Perhaps not rips, but she seemed critical on today's Gibson show, calling him the MSM candidate, among other things. She also seemed to warn of a particular judge he'd put on the bench in Arkansas, who she thought he'd also nominate to the Supreme Court.

Unfortunately I was watching it on delay -- too much delay, and I couldn't go back to get the details. Anyone see this and have a decent memory?

I've emailed Bryan and Allah about it. Maybe they'll put it up.

Well! Now That's Service! Allah just put it up.

"The Republican Jimmy Carter."

Okay, with Coulter on board, I'm feeling a little better about this.

It would be nice for Rush to say something clearly about Huckabee, too.

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The main story is typical. It's the update that makes this truly special.

I'll say it one more time: It is absurdly easy to stop this practice. A simple style-book dictate stating that all politicians will have their party noted upon first mention, in the first paragraph, would largely cure the Guess That Party! syndrome. ((Though the MSM would still put "GOP" in the headline, making each scandal about a Republican about the Republican Party as a whole, while all Democratic scandals would just be about a single man's failings. But there's little to be done about that.)

So, why does the media not simply make a simple bright-line common-sense rule about this?

Because they don't want to. They want to continue omitting party affiliation in Democratic scandals and hyping it in Republican scandals. Without a simple rule, they can claim their choices are based on either "nuance" or "news judgment" or simple negligence. If they had such a rule, they'd have to apply it evenly, and they simply don't want to do that.

The simplest example of media bias there is and it can be fixed by a one-sentence addition to the style guide.

But they won't do it.

[Update - PA]
Not surprisingly, a prior piece by this Klepper person (who appears to be a serial impersonator of a reporter) on the Morrison flap studiously ignored party affiliation too.

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I forgot who said it, but Hillary is acting like Obama's outreach director. Every candidate fears peddling dirt on other candidates due to the likelihood of blowback that hurts the dirt-peddler more than the dirtied-up.

And yet here she is, personally assuring the media that there are no "secrets" or surprises in her past, unlike some other candidates she O-lmost O-dentifies.

Toast? It's too early to say toast. But the English muffins have been split and the butter is nicely softening.

And speaking of toast, so says the Weekly Standard about Giuliani, with additional info from Dan Riehl.

Which really stings, because as everyone knows I have a painfully potent man-crush on Giuliani and have never breathed a negative word about him in my life.

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Tom claimed I had lied when I wrote he supported negotiating with the Taliban.

This is so inside-baseball and petty-personal I hate love doing it.

Tom, you said so in the first comment to this post, dude. And that does seem to be your hash.

So, you know: FY, NQ.

Oh, As An Aside: Sometimes people ask me why I usually don't read comments. (Actually, I usually do scan them, but at the end of the day, and I do mean the end: Like midnight or 2am. Too late to get in on the discussions.)

Well, today's a good example of why I don't. And yesterday too.

Because when I read comments I wind up being a blog-reader and blog-commenter instead of a blog-poster. I get sucked in. And it's enjoyable. And all that good stuff. But if I'm doing that I'm not actually putting up any damn posts.

So that's why I tend to stay out of the comments. Because you morons are just too damn interesting, in a retarded way.

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Whatever for?

Oh. Hits. Ok, whatever.

The Internet search powerhouse is inviting chosen people to test a free service dubbed "knol," to indicate a unit of knowledge, vice president of engineering Udi Manber said Friday in a posting at Google's website.

"Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it," Manber wrote.

"There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it."

Yeah? Well there are millions more who don't know jack shit about anything, but they don't know they are morons.

And "knol" is a stupid word.

MORE INTERESTING: mesablue offers us some pics and video of the Blue Angels in San Francisco bay.

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Snarking about his most prized keepsake to the AP and spoofing the media's take on him that he's not particularly energetic. (Which, incidentally, he's not, making the snark somewhat misplaced.)

The first goof answer he gives to the AP is funny, but I'm afraid Fred is playing to the smart-set a bit too much, those who've been exposed to this exciting new form of humor called "irony," rather than the people he actually needs to win over from Huckabee...

Hey, he said it, not me.

I cannot for the life of me imagine any reason to vote for Huckabee except his Jesus-ing, and perhaps to make some us vs. them point to the smarty-pants smug northeastern wing of the Republican Party. That point apparently being "We're just self-destructive enough to nominate a walking disaster area as our candidate; just try us, buddy!"

I'm becoming resigned to this. If some have decided that this whole Republican coalition thing is worth destroying, fine, we'll concede this election and work on some sort of a realignment that maybe could get a conservative elected by 2016 or 2020 or so.

The few Huckabee supporters ask here what I have against him.

Let me reverse that: What the hell do you have for him?

If someone can explain the appeal, I'd really like to be enlightened.

Pretty Much: Sums it up.

