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When the word police are off-duty

Posted on June 11, 2009 | Comments Off on When the word police are off-duty

I think one reason newspapers are dying, as I’ve said before, is that the front page has become a one-sided public scold. Any public figure who says anything that’s not politically correct can count on getting bashed on the front page until they issue an abject apology.

But it only works one way: you have to offend a liberal. Thus a no-talent bozo like Letterman, late-night prattler on cBS, the smallest-audience television network, can call Sarah Palin a slut and imply the rape of her daughter and the front page remains silent. Letterman, after all, supports abortion. Palin does not. People have noticed and, having other cheaper, more diverse sources of information (such as the Internet) have stopped buying newspapers. 

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Demsbury

Posted on September 23, 2008 | Comments Off on Demsbury

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Oh, well, the layout cut off the last line (at least on the front page), where the blonde says: "Oh, good. She even lies." Actually, Sarah did oppose the bridge to nowhere, and killed it. But I guess it was the only convenient "lie" meme Trudeau could think of, even if it was, you know, a lie. Me, I’m awaiting the Joe Biden Gaffe Doll. Press his hairplugs and he tells the world when he doesn’t like his running mate’s campaign ads. But since this one is sexist, how about wandering into a little racism? A Barry Doll, in the shape of a lawn jockey. Pull his ring and he says his former business partner and former American terrorist Bill Ayers is just some guy in his neighborhood. 

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Mac’s speech

Posted on September 5, 2008 | Comments Off on Mac’s speech

It wasn’t as good as Palin’s, alas. Thank goodness she’s on the same ticket, which is more than enough for some previous Mac doubters. Because, after all, she wouldn’t be there without Mac’s vision and wisdom.

But I enjoyed watching and hearing him. The establishment media covers him so rarely–and never his wealthy wife, a genuinely interesting and admirable person. The POW stuff, which the big-whoop media meisters are bound to complain about, as they always do (it must make them nervous since few of them have served) was powerful and he has the right to use it. It was a good exemplar of the fundamental difference between him and his opponent, and of his brand of patriotism. It also demonstrates, as he suggested, why he is not at all the war-monger the Dems like to paint him. At the same time it shows why our enemies will have to be wary of his resolve, making him much less likely to have to widen the war we’re already in.

UPDATE:  It seems that Mac’s speech outdrew Baby Barry’s on teevee viewers. Good for him. And reading the speech, at the link above, I’ve changed my mind. It was better than Palin’s. He knows more. How could it not have been? A young independent more or less agrees.

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Fresh Bilge: Palin vs Obama

Posted on September 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Fresh Bilge: Palin vs Obama

Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, is a good writer and thinker. I don’t always agree with him, but I always enjoy reading him. But this time he outdid his usual good work, so I’m posting it. An excerpt:

"The cultural contrasts of Obama and McCain are stark enough, but those of Palin and Obama are even more revealing, because these two are contemporaries: their clash will define America in the Twenty-First Century, while Biden and McCain are figures from a receding past. From this point on, it will really be Palin versus Obama. And she will win, because she is a formed and grounded grownup, while Obama is only a character in his own memoir."

Read the whole thing. Unless you dislike Palin. In which case, what are you doing here?

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