As always, Hunter is a great read.
On the hit list:
1. Poorly sourced smears against Obama flogged by the Washington Post.
2. Rove on Bush & Iraq: The Democrats made him do it.
3. Rudy and the New York City paid car and police driver for his mistress.
4. Hillary Clinton thinks Colin “these are facts, not assertions” Powell is a guy worth listening to.
5. Joe Klein continues to walk the earth unraped by drunken bears, thus proving there is no God.
6. A gay general got to ask the Republican candidates questions. The horror!
Hunter really burns bright on the screwed up notions of “moderation” and “bipartisan reasonableness” that would have pundits like David Broder require a Democratic administration to temper an otherwise sensible policy with “clusterfuckery” in the name of getting along; that would require the embrace of a guy like Colin Powell just because he has been deemed a reasonable guy even though he is the kind of guy who would go to the U.N. and tell the assembly that Hussein’s WMDs were a stone cold fact known “without a doubt.”
I probably drag this one out too often, but insisting on moderation when it doesn’t make sense always reminds me of William Lloyd Garrison writing on the subject of abolitionism and slavery in the inaugural edition of his newspaper, The Liberator:
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.
I love the Garrison quote. The only one I use more often is King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail:
“But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label…So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we viii be. We we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremist for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail
Doug –
How many drunken bears would need to molest Joe Klein to restore your faith?
(BTW, add this to the list of ‘sentences I never thought I would ever type’.)
Powell’s worst moment was when he held up that little vial and basically said, “This isn’t anthrax, but if it were…” The assembly should have burst out laughing and walked out.