Kos To Pen For Newsweek

Kos will be providing commentary for Newsweek's readers as Nov '08 approaches and I am all for it - let's eliminate the MSM filter, bring the crazy aunt down from the attic, and let America get to know the Nutroots in their unvarnished glory.  And if anyone has a problem with that, screw 'em.

I am much more concerned about Newsweek's yet-to-be-announced pick to represent "the right" in our monolithic glory.  I don't think anyone can plausibly argue that Kos is not a fair representative of the Nutroots, but I don't see that he has any counterpart on the right.  Presumably Newsweek will want to pick some obscure ranter so they can embarrass "the right" while applauding themselves for being controversial. 

As to whom they ought to pick?  A logical starting point would be the Weblog "Best Conservative Blog" nominees; second-place Michelle Malkin is already a semi-prominent media figure, but second runner-up Captain Ed would be an excellent choice.  (I am passing over the winner, Ace of Spades, since it is a group effort, although the Ace himself would be aces for the Newsweek gig.)

Suggestions are welcome below.

UPDATE:  Hmm, either Captain Ed is in for a Thanksgiving surprise or I am in for disappointment.

Comments

[centralcal]

So many to choose from. How about Dean Barnett as a counterpoint to Markos? (I know he is with Weekly Standard now, so I guess he would be excluded. Darn!)

Actually, erase that --- who reads Newsweek anyway? Markos is just the *right* fit for them. No need to balance them out. Let them go over the cliff under their own steam (which they are pretty well doing, slowly but surely anyway).

[Huggy]

For newsweek I would think Walter Mondale would be the person.

[MayBee]

Tom Maguire! Tom Maguire!

[MayBee]

Over at Kos, he said it would make the left's heads explode. Which probably means someone at Redstate. I don't know anyone at Redstate.

[centralcal]

Oh, darn they are going to "balance" out per Kos.

Hmmmm - exploding heads on the left.

Pretty much anyone on the right could cause that to happen.

[narciso]

On the self referential front, there's Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker congratulating Sydney Blumenthal's Bush is Musharaff essay in the Guardian. One recalls that Sydney was a colleague of Phillip Agee when he was contributing essays in the Boston Phoenix and "Government by Gunplay"; the latter a projectof his KGB/DGI colleague's disinformation effort at a time when Agee's plagiarization of Mader's research was 'burning
CIA officials from Athens (Avrokotos & Welch) Jiddah (Cannistraro) Rome (Montgomery)et al.

[narciso]

On the self referential front, there's Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker congratulating Sydney Blumenthal's Bush is Musharaff essay in the Guardian. One recalls that Sydney was a colleague of Phillip Agee when he was contributing essays in the Boston Phoenix and "Government by Gunplay"; the latter a projectof his KGB/DGI colleague's disinformation effort at a time when Agee's plagiarization of Mader's research was 'burning
CIA officials from Athens (Avrokotos & Welch) Jiddah (Cannistraro) Rome (Montgomery)et al.

[Tom from LA]

That Balloon Juice dude.

[Jane]

I'm not sure it is possible to "balance out" Kos. It could require an army of Ace's to even get close. And sheesh do we need that kind of balance? Let Kos singularly drag Newsweek down the tubes. It will be fun to watch.

[Paul Zrimsek]

Will Tom's chances with Newsweek be hurt by being Time's Man of the Year?

[Clarice]

You know, that might be a problem.

Who reads news magazines anyway. It's like buying buggy whips.

[Sue]

Are these people nuts? Huckabee can't even beat Hillary in his own state.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/opinion/polls/main3497993.shtml>Huckabee surge

[GMax]

OOPS! Jess fell back a point last evening. We are so close, lets not let them back in the race now.

