Thanks to K-Lo on the NRO tip:

Vice President Cheney today issued the following statement:
"Just over two weeks ago, Senator Kerry talked about the merits of troop realignment in Europe and Asia. 'There are great possibilities open to us,' he said. Yesterday he said it was a bad idea. The one consistency we have seen from Senator Kerry is that he is willing to take any position on any issue if he thinks it will benefit him politically. As we saw yesterday, these political calculations even include his positions on our national security."

Nuance? Unscrupulous partisan opportunism?

You make the call.

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Yesterday I linked an account which reported the assertions of a college professor that the man McGreevey hit on had had a previous gay affair, and was therefore not straight, as he maintains.

Maybe I conceded that too soon.

Jeff Jarvis reports on the Daily News' follow-up article.

Jarvis discovers this college professor is less than credible:

In a manic, disjointed interview, Miller said that Cipel had made a pillow-talk confession: He still carries a torch for McGreevey....

Miller also claimed to reporters that he is a CIA operative who takes pills doled out by the intelligence agency to make his skin darker so he can infiltrate unnamed groups....

Miller - who insisted on speaking Spanish because, he said, he hates the United States...

"Despite his problems, I'm going to go visit him," said Miller, shirtless and wearing purple shorts....

The doctor said he was a happily married man with two children, when, at age 38, he acknowledged he was gay.

"One hundred thousand dollars worth of therapy later and I still don't understand," Miller said.

According to another account:

Last night, with his house surrounded by reporters, Miller spoke to the throng in only blue shorts and white socks, his hair disheveled.

At times cursing and erratic, he alternatively told scribes he would talk to them in Hungarian, Spanish or Hebrew.

"He's a little scattered," a relative member said.

Anyone care to guess at the last time the media dutifully reported an obvious maniac's delusions to the detriment of a liberal? And gave such obviously dubious claims front-page treatment?

How the fuck did these claims even get reported in the Daily News at all? Why did the first day's story -- blared on its front page -- run with his charges, while the fact that he's most likely a dangerous lunatic was saved for the second day's minor follow-up piece (not a front-page story, of course)?

Can they be more transparent?

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All the official documentation in the world couldn't disprove the Bush AWOL charge as far as our objective media were concerned.

A citation based on a falsified report written by John Kerry is, however, plenty to "counter" the SwiftVets' allegations.

More of the same here.

And another article pointing out that John Kerry's own diary flatly contradicts his claim of being under hostile fire when he suffered his first "wound."

This last bit is absolute dynamite. I don't even think the media can manage to miss the powerfully clear evidence that Kerry lied, from John Kerry's own diary.

But I expect they'll do their level-best to miss it.

Perhaps John Kerry's diary is also a "Republican lawyer from Texas." That might explain the diary's nasty, partisan dishonesty.

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I love bears. I love beer. I love this story.

Top Ten Signs a Bear May Be Drunk

10. "Weaves" as it tries to slap salmon from a river

9. Its breath stinks suspiciously of Binaca

8. In between attempting to maul your face with its enormous claws, keeps slurring the sloppy-drunk catchphrase "I lovvvve you mannnn. No, seriously, I lovvvvve you, mannnnn"

7. Can't stop giggling over the word "ursine"

6. Makes embarrassing confessions about having a gay affair with New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey

5. Insists repeatedly that it's "All right to drive, I swear," then gets into the car's rear seat and wants to know who stole the steering wheel

4. Hits on a ferociously-ugly wild boar, but keeps seeking your approval by asking, "She's got a nice rack though, right?"

3. Attempts to shit in the woods; misses

2. Won't stop asking, "White Castle? White Castle? Who's up for a White Castle run?"

...and the Number One Sign a Bear May be Drunk...

1. Says it finds Terezzza Heinz-Kerry "candid" and "refreshing," then urinates on itself

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Couldn't agree more, Terezzzza:

WOULD-BE first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry reinforced her reputation for telling it like it is yesterday by admitting her husband was not qualified for the Oval Office.

"I think nobody is truly qualified to be president of the United States," she said in an interview with Reader's Digest.

"I mean, are you qualified to run the world ... not run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is."

It was another example of the plain speaking that has become her trademark, and a possible liability for John Kerry's campaign.

She did not elaborate on her comments, leaving Reader's Digest to bail out her husband by reporting that the "message she left hanging in the air" was "Vote for John. He's less poorly qualified than the other guy."

I would note that while Terezzza knows her gigolo husband fairly well, she's never (or barely) met Bush. Ergo, we should put more stock in her assessment of John Forbes Kerry's qualifications than his opponent's.

I'll just keep saying it: Terezzza's vaunted "candor" is simply a direct function of her billion-dollar inheretance. She's an idle-rich golddigger heiress who landed herself a whale (John Heinz, not John Forbes Kerry). She's "candid" because she has enough money to afford having little sense, tact, or regard for others.

