For those that missed her dramatic takedown of Hillary, may I present Ann Althouse’s diatribe.
Apparently Hillary didn’t really do anything except make a buncha phone calls — and really, how can you expect to be taken seriously as a candidate when you won’t even save these interns with your bare hands? Leaving the whole thing up to local law enforcement shows Clinton’s inability to take charge. Or something.
Also apparently Hillary had the nerve to claim an attack on Reagan occured at a Campaign office rather than a golf course. This of course makes her a filthy liar, as opposed to unable to remember arcane trivia from 20 years ago immediately following a traumatic attack on her staffers.
Prepare yourselves for a beer basted chili recipe. I’ve been working on it for a few days, working out the kinks. Fair warning: Nor’Easters or those opposed to spicier dishes may need to alter the recipe somewhat.
Svensker
I think that’s unfair to diatribes.
Kee-rikey.
Bring on the beer-basted chili recipe. Ann seems to have gotten the beer-basted part right, but she forgot the rest of the recipe.
brendancalling
“Fair warning: Nor’Easters… may need to alter the recipe somewhat.
Where do you get the idea that northeasterners don’t like hot food? is it because of our cold climate?
puh-leeze! the hotter the better!
Echo without Bunnies or Men
Oh forget Ann Outhouse. She’s just bitter knowing she has to navigate menopause being an old maid.
Tom in Texas
Brendan:
I am intentionally spicing it up with the hope of warming the stomachs of our cold weather readers. And I got the idea that northeasterners don’t like spice because the only restaurants I’ve found when eating there that don’t prepare everything for the blandest possible palate are Asian inspired.
D-Chance.
I love how the Liberal Blaghastan is trying to spin the butt-kissing AP story into an Althouse story. But the real issue here is this breath-taking piece of ‘journalism’ .
Any doubt as to the inevitablity of Hillary? The “regal” one has been all but ‘coronated’ by the press already.
bob
Or she may have been thinking of the actual assassination attempt, you know, the one in which he was shot in the belly by John Hinckley? Also not on the campaign trail but 69 days into his presidency at one of his bullshit speeches in a DC hotel. OMG, she got details wrong on TWO Reagan assassination attempts. How partisan of her.
T. Scheisskopf
Tom, you are correct. Too many of us up here are wimps when it comes to the joys of Capsaicin-Induced Endorphin Coma.
On the other hand, I grow my own Habs and Serranos, and I shall throw some of the Serranos into that chili.
If you are ever in MA, south of Boston, near a small town called Norton, seek ye a place called “Wendell’s”. It’s on the main street of the little wide spot in the road that is Norton. Try their Buffalo Wings with the hottest level of sauce. Not only are they tasty, but they will give you a new religion. Light you right up. Kicks Anchor Bar’s ass.
People make pilgrimages to the place: I met some guy there who drove down from Portland ME for wings. Just for the wings.
Tom in Texas
D-Chance:
Are you insinuating our media is afraid to ask the tough questions and instead treats our candidates with kid gloves? Groundbreaking stuff, truly. Particularly considering that I heard three different media outlets perpetuate the accusation the Clinton planted the bomber herself. If only they weren’t so easy on her, people might know the real story.
tballou
How can one possibly add anything to this bit of absurdity? Do Althouse’s students greet her with laughter and derision at the start of every class? Are they too embarrased to even enroll? What about her law school colleagues – do they not have any shame to be associated with her?
Andyjunction
If spicy food doesn’t make your scalp sweat it isn’t spicy. Bring on the recipe!
The Stranger
Gee, I wonder why John Cole isn’t writing about TNR’s retraction of the Beauchamp BS.
Idiot.
Cindrella Ferret
Hide the women and children, Obama is a closet Muslim! Lets face it we white men are really in for a tough road ahead. Poor us. Boo Hoo. Those big mean colored people and women. Boo Hoo. The liberal media is aiding and abetting the take over our country. Boo Hoo. They’re taking away all my rights and screwing up the culture. Boo Hoo. Look! Is that Hillary wearing a codpiece? No fair! She can’t even fly an airplane. See! Its a conspiracy, I tell you.