Please vote a bunch today. But every vote is precious so if you can vote but once, thanks in advance.

http://soccer.seniorclassaward.com/public/women/vote.aspx>Vote JMAX! one week to go

[Clarice]

Math is so hard.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a52fefb75-2af5-4c42-8a14-3860fe708e56>Suicide

[cathyf]

Of course they'll go for ranter, and you're being a bit naive if you think that all of the right-wing ranters are obscure. Coulter will be their first choice, of course, because she's a loose cannon who can be counted on to make conservatives look insane. If they can't get Coulter, they'll pick some other nutcase. The last thing they want is some reasonable, articulate conservative voice who can make points without bringing up extraneous issues just to make people mad.

Absolute perfection from a Newsweek editor point of view would be Carol Herman.

[RichatUF]

Clarice-

I'll see your math link and raise you inflation

I've been keeping tabs on the headline and it has increased well over 100% in 24 hours...End The War: S-CHIP for Everyone

Rick-

Question for you: Why is it that the "super-rich" like Warren Buffett don't want the estate tax repealed? The only thing I can think of is that some sort of foundation/endowment loophole exists that he can only exploit through the estate tax, but I don't recall anyone writing about it exactly.

[MayBee]

Absolute perfection from a Newsweek editor point of view would be Carol Herman.

heh.
I actually agree with Tom from LA that Newsweek's idea of a sensible conservative would be John Cole, just like TIME's idea was Andrew Sullivan.

[Greybeard]

Sue,
Ref. "Hillary's State"... I'm confused.
Illinois, Arkansas, or New York?

[Clarice]

http://beltwayblogroll.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/11/hey_newsweek_ko.php>Donor
He's a political donor and encourages others to donate to Dems. Doesn't this create a problem for Newsweek (via instapundit)

[Annoying Old Guy]

Rich;

The foundation aspect is one aspect, and not a small one. The other is that even after the estate tax, Buffet's descendants / heirs will still be set for life. It's middle and upper middle class people for whom the tax can make a real difference in what their heirs receive. So Buffet's kids only get $200M instead of $300M. Who cares? But the son of a farmer or small business owner, who has to sell to pay off the tax would have a different view.

[Sue]

Sue, Ref. "Hillary's State"... I'm confused. Illinois, Arkansas, or New York?

Posted by: Greybeard | November 14, 2007 at 10:30 AM

Heh. I like the joke but I think you misread my post. I referred to Huckabee's state. Arkansas. Democrats tried that with Gore and we know how that turned out.

[Sue]

Annoying Old Guy,

The same can be said about raising the income tax. Those like Mz. Kerry-Heinz would not care how high the income tax went, since the majority of their 'income' is from tax-free munies.

[RichatUF]

Newsweek needs a conservative...I'd nominate Joe and Valerie Wilson

2-for-1, they're not doing much, etc&. make um an offer

[MayBee]

Oh Rich, good idea! Another exciting Republican blogger would be Larry Johnson.

[centralcal]

Carol Herman! Perfect!

[Rick Ballard]

Rich,

I'll second AOG's comment from a practical viewpoint. No billionaire will ever pay more in estate tax than he chooses. I believe that Buffet may be making a political/philosophical statement concerning wealth concentration and the power of compound interest. In general, people consider those who choose to 'live off of the state' to be parasites, recognizing the difference between the helpless poor, who rarely number more than 5% of the population, and those who are most kindly described as shiftless, worthless waste of the skin which they inhabit. I would suggest that Buffet sees the rise of the trustafarian class as akin in nature to the second group and I would find it difficult to disagree. A trustafarian sipping white wine on Martha's Vineyard has no more value to society than a deadbeat dad guzzling Ripple while sitting on the couch in his newest girlfriends apartment. Perhaps a tiny bit more economic value, given that the trustafarian pays for his consumption with other than public funds but that's all. Perhaps Buffett is thinking of something else entirely but I believe that his focus is on wealth concentration, particularly that which occurs in foundations.

I'd like to see forced dissolution of foundations at fifty years. Henry Ford and Pew are probably spinning so fast that it would take a tachometer to count the revolutions.

