Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

He's talking about the Times, max.

yeah i still dont get it... is he saying that the times is less liberal than newsday?

Apparently. I wouldn't think to hard about it.

Lisa Schiffren deserves a vote for this: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWE0ZjllZWIzOTI4MWUxMmE2NmQzMjY5NTkxOTNmZmE=

Because I like Sarah Palin, and want her to succeed, I would be really happy to know that, should she find herself back in Alaska for the next four years, (or, for that matter, in D.C.) she chose to spend a little of the money that would otherwise go to her clothing budget on a personal library of conservative classics. Going upmarket intellectually will complete the transformation, and make her truly prime-time ready.

The Palin Wardrobe [Lisa Schiffren]

Because I like Sarah Palin, and want her to succeed, I would be really happy to know that, should she find herself back in Alaska for the next four years, (or, for that matter, in D.C.) she chose to spend a little of the money that would otherwise go to her clothing budget on a personal library of conservative classics. Going upmarket intellectually will complete the transformation, and make her truly prime-time ready.

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think, Lisa.

The Clothes [Mona Charen]

In her critique of the Palin wardrobe, Post fashion critic Robin Givhan lets slip in passing that Barack Obama's suits go for $1500 and that Michele wears designer duds all the time (except when appearing on The View when she boasted of wearing an under $200 dress).

Yes the figure of $150,000 is eye-popping, but don't forget it that it included the whole Palin clan. And finally, I cannot escape the suspicion that one reason everyone is so exercised (other than the obvious, i.e. that she's a Republican) is that she is so gorgeous in those clothes. There is simply no other woman in political life to match her. The green-eyed monster strikes!

We're all just jealous! And $150,000 is not a lot of money for a family wardrobe, apparently.

hey guys, quick question here. in the following post, can someone parse for me what "boob bait for Bubba" means? who is Bubba? I thought Clinton was Bubba? And why does he need boob bait? Does boob mean breast here, or something else. Thanks for the help.

Finally, Someone Asked Her [Mark Krikorian]

We now know what Gov. Palin thinks about immigration, and the results are not good (h/t Auster):

Amnesty
Governor, let me ask you about immigration. How many undocumented immigrants are there in Alaska?
I don't know, I don't know. That's a good question. [MK: She'd have some idea if she'd read my Washington Times piece.]

As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
There is no way that in the US we would roundup every illegal immigrant -there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants- not only economically is that just an impossibility but that's not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration. [MK: Same old false choice of mass roundups or amnesty.]

Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants?
No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. [MK: "total amnesty"! At least she admits McCain's plan is a "partial" amnesty!] You know, people have got to follow the rules. They've got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided [MK: "services" like Medicaid and food stamps and TANF?] and those opportunities that this great country provides.

To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country. [MK: None of these sentences follow from one another.]

Now, it was obvious, as McCain's running mate, she had to toe the McCain line. But which McCain line? After the campaign's near-death experience, McCain took to talking about "border security first" — which he qualifies out of existence whenever he's pressed on it, but at least the rhetoric was there. What Palin's response shows is that, first, she's completely open to whatever kool-aid they want her to drink — i.e., she has no innate resistance to amnesty for illegals that would cause her to look for less-unappealing ways of saying what the campaign wants her to say. And second, it shows what the campaign is telling her about McCain's views on the issue — if McCain's talk of "border security first" were anything but boob bait for Bubba, his operatives would have made it clear that Palin was supposed to include that in her discussion of immigration, but she didn't even make a passing reference to it.

The only person that can save The Corner is Daddy Yankee.

I think the phrase "boob bait for Bubba" is supposed to paint the McCain's "border security first" stance as being akin to flashing breasts in front of a simple dude; IOW, the position it's something distracting with no substance that people can look at and feel good about seeing.

Oh the deep deep roffles:

Kathleen Parker, from her syndicated column:

....As Draper tells it, McCain took Palin to his favorite coffee-drinking spot down by a creek and a sycamore tree. They talked for more than an hour, and, as Napoleon whispered to Josephine, ‘Voila’

One does not have to be a psychoanalyst to reckon that McCain was smitten. By no means am I suggesting anything untoward between McCain and his running mate. Palin is a governor, after all. She does have an executive resume, if a thin one. And she's a natural politician who connects with people.