(OK enough of the childish nonsense. On to the manly stuff.)
Looking forward to the spicy recipe. I live in NM so I eat chiles for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Literally. So bring in on TEX! I’m down with it.
PaulW
Guys, please note that it’s been at the point where ANYTHING Hillary does automatically causes the wingnut population to have heart attacks and condemn it all. Hillary could come up with a cure for cancer and it wouldn’t make a difference to them, they’d even fight the cure.
Let me say this: I don’t like Hillary. I don’t think she’d make a good President, and I certainly believe that having her in the White House would be five times worse than any other Democrat that could end up in there simply because she’ll be like nitrous oxide in the engine that is the FAUX News/Corrupt Republican Mafia. But I also know that every criticism coming at her from the Far Right is insane, and a joke.
And this is for The Stranger: John Cole can write whatever the f-ck he wants. This is HIS game show, HIS rules, HIS dinner menu, etc. And this isn’t even John Cole, this is Tom in Texas writing this thread. So STFU.
jake
Did you really have to mention Ann Althouse beer and chili in the same blog post? Did ya?
Echo without Bunnies or Men
Hey Stranger, so if TNR recanted the BeeChamps story, does that mean Iraq really WAS the right country to invade, and does it completely vindicate Bush and Cheney 100%?
Wow, so simple, who would have thought!
Keep chasing, Stranger, maybe you’ll catch the bus!
PaulW
This is how you know Hillary didn’t plan the hostage situation:
She wasn’t there in person being taken hostage herself, and she didn’t wrestle the kidnapper down and beat him to death with a tube sock full of wood screws.
Because if you’re gonna plan a fake sympathy-garnering thing like a hostage taking, you’re not gonna let your underlings get to be the noble hero/victims. You’re gonna want to be there to show how ‘at-charge’ you are, and how manly you are in wielding the tube sock full of wood screws as your manly weapon.
This is how you know Rudy planned this. ‘Cause he’s incompetent as sh-t. He couldn’t even get a guy to blow himself up properly. Sheesh.
You think? ;)
The Stranger
You betcha!
Pb
Tom in Texas, back from the dead — woo!
Anne Laurie
Fair warning: Nor’Easters… may need to alter the recipe somewhat.
I know it’s not fair to bring up the old myth that chili was invented to disguise the taint of rotting meat in the brainparching Southwestern heat. So I’ll just mention that the Wall Street Journal ran an article recently explaining the recent craze for high-capsaicin food products as the inevitable marketing response to babyboomers’ aging taste buds. Apparently old people gradually lose the ability to taste actual flavors, but the chili-based chemical responses (sweating, tearing, skin burns) convince the aging narcissists that they’re still goore-maye foodies. Tongue viagra, anyone?
As for the Clinton Campaign Hostage Crisis, I think it would have been a good time to point out that the hostage-taker had, according to the local news, “despaired of getting the psychological help he needed”. Maybe if we’d done something to fix America’s desperately compromised & patchwork health-care system back in, I dunno, 1993 or something, there wouldn’t be so many hopeless souls trying to get attention by strapping road flares to themselves, y’know? I seem to remember Hillary having some ideas about that topic, although I’m sure Ann Althouse thinks it was just another attention-getting device, speaking of lost & hopeless souls…
cleek
of course Hillary wasn’t taken hostage – she’s got a snuke in her snizz! who’d want to fuck with that ?
Tara the anti-social social worker
Hillary shoulda been there waterboarding the suspect like a Real Man!
*snort*
*belch*
The Stranger
Puh-leaze. One would have to be a certifiable sub-moron to contend that the Pig in a Pants Suit did not orchestrate the whole charade.
jcricket
You know what we can learn from yesterday’s hostage crisis politically? Pretty much zero.
On a police-enforcement level, it does appear that not inflaming the situation by running in guns or tasers-a-blazing is often the best policy.
