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Category Archives: Media Criticism
The LA Times Non-Endorsement
I found this line of their editorial decision to vote “present” in the primaries interesting:
On the Democratic side, we find that we’re no fans of incumbent Barbara Boxer. She displays less intellectual firepower or leadership than she could.
Why do they say this? What possesses them to imagine that she’s capable of any better? She is haughty and arrogant, with much to be modest about. And the following sentences were interesting as well:
We appreciate the challenge brought by Robert “Mickey” Kaus, even though he’s not a realistic contender, because he asks pertinent questions about Boxer’s “lockstep liberalism” on labor, immigration and other matters. But we can’t endorse him, because he gives no indication that he would step up to the job and away from his Democratic-gadfly persona.
So they’re saying that if he’d taken his campaign more seriously, acted like he was actually trying to win, and wanted to go to Washington, they would have endorsed him? After everything he’s said about them? I wonder if that’s really true.
Any regrets, Mickey?
The Deranged Lone Wolf
…was in contact with Awlaki. No doubt the emails will reveal their discussion of how awful the health care bill was, and his foreclosure situation.
The Politically Incorrect Disaster
The more I see things like this, the angrier I get about the irresponsible and sensationalistic press coverage of Katrina, for no other reason than to discredit the Bush administration.
[Update later morning]
(Tenesseean) Michael Silence is running an Internet poll. Of course, the problem is, it’s been so undercovered that many people taking the poll won’t even know what it was about. As I note in comments over there, there should have been a third choice: “What TN flooding?”
And what is that Barack Obama hates so much about southern people?
Truth
…is the first casualty of Kos.
I guess Markos has never had a logic course. Not has he ever let it slow him down.
The MS In MSNBC
Lileks, on the moral superiority of our media and political “elites.” It’s really hard to use that word for them with a straight face.
Hope the attack was caused by one of the several dozen million militia members — also known as “Midwesterners.” After all, that’s the logical extension of being opposed to anything the government does while in control of the Democratic Party: blowing up that oasis of commerce and gaudy free enterprise, Times Square.
Fingers crossed: Oh, if only the attack was caused by someone protesting Arizona’s immigration policy. Such a thing would be misguided, but there’s a lot of anger out there about a law many say harkens back to Nazi Germany, where they rounded up Jews who had entered the Third Reich illegally, and made them return to Israel.
…CNN chatterboxes later ruminated that the fellow had a hard life in the U.S. — couldn’t get a good job, had his house foreclosed on. Granted. But this has happened to many during the Great Recession, and 99.99999% don’t sit down and conclude: “Well, it’s Pakistan for fertilizer bomb training, then.”
Do these people actually think about the stupid things they say?
I fully expect all those being foreclosed on to be put on a terrorist watch list. But we can’t discriminate against those Jihadis. That would be intolerant.
Three Reasons
Youtube shouldn’t take down the Downfall parodies.
Note To Kevin Drum
I am not a conservative, though I do speak fluent conservative, which is why I’m trying to sell conservatives and Republicans (and the intersection of those two sets, which is smaller than any imagine) on the new program.
And yes, we did have dinner the other night, with Marc Danziger and Michael Totten, and others, in Manhattan Beach, and a good time was had by all (as far as I know).
[Update a few minutes later]
Clark Lindsey responds to the Charles Homan piece at the Washington Monthly.
Imagine
I’ve discussed this before, but here are some thoughts on one of the dumbest songs ever written (Give Peace A Chance is a runner up). It never previously occurred to me, though that Lennon might have actually been mocking his own fans with it. I suppose it’s possible.
Lutherans, No Doubt
Or maybe Episcopalians.
Eight have been arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Times Square bombing attempt.
They were probably upset about health care.
[Update a few minutes later]
More thoughts from Mark Steyn:
To the traditional who-ya-gonna-believe-me-or-your-lyin’-eyes cliches, Mayor Bloomberg has now added the inspired line that the amateurish loner with no connection to terrorism “didn’t like the health care bill”. I do hope they ask Faisal Shahzad his views on the individual mandate.
Any moment now, Janet Napolitano will announce that effective immediately it will be illegal to remove your sweat shirt in a public place.
By the way, there are so many of these isolated extremists and lone wolves, they surely belong to the United Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves and Isolated Extremists. So their cadillac health care plan probably has an Obamacare opt-out anyway. Very odd.
Why do public officials so reflexively dissemble and misdirect every time? In the end, all they’re doing is undermining confidence in the integrity of their own institutions. That doesn’t seem a smart move.
It could be because they’re not very smart. Apparently that’s not a criterion for becoming the mayor of a major city, or a federal official.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The bomber had to have had help:
While officials called the bomb itself “crude” and “amateurish”, they now privately acknowledge that the preparation, advanced espionage and meticulous orchestration of events required to insert a Sport Utility Vehicle into a curbside parking space anywhere in New York City reflects a high-level of intellectual and technical sophistication.”
“You don’t just drive into New York and park your car,” the source said. “Without a real-time satellite video feed and agents on the ground in constant communication with the driver, that kind of operation can take hours on a good day. Even with all of those resources, the perps still had to count on a certain degree of luck.”
More evidence that it was sophisticated white guys. And they only have to be lucky once…
[Update a few minutes later]
It’s the Jihad, stupid.