The Corner, Unhinged

Starting at the top and working down:

Apparently the Obama campaign reduced some security setting on their website, so now it's possible to enter your name as "Saddam Hussein" and donate money with your credit card. Mark Steyn is outraged at the fraudulent contribution possibilities. Dude: the credit card numbers are a bit harder to fake, and they have names and addresses that go with them.

K-Lo is still excited about some new Fred Thompson video. Maybe it would help my insomnia - it's worth a shot.

Stanley Kurtz has an outraged but unintelligible post about Obama, the New Party, and a website called "Fight the Smears." Does anybody really know what he's talking about? Does anybody really care? If so, I can't imagine why...

Stanley Kurtz is also all over the "Obama-Ayers-Khalidi connection" like flies on horseshit. So if horseshit is your thing, you know where to go.

Ken Adelman's become one of Obama's most unlikely endorsers. Jonah sez: "I just wish he'd offer something that approached an intellectually defensible explanation. Because this ain't it." "This" being:

Granted, McCain's views are closer to mine than Obama's. But I've learned over this Bush era to value competence along with ideology. Otherwise, our ideology gets discredited, as it has so disastrously over the past eight years.

McCain's temperament -- leading him to bizarre behavior during the week the economic crisis broke -- and his judgment -- leading him to Wasilla -- depressed me into thinking that "our guy" would be a(nother) lousy conservative president. Been there, done that.

I'd rather a competent moderate president.

Seems straightforward enough to me. Dunno what Jonah's having a hard time grasping.

Andy McCarthy also goes batshit about the "Obama-Ayers-Khalili connection." As the old caving ditty goes:

I smell batshit, oh yes batshit,
it's not rat shit, it's batshit for sure,
it's not cat shit, and it certainly isn't horse manure.

Bonus points for guessing the tune.

In Maggie Gallagher's tiny brain, people who want gays to have the right to get married are marriage opponents, and people who want to prevent them from getting married are marriage supporters.

And in other news, war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

At least Maggie's discussing an actual issue of some significance in the lives of real human beings, even if she's on the wrong side of it. That's more than can be said for her fellow Cornerites, who are off chasing bizarre conspiracy theories and the like.

And finally (i.e. that's about as much Corner insanity as a guy should inflict on himself at one sitting), Andy McCarthy angrily defends having been more gullible than Michelle Malkin, with respect to the McCain volunteer who falsely claimed to have been attacked by a large black man. Sucks to be a sucker, doesn't it? Skepticism is good.

Because I Was Bored, I Went Down To The Corner

And who did I run into?

John J. Miller, pimping an author who writes fiction about the War On Terror. Fictional universes are great - wingnuts can create alternate realities where the GWOT can be won militarily, and the libruls, who are always wrong, get their comeuppance.

Whatever fantasy flicks your Bic, dude.

Mark Steyn says the Corner's readership is noticing the dearth of posting as The End approaches.

Well yeah, because unlike fictional fantasy worlds where the libruls get their comeuppance, reality kinda sux for the wingnuts right now. Too bad, so sad.

Amy Holmes notes, "Drudge is reporting that Oprah may be offering to help Obama produce his half hour infomercial." From this, she spins a hypothetical where (a) Obama accepts the offer, and (b) Oprah forces her employees to work on the infomercial, whether they want to or not. She then discusses how crummy Obama and Oprah would be if they were to do this.

The appropriate response seems to be to discuss what we'd think of Amy Holmes if she had sex with goats in public, since that hasn't happened either.

Maggie Gallagher demonstrates that she doesn't understand the concept of a 'Kos Diary' - that there's really no difference between a Kos diarist whose diary hasn't been promoted to the front page, and a random left-of-center blogger that nobody's ever heard of.

Maggie, dear, anybody can write those things. And does. It's "from The Daily Kos" in the exact same sense that, if I post a comment on the WaPo website about one of their articles, that comment is "from the Washington Post." This is really quite old news. Please do something about that learning curve.

In consecutive posts, Jonah Pantload celebrates "the well-deserved beat down of Jacob Weisberg's amazingly silly epitaph of libertarianism," and, demonstrating the Corner's commitment to libertarian conservatism, Maggie Gallagher roots for California's Prop 8, which would deny marriage rights to gays.

Argue it out amongst yourselves, guys, and get back to us afterwards.

And via Byron York, Sarah Palin says “Rose the teacher” is among those who can expect to have their “dreams dashed by the Obama tax increase.” Aside from coaches of major sports at big universities, how many teachers earn over $250K per year? Good luck finding one. But if York's skeptical, he isn't saying.