Thursday, February 24 2005
CHEATERS LIE AND LIARS CHEAT: Who should win the award for biggest liar and cheat? The nominees are:

Barry Bonds: When asked about his steroid use on Tuesday, Bonds slammed the media as "liars", and told them they should be focused on "other issues" like alcohol and tobacco use. Then Bonds played the race card, saying that he's receiving additional scrutiny because he's black.

(Note to Barry: dude, you took steroids. How does your race have anything to do with that? Jason Giambi is getting a lot of scrutiny too, and he's not on the verge of breaking one of the game's most famous records with the help of "the cream" and "the clear." When a reporter asked whether you considered taking steroids cheating, you replied: "As cheating? I don't -- I don't know what cheating is." You got that right.)

Ward Churchill: The CU professor has been outed as an academic fraud. He's also been accused of having distorted and misrepresented his heritage over the years for professional gain. On Tuesday night Churchill saw fit to declare that he's the victim of a right-wing attack.

(Note to Ward: When you say things that are outrageously offensive to a vast majority of Americans, you're going to take serious heat. That's why it's called "public outrage". You think this entire episode is the product of conspiracy by the knuckle-dragging right? Paul Campos - a left-leaning colleague of yours at CU - has been one of your most vocal critics.

As the new self-described "poster boy for academic freedom" we expect you to fervently support the right of conservative speakers to appear on college campuses across the country - even if their views are despicable to you - and to defend them against "left-wing attacks.")

What these two men have in common is that they're willing to pull up bogeymen (racism & the vast right-wing conspiracy) to distract and defend themselves from the real issues at hand. Send in your vote by clicking here. I expect it to be a really tight race.

HEATHER BEATS SUSAN SILLY: If you've been following the Kinsley-Estrich thing you absolutely have to find five minutes to read Heather MacDonald's smack-down of Estrich over at City Journal today.

THEY MUST BE EX-PATS: Davids Medienkritik has pictures from a pro-Bush rally in Mainz, Germany. - T. Bevan 11:32 am Link | Email | Send to a Friend