The Malcontent

Wilson, Lightly Braised By Blitzer

On the fourth day of Fitzmas, we get the gift that keeps giving: a live TV interview with Joe Wilson.  And wherever he goes, you know the lies are sure to follow.

Wilson was, well, not really grilled tonight by Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room."

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Wilson's finest whopper:

"Mr. Fitzgerald made it very clear: My wife was a covert officer at the time that these people were leaking her name."

But Fitzgerald would beg to differ:

"I am not speaking to whether or not Valerie Wilson was covert. And anything I say is not intended to say anything beyond this: that she was a CIA officer from January 1st, 2002, forward."

Next, Wilson seems to have jettisoned the idea of due process:

"Again, it's now very clear that (Karl Rove) leaked it.  Mr. Cooper's sworn testimony indicates that and the emails indicate that."

He really wants that frog-march.  So much so that he has overlooked the fact that no indictments have occurred over the "outing" itself.

Wilson also admitted he was a source for the incredibly inaccurate and self-serving May 6, 2003, Kristof column:

"It was important for the Administration to correct the record. ... It is an act of civic duty.  It is what citizens across this country do every day in our democracy.  You hold your government to account for what your government says and does in the name of the American people."

So it is a civic duty to chat up reporters and embellish what the intelligence actually said about Niger and Iraq?  Ah, yes, my heart is just swelling with patriotic music.

And then for the laugher of the evening, Wilson commented on the decision by him and his wife to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair:

"When one is faced with adversity, one of the ways that one acts in the face of adversity is to try and bring a certain amount of humor to the situation.  It's called irony.  And if people have no sense of humor or no sense of perspective on that, my response is it's about time to get a life."

Humor?  Irony?  But what happened to St. Valerie, the put-upon hero whose very life was risked by the leakers?  You're joking about that?!  Let's face it, were Libby and Rove the ones who were out peddling pictures of her to national magazines?

Then Wilson revealed what must be the ultimate motive, when asked if there would be civil lawsuits:

"We're keeping all of our options open."

Cha-ching!

NWC: National Webcasting Company

NBC decided that it has a lot of something that might be, you know, worth posting on the Internet: video.  (The Malcontent planted a flag on that terra cognita months ago.)

Fitting that the first Nightly News anchor with a blog would be the one most fully embracing 21st century technology.  Now maybe I'll actually watch.

Reporter's True Calling: Porn

Not since White House reporter Cyrus Merganthaler asked if William Howard Taft was able to wash his scrotum on his own has there been such insolence among the White House press corps.

John Roberts (the CBS anchor helmet, not the CJOTUS) today asked WH Press Secretary Scott McClellan if the Samuel Alito nomination, in the wake of the failed Miers bid, amounted to a term that is synonymous with ... ummm ... having sex with someone who was just sex-had-with:

John Roberts: “So, Scott, you said that -- or the President said, repeatedly, that Harriet Miers was the best person for the job. So does that mean that Alito is sloppy seconds, or what?”

McClellan's response mysteriously didn't involve a Ninja throwing star.

UPDATE: Roberts culps mea, tone was "too casual."

Off to the Races

It happened to John Roberts.  It happened to Harriet Miers.

And with the left spittle-flecked with rage about Judge Alito, how many nanoseconds before it happens to him (or his family)?

"Hey, Bill! Watch those hands!"

Answer: Zero, or less than zero.  (Links to "AmericaBlog.")

UPDATE: Looks like the left's oppo-research turbines are whirling away.  Five of The Malcontent's top-20 referrals (the pages via which someone comes to this site) currently involve searches for the terms "gay" and "Alito."  You won't find it here, brainiacs.

UPDATE deux: Wonkette, the semi-respectable mouthpiece of leftist wackadoos, joins the fray.  Sort of.

The Irrelevant Speak

I called it. Gay rights groups are none too pleased with President Bush's Supreme Court nomination:

LGBT civil rights groups wasted no time Monday criticizing President Bush's latest nominee to the Supreme Court.

Of course, they will be very selective in registering their outrage:

Domestic Justice

You've had a long day. It began when the dishwasher vomited a soapy froth across the kitchen floor. Things escalated when your boyfriend's mother stopped by under the guise of dropping off pie, but really the old witch merely wanted to toss out yet more passive-aggressive remarks about your career choice. Throw in a heated argument with her son after she leaves - with the requisite stomping off in opposite directions - and the domestic atmosphere is golden.

