McCain already groveled, in 2000. It was Bush who didn’t, at least not then.

Watching the cable “news” commentary and their rampant use of dramatic hyperbole in Ominous Pentameter is hazardous to your health. The simple fact of anyone’s presence on these shows should be enough to cause you to turn down the volume and simply enjoy the body language, a kind of Hee Haw Kabuki. Unless, of course, you are like too many of the resigned public and gain some kind of prurient excitement out of watching a show you know will aggravate you.

The fact that Rove has not yet been perp-walked for a variety of offenses is exhibit one in why this country is very close to being beyond redemption

Paul Gottfried said: “Did anyone else catch the unsettling comment made by Karl Rove on the O’Reilly show last night.”

Is that a question or an assumption? If a question, then no, I try not to knowingly subject myself to malicious hypnotism.

There is not one reason to be grateful to O’Reilly nor his circus freak-show guests… unless you’re someone who makes a living off of such bullshit.

According to my recollection, McCain came acropper in S.C. when he came unglued after someome (behind whom was I wonder who?) emailed around suggestions that his step-daughter from India was really his love child.

You still watch FOX? You still get cable?? How twentieth century of you!

The real shameful cringe involves Obama’s grandmother remark.  Some conservative commentators have commented on the ungallant nature of his “throwing grandma under the bus”, a minuscule few have whispered that maybe it was reasonable for Grannie to be afraid of black men, but none have dared to pin Obama on the reality of black on white violence.  His attack on Grannie wasn’t just personally sleazy it was a slap in the face to the millions of white victims, particularly rape victims, of black racial
violence.  “Conservatives” and Republicans have been sitting in the pews when it comes to that violence for the last 40 years.

Watch Fox?...............Ha-Ha......Ha-Ha......Rupert Murdoch can kiss my big white Alabama Ass!...I havn’t watched FOX sence the early debates when I thought Hannity was going to kiss Guiliani!{sic}....MSM makes me want to puke with it’s atmosphere akin to the proffesional wrestling federation. It’s true entertainment value doesn’t even hold my attention when Heraldo and Uncle Bill act like they disagree on immigration! As for Rove, he should be in prison waiting for “Dubya” and “Cheney” to join him as cell mates!........These criminals and the cowardly lions of congress have destroyed conservatism as much as Hitler destroyed nationalism!

“Hee-Haw Kabuki” ! Bull’s eye!

“From the left - it’s Grandpa Jones, on the right- Junior Samples.  In the Crossfire; Iraq: Duty or Honor or Both”

Mr. Gottfield’s comments are true, as usual, but as usual he prefers to ignore the glass half full.  Some neocons have really risen to the occasion on the whole Rev. Wright thing.  Charles Krauthammer gave a great analysis of Obama’s tricks on Fox which, had it come from anyone’s mouth but Krauthammer’s, would have had everyone here jumping up and cheering.  It’s often forgotten that paleocons and neocons do agree on some issues of real substance.  Ann Coulter (OK, mainstream, not neocon) wrote a ballsy column on the Rev. Wright story too.

And one nice thing about there being a real contest for the nomination is that Hilary’s supporters are out there sharpening their knives.  Susan Estrich said on TV that as a woman she’s also afraid of young black men, as are women of all races, because of the disproportionate crime rate in the black community.  Of course that’s old news around here, but the point is that this was Susan Estrich, unapologetically pointing out that fear of black men is rational, and openly referring to the disproportionate crime rate, with none of the usual “it pains me” sentimentality.

The Obama-Clinton contest is making it safe for some white liberals to say stuff they’d never be able to say otherwise.  Obviously Susan Estrich is allowed to say things that Pat Buchanan isn’t; that won’t change drastically in the near future.  But conservatives who keep a sharp and sensitive eye out might be able to, at the very least, widen the bounds of “acceptable” public discussion with some inadvertent help from Hilary supporters.

Paul Gottfried watches Fox News???

What a bunch of sad sacks these right-liberals are in the White House, and so easily cowed by the least whiff of criticism of vitriolic anti-patriotic and anti-white hatred.

The Onion is a more reliable source than Fox News.

The flag that flies at the South Carolina capital is not the “Stars and Bars”.