Bloodthirsty Liberal

I’m having a hard time disputing even one of them:

What Fox News chief Roger Ailes said at Ohio University on Monday, according to tweets from journalist and media lawyer Jonathan W. Peters:

One thing that qualifies me to run a journalism organization is the fact that I don’t have a journalism degree.

I don’t know if Pres Obama was smart in school. Haven’t seen his transcripts. (Question) No, Fox is not trying to get his transcripts.

Media Matters writes all of the primetime programming for MSNBC. All of it. That’s what a recently published book says.

The first thing I’d change about America would be requiring Congresspeople to follow the same laws we do. They get lots of freebies.

The Internet is an interesting thing, and it will keep rolling out, and eventually convergence will come. I’m watching it.

Jon Stewart is a comedian. He wouldn’t do well without Fox. And he basically has admitted to me, in a bar, that he’s a socialist.

One thing about liberals is they believe they’re always right. Fox tries to fill a different niche: providing alternative viewpoints.

I’ve killed one story, when Dean was running for president. His kid got arrested, and I said we shouldn’t run it. There was no point.

MSNBC is out of the news business. Brian Williams, a sincere newsman, wouldn’t want to be caught dead over there.

I would love for the AP to go back to being a neutral news source. But it slants stories, slants headlines. It tips to the left.

The New York Times is a cesspool of bias.

The security apparatus around me is nothing like the one described in Rolling Stone, Esquire. But I do get threats, most contrived.

Many years ago, I was offered a lot of money to stop doing what I was doing – to stop being effective in politics. I turned it down.

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I’m not sure what my ideology is today. I guess I’m more conservative, because on individual issues I have more conservative views.

Any newsroom that doesn’t have diversity of thought is in danger of failing.

The only difference between Fox talk shows and those on CNN or MSNBC is that Fox invites liberal voices to engage in dialogue.

Yeah, I got nothin’. That said, the only time I ever watch Fox is when I’m in a hotel room. If I want to watch morning news (as opposed to local radio stations—sports and conservative talk—that I listen to at home), what choice do I have but Fox & Friends? Of course they’re biased—they make no pretense otherwise. But do you expect me to watch the smug mugs on Today, GMA, or whatever godless entity CNN is broadcasting at that hour?

Besides, he’s right about everything.

PS: An update at the link notes that Ailes regrets the NY Times comment. I hope that’s because it disrespects cesspool builders and maintenance people. They do God’s work, as opposed to Times editors and columnists.

We don’t trade in the nasty innuendo and racist demagoguery surrounding the Reverend Jeremiah Wright here, no sir, not us, uh-uh, no way.

BUT, we allow that others do:

Our friend Doug Schoen, the Democratic pollster, is a political centrist, ideologically much closer to the post-1994 Bill Clinton than to Barack Obama. That makes all the more troubling his advocacy of government censorship of political speech, the kind of expression that is at the core of First Amendment protection.

Schoen finds it “more than just disquieting” but “shameful and embarrassing” that, as the New York Times reported (and we noted) last week, Chicago Cubs part-owner Joe Ricketts considered funding an anti-Obama super PAC ad that would have reminded voters about the president’s “spiritual mentor,” Jeremiah Wright. Under political pressure, Obama in 2008 repudiated the America-hating pastor, whose views even the New York Times concedes are “clearly racist.”

“Speaking frankly,” Schoen writes, “racially divisive negative advertisements of this sort do not belong in a presidential election. Whether one supports the president or not, he should be judged on his record, and an ad hominem attack of any sort should have no home in the public arena.”

He would like to use the power of the government to suppress this speech of which he disapproves, as he has made clear in other columns. His complaint about the Ricketts ad that wasn’t shows just what a pernicious idea this is and why the Supreme Court was right to uphold free speech in the celebrated case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Schoen and the rest of the press are discovering that the marketplace of ideas functions like any other market: there is supply and demand, and no amount of manipulation or regulation can succeed in stifling the natural direction of information toward wider dissemination. In the old days, sure—even among the mainstream media today—information unflattering to the press’s preferred candidate (and boy do they have their preferences) was buried, ignored, or locked in a broom closet (literally). JFK’s sexual dalliances, to choose the most obvious example, would make Bill Clinton look like the before picture for a Cialis ad.

