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Coulter: ...instead of gloating after everytime there's an attack, liberals ought to be embarrassed...

Ann Coulter is in the lead for our "Wingnut of 2004" award, here attempts (with her typical smear tactics) to deflect any form of accountability to the administration's handling of the Iraq war. To Allan Colmes's credit, he did get her to back off her latest idiotic statement.

Coulter: ...Okay, your going to obsess over the word gloating...ok, I'll retract it...

I guess honest opinion of a bad situation is considered gloating to Ann.

A la O'Reilly, a shower of gifts

Still searching for that perfect gift for your closest phone pal? How about the "O'Reilly Approved" Loofah, courtesy of thesmokinggun.com website?

Yesterday, the Court TV-owned document clearing house messengered scores of the abrasive bath cloths to grateful recipients all over Manhattan. The items came in plastic bags sporting a label featuring Fox News star Bill O'Reilly's smirking face and the slogan "Perfect for your Caribbean shower fantasies!" along with the disclaimer, "Red wine and falafel not included."

The Loofah Man's reaction to Bastone's little joke?

It remained a mystery yesterday.

A Fox News spokeswoman told me: "I'm not going to dignify this with a comment."

State chairman says it's Gregoire by 8 votes

OLYMPIA, Wash. - The head of the state Democratic Party said late Tuesday that recount results from King County give Democrat Christine Gregoire an eight-vote victory in the closest governor’s race.Neither King County nor the Republican party could confirm the hand recount results on Tuesday night. But if the Democrats’ analysis is correct, it’s a stunning reversal in the gubernatorial race, which has been hotly contested ever since election day...

Roger Ailes:
Another crushing blow to those who mistake their mindless worship of BushCo for concern for the troops.

NEW YORK In his first public account of last week's controversy, Spc. Thomas Wilson says that he came up with the now famous armor question for Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld on his own, without the help of oft-criticized reporter Edward Lee Pitts. And he adds, "If this is my 15 minutes of fame, I hope it saves a life."...

After his convoy arrived at Camp Arijan in Kuwait, Wilson found hundreds of fully armored vehicles promised to another unit months down the road. Wilson says he asked if the 278th could use them in the meantime, and was told no. That inspired his question about the shortage of armor, which he showed to Pitts.

The reporter, far from being the protagonist, suggested that he find "a less brash way of asking the question," but Wilson "told him no, that I wanted to make my point very clear."

Of course, the only thing that matters is the answer to the question, not who asked it. Unless you're a servile, knee-jerk Bush apologist.

Tell us who you think should have the honor!
Zell Miller, Mel Gibson, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, FOX News, Ann Coulter, Brent Bozell, Robert Novak, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Donald Rumsfeld, Neal Boortz, Michael Savage, Michele Malkin, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Washington Times, NY Post, Oliver North, George Will, Bill Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Dick Morris, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Bennett, Michael Medved, any website... the list goes on and on and on...you name it!

We might break it up into categories if the voting continues this way:

"Worst Male Winger," "Worst Female Winger," "Worst Web Winger," etc... or Gold, Silver , Bronze....

Announcement will be made after New Year's Day! Thanks for the idea Timoteo!

Ziaspace Video not currently available Is it too much at ask for our President to have some semblence of an idea while proposing a vast undertaking like Social Security reform? He had to know the question was coming. Please, Mr. President, bring something to the table.

'Rejected' Writer Made It All Up

By Howard Kurtz

Washington Post Staff Writer

I desperately want to appear in The Washington Post," Bruce Stockler wrote last week in National Review Online.
Now he has -- although not in the way he intended. The public relations man produced a funny column on all the opinion pieces he has submitted to The Post without success -- or, as the headline put it, "one writer's suffering at the hands of a major newspaper." But Stockler said yesterday he is "quite embarrassed to admit" that he didn't submit any of them.This piece seems to me to be pretty obvious satire," said National Review Editor Rich Lowry. "It seems to me he's obviously making stuff up to be funny . . . not necessarily right at the top, but by the end." The second paragraph of the piece says "here are the facts"; only in the last half-dozen paragraphs does Stockler openly fantasize about disruptions to his phone and television service and an ice cream truck with Texas plates circling his block. "If a couple of things are deliberately outrageous, that signals the reader it's not serious journalism," Lowry said.

Stockler did not contend that he had produced a transparent satire. He said he merely bent some facts to suit his narrative, and that he really has tried repeatedly to get published on The Post's op-ed page -- just not in the way he wrote.

Fred Hiatt, The Post's editorial page editor, said: "It's a little strange. I guess anybody who would make stuff up, it's just as well we didn't run his op-eds." ...read on

Here's the article in question: Op-Dead
One writer’s suffering at the hands of a major newspaper

Social Security Slam Dunk by Richard Cohen

Why do I think that the Social Security "crisis," as President Bush characterized it yesterday, is the domestic version of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Could it be that I am hearing the same sense of false urgency? Could it be that the predicted insolvency of the Social Security system is something other than - yes - "a slam dunk"? I wonder.

My cynicism - like yours - has been earned the hard way. Bush has a charming tendency to make up his mind and then seek the evidence for his decision. This is how he went about deciding to go to war in Iraq - telling Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to produce a war plan in the days right after 9/11. Bush wanted war with Iraq, he got it - and now we're stuck with it...read on

Wapo:

The New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers spent yesterday trying to put the finishing touches on the mega-deal that would move all-stars Randy Johnson, Shawn Green and Javier Vazquez.

SNL did a puppet piece that has sparked some controversy.

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The piece has Rush Limbaugh passed-out in vomit from a drug overdose. It also attacks Bush and Franken and Mobey and...Will there be a real outrage? Will the Buchanan's and Falwell's cry foul? Is Christmas under siege?

Here's a letter to Rush from Jesus' General.