Donated how much money to a pet Bush cause before her husband was pardoned?

Compare this with the pardon of Marc Rich by Bill Clinton in the last days of his presidency: '"With respect to the pardon of Marc Rich and Pincus Green, none of the regular procedures were followed," Roger Adams, a department pardon attorney, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.'

Once more, Salon's moral compass slews wildly.

That raises my own hackles. How did Ms. Traister put it?

"This is a tune Roiphe has been warbling for 14 years now, and it surely soothes those men who are sick of being told that sex is no longer theirs to take whenever they want it, that they have to share domestic duties, that they have to wear condoms to keep themselves and their partners safe."

This kind of generalized slur is so prevelant, and so often blindly accepted, in feminist discourse that it largely passes without comment by the faithful.

Were such a generalization to be made about another group (lesbians? blacks?) by a vile Republican, the screams for his/her head would be loud indeed.

"This is a tune that Jesse Jackson has been warbling for decades now, and it surely soothes those blacks who are sick of being told that they need to get off welfare, stop smoking crack, and quit committing any other offensive characterization that comes to mind."

Lacks a certain, well, generosity of spirit, doesn't it?

But, man, to be able to peer into the soul of another person and know when they were saved...that's talent.

"I think this point is indicative of the ignorance about military servicepersons. I grew up in a military town (pop approx. 80% military, 20% civilian), and I think the layout of these towns indicate quite clearly the type of people the military attracts, and more importantly, the type of people these young men become."

I've been around openly homosexual people since my early teens. I somehow doubt that exposure qualifies me to make a series of bold statements indicating I found most of them to be bitchy, manipulative, melodramatic, etc. etc., Nor would it make me qualified to draw inferences about the group as a whole, particularly about the psychological or cultural deficiencies that drew them to the lifestyle. One might think I was, you know, bigoted or something.

Yet, as always, making sweeping generalizations about the "right" targes (conservatives, religious people, the military) is not only acceptable, but condoned.

According to Michelle Malkin, among the other factual errors brought unto us by the enLightened One:

"Last May, he claimed that tornadoes in Kansas killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.

"...in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

"Last March, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s Dreams from My Father: “Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.”

Did these errors manage a headlined story in Salon written by Joan Walsh?

Just wondering...