Shot in the Dark

Sunday, November 24, 2002

We conservatives are not a hateful bunch. We're pretty much live and let live, comme ci comme ca, focusing on the goal at hand rather than those who differ from us.
But we've been missing something; that edge that Tailgunner Joe McCarthy brought to the table, that said "Hey nannystatists, piddlers on merit, Oprahtopians - we've got our eye on you".

Hence - purely for entertainment purposes - we introduce the Blogosphere Blacklist. In this, we'll recognize people nationwide and in Minnesota who deserve a vast right wing raspberry.

Feel free to submit more! I rarely print names. Most of the entries below, including everything in quotes, were sent in.

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
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"

The Blogosphere Blacklist

Sunday, November 24, 2002

Here in Minnesota

Nationally: