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That's his worst tendency: when someone, even a supporter, questions his horrible, imprecise, cliche-ridden prose, he'll complain that once again he's being misinterpreted.

An eyewitness:

Because we all know how splendidly greed- and corruption-free socialist government is, and how “the 99 percent” of Americans are just clamoring for it. Certainly, this one fellow doesn’t speak for “the movement,” but being familiar with how a (frighteningly) large portion of my generation thinks — and in many cases, has been taught to think — this seems like a fairly accurate distillation of the protesters’ collective mindset: vague, incoherent, idiotic. I might have told him that if he really wanted to “protest capitalism,” he could start by ditching his $2,000 MacBook Pro

(frighteningly)

good

love the comments:

Sadly, that describes a frighteningly large portion of the past three generations. Otherwise, we would still have a pre-1912 culture and would not be facing the then-inconceivable problems we face today.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279545/occupy-wall-street-and-iressentimenti-daniel-foster

"I’ve heard Le Tigre and, actually, they aren’t bad."

Foster is in his mid thirties.

he's right that her rant is pretty retarded tho

if wearethe99% tumblr were a bunch of people writing "I can't afford an apartment in a hip brooklyn neighborhood" I feel like it would be less successful

It's embarrassing. For all their valid complaints about FOX News' distortion of facts these young guys are weirdly naive about self-presentation.

on one hand, that's one of the most embarrassing "leftist" pieces of writing I've ever read. on the other hand, she's one person and hardly speaks for either the OCW movement, leftists in general, or really anyone besides herself. so i don't know what quoting it achieves besides calling out one really ridiculous sounding person. (and for all I know, she wrote that on a bad day and is actually a really decent, thoughtful person.)

nice!

John Fund Joins NR Cruise Super Speaker Line-up
October 12, 2011 1:32 P.M.
By Jack Fowler
There’s but a month to go before we set sail on the National Review 2011 Caribbean Cruise, and we’re still looking for ways to make this tremendous trip even better. And we have. John Fund, the acclaimed political journalist, will be joining our incredible array of top conservative speakers, which includes

acclaimed author Mark Steyn, conservative foreign-policy hero John Bolton, former Senator Fred Thompson, Islam scholar Bernard Lewis, historian Victor Davis Hanson, esteemed academics James Q. Wilson and Charles Kesler, foreign-policy expert Elliott Abrams, former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, columnists Tony Blankley, Cal Thomas, Mona Charen, Deroy Murdock, and S. E. Cupp, terrorism and legal experts Andrew McCarthy and John Yoo, political guru Ralph Reed, social critic and humorist James Lileks, Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest, best-selling conservative authors Andrew Klavan and Michael Walsh, ace economist Kevin Hassett, State Policy Network executive Tracie Sharp, domestic-policy expert Sally Pipes, and, from NR, editor Rich Lowry, Liberal Fascism author Jonah Goldberg, columnist Rob Long, NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez, senior editors Jay Nordlinger, David Pryce-Jones, and Ramesh Ponnuru, “Campaign Spot” blogger Jim Geraghty, “Exchequer” blogger Kevin D. Williamson, NRO contributor John Derbyshire, National Correspondent John J. Miller, ace political reporter Bob Costa, and infamous—no, outrageous—NR artist Roman Genn.
Join the 550-plus folks who are going to have a phenomenal seven days (featuring nine seminars, two “Night Owls,” 3 cocktail receptions, one late-night smoker sponsored by H. Upmann cigars, and dining on three nights with our guest speakers) on Holland America Line’s luxurious Eurodam. The dates are November 12-19, and the place to get complete information, and to sign up, is www.nrcruise.com.

no, outrageous

Deploy the U-boat fleet.

three cocktail receptions!

haha man i'm reading the communist manifesto right now (why because its news) and then i read about NRO cruises and i'm like "you know..."

foreign-policy expert convicted felon Elliott Abrams,

Where are the Somalian pirates when you need them?

Oh boy, K-Lo...

Also:

Clarence Thomas, 20 Years Later
October 21, 2011 8:33 A.M.
By Wendy Long

Bill Bennett summed it up: Justice Clarence Thomas is “the greatest living American.”

It sounds like friendly hyperbole. It isn’t.

Since his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas’s first-principles originalism has begun to win the battle of ideas and restore to the rule of law the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. This isn’t just a matter of being vindicated in legal or academic debates. Justice Thomas is painstakingly rebuilding, brick by brick, the very foundations of the American Republic, after a generation of assault left them crumbling almost beyond repair.