Andrew
I just feel sorry for Althouse. I can only imagine that her personal life is miserable and lonely.
tBone
Gee, I wonder if Wingnuttians will cheerfully gloat about the retraction while completely ignoring that the TNR investigation wasn’t able to disprove Beauchamp’s claims?
And I wonder if they’ll mention how the TNR retraction eviscerates most of the frothing, font-kerning bullshit that rightwing blogs used to “disredit” Beauchamp. Yeah, I wonder.
Finally, a pro tip for you, Stranger: you might want to go back and read some of what John actually wrote about this fucking zombie story. The phrase “it’s entirely possible that Beauchamp is a fabulist” might be a good search string.
Idiot.
The Stranger
yeah..ol’ Franky Foer just tried like the dickens, didn’t he? What’s he gonna do after he gets canned?…hang out with OJ to try to find the real killer?
idiot.
maxbaer (not the original)
Being a northeasterner, I have to ask what meal are the peyote buttons taken with? As to the HILLARY HOSTAGE CRISIS! Just a small taste of the nutcases that will come out of the woodwork
ifwhen she’s elected. How many listeners does Savage have?Gus
Holy shit, you’re still getting mileage out of Beauchamp? I’m glad TNR retracted the story. I’m sure we’ll hear the end of it now. Uh-huh.
DougJ
Is it possible that Althouse is crazier than Con Yank and Malkin?
Never mind that Althouse supports a president who spent 10 minutes reading “My Pet Goat” to children while the country suffered it’s worst terrorist attack in history.
tBone
I don’t know – I need an intrepid citizen journalist like you to find out. Check out the countertops at TNR. Construct a scale model of Foer’s office that proves that he couldn’t reach a phone from his office chair, and therefore couldn’t have fact-checked any of the Beauchamp stories. The sky’s the limit for truth detectors like you!
I realize, of course, that I’ll have to wait until your investigation of how Hillary set up the hostage situation is complete.
jeffreyw
And I heard his sister was a thespian.
daniel rotter
I don’t know which is more ridiculous, “The Stranger” believing (without a shred of evidence of any kind) that Hillary orchestrated the hostage situation or that anyone who believes this not to be the case is a “sub-moron.” I’m not even sure how Hillary could gain from such a situation considering that she herself was not one of the hostages. It looks like A.H.C.D.S. (anti-Hillary Clinton Derangement Syndrome) has claimed another victim.
Perry Como
Can I add a couple Naga Jolokia peppers?
jake
The Farce is strong in this one.
Since I’m a LibrulIslahomoFascist, I’ll say I’m a 1000% more worried about the freaks who are just sane enough to construct a bomb than this flip case. The Paulettes are already riled up, but I think they’re always riled up. The election of anything other than a Caucasian male is going to bring all the cucarachas out of the cracks. This is fine because it’ll be easier to stomp them, but it will certainly make for an interesting period in American history.
Pb
That about sums it up.
DR
D-Chance: I’ve read nothing but contempt for the AP story about Hillary among the liberal blogosphere. You should really look for yourself before you make a comment. Hillary is not really well liked over there…
Mostly, you’ll find Edwards and Kucinich fans. It’s the corporate “elite”, most of which were hard-core Republicans until recently, who seem to be in love with Hillary
Andrew
I wonder why the entire right wing blogosphere isn’t writing about W. Thomas Smith’s lies in the National Review. Too many children to harass?
andante
For once, maybe Althouse is right.
Hillary should have hopped on the first plane going west (she may have been In Danger, doncha know?). After flying around in circles for a while, she could have issued a lame “oh my” in a trembly, little-girlie way to reassure a frightened nation everything would be okay if we all go shopping.
After she’s finished wetting her britches, maybe she’ll make an appearance in a few days at that campaign headquarters. Make a nice, stirring speech to the investigators from the rooftop, assuring them that if elected she will bomb all hostage takers back to the Stone Age and bring in criminals dead or alive.
TR
Eh, both cause indigestion, so why not?
TR
You don’t have to imagine. She makes videos of herself getting drunk on a box of wine and then, presumably sober, posts them to the web for all to see.
