Quote of the Day - True definition of Swiftboating

"Swiftboating" seems to mean the disclosure of truths that are, er, inconvenient for Democrats. Likewise "smears." And, actually, in lefty blogland parlance these days, "lies" pretty much come out the same way. All definitions are permitted the definer, so long as they are clear, but don't expect me to be impressed with this batch.

Links of the Day

How the Edwards campaign blundered into hiring those bloggers.
Chafe's Embarrassment
Broken
The Duke Three: No angels = rapists?
More from Stephen Miller
He’s not a liberal, though
The Scandal that Refuses to Die: AP PR Director Alleges Iraqi General Lied About Jamil Hussein
The Mote And The Beam Of Global Warming (Updated: Gore Responds)
Greenwald gets it wrong again
The Clintons' Foundation
Falling for false flag operations
Latest Bombshell Motion
Jeff Foxworthy would be flattered..
A.C. KLEINHEIDER DEFENDS AL GORE against charges of greenhouse hypocrisy:
Clintons Didn’t Disclose Tax Dodge “Charity” For 5 Years
Lileks on fire
environmental hysteria
Gore Responds To Critics Of His Power Consumption***
Democrat Tax Cheaters
Glenn Greenwald, Thomas Ellers, and Rick Ellensburg: The Three Most Hypocritical Men on the Planet
Open ended committments
"EVERY FAMILY HAS A DIFFERENT CARBON FOOTPRINT"

Links of the Day

Exposing Another Journalistic Fraud
Spitting Report V: Servicemen and Anti-War Activists at the Airport.--
Spitting Controversy
Double Standards
Why They Do It
Today's Reading Assignment about the 9-11 Commission
Excuse Me, Mr. Fitzgerald...
The Creepy Lunatic Fringe

Links of the Day

Duke Non-Rape Blogger KC Johnson: "It just shouldn't have gotten to the point where a blog like mine could be influential"
The Fisking It Deserves
Steve Jobs attacks Teacher’s Unions
Of cows, Goebbels, and goosestepping morons (UPDATE)
Not That Kind
More Lies
Duke And The Cultural Marxist Program
In Which We Usher Larry Johnson Into February 2007
The Not-So Professional Liar
I Scored With A Girl Two Years Younger Than Me And All I Got Was This Stupid Ten Year Sentence In Jail
Another Will They Report It Moment
SPITTING REPORT III: EVIDENCE RELEVANT TO ONE OF BOB GREENE’S SPITTING ACCOUNTS
SANDY BERGER AND THE NEVERENDING STORY
Back to the Board
Eric Alterman thinks there should be a "blogging council" to condemn bloggers who go wrong.

Links of the Week

Liberal Bloggers Demonstrate Their Political Immaturity, Democrat Says
Trial in Error
Graceless
One of my perennial peeves about people advocating national health insurance
The Man Who's Always Wrong
With avengers like these...
Marcotte: Ending with a faux feminist wimper
Liberal emotion vs. Conservative logic
“Consensus” and global warming
Not Here, Not Ever
Antarctica: no anthropogenic global warming signals to be found
Since We're So Fond of Labels....
Breaking Wind
The Liberal Avenger non-scandal, cont'd
Terry McAuliffe pressed about shady land dealings
Feminist Law Professors won't tolerate dissent
MARCOTTE'S WORLD -- BIRTH OF A SHITSTORM
MARCOTTE'S WORLD -- "BUT IT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH"
If Plame was covert, she should be fired
The Fevered Imagination of the Leftist Idiot
Back to Manassas Park
The Hypocrits at the NY Times

Links of the Week

Pelosi's Deceit
Heinz-Kerry Money Went To Global Warming Advocate
Duke U. student alleges Sunday rape
None So Blind
Stem Cells Help Women Grow Larger Breasts.
Edwards' Bigoted Blogger Resigns
Iranian Smoking Guns Found ... Literally
Edwards' blogger resigns and plays the feminist card
The Edwards Blogger - The Saga Ends
Fitzgerald’s Disaster: Wilson Outed Plame
Demodouchbags Re-Introduce AWB
Gun Control: Brady Misfires on Castle Doctrine
Liberal Congressman Sees Colleague Smoking Cigar, Calls Cops
The Potbangers Airbrush the Past
PandaGate and anti-male bigotry
My Liberalism Says You're Guilty of Rape (Updated)
"Obviously, I'm scatterbrained right now"
They're baaaack!
Credulity
Google’s Double Standards
A Tale of Two Rapes in Durham
Ray Nagin held in contempt
Demodouchbags Re-Introduce AWB
“Fair Trade” = Socialism

Links of the Week Part 3

Don't Spit on Me
Blunder Twins: The hilarity continues
Code of Silence
More adult stem cell breakthroughs
The Stem Cell Breakthrough The Media Hasn’t Told You About
Major Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs
JONAH GOLDBERG SPANKS ELLEN GOODMAN for a silly column comparing people who disagree with global warming theater to holocaust deniers.
The inconsistency of James Webb
DISSENT IS THE LOWEST FORM OF ENVIRONMENTALISM
Florida Supreme Court: Man Must Pay Child Support For Kid That Isn’t His

Crooks and Liars proves me right.