But there can be no denying that McCain's selection of her over others far more qualified — and his mind-boggling lack of attention to details that matter — suggests other factors at work. His judgment may have been clouded by ... what?

Science provides clues. A study in Canada, published in New Scientist in 2003, found that pretty women foil men's ability to assess the future. ‘Discounting the future,’ as the condition is called, means preferring immediate, lesser rewards to greater rewards in the future.

Drug dealers, car salesmen and politicians rely on this affliction and pray feverishly for its persistence.

The Canadian psychologists showed pictures of attractive and not-so attractive men and women to students of the opposite sex. The students were offered a prize — either a small check for the next day or a larger check at some later date.

The men made perfectly rational decisions, opting for the delayed larger amount after viewing the average-looking women. You know where this is going. (Women, by the way, were rational no matter what.)

...

It is entirely possible that no one could have beaten the political force known as Barack Obama — under any circumstances. And though it isn't over yet, it seems clear that McCain made a tragic, if familiar, error under that sycamore tree. Will he join the pantheon of men who, intoxicated by a woman's power, made the wrong call?

Had Antony not fallen for Cleopatra, Octavian might not have captured the Roman Empire. Had Bill resisted Monica, Al Gore may have become president and Hillary might be today's Democratic nominee.

If McCain, rightful heir to the presidency, loses to Obama, history undoubtedly will note that he was defeated at least in part by his own besotted impulse to discount the future. If he wins, then he must be credited with having correctly calculated nature's power to befuddle.

One K J Lopez, in response:

Monica?! [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Because I know some of you are understandably and sensibly wondering WHY?: We're running our roster of syndicated columns through the election. Period. So that's why we published one today that is embarrassing and outrageous.

Hooray!

hahaha wait, so they have an article that manages the neat trick of being simultaneously far-fetched and plausible and KLo's reaction is panicked disavowal just because it says Democrats might have won something???????

(Fun addendum -- having complained about a certain column, Lopez neither specifically identifies it nor links to it. Not as effective as 'if I just ignore it it'll go away...')

To give KLo the benefit of the doubt, maybe she thinks Monica wasn't really all that re: "Monica?!"

"Science provides clues" is about the funniest thing i've read in a few days

Great, now I'm envisioning McCain as the old guy in the "She Blinded Me with Science" video.

Monica was totally Bill's type, though (ie, female and willing).

MCCAIN/PALIN 08 -- SCIENCE PROVIDES CLUES

http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics/news3/WeirdScience_S1+2.jpg

Didn't K-lo and Kathleen Parker used to be friends? It's just like in the comic books.

K-Lo = Ms. Marvel
Kathleen Parker = Jessica Jones?

the Parker column is a hilarious lump of shit, but it's more fun to imagine K-Lo being wooed by Mark Steyn under a sycamore tree.

My favorite Goldberg variation came up again today on The Corner - getting out of bad news/arguments by taking care of his daughter or being exhausted from doing so

Friday, October 24, 2008
Assaulted Volunteer Story [Jonah Goldberg]
Starts to unravel.

Sorry, that should have read "unravels." I had an earlier version of the updated story in mind from an email. And I didn't read the latest version as I'm on Daddy Daycare duty today. Also I have a debilitating cold and am now going to bed for a while.

Monday, October 23, 2006 <- timing = bad polling numbers @ last midterm election
I'm going back to sleep [Jonah Goldberg]

Last night we had one of those out-of-nowhere stomach bugs strike my wee lass of a daughter. It was a very long night. If it got much worse, I would have called Father Merrin, if you know what I mean. She's okay now. But I'm exhausted and I'm heading for some sack time.

Friday, July 13, 2007
Playing Hookie [Jonah Goldberg]

Sorry to depart at mid-day, but I promised my daughter to take her to the movies today. Saw Ratatouille. I liked it a lot, though perhaps not as much as I'd been led to believe I would from all the reviews. Lucy liked it, but she probably dug Meet the Robinsons or Curious George more — and of course the films of Ingmar Bergman.

Kidding, I'm kidding.

Anyway, thanks for the email re death penalty etc. Maybe we'll get back to all that this weekend.

