‘You report, we deny’
Sweet how the White House denies — and everyone in the WH press corps except ABC’s Jake Tapper ignores — the accusation by an attorney that “Steve Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration’s Auto Industry Task Force, threatened . . . an investment bank, that if it continued to oppose the administration’s Chrysler bankruptcy plan, the White House would use the White House press corps to destroy its reputation.”
Glenn Reynolds has a roundup, including a link to Nick Gillespie of Reason. Also, Jimmie Bise at Sundries Shack is on it, and there’s lots more at Memeorandum.
Just imagine the outrage if the Bush administration had threatened to sic Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on its political opponents. But the obedient steno clerks in the White House press corps just do as they’re told nowadays. If Robert Gibbs needs a shoe shine, there are at least three network correspondents who’ll be happy to do the job.
UPDATE: “First they came for the businessmen . . .”
That was clearly not a Change They Could Believe In.
UPDATE III: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Sorry it took me nearly an hour to realize I’d been ‘Lanched, but I’ve been busy pondering the economy, and also trying to find new ways to offend feminists.
Also linked by Dad 29 and the Rhetorican. Thanks! If nothing else, the Obama administration seems to be working hard to fix my linky-love recession.
UPDATE IV: When it rains it pours: Linked at AnnCoulter.com! Also linked by Paco and at The Macho Response.
Dear Cassandra . . .
You were offended by my snarky comments about getting traffic from guys Googling for Carrie Prejean bikini pics.
National Offend A Feminist Week
Hey, sweetheart, when I say “bring me a cup of coffee,” I mean bring me fresh coffee, OK?
Bloggers: I hereby declare this National Offend A Feminist Week. Your expressions of reactionary, oppressive, patriarchal, misogynistic traditionalism are solicited. Search your mind, search the Internet, and come up with a post guaranteed to make Jessica Valenti and Amanda Marcotte even angrier than usual.
Please link here for inclusion in a special honor roll listing next weekend. Extra credit for women who find some way to enthusiastically embrace their traditional femininity. Now hurry up with that coffee, sweetheart. And make sure it’s fresh this time . . .
UPDATE: You know what really offends a feminist? An old-fashioned classy dame. Because, according to feminist theory, classy dames from the Golden Age of Hollywood were exemplifying a patriarchal conception of femininity. Yeah, and they were hot, too.
UPDATE II: Speaking of patriarchal conceptions, Bar Rafaeli is being oppressed by her bikini. Shed your oppression!
UPDATE III: Because Amanda Marcotte may not understand, I’ll explain: When Dan Collins calls you “sugar tits,” he means that in an enlightened, egalitarian way, sweetheart.
UPDATE IV: Little Miss Attila says they like it like that. Especially the high heels, we presume.
UPDATE V: Paco recommends Dennis the Peasant’s collection of feminist idiocies.
UPDATE VI: Just wanted to commend Paul from Kingdom of Idiots for going into the comments field at a feminist blog to link me. That’s the kind of genius evil we need, Paul.
UPDATE VII: Jimmie Bise at Sundries Shack offers some vintage redhead-spanking art. Oh, those naughty redheads . . .
UPDATE VIII: OK, somebody recommended me via StumbledUpon, and when I clicked over there, one of the other sites in the “feminist” category featured this photo:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? It was a feminist whining about the objectification of Olympic women’s volleyball players. Talk about somebody needing to get a life . . .
Meanwhile, Stephen Gordon climbs aboard the Bandwagon O’ Patriarchy, and the Daley Gator says, “IRON MY SHIRT.”
UPDATE IX: Carol Tackett offends with facts:
The greatest mistake that feminists make is modeling themselves after men in the area of sexual promiscuity. Men are sluts because they can well afford to be. Women who believe that unfettered sexual activity gives them power are in denial of basic biological facts. The consequences of sexual activity falls squarely on women. Further, words like slut and skank are still part of vocabulary because that is how men view women who are “easy.”
Now, I would quibble with the “men are sluts” part. Since it takes two to tango, men will be slutty only insofar as they can find opportunities. It’s a supply-and-demand thing. But because feminists are liberals, they don’t know anything about economics, either.
The other thing about “men are sluts”: I am an ex-slut. Because my wife is sexy. But also because she’s got a kitchen drawer full of knives, and I’ve got to sleep sometime. If more women were like my wife, there would be a lot less divorce. Maybe a few more widows . . .
UPDATE X: Mike at Cold Fury links, William Teach rolls out the offensive skin, and we now have our Official Anthem.
UPDATE XI: Fulminate of Andrew has some offensive thoughts. (Tip for Andrew: Install SiteMeter and Technorati on your blog.)
Full Metal Jacket Saturday
Every Saturday, in obedience to Rule 2 of “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog,” we feature our reach-around round-up, linking everybody who has linked us in the past week. For the past several weeks, Smitty has done this with the help of high-tech clonebots.
