Regarding Glenn’s repeated (and totally ignored) updates, it looks like Greater Wingnuttia is going to hunker down in “Plame 2” mode and deny that anything wrong happened, and even if it did, the Democrats are surely to blame.

From the blog Sweetness and Light:

“This is just what we needed. Another gutless attorney general. Another out of control special prosecutor. And another media circus…

Never mind there is no crime here, or even the possibility of a crime… What a waste of the taxpayers’ money, just to placate the howling banshees on the left and in the media. (Though I repeat myself.)”

So, just like Valerie Plame wasn’t “undercover” (her husband introduced her at parties as a “CIA agent”) and poor Scooter Libby couldn’t have possibly committed a crime at all, we have another “media induced” scandal about a non-crime because the media is a bunch of insane left-wing radicals intent on destroying America.

That’s the spin.

Sweet Huckabee, I’m tired of these people.

http://tinyurl.com/2yqnre

Well, thank-goodness that there’s no longer any racism in this country and we don’t have to worry about that issue dividing us any longer. Michelle Malkin explains that Obama’s victory in Iowa proves that bigotry is dead and it’s time for the mainstream media and the Democrats to stop talking about it:

“Ok. Now that Barack Obama has won a resounding victory in 94.9 percent white Iowa, will the MSM and the Dems stop yammering about racist, un-diverse voters already? The bigotry concern troll act is getting old and tired.”

There’s one little problem with Michelle’s analysis, however. It wasn’t Republicans who gave Obama his victory – and they will be the ones (cue Jonah and Insta-racist) who will be using scare tactics, the code words, and not-so-subtle racism attempting to divide the nation.

Jonah’s “theory” of “social unraveling” is attempting to write in a way that appeals to the “subconscious” but Glenn has called him on it -- just like Bob Herbert called the Republican Party on their “Southern Strategy”:

"The truth is that there was very little that was subconscious about the G.O.P.'s relentless appeal to racist whites. Tired of losing elections, it saw an opportunity to renew itself by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks."

http://tinyurl.com/2w8tyl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Of all the bizarre coverage I’ve seen, the meme that Hillary’s “breakdown” (an actual expression of emotion) was really reprehensible, calculated behavior on her part takes the prize in partisan distortion.

This opinion, expressed by Bill Kristol, Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh among others, shows just how deep and desperate the right-wing’s hatred of the Clintons is – they will not even give her credit for being a human being.

Really, is any sort of “unity” possible with people this far gone? No.

What’s possible, however, is unity with those who have finally noticed and become embarrassed by this sort of behavior and rhetoric – and that, I believe, is precisely what’s beginning to happen.

"It's the tears. She pretended to cry. The women felt sorry for her. And she won." ~ Bill Kristol

What condescending, insulting, sexist claptrap that is. Here’s what he’s actually saying:

It’s all the women’s fault – they are too emotional and too easily manipulated – and they’re not as smart as me (Bill Kristol) to know deceitful “calculated” emotion when they see it.

A manly man (like me – Bill Kristol) is not susceptible to “emotion” and sees it as either dishonest or weakness. But women, being weak themselves, identify with weakness and emotion – it clouded their judgments and thus, they ended up voting for Hillary upon mistaken assumptions and irrational emotion. I am better than that.

Ann Coulter came right out and said that giving women the right to vote was a mistake. Bill Kristol is slightly more subtle.

From Bryan at Malkin’s “Hot Air”:

Seeing Alan Colmes toss up Gulf of Tonkin as his first reaction, rather than, say, the USS Cole, to cast skepticism on the US here is just a bonus…. But I’m sure he supports the troops.

Yes, it’s beginning to look like quite a bonus – and that Colmes instinct – not Bryan’s – was correct. Especially Bryan’s reflexive insult to Colmes about “supporting the troops”: if you dare question the veracity of any statement by your government then you can’t “support the troops.”

That’s just so pathetic.