So, what did I miss?
posted at 11:25 pm on April 14, 2007 by Bryan
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I’ve been off at the beach for a couple of days to rest up, disconnect from email and the rest of the world and hang out with my family. It looks like I didn’t miss much.
Well, other than the boss scoring twin knockouts on O’Reilly. Do you think Shabazz had some explaining to do at the New Black Panthers HQ watercooler after getting pwn3d on national TV like that?
And other than Olbermann defending Michelle re Shabazz. I wonder, though–when you’ve made a career out of calling people “The Worst Person in the World,” can you really criticize any name anyone else calls anyone else? Worst Person in the World is an all-emcompassing smear, isn’t it? If you take it literally, Worst Person in the World is worse than bin Laden, worse than Mugabe, worse than Mahmoud the Pirate, worse than Kim Jong-Il. Being the worst person in the world is pretty bad. So Olby seems to be chucking boulders from the glass basement of a glass condo in a glass complex, if you ask me. You could argue “Well, he doesn’t really mean, literally, the worst person in the world.” Then why call someone that, night after night, and make it a routine part of your awful, bottom-feeding show? And on what grounds can Olbermann now criticize anything anyone else says about anyone else?
He can’t. He’s got nothin’.
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What else did I miss? Mary Katharine Ham asking the Secretary of Education about Battlestar Galactica. MK, you’ve just earned eternal love and admiration from geeks everywhere.
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I also missed Preacher Spam. A while ago I signed up for Rev. Rick Warren’s email newsletter, just to see what it might contain. On April 11, Rev. Warren sent me this note:
April 11, 2007
Dear Pastor,
Just wanted you to know that the Holy Spirit led me to pray for you and your Easter services several times this past weekend. I also gathered a group of local pastors on Good Friday morning to pray for all the pastors we know and their services.
I’d love you hear how your Easter went if you have time to write. We’re in this together friend.
Rick Warren
*Saddleback Church
1 Saddleback Parkway
Lake Forest, CA. 92630 *
It’s flattering and all, but I’m not a pastor. It’s just a mass email sent around in the name of the Holy Spirit. This fellow is a real pastor, though, and seems to think the mass email he got, which was identical to mine in every way except the name on mine wasn’t filled in, was a personal note from Warren himself. Or he finds it as amusing as I do to get a mass email written literally in God’s name.
I doubt Warren was led to pray for me the unnamed non-pastor and real pastors equally all around his global email list. But I could be wrong.
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Hey, remember that “Jesus’ crypt” documentary that Discovery aired shortly before Easter? Well, now that the thing has aired and the money has been made, the “scholarship” behind the whole thing is falling apart. The rats are scrambling from James Cameron’s sinking ship. Write your own Titanic-related punch line.
Did you actually watch that show? I did. It was idiotic throughout, but its most idiotic moment went like this. The two main on-camera guys, one of which insisted on wearing an Indiana Jones knockoff hat and who didn’t pull the look off as well as that guy on Digging for the Truth, are down in the hole that’s supposed to be Jesus’ tomb. It’s filled with Hebrew texts because a nearby Jewish seminary had used it as a dump to bury unused scriptures. So this hole is full scrapped books of the Old Testament. The Indiana Jones wannabe acts as though it’s the most astonishing thing evah that the hole is full of rotting scripture texts, he picks one up and notices that it’s a page from the Book of Jonah. He gasps, and says something like “Jesus…mentioned…Jonah! And here, in his tomb…is the book…of Jonah!”
Well, duh dude. Jesus mentioned several OT books at one point or another. It’s totally unsurprising to find a copy of one of them in a scripture dump.
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Now that the Duke case is over, Mike Nifong should be seeing a tailor about a new suit.
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How about Hillary Clinton claiming at a town hall meeting that she didn’t know she was voting for military action in ‘02. She says she thought she was authorizing Bush to send more weapons inspectors to Iraq. She also claimed she didn’t actually, technically, read the intelligence she received.
amerpundit on April 14, 2007 at 11:30 PM
“Twin knockouts” sounds…kinky?
Ropera on April 14, 2007 at 11:39 PM
Only if you don’t know what boxing is.
Bryan on April 14, 2007 at 11:52 PM
We need more passionate post from you such as “in which the baker commission report.” Well, you didn’t miss anything.
Ouabam on April 14, 2007 at 11:54 PM
You were on vacation?
PinkyBigglesworth on April 15, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Yeah, a short one. With Allah and Ian posting up a storm, I can’t blame anyone for not noticing.
Bryan on April 15, 2007 at 12:09 AM
Was that a purpose driven mass email?
I got an email from the Dr. Edward Daniel Taylor and he told me to “fork it over you ungreatful slob! Let’s move that Tote board!”
Drtuddle on April 15, 2007 at 12:14 AM
I noticed!
Glynn on April 15, 2007 at 12:15 AM
Bryan, this is what you missed…….. but we’ve already lived through that, right? Or just a little propoganda video, as the Democrats would say….
Word has it Snoop Dog is calling this hsi new Ho….
But I bet the surf is up, we’re all cool, Dude………
PinkyBigglesworth on April 15, 2007 at 12:16 AM
Bryan, you have Michelle’s ear.