Jeremiah Wright would not be an issue today if the press in 2008 had fully explored his beliefs and his significance in Obama’s life and personal development. I still don’t know what Obama knew about Wright and when he knew it—but I know he lied and is lying today. He lied about Ayers and Dohrn, stonewalled on his birth certificate, and still refuses to release some of the most basic background material that other candidates routinely release.

But all of this stuff has been smuggled as it if were pornography from under the counter, or samizdat publications from behind the Iron Curtain. We are made to feel dirty just for asking WTF about “God damn America” and “US of KKKA” and “America’s chickens… [can't forget the pause] are coming home to roost!”

Politicians since Nixon (and certainly before) have learned the hard way that it’s not the crime, but the cover-up, that does them in. Obama committed no crime in befriending a racist minister and two former members of the Weathermen. But the press has committed the highest crime of all in suppressing the truth—often with such determination and contempt as would have made Stalin nod in appreciation.

Today’s news is, what’s the expression? An inconvenient truth:

Autopsy results reportedly indicate that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died, which could support George Zimmerman’s claim that the unarmed teenager assaulted him before he was fatally shot.

WFTV.com reports that a medical examiner found two injuries on Martin’s body: the fatal gunshot wound to the chest and broken skin on his knuckles. The autopsy results surface as court records indicate that Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a fractured nose and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting on Feb. 26.

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“It goes along with Zimmerman’s story that he acted in self-defense, because he was getting beaten up by Trayvon Martin,” he said.

The trajectory of Trayvon’s personal photographs traces a descent from sweet kid to nascent punk (gold-capped teeth, doo-rag, double-barreled middle-fingers, low hanging pants revealing boxer shorts, etc.) Doesn’t mean he had to die, and it’s a crying shame that he did. But don’t let the media and the shameless likes of Al Sharpton tell you that he was killed in cold blood. They’ve already moved on, leaving justice and George Zimmerman’s reputation a smoking wreck.

[Image via Moonbattery]

You know what would make the world a better place? More Taliban poetry. Even any Taliban poetry.

Ask and ye shall receive:

“Poetry of the Taliban” – edited by a group of London researchers – has already been released in the U.K. and the liberal media are praising the collection as “important” and “original,” remarking how the Taliban’s verse “humanizes” murderers.

Dr. James Caron of the University of Pennsylvania gushed, “In providing such a picture, the ‘insurgent’ is restored a sense of humanity and agency.”

Jon Lee Anderson, a staff writer for “The New Yorker” fawned over the terrorist composition in similar fashion. “It’s a remarkable and important book that reveals a hitherto concealed side to the harshly perceived Afghan Taliban,” he wrote.

Obviously, Americans have been too hung up on IEDs, suicide bombers and bloody riots over books to get to know the Taliban’s sensitive side.

No more. Now we’re going to be rooting for those plucky underdogs. Wall Street Journal Istanbul bureau chief Hugh Pope wrote, “Thanks to a clear and emphatic translation, Western readers will find here a rare door to the emotions and motivations of Afghans trapped in bloody events beyond their control, and will soon forget which side they are supposed to be on.”

I particularly liked this bit of verse that shows how like us the Taliban are:

A journalist by the name Pearl
Had the habit of making me hurl.
I cut off his head
To make sure he was dead,
And then—oh look, it’s a squirrel!

Taliban Attention Deficit Disorder! What a sense of “humanity and agency”! No longer will I perceive them “harshly”!

That the Taliban write poetry is hardly a surprise; that someone might see fit to compile it is hardly more so. But that liberal Western journalists would praise it is disgusting. I might expect such sewage from that scourge of old growth timber, The New Yorker—but the Wall Street [bleeping] Journal? “Afghans trapped in bloody events beyond their control”? I would say the “bloody events” perpetrated by the Taliban are very much in their control.

As “Jawed” wrote:

Hot, hot trenches are full of joy;
Attacks on the enemy are full of joy.
Guns in our hands and magazine belts over my shoulders;
Grenades on my chest are full of joy.

How about a Hellfire missile from a Predator drone up your a**, Jawed. That fill you with joy? Harshly perceived my a**.

