when they are followed down the street and then attacked a few blocks away– well, kind of a strange coincidence, isn’t it?
Just askin’ questions . . .
by Smitty
Fishersville Mike suggests we honor of Da Tech Guy, whose irrepressible enthusiasm found him making a rather unplanned conquest of the South. He hasn’t yet blogged about the response from Da Tech Wife, but the fact he’s still capable of blogging is, itself, encouraging.
How Stacy managed to drive ~1,500 miles round trip and still have anything left for Smittypalooza and the Tax Day Tea Parties (we hit two, trying to be like Donald Douglas) I’m not really sure. Stacy did get rather testy when, at the secret headquarters, I pointed out that configuring Barbara Espinosa with TweetDeck would put Barbara ahead of Stacy on the technical competence curve. Because you can’t have being a knuckle-dragging Luddite as part of your shtick without suffering frequent, public abuse.
Da Tech Guy And The Travelling Fedora Show
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by Smitty (via Vanderleun)
Here is a designer product that you wear when you want to go around scandalously clad while selectively hiding something, in this case, gluteal cleavage.
One is torn between the desire to applaud the capitalism at work and the need to point out that, over time, modesty itself is the most powerful attractant women can wield. I’m not sure whether that works for men. If so, Stacy is fortunate to be off the market. 😉
by Smitty
Gateway Pundit reports on the arrest of 25 SEIU demonstrators at a single event, as opposed to 0 people at Tea Party protests which numberd. . .a lot.
One sees that this is all really a double-secret head fake. If SEIU can just lure the Tea Parties into a game of one-upsmanship, then the Tea Parties themselves, striving to out-do SEIU, will magically all get arrested.
Tea Partiers can then all be tossed into big rolling cages drawn by unicorns. They can be carted through the city streets as an example to all of the decent, non-bitter Klingon population. All should know that the First Amendment, like the rest of the Constitution, is only to be mentioned when accusing Conservatives of hypocrisy.
What a great plan. I don’t know if there is anything on tap for Memorial Day. Certainly the Tea Party will muster for July 4th pretty much everywhere. Do link and tweet this post so that everyone is on guard. Don’t let those zany SEIU dudes head fake you into singing the Jailhouse Rock:
by Smitty
Previously in this blog, in the “Joan Walsh: The Smoker She Drinks, The Player She Gets” episode, we explored Joan’s ludicrous assertion of earlier, pre-racial epithet video from March 20th at the Capitol Building being used in place of some hypothetical footage that would substantiate the false claims. Walsh:
As a friend notes, “It’s like running video of the Twin Towers on 9/10 to prove 9/11 didn’t happen.”
I caught the retiring, unassuming and altogether mellow Mr. Breitbart just after he had finished electrifying the crowd at the Washington Monument, and queried him concerning Ms. Walsh and Salon:Unofficial money quote transcript:
The point of showing that sequence is to show the tenor of the tea party crowd. They were boisterous. They were upset. And they were saying ‘Kill the bill, kill the bill, kill the bill’. And [the media] impugned the entire Tea Party movement. And that video shows you , as best as one could possibly show, that the narrative constructed falsely by the press, and its aiders and abettors in the shit new media like Salon, is that they wanted to be part of the team that impugned the Tea Party movement and toxified it in perpetuity as racist. And. They. Failed.
Upset? Rather. I was there, sporting my USS Constitution ballcap, albeit not present near the alleged incident:
Follow the link for the full shot with the crowd and Capitol Building in the background. As with the other half a dozen Tea Party events I’ve attended, it was a congenial, patriotic affair, deeply suspicious of the current Congress/Administration sort of affair.
The punchline to Walsh’s beclownment is that, when questioned in an old-school journalistic fashion, the so-called witnesses are walking back their stories.
by Smitty
. . .in a ‘Say hello to my YouTube bulldozer‘ sort of way:
BHO’s support continues to be lackluster. When the remaining 40+% who are his chief supporters realize he views them more as his corpse constituency than his core constituency, then he will probably set the all-time floor for approval, getting his limbo on under Harry Truman.
This blog is amused at the gagging brought on by the previous imagery, and feels, like the POTUS, that this blog should be thanked. And linked. Profusely. In the name of applied ingratitude.