mount vernon statement
How lovely: we have received an (indirect!) warblogging challenge from none other than America’s greatest warlord, George Washington. He was so furious about how you people treated him in the comments of that Mount Vernon Statement post that he actually went into the comments, picked fights — and again we’re talking about the first United [...]
Dave Weigel has a report from the Mount Vernon Establishment Parade, located a few miles from Mount Vernon, because George Washington didn’t allow obnoxious politicking at his house (HINT HINT): “Heritage Foundation president Ed Fuelner was given the task of reading out the statement, word for word. As he did so, Manship — the George [...]
Fine, let’s try to tackle it. Every rich corporate D.C. conservative establishment liar is going to (went to?) Virginia’s most famous slave ranch, Mount Vernon, today, to sign some sort of Declaration thing, in this latest move in the evolution of the conservative astroturf movement. Two possible reactions: (a) What a bunch of cocksuckers! And [...]
George Washington Is A Terrible Coward
by Jim Newell
Any Commander of the Continental Army worth his salt should know that you can’t go about Warring if one side moderates all Blogspot comments, on the Internet, approving nothing. Each side must stand in a line and shoot at the other line — with Dignity — until enough people are dead.