Mitt Romney: No Muslims In My Cabinet

11:36 am EST November 27th, 2007 | News | 7 Comments

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a presidential candidate ever reject appointing an entire group of people just like that.

I asked Mr. Romney whether he would consider including qualified Americans of the Islamic faith in his cabinet as advisers on national security matters, given his position that “jihadism” is the principal foreign policy threat facing America today. He answered, “…based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration.”

As Radar points out, the amount of Muslims in America is comparable to the amount of Mormons in the country.

Topic: 2008 Election

Understatement Of The Day

11:25 am EST November 27th, 2007 | News | 4 Comments

“Zogby Internet Poll Trial Heats are Odd”

You don’t say. I don’t know why anybody would take a Zogby poll seriously, considering their poor performance. Zogby should have long forfeited its right to be cited along other pollsters since their methodology seems to consist of throwing feces against a wall and divining poll results from that.

Redskins Sean Taylor Dies

11:12 am EST November 27th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Damn

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died early Tuesday from the gunshot wound he suffered a day earlier in his Miami home.

“He did not make it through the night,” said Taylor’s attorney, Richard Sharpstein, who called the incident “a ridiculous, unnecessary tragedy.”

Taylor, 24, a Pro Bowl safety whose rocky first years in the NFL had given way to what teammates called a newfound maturity, died at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he had been taken after being shot once in the leg early Monday morning. Police are investigating the incident as a possible home invasion.

Topic: Redskins

links for 2007-11-27

7:24 am EST November 27th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

Short of Money, G.O.P. Enlists Rich Candidates – New York Times

talk about the party of the rich

Michelle Malkin’s Moment Of Irony

7:08 pm EST November 26th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

“It’s always something. You can never assuage the unassuageable. You can never anticipate what pretext they’ll use next to claim “insult” and demand submission.”

- Michelle Malkin, oddly enough describing radical Islam but at the same time unaware that she’s perfectly describing the brand of conservative “outrage” she traffics in daily.

Hey Media, It’s Not About You

6:58 pm EST November 26th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

The New York Times’ Patrick Healy (who has a perverse obsession with the private life of Sen. Clinton) writes the following in his campaign coverage blog that is so telling:

My colleague Jason Horowitz, of the New York Observer, wrote a very funny blog item about the inanity of their conversation, as they swapped questions and answers about carbon dioxide and biofuels.

This is no knock on Mrs. Clinton; all campaigns and candidates do photo ops like this. And reporters would rather see her than not. But it would’ve been nice if it had been a less guarded moment, if there had some recognition that the whole thing was a little over-produced, if there had been more chatty asides. Mrs. Clinton is very funny, including about the absurdities of politics. Not that she needs a better relationship with the media, necessarily, but she is good company when that side of her comes out.

He might as well have said “Jump through this hoop, Hillary, we like that.” Why does the media keep thinking its all about them? Political campaigns – on either side – are not about the elitist cabal in the mainstream press. It isn’t, frankly, about bending to the whims of Patrick Healy and the New York Times. It is about going to the people of America, Iowa in this instance, and asking them for their vote. The media can go fly a kite.

Topic: 2008 Election

I’m Not Stupid Enough To Be Conservative: Noel Sheppard / Media Research Center Edition

6:26 pm EST November 26th, 2007 | News | 35 Comments

In my ongoing quest to show that I could never be stupid enough to be on the conservative side of the aisle, I must dive once again into the dung heap that is Noel Sheppard and the Scaife-funded Newsbusters/MRC. Sheppard is in the midst of concocting a conspiracy in which former Vice President, Nobel Prize Laureate, and Oscar and Emmy winner Al Gore is hyping global warming in order to enrich himself.

get a brain moranse In order for Gore to set his diabolical plan in motion, he went back in time to 1992 to write Earth In The Balance and sowed the seeds for global warming. As we all know it is super lucrative to write a wonky book about environmentalism and then go on to serve as vice-president for eight years. Big time bucks! ($171,000/year at the time).

After serving his time, Gore went into the lucrative world of private business, capitalizing on his eight years in the White Hou… oh, wait, no he didn’t. He ran for president. Somehow Al Gore made himself richer by devoting 1999 and 2000 to running for president. Well, at least if you’re Noel Sheppard that’s the kind of bull you buy.

Okay, okay, now after Bush was selected president, Gore sold himself to the highest biddder – following in the footsteps of other ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents by sitting on the corporate boards of defense contractors and the oil industry, speaking across the world for huge fees, and of course selling his tell-all memoir to the highest bidder.

Oh wait, none of that happened.

Gore spoke out against the war. For free. Gore started a cable channel about youth empowerment. Gore went across the world giving a presentation about that oh-so-dishy global warming. As far as corporate boards, Gore joined Apple and works as a senior advisor to Google – neither company known for their role in the defense contracting or their long track records of bilking the government for millions (like Halliburton). The money-hungry Al Gore then hit the ultimate jackpot: he made a documentary. Then Gore joined an environmental venture fund and donated his salary.

Clearly the path to financial nirvana is making documentaries about global warming. That is, if you’re a stupid conservative. Like Noel Sheppard, and the Media Research Center.

Redskins Sean Taylor Shot

6:15 pm EST November 26th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

So weird.

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was shot at his Florida home early Monday and was hospitalized in critical condition, police and relatives said.

Miami-Dade police officials said police received a 1:45 a.m. call from a woman inside Taylor’s residence in the affluent suburb of Palmetto Bay, saying that a man had been shot. Ambulance crews found the 24-year-old defensive star struck in the lower extremities, Lt. Nancy Perez said.

Topic: Redskins

Trent Lott Bites The Dust

9:12 am EST November 26th, 2007 | Politics | 2 Comments

One less pro-segregation racist right-wing Republican to deal with in the senate.

Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, will announce his resignation effective this year, FOX News has learned.

Lott, 66, was re-elected in 2006 amid speculation that he would retire. Instead, against his wife Tricia’s wishes, he ran again, regaining a Senate leadership position after giving up the top seat in 2002, following remarks he made that were seen as racially insensitive.

Love the Fox News language. Lott’s words were not racist, but “were seen as” racist. Newspeak marches on.