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October 11, 2005Cowboys! Wormwood! Big Pictures!I like this, and my brother Thom likes it too - the most interesting and unusual writing I have yet seen about the nomination of Harriet Miers, from BigLizard, who jumps off from Ed Morrissey’s excellent WaPo piece and identifies a fourth group in this fight: The Cowboys (and Cowgirls!). Read it - you’ll like. And it’s not a joke, either. H/T Cowboy Don Singleton. Yeehah! Varifrank advises us that he is not going to write anymore about Harriet Miers - that he is declaring a moritorium on the issue in order to focus on: Wondering what the hell Kim Il Jong is up to, guessing whats in Sandy Bergers pants this week, Chinese incursions into the spratly islands, Richard Branson and Burt Rutan building private spacecraft, whether or not ABC’s LOST is just a poorly written rip off of the 1960s classic TV show ” The Prisoner”,… taking bets on the next member of the european anti-american coalition to fall… in other words…there’s more going on in the world…HOWEVER…just before he wrote that, he wrote this splendid Screwtape rip-off and then he wrote this Smurf smackdown. All of it is really good. When Varifrank has had enough…we all win! I’m always a little leery of linking to someone who is quoting me but Neo-neocon has a look-at-the-big-picture post up on Miers that is really a good read, so there you are. Not surprisingly, the ever-sensible Dr. Sanity agrees with Neo and she has more interesting links on the whole Harriet Hullabaloo. Also, Cathouse Chat has today’s best round-up of Harriet links. Hugh has a letter from a lawyer. But this comparison of Harriet Miers to Clarence Thomas takes the cake. I do not care - I utterly do not care - about this silly charge being advanced that sexism is the reason for Harriet Hating. It’s an absurd charge and I’m sorry to hear that Mrs. Bush made it. But I’m not going to get into spitting hysteria about it. I’m simply calmly going to suggest the charge is dumb and baseless. I’m also going to suggest that the White House seems to be in dire need of Karen Hughes. Trip. Plop. Trip. Schlumph. Crash! Lately the White House reminds me of a clumsy school custodian trying to step over his mop and pail without slipping on the wet floor…while wearing roller blades. Stephen Hunter is my favorite film reviewer, because he rarely has an axe to grind, and he ALWAYS writes an entertaining and informative review, whether he loves a film or not. Here he reviews George Clooney’s Sixth Grade Love Song to Edward R. Murrow. Not. Classical Values is wondering why the story of the bomb situation at Georgia Tech rates more media attention than the one in Oklahoma, which I think is a really good question. I suggest that the OK bombing is being downplayed because - once again, and go ahead and call me paranoid - the OK bombing makes people think of the OKC bombing, which reminds people that there was a second John Doe, who looks a lot like Padilla, and whatever happened to those clues about “middle eastern” types hanging around Tim McVie, who made it to the strapped-down gurney a hell of a lot faster than your average death-row inmate? It’s 10PM: Do you know where your weiners are? Finally - I want to take up a collection. No, I don’t want to take up a collection for Hurricane Victims or Earthquake Victims, even though those are very fine and worthy causes, and California Yankee is doing a good job of keeping those issues before the eyes of a crisis-weary blogosphere. No, I want to take up a collection to make Jesse Jackson stop. Just stop. Stop self-promoting. Stop exploiting every situation into which he can insert himself, stop posturing for the cameras with every media-whore or flavor of the month. Stop race baiting. Stop talking nonsense. Just stop. I figure if every man woman and child in these United States simply coughs up one dollar…just ONE MEASLEY DOLLAR…four quarters, ten dimes, twenty nickles, we will have be able to collect 280 Million dollars. With 280 MILLION dollars, we will buy Jesse an annuity. And all he has to do for the very significant monthly payout will be to GO AWAY. That’s all. If he rears his rhyming head in any direction, if he lunges toward a camera, if he gets up on any platform - anywhere - to speak, if he poses…at all…he will lose the 280 Million. I’m slapping down my buck, right now. http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/10/11/cowboys-wormwood-big-pictures/trackback/ 13 Responses to “Cowboys! Wormwood! Big Pictures!” |
AJ Strata is 
October 11th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
The biglizards link was excellent- as weret the others.
As far as the Jesse Jackson annuity, well, I can hear it now.
“Why an annuity? Why not give me the money- all of it? Is it racist? Is that it? Are you trying to keep black folk down? How long will have have to suffer at the hands of those who would our people so wrong?
Why only 280 million? Why not more? Justice demands more- and since I speak for justice, I demand more! Deny me and you deny justice- something white folks have been doing for hundreds of years!
I demand that 280 million and more. I am coming to collect that money, in the name of Justice. And know this, that money is but a down payment.
Justice- and I- demand more.”
Wanna see my John Wayne impression next?
October 11th, 2005 at 7:09 pm
I’ll put mine down :-).
October 11th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
Anchoress, the Jesse Jackson thing got me laughing. I really needed that laugh.
