Just getting it out of the way. And then that's it. What more can be said?

Stuff about it at Michelle Malkin; and, of course, Keith Olberman's Countdown couldn't avoid making this the number one super-important story of the day.

Alas, Keith wasn't hosting, otherwise it might seem hypocritical, you know, with his own sex scandal, using a starstruck fan for a one night stand, and being a bad lay on top of it.

Check out this quote about Keith's mad romancin' skillz. Content warning, so I've put it in white font, but if you want to read it, just highlight/scroll over to make it appear:

"I pretended he knew what he was doing. I adored the guy, I didn't want him to think he was a dud in bed. He said the most egotistical and strangest thing I've ever heard after I faked an orgasm...

"This is the finger I use to write the show." I'm NOT kidding... He said it quite proudly. I didn't get the sense he was kidding about it."

Good night and good luck, huh?

As for Max Blumenthal, well, he'll do well to stick to outing people, as his writing and journalistic talents aren't going to take him very far.

Coulter, after all, is a sexually liberated, career-minded, single woman in her 40's. At the height of the Monica Lewinsky drama, during which she acted as one of Ken Starr's 'elves,' Coulter was reportedly sired by Dinesh D'Souza, that paragon of morality who now blames 'social liberals' for 9/11.

I'm told that that comes almost entirely from Wikipedia. And of course the word he's looking for is "courted." "Sired" means "fathered," at least that's what it means everywhere else except on the Huffington Post.

But the kid's got a big future ahead of him. He stumbles on eighth grade vocabulary, but surely he earned that Daddy Got Me job of his at Media Matters.

Correction: How embarrassing, a poster tells me Google claims that maybe D'Souza did "sire" Coulter at one point.

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Actually, World Net Daily seems uncharacteristically in non-outrage mode here, matter-of-factly describing last night's Sarah Silverman Program and the small amount of controversy it caused.

As I mentioned yesterday, she hooks up with God. Who is of course black. When she first meets the "All Mighty," he in an all-white suit and radiating pearlescent light, she asks, "Are you God's black friend?"

It's of course sacriligious -- especially because God wants to see her again, acting a bit needier and clingier than one would expect of the Deity, and she blows him off -- but it's so absurdist it's hard (for me, at least) to take seriously.

Not the best of the series. It was actually the pilot, shown last rather than first, and it shows. It did however have Sarah Silverman's precious excuse for why she couldn't help a friend move out of her apartment: "I stubbed my vagina."

Not really sure why I'm posting this, to be honest. The series is over, but I imagine they'll re-run it constantly. It is Comedy Central after all. This particular show is rebroadcast tonight at 10:30 ET, but again, not really the best show in the (short) series.

I think this was the best episode:

This one was pretty good too (content warning):

Thanks to JackStraw.

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I blame the Jews.

No, seriously. They seem to have induced him over with some of that dirty Jew-money, though, of course, they're denying any involvement.

Dirty Jew-Money

Is there anything it can't do?

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There's an escape clause, of course: one can always purchase Robot Cruelty Offsets. Like, if you mangle your robot in cybernetic gladiatorial combat, you pay someone in Brazil to sit on a robot's face for a coupla hours.

An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea.

The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for users and manufacturers and will be released later in 2007.

It is being put together by a five member team of experts that includes futurists and a science fiction writer.

...

The new charter is an attempt to set ground rules for this future.

"Imagine if some people treat androids as if the machines were their wives," Park Hye-Young of the ministry's robot team told the AFP news agency.

"Others may get addicted to interacting with them just as many internet users get hooked to the cyberworld."

Thanks to dri, who wants to know:

1. Will there be an exemption allowing the continued legal abuse of fembots?

2. Will use of the "A" word (android or "andy") require rehab?

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Well, I have no idea if this guy is gay. Nor if he was in gay porn. (Incidentally, being in gay porn doesn't make you gay, exactly -- a lot of straight male porn stars do gay porn because that's where the money is if you're a guy in porn. You're not really the star of a straight porno, after all. And I have to imagine that having gay sex as a straight man is a pretty nasty experience, even if you're doing it willingly for the paycheck.)