So there you are, off fixing the car, fuming, up to your elbows in grease and oil, looking like some sort of hideous automotive M.A.S.H. unit. "I need some paper towels," you growl through gritted teeth. Alas, the paper towels are not where you left them. Grudgingly, you hunt down the boyfriend you're not talking to and ask about the towels.

Boo Who?

It's another year, and another non-observance of Halloween for The Malcontent.

So we'll let the Offender celebrate Halloween "Gay Christmas" for us.

Gawker Reads The Malcontent?

(Alito: Old news to us ...)

Brooke Debuts

As I said previously, our friend Brooke Blanchard last night made her first of several appearances on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."

Her character, an EMT, went toe to toe with the "aggressive, cut-throat and arrogant" Dr. Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh).  And totally served her.

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Bad Pictures of Famous People

Sunday we saw Joel Godard, the wacky announcer for "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," out walking his dog.  He must live in our neighborhood.

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Then a bit later while in SoHo, we saw them shooting "The Devil Wears Prada," the adaptation of the book starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.  Both of them were there, filming an interior scene.  Here was my best attempt at getting Meryl Streep on film:

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I also got a little bit of (bad) video.  Meryl is the gray head on the left in the background, behind the production assistant with the headset.

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Why I ♥ Orkut

Where else would you get an offer like this?:

Perjury for Demmies

  Welcome, Democrats. Please set your tray tables and spin machines to their full locked and upright positions. We have professional medical staff standing by just inside the terminal at our destination should any of you suffer excessive cranial apoplexy. The captain does regret any severe cognitive turbulence we may encounter during our historical journey. Pundits and New York Times columnists will be on hand with complimentary conscience vouchers for those who've had their understanding of the rule of law shaken free of their complacency compartments. History regrets any emotional or psychic damage this may cause.

We hope you enjoy our in-flight documentaries, "When Presidents Lie to Grand Juries," and its sequel "The Return of Perjury - Republican Edition." The captain would like me to remind you that rule of law should remain safely fastened within the constitution, as during unforeseen partisan spin, these standards may break loose and shake about the political cabin at any time.

A "Surplus of McGuffins"

Mike Kinsley has a great take on the Plame kerfuffle.  He sums up the confusing and ephemeral nature of every twist and turn with an extended Hollywood metaphor.

If this convoluted potboiler ever does get the greenlight, the only possible screenwriter would be Rube Goldberg.

Fitzgerald Transcript

For those who can't get enough Fitzmas, or Fitzween, or whatever you want to call it, the full transcript of the special counsel's news conference is here:

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The No. 1 Story That Won't Get Nearly Enough Play Today

Marion Barry pleads guilty to two charges stemming from failure to pay federal income taxes.

So what bitch "set you up" this time, Marion?  Lady Justice?

Support the Troops!

I bet you're asking yourself how you can support the troops. If you're a New York Times editor, it's a no brainer. Simply selectively quote a dead soldier's last letter so the readership has no context or knowledge of who he was and what he thought of his place in Iraq. Always remember, our soldiers are children and victims of Bushitler, not free-willed, free-thinking adults with deeply held beliefs, aspirations, and convictions:

"Obviously if you are reading this then I have died in Iraq. I kind of predicted this, that is why I'm writing this in November. A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances. I don't regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark."

Naturally the best way to honor one of our best Americans is for the Times to leave any and all mention of this out of the article.

In a similar vein, I'd just like to throw out a piece of advice to any MoveOn types out there who may be floating on by. When you're having a "solemn vigil" for the "deeply sad" occasion of the 2000th combat death in Iraq, it's not supposed to look like the best time you've ever had at a cocktail party.

It must be an "Irish vigil."

Big shout out to the jack-ass in the bottom picture. Because when people see a bunch of lunatic moonbats dancing on the graves of our troops, oh yeah, I want them to connect it with gay rights.

Thanks bunches, asshole.

Update/correction: In comments, Paul points out the flag in the bottom picture is most likely an Italian "PACE" flag. If so, I'm mistaken. The man is still an asshole, but not for the reason I originally assigned to him.

