by Smitty
Apparently he’s been flogging the phone to the point where the handset is completely thrashed of late. . .
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Dumbest Liberal in Media: Guess Who Won That Tough Competition?
It was never much of a contest, really. Perennial champion Chris Matthews scored big-time, massively failing on Jeopardy, a show that Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters reminds us Matthews has frequently cited when mocking Sarah Palin’s intelligence:
In case you don’t keep track of “progressive” elite sentiment, know this: They hate Matthews, regarding him as a dimwitted embarrassment who can be counted on to recycle whatever secondhand conventional wisdom he picks up among his clique of D.C. cronies.
Chris Matthews has never had a single thought that was both good and original. Every good idea he’s ever uttered was borrowed (usually without attribution) from someone much smarter than him, and every original idea he has ever had was wrong. Matthews is a perfect example of how to game the D.C. system. He is the Beltway media’s unparalleled master of strategic sycophancy — knowing exactly whose butt to kiss — and manipulative cronyism, so that even the most blatant ineptitude and wrongheadedness are no obstacle to success.
There are probably three dozen liberal journalists — notably including Chris Hayes of The Nation, now host of a weekend show at MSNBC — who could do a better job than Matthews, a living example of the Peter Principle whose strangely extended (and inexplicably overpaid) tenure with NBC is one of the great mysteries of American media.
(Via Memeorandum with further commentary by No More Mister Nice Blog, Billy Hallowell, Jim Treacher and Doug Powers.)
Perfect Bailout Metaphor Achieved
by Smitty
Daniel Hannan on Twitter points to The Telegraph with a story of classical, titanic impact:
Maiden voyage of Bronze Age boat founders
The crew of a half-sized replica of a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age boat had to abort the vessel’s maiden voyage after it sank as soon as it entered the water.
Hannan relates an oversight in the Telegraph story within the Tweet:
Ah, so the Muscles in Brussels are blowing money from the rest of Europe on perhaps interesting, but ill-fated, projects. Vasa up with that?
Bill Maher: ‘Hey, Y’Know Something? Mitt Romney’s a Rich Mormon, Isn’t He?’
Isn’t this just about the kind of “humor” you’d expect from the pustulent syphilitic chancre on America’s cable-TV sphincter?
“Donating your money to help repair this kid’s cleft palate, or to feed these hungry people, that’s charity. Giving money so Brice and Spencer can spend two years in Namibia spreading nonsense about celestial marriage and how Jesus is coming back to Missouri – not charity. . . . Now, I don’t want to re-fight last Friday’s show or get into a pissing match with the Internet, but the usual suspects are bitching that I was wrong [to say Mitt Romney’s] charitable giving doesn’t count, because it all goes to his cult . .”
Hey, Bill Maher: Aren’t there any rich Jews or rich Catholics in the Democratic Party whose charitable giving you could criticize? How come you’re suddenly paying attention to this issue? Is it just because a rich Mormon has recently locked up the Republican Party presidential nomination? Why don’t you admit that you’re nothing but an opportunistic partisan hypocrite and stop pretending to be a comedian?
Crowder In Tights
by Smitty
I like the nugget of the idea at work here, but I think this needs more camp:
Crowder: get together with Chris Loesch again, and give us Batwonk and Reformin’. Give us the four-color sets of the Batman ’60s show, and take on evil hedge-trimming mastermind Jorge Sore-toes. Deflate the monster truck tires of the Union Overlord, Richard Tonka. Unlock the fulminating villainy of Wade Wrath-key. And so on.
Havidol Not Doing It For You Anymore? Try Some Delusionol!
by Smitty
This blog, if it wasn’t blatantly obvious, has been whacked out on Havidol for years (click image for source):
But this administration has shown that, even when you Havidol, it’s still not enough.
Sissypuss the Blog Kitty’s painstakingavoiding research has revealed the Administration’s secret: Delusionol (click image for source).
Yeah, better living through chemistry: yeah.
Following Christ Is Not Being Pandered To By The Government
by Smitty
Tim Stanley:
American liberals have a schizophrenic view of God. When it comes to lifestyle issues, they think church and state should be separate. But when it comes to welfare, federal largesse morphs into Christian duty.
I disagree with Stanley. American liberals view the state as a God-like parent.
As with any parent, everybody, Left or Right, wishes to rebel, and make demands:
“I WANT A PONY”
Of course, not everyone can have a pony–where would we pasture them? But the government systemically does equally absurd things, in the name of keeping the populace stuck in Peter Pan mode.
And that is the problem with anybody claiming to follow Christ and be in favor of the nanny state: if Christianity is keeping people on the milk and honey, and not graduating them to the meat and potatoes of life, then it is a false expression.
I Corinthians 3:1-2
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
At Least Daily Pundit Gets It
by Smitty
Quick shaves my point on racism a little more finely. I’m OK with that:
Nobody actually cares about racism in America. As compared to much of the world, racism simply isn’t a major factor here. Cultural problems based on race and ethnicity do exist, but racism itself is not a real problem in America.
It’s not a major factor, but it would be a bit hasty to say that there are no people engaging in racist activities; that would imply some human perfection that we’re just short on.
I do feel with some confidence that the U.S. is about the least racist, most meritocratic place you’re going to find, though. Meanwhile in an update, Stooksbury continues to badger:
Smitty replies and denies seeing Zimmerman as one of “Us” but he can’t discuss the case without reference to a series of “Them.”
The scare quotes invite the question of whether Stooksbury buys into Postmodernism and notions of The ‘Other’.
Not to be coy, I do think that we’re living through the aftershocks of the Cold War. The dirty Commie vermin who knew they were losing in the last century have engaged in a long march through our institutions, playing good-natured American Exceptionalism against itself. #OccupyResoluteDesk is the crowning dung beetle of the Marxist midden heap.
Anybody who thinks that the Sandra Fluke/political aspects of the Trayvon Martin tragedy/Ann Romney business lack substantial overlap centered on the Obama campaign, directed by Them is either coy or daft. I’ll admit some value in the concern trolling. We should be both (a) clear, and (b) committed to combating the Orwellian onslaught of the Left without contamination from it. Keeping it American and Exceptional takes continuous self-examination.