[Approved commenter] Slide
: 10/21/11 07:09

Funny but I just saw that Qaddafi had a scrapbook full of photos of Condi Rice. Imagine that? They must have been real pals. I wonder if they ever. . . ... well, lets not go there, the visual is just too disturbing.

[Approved commenter] Rasputin
: 10/21/11 09:58

In other threads I have repeatedly said, "Don't feed the trolls." But, slide, I have to say that you just exposed your true soul - and it is disgusting.

DISGUSTING!!

this is just gold through and through. Welcoming Baby Seven Billion

LOPEZ: How could you celebrate such a milestone? I get you’re pro-life and all, but you’ve been stuck in traffic in New York. Maybe there are too many of us!

HALPINE: Children are not the problem! Traffic jams in New York are most often caused by the visiting dignitaries of the U.N., and never by the young people and children who come to the U.N. with their schools!

Wtf

straw baby argument

Even in situations of dire poverty, children are not the problem. They are often the consolation of the poor, who are often in desperate situations due to corruption and mismanagement.

i don't think there's any way to know for sure whose corruption and mismanagement is being blamed there

loling

"no matter what, there couldn't possibly be too many children" is the lolziest craziest best claim

lol have you guys seen today's wallpaper? Rather symbolic donchathink.

Is it wallgina?

best herman cain comment:

Who among us hasn't gotten loaded at a conference or convention and asked a female (or male, if that's your thing) subordinate to come up to your hotel room to enjoy a slice of pizza and some Skinamax, let him cast the first stone.

lmao slice of pizza

this is an instant classic

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/282007/first-thing-we-do-john-derbyshire

all I had to look at was "Derbyshire" and "The first thing we do" in the URL for my imagination to run riot.

I know "Is there anyone who thinks sexual harassment is a real thing?" is a strong start, but I hope it doesn't overshadow "There has never in the history of the world been a people better mannered and less inclined to insulting acts of prejudice than today’s Americans"

lolll the comments lolll

ny post: america's newspaper of record

derbyshire is kind of on his own plane

a hand on every ass, a cross on every lawn

i wish a touch of turbulence upon derbyshire's plane

Okay I seriously didn't know about this until now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire#Appearance_in_Bruce_Lee_movie

I know "Is there anyone who thinks sexual harassment is a real thing?" is a strong start, but I hope it doesn't overshadow "There has never in the history of the world been a people better mannered and less inclined to insulting acts of prejudice than today’s Americans"

seriously that is all-time

He Can Now Afford a TV
November 4, 2011 9:18 A.M.
By Jay Nordlinger

Life has imitated art in India: A penniless young man has just become the first person in his country to win a million dollars on a game show. He won it on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, as if starring in the hit movie of three years ago, Slumdog Millionaire. I note this in Impromptus today. An AP report on the young man is here.

The report tells us that, until now, the man has been too poor to own a television set. And, in my column, I remark, “Americans like me are occasionally startled to remember that, in some places in the world, the poor don’t have television, cars, air conditioning, and cellphones.”

Long ago, I heard a story about a poor man in India whose dream was to visit America, just once. “Why?” his friends asked him. He answered, “Because I want to see a place where poor people are fat.”

A major problem among our poor is obesity, or so we are given to understand. I believe it. And I would not make light of this problem (nor am I trying to be cutesy with “light”). But we have reached an interesting pass in human history when a major problem of the poor is obesity. For millennia, the problem was the opposite — still is, elsewhere.

I think the spiritual component of poverty is woefully underexplored. Maybe I’ll get off my duff and explore it someday.

im speechless

"get off my duff"

I hope he doesn't have either of the Duff sisters imprisoned.

“Americans like me are occasionally startled to remember that, in some places in the world, the poor don’t have television, cars, air conditioning, and cellphones.”

whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. poor people in america don't have televisions, cars, air conditioning or cell phones. or refrigerators for that matter. if you have any of those things, it is impossible for you to be poor.

We've robbed our poor of honest, hard-working poverty and given them this fat, undisciplined version. We could learn much from that man in India.

J0rdan, a lot of poor people have those things. Refrigerators (and possibly a shitty window air conditioner unit) come with even the most mediocre of rental properties. It doesn't mean they consistently work well, but a lot of people below the poverty line have a shitty rental apartment, a car that breaks down all the time but is necessary for them to get to work, and a television since televisions are so far below being a luxury good that they're pretty much the go-to for entertainment.

He's kidding.

Yeah, I realized that a half second after hitting submit

c'mon dawg

i was specifically referencing this segment from fox business channel, which is basically the most unbelievable thing i've ever seen on tv, and i've watched a lot of fox

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201108250029