[Clarice]

I agree on foundations which are sitting on billions, are unfettered and engaged in all sorts of troublemaking way out of line of the founders' interests. But I'd make an exception for those designed to support individual charitable institutions like schools and hospitals.
Pew, Ford, Rockefeller, Heinz--50 years and out.
I also think the money laundering Tides Foundation should be shuttered immediately--if the law is inadequate to do that , change the law. There is no decent reason why tax exempt charities should be hiding what they are supporting.

OTOH I do not see Congress ever doing that.

[paladin2]

I'd nominate Clarice or Rick Ballard

[nawoods]

If they are looking for a true conservative, the only real choice is Greenwald(s)....

[nawoods]

If they are looking for a true conservative, the only real choice is Greenwald(s)....

[nawoods]

If they are looking for a true conservative, the only real choice is Greenwald(s)....

[Clarice]

Sweetness & Light reminds us Kos was a paid Dean stooge.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/newsweek-hires-dnc-paid-stooge-kos>Does this count as a Newsweek Contribution?

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

Speaking of Bush Derangement, here's a good read (I hope Krugman was in attendance):

But Bush hatred is different. It's not that this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion and become votaries of anger and loathing. Alas, intellectuals have always been prone to employ their learning and fine words to whip up resentment and demonize the competition. Bush hatred, however, is distinguished by the pride intellectuals have taken in their hatred, openly endorsing it as a virtue and enthusiastically proclaiming that their hatred is not only a rational response to the president and his administration but a mark of good moral hygiene.

This distinguishing feature of Bush hatred was brought home to me on a recent visit to Princeton University. I had been invited to appear on a panel to debate the ideas in Princeton professor and American Prospect editor Paul Starr's excellent new book, "Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism." To put in context Prof. Starr's grounding of contemporary progressivism in the larger liberal tradition, I recounted to the Princeton audience an exchange at a dinner I hosted in Washington in June 2004 for several distinguished progressive scholars, journalists, and policy analysts.

To get the conversation rolling at that D.C. dinner--and perhaps mischievously--I wondered aloud whether Bush hatred had not made rational discussion of politics in Washington all but impossible. One guest responded in a loud, seething, in-your-face voice, "What's irrational about hating George W. Bush?" His vehemence caused his fellow progressives to gather around and lean in, like kids on a playground who see a fight brewing.

Reluctant to see the dinner fall apart before drinks had been served, I sought to ease the tension. I said, gently, that I rarely found hatred a rational force in politics, but, who knows, perhaps this was a special case. And then I tried to change the subject.

But my dinner companion wouldn't allow it. "No," he said, angrily. "You started it. You make the case that it's not rational to hate Bush." I looked around the table for help. Instead, I found faces keen for my response. So, for several minutes, I held forth, suggesting that however wrongheaded or harmful to the national interest the president's policies may have seemed to my progressive colleagues, hatred tended to cloud judgment, and therefore was a passion that a citizen should not be proud of being in the grips of and should avoid bringing to public debate. Propositions, one might have thought, that would not be controversial among intellectuals devoted to thinking and writing about politics.

But controversial they were. Finally, another guest, a man I had long admired, an incisive thinker and a political moderate, cleared his throat, and asked if he could interject. I welcomed his intervention, confident that he would ease the tension by lending his authority in support of the sole claim that I was defending, namely, that Bush hatred subverted sound thinking. He cleared his throat for a second time. Then, with all eyes on him, and measuring every word, he proclaimed, "I . . . hate . . . the . . . way . . . Bush . . . talks."

[Elliott]

What about Allahpundit? Would he rate highly enough on the Dems' cranial detonation index?

[Sue]

Does Scary know how to counter an argument without using the word "moron"?

[Clarice]

I had much the same thing happen to me as happened to Berkowitz, when after a pleasant dinner at the home of a liberal I was asked my opinion of Bush and said I liked him very much. My host turned red, his face constricted and he shouted he couldn't believe how "close minded" I was. LOL

[Sue]

Then, with all eyes on him, and measuring every word, he proclaimed, "I . . . hate . . . the . . . way . . . Bush . . . talks."

You know, I understand this sentiment perfectly. I....hate....the....way...Gore, Kerry and Clinton, Hillary, that is....talk.