Tell her she did a real outstanding job on O’R Factor. (she may be tired of hearing this) Also, if anchoring Fox News jobs are in her future (why can’t we HA readers shake this?) please pursue the “Specials” department so this blog can stay strong. Ian’s old blog was got me through Iraq, and the entire HA team keeps this Sergeant motivated.
You are all the best.
I can see it now: “Fox News Specials Presents: The HOT AIR VENT” You could animate the graphic at the top of this page so the guy is yelling in the camera between segments before the segment title is shown.
Okay, I’m done. Welcome back.
Black Adam on April 15, 2007 at 12:23 AM
Oh, I just read my post. It makes it sound like I don’t want her hosting the Big Story or O’Reilly.
I think she’s great at it and I want to see more. She brought a polished elegance to the Factor I hadn’t seen from other guest hosts before.
Black Adam on April 15, 2007 at 12:25 AM
Except it isn’t meant to be taken literally.
Nonfactor on April 15, 2007 at 12:42 AM
Oh, thank heaven! The final word has arrived.
thedecider on April 15, 2007 at 12:51 AM
I completely missed her post on that. Just read it. I have to tell you, MKH is one of my favorite reads. I love her out-of-the-box thinking. Imagine asking the real Secretary of Ed to put herself into a fictional situation like that. Really clever.
thedecider on April 15, 2007 at 12:53 AM
Welcome back Bryan.
wytammic on April 15, 2007 at 1:05 AM
A follow up per request of thedecider!
Olbermann has said time after time in interviews that the Worst Person in the World title was started to be a funny bit on the show that he turned into a daily thing (I think he even said that it isn’t supposed to be taken literally, obviously).
And the grounds he has to criticize what people say comes with the fact that he has an opinion and has the right to speak it. Same grounds as I have, same grounds as you have.
Nonfactor on April 15, 2007 at 1:18 AM
No one’s arguing about his right to say anything. Liberals always use that as their first defense–it’s irrelevant to my question. It’s his credibility that ought to be questioned. Who is he to say anything about anyone, after the way he treats everyone he dislikes? He traffics in hate and smears. He’s a bottom feeder (ratings and otherwise). He makes Imus look civil.
Bryan on April 15, 2007 at 1:23 AM
The Secretary of Education (already, we have a problem) seems far too comfortable with Big Government, don’t you think? I guess it’s not compassionately conservative these days to question the constitutionality of government-run education in the first place. If we’re going to reference the Founding Fathers, as Michelle so brilliantly did with the race clowns, can we please mention that they’d be absolutely appalled at the notion of a “Secretary of Education”, and are surely rolling in their graves at the way 21st century Americans have so mangled their beloved Constitution so as to give government nanny-state powers (”Secretary of Education”) the Constitution was specifically written to keep the government from ever attaining! Learning, information and education are private matters - oh well, I guess my own personal education has taken me far out of the mainstream consensus on this…
Halley on April 15, 2007 at 1:23 AM
How thoughtful (stated drolly). However, Bryan’s point was well-made. Olby counts on that segment to be a highlight in his show. Without the context of his (apparent) numerous interviews, how does the average viewer know he’s just kidding? One more thing, you are noted in this very blog for not allowing people to simply have an “opinion” without irrefutable facts to back it up. Your airy claim that Olby “has an opinion and has the right to speak it” is nothing less than hypocritical to your prior treatment of others on this blog.
thedecider on April 15, 2007 at 1:33 AM
Welcome back, Bryan. Thanks for the link to MKH’s column:
Heh.
Anton on April 15, 2007 at 1:36 AM
Is it save to say Ho here?
Ho dead.
Stephen M on April 15, 2007 at 2:17 AM
If you’ve got something bad to say about Olbermann, just repeat after me: There but for the grace of knowing what subway doors are go I.
Jim Treacher on April 15, 2007 at 2:18 AM
Dang it, Stephen! You beat me to it.
baldilocks on April 15, 2007 at 3:26 AM
Ouch!
(and welcome back Bryan)…
Zorro on April 15, 2007 at 7:21 AM
“a nearby Jewish seminary had used it as a dump to bury unused scriptures”
Uh, we wouldn’t call it a “dump,” which suggests disrespect, and they were almost certainly used, not unused. We would call it a genizah, which is “is a depository for sacred Hebrew books that are no longer usable. Since they cannot be thrown out because they contain God’s name, these documents, often called shemot or ‘names,’ are put in a genizah. Genizot are usually found in the attic or basement of a synagogue, but can also be in walls or buried underground.”
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on April 15, 2007 at 8:36 AM
What would we do without you? /sarcasm
amerpundit on April 15, 2007 at 10:41 AM
Attila,
Nice point. When are we going to see these same guys rummaging through a Koran dump and dredging up a skeleton of Mohammed. Now that would be must-see-TV.
-Fat Old Guy
Fogpig on April 15, 2007 at 10:53 AM
I’ve never denied anyone the right to speak their mind.
Nonfactor on April 15, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Entelechy on April 15, 2007 at 3:44 PM
I have to ask:
Is Black Adam commenting above a ‘Captain Marvel’ fan? Shazam!
Doug on April 15, 2007 at 6:01 PM