The Planet runs a rather clueless article by the Associated Press about Barbara Lee's cult status on the Left.

After listing how she's been honored by the exact people you'd expect: Santa Cruz, Oregon, etc, the reporter makes one of this week's most irrelevant comparisons

The most admired people in the United States these days are George and Laura Bush, Colin Powell and Rudolph Giuliani, according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll. Lee didn’t even make the top 20 women’s list, which included Madonna and Christine Whitman.

The poll of 1,019 adults was taken in December and has an error margin of plus or minus three percentage points.

ARgh.

And in search of a 'Lee's star is rising' quote, the reporter mischaracterizes Mr. Udinsky's Congressional run against her

Jerald Udinsky, a Republican financial economist who is running against Lee for her Congressional seat this fall, said Lee’s anti-war vote was what motivated him to challenge her.

“I was outraged,” he said, “that she didn’t support America defending itself from a direct attack.”

Udinsky wasn't motivated to run against her because of the Anti-War vote. He's running against her because he's a bonafide crackpot with the political acumen of Yoshua. At the Ward Connerly dinner, during Q and A time, he rose to deliver an impassioned three minute tirade on everything that pissed him off. That, at one stroke, alienated every Republican Berkeley student hoping to ask a question of Connerly, or at least hear him speak.

The article does end with a great quote.

“There’s a lot of people who think President Bush is a hero, but he’s not my hero,” said Carolyn Bninski at the Boulder, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. “Barbara Lee has a lot of courage. She listened to her inner voice and took a stand against what the popular culture was promoting. Now that’s heroic.”

'If popular culture is for it, it's heroic to be against it!' Such a great syllogism. Instead of mindlessly following the pack, it's much better to mindlessly run against it.

'David Duke is my hero. He listened to his inner voice and took a stand against what the popular culture was promoting. Now that's heroic.'

ARghhh
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