​If Richard Nixon had not gone to that great pen of paranoia in the sky already, he would be at his library and birthplace in Yorba Linda more than just in spirit today to celebrate his 99th birthday.

Hugh Hewitt, who originally came out west to help get the presidential library off the ground, will be there to broadcast live from the East Room, where his radio show guests will include Nixon family, friends, close aides and admirers.

Participating Dicketeers follow after the jump . . .
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​My God, I think this might be the first time I've ever agreed with Barbara Coe on ANYTHING: she, like I, thinks local conservative yakmouth, Hugh Hewitt is a gas bag!

Coe is incensed that Hewitt--in one of the few times I've agreed with him--recently trashed Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman who's now running for governor as a third-party candidate. I don't listen much to Hewitt anymore, as it's a loop of anti-Obama, pro-gay discrimination nonsense, so--in probably the first time I've ever done this--I'll take Coe at her word instead of searching through hours of stultifying Hewitt transcripts.
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​"It's a disaster . . . He's the anti-Lincoln . . . This thin-skinned president."

​What happens when a hack writes for a hack? Thousands of computer screens groan in digital agony under the dead weight of the product--and thousands of dollars of county money get wasted by pals.

The feisty Friends for Fullerton's Future Blog has been embarrassing Orange County's preeminent Republican blogger, Matt Cunningham, for the past couple of months by posting his invoices as head publicist for an obscure county agency called the Children and Families Commission of Orange County, which gets Orange County's share of Prop. 10 revenues. The latest FFFF revelation? Cunningham earned a cool $5,000 or so for ghostwriting some crap for OC's most nationally known conservative yakmouth, Hugh Hewitt. More >>

Hewitt: Does he check county contracts for ways to shower money toward his pals?

​For the past couple of weeks, the Friends for Fullerton's Future blog has been documenting with devastating effectiveness how Matt Cunningham--founder of OC Blog, longtime Republican activist, a supposed lover of small government--is not only sucking from the government teat, he's shoving udders in his mouth like some PR hack version of Jenna Jameson. Under his Pacific Strategies, Cunningham has reaped tens of thousands of dollars in a contract to shill for an obscure county agency called the Children and Families Commission of Orange County, which gets Orange County's share of Prop. 10 revenues, the type of sin tax Cunningham and his ilk rail about--unless they get paid by it.

FFFF--which has proven to be the municipal version of Orange Juice!, every bit as scandalous, hilariously libelous, and surprisingly investigative as the pioneer of OC's blogosphere--has posted invoice after invoice of Cunningham billing the county at the rate of $200 an hour for everything from having lunch to listening to radio and reading blogs. Nice work if you can get it! Included is $940 he received for working with the Diocese of Orange on some dental program in October of 2007--this, shortly after he furiously shilled for his pastor, John Urell to the point of publishing the name of sex-abuse victims.
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Baby Hewie: Despite my constant ridiculing of him, brother is hella influential among conservatives...

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I know lists are notoriously arbitrary and are usually created with the sole purpose of causing controversy, but there must be some local meaning in a recent article by the UK's conservative Daily Telegraph ranking America's 100 most-influential conservatives. Nowhere on the list is there a person from Orange County--no Hugh Hewitt or Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. (who I'd argue both deserve a spot for their respective contributions to spreading the blog gospel among conservatives and spreading oodles of cash to creationism and Episcopal schisms), no Dana Rohrabacher or Jon Fleischman (who only think they're influential). The OC GOP always touts its supposed influence in national politics--well, where is it? Honestly?

Hewitt: Is he truly stupid, or just acts like it to make cash? Shockingly, it's the latter, according to sources...

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Unsurprisingly, the Right is blaming President Barack Obama for the Christmas Day terrorist attack of an airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. Our local yakmouth Hugh Hewitt was babbling on about it two days ago on his radio show, agreeing with a caller that racial profiling of Muslims is necessary but not for Americans. As he was going to a commercial break, Hugh Hypocrite was braying that he was blaming Obama, Hillary Clinton, and some other liberal demons for the attack.

My question to Baby Hewie acolytes: did he also blame President George W. Bush for 9/11 when they happened, and the colossal failure of our security system then? If not, why not? Is it because Hewie is a double-standard dipshit, or because there's honestly a difference between the New York and Detroit attacks? Inquiring minds want to know!

​Our local conservative yakmouth, Hugh Hewitt, is pretty popular, but not really. I wouldn't place him in the top 20 syndicated radio shows in the country, and his audience is limited to conservative intellectuals (as he can engage in fascinating conversation but usually chooses not to) and coffin dodgers. So what on Earth possessed Baby Hughie to create a paid-content website? Christians usually aren't blinded by arrogance, yet yesterday was the debut of Hughniverse (blech).

What do subscribers get for $54.95 a year ($20 discount if you sign up today!) or $6.95 a month? Hughie's podcast, exclusive blog posts, and the ability to comment on his posts. WOWZA! What's especially hilarious about this is Hughie goes on and on about the glories of the Internet, about how free content will destroy the MSM, and freely gave away his radio program and thoughts--and now, he's putting up a wall (his regular website will continue, but Hughie is increasingly relying on contributors). Hughie, like some of his local prominent acolytes 'round here, is not only arrogant, but a HYPOCRITE. Folks: this is the biggest local rip-off since this laugher.

I haven't paid much attention to Hugh Hewitt as of recent, mostly because all he seems to talk about is Obamacare, and that's not exactly the sexiest of subjects. But I did tune in yesterday, at the very end of the show, and he was playing one of my favorite songs: Lulu's "To Sir with Love" (don't ask). Beautiful, overwrought, late-1960s Brit pop. I have no idea why Baby Hewie was playing it, or why he kept giving biographical details about the singer, but O.C.'s most prominent conservative yakmouth played the song in its entirety and spoke about if the entire time. SHUT THE FUCK UP, HUGH HEWITT, AND LET ME HERE LULU! Maybe he was trying to tie her with Sarah Palin or someone (qdpsteve?) in Commentlandia can provide context, but here's the song without any Baby Hewie yammering:

This Wednesday, as KFI-AM 640 hosts John Kobyalt and Ken Chiampou plugged their next mega-rally--it'll be at the Knott's Berry Farm of the Inland Empire, Tom's Farm in Corona next Saturday--one of them made the observation that a conservative talk-show host had previously mocked them and their listeners as doing little more than "banging pots and pans" and so urged anyone who will attend to--yep!--bring pots and pans to bang. The two were demure for once, but the person they were railing against was none other that Orange County's own conservative yakmouth, Hugh Hewitt. Although I'm all for anyone ridiculing Baby Hewie (I never got around to dissecting his blowjob of an interview with Purpose-Driven® Rick--damn carpal tunnel...), his criticism of John & Ken was one of the few times I actually agreed with the KRLA-AM 830 host. Hewie whacked the John & Ken nation for their Reconquista fear-mongering, making the point that merely yelling won't solve the nation's illegal-immigrant issue (I'm not sure what Hugh's stance is, although I vaguely recall it's more moderate than Tancredo-ish). Eh, whatever: HEADS ON A STICK! HEADS ON A STICK! HEADS ON A STICK!