It’s a damn shame:

This evening “Piers Morgan Tonight” welcomed Mark NeJame with new details on George Zimmerman, the man charged with killing Trayvon Martin.

Joining Piers Morgan for a live interview, the CNN legal analyst shared an exclusive photograph which suggests Zimmerman has black heritage:

“The man in the middle is apparently George Zimmerman’s great-grandfather. The woman above him, is in fact his grandmother who is half black,” explained NeJame. “And the little child in the gentleman’s lap, is his mother. So we see that he really has significant multiracial, multicultural roots.”

In a case ripe with racial undertones, NeJame suggests that Thursday’s photo may help the Zimmerman camp refute theories that Martin’s death was a result of profiling and bigotry:

“Talking to people that know him, I have changed my position,” revealed the guest. “People can come up with whatever conclusions they want. But from looking at the facts and the evidence, I don’t think there is a racial motive in there.”

Odd how this hasn’t been all over the news, as the original “story” (and I do mean story) was.

And another thing you won’t hear:

A medical report by George Zimmerman’s family doctor shows the neighborhood watch volunteer was diagnosed with a fractured nose, two black eyes and two lacerations on the back of the head after his fatal confrontation with Trayvon Martin.

So, if my math is correct, George Zimmerman is 1/16th black—which makes him twice as black as Betty Buckskin is Indian. (And infinitely more so if you demand documentary proof—but since did Democrats demand that?)

As Rush said today, if Barack Obama had another son, he might look like George Zimmerman.

Actually, Zimmerman takes after Obama a whole lot more than Trayvon Martin did.

Trayvon Martin should be alive today; it’s a shame he is not. But don’t believe what the media tell you. They start lying right after “good evening” (if not before).

I mean “evolved”! Read: “So Evolved”

Of course we all know what the winner was:

[image via Moonbattery]

Again, Aggie and I support gay marriage (as recognized by the state—churches are on their own), but we don’t go mincing and prancing around boasting how evolved we are. No one calls us the first “gay blog” (well, maybe some unevolved critics).

But if you think Newspuke only went gay after being absorbed into The Daily Beast, you don’t remember. Senior correspondent Jonathan Alter had a book deal before the election returns were counted to deliver a hagiography on the first 100 days. I think it sold fewer than 100 copies, but they’ve been in the bag (his bag) from the beginning.

PS: There goes Obama claiming credit again for something he didn’t do (see Aggie’s post below). Even if Obama were as gay as Tom Cruise at an Elton John concert, he’d still be the second gay president. Abraham Lincoln allegedly got there (so to speak) first. (Third, if you believe the rumors about James K. Polk.)

Not that there’s anything wrong with that:

“‘Let the games begin,” Tina Brown said last week after Time Magazine released its controversial breastfeeding cover.

Brown, whose tenure as editor at Newsweek has seen an array of controversial covers, will respond with the above, pegged to Andrew Sullivan’s piece on Obama’s support for same-sex marriage: “The First Gay President.”

If Newsweek wanted to deliver an honest and direct response, it would have portrayed Obama suckling an infant (the first lactating president) swaddled in the American flag to symbolize the growing ranks of Americans who are forced (and encouraged!) to nurse off the public teat.

Obama is the first gay president, Clinton was the first black president; I guess John Edwards would have been the first monogamous president.

The media has contorted itself into irrelevance.

Count yourself lucky!

An Ecuadoran court has sentenced Luis Guaman to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty under that country’s criminal code, for the beating deaths of a young mother and her 2-year-old son last year in Brockton.

The sentence appeared online late Monday, one week after three judges in the city of Cuenca declared Guaman guilty of murdering housemate Maria Avelina Palaguachi, 25, and her son, Brian, in February 2011 and dumping their bodies in a trash bin behind their house. Guaman will get credit for several months served in jail and must pay a fine of $10,000 to the victims’ family, according to the decision handed down by the Third Criminal Court of Azuay in Cuenca.

Presiding Judge Azucena Andrade said Tuesday she expects Guaman to serve the majority of his sentence, despite concerns that he could get time off for good behavior.

“These are two murders, that’s why we gave him the maximum,’’ she said in a telephone interview, citing the seriousness of the crimes. “We want him to serve the 25 years.’’