However, Smitty is spending quality time with his in-laws this week, and therefore, he’s left me in charge of the clonebots. Since I’m a low-tech kind of guy and therefore don’t know WTF I’m doing, this is going to be kind of a mess. If your link got left out, e-mail Smitty, and he’ll get you hooked up next week. And so, here we go . . .
- According to the cloneblots, we have a new Rule 2 champeen this week, Kuru Lounge which linked us like a mofo (which is how we like it). They linked us for swine flu, for being part of the moronosphere, for the Arlen Specter switcheroo, and again for being part of the moronosphere. Hey, wait a minute . . .
- Second place this week goes to Carolyn Tackett of Carolyn’s Closet, who linked us on “power corrupts” (we try not to abuse our power), on Arlen Specter (who deserves to be powerfully abused), and on real feminism.
- It’s Derby Day, and so the “show” horse this week is Clever S. Logan, who scored with “Megan Fox is hot” (any arguments?) and by slapping some Rule 4 on “hip” douchebag New York Republican.
(Actually, now that I’m looking at what the clonebots brought back from Technorati, it seems there was a photo-finish for third place — lots of bloggers linked us twice this week — but maybe you guys don’t mind? If anyone objects: Kiss the pig!)
- Jimmie at Sundries Shack won’t object. Jimmie linked our recommendation of biographies (adding a few recommendations of his own) and also had some thoughts on dealing with swine flu.
- Next up is Carol of No Sheeples Here, who linked us on the Air Force One flyover in New York and the Arlen Specter exit.
- In a cave in prehistoric Wisconsin, Troglopundit linked us with his own Sunday roundup and my partying down with his Wisconsin buddy Sean Hackbarth, who has one of those hipster “soul patch” things on his face but doesn’t actually sing the blues.
URGENT: We interrupt this round-up to bring you this breaking news: “Top Gun” star Kelly McGillis has announced that she is a lesbian. Via Ace, who says, “I guess she’s lost that lovin’ feeling.” I won’t believe it until I see video proof. We now return you to your regularly scheduled reach-around . . .
- William John Perry of Beating the Liberty Drum is the latest blogger to discover the awesome power of Rule 2 — and Rule 5, linking us on Carrie Prejean’s breasts and Clever S. Logan vs. Megan Fox.
- Just Grits linked my thoughts on megalomaniacal narcissism and also suggested that Louis Calder’s going under the Obama bus.
- Good ol’ Paco can always be counted on for a congratulatory FMJRA on a guy’s 20th wedding anniversary and also offered a don’t-let-the-door-hit-you to Snarlin’ Arlen.
Where do I get crazy ideas like this? Am I brilliant or just plain evil? Oh, well, on with the round-up:
- Pirate’s Cove links us twice this week. William Teach’s Pinup Sunday, of course, was the original inspiration for Rule 5, and he also linked us on the NY AF1 flyover.
- Beginning the linked-us-once category (at least, according to Smitty’s clonebots) is Donald Douglas of American Power, weighing in on the rapidly deteriorating situation in the LGF bunker.
- Our devout Catholic friend Adrienne gets special credit for calling us “big guys.” Heh.
- Dan Collins of Protein Wisdom also weighs in on the LFG gotterdammerung.
- Fear and Loathing in Georgetown liked the Jessica Valenti/Bill Maher analogy.
- Winds of Babylon linked us on the NY AF1 flyover.
- A rare disagreement from Bob’s Bar & Grill.
- OK, here’s your Smitty’s Clonebot Mystery of the Week: Try to find the link to us at The Steynian. There’s one in there somewhere, but I can’t find it. However, it’s some mighty fine aggregation of linkage and lots of good stuff to read.
BTW, just as an aside on blogospheric method, Rule 1 still works. After my pathetic whine about a lack of linky-love on my patented Carrie Prejean breast implant meme — dude, I so owned that — I actually got ‘Lanched last night. It’s like a double dose of Enzyte for the blog-fu. Now, on with the round-up . . .
- Whatever Is Right linked us in a “greatest-hits” round-up. Newbie bloggers may want to check out that post as a good example of how to dish out a lot of linky-love at one fell swoop.
- Smitty’s post about the Passion of Hope got linked by Dogfight At Bankstown.
- Craig Henry mourns the day the music really died.
- Locomotive Breath likes “what she said” about Bill Maher.
- House of Eratosthenes cleverly combines Eva Longoria in a bikini with a name-check of Alyssa Milano. This link caused me to wonder what happens when you Google “Alyssa Milano nude”? Answer: 641,000 sites. So there’s no point in me even trying to compete with that. Market research . . .
- Where were we? Oh, yeah. The round-up! Patriot Room linked us with a gallery of Miss USA pageant contestants, of whom only Miss Tennessee is certifiably unenhanced.
