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.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 4 October 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/248935/paladino-implodes-john-derbyshire
man, that asterisk
also Derb is still lusting after Ellen Page i see
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249038/failure-free-market-john-debryshire
the man is amazing. read the whole thing
― goole, Thursday, 7 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
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.
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Um, Pinter was a brilliant writer, wtf.
― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
why are politics so important to you lefties
― ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
haha exactly
― max, Thursday, 7 October 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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".
― ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Friday, 8 October 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/249119/british-try-climb-out-ditch-mona-charen
lol
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Saturday, 9 October 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― not Morbius old, but still (Phil D.), Saturday, 9 October 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nndb.com/people/400/000115055/mona-charen.jpg
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"Socialists dislike programs for the poor. "
Huh?
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 9 October 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
CommentsOctober 10, 2010 5:24 P.M.By Rich Lowry
Just a short notice: Comments are finally coming to the Corner, tomorrow if all goes as planned. As always, we welcome your feedback.
― Headlock Ellis (WmC), Monday, 11 October 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ohhhhhhhhhhhh my
― max, Monday, 11 October 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
super xcited yall
― trollin trollin trollin we aint slept in weeks (deej), Monday, 11 October 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^dn/post combo
i applaud them
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 October 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
this is gonna be great!!
― goole, Monday, 11 October 2010 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it was so good to have comments on the corner at last
i welcomed them
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 October 2010 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Corner's been tame lately -- this should do it.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 11:06 (thirteen years ago) link
It’s Always New to SomebodyOctober 10, 2010 11:50 P.M.By Mike Potemra
And finally, on the music beat, congrats to Maureen Tucker. The Velvet Underground drummer is a tea partier, much to the consternation of the Empire of Monothought — so good for her for telling what she believes to be the truth despite the disapproval of the tribe. (I know all political groups, conservatives included, can get caught up in an Empire of Monothought mentality; but it’s especially egregious with leftism in the entertainment world.) I saw Maureen Tucker perform live once — at a tiny club in Washington, D.C., called D.C. Space, with magician/comedian Penn Jillette on bass. There must have been fewer than a hundred people there, and it was a great experience of someone whose music is honest and personal; a “different drummer” indeed, and evidently that goes for her politics too. I know it’s a cliché to think that her old band, the Velvet Underground, was great, and the summit of Cool, but when you’re a musical naïf you can have the luxury of reveling in the fact that some clichés are simply true. I admire the talents of music critics who can explain the why and how; I think it’s also helpful when someone, struck by beauty, just points to something and says, Wow, listen to this.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
really working hard to set up the "only 100 people saw mo tucker perform at DC Space with Penn Jillette" jokes there
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 11 October 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
but every one of them got a grant from the Heritage Foundation
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how incongruous the "congrats" is as it related to discovering she's a Tea Partier. Like, dude, she didn't get bat mitzvahed or something.
― not Morbius old, but still (Phil D.), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Comments are go! Sic'em, deej.
― Headlock Ellis (WmC), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
sic'em, Mordy!
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
god bless us, every one
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
sic'em, goole!
― Headlock Ellis (WmC), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah no thanks
― goole, Monday, 11 October 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Dave (in MA)10/11/10 13:27
The libs are trying to scare people with John Boehner when 95% of them couldn't identify him (but could readily identify some nitwit from some New Jersey reality show)?
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, I kinda hope the comments are delicious enough to start an "NRO's The Corner: Comments"
that's such an awful example to use considering boehner's propensity towards tanning
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
they aren't stupid enough to allow embeddable jpgs right? right????????
i mean, i'll be sorely tempted, but... really this will just be a small goldmine for the liberal blogs for a day or two when someone says something gross or stupid
xp or a goldmine for us, yeah, heh
― goole, Monday, 11 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
GalvestonBorn10/11/10 13:25
I love this guy, regardless of his Jersey shoreish tan. Seriously, my wife and I cannot sit through anything else with Nancy Pelosi holding the gavel. She literally makes our skin craw
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Literally! She does!
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
it crawls off the bone and towards the kitchen, to make itself a sandwich
― creeping shania (donna rouge), Monday, 11 October 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol gross
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 October 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
to the consternation of the Empire of Monothought
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Monday, 11 October 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
No projection there.
Also, good thing such an idea had nothing to do with David Frum getting fire.
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Monday, 11 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
how easy is it to sucker these guys?
pinter or saramago or obama or ...arafat wins a nobel, and it's all craven politics. this year they went to a neoliberal latin american and a chinese dissident, and the committee's bravery and foresight is saluted.
guys if any of the picks are political in nature then they all are
― goole, Monday, 11 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa K-Lo not preaching to the choir here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249394/newt-gingrichs-harsh-attack-based-politics-kathryn-jean-lopez
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 11 October 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
how, i mean, i just
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249265/south-border-peter-robinson
South of the BorderOctober 13, 2010 9:04 A.M.By Peter Robinson
Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Mexico’s original sin: a race-based class system. Until that changes, Victor Davis Hanson sees little hope for Mexico’s future.
We are in the eleventh hour in Mexico.
Click Here
― goole, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
This is INSANE:
Pragmatic Obama?By Stanley Kurtz
Over at TAPPED, Mori Dinauer comments on “Obama’s Radical Past,” my preview of the argument of my forthcoming book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. Dinauer wants to know how I link socialism to Obama’s current governing philosophy and long-term political strategy. Dinauer also suggests that Obama is not an ideologue, but merely a pragmatist who sought political advancement through socialist connections that were an inescapable part of his leftist Chicago environment.
Agree or disagree, I comment on all of these arguments at length in Radical-in-Chief. The final chapter is an analysis of the Obama administration in light of Obama’s background in socialist community organizing. The pragmatism argument doesn’t work when you follow out the consistent socialist thread that runs through Obama’s life. Of course, if Obama is merely a pragmatist, it means that his carefully crafted political persona is a lie. After all, the whole point of Dreams from My Father is that Obama is sincere — that his community organizing solved his identity crisis and gave him a politics he could believe in. Obama himself stresses that he turned down the chance for a Supreme Court clerkship to do community organizing at near-poverty wages. You don’t ordinarily try to become a politician via community organizing; socialists, on the other hand, did look at organizing as a way into elective office.
Here I believe Obama. He was a committed community organizer who sincerely believed what other community organizers believed. The only thing he left out was that community organizers are socialists.
Community organizers are socialists, full stop.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't that what the rich have always thought?
― Euler, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
But when Richard Viguerie organizes direct-mail campaigns in the seventies, and Dick Armey corrals pissed-off white people, it's called "stoking middle-class anger."
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
That's not organizing, that's just mailing. Although what counts for organizing in the Obama presidency is just emailing.
― Euler, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249650/public-employees-and-elections-conflict-interest-pat-sajak
― goole, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol what a doofus.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"i'd like to buy a clue"
― creeping shania (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link