Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

I heard a lot of that at work before 75% of my department quit/got laid off.

But even if you think McCain has run a less than honorable campaign (I do not – which is to say that I am mentally handicapped)

Bush pere was not a tacky president

I feel better now?

Bush pere was not a tacky president (except for that one meal where he puked in the Japanese prime Minister's lap; that was tacky in every sense of the word)

^^ depends what he ate, actually

the poll is an embarrassment of embarrassments, but i give k. lo the slight edge over jonah. both of them are really my favorites.

I love youtube

i can't enjoy a lot of them -- ramesh, nordlinger, schiffren, york, lowry -- because they give some evidence of being too smart to have any excuse for peddling so much trifling nonsense, so they're more annoying than entertaining. whereas k.lo and jonah are distinguished by being dumb as rocks and soft as pillows. i find their haplessness comforting.

My conversation thus far with Jonah:

>I've been trying to google it, but haven't had much luck. All googles with permutations on Gringrich and radical come out with him calling secularists radicals and him calling Islamists radicals.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/19/AR2007051900842.html

I'll try the books, tho.

-M

>>On Oct 10, 2008, at 6:42 PM, JonahNRO wrote:

Google it. Or look at bob Reich's books.

Sent from Jonah's iPhone

>>>On Oct 10, 2008, at 6:25 PM, M <myem✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧> wrote:

Jonah, you wrote:I mean pretty much every liberal in America refers to Gingrich-style Republicans as "radicals."

I've never heard anyone say this... can you give an example?

-M

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

For the Record [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I do fear an Obama presidency. And not because he's a terrorist or I'm a racist. I fear a President Obama because he's a liberal, who has taken the counsel of radicals (and yes, a domestic terrorist). He's inexperienced and has bad judgment. We're at war and can't afford to play around.

Why can't John McCain say something like that instead of what he said yesterday?

Please, Senator McCain, help us help you!

10/11 09:43 AM

Confused [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

So, catching up on the Alaska report here: She did nothing wrong, but the Democratic investigator, who is friends with the fired commissioner doesn't like in retrospect that Todd made a few phone calls? Maybe that last thing shouldn't have happen, but it doesn't sound like he was playing her strongman. More concerned citizen and family man. The only question that bothers me about this incident is: How many kids does a cop have to taser because he gets fired?

10/11 09:35 AM

The Alaska Probe [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

THE SILENCE IS DEFEANING, my in-box says. Sorry, some of us were just simulating having lives for a night. Remember what I said about taking a deep breath for the weekend?

I haven't read the report yet (see first sentence above). My intial reaction was: See, a lot can happen between now and Election Day. It can get worse ... and better.

10/11 08:42 AM

http://www.sadlyno.com/wordpress/uploads/2007/04/kathryn-jean-lopez.jpg
Sorry, some of us were just simulating having lives for a night.

I wonder if she was borrowing Goldberg's holodeck.

Am I wrong, or are they fucking losing it today? I count; a comment about the born alive infant act, two Ayers comments (including an Ayers wrote his book comment), another new "bad" associate, and two Obama is an elitist comments. They should find one approach and settle on it!

That IS their one approach.

Sorry, some of us were just simulating having lives a sleepover with Sarah Palin.

I had more discussion with Jonah last night. But I'm not going to post it. Cause it's stupid.

I hope these guys live up to the classic image of conservatives at home, with a paisley bathrobe and a snifter of brandy, reading the Troopergate bullet points and answering e-mail.

aw come onnnnn

xp

It was really boring. He sent me some google searches to prove that liberals call right-wingers unfairly radical. And then I got bored and told him to keep up the good work of destroying those liberals fascists. And he thanked me for my support.

did the google searches prove anything?

Sure. Some bloggers have called Gingrich a radical right-wingers before.

ah so bloggers=liberals

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow. K-Lo in a walk.

we're all secretly crushing on the o.g. fertility goddess

Someone should email these exciting results to her.

Why when I read this can I only hear the sound of Andy sobbing softly, "Wh-wh-wh-why won't anyone believe me?"

Re: Ayers as Obama's Ghost Writer?!? [Andy McCarthy]

Jon, it's very like the other side to engage in the attack ad hominem and leave substance for another day (that never comes) so I'm surprised to find you doing it. Cashill has written a very thorough analysis. If you're content to have that be your reaction to it, so be it. As I said, I resisted reading Cashill's analysis for a long time — and he's not the first to advance the idea that Obama did not write his book — because I didn't want to be accused of wading into what could be taken as nutter stuff. I was then persuaded that I should at least look at it with an open mind. I'm convinced it raises major questions. I tried to treat them in a serious way. I expected to get gruff, but I did hope it wouldn't come from my own (diminishing) ranks. But such is the way it is these days.

