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Mark Sanford: Fatal Attraction?

I don't know why other news outlets don't seem to be picking this up yet, perhaps because it's a holiday, but this seems like a serious story to me:

Governor Threatened Over Emails?

Buenos Aires (WLTX) - According to McClatchy Newspapers, there is word from Argentina that Governor Sanford was being threatened over emails that he sent to his mistress. A report on McClatchey's website says a television anchor in Argentina claims that Maria Chapur and Governor Sanford received an e-mail threat from the person who hacked into her hotmail account. Eduardo Feinmann, who worked with Chapur, says a member of Chapur's family told him of the threats. He said the unidentified person warned both Sanford and Chapur that "you don't know who you are messing with." Feinmann says the e-mails threatening the couple arrived before Christmas, but he's not sure how they responded. On December 30th of last year, the hacker sent the steamy e-mails between Chapur and the Governor to The State Newspaper. Sanford's spokesman Joel Sawyer declined to comment on this latest report.

HUH?

Sanford, lover received threat, journalist says

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil— An Argentine television anchor, the only journalist known to have spoken with Gov. Mark Sanford’s Argentine lover since news of their affair broke, says the couple received an e-mail threat. The threat came from the person Maria Belen Chapur says hacked into her Hotmail account. Asked twice this week if Sanford had been threatened because of the e-mails, the governor’s spokesman said — both times — “No comment.”

A Tale Of Two Husseins

In the 'takes one to know one' category, here is an article about the hours of FBI interviews with Saddam Hussein:

EIGHTEEN months before he was hanged, Saddam Hussein told the FBI he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, reports said yesterday. According to declassified accounts of the FBI interviews released yesterday, the former Iraqi president said he felt so vulnerable to the perceived threat from "fanatic" leaders in Tehran that he would have been prepared to seek a "security agreement with the United States to protect (Iraq) from threats in the region". The Washington Post reported that summaries of the FBI interviews underlined Saddam's fear of Iran. In the interviews, Saddam said he considered Tehran a greater threat than the US.

Read the entire article here.

And here is Barack Hussein:

Un-frickin-believable. Saddam Hussein actually had a fairly crafty strategy towards his sworn enemy, although he undoubtedly would have played both sides had he succeeded in getting the US. to somehow back him up agin' the Persians.

Barack Hussein on the other hand has no strategy other than appeasement that I can tell. Iran funds Hizbollah, Hamas, and attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and Barack Hussein thinks they'll suck up his flattery. I wish Saddam were alive to see this. He'd laugh his head off, to use an unfortunate metaphor.

The Jerusalem Post reports they hung six Iranian demonstrators.

Two Of My Favorite Bitches Sound Off On Michael Jackson's Death

From the real New York paper of record, The New York Post. I'm no hater; I grew with his music and sang along like everybody else. I have no axe to grind. I do however object to the freak show that is happening now.

Celebutard of the Week: Joe Jackson

In the unappetizing race to scavenge the remaining flesh from the bones of Michael Jackson, Joe Jackson, the star’s Daddy Dearest, is turning the singer’s death into a spectacle unimagined by Barnum & Bailey.

SHED NO TEARS FOR THIS TWISTED SICKO

The King of Pop was a great entertainer -- innovative beyond anyone the world had ever seen -- but he turned into a disgustingly depraved man who hung an infant off a balcony and forced his kids to walk around with masks, veils, towels and even nets over their faces.

Cynthia McKinney: Another Leftist Anti-Semite Making An Ass of Herself

I turned away from the left because of their refusal to acknowledge the laws of economics, but more troubling is the far-left's rabid hatred of Jews and their embrace of Muslim fundamentalism in the place that communism used to occupy. It was always there, but after September 11th, it became more shrill and more public. Reminiscent of the Communist Party of the United States support of the Hitler-Stalin pact in the 1930s, the left of the 21st century decried American foreign policy as the understandable source of political frustration for Al Qaeda. From the kaffiyeh-wearing hipster moron to Ward Churchill to the Democratic Party, the Jew-hatred of the far-left was suddenly forced out of the closet. As I read about the subject, educating myself on the hand-in-hand history of the so-called Progressive movement and it's hatred of Jews going back to the early 20th century, things started to click into place.

Which brings me to today's news item, and one of my favorite lefty lunatics: Cynthia "The J-E-W-S" McKinney. I have blogged of her escapades before. She, along with her fellow traveler in hate Rev. Wright, our current president's spiritual mentor, are first class Jew haters and seem to represent the attitude of many African-Americans and leftists towards Jews. Read Daily Kos entries on Israel, or check into the vile, repulsive, and moronic 'J Street' lobbying group, and you'll find the same rhetoric. The '9/11 Truth' movement keeps hope alive for the anti-semitic left, openly touting the same conspiracy theories circulating in the Arab world, under the guise of 'just asking questions.'

Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, whose relief boat was seized by an Israeli naval ship Tuesday for the second time in a year, is demanding the immediate release of her and 20 other activists.

I'm sure Hamas will welcome a black American woman with open arms, without a shred of the racism Cynthia and her ilk attribute to 'Amerikkka.' Surely Gazans are pluralistic, inclusive, multi-cultural, tolerant people, accommodating the rights of women, homosexuals, and non-muslims.

Doesn't that seem odd that what was once regarded as a John Birch anti-Trilateral Commission Pat Buchanan-esque strain of the far right has now been co-opted by the far-left? And shouldn't it be a red alert that the current administration is packed with these fellow travelers, from the president on down? The reversal of America's policies towards Israel in recent weeks makes this issue at the fore. Or at least it should be.

Frontpage Magazine has an excellent run-down of the 'Progressive' left's embrace of Jew-hatred, and what it might mean for the future here.

WOW. After I posted this, I strolled over to one of my favorite blogs, screwloosechange, to find them posting about The J-E-W-S McKinney, calling attention to Adam Holland, who has an exhaustive run-down of her far-left AND far-right connections to anti-semitism. I guess it doesn't matter which side of the fence you sit on as long as you hate The J-E-W-S as much as she does.

The Shame of Mark Sanford

I was disappointed, to say the least, at Mark Sanford's admissions of an affair. But this is getting ridiculous. JUST GO ALREADY. He is embarrassing himself and his family and now I'm wondering if he isn't completely cracking up. Resign, and leave the country. Exile is the only dignified and honorable path at this point. It reminds me of the brilliant Brideshead Revisited. The father of the Flyte family cheated with an Italian woman, and was forced by the unwritten rules of English aristocracy to live in exile, sparing his wife and children further shame.

In this news story below, he's actually weeping on audio. "This is a whole lot more than a simple affair, that it's a love story." "I will be able to die knowing I met my soulmate." I'm cringing. Why is he publicly immolating himself? Why would you say such things to the Associated Press? Do Jenny and your sons deserve to hear this? Shut up already. Jeesh.

I supported his unflinching stance on stimulus money. Yet he always seemed an odd bird for politics: abstract, libertarian, stoic, dispassionate. Boy, was I wrong. The best strategy is for him to resign, allow Andre Bauer his fifteen minutes and then hold him to his promise not to run for governor in 2010, paving the way for a clean slate. Current congressman Gresham Barrett seems the likely frontrunner. Although I support Henry McMaster's stand against Craigslist and it's ability to hook up violent rapists and murderers with potential victims, his grandstanding temperament seems unsuited for the Governor's mansion. He'd do better in congress, where grandstanding and issuing ultimatums seem like requirements for that circus of bozos.