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Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Next Four Years
You cannot beat something with nothing. Obama had a record that was less than nothing but a machine and an approach to victory that were more than enough to add up to something. Romney, in the end, had nothing but Obama’s nothing.
Seen in this light, the notion that the right is dying is ludicrous. Romney called himself “severely conservative,” and that may be true of him personally, but it certainly was never true of him politically. Indeed, it was only when he finally and at long last ran as himself—the confident and well-spoken serious person with leadership skills—that he began making the sale to the American people. Then, when his challenge was to put meat on those bones in the second and third debates, he could not do so. When he needed to convince people not only that he had it in him to be presidential but that he had distinct ideas of what he would do once he became president, he failed. Conservatism could have saved him. He did not understand it, and he rejected it.
How can Romney’s loss invalidate the right when he was not a candidate of the right? It can, perhaps, as a matter of image, but it cannot as a matter of fact.
…The United States will now undergo a four-year stress test of American liberalism, as Obama will get his tax hike and ObamaCare will be implemented. Those who think Obama cared about people like them will now experience the full extent of his caring.
As Mencken said, democracy is about the idea that the common man know what he wants, and should get it good and hard.
The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
The Tax-Rate Debate
…and its ideological underpinnings. My thoughts on that, and Paul Krugman, over at PJMedia.
Kaus Versus Krugman
It’s like Godzilla versus Bambi:
Krugman knows all this, of course. He just writes as if we don’t.
Which is what makes him a hack, for whom the Times should be embarrassed to provide a platform. Of course, they have a lot of hackery to be embarrassed about.
“Blue” Science
As I noted a couple days ago, denial of science is bi-partisan. The only difference is the issues affected by the denial.
The “Hollywood Holocaust”
…and other Cold War myths. I agree with Glenn:
Leaving aside the obscenity of comparing out-of-work screenwriters with gassed Auschwitz inmates, there’s this: Communists are no better than Nazis. Refusing to hire Communists is on the same moral plane as refusing to hire Nazis. Which is to say: It’s a good and admirable thing, not a sin. Go broke and starve, commies. It’s what you deserve for being eager, willing servants of totalitarianism.
That it’s perfectly acceptable to be a communist, but not a Nazi, in society at all, let alone teaching students on campus, is morally disgusting. All children of Rousseau should be ostracized in a truly liberal democracy.
The Outpost
Kurt Schlichter says that Jake Tapper’s book on Afghanistan
Carbon Emissions Reductions
The U.S. leads the world in them, but don’t tell anyone:
Efforts to curb so-called man-made climate change had little or nothing to do with it. Government mandated “green” energy didn’t cause the reductions. Neither did environmentalist pressure. And the U.S. did not go along with the Kyoto Protocol to radically cut CO2 emissions. Instead, the drop came about through market forces and technological advances, according to a report from the International Energy Agency.
…”It’s good news and good news doesn’t get reported as much,” John Griffin, executive director of Associated Petroleum Industries of Michigan, said of the lack of reporting about the CO2 reductions. “The mainstream media doesn’t want to report these kinds of things.”
Doesn’t fit the narrative.
The Continuing Bengazi Lies
What is the administration hiding?
Whatever it is, they sure didn’t want us to find out before the election. Or even now. And Congress shouldn’t allow itself to be distracted with a sex scandal, as the media has.