Category Archives: Political Commentary

Humor, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

A Nation Of Sandra Flukes

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Mark Steyn:

America is so broketastically brokey-broke that one day, in the grim future that could be, society may even be forced to consider whether there is any meaningful return on investment for paying a quarter-million bucks to send the scions of wealth and privilege to school till early middle age to study Reproductive Justice. But, as it stands right now, a Cornell and Georgetown graduate doesn’t understand the central reality of the future her elders have bequeathed her. There’s no “choice” in the matter. It’s showing up whatever happens in November. All the election will decide is whether America wants to address that reality, or continue to live in delusion — like a nation staggering around with a giant condom rolled over its collective head.

Any space aliens prowling through the rubble of our civilization and stumbling upon a recording of the convention compatible with Planet Zongo DVD players will surely marvel at the valuable peak airtime allotted to Sandra Fluke. It was weird to see her up there among the governors and senators — as weird as Bavarians thought it was when King Ludwig decided to make his principal advisor Lola Montez, the Irish-born “Spanish dancer” and legendary grande horizontale. I hasten to add I’m not saying Miss Fluke is King Barack’s courtesan. For one thing, it’s a striking feature of the Age of Perfected Liberalism that modern liberals talk about sex 24/7 while simultaneously giving off the persistent whiff that the whole thing’s a bit of a chore. Hence, the need for government subsidy. And, in fairness to Miss Montez, she used sex to argue for liberalized government, whereas Miss Fluke uses liberalism to argue for sexualized government.

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Business, Economics, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

The Democrats’ New False Campaign Narrative

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I have some thoughts on Bill Clinton’s nonsense, over at PJMedia.

A commenter over there makes a good point. If you look at the curve of the current “recovery, it does appear that it started to rebound symmetrically, but something happened to cause it to stall out. His theory is that it was the passage of ObamaCare. I think that’s a good guess.

[Update a few minutes later]

Related thoughts from Jen Rubin:

If you had been dropped from outer space into the Democratic National Convention, you would have thought that we enjoyed full employment, reduced poverty and stared down Iran, leaving us with deeply important issues like paying for birth control for grown women. You would have thought that a large majority of Americans weren’t sympathetic to Israel and weren’t religious. You’d have thought that the federal government had money to burn and no looming debt crisis. You would never have thought that Obama had signed a “historic” health-care bill. And you’d have thought that the political heavyweight in the Obama household was Michelle. (Well, you might have been right about the last one.)

But knowing that the America of 2012 is so very different than the convention portrait, it’s worth asking how the Democrats’ convention became so divorced from reality.

As she says, it’s been a long time coming.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Losing It In Charlotte

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What a fiasco:

Tom Brokaw shares the story of how Hubert Humphrey lost the 1968 election after Americans watched television images of the young radicals in Grant Park scaling statues and flying the Viet Cong flag. At that moment, Americans fully appreciated the lawless direction that some wanted to take the country and saw Richard Nixon as the antidote.

The young radicals of 1968 have become the old radicals who now control the Democrat Party. They put on a convention this week characterized by incompetence, radicalism, and race.

I’m starting to wonder if 1968, or even 1972 are a better analogy for this election than 1980.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary

The Convention Tonight

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I watched Scarlett Johanssen and Eva Longoria, but turned down the sound, because they’re a lot easier on the eyes than the ears.

I listened to John Kerry until I heard the word “neocons,” at which point I muted, because this is a surefire sign that whoever is speaking is politically a moron, or attempting to appeal to same, if he uses the term in a non-ironic manner. It only took ten seconds or so…

[Update a while later]

I will confess that the best (only? yeah, probably) moment of the Dem convention that warmed my heart was Gabby Giffords staggering to the lectern with the help of her friend Debby Liarwoman Schultz, and leading the congregation in the Pledge of Allegiance, including the words “under God.”

But the cynic in me wonders if this was an afterthought, to try to dilute the venom of the previous day’s vocal repudiation of Him?

I guess, in theory, we could know by looking at a convention schedule from earlier in the week, but considering the people we’re dealing with, who’s to say what it is now is what it was then?