"Taste that? That's the taste of beach justice."

"... I told him he was soft on the ARAFAT interview."

Indeed. I always miss an episode of Gumbel 2 Gumbel. Why? His "enlightened" remarks on the 06 Winter Olympics and the lack of black athletes. Oh, you don't believe me? Here's proof.

In Communist China... Internet searches you

Careful what you search for.

"The perception is that we're whining."

Says CNN's Candy Crowley. No kidding. When the MSM plans another WEEK of coverage on the hunting accident involving Cheney and Whittington... I hope that dog won't hunt.

Re: Drudge
MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGESun Feb 19 2006 10:57:36 ETIf the nation's top magazines have the pulse of the country -- get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage! This just in... Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning high impact covers of Cheney for newsstands starting tomorrow, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas. NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney's ways and means. TIME headlines a poll: DICK CHENEY APPROVAL RATING 29% NEWSWEEK editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times." MORE On CNN's RELIABLE SOURCES, WASHINGTON POST reporter Dana Milbank fretted that the White House is exploiting the public's growing disdain for the mainstream media. "Of course they succeed,” Milbank said of Bush aides. “The press always looks awful. They will once again make us look awful.” CNN's Candy Crowley added: "The perception is that we're whining."White House correspondent Bill Plante of CBS agreed. "The vice president and the White House have both used the constant press coverage of this story as a wedge,” he told RELIABLE SOURCES host Howard Kurtz. “It plays to the prejudices of the people who are predisposed not to like us, and it's one way to distract attention from what happened.” Developing...

New toys!!

Some cool new offerings from FN. The FS2000 and the PS90! Never did I think that these would be civilian legal. Thanks to the sunsetting of the insidous Assault Weapons Ban (much to the dismay of the anti gun left), we have new technology to play with. Where can I buy 5.7x28mm by the case?

Lib's hopes fall like so many spent casings

Much to the dismay of the liberal press, Whittington emerged in good spirits and with a good bill of health. Within minutes of his statement, the talking heads were at it, saying that this wasn't over. Imagine that... a 78 year old man defies the libs hopes to get Cheney on manslaughter charges... That bastard! While this will certainly dominate the weekend news lines and push more pressing news to the back of the line, it once again illustrates how low class they are.

And imagine Whittington's unmitigated gall to extend an invite back to Cheney to go hunting again! Not to mention the tounge in cheek comments that the press had no clue about firearms or hunting. Hope they spilled some of their coffee on their emo styled clothes.

Some lefty blogosphere droppings: http://webpages.charter.net/kurmudgeon/2006/02/cheney-lied-about-whittingtons.html

http://liberaltopia.org/?p=171

http://truthaboveall.blogspot.com/2006/02/neocons-quick-with-brooms-once-again.html

Need to ask the question

"We need to ask the question". - A mating call of the liberals.

They demand answers. They want people to be held accountable. They demand apologies. They feel that we as Americans are entitled to answers lest we be disenfranchised from the truth.

Answers are provided, statements made, press conferences held. It's never transparent enough, full of deception and corruption and those in question need to look in the mirror.

What is apparent is that no answer is ever sufficient, no explanation has enough weight, no fact is factual enough. These people are not interested in truth, fact or answers. If it isn't what they want to hear, then they begin their call in earnest. Ever notice that when the facts do not support them, it is the opposition that has the problem? It's never them.

They are beyond reproach. They leave the conversation by hoping someone gets the mental help they need, seemingly placing themselves on the moral high ground. Truth is not what they seek.

"Who knew what and when?" - Media Misfires

Day 4 into the Cheney hunting accident news cycle has shown how far the left will go to smear and distort. At first, it was the elite press who was pitching a tantrum over not being told immediately of the incident. White House Spokesman McClellan effectively told David Gregory to go pound sand. That only helped in whipping the media into all sorts of accusations and theories. If you follow their logic, Cheney should have dropped everything (including his friend), immediately put out a press statement and prostrated himself for the press. Nevermind that Whittington required medical attention and was the priority. So we have the following from our wacky wacky lefty friends:

• Media miffed that they weren't informed before the spend shotgun shell hit the ground.
• Lack of a statement leads media to question the "super secret" atmosphere that surrounds the White House.
• Cheney was under the influence of alcohol. Because we all know: Big white guys with guns in Texas mean booze.
• Cheney was sending a message to Scooter Libby to keep quite in his upcoming testimony.
• Rove was behind it. When isn't he?
• Cheney's interview on FOX News lacks credibility because he chose to avoid the "hard questions" from the rest of the elite media.
• Jill Sobule, lefty musician, infers that hunting trip was really a homosexual tinged love fest by way of "Brokeback Mtn". If I had any of her CD's, I'd make sure I packed them the next time I go shooting. Since I don't have any, I can only hope that she ends up in the .99 bin at a used CD store.

Some notable quotes from the smartest people in the room:

NBC White House reporter Kelly O'Donnell - "The official White House transcript of the interview shows Cheney said 'I had a beer at lunch.' Fox News did not show that particular clip during Brit Hume's program." This is a lie. It was on the program and in the transcript.

