Weekend open thread

I’ll be away for most of the day – catch ya’ll tomorrow.

18 Responses to "Weekend open thread"

Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 9, 2008 at 2:53 pm

ST – your spam filter hates me! I have noticed that if you edit a comment even slightly the spam filter goes nuclear.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 9, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Here is a second try:

Mistress’ Family Challenges Edwards to Take DNA Test.

This is from ABC – hardly a loyal foot soldier in the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (TM). Like Saddam’s statue, the Legend of John Edwards is being toppled. Ironic that the MSM – which once busied itself burnishing the Edwards Legend is now (finally) getting into the act.

Perhaps the MSM is looking at the Enquirer (with its focus on stories like Hollywood actresses’ babies fathered by two-headed space aliens) and suddenly realizing that the Enquirer’s standards of journalism are actually an improvement over their own. Not a pleasant thought for any of us.

Roger Simon has a priceless piece of snark over at Pajamas Media:

MEANWHILE, one of the few remaining reporters at the Los Angeles Times had this to say: Several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, had been pursuing the story prior to Friday. Oh, really? As I recall some nitwit editor over there was telling his bloggers not to report the story but to “Keep rockin'” (how sophisticated). No matter. There won’t be anybody left working at the LAT in a few years anyway. In fact, the absurd see-no-evil reaction to the Edwards Affair will be seen as a benchmark in know-nothing journalism by the MSM and one of the last nails in their coffin. Too bad most of their soon-to-be unemployed reporters are not good enough to get jobs at the National Enquirer (emphasis added by MD).
Tom TB says:

August 9, 2008 at 3:40 pm

I love North Carolina’s State motto “Esse Quam Videri, translated “To Be Rather than to Seem”. John Edwards should have learned that when you play too long with lies, they end up biting you in the butt.
Sister Toldjah says:

August 9, 2008 at 4:30 pm

MD – glad your comment worked on the second try. I did see the first one stuck in the Akismet filter

I don’t know how to tweak the thing, but I’ve noticed it will sometimes snag your, and one other commenter’s, comments. Can’t figure out why, but luckily I’m almost always around to rescue.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 9, 2008 at 7:04 pm

don’t know how to tweak the thing, but I’ve noticed it will sometimes snag your, and one other commenter’s, comments.

The Internet Gods want me to shut up.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 9, 2008 at 7:16 pm

Edwards’s Ex-Mistress Will Not Pursue Paternity Test

This obviously means…I don’t know what.
Severian says:

August 9, 2008 at 8:42 pm

This is, without a doubt, one of the most heart wrenching tragedies I’ve ever read about. I first read this several days ago, and still can’t get this out of my mind. The woman should be nailed to a piece of wood for such a thing. The people who adopted the little girl are saints, it amazes me that there are such people out there.

The Girl In The Window
Steve Skubinna says:

August 9, 2008 at 10:44 pm

Well, MD, my comments never end up in the spam filter. I believe it automatically lets by everyone whose middle name is not Hussein.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 9, 2008 at 11:27 pm

Actually, my middle name is Josef-Fidel-Adolph-Mao-W (it was the name of an obscure uncle, I think). Thus, my full name is Mwalimu Josef-Fidel-Adolph-Mao-W Daudi.
Great White Rat says:

August 9, 2008 at 11:58 pm

Well, there ya go. It’s the W that the filter doesn’t like. Can’t you legally get that part changed to something more acceptable, like, for example, “Che”? Then the spam filter will love you.

As far as I can remember, it’s only eaten one of mine so far. Probably read the middle name too quickly, saw the W, and booted it.
stoo says:

August 10, 2008 at 3:32 pm

That “Because of the hypocrisy” argument the left likes to use when a Republican gets caught? What will they do now?

Here’s Edwards in 1999 talking about BJC’s extramarital troubles.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 10, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Some MSM journalists at least had the good sense to be embarrassed by their silence on the Edwards/Hunter affair. Others are like AP writer Gary Robertson – already hard at work rebuilding the Edwards legend.

Key quote:

If there is any hope for an Edwards redemption, it will come from those touched by yet another of his risks: to base a pair of national political campaigns on a fight against poverty and the struggles of low-income Americans.

In Greene County, Edwards founded a program in 2005 that sent 190 high school graduates to college for free. Those who benefited said Friday that his personal infidelities, no matter how distasteful, could not undo such good works.

“I have great things to say about John Edwards. He opened that window up for our rural community,” said Sara Johnson, whose son Tyler earned one of the scholarships. “It gave something to our community, and our students and their families.”

Got it? The “risk” that drove Edwards from his dying wife into the arms of another woman is the same “risk” that drove him to start this program. In other words, the ends justify the means and in the process covers any sins committed along the way. A roll in the hay followed by absolution!

Never mind the near 100% failure rate of the welfare state from the New Deal to the Great Society. Never mind the fact that mammoth increases in social welfare spending saw a rise (rather than a decrease) in dependency on government. Never mind that Edwards got rich by destroying the lives and careers of doctors in frivolous malpractice lawsuits where he thrilled juries by allegedly channeling the spirit of the dead. All that slips down the memory hole as Mr. Robertson focuses on one supposed success which we are to accept at face value. The Edwards legend must be re-animated.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 10, 2008 at 6:14 pm

And My last comment was not eaten! Probably because I had My name legally changed from Mwalimu Josef-Fidel-Adolph-Mao-W Daudi to Mwalimu He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Mentioned Daudi.

Thus, in the future I command all infidels to refer to Me as Mwalimu HWMNMNBM Daudi.
Steve Skubinna says:

August 10, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Dems are all about redemption – for their own, that is. Republicans, on the other hand, are tainted with Original Political Sin, regardless of what they do or say. Remember how fast Bill Clinton’s gang of tame pastors fell all over themselves pronouncing him “forgiven?” Of course, they’re in the forgiving business, so it’s not surprising they came out swinging.

Likewise, Edwards can make a tearful apology and the MSM and Dem operatives (to the extent there is a difference) will immediately rejoice in his maturity and statesmanship and he’s back in the running as a VP choice. No, I am not kidding. Watch his political rehabilitation – I bet it takes a mere week.

MD, how about we just refer to you as “The Unmentionable” for short?
forest hunter says:

August 10, 2008 at 11:55 pm

…..He opened that window up for our rural community”….

So window is the new code word huh.
Lorica says:

August 11, 2008 at 10:13 am

Where is our infamous hypocrisy commentors?? You would think that they would be the 1st ones to post on this blog about their disappointment regarding Edwards infidelity. About how they feel regarding him having a trist with another woman when his wife is dying after all. Where are these people that always stick it to a Rep, but oddly enough are never around everytime it is one of their’s??? If there is hypocrisy it is in the silence of those on the left that yell the loudest on the few occasions a rightie commits these acts of infidelity. – Lorica
Mwalimu Daudi says:

August 11, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Cindy Sheehan Qualifies to Run for Pelosi’s House Speaker Seat

I was wrong – I thought election officials would disqualify enough signatures to keep Mother Sheehan off the ballot.

Pass the popcorn!
Lorica says:

August 12, 2008 at 10:26 am

YES!!! Looks like the good guys are winning!!!

Pelosi indicates openness to offshore drilling vote

Drudge has this listed today. Keep it up Reps, you are having a great effect even if the Senate is full of a bunch of witless ninnies. – Lorica

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