[MayBee]

Elliott-
I thought of him, and he'd be a good pickup. His head explosion powers would be derived from his current employer, I think.

Sue- you moron.

[Sue]

Oh, and I don't like Pelosi's voice either. She sounds like her false teeth are about to fall out.

[Clarice]

I've tried to figure out what about Bush drives these people insane and all I can come up with is that he represents to them in the flesh a repudiation of the notion that their views are so correct that they are born to lead us all. They can't say they hate democracy, of course, so they have to invent that he is a usurper who holds his position illegitimately and from that all else flows.

[Sue]

Clarice,

2000. They have never felt he was legitimate and he should have never acted like he was legitimate. Even though more of the country voted for him than Clinton, both times, he should have presided over his presidency with the thought always in his mind that he was illegitimate.

[Rick Ballard]

Sue,

Here's some visual imagery to bear in mind when their dulcet tones are heard.

[Jane]

Patrick - great article.

Elliott - can you blog the debate tomorrow. I've got plans so I will miss the beginning.

Everyone - anyone ever empanel a grand jury? How about serve on one?

[MayBee]

When my friends say BDS things to me, I just tell them to remember how they didn't hate Clinton when other people did. Then imagine that's how I feel about Bush.
Sometimes it works, but usually when they launch into a tirade I tell them I know they feel that way. It sounds sympathetic, yet it really isn't.

[Clarice]

I never have, Jane. Maybe OT,vnjagvet or Walter have.

[Jane]

Here is the question I want asked at the debates:

For the democrat:

How do you plan to unite America? After the 2000 election I vowed I would never treat an American president the way liberals treated George Bush. After 7 years of BDS I'm not sure I can restrain myself from returning the favor. So what will you do, to encourage me to put my love of country in front of my complete disgust for the democrat's actions over the last 7 years.

[MayBee]

Great question, Jane!

As for Kos blogging, I'm actually kind of looking forward to it. Stripped of his orange background and his puffery, he is really a very average talent. His writing is about as bad as mine, and he isn't particularly politically astute. Even at his own website, his stories rarely receive more attention than the (often insipid) recommended diaries.

I think Newsweek was going for numbers here, but I'll be surprised if kossacks follow him over there. Unless they can write diaries and make comments and post their cat pictures.

[Sara]

I nominate Jeff Goldstein of Proten Wisdom. He is an excellent writer, regularly takes on the nutroots and choosing him would definitely make the nutroots heads explode. I'd pay to see that.

[Rick Ballard]

If I could ask a question it would be:

Given that their are several sitting legislators who are members of the current majority among this group, why have none of you proferred any legislation whatsoever in order to implement any of your policy proposals?

(I'd probably let them choose between mendacity and incompetence as appropriate responses but that might be considered too forceful.)

'Course, 'comity' isn't in my top 1000 things of value...

[Clarice]

Great question, Jane, and great suggestion, Sara.

[BMR]

All the blogs require joining to comment. The ones who get nothing don't. It's MSM conspiracy.

Ace has a special anti terror comment thing that shows up if you know something and are saying something that could be hazardous to national security. It's stops and clears the comment with NSA and holds it until all is clear or it determines you knew too much and can't post it: Like Lebanese terrorists, New Jersey, Russian poisonings, and the arrest of the foreign born spy who did the same thing Plame did, but it's okay cause dad was born in the USA and worked at NSA for the Air Force.

Pin Hero is worried about Su Su NoWay.

Newsweek is hiring KOS because he's pals with Plame and Plame did that confused picture the day Dr.WMD was released like she made some deal for CIA or something.

The chip is already in NY. The implant from the space people can't explode heads, unless you are doing math; that's using and wrong.

[Tom Maguire]

Question for you: Why is it that the "super-rich" like Warren Buffett don't want the estate tax repealed? The only thing I can think of is that some sort of foundation/endowment loophole exists that he can only exploit through the estate tax...

