I Should Have Guessed It

Over at Cog Dis, I pointed out a series of tragic multiple murders done by gunmen, including the shooting of several senior citizens in a nursing home. I challenged someone to say we should arm more people.

Guess who was dumb enough to do just that.

Je Regrette

Sykes' has boasted that his book has been republished in Chinese and German. Now, it has been republished in French. I personally think it is the best translation, for when you click on Charlie's post from your reader (at the time of this writing anyway), you see this:


French is probably too beautiful and romantic a language to accept Charlie's words.

I'm still waiting for them to translate his book to English.

P.S. Happy, Kevin?

Whallah! See behind Koschnick's curtain

Where in the world is Randy Koschnick getting all of those bogus numbers he's using to distory Shirley Abrahamson's record?

Regular readers of Whallah! will not be surprised to discover who's behind the curtain.

Marching Orders

From the official WISGOP website, the have a little box on the right column which looks like this:




Funny, I always thought that was the job of the talk radio host.

Ouch!

Besta press release ever:

MADISON – Democratic Party of Wisconsin Executive Director Jason Stephany today released the following statement in response to reports that RNC Chair Michael Steele is scheduled to appear at the Republican Party of Wisconsin State Convention in May.

“I guess the head of the Republican Party wasn’t available.”

Oh, he was available alright, there just wasn't enough Viagra and cabana boys here for his liking.

Sykes Takes His Racebaiting To School

From the Brawler:

Charlie -- not to mention his emailer -- also could have pointed out that MATC has policies in place laying out gender/racial makeup of the board. Charlie may denounce this as "official racism." The Brawler would suggest it's a wholly defensible effort by the board (and the positions are unpaid) to look like the community in which it lives. Certainly corporations are trying to do just that.

But why allow nuance when incitement is so much more fun.

Read the whole thing here.

Best Post Title Of The Day

From the esteemed Brawler:

Newt Gingrich, a Charlie Sykes kind of Catholic

Charlie Sykes: I Have The Right To Make You Pay More

During my travels Friday morning, I caught a piece of Sykes' show. He was griping about a proposed law in California that would limit how much power a TV would be allowed to use.

The gist of his argument was that as long as he paid for the TV, he could do whatever he wanted and run it as much as he liked, and no one should have the right to tell him otherwise. He tried to paint it that the people with the large energy-sucking TVs were the oppressed ones.

However, the article linked to above tells us only 13% of the TVs wouldn't meet the standards if they were in effect now.

But more importantly, it seems that Sykes, and those that would agree with him, think that they have the right to screw over the public for their own gratitude. When Charlie runs his power sucking TV, it creates a higher demand for the electricity. The higher the demand, the higher the cost it is for the electricity, not just for Sykes, but for everyone. So if the old lady down the street is on a fixed income, she will be forced to decide between buying food, paying for her increasingly expensive medicine, or having the lights on, well, according to Sykes, that's just too bad for her.

If Sykes was really interested in being fair, he would be willing to pay a larger tax to subsidize his higher consumption.

And, of course, none of this even mentions what it would be doing to the environment.

McIlheran, MJS Are Not To Be Believed

Last November, Jay Bullock of folkbum's rambles and rants, wrote this post about a column by Patrick McIlheran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's in-house propagandist. Besides the column just being plain foolish, PaddyMac had notified Jay of the column in advance of it being published in the paper or on JSOnline:

I am a lucky guy. I think. Somehow, after all these years of duels and ripostes, in the last couple of weeks Patrick McIlheran has added me to his mailing list. That means every few days or so I get an email from him with the full text of a column of his slated to run in the next day or two.

Thursday night I got his preview of Friday's column*. (Confidential to PM in Bay View: Next time, use the BCC field. Your sole liberal correspondent might feel a bit weird about being your sole liberal correspondent, and was probably happier when he believed there was a more even distribution.) "Here’s an early look at my column in Friday's Journal Sentinel. You’re seeing it because I send a heads-up to a select group of talkers and bloggers whose work I admire. You’re among them." See? Lucky!

Gretchen Schuldt, of Milwaukee Rising, understated the obvious by pointing out that this was a violation of journalistic ethics. She also took it another step by getting in touch with George Stanley of MJS, who said that it Paddy's actions were inappropriate and shouldn't have happened (emphasis mine):

Patrick McIlheran’s pre-publication sharing of a column with a generally right wing bunch of bloggers was a mistake that shouldn’t have happened and shouldn’t happen again, according to Journal Sentinel managing editor George Stanley (previous posts here and here).

Gretchen later wrote in the same post that if PaddyMac ever did do it again, he should have "his butt kicked up between his ears." I expressed my doubt about believing Mr. Stanley with that claim in this post.

Well, I hope Gretchen has some good ass-kicking boots, because he went ahead and did it again.

Jay has another post up regarding McIlheran's poorly thought out propaganda piece that is due to hit the papers tomorrow (again, emphasis mine):

As sometimes happens, my inbox was graced this afternoon with an email from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Patrick McIlheran, who retains a place of high regard in my rogues gallery even if I don't bother writing about him much anymore. (Tom Foley has taken up a lot of the slack.) The email is pimping his column in tomorrow's paper, which is about the study of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program that was released earlier this week, which I wrote about here. Here's a line from the email:

Anyhow, in Sunday morning's paper, I'll look at the idiot notion that the school choice study results mean the program ought to be shut down.