So what did he do, exactly, to deserve being outed for this (alleged) disreputable past?

Oh, you know, the normal: He dared to be a conservative who supports the war and complained of Columbia's anti-military attitudes.

I'm not going to link James Joyner for this, because I'm kind of tired of this kind of bullshit. But Don Surber quotes him thus:

“surely, Blumenthal is right that there is a faction of the conservative movement that ‘exploits anti-gay sentiment for political gain.’ It’s not unreasonable to point that out.”

Praytell, James, what exactly is Max Blumenthal doing when he dishes dirt like this? Isn't he, too, attempting to exploit that same anti-gay sentiment for political gain?

Why is it that when Republicans knock Democrats for being gay (which they almost never do; when's the last time a Democrat was outed?), it's "pandering to anti-gay bigotry," but when liberals do the same thing -- for the exact same purpose, to play to anti-gay bigotry -- it's merely "exposing the hypocrisy of conservatives"?

Do they not simultaneously "expose the hypocrisy of liberals" in doing so?

Well, I'm tired of it. You know what? I've got a tip about who the closeted gay Democrats in DC might be, and I decided it was beneath me.

It still is beneath me, but fuck it, I think I'm going to publish it anyway.

We can both play this game and destroy reputations if the liberals like. I'd prefer not doing so, but as moral suasion means nothing to these machivellian marxists, it's time to fight fire with fire.

Hypocrisy? Whatever. I think remaining closeted as an elected Democrat, a party so, so, sooo dedicated to gay rights, is pretty hypocritical. As is remaining with a wife in a loveless marriage while you score young hot things at gay DC clubs just to preserve your political viability. I've decided -- just me; the hell with what they might think -- that they should be out and proud and representing the gay community as declared gays, and if they aren't, they're hypocrites who deserve to be outed.

By me.

Just like AmericaBlog and Max Blumenthal get to decide if closeted conservative gays can remain such, I'm arrogating that decision as regards closeted liberal gays to myself.

Why not?

Eh, I don't really need a justification. When the names come out, and lives are -- well, if not ruined, definitely worsened -- the Democrats can thank Max Blumenthal, AmericaBlog, and all the other leftist gay-baiters.

Eh, Who Am I Kidding, It Is Beneath Me: I don't want my claim to fame being the right's version of Mike Rodgers.

But you guys ought to know: You're not the only ones with "The List."

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Why you little douche-tool.

Sen. John McCain's campaign is mounting a stealth effort to change Republican presidential nomination rules in California to allow independents to vote in the Feb. 5 primary, party and campaign officials in the state have told The Washington Times.

The impact could be huge -- and potentially damaging to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, currently the most acceptable to traditional-values voters among the three top-tier Republican presidential candidates.

"If California changes its delegate selection rules to allow independent voters to participate in the Republican primary, it would be very helpful for McCain and for Rudy Giuliani, who historically have done very well among independent voters," Federal Election Commissioner Michael E. Toner said.

An official with the Romney organization in California said McCain supporter Duff Sundheim, the former state Republican Party chairman and an ally of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has been trying to line up votes for the rules change.

Several other state officials and campaign operatives independently reported receiving phone calls from Mr. Sundheim seeking support for the change.

Mr. Sundheim late last night denied that he is affiliated with or backing Mr. McCain but refused to answer when asked whether he was lining up support for a rules change. He did admit he was having discussions with state party Chairman Ron Nehring.

Voters picking their candidates? How antiquated. Let's have candidates pick their voters.

If there's one good thing about Giuliani, it's that he tends to neutralize McCain's shabby maneuverings. Even if McCain is successful, he'll break about even with Giuliani among Independents (probably coming in second), and Romney won't be that badly off, having McCain's shady advantage divided between two moderate candidates.

Prepare for a lot of this. McCain's preference is to blow through the Republican primaries without having to garner the votes of too many actual Republicans.

Check out the big brain on Slublog!

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And where does the McCain campaign fall?

Into pain!

Into pain!