I will note that George W. Bush also exhibited the natual effects of wealth and breeding in 2000. He was obviously confident -- perhaps overconfident, verging on cocky -- and he had the natural sense of command and entitlement that's hard to avoid when you were born one of life's lottery-winners.

The media did not, however, portray these things as a plus. They portrayed these traits as being the typical ones of a spoiled rich kid.

But Terezzza? The woman who married into at least 100x George Bush's fortune?

Why, she's candid. She's refreshing. She's got real personality. She's unafraid to speak the truth, at least as it seems to her.

I heard a lot about rich kids and a sense of entitlement and plutocratic arrogance in 2000. I hear so very little about those things now.

I wonder why.

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Update: This is actually an update to the "kill em, hang em, carve em" dove-slaughter story, but that post is so long no one would even see an update.

Marcland says people are beserko for doves in Michigan. They just love the things.

Love them as in "want to protect them from hunters," that is.

Update: I was sent the Priceless ad as an attachment; I didn't know who'd made it. Dummocrats.com shows it's not so dumm at all and figures out the ad was created by Flashbunny.org.

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Aaron Burr is back again, and demands that I READ IT ALL. So I guess I should READ IT ALL, and maybe you should, too.

This is a reprint of an old WaPo article, from June 1, 2003. It sort of lets you know -- just sort of -- whose side the WaPo is on.

In a way, I appreciate this style of "journalism" better than the what we usually see. At least here the clearly-smitten and moist Ms. Blumenfeld isn't too coy or cute about her allegiances or biases. She's as subtle as shotgun blast.

Just for fun, I have bolded Ms. Blumenfeld's frequent mentions of Mr. Kerry's "nuance," "intellect," and/or "complexity." Mentions of how butch and manly and sexy and tough-guy he is are in bolded italics.

This is a hard article to get through. It reads like a very long entry in a teenager's Crush Diary. But on to the fellatio:
more...

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Just submitted to the Ace of Spades HQ Washington desk by correspondent Aaron Burr:

Move to Screen Bush File in 90's Is Reported (Feb. 12, 2004)

...

When conservatives complain about the press' single-minded focus on Republican scandals, they counter by piously informing us that they are compelled to investigate any and all allegations until they've discovered the truth.

Isn't it terribly odd how that requirement vanishes into the ether when there's a liberal scandal?

MSNBC actually deigned to lower itself to report, obliquely, on the Kerry allegations.

The headline?

Military records counter a Kerry critic

Which of course suggests that new information has rubbished a charge.

But the facts say nothing of the sort. The "military records" which "counter" the Kerry critic are simply the official Naval records, which the critic has acknowledged as being the official records -- his charge has been all along that Kerry falsified his reports to get those medals, so the official naval account, taken largely from Kerry's self-reporting, do little to prove the actual historical record one way or another.

After promising, in the headline, that "records counter" the charges, the lib/reporter allows that the facts remain undetermined:

Thurlow and other anti-Kerry veterans have repeatedly alleged that Kerry was the author of an after-action report that described how his boat came under enemy fire. Kerry campaign researchers dispute that assertion, and there is no convincing documentary evidence to settle the argument. As the senior skipper in the flotilla, Thurlow might have been expected to write the after-action report for March 13, but he said that Kerry routinely "duked the system" to present his version of events.

For much of the episode, Kerry was not in a position to know firsthand what was happening on Thurlow's boat, as Kerry's boat had sped down the river after the mine exploded under another boat. He later returned to provide assistance to the stricken boat.

Gee-- how on earth did it come to be that the most-read part of the article states that "records counter" the Kerry allegation, when an actual account of the record, buried deep into the article, admits that there's "no convincing documentary evidence" to disprove or prove the main charge (i.e., that Kerry falsified the account)?

I wonder. I really do.

At any rate, this is the sort of grudging, "Records Disprove Kerry Charges (actually, maybe they don't)" coverage is the very best we can expect from our supremely objective media.

The good news, however, is that they are being forced against their will to cover the allegations at all.

There was never any proof for the Bush AWOL allegations, either-- in fact, quite a lot of evidence disproving those allegations. And yet those allegations stuck in the public's mind to a large degree.

Welcome to the party, pal.

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... you know: the same way they pressed George W. Bush to do?

Florida Cracker has some thoughts. You may be suprised to hear that the answer involves the words "liberal" and "bias" used in close succession.

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A college professor proudly proclaims that he too "tapped that man-ass" and had himself "a serious dose of that butt-tang."

I don't know what to say. The prism through which I view the world is suddenly cracked.

I think this guy's probably a gay hustler/shakedown artist, but I still need to point out that the media is claiming that this guy's denials about his homosexuality undermine his credibility, while McGreevey's lifelong claims of being straight do not seem to damage his credibility much at all.

McGreeyey is "a Gay American." He's allowed to lie about such things.

And this Ciphel cat? Well, he's... not a Gay-American. He's an Israeli. He doesn't have that right. There's something in the Torah on this point. Or something.

Phew! Close one! The double-standard became almost impossibly obvious there for a moment.

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