A-S-S-H-O-L-E (Everybody!)

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From Crooks & Liars:





Byron York says Obama isn't as popular as he appears;
It's just because blacks like him.


He actually said that:

On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But if a new survey by the New York Times is accurate, the president and some of his policies are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans, and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.

So you African-Americans? According to Byron York, you don't actually count. ( For those who don't click through, here's the rest... )

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Wow. Just wow.

I'm impressed. Seriously, I'm really impressed. I didn't think anyone could be that big an asshole.

And yet here he is, a White House correspondent, no less. True, it's for the National Review, a magazine that encompasses all the sanity and balance of Edward Lear's The Dong with the Luminous Nose, but still. He's in the public eye, being interviewed on TV and all, so that makes him one of the voices of the Reich, and he's just made this extraordinary pronouncement, which you know is going to get picked up by Faux and become an MSM meme in about...*looks at watch*...oh, 37 minutes.

Are they doing this on purpose? Are we seeing, not a political faction being slowly drowned out and discarded, but an actual self-immolation, deliberate suicide? Because I can't imagine that any thinking person on earth would believe such an...opinion...would get him applause from anyone but pernicious racists.

Perhaps that's what we're seeing, after all. Perhaps it's not so much a matter of some guy going crazy because his girlfriend left him**, so much as it is the guy going crazy on his own, and now standing in the street stabbing himself in the gut while his girlfriend backs slowly away. Who could possibly give credit to such philistine pronouncements as this?

At any rate: Mr. York, for your stellar illustration of exactly why conservatism is dead (even though it keeps flopping around), this one goes out to you. A rousing chorus of the classic -

Asshole - Denis Leary


You're not insightful, Byron - you're just an asshole. Congratulations.



** Thanks to Bill Maher for the brilliant metaphor, and to jblaque for pointing me to it.

Fun with lunatics

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Yay! More utter asshattery from Planet Wingnuttia:

Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" report - 4/24/09

Michelle Bachman, Rupert Murdoch, and Virginia Foxx


Yesterday was a triple-header of coprocephaly, so do enjoy. The first one made me laugh like a loon, the last one made me feel very cold and still and violent. The one in between - OMG RUPERT MURDOCH IS A ZOMBIE!!!

Seriously, check out the picture. There's blood coming from his mouth and everything. Guy's the living dead.


Keith, you make this too much fun.

FICLET: Whispers

For claudia603:


Whispers


Frodo shakes abominably in the darkness, silent but for the slight susurration of panicked breath. Aragorn covers his shoulders with an arm and whispers, "What is it, Frodo? Are you ill?"

The hobbit stutters, lightly, "It sees me, it sees me, Strider." Now instinctively he pulls Frodo in close. He curls up against Aragorn like a child, alarming the Ranger. Fragile or not? I don't know anymore. Lips grazing the soft neck, he whispers, "It sees, but it does not know. Be at peace, Frodo. You will yet be safe." Far into the night, he holds the shaking body in his arms.

Later, lying out in the grey just before dawn, he dreams warm, fitful glimpses. Of touching skin, of light, the movement of limbs. Pale, dark, the glitter of sapphire eyes, and his own name on a whispered breath. He wakes hot to the cold air and thinks, Arwen.

But then he rolls onto his side, and looks up to see the Ringbearer gazing at him, lips parted, eyes full of shadows.