The Other McCain

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

CNN Parker-Spitzer Anti-Palin Hour

Posted on | October 6, 2010 | 16 Comments

OK, so Monday they brought on Aaron Sorkin to call Sarah Palin names and Tuesday it was Oliver Stone’s turn:

As Larry O’Connor at BreitbartTV says, this seems to be a nightly feature: “Let’s get some famous Hollywood lefty on the show to badmouth Palin, because that’s what CNN’s dwindling audience of people stuck in airport lounges really want to see.”

Genius Marketing Strategy: “We’re stuck in the cable-news basement, so we want to imitate the obnoxious attitude of the No. 2 network as slavishly as possible. Except, instead of using a smirky young lesbian to bash Palin, we’ll do it with a disgraced politician and one of Chris Matthews’ least-popular occasional guests.”

How bad is it? It’s so bad, Ace of Spades can’t even be bothered to joke about it anymore.

Category: Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Video

New York Times: When Democrats Lose, We’ll Always Blame the Stupid Voters

Posted on | October 6, 2010 | 7 Comments

Evidently, they’re expecting a huge Republican tsunami Nov. 2, and so they assigned Matt Bai to prepare the pre-emptive excuse:

These voters did not hate politicians. They simply saw both parties, along with the media and big business, as symptoms of the larger societal ailment. And this underlying perception, that politicians in Washington conduct themselves just as childishly and with the same lack of accountability as the kids throwing chicken casserole in the lunchroom, may well be the principal emotion behind the electorate’s propensity to vote out whoever holds power.

Excuse me if I didn’t notice when the New York Times interpreted the GOP’s losses in 2006 and 2008 as anything other than a wholesale repudiation of conservative Republicanism.

Bryan Preston at Pajamas Media has a round-up of election reports in which chicken casserole doesn’t get mentioned at all.

Darn those silly voters!

Category: Election, Uncategorized

Allen West to Obama: ‘Heck, I’ll Even Debate You and Klein Together’

Posted on | October 6, 2010 | 10 Comments

When Florida Democrat Ron Klein’s campaign announced that the incumbent would bring in President Obama and Nancy Pelosi for a big-money Oct. 11 fundraiser, his 22nd District challenger Allen West declared, “Welcome to the jungle.” Now the Republican has formalized that invitation in a new 30-second TV spot:

Welcome to South Florida Mr. President.
You and Ron Klein should leave that closed door, high roller fundraiser, and drive by our shuttered businesses and foreclosed homes.
I’ll go anywhere you wish to debate your failed big government policies.
Heck, I’ll even debate you and Klein together if that’s what it takes.
The people of South Florida deserve a chance to tell you what will work here to improve our economy.
If you don’t listen now, the voters will speak loud in November.

ALLEN WEST for U.S. CONGRESS

Category: Allen West, Barack Obama, Congress, Election, Florida, Nancy Pelosi

Richard Cohen: ‘I Have to Repress a Tear’

Posted on | October 6, 2010 | 6 Comments

It was November 1997 and I’d just been hired as an assistant national editor at the Washington Times. My wife dropped me off at the Shady Grove Metro station for my first day on the job. On my way to the train, I bought a copy of the Washington Post from the paper box, to have something to read on the 40-minute ride to Union Station and arrive at work aware of what stories the competing paper had covered that day.

After scanning the headlines and reading through several of the major news stories, I turned to the op-ed page and encountered a column by Richard Cohen. It was exasperating.

While the topic of that column has long since faded from memory, the wretchedness of Cohen’s self-indulgent style was an insult. Into a single 750-word column, the man had crammed more than 40 uses of the first-person singular.

A columnist’s work should never be a Sequoyah forest of towering “I’s” — I, I, I, I. Whatever the topic of such a column, the subject is the columnist himself: “Here’s what I think about this.”

Well, who the hell are you, and why should we give a damn what you think? People who put their quarters in a newspaper rack have opinions, too, and if you think you’re so much smarter than your readers that they’ll enjoy that “I, I, I, I” stuff, how about offering some evidence of your superior knowledge?

By the time I got to the office, this Richard Cohen column had me so angry that I went into my new boss’s office, waving the newspaper and denouncing the absurdity that anyone would waste ink and paper to insult readers by publishing such an awful specimen of work.

“Oh, Richard Cohen — he’s an idiot,” said the boss. “Just ignore him. Everybody else does.”

There were 21 uses of “I” in Richard Cohen’s column Tuesday, not including his quotations from the chorus of an old Neil Young song: “This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Ohio.” Feel free to count Cohen’s uses of “me” and “my,” but you get the point from this excerpt:

I still ride a bike. I do 12 miles, several days a week, and as I do so I listen to music — the Pandora service on my iPhone. I have created a station that plays folk rock. Lately, it has repeatedly played the Neil Young song “Ohio” . . . On the bike, I have to repress a tear. . . .
I had been a reporter back when the killings occurred and it was a huge story to me. I longed for a chance to cover it, but I was young and raw, and the journalistic sluggers whooshed out of the newsroom, hailed a cab, jumped a plane and wrote the story — the story. The story will keep you sane. . . .

