I think the media is about to take away her "moral authority," don't you?

They can't have her defeating a shoe-in Democratic Senator.

Thanks to steve_in_hb.

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1, it's about American Idol, 2, it's about Clay Aiken, 3, it's about Clay Aiken's alleged sexual preferences.

Personally, I think all of this is just ridiculous. Clay Aiken is obviously as heterosexual as, say, JeffB.

Just To Get This Out Of The Way Update: Fat Naked Guy Richard Hatch, the first Survivor winner, has been convicted of tax evasion on his Survivor winnings and subsequent windfalls.

Smart. Win a life-changing amount of money, then don't pay taxes on it, so you wind up facing 13 years in federal prison.

Hatch was last seen huddling with his lawyers, asking about the possibility of an "alliance" with the judge and prosecutor that would keep him out of the clink.

Thanks to Craig.

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Doesn't seem like it would take much.

Someone (I'm sorry, forget who) pointed this out to me a few days ago:

He's shocked "by how unkind our world has become," he said. E-mail and talk radio appear to have given people the license to say anything, regardless of how cruel or false it may be, he said.

He cited the example of an e-mail faulting what the sender considered to be NewsNight's inadequate coverage of an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C. The note ended with, "I hope the violence visited on the people of Iraq will someday be visited on your children."

Those on the opposite side of the political spectrum are no more tolerant, Brown said. "Any criticism of the administration is regarded as hatred of the president and hatred of the country itself," he said.

Note that the article, if not Brown himself, suggests it's equivalent to wish death on one's children as to accuse one of hating America. Calling someone an America-hater isn't exactly kind, but I think hoping for the death of someone's children is a tad worse.

Lefties always seem to get the benefit of the doubt, eh?

Similarly, NRO's Media Blog notes that the media never seems to be that interested in the hateful venom on left-wing blogs, and yet it's forever citing nasty posts on, for example, Little Green Footballs.

Glenn Reynolds explains he doesn't have comments on his blog because he fears that nasty posts will be attributed to him. A left-leaning blogger says he doesn't share that fear:

Jay Rosen: I must say I have never heard of that concern before: "media reports would attribute comment trolls to me, so I don't have them."

I have comments at my blog, and they are completely open. I not only monitor them carefully, I'm an active presence in comment threads and I argue a lot with readers. I get mad at them too. A great many users have told me that while I write good posts, what they really like is the range of reactions from others in comments. For some, that discussion is a primary, not a second-order good on offer at PressThink.

Glenn Reynolds: It happened to Charles Johnson and he was quite upset. Perhaps the press would be more sensitive where you're concerned, Jay.

The very afternoon that transcript was posted, Reuters published a comment from LGF threatening to knock Joel "I don't support our troops" Stein's head off.

Remember-- the actual writer/proprietor of the Daily Kos said of four murdered contractors in Iraq, "Screw 'em... I feel nothing [for these mercenaries]." And now John Kerry is a "diarist" there, and the media doesn't publicize that.

Thanks to DeeGaGo for reminding me of the Brown piece. He likes this part of it:

"Many Americans on the left and the right aren't interested in the
truth, but simply want news that confirms their viewpoints, he said.

"You'd think that it's no more complex than good vs. evil," he said."

No, those on the right, for the most part, just want balance. The left are the ones clamoring for full-fledged censorship, shrieking like epileptic monkeys because the Washington Post truthfully, factually reported that Democrats received millions of dollars from Jack Abramoff's clients at his personal direction.

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* Mike is dumber than a sack of retards.

* Mike is known to have satisfied thousands of women, simply by never meeting them. "I'll never know what I missed out on," said one woman calling herself "Claire." "And I think it's better for both of us that way."

* Mike still wonders why they built a near-identical version of the Statue of Liberty on The Planet of the Apes. He considers this a "continuity error" that almost ruins the film. "It just doesn't make sense," he says, "that Apes, who hate humans, would build a statue of a human. And it just strains credibility it looks so much like our own Statute of Liberty." He also doesn't understand why Darth Vader had to lie and shit about being Luke's father.

* Mike is sexually aroused by Optimus Prime, and is certain he has a secret third transformation into the shape of a "Magic Hat" vibrator.

* On Prom Night, Mike announced to his date that he wanted to "make love to [her] so badly..." He was true to his word, and, baffled by female sexual geography, wound up copulating with her armpit.

* His date was his mentally-challenged first cousin Jennifer, or "Jemfahhh," as she calls herself. Her prom dress consisted of a burlap sack adorned with shiny red star-stickers and severed heads from her Strawberry Shortcake dolls who were "bad" that day, and needed to be "punished."

* Mike was sexually confused by the rape scene in Deliverance as a young child, and to this day still sports (smallish) erections when he watches the Superman movies. When he orgasms, he's prone to cry out, "O.. o... o... OTISVILLE!"

* Mike spends upwards of sixteen hours a day watching the knife-vendors on cable infomercials. He has a collection of three thousand "tactical folders" and Plasti-Grip Bowies, as well as the prize of his collection, a limited-edition replica three-bladed rocket-sword from The Sword and the Sorceror, signed by the film's star Lee Horsely's business manager Hiram Steinwitz. He's pretty sure that if "the shit ever goes down," he can do some "serious shit" with his Gilette Mach 3 version of a longsword.

