I couldn’t even get through it.

Orly Taitz is more lucid than that boxed-wine addict.

I can’t believe I got out of the boat.

My favorite part has to be near the end. After implying that if it had really happened, the Secret Service would have been involved, she then quotes this from Media Matters (boldface is mine):

That’s fine, except Broun’s staff confirmed the “shoot Obama” question was asked. The Congressman has since sort-of apologized for his non-reaction to the “shoot Obama” question, and the Secret Service was alarmed enough by the question to interview the person who asked it. (The elderly man apologized for the what he said was a joke.)

Still waiting for the video Ann?

she then says, “Yes, I am. For video or some other good-enough evidence.” Then about two paragraphs and a second update later, she says, “And I’m just now paying attention to the business about the Secret Service in the Media Matters piece that links to it. (…) So, I’ll accept now that the quote was made.”

Mighty gracious of you there, Ann.

what is she talking about when she says she received a death threat? I couldn’t find anything in the link she provided and I’m too tired to conduct an exhaustive search. Is that just an alcohol-induced “joke”?

Wow that was great. I kept expecting her to write “So I tied an onion to my belt, cause that was the style in those days…”

Of course in her case “belt” takes on a different meaning, though it might include an onion.

I, too, got out of the boat.

My first thought is: Alcohol poisoning. The poor woman got a bad box. Maybe it was one of those bargain boxes from a Cash Discount Type outlet. So Sad.

“So, I’ll accept now that the quote was made.” Or, as that other renowned, and equally adept social critic used to say, “Never mind.”

“Why would a whole crowd of people give a big laugh when they found themselves in the presence of someone malevolent and stupid?”

I guess we’ll have to ask her students.

Aside from everything else she gets spectacularly wrong (like droning on for several paragraphs about how the “shoot Obama” quote never happened), she somehow manages to cram this in as well:

the leftosphere where no one seems to mind all the violent and over-the-top language and imagery at the week-long Wisconsin protests

I’m sure examples of the above will be rapidly forthcoming, because it would be shoddy to assert something without evidence.

I think it’s all the Hitler/Nazi comparisons. And please, who’s ever seen a right-winger make a comparison like that?

My favorite:

As I’ve said — nay, announced!

We just had a snow flurry in Los Gatos. It has been 35 years since we last had snow here (pretty close to sea level).

The end.

Not quite so fast. All the world can get on the interwebs and see that Your Weather Sucks…at least an inch of rain in 24 hours, and a 51 degree high…

P.B., San Diego!

Loved the very first comment to her post from law student:

Apparently, were it not for the Zapruder film, JFK would be alive today.

The Birchers are ‘meeting’ in Feenix today – they’ve brought their cheap Chinese-made t-shirts to sell and their little styrofoam hats and their .45s…. I’m hopeful that it’s going to rain like anything on them, just to let them know that climate change is very very real.

I have to concur with Gov. Scott Walker that Althouse is grossly over paid.

I must have missed it.

When did Ann start writing for The Onion?

What a small mind. The “law school” which employs her is as worthless as UT, since they obviously continue to employ this harridan and the equally vapid Instpundit. Believe you me, had this occurred during the Bush administration, Winebox Annie would have been the first to leap to his defense. The hypocrisy would be stunning, if La Althouse had not already proved her duplicity and devotion to the Right Wing. But then, some people are just beyond shame. I was going to post this at her joint, but thought better of it. What a stupid woman, and thanks for calling her out, once again. Between her and McArdle…they are in a race to the bottom.

FTW.

And Thunderbird Ann posted this at 10 AM yesterday. Looks like happy hour for the tenured in Wisconsin is getting earlier and earlier in the day. I wonder if that was gained through collective bargaining by her union? If so, she may want to grab a sign and wobble down to the state house.

Erm…Annie, dear, put down that bottle and do try to pay attention: collective bargaining rights are not a left-right issue. They are a union v union-busting issue. Case you didn’t know it(and obviously you didn’t if I’m the one having to explain it to you), Republicans are union members, too. Also.

They are a union v union-busting issue

Another reason for the resemblance of her rant to Grampa Simpson, who was trying to get hired as a union-buster:

“We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ‘em stories that don’t go anywhere…”

…must … not .. click … teh stoopid burns …

So, I’ll accept now that the quote was made.

How Un-Worthing of her!

Aaron’s probably having a Stewie Griffin-sized fit, stamping his little feet, pounding his cute little balled-up fists on the floor.

A true Emily Litella moment. That woman (Ann) is an idiot.

So much wine, not enough time. The right’s sudden fetish with “quotation marks” will inevitably turn around and bite them in the ass. Frigging dumb asses.

I did and just realized she’s a rather prolific “vid”e”o” maker now! It’s like a real reality show called “Imbiber” or something, also too. You get to really see what it would be like married to her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYtypArGlIk

And watch her get schooled by a random young guy with a sign, which she puts online anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-IqoJu-i0

People like her and Aaron “We’re not” Worthing are not funny to me anymore, and just creep me out now. It’s so weird how they have absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever. It’s like something is just completely missing from their psyche that most people have. Is it a mental illness?

Is it a mental illness?

It’s prevalent on Wall Street.

Violent? Over the top? Wisconsin?

Maybe she thinks knitting needles are deadly weapons?

(there are so many WI Capitol pix returned by google, I can’t find the one I saw).

