I saw this coming, didn’t I? Howie Kurtz buys into it today. But a close look reveals this site to be mighty suspicious. It’s full of far-left rhetoric, extremist Bush-hating, and generally lacks any real conservative or Republican philosophy. It calls the Bush administration a “failed regime.” If these guys are real Republicans, I’m a hetero. Someone should check who’s really behind this site.
BEEB-WATCH: Another media meme pioneered in part on this site. Good for the Telegraph.
RECOGNIZING IRAQ: File under “slow but measurable progress.”
WHAT EVIL? Disturbing last sentence in this story from the Washington Times. Hard-right Catholics were yesterday busy lobbying the hierarchy to retain vigilance against any Catholics who dissent from some of the Church’s teachings. Fair enough for this group, I guess. But then we get this quote from Robbie George, Princeton’s leading proponent of “natural law” theology:
These bishops showed “no resistance,” Mr. George said, to conservatives’ pleas to “call the evil by name” in terms of the clergy’s sexual-abuse crisis.
What does he mean? I think we know. The oly way to deflect attention away from the Church’s responsibility for these abuses is to find an “other” that is really responsible. The medieval campaign to elide all distinctions between gay people and child-abusers is now back in full swing. How full of the spirit of Jesus, no?
The Dish 