Friday, March 10, 2006
The Nemo Floatie Crisis [Jonah Goldberg]

But I have a more pressing, albeit not necessarily more important dilemma at hand. I'm taking my daughter to Florida this weekend (I have a speech down there, alas not open to the public). And she has been talking about it nonstop for three weeks. But now I discover that her "Nemo floaties" are missing. These are the inflatable floatation devices — branded with a "Finding Nemo" theme — that allow her to accomplish feats of buoyancy never imagined. They are missing. And to hear her tell it, not only should the whole trip be cancelled, but we should all fear for our very lives.

Friday, October 10, 2008
How I'm Dealing with the Crisis [Jonah Goldberg]

I'm taking my daughter to the movies this afternoon.

should have italics on the last one too - that was when the market started tanking

Goldberg is ALWAYS taking care of his children or mentioning cross country trips and cruises.

FAMILY FIRST

ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM LOSING AN ARGUMENT

I would refute this assertion but I have to go take care of my daughter right now.

I Just Don't Get Some People [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Former Reagan solicitor general Charles Fried is voting for Obama because of Palin.

Does anyone pay any attention to Obama and his veep? This election isn't all about what you think about Sarah Palin, after all.

uh

I just don't get some people!

Be Optimistic! [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I woke up this morning with a bad cold, throat closed off, and things not looking good. A nap, some drugs, and a lot of OJ later, I've made a turnaround.

I am interpreting it as a physical sign of the political turnaround to come. Hey, if it works . . .

The only thing the McCain campaign is missing is OJ (Simpson)

a drug addled k-lo posts happy thoughts for the next four years

A Scanner Stupidly

Drugs -- they're a helluva drug.

Drugs should help her through the next eight years.

They just make things worse
And I know I'll see her face again

I would have to take some drugs if I saw that face again.

jean teasdale has been raiding jim anchower's stash.

lol

McCarthy fucking loses it.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDNkMDNkZWVjNzFmYTFlYjNkMDYxOTQ5OGNkODg2MTM=

Ha, noticed that last night. Hell of a rant for someone to post on a Friday night when telling others to get a life.

More nutso from Kurtz. You can tell the election is in a week.

Certainly, Obama himself bears chief responsibility for this site. Yet I challenge the people who wrote the post about Stanley Kurtz and the New Party to show themselves. Why cower behind a rock (named Barack)? Why not give your names and post pictures of yourselves? I’d like a word with you. So if you have the courage to cast aside the anonymity behind which you so conveniently hide, I call on the author or authors of this and other posts at "Fight the Smears" to go public and defend yourselves by placing your own names and reputations behind your egregious accusations. It’s time to strip away the mask, not only from Barack Obama, but from his cowardly minions at Fight the Smears.

Is it time to start a Corner Suicide Watch?

The Obama Temptation [Mark R. Levin]

