Andy McCarthy…. Ay Yi Yi!
Andy McCarthy discovers evidence of Barack Obama’s radical past:
During the campaign, I wrote a piece called “Why Won’t Obama Talk About Columbia? — The years he won’t discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about.” So now, nearly six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit of the candidate background reporting it declined to do during the campaign — other than in Wasilla — and whaddya know? The New York Times unearthed a 1983 article called, “Breaking the War Mentality,” that Columbia student Barack Obama wrote for a campus newspaper. The article shows that Obama dreaded American “militarism” and its “military-industrial interests,” while effusing enthusiasm for the dangerously delusional nuclear-freeze movement.
Moreover, while indicating a preference for the political wisdom of reggae singer Peter Tosh over Ronald Reagan or Scoop Jackson, Obama bewailed the “narrow focus” of anti-militarism activists, worrying that they were targeting the “symptoms” rather than the real “disease,” namely, America’s underlying economic and political injustice[.]
Well, I don’t know…. Words like “war mentality,” “economic and political injustice,” “the military-industrial complex” … even “Peter Tosh,” don’t send me diving under the bed — but maybe I just have steelier nerves than Andy.
Happy Birthday To Me (Oh Yes, and to the USA, Too!)
Born on the 4th of July:
If Obama Has Lost Ted Rall…
That’s how Robert Stacy McCain titles his post about Ted Rall’s bizarre article today declaring that Pres. Obama should resign (links to both Rall and McCain are at Memeorandum).
The finish of McCain’s title is too stupid to repeat, so I’ll just give it the correct finish here:
If Obama has lost Ted Rall, he hasn’t lost anything at all.
I agree with James Joyner on this one: Rall is “eminently quotable, if in a train wreck sort of way, but constantly pointing out that some commentators are crazy attention whores really doesn’t advance the debate much.”
Getting Down to Basic Truths
Gawker, that rock-solid investigative reporting site (just check out the article teasers at the top if you doubt their reportorial chops), puts up an article saying that Erich “Mancow” Muller faked his waterboarding. It wasn’t a “hoax,” exactly, according to Gawker’s informed sources — it was meant to “look real” but actually was only “simulated.” Mancow, in short, was not really drowning — it was a staged waterboarding, not an actual one. No, really. It’s true. It was fake. So just don’t anyone put down investigative journalists while I’m around, cuz man, how else would we find out about the lies we’re being told if dedicated seekers of truth like The Cajun Boy were not willing to work so hard to dig out the truth?
Althouse and Her Meade
There’s actually an article today in the New York Times about this.
Consider the erotic potential between blogger and commenters.
The blogger is boss, a salon host with wit and whip. Certainly a blogger thrives on commenters — who wants to declaim to an empty e-room? But let’s be clear: blogger, sovereign; commenters, courtiers.
That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.
Reader, she is going to marry him.
Ann Althouse, 58, is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison who blogs about politics, law and cultural whatnots in a sharp, occasionally ribald tone. She admires Rush Limbaugh, voted for George Bush in ’04 and Barack Obama in ’08. She attracts derision and applause from 500,000 monthly visitors.
The jeers spiked ever since the March 22 announcement on her blog that this divorced mother of two adult sons, stalwartly single for more than 20 years, is engaged to a commenter known simply as “Meade.” Except for her closest readers, the blogosphere was taken by surprise.
Well, I’m happy for her, even though I don’t think she’s as smart as she (and Meade) thinks she is. I’m happy for anyone who finds true love.
And besides, she and I are the same age. Maybe there’s still hope.
And now for something completely different
Much of the news lately has been terrible, and it’s all we’ve discussed. So a mental break of audio awesomeness is in order. I just sent this email to some friends and, well, since I’m too lazy to rewrite it into a post, I’ll copy and paste the email. Follow the instructions, you’ll get the jist.
Things You Can Learn on a Slow News Day
For one thing, you can learn why it’s important for a woman to have sex with her husband even when “she’s not in the mood“:
Cindy McCain on SNL
I just spotted this item in New York Magazine’s Daily Intel section, about John McCain’s appearance on SNL (my bolds):
Then, of course, Sarah Palin was mercilessly lampooned on Saturday Night Live (once again by Tina Fey) during John McCain’s appearance on the sketch show. If you haven’t reviewed either recording, you must click through the links below. They’re both priceless. And we’re sure you’ll agree with us that while Palin (and in a sense, McCain) wasn’t helped by any of it, one person on their team definitely was: In six short seconds, Cindy McCain’s star turn as a jewelry demonstrator on SNL made up for two entire years of nervous humorlessness on the national stage.
I saw her, and as much as she creeps me out in general, they are absolutely right about those six seconds. She was perfect.
Joe McCain Calls 911 To Complain About Traffic
John McCain’s brother must think he’s better than everyone else.
Round the Bend at The Corner, Part 2
Andy McCarthy has read Jack Cashill’s thoroughly incoherent but undeniably hilarious article in American Clinker Thinker which asks the question, “Who wrote Dreams From My Father?” and — being Andy McCarthy — he is alarmed:
Okay, What’s the Real Story Here?
Does it seem to you that Michael Ware is a little… distracted?
Before and After – GOP Pundit Edition
Someone should really tell the GOP that being a two-faced flip-flopper is a skill that stopped being useful, oh, right around the time of Youtube.
But then again, maybe not. Things are more humorous this way.
*h/t to Dave
Paris Hilton Strikes Back
This is hilarious.
George Carlin Is Dead
And that’s how he would have wanted us to say it.
Dark Humor and Talking Points
Why bother coming up with canned “liberal talking points” when the GOP’s been so successful at giving us so many? And the best part, all we have to do is repeat the GOP bottom-line. It’s almost not fair…
h/t: Queen of Spain
Get Off My Lawn (Episode 26): The Freudian
Recent developments in the presidential election have taken a potentially catastrophic turn. In a move that shows confidence that McCain feels he can do well without the considerable beer drinker’s vote in this country, the Republican candidate has vowed that he will start vetoing beer.
It’s a bold move that may attract “wine track” voters, but would do so at the cost of the wide swath of those voters (like myself) who prefer beer.
Religulous
While I might think Bill Maher’s views on “alternative” medicine and pharmaceuticals are, to be nice, down right insane his new movie, Religulous, might just spark a couple of interesting conversations when it finally comes out.
I will, of course, do my part to prod them on and laugh the whole way. 
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