Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

favorite ironically or actual favorite/least crazy?

aww thats too bad
he hasnt been posting lately i guess

favorite ironically or actual favorite/least crazy?

― ryan, Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:18 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there really is no 'least crazy'. i guess ramesh was anti-palin initially, but really, read some of his recent batshittiness

gotta be k-lo

if i wasnt lazy i would have GIS'd all of them and alphabetized the list
http://www.sadlyno.com/wordpress/uploads/2007/04/kathryn-jean-lopez.jpg

you ppl are masochists. life is too short.

FWIW [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Last night, someone on InTrade bet $140,000 that Obama will lose.

10/09 07:26 AM

Derbyshire is intelligent and articulate, if also homophobic and racist in some of his positions. He's not dumb, in any case.

Jonah Goldberg reminds me of Young Republicans I knew in college. Sometimes he's OK; sometimes he bugs me.

KJ Lopez is the worst as far as being like the co-worker who acts like the front page of the Drudge Report has given her a secret insider scoop.

Also:
http://www.nationalreview.com/images/corner_derbradio.gif

this shit is really annoying

Big Marriage Wins in the Making? [Maggie Gallagher]

Things are looking good for marriage amendments in California, Florida and Arizona.

California is the big surprise. After discouraging polls all summer, the latest CBS News/SurveyUSA Today poll shows Prop 8, the California marriage amendment, surging ahead 47 percent to 42 percent, with 10 percent undecided — that’s a ten point swing since the Yes on Prop 8 campaign ads started airing.

Younger voters are leading the swing against gay marriage, reports CBS News. Why? My best guess is: a lot of them are parents who don’t really want their schools teaching their 5 year olds about King and King (See the latest ad, at www.protectmarriage.com.)

BTW, Pepperdine’s is calling on the Yes on 8 campaign to stop identifying Prof. Richard Peterson as a Pepperdine Law School professor.

Meanwhile the Miami Herald is conceding that polls show the Florida marriage amendment commands a strong majority support.

Getting to 60 percent is a big hurdle, but the undecideds tend to break in favor of marriage amendments.

In Arizona the latest poll shows the marriage amendment is up 49 percent to 40 percent.

10/09 11:53 AM

lol i dunno about where you guys are from but around here 'durb' means bj

in h.s. symphonic band went to disneyworld and one of the percussionists got a mickey mouse hat with 'durb' written on it, lolz all around

gotta be steyn! he's hilarious crazy AND i'd drive my car right into him, so he's got the two sides of corner reading down cold

one of my fav k-lo posts was her saying american schools don't need to teach foreign languages since obama was able to go to germany and give a speech in english

UH

my real fav in terms of boiiing is still amy holmes, who i was surprised to learn recently was born in mogadishu!!

in terms of boiiing

meme

lol

The Big Five have mastered styles, like the charter members of the Legion of Doom

K-Lo: relentless cheerleader, Tracy Flick type.

Goldberg: Intellectual varnish applied to poorly recontextualized facts and hysteria

McCarthy: Legal polish " " " " " "

Lowry: Sober editor in chief with anal weakness for starbursts of light

Schiffren: Clueless bulldozer

ANOTHER PAUL WELLSTONE FUNERAL MOMENT? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Last night I whined about the Democratic-convention feel the Rosa Parks funeral seemed to have, just from my passing glance at it. Hillary, Bill, Kerry, Nancy P.

Last night I still wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I just caught the wrong parts. The exceptions.

But today I learn from Deroy Murdock that in the eulogy Jesse Jackson declared that President Bush put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge.

Must funerals always become political rallies on the Left?

And why does the Left get to claim Rosa Parks? Brave American. Inspiring American. Does she need to become a liberal icon? Condi Rice is the walking legacy of Rosa Parks, a woman who as a girl had to walk on the other side of the street as white. Today she is Secretary of State and being buzzed about as a presidential contender. For goodness sake. Sometimes life is about more than partisan politics. That’s an obvious point for most Americans, you know, normal people. Foreign to anyone who considers drinks at the Capital Grille a night at home.

