Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

why is this man allowed to write

I can't wait for when the newspapers fail and liberals are accused of LETTING IT HAPPEN because of dissenting print voices like krauthammer and kristol and brooks

xps yeah that vid has been making the rounds, so amazing. it's almost as if the party of 'market discipline' is just a bunch of clueless cheerleaders for the wants of the rich or something

In World War II, government had the auto companies turning out tanks. Now they would be made to turn out hybrids. The difference is that, in the middle of a world war, tanks have a buyer. Will hybrids? One of the reasons Detroit is in such difficulty is that consumers have been resisting the smaller, less powerful, less safe cars forced on the industry by fuel-efficiency mandates. Now Detroit would be forced to make even more of them.

If you think we have economic troubles today, consider the effects of nationalizing an industry of this size, but now run by bureaucrats issuing production quotas to fit five-year plans to meet politically mandated fuel-efficiency standards — to lift us to the sunny uplands of the coming green utopia.

hands up if you have heard anyone anywhere propose nationalizing the auto manufacturers

to pick out one of the not-true sentences there, which includes all of them.

I proposed it the other day for teh lulz

the idea that detroit is in trouble because people aren't buying hybrids is like saying reagan died because of term limits or something

that youtube is incredible

you want economic hilarity: http://www.youtube.com/v/2I0QN-FYkpw&hl=en

wow, holy shit. Has Fox had a "we're sorry we ever doubted you, Schiff" segment yet? With public flaying of Ben Stein?

my favorite is the part where they all mention the financial companies ppl should be investing in and how its such a great steal

dude even mentions bear stearns although he admits its the riskier one

and the one dude who says invest in wamu!!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503166.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

dude is into the blame the-government-for-encouraging-home-ownership theory though

haha josh marshall basically echoes krauthammer...

Second, on the question of the environment. There is no question that the internal combustion engine is at the heart of the climate crisis. But getting rid of Detroit won't get rid of cars. More to the point of creativity -- one of the things about crisis is that it opens opportunities would never exist in normal times. People have been looking for ways to get Detroit to get serious about developing cleaner, more fuel efficient cars for years. At this point, we're beyond that. We need to get serious about cars that don't use gas at all. If the whole domestic auto industry is all but asking to be taken into federal receivership, that tells me that the people running the federal government now have quite a lot of leverage.

I don't pretend to know the mechanics or precise solutions. But these are times that call for boldness -- and more than just boldness, which gets said a lot -- but creativity to rises to the challenge of the moment.

Frum's leaving:

In an interview, he said he planned to leave the magazine, where he writes a popular blog, to strike out on his own on the Web.

“The answers to the Republican dilemma are not obvious and we need a vibrant discussion,” he said. “I think a little more distance can help everybody do a better job of keeping their temper.”

Later in that piece:

Mr. Frum said deciding to leave was amicable, but distancing himself from the magazine founded by his idol, Mr. Buckley, was not a hard decision. He said the controversy over Governor Palin’s nomination for vice president was “symbolic of a lot of differences” between his views and those of National Review’s.

“I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated,” he said.

Lowry can't resist the yuks:

“We’ve always had rigorous internal debates,” he said. “But the advent of the blogosphere and e-mail and the rest of it have made it easier to blast out their impassioned instant reactions.

“It’s discomfiting, but it’s the world we live in, unless someone — Al Gore? — can uninvent the Internet.”

omigod:

Let's Go Crazy (Not) [Maggie Gallagher]

The Artist Currently Known as Prince has a profile in The New Yorker. " So here's how it is: You've got the Republicans and basically they want to live according to this." and Prince points to a Bible. "But there's the problem of interpretation. . . .And then on the opposite end of the spectrum . . .you've got the Democrats, and they're like, 'You can do whatever you want.' Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right."
So what's right in terms of gay marriage and abortion? Prince tapped his Bible and said, "God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like 'Enough.'"

oh man

You gotta draw the line at wherever.

prince in being crazy asshole shockah

sticking it wherever: dud
miming sticking it wherever, with guitar: lucrative

seriously prince is so annoying as a person. worst ever.

sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever

This should be a lost 80's Prince song.

is he still a jehovah's witness?

anyway, mr. rogers nelson sir:

People call me rude, I wish we were all nude
I wish there was no black and white, I wish there were no rules

God, what I wouldn't give for Lowry, K-Lo, Steyn et al to take sides: Around The World in a Day vs Parade.

The plot thickens...

http://perezhilton.com/2008-11-17-prince-was-misquoted-the-singers-camp-claims

Contrary to what a recent interview with the New Yorker is reporting, a source close to the rocker tells us that Prince was grossly misquoted and misinterpreted as not down with gay rights.

