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"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?

Andrei Zhdanov writes

Poetry Watch, cont. [John J. Miller]

Yesterday, I offered qualified praise on the selection of W.S. Merwin as poet laureate. Well, I probably should have qualified it even more! At First Things, Joseph Bottum exposes Merwin as a crazed Bush hater who somehow believes that our former president managed to "silence all criticism" of his administration after 9/11. Yeah, that's what happened. At any rate, Merwin is a perfect poet for an administration that can't stop pointing a finger at its predecessor. Will Paul McCartney be next?

Heh [Jonah Goldberg]

I got this email over the weekend:

Good Day Jonah,

Thought you might get a kick out of this as my son and I did- as I was on my way earlier today to Borders books in Milpitas,Calif. my son asked me to pick up a copy of Liberal Fascism.Upon arrival,I couldn’t find your book on the shelf where it was supposed to be;a helpful store clerk located it in an off shelf “overstock” section(then did place the copies on the shelf).Once home,as my son was starting to read your book at ,a business size orange card fell out with a stamped message ”THIS BOOK EQUAL CONJOB”…… the attempt to be protected from your views by someone at the printers or the bookstore,and with poor grammar to boot, just sort of adds to your case.

Please note the writer's own punctuation.

Goldberg reminds me of my project manager at my last job - mannerisms, speaking voice, hell, looks even

TY for new display name, Borders employee.

Goldberg reminds me of my project manager at my last job - mannerisms, speaking voice, hell, looks even

Pitying you.

Google's Commie Artist [John J. Miller]

Google's logo image today is of Frida Kahlo, the Communist painter. Here's her self-portrait with Stalin, whom she revered.

UPDATE: E-mailer:

I wonder what they'll be doing for Leni Riefenstahl.

07/06 06:53 AMShare

i think mordy's right, the corner is changing in some ways, but i can't put my finger on it. and not that it really matters either... lots more content from this miller dude, and nordlinger, who seems like a completely blinkered idiot. dumber than jonah goldberg, even!

like this post above, what i love is the sense of complete right-wing-world greenhouse living. the guy is really pleased with himself for pointing out that frida kahlo was a communist. and she's right there on the google!! but... everybody knows this. literally every human being knows this fact.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/communists-now-least-threatening-group-in-us,3191/

Thank You Justice Kennedy [Jonah Goldberg]

It's a sentiment not often expressed around here, but it's appropriate today. So far Obama has replaced one old liberal with a younger (wise Latina) liberal and is about to do it again (minus the wise Latina part). But if Justice Kennedy were to retire before 2012 he would throw the current Supreme Court balance completely over to the liberal bloc for years to come. I don't fetishize the notions of "balance" or "centrism" on the court, but I value them greatly if the alternative is giving over the last branch of government to liberalism for years to come. So thanks very much Justice Kennedy.

Is Divorce Contagious? [Maggie Gallagher]

The British press is reporting on a new study showing that your divorce risk soars if any of your close friends divorce. This is consistent with a lot of what we know about divorce.

We often act as if divorce is the result of a careful and considered range of alternatives, or that it happens without forethought, for no good reason at all. The truth is that people who divorce have had dissatisfaction in their marriage (like a lot of other people), but most can also identify good things about their marriage. The decision to divorce is not inevitable; it is a decision that often could have gone either way.

I have stopped divorces in my own social circle, simply by saying “It sounds like you would be better off, but there’s not much in it for your kids.”

Gordon Liddy once told me that a woman wrote to him when he was in jail saying she felt sorry for him. He wrote back and said, “I sense sadness in your note,” at which point she unloaded her marital dissatisfactions on him. He wrote back and said, “If you are that unhappy, maybe you should divorce.” A few years later, she wrote back: “You SOB, I’m a poor broke single mother with two kids.”

He thought that was a lesson in how some people need to reflect more. I marveled, “Some guy in jail told her to get a divorce and she did!”

Inevitability is almost always a story we construct afterwards, not the truth before.

07/07 01:33 PMShare

I marveled!

Gordon Liddy once told me
Gordon Liddy once told me
Gordon Liddy once told me
Gordon Liddy once told me

I love it when right-wingers talk about divorce since it splits the Catholics & Protestants and it would be great for US right-wingers to reenact the Wars of Religion.

I have stopped divorces in my own social circle, simply by saying “It sounds like you would be better off, but there’s not much in it for your kids.”

I wonder how often she gets slapped in the face.

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/maggie-gallagher.jpg

i love it when right-wingers talk about writing about your marriage problems to g. gordon liddy while he's in prison as if it's not utterly fucked up

yes, actual lol @ the Liddy lines, like, she must know how preposterous that sounds, right?

Euler, do you know what kind of people we're dealing with here?

She wants to impress her Corner-ites that she (a) knows Gordon Liddy (b) knows Gordon Liddy well enough to trust his marriage advice. Both points are, shall we say, problematic.

yes, I had an fb friend "like" K-Lo this week.

*impress her Corner-ites with the fact that

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^^^ tempting!

It's a sentiment not often expressed around here, but it's appropriate today. So far Obama has replaced one old liberal with a younger (wise Latina) liberal and is about to do it again (minus the wise Latina part).

Not that he cares but at some point the multiculturaLOL of "wise latina" is going to fade from public discourse if it already hasn't and leave JG looking even more overtly racist.

Looking back on the Sotomayor nomination, I was struck by how much of it was really much ado about nothing.

I couldn’t find your book on the shelf where it was supposed to be; a helpful store clerk located it in an off shelf “overstock” section (then did place the copies on the shelf).

what a conspiracy

not the Corner, but Corner-worthy

No lemonade for you!

Generosity to strangers is the work of the devil. I wonder how he would have concluded if it had been ice water?

I sure hope he paid his brother for the ride.

Name Game [John J. Miller]

Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC and now National Public Radio is changing its name to NPR. I just wish the hosts and correspondents would refer to it "taxpayer-funded NPR."