The Republican Party Establishment, which has been kissing Tea Party ass for the past four years, is up on its hind legs and shouting again. All the “experts,” like Charles Krauthammer and Bill Kristol, agree: we need to learn to speak Spanish! Florida Senator Mario Rubio, whose name even sounds Spanish, is the self-anointed leader…
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Republicans whine, Vanneman laughs
It’s true: politics is a spectator sport, but a spectator sport with a difference. Even when the home team is screwing up, you can still laugh at the opposition. Never was that old adage, which I just made up, more true than today. I am emphatically not a fan of President Obama, and his second…
NYT finds new supply of terrorists in North Africa, thank God
Were you as worried as I was that the U.S. would run out of terrorists to kill? If so, Michael R. Gordon and the New York Times have some good news for you: The bloody resolution of the hostage crisis in Algeria has brought into focus the broader challenges the United States and its allies…
Emily Bazelon—“Torture is bad, but it does make for riveting cinema”
Oy vey. I may have to see Zero Dark Thirty, the “controversial” new thriller about the murder of Osama Bin Laden, just to make my way through all the bullshit that’s been piled up around it. Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon contributes a profoundly disappointing take on the film, which, unlike me, she has seen….
General Petraeus, contemplating a career move: Wars are out, assassinations are in!
Establishment dick National icon Bob Woodward reports on a taped conversation that Fox News contributor Kathleen McFarland had with Gen. David Petraeus back when El Davo was still running things in Afghanistan, a tape that, mysteriously, did not surface until after General Dave resigned in disgrace from his position as head of the CIA. Kathleen…
Day after Thanksgiving Day reading—Paula Broadwell’s All In—the Critics Rave!
An invaluable link from Justin Logan at the American Conservative brings the blurbs for Paula “Keep your hands off my man” Broadwell’s tome on the glories of General Petraeus, whose genius brought us our glorious victories in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not! “A valuable perspective on how Gen. Petraeus—the most successful U.S. general of his generation—approached…
Tampa Socialites Behaving Badly
What Jill hath wrought, eh? Beware of FBI agents, baring chests. Perhaps if the FBI didn’t regard itself as a favor machine for dudes trying to make it with busty married chicks* we wouldn’t be in this mess. FBI DUDE # 1: “Do you think there’s even a possibility of a crime here?” FBI DUDE…
How about that Charlie Sheen? I hear he gets more tail than General Petraeus!
Glenn Greenwald devotes perhaps too many column inches to the otherwise valid point that usually when a public figure gets caught with his pants down he’s the recipient of delighted, scurrilous ridicule, but that when it’s a four-star general named Petraeus, the rules are different. So, Glenn, I’m helping. More seriously, Petraeus has one major…
You don’t get to call yourself Tom Friedman unless you are Tom Friedman
NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman is one of the most parodied men in the world, but last Sunday he proved, once again, that no one does Tom Friedman like Tom Friedman does Tom Friedman. In a column labeled “Why I Am Pro-Life,” Manhattan Tom pours most laborious contempt all over fly-over fuck-ups like Richard Mourdock…
George and Jeane, not my favorite Democrats
The recent death of George McGovern occurred when I happened to be reading the biography of someone who detested George—Jeane Kirkpatrick. George is very well remembered by his admirers, as is Jeane—and for very good reasons—but I’m afraid that I will always remember George as a “loser” and Jeane as a traitor. McGovern first helped…