I'm increasingly becoming a fan of Sher Zieve of Renew America and her over-the-top columns. This week's gem is: Obama and his syndicate operating outside of US law by Sher Zieve I was wondering why the scarcity of capital letters in her op-ed title, and then I realized she used them all up in her opening sentence: ObamaLaw (and increasingly … Read More
Pat Buchanan On Sotomayor
In Human Events: Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades. "Leans conservative" based on….? The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court presents just such an opportunity. For, even … Read More
The Dumbest Thing Written (So Far) About The Holocaust Museum Shooting
From Debbie Schlussel, in a post entitled "So What If The Holocaust Museum Shooter Is A White Christian…..?": Make no mistake. Muslims created this atmosphere where hatred of the Jews is okay and must be "tolerated" as a legitimate point of view. The shooting today is just yet another manifestation emanating from that viewpoint–another manifestation of the welcome mat that … Read More
Punditry Of The Day
The Corner's Victor Davis Hanson: A disinterested observer would conclude that Justice Sotomayor is race-obsessed. In her now much quoted 2001 UC Berkeley speech she invoked “Latina/Latino” no less than 38 times, in addition to a variety of other racial-identifying synonyms. When one reads the speech over, the obsession with race become almost overwhelming, and I think the public has … Read More
Rush’s Unique Colorblindness
Rush, on Hannity, June 5, 2009, on what makes the GOP so great: We don't look at a group of people and pick out the number of blacks in it and the number of whites and the number of women. Colorblind Rush, today, on his show: Colorblind Rush, also today: "It is offensive to the sensibilities of millions of people … Read More
Q: When Is It Time To Start Ignoring George Will Columns Attempting To Debunk Global Warming?
(1) When you read something like this… and/or (2) When George Will starts citing cartoons to support his position.
Dumbhat Op-ed
Ross Douthat in NY Times ("Justices Gone Wild"): The right tends to blame the left for the Supreme Court’s expanded ambit, and not unjustly. The modern Court’s most enduringly controversial power grabs — with Roe v. Wade leading the way — were usually the work of liberal justices, and even the more modest liberal theories of jurisprudence tend to depict … Read More
Reasonable vs Unreasonable Voices
I’ve written recently about the inflammatory rhetoric of Fox News, Bill O’Reilly, etc., and how it can lead to events like the murder of Dr. George Tiller this weekend. Some people get it. This is a thoughtful post from Rod Dreher, a conservative, at Belief.net: Unsurprisingly, on this blog’s comboxes and elsewhere, some are blaming the entire pro-life movement for … Read More
Remember That DHS Report?
Michelle Malkin apparently doesn't think the killer of Dr. Tiller is a "terrorist". He's an "extremist". She adds: Interesting how the t-word has been rediscovered. She has the memory of a moth. It was only back in April when the Department of Homeland Security issued a report equating right-wing extremism as a possible breeding ground for terrorist acts. The right wing … Read More
The Hate Rhetoric
At some point, the right wing media has to be called out. Oh sure. As Slate's Gabriel Winant points out, Bill O'Reilly will be on television tonight tut-tutting the murder of Dr. George Tiller. But this come about after O'Reilly has made Tiller the subject of 28 "Factor" news stories, starting in 2005. Almost invariably, Tiller is described as "Tiller … Read More
Time For A Career Change?
From NY Craigslist: Reply to: job-hqkb5-1169741827@craigslist.orgDate: 2009-05-13, 9:01PM EDT Mercury Radio Arts is the New York based production company owned by Radio and TV host Glenn Beck. Mercury seeks a writer for contributions to Glenn’s radio program, magazine, and web site. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in news, current events, and politics. Key responsibilities will include contributing … Read More
Best Self-Defeating Opening Paragraph By A Columnist Evah
Carey "Get Off My Lawn" Roberts is always a howl to read over at Renew America. A good 75% of his columns are meandering screeds against women, although of course, he refers to them generically as feminists. He is one of the few brave conservative columnists to take a stand against those seeking to end domestic violence. It's hard to tell … Read More
National Prayer Day
The rightwing just lies and lies and lies. Obama, like his predecessors, issued a proclamation(pdf) honoring today's "holiday." What he didn't do is what Bush did — open up the White House and make it a public event. Instead, he kept it a private event. And that's the full story. But that doesn't stop the lies: Rush Limbaugh said Obama tried … Read More
Great Moments In Punditry: Swine Flu Edition
Pat Buchanan: Because of the peril of swine flu, Joe Biden said yesterday, he would urge his family to stay out of "confined places" like airplanes and subways here in the United States. Yet, the Obama administration will not consider closing the United States to airplanes and buses coming in from the epicenter of the epidemic, Mexico City. Does this … Read More
Economic Difficulties For Clear Channel
CNBC: Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio station operator and an outdoor billboard company, last year became the biggest leveraged buyout ever in the media business, after it was taken private by Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital. Now its revenues are plunging and so is its cash flow, making it harder to meet the payments on the billions … Read More