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Category Archives: Media Criticism
Weird Campaign Sign
We were driving through San Anselmo this morning on our way back to LA from Stinson Beach, and I saw a sign that said:
Behar
Water Board
I have to confess that my immediate thought was “Waterboard Joy Behar? Someone after my own heart.” But after seeing several more of them, and realizing that this was the heart of Marin County (where she’s probably a heroine), I finally figured out that someone (else) named Behar was running for the board that oversees local water issues.
It’s Not Just NPR
It’s time to defund the National Endowment for the Humanities. They have a right to debauch history and denigrate our country, and even poison the minds of our youth, but they have no right to taxpayer dollars with which to do so.
Obama’s “Philosophical” Pragmatism
Are Stewart And Colbert Pro-Islamofascist?
…or just ignorant/stupid?
Based on their previous behavior, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Why yes, I’m not as impressed with their supposed intelligence and hipness as I’m supposed to be. Why do you ask?
It’s really a shame, too. I liked Cat Stephens in my youth, before he became a murderous misogynist nutcase. Or at least, I liked his music.
[Update a few minutes later]
Just how much sanity was on the Mall yesterday? A crowd estimate.
[Update a while later]
Here’s sample of the sanity on offer. Note the abundance of leftist projection (e.g. fear mongers, tools of corporations). And this is classic:
“[Barack Obama’s] made some progress, but the dude’s got to dig out of a big hole,” said an Obama voter from Maryland. “We need him to do what he asked us to make him do what he said he was going to do in the campaign.”
Got it.
Dude.
The Failure Of A Thesis
I like this comment in Ron Radosh’s take-down of John Judis:
It would appear that while the American people want a new government, the Democrats would like a new people. Let’s see how that works out.
As another commenter points out, we know how that worked out for leftists in the past, in Germany and Russia. Not to mention Cambodia.
More “Rally To Restore Smugness” Coverage
Jonah Goldberg’s Twitter feed is pretty funny. I like Nick Gillespie’s comment that it’s like a stage show at a water park. I’ll be curious to see how much of a mess they leave. They may be media savvy enough to clean up, though, given recent experience. This sounds about right, too:
Criticize the political content & you’re reminded it was a comedy show. Point out it wasn’t funny & you don’t have a sense of humor. Repeat.
I might have watched, but I think that space settlement is more important. Besides, the Spartan game took up all my multi-tasking capability. And I was at a secure undisclosed (well, unless you went to the SSI web site) location at NASA Ames Research Center, nowhere near a teevee.
Comrade Hitler
A new historical revelation, which should surprise anyone who’s been paying attention:
Mr. Weber has discovered that, briefly at the turn of 1918-19, and unmentioned in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler wore a red brassard and supported the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.
But remember, National Socialists are “right wing.”
An Important Point For The Clueless Eric Holder
We have to be careful to analyze our enemies in terms of their circumstances, not ours. An analogous mistake is made by those who claim Guantanamo Bay “causes” terrorism or materially contributes to terrorist recruitment; the jihadists themselves care only about the fact that we are detaining Muslims — they don’t care where, and they don’t have a clue or a care about the differences between military and civilian processes under U.S. law. Good intelligence requires taking the enemy on his own terms, not as we would think or act under the enemy’s circumstances.
This, in the context of whether or not the latest attempt had anything to do with the elections.
A Rally To Restore Fatwas?
The Rally To Restore Smugness is apparently stuff white people like. Plus, multiculturalism and sharia.