Code Pinky

Neil Cavuto predictably spins the story of the vicious liberal monster who bit off a heroic old man’s finger.

Unfortunately, eyewitness reports differ significantly from Mr. Rice’s account:

Next on the anti-reformer’s harassment list was a pro-reformer who appeared to be in his late 30s or early 40s, was stocky, and several inches shorter than the 65-year-old. Though Kuns isn’t sure how the pro-reformer ended up on the anti side of the street, she saw the two men face to face, exchanging words.

Then the anti-reformer in the orange shirt “punches him straight up in the face, right between the eyes.” The smaller pro-reformer’s glasses and hat flew off, and he fell into the street.

“I don’t know who started it wordwise,” Kuns said, “but I can tell you for sure that the guy who threw the first punch was the anti guy. And can he punch hard! He knocked this guy down into the street.”

The pro-reformer got up. The anti-reformer tried to block him from standing on the curb. A short scuffle ensued, and it was unclear to Kuns who was doing what to whom. The anti-reformers surrounding the fighting men stayed back. When the fight ended, the pro-reformer crossed the street and announced to the MoveOn rally that he’d bitten the man’s finger off.

And here’s an interesting tidbit:

The AP has since reported that a hospital spokeswoman said the anti-reformer lost half his finger, though doctors reattached it and sent him home last night. “She says he had Medicare,” the story states.

Okay, don’t hold back with the puns…

Doing Better

Now this is a vastly improved formulation of the Liberals’ “We can do better” theme that was more fully articulated at Ignatieff’s press conference in Sudbury on Sunday.

It will be interesting to see if he can translate this into a passionate, compelling stump speech.

Faux Outrages Du Jour

alan colmes gets double-teamed by a couple of harridans, Laura Ingraham and Monica Crowley, over two completely bogus non-issues that have the Wingnutosphere fired up with outrage at the moment.

Listening to Crowley rail on insanely about Orwellian “indoctrination” and drawing comparisons between Obama and Chairman Mao (not to mention Max Headroom, weirdly), it’s almost as if all of the hosts and right-wing pundits on Fox are desperately trying to “out-crazy” one another.

Fox’s ‘Tea Party Express Tour”

More “fair and balanced” reporting from Fox News.

Reporter Griff Jenkins (who most of the time appears to be a witless transplant from The Daily Show) is on the road traveling through the deep south talking to irate American protesters who want to “take their country back!”

Hmmm. Where was Fox News when millions of “far left loons” were protesting the war in Iraq?

Update: More tea-party madness.

Apparently, many of these people are willing to “die” and “shed blood” to “take back their country” and fight “enemies within” (per the Constitution). Scary.