Missing The Point

On Tuesday, the MSJ ran this editorial discussing why Madison is doing better at drawing businesses to its area than Milwaukee.

McBride, of course, misses the gist of the column. As one well-spoken and sensiblecommentator (obviously not one of McBride's students) points out:

Actually, that's not exactly what the article is saying. Rather, the editorial is making a point that many profs, deans, and other higher-ups at UWM have been making for years: Because UW Madison is the state's flagship research university, it is able to attract top notch researchers, lots of big grants,lots of state funding, etc. in a way that UWM or Marquette is not. As a result, more tech and other businesses come to Madison because the research infrastructre there (as a result of UW Madison) is the best in the state. And the more Madison grows as a center of private and university research, the more grants it will attract, the more funding it will receive, and the more businesses will want to move there.

But it is necessary to point out, UW-Madison is smarter that Milwaukee in one sense-They didn't hire McBride.

At Least She Recycles

McBride may not be very good at what she does (whatever that really is), but she makes up for her lack of talent with a lack of originality.

After defending fellow conservative loudmouth Bill O'Really, she rises to the defense of another squawkbox, Rush Limpballs. She uses the same argument as she did for O'Really, with only dropping the word race out of her argument.

Apparently, just as she thought blatant racism would offend few people, she feels that disparaging America's fighting men and women would also offend few people.

The question has to be asked: Ms. McBride, why do you hate America?

Bullock's Monster

As previously noted, McBride got all snarky about Jay Bullock becoming one of the latest community bloggers at JSOnline. She took on the assumption that Jay was sought out.

In the comments, Jay corrected her thinking by pointing out that he simply filled out the application. McBride responded with this:

I don't agree with you much, but I think you're good at what you do and the manner in which you do it.

I didn't realize that you signed up, as opposed to them recruiting you. I wonder if they allow anyone to do that or if they narrow down the applicants. Interesting.....

This does make it seem that McBride is now considering using this information as either a way back into the limelight with the Journal Sentinel, or as a way to set herself up as the martyr of MSJ's supposed liberal bias. Either way, Whallah will be diligent in its continuing mission of monitoring her nefarious schemes.

This Is Progress?

In McBride's world, Bush can do no wrong. That is why, in this post, she considers two American Soldiers and 33 Iraqi civilians being killed, every day, as progress.

If you, like the majority of Americans, don't see this as progress, but as an ongoing atrocity, please click on the "Do Something" link for the Iraq Moratorium, to see how you can help.

Right On The Money

Just this morning, Whallah predicted that McBride would have issues with Jay Bullock becoming a recent addition to the JSOnline Blogworld.

This evening, McBride proves us right. And not only does she give a back-handed compliment to Jay, she also slams the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

She also goes on to ask if MSJ would be adding a conservative blogger. She must have forgotten about this guy. Or is it jealousy?

Sister Christian

Anyone who has followed McBride's postings, are more importantly, Whallah's, has noticed that McBride, besides being a poor writer, a poor journalist, a poor logician, and very poor at French, also has a hard time letting go of things and of going over the line.

Her latest obsession regarding the Folsom Street Festival, has hit that point. Her article in the Waukesha Freeman chastises Miller Brewing Company to repent their sins and to apologize to Christians.

Before McBride gets on her soapbox, perhaps she should review a few Bible passages herself, like Exodus 20:1-17 (the ten commandments), Leviticus 19:33-34(for illegal aliens) and most of all Matthew 7:1-"Judge not, that ye be not judged".

It Was Bound To Happen

Just yesterday, it was observed that McBride was seeking out validation by linking to Michelle Malkin linking to her.

Today, we have McBride linking to Malkin linking to McBride linking to Malkin linking to McBride. These two women really need to expand their horizons.

Poetic Justice

Jay Bolluck, host of the site folkbum's rambles and rants, and frequent critic of McBride, is now a member of the JSOnline blogging team. For the two or three people who didn't know, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also owns WTMJ-AM, McBride's former employer, and terminated her earlier this year.

This will probably make her spitting mad. Whallah is looking forward to the show.

And congratulations to Jay...we think.

In Need of Validation

It must be posts like this one that has vaulted McBride's post to number one for the week.

To save the readers the pain of having to go to her site, Whallah will paraphrase:

Here's a link to another histrionic blogsite who is linking to my site about a non-issue that I'm in a lather about.

Whallah! #14 with a bullet

BNN's Wisconsin Blogosphere Influence Rating combines a variety of data sets to determine which blogs are most powerfully influencing the direction of the Wisconsin political blogosphere. The exact method BNN uses to calculate influence scores must remain proprietary in order to prevent attempts to game the system. BNN's methodology takes into account the fact that all Internet data is profoundly limited in its reliability by using multiple data sets that, when combined, reveal a fair picture of activity in the blogosphere.

