Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

I would not be surprised if Jonah was a longtime lurker.

Nordlinger is gold

Nordlinger and Mozart's juicy phrases

Derb, if you find this thread, let me save you some time.

how come this is the first time I've noticed alizee kinda has a five head? also more nordlinger/derbyshire google img bombs plz

Who's buyin' the first round?!?

"from rabid Sarah Palin fans to Andrew Sullivan" [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

He voted for John Kerry. He endorsed Barack Obama. It remains a mystery to me why Andrew Sullivan is described as on the Right or a conservative. That's not me being McCarthyite. I just think words have meanings.

Just a rabid well-fed theocon Christianist vent.

And I'm guessing Sullivan will not be doing as many post-election shots as I will be (meet you in the bar on the NR Cruise) if we don't make at least 40 in the Senate, either.

I look forward to the day K-lo starts posting drunk 24/7.

So... you're looking forward to two weeks ago?

No, I think that is her brain sober! Imagine how much worse it can get.

well-fed

no shit

is "well-fed" the new "fat"?

Dreber w/r/t NRO:

I would add that conversations I've had over the past couple of weeks with grassroots conservatives around here are kind of breathtaking in their denial of reality. I have heard conservatives talk about how all the polls are wrong, that the "silent majority" will be heard from, that Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric are evil for making Sarah Palin look bad, etc. And that anyone who claims to be a conservative who disputes any of this is a traitor to the cause.

Loves it!

In Case It Helps [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Poll suggests Kerry has lead in swing states
Last Updated: Sunday, October 17, 2004 | 9:15 PM ET

Sorry Dan, maybe she is already drunk.

For some reason I had a Washington roundtable show on yesterday morning and Newt was on one of them, warning about all of the things the Democrats were gonna do when they got the power, and one of them was the same thing that Steyn is talking about here, i dunno, i don't see it

"Fairness" and freedom [Mark Steyn]

If Obama wins and has Congressional coattails, I would expect a new "Fairness Doctrine" to be one of the first things the liberal supermajority will pass. John McCain, who is antipathetic to talk radio and whose birdbrained interventions in the area of public discourse have helped give us moveon.org and a 600-million-dollar candidate who could singlehandedly fund the national elections of the rest of the G7, is obviously not the best person to argue against it. But those Americans who object to government regulation of ideas and opinions ought to take this threat seriously. It applies not just to Rush & Co, but eventually to websites like this. (North of the border, I see, the broadcast regulator, the CRTC, is now moving on to swallow the Internet.)

This would be not a "long march through the institutions" (as terrorist educator William Ayers would say), only a quick and easy stroll. But it would be (in Colin Powell's word) "transformative". In Canada, for example, I'm told by leftie critics that I should be satisfied because "the system worked" - that's to say, after three investigations, a wasted year and a ton of legal bills, a government agency has, in effect, retrospectively granted me permission to say what I said. Gee, thanks. Today's Calgary Herald editorial - "Canadians Are A Censored People" - has implications down here, too:

In supposedly free societies, government has no business having an opinion on whether a book [or a radio show, or a website] is true, false or has merit.

Like Canada's "human rights" commissions, the new "Fairness Doctrine" will be framed in fluffy feelgood terms, starting with that Orwellian name, and it will serve the same purpose - to pre-emptively stifle free speech.

10/20 03:18 PM

I think that's a part of their persecution fantasies.

Every time they state their fears about being put in a camp for dissidents, I think, "if only."

One Day in the Life of Hugh Hewitt would be singularly boring reading.

Steyn actually believes his opinions are dangerous. That's gotta be the funniest thing about his Canada case. His opinions are about as dangerous as Kevin MacDonald's. They are distasteful, gross, and RONG, but no one takes him seriously.

For some reason I had a Washington roundtable show on yesterday morning and Newt was on one of them, warning about all of the things the Democrats were gonna do when they got the power, and one of them was the same thing that Steyn is talking about here, i dunno, i don't see it

"This Week With George Stephanopopopoluffagus." I'm pretty sure Donna Brazile shot him the Scowl of Death too.

Not specifically Corner-related but with crossover and worth a read. My two favorite parts:

When I ask Frum about the apparent class overtones of the anti-anti-Palin argument, he deems it a mere “rhetorical trope.” What he hears instead is the sound of defeatism. “The people who defend her have already given up any serious thought of Republicans’ wielding governmental power anytime soon,” Frum says. “They have already moved to a position of pure cultural symbolic opposition to a new majority. The people who criticize her do so because we have some hope that we could be in contention in 2012, and there’s some risk that she could be the party’s nominee, and she’d probably lose—and even if by some miracle she won, she’d be a terrible president.”

