The Poor Man vs. Scooter

The Editors have a hilarious breakdown of what exactly happened so that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby ended up in jail. Maybe Robert Novak will do this again:

We can only hope so.

Mark Steyn: Armchair quarterback for school shootings

The Poor Man has a really great take on Mark Steyn's tasteless blame-the-victim approach to dealing with the VA Tech massacre.

Unfortunately we can't all be manly men like super hero Mark Steyn who would have totally rushed the guy and caught all the bullets in his mouth and spit them back at him. Look at Mark Steyn's manly visage, he has a beard, like Chuck Norris or Shipwreck from GI Joe.

As usual, any number of groups have piled on to turn VA Tech into a soapbox for their issues however tangentially they may be related. But for Steyn to harp on university kids for not being all manly and butch like him and other high school drop-outs is particularly odious. (Note: I am not intending to tar high school drop-outs by association with Mark Steyn, most of them do NOT become far-right columnists.)

Incidentally, right now Mark is preoccupying himself giving sympathetic coverage to Conrad Black at his trial. Black is so manly that he throws fancy parties where he dresses up as Cardinal Richelieu and other really macho characters. Thank you for pointing us to the pinnacle of manliness, Mark, I'll go buy a Richelieu outfit and start buying shoes for a crazy lady.

Unintentional Humour from David Horowitz

After The Poor Man mis-characterized David Horowitz as a former Maoist (a mistake since corrected), Horowitz goes on a tirade in which, among other things, he asserts that only conservatives are allowed to compare people they do not like to Hitler. Among the things that Horowitz asserts:

"Leftists are religious fanatics who believe they are going to change the world. Therefore they look on their political opponents as evil and treat them accordingly. Conservatives are willing to give their opponents the benefit of the doubt (often far too generously) and when they make mistakes in characterizing individuals, they are ready and willing to correct them."

Oh really, what a splendid generalization. Thank you for that set-up, David, here's the punchline:

And if that didn't do it, here's Michael Savage:

Great examples of striving for really accurate characterization there.