That’s not blogging. That’s a sad cry for help.
craigie
If Hillary knew what she was doing, she would use this event to proclaim that more than ever, this demonstrates why we need a huge tax cut for the mint julep class.
Bob In Pacifica
But there are a lot of options here. What was really behind all this? Hillary? Her politics? The nutjob’s liberal upbringing (I presume)? The end of Prohibition (he was an alcoholic)? The homosexual Papacy (he claimed he was molested by a priest)? Or that he lived in Massachusetts? It’s all there, folks.
ThymeZone
I’ve always thought that people up northeast like hot wings because they haven’t grown up eating real Mexican food with us out here in the Southwest, and they don’t know what amazing things can be done with the chili pepper.
As for some idiotic suggestion above that hot stuff is for old people without taste buds, all I can say is, I was eating suicide hot food 40 years ago when I was in my twenties and hot food wasn’t de rigueur. So that has to rank as one of the dumbest comments I ever read here, and that is really saying something.
ding7777
Ann just doesn’t realize that Hillary, after failing to find My Pet Goat on her bookshelf, called President Bush to have him summarize the executive leadership paragraph.
demimondian
I hate to agree with TZ, who is, after all, a mean-spirited cretin of near-retirement age, but…folks, I was eating lethal Tex-Mex food in New England in my early teens — as well as the magically smooth Ancho sauces made by cooking and cooking and cooking the chilies until they lose their heat, and become a wonderfully smoky dark brown sauce.
ThymeZone
Oh sure, damn me with faint praise.
ThymeZone
Oh, and good to hear from Tom in Texas.
jcricket
Hot sauce makes strange bedfellows?
I myself don’t particularly like spicy foods, especially not ones that advertise themselves and intentionally trying to burn your mouth off. Seems lame, like faux-macho posturing.
jcricket
C’mon TZ, getting high off of the fumes of faint praise is the only pleasure you have left in Bush’s America.
Robert Johnston
This 30-something Nor’Easter who’s been on the hot sauce for a good many years has a bottle of 357 Mad Dog Silver Collector’s Edition that says that your beer basted chili ain’t quite hot enough. But it does sound like it might be a good start . . .
Peppers pilgrimage, anyone?
Andrew
Pain is a flavor, in my humble opinion.
demimondian
jcricket…speaking as an afficianado of both good hot food and hot food in the Seattle metro area, I will tell you that the latter and the former are disjoint categories. When the best Mexican food in a multimillion person region is Taco Del Mar…you have a problem.
That said, spiciness for the sake of spiciness is teen-aged faux machismo, as you say. I think that TZ and I were both pointing out that claiming the rise of spicy food is not due to the aging of the boomers, but to0 other factors.
The Stranger
The other part of the equation is the pre-planned role of the corrupt MSM chiming in about how she “remained calm during the crisis” and how “presidential” she was.
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demimondian —
Have you tried Agua Verde over by UW?
demimondian
No, I haven’t tried Agua Verde. What does it have that’s particularly good?
ThymeZone
Too true, too true.
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In our experience, pretty much everything. In addition to their menu, they make their own salsas (3 or 4, plus pickled onions & carrots), and they serve a pretty decent margarita.
During the week, forget about parking nearby for lunch; for dinner, probability of finding nearby parking approaches zero from Thursday thru the weekend.
daniel rotter
“The Stranger”, considering how you 1. made the completely evidence-free accusation that someone orchestrated some of her own campaign workers to be taken hostage at gunpoint and 2. went even a step further and insulted the intelligence of anyone who believes the accusation is b.s. (in other words, anyone not suffering from a severe case of Anti-Hillary-Clinton Derangement Syndrome), you don’t even need to find examples from the MSM to find examples of “corruption.” All you need to do is look in the mirror (and get help for your A.H.C.D.S. problem).
Tim F.
Stranger had a good thing going for a while, but I have to conclude that he outed himself here. Conspiracy theories that loony don’t make it far out of the womblike environment at freep or LGF.
