Hot Air Destroy Glenn Reynolds' Lawyering Skills Again

This is the second hit - Hey, guys, yell "Allahu Akbar!" when you do this kind of thing, will you?

"Glenn Reynolds argues that there won’t be a shutdown unless Barack Obama vetoes the budget, but that’s not really the case."

My, my. Instapundit's political observations are looking kind of sketchy all of a sudden. How long can he stand? 
How many hits can he take?

I don't know - he looks pretty strong - but, before the smoke clears, I might start a "running" tally,...

Glenn Reynolds: Is He Really Smart Or Just Distracting?

Glenn Reynolds is interested in a lot of shit, and he's got a sweet little gig going, but when it comes to why I started reading him, the man can't hit the side of a barn. He's a hot shot law professor, right? Check out the results of his advising Rollie Chance on media over-reach, in the Washington shooter case, according to Hot Air:

Glenn Reynolds suggests that Chance should sue, as “Enormous damages would ensure greater circumspection.” As true as that might be, Glenn must know that’s an unlikely outcome,...there really isn’t a case for libel, and therefore no damages — as enraging as that might be.

The only accountability we can apply to these outlets in this case is the shame of getting it wrong and the damage to their credibility that results. Perhaps with enough of that kind of damage, networks won’t be so quick in the future to run with a suspected gunman’s name, or his supposed political influences, and so on.  As this episode showed, though, the media doesn’t seem to learn from their past mistakes.

Glenn Reynolds doesn't either, providing ("useless information, supposed to fire my imagination, I can't get no - no, no, no - well hey, hey hey") what Hot Air just said should be worth a word to somebody,...

And There's Some Racial Flame-Fanning Going On, Too

I got the photo above from Glenn Reynolds. Exhibiting the credibility of Al Gore pushing climate change, that's what he's selling, supposedly in answer to multiple crisis' facing the nation, foreign and domestic. Fortunately, some real talk on Syria is happening at Hot Air, in terms anybody can understand:

It’s not that there’s no strategy here, as many critics have claimed, it’s more that it’s the opposite of strategy — there’s nothing we’re trying to do in terms of U.S. national security, we’re simply trying to punch a guy hard enough in the face that he decides it’s worth his while not to punch back.

Totally different take from the Instapundit's and - if you ask me - coming from a conservative website, that "as many critics have claimed" line, is damning:

Like they, too, are saying Glenn's selling a bill o' goods,...

 

Getting All Those Missing Pieces Of The Puzzle In Place

For all those folks who can't see "Lee Daniels' 'The Butler'" is a fiction, but sided with the Mormons when they insisted HBO's "Big Love" wasn't telling the truth:

This was not your typical tax court case, to put it mildly. 

The case was finally heard in early 2012 after frequent delays and a failed attempt by Blackmore and his legal team to win a sweeping ban on evidence, publication and some witness testimony. In the end he gave his own testimony under subpoena as a “compelled witness” with the expectation that his statements in this civil case can’t incriminate him in any future criminal trials. 

Blackmore arrived each day at the Vancouver courtroom during the four weeks of hearing wearing a natty black suit and clutching a black-bound Book of Mormon. Campbell and federal Justice Department lawyers were bound by an equally unbending tome: the Canadian Income Tax Act. 

“These appeals introduced unique and novel legal and factual issues that are not normally before this court,” Campbell wrote with judicial understatement. She wrote how she had to acquaint herself with the intricacies of Mormonism, Episcopal polity and apostolic success. “Many terms, such as ‘The Priesthood Work,’ ‘United Effort Plan,’ or ‘United Effort Plan Trust,’ ‘Law of Consecration’ and ‘Tithing’ were either completely new to me or I had no working knowledge of them.” 

Her patience was tried by Blackmore’s often evasive or vague answers, and his convoluted spiritual explanations, frequently delivered sotto voice. He grudgingly admitted to having 21 “plural wives,” though he had trouble remembering the name of at least one. He fathered 47 children during the five years under review, which may help explain his inattention to the intricacies of the tax act. By some estimates he has more than 120 children. 

Bountiful doesn’t appear on any B.C. map. It is the name that the fundamentalists call the community based at Lister, just a kilometre north of the U.S. border and seven kilometres from Creston, where some of the sect’s business dealings are based. Many operate under the Blackmore-controlled company J.R. Blackmore and Sons, which include several fencepost-manufacturing plants in B.C. and Alberta, as well as various logging and farm-related operations.

Takes a while to set up "several fencepost-manufacturing plants" and "various logging and farm-related operations", don't it? While producing 120 children? I've only got two thoughts:

1) Child sexual abuse or no child sexual abuse, nobody really wanted to catch these guys too badly. I've never heard a word about them on Michelle Malkin's Hot Air, Breitbart, or ("21st Century Relationships") Instapundit.

AND/OR 

 2) When it comes to acceptable ways of building wealth, they might be right that black people have been going about this thing ALL WRONG,...