I don't know about "exploit", but... my guess is that Buffest sets up the Ten Billion foundation with his kids as trustees. At a modest 5% disbursement rate they control *annual* disbursements of $500 million, which means they are on everyone's A-list. mett Bono, fly to Davos, chat with Senators, Presidents, and Kings (or starlets?) No problem. Get your kids into top schools and get seats at the best restaurants? E-Z. And plenty of wanna-be recipients will send the private jet.

So controlling the wealth (through the foundation) will assure his kids most of the trapppings of power anyway.

But he is a real hero for admitting that he is ready to pay it over in taxes if he forgets to set up the foundation. Clown.

[Anon]

Tom-

Oy! Ace is your crazy uncle in the basement -trust me.

This is how he decides to handle(?) a debate-
This is the "ace" verbatim-

Am I reading things properly?

I just posted four posts decimating you -- not with bad language or the like, but demonstrating your dishonesty and stupidity and overweening ego -- and you just... DELETED them?

This is the sort of joint you're running here, Aylward? You just let your cunt of a coblogger pull shit like this?

Well, it will be on my site, cunt. I would have let it lie here, but as you are determined to bury the evidence against you, I'll need to give it a fuller airing.

What a fucking little shit of a cunt!

Hysterical!

No wonder you were such a big Greenwald defender, and you denigrate the discovery of flat-out lying to cover one's ego-- YOU THINK THE SAME WAY!

Of course it's "no big deal to you" -- you do the same.

What. A. Cunt.

Well.... by the way-- speaking "like a lawyer," cunt -- we usually dont' call a suspect simply saying "I didn't do it, it was someone else" an "alibi," as you did.

14. Posted by ace | July 28, 2006 6:22 AM | Vote up Vote down Report this comment Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Here is a link to the thread that made him so easily nutters.

Link

I c-a-n-n-ot believe this guy was hired by the Velvet Hammer.

The "Ace" needs to be locked up-seriously, and Michelle Malkin-pahlease.

In all honesty they are exactly the ranters foaming at the mouth that the liberal MSM eats up.

A rational, happy, with a decent sense of humor like Mary Katherine Ham is going to be boring TV-I guess will see.

[Clarice]

Exactly,TM.

And the kids turn the management over to the "pros" who turn it over to radicals.

It's preposterous that we allow this to continue. And even more preposterous that we praise those who do this, get their own big bucks set up in tax-free bonds and after death in foundations and then posture on about how the tax code doesn't tax them enough.

[Anon]

that should read-

A rational, happy,CONSERVATIVE with a decent sense of humor like Mary Katherine Ham is going to be boring TV-I guess- will see.

Especially as the election draws closer.

Why you people worship Malkin and The Ace is beyond me.

Hell Kevin's female bloggers still link to the "Ace".

Absolutely idiotic.

[Sue]

Ace works for Michelle? Since when?

[glasater]

Well "clown" is exactly the appropriate term here and Orin Hatch (or Phil Gramm) said that the government could take the total net worth of the top one percent in income--and it would run the US government for less then a year.

[HYR]

Anonymous. There was just an article that no one can be anonymous anymore on the internet. It was confusing because that CIA analyst bought an anonymous source on the internet and couldn't figure out why he was in trouble, he wrote a book like Plame and it was good for publicity.

i found this looking for the article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/14/wgift114.xml

ham? Everybody thought the video was Nathan Hale Ham(NJ movie terrorist state thing) who was finally hired by CIA; USIAD passed because of the counter intelligence protocols he violated and they assigned him overseas to Europe to get a dupe killed who used to do the same job he did, but the spies wouldn't because they knew that Ham wanted that guy dead so he could move on and really spy.

[centralcal]

I think Dean Barnett pretty much nails it vis-a-vis the talented Mr. Markos:

"Newsweek promises to balance Moulitsas' voice with one from the conservative side. Conservative bloggers are currently atwitter, awaiting Newsweek’s announcement as to who will get called up to the big leagues of professional punditry. Someone even mentioned my name as a candidate. Though flattered and intrigued, I must sadly confess that Newsweek hasn't contacted me. Then again, I have been away from the phone a great deal over the past several days. Perhaps the magazine and I have just been missing each other.

