Sarah Palin Meets The Matrix
When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant.
Tag: Juan Cole
Putting Terrorism On Trial: Wingers Piss Their Diapers (Updated)
GOP Diaper wetters: David “PP” Vitter, Tony “Depends” Blankley, R. Hudson “Incontinent” Limpboughtenpaidfor, Eric “WeWee” Cantor, John “Sissy-Boy Boehner, and weepy Mitch McConnell. Said GOP House Leader John Boehner yesterday: The Obama Administration’s irresponsible decision to prosecute the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in New York City puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security …
Funambulist In Chief
Despite receiving a thumbs up from a number of conservative foreign policy observers, and the public at large, for his handling of the current Iranian domestic turmoil, the wingers seem to have settled on a narrative that President Obama has been too timid in his response to same. It was a theme dutifully picked up by the MSM at Tuesday’s …
The Unavoidable Bigotry of Rick Warren
Juan Cole shared a spotlight with Pastor Rick Warren over the weekend, at the annual Muslim Public Affairs Council in Long Beach. His post is well worth reading, especially so for those who would rather get poked in the eye with a sharp stick than listen to Warren deliver the inauguration invocation.
A New James Bond
Oh, Oh 7 ready to kick some imperialist ass Juan Cole has a great review of the new Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace, on his blog yesterday titled “A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism.” The movie’s plot involves the attempted regime change of a populist Bolivian president (a thinly disguised Evo Morales) who is unwilling to turn his country’s oil and …
The Difference Between Palin and Bush? UPDATE I
Seems like Sarah Palin‘s lipstick joke is becoming something of a joke itself, undergoing a number of remixes and used against her (as in my own blog yesterday). Check out this version by Juan Cole in today’s Salon titled: “What’s the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick” It begins thusly: Sept. 9, 2008 | John McCain announced that he …
The Surge Is Not A Success
Urban renewal project in beautiful downtown Baghdad Chris Matthews‘ substitute host, McCain enthusiast Mike Barnicle, reacted incredulously Wednesday to a comment by Iraq war vet Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of VoteVets.org, that the so-called “surge” has not been a success. Pressed by Barnicle, who reflects the corporatist media’s official narrative of the surge, Soltz made a number of arguments: …
