{"id":1279,"date":"2005-11-02T09:13:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/11\/choice_cuts\/"},"modified":"2005-11-02T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:13:33","slug":"choice_cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/11\/choice_cuts.html","title":{"rendered":"CHOICE CUTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We called him the Pick with an ‘R’<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Doug Ireland calls him Alito the Hun<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. “[I]t\u2019s hard to imagine a more reactionary judge,” Brother Doug writes. He begins his dissection with a couple of choice cuts:<\/p>\n

Theocratic pit bull Gary Bauer, the dwarf former presidential candidate of the Christer hard right, crowed that the appointment of Alito was “a grand slam,” and crackpot antediluvian Phyllis Schlafly — who called Bush\u2019s corporate flunky Harriet Miers a dangerous “feminist,” of all things — likewise gave her enthusiastic blessing …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More from Brother Doug’s terrible swift scalpel<\/strong><\/font color=#003399><\/a>: The Hun “would gut Roe v. Wade,” if given the chance, and<\/i> he’s homophobic — see his decision “in a case involving a disabled kid who was repeatedly a target of nasty anti-gay epithets.” He “doesn\u2019t have much use for the Bill of Rights\u2019 guarantees of freedom from unwarranted searches and seizures,” either. So “you can kiss a lot of your rights and liberties goodbye — permanently” if “Holy Joe” Lieberman and other right-wing Senate Dems “vote to short-circuit any filibuster” of the nomination.
\nTrouble is, unless we miss our guess, the Pick with an ‘R’ is too damned mainstream to rate a filibuster. Forgive us, lawd, our jaundiced view.
\n— Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i>
\nPostscript:<\/strong> In re: Iraqi Official Aims to Refurbish Image<\/strong><\/font><\/a>:
\nTOP OF THE SAND HEAP<\/strong>
\nLet bygones be bygones and let’s not be snobby
\nIn welcoming back Mr. Ahmad Chalabi.
\nSo he led us astray quite memorably
\nWith fanciful tales of WMD,
\nSo what if he gave the U.S. a black eye
\nBy serving as a double or triple spy.
\nOn this range there’s no chance of a perfect rider
\nEspecially when he’s a D.C. insider.
\nHe’s now the Iraqi deputy prime minister
\nAnd apt very soon to be something more sinister:
\nThe actual prime minister, the top of the summit,
\nA position from which he’s unlikely to plummet,
\nFor he’s coming to confab with Ms. Condi Rice,
\nWhom he bamboozled once — so, pray, why not twice?
\n— Leon Freilich<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We called him the Alito the Hun. “[I]t\u2019s hard to imagine a more reactionary judge,” Brother Doug writes. He begins his dissection with a couple of choice cuts: Theocratic pit bull Gary Bauer, the dwarf former presidential candidate of the Christer hard right, crowed that the appointment of Alito was “a grand slam,” and crackpot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}