Moulitsas' elevation to Newsweek will trigger a well-deserved paroxysm of triumphalism from the progressive blogosphere. Although Moulitsas’s writing style isn't particularly artistic, he sits atop an important movement. His pronouncements, however awkwardly phrased they tend to be, are in themselves newsworthy. Kudos to Newsweek for recognizing this.

As for finding his opposite number in the conservative blogosphere, good luck to Newsweek with that. Markos is one of a kind."

[RichatUF]

TM-

I don't know about "exploit", but... my guess is that Buffest sets up the Ten Billion foundation with his kids as trustees.

The thing about is that Buffett already has agreed to disburse his holdings to the Gates Foundation. And if he is worried about not "paying his fair share" he can always make a gift to the US Government. Curious, I hear all these "super rich" people tell me that their taxes are too low, but they shield billions in foundations and endowments and as of 2007 the US Government has only taken in a bit more than 2.6 million in gifts. Maybe this address is as much of a secret as Valerie Plame Wilson's name and employer. Sssh! It's a secret, keep it on the down low.

[PMII]

Does it really matter? Who reads Newsweek? Who would want to be associated with them.....

[sbw]

Who needs another reason not to read Newsweek.

And, look, who needs a point-counterpoint anyway. We are not after pulling people from one side to the other, we are merging insight from both sides into a coherent understanding that just begs for both sides to support.

Finally, don't look to me to be the conservative, I'm a classical liberal. To a nutroot that just appears conservative. No classical liberal/conservative I know would write for Newsweek.

[glasater]

Regarding Buffett and his testimony before congress regarding inheritance taxes...
On CNBC just now it was pointed out that Buffet's life insurance companies would benefit from the "death tax" in that rich folk would buy that kind of insurance for their heirs.

[Crunchy Frog]

I've seen liberal "balance" close up, and it's generally not pretty. Back when Prop 209 (elimination of AA in state govt) was on the ballot here in Cali, the student govt at Cal St-Northridge decided to have an affirmative action debate. The pro-AA speaker was to be a very well-respected civil rights activist (can't remember who now, maybe Joe Hicks). The other side? David Duke.

Nothing like supplying your own straw man to beat on, huh?

[PaulV]

Warren Buffet does not pay capital gains tax as he does not sell his stock, gives away appreciated stock for charitable deductions and will give away bulk of his estate so he will pay no death tax. Plus he pays tax attorneys millions so he and his company pays as little tax as possible

[Clarice]

test

[Walter]

... he pays tax attorneys millions ...

Well, you either pay us or pay them. We're much friendlier about the whole transaction, though.

[centralcal]

I know some of you post comments over at Ace of Spades - this questions is for any of you.

I was just there, reading a post about CNN's Rick Sanchez being in a hit and run accident, then going home and getting drunk on vodka before calling the police. Anyway as I scrolled down, the post just disappeared. poof. all gone gone.

Did anyone else here see it? I am still at work and definitely not drinking cocktails, so I hope I am not hallucinating!

[centralcal]

never mind. he just moved it to the end of his original Sanchez post.

[Ralph L]

I read in the WSJ several years ago that Buffett would buy family businesses that had to be sold to pay inheritance taxes at cut rates. They mentioned a Buffalo newspaper that made him a lot of money when he was first starting out.

Carnegie gave most of his money away after getting it so ruthlessly. My small college had a Carnegie library from the early 1900's that in my time was a guest house.

[hit and run]

Paul Zrimsek:
Will Tom's chances with Newsweek be hurt by being Time's Man of the Year?

Ahhhhh, but...perhaps it is no coincidence that Tom is not on the list of this year's nominees...

From the Department of What Have You Done For Me Lately:

Tom doesn't even appear on the list to repeat as Man of the Year.

[Jane]

CNN's Rick Sanchez being in a hit and run accident, then going home and getting drunk on vodka before calling the police

Is anyone buying that?

