Opening The Files: 8/04/06
Would you like Freedom Fries with that?
Sadly, this is something you will no longer hear in the basement cafeteria of the Capitol Building. Three years after the GOP lobbied to change the name of "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries", the potato dish will again bare the name of the one country unwilling to go along with Bush's misadventure in Iraq. While this probably wasn't the biggest story of the week to cover (Mel's anti-Semitic bender was all the rage in both left and right blogistan), it does give us a peek at how the GOP likes to stir up theirnationalistic jingoistic patriotic base.
Carpetbagger highlighted a quote from a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi who says that now that they've reversed course on freedom fries, perhaps it's time the GOP admit they've made other foreign policy mistakes as well. Don't bet on it.
Moxiegrrrl noticed the guys who once ballyhooed this patriotic menu alteration are probably wishing this subject would just go away. Kinda like the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, it's only getting worse.
On a Liberal 'Outing' with Ann Coulter.
For some reason, Annie's Gaydar has been working in overdrive lately. Last week she 'outed' two former administration officials. First she claimed that Bill Clinton was a 'latent homosexual'. Then she called Al Gore a 'total fag' (in jest of course, but she was serious about Clinton).
This week, Ms. Ann continued the "Could Be Gay Parade" and bet good money that Hillary Clinton will be '[c]oming out of the closet' in 2008.
So it It would seem that Discoult (as Moxiegrrrl likes to call her) has been forced to resort to the hardcore conservative practice of 'gay bashing' in order to help boost her book sales. Not very Christian, but then again, even Ann admits she is a 'mean-spirited, bigoted conservative' only second to being a Christian. Though I'd say it's probably the other way around.
Mike wonders whether Coulter herself might be gay. And he brings up a good analogy about a rash too. It will be hard, but I think we all need to learn to resist the urge to scratch.
But until then, David Letterman had Bill Clinton's rebuttal.
Elsewhere...
Bill Katovsky took note of the report that President Bush lost a quarter of an inch in height this past year and calculates when he will hit zero-feet tall. Let's just say his approval rating will probably be somewhere in the negative 300's by then.
Shakes, in a rather obscenity laced rant (hey, it was cross posted at The Rude Pundit, what do you expect?) juxtaposes India's solution to their primate problem with Washington's political primate problem. Lindsay Beyerstein, meanwhile, comes up with a tagline for Samuel L. Jackson's next flick.
Sadly, this is something you will no longer hear in the basement cafeteria of the Capitol Building. Three years after the GOP lobbied to change the name of "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries", the potato dish will again bare the name of the one country unwilling to go along with Bush's misadventure in Iraq. While this probably wasn't the biggest story of the week to cover (Mel's anti-Semitic bender was all the rage in both left and right blogistan), it does give us a peek at how the GOP likes to stir up their
Carpetbagger highlighted a quote from a spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi who says that now that they've reversed course on freedom fries, perhaps it's time the GOP admit they've made other foreign policy mistakes as well. Don't bet on it.
Moxiegrrrl noticed the guys who once ballyhooed this patriotic menu alteration are probably wishing this subject would just go away. Kinda like the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, it's only getting worse.
On a Liberal 'Outing' with Ann Coulter.
For some reason, Annie's Gaydar has been working in overdrive lately. Last week she 'outed' two former administration officials. First she claimed that Bill Clinton was a 'latent homosexual'. Then she called Al Gore a 'total fag' (in jest of course, but she was serious about Clinton).
This week, Ms. Ann continued the "Could Be Gay Parade" and bet good money that Hillary Clinton will be '[c]oming out of the closet' in 2008.
So it It would seem that Discoult (as Moxiegrrrl likes to call her) has been forced to resort to the hardcore conservative practice of 'gay bashing' in order to help boost her book sales. Not very Christian, but then again, even Ann admits she is a 'mean-spirited, bigoted conservative' only second to being a Christian. Though I'd say it's probably the other way around.
Mike wonders whether Coulter herself might be gay. And he brings up a good analogy about a rash too. It will be hard, but I think we all need to learn to resist the urge to scratch.
But until then, David Letterman had Bill Clinton's rebuttal.
Elsewhere...
Bill Katovsky took note of the report that President Bush lost a quarter of an inch in height this past year and calculates when he will hit zero-feet tall. Let's just say his approval rating will probably be somewhere in the negative 300's by then.
Shakes, in a rather obscenity laced rant (hey, it was cross posted at The Rude Pundit, what do you expect?) juxtaposes India's solution to their primate problem with Washington's political primate problem. Lindsay Beyerstein, meanwhile, comes up with a tagline for Samuel L. Jackson's next flick.
Labels: Coultergeist, OTF
Annthrax, gay? Please!
We don't want her. Now, I've said for years that I believe she's a tranny, but that's entirely different.
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