My (Non)Conversation with Erick Erickson of RedState.com

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Friday November 13, 2009 · 8:04 AM PST

2009/11/13 · 08:04

This morning, Erick Erickson at RedState.com got the vapors because the Obama Administration is transferring KSM to New York to stand trial. Among the other things that had Erick reaching for the smelling salts was this:

At worse, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will gain access to classified material he can then leak to other terrorists while New York yet again becomes a target for terrorists.

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 3:13 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 15:13

Today, in her interview with Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin descibed how she decided to acceptMcCain's offer to be Vice President:

It was a time of asking the girls to vote on it, anyway. And they voted unanimously, yes. Didn’t bother asking my son because, you know, he’s going to be off doing his thing anyway, so he wouldn’t be so impacted by, at least, the campaign period here. So ask the girls what they thought and they’re like, absolutely. Let’s do this, mom.

However, directly contradicting his wife, Todd Palin says there was no vote. The girls were told that their mom would be the Republican nominee for Veep when they arrived in Dayton, Ohio:

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 7:05 PM PDT

2008/09/04 · 19:05

The cable networks keep shooting Palin holding her infant. Here's a question. Why is it necessay for this infant to be at the convention tonight. She can't find a baby-sitter? The infant really wanted to see McCain's speech? He fell in love with Cindy last night and wanted to be there to support her?

Geez, Palin is using this kid as nothing but a prop.

Update: They now have the four month old up on the stage. I feel so terrible for that baby. There is no need for him to be there.

David Brooks: Why Should We Take You Seriously?

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 1:38 PM PDT

2008/06/04 · 13:38

David Brooks has rightly taken a lot of heat for his "I know the common people mentality" comment on MSNBC that "Obama's problem is he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee's salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there." (By the way, there is an Applebees in Times Square, a few blocks from Brooks' office. Clearly, Brooks is not dropping by on a regular basis with MoDo for lunch).

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Friday April 18, 2008 · 8:16 AM PDT

2008/04/18 · 08:16

Last week's edition of the The New York Times Magazine, in addition to a cover story about Chris "My Life is Nothing But Strategy" Matthews, featured a Deborah Solomon mini-interview with Grover "Drown it in a Bathtub" Norquist.

In response to one of Solomon's questions regarding the potential benefits of regulation, Norquist responded with a non-sequitur that was (pick one: obtsue, lazy thinking, right-wing mythology)

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Monday November 05, 2007 · 8:15 AM PST

2007/11/05 · 08:15

Former Attorney John Ashcroft has an op-ed in today's New York Times defending the retroactive immunity that will be granted the telecommunications companies in the pending FISA bills. His position is that because the Administration assured the telecommunications companies that it was acting lawfully, the companies really had no choice but to abide the Administration's demands. His position reads the Fourth Amendment right out of the Constitution and ignore FISA.

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 12:26 PM PST

2006/12/06 · 12:26

This "controversy" has already been covered in more than exhaustive detail, but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents regarding a couple of points of Prager illogic that I think have been overlooked. (Leave aside the facts that Prager's demand that the "Christian Bible" be used or be present at swearing in ceremonies is both unconstitutional, and factually and historically inaccurate.)

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Friday November 03, 2006 · 1:10 PM PST

2006/11/03 · 13:10

Barbara Cubin's (R-WY) new attack makes the shocking charge that Gary Trauner is from New York. How is it that middle America feels entitled to attack other Americans, whether they be New Yorkers, from Massachusetts, "Hollywood", or San Francisco, but I must respect and understand middle America--a group of whom feel not the slightest hesitation to demonize me?
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RNC AD Against Ford Potentially Libelous

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Tuesday October 24, 2006 · 1:46 PM PDT

2006/10/24 · 13:46

The more I think about, the more I think the ad the RNC is running against Harold Ford in the Tennessee Senate race is potentially libelous. The "blonde" in the ad makes an affirmative statement of fact: "I met Harold Ford at the Playboy party." Now, the woman who said that, in fact, did not meet Harold Ford at a Playboy party (take a look at hre, she couldn't dance at my local strip club, let alone gain entrance to the Playboy mansion), and she (and the RNC)know it. Read More

Martin Peretz' Conflict of Interest

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Tuesday September 12, 2006 · 12:05 PM PDT

2006/09/12 · 12:05

I just canceled my subscription to The New Republic. I hung in there with TNR a lot longer than many in the Kos Community. Despite the fact that I disagreed with many its editorial positions, most prominently its full-throated support for the Iraq quagmire, I found the journalistic level of articles to be superb, I thoroughly enjoyed its arts, literature, and cinema coverage, and I can't get enough of Leon Wieseltier.
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Unintentional Irony: Which Party Has a Pre-9/11 Worldview?

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Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 11:19 AM PDT

2006/09/06 · 11:19

One of the things that has irked me is the Republican talking point that Democrats view the Global War on Terror (whatever that means) through a pre-9/11 worldview, while Republicans take a post-9/11 worldview.

Yet, over the past few weeks, desperate to stave off a looming defeat, Republicans from Bush on down have done their level best to compare the GWOT to the great ideological struggles of the 20th century, from communism to fascism, and the "good" wars we fought (are we now in WW III? WW IV?). They have even gone as far as to accuse Democrats of appeasement akin to Munich 1938.

The irony apparently is lost on this bunch. I mean, with the debut of these latest talking points, how much more of a pre-9/11 worldview can one party take?

Silly Security in New York

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Tuesday August 03, 2004 · 6:59 AM PDT

2004/08/03 · 06:59

From my office, I have a good view of the entrance to the Citigroup building. Trucks from the various media are parked in a row along Lexington Avenue between 52d and 53d Streets. Each I suppose is hoping to grab the exclusive: "Bob, I am standing here with a live exclusive of one of the terrorists hoping to blow himself up." The story line for today is more likely "No terrorists today, people go to work." Read More

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My (Non)Conversation with Erick Erickson of RedState.com

They Lie About Everything, Don't They? Todd Palin Contradicts Sarah Palin [UPDATED WITH VIDEO]

Palin's Infant: Why Is He There? (UPDATED)

David Brooks: Why Should We Take You Seriously?

What the Hell is Grover Norquist Talking About?

Ashcroft: What Fourth Amendment?

Prager: Yet More Illiogic

I Am A New Yorker, and Angry! Now, Fuck Off Mr. President

RNC AD Against Ford Potentially Libelous

Martin Peretz' Conflict of Interest

Unintentional Irony: Which Party Has a Pre-9/11 Worldview?

Silly Security in New York