The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

“Two Men, A Country In Crisis: You Decide”

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

The tagline works for both West’s race and the presidential one:

The entire Democrat party cold be seen as drunk and disorderly, after a fashion.

Via Hot Air

Category: Allen West, Florida, Hot Air

‘No True Principles or Loyalty’

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 21 Comments

An article in Politico inspired this reaction from National Review‘s Jim Geraghty:

This is why the grassroots loathe most veteran GOP political consultants. Republican campaign staffers get a lot of undeserved grief as a bunch of grifters, charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, hired guns with no true principles or loyalty, and so on. But when you see (allegedly) high-level folks trashing their own candidate, six weeks before the election, to a publication like Politico… and doing so while hiding behind anonymity… well, every nasty stereotype is confirmed.

Jonathan Chait is in the Gloat Zone. This is not a good thing.

Category: Election 2012

SNL Thursday Night Takes A Swipe At #OccupyResoluteDesk

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Via The Blaze, this cold open makes, for SNL, a solid effort to mock BHO:

It isn’t everything a serious conservative hammering of the Worst President Evar could be, but we must give credit where due.

Category: Barack Obama

The New O-Phone Is Here!

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 32 Comments

Many people are excited about Apple’s latest upgrade to the iPhone, but this Obama voter was even more excited about the free phone she got because (she says) of President Obama:

Rush Limbaugh says this is the “new model citizen,” and liberals have predictably rushed to condemn this as RAAAAACIST:

The Obama Phone video belongs to a genre popular on conservative blogs in which poor people, usually black, confirm conservatives’ worst 47-percent fears by saying they can get something for nothing because Obama’s in office. The message is, “Here’s what Obama’s supporters really look like.”

That item, by the way, is by Elspeth Reeve, whose career was launched in disgrace by the Scott Beauchamp scandal, and who has yet managed to fail her way upward to the Atlantic, proving once again that liberalism can excuse any sin committed on behalf of the liberal cause.

Fabricated stories and shabby ethics? No problem!

Exactly how Reeve got this gig as the expert mind-reader of conservative bigotry — The Racism Whisperer — I don’t know, but I agree with Patterico’s defense of the free-phone video:

Conservatives should not have to shy away from such amusing examples of entitlement mentality simply because the particular proponent of that mentality happens to be black.

By the way, I was waaay ahead of the curve on this free cellphone issue, having first reported about it in October 2008. That’s right — the free cellphone program pre-existed Obama’s election.

So the Democrats have their usual defense: Blame Bush!

UPDATE: Charlie Spierling of the Examiner provides background on the free phone program:

The program is called Lifeline, established in 1984, originally created to subsidize landline phone service for low income Americans, funded by government-collected telecommunication fees, paid by consumers.
In 2008, the program was expanded to support cell phones which quickly escalated the cost of the program. In 2008 the program cost $772 million, but by 2011 it cost $1.6 billion.
A 2011 audit found that 269,000 wireless Lifeline subscribers were receiving free phones and monthly service from two or more carriers. Several websites have been created to promote “free” government cell phones, including the”The Obama Cell Phone” website at Obamaphone.net.

Yes: Taxpayers are forced to pay $1.6 billion — billion, with a “B” — to provide free cellphones for Obama voters.

And if you don’t like it, you’re a racist!

 


Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012, Racism

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 09.28.12

Posted on | September 28, 2012 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Netanyahu’s Bomb Explodes On The Internet

PM Netanyahu employs a visual aid at the UN

As Israeli PM schools the UN, internet argues: stroke of genius or cheap gimmick?

Kenya Attacks Last Stronghold Of Somali Jihadis
Amphibious assault puts troops ashore at port city of Kismayo

Goldman Sachs Coughs Up $14 Million In Pay-To-Play Fines
Hiring former Massachusetts deputy treasurer, supporting Cahill campaign costs brokerage heavily



POLITICS
Romney Campaigns In Pennsylvania As Debate Looms

Mitt campaigns at a Springfield, Va. American Legion post

Hitting the swing states

Anti-Muslim Filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Ordered Jailed

Supremes To Crack Down On Use Of Race In College Admissions?

