Who You Calling A John?

vitter.jpgShape-Shifting in conservative circles continues in order to discuss whore fancying Louisiana Senator David Vitter. Jeffrey Lord in The American Spectator goes a long way round the barn to pair Vitter with Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

The link? The Kennedy Library Foundation takes corporate money! And apparently, most politicians do! “If he really believes what he says he believes, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. could start by remembering that prostitution isn’t just about accepting favors from women.”

It would appear that the former Reagan staffer and CEO of right-wing YOUTUBE alternative QUBE TV, if he really believes what he writes, is calling Reagan and, all politicians, Johns.

And while his sister serves on the Library Foundation board, Kennedy does not.

What is is QUBE? It posts videos, but as Lewis Black pointed out on the Daily Show [sadly not on line] most of their rip roaring conservative alternative content to YOUTUBE videos …. are in fact links to YOUTUBE.

They also encourage the kids to send in graphics. “We know you are out there, and we certainly know you are smart, funny, opinionated, thoughtful, creative, clever, well-read, savvy and – conservative! Join the fun!”

Shall we?

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Fred Ready

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The Fred Thompson papers already have a home, precluding bidding war for the inevitable Thompson Presidential Library?

They sleep gently in the company of Estes Kefauver’s archive.

This Always To Tourists


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No end of woe as Springfield Illinois lumbers from loss to loss. Fewer tourists are visiting the home of the Abraham Lincoln Library and other, actual Lincoln sites, in a year when Chicago and downstate Illinois as a whole are up.

Hopes of turning it around may rest on a tourist guide where children can collect stamps from all the local sites, from the Museum of Funeral Customs [motto: “Death is Only the Beginning!”] to The Edwards Place, home of the Lincoln Courting Couch. Scattered early reports in the Springfield Journal Register have “a handful” or “two or three a day” tourists visiting sites bearing the guides, with 20,000 on the streets.

Citizens of Springfield! You can’t get a break.

The latest indignity to befall the Land of Lincoln is it’s snubbing by the producers of The Simpsons Movie, who held a bake-off of the nation’s Springfields to decide where to premiere the film next week.

Illinois’s effort was brightened by referencing the classic episode where Groundskeeper Willie doused the eternal flame on Adlai Stevenson’s grave. springfield-lincoln-simpsons.jpg

The full entry is really quite bad:

Former Hippie Outed In Bush Whitehouse

The Nixon Vaults give up their secrets slowly, but the revelations are stumbling forth.

We now learn that a youthful Karl Rove suggested campus screenings of marijuana classic “Reefer Madness” in order to cement the Nixon majority.


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Gleefully Underlined!


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Wonkette, channeling Slate, discovers the lasting joys of Nixon for a new generation.