…that isn’t a code word for “black”? Yes, that’s right, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was just chock full of black folks.
This is a piece by a stupid, stupid man.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Ayers Ad That 527s Should Run
Kathy Shaidle has put one together.
Another Obama Ayers Question
The Obama campaign (and its press enablers–I was particularly disappointed to hear Kristen Powers do this Saturday night) treats us like morons by continually repeating the “I was eight years old” mantra. Well Victor Davis Hanson has a question:
…why would anyone in a post-9/11 climate continue to communicate with such a loathsome character for four years, when it was common knowledge that Ayers had approved (no, was proud) of his past terrorist tactics of bombing buildings?
Someone should ask him at a press conference. They should also ask him if he’s going to pardon Tony Rezko.
Oh, wait. He doesn’t do press conferences any more. That’s Sarah Palin’s thing.
Libertarian Beatdown
Jonah Goldberg has a roundup of links criticizing Jacob Weisberg’s brainless piece about the death of libertarianism.
The “New” Obama
Stanley Kurtz has been looking more deeply into Barack Obama’s politics and political alliances:
While a small group of bloggers have productively explored Obama’s New Party ties, discussion has often turned on the New Party’s alleged socialism. Was the New Party actually established by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)? Was the New Party’s platform effectively socialist in content? Although these debates are both interesting and important, we needn’t resolve them to conclude that the New Party was far to the left of the American mainstream. Whether formally socialist or not, the New Party and its ACORN backers favored policies of economic redistribution. As Obama would say, they wanted to spread the wealth around. Bracketing the socialism question and simply taking the New Party on its own terms is sufficient to raise serious questions about Obama’s political commitments — questions that cry out for attention from a responsible press.
Yes. Well, as (Democrat) Orson Scott Card points out, we haven’t had a responsible press in quite a while.
Taking Sanctuary
…in Saint Barack.
People, wake up.
Stupidity
I’m getting a little tired of things like this.
Let me state, to attempt to prevent any future comments in this vein, that (apparently) unlike many people, there is no one whose opinion I have sufficient respect for who could convince me that Barack Obama would be a better president than John McCain (not to imply, of course, that I think that John McCain will be a great president). Only those who have no time to evaluate the candidates and the issues rely on endorsements, from anyone, and to do so is a short cut and an intrinsic logical fallacy.
I have abundant information on both candidates at this point, and while (in theory) I could be persuaded to change my mind, this seems unlikely. What I will not be persuaded by is an endorsement by anyone, absent new facts. All that I will be convinced of is that the endorser is either an idiot, ignorant, or on the take (e.g., Colin Powell). I would like to think that this is the case with (at least the intelligent) readers of this blog as well. And (I would like to think that this would go without saying, but apparently it doesn’t, because it keeps happening) I will have a similar opinion of the commenter who informs me of the endorser.
I hope I have made myself clear about this, because I have no more to say on the subject.
Inevitability
So, is Obama as inevitable as Hillary! was?
Just a cautionary note for those who don’t think the obituaries in the press on the McCain campaign premature.
A Response To Some Of My Foolish Commenters
Treacher (who has been on fire lately–scroll around the site), in response to the “argument” that the Annenberg Challenge was funded by Republicans:
“Well, how about that. Did you know the planes used on 9/11 weren’t built by terrorists?”
Yup.
[Update a while later]
If the Obama campaign think that the Senator’s relationship with Bill Ayers is no big deal, why are they trying to hide the evidence?
[Update at 11:30 AM EDT]
Fact checking factcheck.org (which it’s becoming increasingly obvious is badly misnamed). And this seems part of a pattern:
The press seems more interested in attacking Rep. Bachman than in doing its job by asking Obama the many legitimate questions that flow out of his past dealings with Bill Ayers.
Can’t disrupt the narrative, particularly two weeks before an election.
Shocking News
There was a total lack of accountability at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. And as is point out, this makes Powell’s endrsement of Obama particularly clueless:
The mistake in bringing up Ayers was not in doing so per se, but in focusing on his sixties activities, and not paying more attention to their partnership in attempting to radicalize Chicago schoolchildren in the 90s. Not to mention the ongoing dissembling and (yes) lying by Obama about the relationship.
And of course, the biggest mistake with all of this “negative” (i.e., truthful) focus on Obama was not doing it last summer, because now it does have the appearance of desperation.