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Would you for Christ’s sake retire?
Does anyone else think this used-up old woman is a disgrace (if it’s possible for them to be any more disgraced than they are) to the Fourth Estate?
Ari Fleischer is a saint for putting up with her “get Bush at all costs” attitude. This press briefing today was a case in point. She asked if the White House had seen a Congressional intelligence committee report that apparently bashes current administrations figures pretty hard. Ari just smiled and said, “We haven’t seen that yet.” She pressed on, asking about how they felt about what it said. Ari said, “Have you read it?” She said no. Ari said something to the effect of, if you haven’t read it, how do you know what it says? She said she had sources who said that it said blah blah blah. Ari pretty much gave up on her then and moved on to the next question.
And I said, good for Ari. The President ought to have the Press Office declare Helen Thomas persona non grata and revoke her White House press credentials. Of course he probably figures she’ll just die of a conniption fit one of these days when Ari smiles and diplomatically tells her to go to hell, which might be a quicker way to get rid of her (and much easier on him in the press).
Hmm. I didn’t know this; I thought Helen retired, I mean, really retired, and then came back after Gore lost because she wanted to be a thorn in Bush’s side. Apparently she quit — really quit — when UPI was bought by the parent company of the Good Times in May 2002; I assume she didn’t want to work for conservative management (who probably would have eased her out anyway).
The interesting thing is that she was perfectly willing to shill, er, report for UPI when it was owned by Saudis:

UPI’s sale was the latest in a series of changes of ownership of the wire service.
The company was sold to News World Communications Inc. by Worldwide News Inc., a consortium of Saudi Arabian investors that had bought it in 1992 for about $4 million.

(News World Communications Inc. is the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s consortium that also owns the Washington Times.) Isn’t that interesting. She’ll work for terror-mongering Saudis but not for right-leaning Americans. And now she works for Hearst Newspapers, yellow journalism at its best.
Typical.

cs242226-195.houston.rr.com asks: “tom daschle freemason”
God, I hope not.
202.146.241.12 says: “one man smart many stupid quote”
Why, thank you. I think.
202.96.16.2 asks: “julia carson voter fraud”
That would be my opinion, yes.
202.84.96.36 asks: “great philippine orators”
Hmm, Magsaysay, maybe? Rachel would probably know better than me 🙂
And more Linda Vester hits. Yes, morons, she’s pregnant. And like the ladies on the Weather Channel in similar situations, she’s trying to not let it get in the way of her job.

Best of the Web from yesterday reproduces this letter from Salon. Taranto says it needs no comment. I disagree; it’s so stupid that it MUST be commented on.

Wow. I thought there was no good news anymore until I read your article about the McDonald’s bombings. If extremists–or even just people with healthy taste buds–could torch every McDonald’s in existence without hurting any personnel, and blow up all the KFCs to boot, the world could only become a better place.

I agree about the world being a better place without fast food, but only from the standpoint that I can’t stand Mcdonalds’ food and KFC, while tasty, is a bit on the greasy side for me. Perhaps that’s why I withhold my trade from McDonalds and rarely eat KFC. But I see no particular reason to torch McDonalds because I don’t like their food, or blow up KFC because I get a tummyache after I eat their chicken. That seems a bit, well, extreme.
Oh, wait. That’s not what this moron is on about! He doesn’t like the fact that McDonalds and KFC are huge capitalist corporate entities that represent him to the rest of the world!

The only thing that irks me, as an American, is that McDonald’s and Americanism are considered synonymous.

Not in my neck of the woods. Steak n Shake, on the other hand…

I’ve lived in America all my 47 years,

Making you an expert on what constitutes “America”, I’m sure, at least in your own mind, even though you probably haven’t got a clue what the Constitution or the Declaration or any of our most important founding documents say about what this country is supposed to be about,

and I never gave that corporation permission to represent my culture.

I didn’t either…but the fact is that it doesn’t represent my culture. And I doubt it does yours.

I haven’t even eaten at a McDonald’s since I became old enough to know better.

Know better what? Know better than to be an America-bashing left wing moron, or know better than not to eat McDonalds every day of your worthless life like…well…these two fatties?

Let the world know that many of us Americans

Unproven assertion.

consider corporations like McDonald’s oppressive alien entities.