I've been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we'd see such a thing in our country - not yet anyway - but I sense what's occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places. I can't help but observe that even some conservatives are caught in the moment as their attempts at explaining their support for Barack Obama are unpersuasive and even illogical. And the pull appears to be rather strong. Ken Adelman, Doug Kmiec, and others, reach for the usual platitudes in explaining themselves but are utterly incoherent. Even non-conservatives with significant public policy and real world experiences, such as Colin Powell and Charles Fried, find Obama alluring but can't explain themselves in an intelligent way. There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama's name on it, which adorns everything from Obama's plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama's name and the professions he is going to open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world. I dare say, this is ominous stuff. Even the media are drawn to the allure that is Obama. Yes, the media are liberal. Even so, it is obvious that this election is different. The media are open and brazen in their attempts to influence the outcome of this election. I've never seen anything like it. Virtually all evidence of Obama's past influences and radicalism — from Jeremiah Wright to William Ayers — have been raised by non-traditional news sources. The media's role has been to ignore it as long as possible, then mention it if they must, and finally dismiss it and those who raise it in the first place. It's as if the media use the Obama campaign's talking points — its preposterous assertions that Obama didn't hear Wright from the pulpit railing about black liberation, whites, Jews, etc., that Obama had no idea Ayers was a domestic terrorist despite their close political, social, and working relationship, etc. — to protect Obama from legitimate and routine scrutiny. And because journalists have also become commentators, it is hard to miss their almost uniform admiration for Obama and excitement about an Obama presidency. So in the tank are the media for Obama that for months we've read news stories and opinion pieces insisting that if Obama is not elected president it will be due to white racism. And, of course, while experience is crucial in assessing Sarah Palin's qualifications for vice president, no such standard is applied to Obama's qualifications for president. (No longer is it acceptable to minimize the work of a community organizer.) Charles Gibson and Katie Couric sought to humiliate Palin. They would never and have never tried such an approach with Obama. But beyond the elites and the media, my greatest concern is whether this election will show a majority of the voters susceptible to the appeal of a charismatic demagogue. This may seem a harsh term to some, and no doubt will to Obama supporters, but it is a perfectly appropriate characterization. Obama's entire campaign is built on class warfare and human envy. The "change" he peddles is not new. We've seen it before. It is change that diminishes individual liberty for the soft authoritarianism of socialism. It is a populist appeal that disguises government mandated wealth redistribution as tax cuts for the middle class, falsely blames capitalism for the social policies and government corruption (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that led to the current turmoil in our financial markets, fuels contempt for commerce and trade by stigmatizing those who run successful small and large businesses, and exploits human imperfection as a justification for a massive expansion of centralized government. Obama's appeal to the middle class is an appeal to the "the proletariat," as an infamous philosopher once described it, about which a mythology has been created. Rather than pursue the American Dream, he insists that the American Dream has arbitrary limits, limits Obama would set for the rest of us — today it's $250,000 for businesses and even less for individuals. If the individual dares to succeed beyond the limits set by Obama, he is punished for he's now officially "rich." The value of his physical and intellectual labor must be confiscated in greater amounts for the good of the proletariat (the middle class). And so it is that the middle class, the birth-child of capitalism, is both celebrated and enslaved — for its own good and the greater good. The "hope" Obama represents, therefore, is not hope at all. It is the misery of his utopianism imposed on the individual. Unlike past Democrat presidential candidates, Obama is a hardened ideologue. He's not interested in playing around the edges. He seeks "fundamental change," i.e., to remake society. And if the Democrats control Congress with super-majorities led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, he will get much of what he demands. The question is whether enough Americans understand what's at stake in this election and, if they do, whether they care. Is the allure of a charismatic demagogue so strong that the usually sober American people are willing to risk an Obama presidency? After all, it ensnared Adelman, Kmiec, Powell, Fried, and numerous others. And while America will certainly survive, it will do so, in many respects, as a different place.

10/25 09:29 PM

(Yes, it was posted on The Corner as one long paragraph.)

Haha wow.

This comment, responding to this post on my favorite Cuban right wing blog, is my favorite in weeks:

I gather those who are going to vote for Obama in the Cuban camp are either these young Cubano resentido types who hate all things Cuban, who think they are hot shit because they went to college, and think they are Americanos, or these sketchy types who have recently come from Cuba, complain that BUSH doesn't let them visit their family members on the island, and who still have the lingering effects of the spiritual sodomy they got all their lives in Cuba when they lived there. You know the type, the type of Cubans that live in Miami because they couldn't wait to get the hell out of Cuba, but still hate America because they expect a handout at every instance and get into a hissy fit when the State or Fed doesn't give in to them, the type that just want to mooch off the system. A far cry from our parents who came here and struggled and worked hard.

Let's just put it this way, any Cuban American who is still a Democrat (After JFK, after Carter and Mariel, after Clinton and Elian), and who votes on the Oba-munist ticket, is an asshole (a word I don't like to use often) and they deserve every God damn miserable policy this supposedly Kenyan born Manchurian candidate will grace us with. Do you people know what it is to be "mau maued" ? Well, it's a Kenyan word, and that's what Obama is going to do to us as the Kenyans like Obama's dad did to the British.

Do me a favor fake Cuban Americans who want to vote for Obama, DON"T VOTE, and go back to Havana and stay there.

Not as good.

ok I am smiling @ The Obama Temptation [Mark R. Levin]. I love that I can't tell if it's for real, or if he's just paid to pump up the team like a cheerleader.