Archive » Bill Clinton

Dirtbag then, dirtbag now
My woman-to-woman advice for Nancy Pelosi today: To clean a house, you take the garbage out, not in.
Jan. 12, 2006: Pelosi Announces ‘Clean House Team’ to Address Republican Culture of Corruption
“It is long past time for the Congress to address the systemic Republican culture of corruption that has undermined the American people’s [...]

I’m blogging from the road (don’t worry, Bryan Preston is driving) on our way back from a Michael Steele campaign event. We’ll have an interview with him posted tomorrow at Hot Air. The GOP candidate was endorsed by a passionate, bipartisan group of pastors–several of whom made a point of declaring “I am a registered [...]

The Philly Daily News cover today: Right photo, wrong spin (hat tip: Richard Davis)
So much for John Kerry’s “joke” excuse. He meant what he said and, as Rove says, it’s a lifelong habit. Someone other than Jennifer Loven at the Associated Press reports on Kerry’s disparaging remarks in 1972 about America’s volunteer army–which he deems [...]

Thanks to Michael Barone, whose excellent US News.com blog is a model for dinosaur MSM journalists who are still stuck in the 20th century, you can listen to an hour-long discussion President Bush had with eight conservative columnists. It’s a terrific public service to post the entire on-the-record conversation. More mainstream media outlets should do [...]

She finally admitted her ridiculous story isn’t true:
For more than a decade, one piece of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s informal biography has been that she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest. The story was even recounted in Bill Clinton’s autobiography.
But yesterday, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign said she was not named for [...]

The New York Sun weighs in on “The Axis Bomb:”
To the extent that America needs to be particularly wary, it is of the danger that the North Korean test could be, like the war in Lebanon and Israel this summer, an Iranian-Syrian stunt aimed at diverting world attention from Tehran’s own nuclear program. The North [...]

Very badly, according to this “study” about liberal vs. conservative dreams:
A dream researcher from John F. Kennedy University in California has discovered fundamental differences between the dream worlds of people on the ideological left and the ideological right.
Among his findings, Kelly Bulkeley discovered that liberals are more restless sleepers and have a higher number of [...]

Photoshop by David Lunde
On Fox and Friends this morning, Chris Wallace had some interesting comments about his interview with the Finger-Jabber:
His reaction to Clinton accusing him of having a “smirk:”
“What it was was sheer wonder at what I was witnessing.”
Heh. On what happened after the interview:
“There was no making up with him. He was angry. [...]

***scroll for updates***

Wallace to Clinton: “You seem upset.”
Check out Hot Air highlights of the Wallace-Clinton fireworks on Fox News Sunday. Wallace was terrific. Unflappable. Unrelenting. Unapologetic. Clinton was a basket case.
Newsbusters has the transcript.
“Conservative hit job?” Right. Ask your wife about that Clinton-hating Rupert Murdoch.
Allah on Clinton’s math:
He had eight years to confront Islamic [...]

Posting was light today because I’ve been trapped in travel hell. Been hustling back and forth across the Chicago airport for the last three and a half hours waiting for “tornado” conditions to pass. Just venting. Speaking of “Vent,” there’s lots of good stuff over at Hot Air:
Kathleen of Rightwingsparkle gets Kinky.
Bill Clinton flips [...]

The festivities begin at 11am. I’m lowering my expectations, actually. Ahmadinejad has chickened out:
There won’t be a confrontation on the General Assembly lunch menu today because the Iranian president has decided to skip it - passing up his best shot at ambushing President Bush with an impromptu debate.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Bush to a debate, [...]

For not doing enough about…AIDS and Rwanda.
That’s according to a New Yorker article by David Remnick just e-mailed to me by the magazine’s P.R. people. Here’s a snippet:
Remnick reveals a man still very much obsessed with leaving his mark on the
world, through his foundation work on international health initiatives and
his persisting influence over world leaders. [...]

***scroll for updates and liveblogging…side by side video comparison***
Remember that “viewer discretion is advised” post I did on Friday featuring TS’s mock warning slate for ABC?
Allah captured the real-life slate ABC aired before “Path to 9/11″ began this evening. Click for the vid and live comment thread. More to come:

Running commentary from Glenn Reynolds and [...]

TS at Seixon (hat tip: Allah) has helpfully crafted a TV slate for ABC to “insert into every scene the champions of free speech nutroots or poor Bill Clinton objects [to] (because, from the looks of this massive jihad they are waging , it appears ABC will be using this slate quite a bit):”

The way [...]

***scroll for updates***
From the nutroots in full-blown Rove Derangement Syndrome mode…

To the top of the Democratic Party…

…the protests against ABC’s 9/11 docu-drama, “Path to 9/11,” have become completely unhinged.
The Ostroy Report says this morning:
In a story in Friday’s New York Times, former Governor of New Jersey and co-chair of the federal 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. [...]

