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Sunday, September 09, 2007

Last time I looked, I hadn't masterminded any terrorist attacks
Posted by Jill | 8:31 AM
But David Brooks thinks "lefty bloggers" inspired Osama Bin Laden:





You know, it was bad enough when only the mouthbreathers like Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin were raving that anyone who disagreed with George W. Bush's so-called anti-terrorism policies was a terrorist him or herself. But Brooks is a regular on The News Hour and has a regular column in the New York Times.

Why is Brooks not asking why Osama Bin Laden is still out there to even MAKE a tape of the sort we saw this past week? Why is he not asking why the president he worships allowed Bin Laden to escape at Tora Bora? Why is he not asking why Bush closed down the unit going after Bin Laden? Why is he not asking why, six years after the 9/11 attacks, the guy whom Bush first said he wanted "dead or alive", but later said "I really am not all that concerned about him" has not been apprehended?

I realize that David Brooks fears for the future of his job and of his industry because of bloggers, but that doesn't make us terrorists. One would think that with the botch Bush has made of Iraq, we'd be beyond this kind of simple jingoism that characterized political discourse in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, particularly by a member of the so-called Serious Washington Pundit corps.

Jeff Feldman calls for PBS to fire Brooks and apologize to its viewers, citing PBS's status as "public" (no matter how much its funded and is increasingly beholden to its corporate funders), and I agree. Let Brooks go work for Fox News, where this kind of idiocy passes muster.

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Saturday, July 07, 2007

God, I love when this happens
Posted by Jill | 11:15 AM
It's Wingnut Smackdown Day!!

As if David Shuster's refusal to knuckle under to neocon apologist Fouad Ajami didn't being you enough joy, here comes Tami with a link to screenwriter John Rogers' smackdown of Libertas' interpretation of Transformers: The Movie as a great conservative movie. And Rogers ought to know, since he co-wrote the damn thing.

In a reality based world, that would be the end of it, or as Howie Rose used to say, when the Mets weren't blowing every game, "Put it in the books!" But of course, when did wingnuts let inconvenient things like facts get in the way?

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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Fuck the fucking Yankees.
Posted by Jill | 2:57 PM
Since this weekend in Blogtopia (® Skippy) is an unofficial memorial to Steve Gilliard, it makes sense to pass on this little tidbit that we found at Hoffmania on another reason why the Yankees are worthy of our contempt:

The most patriotic moments at Yankee Stadium can also be the most confining.

Seconds before ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' and ''God Bless America'' are played, police officers, security guards and ushers turn their backs to the American flag in center field, stare at fans moving through the stands and ask them to stop. Across the stadium's lower section, ushers stand every 20 feet to block the main aisle with chains.

As the songs are played or sung, the crowd appears motionless.

The national anthem has long been a pregame staple at sporting events. But after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Major League Baseball directed teams to play ''God Bless America'' before the bottom of the seventh inning at every game. Baseball scaled back the next season, telling teams they needed to play the song only on Sundays and holidays, which is still the case.

Only the Yankees continue to play ''God Bless America'' at every home game. They are also the only ones to use chains to prevent fans from moving during both songs, which concerns some civil liberties advocates.

Howard J. Rubenstein, the spokesman for the Yankees' principal owner, George Steinbrenner, said the policy was an expression of patriotism.


Jawohl. You VILL sing "God Bless America" vithout moving -- and you vill presumably issue the Nazi salute at the same time.

I hate to tell George Steinbrenner this, but "God Bless America" is not even the National Anthem. I realize that Irving Berlin was a staunch conservative and wrote many patriotic songs, but it's hard to believe that someone whose family escaped the 19th century pogroms of Belarus would advocate this kind of knee-jerkism.

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