Fatah old guard: Hey, we’re old, we’re rich, we’re corrupt, and we ain’t movin’: The old guard won’t let the young guard horn in on their territory. Not surprising; the old guard has its lovely villas in the West Bank and Gaza. Someone’s got to keep stealing those billions from the idiots who send the PA aid money.
George Mitchell to the Times: Jew just don’t understand. (OK, I made up that last line, but it really worked, so go with it.) The Obama administration, having realized that everyone thinks their new policy on Israel sucks, is trying a PR offensive that goes like this: “You just don’t understand what we’re really doing.” Yeah, that always works. Tell people they’re too stupid to understand your master plan. It will definitely get them to like you. Hey, an offensive PR offensive! Double snark for the price of one! And oh, yeah: Mitchell says that when the Saudis say no-no, there’s yes-yes in their eyes. Oh, go read the whole thing. It’s a hoot.
Before you start hyperventilating about this, remember it’s the Times of London. I have yet to read an article about Israel, Iraq, or Iran in the Times that breathlessly hypes something like this that wasn’t absolutely wrong. So ignore it. The Times, remember, is the sponsor of Uzi Mahnaimi. I’m not buying that Iran can make a bomb yet.
Shocking news story of the day: Tanning beds cause cancer. Wow, whoda thunk that overexposure to UV rays would cause skin cancer? Did you know that could happen? I mean, really—who knew?
The end of the honeymoon for Obama: Well, it is on the CBS News website, which apparently publishes articles from The Weekly Standard. Huh. Conservative magazine writers on CBS News, Michelle Malkin in the roundtable on ABC’s This Week—what’s wrong with the MSM? Have they finally decided to actually present both sides of the issues to us?