Soros “Panicked”, Gives $1 Million To Obama SuperPAC

RNC Fires Firm Being Investigated For Voter Fraud

Brown Pushes Warren To Release Client List

Pennsylvania Judge May Order Provisional Ballots

Kit Bond To Endorse Akin, Priebus Hints At RNC Support

Tonight, West Branch Girl A Star, Not A Joke



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Jumps On Eurozone Optimism; NYMEX $92.11, Brent $112.57
Euro Climbs Against Dollar On Spain; Yuan Rises
GDP Revised Downward; Obama Attacked On Weak Economy
Slew Of Economic Reports Paints Mixed View Of Economy
Stocks Rally On Spanish Austerity News, S&P 500 Breaks Skid
Federal Agencies Lag In Paying Payroll Taxes
Gold Surges On Spanish Austerity Plan
Postal Service To Default On Second $5 Billion Payment To Treasury
RIM Earnings Beat Expectations Despite $235 Million Loss
Why Facebook Just Opened An Online Store
Dish Network In Talks With Viacom About Internet TV
Top Angry Birds Knockoffs To Avoid
Search.XXX Makes Its Debut
Microsoft Buys Influence For Bing With Klout Investment



SPORTS
Refs Cheered At First NFL Game After Lockout Ends

They’re back!

Browns still lose to Ravens, 23-16

White Sox On The Brink: Two Games Behind Tigers In AL Central

NHL Cancels Remaining Preseason Games Before Talks Open

Astros Hire Nationals’ Porter As New Manager

Breaking Down The NASCAR Sprint Cup AAA 400

Jays Blank Yanks 6-0, NY Lead In AL East Cut To One

R.A. Dickey Strikes Out 13 In Historic 20th Win

Morse’s Monster Homer Makes Gio 21-Game Winner As Nats Beat Phillies 7-3; Magic Number Now 3



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Reese Witherspoon, It’s A Boy!

New mom Reese Witherspoon

Tennessee James Toth is her third child

Happy Days Over For Erin Moran; Former Actress Homeless

Too Legit: Celebrating 25 Years Of Hammer Time

Amanda Bynes Pleads Not Guilty To Hit & Run

“Sons Of Anarchy” Actor Found Dead, Suspect In Bizarre Double Death

Olivia Munn To Do Arc On Fox’s  “New Girl”

Jay-Z Says Beyonce Isn’t Pregnant

Emma Watson Up For Sex & Bondage In “Fifty Shades Of Grey” Movie



FOREIGNERS
Bo Xilai Expelled From CCP, Faces Multiple Criminal Charges
Japan, PRC Trade Barbs Over Senkaku Islands At UN
SOD’s Steinbruck Tipped To Challenge Merkel In 2013
Abbas Pares His Statehood Aspirations At UN
Heavy Fighting In Aleppo As Rebels Mount New Push To Expel Loyalist Forces
SecDef Panetta Finally Admits Terrorists Carried Out Consulate Attack



BLOGS & STUFF
Israel Matzav: Romney & Obama Both Go Direct To Video
Weekly Standard Blog: Obama’s New Ad Not Running In NC
National Review Online: Out Of The Bushes
Lonely Conservative: How Will Romney Deal With Obama The Serial Liar In Debates?
Weasel Zippers: Oddly Enough, AP & Reuters Chose The Same Photo Of Netanyahu…
Gateway Pundit: Obama Had No Time To Meet Netanyahu, But Did Campaign Event In Morning And Took Afternoon Off – He’ll Call Him Today (Maybe)
Conservatives4Palin: “I’m Voting For Obama Because He Gave Me This Phone”
Rush Limbaugh: The 47% Speaks
Allahpundit: Feds Arrest Filmmaker On Probation Violation Charges
Power Line: Netanyahu Simplified
Jawa Report: Billionaire Dad To Pay 40 Million Pounds To Any Man Who Gets His Daughter To Switch Teams
Protein Wisdom: “Taxpayers Spent $1.4 Billion On Obama Family Last Year, Perks Questioned In New Book”


SOTD: Too Legit To Quit

Category: Live at Five

E-Mail to a Troll

Posted on | September 27, 2012 | 22 Comments

More than 15 years have passed since I first read Thomas Sowell’s brilliant book, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy. Few things have ever made such a profound impression on me as Sowell’s analysis of liberalism as a philosophy rooted in the liberal’s narcissistic desire to believe he is the moral and intellectual superior of ordinary people.

