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Sir Jerk? [Jay Nordlinger]
So, Paul McCartney is in the East Room of the White House, with President and Mrs. Obama. He is being fêted because he has just won an award from the Library of Congress. He caps the evening with this remark – this is his farewell, his send-off: “After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president that knows what a library is.”

Can anyone tell me why people are such schmucks? Why they are so graceless and clueless and nasty? I mean, Paul McCartney’s like the richest, most popular, most honored musician in the world. Does he not have it in him to behave like a gentleman — or at least a non-boor — while he’s being celebrated at the White House? Does he have to be the Wanda Sykes of popular music? Is it not possible to love Obama, as McCartney does, without hating Bush — or at least insulting him on a high, non-political occasion?

I don’t care that “Penny Lane” is a pretty tune, Paul McCartney is a horse’s butt. Let me amend that: He acted like one, on Wednesday night.
06/04 09:14 AM Share

Funny how this WH and its supporters laugh about Bush and reading yet show their own ignorance in making comments about a law in Arizona deriding it yet they openly admit they have not read it. This comes from the highest law enforcement and homeland security positions in the land. Is it perhaps 17 pages is beyond their comprehension skills or do they feel that reading is unnecessary since their supporters seem to swallow everything they say hook line and sinker and feel that perhaps they are too inferior to read for themselves and therefore won't discover that the Arizona law is more protective of immigrants than the federal law? I think if I were a democratic supporter I wouldn't be ridiculing anyone right now for their reading skills, and I won't even mention they can't read the laws that make it illegal to offer someone a position whether paid or unpaid to get out of a race. But then I guess worrying about laws only comes into play when a democrat is trying to prosecute a republican, otherwise they claim "business as usual and everyone does it". Maybe they can make a list so we can all read it of which laws only apply to certain political parties and which ones we can ignore when it suits us.

Posted by: justmyvoice | June 3, 2010 5:55 PM | Report abuse

It's crazy, but I don't totally disagree with Nordlinger xp, I think he makes a reasonable point. If I were in the White House, I'd be really formal and not crack jokes about other Presidents

I mostly posted that Nordlinger comment to set the scene for the Corner comments that are sure to follow.

btw, I totally think it's ok to make jokes about President Taft getting stuck in the bathtub nowadays.

LOL @ the outrage over Macca's remarks. Bush read books OK, but he was the king boor as pres, back-slapping and nick-naming, treating the world stage as his personal lockeroom

anybody else notice that the corner has been hacked w/bogus spam-links

LOL @ the outrage over Macca's remarks. Bush read books OK, but he was the king boor as pres, back-slapping and nick-naming, treating the world stage as his personal lockeroom

truthbomb^^^

mega lolz @ the Wanda sykes of popular music

Nordlinger posted a ton of inane shit today but the best was his attempted psychoanalysis of that Irish Nobel laureate who was on one of the Gaza ships

Re ‘Bolton!’ [Jay Nordlinger]

My inbox is full of e-mail in full-throated support of an idea we discussed earlier: Bolton for President. Some say, “My friends and I have talked about this for months.” Readers really want to bypass secretary of state altogether and send Bolton right to the Oval Office. In fact, that may be easier for JRB: election by the people over confirmation by the Senate.

Seriously, shouldn’t there be some outside-the-box candidates in 2012? A Petraeus, a Bolton? Must the field include only the same old suspects? Do you know a clearer thinker, a sharper speaker, a bolder official than Bolton? The times could use a guy like him, frankly. And in debate against Obama — wow.

Many readers have said, “About time we had a president with a mustache.” That’s what President Bush used to call him, or called him at least once: “The Man with the Mustache.” Readers also said, “When was the last time we had a president with glasses? Bush 41? How about before that?” A lot of people mentioned TR: mustachioed and bespectacled.

Finally, one reader said, “We conservatives always set our sights too low. Forget having Bolton as president. Make him dictator for a day, à la Friedman and China.” Yeah, and don’t forget that Woody Allen wants to confer dictatorial powers on Obama, too (temporarily, to be sure).