[PeterUK]

"Question for you: Why is it that the "super-rich" like Warren Buffett don't want the estate tax repealed? "

Easy,he's found a way to take it with him.

[hit and run]

CNN's Rick Sanchez being in a hit and run accident, then going home and getting drunk on vodka before calling the police

Dude. I've never even met Rick Sanchez and I haven't been in an accident since, well those records are sealed and I see no reason to get into specifics here...

Jane -- did you see that Schilling came out for McCain today?

[PeterUK]

"Moulitsas' elevation to Newsweek will trigger a well-deserved paroxysm of triumphalism from the progressive blogosphere. Although Moulitsas’s writing style isn't particularly artistic, he sits atop an important movement. His pronouncements, however awkwardly phrased they tend to be, are in themselves newsworthy. Kudos to Newsweek for recognizing this."

Isn't this the fundamental problem,journalists are making the news,not reporting it?

[MayBee]

Here's what Kos said today:

Hint
by kos
Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 03:04:19 PM PST

It's kind of cute that the wingnutosphere thinks Newsweek would "balance" me out with one of theirs.

But no, the conservative they are going to announce at some point soon has actual accomplishments under his/her belt.

So, unlike Kos, the conservative will have some accomplishments. That's good.

[Sue]

Maybee,

LOL.

[Jane]

H&R,

In 2004 - our last big year, Schilling came out for Bush, despite the fact that a MA senator was his opposition. Schilling wanted to go to NH to campaign for Bush but there was so much backlash the Red Sox wouldn't let him go.

Then we tried to draft him for senate.

Apparently Lowell became a free agent yesterday. Some days it's harder to love the Red Sox than others.

[centralcal]

Maybee: You go girl!!

Accomplishments. Gotta love it.

[Ann]

I have a question here for the ladies and gentlemen at JOM:

If you had to vote on a candidate for the Presidency solely on the bases of who they married, who would you vote for?

[SunnyDay]

Here's what Kos said today:
***************************

I'm dense - did Kos just say he had no accomplishments? Or is it just me?

[hit and run]

Jane:
In 2004 - our last big year, Schilling came out for Bush, despite the fact that a MA senator was his opposition.

Question. Who did Schilling suppport in 2000? He very well may have been apolitical in 2000. But I find the question interesting, in light of today's news, because he played for a particular team before coming to the Red Sox...a team located in his currently preferred candidate's home state.

And. I have no idea, perhaps Schilling is asocial conservative who would never support him anyway -- but do you think he would be precluded from supporting Rudy because of the Yankees/Red Sox thing? Or maybe Rudy's "I support the AL in the World Series even if it's the Red Sox" was his attempt at getting Schilling to support him?

[Ralph L]

No, he meant to say no one in the wingnutosphere had accomplishments (one of theirs), but it also applies to him.

[hit and run]

did Kos just say he had no accomplishments? Or is it just me?

Well. Specifically he said "acccomplishments under his/her belt" but for me to snark off of that statement might be seen as hitting below the belt...

[hit and run]

SunnyDay:
I'm dense - did Kos just say he had no accomplishments? Or is it just me?

Take Two.

No, Sunny, I don't think he was referring to you having no accomplishments.

And if he did, he'd be full of it.

[Ann]

Hit:

NRO is trying to hire someone just like you! If you ask me, they need a humorist.

You could get the job and not have to move to New York...we at JOM would vote for it, many times!!!

Send a resume and link to us. We think you are the best!

[RichatUF]

Clarice-

This is a continuation from yesterday-

What better place for a Hezbollah spy then questioning al Qeada suspects?

Wonder if they are going to have to re-translate all the interviews she conducted and I'm pretty sure few of them are on tape. Why do I have a feeling that this "problem" is going to spread

[Clarice]

THANK YOU RICH. I blogged that. It is unbelievable.

FBI didn't properly vet her.
CIA didn't properly vet her.
No one checked the files to see that she'd made unauthorized searches.
No one followed up on her current activities and associates and relatives after she began working there.
She passed polygraphs at both organizations.

Truly these dumbkopfs are leaving us naked to our enemies.

