Oh brother. You knew as soon as McCain started answering questions so well at Saturday night’s faith forum at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church that The Usual Suspects were going to cry “McCain knew the questions in advance!”   And less than 24 hours after the forum was over, they did just that.
Remember the story that exploded yesterday about the arrest of the kook who allegedly threatened to assassinate Barack Obama? One of the things not widely talked about in the aftermath of that story is how the original reporting contained information that indicated that a threat by the same man had also been made against President Bush.
I’m buried under as usual today but I wanted to link up to Andy McCarthy’s slam of today’s NYT editorial, which is titled “Guilty as Ordered” (emphasis mine) in reference to the recent guilty ruling in Gitmo’s Hamdan trial.   As expected, the NYT is reflexively anti-Bush, strongly implying that he is a dicator prone to imperial rule. Both McCarthy’s rebuttal, as well as NRO’s response, go a long way towards providing the details the NYT, of course, won’t.Â
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Well, first it was “racist” as well as reminiscent of “rape yo daughter” and “scare elderly Jews” overtones. Now? McCain’s “Celeb” ad is supposedly … subtly pornographic. Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters reports:
