The Week in Kihne

Conservative Eden Prairie blogger Sheila Kihne frequently repeats her thesis that Barack Obama gets a free ride from the press when George W. Bush would have been skewered for behaving similarly. Case in point: Yesterday's Air Force One publicity snafu. Bush would have been hounded without end for such a screw-up. But with Team Obama at the helm, the story generates a mere 2,422 news citations--according to Google News. And a lead story pretty much everywhere. Horrendously unfair, agreed.

Also today, Kihne announces her enthusiasm for torture--which she believes advances her goal of 'annoy[ing] a liberal'. And she doesn't have any time for concerns involving due process. (Today's Catholic Church strongly opposes Kihne on her advocacy of torture.) Kihne's political style--unashamedly proclaiming adherence to stupid ideas, deep-sixing dissenting comments, disregarding intelligent challenges--is somewhat annoying. She has a point.

Yesterday Kihne slammed Obama for reading a speech--a standard practice used by every one of Obama's predecessors. When a commenter follows Kihne's lead, calling the President 'an idiot'--Kihne readily voiced approval, only to delete her endorsement a bit later.

Also yesterday, Kihne put up her oft-reprised self-worshipping I'm-rubber-you're-glue post, impugning liberal intentions and 'correcting' the public record by asserting her own sanctity. Her chorus of exurban boneheads lapped it up.