* Mike's favorite websites are the Daily Kos, Eschaton, Fire Dog Lake Blog, and SecretSausage.com. He posts on the first three as "Mike the Liberal Avenger" and on the last as "Curious in Poughkipsie."

* Mike believes the Monkees left "clues" in their albums and shows that Peter Tork had been killed at one point and replaced by a double. "Last Train to Clarksville explains it all," he says confidently. "The 'train' is a conveyer belt, and 'Clarksville' is the crematorium at the Clarksville Funeral Home." He has detailed this theory on his own website -- PeterTorkIsDead.net -- as well as under the name "Curious in Poughkipsie" on SecretSausage.com.

* When Mike plays D&D, he always wants to play a half-gnome, half-elf. 'Nuff said.

* The closest Mike has ever come to a female gentalia was an art-history slide-show about Georgia O'Keefe. He found her paintings "chilling, like something out of an H.R. Geiger nightmare."

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This is cool, if true, which, you know, half of these "cool facts" aren't:

CAN CARROTS HELP TO IMPROVE YOUR VISION?

The eyesight myth dates back only to the Second World War when the Royal Air Force was trying to hide the fact that it had developed a sophisticated radar system to shoot down German bombers. They said that the accuracy of British fighter pilots at night was a result of them being fed huge quantities of carrots.

ItÂ’s true that carrots are rich in betacarotene. The body converts betacarotene to vitamin A and extreme vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness. But only a small amount of betacarotene is necessary for good vision. If youÂ’re not deficient in vitamin A, your vision wonÂ’t improve, no matter how many carrots you eat.

Then of course Mark in Mexico ruins it all with his filth and potty-talk.

You'll never fill the big rooms working blue, Mark.

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With a photoshop, too.

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Quoting Karol: Give these people a state, quick!

Hamas and Fatah gunmen exchanged fire on Friday in political turmoil as the long-dominant Palestinian faction was threatened with a violent backlash to its crushing election defeat by the Islamic militant group.

Hamas, whose shock parliamentary election victory changed the face of Palestinian politics and put Middle East peacemaking deeper in limbo, said it would hold talks soon with President Mahmoud Abbas on "political partnership".

But Fatah leaders have rejected a coalition with Hamas and thousands of Fatah supporters, including gunmen firing into the air, marched in the Gaza Strip in protest at the idea. Thousands of Hamas backers celebrated their victory in separate rallies.

The militant al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Fatah, issued a statement threatening to "liquidate" the faction's leaders if they changed their minds and joined a Hamas-led administration.

Why it's almost like the Constitutional Convention. If I recall correctly, Governeur Morris threatented to "liquidate" anyone who suggested that Congress consist of only one House. He retracted his objections when John Jay kidnapped his son and began sending him severed fingers through the mail.

From Newslinker. Which has more.

Juan Cole, a douchebag of the highest order, writes a gloating piece titled How Do You Like Your Democracy Now, Mr. Bush? As Allah commented when he sent it to me, the left is actually now, officially, anti-democracy.

To answer Mr. Cole, though, I like democracy just fine, even after these vile elections, and I imagine Mr. Bush does as well. People have the right to make their own mistakes. This notion is alien to the leftist mindset, which pays lip-service to democracy but still has the Soviet notion that the masses must be controlled by a ruling elite, lest they err.

The Palestinians have made a horrific choice. Hopefully a few years of civil war, punishing retalitatory airstrikes by Israel, and economic squalor will convince them that war is not the answer. Especially a war they can't win. If not -- well, again, it's not the job of the world, or world leftists, to continue trying to protect them from their own death-cult mentality. Self-determination is vital -- even when that self-determination results in death.

After the jump, I'll quote a little of Cole's piece to spare you the need of patronizing the very patronizing article.

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270 Arab and foreign intruders have been arrested in Al Anbar Province Iraq.

By Sunni Arab Tribesmen!

You know it has to be really good news when they don't talk about it in the MSM.

The Anbar tribesÂ’ campaign to rid the province of ZarqawiÂ’s terror organization, al-Qaeda in Iraq is in its 2nd day and so far, 270 Arab and foreign intruders have been arrested.
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Usama Jad’aan, the leader of Karabila tribes in Qaim told al-Hayat that “the operation will continue to eliminate terror elements according to a quality plan” and added “270 Arab and foreign intruders have been arrested, in addition to some Iraqis who were providing them shelter”.

Sheikh Jad’aan added “the operation is conducted in coordination between the tribes and the minister of defense Sa’doun al-Dulaimi and since we arrested hundreds of terrorists, I don’t expect the operation to take a lot of time”.

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The estimate: a $26 billion shortfall.

The reality: a $27 billion windfall.

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An older post, but Lorie wants to reiterate why conservatives like me should not be taking a "second look" at John McCain. Her bill of indictment:

1. Campaign Finance Reform

2. Torture

3. Tax cuts for the rich

4. Dishonest and dishonorable

5. Stinky Puma Farts!

Wait, I'm sorry, #5 is from Ann Coulter.

True, true, true. Still, I'm sort of a single issue voter at this point. I really can't get too exercised about CFR when Iran is about to get the nuclear bomb. I need a President who will -- and can, given the reservoir of (largely undeserved) trust the media and public have in him -- bomb countries like this to keep my ass from being nuked.

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