Stewart had better watch himself or the Left will be gunning for him. He’s really starting to swipe at their sacred cows. Blago is engaging in a naughty little boy kind of way, but you wouldn’t trust him as far as you could throw him. Hard to work up sympathy, except you’re talking about the corrupt Illinois machine here very likely makes people disappear for a hobby. It’s a toss-up between him and the state.

The only thing that really peeves me is Stewart’s gratuitous shot at Palin at the end. She’s saner than all these people by a mile.

About a year ago, some here suggested that Obama may have been a real life, Manchurian Candidate. They were attacked and scoffed.

What say you now?

Blago is Glenn Beck’s first re-founder.

His Jewish brothers and sisters..

i thought “you could put his picture in the dictionary as an illustration of all the negative connotations of the word ‘politician:’ smarmy, insincere, in-it-for-himself, will-say-anything-to-get-elected.”

Blago strikes me the same way.

Conventional wisdom about not judging books by their covers aside, i will be thoroughly surprised if Blago is convicted…unless he gets a jury of 12 of his cronies.

Hence the hard Left turn of his show. The thing is, if he really wanted to become as popular as John Stewart, he would occasionally (just occasionally) take a swipe at the Democrats. But, of course that will never happen because, as we saw last Monday, Dave is just way to far up Barry’s orifice.

So fun to hear Jon Stewart, a huge figure on Viacom’s payroll, make that kind of accusation.

Viacom being the ones who tried to sue Youtube out of existence, and are probably still trying.

He is clearly a fairly liberal guy, and a comedian, but he is actually less dishonest than most of the liberals who populate the MSM.

How is it that the people who supported the ticket with JOE FREAKIN BIDEN on it have the audacity to say that Sarah Palin was a bad pick for VP?

Her husband died mountain climbing in the Himalaya’s this week.

No wonder the Left hated it so much. This is a book that literally could get you in the lunatic asylum back in the day, or at least the ideas in it could. OK, a bit over the top in places but very prescient about most things that have happened since it was published in 1964. Read it just to give the lie to the mythology about all the leftism in America being a product of the ’60s and Boomer licentiousness. It was all well underway before the Beatles, Timothy Leary, and the Summer of Love.

Anyway, I gotta go to Anchorage and do some of that make money stuff but when I get back I’ll write up a diary reviewing it. If you don’t want to spend the money, it’s available online and Stormer has also written a sequel from the perspective of 25 years later but I haven’t read that one. For those who go take a peek online or who have a musty old copy, re-read the introductory chapters on the evolution and flavors of communism and please note the usages of the words change, progress, and progressive. Not less than a 100 nor more than 500 words comparing and contrasting their usage in this book and there usage in the current political climate should prove interesting.

Backing up what some here have said about Obie, Sean Hannity interviewed author Christopher Anderson, who just wrote a book on the Obamas. Sean asked Anderson about Obama’s relationship with terrorist Bill Ayres. He wanted to know if the two were close. Anderson said without equivocation that they had a close friendship.Sean then stated that Obama lied when he claimed they barely knew each other. Anderson replied that Obama felt it was politically beneficial to downplay their relationship, and since Ayres supported Obama he didn’t feel slighted.
Don’t know about anyone else, but I’m getting tired of telling people “Told ya so.”
Well, not really.

I’m as free as a bird now,
and this bird you’ll never change!

The 1959 novel “Manchurian Candidate” was written by a lefty named Richard Condon. A 1962 movie of the same name was true to the book – Mommie Dearest, married to the VP elect, plots with the Commies to become First Lady by “activating” her brainwashed son to assassinate the President.

In the 2004 remake, it’s not the Commies that have brainwashed the son, it’s a corrupt transnational corporation named Manchurian, In further contrast, in the remake, Mommie Dearest has manipulated her son into the VP slot and the assassin’s role is left to an Army major.

Also, in the remake, the mind control is accomplished by implanted chips. If sci-fi movies have taught me nothing, which they have, implanted chips are overused, boring, and actually pretty fanciful gizmos. You’d expect them in an “Austin Powers/Doctor Evil” movie but they seem oddly out of place in a film that wants to be taken seriously. Especially when brainwashing might really be possible. The nice thing about changing the brainwashing to a chip is that once the chip was removed, there was no one to blame but the transnational corporation. No investigation of the Army major, no federal prosecutor withholding tapes &tc.

The 2004 MC cost $80 million and generated $65 million US box office. It probably made back its investment in foreign sales and worldwide DVD sales and rentals. The 1962 MC is merely iconic.

So in view of the above, I recommend that future references to the “Manchurian Candidate” ought to be tagged “1962″ for another couple of years, anyway, after that, the 2004 version will have been forgotten.