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Archive for 2011
January 16, 2011
ARE SOME INTELLECTUALS SUFFERING FROM “Tea Party envy?”
WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT’D): Unemployment In The U.S. Is Actually Worse Than Pakistan. “The Eurozone is at similar levels to the US, but when most of the countries that have a higher unemployment rate than the US are collectively referred to as PIGS, it’s not very encouraging.”
KIM STRASSEL: Gun-Control Opportunists: The Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is now inspiring a new round of political calls for gun control. Well, to be fair, if it weren’t for cynical and opportunistic efforts to exploit tragedy for political gain, we’d hardly have any gun-control laws at all. So what else were they going to do?
LOUGHNER: NOT EXACTLY A TEA PARTIER: “His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush, or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government.”
WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT’D): “We’re fine at the moment, and we’re screwed long term.” Well, ordinarily I’d be worried. But with the best and the brightest at the helm, I foresee nothing but smooth sailing.
ANN ALTHOUSE: “I guess Firedoglake is flouting the ‘civility’ bullshit that’s been bandied about lately.”
Plus this: “Clearly, we talk about female politicians’ hair all the time. It is different to talk about men’s hair, of course, because men aren’t supposed to care much about their hair. It’s part of the conventional manly image not to pay attention to hair, and when a man runs afoul of that image, he gives his opponents raw material that… well, that can make a hilarious video.”
FDL was unhappy about Althouse’s observation of Obama’s hair-color change. Personally, I think it’s fine if Obama colors his hair. But weren’t lefties always snarking about Reagan’s hair being dyed?
Meanwhile, Don Surber isn’t into the “new civility” either:
The left wants us to be civil — after being so uncivil for a decade.
Bite me. I have been screamed at for 10 years. It’s my turn now. I am not going to scream back. But I refuse to allow anyone to dictate what I say or how I say it. I refuse to allow the same foul-mouthed, foul-spirited foul people who dumped on me to now try to tell me what I may or may not say.
Read the whole thing, which is an inspired rant.
WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT’D): Soaring Global Food Prices.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER corrects Mark Shields.
IRELAND: The Silent Bank Run Continues.
MICKEY KAUS TO MORTON KONDRACKE: You don’t spread “civility” by calling your opponents racists. “Part of civility is supposed to be accepting a democratic verdict even if it goes against you.”
TOM MAGUIRE TO MATT BAI: Have You No Sense Of History, Sir, At Long Last?
As befits our credentialed-but-not-educated class, Bai condescends even while getting the famous McCarthy/Joseph Welch confrontation wrong.
DONALD SENSING: SeaHawks Fall To Climate Of Hate In Chicago.
GENETICALLY MODIFIED CHICKENS can’t pass on bird flu.
CROWDSOURCED RANKINGS of law schools and law reviews.
LOTS OF NEW STUFF over at The Tatler.
TODAY’S MEDIA lead where no one follows. “And this is hardly an isolated incident. It’s understandable that journalists would want to set the national agenda by providing new information. That’s their job. But sometimes the press just won’t take no for an answer, when the public refuses to see events the same way. . . . Obviously, even The New York Times eventually got the story right, and the facts eventually won out (though apologies have yet to materialize). But it is also abundantly clear that many of the people and institutions piously speechifying about the desperate need to moderate the political discourse had no problem falsely indicting others in a horrendous murder, not because they knew the charge was true but solely because they desperately wanted it to be.”
UPDATE: How the Obama Campaign Created the ‘Palin Incites Violence’ Meme.
ANOTHER UPDATE: A “timeline of deception.”
THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: “People who think exactly like Paul Krugman and people who think the exact opposite of Paul Krugman’s thoughts.” Actually, I think Krugman’s version is: People who think exactly like Paul Krugman and people who are eeevillll.
So this is a very sad and narrow-minded piece of rationalization in the end, too pathetic to enrage. Krugman has revealed his own emotions-driven thought process in the mirror image he creates of “the other side”. We know that very few get up in the morning thinking “I’m going to be a selfish bastard today”, yet he looks at his reflection and sees millions of them. As the shrinks say, “very interesting”.
Indeed.
FRANK RICH STILL BITTERLY CLINGING to a narrative that even Charles Blow calls a “witch hunt.”
MICHAEL S. MALONE: The Photograph.
THE INSTAWIFE TALKS TO THE WASHINGTON POST about Jared Loughner.
TOM SMITH: I’m not saying Paul Krugman is schizophrenic. “Like most people, I regard people who suppose themselves to be greatly morally superior to others, especially when it seems if anything they are rather worse than most, a peculiarly obnoxious trait. K stands out in my mind as one of these people. . . . I have tried a little lately to get my arms around this idea of ‘I am really a kind of moral wonder; truly morally superior to most people’ sense that some people have, and how it relates to politics. Happily I don’t think it is a very widespread trait, but where you encounter it, it’s beastly.”
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