Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

i must say it was really fucking weird and creepy to hear olbermann say masturbate

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/k_losluts_1.jpg

that is GOAT

other favorites: steyn's faggot jokes about andrew sullivan, and their respect and admiration for hillary clinton unveiled earlier this year.

C|D: Being so annoying/outraged by something that you actually send an email to one of these guys explaining why their position is retarded.

real actual favorite: derb's pro-choice argument, which see-sawed between commonsense, logical human understanding and "what should it trouble me what some skank does with herself?"

xp dud i'd say

C|D: Being so annoying/outraged by something that you actually send an email to one of these guys explaining why their position is retarded.

aaahahahaha, I've done this twice with Goldberg and twice with K-Lo.

Oh Jesus, that's going to wind up in "posts out of context," isn't it.

After reading:

The Obama Discount [Jonah Goldberg]

I have no idea whatsoever if there's merit to this, and if there is how much merit, but lots of email like this:

When are people going to start talking about the REAL reason the markets are down - Obama up in polls. If I was McCain, I'd start telling people, "If you want to lose more money, vote Obama."

10/09 04:09 PM

I sent Jonah an email explaining the difference between correlation and causation.

Three Ethnomusicologists Walk into a Bar... [Mark Steyn]

I have had a distressingly large number of reader e-mails on the lines of the following:

So they're against "the Use of Music as Torture?" Really? You mean they've decided to oppose "American Idol?"

Look, that’s not funny!

Okay, if you replace “American Idol” with “The Celine Dion Christmas Album”…

No, it’s still not funny.

Anyway, Andrew Sullivan walks up to this ethnomusicologist and says, “Do you know Bush is using sleep deprivation at Gitmo?” And the ethnomusicologist says, “No, but if you hum a few bars I’ll play it on my bone flute.”

OH SHIT

i remember richard brookhiser having a much higher profile back in the 90s, i had forgotten about him. he doesn't seem as horrible as most of these people. he is very ugly tho.

P.P.S. on Biden, Etc. [Jay Nordlinger]
I wonder if you remember our lines — conservative lines — from the Quayle-Gore era. I do. Quayle could do nothing right, of course. If he said, “Good morning,” the media would mock his pronunciation of “morning.” And what about the genius Al Gore? He said, “A leopard never changes his stripes.” He translated our national motto — E pluribus unum — “Out of one, many,” which is bassackwards. At Monticello, he looked at busts of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, et al. and said, “Who are these people?” Etc.

Anyway, that’s enough whining for now — until my next post.

Brookhiser became ill with testicular cancer in 1992 and smoked marijuana in order to remove the nausea that chemotherapy gave him. (Before that, he smoked marijuana in college about 10 times, he said.)

"Because of the marijuana, my last two courses of chemotherapy were almost nausea-free", he said in 1996. "My cancer is gone now, I was lucky."

On March 6, 1996, he testified before a Congressional committee about using marijuana, urging the committee members to support decriminalization of marijuana for medical purposes.

"My support for medical marijuana is not a contradiction of my principles, but an extension of them", Brookhiser told the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime. "I am for law and order. But crime has to be fought intelligently and the law disgraces itself when it harasses the sick. I am for traditional virtues, but if carrying your beliefs to unjust ends is not moral, it is philistine."

K-Lo quoted an e-mail I sent her, but I can't remember what it was. Something in the 2004 debates.

i emailed someone once and didnt get an answer

I once called Jonah on something in an email and he emailed me back to claim that his post was really just "a joke." He was being sarcastic. I've noticed he uses this claim a lot when he gets called on being an idiot.

This was not me:

TOUGH AUDIENCE [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Another e-mailer:
Look, I'm just an old M1 tank guy, but trapping the 4-wire is NOT a perfect landing. That pilot is going to be ribbed forever about almost doing a touch-n-go with the POTUS in an eject seat. It looked great to the unschooled eye, but to the guys who drop tail hooks, it was a grade "D". OTOH, our CinC looks just like another fighter jock. Fit, trim, looked like he was entirely in his element. The right man for the right time.

Now, it's far more likely that the causation and correlation suggested by some readers is backward: the markets tank for non-political reasons and Obama does well as a result, rather than Obama does well and then the markets tank. Still, I think Pethokoukis' point that Obama's success may make investors more pessimistic about the future has some plausibility to it.

Yay. My email taught him the difference between cause and correlation!

hahahaaaa

thats unbelievable

i thought he would say he was just wishful thinking

You Stay Classy! [Jonah Goldberg]

Here's a "good" one from a reader:

I'm Jewish and have got to say watching right-wing morons like yourself over the last 8 years including your most recent post about Obama and the market really sends chills down my spine. We wonder why 6 million of us were killed in the '40's by the people of Europe, you and the other Jewish right-wing parasites are showing me what happened. Obviously people like you incited them, like you are inciting people now. Keep it up you fat-assed ignorant moron. Keep it up.

Your mother should be ashamed of herself, and should kill herself today for having produced an ignorant scumbag like you.

I pray for our people, and hope you die tonight.

10/09 05:15 PM

Ok. Come clean. Which one of you sent this email?

so obviously shakey mo

lolololol

i never knew shakey was jewish!

The more you know.

Re: Omnibus Response (on Radicalism) [Andy McCarthy]

Second, and relatedly, Obama's radicalism, beginning with his Alinski/ACORN/community organizer period, is a bottom-up socialism. This, I'd suggest, is why he fits comfortably with Ayers, who (especially now) is more Maoist than Stalinist. What Obama is about is infiltrating (and training others to infiltrate) bourgeois institutions in order to change them from within — in essence, using the system to supplant the system. A key requirement of this stealthy approach (very consistent with talking vaporously about "change" but never getting more specific than absolutely necessary) is electability. With an enormous assist from the media, which does not press him for specifics, Obama has walked this line brilliantly. Absent convincing retractions of his prior radical positions, though, we should construe shrewd moves like the ostensibly reasonable Second Amendment position as efforts make him electable.

