Pat Lang, who offered background. “We invaded the Iraq of our dreams,” he said. In other words, “the country was not, in fact, what we thought it to be.” Furthermore, Lang said, differences in values between Americans and Iraqis are so great and so misunderstood, on both sides, that there is no basis for believing […]
Archives for January 2007
Yeah, Yeah
The state of the union is wrong. Make that 1/27/07 EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
Proud of His Steadfast
The National Conference for Media Reform and gave one of his typical brain-addled speeches. It’s guaranteed to make you laugh. Then Helen Thomas asked him a few questions: As Huha said in closing, “If there’s questions that has not been answered that’s not my fault.” Now stop laughing and watch or listen to video excerpts […]
He’s B-a-a-a-ck!
Shoah and Pin-Ups
That’s the title of a new documentary about “Lurie would like to have painted comfortable, comforting things,” says Matthias Reichelt, a curator and art historian who collaborated on the film with the director Reinhild Dettmer-Finke. “But something kept him from doing so. And that something is what this film explores.” Anthology Film Archives in New […]
Bold and Beautiful
Today’s national holiday marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. He would have been 78. That’s younger by five years than two living ex-presidents, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, and yet he seems a figure from a far more distant past. BnnRpbiblustering moral pipsqueaks? Click these links: 1) to read or watch King’s […]
Old Bull on Top of New Lies
If anybody needed further proof that whatsisface is still flogging the same old bullshit, let him read Washington Post mush and the Prez Huha‘s] aides insisted that the plan [for more U.S. troops] was largely created by the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki,” “does not really want them,” according to another NYT report. […]
Over the Top
Take a close look. Does he bear any resemblance to the It’s Alfred Jarry’s woodcut of Père Ubu, better known as Ubu Roi, and it comes to mind as a prelude to Huha’s speech tonight because a reader has just suggested Père Bubu (Papa Bubu) or BuBu Roi (King BuBu) as our new moniker for […]
Terminology
The Bullshitter-in-Chief?” The answers were, “Of course.” But the suggested terms, ranging from “d’Oily Farte” and “Mr. Stupid” to “Banana Head,” “Fratboy” and “The Dolt,” failed to inspire the staff. So we’ll stick with our term, shortened to The Bullshitter. We hope this will underscore his iconic status not just as the first among equals […]
More Popcorn
If it’s true he hasn’t seen the video of Saddam Hussein’s execution, as the what a mumbler he is. raw execution video, he could watch the
The Believer’s Gas
He has called himself horseshit op-ed column in today’s Wall Street Journal. mulling a suitably demeaning term to substitute for our customary
2007: Time for Him to Go
It’s the new year, so nu? What’s the point of leaving Bullshitter-in-Chief and his aaaeulc. reported this morning in The New York Times, make it doubtful. “What I want to hear from you is how we’re going to win, not how we’re going to leave,” he is quoted as warning the military’s top brass. He […]