NRO's The Corner: Rolling Bile, Spit, and Gnash Thread

super xcited yall

^^^dn/post combo

i applaud them

this is gonna be great!!

it was so good to have comments on the corner at last

i welcomed them

Corner's been tame lately -- this should do it.

It’s Always New to Somebody
October 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.

really working hard to set up the "only 100 people saw mo tucker perform at DC Space with Penn Jillette" jokes there

but every one of them got a grant from the Heritage Foundation

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.

Comments are go! Sic'em, deej.

sic'em, Mordy!

god bless us, every one

sic'em, goole!

yeah no thanks

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)?

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

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

GalvestonBorn
10/11/10 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

Literally! She does!

it crawls off the bone and towards the kitchen, to make itself a sandwich

lol gross

to the consternation of the Empire of Monothought

No projection there.

Also, good thing such an idea had nothing to do with David Frum getting fire.

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

whoa K-Lo not preaching to the choir here:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249394/newt-gingrichs-harsh-attack-based-politics-kathryn-jean-lopez

how, i mean, i just

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249265/south-border-peter-robinson

South of the Border
October 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

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.

Isn't that what the rich have always thought?

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."

That's not organizing, that's just mailing. Although what counts for organizing in the Obama presidency is just emailing.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249650/public-employees-and-elections-conflict-interest-pat-sajak

lol what a doofus.

"i'd like to buy a clue"

"I’m not suggesting that public employees should be denied the right to vote, but that there are certain cases in which their stake in the matter may be too great. Of course we all have a stake in one way or another in most elections, and many of us tend to vote in favor of our own interests. However, if, for example, a ballot initiative appears that might cap the benefits of a certain group of state workers, should those workers be able to vote on the matter?"

DURRR DURRR DURRR

I wonder who would have more at stake: state employee re: benefits or top 1% of income re: say bush tax cuts.

DURRRR DURR DURRR

conflict of interest matters only when we are talking about GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES and TEACHERS UNIONS. way to focus on who/what is really influencing elections.

thanks to the comments on that Sajak post my next ILX username will be AOLMUSCLEGRANDMA

also i love how Derb soon piped in to note that he's long been in favour of disenfranchising public employees

I guess the true stfu question would be: you including the military?

jonah goldberg, paragon of manhood

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249729/man-john-j-miller

http://world-o-crap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Jonah-Goldberg-Killin-Yer-Doods-1.jpg

Does Sajak not understand that those same state employees actually still pay taxes, too? Wait, don't answer. Either answer is stupid.

That Jonah graf is hilarious.

u must be new here

irl lol

That Jonah thing is like....what, you want the date rapey types back?

wait wait wait wait:

We have no John Wayne, no Clint Eastwood.

which Clint Eastwood? THIS one?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2F7daFbH4M/SrlHBpzfNkI/AAAAAAAACu0/YxPPVb8u2ag/s400/high+plains+lobby+card.jpg

guessing my comment won't make it through:

"Thank you. I agree that people are easily split into binaries. I find this view allows me to maintain many preconceived notions and carry on minimal thinking at all times."

nah, it's on there!