[hit and run]

Obama...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Barack Obama, who's been scolding Hillary Rodham Clinton for not hastening the release of records from her time as first lady, says he can't step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois state Senate. He says he hasn't got any.

He also said...

"You know, the truth is that right after I was left office, I had records ," Obama said. "Shortly after leaving office, particularly because as we're talking about my future presidency, that became a substitute for I think true legislative accomplishment, which is speaking out on legislation that I may have accomplished but you can't prove I didn't, I decided I won't keep those records.

"Instead," he said, "I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make them think I accomplished something, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my missing records."

Well, he didn't really say those exact words and the context for those he did was completely unrelated to this issue...you see the control key on my keyboard has broken off so, copying and pasting gets kinda dicey.

[Clarice]

HEH
Their records are BOTH open books (from which the pages have apparently flown)

[MayBee]

Too bad Robert Novak didn't call up Hebollah headquarters and ask them if Nada Prouty worked for them. Hey, it worked with the CIA!

[Clarice]

HEH--Very good, MayBee

[Topsecretk9]

I just don't get why the CIA would use an FBI agent, identified as an FBI agent BY NAME on the internet, as a undercover covert agent?

The apologists would tell me she used an alias for her real work and so there would be no way of connecting her to her real name, right?

[Topsecretk9]

And on this:

The apologists would tell me she used an alias for her real work and so there would be no way of connecting her to her real name, right?

Especially if she refrained from a photo spread in an international magazine, I should think.

[Topsecretk9]

Prouty also worked as a clerk in the Alley family’s medical office in Berwick while applying to the FBI and earning a master’s degree from Bloomsburg University, her former mother-in-law, Ramona Alley, said Wednesday.

Ramona Alley said she was at a meeting Tuesday and missed the national television news reports about her former daughter-in-law, but she received several calls about the reports afterward.
“I was as shocked as you are and everybody else,” she said.
Prouty and her son met about the time he returned from serving in the U.S. Marines during Operation Desert Storm, Ramona Alley said, and the couple was married from 1995 to 2000.
An earlier marriage, however, was the source of her legal troubles.

When the student visa that she obtained to travel from her home in Lebanon and study for a year in America expired, Prouty paid a citizen to enter a fraudulent marriage so she could acquire citizenship, the Justice Department said in a news release.
Court records identify her husband as Chris Michael Deladurantaye, but the two never lived together and the marriage was never consummated, according to the documents...

http://www.standardspeaker.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6253&Itemid=2

[Jane]

Hit,

Next time Schilling calls I'll ask him who he supported in 2000. We all project that the Red Sox are our personal best friends here in MA but the truth is....

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he was a McCainiac in 2000. I certainly was.

[kim]

You know, Rick, I really like the irony of the term 'Sheep Mountain'.
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[kim]

Ababneh was publicly funded.
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[kim]

Counsel council at 10940', the high water mark of the AGW frenzy. See Steve McIntyre at 'Sheep Mountain Update' on climateaudit.org for the smoking volcano of academic fraud.
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[Rick Ballard]

Sheepish Mountain, home of the lying Goreacle.

In ancient Greece the penalty for false prediction by an oracle was death. That's probably a little rough for "modern" times - maybe Gore, Hansen, Mann and Jones could just be dropped off at the top of Sheep Mountain and allowed to walk home.

I would point out that Ababneh's thesis would have been "ground breaking" had she possessed a backbone stout enough to have allowed her to point out the discrepancy with Greybill's work. The fact that her thesis committee was dominated by a strong warmermonger provides an explanation but not an excuse.

If PhDs are being awarded for compliance and adherence to "consensus" rather than actual exploration of the subject then they are absolutely valueless in assessing the scientific acumen of the candidate. Instead they are extraordinary evidence of the coercive nature of AGW's college of cardinals, determined to uphold the heliocentric nature of their universe through any means possible.

The northern hemisphere grew slightly warmer from 1975 through 2002, peaking in 1998. To say that man "caused" the slight increase is entering into the realm of hubris, not science.