Posted at 08:25 AM

Ponnoru is the only one who occasionally makes sense, or at least presents defensible ideas. Also: the only one who apparently studied logic and geometry.

only one who apparently studied logic

shock

My real favorite is Derbyshire, but since he's not on the list, I'm gonna pick my most hated (or my most favorite to fume about: Jonah Goldberg).

I can only stand Goldberg when he duels with Peter Beinart.

PORTMANTEAU CORNER POSTING [John Derbyshire]
Andrew (and a swelling host of readers): I asked for a politician who "PROUDLY CLAIMED to be socially conservative but fiscally liberal." All suggestions so far have been apologetic about either the one thing or the other (with the possible exception of De Gaulle, about whom I don't know enough). Ramesh: Surely one factor in the rise of prison rape--which I feel sure was wellnigh unknown a generation ago--has been the striking down of the very strong social taboo on male-male buggery. This taboo was universal across all cultures, primitive and civilized, and even including those that tolerated male-male erotic bonding, until the rise of the "gay rights" movement in the modern West. I'm not saying that this is the only factor, or even the major factor, but it must surely be **a** factor.

I'm in Palm Beach County [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
What I've heard so far: "I just don't know who to vote for. I was thinking this morning I might just not."

"I see Obama everywhere I go. Magazine covers. TV. Is anyone else running?"

Inspiring.

I'm with Jay: Operation Sarah Saturation might not be a terrible plan.

10/09 03:24 PM

Thank you for this thread. It will be a tough choice.

Can we have more quotes? I'd like more information (I'm an UNDECIDED voter finally yay!)

Derb:
Jennifer's bristols. Did I buy, or browse, a copy of the November 17 GQ, in order to get a look at Jennifer Aniston's bristols?** No, I didn't. While I have no doubt that Ms. Aniston is a paragon of charm, wit, and intelligence, she is also 36 years old. Even with the strenuous body-hardening exercise routines now compulsory for movie stars, at age 36 the forces of nature have won out over the view-worthiness of the unsupported female bust.

It is, in fact, a sad truth about human life that beyond our salad days, very few of us are interesting to look at in the buff. Added to that sadness is the very unfair truth that a woman's salad days are shorter than a man's — really, in this precise context, only from about 15 to 20. The Nautilus and the treadmill can add a half decade or so, but by 36 the bloom is definitely off the rose. Very few of us, however, can face up to this fact honestly, and I am sure this diary item will generate more angry e-mails of protest than everything else I have written this month.

** Bristols. Cockney rhyming slang. There is a well-known soccer team in England named Bristol City.

AHAHAHA wtf

omg Derbyshire might have just won my vote

wau

did he just admit to having paedo tendencies

a woman's salad days are shorter than a man's — really, in this precise context, only from about 15 to 20

i love his "i'm just saying what we're all thinking" gambit.

I mean, unlike the rest of The Corner, these are not Republican talking points.

"a woman's salad days" sounds pervy in a Derbyshire context.

What I love about reading these posts is the remembrance that NO thinks he's too leftwing for their tastes.

http://boifromtroy.com/archives/john%20derbyshire%20honorary%20homo.JPGhttp://suckerfreeblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/r-kelly-trapped-closet-400a081707.jpg

IT'S LIKE I'M SEEING DOUBLE

Pakistan [Lisa Schiffren]

On Pakistan, Obama's explication is sound, but he did call for invading an ally, which was pretty offensive. McCain was right, too. Pakistan is so complicated and difficult that a lot of explaining is necessary, and there really isn't a clear way to fix the problem.

naw he's just pro-choice. you can't be pro-life if you don't give a shit about anyone else! xp

At some point you guys will have to show more gratitude to Ned and me for getting you guys hooked.

i got myself hooked broski

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/uploaded_images/amy-holmes-715870.JPG
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1371/952626370_25d2536f40.jpg

Yeah, I've been offended by Jonah Goldberg for years! XP

Obama and the Clock [Jay Nordlinger]
There are reasons not to talk about Ayers, Wright, Khalidi, etc. — not to talk about Obama and radicalism. But there are reasons for doing so, too. And I ask this: If not now, when? (If not us, who?!) After November 4, it will be too late. Isn’t now the time to talk about it, discuss it, air it? Let Obama address it? What are campaigns for?