Which threw me for a loop: I've followed the release of the study, the reaction, and the news about it, and I haven't read or heard a single person use the study as the basis for a call to shut down the program.

The rest of Jay's post points out how McIlheran is basically lying through his keyboard about school choice, and fails to accredit Jay by name (or by link on the website version of it, even though he wouldn't hesitate to do that for Rick Esenberg or Dad29).

This pretty much answers the question of whether McIlheran or the MJS have any integrity left.

But it does leave two other questions:

1. Will the MJS give us subscribers a chance for sneak previews, or if not, then a discount seeing that we are not receiving the same service?
2. Will Gretchen gives advanced warning so that we can bring a video camera and a lunch for when Paddy's buttocks ends up between his ears?

Why Republican radio talkers hate rail

Renee Crawford has figured it out.

If people get out of their cars, who's going to listen to them?

That's Entertainment

Over at the circus known as the Charlie Sykes blog, a supplicant who is mad as hell (her name is fittingly Maddie) pours out bile:

Charlie – what is the end game? I am sick and damned tired of waking up every day to find out who else that hasn’t (sic) played by the rules is going to be rewarded by our government. I am sick and tired of asking why I struggle to pay my bills and put a little away for a rainy day. I am sick and God damned tired of the grasshoppers being given the keys to my trough and the trough of all of my fellow ants. Why don’t they just take everything? Identify society’s producers and just take EVERYTHING that they have and give it to society’s non-producers and at least spare my weary ears from having to hear who is getting the fruit of my labor next?! Huh?! I’m at that point. I’m sick of it, just take it all and shut the F up!

Two amusing things about this. Maddie could have been playing Charlie and was referring to Wall Street.

Then at the comments a hapless soul by the name of Zenia starts things off by talking in a slightly liberal Pollyannaish language, not realizing she was going to open the gates of hell. She blithely touches off the master race fury of the Sykes peanut gallery, running nearly four dozen screaming comments. That'll learn her to troll.

Thank you Charlie for your fine contributions to civilized dialogue in Milwaukee. Where else could well reasoned thoughts of someone like Maddie get a chance to stink up the joint?

Right Wing Tank Thinker Is Now Against Tax Cuts For Business

The serious people speak. "Attracting business to Wisconsin is not government's job."

Rose Fernandez's Scandal?

Given how Charlie Sykes and Mark Belling were so gung-ho on calling out DPI candidate Tony Evers' campaign on something that they didn't even do, I was sure that they would have covered the scandal regarding Rose Fernandez and Rep. Don Pridemore's questionable politicking through public office.

Instead, there is not even a peep that I could tell of.

Even Sykes' compatriot, Aaron Rodriguez, who was all over that Tony Evers' story (and then backtracking on his use of an apostrophe) hasn't covered the questionable stunt by Pridemore.

What Rodriguez does do is try to discredit Cory Liebmann's stellar work regarding Fernandez. Unfortunately for Rodriguez, he fails miserably.

I shan't bore the reader with his long, struggling attempt and failure of refuting Cory's work, but draw the reader to one paragraph in particular:

If Fernandez had access to to these "substantial resources", wouldn't she have raised more than $20,000 in the primaries? The fact remains that Fernandez, out of necessity, had to loan her own campaign $4,000 dollars in order to reach the minimum qualifying amount for public funding. Where were the deep pockets of K12 in the primaries? And why did Rose need to loan her own campaign money if she was in a covert partnership with K12? Evers, on the other hand, has substantial resources with the WEAC endorsement. He raised more than $95,000 in the primaries, $26,000 from local unions, and this doesn't include $200,000 in WEAC's paid television advertisements in Dane County.

Does Mr. Fernandez really believe that we have forgotten about how much money the special interests have poured into the last two Wisconsin Supreme Court races? Or how these special interests have bought seats for two justices, Ziegler and Gableman, who have the distinct dishonor of bringing shame and a cloud of corruption to the highest court in the state?

I'm sorry, Mr. Fernandez, but I don't want our schools or our children going to the highest bidder. Nor do I want to have my taxes go up while she shows us that she doesn't know what the heck she is doing and making things only worse.

For further enlightenment on just how bad of a candidate Ms. Fernandez is, I would kindly refer to the fine ramblings and rants of my friend, Jay Bullock.

Conservative Women Show Real Class: Part II

Just a week ago, we saw how classy Laura Ingraham could be.

Tammy Bruce, guest hosting for Ingraham, isn't any better:

Discussing the first lady's visit to a Washington D.C. classroom last week, Bruce incredulously recalled Obama's story about wanting to get A's in school and called out her use of a "weird, fake accent."

"That's what he's married to," Bruce said. "...You know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. Trash is a thing that is colorblind, it can cross all eco-socionomic...categories. You can work on Wall Street, or you can work at the Wal-Mart. Trash, are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy..."

Cue the "But the libs did it to Bush" defense in 3...2...1....

Reads Better in the Original German

Charlie's 50 Rules That Don't Apply to Rich White People is now in German.

Draw your own conclusions.