The Enlightened Despot

K-Lo, at 12:19 PM:

As noted in ‘The Corner’ and elsewhere, that Obama Spanish ad is really beyond the pale of fact and common sense. It’s a shame someone who supports Obama doesn’t come out and denounce the blatant, insulting dishonesty of the ad.

Fair enough. Oh, wait, no it isn’t. Andrew Sullivan, at 9:57 AM:

Jake Tapper nails Barack on this one. Equating McCain and Limbaugh on the issue of immigration is crude and stupid. McCain has always been far less hostile to the plight of illegal immigrants than Rush Limbaugh - even though he has moved toward the Kaus position in the past several months - and the Limbaugh quotes appear out of context. Playing racial politics this way is not what Obama promised to do. Cut it out.

Consider this goofy crew from The Corner, a rabble that call themselves ‘Red Meat’.   All of them are very fat and silly.  Ramesh Ponnuru is a fat little Indian dumpling and his voice is a ridiculous helium soprano.   To his right is Jim Geraghty, whose subtle lisp, exaggerated body language, and camp humor suggest a disconnect between his political beliefs and personal practice.  Stephen Spruiell probably wears that press badge to bed.  And the fattest of the lot is the nauseating Mark Hemingway, who mostly sits in froglike quiet but from time to time blurts out a disastrous one liner, stunning even the other jerks into an uncomfortable silence.  The four are without charisma.  If you watched the clip without sound you would probably guess they were playing Dungeons & Dragons, but without dice - because their game is more about the character development than killing trolls.