And where’s the media’s love of “vetting” (a word we heard a lot in early Palin days)?

It could be that Obama’s past radicalism, or tolerance of radicalism, has nothing to do with his present self. It could be that he has come a long way. I am ever mindful that about half of NR’s founding editors and writers were ex-Communists. But the thing is, they were really ex: and they were leading anti-Communists. To change one’s mind can be glorious. But where is Obama now?

I have a feeling that, once Obama is elected — if he is elected — the media will have a new candor about him. For now it’s, “Isn’t Sarah Palin stupid and racist?” (To be a conservative is to be called stupid and racist, even if you’re a combination of Albert Einstein and Frederick Douglass.)

so good both Alfred and I posted it today^^

SODOMITES:

http://www.events.wvu.edu/foi/2005/debate/picture.jpg

http://www.events.wvu.edu/foi/2005/debate/picture.jpg

jesus christ

jonah goldberg reminds me of a lot of family guy-watching dorks i remember from college

that pic really needs CURIOUS? and then a phone number

Regular NRO readers are familiar with the work of Father George Rutler, the Anglican-turned-Roman Catholic polymath who is rector of the Church of Our Saviour in Manhattan. Father Rutler has, to understate significantly, a distinctive personality, and what makes his new book — Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive — such a joy to read is his own appreciation for the distinctiveness of the characters with which God has peopled his life, and ours. The book is a collection of 56 word-portraits, each about three pages long, of people whose lives have intersected with Father Rutler’s. His subjects are, each in his or her own way, remarkable, but that is only to restate the fact that they are human persons. As Rutler himself writes, quite accurately, in his introduction: “My mention of them is perhaps more like the Japanese poetry that gives an impression instead of a reproduction; but it is an impression made by that unique mystery, a human person, so important that thinkers such as Aquinas and Newman have said that it would be better for whole galaxies to collapse than one of these souls be lost.”

To give the reader a flavor, here is part of Rutler’s account of the Rev. Hugh Maycock, principal of Pusey House:

His own hobby was collecting antique pawnbroker’s balls, whose history he traced to the Medici. Inordinate sleep was a necessity for him after he was bitten by a tsetse fly in Malawi as a missionary. “I can always tell what time of day it is. When I awake in my pajamas I know it is time for Mass and when I awake in my trousers I know it is time for tea.” . . . He imputed eccentricity to another only once in my presence. A maths don in his undergraduate days had developed a conceit that he was turning into a mushroom, like Gaius Caligula who thought he was made of glass. (Maycock) added, rather chillingly, I thought, that there was no truth to it.

Rutler...Maycock...Pusey House...antique pawnbroker's balls? beyond LOL, shaking my head in amazement

Caligula!

That whole vignette does sound like something from a Victorian porn novel.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_T_Ha557DhV0/SVlActF2itI/AAAAAAAACIY/SHLbB7bGugM/s720/DSC06274.JPG

Welcome to the Pusey House.

Greetings from the glorious Douro River in Portugal. If you are not sailing with us, you have missed a tremendous experience — a phenomenal trip, beautiful scenery and tours, wonderful discussions of current events, and grand cameraderie.

But let's look ahead to the NR Post-Election Cruise this November 14-21 on Holland America's Nieuw Amsterdam. I received a reservation report on Friday — sales continue at a stunning pace. Over 140 cabins so far have been claimed. And why not, when you consider the super speaker line-up we've arranged?

The two dozen-plus All Stars who will be on board include the likes of Scott Rasmussen, the ace pollster. Can you imagine hearing from him the intimate and telling details of election surveys and exit polls, giving an intelligent and informed view as to why voters voted as they did on Election Day?

What about Victor Davis Hanson, Professor Bernard Lewis, and Andrew McCarthy — all who will be aboard? Picture a panel session where these three great intellectuals and writers discuss terrorism, the determination of our enemies, and the mindset of the bowing Obama Administration and its maddening responses to the relentless threats to American lives and freedom.

