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

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/257410/unions-v-management-jonah-goldberg

jonah g. in "smug asshole" shocker

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/257366/sinner-re-soccer-jay-nordlinger

some excellent comments on that one

u mean like "I do firmly believe that there is a leftist interest in establishing soccer in the U.S. in an attempt to remove yet another thing that sets my country apart from the rest of the world"

communist kickball!

[Limbaugh v. Krauthammer apparently:

‘I was going to name my first child Krauthammer, even if it was a girl, but no more.’
January 14, 2011 2:03 P.M.
By Charles Krauthammer
So said Rush today (reports Kathryn Lopez) after our disagreement over the Tucson speech.

Now you know why I returned Rush’s volley on Fox last night: I’ve just saved that poor little girl a world of hurt

lol @ the idea of Rush spawn

vom @ the idea of Rush spawn

hoo-wee

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/257658/black-abortions-forbidden-topic-peter-kirsanow

yeesh

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/258427/aborting-race-card-kathryn-jean-lopez

K-Lo is still a naive idiot i see

i don't think this is as flattering as Nordlinger assumes (David Pryce-Jones can't even speak Arabic)

I’ve noticed something the last few days — something that gives us a human lesson, I think: Those who know the most about the Middle East are saying the least, when it comes to the turmoil in Egypt. Or they are speaking most cautiously. They’re quickest to say, “I really don’t know. I don’t know the exact nature of this, or how it will turn out.” They seem to be humblest, about what can be known, now.

I’m talking about Bernard Lewis, David Pryce-Jones, Amir Taheri, Fouad Ajami — people like that. These are men who have spent years and years in the Middle East, studying its politics, peoples, and languages, taking in everything possible. Those who know less speak in far more confident tones. They are even cocksure. I’m not sure we should trust anyone who speaks in those tones, just now.

also bernard lewis is a racist dickhole so the less he talks the better off we all are

he was the guy fantasizing about what HE WOULDA done during the va tech shooting, right? because that was also a good human lesson.

that mighta been derbyshire, they all look alike ¯\(°_°)/¯

Maggie Gallagher's National Organization for Marriage site misunderstands cartoon, steals bandwidth, gets trolled.

also bernard lewis is a racist dickhole so the less he talks the better off we all are

I don't think this is true at all fwiw

I mean between him and Edward Said I'm pretty firmly in the middle (Lewis is overly stuffy and Said's a bit of a jackass), but Lewis' ideas/comments tend to get distorted/misused in the political arena

cool

I say this as someone who read a bunch of Lewis' books without any idea of the political firestorm surrounding him, which I didn't find out about until later. He's one of those guys where I could see how taking particular statements out of context would be an attractive tactic for neocons attempting to shape policy, but if you look at what Lewis actually wrote about democracy and politics and terrorism in the muslim world you will see pretty clearly that a) he did not support the invasion of Iraq, and does not think that democracy can or should be "enforced" on a region, b) that Muslim terrorism (suicide bombings, modern jihad etc) is a modern development that runs counter to the entire religious history of Islam, and c) that mostly he just thinks the Muslim world is a mess, riddled with poverty, repression, corrupt regimes, and a whole lot of very angry people. which it pretty obviously is.

like yes he coined the term "clash of civilizations", but there isn't anything inherently ideological about that phrase.

yes there is!

hey civilizations clash sometimes

like when the native americans met the conquistadores, clash didn't go so well

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/259108/view-google-john-j-miller

These observations of the leftward tilt of Google are periodic and accurate, nad they always make me think of the same thing: market opportunity for Bing. Look at the ratings domination that Fox News has managed by identifying an underserved "niche" market that amounts to better than 50 percent of the U.S. population.

the doodle of dead soldiers in beirut didn't test well.

remember: liberals are the only ones who whine

Or care about "political correctness."

top comment on the google article is terrific, why haven't they deleted it yet?

oooh:

Note how Google's auto-complete suggests "faux news" and "faux noise" when you type in "faux", yet refuses to auto-complete the term "msdnc".

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/259187/bumper-sticker-day-steven-f-hayward

man the comments section is a really great addition, huh?

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Azimuth
02/03/11 01:07
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I'm afraid many here are missing the bigger point. High speed rail isn't about speedy rail service or removing greenhouse gases. It's about socialist control. By controlling the means of transportation, they can control the movement of the people. They are trying to kill the rugged individualist spirit that crossed this great continent on horseback.
Either you go when and where they tell you,
or you go when and where you will. I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs. Which direction will I go? That-a-way. Can a train go that-a-way? Didn't think so. You can wax nostalgic for 19th century modes of travel all you want. Just don't insist that I have to help pay for your nostalgia trip.

about time someone spoke up about the tyranny of the interstate highway system imo

as opposed to waxing nostalgic for... 17th century modes of travel?

i am in total freedom

as i drive on numbered and painted routes laid down and maintained by state power

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/258417/high-speed-rail-budget-buster-wendell-cox

first response hall of fame

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/259315/even-teen-hookers-need-abortions-kathryn-jean-lopez

lol

hahahaha

The commenters are often better writers than the staff.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/259453/team-america-si-captain-america-no-steven-f-hayward

more comments than i've seen on a post ever

Isn’t it about time we had a sequel to Team America: World Police?

the mind boggles

ah ok looks like one dude is semi-trolling, but...

Rolling bile, spit, and gnash

btw Hayward's Age of Reagan is the most readable of the conservative Reagan biographies. I can't believe he wrote a sentence like this: "I skipped the GI Joe movie a couple years ago when I heard that the heroes weren’t American GI’s but some kind of international force, like U.N. blue-helmets only with more testosterone."

the GI Joe characters weren't all american, iirc. they mostly were maybe but really whogivesashit.jpg

our korean-drawn cartoons based on chinese-made 80s toys are sacred!!

http://joeguide.com/pm/cels/images/quickkick01-large.jpg

Nothing delights me more than people who think "Team America" was some kind of paean to conservativism.

just like conservatives who initially thought colbert was 'real'

I assume a lot of conservatives still do?

SixthGenerationTexan
02/11/11 18:37
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I, too, am beginning to accumulate a stockpile of incandescent bulbs, in my attic.