The New Enemies List

John "Rocket Man" Hinderaker, at the end of a long post on the creeping political cretinism of so many of our celebrities, says:

We may have to dust off P. J. O'Rourke's Enemies List from the 1980s, and update it.

I was, naturally, way ahead of the game.

It dates from November of 2002, but it still feels ripped from the headlines.

The entries are included in the link below.

Feel free to add more.

Here in Minnesota

• Len and Joe Biernat and Len's wife Christine
  Jax [Joe is a Minneapolis DFL City Councilman who just
  resigned over corruption charges, and brother of Jax'
  husband Len, also a bigtime liberal Minnesota pol. Jax

  is the State Commisioner of Children, Families and Learning -
  "there's an Orwellian title for you, huh?] for making liberal
  sycophancy a family industry"



• Katrina Vanden Huevel-"only Trotsky is
  "progressive" enough for her"


• Rick Kahn [eulogist at the Paul Wellstone memorial and
  rally], "for being the only person in the US who couldn't get
  Jim Ramstad to vote with the Democrats"
• Syl Jones, the [Minneapolis Star/Tribune's afrocentric
  columnist and...] Racism Expert ("whether it's there or not,
  he'll find it"). "Although I guess this will guarantee
  my induction in the VWRC (Vast White Racists Conspiracy").


• Garrison "Mr. Cuddles" Keillor


• John Marty [DFL Senator from the 'burbs who never met an
  issue he couldn't tie "to the children"]
• Andy Dawkins [DFL Rep from St. Paul who led Soliah's crew
  of local waterboys]


• Any Humphrey or Mondale (We have to move on)


• Star Tribune editorial board
• The Minneapolis City Council for looking up to Berkeley


• Kathleen Soliah aka Sarah Jane Olson


• Soliah's benefactor, MN State Senator Sandy Pappas


• The St. Paul School Board - "for giving us a school
  system where a kid can get a condom from any school nurse, but
  can's see a Christmas Tree".
• Common Cause of Minnesota, or carrying the water for the
  Speech Rationing movment


• [MPR "Midmorning" host] Katherine Lanpher.
  "The sneering condescension oozes between the lines of
  everything she says"


• Jessica Lange for bringing her squalid Hollywood politics
  to Stillwater
• There is no way you cannot have Dave Thune the Goon not on the MN list.

• Wes Skoglund "for a decade of lies about the
  law-abiding gun owner"


• Leslie Davis "Of course, I've just
  given him more attention than he deserves"
  
  

   

Nationally:

• Sean Penn


• Dustin Hoffman


• Janine Garofalo (HOW could I hot put her first???)


• Rosie O'Donnell


• Bill Clinton (much more a celebrity than a former
  president)
• Madonna


• Susan Sarandon


• Tim Robbins (even though he's just following Suzy's directions;
  puppets don't have opinions)


• Michael "Fictitious President
  Documentary" Moore
• George Clooney


• Fred Durst (whatever happened to Limp Bizkit, anyway?)


• Adien Brody


• Sheryl Crow


• Julianne Moore
• Marry Francis Berry (The woman is plain nuts)


• James Earl Carter


• Jesse Jackson


• Any Kennedy (See Humphrey and Mondale)
• Dennis Kunnich


• Harry ("I've been in the Banana Boat too long")
  Belefonte


• "Hanoi Jane role models: Mike Thompson of California
  and David Bonior of Michigan"
• Daniel Schorr - "If I hear that nitwit brag one more
  time about being on nixon's enemies list, i'm going to puke".


• Noam Chomsky


• Barbra Streisand


• Alec Baldwin


• The Berkeley City Council for crimes too numerous to
  detail
• Nina Totenberg


• Judy Woodruff


• Dan Rather


• Paul Begala


• James Carville


• Susan Sontag
• The United Nations


• "Any fool that uses the word 'hegemony' or
  any derivative thereof".


• The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
• Norman Mineta - "see what happens when you let a
  Democrat in a Republican administration?"


• Rep. Maxine Waters (D. CA)


• Sen. Robert Byrd (D. WV)


• Sen. Pat Leahy (D. VT) ( "I am leaving Jim
  Jeffords off my list - it'll be fun watching him flounder in
  oblivion.")
• Arianna Huffington - "For simple being alive. Does
  anyone actually attempt to decipher her nonsense?"


• Sarah Brady - "The reason should be empirically
  obvious. No one does more harm to the Second Amendment in
  America".  I suspect she'd take that as a compliment,
  unfortunately.


• Chuck Schumer - "For having his head up Hillary's
  ass clear to his neck"
• Al Gore -" Dude, you screwed the pooch. Get over
  it and go get a job, loser."


• Susan Sarandon - "She's living on another world
  with completely confused politics".


• Woody
  Harrelson. who told

  the Mirror, a virulently anti-American tabloid: "I have
  one thing to say about the Mirror--it's amazing. The paper's
  stance on the war against terrorism is just right. It's so bold.
  The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just
  bullsh--. What you guys have done is very brave."



• Michael Moore ("Just read
  the man")
  


• "Morning Edition" and
  "All Things Considered" - "Basically six
  hours of free Democrat advertising per day."  Perhaps,
  but I'm told Lorna Benson' s a babe, so I'll give ATC a break on
  this one...
• "Anyone who begins a lecture
  on foreign or domestic affairs with the word "Context"
  anywhere in the first ten sentences.


• Rep. Jim Mc Dermott (D-Washington) , "the other
  member of the Baghdad Traitor's Trio"

   

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