Category Archive for 'Fiskings'

Back when Andrew Sullivan was a conservative, he sent lots of traffic this way with a number of links. So, I feel a certain sadness with his change of perspective over the last few years.

Andrew wrote a piece titled The Tea Tantrum Movement for The Atlantic. It is his take on the Tea Party protest movement based on an admitted hour or so of on-line research.

In today’s Democrat & Chronicle is a column by George Will that was printed in larger papers yesterday. I read it and my jaw dropped. When did George Will become Andrew Sullivan?

Before Gen. David Petraeus’s report, and to give it a context of optimism, the president visited Iraq’s Anbar province to underscore the success of [...]

Hitchens Hates

I tossed Christopher Hitchens out of the pool of those I respect some time ago, for his mean spirited hachet jobs on Bob Hope and Sister Teresa.

The worm who mugged Mother Teresa and Bob Hope turns his filthy thoughts to Iraq, and the issue of news being distributed by the military to Iraqi media. Christopher Hitchens climbs on his high horse and pontificates based upon the New York Times story that I’ve already demonstrated is error filled and slanted. But Chrissy [...]

Just for your information, France, Germany, and the rest of Old Europe: The President of the United States is under no obligation to obtain your approval of any of his appointments. Nor, would we expect you to obtain ours in similar circumstances.So, butt the hell out!

Gabriel Murray

Hey, let’s get all of Gabriel’s comments today in one place, and make faces at them. In order from last to first:I also wanted to clarify something: Chuck’s claim that liberals don’t care about brown people was based on a Google search. Thank you, anonymous: that was a hilariously inane rebuttal. I felt compelled [...]

Dirtsville, USA

Joanne98, with over a 1,000 posts at Democratic Underground spews this:Democratic UndergroundSince tomorrow is the anniversary of the “excuse” the cowboy uses to attack anybody he wants to. I’m bracing myself for the ongoing images of people in small red state towns exploiting the victims of 9/11.CNN is already showing people in small town Texas [...]

BULLSHITBULLSHITBULLSHITThis is as simple as you taking a pee in the morning. The wife discovers that you peed in the sink. Honest mistake? Hardly.Sandy Berger has been doing this classified stuff for a long time. He violated the rules on as many as five occasions. There is ZERO chance that this was a mistake. I [...]

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, eh?

Molly Ivins writes for Creators Syndicate. 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Bolded items from here on are my comments.
We have been enjoying a lovely little spate of French-bashing here lately. Jonah Goldberg of National Review, who admits that French-bashing is “shtick” (as it is to many American comedians), [...]