Salt Lake Tribune
Someone sweating away under the pen name Paul Rolly serves
up still more preposterosities about the Virgin President for the
Liberals’ believing minds:
Brock, who was part of that cabal before he bolted from the
group and became a liberal commentator and media critic, had been a
writer for the right-wing American Spectator and authored
some of the most inflammatory articles of the Clinton era. One
included claims of Clinton promiscuity from Arkansas Highway Patrol
troopers who Brock says were paid by the anti-Clinton group and
whose stories, he now says, were largely made up.
They called it the Arkansas Project, which was funded by
right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife through The
American Spectator, which was spending $5,000 in fees and tips
[!] to find anti-Clinton stories from when he was governor of
Arkansas.
According to Brock, it was the Arkansas Project that helped
persuade Paula Jones to sue Clinton for sexual harassment. And it
was the Arkansas Project that used Jones’ case to “probe Clinton’s
consensual sex life through the deposition process, and then to
question Clinton under oath about it. In other words, the Jones
case had become a vehicle to create a crime where one may not have
otherwise existed.”
Brock further wrote that when investigators unearthed what they
considered a juicy tidbit to embarrass Clinton or other Democrats,
they would devise a multi-media strategy, where often they would
have it break in Matt Drudge’s on-line blog, “The Drudge Report,”
then reported more extensively in The American Spectator
and turn it over to Limbaugh, who would talk about it continuously,
citing as “legitimate” sources the Spectator and the
Drudge report.
(March 17, 2012)
The Nation
Delusional ramblings from Michael Moore on the now defunct
or under-arrest Occupy movement:
Occupy Wall Street. What other political movement in modern
times has won the sympathy and/or support of the majority of the
American public—in less than two months? How did this happen? I
think it was a revolt that has been percolating across the country
since Reagan fired the first air traffic controller. Then, on
September 17, 2011, a group of (mostly) young adults decided to
take direct action. And this action struck a raw nerve, sending a
shock wave throughout the United States, because what these kids
were doing was what tens of millions of people wished they could
do. The people who have lost their jobs, their homes, their
“American dream”—they cathartically cheered on this ragtag bunch
who got right in the face of Wall Street and said, “We’re not
leaving until you give us our country back!”
(April 2, 2012)
The Daily Beast
Young David Frum(p) displays his amazing penchant for
obscure and anfractuous facts pursuant to another of his assaults
on the pulchritudinous Sarah Palin:
As financial markets collapsed in October, and the U.S. economy
plunged into the steepest decline since 1930, the mood of the
American electorate darkened. Palin’s rallies seethed with anger
against Barack Obama, but also against all that Obama seemed to
symbolize.
The first black president was also the first since Herbert
Hoover with a foreign-born parent; the first since Woodrow Wilson
to work as a college professor before entering politics; and the
first since Grover Cleveland to have his principal home in a big
Northern city.
To be all at once urban and academic and born
to a foreign parent and black on top of that—it was almost
impossible for a single person to represent a more perfect opposite
to Palin’s invocation of the “real America.”
(March 4, 2012)
Washington Post
Before officially joining the Democratic Party, columnist
Kathleen Parker quotes a letter from a leading theologian in
defense of that fun-loving fuzz ball of a guy, Rush
Limbaugh:
Even so, he does have a large audience and it is disconcerting
that so many seem to share his obvious hostility toward women.
Several of his cohorts in discourtesy are snorting and grunting in
my inbox even now.
One who wrote in defense of Limbaugh informed me of my place in
God’s hierarchy, slightly above goats, and gave me a tutorial about
why women have been saddled with the monthly inconvenience and
painful childbirth—for tempting men to do evil and failing to
recognize their roles as “helpmeets” for men.
“Pagan women like yourself,” he patiently averred, “have no
regard for the natural order of God’s plan and shamelessly
promulgate the ‘we are goddesses’ bile that has infected the entire
country and pretty much stopped it in its tracks from incurring
God’s blessing.” I’m leaving out the best parts.
You don’t have to read many such letters to think that maybe
Democrats have a point.
(March 11, 2012)
New York Times
The sour reflections of two ladies having had rather sad
track records with the menfolk, columnist Maureen Dowd and diplomat
Hillary Clinton, both facing old age, Maureen a spinster and
Hillary the most famous cuckold of her generation:
Hillary Clinton has fought for women’s rights around the world.
But who would have dreamed that she would have to fight for them at
home?
“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me,”
she told an adoring crowd at the Women in the World Summit at
Lincoln Center on Saturday. “But they all seem to. It doesn’t
matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They
want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want
to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we
make about our own health and bodies.
“Yes,” she continued to applause, “it is hard to believe that
even here at home, we have to stand up for women’s rights and
reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America needs
to set an example for the entire world.”
As secretary of state, Clinton is supposed to stay out of
domestic politics. But this was a moment pregnant [sic] with
possibility, a titanic clash of the Inevitable (Hillary) and the
Indefensible (Republican cavemen).
(March 14, 2012)
All Things Considered (National Public
Radio)
A giant passes in Austin, Texas, owing to the usual
“complications from a head wound”:
In Austin last week, an unlikely civic symbol passed away. He
was a cross-dressing homeless man who lived on the kindness of
strangers, but he was much more than that, according to NPR’s John
Burnett.
Burnett: “He was a fixture on the sidewalks of this capital city
in his bushy beard, tiara, thong and falsies. Leslie, as he was
universally called, became a symbol of the eccentricity and
rakishness that people celebrate in this fun-loving techie boom
town. Now, Leslie is gone. Mourners at the memorial donned
rhinestone tiaras and feather boas in his honor. A young man who
gave his name as Ozzie Zion went a step further, stuffing himself
into a bikini bottom….
“When Leslie died at age 60 in a local hospice last Thursday due
to complications from a head wound, the mayor proclaimed it Leslie
Day. Leslie Cochran himself ran for mayor in 2000, appearing around
town dressed like a stripper and holding hand-lettered campaign
signs.”
(March 13, 2012)
The Progressive
Old Faithful, The Prog, publishes another manuscript
awaiting translation into English:
The GOP is so queer. Not gay queer. Pre-Queer Nation queer.
Mitt Romney, though certainly ruggedly handsome, perfectly
coiffed, and well dressed, is queer. Odd queer. Most of the kids do
not want him to play on their team. Right in front of him, they try
to draft someone else—anyone else but him. His flip-flopping is
extreme people-pleasing. Mitt is trying as hard as he can, smiling,
shaking hands, spending money, saying he’s just like us, and he
cannot get the Republican love. Actually, that sounds gay.
(April 2012)
From the Archives
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Satire? Columnist Phillip Morris at work:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is without question the
most dangerous judge in America.…Thomas hasn’t added a shred of
original thought to the court, but he has brought an irrepressible
desire to change its constitutional politics.…One can only wonder
when Thomas will sharpen his knife for something truly meaningful
like, say, the 13th Amendment prohibition against slavery.
(March 8, 1992)