Hmm. Older McDonalds restaurants do look a bit like alien spacecraft, but I don’t see exactly how you can call a corporation “American” in one breath and “alien” in another. And I also can’t see how you can call a corporation “oppressive” since you admit that you are not forced to patronize its restaurants or eat its food. Whom, exactly, does McDonalds “oppress”?
And now for the money quote:

And pass the gasoline!

Refined from oil imported from terrorist Arab nations by a huge repressive capitalist corporate entity that hoovers the wallets of the poor and prods our President to fight wars to keep its tanks full — right?
Oh. You mean you didn’t think that far ahead when you were doing this bit of free-associative writing?
Lefties. Morons. Same difference.

Watch your ass, Saddam. Now you’ve really got us mad.

Here’s a bigger
FUCK YOU
over your asinine reaction to Trent Lott’s idiocy.
Like the Eagles said, “Get over it.”

Here’s a big
FUCK YOU
in regard to this story.

…probably not in our lifetimes. Money doesn’t appear to be the problem:

The reason for the current moribund state of Muslim higher education in America, according to Yvonne Haddad, a professor at Georgetown, is that as an immigrant group Muslims are still quite young and economically unstable. To form a college, she maintains, “you have to have surplus wealth, like the Rockefellers.” But others deny that money is the issue. Nader Hashemi, who is writing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto on secularism, democracy and Islam, remarks: “The money is there. There are a lot of affluent doctors and engineers in the community. They are willing to spend money on lavish weddings, or fund-raisers to fight discrimination. But to transfer resources to, and appreciate the value of a liberal education, that hasn’t sunk in.” He cites a university in Ottawa that, after deciding to establish a chair in Islamic studies, found that the area’s upper-middle-class Muslim community could not come up with the $1 million that was needed.

Right. Don’t tell me the community doesn’t have the money when it blows it on other things. The problem is that the community per se isn’t interested in higher education, except parasitically (“we’ll pay tuition, sure, but give money to higher ed? Don’t be ridiculous…I need to finance the imam’s latest fatwa against the university’s obvious bias — it lets Jews in.”).
It occurs to me that Jews and Christians spend a lot of moolah on things like weddings, too (ours cost my father-in-law nearly $15K, but he was relieved that his daughter was getting married to someone who got a real paycheck, owned a home and a car, and paid his taxes, even if I was a Republican), but this doesn’t even begin to equal the amount of money we lavish on higher learning. I can think of a couple of endowed chairs with Jewish names on them without even trying very hard. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an endowed chair with an Arabic-sounding name.
For a culture with a history of learning and great universities, Muslims sure have slid a long way since the Reconquest.

but I’m glad to see some American blacks starting to realize that Jesse Jackson is not the man they want for a spokesperson.

…Stupid comment. Move on.
The Dumbs have spent so much time for so many years saying so much dumber things (“It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”) and never been called to account for them that I guess I just don’t much give a shit anymore when a conservative says something stupid. At least Lott was never a Kleagle, like Robert Byrd is documented to have been.
That doesn’t mean I don’t agree that Lott ought to step down; I do. He had his time, it’s over, let’s find a new Majority Leader for the new century, preferably a Northern boy so I don’t have to listen to those damn good ol’ boy accents for a while (but not too northern…that way lies Daschle). But blowing his asinine remark about Strom Thurmond out of proportion is pretty low, even for some of the people who are doing it (mostly journalists from his own party, stabbing him in the back–typical).
[UPDATE: Damn. And I didn’t even read Emperor Misha’s take on this first.]

From 197.138.51.5 we get:
“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linda vester age”
Asking a lady’s age…tch, tch, tch. I think she’s 37 or 38. She got married two years ago and I think she was 35 or 36 at the time (she had made some comment about her age when doing a bridal segment that spring).
Amazing the things people search for. cdm-208-21-73-pflu.cox-internet.com (seconded by pool-68-160-55-27.bos.east.verizon.net) asks:
“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linda vester pregnant&btnG=Google Search”
Now I have to admit, until I got a good look at her about a week ago, I wasn’t 100% sure. They’ve done a pretty good job of hiding it until now, but she is very definitely in a family way.
For which I must add: Congratulations!