Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

Meanwhile, at Defense, it looks like he will keep George W. Bush's man, Robert Gates. Admittedly, Gates has always been more nuanced about the war than, say, Don Rumsfeld. But surely keeping Bush's SecDef is not exactly what the anti-war Dems had in mind as "change we can believe in."

I emailed Jonah today to give him shit for that weak-ass concern-trolling.

If it bleeds, it leads [Mark Steyn]
I didn't think I could like Sarah Palin more than I do, but the nancy boys at MSNBC bleating all over the screen about the Great Turkey Carnage is hilarious. This is a great caption:

TURKEYS DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA

Or was it: MEDIA DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM TURKEYS.

After she's sworn in in 2013, I hope President Palin arranges for a ritual turkey slaughter to be going on behind her at every press conference, if only during David Shuster's questions.

Keeee-aaaiiiiii!from The Corner on National Review Online by John Derbyshire

For anyone who doubts, or does not know, that the late Bruce Lee was a very extraordinary person indeed, here is a brief video clip of him playing ping-pong with nunchucks. Children, please do not try this at home. My personal memoir of Lee is here.

hahahah

Palin Increases Turkey Sales [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

An e-mail: "My wife and I have never been that fond of turkey, but with this dust-up we went shopping for a Thanksgiving/Christmas turkey and will thoroughly enjoy every bite."

we're buying a TURKEY for THANKSGIVING!!!! booya!! fuck u LIBTARDS!!!!

in your FACE

ha xp

I really have no problem with Palin making stupid people more stupid.

k-lo probably increased her thanksgiving intake from 3 to 4 turkeys this year as a show of support

palin love/excuses still blow my little mind.

did you guys hear that liberals don't even eat turkey for thanksgiving, but they actually have TOFU

When I bought Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism, months ago, it would have been much easier to buy it in suburbia. But I waited...waited until I knew I would be in Manhattan for the day…a day when I could purchase it at the book store at Grand Central (making sure to ask the clerk where it was even though it was on a table in the center of the store...just because I knew it would drive the guy nuts) and could then carry it throughout my day of meetings.

If this douche really thinks that bookstore employees are surprised or annoyed by people asking for wingnut books, he obviously doesn't spend a lot of time in them. The lowest common denominator fare always has a market.

i wonder if he'll be driving to manhattan to buy his thanksgiving turkey just so he can see the look on the face of the smug liberals at the safeway

still lolling at that

"I waited until I was in NEW YORK... where WALL STREET is... where everyone is a LIBERAL... wait"

y'all know palin lied like crazy about the turkey thing afterward, right?

i'm all right with conservatives rallying around stupid people but pathological liars drive me fucking crazy with rage

What on Earth did she find to lie about in the turkey thing, which if anything was completely benign on her part?

There's a number of "Wow, I showed those liberals!" anecdotes on the Corner, and I doubt anyone even notices or cares about what these people seem to think are VERY IMPORTANT statements. What next, are they going to tear a label off of a mattress as a statement against the Obama administration?

I'm going to stuff my turkey with Liberal Fascism instead of bread crumbs.

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/turkey-gate-the-fiasco-that-wouldnt-die/

Scott Jensen is the one who filmed the scene. He’s local station KTUU’s award winning chief photographer. He told CC from KUDO radio yesterday that Sarah Palin, who was standing next to her personal assistant throughout the entire interview, chose the spot on which she stood for the “turkey slaughter interview” that quickly went viral on the internet, and received wide coverage in the news media. The turkey slaughter was already underway when the governor chose the spot. The photographer pointed out what was going on and asked her if she wanted to move. She said, “No worries.”

Several of her staff were present the entire time while the journalism-major-turned-governor spoke to the people. And then there was the actual footage of her looking at the guy while he was killing the turkeys.

This was pretty much covered on the day it happened in various reports of the horrifying pr debacle. So why bring it up again? Because now, Palin is denying it, and saying she had no idea of what was going on ten feet behind her while she gave the interview, and is basically calling the photographer a liar.

http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/11/68078/

There's a new flap involving Sarah Palin: In honor of Thanksgiving, she pardoned one turkey while other birds met their demise right behind her. Now the former VP hopeful's rep is speaking out to ET about the turkey pardon-gone-wrong!

"The [Alaska] governor did not know it was going on behind her," Palin's spokesperson tells ET of the reportedly grisly scene at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla. Cameras captured Palin extending the annual Thanksgiving pardon to one turkey while a farm hand slaughtered the bird's feathered friends in the background.