"Profoundly limited in its reliability?" They got that right.

Their system is so slick and sophisticated they have to keep it a secret. Maybe John McAdams did the study.

This week's rankings of Wisconsin's most influential political blogs, by Blog Net News:

1 McBride's Media Matters
2 Dad29
3 Texas Hold 'Em Blogger
4 Badger Blogger
5 FREEDOM EDEN
6 Boots and Sabers
7 Real Debate Wisconsin
8 Spring City Chronicle
9 The Right Side of Wisconsin
10 The Political Environment
11 The (Somewhat) Daily RAG
12 Shark and Shepherd
13 An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
14 Whallah!
15 The Critical Badger
16 Playground Politics
17 Paul Soglin: Waxing America
18 From Where I Sit
19 Fraley's Daily Takes
20 Stepping Right Up!

Nice as it is to see Rowen, Soglin and Whallah! ranked, it's a little hard to believe that only three liberal blogs make the top 20. Of course, Charlie Sykes doesn't make the list at all and McBride is #1, so she no doubt thinks this is very scientific.

And I thought the Badger football team was overrated.

That'll Teach Them A Lesson

As pointed out two days ago, McBride and her conservative cohorts were in a righteous outrage that Miller would sponsor an event for gays. The focus of their indignation was a poster advertising the event, using a group of leather-clad people in a parody of DaVinci's Last Supper.

Now, we find that her husband, Paul Bucher, the trial lawyer is so outraged that he replaced all of the Miller Lite cans with Bud Light cans. On a side note, Lady McBride notes that her darling hubby won't drink French wine, just because they wouldn't support an unjust and needless war. Miller Brewing Company and all of France must be so horrified at the loss of these valuable customers.

For more insight on the conservatives' lack of insight, Pundit Nation and Illusory Tenant are fine places to look.

A shoppe by any other name ...

Yes, I said I was giving up this hobby, but a recent McBride post reminded me how I chose my blogonym. She hasn't used the term as much recently as she did awhile ago, when it seemed to be a daily feature, but perhaps she will revive it in memory of me:

Nelson's comments fit neatly into the media template, so it's no wonder we're not hearing a lot about them outside of the Freeman.

The post was about Waukesha Mayor Larry Nelson taking a little shot at Brookfield and Delafield for being snobbily pretentious:

At the end of a very long special meeting Tuesday night with developers of two large projects – a Wal-Mart Supercenter and “The Shoppes at Fox River” – Nelson asked those proposing the latter to drop the extra “p” and “e” from the word “Shoppes” in the center’s name. “It reeks of ostentation and pretentiousness like Delafield and Brookfield, and that’s not Waukesha,” he said.

Perhaps Waukesha should welcome a Wal-Marte Supercentre, too.

Making it perfectly clear

This from the "Yes, we have no bananas" school of writing, via You know who, the journalism teacher:

Yep. Conservatives aren't winning out here.

The converse of that would be: "Nope. Liberals are winning out here."

Miller's secret agenda

Boy, the conservatives are onto the big issues now, like Miller Brewing's sponsorship of a gay event which is using a photo that's a takeoff of The Last Supper. Charlie Sykes is fully engaged, with breathless updates, even down to policing the website.

Jessica McBride spins a theory that this is all part of Miller's liberal social agenda, and is shocked to find some underage people drink at this gayfest (unlike the Miller Pavilion at Summerfest.)

Now it can be told. Miller's secret agenda: Sell more beer to gays.

If you find that shocking, you can always join the Catholics and boycott Miller. If only the church had been as zealous about purging the priesthood of pedophiles.

McBride's Gotcha

Playing on the theme of the great liberal conspiracy theory, McBride lays out the nefarious schemes of the left to portray a conservative celebrity, Bill O'Really?, as a victim of a smear attack. But the posting in itself isn't the highlight. The real fun starts in the comment thread.

First McBride fan(atic) and/or possible student, i jeff, writes:

Jessica explains this very well. I will only add that conservative leaning pundits could never pull off this scam on a liberal. MSM media outlets and all their liberal allies should be ashamed of themselves. Unfortunately, it takes some semblance of honesty and integrity to do that. Not sure if anyone has ever asked this question, but what happens when the media goes a step beyond bias? I believe it would be called corruption. A free press that becomes a corrupt media no longer serves any useful purpose.

To this, McBride witfully rejoins with:

I Jeff, You are so right. If conservatives tried this on liberals, the MSM would write scathing pieces about the dishonest smear tactics of the conservatives.

Apparently, neither of them have ever watched Fox News.