I for one am especially grateful to learn the differences between Maoism and Stalinism.

What Obama is about is infiltrating (and training others to infiltrate) bourgeois institutions in order to change them from within — in essence, using the system to supplant the system. A key requirement of this stealthy approach (very consistent with talking vaporously about "change" but never getting more specific than absolutely necessary) is electability.

in my day we called this process an "election"

i never knew shakey was jewish!

― omar little, Thursday, October 9, 2008 4:28 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha he is for real im pretty sure

He is.

where is TOMBOT?

we need him in here.

Is disco a good business opportunity?

(got it covered)

thnx

(I can get the disco post too if you want...?)

hahaha no

Man, this is tougher than I thought- finding the perfect evil/stupidity ratio in a such a target rich environment isn't easy! Steyn seems like the obvious choice, but can I really say that I am familiar with all of these losers? What if it's just name-brand recognition guiding me here?

Jay Nordlinger has been reasonable at times with his praise of Obama, Hillary and Michelle after their speeches... usually just a foot soldier though

Goldberg thrives on being an asshole. But hey, I want to hear this story about his mother too... ?

Victor Davis Hanson is the absolute worst, hands down: racist, homophobic, near eugenicist in his "hail the white conquerors" pro-war rhetoric. just read his championing review of "300" (it was sick)

>>Now, it's far more likely that the causation and correlation suggested by some readers is backward: the markets tank for non-political reasons and Obama does well as a result, rather than Obama does well and then the markets tank. Still, I think Pethokoukis' point that Obama's success may make investors more pessimistic about the future has some plausibility to it.

Yay. My email taught him the difference between cause and correlation!

― Mordy, Thursday, October 9, 2008 2:08 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

ROFFLE!!

I think Derb has been MIA lately since he isn't too fond of Palin's fundie-ism, and he gets in fites with K-Lo over the pro-life thing all the time

Also I am pretty sure K-Lo is the editor of the Corner, not Lowry

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson101106.html
If critics think that 300 reduces and simplifies the meaning of Thermopylae into freedom versus tyranny, they should reread carefully ancient accounts and then blame Herodotus, Plutarch, and Diodorus — who long ago boasted that Greek freedom was on trial against Persian autocracy, free men in superior fashion dying for their liberty, their enslaved enemies being whipped to enslave others.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODRmNmY0NTlkYmQyNGFmNzU3MTAyOTlkMzc2ODBjNGI=
4) Luck. A movie comes out with a stereotypical view of the Persians as aggressive, imperious, arrogant, and autocratic; it is criticized for such simplicity; but then an aggressive, imperious, arrogant, and autocratic Iranian ruling caste 2500 years later at almost the moment of its release continues to defy the world over nukes and is reduced to sordid piracy and hostage-taking.

Lowry's the editor of the magazine, though.

Jonah this morning.

I just read that before clicking here. Is that not the most revisionist thing ever? My brain hurts now

Haha

"It Is Big Enough to Work" [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
President Bush, God bless him, is defending his plan and pep talking us right now. It feels so paternalistic and ... exactly wrong. Government will fix (what government royally screwed up). Don't worry. We'll take care of you.

That's not an economist's anaylsis, needless to say. But it's this conservative's instinct.

He's mostly right about FDR's flailing, but wtf about needing another Coolidge now.

YES J0NAH WE'RE ALL GOING TO LAFF AT U

Astroturfing or Just Group Think? [Jonah Goldberg]
I get a lot of email from self-described liberals, independents and conservatives these days who all seem to think alike. To wit: they all use very similar language about how conservatives are dishonorably talking about things that just happen to be inconvenient to the Obama campaign, that we're inviting violence against Obama, that I/we/the Corner should be ashamed of this, that, or the other thing.

For instance, during the first days after the Sarah Palin pick, when the Obama campaign was shaken, I was amazed by how many emails from self-identified "longtime fans" and others who've been "reading me for years" who told me how much they hoped I would tell the truth about the consumate evilness of Sarah Palin. The language was similar, the tactics identical: Butter me up, tell me that I alone have the integrity to tell the hard truths. Now it's not that I don't think some liberals can be fans of mine. Nor is it that I think everyone of these people is sitting in some huge room full of computers in David Axelrod's basement. But, there's simply something fraudulent in the tone, tenor and number of emails I get along these lines. I don't know if Obamaphiles get tips about how to email conservatives or if there's an astroturfing operation at work or if this is simply an example of talking points and tactics working themselves out virally. But it just feels too coordinated for me to take entirely seriously.

I have no idea how to deal with it because I have no doubt some of these people are sincere. But I am sure some aren't as well. So basically my approach is to note the email and move on.

The Eyes of a Woman [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

And now a moment for psychopoliticalbabble. Blame it on the here in Palm Beach County.

I've always thought you can always tell a lot about a campaign through the eyes of the loving wife of the candidate. One Super Tuesday night in Boston, I was feet away from the Romneys as he talked about taking it to the convention. He was telling you the truth, he hadn't decided to drop out yet. But you knew, even if he hadn't made the call yet, that he'd not be in the race by week's end. You could see it in Mrs. Romney's eyes.

Right now I'm watching John McCain in Wisconsin. Cindy McCain has intense worry in her eyes. I wish we could all take the weekend off as a country and come back Monday ready to have a serious election. I bet Mrs. McCain would agree.