The Derailing of St. Valerie

Rich Leiby plays the violins for Valerie Plame Wilson:

With her career derailed, Plame, 42, the mother of 5-year-old twins, hasn't publicly signaled her plans. But privately she has said that she feels she has no future at the spy agency where she has worked for 20 years.

What he failed to mention, however, was that her career was probably first "derailed" not by a Bush administration official, but by CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames:

First, the CIA suspected that Aldrich Ames had given Mrs. Wilson's name (along with those of other spies) to the Russians before his arrest for espionage in 1994. So her undercover security was undermined at that time and she was brought back to Washington for safety reasons.

So Plame goes from her perch as a gallivanting international spook, chucking grenades and squeezing off rounds from an AK-47, to being a desk jockey at Langley – long before Scooter Libby or Karl Rove knew her name.  Yet the implication is that her career was only recently "derailed" by malevolent Bushies, even though the Kristof link above says she was already "moving away" from her non-official-cover status before the leak.

I don't mean to trivialize what Scooter Libby is alleged to have done, or the circumstances in which it has placed Plame.  But it would be nice for a little more perspective from the media and a little less beatification of Vanity Fair covergirl Plame and her dissembling husband.

Justice "Scalito"?

ConfirmThem says the new SCOTUS nominee will be Samuel Alito of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.  Linked here is a bio of the man billed as a "mild-mannered Scalia."

An early review of his decisions shows him, indeed, as very much in the Scalia mold.  At the appellate level, he was the only dissenter in Planned Parenthood v Casey, which will no doubt send the pro-abortion crowd around the bend.  (Chief Justice Rehnquist actually quoted Alito in his own dissent in that case.)

I haven't found much about where Alito stands on gay issues, but he did side with the majority in a decision holding that a school district failed to provide a student with a free and appropriate public education "based on his lack of athleticism and his perceived sexual orientation."

Just reading some tea leaves ...

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Going Where Too Few Have Gone Before

If you are a listener of the Howard Stern radio show, then surely the coming out of George "Sulu" Takei comes as no surprise whatsoever.  If Takei's interviews themselves weren't enough of a clue, then Howard's phony phonecalls using manipulated soundbites where Takei discusses his love of "wang" merely encapsulated what everyone already strongly suspected.

But his story illustrates the broad panoply of "coming out" experiences, something that strikes a chord with me:

"It’s not really coming out, which suggests opening a door and stepping through. It’s more like a long, long walk through what began as a narrow corridor that starts to widen. And then some doors are open and light comes in, and there are skylights and it widens. Brad’s my partner, we’ve been together for 18 years. So, I’ve been 'open,' but I have not talked to the press. In that sense, maybe that’s another opening of the corridor there."

It's that revelation about a partner of 18 years that was a actually little shocking to me.  Takei is a gay man, and he is from Hollywood.  Those are two major strikes against any sort of stable, long-lasting relationship right there.

Takei's decision not to be more public until the age of 68 makes a little more sense against the sad backdrop of issues with his family:

"I’ve not had a good experience with one sibling. And I won’t be specific because it’s still a problem. My mother, initially, had some adjustments to make, but she got to like Brad very much. She got Alzheimer’s, and it got very difficult for her, so we moved her in with us. Brad was wonderful. He was a saint. It’s very difficult when you’re dealing with someone with Alzheimer’s. And some of the stages were … horrific. And Brad helped throughout that. She was with us for the last four years of her life. And I owe so much to him."

If only more celebrities would find the courage to come out at the pinnacle of their careers, but better late than never.

Beard, Booze and Videotape?

"Scandal" and "New Jersey governor" seem to go together like Kate Moss and coke.

GayPatriot wonders if a bombshell is about to hit the Corzine-Forrester race, and if so, whether it will drop before election day.

Bloodlust Not Sated

So a nobody is about to be indicted in a nothing scandal.  Congrats, Dems.  Quite an accomplishment.

But I doubt an indictment of Scooter Libby will quench the burning desire of the left to get something, anything, on this president.  That their bete noir, Karl Rove, is slipping the hangman's noose will likely drive the moonbats even moonbattier.

Pope Doffs Beanie, Bears Stop Shitting in Woods

And Brian from "Survivor" says he's not gay.

