The darkness of collective punishment.
Leftists are completely tone deaf to this kind of thing, but as I wrote earlier, I think those four words sealed his fate this fall.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Gore Vidal
The self loathing ends.
The Tea Party
Given how unpredicted this was by the polls, I think that some people are going to be in for a real shock this November.
The New Black Panthers
A DOJ official may have lied about the case.
You don’t say.
Rahm Emanuel, Chick-Fil-A
…and the easy slide into fascism.
To be fair to Rahm, he was already mostly there.
“Bin Laden Is Dead And GM Is Alive”
But GM is on life support.
I think this has the makings of a good Romney campaign ad.
[Update a while later]
Obama touts GM success as its market share declines along with its stock price.
The Low-Fat Diet Fad
Is it on its last legs?
If so, it’s long past due.
Alexander Cockburn, Conservative
More thoughts on the late Stalinist:
Sometimes, this hypocrisy took the form of amnesia. In 1980, when the Afghans were getting their own taste of the Brezhnev doctrine, Cockburn wrote of their country:
An unspeakable country filled with unspeakable people, sheepshaggers and smugglers, who have furnished in their leisure hours some of the worst arts and crafts ever to penetrate the occidental world…. If ever a country deserved rape it’s Afghanistan. Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.
That, you see, is what they call “speaking truth to power.” Predictably, Cockburn opposed the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. An alleged “radical,” he nevertheless defended the status quo when it came to the most barbaric reactionaries and seemed comfortable with, if not amenable to, the death-cult establishments in Palestine and Lebanon. In fact, when I think hard about it, I wonder why this man was considered a radical at all. When your essential worldview is shaped by the writings of a 19th century German philosopher, you are not a radical. When you publish op-eds by dictators who have been in power since Eisenhower was president, you are, in a very literal sense, a conservative. When you’re skeptical about everything except Josef Stalin, you cannot be said to have a very developed sense of bucking “the establishment.”
Really, these people are quite odious.
Objectifying Women
It’s not just the guys.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. My evolutionary explanation (and I think that whatever explanation there is is evolutionary, not the media, which is just reflecting viewer and reader preferences) is that women compete more on their physical attractiveness to men (men compete on power and wealth), so both men and women are acutely aware of women’s…interesting…body features (which is also why women have less of a problem being physically attracted to other women than men to men).
“My Husband’s Hands Were Tied”
“Not yours.”
More thoughts on the hypocrisy and appeasement of the IOC from Ilya Somin.
Like the UN, I wouldn’t shed a tear if the IOC and the Olympics themselves disappeared from the planet.