NEWSWEEK’S DARMAN MAKING A PITCH?
RIELLE HUNTER: ONE DIGNIFIED HOME-WRECKER

Is Jonathan Darman auditioning for the job of ghost-writer of a future Rielle Hunter tell-all book?

Newsweek’s Darman presents a treads a delicate line between leering fascination and mistress empathy. A sample from The Quiet Dignity of Rielle Hunter:

And yet, for two years, she has behaved with more public dignity than any other figure in the Edwards scandal. In fact, she acted with more discipline and discretion than any mistress in the recent history of sex scandals.

Leave aside the many self-interested motivations that Rielle Hunter has to exercise discretion at this point and consider what Darman is saying.

Hunter is not only a homewrecker, she’s–historic!

Rielle is no model of discretion when compared to those women, nor to the untold thousands of women (and men) who shared the beds of powerful men and kept the secret so well that history will never know their names.

But in her own time, Rielle stands out. It has been more than two years since she earned national notoriety when the National Enquirer first alleged that she was Edwards’s secret mistress.

The thing about the Edwards Scandal that readers may want to keep in mind, Jonathan Darman’s cheerleading aside: the more information that emerges from this sordid affair, the less chance that anyone involved has of looking good.

In the not-so-long-ago past it was speculated that Andrew Young would come off as perhaps the most honorable person in the whole affair.

That was before Young’s recent book, The Politician, became available–and dashed all speculation in that regard.

Prediction: it will be no different with Rielle Hunter. The more information that is revealed, the less “dignified” she will look to all.

Except the odd writer competing, for whatever reason, for her attentions.

UPDATE: In related news, ABC cuts 300 news jobs. When an organization doesn’t cover inconvenient news–as ABC didn’t do during the months of the Edwards Scandal–why not cut 600?

Seems that if ABC only covers news from the Left side, they might be able to get along with only a couple hundred in the “News” department. Actually, MSNBC’s got the franchise on Lefty news coverage, so why cover the news at all if you’re ABC?

Just a thought for when the next cuts begin to be contemplated.

TEXAS TEA PARTY ANSWERS KEITH OLBERMANN’s
NOT-SO-SUBTLE RACISM CHARGES WITH VIDEO!

Found the video below at Atlas,Olbermann Busted by Texas Tea .

It was so enjoyable, it was thought that readers who might not be aware of it would find it enlightening.

Olbermann, like most of the Left, can’t just disagree with someone. They have to smear the motives of those who don’t agree with their viewpoint. In doing so, they’ve taken most of the sting out of word that should have some: racism.

It’s not even vile anymore. It’s somewhere between slightly amusing and self-mockery.

Keith Obergruppenfuhrer, two things to keep in mind:
1- Don’t mess with Texas;
2-Don’t Tread on Me!

Class dismissed.

Ashton Kutcher could take some lessons from the People’s Cube.

From Red Square:

OFF KARAKTER
Metaphorical tea-bagging befalls moonbats who become overconfident and register activist “.org” sites without a “.com” version. Which is exactly what happened to Cindy “campout” Sheehan and David “Gloria” Swanson when they started peaceoftheaction.org as part of a new scheme to lure the unwashed progs into a tent camp in front of the White House, to shake fists and demand a surrender of America’s “imperial forces” to all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Ha!

But, due to elementary sloppiness, Sheehan & Company got punk’d by the People’s Cube.

The Cube has the entire episode captured for posterity, long with the links to the sites: Cindy Sheehan’s New Website Tea-bagged by the People’s Cube.

Cindy Sheehan, you’ve been teabagged.

NOTE: While the reader may not be able to get a total idea of what’s going on, a quick click of the link above will make everything clear within seconds.

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ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR?!?

Rick at Brutally Honest, wonders if Allied targeters might not be getting duped by the Taliban?

Nato strike kills 27 Afghanistan civilians via Are our targeters on the ground being willfully duped?:

At least 33 civilians were killed in a Nato air strike in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the Afghan government says.

Nato said it hit a suspected insurgent convoy, but ground forces later found “a number of individuals killed and wounded”, including women and children.

The attack, in Uruzgan province, was not part of a major Nato-led offensive in neighbouring Helmand province.
[...]
A Nato statement said it was thought the convoy contained Taliban insurgents on their way to attack Afghan and foreign military forces.

But Sultan Ali, the governor of Uruzgan province, told the BBC all of the dead were civilians.

Rick has contacted some milbloggers and promises to update the post when any feedback comes his way.

War is a necessary but messy business in spite of media and military efforts to make it appear otherwise.

“Surgical strike” sounds very much like something done with incredible precision. Compared to the past, when a large amount of explosives were thrown or dropped through the air–along with a large amount of hope–targeting today is more reliable.

Still, the results on the ground are, at times, anything but “surgical.”