By George I think she's got it!

John McCain's Obama-esque remarks about our "wasted" resources in Iraq weren't the only comments that landed him in hot water after a recent appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. Many of his staff were blindsided by his campaign announcement. And several aides were so outraged that they've quit, say Republican insiders.

"They're imploding—he had a game plan that had him announcing much later in the year," one top Republican aide tells Radar, adding that the campaign is "in serious trouble ... Romney's plan and Rudy's jump in the polls caused him to scrap his plans completely. When you do that, and you're not prepared for it, the staff goes crazy. Some of his coordinators in different states were pulling their hair out!"

Another insider, a guru to the conservative movement, says that McCain himself is growing increasingly desperate in the wake of his downward slide in the polls—a slip hastened by his steadfast support of the very man who savaged him and his family during the 2000 election, George W. Bush, and the president's unpopular plan for troop surge in Iraq. "One of the top aides to the Republican leadership told me that McCain has lost so much support, he's simply beside himself. He's wringing his hands. Things are sinking fast—in two or three weeks, we'll know if there is any recovery."

Stolen from Hot Air. To make up for it, let me direct you to long cuts from 300, as well as this well-done mash-up edit of the Terminator vs. Robocop.

With a surprise special guest star.

Actually... this story was swiped from the Corner.

McCain's Problem: This is obvious, but that's what I'm good at.

McCain had hoped to be the front-running center-right candidate with crossover appeal to Democrats (and of course Independents). He's spent, what, ten years courting the liberal press to get that reputation.

He could leverage his popularity with the media and independents to convince conservatives to hold their noses and vote for him.

Trouble is, Giuliani has now easily eclipsed him in that regard. Giuliani is now filling the niche that McCain hoped to fill.

So where does he go? Well, he can start hammering Giuliani's liberalism, but this puts him further to the right, where he doesn't want to be, alienating his base (i.e., Chris Matthews).

Plus, there already is a good candidate to the right of Giuliani, with none of Giuliani's or McCain's messy marital baggage. Feller by the name of Mitt Romney.

If someone isn't content with Giuliani's center-right politics, why go to someone who's spent ten years letting Republicans know he's mildly embarrassed to be in their company? Why not go for a real social con like Romney?

(Okay, real may be pushing it; but at least he's more conservative than McCain, and few believe that McCain is as conservative as his paper trail might indicate.)

McCain's whole candidacy was premised on him being the favorite, with all others the alternative to him. But he's now himself an alternative-- and a less appealing one than the frontrunner or the challenger to the right.

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Winning the war, one squeegee dervish at a time.

(This is LauraW's pic and joke, by the way.)

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Utter rubbish!

The bombing was in Lebanon, carried out by indigenous resistance movement Hizb'allah!

What on God's green earth could an Iranian general possibly know of such a thing?

PS, I question the timing. I suppose it's just a "coincidence" that an "Iranian" "general" "defects" into "United States" custody just as "President" Bush is gearing up for "war" with Iran.

Oh, wait, I didn't mean to put quotes around the word "war." Guess it just kind of got away from me at the end there.

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or at least her head.

In what can only be a sign of the coming Cable News Apocalypse (and maybe a harbinger of the old-fashioned regular apocalypse as well) it appears that O.J. Simpson believes that he, too, may be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn.

Sayeth the man who was found guilty (in civil court) of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman:

"I hope they don't do a DNA test on Anna Nicole's baby. If they find out Dannielynn is mine, I don't want Fred Goldman trying to seize her money - or the baby herself."

Charming. I'm sure you would be a much better parental role-model, Orenthal James. For the kid's sake, if you are the father, I hope she never finds out.

Having Anna Nicole as a mom is a cross to bear in it's own right. Having you as a father as well? The poor child wouldn't stand a chance.

I may just have to throw out my TV. I'm not sure I could handle the wall to wall coverage should this story prove to have legs.

If Van Susteren's head does explode, though, I hope those jokers at Hot Air capture the video. I'd watch it.

Ace's Question: Where was O.J., exactly, when Smith died?

Just curious.

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