After I sobered up I realized that such a tactic would inspire countless Jesse imitators in the hopes of getting a similar windfall. I say we just laugh at him and give the money to charity.
The sexism thing is silly. I love The Screwtape Letters!
Thank you for lifting my spirits.
October 11th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Anchoress, to call my little round up “today’s best” is a wonderful compliment from someone who’s (”whose”?) respect is a lovely gift!
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to run off to that link about the Reh-vruhnd JACKsonnn… because I heard some of this earlier today, and I just couldn’t believe he is so far off in the ether.
Was there ever a time when he was remotely relevant? I wonder….
Many blessings to you and yours, milady!
– R’cat
CatHouse Chat
October 12th, 2005 at 12:09 am
[...] With 280 MILLION Dollars, We Will buy Jesse an Annuity Amen. [...]
October 12th, 2005 at 12:35 am
Quick! How many Hollywood celebrities, writers, production people were grilled by Joseph McCarthy? We’ve seen it in how many movies. Thousands? Hundreds? The answer is None. Well, one if you count Aaron Copland(”Fanfare for the Common Man”). But not because he was in show business, but because he headed up a little government program. McCarthy headed the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, not the House Un-American Activities Committee, because he was, of course, a Senator. Clooney’s little movie fails to make mention of that(as does Stephen Hunter of the WaPo). Nor do they mention that the VENONA Files, decoded/intercepted messages from major Soviet Intelligence Agencies, collected by the CIA and MI5, declassified in 1995, help support McCarthy’s accusations. Since it is believed he had access to VENONA data, there is no reason to believe it doesn’t support them all. Hundreds of names were kept classified.
Does this make you mad? It should. This is the first case of the MSM becoming the disinformation service of the Socialists in this country. Didn’t McCarthy have any supporters/ defenders? Yes he did. But anyone that came forward was set upon by the Left and the MSM. McCarthy was a very flawed man, but there is no doubt that Soviet spies had infiltrated all branches of gov’t during the Cold War with the Soviets and the Hot War with Korea.
Here are just a few of the confirmed Soviet spies. Some 349 are listed.
Mary Jane Keeney, a United Nations employee, and her husband Philip Keeney, who worked in the Office of Strategic Services
Lauchlin Currie, a special assistant to President Roosevelt
Virginius Frank Coe, Director of Division of Monetary Research, U.S. Treasury; Technical Secretary at the Bretton Woods Conferenc; International Monetary Fund
William Ludwig Ullman, delegate to the United Nations Charter Conference and Bretton Woods Conference;
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury and head of the Silvermaster network of spies;
Harold Glasser, U.S. Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy;
Four staff members of the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee, a Senate subcommittee on labor rights chaired by Senator Robert La Follette, Jr., whom McCarthy defeated for election in 1946;
Allan Rosenberg, Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board; argued cases before the United States Supreme Court.
October 12th, 2005 at 12:51 am
One final note. Send Hollywood a message and stay away from George Clooney’s film.
We now know that Truman and Eisenhower did not have access to the VENONA Project data. McCarthy may have gotten out of control, but his work was valid. He should have been replaced and the work should have continued. Are you comfortable with US Gov’t employees taking orders and directives from a foreign gov’t, taking money and passing information back, especially the Soviet Union? At a time of war? Or any other time for that matter. Let’s correct the MSM’s first big lie of the post-war era. And make sure it’s the last. That’s why Al Gore invented the internet, wasn’t it?
October 12th, 2005 at 8:54 am
[...] The Anchoress has some other good links to posts from those pushing back on the fanatical anti-Miers crowd (check the definitions folks). [...]
October 12th, 2005 at 10:48 am
Laura Bush only said the word …possibly. and …it’s a possibility. Matt Lauer is the one who brought up sexism and goaded her to make some sort of reply. The over-reacters took offense and ran with it as Laura coming out and asserting sexism. The conservative pundits have a very thin skin when they think they are getting criticized, even when the actual text is different than that being reported.
October 12th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
Stephen Hunter may be the best movie critic working in newspapers today (though his comrade at the Post, Desson Thompson, gives him a run for his money). Come to think of it, Anne Hornaday is a pretty good critic there, too.
Whoa!! Stop the presses! I’ve found something the Washington Post does that I really, really like!
October 12th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
So where do I send my dollar?
October 12th, 2005 at 4:42 pm
One last thought on McCarthy. As flawed as he was, he didn’t disclose the existence of the VENONA Project to save his “butt” during his censure. Surely that would have saved him because that was the true source of his “list.” Contrast that with Senators Durbin, Rockefeller, Wyden, and Levin disclosing the existence of the top-secret stealth satellite program to the press. By the way, how’s that prosecution of those four going? Senators with access to top secret info for “oversight’ purposes swear to keep everything they hear secret under penalty of a 20-year to life prison sentence, don’t they? Seems “open and shut” to me…
October 12th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
Anchoress, may we include Al Sharpton in on the annuity too? Anything to make him SHUT UP too….