Is this just another excuse for lousy work? Or, are our targeters being duped by the Taliban for P.R. purposes?

Stay tuned.

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[ABOVE: When it comes to Porkulus II, McConnell's ready to declare peace with big-spending Democrats]

Mitch McConnell says Republicans may very well go along with Porkulus II. And why not? It’s not more taxpayer money–it’s the taxpayers’ kids’ money.

MITCH McCONNELL IS THROWING AWAY ANY MORAL HIGH GROUND ON SPENDING

Is Mitch McConnell (D-KY) a DNC plant?

Don Surber sounds the warning that the Republicans may cave on jobs bill.

This is depressing news. The Associated Press reported that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell may join the White House in borrowing even more money we don’t have to throw at another stimulus we don’t need.

It failed to work in 2008 under the $150 billion Bush stimulus.

It failed to work in 2009 under the $787 billion “I Won” stimulus.

Why in heavens name does McConnell think $13 billion more will do the trick?

Surber quotes the following AP story:

The top Republican in the Senate said Sunday that GOP lawmakers “may well” vote for a jobs bill this week.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., prefers a costlier version drafted with GOP input and he didn’t commit his support to advance the legislation on Monday to a final vote this coming week.

The pending measure would provide businesses that hire the unemployed a one-year break from payroll taxes and a $1,000 tax credit if those workers stay on the job for a full year. The cost is estimated at $13 billion.

Here’s a reminder for Mitch McConnell and other Republicans, notably newly-elected Scott Brown: the Tea Party protests weren’t about a lack of bipartisanship. They were about fiscal responsibility.

Or rather, a lack of fiscal responsibility by the United States Congress. It only takes a reacharound across the aisle to remind voters why they booted earmarking, pork-addicted Republicans just a few years ago.

The GOP’s remarkable comeback wasn’t fueled by McConnell’s go-along-to-get-along attitude on spending and ObamaCare.

Scott Brown was elected by the voters of Massachusetts specifically because he declared he was fiscally responsible. It hasn’t taken long for reports to surface in the last week that Mr. 41 might become Mr. Whatever.

Voters will soon enough get a chance to remind Mr. McConnell that they’ve had it up to here with borrowing money we don’t have to bail Democrat special interests out.

It doesn’t matter if the Republicans find their own special interests to bail out–voters will remember and count down the days to make their displeasure known.

This was exactly what Glenn Beck was talking about in his speech to CPAC Saturday about their being little difference between the party elites. Bill Bennett took umbrage at that notion. Bennett should have consulted McConnell before he wrote his piece.

McConnell has made Bennett look like a fool.

Why cede the moral high ground on spending now, Mr. McConnell?

He’s either ignorant of voter concerns or he’s a DNC plant.

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SPEAKING OF HACKS…

You can say one thing for David Brooks, the New York Times’ domesticated “conservative”: it’s hard to beat his unintentionally-hilarious quotes.

His latest cluelessness?

“Government used to be staffed by party hacks. Today, it is staffed by people from public policy schools. But does government work better than it did before?”

Let’s see: party hacks today come from universities which are in many cases staffed by–former party hacks!

The difference between now and then: 50 years ago, the party hacks cut out the middle man and pocketed the money they would have wasted on tuition to Harvard. A self-made hack is every bit as slavish in his devotion to whomever is paying the bills as an educated one.

The Harvard-educated hack of today may be better equipped to transform his hackery into a PowerPoint presentation, however.

Brooks, as part of the ‘educated class’, is understandably reluctant to reveal to readers his unwashed hack attack.

This is bigotry against the uneducated hack straight-up.

I know he’s is working from a script, but Jimmy Fallon needs to hire Brooks as a writer–and quickly!

DOUCHEBAG SAYS “WHAT?”

You are entering the Bill Maher Zone: your level of commentary is now in free-fall.

From Maher: Palin’s Job at Fox Equivalent to Talking to Her Down Syndrome Baby:

How does one prepare for an upcoming appearance by Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy fame? If you’re Bill Maher, you follow up the Family Guy/Sarah Palin/Down Syndrome attack by doing an ‘exclusive rant’ for the Huffington Post which includes – you guessed it – a joke about Sarah Palin’s son, Trig.

Maher appeals to his lower-intellect audience by stating:

“…while we were off, Sarah Palin agreed to do commentary at Fox News. Which is actually very similar to her day job – talking to a baby with Down Syndrome.”

In case, you forget, Bill Maher is a douchebag.

Bill Maher, in the course of his schtick, which, by the way is amazingly similar to what he does all day: which is acting like a douchebag.

Okay, you are now about to enter a Bill Maher-free Zone.

Feel free to raise the level of commentary back to its regular level.

NOTE: Don Surber has a much more reasoned take on this: Quote of the day.

See? Told you this was now a Maher-free zone and discourse would be back to normal.