He repeated his "Devil" nonsense at a Harlem event hosted by Danny Glover (of course).

NEW YORK — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appearing Thursday at a Harlem Church for an oil-for-poor event, repeated his 'devil' reference hurled a day earlier at President Bush during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

Chavez, dressed in his signature red shirt, was introduced at the podium by activist actor Danny Glover.

At one point Chavez told the crowd, "sometimes the devil takes human form," a comment that drew some boos — and applause — from the crowd who interpreted the reference to mean President Bush.

Chavez was visiting the church as part of ceremonies to announce the sale of discounted home heating oil to qualified low-income families.

Jane Hamster immediately noted that Danny Glover had been invited to the All White Clinton Blogger lunch as well, but declined to come, as they disagreed about how many cars he'd be required to valet park before he was allowed to eat.

Allah has video of Charlie Rangel's how-dare-you-attack-my-president grandstanding.

I say grandstanding because I think his reaction is cynical. I don't categorize Rangel with the hard-core leftist America-haters; I think he's just a very, very partisan socialist, but patriotic enough (at least as far as the Democratic Party goes). But I think his reaction is motivated in part by a desire to counter, and calm, the left-wing base of the Democratic Party which is currently having orgasms over the communist tyrant Chavez.

He's sending the message, loudly: We don't support Chavez. And if a large part our base supports Chavez, well, they should probably keep that secret until after the elections.

It's all already on the record, though. As LauraW said the other day, there is no whispering on the Internet.

Since I posted... Drudge update to note that Pelosi now calls Chavez "a thug."

Any doubt, now, that this isn't coordinated? That key Democrats and strategists didn't knock heads together last night about their emerging Chavez problem?

More Proof of the Democrats' Hugo Chavez Problem: Students at NY's Cooper Union college gave Chavez a standing ovation last night after he accused Bush of Nazi genocide.

Hint: Those students weren't from the Young Americans for Freedom.

UPDATE BY JOHN FROM WUZZADEM:

Despair not, DUers, looks like Tom Harkin (D-ASS) has sprinted off the reservation:

"Say what you will about his politics, the man knows his literature."

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were "incendiary", then went on to say, "Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush's policies." Harkin continued what has been frequent criticism of the president's foreign policy.

Harkin says Bush came to office saying he wanted a new humility in foreign policy in reaching out to other countries, but Harkin says Bush's actual policy has been heavy handed. Harkin says the anger against Bush is generated from the Iraq war, which Harkin says was "unnecessary."

Right. The left was infatuated with Bush before the Iraq war - remember? And Chavez certainly had no reason to be "frustrated" with Bush back then, either.

I mean, it's not like their differing political philosophies would have caused any friction. Or that Chavez is a lunatic.

"H-e-e-e-e-e-e-y, Macarena!"

Posted by: Ace at 09:33 AM | Comments (40)
Post contains 582 words, total size 5 kb.

This is what Hollywood calls "casting against type."

Every one of Sean Penn's characters does the same Stanley Kowalski wounded-animal howling and raging. I can't wait to see Albert Einstein doing the same.

"GOOOODDD... does NOTTTT... play DICE... with the YOOOONIVERSSSSE..." And then lots of plotative spittle soaking the camera lens.

Phin figures they cast him because Sean Penn is widely known to have the ability of splitting atoms... with his mind.

"I Am Sam" Trailers Re-Cut: Evil.

More evil.

Posted by: Ace at 08:50 AM | Comments (19)
Post contains 92 words, total size 1 kb.

You know, I didn't realize until I was clicking around on their website earlier (and I haven't been watching much tv the past week so if they have been making a big deal about it I haven't seen it) but this is apparently a very special week.

It's FoxNews 10th Anniversary!

Man, has it really been 10 years since Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes brought fair and balanced news onto the cable networks?

It seems like just yesterday that Ted Turner and CNN had a monopoly on 24 hour television news, and a complete stranglehold on "framing the debate". Geez...doesn't that seem as dated as a Yakov Smirnov "Soviet Russia" routine now? Come to think of it, CNN often seems like "Soviet Russia" too.

But today? Thanks to the good people at Fox, good newsmen like former-employee Tony Snow, David Asman, Chris Wallace, Linda Vester, Juliet Huddy and current "anchor" Brit Hume have had an outlet offered to them that might otherwise not have existed.

And America is better for it.

It's not for nothing that Fox soon found itself at the top of the ratings. And, it's not for nothing that they have steadily maintained that position.

The hottie Anchorwomen didn't hurt either.

Does anyone have a favorite FoxNews moment (Besides the first time you laid eyes on Laurie Dhue)? [And no, you can't cite Ace's appearance either, kiss-ups!]

