Hey, it’s Sunday Morning Reading time! And we’re doing it in a very quick way because I’m a little pressed for time getting ready for this week’s Secret Circus!
So, let’s roll. This week, RightWingNews.com took a poll of 63 conservative bloggers on a couple of issues of the day. Two quick items from that:
4) Do you think mankind is the primary cause of global warming?
Yes (0) — 0%
No (59) — 100%
6) Which of the following Democratic candidates do you think would be the toughest opponent for a Republican candidate in 2008?
A) Hillary Clinton (38) — 63%
B) John Edwards (9) — 15%
C) Barack Obama (13) — 22%
Not unrelated, I’ve added a few new blogs to the links on the right side of this page. Included is Oh-Ate, which aggregates all of the blogs of major presidential candidates (with a couple of exceptions, for example Bill Richardson’s blog can’t be stripped in the necessary way). It makes for an interesting bird’s-eye-view of the present moment in the campaigns. Also for a bird’s-eye-view of a lot of crap sometimes. C’est la vie.
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter used a derogatory anti-gay slur to describe Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The remark got mixed reactions from conservatives in the room with her, drawing some cheers and some sounds of surprise; I guess some of the conservatives couldn’t figure out why she was talking rather than cooking dinner.
Among those Republicans particularly upset by the remark were those who are close friends of former Republican Representantive Mark Foley and of Pastor Ted Haggard. You know, because it brings up bad memories of the time before Haggard was certified 100% heterosexual. When it was down around 90-95%. I don’t know, what percentage does doing meth with your male prostitute account for? I was never great with numbers.
Coulter went on to say, “I’m not anti-gay. We’re against gay marriage. I don’t want gays to be discriminated against,” which led to further speculation about just how many times she herself had tried to have it both ways.
The Associated Press announced that it had secretly and intentionally boycotted Paris Hilton stories for about a week.
Hilton responded by saying that she’d get back at them by boycotting reading. Intentionally this time.
And it occurs to me that when she dies, it’s going to be even worse than this Anna Nicole business. We’re going to have all kinds of drama — not whose baby is it, but whose STD? And you know all kinds of people will be stepping forward, claiming responsibility in an attempt to get a crack at her inheritance. The smart money’s on — wait, no. There’s no smart money in this equation.
