Category: Media

Greg Gutfield offers advice to Huffy-Puffy readers:

And I started to ask myself how we could explain such horrible events so, you know, none of us look stupid at parties?

Even more important, how can my explanation about these acts help me pick up girls?

Then I read the Huffington Post, and I realized that, unlike Eve Ensler, Deepak Chopra, Jann Wenner and Hooman Majd, I have absolutely no idea how to respond to terror in a totally cool and nonjudgmental way!

When faced with something truly evil, like Karl Rove’s leak, it’s easy. Call for the bastard’s head.

But what about terrorists – or “bombers” – as the BBC calls them?

That’s a tough one, because although what the bombers did was bad – OUR country does some pretty bad things too! And really, who’s to say what’s bad anyway?

That’s judgmental. And being judgmental is wrong. Unless you’re a judge. And even then that’s probably not right either. Who’s to say? Not me. Probably not even a judge! Judges aren’t cool!

Thank God for the Huffington Post.
I now know how to respond to evil.
And you can too!
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“With an irresistible mix of moral relativism and false consciousness, THE HUFFPO GUIDE TO GOOD AND EVIL helps me handle any debate involving terrorism – or any subject dealing with evil!” – Greg Gutfeld, 40, writer, pet owner and part-time Pilates instructor. “Passing judgment is so expensive! This seminar teaches me how to make everything relative – so I don’t have to defend my country – or my relatives!”

So far, I’ve learned so much from Deepak Chopra! Like, when faced with one act of terror, simply equate it to an act of non-terror!

I don’t generally recommend Huffy-Puffy except for a cheap laugh at the Celebrity Left, but this is a great piece.

Pants on Fire deals with Al Franken’s lies, subject of a forthcoming book of the same name.

Speaking of which, I’ve developed a new method of listening to Franken (and the rest of political talk radio): I tune in until I hear a lie, and then change channels. Seldom does the radio stay in Franken for more than five minutes. Today, within the first 30 seconds he claimed that Janice Rogers Brown says the American government is the root of all evil. Brown is down on government in general, but not specifically the US government. Even Michael Savage’s average lie rate is less than Al’s.

It’s shocking that Air America’s commercials are more truthful than its hosts.

Krugman is majorly busted by former NY Times public editor Dan Okrent, and I do mean majorly.

After this blow he might just hang up his spurs, poor devil.

BoreAmerica.com monitors Air America so you don’t have to. They linked one of my posts on Al Franken’s lies, showing their good taste and discrimination.

I had intended to make Al Franken’s Lies of the Day a regular feature, but it’s too boring because he tells the same lies over and over. This week it’s been the filibuster lie every day (“the filibuster has always been used like the Democrats are using it now against judges – the Founding Fathers intended it to be used to stifle the will of the majority, blah blah blah.”)

We did finally catch Franken on a different (if not exactly new) lie today: the Administration (and Rush Limbaugh) duped the people about Saddam’s WMDs. Saddam never had WMDs but Bush/Rush made up this story to justify grabbing his oil, yada yada yada. I have just one thing to say about this: tell it to the Kurds whose gassing was one of the reasons that both the US and the UK called for Saddam’s removal throughout the 90s.

Remember the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998? Franken doesn’t.

Glenn and Andrew are getting into it. Glenn’s winning, Andrew’s whining like a little girl. This has been going on for a few days now.

We’re using first names as it sounds so very Hollywood.

I’ve re-linked Roger Simon and would like to encourage others to urge him to slam the door on Huffy-Puffy. He who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas, and that sort of thing.

Huffy-Puffy has basically become Jim Lampley’s blog and the others are just visitors, guest-bloggers, and vassals. Lampley is so deranged he’s downright amusing. I’ve seen a lot of his sportscasting and while he was always a little bit off I had no idea he was such a basket case until Huffy-Puffy. Here’s an example of Lampley in full conspiratorial meltdown:

Sure there are still disquieting signs in a country where real democracy lies momentarily dormant. Dormant due to right-wing ownership of the national political machinery and the widespread election fraud that has engendered. Dormant due to the capitulation of mainstream media in the face of neoconservative intimidation tactics (see Bill Moyer’s post today about the corruption of editorial independence at PBS). Dormant due to the inherently greater diversity, fragmentation and iconoclasm of liberal as opposed to reactionary thought. Yes, it’s harder for us to get our act together because we’re way less willing to pervert the system for our own ends. But once we’re back on top, we’ll stay there longer, because our still-innocent willingness to really trust democracy will show.

So the left really values diversity of thought and democracy? Really? Is that the lesson of the diversity-sensitive, democracy-affirming mass filibuster of qualified judges?

I didn’t think so.

I’ve always thought Eugene Volokh was weird. I saw him on a teevee show once where he did a lot of twitching and I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he’s got some sort of electronic device implanted in his skull that simulates human thought. He’s posting on Huffy Puffy now along with Diane Keaton and crazy Jim Lampley so off to the bone pile with him.

These Hollywood people have no perspective.

Huffington Is Full Of Crap is a blog that wraps Huffyposts with a shell that enables comments.