One of the consequences of this is the liberal’s quick resort to insults when confronted face-to-face by conservative arguments. Merely by disagreeing with liberalism, you see, you are categorized in the liberal mind as inferior, and if you should ever start winning an argument, this provokes the liberal to begin shouting insults: By calling you names, the liberal expects to discredit you, so that the merits of your argument can be ignored.

See, for example, how Whoopi Goldberg reacts to Ann Coulter.

Or consider a person calling himself Seth Eben Shapiro who, for some unknown reason, reacted to something on my blog by sending me an e-mail full of insults. It is not exactly clear to me what I’ve said or done to offend Mr. Shapiro. His e-mail didn’t bother to say what it was about my politics or my journalism that he disagrees with. Yet he evidently felt an overwhelming compulsion to insult me, found my address and sent me an ugly e-mail, to which I felt obliged to reply succinctly:

Who the hell are you, and why are you sending me this e-mail? Do you have nothing better to do with your life than to scour the Internet, looking for people you disagree with, so that you can send them insulting messages?
What manner of foul hatefulness or psychiatric disorder inspires your antisocial habits? Are you addicted to dangerous drugs or in the thrall of some bizarre sexual perversion?
Seek professional help, before it’s too late.
— RSM

Let me stipulate that I have no direct evidence that Mr. Shapiro is mentally ill, addicted to drugs or a sexual deviant because, as I say, I don’t have the faintest idea who he is.

Yet the indirect evidence — his unseemly vehemence toward me — is certainly suggestive of a twisted mind far gone in the helpless decadence typical of liberals everywhere. One of the symptoms of this degenerative disorder (colloquially known as the Andrew Sullivan Syndrome) is a grim humorlessness that impairs the individual’s ability to comprehend irony or sarcasm, and diminishes self-awareness to the point that he is unable to realize that he is a laughably pompous douchebag.

Category: Liberals

VIDEO: AFP’s Jen Ridgely Talks About ‘Obama’s Failing Agenda’ Ohio Bus Tour

Posted on | September 27, 2012 | 2 Comments

FINDLAY, Ohio
Why is Americans for Prosperity such an awesome organization? Because of their awesome people, that’s why. Today at AFP’s “Hands Off Our Health Care Rally” in Findlay — part of their “Failing Agenda” bus tour — I interviewed communications staffer Jennifer Ridgely, whose job title was way overdue for an upgrade:

Category: Ohio

Overarching Assumptions Behind Zombie’s Five Falsies

Posted on | September 27, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

Great post, via Insty, by Zombie, on five bogus assumptions behind the polls:

This entire strategy, which dominates the 2012 election even more than it dominated earlier campaigns, is based on some amateurish assumptions about mass psychology that have never been proven, or even tested. I find it extremely odd that no one has ever questioned these assumptions — until now, at least — because so much depends on them. What if it turns out, after endless person-hours expended on the Poll Wars, that the assumptions justifying poll-skewing are completely wrong?

The amateurish assumptions have indeed been tested. See Europe around 80 years ago. The basic assumption is not just that people are sheep, but that a crowd of people is a mindless lump of mutton. The Left operates as though that lump of mutton cannot analyze anything, and is driven by whatever crude image it was just shown. Irrespective of whether the last image contradicts the penultimate one.

Al Gore’s internet has blown that notion to lamb chops. The real problem was always information dispersal, and the internet has substantially diminished both the Left’s grip on information, and the difficulty of locating fellow liberty-minded souls.

And so the Left, having aborted all grasp of Truth, is faced with diminishing returns on its lies. Couldn’t happen to a sadder pack of jackwagons.

One hopes that the GOP are paying attention to the Left’s meltdown, and effectively scared straight by the debacle.

Category: Media Bias
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