Wouldn't you have a great evening having dined with — pick your Goldberg — Jonah or Bernie, discussing everything from the heck-bent liberal media to the roots of the Left's id (and maybe even Star Trek!)?

Rutler...Maycock...Pusey House...antique pawnbroker's balls?

Not my favorite Butthole Surfers record, sadly.

tsetse fly

somali pirates, where u at???

Nothing more fun than listening to two people who agree with each other for a couple of ours. (the fun comes from wondering whether you're sea-sick or just generally nauseous from the whole spectacle)

(h)ours, obv.

i only read the first paragraph, but that's all i needed
http://article.nationalreview.com/433755/a-real-housewife-of-wisconsin/kathryn-jean-lopez

ha i read that article. yet another episode of "the pretty ladies and handsome men of the conservative movement"

that duffy guy is a total loon btw

honestly like, aside from what we all think about k lo's attractiveness, who in their right mind would let a photo like that be the one that represents them on their website? wouldn't you try and pick one where you don't look like you just ran 3 miles in a suit?

i mean objectively, that's a horrible photo and a baffling choice

it is, you can almost hear her labored breathing

I repeat:

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/maggie-gallagher.jpg

She's wearing a sleeping bag with a hole cut in the middle.

what would have truly made history: if obama appointed himself to the court. about 5 hours ago via web
kathrynlopez

hahahahahahahahaha ahhashdhfdg;lkjsdg
...

well she's right, u kno

it would have truly made history if he appointed a cat to the supreme court too

haha yeah what kind of statement is that

O appointing himself would have been hilarious, actually

"I will step down as President and join the Supreme Court; give a big round of applause to President Biden and Vice-President Byrd!"

what would have truly made history: if obama had masturbated on live TV. about 5 hours ago via web
kathrynlopez

what would have truly made history: if maggie gallagher had devoured a gay couple's baby instead of that bucket of KFC. about 5 hours ago via web
kathrynlopez

I wonder what kind of drugs she is on, though.

the other evil Cornerite: Mona "Those `Cosmo' Women Are Whores" Charen.

http://www.uu.edu/photos/6968-45.jpg

in fairness, those "Cosmo" women are total whores

what with all their... looking at Scott Brown naked...? Actually I have no idea what goes on in "Cosmo" other than that.

K-Lo, can you handle this?

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:30 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

She is...Jabba Fierce.

fellas (and i mean fellas) i know these women are unattractive in about seventy ways, but come on

Yes, I know it's vile and misogynist, but I'm not going to let women who don't take care of their bodies lecture me or actively lobby for legislation that tells me what I can do with mine.

We need to balance this by posting more scary Jonah pictures.

http://wonkette.com/politics/upload/2006/07/jonah%20goldberg.jpg

I think someone needs to give Jonah Goldberg a lecture on personal hygiene.

"hai guys hung over after Judge Bork's martini party on the NRO cruise. Hit me up if you're up for burgers and beers"

http://lonestartimes.com/images/Benzion/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg

alfred only approves of hot babes lobbying for homophobic legislation

The perspective on that K-Lo picture is crazy. I mean I know it's just some trick of that black dress or the chair or something, but it really looks like she doesn't have a neck or much of a torso.

Also their expressions are just. . .

evil?

like, I feel like I'm looking at the villains in "Spy Kids 4" there

that's the chairs

Mark Thiessen, who looks like a pedo at Waffle House:

http://comedycentral.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/tds/videos/season_15/15034/ds_15034_extended01_v6.jpg

"like, I feel like I'm looking at the villains in "Spy Kids 4" there"

His expression maybe. Hers is so "well it is what it is" banal.

if we're casting the NR cruise movie, annyong will play maggie gallagher & marc thiessen can be played by

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SbGSSRU5LeE/SefcQPMmxtI/AAAAAAAACC0/CdZDwqykUbU/s400/isabella_rossellini+b+1952.jpg

this is kind of crossing a few threads r/n, but did anyone else see someone on the corner bigging up UKIP? wtf is that about

that's the kind-of-less-fascist british white person's party, right?

The Corner's been weirdly quiet. Sullivan's the one going postal.

Mods, is it okay to lock this so I can start a new thread? this is getting unwieldy.

Done and done.