Is it the stench of desperation or madness that wafts to us over the intertubes? Something rotten is at the house of Bill Buckley. Over to Roy Edroso:

END TIMES. These are dark, dark days at The Corner, where they now insist that “consorting” with Bill Ayers “alone disqualifies Obama from being president.” Mark Levin cries:

How can anyone who actually follows this stuff, who reads Freddoso, Kurtz, and scores of other reliable sources of information, conclude that Obama is not some wild-eyed radical?

This is rather like saying, “How can someone who lives in a urinal not smell like piss?”

Levin was responding to an exasperated query by David Frum, who hasn’t been dazzled by Palin Fever, and wrote:
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Hackery, thy name is Charles Krauthammer.

It appears Krauthammer has something stuck in his craw. And I think it’s called “Charlie Gibson”.

Charlie Gibson’s Gaffe

The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.

There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration — and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.

He asked Palin, “Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?”

She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, “In what respect, Charlie?”

Sensing his “gotcha” moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine “is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense.”

In Krauthammer’s world, it is far more insulting for a journalist to make a gaffe (that is, if you agree it was a gaffe), than for a major American political party to choose an lying oaf and a dolt to run as president and vice president, respectively.

What does that tell us about Charles Krauthammer? Plenty.

When Wingnuts Tremble

The Palin circus has drowned out almost everything else, but you may have seen that the Obama campaign has pushed the Department of Justice to investigate the group behind the Ayers ads for possible violation of FEC guidelines. Meanwhile, The Politco reported late last week:
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