Michael Moynihan has declared this “The Worst Column of the Year,” and certainly Cohen has earned the honor.

Cohen isn’t a journalist, he’s a narcissist. He relates his bicycle boo-hoo act — “I have to repress a tear” — in the hope of eliciting admiration for his sensitivity. And you can’t help suspecting that the real reason he gets so choked up by the song is that it reminds him how he didn’t get a chance at that hoped-for byline from Kent State.

I was in fifth grade in May 1970. I don’t own an iPhone and don’t ride a bicycle, but every time I’m reminded that Cohen still gets paid to fill 18 column inches once a week, I have to repress a tear.

Category: Journalism

LIVE AT FIVE10.6.10

Posted on | October 6, 2010 | 9 Comments

TOP NEWS

Crossroads Groups Lay Out $4 Million In Key Senate Races

Timely cash injection counters surge in Democratic party spending

Quetta Shura Of Afghan Taliban In Talks With Karzai Government
“All these things are making them absolutely sure that…they are not in a winning position.”

Torkham Gate Remains Closed To NATO Supply Convoys For Third Day
Apologies and regrets conveyed by Pentagon over deaths of Pakistani soldiers in air strike; meanwhile, more tankers up in flames

Obama Calls For More Federal Spending On Community Colleges
Blames nonexistent GOP cuts; Gates Foundation kicks in $35 million

POLITICS

Biden Out, Hillary In As VP In 2012?

Bob Woodward says it’s on the table, Axelrod says “Absolutely not.”

Presidential Seal Falls Off Podium During Obama Speech

Chris Christie Rallies Conservative Activists In Iowa

Obama Strains To Get Liberals Back In The Fold

Democrats Cling To Leads In California Governor, Senate Races



THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Stocks Rally After Bank Of Japan Cuts Interest Rates

Dim Outlook For Holiday Jobs

Solar Energy Sites On Public Land Finally Given Green Light

Treasury Expects To Lose $29 Billion On Bailouts

SPORTS

Wade Out Early, But Bosh & James Torch The Pistons Anyway

Who cares, it’s hoops.

Vikings, Patriots In Trade Talks
Randy Moss back to Minnesota?




Seattle Beats Columbus 2-1, Keeps US Open Cup
Yawn, soccer.

Halladay Finally Gets To Pitch In The Playoffs




FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS

Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen Finally Make Romance Public

Rumer Willis, BF Micah Call It Quits

Ford Clinic Sends Michael Lohan Packing

Chelsea Handler, 50 Cent Dating

Teresa Giudice Could Get Own Spinoff Show

Will.I.Am And Nicki Perform On Letterman (Video)
…and in case you were wondering, I have no idea who any of these people are either.




FOREIGNERS

Chinese Patrol Boats Leave Disputed Waters in East China Sea
Senkaku crisis eases after a month of diplomatic tension between the PRC and Japan

Toxic Spill Cleanup In Hungary To Cost Tens Of Millions, Take Over A Year

France Arrests 12 Terrorist Suspects

Ecuador Extends State Of Siege Through Friday

Ailing Paraguayan President Urged To Step Down

BLOGS & STUFF

Democrats Turn On Obama Over Foreign Policy

While GOP Focuses On Winning The House, Florida Democrats Quietly Engineer Redistricting For The Future

Pundita Explains Reality To Rachel Maddow And Pakistan To General Petraeus

The Crack Emcee Has Some Harsh Words About Yoga

iMaksim: Democrats – Putting The Free In Freedom

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Category: Uncategorized

Because Today Is My Birthday . . .

Posted on | October 6, 2010 | 16 Comments

. . . I’m up for suggestions on how it should be celebrated. My own suggestion is that you should hit the tip jar, of course.

I’m hoping to go to Delaware on Thursday to cover Al Franken’s campaign appearance for Baldy the Tax-Hiking Wanker.  Also, I’d like to go to Richmond for the Virginia Tea Party Convention.

So it’s not like the money would be spent as $100 tips to cocktail waitresses or anything like that. Maybe if I could offer $100 to Mrs. Other McCain, however . . .

Category: Blogging, Mrs. Other McCain, Shoe Leather Fund

Radiohead State

Posted on | October 5, 2010 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Red State has a rocking good time:

For those who don’t get the reference music, it’s Radiohead’s Creep, a song to which I fell in love in 1993 (and out to Metallica “Sad But True” in 1994, to your loss, S).

Is the President a creep? No, just the icing on a statist cake we’ve been baking for a century.

Category: Red State

We’re Going To Have To Get DaTechGuy’s Ruling On This

Posted on | October 5, 2010 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

I’ve no idea if Girl on the Right is aware of, or interested in, the Axis of Fedora. Ceremonially inept Baptist that I am, the exact criteria for a Laying of Fedora Ceremony, other than by an existing member, escape me.
Nevertheless, follow the link, where, for Breast Cancer Awareness month, Girl on the Right reveals a great rack of. . .books, as well as fine taste in headware.
Also, while I support raising breast cancer awareness, I thing I’ll fall short of embedding [possibly NSFL] my own chest shot. Because there is help, and then there is . . .help.

Category: Blogging
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