Month: June 2005
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Rove’s “motives” comment debated on Fox News Sunday
Bob Somerby is right to ridicule the insipid claim that Karl Rove was talking about liberals, not Democrats, during his speech to the New York Conservative Club. But he gets one thing wrong in quoting this exchange from yesterday’s edition of Fox News Sunday: BILL KRISTOL: Look, what Karl Rove said, what outraged people is
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Only in Chapel Hill
Just saw two things you won’t see anywhere else in North Carolina: -A giant abacus sculpture with basketballs instead of beads -A Kucinich 2008 bumper sticker Only in Chapel Hill!
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Hollywood family values
Via Gawker, check out the speculation of an “insider” about the family values of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey: Another insider said: “If Nick and Jessica were to get divorced, it would be after their next ABC special in the fall. Contractually, they have to do the special and they are both professionals.” A Simpson
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Patrick Henry students consider Bush’s dishonesty
Hanna Rosin has published a fascinating article in The New Yorker on Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school in Virginia that is becoming a breeding ground for the next generation of Republican operatives. One scene that struck me took place in a class on the presidency that Rosin observed: [Professor Robert] Stacey moved on
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Deb Pryce joins Wilson and Rove in GOP attack on dissent
Dana Milbank points out in the Washington Post today that the controversy over Karl Rove’s attack on liberals has overshadowed Rep. Deb Pryce’s nearly identical suggestion that Democrats are helping terrorists by criticizing the government. In a press release, Pryce said, “[W]hat we’ve seen from Democrat leaders is a growing pattern of jumping at any
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Media failing to report Rove’s most offensive comments
Why are so many reporters ignoring the worst thing that Karl Rove said? During his speech to the New York Conservative Club, Rove attacked liberals for their response to 9/11. Most media coverage has focused on the following two passages: But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the
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Andrew Sullivan: Then and now
When did Andrew Sullivan become such a stickler for rhetorical nuance? After defending Dick Durbin, he’s now attacking Karl Rove’s outrageous suggestion that liberals want to put US troops in greater danger (more on Rove soon): It seems to me that Karl Rove’s sickening generalization about “liberals” in the war on terror is revealing in
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More fun with strange spam
Following up on my collection of amusing spam names like “Antifreeze B. Chi,” here’s a spam or worm email I just got with some political content: Hello, handsome! Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Indeed.
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The intellectual insecurity of George W. Bush
Fred Becker of Wonkette notes George W. Bush lording his office over Samuel W. Bodman, his PhD-holding Secretary of Energy, yesterday: THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate the Secretary of Energy joining me today. He’s a good man, he knows a lot about the subject, you’ll be pleased to hear. I was teasing him — he taught
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The Dick Durbin saga
I want to revisit a couple of points from the controversy over Dick Durbin’s remarks on the Senate floor, for which he was forced to apologize yesterday. First, while I’m no fan of Nazi comparisons, I do think the subtlety of Durbin’s point was completely lost amidst the manufactured outrage. Andrew Sullivan does a good