Do me a favor, though. The next time someone complains that we really don't know enough about Obama — that he won't talk about Columbia, release his records or anything he wrote there; that he won't produce anything from his Harvard days; that there seems to have been a concerted effort to purge documentation of his connections to socialist associations; that he has misrepresented the fact and depth of his relationships with some troublesome people — do make sure to repeat your thoughtful response that you've seen no evidence that evidence is relevant. We're about to elect to the presidency a blank slate of the Left who comes to us with a neon sign that says "SLATE NOT ACTUALLY BLANK IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH." As the sign flashes, we've got an awful lot of people content to say, "Oh that, well if you just toss another blanket over it, the glare isn't so bad. Meanwhile, can we please just get back to the really important issues, like another targeted 2.67341 percent tax cut for left-handed working mothers — and quickly, before Obama offers 2.71523!"

10/13 06:07 AM

A credit to his law class, that one.

(As opposed to That One, of course.)

Re: Ayers as Obama's Ghost Writer [Jonathan Adler]

Andy — I agree that there are many troubling things about Obama, and there are many things that the press should — but has not — covered or investigated in any detail, including his relationship with Bill Ayers. I also don't think it is at beyond the pale to speculate about the provenance of his books, or even to suggest that to suggest he may have had help. But it's still a giant leap to Cashill's suggestion that Ayers was the actual writer of Obama's book, his "analysis" notwithstanding. There are more serious issues at stake, and we can do better than that.

10/13 10:19 AM

It's a Corner Cat Fight!

we really don't know enough about Obama — that he won't talk about Columbia, release his records or anything he wrote there

Like that Santana collab that didn't make it onto Supernatural.

Bob Dylan ghost-wrote Dreams from My Father and Obama played the harmonica parts on Time Out of Mind.

Thanks for the thoughtful advice, Mordechai. You may be right. Do you think it's unimportant that Obama doesn't want to discuss vast swaths of his past? And if it is important, doesn't trying to examine it necessarily expose one to the charge of being a conspiracy theorist? You may still be right. I haven't adopted Cashill's theory; I have simply been persuaded that he's raised colorable questions that Obama has it within his power to put to rest ... but won't. Maybe, though, we're at the point of diminishing returns. Best, Andy

From: Mordy
Sent: Mon 10/13/2008 12:48 PM
To: Andrew McCarthy
Subject: Sorry Andy

Jonathan Adler is right. Citing the Cashill as an argument against
Obama turns you from a political pundit into a conspiracy theorist -
about on the level of 9/11 Truthers. You do your cause no help by
embracing this kind of pseudo-scientific dolchstoss.

-M

Have I mentioned how much I love these guys? (Also, thanks to whomever posted that Harper's article in the election thread and added the word dolchstoss to my vocabulary.)

And these are people for whom I presume "when I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible" was sufficient

I just sent Andy a long, basically sincere, email back explaining why I find the Obama-associations argument weak. Mostly arguing that I personally have associated with numerous people of dubious reputation (read: all of ILX), and I don't think it makes me a bad person.

lol:

Hitchens [Mark R. Levin]

If you thought there was hope for this guy, reconsider.

You all realize this will be THE hot ticket here next month:

http://www.nrcruise.com/

If I had a huge disposable income I would so be there.

hahaha xxp

No Jonah Goldberg! I'll bet the high seas make him sickly. But the inclusion of Mittens makes up for it.

Uh, Jonah Goldberg is there.

Not sure how I missed that. I guess he's like the Ted McGinley of this Love Boat.

Activities:

Work out in the state-of-the-art fitness center
Learn Yoga
Relax by the pool
Enjoy High Tea
Take an arts tour
Pamper yourself in the Greenhouse Spa
Take a class in the Culinary Arts Center
Play paddle tennis
Attend a wine tasting
Surf the internet
Attend an art auction
See a first-run movie
Enjoy coffee and the New York Times
Relax in a hydrotherapy pool
Check out a book from the library

I thought The New York Times wouldn't be allowed on board.

Can't wait for all the talk everyone will have with Christopher Buckley. Restrained and thoughtful I'm sure.

I thought The New York Times wouldn't be allowed on board.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our special guest speaker -- Paul Krugman!"