I've met Hugh Hewitt professionally only once. We were on a panel together what seems to be like eons ago talking about online communities. He strikes me as a pomo-conservative : the kind that may if not laugh out loud, at least chuckle about South Park while sipping on a Beaujolais from his wine cellar.

Which is why when I read this, I did indeed LOL :

Saturday, February 02, 2008
"Paid For By Obama For America"
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 2:49 PM
I heard a powerful Obama ad on K-Earth 101 while driving this morning. That's the '60s/'70s rock station. The pitch combined some fine Obama audio on change and the future with clips from the scores of newspaper endorsements the Illinois senator has racked up.

When you pull in $32 million in January, you can play in a variety of micro-markets.

If the GOP sends a 72-year into this race whose prime was from a different time at least two generations back to campaign solely on the need to win the current war, even his hero status won't help him against the tsunami that is building. Dole '96 will seem like an energized, cutting edge effort by comparison.

Perhaps there is some recognition of this in U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski's endorsement of Romney this morning. She can't be looking forward to a Senate GOP caucus reduced to a rump by an Obama-led blowout fueled by tens of millions that McCain cannot hope to match.
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I had the chance to meet Hugh Hewitt at a conference here in NYC --we attended each other's panels at Personal Democracy Forum. He struck me as such a nice person I had the same reaction I had whenever I find out they're Republican : WHY?!?

Heh.

Anyhow, I was looking around the republican blogosphere to see if I could find anything substantial about Ann Coulter's hate-filled comments against John Edwards. At Hot Air I found the clip of the event buried deep in the blogs through a Google Alert.

Then I found this awesome post by Hugh.

Hugh Hewitt:

When Coulter employed the f-word to abuse a candidate, she made herself radioactive because the word is a simply invitation to hate. It was repulsive.

I cannot imagine Coulter being invited to any panel or television appearance on which I would want to appear. Colleges and universities must also stop inviting her to appear as a representative of the conservative movement in America. She is not. You want smart, accomplished and funny conservative women? Ask K-Lo, Laura Ingraham or Carol Liebau to appear, or chose from scores of others. But not Ann Coulter --she represents only a snarl and a deep need to be noticed.

Amen brother.

The film of the moment that Rudy Giuiliani witnessed and has still to condemn is after the jump :
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I am posting this at 1am. Look at the amount of repuglicans who have swarmed around Amanda's post. Now try to find an equal number of progressive and liberal bloggers.

Exactly.

This motherfuckers are not only on the job 24/7 but they have obviously targetted Amanda and are swarming around her at every chance they can get.

This is not the first time I have seen this unfold on memeorandum. What is really irritating is that they somehow have the free time and/or money to do this consistently.

Click on the link that says "attachment" to view a full-size version of the screencap.