Uhh, okay.  So I apologize for spotting his gayness before the show even premiered.  It was even more apparent to me than Rafe, who admits to being gay.

Amy was the chief one saying, "You don't know it yet, but you're gay."

And if Brian goes and gets married to a woman, maybe she'll know it soon enough too.  [HT: Towleroad]

Not Me!

Like Jeffy from "The Family Circus," I can disavow complete responsibility for the blog's recent glitchiness.  Turns out it's all Typepad's fault.

I've been singing this company's praises for a long time now, but it has gotten so bad lately that I'm ready to "move" my Movable Type elsewhere.

Gay Bits

Pin-up Boy-kin: Congrats to "virtual Malconfidant" Keith Boykin for his feature in the November issue of Instinct.  (It was some article about 25 great gay guys or something, but I was too drunk to pay close attention.)  He's a cool cat, even if he doesn't get the concept of gay Republicans.

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High Heel Race pics: Metro Weekly has now posted a sampling of the good, the bad and the baddest.  I loved Hurricane Himmicane Rita, but what does Spy vs. Spy have to do with anything?

Put it back in your pants, Andy: Towleroad gets turned on by Ozzie Guillen kissing another man.  But it's Ozzie's son.  (OK, he did take down the "hot, hot, hot" verbiage.)

Shoo, flu: Chloe Sevigny won't get the bird flu.  The Pen15 Club says she's sure of it.

Reviewing the reviewers: Beaverhausen takes on the savaging of Dan.

Getting what you ask for: If the gay-rights groups were unhappy about Miers (I don't think they should have been), then they might swallow their tongue over the next nominee.  (Although I would dispute the casual inclusion of everyone on that list as "anti-gay.")

Piggy See, Piggy Do

Remember how when you were a kid you would imitate everything you saw in cartoons?  How you would try to fly from a rooftop like Superman?  Or strap yourself to a rocket to chase a supersonic bird through the desert?  Or dress in seductive drag to keep hunters with speech impediments from shooting you?  Remember that?  Yeah, that was fun.

Well, bar the door, Mabel, because we impressionable Americans are about to go stampeding down the aisles of gay, wedded bliss.  That is, if our cartoon-viewing is any indication.

That's right, when all the homos start booking their trips to get hitched in P-town, the cross-humpers will have Comedy Central and the outrageous "Drawn Together" to thank (or revile).

Last night Spanky Ham, the Internet download pig, and effeminate videogame-quester Xandir said "I do" and flounced down the aisle together.  The pretext was that Spanky had contracted an Internet virus and needed health benefits.  But I still think he was into it.

In the scene below, Spanky and Xandir prepare to consummate their union under the watchful gaze of the "King of Insurance," who rightly smells a fraud.

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Uh Huh

Now that Harriet has committed a bit of seppuku for her liege, gay rights groups are hopeful about the next pick.

Sorry, did I say hopeful? I meant transparent.

(Washington) The withdrawal of Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court is being met by LGBT civil rights activists with both a sense of relief and new concerns.

Yes, concerns. Such as a Republican president appointing a Supreme Court justice in the first place. That is pretty much the one and only concern involved here.

“Her withdrawal today demonstrates that the President is beholden to extremist groups rather than to the American people, said HRC President Joe Solmonese.

A man who frequently carries water for The Taskforce and NARAL doesn't get to call anyone else extreme. Sorry, Joe. Lovely parting gifts, etc.

I'll go out on a real creaky limb here and predict no matter who the next nominee is, the usual suspects will vigorously oppose them. When gay rights groups couldn't get behind a moderate constructionist like John Roberts, it is endlessly predictable surprising to watch them labor under the impression they have any credibility to speak on these issues whatsoever.

The Swamp Claims Another Victim

If George W. Bush is anything, he is a man who reads the papers.

Or at least he reads Krauthammer, because the WaPo columnist last Friday laid out the precise scenario of retreat on the Miers nomination that the President followed today: a concocted impasse over executive privilege.  (Indeed, some are suggesting the Krauthammer column was a trial balloon floated by the White House itself.)

So what was initially viewed as the ace up Miers' sleeve – lack of a paper trail – is now being presented as her undoing.  But if you're going to put forward a nominee because they don't have numerous controversial opinions in writing, make sure that they don't, you know, have numerous controversial opinions in writing.

