TOBY PETZOLD

I’m starting to catch a strong whiff of anti-Hillaryism wafting up from the Democratic camp. Thanks to the Ace of Spades, go read this report:

WASHINGTON — A prominent feminist, allied with the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards, accused Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday of “disingenuously playing the victim card” by infusing her campaign with messages about gender.

“When unchallenged, in a comfortable, controlled situation, Sen. Clinton embraces her political elevation into the ‘boys club,’ ” Kate Michelman, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, wrote in a posting on a blog of the liberal group Open Left.

“But when she’s challenged, when legitimate questions are asked, questions she should be prepared to answer and discuss, she is just as quick to raise the white flag and look for a change in the rules,” Michelman said. “It’s trying to have it both ways.”

Don’t think too much of it, though, girls; Kate Michelman must be a complete dumbass to associate herself with John Edwards’ candidacy.

Still, I am surprised at how quickly Hillary’s gone to the defenseless girl card. It may sometimes be necessary for her to remind America that she’s female, but doing this so soon after the first blood is unseemly. I also saw Bill trying to revise and extend her remarks from the Drexel Debate the day after and it really put me off. That’s not a good sign at all.

Biden just coronated Giuliani the GOP frontrunner.

Just before that, he took a large, steaming dump on him.

Biden wins the Soundbite of the Evening Award.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever read him do it before, but John Hinderaker goes PG on the filthy hippies:

It is the luxury of knowing they are bullshitting that allows American liberals to claim that their freedoms are going up in smoke and that dissent is being suppressed, when in fact, “dissent” is socially mandated in polite society from Manhattan to Marin County.

I would add this parallel: any survey of Europeans you look at will say that they think the United States is the biggest danger to world peace, worse than North Korea or the Islamofascists. But they don’t mean it. If they did, they would be clamoring for their own countries to re-arm. But the very people who claim to believe that the U.S. is bent on world domination are the same ones who don’t want their own governments to spend a dollar on defense. They are entirely content to let us keep the peace. Which means that what they tell pollsters about threats to world peace, like what liberals say about threats to their civil liberties, is, to put it politely, disingenuous.

Ha, ha. Bullshitting. But it’s true: if these degenerates really did believe that we’re living through the Fourth Reich, the vast majority of them wouldn’t have the nerve to speak as they now do. I know that for a stone fact.

Glenn Reynolds links to a blog entry by a reporter named Bobby Calvan who’s currently in Iraq writing for the McClatchy Newspaper people. In his blog post, Calvan describes a recent experience he had at a checkpoint trying to get back into the Green Zone in Baghdad —but he comes off so incredibly arrogant that he is either the most gifted parodist I’ve read all year or the dumbest libtard stumpfuck to ever write from a war zone:

The American soldier assigned by the U.S. military to oversee this particular checkpoint came over to investigate the problem.

He asked if I had a driver’s license on me. I told him I didn’t have one. He looked incredulous. Why would I need a driver’s license in Baghdad; I wouldn’t be driving, I told him.

He took offense at my response.

Then he looked at the second ID of my companion. It was a badge issued by our newspaper. He said it wouldn’t do. Besides, he asked, what is Knight Ridder?

“I never heard of it,” he said. He probably would have never heard of McClatchy, either. (We use Knight Ridder because it already had a bureau in Baghdad before the chain was bought by the McClatchy Co.)

The funniest part, though, is the comment thread. This poor bastard just gets eviscerated. I was actually in tears I was laughing so hard as the hyperbole and righteous anger just piled up.

UPDATE: Oh, okay. Now Calvan’s cut the end of his post off and is waving the white flag. Too late, hippie: we done got you in the cache. Ha, ha! Go read the comments, anyway. They are a work of art. Like the dude from the Hell’s Angels in Gimme Shelter explaining why he and his boys had to beat the shit out of the people for messing with their bikes at Altamont.

Y’know, Dr. Black, you wouldn’t have to ban me if you just had a better grade of groupie. Ones that don’t feed off of each other in a pathetic cycle of consumption and regurgitation of hatred for The Other. But these clowns? Their purpose is to confirm to anyone who happens by your site that the state of mindless rejectionism and anti-Americanism among the Left today is fully pathological. Dissent in your little opium den? Not a chance. There’s not a half-dozen legitimate thinkers among you.

