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have there been any complaints about swarthy foreign soccer players and their diving?

i suppose it's unamerican to even be watching, so maybe not

Re ‘Here We Go Again’ [Jay Nordlinger]
Jonah, this is an old song, but, I agree, it’s important to sing it: The world gives you so many occasions. I remember when Nightline would have as its two pundits — Left and Right — George Stephanopoulos and David Gergen. I used to comment that they had both served in the Clinton communications shop. I also trotted out the old line, “All points of view from A to B” — or maybe A to L? N?

And I’m reminded why conservatives had to build their own media outlets. It’s sort of like Jews and country clubs. Jews built their own, not because they wanted to, necessarily, but because the other clubs wouldn’t let them in. They weren’t being “clannish.” They wanted to play golf, on first-class courses.

(Groucho on his daughter: “She’s only half Jewish. Can she play nine holes?” Alternatively, “She’s only half Jewish. Can she go into the pool up to her knees?”)

Well, we conservatives built our own media outlets — because the other clubs wouldn’t let us in. I guess it’s working out okay. But there are interesting arguments to be made, and listened to.

Just by the way: Isn’t it sort of insane that, in the years when Bill Buckley was the most brilliant and entertaining columnist in the land, the New York Times didn’t want him on its op-ed page? Wouldn’t he have been an adornment? Isn’t it sort of insane that he never won the Pulitzer prize for commentary? When they were giving it to people who weren’t fit to change the ribbon on his Smith-Corona?

But enough insanity . . .

P.S. Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize.

oh the injustice of it all

also: is it just me or have k-lo's worshipful posts on the catholic priesthood taken on a creepy obsessive tinge

And I’m reminded why conservatives had to build their own media outlets. It’s sort of like Jews and country clubs.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/conservative-victimization

RT @kathrynlopez: im not listening to huey lewis and the news but i wouldnt mind if i were

and we were wondering where the crazy went

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDg0NTNiYjFlNzJhOTNiMTdhYzhmZGJiNWQxZTA2Mjk=

'You sit and ask yourself: What are we doing here?' [Andy McCarthy]

Why would General Stanley McChrystal give that kind of access to a lefty rock-n-roll magazine? Maybe because he's a kindred spirit who felt the need to assure Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings that he voted for Obama — even against McCain, a military legend who shares McChrystal's transnational progressive outlook...

goes off from there. white hot!

chait is really a loathsome political writer

I have never heard of a Jewish country club wtf is that all about

there is one in a suburb of mpls, some old roomies of mine worked on the grounds crew

(to goole, sid hartman was one of the bigwig members, guess who is reviled by the staff?)

hmm, dunno, that dark star guy? or is that a trick question.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/23/delusions

chait is really a loathsome political writer

― k3vin k., Thursday, June 24, 2010 4:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol really?

which part of him do you loathe the most

melanie lynskey played him in the movie so i can't hate

Andrea Mitchell [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

just congratulated Barney Frank at the end of her interview with him on MSNBC, for all his hard work on the banking bill.

I just thought that needed to be shared. Carry on.

If that's all the oversharing K-lo is going to do, let's be thankful.

Smells Like... Bacon???!? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

LOL

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WFYQWi4zsb4/TCT-SklIeDI/AAAAAAAADYA/7j97tOkA9ZY/s400/SP32-20100625-150209.gif

is that real

Yep, via here.

K-Lo is assigned to an appropriate beat.

ice cold

"Deep-fried, beer-battered, bacon-wrapped cheese hotdogs" [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The Game [John J. Miller]

Is it racist to hope Ghana loses?

it wasn't until you raised the issue

i'm not saying i'm racist. i'm just not saying i'm not racist. and i think it's very interesting that i would make a post like that.

Because of political correctness, the real victim of racism is John J Miller.

"Is it racist to hope Ghana loses?" is the entire post by the way.

where's Mordy? He needs to write Miller.

lol, what should I write him?

btw, that's the batshit NRO I've been missing

An Observation on the Zeitgeist [Jay Nordlinger]

In Impromptus today, I talk about the International Committee of the Red Cross, Guantanamo Bay, the War on Terror (as it used to be known), and other such stuff. Over the weekend, I read an article by the great Claudia Rosett — an article from 2002. And part of it made me a little bit sad — because it showed how the general American attitude has changed over the last several years.

In the 2002 article, Claudia cited a joke — a joke made by Jimmy Fallon on Saturday Night Live. He was talking about how the ICRC was fixated on the living conditions of our terror detainees. (These Genevans are not so fixated on other prisoners’ living conditions.) Fallon said, “They’re suicide bombers. They hate living conditions.” Do you think such a joke could be, would be, made today? Did we have a better understanding of the jihad then, or now?

haha what's hilarious about that to me is nordinger actually goes through a very thoughtful process there ("okay, popular anecdote...something is different than 8 years ago...i will now attempt to carefully consider these differences"), but inevitably ends up right where he started ("fuckin' politcal correctness!")

