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JOB DECLINED
A rare example of sound judgment from lefty blogger Lindsay Beyerstein:
I was offered a job blogging for John Edwards, but I declined.
Good for her. Although, considering Lindsay’s record, Edwards may have dodged the larger bullet. Via Jim Treacher; Mark Steyn has further blogger-related thoughts.
UPDATE. Perhaps Edwards could hire the forensic experts responsible for this:
(Via Raffi)
Rebecca’s comment is apt. I tracked back to this person’s site. She repeatedly states open disdain for religion, and the religious. She then notes that there are leftist religious figures and congregations. I think that this is to demonstate that they have some degree of tolerance. Oh joy.
I’m reminded of Howard Dean’s complaint in 2004 that he wanted to make inroads in the South, but that they wouldn’t talk about the subjects he wanted to discuss.
And of course, it the ‘theocrats’ who were perceived as being obstinate.
Increasingly, I’m getting the impression that we’re a rise in the spurious notion of the ‘good religionists’ versus the bad religionists’. Bad religionists espouse reactionary, anti-woman, anti-gay vitriol. In short, they impose themselves upon others, whether they be co-religionists or atheists. Good religionsists never do so… Actually, they do, but only to protect the environment, increase the welfare state, reduce victim’s rights and facilitate illegal immigration. Somehow, that’s good.
Love that photo. It perpetuates at least three myths:
1. The Plastic Turkey™.
2. Bush went AWOL.
3. Bush is evil (“contrived smile”).
And it adds ANOTHER myth: That 2003 visit to Iraq was a surprise.
Jeez, the in-breeding required to produced this level of tripe should have taken generations…..it’s as if the lefties are reproducing like bacteria.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 26 at 12:16 PM • permalinkAnd why should John Edwards have to tie his own shoes?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 26 at 01:34 PM • permalinkCan we assume that this blinkered Lindsay fool also believes that Bill Burkett’s clumsy “Killian Memos” are genuine?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 02 26 at 02:58 PM • permalink#11 Hucbald, never underestimate the ability of the military industrial complex to produce a remarkable fake turkey. I’m told the technology is so good it even tastes like turkey.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 02 26 at 04:51 PM • permalinkSo that’s what, 0 for 3?
0 for 4—the trip was a surprise. Bush and Rice snuck out of his ranch with no press announcement.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 02 26 at 07:55 PM • permalink#18 Right on, Rob. And the media were screaming at the time that they all should have been told ahead of time and been allowed to publicise it beforehand!
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 26 at 07:58 PM • permalinkGawd some of those links are awful.
I went to one that purported to prove a “Bush lie”, since I had never seen one successfully documented. It made no sense whatsoever.
Then there is this from Beyerstein:
What Bob didn’t seem to realize is that the right-wing blogosphere was going to try to get Edwards’ bloggers fired no matter what. Unlike the liberal netroots, the right-wing blogosphere is capable of exactly one kind of collective political action. They call it “scalping”—they pick a target and harass that person and his or her employer until the person either jumps or is pushed out of the public eye.
WTF is “scalping”? It sounds like more leftie projection to me, since shutting people up is more of a “liberal” desire. See prosecution of Rush Limbaugh, attempts to revive the “fairness doctrine”, etc.
OK, I just googled around and the only references to “scalping” in the sense described by the moonbat were from leftie blogs.
Apparently, pointing out that Rather’s documents were laughably poor forgeries was an organized action, rather than a collection of independent thinkers seeing the same evidence, applying logic, and comeing to the same conclusion.
I think the left really believes one of two things, that we really are as stupid as they constantly say we are, and that they could get away with a forgery like that. Alternatively, the may actually believe that the Rather ‘documents’ were real.
What they can’t seem to believe is that we were independently and individually outraged at the obvious forgery and called them on it. And that a ‘journalist’ who acts as a political operative, or is just plain stupid, shouldn’t be running a network newcast.
Rob Crawford wrote:
0 for 4—the trip was a surprise. Bush and Rice snuck out of his ranch with no press announcement.
Wasn’t there some wailing and gnashing of teeth by reporters because they weren’t told about it beforehand?
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2007 02 26 at 09:01 PM • permalinkIt’s been three eyars now and they still haven’t got over it.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 26 at 09:48 PM • permalinkBetter yet they could have told their Al Qaeda buddies—oops, I mean “sources”—where the president was going and therefore get him killed. Hell hath no fury like that of assassins-by-proxy scorned.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 26 at 10:59 PM • permalinkOddly enough, Majikthise is one of the plastic TANG document believers as well.
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2004/09/the_epistemolog.html
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2004/09/cowering_before.htmlSheesh. Anyone who’s published something should know about the vagaries of digital type and should have known the documents were BS from the get-go.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2007 02 26 at 11:11 PM • permalinkMyths are hard to kill, it seems. Especially when people want to believe them.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 27 at 12:15 AM • permalink#32 Ernst Blofeld
Sheesh. Anyone who’s published something should know about the vagaries of digital type and should have known the documents were BS from the get-go.
The biggest problem with the plastic TANG memo believers is that they are asserting that modern word processing software is intended to mimic a typewriter, rather than a typesetter. They are apparently too young to have ever seen an actual typewritten document in person, so Burkett’s phony “Killian Memos” look genuine enough to them, especially since they echo their own prejudices.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 02 27 at 01:53 AM • permalinkOT, but what the fuck. Over at On Line Opinion there is an article written by bloated windbag Irfan Yusuf:
Misreported, misconstrued, mistranslated, misunderstood…..“One can’t help but to compare the barrage of abuse faced by the Sheik Taj Al-Din Hilali (perhaps deservedly) with the indifference to Professor Raphael Israeli’s offensive remarks…..”—the usual Muslim taqiyya, whining and seething.
Anyway some of the commenters started to give him a hard time and .... well, he went crazy.
Some examples:
...It’s amazing just how much some of you hate your fellow Australians. I simply cannot find any Judeo-Christian ethic which could justify this degree of venom.
I guess it is because many of you simply don’t get to meet many Muslims. Or some of you have had bad relationships with Muslims. I know that neo-Con writers like Mark Steyn and Ann Coulter often refer to their former Muslim partners who ended up dumping them. I guess the pain must cut really deep.
Regardless of what I say or write, there will be some people here who will want to see me and anyone else deemed Muslim thrown out of Australia, if not killed. They are people whose information about me and what I believe comes from the most hostile sources. They could just as easily ask me what I believe, but that would require them getting out of their comfort zone. And it would require them using brain cells they may not have.
I know there are many people in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere who hate Christians. I guess if I saw much of my family obliterated by a bomb dropped by a President who sends his troops to war after praying with Rev Franklin Graham, I would also hate Christians.
.....what do you make of Danny Nalliah’s call for Christians to tear down Buddhist, Hindu and Masonic temples using Biblical references? What about the Dutch Reformed Church’s support of apartheid using Biblical references? Or how about the widespread support for slavery among Protestant churches hardly 150 years ago using Biblical references?
What can I say? The dogs bark. The caravan keeps moving right along.
.....why my taxes should continue to be used to pay this armchair nazi’s Centrelink benefits…...
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Why any campaign would hire a blogger amazes me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take someone’s money, but to me it’s analogous to why would a guy who gets the hot girl to shack up with him ever propose marriage; you get all the benefits with none of the strings attached.