Breaking News

World Champions!

After 88 years, the Chicago White Sox are World Series Champions and bring the Comissioner's trophy to a city that is second no longer, if only for a night. Now, the team of Ozzie Guillen own the soul of Chicagoans and the indisputable bragging rights of First Team.

Impossible to describe the feeling. Immediately after the last out, my quiet little suburb exploded in joy, fireworks to rival a minor battlefied, car horns blaring, people running out into the streets screaming. No other sports championship can rival this final release of a long drought.

Mal very generously stayed up late to capture highlights of the game, including the go ahead run, Juan Uribe's impossible catch in the stands, the final out, the celebration, and an interview with the hottest man in baseball - Scott Podsednik. Enjoy.

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Darth Condious

I loved Robbie's post on the "reimagining" of Condi Rice so much that I decided to help USA Today truly go all the way to demonize her.  Here ya go, Richard Curtis, knock yerself out!

Kneel Before Condi

With the Beltway shuddering under the weight of rumor and speculation that Darth Cheney's Sith Lord powers may be waning, it's only proper he channel his terrible powers into some worthy apprentice.

The USA Today [image] was deliberately altered to make Condi Rice look more menacing. Notice how the whites of the eyes are highlighted to make her BLACK eyes look BLACKER and HATEFUL.

All the better to strike fear into the hearts of moonbat scum.

Condi, currently aboard The Executor to better threaten logging rights on the distant ice world of Canada, could not be reached for comment.

Gay Bits

Lesbians?  In the WNBA?: It is extremely, unfathomably rare for a star athlete in team sports to come out while he or she is still actually playing the game.  Which is why Sheryl Swoopes' courageous announcement is so significant.  Outsports has the story and more here.  Good on you, Sheryl.  Potentially controversial money quote:

"Do I think I was born this way? No," Swoopes said. "And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are."

A new threat to national security from Down Under: The Trail Mix blog has the goods.  Hey, those light meters can really hurt if they poke you in the eye.

Wonkette comes through: Pictures from the High Heel Race.

Seeing lavender: Georgia Equality endorses a lesbian candidate's opponent for city council.

The company you keep: The Klan will rally in support of the Texas anti-gay-marriage amendment.

Typographical Excellence the Olbermann Way

For a political commentator, Keith Olbermann is a pretty good sportscaster.  His show's promo last night on MSNBC helps explain the news net's perennial cellar-dweller status:

Yeah, that's the look of smug satisfaction that says, "I pay my Chyron operator minimum wage."  It would seem that Karl Rove isn't the only one who might be fighting to save his career.

Finally

It was a bit like a drunken bout of sex, really. Excitement, enjoyment, a great evening of fun. Then, it devolved into a slow, tedious grind. Endless, exhausting, eternal. Finally it reached the slow, agonizing point where the ending didn't matter, just so long as someone finishes so we can all roll over and go to sleep.

After the longest game in World Series history, my boys remain firmly on top, 3-0.

Now, I nap.

Putting the Ex in Extra Fabulous

Oh sweet Jesus, please let this be available in Chicago:

HUNTINGTON, Conn. Oct. 25 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Stephen and Irene Bennett, husband and wife, founders of Stephen Bennett Ministries, Inc., announce the launching of their national radio program, Straight Talk Radio, scheduled to debut in eight states on October 31.

Formerly a daily one-minute public service announcement running on numerous Christian and Conservative radio stations, Straight Talk Radio has been "revamped" into a new, lively, daily half-hour program.

National Security Adviser, Yes. Historian, No.

Taranto eviscerates Scowcroft:

The Washington Post reports on a New Yorker interview with Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser in the Ford and Bush père White Houses:

Scowcroft, in his interview, discussed an argument over Iraq he had two years ago with Condoleezza Rice, then-national security adviser and current secretary of state. "She says we're going to democratize Iraq, and I said, 'Condi, you're not going to democratize Iraq,' and she said, 'You know, you're just stuck in the old days,' and she comes back to this thing that we've tolerated an autocratic Middle East for fifty years and so on and so forth," he said. The article stated that with a "barely perceptible note of satisfaction," Scowcroft added: "But we've had fifty years of peace."