K-Lo's tweets have been hilarious today:

the use of the word "progressive" today could make for a glenn-beck-inspired drinking game. you'd be drunk by the time his show comes on

About the Kagan hearings:

if she truly embodies modesty, get her back on a college campus, they could use that!

i believe miguel estrada takes "extraordinary notes." too bad he was not hispanic enough to be sit on u.s. court of appeals.

he says that a little humor would do the supreme court a lot of good. has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh?

‘Cheering in the Pressbox’ [Jay Nordlinger]
This afternoon, I wrote a long, rather huffy post on liberal media bias. It was prompted by 1) those reporters who were caught on tape trashing Sarah Palin, and 2) the David Weigel affair. I have deep-sixed the post, however — spiked it. I can huff about media bias again, as I have in the past. (And I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll — not budge the house an inch.)

Let me instead say this: I think many of my conservative colleagues are far too gingerly when it comes to liberal media bias. Far too timid, delicate, and forgiving. For a long time, complaining about media bias has been seen as uncouth. It’s something we all need to learn to live with, like death, taxes, and mosquitoes. Don’t be uncool by bitching about it, man.

I wish I could find an Abe Rosenthal column, written many years ago. It was about the reluctance of Jews to call anti-Semitism anti-Semitism, when anti-Semitism presented itself. They were eternally worried about “crying anti-Semitism” — so they stayed mute, when they should have been crying.

So unusual was this column, it was thrilling.

It’s hard to know just when to pull the trigger — entirely a matter of judgment. Some people are too quick on the anti-Semitism trigger (or the racism trigger), and some people are too slow. It takes real judgment — real knowing — to pull it at exactly the right moment.

Every now and then, the curtain is pulled back on the mainstream media — and we see how these guys talk and act when they’re at their most authentic. This is important. Liberal media bias is maybe something we all have to live with, but that doesn’t mean it’s something to ignore, be blasé about, or excuse.

I’m grateful to both Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters for something: They admitted, yes, the media are liberal, and a good thing, too. It has to be that way, they said. For — and this is Walters talking — journalism involves the “human condition,” and liberals care about the human condition. Unlike conservatives, who of course couldn’t give a rat’s a** about the human condition.

Anyway . . . Conservatives should be frank and bold when it comes to the media, as to everything else. And if others say you’re tiresome or whiny or uncool . . . well, so be it. Did you sign up for conservatism to be cool?

One more thing, before I go: I have a friend who’s an old-school political reporter, practically a dinosaur. He stresses the principle, “No cheering in the pressbox” — a statement taken from sports journalism, obviously. No cheering in the pressbox? The guys I have in mind — mainstream-media reporters all — don’t so much cheer as turn cartwheels while blowing on vuvuzelas. And they are cartwheeling and blowing for the Democratic party.

whew yah good thing you deep-sixed that long huffy post about the mainstream media

I think many of my conservative colleagues are far too gingerly

what language is this supposed to be in again?

lol

Let me instead say this: I think many of my conservative colleagues are far too gingerly when it comes to liberal media bias. Far too timid, delicate, and forgiving. For a long time, complaining about media bias has been seen as uncouth. It’s something we all need to learn to live with, like death, taxes, and mosquitoes. Don’t be uncool by bitching about it, man.

I wish I could find an Abe Rosenthal column, written many years ago. It was about the reluctance of Jews to call anti-Semitism anti-Semitism, when anti-Semitism presented itself. They were eternally worried about “crying anti-Semitism” — so they stayed mute, when they should have been crying.

So unusual was this column, it was thrilling.

It’s hard to know just when to pull the trigger — entirely a matter of judgment. Some people are too quick on the anti-Semitism trigger (or the racism trigger), and some people are too slow. It takes real judgment — real knowing — to pull it at exactly the right moment.

Every now and then, the curtain is pulled back on the mainstream media — and we see how these guys talk and act when they’re at their most authentic. This is important. Liberal media bias is maybe something we all have to live with, but that doesn’t mean it’s something to ignore, be blasé about, or excuse.

He writes like a pedo putting the make on a little boy. Ugh.

I love that parenthetical about the "racism trigger." Might want to tune that dog whistle, Jay.

It takes real judgment — real knowing — to pull it at exactly the right moment.

when will the right moment come to compare comments about palins lack of coherent speech to the historical oppression of jews?

NOW, JOHN, NOW!!!!!

It takes real judgment — real knowing — to pull it when the us plays ghana

dying

oh man! Nordlinger is catching up to K-Lo in providing serious lolz:

When you smear good people like Limbaugh and Sauerbrey, you don’t merely hurt them, which is probably your intention. You harm the place in which all of us live.

"which is probably your intention"

You harm the place in which all of us live.

lol what

does he mean northern virgina?