Why do I have the feeling that all those pundits who swooned over Giuliani’s ferret moment last night (with Ron Paul, fittingly, in the role of the ferret) will wake up sometime this afternoon and hurriedly search for their high heels and party dress, hoping to slink unnoticed past the RA’s room before someone catches them? Sure, it was …
Sean Hannity just referred to how “we can’t really define torture,” except, of course, when it comes to “cutting off of limbs.”
Glad we can agree on that.
PS: RON PAUL just won the text message poll. The GOP’s Sanjaya!
The idea that Sean Hannity is posing as someone fit to judge the rhetorical styles of others, let alone their logic, is offensive to those of us who can construct a sentence that doesn’t include the words “Hannitized!”
I advise those who can to start drinking now.
Blogging to begin at 9pm. (Or, you know, now.)
8:51 PM: Scene-setting …
Condolences to the many whose lives he touched, I hope they will not be too offended by a small bit of “news analysis” related his passing: Already the guy filling in for Rush predicts that the “loony liberal left” will use his death to proclaim the “end of the Religious Right.” That may happen, but the first instance of “politicization” …
I confess that John Podhoretz is one of my favorite Cornerites, and not in the ironic did-he-really-just-say-something-that-insane way that one usually can appreciate John Derbyshire. He has a sense of humor, he’s not entirely doctrinaire, he is a fellow pop culture enthusiast. But then he writes something like this:
The Silly Story of
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BREAKING: OPPOSITION RESEARCH STAFF OFTEN TIP REPORTERS TO STORIES DAMAGING TO THEIR RIVALS!
Salon’s all over it.
Sorry, I don’t mean to be overly cynical about this ultra-meta-super-process story; because reporters are often less than transparent about this process, I’m sure there are news consumers who don’t realize that a damaging …
Greg Sargent reports that John McCain called the Iowa family snubbed by Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for not being rich enough to serve as suitable props for their “anti-death tax” stop in Iowa. Undoubtedly, the McCain campaign is attempting to turn Rudy’s mistake into a net gain for them — apologizing “on behalf of all politicians” is the …
Via the Ferrets for Freedom:
The ad should probably be funnier than it actually is. I think just a tape of the call, minus the freedom-loving ferrets, might make the point. Though I confess I like ferret who wants to “ban people, not ferrets.”
He could’ve probably gotten away with tap-dancing his way through the abortion issue, but I somehow don’t think any campaign — R or D — could weather this:
OLIN–Last weekend Deb and Jerry VonSprecken of Olin received a call from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s campaign office asking them if they would be interested in
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I have no idea what Matt is talking about here, but I just happened to run into Karen and “the good Klein” downstairs last night and a good time was had by all.
UPDATE: No, seriously, a good time was had.
UPDATE THE SECOND: The point of this post, fyi, was to link to Matt’s comments about the MSMers who are excited about new media …
It’s true that Romney’s comment a couple of weeks ago about the cost-benefit ratio for pursuing bin Laden is the gaffe that’s revealed the most about what kind of foreign policy chief he’d be. But the whole in-France-they-mate-like-Vulcans quote is the most fascinating, and perhaps the most revealing of his general mindset. A friend …
Uh-huh…
Gonzales Is Said to Seem Confident He Will Stay
By DAVID JOHNSTON and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
The attorney general has told aides he believes he has weathered the storm over the prosecutor dismissals.
Sort of paying half-an-ear to the hearings now (our colleague Massimo is on the Hill watching live), but it doesn’t seem like
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The highlight of last night’s Time 100 party, for me: “Jay, there’s someone over here that wants to talk to you…Elizabeth, here’s Jay.”
I still have a job this morning, so I think it went okay, though there was a moment when Mrs. Edwards told Jay she would like to punch him.* I believe MSNBC’s Tammy Haddad took a picture.
I’ll let …
