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Morning Skim: Obama's 'Evil Eye,' Franken's First Season, Honduras and More
Opinionator —
Powerline : Paul Rahe follows up on his earlier post about Obama’s “ mastery of the insulting gesture ,” this time occasioned by the White House release of a “series of photographs in which, as the Drudge Report puts it, Obama directed ‘the evil eye’ at various foreign leaders who visited him. Included on the list were German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.” President Obama does not have to announce whose side he is on. He can convey by gestures that he is inclined to help America’s enemies and to harm our friends, and he has done so repeatedly with consummate skill. For a considerable time, our fellow ...
I Was Just Thinking That!
Suburban Guerrilla —
Via Gawker, this astonishing clip:
Last night Glenn Beck’s guest was ex-CIA person Michael Scheuer, who stated that the only hope for the country was for Osama Bin Laden to “deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States.” Seriously.
Why would any good, patriotic American say such a thing in a discussion about border protection? Because all of our politicians crave is the approval of Europeans and to hold on to their cushy jobs and it’s going to take an attack from Bin Laden to wake America up to the fact that our leaders need to use ...
Where The Far Right Now Is
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
I watched this last night in Aspen. For Michael Scheuer to actually say that the only hope for the US is a major attack from Osama bin Laden. This is where they are, getting nuttier by the day: ...
Fox News Guest: America Needs Osama to Attack
The American Scene —
In recent months, I’ve had several people ask me why it is that I criticize “my own team” in blog posts. The answer is sometimes that I think they’re wrong, that I care about public discourse more than any political movement, and that anyway honest criticism strengthens a movement.
But the answer for some people I criticize is that they’re just not on my team, and they shouldn’t be on yours either:
Words Have Meaning; A Short Discourse On Civility In Politics
A Blog For All —
This has been something that's been brewing for some time. Coarse language in politics is nothing new. It's been around as long as there has been politics. Vulgarity, personal attacks, and smears are part and parcel of American politics, and yet there is something fundamentally distasteful about all of it. It was awful when the left smeared President Bush and clamored for his impeachment and claimed the 2000 election rendered him an illegitimate president. They have called him a chimp, fascist, and all other manner of epitaph. It's little different now that the right is spewing nonsense about President Obama's lack of birth certificate somehow proves he shouldn't be President since ...
Glenn Beck Yearns for a Terrorist Attack, To Make Us Safer
Library Grape —
I am slow to the party on this one but the level of insanity that came out of the following Glenn Beck show is nearly too much for me: I'll let Wonkette encapsulate my overall reaction: Well, this is sort of what we all imagined, in our darkest & drunkest moments. Here’s a Fox News show ...