Xanthippas
Not that John can’t defend himself or anything, but it should be noted that he’s said about 800 times that the issue isn’t whether Beachamp made crap up, or whether TNR was wrong/right to stand by him. The issue was the way right-wing bloggers felt the need to “investigate” the story to the extent of pestering American military officials with emails and phone calls, building sandbox replicas and and reprinting details of Beauchamp’s myspace page (among other sundry and ridiculous acts)…except that all their “investigatory” efforts were merely pretext to punish Beauchamp for writing and TNR for publishing claims that in their paranoid minds threaten to undermine the entire rationale for the war in Iraq. So naturally, John’s probably not going to write about how TNR is forced to admit they can’t stand up for Beauchamp anymore because Beauchamp won’t stand by his own stories. However, he is more likely to write about how 10,000 right-wing blogs will interpret this as an admission of wrong-doing by TNR.
Xanthippas
Believe it or not, but she’s actually regarded as something of an expert in the field of Federal jurisdiction. So no, they probably don’t, because in that respect she probably knows what she’s talking about. But as I’ve learned, training as an attorney does not preclude one from wild flights of illogic and intellectual dishonesty. After all, all three of those dishonest hacks at Powerline are attorneys, who all appear to be quite successful in their respective fields of practice.
incontrolados
This is just my own theory, but the thing with Althouse is that she’s doing something with her blog that she thinks is forward leaning. It’s why, for the most part, she skirts most topics. Her post linked here is an example. She can criticize and at the same time claim that she’s just critiquing the AP article.
Take a look at this post of hers. Obstensibly, she’s simply commenting on a blogging incident. But she gets in the exact details of what the law is in her area. Is she attempting to intimidate any commenter who disagrees with her? Warn those who might get out of hand? And in the meantime lend some credibility to the idea that the person who is the subject of the incident was, once again, a plant?
She’s going to get to the point that the only people who comment on her blog are those same people that always do — and thus achieve a closed system. Of course, I could be completely off about that.
In the end, Althouse’s blog is all about rep and like TZ says, persona. She’s clumbsy about it — trying to affect it with photos, but that’s what I see her doing.
srv
Join another pro-war journal like the Weekly Standard and make claims that Scott never existed and signed a complete retraction to the Army.
Idiot – I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Maybe you should look up Irony also.
jake
In other news. Republicans are saner that Democrats. How do I know?
Because they said so.
Build your own reality, bitches!
Chris
Yeah, I’ve been there. Had a decent Econ 101 professor who was convinced no one committed any impropriety at Enron (except the liberal press, which hates business)
Perry Como
You misspelled “chile”. Don’t make me go back to New Mexico to fight this out.
Zuzu
I’d say her snapshots of rooftops and car fenders come in a close second. Well really, it’s the inane commentary that makes it so sad.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/search/label/California
Prospero
They are already doing just that. HPV vaccine “controvercy”, anyone?
grumpy realist
The Northeast must have changed if you can find “decent Tex-Mex”–I remember back in the early ’80s where the only “Mexican” available was ChiChi’s. Now THAT dates me.
Law professors, business professors, and econ profs usually all suffer from the same problem: a lack of experience at actually getting their hands dirty in the trenches. (Logic also seems often to be lacking as well….)
And Althouse looks to be one of those people who is excellent on one narrow topic and totally loopy in everything else. Unfortunately she has taken her position of “ahthoritah!” as a law professor to believe that anything she posts must inherently have value (and not be the incoherent babblings of a drunken idiot as seen in that notorious vblog case.)
(Dear Ann: Simply because many excellent ideas have been widely talked about and controversial does not mean the latter implies the former. Your obsessing about a woman’s breasts was not “beyond feminism”, “enlightened” or “edgy.” It was simply stupid and received a well-deserved raspberry of derision from across the net.)
jcricket
The Agua Verde recommendation is good. I also think there’s this really “authentic” place that’s actually a converted bus (not kidding) down on Rainier/MLK. Not having grown up with good Mexican food I admit my friends from Colorado, Texas and California have much more refined palates than I on this particular subject.
But that bus is the only place I’ve been that the aforementioned friends say is “real Mexican food”.
