December 6, 2004 by s.z.

And Hugh Really Wanted That Coveted WizBang Award Shorter Hugh Hewitt: "Because some fans of left-wing blogs have used technical means to stuff the ballot boxes of the Wizbang blog competition, there is no need to recount the votes in Washington State's gubernatorial election, because this proves that all Democrats are cheaters, which I already knew, since they are also atheists."  Longer Hugh Hewitt: The decision by lefty activist fans of lefty activist bloggers to cheat in order to win in The Wizbang awards has been extensively commented upon both at Wizbang and throughout the blogosphere.  That there is no great consequence from their cheating does not mean that the cheating is without significance.  In fact, I think it is a great piece of evidence to put forward in the case of why center-right activists fear "recounts" like those underway in Washington State and those conducted by Gore-Lieberman forces in Florida in 2000. Simply put, people with moral codes do not cheat as often as those without such codes, and moral codes are more apt to be more deeply ingrained within people of religious belief than those with little or no religious belief.  Which means --simply as an objective proposition-- that those who do not view cheating as "wrong" or sinful are more likely to cheat than those who do.  Cheating at cards is not altogether different from cheating on your taxes or cheating in an internet contest or cheating in a recount. Cheating is cheating. Of course there are cheaters among the religious, and of course there are cheaters among supporters of every candidate. But the history of cheating in the counting of votes in the Democratic Party --as chronicled in my recent book-- is much greater than in the Republican Party. And there appear far more cheaters among the lefty blog supporters than among the supporters of the center-right blogs. In fact, some of the lefty activist cheaters are very proud of their maneuvers, indicating that they see nothing wrong with such tricks. So, if one of those cheaters was also a participant in a recount in Washington State, would you say that made him or her more or less likely to cheat in the recount? This very obvious conclusion will be denounced as condemning all lefty activists etc, as all such observations are greeted with hysteria.  It is my experience that religious people among lefty activists will be especially offended even though they are not personally implicated in anything noted above.  Halliburton will be brought up, and other alleged high crimes of state that thrive in the fever swamp. But the fact is, we have a nice little case of admitted cheating in the manufacture of votes.  The people of Washington State are on notice. Again. Hey, to make it up to Hugh, I will nominate him for the World O'Crap "Best Blog In This or Any Other World."  All the other blogs included on the ballot will be liberal blogs, of course.  But if his fans want to cheat by voting multiple time to try to win this presitigious award for Hugh, I won't stop them. P.S. It looks like the comments are behaving badly today (the counters sometimes say there are no posts, when there really are some; and sometimes I get a message saying that the Radio comments are being moved to a new server so my comment can't be posted, but it's a lie).  However, I've found that if I try clicking the comment link again, I can actually access the comments (which are probably there, even if the counter says zero), and post. 7:07:18 AM

Who Said It? Once again Clif was the first to correctly name our first Mystery Guest from last time, noted Simpsons expert and Lucianne spawn Jonah Goldberg Realist was the first to guess our second guest, the lovely Ann Coulter. For the above pundits Bill S. guessed "Satan's retarded nephew, and Satan's caterer."  Oooh, good guesses, Bill, but since Ann isn't Satan's caterer, but is instead  "Rush Limbaugh's drug buddy ... the Courtney Love to his Kurt Cobain", you only get partial credit.  (Oh, and when Jerry Stahl said that Ann did crack with Rush, he merely meant that she COULD have, because "She is skinny and it doesn't look natural" -- but he added, "That's the thing, I don't judge. If she needs a little recreational crack, God bless her. ")  Now, who said this? Anyone who grew up in the South is bound to have heard the phrase "poor white trash." Teresa Heinz Kerry has given us a new category -- rich white trash. Yes, he does does sound kind of crazy, but it's probably something to do with the missing kidneys. 4:48:36 AM

