Category Archives: Political Commentary

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Fact Checking The President

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The strangest thing about this is the source. Even the WaPo says that he’s full of it on the auto bailout

We take no view on whether the administration’s efforts on behalf of the automobile industry were a good or bad thing; that’s a matter for the editorial pages and eventually the historians. But we are interested in the facts the president cited to make his case.

What we found is one of the most misleading collections of assertions we have seen in a short presidential speech. Virtually every claim by the president regarding the auto industry needs an asterisk, just like the fine print in that too-good-to-be-true car loan.

Of course, if the Times did it, it would mean the End Times.

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society

“Bone-Headed Beliefs”

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Res ipsa loquitur:

Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.

Not necessarily on the forehead; I’m a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ”Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?”

On second thoughts, maybe the tattooing along the arm is a bit Nazi-creepy. So how about they are forced to buy property on low-lying islands, the sort of property that will become worthless with a few more centimetres of ocean rise, so they are bankrupted by their own bloody-mindedness?

Yes, that’s much more reasonable.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Weinergate

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…versus the summer of Nixon.

[Update a few minutes later]

It took her long enough–Ann Althouse has finally given up on CNN. As a commenter notes, they didn’t call it the Clinton News Network in the nineties for nothing.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Revenge of the nerds:

Breitbart and his team of editors and contributors (of which I am one) are everything that the press hates. We find the facts that either they don’t find or they choose to ignore, and we reveal them to the public. As the guy whose name is on all the sites, along with being the content director and a reporter, Breitbart’s job is to publicly take the body slams directed at all the writers including himself.

Let’s face it, Breitbart’s “Big” sites not only shoot down the progressive media’s political idols, but they make the press seem incompetent for not reporting those stories themselves.

When it comes to leftists, they have no journalistic instincts.

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The danger to the left of the hypocrisy defense:

Within the parameters of this “Hypocrisy Defense”…Which do you think the general public prefers: An ideology that at least tries to champion a moral code, but whose adherents sometimes fail to live up to it; or an ideology that by its own definition is inherently immoral and whose adherents don’t even have a moral code to violate?

The liberals are taking a HUGE gamble that a majority of Americans will throw in their lot with the party of immorality.

As the old saying goes, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Business, Political Commentary, Space

Strange Bedfellows

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Tea Party In Space praises Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein.

Hey, it’s the best thing they’ve ever done for the space program (a low bar for them, or California Democrats in general), though they’re certainly doing it at the behest of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park and Aerojet in Sacramento, not because they care about space. I hope this throws a mighty wrench in the Senate Launch System works.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Five Theories

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…of Weinergate. I’m going with Occam’s Razor, myself. Particularly considering what a weaselly vaginal rinse the guy is.

Andrew Klavan says that the Weiners of the world are womens’ fault.

[Update]

Weiner comes clean. But he says he won’t pull out. Or…errrrr…something.

Well, why should he? Ted Kennedy killed a young woman, and served for decades more. All you have to do is be a Democrat.

[Update a while later]

So why isn’t the media hounding Huma for a comment? You know they would if he were a Republican.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

It Couldn’t Possibly Be Because She Knows History

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See, when Sarah Palin gets something right that her critics get wrong, it’s just because she’s lucky:

Patrick Leehey of the Paul Revere House said Revere was probably bluffing his British captors, but reluctantly conceded that it could be construed as Revere warning the British.

“I suppose you could say that,” Leehey said. “But I don’t know if that’s really what Mrs. Palin was referring to.”

McConville said he also is not convinced that Palin’s remarks reflect scholarship.

“I would call her lucky in her comments,” McConville said.

Well, I think I have to go with the professor here:

But Cornell law professor William Jacobson, who asserted last week that Palin was correct, linking to Revere quotes on his conservative blog Legalinsurrection.com, said Palin’s critics are the ones in need of a history lesson. “It seems to be a historical fact that this happened,” he said. “A lot of the criticism is unfair and made by people who are themselves ignorant of history.”

OK, but at least they understand business, and economics, and world affairs. Right? I mean, they are our moral and intellectual superiors. We can be sure of this because they tell us so.

[Update a few minutes later]

Now who looks stupid? They never realize how stupid they look. It’s part of the problem of stupidity. Anyway they’re being stupid doesn’t fit the narrative.