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In a November 14 2008 article, Time magazine senior editor Amy Sullivan noted that "Ronald Reagan didn't go to church at all"

for "security reasons" natch. hey, if obama starts attending on the regular NRO can scold him for 'egotistically' disrupting services & endangering his fellow supplicants.

It really, really doesn't get better than this. How many platitudes and slogans can you cram into an essay? How much slavishness?

And how much crazy? Because the wackadoo comes across in this essay even more clearly than in most of her writings.

Freedom is very much on American minds, frequently served these days, with tea.Freedom is very much on American minds, frequently served these days, with tea.Freedom is very much on American minds, frequently served these days, with tea.Freedom is very much on American minds, frequently served these days, with tea.Freedom is very much on American minds, frequently served these days, with tea.Freedom is very much on American minds, frequently served these days, with tea.

Freedom is very much on K-Lo's mind, best served with Carrabas tomato sauce.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/247101/getting-even-jay-nordlinger

you crazy for this one, Jay

that's actually one of the more insane things i've ever seen

people have to have better ways to spend their time

i can't even imagine what happens whenever that guy goes to the movies

Three cheers to your e-mailer. I was a very prolific jazz reviewer for years — live performances and recordings — but totally quit when Obama got elected. The constant e-mails, liner notes, and remarks at gigs that trashed Bush and the Right, while extolling the coming of The One, enraged me, and I just couldn’t take it anymore. Why should I spend one minute of my (volunteered) time helping jazzers when they obviously despise what I stand for?

I had to e-mail all sorts of people, asking them to stop sending me CDs. The responses I got were both shocking and disheartening.

i just

look you don't have to be one of those all out space hebrew coltrane types but, dude, what

history of jazz, kind of complicated, you know

I don't know from jazz clubs. Was The One praised often in 2008 and '09?

I've been going to the wrong clubs.

come to think, jazz might be the biggest performer - audience mismatch for political leanings in music

For him, these violations occur mainly at his synagogue and at the folk-music venues that he and his wife like to haunt... (The violations are always from the left, it can perhaps go without saying.)

Dude goes to some seriously different synagogues than I have been to, then. If he really wants to be free of the scourge (lol) of liberalism, he should consider becoming more orthodox maybe?

and stay out of goddam folk music venues.

folk music. think for a second, jay nordlinger.

Are there right-leaning folkies? Performers, I mean? I bet there are. And I bet many are closeted (as right-leaners are in the classical-music world).

Dylan

http://www.morethings.com/images/fan/bob-roberts_tim-robbins-120.jpg

Roy Edroso hits the same Nordlinger target: National Review Covers the Arts.

I'm disappointed by the 2010 edition of the "Colloquium on the American Founding." Victor Canto ("Obamanomics: a Critical Perspective") is certainly not as exciting as previous guests (e.g. Justice Thomas, Justice Scalia, or John Bolton). However, Tim Kelleher from “Thirteen Days”!

Blergh.

https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/229401/original/AF%2BBrochure-Sept10.pdf

which is more galling, rich? that obama prays like a "true" christian or that he plays that most republican of sports - golf.

Baseball? Football? Wrestling?

Remember, it's all about the hegemonic religion with these guys. Reagan didn't have to do the church thing because he exuded the same ideological mindset in every other aspect of his life. Obama doesn't, and so has to kowtow(or bow, if you will) to the same cultural thing, otherwise he's being resentful/suspicious/uppity/secret
mooslim.

Plus, Reagan, being the white guy, has the privilege of not having to continually prove that's he's not secretly Muslim/foreign/Other etc

Lots of people take up golf as a career move, and Obama seems to have been one of them (he didn't take it up until he went into politics, IIRC). My dad always referred to golf as the sport where you hit a little ball and then chased it, BTW.

Fucking hell.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/248224/better-get-fence-built-mark-krikorian

Nordlinger is confused.

Blue about Red, &c.

October 1, 2010 9:00 A.M.
By Jay Nordlinger

I have a friend who is devoted to a lost cause: the idea that the Republican states should be the “blue” states, and the Democratic states the “red.” I used to be devoted to this cause too: because blue has always been the color of conservatism, whereas red . . . well, you know. Don’t want to be accused of McCarthyism more than absolutely necessary!