I posted that they are cowards that delete comments that make them look bad or to be wrong and they deleted it.

Here is the deleted comment.
My problem with Amanda is that she is a coward like the people on this blog, who will not stand behind what she wrote and will airbrush any posts or comments that show her looking bad or to be wrong.

i.e.

"In the meantime, I've been sort of casually listening to CNN blaring throughout the waiting area and good fucking god is that channel pure evil. For awhile, I had to listen to how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held someone down and fucked her against her will-not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out.

Can't a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it?

So unfair.

Yes, how dare a rape victim act confused and bewildered like she was raped or something."

After James Taranto brought attention to the words above, Marcotte deleted them (so much for "transparency" in the Edwards campaign). Her new statement?

"Since people are determined to make hay over this quick shot of a post, I'm deleting it and here's my official stance. The prosecution in the Duke case fumbled the ball. The prosecutor was too eager to get a speedy case and make a name for himself. That is my final word."

Links of the Week part 2

Speaking of Global Warming
KATHRYN JOHNSTON SHOOTING UPDATE:
Marcotte Fired?
Global Warming: Rhetoric goes up while some predictions are revised downward
The Death Of An Innocent
Advice And Consent
I’ll Sacrifice When The Environmental Activists Do
Pelosi, Pentagon and planes
Wilson's Ethical Lapses
Okay, so maybe a few more words on this whole Marcotte dustup.
Russert Has Credibility Problems Exposed During His Libby Trial Testimony
Edwards keeps Marcotte and McEwan
Let's Pass Some Spit To Jack Shafer

Links of the Week Part 1

Sunday Book Review: "What a Party!" by Terry McAuliffe
Vietnam Spitting.--
The cracks in the anti-military facade start to widen
Global Warming: Preparing for the new hysteria
Reject Man Made Global Warming As Fact
Islands: Nature vs Nurture Branch
The Myth of the Spitting Myth Part 3
"The other day, the oil companies reported the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits..." ~ Hillary Clinton
A BAN ON 'VICTORY'
Closing the Book on Cloture
Media mischaracterizes Senate Resolution vote
Rich, Liberal Entertainers Hiding Their Fortunes From Taxes
Scientific Free Speech Is Dead In America
My final thoughts on the Marcotte dustup
Madame Pelosi to peasants: Let them drink Aviation Fuel!
Patriarchy nearly done crushing Edwards blogger’s dissent
China and the "Dirty Secret" of Climate Policy:
State Climatologist Might Lose Title For Voicing His Opinion on Global Warming

Links of the Day

Oh, the Hysteria!
Another Pandora's Box On Political Speech
Fairness demands she be named
Political Science
Do the guys at Crooks and Liars know they associate with and quote the gay bashing bigot and homophobe Larry Johnson?
Tuesday Night Love from Larry
Good News From Iraq
Did You Know We’re Doomed In Ten Years?
What 2004 Taught the Left
Hurriya: The AP non-corrects again
There Are Two Americas; John Edwards' New House Takes Up Almost All of One Of Them
A hearty F*** You to William Arkin
How dare they complain!?
Changing Opinions
The Early Press Reports - John Edwards campaign hires queen bitch Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon
The Virtues of Gratitude
You know, he’s right
Arkin responds
Global Warming Nonsensical Non-science
Free Inquiry? Not on Campus
William Arkin responds, misquotes me and further insults the troops
Dem San Fran mayor has sexual affair with aide
Terry McAuliffe: Not A Knight Of Malta
Accepted Wisdom™ on Jamil Hussein
Famous plagiarist dies
Appropriate Responses
The First Church of Fundamentalist Climate Change
Edwards Hires Hoax Apologist to Run Campaign Blog
More Global Warming Fear Mongering
The Third Rail Of Global Warming
"Official" Equals "Classified?
Once More
Islands
Global Warming Scaremongering Is Back
The Edwards-Marcotte Fiasco
For the last two weeks the weather in Pittsburgh has been typical for January
Meet John Edwards's new blogger-in-chief
More on Marcotte
Spitting on Veterans
Climate Change: the Dash for Cash
Resolving The Spitting Debate