WHO ELSE?

Armstrong Williams says he wasn’t the only conservative “journalist” on the government’s payroll. Hmmm. Who else? Williams should name names or shut up. I haven’t written anything about his pathetic role as a propagandist for the Bush administration, because it’s so self-evidently unethical it doesn’t need me to spell it out. But it says something about the cluelessness of someone in the Bush administration. I mean: why pay for propaganda when you can get it quite easily for free?

SPEAKING OF WHICH: I’m sorry, but I can’t help laughing at this paragraph from professional hysteric, Brent Bozell:

Loser: “South Park.” The producers of this curdled, malodorous black hole of Comedy Central vomit want to elicit only one sentence from viewers: “Did I just see that on television?” For anyone who thinks television today is not as offensive — and downright stupid as those “prudes” say it is, we suggest a look at the Dec. 1 episode. At the South Park “Whore-Off” competition, Paris Hilton inserts an entire pineapple into her vagina. A gay man in a biker vest then takes off his pants and puts the entire body of Paris Hilton up his rectum. Remember this episode the next time some TV critic raves about the “talent” behind “South Park.”

Actually, of course, the show is far smarter than that, as Tom Monster explains. South Park is the only show I know smart enough to defend being a total slut while wanting to keep it from being broadcast to children. Bad slut: Ms Hilton. Good slut: Mr Slave. You’d be surprised how many men in harnesses would never dream of broadcasting their sexual amusement beyond the tight confines of their own subculture. They’re subtler conservatives than Mr Bozell.

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