Author: Moe_Lane

Rooting for injuries watch: Dan Rather vs. CBS.

Via JammieWearingFool comes news that Rather’s lawsuit has been rejuvenated:

The anchor’s $70 million lawsuit against his former employers got a new lease on life today when a Manhattan judge restored his previously dismissed fraud claim against the network.

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The fraud charge contends the network’s trickery cost Rather millions by scapegoating him for a flawed report on President Bush’s Vietnam era military service, and then keeping him off the air – torpedoing the chance for a $4 million a year gig at CNN or another cable channel.

He now makes an average of $1.5 million a year at HDNet, the papers say.

Continue reading Rooting for injuries watch: Dan Rather vs. CBS.

Russ Carnahan (D, MO-03) gets mocked over health care.

Missouri’s 3rd District has a Cook rating of D+7, by the way: it’s Gephardt’s old seat. Russ Carnahan got 67% of the vote last time. It’s not out of reach – no seat ever is – but if it’s a target for next year this is the first I’ve heard of it. In other words, it’s in Blue Country.

And Carnahan still can’t parrot talking points about the Democrats’ health care rationing plan without getting mocked and booed. Via Ed Driscoll:

Continue reading Russ Carnahan (D, MO-03) gets mocked over health care.

Plus Four on the generic Congressional ballot.

42/38 Republican/Democrat: fourth week in a row that it’s been favoring the GOP, so expect it to bounce back soon.  And then expect it bounce back again to favor the GOP, because while any individual week may not matter, the trend is indicative of the notion that the Democrats have managed to do in three years what it took the GOP twelve: lose the mantle of being the trustworthy party.

If you like, you can instead couch it in terms of Bad vs. Worse.  As long as you understand that the best way to fix Bad is to get some skin into the game on the local level.

Crossposted to RedState.

Bring Me The Heads of Kermit T. Frog.

While I do not approve of how What Would Tyler Durden Do? described Lady GaGa – it’s not nice to people with that condition – still…

Yeah. Apparently, it is easy being green; all you have to do is go out into the swamp, pick a spot that’s particularly rich in felt and googly eyes, and start reaping a deadly harvest.

Moe Lane

PS: I have never been so glad for a foreign language voice-over in my life.

See, this is why I avoided Blogger.

It’s come out (via Cynthia Yockey – sorry, Cynthia) that Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whatever got effectively shut down by Google. Again. Details here and here. Like Cynthia, I recognize that the obvious advice – don’t rely on Google for anything about your website that you don’t mind losing if the company decides to turn on you – is unwelcome because it’s so unfair, but life isn’t fair, or even unfair in our favor often enough.

As for videos, though: Heritage New Media Partners offers a free hosting service.  Keep that in mind if YouTube decides to play “Oops, we lost your campaign video” games again next year.

Crossposted to RedState.

NJ Gubernatorial polls.

The two new ones:

It looks like the President’s emergency visit to New Jersey accomplished little, if anything, to rescue Corzine from his slump.  So is it over?  No, or at least not yet: but…

If you begin to read and hear such things as, “Mr. Obama enthusiastically supports Governor Corzine. He and the vice president have appeared with the governor, but he has no further plans to visit New Jersey.” When or if you hear this, then you know that the game is over.

Moe Lane

PS: Christie for Governor.  Donate here.

Crossposted to RedState.

NBC rates ‘You’ve Got Talent’ over pleas for healthcare rationing.

I was more or less letting the White House’s efforts to send the left-Sphere out to shill its medical rationing program*slide – after all, having the President personally lie to you is a step up; usually you get that through intermediaries – but in the process of reading up on this Don Surber linked to this funny article on the network well running dry for the administration.  The White House wanted to schedule a last-minute press conference on health care:

CBS, which airs only repeats that evening, agreed early Monday to cover the conference.

But for NBC, Fox and ABC, the decision was tougher. During a summer that’s otherwise strewn with repeats, Wednesday includes all of their top-rated reality programs.

Fox declined outright to air the news conference. NBC and ABC fell into line late Monday after the White House shifted the event’s time from the previously announced 9 p.m. to the lesser-watched hour of 8 p.m.

The stakes were particularly high for NBC, which airs the most-watched show of the summer, “America’s Got Talent,” at 9 p.m. This week, the reality hit includes a heavily promoted interview with “Britain’s Got Talent” singing sensation Susan Boyle.

Let’s make this into a teachable moment.  Continue reading NBC rates ‘You’ve Got Talent’ over pleas for healthcare rationing.

Sen Claire McCaskill (D, MO) sounds rattled.

Also, resentful.

Welcome, Instapundit readers.  I have worked out an interesting fundraising tactic here.

After a rather fascinating exercise of profiles in courage from her St. Louis office – essentially, they locked the doors, drew the blinds, called the cops, and hid from a bunch of protesters knocking on the door. But can you blame the staffers?

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…I mean, those guys brought a cocker spaniel.

Anyway, Senator McCaskill would have liked to be conciliatory, except that the passive-aggressive resentment at being forced to treat these grubby neo-peasants as if they mattered as much as Beltway types kept getting in the way:

I think we learned from Friday and will do better in the future. In return I hope those that are protesting refrain from banging on the windows and doors continuously. Thanks so much.

Via Instapundit. For the record: it was the ‘Thanks so much’ part that wrecked the rest of the statement. If she had ended the statement one sentence earlier it would have actually come across as being witty; those three words decreased that quality by, oh, about fifty percent.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.