See, he was just trying to save the Nile delta. I’m even more amused at the leftist outrage in the comments. But then, leftists, and particularly watermelons, don’t have much of a sense of humor.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I love this comment from Bernstein:
Jon Stewart is funny because of the ways he bugs his eyes out, and otherwise makes funny faces. Can’t get that effect on a blog, I’m afraid.
It’s funny ‘cuz it’s true.
Hey, AP. Searchlight is south of Las Vegas, not north. It’s almost like they want people to not find the place.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I’m saving the screenshot to see if they go back and fix it. Of course, our elite journalists can’t be expected to know the geography of flyover country.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Tea Party express is reporting that their buses are being egged in Searchlight:
Supporters of Senator Harry Reid have just thrown eggs at the Tea Party Express bus caravan – striking at least one of the three buses (the red Tea Party Express bus) with multiple eggs.
About 35 Reid supporters had lined Highway 95 in front of the Nugget Casino in Searchlight where they were attempting a counter-demonstration the tens of thousands of tea party supporters who are gathering for the “Showdown in Searchlight.”
But don’t accuse them of hate or anger! I’m kind of amused that there are only thirty-five Harry Reid supporters in his home town. Not surprised, though.
[Sunday morning update]
“At least dozens” attended. Well, I guess it’s technically true. So would “At least one…”
And as Glenn notes, “at least dozens” watch CNN. And this kind of biased stupidity is one of the reasons.
Unlike the entitlements we’re saddled with until death, being angry is free and actually works! But we need to define why we’re angry – instead of letting our adversaries do it for us.
We are angry not because we lost, but that we lost to losers. I’m not talking about Obama, or the Dems. They’re winners, sadly. I’m talking about progressivism. The reason why I’m angry, my friends are angry, and my imaginary unicorn Captain Sparkles is angry – is because the greatest, most winningest country in the history of the world, just embraced the loser’s doctrine.
For two hundred plus years we’ve kicked ass, and we’re now choosing the belief system of the idiots whose asses we’ve kicked.
Let’s hope for not much longer.
The lamps are going out all over the world. Deliberately this time.
Congress apparently didn’t bother to read the bill before voting on it and passing it. I guess it’s just too much trouble.
Do they have any concept of what incompetent boobs they appear to be to we normal people?
But Paul Krugman may have hurdled it — his dumbest statement yet:
Democrats had a lot of harsh things to say about former President George W. Bush — but you’ll search in vain for anything comparably menacing.
I guess he didn’t get out much. But it doesn’t matter, because…you know…assassination threats and wishes against George Bush weren’t racist. And hateful.
[Saturday morning update]
Paul Krugman always gets the memo.
What a tool.
Apparently cattle aren’t a greenhouse problem.
Is there anything they’ve gotten right?
[Update a couple minutes later]
You know, the correlation between things that leftists dislike (the beef industry, the energy industry, free markets, personal freedom) and things that we’re told are destroying the planet is positively uncanny. I’m sure it’s just coincidence, though.
Charles Murray dishes the dirt on his departure yesterday, and defends the AEI against what he calls Frum’s false charges.
[Late afternoon update]
Mark Steyn weighs in. With (not unexpectedly) a lot of weight:
So, by David’s own account, AEI should have been happy to go on giving him a hundred grand to do stuff he would have been doing anyway and for which he was already being paid. I mean, The National Post of Canada pays him to write for The National Post of Canada. It’s hard to see why AEI should also chip in. As for his other stated contribution to the cause, I’m not sure that hitherto I’ve ever heard the term “landed” applied to Canadian cabinet ministers. No disrespect – many likable chaps on the team – but I gave a speech last year and “landed” half the Canadian cabinet without even trying, never mind invoicing anyone a six-figure sum for the accomplishment.
I’ve never been that impressed by David Frum. Nothing about this episode has increased my respect.
[Late evening update]
Tunku Varadarajan has more, to confirm Murray’s account.
It looks like David Frum has been canned from the American Enterprise Institute.
I watched this last night, and didn’t know whether to be amused or appalled:
Apparently you need to water board him to get him to admit that the IRS is going to be involved in the individual mandate. And maybe he’d even stand up to that.