Burning Flag Birthday Suit

It's my birthday, but there's no way I'm going to get a present as big as the one John McCain got, which is to have this story come out on the same day as the Pennsylvania primary, so that nobody will notice it. Not that anyone would anyway because McCain has so much straight-shooting integrity that there's no need to actually draw any conclusions from the abundant evidence that, you know, he doesn't.

Donald R. Diamond, a wealthy Arizona real estate developer, was racing to snap up a stretch of virgin California coast freed by the closing of an Army base a decade ago when he turned to an old friend, Senator John McCain.

This is my favorite quote from the article, and maybe my favorite quote ever, from Mr. Diamond:

Mr. Diamond, for his part, said Mr. McCain had only done his job. “I think that is what Congress people are supposed to do for constituents,” he said. “When you have a big, significant businessman like myself, why wouldn’t you want to help move things along? What else would they do? They waste so much time with legislation.”

Shazam! Anyway, I'm sure Greater Wingnuttia is busy explaining why this is all just an MSM smear, an explanation that will contrast interestingly with their belief that the Harry Reid boxing tickets affair was worthy of an electronic jihad.

UPDATE: Yeaaaaa boyeee. Confederate Yankee is on the case, convincing us all of the NYT's bias and treason. Enjoy especially his commenter who wonders when the Grey Lady will finally get around to investigating Whitewater. (No kidding.) Nutpicking is of course a deplorable practice, but sometimes, it's also hilarious!

I'm sure we can look forward to a Rezko story in the next couple days and a Whitewater/Castle Grande expose' in the Sunday mag.

That is, as we in the liberal insult blog community like to say, the shit.

MORE FUN: Rick Moran, who is not very smart, goes after Obama for not holding lots of press conferences: "He whines about an intrusive press (he hasn’t had a press conference in 10 days)." I don't recall the scathing indictments of Bush for holding incredibly few press conferences; I probably just missed it.

EVEN MORE HIJINKS! Nobody, but nobody, wanks like Cap'n Ed, who trots out his Harry Reid Land Swindle dance number to prove Teh Liberal Media Bias! Nobody can hack it up quite like the Cap'n.

Comments

[Houston]

"Nut picking"

What a term of art. I'm glad other more intrepidous people read right-wing crap. We do need to know what they're barking about, but lord, I'm just not up to it. Oh, sure, I read Sullivan, but only to make fun of him.

Cheers.

[Bitter Scribe, an accomplished, well-rounded writer,]

I wonder if it says "big, significant businessman" on his business cards?

This is like that Townhall clown who calls himself "an accomplished, well-rounded writer" after each column.

[Keith]

Didn't Bush have something in the ballpark of four press conferences his first term? More media bias i guess. Our President is so ignored he has to go on a game show to get attention.

[Dave]

Thers, you are, as we like to say, the shit!

[trifecta]

You are so fucking old it isn't funny.

[Davis]

"I wonder if it says "big, significant businessman" on his business cards?"
Congrats, Bitter Scribe, you got a LOL from me today.

Whitewater? Never would have heard of it if not for wingnut blogs. The NYT kept it form me, the bastards.

Didn't Moran see the debate on ABC? I heard Obama for all kinds of foreign policy questions.

[Jay B.]

If there's one thing we know about Obama it's that he's terrible at public speaking, so there's no reason for him to do press conferences, for risk of acute embarrassment at how he pronounces "nuclear".

[the Rev Jerry Gloryhole]

"Wasting time with legislation?"
Guess I missed most of that. Who knew?

Happy birthday, Thersites.

[Me]

I'm sure we can look forward to a Rezko story in the next couple days and a Whitewater/Castle Grande expose' in the Sunday mag.

I don't know how they do it. Whitewater is, of course, part of OUR FUCKING LANGUAGE. Whatever McCain did or didn't do will vanish beneath the waves. Yet they convince themselves of some sort of equivalency.