Palin's spokesperson tells ET the bird butchering wasn't going on when the shot was set up, and a cameraman "ignored" the governor's staff's request to remove the graphic sight once cameras were rolling.

"We're unhappy about it and the station is not happy either," Palin's rep tells ET, adding, "this was an attempt to lighten up and do something non-controversial."

the comforting meta-lie that instantly arose on the right -- that liberals aren't laughing at sarah palin for looking like a fucking moron, but crying because of dying turkeys -- is even more hilarious. and then i remember that people believe it.

haha I just found that myself

I love the fact that the dude stands there and stares at the camera for a while before going "fuck it, gotta make quota"

these assholes, every one of them, remind me of this conservative dude i work with. dude never talks but when he does, it's usually in a situation like, we're cutting up someone's birthday cake in the office and he'll make a joke about how sharing the cake is like "sharing the wealth", and then starts to ramble on about how, "you know, it's not really sharing anything, i think liberals want to actually blah blah blah" and everyone just tunes the dude out because they want to eat some goddamned cake.

Charge him for his cake, then.

oh that sounded wrong, ew

he's a "nice" guy, but then one day when i was getting something from his office he started proselytizing about voting yes on prop 8 and i've tried to avoid him since the election.

x-post -- No, do that, then when he protests that the cake is free, point to him that freedom is not free, and note his confusion.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/picture_2.png

(emphasis Jonah's; apparently he is an ILXor in disguise)

Immaculate Service [Jonah Goldberg]

While most of the news has been awful and grim, there are small human stories that bring some cheer. My favorite story to emerge from Mumbai massacre is from a Brit trapped at the Taj hotel:

‘I was extremely lucky. I was with a very good bunch of people. Three or four of us were Brits. There were some Irish as well. Most were Indian.

'We’d never met each other but I have to say, it was a true British stiff upper-lip situation. Together, the Brits helped to keep up morale.

‘There was a can-do attitude. We thought, 'Let’s get the barricades done, let’s do the practical things rather than sit there like sheep and wait to meet our fate.'

‘There was a lot of crying from many of the other people and I suppose comforting them was a way of keeping ourselves occupied. My boss Christopher Garnett and some old friends were sending me messages to keep my spirits up.

‘At one stage Christopher sent me some stanzas from The Private Of The Buffs [a ballad by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle describing the execution of a captured British infantryman for refusing to kowtow to the Chinese in 1860].’

Nick added: ‘We all decided that even though we had alcohol within reach we wouldn’t touch it because it seemed like a bad idea to get drunk.

‘But come 5am, we were fairly confident the police were going to get us out, so I marched over to the bar and found a bottle of vintage Cristal champagne and opened it and began pouring it into glasses.

‘Then the head waiter came rushing across to me and said, “No, no, you can’t do that!” and I said, 'Well we’re going to' and he said, 'No sir, those are the wrong type of glasses. I shall find you champagne flutes.'

'And he did. The service was immaculate.’

lol

did he tip?

omfg

Please say that's from a letter to Jonah.

who said Rudyard Kipling is dead?

there is so much wrong with that post, where to begin

My favorite: "There was a lot of crying from many of the other people and I suppose comforting them was a way of keeping ourselves occupied."

i'm a fan of the boss sending horrific poetry to keep the spirits up

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Our old friend Maggie Gallagher:

We know how hard it is for parents to raise children who postpone sexual gratification until marriage (or even adulthood). Now it appears there are a large number of other moral rules our children are failing to internalize, or at least realize.

Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not steal.

How many of the other Ten Commandments are we prepared to jettison because, under postmodern conditions, transmitting these values is exceptionally difficult?

Wha?

Boy I tell you what, getting my kids not to completely bullshit when they're hauled up on the witness stand is exceptionally trying.

does postmodern mean she is texting her kids about sex?

The link.

Gallagher looks like Corin Tucker merged into Carrie Brownstein.

That's what Liv Tyler is going to look like in 20 years.

"Yet nearly half (48 percent) of boys also said: "A person has to lie or cheat sometimes in order to succeed."

Where are they getting that idea?

Not, it appears, from their parents, who by and large are trying to instill "traditional" moral values in these highly untraditional times."

So who is it from?!?!? We'll never learn.

So who is it from?!?!? We'll never learn

Liberals.

HOLLYWOOD!

Or Charles Darwin.

Someone else's father is teaching everyone to cheat and steal.