ODE TO KEITH OLBERMANN
“The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. Perhaps he has forgotten everything, who knows,” Abramoff wrote in an e-mail to Kim Eisler, national editor for the Washingtonian magazine.
Abramoff says Bush met, even joked, with him
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| James Taranto, Worst Person in the World … and on the web. |
You can bet James won't be talking about Jack any time soon.
James Taranto has been on my radar more than once for what he writes in his
little afternoon email missives. Today he certainly didn't disappoint. I'll
just leave the one section, “The Case for Hamas” alone for now, but
it gives you an idea with whom we are dealing. A guy who flacks for a group whose ideas are so bankrupt
on foreign policy that they surrender to the “surprise” Hamas victory by thinking, What the hell,
they have to govern, so maybe we'll get lucky. It's theatre of
the absurd in all things security, which is topped off by the fact that John
Bolton has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. I kid you not.
Getting his email started today must have been tough for Taranto, because he had
to start off by correcting the president on the exact building that was saved in
Los Angeles. It was the Library Tower, not the “Liberty Tower,” as
Terror Guy trumpeted. Maybe that's how we invaded Iraq instead of Iran. It would
explain so much.
Then he takes his Ken Mehlman talking points and directs them straight at Hillary
Clinton, for her lashing out at the incompetence of President Bush's national
security stumbling and bumbling, which has reduced our president to a cartoon
figure. Once again Terror Guy found himself using very old foiled terrorist
plots as propaganda as he comes under deeper scrutiny on his illegal NSA warrantless
wiretapping. Senator Clinton accused Bush of “playing the fear card.”
Does Mrs. Clinton–who after all represents the state
where these same terrorists murdered some 2,800 people a few months after
she took office–really think that terrorism isn't something to fear?** New York's junior senator, who speaks in even tones
and conveys her displeasure with temperate phrases (except when she's
really angry).
Best
of the Web Today, by James Taranto (emphasis added)
Then James Taranto did something that we may hear more about. He started going
after the FISA court judges in a preemptive strike for the president. In a section
entitled “Dean Dementia Watch,” Taranto lets loose, but closes with
this beauty.
This is more analogous to what the Democrats
seem to want, which is for life-tenured judges to run national security.
Of course, Taranto is talking about Bush's warrantless wiretapping that might be subjected to the FISA court judges final say. We learn from Jane
Hamsher that Senator Specter has asked Comey to testify. However, he's worried
that will only bring on a claim of executive privilege by Bush. As I said yesterday, this is getting very interesting.
But just in case Specter's legislation passes and Bush's illegal wiretapping
goes to the FISA court judges for a final verdict on its constitutionality and
legality, James Taranto and the Wall Street Journal are on the job.
Cue Keith Olbermann… James Taranto, worst person in the world!
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