The Avenging Angel, smiter of the evil doers of the right, enjoyed another busy week punishing conservative miscreants for their misdeeds.
In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continued to disgrace the nation with her latest rhetorical disasters. Hoping to deflect criticism over the looming Iraq escalation, the feckless Rice feebly tried to assuage the Senate by referring her boss' wildly unpopular Iraq strategy as an "augmentation." In a rare moment of candor caught on tape, an unsuspecting Rice then praised the White House's unpaid propaganda appendage Fox News, "My Fox guys, I love every single one of them." The talking point, the Angel muses, was called "Bush determined to strike in U.S."
Rice's fellow Bush mouthpiece, White House press secretary and one-time Fox News goosestepper Tony Snow continued his ill-considered racial rhetoric this week. Just months after reintroducing the slur "tar baby" into the White House press room, Snow urged ABC's Martha Raddatz to "play that funky music, white girl" after hearing her cell phone ring tone. Given Tony's current dissembling over the President's Iraq "surge," the Angry One expects Snow to get jiggy with it.
Meanwhile in Virginia, Republican state legislator joined his home state GOP colleagues George Allen and Virgil Goode in misplaying the race card this week. Delegate Hargrove proclaimed that "our black citizens should get over" slavery, adding "are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?" Hargrove, the Angel grins, now finds himself in deep macaca.
And over at the Pentagon, Deputy Secretary of Defense Charles Stimson amplified President Bush's disregard for the rule of law. In an interview with Federal News Radio, Stimson threatened law firms representing Gitmo detainees such as Hamdan, warning that corporate CEO's will force them to "choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists." Stimson recanted in a Washington Post apology, the Angel notes, only after suffering the media equivalent of water-boarding.