...

Few people understand better than Buckley just what that might mean. “My dad kicked off conservatism in 1955, Goldwater ran in 1964, and then Reagan was elected sixteen years after that,” he notes. “So the Republicans could be looking pretty good around, oh, 2032!”

You might think that Buckley is kidding here, but you would be wrong. Conservatism, he thinks, is facing nothing less than an existential crisis. The events of recent days may have given him less of a stake in the outcome than before, but still he offers a friendly word of advice for those who care to listen. “The smart ones in the movement should get together right after the election at the Greenbrier or the Homestead, you know, where they typically have these kinds of get-togethers, and have a long dark night of the soul,” he says. “And I’ll tell you what the conference should be called: Conservatism—What the Fuck?”

Oh, the world resource skirmishes to come will come far sooner than 2032 and will bring out things far worse than anything even the most anti-Dem or anti-GOP person can fear, but oh let Republicans think their party is doomed in the meantime.

More and more delusional the closer this election gets to the wire:

The Palin Effect? [Jonah Goldberg]

From a reader:

Dear Mr. Goldberg,

Y'all have written clearly about the oft-confused Bradley Effect in the Corner today, but you have failed to mention the newest Silent Majority - those who are going to vote for McCain/Palin because of Sarah Palin, but are too embarrassed to admidt it to a pollster. It's huge, man.

As for me, as I tell everyone - I'm voting for Sarah Palin and that while-haired dude she's running with. Trust me, I get lots of knowing nods.

Color me dubious about the statistical significance of the Palin effect (how many gung-ho Palin supporters are really embarassed to say they're voting for McCain to a pollster?), but I hope I'm wrong.

Jonah discounts this theory, but if the dude had sent this to K-lo she probably would have been drunk enough to buy into it.

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzBjMzc0ZmRhMzI4OTY0ZTg1MmNjOTBkYTBlYTkxZTU=

loooooooooool

UPDATE: I am floored by the fact that the white pages for Albuquereque, New Mexico has a listing for "Duran Duran." Mea culpa.

I am dying here.

Burning the ground.

i'd like to report some fraud i saw a name listed on the ballot as "barack hussein obama" thats gotta be fake right

Not really American.

kathleen parker, ew

To McCain's credit, he has tried to correct his audience -- when, for example, a woman said she couldn't trust Obama because he's an Arab. Gosh, wonder where she ever got that idea? But the McCain-Palin bad cop-good cop routine is what it is. The hot babe lathers the crowd; the noble soldier hoses them down. This isn't a campaign; it's a sideshow.

crosspost to nailin palin thread

are too embarrassed to admidt it to a pollster. It's huge, man.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92aelvis.phtml

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Any Publicity Is Good Publicity? [Mark R. Levin]

William Ayers and his lovely terrorist wife have a new book coming out in June about their love of country. I don't hold this against Barack Obama, of course. He was only 8 years old when this duo was trying to overthrow the government. Of course, I wasn't born when Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, but I've read it

uh zing?

"Sentence fragments...just PHRASES!"

john derbyshire is a racist nut pt 32893749387

Moderate = Democrat; the Newsday Mentality [John Derbyshire]

My next-door neighbors are on vacation, so by mutual agreement I get to take their morning paper from the driveway. This is Newsday, a cheerleader for everything Left. It's interesting, reading it, to see how people who work for a paper like this have internalized their leftism, so that they don't (I am sure) even realise they're displaying it.

Case in point, from the October 19 issue, page A4. This is a state-by-state report on the presidential race. For Virginia we get this:

The birthplace of Robert E. Lee hasn't exactly been friendly to Democrats — until recently, when the state's more moderate Washington, D.C. suburbs helped elect back-to-back Democratic governors …

See that? "Moderate" = Democratic. (And why would Robert E. Lee's state not be friendly to Democrats? Wasn't Abraham Lincoln a Republican?)

Then this from the October 21 issue, page A27. There is an aerial photograph of several hundred people marching on a broad highway. Heading: Bolivia's march for change. Caption: "Led by Bolivian President Evo Morales, tens of thousands of his supporters march into El Alto yesterday on their way to La Paz, demanding lawmakers approve greater powers and wealth for the oppressed indigenous majority."

I hardly know where to start with that. How do you "demand" wealth? I mean, you might ask politely for it to be "spread around" a bit more … but "demand"? You buckle down to work and help create wealth, that's what you do about wealth. And then that "oppressed." Who's oppressed? Bolivia's population breaks down by ancestry as Amerind-mestizo-white about 55-30-15. The Amerinds live mostly in the highlands of the west, and are poor; mestizos and whites live in the lowlands of the east and are richer. All enjoy the same civil rights, and have for decades. The current President, Evo Morales, is an Amerind. Far from wanting to "oppress" the highland Indians, the lowlanders have been trying to secede from them! That, of course, is the last thing the highlanders want. If the prosperous east secedes, from whom will the highlanders "demand" wealth? You can't spread around what you don't have.

