Today's Hoot, er wait a sec

Polipundit:

If you want a really, really good laugh, then read this. At first, I thought it was satire.

Darn, it turned out to be only Dana Milbank reporting from Bizarro World, as usual. You know - that's the planet where John Kerry wore his magic hat on his Christmas Eve mission to Cambodia. But I have a question: Doesn't this cream puff count as a Democrat political contribution? Oh, I forgot. The Washington Post is part of the exempt media.

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I feel like Greg Gutfeld:

No one sent me the email about it being ALL-CINDY FRIDAY, and now I feel like a wallflower at an orgy. A BIG FAT HAIRY WALLFLOWER. It's like showing up at a costume party, and everyone but me came dressed as a blood-sucking ghoul!

But I will give it a shot...

Greg thinks it's all about the "Chief Brody slap", but I tend towards the "media whore" explanation:

Cindy Sheehan's son was killed in Iraq. She's a grieving mother. Last year, the President met with Mrs. Sheehan, comforted her, and grieved with her. At the time, Mrs. Sheehan thought the President had done well and appreciated him. Enter August, no major news, and a media still smarting over the President's re-election despite everything they threw at him. Cindy Sheehan returns entering stage right -- this time a left wing media whore in the form of a grieving mother.
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I have no use for Mrs. Sheehan. While Casey's grandparents, aunts, uncles, and numerous cousins having issued a statement saying Sheehan "now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation," the media and the left allow and encourage Mrs. Sheehan to do what the others have been so inept at doing -- keeping an anti-war, anti-Bush story alive through the August news slumber. Concurrently, the media and the left ignore those parents of the fallen who are offended by Mrs. Sheehan, support the President, or otherwise recognize that Mrs. Sheehan's actions discredit and undermine the work so many fallen soldiers works hard for. Those people just do not make the story flow like the left wants.

The remarkably humorous bit of all of this is that while Mrs. Sheehan is using the body of a dead soldier to get her fifteen minutes of fame, Mrs. Sheehan is letting that body be used by Michael Moore, Code Pink, the DNC, and the media to extend their fifteen minutes of fame.

(Follow-up here.) And yes indeed, they're all coming out of the woodwork:

Cindy Sheehan has now been squatting in a roadside ditch near President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch since August 6. And every day more aging hippies, professional grievance-mongers, and underemployed liberal arts majors show up with their backpacks and banjos to join her. Squatting in ditches, sleeping in pup tents, and sitting around a campfire at night yodeling "This Land Is Your Land" is after all the anti-war protesters idea of nirvana.

Not to worry - they apparently do have portapotties:

The bad guys hang at the Crawford Peace House, a dump of a house that looks like Hippie Central with dozens of cars, vans, SUVs and campers parked on the grass. Add portable toilets for ambience and you get the picture.

Regardless, they've been busy prepping ole Cindy for her star turn:

Ms. Sheehan's new friends in the peace mob have stuffed her with more soundbites than she can rattle off at any one single event...

although she sometimes slips and reflects their bizarre manias:

Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel.
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Sheehan said she considered Lynne Stewart her Atticus Finch, the lawyer who defended an innocent Black man accused of rape in the book and film "To Kill A Mockingbird."
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We have no Constitution. We're the only country with no checks and balances. We want our country back if we have to impeach George Bush down to the person who picks up the dog sh-t in Washington! Let George Bush send his two little party animals to die in Iraq. It's OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons but we are waging nuclear war in Iraq, we have contaminated the entire country. It's not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. Hypocrites! But Israel can occupy Palestine? Stop the slaughter!

Woohoo! But no sweat, her new "pals" who are controlling her bookings will keep her on message and the fawning mainstream media will lap it up. They better because ole Cindy craves more attention:

Her latest complaint, as reported in the Washington Post, is that "the mainstream media have not paid enough attention to her cause." Hmm... I just checked "Google News" and found almost 1,800 items referring to her. That same mainstream media normally greets the completion of a major construction project in Iraq with zero items. Sheehan may be vicious or highly disturbed, but she knows how to play the mainstream media like a fine musical instrument -- not that the MSM don't want to be played.

