Fred Barnes has a new article out in The Weekly Standard on the origins of the surge in Iraq, but controversy has erupted in left-wing circles over an aside: "Rather than a turning point, the events of June prompted a fleeting moment of optimism. The week before Camp David, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq, had been killed. (Cheney has a piece of the house where Zarqawi died on display at his residence.)"
On Wednesday night, mad-dog radio host Mike Malloy referred to the Standard article by "truly certifiable maniac" Fred Barnes. "This guy is beyond crazy," charged Malloy."I'm sure he eats children's arms and legs for afternoon snacks. This guy is insane." As he described the Barnes passage that that Cheney has a Zarqawi-house souvenir, Malloy added: "I'm surprised that Cheney doesn't have a piece of Zarqawi's body."
Dismissed by Air America, Mad Dog Malloy is the pride and joy of the new Nova M radio network, started up by Air America founder Sheldon Drobny.
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Shoot, Tim, that's "just
February 2, 2008 - 08:22 ET by motherbeltShoot, Tim, that's "just another day in the office" for a left-wing radio host. They eat, drink, sleep and breathe that stuff.
If you awoke one of them from a ten-year coma, they'd probably wake up yelling "Bush is Hitler!" or "Cheney is a war criminal!!!"
The hypocrisy of the left lives on!
February 2, 2008 - 12:14 ET by goldenthroatMB,
Had this been Glen Beck or El Rushbo making similar comments the MSM would have been demanding their heads on a silver platter!
You're right, motherbelt - "just another day in the office" for a left wing radio host.
"Yeah! That's the ticket!" - Tommy Flanagan
The Last Line
February 2, 2008 - 08:26 ET by Pete Wilsontells it all for me. Dismissed by Air America. Just how bad does a liberal have to be to be dismissed by Air America? It seems certain to me that he has more audience on NB that on air!
You're right, Pete
February 2, 2008 - 09:26 ET by OldSailor88There comes a time in your life where you need to look in the mirror and say, "I suck at this. I need a new vocation."
Instead of, "I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!"
Stultus est sicut stultus facit
Reagan staged it
February 2, 2008 - 08:44 ET by imau2fanAnd Fred Barnes is the one who is "beyond crazy"? In his pre-Air America days, Malloy once suggested that the assassination attempt on Reagan was staged to drive up his approval ratings.
If you're too nuts even for Air America, that's pretty bad.
If you're too nuts even
February 2, 2008 - 08:46 ET by motherbeltIf you're too nuts even for Air America, that's pretty bad.
Ain't that the truth! LOL
"This guy is beyond
February 2, 2008 - 09:20 ET by Jack BauerSure... there's nothing like this sort of 'reasoned comment' to make you think it's like Charles Manson calling someone "crazy."
Fred Barnes is a McCain apologist
February 2, 2008 - 09:40 ET by Daniel BakerOne of the many on FoxNews moderate show
Mike Malloy is such a fraud.
February 2, 2008 - 11:02 ET by Roger the ShrubberMike Malloy is such a fraud. EVERYBODY knows we don't eat children under after sundown...
Come on RtS -
February 2, 2008 - 14:39 ET by drillanwrWe keep them alive and chained to the wall so we can drink daily from their blood ...
If we actually eat them they're gone.
If we keep them alive and suck their blood, which they replenish, who knows how long our food supply can last, eh?
*taking
February 3, 2008 - 21:17 ET by Roger the Shrubber*taking notes...*
Baby Back Ribs
February 2, 2008 - 12:06 ET by third eyeMalloy has clearly been spending way too much time with Mark Penn.
"I'm sure he eats
February 2, 2008 - 14:03 ET by rbosque"I'm sure he eats children's arms and legs for afternoon snacks. This guy is insane."
Don't abortionists kill children? So he must be talking about himself.
Cheney has a piece of the
February 2, 2008 - 14:36 ET by drillanwrCheney has a piece of the house where Zarqawi died on display at his residence.
THAT is so cool!
I'm surprised that Cheney doesn't have a piece of Zarqawi's body.
No, THAT's rotting in Hell ...
"I'm sure he eats children's arms and legs for afternoon snacks. This guy is insane."
No, THAT's your precious UN peace keepers ...
Years ago, my team and I
February 2, 2008 - 19:14 ET by BDYears ago, my team and I had an informal bounty on Abu Sayyaf Terrorist Abu Sabaya's ever present Oakley sunglasses. THey would have made the perfect momento of the zapping of a VERY BAD guy.
I challenge Mike Malloy to think we are bad people after researching Abu Sabaya and his role in several beheadings of hostages.
Update- none of us got them.
I think Malloy is has a
February 2, 2008 - 20:51 ET by GregEI think Malloy is has a direct line into the radio show "Coast to Coast" (George Noory). LOL
Spawn of Phil Donahue
February 3, 2008 - 03:44 ET by Lame CherryThe world of the 70's produced a flame thrower named Phil Donahue who ejaculated upon the world the Molotov Mob. Like most reporters he found out being a nobody could be remedied by screaming loud, acting loud and attaching yourself to important people.
My favorite moment was when he interviewed Katherine Hepburn and she had no idea who he was. The world needs to STOP TALKING TO THESE PEOPLE so they remain no one.
Many picked up Donahue's reins, but it was Al Franken who made a career out of being a vampire sucking the fame from Rush Limbaugh to become someone.
You can see Arianna Huffington a blonde who married well, road Reagan's popularity and found out she was a nobody so she decided to become Drudge of the mindless left.
Olberman though showed the world how to even out Franken Franken in being a washed up fired nobody who started screaming about Bill O'Reilly to make himself a fellow Soviet power in the room.
All these piss ants learned this and Mr. Huston has a rapper who does good in mimic other rappers, but his message is "good" by being the Weird Al Yankovic of not rap rapping.............I seem to remember that Bill Cosby in the Electric Company did a whole lot more for all children than to mirror idiocy. He changed mediums.
One does not lower the standard to become a message, one raises the standard so kids and people understand you are more than something of the mass scream and they soon are following your positives.
As John Wayne did uplifting work and scolded Clint Eastwood for being a thug in Dirty Harry.........Wayne proved right.
This is the problem in it now in with the big shots of the right all being followed around and sucked upon that people like Malloy have to pick on...........Fred Barnes?
Fredman is not exactly top rung and most liberals wouldn't know what the Clark Kent of print even is. Calling Fred insane is like calling toast a weapon of mass destruction.
But Malloy suffers from lack of choice and being stuck on stupid of "for the children" from the Clinton years.
Is it so hard to actually make an entertaining program, informative and to find things the left can bite into?
Satire as Mr. Limbaugh states must be based in reality to be funny and make a point..........Fred Barnes is hardly Jack the Ripper.......a better analogy would be Frank Burns in MASH.......don't touch him as the dullness wears off.
Wonderful legacy you left there Phil Donahue.
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