NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

yeah but you have to wade through six inches of mud to find them

i'd imagine it's more like, okay that may have been a flagrant foul, but he's still playing for my team

Nordlinger points out that the Derb was actually a lib:

I don’t have much patience with John’s critics on the left. Race is almost all-important to them. Not to me. It is one among other important things.

For example, John is strongly for abortion — certainly legal abortion. Does anyone care about that? That view, to me, is at least as offensive as Derb’s views on race. My nearest and dearest, life-long, have been pro-abortion.

Derb thinks that George W. Bush is a moron, and the Iraq War a crime. I doubt his views on these matters differ much from Michael Moore’s.

If not for his views on race — a big “if not,” granted — Derb might be quite welcome on the left. In any event . . .

Nordlicker's sentences are such a pleasure to follow.

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The NRO would be easier if there weren't all these True Scotsman to worry about

The only NRO post on Derb that sounds written by a human being:

I’ve always thought that conservatives should simply bite the bullet and admit that there are racists among self-described conservatives, and moreover, that these conservatives’ racism is an evitable (that is, unwarranted) extension of the mainstream conservative position on race. But this is true in the same way it is true that there are communists among self-described liberals, and that their communism is an evitable (that is, unwarranted) extension of the mainstream liberal position on political economy. To put this even more forcefully, we have to yield that there is something to it when liberal trolls snark about how tough it can be to distinguish a conservative from a racist. The fact is that both conservatives and racists think that considerations about race should play a much smaller part in our political discourse. And while only racists think that this is so because blacks are less than fully human, it can be tough to get them to admit as much. Until, that is, they inevitably slip up.

"evitable"

Has anyone told him that "evitable" means "avoidable" yet?

Inevitably.

why didn't he just say 'unwarranted'

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evitable.

i think hes using "evitable" intentionally there!

he was just trying to be clever and set up his little frisson of delight at the end when he pulls out 'inevitably' like the explorer who pulls out his cigarette lighter to awe the stone age tribe. college-degreed hacks often write like that.

next thing you'll know he'll use "rescreen" without irony

At the same time, there is something thuggish, not to mention insecure, in the mob’s expectation that a head be thrown to it without any discussion of the nature of the offense, and in its refusal to entertain any possibility of forgiveness.

This reflexive defensive posture after she just got done describing why his article is clearly racist.

the mob

^the cartoon that plays in the conservative's head as he girds his loins for challops.

At the same time, there is something thuggish, not to mention ruggish, in the mob’s expectation that a bone be thrown to it without any discussion of the funk of the jump that the thugstas feel, and in its refusal to entertain any possibility of lovin yo peoples cause we so real.

with Luda cameo

ahahaha

LOLwry fires another poster.

haha Foster must be PSYCHED

poor lowry, discovering all at once that he is hip-deep in racists and trying desperately to climb up to higher ground.

the mob

^the cartoon that plays in the conservative's head as he girds his loins for challops.

― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 7:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God yes.

the cornered

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295771/what-ho-derb-mark-steyn

okay I think at the end of this post Steyn is saying that racism is not very popular right now but will become popular again?

"What ho? Derb?"

I had the same reaction. xpost

i think he might mean having rich foreigners employ you because they own everything

the mob

^the cartoon that plays in the conservative's head as he girds his loins for challops.

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@ all of this

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Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

man she is losing it

Thanks to Alfred, I can't read anything she writes writes without imagining that it was written while a dog licked her hair

Ad on K-Lo @ Large: "Earn a bible degree"

Also:

A couple of weeks ago I had an interview with a journalist, and the journalist said to me: “Cardinal Dolan would you tell me the most influential person in your life?” And I said “sure, what do you mean by the most influential person?”
“Well, the person who most guides you, the person who has most formed you, the person you most look to for inspiration and direction, the person you most trust, who’s had the most impact on you.”
And I said: “Oh that’s easy, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the most influential person in my life.”
And then –and here’s my point — the journalist said: “Oh I’m sorry, it’s got to be somebody alive now.”
I said: “it’s still Jesus Christ because my faith tells me he is alive here and now.”

I think I've eactually heard that exact same anecdote more than once before.

Lol at this journalist walking around engaging in the same line questioning and clarification with all these preachers over all these decades, right before Easter. Get one brane stupid journalist they will keep telling you jesus is alive.

Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

I originally read this as "Was Jesus Just Some Dude" and worried she had found her way to ilx.

This was a journalist of convenience, supplied on demand whenever the anecdote is exhumed.

oh shit thanks dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axb1mTUIkG4

Everyone by now has heard the old line that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice.

hmmm

Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

Initially scanned as was Jesus just some dude who used to live good?

Was Jesus Just Allright With Me?

http://www.okaygreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/june12b.jpg

Pretty Anglo Jesus is alright and always with you, filling in when your GPS is on the fritz

is that LOLwry behind the wheel?

Nah, just Randy Travis' brother

It's annoying when the smug set among atheists bang on about God as an Imaginary Friend, but Kingfish's pic is triply annoying because it completely justifies their pov.

As a smug atheist I just let the poem "Footprints" do all the heavy lifting on the imaginary friend tip.

Guys this is out in just two weeks pre-order yours now omg

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