Now let's see. Between 1953 and 2003, here are the Mideast wars we can think of off the top of our head: the Six Day War, the Yom Kippur War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, the two Palestinian intifadas against Israel, the Algerian Civil War, the Yemen Civil War and two Sudanese civil wars. That doesn't even count acts of terror against non-Mideastern countries, from the Iranian invasion of the U.S. Embassy to the attacks of 9/11.

What do you call someone who describes this as "50 years of peace"? A "realist."

Drag Racing

Tonight is DC's annual High Heel Race down 17th Street, and I must say this is probably the greatest pang of longing I have felt for my old city since I moved.

The always risible Running of the Queens is sure to be made more so by the rain that is predicted to be falling when the flag drops at 9 p.m.

The Malcontent will gladly republish any reader photos (email us here).  Especially if non-waterproof mascara is involved.

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Cheney Watch?

From the AP:

[White House Spokesman Scott] McClellan said Cheney ... is doing a "great job" as vice president.

So is a "great job" better or worse than a "heckuva job"?

Paging Beijing . . .

Of all the things an oppressive totalitarian regime lets slide, this is by far the most disturbing.

I gotta wonder what the guy behind them must be thinking.

h/t - Gay Orbit

Make It Stop

15-and-a-half inches of rain in New York City so far this month, more than five times above average, and it just keeps falling.

And if this weren't bad enough, Robbie tells me some people are finding eerie echoes in the current Northeast weather to 1991's "perfect storm."

UPDATE: I knew we had been getting close, but Saturday pushed Central Park over the top as the wettest October in history, and we're now only about an inch behind the wettest month on record in New York City: September 1882.

No Rhetoric for Oil!

George Galloway. British MP. Demagogue. Left-wing sideshow. Friend to dictators and Islamic extremists everywhere.

Not only did he apparently suck on the poisonous bribery teat of Saddam Hussein, but Mr. Galloway decided lying about it to the U.S. Senate was a bright idea.

The MP George Galloway angrily rejected fresh allegations last night from a US senate investigation that he lied under oath about Saddam Hussein's multimillion-pound oil-for-food programme.

The inquiry, headed by the Republican Norm Coleman, claimed he had "knowingly made false or misleading statements under oath" when he appeared before a committee hearing in Washington in May.

Insert your own Rovian, DU conspiracy theorem here.

Update: Read the charges and evidence in greater detail, here. Seems like they've nailed him. Good.

Capitalism: Good For Us, Bad For You

  Hypocrisy is not the greatest crime in human history, though many politicos would have you think so. Why bother debating the merits of ideas when they can simply point to personal flaws and avoid commentary with actual thought and substance?

Still, sometimes a hypocrisy is so blatant, so painful to watch, so delicious to behold, it's difficult to avoid noting it.

Halliburton whores. Dick Cheney? George Bush? The insidious neo-con cabal?

Nope. Michael Moore:

Kathryn Jean Lopez: Michael Moore makes money off oil and war? Why would he bother lying about owning stock? Is Peter Schweizer the only person who bothered checking?

Peter Schweizer: Michael Moore is constantly trying to prove his and the Left's moral superiority, so he says things about himself that are patently not true. He's pathological about it. How else to explain that he's loudly proclaimed no less than three times that he doesn't invest in the stock market because it's morally wrong while quietly picking up shares in a whole host of companies. A portfolio that includes Halliburton, Boeing, and HMOs doesn't fit the bill so he lies about it. I think he assumed that no one would poke around and investigate. When it comes to the MSM he was correct in making that assumption. He never responded to my questions. I'm dying to know how he explains away this one.

Brilliant. It brings to mind Greg Gutfeld's remarks on how Deepak Chopra makes millions of dollars by telling people materialism and capitalism are very, very bad for them.

Roker Face-Plants

Ever since Dan Rather tethered himself to a lightpost to anchor the CBS Evening News live from a hurricane, reporters in the heart of a storm have been a staple of TV news disaster coverage.

NBC's Al Roker tried to get a little of the Anderson Cooper mojo working for himself in Naples, Fla., as Hurricane Wilma came ashore.  The result instead sent him scrambling for cover indoors.

The Malcontent's clip is followed by a hilarious, slo-mo replay.

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