2.John Derbyshire - "Brace yourself: I hate Chelsea Clinton" wrote Mr. Derbysmear in his National Review column last week. Oh really sir? Why so? Here's his ingenious reasoning - "She has not looted the White House, lied under oath, bombed an aspirin factory in Africa to get her personal legal problems off the front pages, raped anybody, used public employees to pimp for her, sold the Department of Defense to the Chinese Communist Party for cold cash, taken a fat bribe dressed up as a 'commodities trade,' or written a book arguing that parents cannot be trusted to raise their children. I note, however, that she doesn't deserve any credit for not having done these things; she just hasn't had time yet." He goes on wax nostalgic about how "the great despotisms of the past" (Stalin's USSR, Nazi Germany, Imperial China) would have killed her, recognizing that the "families of objectionable citizens were a continuing threat." Everyone else in the running for a Pullitzer this year may want to bow out now. Clearly the quality of this man's journalism is not to be trifled with.
Ah, the days when bombing an "aspirin factory" was a controversy. First off, I don't believe it was an Africa but Bush bombed Al-Jazeera twice and wanted to bomb it a third time. Few people know it, much less make a big deal about it.
Rush Limbaugh - Okay, take a deep breath before reading this one. In a promo for his radio show last week, Rush was heard to announce, "If you take away the black vote, Bush won by a landslide". Now slowly, get back in your chair and re-read that. Breathe in. Breathe out. Now spit. That's good. While we understand that he would prefer democracy if only white men were allowed to vote, what Mount Rushmo' fails to have realized is that in Florida they DID take away the black vote and Bush STILL lost. Whoops. Talent on loan from God? More like talent on loan from Gallagher.
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