I gave up this fight, however, because Republicans-as-red and Democrats-as-blue got entrenched. It was bassackwards; but it got entrenched. There is a conservative blog called RedState. Its leading writer, Erick Erickson, has just co-authored a book called Red State Uprising. What’re you gonna do now? These wrong colors, or this wrong color assignment, is here to stay.

But my friend was given new hope yesterday by a line from a Michael Barone column: “Get an outline map showing the 50 states and take a look at the latest poll averages in pollster.com in each race for senator and governor. Color in the percentage (rounded off; no need for tenths) by which either the Republican or Democratic candidate is leading (I use blue for Republicans, red for Democrats) in each state.”

Aha! Michael Barone does that because he is a very sensible person and knows politics, and its history, as well as anybody. Oh, well.

I was unaware that conservatism had an official color.

I wonder what contemporary nativists thought about the ancestors of a guy named Krikorian...

I was unaware that conservatism had an official color.

― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Friday, October 1, 2010 8:35 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

does in the UK! blue-bloods vs socialists, makes a little bit of sense i guess.

the story i read (no idea where anymore) was that the networks came up with an agreement in the 90s to rotate out the colors every election cycle. but the year of the 2000 election was sufficiently contentious and odd (lots of culture-war stuff since there wasn't much in the way of 'historic' events to argue about anymore) that the blue-state vs red- thing took off on its own

or maybe it was 96, i dunno.

ps michael barone is one of the dumbest and blindest right-wing "sages" out there, maybe second only victor davis hanson, but his bailiwick is micro-level political trends and not the ahem grand sweep of history

seriously, read anything he's ever written, a big does of rong in every column

Carnage and Culture has vivid descriptions of battles (usually a mini-genre that bores me), but it's marred by his insistence that, however noble these black- and brown-skinned savages are, the West was better because, well, just because.

the simple noble heavily armed yeoman farmer...

nordlinger is posting addled, rambling nonsense more than once a day now

If I were Israel, and had to depend on 1) Nebraska, 2) New York, or 3) California to stick by me, in time of peril — I think I’d go with 1).

it's like a koan

if I were Israel... MORE LIKE DEMOCRAPS AMIRITE??

"Hey, Israel, don't count on the U.S.'s two major populations of Jews to . . . wait, waht?"

If I were Israel, and had to depend on 1) Nebraska, 2) New York, or 3) California to stick by me, in time of peril — I think I’d go with 1).

good luck Israel

i noticed theyve made 0 comments on gay suicides

trying to read the tea leaves to say something larger abt conservatism but im not sure what

was wondering if ol' maggie was gonna weigh in on that in her usual thoughtful, sensitive way

she'll blame Facebook for inflicting hot guys like Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake on conflicted young men.

hmm my guess is one of the non-firebreather types, jonah goldberg, say, will come out with something in a couple days, more or less like that dude from the daily caller, not saying anything about the suicide itself, or the kids who invaded his privacy, just "pushing back" against the idea that anyone beyond the kid himself was to blame for his own actions, and that "anti-bullying rhetoric" is part of a "culture of absolute safety" that is anti-liberty.

the new michelle malkin editorial on colbert is just...gah

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/10/01/the-shoes-liberal-celebrities-wont-wear/

lax immigration enforcement might mean cheaper arugula in Manhattan – but it also can cost untold lives across the heartland.

damn now I feel guilty about last night's salad

No, not all illegal aliens are murderers.

phew. she had me worried.

(also i love her manhattan/heartland distinction. nyc has more illegal immigrants than several heartland states combined.)

i get a really strong playing-with-dolls kind of vibe from this guy:

Within Her Very Name
October 4, 2010 3:12 P.M.
By Jay Nordlinger

Of all the mail I have received on the California Senate race, I believe this note is the most imaginative, and charming: “Has it been pointed out yet that Carly Fiorina is an anagram for California — with an extra ‘r’ and ‘y’?” Maybe so, but I haven’t heard about it. “Where’s the ad that says, ‘You can’t spell Carly Fiorina without California’?” Dunno — consider it done, sort of.

well that would be the most retarded ad ever

YOU CAN'T SPELL KENTUCKY WITHOUT THE U IN RAND PAUL

"clarion fairy"

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/248658/pay-spray-fire-department-doing-right-thing-kevin-d-williamson

beep boop i'm afraid putting out this fire would violate laissez-faire principles