See you next Wednesday.

So they’ve arrested good old O.J. Simpson again, eh? Oh, brother!

You know, the last time this happened, things got very bleak for the Democrats in Congress. They lost both houses as the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy finally took shape, giving us twelve years of the Fourth Reich.

Could it happen again?

Possibly. If the Big Media craphounds get too involved in covering the wretched bastard’s final descent into oblivion, they’ll forget to use their influence in continuing to sicken the American People on defeatism, ignorance, and anti-Bushery.

Man. I’ll bet Throaty McHuskington is just about moist again.

In the January 2004 issue of Vanity Fair:

In early May, Wilson and Plame attended a conference sponsored by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, at which Wilson spoke about Iraq; one of the other panelists was the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof. Over breakfast the next morning with Kristof and his wife, Wilson told about his trip to Niger and said Kristof could write about it, but not name him.

That’s because Wilson was putting a down payment on a piece of real estate in the same neighborhood of the paper where Kristof himself opines.

And it was one mullet of a deal: business up front and a party in the back.

Were Plame’s disclosures to Kristof on that morning in May 2003 authorized by her employer? If it was left to George Tenet —who’s a miserable bastard— then, yeah, probably.

I don’t think much of polls because I don’t think they should be used as a means of governing. That may be an undemocratic take on the vox populi —but it’s the properly republican one. People who don’t know what they’re voting for or who have no discernible rationale for believing as they do (i.e., knowing what the fuck they’re talking about) should neither go to the polls nor take any.

Nevertheless, let me savor this pole, as it were. According to Scott Rasmussen:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now viewed favorably by 19% of American voters and unfavorably by 45%. Just 3% have a Very Favorable opinion while 22% hold a Very Unfavorable views.

Reid has been very visible over the past week in the furor over immigration reform. The effort to pass a bill that was more popular in Congress than among voters may have hurt public perceptions of the Democratic leader. His ratings are down from a month ago when 26% had a favorable opinion of the Democratic Senator. Reid’s highest ratings were 30% favorable in February.

Ha, ha! But you know what’s even worse?

Vice President Dick Cheney’s numbers held steady—38% favorable and 58% unfavorable.

Wha-?! Dick Cheney’s more popular than Reid? WTF?!

And now for the unkindest cut of all. Scooter Libby:

is now viewed favorably by just 19% of Americans, unfavorably by 57%.

Are you serious?! After outing Valerie Plame in a crazy bid for the Treason Hall of Fame, Scooter Libby is just as popular as the Democratic Majority Leader of the United States Senate?

Ha, ha, ha. That shit is beyond parody.

Thanks to the equally indispensable Charles Johnson, have a listen to our former ambassador to the United Nations (at this link at Little Green Footballs).

It is nine or so minutes of John Bolton utterly, unambiguously, and remorselessly kicking the ass of some neo-hippie BBC Radio reporter. Bolton is almost literary in his succinction.

You cannot miss this.

I’m enjoying this chat that Bill Moyers is having with Phil Donahue and Dan Rather and other patriotic types on my local PBS station. It’s positively lunatic.

Moyers puts it to Donahue, for instance, that Donahue’s MSNBC show was cancelled 42 days before the War for Iraq began. Coincidence, Mandrake? They think not.

Donahue’s show, as I recall, was as pansy-assed as this fucking crap that Moyers is allowed, by the grace of us taxpaying proles, to beam into my home. Maybe that’s why it got cancelled: because Americans don’t want to be told that they are wrong for believing in their country and its power to change humanity for the better. Most Americans don’t like empty cynicism and blinkered prejudice.

So, like the good consumers and customers that they are —and like I am— they simply walked away from Donahue’s commie-symp lib-shit and it vanished.

Big deal. Donahue’s one of the worst exploiters of degenerate filth in the past 30 years of television. Let him stew with Rather and the other discredited commie idiots in their conspiracist nonsense.