Weird wingnuttery

or (A little Powerline bashing is always a good thing)

via Ezra Klein

Powerline's Hindrocket has a strange post about an apparent error that the NYTimes made in posting its article about the pope's death. They seem to have accidentally published it before it was finished, and so it read as follows: go to the article

I don't think I understand what the big deal is. The NYTimes article is very fair ("he defied easy definition: For all his conservatism on social and theological issues, he was decidedly forward-looking"), and Powerline's statement that they had their criticism ready to go, but had to go looking for a good quote is speculative at best. The only thing, in fact, that is clear is that the NYTimes intended to present more than one side. In the context of Heather's post below about the Washington Times' one-sidedness below, Hindrocket just looks like he's trying to pick a fight.

Michelle Malkin cites it as an example of how

The death of the Pope just couldn't stop the libs in the media from showing their true colors.

What are their true colors? That they wanted to make sure they had a quote from a supporter? Those crazy liberals, always trying to be fair...

Bill Gertz And The Sword Of Darkness Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon? National security reporter Bill Gertz has been described by employer Reverend Moon as an agent of prophecy.

Bill Gertz, Washington Times reporter and devout member of the Unification Church, has recently drawn an awful lot of attention for stories no one but the Times will print: stories about Chechen terrorists sneaking across the Rio Grande, Russians pilfering the missing Iraqi explosives, and other marvels. Says Joshua Marshall: "You can't make this stuff up. Or, I guess, actually you can."

Can Harry pull it off - without giving away the store? Of course we'll be covering today's events here at C&L, so stay around for updates:

Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight faces the first big test of whether he can keep his Democratic colleagues united behind health-care legislation.

Senators plan to take a vote at 8 p.m. Washington time that would clear the way for debate on the most sweeping changes to the U.S. health system since the 1965 creation of the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled.

With every Senate Republican opposing the legislation, Reid can’t afford a single defection from his 60-member caucus to enable the chamber to take up the bill when Congress returns from a weeklong Thanksgiving recess. By late yesterday, Democrats had locked up almost all the votes they needed.

“We’re not assuming a thing,” Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told reporters. “We’re working hard to bring all Democrats together.”

I have some audio of Robert Stacey McCain calling in to the Alan Colmes radio show. They talk about a column about him written by Michelangelo Signorile.

Download | play -MP3 (podcast)

You may not know of him, but tbogg writes:

"Meet Robert Stacy McCain the Assistant National Editor at the Washington Times. Okay, okay, I know that nobody takes the Moonie Times seriously, but they are a newspaper and, if they carry Marmaduke, attention must be paid.

Let's look at a sampling of McCain's finest moments….

Interracial relationships:

[T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion," McCain wrote. "The white person who does not mind transacting business with a black bank clerk may yet be averse to accepting the clerk as his sister-in-law, and THIS IS NOT RACISM, no matter what Madison Avenue, Hollywood and Washington tell us."...read on"

FishbowDC:

"Could 2006 be the year that sinks the Washington Times? Bill Sammon recently jumped ship to join the Washington Examiner and the paper continues to hemorrhage money. Further, two former W. Timers are working on pieces that will open the curtain on what takes place behind the scenes at the Washington Times, and from my conversations with both of them, it sounds as if some damning information could potentially emerge as a result...read on"

Will O'Reilly do a few segments devoted to how much money Moon has lost over the years to put out his propaganda newspaper?

Follow that up with this account on Ralp Peters: "Then he says, “If reporters really care, it’s easy to get out on the streets of Baghdad. The 506th Infantry Regiment — and other great military units — will take journalists on their patrols virtually anywhere.” Well, no, they won’t. Some reporters I know are having trouble getting embeds because they’re not the “right” reporters. They don’t write the “right” kind of stories — meaning they don’t follow the military’s playbook....read on

700 Club wins NRB's: Best Television Talk Show

Hey, I wonder what segment was the clincher? As reader "j" points out-there sure is a lot to pick from. Pat Robertson cancelled his speech at the awards ceremony because as the Washington Times states:

"NRB officials expressed doubts about the effect his appearance might have."

I know this is old news now, but I forgot to cover it earlier.

Oliver:

"Yesterday the Washington Times and their fellow right wing smear merchant, Glenn Reynolds, tried to peddle a story saying that Harry Reid was somehow involved in the growing Republican scandal involving Jack Abramoff.

Like 99% of everything out of the right-wing press, it isn’t true."...read on"

la'ikoa: Bush's plan to improve in the polls--small tools on planes?

The Revealer: The Washington Times takes a page from Rick Santorum's "man-on-dog" book, and then some.

Attytood: The other day Incurious George did something highly out of character for him: He answered a question—from a citizen, no less—directly. In public. Wonder where he got his facts?

Liberal war on Christmas? Not Washington D.C., where the Democrats are the ones who started the Capitol Christmas Web Cam. Dan reports that Canadians also have a cross to bear, and reaching into the archives, DetroitWonk reminds us that he had the scoop on the first victim in the War on Christmas.

Doug Forrester blames the Preznit just like the Washington Times did after the Kilgore campaign:

"It's all George W. Bush's fault. Doug Forrester, in his first postelection interview, laid the blame for his loss in the governor's race last week directly at the feet of President Bush."