Indeed.

Cops and firefighters, both unionized, tend to be conservative. Make that tended.

“…where no one seems to mind all the violent and over-the-top language and imagery at the week-long Wisconsin protests…”

Actually, I mind. I didn’t care for the remarks of the AG representative from Indiana who recommended that live ammunition be used against the pro -union anti-Walker protesters.

Hey, I hear some Madison restaurant patrons booed Walker when he went into a local dining establishment. Good for them.

Man, that’s really it, isn’t it?

Oh, and this post’s “substantial” “title” reminded me of one of my old favs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEEPmGC_18g

Could be Ann’s anthem.

Just so you know, Tbogg, despite what the box-drunk professor has to say about how stupid she is, something DID happen today.

Finally, some good news.

That’s quite an honor, it usually only goes to real movers and shakers.

Oh wait I see.

Everyone knows (or at least everyone in the Althouse outhouse) that standing up to your divinely anointed corporate overlords is an act of unspeakable violence.

Could be Ann’s anthem.

Why, yes, yes it could.

This may be Aaron’s.

I’ve really enjoyed Ann’s commentary on the teacher’s union dispute in Wisconsin. Her position as a tenured professor gives her perspective a certain gravitas.

After all, she’s a tenured public employee, so she knows whereof she speaks when she trashes elementary school teachers.

Wonder what her pension from Wisconsin might look like? A pittance, I’m sure.

Anybody know what kind of health care plan covers tenured professors at the University of Wisconsin and what they pay for it?

As I said upthread, she obviously epitomizes the problem Gov. Walker is addressing.

ISWYDT. But, apparently, she didn’t give an acceptance booty shake. That’s too bad.

I’ve always wondered where that giant chocolate syrup lake was!

Oh, and here’s a quick tip o’ the box to Ann

“Tip o’ the box” FTW.

I’d rather have a free box in front of me than a botox behind me.

I think we can safely say that this is just the tip of the box in her case, much more inebriated rambling dredged up from the dark depths of Château Carton to come.

The videos — pure comedy gold. Especially the first one in which she and her male companion drive in circles around the Wisconsin State House for eight minutes following two salt trucks trying to establish if they are being driven by malingering state employees. Around and around they go.

I’d suppose this feller woulda joyfully driven a dredger to those darkened dangerous deceitful depths…

Dick Fink defends Koch Industries.

Thanks, TPM.

Shorter John Hinderaker: LEAVE THE KOCH BROTHERS ALONE!

Longer John Hinderaker over at Powerline

The Left’s War on the Kochs

The most extraordinary story in the news these days is the all-out assault that the Left is mounting against Charles and David Koch and their company, Koch Enterprises. A day doesn’t go by–hardly an hour goes by–without some new attack being launched against these two lonely libertarians.

Why? Simply because they are rich–their company is one of the best-run and most successful in the world–and conservative. The Left is trying to drive them out of politics and, more important, to deter any other people of means from daring to support conservative politicians or causes.

[...]

The Left is corrupt from top to bottom. If one were to single out the single most corrupt aspect of American public life, it would be this: Democratic officeholders give away the store to public employee unions–at the taxpayers’ expense, of course, not theirs-so that the unions can in turn kick back a portion of their collusive spoils to those very politicians in the form of campaign contributions. It is this corrupt relationship that threatens to bankrupt many of our states and municipalities. As Michael Barone summed it up:

In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.

That is precisely correct. And the Democrats don’t want any competition. Hence their increasingly bizarre war against the lonely libertarians, Charles and David Koch.

UPDATE: Dan Blatt of Gay Patriot adds what I think is also a valid point: the Left’s war on the Koch brothers reflects liberals’ inability to understand conservatives, and what motivates them.

All conservatives want is that we worship people with money. Is that so darn hard? After all, they’re better than us: just look at how much money they have! If we’re so virtuous, why aren’t we rich? Or why can’t we at least acknowledge that having money is proof of your goodness, unless you’re George Soros?

[Hinderaker:] the Left’s war on the Koch brothers reflects liberals’ inability to understand conservatives, and what motivates them

Actually, we do understand them, which is why we don’t accept their dishonest assertions about their own motivations. Walker now on MTP lying his ass off about his union-busting ways.

For the record, the period at the end of this sentence is more substantial than anything Althouse has ever written.

Incoming or outgoing storm? (I want to know so I can be ready.)

They’d be happy if we just bowed and scraped as they crawled by.

I did find out (I’m always the last to learn these things) that Althouse married one of her frequent commenters and that’s the guy (“Meade”) that she’s driving around with. see http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/fashion/05althouse.html

He’s a gardener. Chauncey? Hah.

I never get tired of the game called “What If Ann Althouse Had To Practice Law For Real?” In this case, she makes the disingenuous argument that you can’t prove Broun heard the question, neener-neener, and then favors us with this:

Flashback to spitgate. I say, as I said then: Produce the video.

ADDED: Media Matters links to this post and says:
Althouse later announced that she’d only believe the “shoot Obama” story if she saw a video of the encounter.
Care to quote me? This is about quotes and you can’t quote me saying that, because I didn’t. Pathetic. I’m announcing that Media Matters is pathetic. And you can quote me.

They’re paraphrasing you, Ann, and that’s exactly what you were getting at… oh, why bother?