Abu Wabu

Michelle Malkin and Brian Maloney have been dogged in their pursuit of the truth behind the Air America fiasco, and have landed one of the story's true nuggets: that champion of the truth, that paragon of virtue, Al Franken, is right in the middle of the whole mess. Deflection, bald-faced lies and ad hominem attacks on his critics apparently aren't enough to keep Stuart Smalley from having to face the reality that even liars who make a career of accusing others of lying are vulnerable to a paper trail.

What an idiot. I warned you, bro.

Now let's see if the MSM takes notice.

Bill Maher recently ran into someone with a sense of morality, as described in the National Review Online's Corner (ht: HH). Maher is a darling of the left by dint of his supposed political and comedic sophistication (see Al Franken, Jon Stewart et al), in this case made manifest by his studied approach to child abuse: he claims that as a boy he was savagely beaten by schoolyard thugs, but now that he's a grown man with hindsight, he would rather have been gently masturbated by Michael Jackson.

NEXT!

YFS

Via The Right Scoop:

"Typical liberal cry baby. They sell a product that nobody wants to buy and then they want the government to come in and subsidize their failures and force people to buy their product at the expense of successful people."

Or they can use the Al Franken model and steal their "subsidy" money from children.

There's nothing Al Franken's keepers won't do to see he has his way.

Just another day in contemporary American politics. Liberals break the law, violate their opponents' privacy, either commit or facilitate theft, and meanwhile assure the rest of us that they did all of this because of their moral superiority.

A leftard once told me that Markos Moulitsis Zuniga was a GOD second only to one Al Franken, he of an obscure and failed radio network run by leftists who knowingly steal money from orphanages. Yikes. Said leftard is not alone in his ridiculously poor judgement: Markos Moulitsis Zuniga has made a career out of fomenting madness amongst his acolytes while claiming not to be responsible for it. Now comes the news that he has been dishing out that sweet, sweet madness from behind other guises...

That's right: Kos is a freakin' sockpuppet.

And no, the legion of enemies this idiot has made ain't pullin' punches.

Not now.

Not ever.

Note to Kostards: That burning sensation in your cheeks- that's the heat generated by your brain realizing its own stupidity.

Also: Courage, TNR style: Change the subject.

HT: Red Forman

Doesn't that title just shout precious and clever? Please indulge me whilst I preen.

The Idiot LeftTM is a vast treasure trove of buffoons and charlatans. I present one of each:

THE NEW ARMY RECRUITING PAMPHLET
by JOEL STEIN
Here is Joel Stein before Joel Stein was cool. This little speck of flyshit has now officially earned the combined deeply-rooted disdain of every man and woman in uniform, plus their families, and every veteran in America except Senators Kerry and Murtha.

I guess that makes Stein a Democrat.

AIR AMERICA: THE SAGA CONTINUES
by MICHELLE MALKIN
Al Franken's salary demands have apparently buried the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club. MM shares the results of her partnership with Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer in their co-investigation of Air America's financial dealings.

Even O'Rielly is homing in.

Bomb hidden under toddler
The wife of a wanted Palestinian fugitive tried to hide a hand grenade under her baby; Five fugitives were arrested in a house where 10 Kg of explosives were found.

As Al Franken would say, oy, oy, oy.

Michelle Malkin follows up on her report, "INSIDE AIR AMERICA: AL FRANKEN'S LYING LIES" with news that Air America has rolled over under the pressure created by Malkin and Maloney's unrelenting scrutiny and topped up the piddling fifty grand they tried to pass off as a "payment" to the Gloria Wise organisation, but which was actually placed in escrow under the exclusive control of Air America lawyers. They've added the remaining 825,000 bucks to that escrow account, but don't expect them to release it to its rightful owners, the people Air America stole it from, any time soon:

Nine months after acknowledging the liability in a signed settlement agreement with the network's former owners, Air America Radio wired $825,000 into an escrow account for the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club, the New York Sun and New York Post report today.

The escrow account is controlled by Air America's lawyers. Air America says it will release the money in the account to Gloria Wise when the city Deparment of Investigations "completes its work and authorizes payment." Last month, in the wake of negative publicity over the shady deal, Air America deposited $50,000 to the account.

So far, there is no indication how Air America, which claimed to be unable to pay any more than the original fifty grand, has suddenly managed to come up with the rest of their ill-gotten gains, but it would not be surprising to find it takes the form of yet another private loan, this time from a more willing party, someone with a vested interest in seeing this whole damned thing just disappear. Perhaps Stuart Smalley's undying quest for the truth will lead him to discover this mysterious benefactor's identity so that he may share it with the rest of us.

