The Real Howler

Back on February 1st of this year, I commented on a Leonard Pitts column in which he discussed "party loyalty" and how some people tend to put the interests of their political party before the interests of their country. During that discussion, I wrote...

The right conveniently overlooks that on a consistent basis, Democrats are sometimes harder on their own than conservatives are.

This sparked an immediate response from Babalu's George Moneo, pictured above right, who promptly awarded me the First Annual Babalu Howler of the Year Award, stating...

Ladies and gentlemen, the unvarnished stupidity of that statement, the blatant hypocrisy, what with the Barney Franks, Chris Dodds and assorted tax scandals brewing in the current Administration, is truly breathtaking.

The Kool-Aid cocktails are ready. Take a sip...

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Fast forward to this Thursday when the very liberal, and sometimes loony, Ted Rall posts a scathing column on President Obama in which he suggests that the President should resign.

You'll never guess what blog and writer alerted me to Rall's column. No, I take that back. Of course you will. Because many of you know what a duplicitous and hypocritical bunker of BS that Babalu and in particular, George Moneo, are.


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Sometimes I truly believe that the opinions that are formed and expressed over there are the result of nothing more than involuntary synaptic responses that cause fingers to dance across keyboards and compose some of more half-baked blog posts that you'll find in the South Florida blogosphere.

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