I think mine goes back to the 2000 election. Fox was the first of the nets (as I recall) to change Florida from Gore to Bush, while running the "Bush Elected President" graphic and the resulting images from the Bush supporters gathered in Austin, Texas were fantastic. As was the elation I felt.

Feel free to share any Fox memories you have in the comments.

And may you have many more happy anniversaries to come Fox.

Posted by: Ace at 09:43 PM | Comments (120)
Post contains 309 words, total size 2 kb.

What they really are angry about, of course, is the fact that millions of illegal voters might have a more difficult time casting fraudulent votes.

Unbelievable. How can something so important not already require some proof of identity?

Posted by: Ace at 06:02 PM | Comments (56)
Post contains 60 words, total size 1 kb.

And among his sources were CIA agents who opposed the methods on legal or moral grounds -- but they agreed the techniques worked and saved lives.

Thanks to Ace, who tipped Allah to this.

Posted by: Ace at 05:50 PM | Comments (67)
Post contains 60 words, total size 1 kb.

15 minutes ago

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, is expected to face a hearing here within three months that will investigate whether he is an enemy combatant, a military official said Wednesday.

Mohammed and 13 other "high-value" detainees recently transferred from CIA custody to this isolated U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba will face Combatant Status Review Tribunals, said Navy Capt. Phil Waddingham, director of the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants.

I only posted this news item because I wanted to put up this picture:

Seriously, has anyone else noticed that these guys are all butt ugly? I mean, Osama himself is pretty homely, but he's a movie star compared to most of his followers. Can this be a coincidence?

Sept. 11 figure faces Guantanamo hearing

Posted by: Ace at 03:47 PM | Comments (75)
Post contains 160 words, total size 1 kb.

Someone sent this to me earlier. I didn't believe it.

I should have.

It gets worse.

Hot Air has more. So does Flopping Aces.

Jesus Christ. I don't fucking believe it.

Start the bulldozers.

Senator McCain? Have any "Straight Talk" for us on this one?

Or is going to be your usual vague MSM-friendly blather?

Think before you answer. You still have a 1% chance of becoming President. Wouldn't be wise to toss that 1% away unthinkingly.

Governor Napolitano (D):

According to governor spokeswoman Shilo Mitchell , Napolitano described the memorial as being ” unique, bold, educational and unforgettable,” she said. ” The memorial uses the sun to articulate words and thoughts.”

RASMUSSEN: GOVERNOR NAPOLITANO "CRUISING" TO RE-ELECTION: Maybe it's time to change that, huh?

Len Musil will oppose her. Maybe throw a little Loose Change his way.

Correction: Going from an old page of Rasmussen, I thought Don Goldwater had been nominated. I have corrected.

Contacted... Len Munsil's office for comment. Hopefully I'll hear back tomorrow.

The Loose Change Connection: As Espresso Pundit notes, one message lists the dates of attacks that led to US wars. Just before 9/11/01 is listed 8/4/1964.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident. (The first one, anyway; there were two. The second one was on Aug. 8th, I think.)

In case anyone doesn't know, it is a long held, deeply believed conspiracy theory that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led LBJ to Americanize the Vietnam war, never happened.

In fact, it did. The second incident may have simply been false radar contacts in choppy water and a night described as "black as hell," but the first one happened. That aside, the left maintains it never happened and was a false pretext for war.

See what they're going for with that one? The left's previous Holy Grail of Pretext For American Imperialist War's date right next to 9/11.

You combine that with the bit about the FBI and CIA failing to prevent 9/11, and the direct statement that "A War on Terror Cannot Be Won With More Battles," and what do you have?

Loose Fucking Change is what you have there, Chief.

Governor Napolitano -- You are in for a world of hurt you never saw coming.

Every day in politics is a day of potential disaster.

Tomorrow is that day.

Good bye.

Allah says... he'll tip Andrew Breitbart.

Eh. Breitbart says he already saw it; I guess he has no interest.

Not sure why. Wasn't an attempt to do the same thing in New York City a big deal? Didn't New Yorkers, of all people, oppose politicizing a tragedy with leftist messaging?

How about Arizonans? Are they to the left of New York City denizens?

More... I think StikNStein might have been the one who tipped me earlier.

Go to his site to see the message that "You don't win wars by fighting more battles."

In fairness, that line seems to be some attempt to present opposing points of view, because above it is the line "Must Bomb Back."

I don't know. Seems the "Must Bomb Back" is a rather troglodytic and idiotic formulation of our reasoning.

I'm kind of pushing this story out there to various people. Allah says it's a nothing story that won't get any traction. So now I'm determined to prove him wrong.