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Liberal Spy Not Jailed Yet? All this talk about Andrew Card possibly being the new Secretary of the Treasury reminded me of his second cousin (or "distant cousin," per the White House), Susan Lindauer.  You remember Susan, the antiwar activist and former Democratic congressional aide whose conviction as an Iraqi spy last March proved that liberals are all one step away from being traitors?  And, as you will recall, the fact that the papers mentioned that she was Andrew's cousin proved that the mainstream media was run by a bunch of liberals who hated George Bush.  Here are some headlines to refresh your memory, courtesy of the CI Centre : Ex-Congressional Aide Charged With Spying  (A.P.) Ex-US Senate Aide Charged with Giving Iraq Secrets (Reuters) Ride on the "Peace" Train ......This is just the latest in a pattern of "anti-war activists" being involved in espionage activities for Iraq. British MP George Galloway has been accused of accepting bribes from Saddam Hussein to promote anti-war activities in the UK. Defense attorney and "peace" activist Lynne Stewart has been arrested for transmitting information between her terrorist client and his murderous organization.....(Tech Central Station, 18 Mar 04) Iraqi spy case shows media at it again Anyone who wants to understand why the media are held in such low regard by the public -- in polls of the most respected professions we usually come somewhere between Nigerian e-mail scammers and serial pedophiles -- should consider the following headline from an Associated Press story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last week: ''Accused Spy Is Cousin Of Bush Staffer''.....(Chicago Sun-Times, 14 Mar 04) The Face of Treason The Democratic Party has a big problem named Susan Lindauer, but you would never know this from the reporting by America’s dominant Left-leaning news media.....(FrontPage magazine, 15 Mar 04) Of course, Susan wasn't charged with espionage, let alone convicted of it (she was charged with failing to register as the agent of a foreign power, and with violating a law that prohibits financial dealings with Iraq).  And, of course, the fact that she was Andrew's cousin was important to the story since a major piece of the case against her was that she had left a letter for Andrew telling him that she had contacts in Saddam's regime, and that she wanted to talk to him about bettering relations between the US and Iraq (and so Andrew reported her to the authorities).  And, as we mentioned back in March, since it was obvious that Susan had serious mental problems (the grandiosity, paranoia, and delusional ideas gave it away), and since it seemed like she sincerely believed that she was helping achieve peace, it didn't seem like much of an espionage-ish case .  And since it also seemed like the Iraqis got snookered into believing that had an important American agent who had ties to the White House, when they really just had a crazy lady who thought she could achieve world peace through her personal efforts, it would make proving the criminal case against Susan rather difficult. But forget all that -- the important facts are that Susan was a peace activist, liberal, had worked for several Democrats, and was the first American arrested on spyish charges involving Iraq, and so her capture  was a major victory for the Department of Justice,and for patriotic pro-war bloggers everywhere.     So, whatever happened to Susan?  The last mention of her I can find is from March 15th, when she pled not guilty to the charges, was released on a $500,000 bond, and was ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling.  You'd think that the government would be in a hurry to get a traitor like her the punishment she deserves, so it's odd that there apparently hasn't been any action in this case since the week after Susan was arrested -- I blame the liberal Ashcroft Department of Justice for not going foward with her prosecution in a timely manner.  I also blame Tech Central,  NRO, FrontPage Mag, and the rest of the so-called conservative alternative media for not keeping Ashcroft's feet to the fire about this matter.  You'd think that the whole thing was NOT a big problem for the Democratic Party the way nobody is doing anything with it anymore. 4:15:53 AM

A Loyal Cabinet Bush to Replace Treasury's Snow -NY Times Reuters - President Bush plans to replace John Snow as US Treasury Secretary and possible successors include Andrew Card, currently the White House chief of staff, the New York Times reported Monday. Bush will also reportedly replace Donald Rumsfeld with Karen Hughes, replace Elaine Chao with Neil Bush, and make Karl Rove the new Intelligence Czar.  Jenna and NotJenna will be, respectively, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.  1:49:02 AM