I hope it's a comfort to her when her current bosom chums discard her like an empty tofu package, but I suspect she'll need even more help than she currently does. Damian at E-nough sums it up:

Ms. Sheehan is a sad character. We commiserate the loss of her son. Her grief has made her unstable, but what has made her shameless? What has made her vain? Surely it was not grief that made her stupid? It is a sin that newspapers, Democratic Congressmen, and the peace mob are using her for the usual fun.

Indeed.

Get her on the Supreme Court

Judge reluctant to rule on global warming:

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge expressed reluctance about beginning judicial oversight of pollution issues that affect global warming as she heard arguments Friday in a complaint brought by eight states against some of the nation's largest power companies.

"Why should I do something that Congress and the president have decided they don't want to do as a matter of policy?" Judge Loretta Preska asked lawyers for the states.

She must have missed the Activist Judiciary class at law school.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the states would prove that the five power companies are responsible for 10 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions.

Er, so what, Dickie? Someone will always be responsible for 10% of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions. Maybe even you.

He actually came out and said it!

Ace - At Least He's Honest: Lefty George Monbiot Admits Contradiction Between Left-Liberalism and Patriotism:

He doesn't understand, according to the subhead, why he should love his own country (Britain) any more than any other country.

Which is, you know, the whole problem in a nutshell. I've said it ad nauseum, but left-liberals believe their attachment to their country is a thing of pure happenstance, and should not therefore engender any sort of love of country. Global progressives consider themselves global citizens, and their loyalties are not primarily national, but transnational and ideological, a loyalty and affection for a worldwide (anti-nationalist) progressive/socialist solidarity movement and not to any particular country.

Which is their right. But I grow weary of them claiming that I should not question their patriotism. Most are not so forthright to admit this, but they are not patriots, at least as patriotism is conventionally understood.

Of course, the version of this mania that afflicts the developed world is that their country is not merely just unimportant, but always wrong.

Now we know what Sandy was doing at the National Archives!

Andy McCarthy:

Given this turn in 9/11 Commission events, it is again worth asking: Why has the public not been told at this point what was in the classified documents that Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger illegally pilfered from the archives during preparation for his Commission testimony (as well as President Clinton’s) – some of which he destroyed (although there are said to be other copies)? The 9/11 inquiry was said to be so significant to the public’s understanding of intelligence failure that the Commissioners famously forced a Presidential Daily Briefing from the CIA (one of the most sensitive documents generated by government) to be declassified and unsealed so that Bush’s National Security Adviser, Condi Rice, could be asked about it publicly. Why haven’t we been able to see for ourselves what Berger took?

Just asking.

Number 1 in the series is here. Gosh, this is just like "Where's Waldo!"

We're so sensitive

Military Bans the Term 'Warrior':

Just think. With one stroke of a pen, Adm. Keating changed my perception of the North American aerospace defense network from a high-tech and reliable weapons and intelligence command into a bunch of whimpering pussies. After learning of this latest politically correct infestation at the commanding officer level, I immediately felt less safe.

Fun with Sid Vicious!

No, not the "musician"! It's Hillary's favorite flying monkey, Sidney Blumenthal, the inventor of the term "vast rightwing conspiracy." Wondering what ole Sid's been up to lately? Check out On Sullivan and Blumenthal posted on August 11, 2005:

Eight months ago, in its December 2004 issue, the Washington Monthly printed a lengthy profile of Bob Novak by Amy Sullivan. This morning, Salon printed a lengthy profile of Bob Novak by Sidney Blumenthal. There were some striking similarities between the two.