Al Franken - "It's inconceivable that you don't go to the hospital unless there's a reason you don't go to the hospital. If you had been drinking, you wouldn't go to the hospital. Or, you're an amazing jerk, that's the other. Or both." No, I think you are an ass.

CNN's The Situation Room Jack Cafferty - "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. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?...he's not going to get any high hard ones from anybody at the F-word network" That's some class there, Cafferty..."F word" How about you STFU?

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Early Show CBS: "...I'm not sure real men hunt..." Oh, there's the "real men" challenge.

New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove - "Get out there yesterday. Do an interview with -- if not someone from CNN, with Barbara Walters and cry." Because crying makes you a real man.

Diane Sawyer - "Our reporters, our team standing by to cover all the angles this morning from the medical condition to political and even potential legal fallout." There they go again... creating news instead of reporting it.

John Dickerson, Slate Magazine - "And at some point Cheney's starchy behavior is also insulting. Shouldn't there be some minimum level of explanation he's willing to offer as the second-highest ranking public official? When you nearly commit manslaughter as a public official shouldn't the honor of your office compel you to stand up and explain yourself in some fashion, at least say something in a press release and not just whisper it to a Texas rancher?" Manslaughter? Talk about spin.

Keith Olbermann, MSNBC - "Do the changes in his [Harry Whittington's] health alter how the event is viewed legally and, under the worse case scenario, could negligent homicide actually come into play?"
"The sheriff's office, though, issued a statement last night, in the conclusion that this was an accident, and also said no alcohol had been involved in it. But how would they know that? The sheriff's office did not interview the Vice President until 14 hours after all this happened. And the lower ranking sheriff's officers who did not know about the scheduling of that interview for Sunday morning, had been turned away when they tried to talk to Mr. Cheney on Saturday night." There's the "drunk" charge. I'm telling you, I don't make this up.

Bob Schieffer, CBS News - "You just couldn't make it up. The Vice President of the United States accidentally shoots a companion on a hunting trip. The White House keeps it a secret for a day. Then when it appears the wounded man is okay, it sets off laughter and jokes from every corner of America. But tonight the jokes have stopped and the whole thing has turned serious." Seriously, Bob...seriously.

Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC - "How do we know there was no alcohol? Cheney refused to talk to local authorities until the next day. No point in giving him a breathalyzer then. Every lawyer I've talked to assumes Cheney was too drunk to talk to the cops after the shooting. The next question for the White House should be: Was Cheney drunk?" *Sigh* The forehead speaketh.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews - "I don't know about you David and Dee Dee, but you're press experts and I don't know if you were shocked like I was, this was bottom of the fold in the New York Times and the Washington Post yesterday. I’ve talked to experts, they can't believe that the papers treated this as such a light issue. It only moved up to the top of the fold front page today in both of those journals. I find that interesting, I want to talk to you when we come back. Has the press been playing this down, this story?" 'Spittle-lip' Matthews actually thinks the press is down playing the story? What is he? Drunk?

Gratuitous Photo Montage

"It's got guns on it!..."

Wow... this one left me stunned. Well, not really. When you have Colmes running in the other direction to put some distance between him and this sensitive and all feeling human, something is amiss. Big surprise that San Francisco is refusing the USS Iowa to dock. After complaining about a 10 story "gun" that would ruin his ocean view, Sandoval made no bones about his vision of a disarmed U.S.. When pressed about what would be the response to an attack, he had the overwhelming response of "Well, ya got cops."

I'll sleep better at night knowing he's on the job.
Video

You can't make this stuff up, Part 2

Is this journalism?







Video at http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/14/begalacheneyhunter/

It's like dealing with a 6 year old

From Drudge:
NBC REPORTER TO WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN: 'DON'T BE A JERK'
Tue Feb 14 2006 08:54:18 ET

NBCNEWS chief White House correspondent David Gregory warned President Bush's spokesman on Monday not to be a "jerk!"

The heated exchange came during a press gathering at the White House.

Gregory asked White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan about the Cheney hunting accident.

'David, hold on, the cameras aren't on right now,' McClellan replied. 'You can do this later.'

'Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras,' Gregory said, voice rising. 'Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.'

'You don't have to yell,' McClellan said.

'I will yell,'' said Gregory, pointing a finger at McCellan at his dais. 'If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.'

'Calm down, Dave, calm down,' said McClellan.

'I'll calm down when I feel like calming down,' Gregory said. 'You answer the question.'

'I have answered the question,' said McClellan, who had maintained that the vice president's office was in charge of getting the information out and worked with the ranch owner to do that. 'I'm sorry you're getting all riled up about.'

'I am riled up,' Gregory said, 'because you're not answering the question.'"

END

Gregory, who looks like the Clooney of the White House Press gaggle, is on the tip of the spear with his antics. I can only hope that he continues to set the example for the rest of his brethren. What a jerk.