Meanwhile, the DOI in New York has announced it is sitting on Air America's back until they come clean (Emily Gest at DOI has confirmed to me by phone that the announcement will be up on the DOI site within twenty-four hours):

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: EMILY GEST 212-825-5931 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2005 STATEMENT FROM DOI REGARDING AIR AMERICA'S REPAYMENT OF $875,000 During the course of DOI's investigation into allegations that officials at Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club had falsified documents submitted to various City agencies and had approved significant inappropriate transactions, DOI discovered that Gloria Wise had transferred $875,000 to Air America. DOI asked Air America to repay the $875,000 to an escrow account controlled by DOI. Thereafter, Air America repaid only $50,000 to an escrow account that is not controlled by DOI. DOI is pleased that Piquant LLC, the current owner of Air America, has agreed to DOI's request that, in lieu of making $50,000 quarterly payments, Piquant transfer the full $875,000 to the escrow account. While the total reimbursement reportedly has been made, DOI does not control the escrow account, although Air America's attorneys have represented that the money will only be disbursed with DOI's authorization. DOI's investigation is ongoing.

DOI is one of the oldest law-enforcement agencies in the country. The agency investigates and refers for prosecution City employees and contractors engaged in corrupt or fraudulent activities or unethical conduct. Investigations may involve any agency, officer, elected official or employee of the City, as well as those who do business with or receive benefits from the City.

February 12, 2005

I field this blog in honour of my youngest brother, with whom I share an ongoing and vehement political discourse.

He takes his cues from Al Franken.

Anyway, I know I can be abrasive in defending my point of view; I can sound downright confrontational merely dismantling vicious leftist propoganda, which trait comes off as particularly harsh-sounding in an e-mail, especially since I am so often right.

Better that what I have to say does not weigh in my brother's Inbox, but instead floats at a distance so as to calm fragile sensibilities and help friends and family save space on their hard-drives. So I offer this blog as a gesture of mollification and also a thumb in the eye. My opinions are now on display for all to see and know, which is more than I understand one can expect of, say, Dan Rather. But I digress, as does anyone who now mentions Dan Rather. Or, as it happens tonight, Eason Jordan.

In other words, dear brother, now you're not alone in deciding whether or not you will suffer my opinions, because now I'm broadcasting.

Thanks for the inspiration, man.

I like the emerging new term for the MSM: the "me-me-media". It reflects perfectly not only the hissiness let slip by the White House Press Corpse these past few days over the Cheney accident, but also that of the Kosturbators, the Huff'n'puffers, the DUmmies and everyone else enraged by the Cheneyan One having a mind of his own and speaking to the eeeevil Brit Hume.

Best take so far: NRO's Nathan Goulding, writing in the Media Blog. In its entirety:

CNN "Safe Haven" for Bill Clinton

Once again, there's a lot of anger in the media. Now, it's over Cheney's choice to do an exclusive interview with Fox, instead of a full-scale news conference with the White House press corps. Expose the Left and Newsbusters have the video of Jack Cafferty complaining about this, calling Fox the "f-word" network:

JACK CAFFERTY: Well, I obviously didn't see it because it hasn't been
released in its entirety yet. But I would guess it didn't exactly represent a
Profile in Courage for the vice president to wander over there to the f-word
network for a sit down with Brit Hume. That's a little like Bonnie interviewing
Clyde, ain't it? Where was the news conference? Where was the access to all of
the members of the media? Whatever.

BLITZER: You still think he needs to do a full-scale news conference and
invite all the cameras, all the reporters and ask whatever they want?

CAFFERTY: That's never going to happen. But running over there to the Fox
network. Talk about seeking a safe haven. He's not going to get any high hard
ones from anybody at the f-word network. I think we know that.

Besides the childishness of calling FNC the "f-word" network, need we remind Jack Cafferty of Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview with Bill Clinton, where he conveniently forgot to ask Clinton about Able Danger, the story the NYT had just broken that day? Perhaps he should take a look at his own network's reputation of being a "safe haven" before criticizing Fox.

In fact, Brit Hume questioned Cheney on just about everything possible, including questions about Scooter Libby having been authorized to talk about the classified National Intelligence Estimate. The only thing missing from Hume's interview was the incredulous and condescending tone the mainstream press have perfected.

Like Brit Hume said, when asked by Shepard Smith if the public was as upset as the press about the disclosure of the accident, "If my e-mail is any guide [...] I don't think much of the nation feels particularly deprived that they found out about this on Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening instead of Saturday night or Sunday morning." Similarly, it is the press, not the American people, that feel betrayed by Cheney's choice of venue for this interview.
— Nathan Goulding[ 02/16/2006 12:31 PM ]

Brutally Honest: Ace Of Spades:
The Comedic Stylings of Brit Hume
– Ace

Over at the Huffington Post, Arianna reports:

TiVo Moment #1: After Cheney walked Hume through the specifics of the shooting, including a cataloguing of Whittington's injuries ("He was struck in the right side of his face, his neck and his upper torso on the right side of his body"), Hume inexplicably followed up with this jaw dropper: "And I take it you missed the bird?"

F'n' Brit Hume. Coolest cat in the news.

Arianna then screeches:
The VP has just painted a verbal picture of blasting his friend in the face and Brit is wondering about... the bird?!

I'm pretty sure Michael Huffington is the one homosexual who wasn't born gay. But the poor sonofabitch just never had a chance, did he? What would you have done?

Me? Had I married Arianna Huffington? I think I'd be blasting my own friend in the face right now, if you know what I'm sayin'.

Arianna fancies herself a wit, incidentally. I remember her trying her hand at comedy, when she was still a "conservative" or supposedly so, in a Playboy article. It was about Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton and other Washintonians all in a hot tub together.

It was not funny. It was so not funny it couldn't even be called not-funny. A scientist once described a theory that was so incomplete and nonsensical it couldn't be evaluated as being "not even wrong." It didn't even rise to the level of being wrong, you see.

Well, Arianna's humor is not even unfunny. She tried to be funny on that "Strange Bedfellows" segment on the old Politically Incorrect; shit, she made Al Franken look funny by comparison. Arianna trying to be funny is like listening to the Who's On First routine performed by Frankenstein and The Incredible Hulk. You're not sure what the hell it's supposed to be, but you're pretty sure you'd be better off somewhere else.

Slime... She also links a nasty rumor about infidelity.

What a rotten bitch.

She's the Yoko Ono of politics. About that level of talent, too.

[Recycled joke alert.]

Having to read Arianna Huffington's idiotic rantings is like having to sit through Yoko Ono's screechy atonal non-songs just to hear the decent John Lennon tracks on Double Fantasy.

Wait a minute, that's not right. I just compared the rest of the Huffington Post's writers to John Lennon, which plainly makes no sense at all. Let me reconfigure the analogy: Let's pretend that Yoko Ono was dating one of the guys from Foghat. Okay?

So having to read Arianna Huffington's insipid drivel is like having to listen to Yoko Ono tracks just to hear all that sweet Foghat.

How's about John McIntyre at RCP Blog:
Assuming Mr. Whittington doesn’t die and there are not contradictions in Cheney’s account of what happened, this story is over, and it will have no lasting impact on the Bush administration. Because once again the MSM and the left have massively overreacted to a story in an attempt to damage the Bush administration, and the backlash against their overreaction will counteract whatever political damage this story may have caused.

Now the Democrats are flailing about with the spin that Cheney's handling of the accident is suspect, invoking memories of Chappaquiddick, and that it all reflects on the government's culture of secrecy, which has apparently replaced the culture of corruption as their main concern.

Generation Why?:
So did the eeeeeevil Bush administration also cause the 3-day delay in the nation's most powerful elected Democrat's office issuing information about the Senator's stroke?
...

Was [Hillary Clinton's] failure to alert the media about the White House counsel's suicide part of some "tendency" to "refuse to be forthcoming" from the top all the way to the bottom as well?

Blogs For Bush:
Democrats were the ones who tried to suppress the Barrett Report because of its potential damage to the Clintons.

We all know John Kerry was not telling us the truth about his service in Vietnam... it took a book to force him to reveal that parts of his fabricated version of his service were indeed fabrications.

Democrats have been anything but forthcoming when it comes to their own ethics violations and corruption.

Of course the idiot left is upset about Cheney; try as they have to nail him, they've got NOTHING. And after his treatment at the hands of those babies whining from the WH press gallery these past few years, they deserve exactly what he gave the bubble-mouthed Senator Leahy: a great big fat Cheneyan "F**k you".