November 5, 2005 by s.z.

Wo'C Weekend Recommendations "They destroy brands and wreck lives. Is there any way to fight back?" No.  No, there isn't.  So, read these blogs now, before they kill you! First, we suggest that you check out our Wo'C Featured Blogs o' the Week: Lawyers, Guns and Money and DC Media Girl.  Also, give a look-see to last week's featured blogs, Old Fashioned Patriot and Firedog Lake. (Okay, we forget to tell anybody that they were our featured blogs, but they were.)  Monday, we will select two new deserving blogs for this highly-coveted honor.  Which ones will they be?  Whichever ones pay me the most. And speaking of sleaze, check out Julia's blog.  Not to imply that she's corrupt, of course (although she DID get a new job in the morally ambiguous world of advertising), but you will want to read her post about how DeLay and his ilk work their base, the "wackos." Oh, and Mark at Fried Green al-Qaedas has an informative post about how baseball's been very, very good to William DeWitt Jr., in that it somehow qualified him to serve on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.  (Well, maybe other factors were involved -- Mark has the lowdown). And after you learn about that, you'll want to peruse the latest VIRTUAL OCCOQUAN (the best of the Salon blogs that serve as prized platforms of online lynch mobs spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective).  Not only does this issue feature art, music, and photos of Britney Spear's ugly baby, but also Katy Hipke on the care and feeding of husbands; Case Wagenvoord advising Mr. Bush on the nature of evil, Steve Krodman rhyming about the fun of being a Jew; and much, much more! And those are our recommendations for this weekend.  Read them, or we will make your legal secretary cry.     4:09:20 AM

Renew America Vs Townhall Vs WorldNetDaily Bradley, No! says, "Renew America is truly the greatest site ever."  But is that actually true?  While Brad does makes a compelling argument in his study of Guy Adams' piece  "AOL is Censoring Me!," experts say that his sample (one column) is too small to be statistically valid.  So, in the spirit of scientific inquiry, we will look at THREE columns, one from Renew America, one from RA's close personal friend WorldNetDaily, and one from its snooty, city cousinTownhall, and then let you, the voters, decide which site is truly the greatest. Because unlike Brad, we happen to love democracy, freedom, and America. First up, representing Renew America, is Michael Gaynor, Esquire, with Religious Christians and Jews: Boycott federated department stores! Thesis: Religious people should boycott the Federated Department Stores because its employees wish customers "Happy Holidays" instead of a "Merry Christmas" or a "Happy Hanukkak."  (Hey, I don't know what "Hanukkak" is either, but it infuriates Michael that the sales clerks at Macy's don't want him to have a happy one.)  And we should take his stupid crusade seriously, because if we don't, the Supreme Court will remove God. Excerpt: If more people had boycotted Federated Department Stores last year, perhaps the Supremes would not have banned Ten Commandments displays in Kentucky courthouses this year, 5 to 4. And if more people don't boycott Federated Department Stores this year, perhaps the Supremes will strike "under God" from "The Pledge of Allegiance" next year. Analysis:  I admire Michael's insinuation that if you don't support his boycott,  Judge Roberts and Judge Alito will go rogue and eliminate God from the Pledge.  However, he could have gone farther and said that unless you refrain from shopping at Bloomingdale's and Macy's, President Bush will require that you have some homo nups.  But still, it was pretty good wingnuttery.  Now let's see what Les Kinsolving, representing WorldNetDaily, can do.  His entry is entitled "Witches today, Satanists tomorrow?" Thesis: It's only fair and right that the federal government should set up Christianity as the official state religion because otherwise we'd have to either eliminate prayers from our local government functions, or we would have to let Satanists sacrifice virgins as invocations for the town council meeting. Excerpt: The Supreme Court support of the right of Chesterfield county supervisors to allow invocations from religious leaders – but not from witches – is a wise and justified decision. Otherwise, can we imagine the lineup of different invocations? If witches, why not invocations to trolls, gnomes, goblins, hobgoblins, fairies, or any and all of the Greek, Roman and Norse gods and goddesses? And, there are in existence worshippers of the devil. What about Chesterfield county supervisors hosting invocations to Satan? Analysis:  Well, a Wiccan priestess could indeed be considered a "religious leader" -- so, per Les, she should be included on the county's "approved prayer list" (along with HIndu, Buddhist, and Sikh religious leaders, if they live in the county and want to pray at a meeting of the county supervisors).  That is, if the criteria is merely being the leader of some religious group. However, it seems that Les's real claim is that the Wiccan "creator of the universe" is no more real than trolls, gnomes fairies (and Buddha), and it would be silly to let religious leaders offer prayers to any them at a government function.  But since I'm pretty sure that Les would say that Satan is real, then, per Les's logic, the leader of a Satanic group should be allowed to pray before the county meetings, since this would merely be an "acknowledgment of beliefs widely held among the people of this country."  The ritual eating of Christian babies would be optional for the country supervisors, however. Now, don't you think that's at least as good as, say, Nathan Tabor's Renew America column "Frankensteinian Republicans," which basically says that George Bush and Bill Frist are the reincarnations of Josef Mengele for supporting embryonic stem cell research, and that senior citizens should fear for their lives from these monsters?  Have we become so shortsighted and self-absorbed as a country that we have forgotten the lessons we learned from Nuremberg? As a society, have we become so selfish that we would say yes if scientists told us they could really cure it all, but first they need to perform deadly experiments on every resident of every convalescent home in the country? At the end of the day, there is no difference between this scenario and what goes on in ESCR. Okay, maybe Renew America is ahead of WND on points, but let's see what Townhall has to offer. Townhall is doing it's semi-monthly fundraising, and one of its new claims is that it has the inside track on the conservative movers-and-shakers of Hollywood.  Here's Jason Apuzzo, Co-Director of prestigious Liberty Film Festival to tell us "Why Hollywood Conservatives Support Townhall." Thesis: It's a sad, lonely life for Hollywood conservatives -- for, despite their "thriving sub-culture" (which includes "David Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture" and some really cool film festivals), nobody but Townhall cares about them.  So, donate now to Townhall, or Hillary Clinton will become your President in 2009.  (And if you do donate, it will help Kiefer Sutherland continue to win the War Against Terror, which will keep George Bush's approval ratings from sinking into negative numbers) Excerpt: Why is this important? In part because so many political problems begin as cultural problems. If, for example, Hillary Rodham Clinton takes the oath of office in January of 2009, don't think for a moment that a popular, prime-time TV series (ABC's "Commander in Chief") didn't help pave Hillary's way.    By the same token, probably the only prime-time exposure most Americans have to our successes in the War on Terror - particularly on the home front - comes from Fox's show "24." I wonder sometimes what the President's approval ratings might be like without that series - in part because that show sometimes explains the terrorist threat better than the President does. Analysis:  I fear that attempting to analyze this will cause brain injury, so I'm going to let Jason's words speak for themselves. Now, it's time to vote.  Is Brad right, and is Renew America the greatest site ever?  Or, do you feel that the plucky WorldNetDaily or the mighty Townhall equal (or even surpass) Alan Keyes' Internet meeting place for "ALL people who consider themselves loyal Americans"?  We want to hear from you -- it's up to you to send a message to Brad and all he stands for, or else the Supreme Court may kill Santa Claus. 1:57:33 AM