Well, you're a better man than I am, Ace (that's why you're the only important one on this stage). So I'll try to track down the video. But even joking, it's still a reprehensible thing to say.

Sheesh, Ace, I feel as though I'm live-blogging your posts!

Keep it coming.

You just got mentioned on Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff on CNN.

It was about the "cold, dead hands" comments RE: Senator Stevens.

Are you joking?

Ace of Spades was specifically mentioned?

She may have been saying that sort of tongue and cheek but the history of these types of quotes by MSM reporters as well as Dem Congress critters are well documented. It seems thier modis operandi is "if it's bad for Republicans, it's good for Democrats, the country be damned". I posted about this at http://thekaostheory.blogspot.com/

Dude, its only CNN, that's like getting mentioned on NY1 or Air America.
When Hume is quoting Ace then you've made it baby!
Until then
"Stay on Target!"

I'm quite serious.

It was during the "What bloggers are saying" segment just after the President's bit with the Red Sox.

No BS.

I think Soderberg was probably "kidding on the square." That bit about pinning her hopes on North Korea and Iran gives the game away, ihmo.

given their backgrounds, and the NK mention in the piece, i took it as serious

It's tough to say from the transcript. Context can go either way. Rather than string her up immediately, we shold likely approach her statement as something akin to a bad Maher joke (or "joking on the square), in that she has plausible deniability. Get her to repeat that she hopes the norks win, and we'll have paydirt.

"Kidding on the square" is an old expression in the Midwest, at least. Please don't credit Franken. For anything.

During the interview Jon Stewart reached for a metaphor that may reveal more than he intended. He compared the Republican Party to a stern Daddy - and the average Democrat to a whiny, wayward kid. Needless to say, he empathized with the kid.

When I hear Democrats on the radio or read their comments, they always sound like adolescents to me. Apparently they sound that way to themselves, too.

They will be rerunning last nights Stewart-Soderberg interview at 6:00 Centeral.

I watched the interview last night - Soderberg seemed to force herself to make the point in jest to match Stewart's newfound optimism. He covered for her comments by fleshing out the latent humor in them, but she delivered the Iraq/North Korea point with a very awkward smile and a tone of unenthusiastic apprehension; I got the distinct impression that she would have liked to make it a serious point of conversation. Her dismal commentary at the outset of the interview compounds the notion that at her heart, Soderberg is very much an internationalist who wouldn't mind seeing Bush being knocked down a peg or two at America's collective expense.

It should be on at 11:30 EST/PST if you missed the 7pm rebroadcast.

I had it on in the background last night - wasn't really watching it, but I definitely picked up on JS's shock and awe that this might be working.

caught it last night. the wife was agape at what the woman said. she may have been trying to "jest," but it was clear she was serious underneath.

That's a baaaaadd place to be.