You can't make this stuff up

...Conspiracy theorizing has become the knee-jerk of the new millennium among liberal partisans -- call them Tin Foil Hat Democrats. In their world, Jeb Bush is busy rigging another Florida vote for his brother, Halliburton is busy calling the shots in the war on terror, John Ashcroft is busy repealing the Bill of Rights, and Neoconservatives are busy working their Trilateral Commission voodoo to make the world safe for corporate capitalist exploitation. Now if I were a Tin Foil Hat Democrat sifting through the mess at CBS, the conspiracy I'd theorize would have nothing to do with Karl Rove. I'd start by asking myself who stands to gain the most from the defeat of John Kerry in the 2004 election -- that is, apart from Republicans…and Iraqis and Afghans and every person of good will in the Middle East and Asia... Read the entire article at http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7195

If you listen to any of the talk radio callers in the Seattle area, you will soon pick up their delusional siren song of anti war, anti Wal Mart, global warming, Bush=Hitler with a refrain of grease-trap soybean fuel powered cars. That and a healthy dollop of income redistribution and multiculturism is the way of the future.

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Wikipedia's Definition

"But, I thought 28 was bigger than 12"

Powerline has it right on V.P. Cheney's hunting accident. http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013138.php

Without too much rehashing, peppering someone in the field with a bird load is not unheard of. Thankfully, it was with a .28 gauge at 30 yards instead of a .12 gauge. It's payload and pattern is smaller for much smaller game. The original method of measuring a barrel's gauge was to fashion lead balls with diameters equal to that of the shotgun barrel's bore size. The total number lead balls of a particular size equal to a pound in weight gives the "gauge."

Of course, the media doesn't flesh that out. Which brings me to my point. It's laughable to see the press (which is anti-gun by nature) try to wrap their little minds around the details of this event. They have no clue and they have no desire to get it right, either. If they did, it would lessen the impact of the story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021301303_pf.html

Livin' in a Pre 9/11 World...

Michelle Malkin has an outstanding bundle of links and analysis on Gore's latest appeasement (read that as treason) to the KSA and the Arabs in general. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004544.htm

Having spent time there in uniform... it's an interesting place. One that I'd like to not call home. Keep talking for us, Al. I'm sure they like all the bootlicking. Oh, and make sure to shake with your left hand... they like that sort of thing. If things had gone differently in 2000, we'd be eating flat bread and lamb, have a prayer rug, and bowing to the sound of the wailing speaker 5 times a day. All in the name of sensitivity. Because we don't understand them. We must find out why they don't like us. That way we can learn from our betters who riot over cartoons and swarm over cars after a missile strike. Yeah....

A small battery powered radio crackles to life...

"...The chair is against the wall ... John has a long mustache..." - Red Dawn (1984)

I was always taken by the "rebel radio" broadcast in Red Dawn. While it had no real bearing on the plot, it formed an image that may well have been seen in Europe during the occupation. It has stayed with me all these years... burned in during my teenage years. I thought it was pretty neat. It almost had a romantic quality to it. Of course, now, if someone were to say that film was an influence... they'd be hauled off to the principals office, psych tests run, parents notified, and law enforcement notified... all in an effort to "protect the community". But I digress.

There are many rebel or freedom broadcasts now. The new media has placed a big fat counterpoint for the main stream media to deal with. Anything to the right has been dismissed as right wing hate speech with those mean nasty conservatives who want to poison the environment, kick out illegals, get rich off corporations...blah blah blah.. ad nauseam. As for our comrades on the left, they now give out "marching orders" to the leadership of the Democratic Party (as seen by Kerry's call for a filibuster on Alito...while in Switzerland no less). Peering in to their corner of the world, we see a party gone mad... or just plain mad. Mad at Bush, mad at our operations in Iraq, mad at Wal-Mart, mad at drug companies.... you get the idea. Point being, the MSM now has to contend with many ideas, not just the ones they intend for consumption.

This brings me back to the Red Dawn reference. There isn't a need to talk in code anymore. The battle of ideas between the right and left is waging. It's not helping matters, either. I used to think that if we, as a nation, were faced with evil in our time; we'd put our differences aside and fight together. Not so much, eh? As a kid, the idea of a desperate battle was spine tingling... gave me goose bumps.

What gives me the same feeling, but not in a good way, is the stark partisanship that is throwing us off course. And so, after much deliberation, I have decided to report "From behind the Tinfoil Curtain". I am operating deep behind enemy lines in the Pacific Northwest... home of the insidious "Tinfoil Hat Brigade"

Why "Tinfoil" you ask? Two words: "Moon" + "Bat".
...The terms was originally rendered as 'Barking Moonbat', suggesting that certain issue seem to trigger a reflexive response from some people much like wolves howl at the moon (i.e. the term evokes the traditional association between the moon and insanity). It now enjoys great currency in the conservative and libertarian blogosphere as an all-purpose insult for modern liberals (in the American sense of the word), war protestors, and other ideological opponents...
...Moonbat was frequently used to describe those of any political persuasion who believe in conspiracy theories. Examples include those who believe that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were engineered by George W. Bush, or that the US invaded Iraq to drive up oil prices or under the directions of Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbat