. . . if you plan to keep reading the new Op-Ed section of the Los Angeles Times. At least that is what you could glean from the comments section to my post on past inanities from John Carrol, the Times’ retiring Editor. Actually, I was just trying to be nice to “Insider” from Independent Sources blog, ’cause I knew from the recommendation of Hugh Hewitt that they are fisking the LA Times on a regular basis, and doing a bang-up job of it, too! I was taking a pass on fisking the Jonathan Chait op-ed piece today where he castigates President Bush for “exercising too much”, ’cause it’s so completely a stupid-leftist-attack piece that I was trying to not think about it, but . . . Insider just won’t let that be.

Believe me, anyone who writes:

I grabbed a mental butt-wipe, cleaned up, and flushed the whole thing right out of my consciousness…

…could certainly do better than what us simple folk at Independent Sources wrote. But since you won’t help us frisk the article, how about helping promote the challenge:

Sure! But first, let me deal with what I think is the most heinous, or at least most stupid, statement that Chait makes in his article:

It’s nice for Bush that he can take an hour or two out of every day to run, bike or pump iron. Unfortunately, most of us have more demanding jobs than he does. [emph. mine]

Wow! Damn Johnathan — I’m impressed! I never knew that being a senior editor at The New Republic, a writer for The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Slate, Time, & American Prospect was more demanding than sending tens of thousands of young, committed, valiant, brave American men and women into “harms way” to protect and defend their country. Guess that ever-present risk of carpal-tunnel syndrome trumps loss of life and limb every time. [Grab a "wipe" -- administer cleaning operation -- flush stupidity down the memory hole.] Squuuuuuuush! — Plugushhhhhhhhh! — Gluuug!

Now that I’ve got that out of my system (heh!) — It’s time to chime in and challenge Jonathan Chait to take the Independent Sources Challenge, which is:

To which Independent Sources issues this challenge. If Mr. Chait emails us his typically weekly schedule, we will find him 30 minutes a day to exercise. If we do, Mr. Chait agrees to follow the regimen for one month and then tell us if his health has improved. If we don’t then Independent Sources will (at one sitting) eat two Tommy’s cheeseburgers, drink two soft drinks, and write a completely irrelevant attack on the President’s character and publish it right here. (You can email us at: contact [at] Independent Sources [dot] c o m).

Well, Chait? Got the stones to take these guys on? You could wind up being the buff brute at the ol’ Lefty hang out — might be worth it!

But, come on IS guys — What kind of “loser’s punishment” is this? . . . Tommy’s chili-cheeseburgers are the bomb! (db)

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