All that said, it’s really the fault of the Republicans that the Mexican food is so bad in Seattle.
jcricket
We have the fight the vaccines over here so they don’t get us over there. Or something like that.
Giving people the vaccine is tantamount to admitting people are having sex out of marriage. Despite statistics showing something like 95% of people have sex before marriage, and that abstinence education doesn’t make people more abstinent, Republicans insist on promoting their anti-deluvian ideals.
Someday I hope for a rational discussion of the issue, where we have comprehensive evidence-based sex-education, along with wide access to contraception, OTC Plan B and the HPV vaccine. That would do more to reduce unwanted pregnancy (which reduces abortion, and also people having kids when they shouldn’t) than anything Republicans have ever done.
Sigh.
demimondian
In a way, that’s true. There’s great Mexican food available in Yakima, as long as you’re willing to risk the occasional drug related shooting. Both the demand for decent Mexican food and the drug importation problems can be traced to people of Republican descent.
demimondian
Actually, I’d forgotten about that place.
Yes, that’s real Mexican.
Evilbeard
Perry said,
If you’re heading back to Ndew Mexico make me some Pastellitos and Biscochitos while you are there.
jcricket
I find most of the food in the northwest unauthentic. Too much “fusion” not enough sticking to what we know and love.
You can get a real Philadelphia cheesesteak too at Philadelphia Fevre on Madison & John (between Capitol Hill + Central District).
In Seattle we’ve largely succeeded in driving those Republicans out and converting their children to Democractism (the godless religion of liberals) – so I’ve almost forgotten what a Republican looks like.
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Re: Seattle Mexican food – I live & work in the greater Fremont area, and there are a couple of decent taco trucks out in these parts… Taco Loco is over by the Ballard Bridge, and Rancho Bravo is in the Winchell Donuts parking lot on 45th in Wallingford.
I don’t know how they compare to, say, taco trucks in L.A. – or even the one down on Rainier – but this anglo likes ’em.
And the Seattle demand for weed? Not exactly a GOP problem ;-)
Perry Como
How about a nice bowl of green chile stew since it’s like 35 degrees out? That reminds me, I have some homemade green chile sauce in the freezer. It’s amazing what us Nor’Easters can do when a friend brings us 10 lbs. of roasted Hatch chile and we whip up a good Cajun chicken stock (Sadie’s would be jealous).
Dammit Tom, where’s that recipe? I’ve got my dutch oven primed and ready!
Cain
In portland, I’ve always had problems finding a good restaurant to eat. Especially in the west suburbs where thanks to the high tech industry we have a series of restaurants that serve the exact same thing with hardly any differences.
The only mexican place I’ve found that has had fairly decent Mexican food is Taqueria Ochoa in Hillsboro. Some really good stuff there, cheap too!. It’s a dive and I worry about sanitation sometimes but having eaten in Asia a lot it doesn’t really bug me much!
In the end though, I prefer just making it at home.
cain
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cain —
<mythbusters>Well, there’s your problem…</mythbusters>
Seriously – how do you feel about Indian food? IIRC, there are more than a few great South Indian places out towards Beaverton.
Evilbeard
Perry said,
Oh that sounds good. Now I want Posole too.
Perry Como
Come on over! I was going to fix some green chile stew but settled on posole/pozole instead. Ancho, Hatch chiles, and tequila ftw.
Julie
Are we talking just Mexican and/or Tex-Mex, or restaurants in general? Because if it’s the latter, head into the city and your problem will be solved…
As far as Mexican food goes, Por Que No on Mississippi is very good. Encanto on N Lombard has pretty decent New Mexican food and excellent sopapillas. The menu at Su Casa (also on Lombard) isn’t especially authentic, but if you ask for something that isn’t on the menu, they’re more than happy to make it and it’s usually very good.
It’s not Mexican or Tex-Mex, but the best Latin American food in Portland can be found at Andina in the Pearl. They serve authentic Peruvian food and cocktails, complete with traditional music and dancing. Good stuff.
And I would second (third?) the recommendation for Agua Verde in Seattle. Excellent tacos and a great location. :)