That same issue of Newsday, page A5, carries a report of a Long Island school closed by a black-Hispanic race riot. This is pretty much a daily occurrence all over the U.S.A. now. Here was one in Madison, Wisconsin the other day. Just another one of the wonderful blessings brought to our nation by mass Hispanic immigration. Thanks, Mr. Bush, Sr.! Thanks, Mr. Clinton! Thanks, Mr. Bush, Jr.! Anyway, just look at the convolutions Newsday goes through to tell us this was a black-Hispanic rumble.

Hempstead District Superintendent Joseph Laria said some students were separated by their racial or ethnic affiliation in response to "a report that there was possible ill will growing between some of the students who were African-American and some of the students that were Latino."

For sheer strangulated determination to say something the writer regards as wellnigh unsayable, that's up there with the Japanese Emperor's radio address to his nation after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage …"

On to today's issue of Newsday. Page A5: Two officers shot. Two transit cops were wounded in the NYC subway when a turnstile-jumper grabbed one of their guns and started shooting. What does Newsday have to tell us about the perp? Only that he is "Raul Nunez, 32." That's as much as Newsday wants its readers to know about a guy who shot two cops. Over to America's Newspaper of Record, reporting on the same incident:

Suspect Raul Nuñez, 32 — who sneaked back into the United State after he was deported to his native Dominican Republic in 2001 for a 1997 drug conviction — was at Bellevue Hospital with gunshot wounds to the legs and torso. He faces attempted-murder charges.

Oh, so the perp is an i-i. Of course, if Newsday had told its readers that, the readers would have lost control of themselves in a frenzy of race hate and stormed out into the streets of Long Island brandishing pitchforks and machetes, to hack to death any passer-by who looked Hispanic. Newsday readers, you see, are bestial types with little control over their vile emotions, who will launch a pogrom at the slightest opportunity. So Newdsay's editors and reporters apparently believe. I bet they really do believe it. All liberals do.

Thank goodness for America's Newspaper of Record. Look — they even gave us the tilde!

cant decide if my favorite part is

That same issue of Newsday, page A5, carries a report of a Long Island school closed by a black-Hispanic race riot. This is pretty much a daily occurrence all over the U.S.A. now. Here was one in Madison, Wisconsin the other day. Just another one of the wonderful blessings brought to our nation by mass Hispanic immigration. Thanks, Mr. Bush, Sr.! Thanks, Mr. Clinton! Thanks, Mr. Bush, Jr.!

or

"(And why would Robert E. Lee's state not be friendly to Democrats? Wasn't Abraham Lincoln a Republican?)"

k-lo used to post here as "dee" right?

Has the Corner had a comment on Clothes Horsegate?

lol

re: Ward Connerly [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

He's also a civil-rights leader, unlike Barack Obama.

As for me, as I tell everyone - I'm voting for Sarah Palin and that while-haired dude she's running with. Trust me, I get lots of knowing nods.

I would love to see a highlight reel of these knowing nods. Like the therapist as he's trying to figure out how to notify the authorities without letting the patient know what's up.

i imagine every corner post being said while choking back tears

and masturbating

Those knowing nods send little starbursts of light.

to a picture of Reagan on a bear with a face of Gorbachev

The Corner is such a treat.

k-lo used to post here as "dee" right?

― omar little, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:40 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

www.probush.com - which is worse: being a joke or not?

*shrug*

Only thing I'll say here is that when I want to feel patriotic or when I want to indulge my fannish self, I go to the Free Republic site. They have these "day in the life of" picture threads of George W. Bush that I always seek out when I go there.

Don't know if this is a joke or not. But I do know that Kissinger did win a Nobel Peace Prize. *waits a moment* Now you know how I felt when Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize.

*disclaimer: above post written by a Republican*

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, June 8, 2003 12:48 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

man i forgot what a creepy save-a-freeper ned was about dee

dee how is carter winning the nobel peace prize comparable to kissinger winning the nobel peace prize?!?!!!! 'now you know how i felt when carter won' what, because hes a democrat?!!?

― trife (simon_tr), Sunday, June 8, 2003 1:20 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Trife in dealing with political views other than his own shockah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, June 8, 2003 1:37 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

try not to turn this thread into another meta bitchfest please

^^^ see how polite

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