Apparently, the interviewer did not even use a recorder when she spoke with His Holy Purpleness, and that when she called his people to fact check, it turned out she had several factual inaccuracies, including a little bit about Prince recovering from hip surgery, which he never even had. Like Prince is really made of bones or something and not nebulous gold glitter - come on!

What His Purpleness actually did was gesture to the Bible and said he follows what it teaches, referring mainly to the parts about loving everyone and refraining from judgment.

That sounds better, considering he's a man who caused his own Controversy!

"We're very angry he was misquoted," says our Prince insider.

No tape recorder? How unprofessional!

I don't really buy Perez as a credible source.

Interviewees are always like that. "I didn't say that! They mischaracterized my words! Blah blah blah."

Would it be crazy to suggest that Prince bans the use of microphones when he's interviewed? What a perfect foil.

"He didn't even use a microphone! (because it was on my rider)"

quoting Krikorian quoted by and what

Paul D. alerted me to a Richard Pryor skit from his show in 1977 where he was the president conducting a press conference that, like everything else I've seen by Pryor, manages to be both unfunny and so chock full of stereotypes it might as well have been produced by the Klan.

I just can't see why Frum wants to leave NRO. ;_;

Jonah Goldberg now begins the task of dealing with why people in the government will not listen to him.

Prince doesn't allow anyone to tape him, and then gets mad when he's misquoted. Oh, Prince.

My Day of Ceremony (Rick Brookhiser)

The ceremony for recipients of the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal for the Arts was held in the East Room of the White House. President and Mrs. Bush ran the show. I knew that I would have only a few seconds contact with GWB on the podium, so I wore a pair of boots as a topic of conversation. "Like your boots," he said. "They're Libertys," I said. He nodded, as any son of the Lone Star State would.

Brookhiser now The Corner's foremost slash writer

since when is connecticut the lone star state

Cruising [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I'm getting a number of e-mails from people who complain that we have some nerve asking for money after spending on a cruise last week. I totally understand how that looks bad. But here's what you need to know: The reason we do these cruises is they bring in money. It's another fundraiser. And rather than tanning in the Bahamas, we do work — panels, interviews, dinner, lunch, and other discussions. I tell you that not to whine — its a nice thing to work with a little sun in the cabin window vs. the usual Lexington Avenue noise. But we don't do these as staff vacation perks. The time spent is an investment in the conservative future — because it supports NR and because real conversations happen, with policymakers, with young people, with supporters.

tried to get laid, failed, so now it was a work thing not a vacation

ahahzahaha

threw a fuckin z in there

I did not need that image of K-lo sunbathing.

INGRATES!!

In reference to this.

Though that doesn't seem to be the direct piece Ta-Nehisi linked!

Meantime:

Yes, there is rot on both sides. But social conservatives are not rotten and it's rotten to suggest they (we, in my case) are.

And, dear God, it's not God who is the problem.

really need this immortalized:

INCONVENIENT FACT: THE IRAQIS DON’T LIKE US
This last point is the one that gnaws. Thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds have been expended to provide Iraqis the opportunity to live freely. And this despite the facts that (a) the U.S. interest in Iraqi democracy remains tenuous (our interest was the elimination of Saddam’s terror-mongering, weapons-proliferating regime), and (b) Americans were assured, when the nation-building enterprise commenced, that oil-rich Iraq would underwrite our sacrifices on its behalf. Yet, to be blunt, the Iraqis remain ingrates. That stubborn fact complicates everything.

how did we ever get along w/o a rolling corner thread?

because it was a lot more boring before 2008?

sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever

sounds like the sermon in green velvet's "preacherman"

CATCH whoever you can!
KISS whoever you can!
DO whatever you wanna DO
with WHOEVER YOU CAN!!!

(cue ridiculous synth orgy)

oh man, we should send "Preacherman" to the Cornerites, see what they say

We should send Green Velvet to the Cornerites.

K-Lo has been begging for donation all day today. Doesn't that go against her Free Market beliefs? Maybe she should get a job.

I think it was TOMBOT who wondered how this fucking guy got a job in the Justice Department. I give you Andy McCarthy:

"This last point is the one that gnaws. Thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds have been expended to provide Iraqis the opportunity to live freely. And this despite the facts that (a) the U.S. interest in Iraqi democracy remains tenuous (our interest was the elimination of Saddam’s terror-mongering, weapons-proliferating regime), and (b) Americans were assured, when the nation-building enterprise commenced, that oil-rich Iraq would underwrite our sacrifices on its behalf. Yet, to be blunt, the Iraqis remain ingrates. That stubborn fact complicates everything."