Anyway, I think I feel a draft . . . “Bolton for President.” To paraphrase an old line — I learned this from Bob Novak; a 19th-century Republican speaker of the House said it, I think — “The Republican party and the American people could do worse, and probably will.”

yeah nordlinger has been giving everyone else a strong run in the stupid + pissy + clueless + arrogant stakes. who the hell is this guy?

"And in debate against Obama — wow."

lol

Anyway, I think I feel a draft

between his ears

BOLTON FOR PRESIDENT: Because Cheney Was Too Well-Liked

that’s what President Bush used to call him, or called him at least once: “The Man with the Mustache.”

oh dear God

Cover Your Mouth When You Yawn [Jay Nordlinger]

You want some boring old dog-bites-man? “A 46-year-old resident of Henan province who was abducted in March 2009 while talking to people in public about Falun Gong died in Zhengzhou prison camp last month . . .” Who was this dead kook? “Mr. Tian Yun was from Houguolei Village of Henan in Central China.” And what happened?

Shortly after being detained on March 27, 2009, Tian was “sentenced” in a sham trial at Hui County Court to three years in a prison camp. He was subsequently taken to Zhengzhou Prison in Xinmin. According to sources inside China, Tian was beaten, shocked with electric batons, and deprived of water at the prison camp. The camp guards tried to force Tian to denounce Falun Gong but he refused. He continued to be tortured and died in custody as a result of the abuse.

Yeah, yeah, happens every day, almost. Ho-hum. If you have insomnia, you can read the rest of the article here. The rest of the world can return to our regularly scheduled programming: the ongoing, eternal appeasement of the monsters in Beijing. Must never upset those monsters, ever. Being a ChiCom means being able to torture and kill at will — while the world simpers at your feet.

06/09 01:55 PMShare

Nordlinger is the sort of guy who laughs hysterically at his own jokes.

We let them get away with it because their communists.

their is they're when you are a communist

Oh man.

bunch of interesting things in that:

- Ahmadinejad is obv totally wrong
- Wallace is making a sort of academic point ("I am just telling you what ~he said~"), as a reporter, and hannity animated that point to represent wallace's opinion, and what's his face read that falsely ascribed opinion as somehow being something that Wrong People (Obama!) are sayin "yeah that sounds right to me" to

an entire ilx thread in one blog lost imo

also it embodies precisely everything wrong about political discourse in lolmerica. instead of saying "ahmedinijad u rong" he targeted the guy who ~told him what ahmedinijad said~

good luck usa

"Has everyone on the planet bought the Obama argument — the one he articulated in his Address to the Muslim World, delivered in al-Cahara, or Cairo, or whatever you want to call it — that Israel was a consolation prize for the Holocaust, pure and simple? Does anyone know jack squat about Zionism?"

America's strong bonds with Israel are well known. This bond is unbreakable. It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied.

Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust.

^text from Cairo speech.

Nordlinger has always been a prissy, fussy creep - he once described Obama's daughters as "scrumptious"

Helen Thomas's Vice [Daniel Foster]

What looks to be Helen Thomas's last interview pre-gaffe has just turned up in, of all places, Vice magazine — a mostly-useless gazette of bored hipster cynicism and debauchery that occasionally publishes interesting photographs.

lol

lol it was inevitable

a mostly-useless gazette of bored hipster cynicism and debauchery that occasionally publishes interesting photographs.

^^subscribes to Playboy "for the interviews"

a mostly-useless gazette of bored hipster cynicism

ehhhh, otm

interesting photographs!!

man, what with orly taitz suing dan lacey it's been a banner for irl collisions of ilx obsessions

I define it more "nihilism" but there you go

Woah at the NRO truthbomb. Guess a clock is right twice a blah blah blah

"The most anticipated American sports event in many years"? [Andy McCarthy]

Score this round for Costa/Chruchill. Of course I wish only the best for our guys — now that someone has told me the game is happening, I hope they win. But even with the gimmick of inter-league play deteriorating into match-ups the most rabid baseball fans can't can get excited about, I imagine tonight's showdown between the Kansas City Royals and the Cincinnati Reds is more anticipated in America than any soccer game (unless your 6-year-old happens to be playing in it).