Posted by: Ace at 03:02 PM | Comments (136)
Post contains 605 words, total size 4 kb.

Good news, I guess, but what are the odds of him being sighted? You can put a whole lot of Predators in the air and still have a very low chance of ever catching a gilmpse of him. I doubt the man is outdoors for more than an hour a day anymore.

Still, heartening news... if you have a very low threshhold for being heartened.

Posted by: Ace at 02:50 PM | Comments (11)
Post contains 103 words, total size 1 kb.

And it's about damn time.

Apparently, Sen. Frist has had just about enough of John McCain's posturing and preening and has threatened to kill the Arizona Senator's "Jihadi Protection Act" unless the Senator agrees to re-write the bill to change provisions that have drawn White House/Intelligence Community objections.

How is he going to do it?

The old fashioned way: by filibuster.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution of detainees if they cannot persuade a rival group of Republicans to rewrite key provisions opposed by President Bush.

Frist's chief of staff, Eric M. Ueland, called the dissidents' bill "dead."

Heh. I, for one, hope that they do follow through on this threat and force the debate to the Senate floor prior to the recess. I would love to see, say, Mitch McConnell and Jeff Sessions debate John McCain and Lindsey "Wagner" Graham on the "gob smackingly vile" interrogation technique of "belly slapping".

But Frist struck a more jarring tone, telling reporters that the trio's bill is unacceptable despite its majority support.

For a bill to pass, Frist said, "it's got to preserve our intelligence programs," including the CIA's aggressive interrogation techniques, and it must "protect classified information from terrorists." He said that "the president's bill achieves those two goals" but that "the Warner-McCain-Graham bill falls short."

What's interesting, as well, is that Frist is taking a harder stand publicly than the White House is taking on this issue. Good Cop, Bad Cop? His 2008 ambitions taking over here? Or feedback from the base that it's time to smack McCain around a little. I think a little of all 3 is playing out.

You know the only thing that would make this even more entertaining?

If McCain's bill were to be defeated by a "secret hold". Should the filibuster not occur, I hope that someone will place one on the underlying bill, if one does not lie against it already.

I'd pay to watch those fireworks.

Posted by: Ace at 02:32 PM | Comments (11)
Post contains 354 words, total size 2 kb.

Pretty sad when your idea of a big ratings booster is inviting on a nitwit who can likely deliver an additional 40,000 viewers.

An additional 40,000 viewers? Wow. Breakin' out the big guns now.

Must be sweeps week.

Meanwhile, Bill O'Reilly, who a while ago claimed he lowered the price of gas by talking tough about the oil companies, figures that if he's got that kind of Pimp Hand, he ought to have a Pimp Handle. And he's chosen to be known as "T-Warrior," for "Traditional Warrior."

He might even respond to "LL Cool T."

He says he's on Al Qaeda's "Death list." He probably is.

Join the club.

O'Reilly says his fame and success — and sometimes controversial views — have come with a price.

"With the controversy comes death threats on a daily basis," O'Reilly said. "Not only from kooks. But the FBI came in and warned me and a few other people at Fox News that al Qaeda had us on a death list. Â… That's a little disconcerting."

So does O'Reilly ever question what he's doing? Is all the controversy he creates worth it when he has a wife and kids?

O'Reilly says he knows his big mouth gets him into a certain amount of trouble.

When it goes over the line and he requires round-the-clock protection, he says he asks himself, "Is it worth it?"

Still, O'Reilly sticks to his guns, even if he is a bit self-deprecating about his legacy.

"When I am dead, my tombstone will read, 'He finally stopped talking,'" he said.

No, his tombstone will read, "It's still not too late to buy Factor Mugs for Father's Day."

Or, "I'm lookin' out for the folks... From Heaven."

Thanks to Allah for the Hamster tip.

Bonus! St. Andrew of the Sacred Heart-Ache will be on Anderson Cooper.

Well, I don't know if he'll be on him. But he's scheduled to appear on the show. Anything can happen.

Gee, what to watch tonight at 8 PM? Do I watch a Simpsons repeate recorded on my DVR, a Family Guy repeat, or a Just Shoot Me repeat?

Hard decisions.

Can't wait for the clips on Hot Air tomorrow, though.

Hmmm... Jane Hamsher on Olbermann, Andrew Sullivan on Anderson Cooper, and every big conservative blogger sitting at home eating Hungry Man chicken pot pies.

Guess it just worked out that way.

I feel as unwanted by the media as, say, a black blogger at a Bill Clinton meet-and-greet.

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM | Comments (35)
Post contains 445 words, total size 3 kb.