Dollar Cross: “A Christ-Centered Dollar Store.”

They’ve even got a close-out section:

1. Jeff Gannon bobble-head dolls: Only $1.00! Putting the “bob” in “bobble”!

But read on for even better deals:  Read more 

JG’s book is up-for-sale (like his body parts used to be), and reads much like his copy and paste journalism rooted in red-state-rose colored glasses. The first chapter is up on his publisher’s website (iUniverse).

It is nice to know Gannon’s dog Winston is #3 after Mr. Pill-Popper and Ms. Voter-Fraud.  Read more 

Following up on CD’s catch last Friday on a triple murder-suicides of the former head of the GOP in Georgia, his “room-mate” and his “friend,” it seems that there’s a North Carolina connection—to more Republicans, the newly wealthy Patrick McHenry—love the name—in particular. Go read for all the seamy detail. The nut grafs:

Florida police are saying that Jason Robert Drake,* a man with North Carolina ties, left shot two republican political consultants, Ralph Gonzalez and David Abrami, and then himself last week. What they’re not saying is why. After first calling it a lover’s triangle, they’re now saying:

Drake was found carrying a firearm and backpack full of ammunition. Deputies said in a short statement witnesses had mentioned “a number of potential motives.”

NCC editor Judson Cox has done some digging and come up with a convoluted story that involves another murder in Pennsylvania, several video and still male-on-male porn sites, and a call-boy service in Virginia. Go read for yourself but I’d advise you not to follow the some of the links in the articles I link to unless you don’t mind male nudity and more at your computer.  Read more 

Is this must-read from Boing Boing too true to be good?

Warning: What follows over the fold is not, not, NOT work safe, and in the interests of cranial integrity, I advise you to read no further.  Read more 

And speaking of shooting fish in a brothel, “Jeff Gannon” [DCOW] weighs in, as you knew he would (via A Scrivener’s Lament):

Strict adherence to a moral code is not an easy task in the modern world. Many who know the difference between right and wrong and even some who preach about it to others sometimes fall short. The sensational scandals of the recent past remind us that we are all one misstep from stumbling. My own experience is evidence of that.

The phrase “hate the sin, love the sinner” embodies a basic Christian tenet that reflects God’s affection for His children. God wants us to be saved from lives of sin and instructs us to repent for our transgressions and receive forgiveness. In contemporary discourse, Christians who speak about that which God considers sinful behavior are often characterized as “hateful” and “mean-spirited.”

No. Remember: To a Republican, Hate means being held accountable.

Flynt and his ilk practice the antithesis of that principle and instead “love the sin, hate the sinner.”

No. It’s about “values for thee and not for me.” If you want to make a public virtue of your private behavior, then live up to it! If you want to use the public square to convert others so that they believe as you do, then practice what you preach! How difficult is this to understand? It wasn’t all that difficult for Jesus — see Luke 6:42 — but for today’s Christianists it’s virtually impossible.

They seize on the moral failings of public figures for use as political weapons of mass destruction.

Say, speaking of political weapons and dogs that oddly, never bark: Has Jeff ever answered the question: “Jeff, were you ever at the White House when the day changed? I’d advise Jeff that he do so, since he could be offering some poor lost soul_{mr subliminal: jeff’s “bottom” unka karl} a shot at redemption. Eh?  Read more 

Today’s WaPo, Dana Millbank Dept. (with snippage):

Let us pray that, on next year’s National Day of Prayer, there is better attendance at the “Bible Reading Marathon” on the West Front of the Capitol…

Organizers put out 600 folding chairs on the lawn — the spot where presidents are inaugurated — and set up a huge stage with powerful amplifiers. But at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, not one of the 600 seats was occupied. By 11 a.m., as a woman read a passage from Revelations, attendance had grown — to four people. …

Where was everybody?

“This isn’t that kind of event,” explained Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the International Bible Reading Association. Gannon, actually a pseudonym for James Guckert,  Read more 

and Three. More. Inches.  Read more 

LA Confidential, the gloriously seamy noir movie (from James Elroy’s novel), has the following tagline:

Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush…

Compare Ari Fleischer today. From Firedoglake’s live blog:

[FLEISCHER] What I recall Libby saying to me, reiterated that VP did not send Wilson. Ambassador Wilson got sent by his wife, she works at CIA, Works in CPD, I recall that he told me her name. This is hush hush this is on the QT….

(See also Newsweek—later, of course, and with inferior analysis.)

Apparently both Libby and Fleisher knew LA Confidential well; after all, they’re quoting it to each other, much like one old DFH quoting Firesign Theatre to another. Why, you’d almost think they were using movie quotations to, um, send signals to each other. (As Firedoglake points out, there is a protocol for dealing with classified information, and movie quotations definitely aren’t part of that protocol). We’ve already seen this handwriting of obviously coded messages sent en claire in Libby’s famous though not decoded “aspens turning” note to Judy “Kneepads” Miller.

So what signal was Libby sending to Fleischer? It would be irresponsible not to speculate!  Read more 

(Until Mr. Eight-Inch, Cut writes his “tell all” book, anyhow.)

Because Bush secretly had the records sealed:

The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

The Bush administration didn’t reveal the existence of the memorandum of understanding until last fall. The White House is using it to deal with a legal problem on a separate front, a ruling by a federal judge ordering the production of Secret Service logs identifying visitors to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

The five-page document dated May 17 declares that all entry and exit data on White House visitors belongs to the White House as presidential records rather than to the Secret Service as agency records. Therefore, the agreement states, the material is not subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

Of course, to a Republican, turnabout is definitely not fair play:

Secret Service records played a significant role in the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s, supplying congressional Republicans with leads [sic] to follow in their investigations [sic] of the Clintons.

Sigh. Now we’ll never get an answer to the question every American is asking:  Read more 

“Jeff: Were you ever at the White House when the day changed?” Should be a simple question of fact, eh?

File under: Questions asked, and never answered.

Yes, inspired by The Man in the Grey Turtleneck, I went to the Equality Forum’s Media Panel on Blogs at the Prince Theatre in Philly just a few short blocks away from The Mighty Corrente Building.

The panel wasn’t kabuki, unless kabuki be defined as the art of dancing round the elephants in the room without looking at them. There was also a very neatly executed VRWC meme propagation operation, which we’ll get to towards the end.  Read more