Krehbiel's Korner

Blogs on the right are saying Gov. Sarah Palin resigned because the left’s smear tactics finally got to her, blogs on the left are saying Gov. Palin quit because she’s dumb and irrational.  Not too many people are saying what I think is at least one of the real reasons:  She can make a heck of a lot more money on the public speaking circuit leading “Team Sarah” around the country than she can as governor, where there are too many pesky ethical considerations.

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So I guess SWAC Girl was in Richmond recently taking pictures again (which seems to be her life's work now that the Republican party is leaning more moderate). What's funny is that I've lived in Virginia all my life -- have lived around Richmond for most of my life -- and I've never seen any of the buildings in her pictures, let alone been inside them. I suck.

A while back, pseudonymous blogger "Teddy Roosevelt" popped up* in the Virginia blogosphere to oppose the rhetoric from Bloggers 4 Sayre. He delivered a shocking bombshell (superfluous writing used for dramatic effect): On June 2, Teddy alleged that "Elle" of In-Politically Correct is really Ann Taetzsch, Staunton Republican Committee Chairperson, and "General Grievous' Dog" is really Augusta County Chairman Kurt Michael. Several other Virginia bloggers picked up on the news and repeated it, and it now seems to be regarded as established lore.

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I've criticized the CASTLE bloggers (aka. oasis + launchpad) a lot lately so I figure it's only fair that I also say I approve of their campaign to use candles and signs to show support for the troops, as reported in the Staunton News Leader: Candles support troops; signs call for victory. There's not a thing wrong with it, and I applaud their conviction.

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The Virginia political blogosphere is (mostly) a cesspool of incestuous, self-indulgent children with dreams of working from home so they don't have to get a real job. There, I said it. The secret's out. Sorry to blow ya'lls cover like that.

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I flippantly mentioned SWAC Girl in my last post, who is a relatively new fixture on the Virginia political scene. I've seen her special brand of conservative thought in the Virginia Political Blog aggregator from time to time, but I haven't read her posts too extensively. (They generally got tiresome after the first sentence or two.) I just figured she was yet another rabid George Allen supporter with too much spare time on her hands, trying to turn to the new-fangled Internets blog medium to get her pre-Women's Suffrage message out before the elections. I thought she'd disappear again. But lo, she's still around after the elections, and less enlightened than ever, so in the best traditions of Sun Tzu, I read more of The Girl's blog today. In case you're wondering, her basic message is a somewhat less eloquent clone of Michelle Malkin's and Ann Coulter's messages: Liberals are evil and, like the minions of Sauron in Mount Doom, they must be stopped before it's too late. That's basically it. Staggering nuance, there.

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Update: Waldo has taken down the Virginia Political Blogs aggregator. Sort of. He just renamed it Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll: "A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading." He promises, "The number of blogs in my blogroll will drop substantially before too long." Pretty hilarious. No more free ride, you ungrateful blogging noob suckuhs! Time to ruck up and earn your readership the old fashioned way. Unless you want to cry about how unfair it is, of course. :)

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I'm finding this "Waldo scandal" and its aftermath really entertaining. I must be incredibly bored this week. Anyway, I apologize for talking about this again, but it's like watching a train wreck. :)

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Wow, this is fun. I haven't written this much in a while.

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Ripped from the Virginia blogosphere headlines.

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From the SWAC Pack

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I'm continuing to monitor communications from the SWAC bloggers, because it's fun, and, you know, Waldo censored them, so there's no possible way for you guys to see their blogs anymore. Anyway, it's pretty informative stuff. Pat Robertson revealed that God will allow a major terrorist attack on a U.S. city later this year--what revelations will come from the SWAC Pack?

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There comes a time when "discussion" is no longer fruitful. I tried to challenge some of the beliefs of the SWAC Bloggers on In-Politically Correct today, but I guess I'm wasting my time. I tried to be polite on their blog but I don't need to do that so much here. :)

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I mentioned in my last post that I didn't know much about the state of terrorism in Indonesia, so I did a little web research.

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It's really tempting to make up a cute graphic and a cheesy slogan to put at the top of my posts regarding the SWAC Bloggers.

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Sheesh. I can't hardly get through one misleading SWAC Blogger post before another misleading SWAC Blogger post shows up in my reader: Political Correctness Will Kill Us ... Part 8. I can't keep up!

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A SWAC Blogger implied in a comment on his blog that I was "throwing out" words like bigot, xenophobe, and Islamophobe, perhaps suggesting that I was "smearing" them or had no sense of what the words meant. Vince mentioned something similar in a comment here. So I want to go back to my earlier post for a minute, where I wrote, referring to the SWAC bloggers: 'Just about every word out of their mouths offers further proof that they are quite deserving of the harsh labels "bigot," "Islamophobic," and/or "xenophobic."'

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Starting to get back to normal here at work, so I can actually keep up with my news reader again.

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(I'm trying something new here. It's loosely modeled after various media watchdog blogs like Media Matters and NewsBusters.)

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I see that many of the same Virginia bloggers that brought us the entertaining and divisive Bloggers 4 Sayre are back for an encore performance with Bloggers 4 Jim Gilmore. I wonder if they'll write anything about their candidate this time. Hyuk, hyuk. But seriously, I hope they talk about taxes... I love reading about taxation.

Since I first saw SWAC Girl's post welcoming Spank That Donkey to the ODBA, I couldn't help but think that there was going to be trouble in that organization. Could Spank and Shaun Kenney -- bitter rivals on opposite poles of Virginia Republicanism -- co-exist together in the same organization?

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"Tonight, I want to speak to the people of the Soviet Union, to tell them it’s true that our governments have had serious differences, but our sons and daughters have never fought each other in war. And if we Americans have our way, they never will.

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I had set a personal goal not to dissect SWAC propaganda anymore, but I stumbled on this post while pruning down my news reader last night: Anti-war protester complains about D.C. march. I can understand the desire to counter-protest and show support for troops, and I can even understand distaste for the more violent, corporate pacifists out there. But this? SWAC Girl wrote at great length in support of "war supporters who screamed epithets, spit, tried to knock down the banner bearers..." There wasn't even a half-hearted "now of course we don't condone that sort of activity, but..." in her post. Just paragraph after paragraph of rationalizations for denigrating protesters. That just doesn't strike me as a very positive vision for America.

Sometimes it's impossible to refrain from pointing out the ironies found on Bloggers 4 Sayre. Here's an amusing self-contradictory quote from Yankee Phillip.

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In a June 19 comment on The Virginia Federalist, Spank That Donkey claimed that 18 Virginia conservative bloggers came together for Bloggers 4 Sayre, topping even the Old Dominion Blogging Alliance. In fact, as of June 20, 2007, the ODBA aggregator contained a total of 44 blogs. Furthermore, a closer examination of Bloggers 4 Sayre through June 11, 2007 reveals that only 10 of the 18 bloggers listed posted more than once, and the majority of all posts were written by just 3 bloggers.

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