, I think what a lot of evangelicals may be missing here is that many non-evangelical conservatives are completely baffled, and frustrated, by the amount of support for the non-conservative Bush-channeling Huckabee. When we sit back and look at the amount of frustration and consternation that Bush has caused among conservatives, and then see Huckabee (who represents everything bad about Bush, with few of his positive characteristics) gaining the support of a fourth of our party, we have to ask ourselves why. The most obvious answer seems to be that he is attracting so much support because he is the only evangelical candidate in the race. To many conservatives, well at least to me, this idea that we should betray conservative principles in order to support a candidate with the right religious credentials is more than shocking, it is abhorrent, and the result is an anti-evangelical backlash. I consider myself a social conservative, and share so much common ground with evangelicals that it truly hurts me to see the strain being placed on our relationship. But as long as their power is used to push a statist non-conservative candidate on our party, we will not be seeing eye-to-eye.

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The Boys of Brixton?

She was the English aristocrat who became so enamoured with Hitler that she shot herself in the head at the outbreak of war.

Unity Mitford, the daughter of Lord Redesdale, had been so entwined in the Führer’s inner circle that British secret services described her as “more Nazi than the Nazis”. But could this cousin of Winston Churchill have been closer to Hitler than anyone suspected?

An article published today raises the possibility that Mitford, who survived her suicide attempt, may have given birth to his child.

If the theory that this baby was born in a tiny Cotswolds village and rapidly adopted were true, HitlerÂ’s child could be living somewhere in Britain today.

...

Martin Bright, writing in the New Statesman, describes a phone call he received from a woman called Val Hann that suggested there could be more to it: “She explained that her aunt Betty Norton had run a maternity home to the gentry in Oxfordshire during the war and that Unity Mitford had been one of her clients.

“Her aunt’s business, in the tiny village of Wigginton, had depended on discretion and she had told no one except her sister that Unity had had a baby. Her sister had passed the story on to her daughter Val.”

When asked who the father of this child might be, Ms Hann paused before replying: “Well, she always said it was Hitler’s.”

The full article throws a lot of cold water on this. I'm just highlighting the stuff that suggests it's true because, well, a man can dream, can't he?

Not about the possibility of a New Fuehrer. Just about the possibility that there's not just hippy tail, but fascist tail out there.

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This is the seminal fraud that sparked the current Intifada.

And nothing at all about it is true.

The wounds purportedly sustained on September 30 2000 by Jamal al Dura “target of gunfire from the Israeli positions”—in the words of France 2 bureau chief Charles Enderlin—were in fact incurred in 1992. Jamal, identified as the father of the shahid [martyr] Mohamed al Dura, is one of the two living witnesses to the incident that triggered the “Al Aqsa Intifada.” The al Dura news report has been the subject of controversy for seven years.

...Jamal al Dura declared on medical records in 1992 that Palestinian militia had attacked him with axes. Doctors at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital* were able to save his life but he lost the use of his right hand because they could not repair a ruptured tendon in the forearm. Palestinian doctors referred Jamal to Tal Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv in March 1994. Dr. Yehuda performed reconstructive surgery, grafting a tendon taken from the foot, and restoring almost normal use of the hand. The medical record of that operation also refers to the removal of “foreign bodies,” suggesting that other instruments besides axes were used in the 1992 attack.

The cool thing about maiming someone with axes is that, years later, when you ask him to lie, he's probably going to agree, huh?

This is now old-ish, but I never mentioned it. The Al Dura footage is the cause of litigation in France -- the reporter (ahem) sued someone for defamation for daring to say it was fake, a Pallywood production. Unbelievably he succeeded.

A court has compelled this guy and his TV station to release the full, unedited Al Dura footage... and they haven't complied, turning in more edited footage and claiming, I think, the dog ate the unedited tapes. (As if you'd throw out such important raw footage.)

And this seems to bother the judge not at all. He's copacetic with the redacted footage and apparently buys the claim that a TV station lost its most historically-portentous footage ever.

Thanks to CJ.

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Islamism seems to be a cult in which the goal is to one-up one's fellow cultists by being as demonically, psychopathically vile as inhumanly possible.

The bomb that ravaged Benazir Bhutto's homecoming processional in October appears to have been rigged to the clothes of a baby who was held up for the former prime minister to embrace, Mrs. Bhutto said.

A man approached her armored truck, Mrs. Bhutto recounted, and was trying to hand across a small child as her motorcade inched through the thronged streets of Karachi. She remembers gesturing for the man to come closer.

"It was about 1 or 2 years old, and I think it was a girl," Mrs. Bhutto told The Washington Times in her first public remarks about the baby.

"We feel it was a baby, kidnapped, and its clothes were rigged with explosives. He kept trying to hand it to people to hand to me. I'm a mother, I love babies, but the [streetlights] had already gone out, and I was worried about the baby getting dropped or hurt."

Apparently that wasn't such a concern for our jihadist friends.

And our new troll Tom wants to negotiate with them.

I wonder what Tom believes we can grant to these monsters which will make them "like us."

Thanks to dri.

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It's a parody, pretty much safe for work, because, see... don't you know porn is different for girls?

Thanks to SarahW.

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