- Jeremy at Rhymes With Clown agreed with my advocacy of youthful marriage, and shares some powerful thoughts of his own. Whenever this subject is raised, you can expect all kinds of silly objections and absurd accusations. My general point is that our current trend is toward later marriage and fewer children. Ergo, being countercultural means that when the question is asked, “When should I marry?” the answer is, “Sooner.” And when the question is asked, “How many children should I have?” the answer is, “More.”
- Physics Geek ponders lingerie physics. Hey, Geek, since you’re all into science and everything, maybe you can explain this mystery: Why is it that a photo of a woman in lace and satin lingerie is actually more enticing than a photo of a woman wearing nothing at all? Or is that just me?
Man, sorry this is taking so long, but ever since November, these freaking unionized clonebots act like they run the place. We continue:
- Rob at Rumblepak got married at 25 and became a dad less than two years later. Irresponsible? Maybe. Romantic? Definitely. May you have a dozen, Rob.
- The Purple Center sees Specter’s flip to Democrat as “a blow to centrist politics.” Hey, if you’re saying, “Specter blows,” you’ll get no argument from me.
- Speaking of “blows,” Daniel Larison linked.
- More ex-Specter-ation at Creative Minority Report.
- Charles Hill appreciates my swine-flu avoidance advice.
More seminar training for newbie bloggers: Try a Rule 3. Go to Memeorandum. Find a story there you want to blog about. Link/quote the story, give your own commentary, and link/quote some of the other blogs that are commenting on that story, and be sure to hat-tip Memeorandum. (Right now Memeorandum has so much commentary on this Carrie Prejean thing.) If you’ll do that regularly for a couple of weeks, eventually you should trigger their algorithm and pop up in the Memeorandum feed. We continue with the linky-love:
- Frank J. was disappointed by my exposure of Carrie Prejean’s fakies.
- Deuce Geary: “Arlen, you ignorant slut.”
- Another Mystery Link Search at Snooper Report, which is an excellent round-up of Obama’s 100 Days.
- Stop the ACLU links on the AF1 NYC buzz as does The Rude News.
- Washington City Paper linked in a round-up.
- Zoominac says, Don’t Let the Door Hit Ya, Arlen.
And, finally, these blogs linked us, but the stupid clonebots couldn’t figure out which posts:
- Five Feet of Fury
- Hyscience
- A Conservative Lesbian
- Future Republican Senator
- Cranky Con
- Fisherville Mike
- Atlas Shrugs
- BT Sig
- Evil Bender
- Fausta’s Blog
- Hisvorpal
- Lefarkins
- The Nappy Cat
- The Blog Prof
- Politics Across the Pond
- Moe Lane
- Morgan’s 2 Cents
- News Media Magazine
- EnnuiPundit
- Is This Blog On?
- Jeffords
- Jihad Watch
- The Liberty Papers
- Cancel the Bee
Remember to celebrate Rule 5 Sunday — and since it’s National Offend A Feminist Week, this should be an extra-special version!
Video: Gay gynephobia
Look, I’ve made clear my disapproval of breast implants. So now, watch as Keith Olbermann and Michael Musto make clear their disapproval of . . . vagina:
Please remind me of this video, next time a feminist calls me a misogynist.
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! Meanwhile, Allahpundit has this video of Laura Ingraham and the viciously intolerant Gloria Feldt:
Notice how Feldt says that Prejean “has a right to her opinion.” Leftists don’t actually mean this. The whole point of the gay-rights movement is to abolish your right to disagree with them.
Linked by Hedgehog Blog and Daley Gator.
UPDATE II: BTW, the Ingraham/Feldt interview is the kind of TV I hate. Feldt filibusters and interrupts; Ingraham becomes derisive. As a journalist, it has always been my thought that, when interviewing someone who is transparently wrong, the best policy is to give them enough rope to hang themselves. I wish Ingraham had let Feldt finish her prefab talking points and then hit her with a hard question.
As to Feldt’s talking points: She began with the assertion that “feminism is about justice and equality,” which ideology Prejean is accused of betraying and therefore (to complete the syllogism) Prejean is not a feminist.
Which is correct. I have argued explicitly (a) that feminism is wrong precisely because it is a radical egalitarian ideology and (b) that the same-sex marriage argument is based on the same fallacious doctrine. Please see my American Spectator column, “Marriage: A Hill to Die On,” as well as “Whither Marriage?” and “Gay Rights, Gay Rage.”
The argument against same-sex marriage can only prevail if we begin by rejecting the assertion that men and women are “equal” in the sense that feminists mean it — identical and therefore interchangeable.
In fact, men and women are different, and it is their differences that create the necessary complementarity of marriage. Insofar as we accept the counterfactual feminist ideology of legally-mandated androgyny — that men and women are the same, and thus fungible — then it becomes impossible to argue coherently that it makes any difference whether you marry a man or a woman.
UPDATE: Dan Collins reminds Musto and Olby that “despite what your girlfriends may tell you, catty, stupid, vicious, jealous, ugly and self-righteous is no way to go through life, son.” I’ve got some related stuff here.
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