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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

this is like a perfect little miniature of jonah's rhetorical style

Oh, and just for the record, “Birth of A Nation” was liberal Democratic icon Woodrow Wilson’s favorite movie, which he screened in the White House for congressmen and justices. But that’s neither here nor there.

That's neither here nor there.

btw Nixon perfected the offhand innuendo ("I am not suggesting that President Johnson is not committed to winning the war against the Communist insurgents in Vietnam....").

Oh, and just for the record, “Birth of A Nation” was liberal Democratic icon Woodrow Wilson’s favorite movie, which he screened in the White House for congressmen and justices. But that’s neither here nor there.
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Monday, October 4, 2010 10:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Wilson- liberal Democratic icon. So sick of all the Wilson worship that goes on among liberals nowadays.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/248935/paladino-implodes-john-derbyshire

man, that asterisk

also Derb is still lusting after Ellen Page i see

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249038/failure-free-market-john-debryshire

the man is amazing. read the whole thing

another thing lost on Jay Nordlinger: irony

Nice guys don’t always finish last. In recent years, the Nobel laureates in literature have been almost a rogues’ gallery — a gallery of anti-Americans, Communists, and other anti-democrats. There have been exceptions — but exceptions that seem, sadly, to prove the rule. Politics, particularly leftism, has seemed more important than literary quality.

A nadir was reached in 2005, I believe, with the selection of Harold Pinter. (That was a very bad year, all around: Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency won the peace prize. David Pryce-Jones and I wrote separate pieces for National Review on these wins: He took Pinter; I took ElBaradei and his agency.) Pinter was virtually drunk on anti-Americanism at the time. Indeed, he devoted his Nobel lecture to a condemnation of the United States, particularly its foreign policy since World War II. This was a lecture given in response to winning a literature prize, mind you. Pinter painted America as a criminal nation: one that had been “constrained, to a certain extent, by the existence of the Soviet Union,” but that was now free to commit its crimes unchecked.

Anyway, the winner this year — we have just heard — is Mario Vargas Llosa: a liberal democrat, even an advocate of a free economy. And, just incidentally — because what does literature matter in the face of almighty politics? — a fine writer. Note, too, that his son Alvaro is one of the most valuable libertarian writers and thinkers in America. He is also one of the clearest foes of Cuban Communism, the Che myth, and the rest of that nonsense.

Um, Pinter was a brilliant writer, wtf.

why are politics so important to you lefties

haha exactly

bet this confused many a cornerite:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/249119/british-try-climb-out-ditch-mona-charen

lol

The nation that built the most far-flung empire in the history of the world — not primarily through conquest, but through trade and colonization

Oh, F.U., Mona Charen.