A Spork in the Drawer

Almost Getting It Right

The Zombie Lie that Gov. Bob Casey Sr was denied a speaking spot at the 1992 Democratic National Convention because of his anti-choice stance keeps being reported even though it's completely untrue.

In a break from that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in an article about the Governer's son, Sen. Bob Casey Jr, offers something of a corrective:

The previous day, sitting in a Starbucks not far from the convention site, Mr. Casey reflected on his father's less welcome reception and the changes in the party on the issue on which the late governor had so strenuously opposed former President Bill Clinton. The senator acknowledged that the precise details of why the elder Casey was barred from that New York City podium in 1992 are still in some dispute. In his memoirs, the late governor said it was a deliberate insult motivated by his opposition to abortion rights.

Other reports have attributed it to his failure to endorse the Clinton-Gore ticket prior to the convention.

"I think it's best to let the historians debate it and move on and look to the future," his son said.

Tepid (at best) and it doesn't come until the 16th paragraph (talk about burying the lede) but it's something, I suppose.

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Why?

Why? Whywhywhywhywhy does any self-respecting institution employ Ruth Ann Daily?

Why?

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Jesus Of Blawnox

The hell?

A religious group is planning to distribute 250,000 Pittsburgh-themed New Testament Bibles in advertising pouches to be delivered with editions of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper.

Saul had his epiphany on the road to Squirrel Hill, y'know.

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Born On The Fourth Of July

I honestly couldn't care less who the Post-Gazette endorses. On the other hand...

Bruuuuuce!

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Idiot

Jack Kelly:

It's remarkable that Democrats, as a matter of policy, are siding with America's enemies in time of war. It didn't work so well for them when they did that during the Civil War. And it is questionable political strategy to make a swift retreat from Iraq the centerpiece of their legislative agenda. But more remarkable is how clumsily Democrats are executing the strategy they've chosen.

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Have Democrats invested so much political capital in defeat that good news is as unwelcome to them as news of Sherman's capture of Atlanta was to the Copperhead Democrats in 1864? Is their insistence on precipitous retreat driven by fear we might win?

Is Jack Kelly the worst columnist in any US newspaper?

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Only Jack Kelly...

...could in the course of one column link the British sailors and Marines held by Iran to the Rutgers women's basketball team as members if the "victimhood cult." And as the cherry on the sundae he quotes a commenter at Lucianne Goldberg's hate site.

There's no level to which Kelly won't stoop.

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[bangs head on desk]

Why, oh why, does the Post-Gazette continue to publish Jack Kelly? Surely there is an honest right-winger out there somewhere. But we're stuck with Jack:

Public Opinion Strategies of Alexandria, Va. surveyed 800 registered voters Feb. 5-7. By identical margins of 57-41 percent, those polled said Iraq was a key part of the war on terror and that U.S. troops should remain until "the job is done." By 56-43 percent, respondents said Americans should stand behind the president in Iraq because we are at war, and by 53-46 percent they said Democrats were going too far, too fast in pressing the president to withdraw troops.

Public Opinion Strategies is a partisan polling firm which used questions designed to elicit a certain response. In other words, the poll is completely meaningless. Even Republican pollsters dismiss the results. See also: Steve Benen.

But perhaps I'm being too hard on the P-G. Perhaps there isn't anyone on the right who is honest anymore. Perhaps it's a totally bankrupt philosophy.

But it is certainly a sad state of affairs if Jack Kelly is the best the right can do.

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Feith!

Jack Kelly defends the stupidest fucking guy on the planet

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Ruth Ann

Greg Sargent writes to the P-G's own Ruth Ann Daily for her utterly inaccurate column yesterday.

After all these years I've come to pity Ruth Ann more than dislike her; she clearly is more stupid than actively a liar.

Faint praise, I know.

dayvoe completely destroys Ruth Ann.

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On Not Hating LameDuck George

Reg Henry:

In order that you do not think ill of my gravy, I must admit that I am not a Bush admirer either, so the letter writer was half right, as so many letter writers are.

I will further admit that my skin creeps every time I watch Mr. Bush on TV, but that merely indicates a very fastidious epidermis. It's not like I have an insane hatred of the president. Just because you can't stand a person doesn't mean you are sufficiently bothered to hate him.

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As a Vietnam veteran myself, I am not here to tell you that it was about time. If I had been given the opportunity to fly jets in Texas during the time of the Vietnam War, as Mr. Bush did, I would have jumped at the chance.

I don't reproach Mr. Bush at all. As the old saying has it, they also serve who but stand and wait. The young Mr. Bush stood at attention, he waited, then he waited some more, and finally he got tired of waiting and sort of wandered off without a word being said. In the meantime, he saved Texas from the Reds and presumably flew over some fields and woke up some cattle.

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In the picture run by The New York Times, Mr. Bush is whispering something to Russian President Vladmir Putin, both of them looking fetching in blue. In front, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in pink with a traditional hat, looking apprehensive, as if some clown is about to descend and give her a back rub. For all the world, it could be the family picture at a gay wedding.

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