The sentence followed a controversial two-day trial in Ecuador held over the objections of Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, who demanded that Ecuador extradite Guaman to Massachusetts based on the existing extradition treaty between the two nations, or face economic sanctions.

Ecuador refused, saying its constitution bars extradition of its own citizens. Instead, Ecuadoran officials implored Cruz to help them prosecute Guaman in Ecuador, though he refused.

If convicted in Massachusetts, Guaman would have faced life in prison without the possibility of parole. In Ecuador, he faced 16 to 25 years in prison.

I don’t know what the “proper” punishment is for beating two people to death, one a toddler, and I don’t even pretend to know the details of the extradition treaty between the US and Ecuador.

But there is one thing I do want to know—although it took 18 paragraphs and a jump page to get there:

Guaman, who lived in the United States illegally for almost two decades…

Really, was that so hard? This reporter, Maria Sacchetti, is the Gob’s go-to gal on immigration sob stories. When an illegal—sorry, undocumented—alien feels sad or has a bad day, you’ll read about it under her byline, immigration status front and center. But when an illegal—sorry, criminal—alien is caught driving drunk without a license, or beating beating his significant other, or committing armed robbery, or forging documents, or taking state benefits to which they are not entitled, you’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of their status. You’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of the story at all in the Glob, in fact. Not their sort of thing.

We hear more and more stories of illegal aliens living here unmolested for decades. Some are relatively harmless, like the president’s Auntie Zeituni (though she should not have qualified for the subsidized housing she enjoyed); some are slightly less harmless, like the president’s Uncle Omar (stopped for a DUI); and some are definitely harmful, like Luis Guaman (no relation to the president—that we know of).

Oh yes, in case you thought Guaman lived a life of quiet desperation:

Meanwhile, more details emerged about Guaman’s criminal history in New York.William Barbera, a captain in the sheriff’s department in Rockland County, New York, said Guaman lived at several addresses in Spring Valley, about 26 miles north of New York City, between 2006 and 2008.

Guaman went by several aliases, including Luis Gilbert Caguana, Barbera said.

In January 2008, according to The Journal News newspaper, Guaman, then of Brockton, was charged with two counts of second-degree attempted kidnapping and one count of second-degree assault, both felonies, after he allegedly attempted to abduct his estranged wife, a 30-year-old Spring Valley woman.

The woman said she arranged to meet Jose Zumba Pichizaca, also of Brockton, at a health center, and that he was to deliver money from Guaman.

The woman said Pichizaca told her they would drive to a check-cashing store, but when she got in the car, Guaman was hiding under a blanket in the back seat and Pichizaca sped off against her will.

The women said she tried to escape when the car stopped at a gas station in Spring Valley, but Guaman grabbed her and held her down in the car. As she pulled away, her shirt came off and she was scratched on her neck and chest.

A police officer from the Rockland County Sheriff’s Department was in an unmarked car nearby and witnessed the event. Both Guaman and Pichizaca were arrested.

Barbera said Guaman is wanted on four felony warrants in Rockland, two issued by his office and two issued by the Spring Valley police.

Spring Valley Detective Dave Humeston said Guaman’s aliases have made it difficult to investigate his crimes. He told The Journal News that authorities from Massachusetts would be in Spring Valley on Friday to further investigate the case.

Cruz said this week that Guaman was also wanted on a warrant charging him with assault and battery on a former girlfriend in Milford in 2007.

Guaman, under the alias Antonio Castro, was also arrested by Brockton police last year after allegedly pulling a knife during a fight behind 62 North Warren Ave. Bail was set at $500 in that case and he was due to return to court on March 11.

And somehow, no one saw fit to look into his eligibility to be in this country? He did eventually leave, but at his leisure, and on a stolen or fraudulent passport.

To borrow a cliche, we are a nation of immigrants—and we are the better for it. But a nation of illegal immigrants? I’m not so sure the same applies. I’m quite sure it doesn’t.

I’m not saying I didn’t look forward to having Bill Clinton back in the limelight, but in retrospect I have been disappointed.

Especially considering:

Andrew Young, once an aide and good friend to John Edwards, told a court today how the pair became increasingly paranoid in their attempt to cover up his affair with mistress Rielle Hunter and how it eventually destroyed their relationship after the two men turned on each other.

Taking the stand for the third time today, Young told how Edwards said life inside the North Carolina gated estate he shared with a cancer-stricken wife angered by his affair had become ‘a living hell.’

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The August 2008 exchange, also recounted in Young’s tell-all book about the Edwards scandal, reads as if pulled from a political thriller.

Young has been involved in the saga from the beginning, as he initially tried to cover up Edwards’ involvement with Hunter by claiming paternity of the former senator’s love child because Edwards hoped to be named as vice-president to then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.

That meant the child’s paternity needed to remain a secret but Edwards promised Young he would come forward once he dropped out of the 2008 race.

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The once-loyal aide testified that he had, by this stage, grown sick of the cover up and urged Edwards to confess to the affair, otherwise he himself would make it public.

‘He looked at me and said, you can’t hurt me Andrew, you can’t hurt me,’ before running away from the car, Young testified.

Because Edwards was close to being named then presidential candidate Obama’s vice president, the most important job was to cover up the affair no matter what.

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He is a key witness in Edwards’ criminal trial. The former senator is accused of conspiring to use secret payments from two wealthy donors to hide Hunter during his White House run. Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six counts related to campaign finance violations.

Edwards has denied knowing about the money and his attorneys claim that Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri, siphoned off the bulk of it to pay for the construction of their $1.5 million house near Chapel Hill.

Edwards’ attorneys will get a chance to cross examine Young later on Wednesday, a day after Young said the candidate once called his mistress a ‘crazy slut’ who others wouldn’t believe was having an affair with him.

And to think we could have watched this [bleep] storm play out in the West Wing!

Who am I trying to kid? The media would have stuck their pudgy little fingers in their ears and hummed tunelessly to ignore this story. This account is from a British newspaper because I couldn’t find it in my Boston Gob. Lord knows what—or whom—Bill Clinton is up to these days, as the compliant Democrat-media complex conveniently ignores his nocturnal commissions. But could they have ignored this? I think I know more about the sex life of Mitt Romney’s Mormon ancestors than I do about John Edwards’ and Bill Clinton’s wandering willies.

Those dumbass tote bags can hold a lot of taxpayer money!

This weekend, NPR aimed its taxpayer-subsidized guns at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a relatively unknown membership association of state legislators. ALEC, a non-profit 501 (c)3 founded in the 1970s, gives the left heart palpitations by promoting general conservative policies like lower taxes and deregulation. For its efforts, ALEC has recently come under a coordinated assault by many leftist organizations, especially Common Cause and 9-11 truther Van Jones’ Color of Change. NPR’s report purportedly raised “questions” over ALEC’s tax status and quoted extensively from Common Cause. What listeners didn’t learn, however, was that NPR’s reporter, Peter Overby formerly worked for Common Cause.

That knowledge certainly would have given listeners some valuable context for statements like this:

That’s the argument that the good-government group Common Cause made when it asked the IRS to investigate ALEC last summer.

Hey, maybe NPR didn’t know?

Before coming to NPR in 1994, Overby was senior editor at Common Cause Magazine, where he shared a 1992 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for magazine writing.

But really, what’s the big deal? Linda Wertheimer, host of NPR’s All Things Considered, is married to Fred Wertheimer (you thought it was a coincidence?), who ran Common Cause for 24 years. Jay Carney, Obama’s Press Sec’y, is married to Claire Shipman of ABC News. Why do you think we call it the Democrat-Media Complex?

The Lamestream media is out of control. (All these links are from NewsBusters, which has made itself invaluable in this and other stories.)

Exhibit A:

NBC News has fired the producer it says was responsible for creating the deceptive audio recording of George Zimmerman communicating with a 9-1-1 operator, according to the New York Times.

The network is still refusing to release the name of the producer, although according to Times reporter Brian Stelter, the producer is based in Miami and has worked there for a number of years. According to Stelter’s network sources, NBC is still insisting the deceptive edit was not done deliberatiely. The network has refused to say how exactly someone could accidentally have edited the tape to make Zimmerman appear to be racially motivated.