Ruh Oh! Here's a lightly edited example from the article to give you the flavor:

Amy Sullivan
Swiveling in his chair, Novak went on the attack -- "It looks like the ambassador [Wilson] really doesn't know who leaked this to me"--punching back against the challenges of his guest, Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) -- "Do you know whether my source was in the White House? Do you know that at all?"

Sidney Blumenthal
Swiveling back and forth in his chair, he engaged in a show of bravado. "It looks like the ambassador [Wilson] really doesn't know who leaked this to me," he said. He turned to a guest on the show, Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee, and asked, "Do you know whether my source was in the White House? Do you know that at all?"

Naughty Sid!

The Salon piece does include a link to the Washington Monthly piece, and Blumenthal attributes one quote to Sullivan's work. The attribution and link were not included in the original piece, but were added sometime after.

That was sure swell of him. You ever notice a certain aroma around the Clintons and all their hangers-on?

(Hat tip: Brothers Judd)

It's a start

Hat tip for the bumpersticker design to an FR poster. And lest we forget how responsible Jamie was and why, check out How Chinagate Led to 9/11:

But the picture is much bigger than that. The Gorelick memo, which blocked intelligence agents from sharing information that could have halted the September 11 hijacking plot, was only the mortar in a much larger maze of bureaucratic walls whose creation Gorelick personally oversaw.

It’s a story the 9/11 Commission may not want to hear, and one that Gorelick – now incredibly a member of that commission – has so far refused to tell. But it is perhaps the most crucial one to understanding the intentional breakdown of intelligence that led to the September 11 disaster.

Nearly from the moment Gorelick took office in the Clinton Justice Department, she began acting as the point woman for a large-scale bureaucratic reorganization of intelligence agencies that ultimately placed the gathering of intelligence, and decisions about what – if anything – would be done with it under near-direct control of the White House. In the process, more than a dozen CIA and FBI investigations underway at the time got caught beneath the heel of the presidential boot, investigations that would ultimately reveal massive Chinese espionage as millions in illegal Chinese donations filled Democratic Party campaign coffers.
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It was this web of investigations that led Gorelick and Bill Clinton to erect the wall between intelligence agencies that resulted in the toppling of the Twin Towers. The connections go on and on, but they all lead back to Gorelick, the one person who could best explain how the Clinton administration neutered the American intelligence agencies that could have stopped the September 11 plot. Yet another high crime will have been committed if the September 11 Commission doesn’t demand testimony from her.

The article was from 2004. You don't remember ole Jaime testifying, now do you?

Hey, hey, it was the monkeys!

Go visit The Anchoress. And Captain Ed, TKS, Strata-Sphere. But for real enjoyment go to RedState and scroll on down to the part about Dietrich Snell, the one man coverup crew.

If the graphic seems a little obscure, see this.

Today's Pondscum Chronicles

From Oraculations - FULL COURT PRESS BY THE LEFT MAY DOOM US IN IRAQ:

For a rundown on the onslaught of hate Bush, hate Amerca Hollywood output with appropriate pix go here to a great site. (More specifically, check out this post. -ed.)

This onslaught of major Hollywood star studded Leftist propaganda will end the Iraq war and may end us as a meaningful world power. Check out the link. It's a shocker. There is a full court press by the Left and they absolutely control the media. The solution is presented on the site as well. My only contradiction here is that movies with an opposing point of view will never make it out of the current Hollywood and no star will appear.

Just one of the beauties from the post referenced above:

“American Dreamz.” This ’satire’ from Universal Pictures deals with Pakistani suicide bombers out to kill the US president. The film stars Hugh Grant, Richard Dreyfuss, Willem Dafoe and Mandy Moore. According to writer-director Paul Weitz (American Pie ), “The film is a comic examination of … cultural obsessions” like the War on Terror “and how they can anaesthetise us to the actual issues of our day.”

Gosh, I hope no one drops an airplane on ole Paul or blows him up with a nail bomb. But it's OK, I guess, since it seems that he has plenty of his own anesthesia.