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Clearing the Browser Tabs – A Tweeted Picture is Worth a Thousand Excuses Sunday Edition Posted: 29 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT I was sitting on Twitter last night when the story of Anthony Weiner’s public wiener unveiling broke. Honestly, I didn’t want to write about it in any detail. I had hoped that, on a slow news weekend, our MSM would have jumped on the story, covered it thoroughly (or at least as thoroughly as it could be covered in a few hours), and we could table it until after the Memorial Day holiday. I am such a silly, foolish blogger. Okay, here’s the short (heh) version of the story. A tweet went out last night from the official account of Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner to a young coed. This tweet contained a link to a picture at Rep. Weiner’s Yfrog picture-sharing account that showed a man’s underwear-clad groin. Shortly thereafter, the tweet disappeared. Not long after that, the coed’s entire Twitter account disappeared. Today, Weiner’s story is that he was “hacked”, though it’s not clear whether he’s saying one account was hacked or both of them. He’s also not saying how his account was hacked while he was using them nor how he fixed the hack quickly enough to notice and delete the tweet in question in such a short amount of time. Interestingly enough, the coed’s name is quickly disappearing from Google as well, which is not a thing easily done. Obviously, new media are way ahead of the dinosaurs on this one. Ace has a fantastic posts on the thus far unasked questions in the story, based on the known timeline of events. The Politico, on the other hand, isn’t asking many questions at all. Neither is the New York Post. Stick with the new media on this one. You can get pretty solid reports of what has happened thus far, including actual evidence and timelines that show Rep. Weiner’s story is most likely complete bunk from Stacy McCain, Neil Stevens, Dan Riehl, and The Lonely Conservative. And now, links! At some point, we’re going to realize that it’s not up to a national government to enforce “human rights” on its people based on the whims of whoever happens to be in control. I admit, I’m torn on the matter of countries like China and India leasing huge plots of land in Africa on which to grow food to feed their own people. However, the problem I foresee isn’t one mentioned in the article to which Instapundit links. At some point, these countries are going to have to defend that land from either local starving populations or, more likely, greedy dictators who will want to take what they have not produced. That is when the problems will really start. The story that Barney Frank got his boyfriend a plum executive position at Fannie Mae while he himself sat on the House committee that oversaw housing matters should be a lot bigger than it is right now. Bill Whittle has a new video out called “Turncoat Nation”. Check it out. I really need to sit down and read Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law”. I am very much looking forward to David Mamet’s new book. You can get a couple detailed posts on the book and Mamet’s turn to conservatism thanks to Andrew Klavan at the Wall Street Journal and Ace.

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Left Wing Boner Saturday Edition Posted: 28 May 2011 11:36 AM PDT No, the “boner” in question has nothing to do with Anthony Weiner’s suspiciously-hacked Facebook account and the picture he most certainly didn’t send to a young woman on Twitter last night. No, I’m talking about the boner that Andrea Mitchell, crack journalist for MS-NBC pulled last night when she triumphantly reported that Sarah Palin was going to crash the Rolling Thunder event this weekend (via memeorandum). She got information from one of the organizers of the rally that Palin had not been invited and that was enough to for her. Not once did she consider that people might have been in transit to Washington, DC from all over the country, that communications might be a bit scrambled because events were moving very quickly, and that she should get confirmation from another one of the organizers before she ran with her story. No, indeed. Her story made Sarah Palin look like a selfish bully who’d put herself above the memories of fallen heroes and that’s good enough. Alas for her and her biased narrative, the representative of Rolling Thunder to whom she spoke was wrong. Palin was invited to Rolling Thunder and the person to whom Mitchell spoke did not know that because, as I said, things were moving pretty quickly. But others inside the organization, including the person responsible for dealing with the media, did know and would have set Mitchell straight if only she had asked them. As of 2 PM this afternoon, neither Mitchell nor MS-NBC have corrected their story and it’s still on the MS-NBC web site. I honestly don’t expect they’ll be in a hurry to change it. And now, links! It really was only a matter of time before one of the faithful blamed this year’s tornado outbreak on global warming. If I had my way, this Jonah Goldberg article at AEI would be in the hands of every GOP strategist this weekend and there’d be a test on Monday. Why, I wonder, is Paul Ryan the only prominent Republican vigorously defending his Medicare plan? It is not at all perfect, but then again, no plan is. It is, however, many orders of magnitude better than the Democrats’ “do nothing and let it collapse after we’ve left office” plan and the GOP is doing itself a great deal of harm by letting Ryan go it alone. It probably won’t surprise you to know that the biggest losers of the auto bailout were ordinary folks like you and me who lacked the power and pull of the auto workers’ unions. I suspect the cameras will be thick on the ground when the President shows up to “comfort” the many thousand victims of the Joplin, MO tornado. R.I.P. Jeff Conaway, star of such superlative television shows as Taxi and Babylon 5 as well as the movie Grease.

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