Battle Of The Right-Wing Stink Bombs

The jury's still out on the winner of this week's battle of the right-wing stink bombs, but liberal bloggers and clever DUers have been busy sniffing out the worst of the worst (with honors, sir) and causing White House-sanctioned sphincters to tighten even more than usual. Remember, if you can smell it, a right-winger dealt it. Don your gasmasks and enjoy!

Victoria Toensing Stinks!

Thank goodness, we have Larry Johnson to set Mrs. Joe diGenova straight:


Read the rest. Larry was just getting warmed up in those opening paragraphs. And if you agree that Victoria Toensing stinks, here's a stinky blast from the recent rightwing stink bomb past...

Jeff Gannon Still Stinks!

Crooks and Liars caught BushCo's favorite paid porno escort shill sitting in the audience at this week's National Press Club Round Table. Oh, and C & L asks readers to supply their own captions. Go for it!


Hm. Gannon still looks smug, self-loving, and seriously stinky. Remember his military macho poses on his porno escort website? To quote Dustin Hoffman in Wag The Dog, "That was nothing." There's a much, much stinkier place than ol' Jeff Gannon's website...

Walter Reed Stinks!

Did Bush Know about the conditions inside Building 18? Naturally, Bush knew that conditions at Walter Reed Hospital were... um, stinky. Tony Snow said so. From Think Progress:


Bush stinks! But you knew that already. Read the rest of the transcript to find out how Tony Snowjob backtracked on his initial response. It really stinks.

Sometimes Even Duds Stink To High Heaven

Especially when Condoleezza Rice is in the room. Truthdig explains the real meaning behind Rice's description of her chat with Olmert and Abbas as "useful and productive" actually ended with "no new agreements." This one's a real stinker that went absolutely nowhere. But then, what else is new in Bushcoville?

Finkelstein's Flatulent Fabrications... um, Stink!

Conwebwatch has busted NewsBusters, big time. Jeez, reading Finkelstein makes you realize how a graduate of the Ann Coulter School of Journalism would operate. Here are just a few of Finkelstein's sphincter eliminations:


Yuckity yuck yuck yuck, y'all. "Way too much credit for winning" is my personal favorite. Like I said in the beginning, the jury's still out, but...

Scooter Libby Stinks!

Summation day in the Libby perjury/obstruction of justice trial finally arrived this week, but the best summation comes from Christy Hardin Smith at firedoglake:


No wonder bloggers are drawing fire from all sides lately. Way to go, Christy! By the way, to read all of FDL's Libby trial posts, click on over to Multi Media Netroots. Each individual link is listed in order. By the way, Scooter isn't the only person stinking up the office of the vice president...

Dick Cheney Stinks!

Sometimes a single blog post deserves printing and filing for posterity. Case in point, Emptywheel (at FDL) has crafted the best Plame Timeline I've read to date. And the indictment of Tricky Dick Cheney is as precise as a surgeon's scapel work in this post.

It's Called "Fair Use," Stinky Asshats!

Waaambulance alert! the RNC is whining because Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is posting C-Span excerpts of House speeches on her blog. Kos sets the wingnuts straight.

Update: The RNC now says, "My bad. C-Span doesn't own the copyright to the House floor footage. Oops. Look over there! Those nasty Dems are undermining the president's authority to wage unending war!" Which brings us to...

Republicans Who Hate The Troops Stink!

If Dems really want to explain their Iraq war resolution to the six remaining Bush supporters in the country, they should revisit Bob Dole's 1995 anti-Clinton troop deployment to Bosnia screed. (Hat tip to NormaR for the link!).


Where There's Stinky, There's Also Sweet

Kudos To Colorado Blog! Blogger Wendy Morris reports that Colorado Confidential, the blog that began by reporting that a GOP fundraiser (with Ann Coulter) raised no money, is being honored during this year's Colorado Society of Professional Journalists annual Mark of Excellence awards.

Congrats, Colorado Confidential!

So Easy, Even A CaveFreeper Could Understand!

Blogger http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-02-18%20--%20what%20would%20george%20w%20bush%20do.html">Wellington Grey's fan base is growing by leaps and bounds. Maybe this is why:


Now, wasn't that easy, Freepers?

Who's That Soledad O'Brien Clone?

Why, it's a FOX Snooze escapee named Kiran Chetry, who started work at CNN the day after getting the ax from FOX. Media Bistro (at TV Newser) has the link to her nasty-assed pink slip letter. Well worth the read, but one has to wonder: Why did CNN hire her away from FAUXSnooze? Anyone know why?

Smart, Succinct, & Scooterrific!

Need a smartly written summary of Scooter's defense? Check out H2O Man's Journal. It's all in there. All there was, that is. If you could call it a defense... for (gulp) $5 million dollars. Maybe Scooter won't be so supportive of massive corporate profits anymore after his legal bill arrives. For the Cliff's Notes version of Scooter's defense, no one does it better than Buzzflash (Scooter's "Chronic Amnesia"):


Thanks to The Sneeze for inspiring this week's column title! Since I'm thanking bloggers...

Thank A DUer!

Thanks to Solly Mack for explaining FOX "News" to me.


Makes perfect sense to me.

Finally, thanks to K8-EEE for this post:


Hm. The freeper who penned that idea is a real wit. Or at least half of one.

Sweet posts this week, DUers!

Merely shining a light on the stinky residue of rightwingers won't make them stop emitting their stinky smears. After all, that's their stinky stock in trade. What say we, liberals? Shall we continue to make their sphincters tighten? The ayes have it.

-- Delilah Boyd

Well done, Delilah!