Category Archives: Media Criticism

Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Just Like Every Other Parole Violator

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He’s going to be held in solitary:

“He’s going to be confined in a special unit where he’d be in a solitary cell, locked up alone and in maddening isolation,” said attorney Mark Werksman, who is not representing Nakoula but has represented other inmates held at the same jail.

A spokeswoman for the Marshals Service, which is responsible for Nakoula, said the agency’s policy is to not discuss inmate security measures.

Larry Jay Levine, a former federal convict once held at Metropolitan and founder and director of Wall Street Prison Consultants, said Nakoula was likely held in an area called the special housing unit and that he would be kept safe there.

“It’s basically a ‘ground hog day’ kind of existence, because he’s not getting out of his cell,” Levine said.

But this has nothing to do with making a movie. Nothing to see here, folks.

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture

Jay Leno

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Who know he was such a racist?

When you’ve lost Jay Leno, what does it mean?

[Update a couple minutes later]

Between this and SNL, I’m wondering if it means that the suits at NBC have decided it’s OK to go after the White House? [Googling…]

OK, though GE is no longer a majority shareholder, I wonder if this has something to do with it?

But let’s assume the rumors are true. What reason would Immelt have for abandoning the Obama campaign?

“Back when he agreed to advise the Obama administration on economics, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt told friends that he thought it would be good for GE and good for the country,” Gasparino writes in the New York Post. “A life-long Republican, Immelt said he believed he could at the very least moderate the president’s distinctly anti-business instincts.”

And although GE has greatly benefitted from its relationship with the U.S. government, gorging itself at the federal subsidies trough, Immelt is apparently dismayed that he can’t “fix” the president’s anti-business stance.

“…Immelt doesn’t think he’s had…much luck moderating the president’s fat-cat-bashing, left-leaning economic agenda of taxing businesses and entrepreneurs to pay for government bloat,” Gasparino writes.

To put it simply, Immelt has allegedly given up on the idea that he can move the left-leaning president towards the center, according to Immelt’s friends.

“The GE CEO, I’m told, is appalled by everything from the president’s class-warfare rhetoric to his continued belief that big government is the key to economic salvation,” Gasparino reports.

Another rube who’s caught on.

And Comcast may not care.

Business, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Science And Society, Social Commentary

Silent Spring

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Fifty years of junk environmental science.

[Update late morning]

More thoughts from Ron Bailey:

In Silent Spring, Carson crafted a passionate denunciation of modern technology that drives environmentalist ideology today. At its heart is this belief: Nature is beneficent, stable, and even a source of moral good; humanity is arrogant, heedless, and often the source of moral evil. Rachel Carson, more than any other person, is responsible for the politicized science that afflicts our public policy debates today.

It’s certainly not for the better.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Jailed For Blasphemy

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Free speech in Obama’s America.

[Update a while later]

More thoughts from Allahpundit:

According to TMZ, the guy’s probation report is sealed. Question for criminal defense attorneys: Is there any way to force it to be unsealed, or is that at the discretion of one or both of the parties? There’s a public interest at this point, I think, in knowing why they’re sending him back to prison. Did he commit a serious crime that we don’t know about, or are they using a technicality to punish him for blasphemy?

I think we can make a good guess.