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E coli Republicanism

by Mark Gisleson

Thanks to Jim Romenesko for slogging through the New York Post to find this gem about Michael Savage. The heir to Morton Downey, Joe Pyne and Fr. Coughlin appears to be spiraling down faster than George W.'s approval ratings. Jim's also doing his part to keep the national press corps up-to-date on the goings on at the Pioneer Press.

The right is going through some hard times in general. Scroll down to read Rush and Malloy's biting take on Ann Coulter's recent no-show. Apparently she was scheduled to appear with Joe Conason on Kudlow & Cramer. Joe's book seems to have the punditocracy terrified. The truth does have that effect on some folks, liars in particular.

Rounding out the gossip, hurry over to Page Six (link expires with the Saturday edition) to read how Hollywood's Left is turning out to make Arnold's campaign a memorable one.

I'd love to post nothing but right-bashing gossip today, but there are a few other links that require your attention.

Josh Marshall has part one of his interview with al-Qaeda expert Peter Bergen here.

Via Atrios, Sky News has a report that two U.S. troops may have been captured in Iraq.

A Marine is dead in Hilla.

Hamas supporters are demanding revenge in the Gaza Strip.

A new Forbes story is headlined, "Leading indicators are leading nowhere."

Janklow is toast.

Hiawatha Bray on the SoBig worm. Your Internet connection been funky lately? Just another side effect of zillions of 100MB attachments caroming about the 'net like heat seeking flying monkeys. (Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder why we never hear about the impact of these things on government computers?)

Life during the reign of George W.

Someday a grad student will wade through these posts looking for clues, but they're never going to figure it all out. Eventually I suspect they'll blame it all on some sort of fungus or smut, like the medieval conga lines that would spontaneously form after everyone ate some tainted food.

UPDATE: Missed this mini-trend of bloggers pulling up their old posts to verify that their pre-war criticism had in fact been right on target: easy war, impossible peace. Calpundit had it figured out. Hesiod had it doped too. Ron K at Daily Kos has some good stuff on what the experts had to say in Washington state the other night (unsurprisingly, the comments had to be shut down due to trolling — this is a story that must not be told...). DC's City Paper has a chart of which editorial pages most love to parrot W's henchmen's lines (this doubles handily as a list of the editorial pages that were most consistently wrong about every aspect of Iraq). For more about that, Jeff St. Clair's "War Pimps" traces the process by which the Bushies manufactured consensus. Not since Nixon was president has the left been so right, or the right so wrong.

UPDATE: OK, this is absolutely the last item. I just clicked on a link from that handy new Buzzflash wire on TCB's front page and found this fascinating story about four 9/11 widows who are putting more heat on the Bushies than all the Congressional and other independent investigators put together. I'm not much of a Gail Sheehy fan, but this piece is worth the read.

Posted by Steve Perry at August 22, 2003 10:29 AM

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