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Krauthammer Speaks, Finally

At last, Charles Krauthammer has opened his mouth on the subject of the Miers nomination. His column is headed "Retreat" in the Townhall.com version, and "Withdraw This Nominee" in the Washington Post. Probably he couldn't believe his ears when Karl Rove told him what to say, but then he read Ann "Anal Annie" Coulter's piece and decided to follow suit. Ann's column was titled "This is what ‘advice and consent’ means."

It was surprising to see Ann's nasty-mouth bitchiness turned against another female, and a conservative one to boot. It was downright flabbergasting to see that all Charles did was translate Coulter into Krapp-speak.

Loved the cute little lie near the end of Chucky-boy's column: "By choosing a nominee suggested by Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and well known only to himself, the president has ducked a fight...." Reid suggested Miers? Yeah, right. And I suspect over the next couple weeks we will see that Bush has not ducked a fight, by any means.

Krauthammer and Coulter are normally such submissive lickspittle mouthpieces for Uncle Karl-- it's kinda hard to believe they would both go off on a tangent and criticize a Bush nominee. We know Rove has told them what to say. And we also know that Rove told Dobson what to say (or imply).

What do you wanna bet Miers is a smoke-screen, and both of our pet media whores will be shouting hallelujah to the heavens when the real nominee is announced? Leading up to that, I predict they will be agreeing that Miers should not be confirmed, while vocally criticizing the Dems' efforts to block her. Krauthammer and Coulter, sheesh! Wish we could lock those two up in a dark room and see who comes out with a sore butt.

Jobs for the Girlz

Our prez has appointed a woman who can't even pronounce her own name! Miers is pronounced "meers." What? She says it really is "My-ers?" OK, then she can't spell it.

Never mind.

You heard it here first-- she can't be confirmed by the Senate. Why? Because she is a Born Again Christian, so she reports to a higher authority. She can't take the oath without lying, which would make her a documentable hypocrite.

Damn. That never stopped Bush from lying his ass off. The only hope for sanity is that process will be drawn out till the end of the term, concluding with a firm NO vote so she can't score a recess appointment.

Then of course there will be a real risk that Bush will nominate somebody even worse. Wait a sec-- could this be a real sneaky way to get Gonzales into the job? I bet after the Miers confirmation hearings Gonzales will start to look pretty good. "I have good news, Mr. and Mrs. America. The good news is we aren't going to make you eat a thousand pounds of crap. We are only going to make you eat 950 pounds of crap."

Loved the story about Karl Rove talking to James Dobson (Focus on the Family, AKA Focus on Dobson)and telling him not to worry, she's anti-abortion. And then idiot Dobson saying "I can't tell you how I know this..." Shit, even the Daily Show picked up on that. Hope the Senate makes Dobson testify at the hearings.

How did Miers get picked? Rumor is Karl Rove spent a week asking all of Bush's buddies if they'd like to be a supreme court justice. When he got to Harriet, she said "Who do I have to blow?"

Can't wait to hear what Krap, uh, Krauthammer has to say about this. Wonder if he swallows-- his pride, that is-- and gets over not being nominated himself. At least he knows who he has to blow.

Krauthammer, for real

Actually that should be a question:

Krauthammer, for real?

I might have misunderestimated this guy, putting him down as a simple paid flack for the Bush/Rove White House. Turns out he is not the Devil incarnate, just a Karl Rove Junior, without the virtue of consistency. Charles K wasn't always this way; Karl R was born into it.

What made me decide to look a little harder at Karl Junior was the fact that he is so often described as "Pulitzer prize winning conservative columnist." I didn't know there was a Pulitzer prize for conservative columns, and in fact there isn't, although it wouldn't have surprised me all that much. Most people think of the Pulitzer in terms of the "best photo of the year" or "best news story" of the year but the word Pulitzer looks so good on any writer's resume that the Board now grants the award in twenty-one categories plus annual "special citations and awards." Details at Wikipedia, of course.

The Pulitzer is the premier award (Oscar quality) in most of the writing professions, and has a reputation for being more or less non-political, the Board being administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia. The reputation is so great that writers will sometimes describe themselves as a "Pulitzer prize nominee," which in reality means that they have paid the entry fee. Yes, it's a contest, and you pay a fee to submit your entry. Since the Prize is so prized, and there are fees involved, it's no surprise that the list of categories is growing.

But... so far there's no Pulitzer for "conservative columns." And therefore ipso facto Krauthammer's Pulitzer was not for "conservative columns."

Then I found out that the guy is a paraplegic, as a result of a diving accident when he was in college. Got to be sympathetic, unless he has used his handicap to political advantage. Which he has (read on).

Here's the summary bio, which shows an apparent streak of callousness from the very beginning. Born in New York City in 1950, he got honors degrees in political science and political science and economics from McGill University in 1970. McGill... isn't that in Canada? So Krauthammer happened to be in Canada, in college, when so many of his contemporaries (including me!) were getting drafted and sent to Viet Nam. He's a Draft Dodger! He earned his membership in the Bush/Rove/Cheney/Rumsfeld Chicken Club, for sure.