Exhibit B:

NBC isn’t the only network slinking away from overcooking the case against George Zimmerman’s alleged racism. On the March 21 edition of Anderson Cooper 360, a CNN audio expert enhanced Zimmerman’s 9-1-1 call and suggested he had used a racial slur, “f–ing coon,” as he was following Trayvon Martin. Reporter Gary Tuchman asserted: “It certainly sounds like that word to me.”

Two weeks later on the same show on April 4, CNN re-assessed the tape with another CNN expert, and now felt it suggests George Zimmerman was just chilly, muttering the words “f–ing cold” under his breath. Tuchman explained: “The reason some say that would be relevant is because it was unseasonably cold in Florida that night and raining.”

Exhibit C:

BANFIELD: In the meantime, let’s bring in criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos, and also CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, Sunny Hostin.

Sunny, I’ll begin with you. Some of the new developments, you have been able to listen in on the witness as she says what thinks that she saw. She feels she saw the larger man of Hispanic description on top of what she said is the boy after the shot is fired.

Yet the eyewitness Banfield interviewed earlier in the show never said a word about the alleged assailant being Hispanic:

BANFIELD: Where were you looking at the moment the gun fired?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was looking at the two men on the ground and heard the gunshot.

BANFIELD: Could you tell who was on the top, who was on the bottom?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know it was very dark, but I really would have to say that I thought it was the larger person that was on top.

BANFIELD: And when the gunfire went off, what happened to the larger man who you think might have been on the top? What happened at that moment?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I will just say a couple seconds later that larger man was walking closer to where I could see him. BANFIELD: Before those couple of seconds at the moment the gunshot went off, what happened with the larger man?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, obviously the other man — the boy was dead and the other person got up and was walking away from the body.

BANFIELD: When you first saw him coming towards you, could you see any blood on his face? Was it light enough for you to be able to see any blood on his face if there was any there?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was not light enough for me to see if there was any blood on the face.

BANFIELD: So there could have been, but it’s just not something you could testify to?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I cannot testify because I did not see.

The full transcript of Friday’s AC 360 shows that the only reference to the alleged assailant being Hispanic came from Banfield. The eyewitness only identified him as the “larger man.”

This is tremendously unacceptable for Banfield to put words in the mouth of an eyewitness she had just interviewed.

Ya think? Not only did she plant the idea he was Hispanic, she also planted the idea that he was covered in blood—neither of which the eyewitness reported.

Exhibit D:

More disgusting is the obvious fact that ABC News used a strategically placed chyron (graphic) to cover up the back of Zimmerman’s head for their broadcast, covering up the video evidence that would have disproven their story. View the video at the Daily Caller, and you’ll note that they did not even need a chyron, as there was no need to transmit any additional visual data to explain the story. The only logical reason the chyron exists is to cover-up Zimmerman’s wounds.

ABC News doctored the video to sell a false narrative, in a dishonest attempt to brand a man a murderer. I’d be very interested to know if Zimmerman can pursue legal action against ABC for constructing this false narrative.

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ABC News reported that Zimmerman appears uninjured in the video. But a still image from the video indicates what appears to be a vertical laceration or scar several inches long.

Compare the obvious marking on the back of Zimmerman’s head (and described in the police report) with ABC’s ginned up imagery:

And these are just from the “news” division. We don’t have the time or the bandwidth to address every pundit and talking head who has pronounced Zimmerman guilty and deserving to dance at the end of a rope.

Though Al Sharpton is obviously one of them. And anyone with a memory remembers his shameful involvement in a media hoax to do with Tawana Brawley. I have to say that when the New York Times finally wrote the whole sordid tale up, it was a masterpiece of reporting. Think we’ll ever see anything like that here? Me neither.

No one died in that despicable event. Others were not so lucky in Sharpton’s other ventures at Freddie’s Fashion Mart or Crown Heights. Sharpton used to be an outsider in those days, a paraiah among decent people. Now he’s mainstream. And he’s not the one who’s changed.

I don’t blame you if you think this is Jon Stewart or The Onion. But evidently it’s not:

“In New York City, which you’re visiting for a couple of days, a lot of our taxi drivers are Sikhs. If you get one, are you going to give them a slightly bigger tip?”

That’s Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina, being interviewed by a Kleagle—sorry, reporter—from Time magazine. There’s a longer version of the video, but I can’t imagine this making any sense outside of sketch comedy.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.