It really does seem like the Times is written only for Upper West Siders ... or maybe just for other New York Times writers.

REAL MURICA

andy mccarthy's very powerful imagination

I miss the days when we posted actually for real batshit crazy shit from NRO, and not like banal observations that the NY Times writes for a specific audience.

you miss the days from earlier this week?

on the internet I think the rule is that "I miss the days" can refer to anything that happened over 45 seconds ago

that's true, the man with the mustache post was pretty awesome

McCarthy was educated at Columbia University and New York Law School, and has served as a professor at the latter and at Fordham University Law School.

REAL MURICAN

McCarthy has long been a die-hard fan of the New York Mets.

LOL

we got a date for morbs

i think there may be ulterior motives for this proposal

Leaving the gorgeous Orthodox church service, I went home through another of New York’s rich displays of beauty — this one created by the hand of God, and not the art of man. Yes, it was the Puerto Rican Day parade, an exuberant tribute to Puerto Rican culture, but famous especially for its lovely women in skimpy outfits roughly a size and a half too small for their wearers. What say we arrange, every Friday, a mini-Puerto Rican Day parade in front of the mosque? It could be quiet and respectful — we Americans are not, after all, boorish thugs — but nonetheless pointed: displaying the female body as nothing to be ashamed of or to be hidden behind burkas, and the entire female human being as a prized bearer of rights in our society, a person with a voice in the public square. This would turn the mosque into our teaching moment. If it turns out that the mosque is run by decent sorts, the demonstrations could peter out. If evidence mounts that the mosque is just another cover for Saudi Wahhabi terror supporters and other jihadists . . . the demonstrations could get a little louder.

In a hearts-and-minds struggle between jihadists on one hand, and our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters on the other, I’ll put my money on the Puerto Ricans any day.

http://api.ning.com/files/KWzBYIoJGjgJdXnE9D8fqilihFxzhBC7iByUONZQVnSp*U4v8WdfpDUK1SD*L3PX1ifYyXPUdcphE8pXz1IGQTOeMCFk6yad/Drinky_Drinking.jpg

Iron Ladies [Robert Costa]
Sarah Palin is in talks to meet with Lady Thatcher:

Her representatives approached Margaret Thatcher to ask for a meeting as part of a bid to enhance her claim to be the ‘heir to Ronald Reagan’ and prepare to challenge Mr Obama.

And Lady Thatcher has agreed to see Mrs Palin, who stood as the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008. A spokesman said: ‘We had an informal approach asking if Lady Thatcher would meet Mrs Palin if she comes to Britain and we said yes.’

A date for the meeting has not been set.

personally I fully endorse the idea of Margaret Thatcher satiating her neverending lust for the taste of human flesh on Sarah Palin

Margaret Thatcher, by all accounts, suffers so badly from dementia at 88 that arranging such a meeting is a form of elder abuse.

Sarah Palin has a passport?

Plus, who is paying her for this, BP?

You Need to Know [John J. Miller]

There are a handful of musicians (or groups of them) whose albums I buy sight unseen and sound unheard. They could put out a collection of melodic armpit farts and I'd still line up for my copy on the release date.

One of them is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Here's the really good news: Mojo, out today, is the best album TP has recorded since the 1980s. It won't be a classic-rock hit parade like Damn the Torpedoes, but it has a few first-rate songs and is strong from start to end. It reminds me of Southern Accents—not because it shares that album's self-conscious ambition, but for its easy embrace of a bluesy regional heritage plus a willingness to experiment with new forms. There's a reggae song on it, for crying out loud. For the most part, though, Mojo sounds like a 21st-century band recording a 1970s southern rock album. My first impression is a good one and I have a feeling that it's going to grow on me.