He followed-up McGill with a year at Oxford, then went to medical school at Johns Hopkins. His diving accident happened during his freshman year at Johns Hopkins, and he resumed his training at Harvard, earning his M.D. in 1975.

He specialized in psychiatry, of all things (having started in political science and economics), but didn't last long in the field before going into political exploitation of his medical degree. In '78 he quit the field to "direct planning in psychiatric research" for Jimmy Carter, at which time he also began writing for The New Republic, a progressive journal sometimes described as "neo-liberal." In 1980 he wrote speeches for Democratic candidate Walter Mondale!

I haven't seen any direct evidence that he used his handicap to get any of these jobs, but come on-- a Jewish doctor in a wheelchair? That's mega-minority-points. I guess that sounded like a cheap shot, but Mr K never hesitates to take them.

The one consistent theme in Krauthammer's public persona is his staunch support of Israel. Me, I'm absolutely not anti-semitic, and in fact believe that we should support Israel. But it is a fact of life and politics that Jews are a minority and you get extra points for hiring or appointing minorities and/or the handicapped. If Krauthammer had enough sense to turn himself into a female he'd probably be a Senator by now. He's gone through other radical changes. Funny, conservatives are supposed to be against radical change, and here's a guy that became a conservative in and because of a radical change.

Krauthammer did his philosophical 180 toward the end of the eighties, and began writing for Time and the Weekly Standard, which is a conservative political magazine. Now he is thoroughly identified with the neocon branch of conservatism and promotes the unipolar theory of American domination of the world. Along the way he was appointed to Bush's "Council on Bioethics." The Sten Gazette piece that called him "craphammer" and was the inspiration for me in writing the blog said "Krauthammer is a confidant of Karl Rove. Krauthammer 'consulted' on Bush’s State of the Union speech, then sat around with other paid “contributors” on Fox News to praise it."

By the way, the Pulitzer was awarded to him in 1987, before the wind-shift, so calling him a "Pulitzer prize winning conservative columnist" is really sneaky. Almost as sneaky as claiming him as an MD doctor on the bioethics panel. A "bioethicist" whose paraplegia presumably lends a great deal of weight to his stance against stem-cell research. The guy's a real pro and knows how to turn a "handicap" to his own advantage.

I think Sten Gazette did a good job of exposing Karl's Junior as a "media whore," but that is a misunderstimation. The guy is a professional propagandist, a clone of Karl Rove, and perhaps even his heir-apparent (it won't surprise us at all if Jeb Bush runs for prez in 2008, with Chuckie K as his "political advisor").

A psychiatrist as a professional propagandist, hmmm. The famous Dr. Joseph Goebbels was a psychologist.

Last but not least, I kept staring at the picture of Craphammer thinking he sure does look like somebody else, and eventually it dawned on me-- it's this guy!

Jackson Verdict

Singer Michael Jackson has been found not guilty of all charges at the end of his four-month child abuse trial.

There were cheers from fans outside the court as the verdicts were read. The singer had strenuously denied molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo. He was also cleared of giving the boy, now 15, alcohol and conspiring to kidnap him and his family.

The star left the court in Santa Maria, California, without speaking to the many fans gathered at the entrance.

But his lawyer Thomas Mesereau said: "Justice was served. Michael Jackson is innocent."

"Yeah," said Jackson. "You've been served."

When asked about his future plans, Jackson said he was going on vacation. "Tomorrow I'm going to moon-walk my ass over to the golf course and catch 18 holes with my Good Friends OJ and Mr. Baretta. After that they are going to help me go look for the real child molesters," Jackson said.

Mesereau said that Jackson has been working very hard on his personal designer line of sports clothes, consulting with Martha Stewart by telephone almost daily. "They are working on permanent discounts. You should be able to go into a Walmart any time and find little boys' pants half-off. Michael feels a need to give something back, because he has come to symbolize the American Dream. Where else can a poor black boy grow up to be a famous white woman? Is America great, or what?"

Jackson declined to answer further questions, saying "Now it's time for bed. I can tell because the big hand is touching the little hand."

Well, well, well, here we go.

Had to create this "blog" in order to post a comment on another one. No wonder there are so many blogs here!

Krapphamer is a tribute to syndicated super-conservative Charles Krauthammer, who is Karl Rove's butt-monkey a.k.a. Propaganda Pet-of-the-Year. Doesn't seem to care what lies he spouts, or whether he is even internally consistent, so long as he gets that regular check from Krazy Karl's Slush Fund.

I saw him referred to as Craphammer on Sten Gazette and it fits-- the guy seems dedicated to trying to hammer crap down our throats. Me, I think it should work the other way: hammer that crap flat so it will dry out and blow away faster.

Another great blog is Karl Rove's biggest fan at ilovekarlrove.com . Here's my favorite Karl Rove quote:
""As people do better, they start voting like Republicans... ...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."

If you happen to stumble across my comment(s) on other blogs, at least you'll find something under the link now!

Keep the Faith!.