I've been watching Hillary trying to parse anything Obama says,grasping for the "maccaca" moment that will make her nomination a slam dunk. I can just hear Mark Penn when he explained it to Hillary

The kids have got this new thing called YourTube on the internets. What? Have Chelsea show you. Anyway, they'll bite like hatchery bass on a spoon lure. All you need to do it get one little sound bite, and we'll make sure it goes viral. The networks will play it over and over

We got past the Wright story, the "typical" story, and maybe the "elitist" story. What I am hoping is that GOP had already saturated all the truly dumb shits in America with their "madrassa" hoax and the "flag pin" smear. Maybe Hillary's drilling a dry hole, but she's convinced there is a sizable demographic of gullible rubes who actually think Fox is "fair and balanced." OK, fair enough. But now we have the press trying to ram Hillary down our throats in what seems like exactly the same way they pushed Bush on us. The chorus of crickets that greeted Hillary at Messiah College and the manufacturers association gets no mention, her performance is no longer even relevant. Just shut up and let the media push you across the finish line Hillary. They did it for monkey boy, they can do it for you.

Today Hillary tried to revive the Reverend Wright controversy in Pennsylvania using an Interview in the Pittsbugh Tribune Review

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ... said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made.

"He would not have been my pastor, you don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

This is the flagship paper of the Dick Scaife, who is a GOP sugar daddy. This is exactly like if she was in Sun Myung Moon's paper the Washington Times.

Scaife generouslsy bankrolled many efforts to get the Clintons

One August day in 1994, while gossiping about politics over lunch on Nantucket, Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh billionaire and patron of conservative causes, made a prediction. "We're going to get Clinton,"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pol itics/special/clinton/stories/scaifemain 050299.htm

Here we go again - the sort of twisted wordplay that the media repeats endlessly to hamstring Democratic candidates. The Republicans like Joe Scarborough are running wild with this, and I'm pretty sure Sean and Rush are as well. Let's see the quote:

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society.

Let's break it down

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't.

Barack's grandmother is not a bigot. He just said it.

But she is a typical white person

Typical white person is not a bigot. Oh my gawd, he just said the "typical white person" is nice, like his grandmother. Get the rope!

Next weeek, the White House will be pushing a string of poorly concieved and deceptive bills designed to get them off the hook for toruture and other war crimes. They have only one shot at ginning up a full blown assault on the constitution before the end of the month and Congress goes home to campaign. Bush will probably demand these bills be passed in his 9/11 speech, making an emotional appeal to try the 14 9/11 masterminds for the sake of the 9/11 survivors. Think of the children!

Read this a few times. Jefferson would definitely be in prison today for writing anything like the Kentucky Resolutions (1798), regards the Alien and Sedition Act, and his distrust of the President and the majority in congress.

Buzzflash linked to a story at Attytood

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood /archives/003451.html

about how much play the Clinton marriage story is getting on the Times' new blog

http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=4 2

A couple more examples of this sort of insultingly dumbed-down crap will sink this site under a storm of ridicule.

A lot of intellectuals contributed to the current situation, and even though many of them are changing sides, nobody has discussed where all these dangerous ideas first came from. Now before you read this, you may want to crack a cold one and cue up the theme music from the Twilight Zone. Which is appropriate because we are going back to 1962.

In 1962, WWII had been over for less than 20 years. The famous scientific historian Karl Popper wrote a history of the early Prussian empire in the 1820s, and how it used Greek philosophy, and how it would later give birth to Facism. It's call "The Open Society and Its Enemies." It also gives Marxism a big smack down.

OK, it had to be coming. There is a link on the drudgereport.com

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/ A1500/1327_I1.HTM

Apparently this is the brainchild of Peter Biondi (R-NJ). This is the sort of legislation that deserves to covered nationwide, and it is exactly the sort of thing that would swing voters to the democrats.

Keep in mind that Scalia favors much stronger anti-libel laws and restriction on free speech beyond how the Supreme Court has interpreted the 1st Amendment in the past. He is against anonymous political speech even though the Federalist Papers and Ben Franklin relied on them.

http://www.libertysoft.com/liberty/featu res/67carp.html