Looking for a late-night laugh? Check out the fulmination from Ned Lamont’s nutroots gal pal, Jane Hamsher, sputtering about her blackface debacle. Guess whose fault it is that she made an insane decision to publish the minstrel Photoshop of Joe Lieberman on her Huffington Post blog entry? It’s those damned “right-wing Republicans:”
I sincerely apologize to [...]

One of my favorite passages from Zell Miller’s RNC speech sets the theme for today’s July 4th news and notes:
Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier.
And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it [...]

Oh, dear Lord. A jihadist plot, possibly of global scale, possibly imminent, unravels in Canada…and what do law enforcement officials do? Try to whitewash the obvious jihadi profile from the public’s mind.
At the press briefing held by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police today, the suspects who appeared in court–all sporting traditional Muslim male beards and [...]

The Wall Street Journal editorial page gets all huffy about the FBI raid of Democrat Rep. William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office. The WSJ board thinks law enforcement officials should have “negotiate(d) the parameters of such a search with House leaders” instead of obtaining a judicial warrant. The “Speech and Debate Clause” of the Constitution, in [...]

Compare and contrast…
In Dallas, a school district strikes the words “In God We Trust” from the photo of an enlarged nickel on a yearbook cover for fear of offending students of differing religions.
In California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (the one that outlawed the Pledge of Allegiance for its reference to God) approved putting [...]

There are a lot of rumors flying around the left side of the blogosphere about a Karl Rove indictment. (He’s among the top Technorati searches today.) The New York Sun reports otherwise.
But unhinged Democrats are already partying hard. The Detroit Free Press report:
Was it an improbable outside-the-Beltway scoop on the ultimate inside-the-Beltway story? A criminal [...]

House Democrats are bashing the Bush administration for its lack of “diversity.” Via WaPo:
President Bush’s crop of political appointees includes fewer women and minorities than did President Bill Clinton’s at comparable points in their presidencies, according to a new report by House Democrats.
Women made up about 37 percent of the 2,786 political appointees in the [...]

Yahoo!/AP caption: Aaron Fuksa, right, and Scottie McLaughlin, both employees of Madame Tussauds’ wax museum and Hillary Clinton supporters, chant during the unveiling of the Hillary Clinton wax figure, left, beside a figure of her husband, former President Clinton, at the museum, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 in New York…A life-sized figure of the former first [...]

I asked this morning, and I’ll repeat the question:
How much did the Saudis pay Al Gore to trash America this weekend at the Jeddah Economic Forum?

Arab News has details on the sponsors of the event:
Today, the JEF, which was conceived in 2000, and the Jeddah International Exhibition & Convention Center are units of the Jeddah [...]

***scroll for updates***
Kudos to the Philadelphia Inquirer for braving the forces of political correctness, foreign and domestic, and publishing one of the forbidden Muhammad cartoons. The point that needs to be hammered again and again is that the newspaper did not publish the cartoon to deliberately offend Muslims or to make an anti-Islamist statement, but [...]

***11:20am update…I’ve just learned that the NYSun published two of the cartoons in today’s print edition…will post scans if I can get them…bravo!…scan posted below…***

I have contacted several newspaper op-ed editors urging them to run the Danish forbidden cartoons along with my column this week.
So far, all have declined.
Now, via a tip from Sissy Willis, [...]

My column today picks up on the blog campaign to “Buy Danish” in support of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, its cartoonists, and the country now under fire by radical Islamists around the world for printing the Forbidden Cartoons.
Via Real Clear Politics, Kathleen Parker is on the same wavelength.
Meanwhile, Judith Apter Klinghoffer notes that other papers around [...]

Last October, I blogged about a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and its cartoonists being threatened by Muslim extremists for publishing cartoons about the prophet Muhammad deemed offensive by Islamist p.c. bulllies. See here and here.
For the past four months, The Brussels Journal has relentlessly covered the ensuing uproar from the Muslim world and the battle over [...]

The World Economic Forum in Davos, which attracts the world’s wealthiest and windiest bloviators, wrapped up this weekend. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt turned up, along with Michael Douglas, Peter Gabriel, retired tennis player Monica Seles, and other We Are The World Hollywood celebrity-types. (See here for embarrassingly star-struck slavering from an official World Economic [...]

Take an Antacid and watch the clip (.wmv file).

Brad Wilmouth at Newsbusters has the full transcript and more:
Olbermann: “Who has enabled this? I mean, in a perverse way, is it almost necessary to say that Bill Clinton paved the way for George Bush to conduct a kind of fingers-in-his-ears, shout la-la-la-la-la presidency?”
Dowd: “No, they’re [...]