THE MANTRA USED TO BE “LISTEN TO THE GENERALS!” Now it’s how dare those generals speak!
Archive for 2009
October 4, 2009
FINDING SARAH PALIN “provocative.”
Her book is still #1 on Amazon. So I guess provocative pays.
DONALD SENSING: The Mae West Presidency.
(Via Brutally Honest.)
TODAY’S THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY of SpaceShip One’s winning of the Ansari X Prize. And, of course, the 52d anniversary of Sputnik.
MORE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES’ AIRBRUSHING: Lame Gray Lady: NYT Scrubs Major Portion of Original Obama-Olympics Article, Inserts Meeting with McChrystal.
And this: “I no longer know what saddens me more, the state of American politics or the state of American journalism.”
BARNEY FRANK: “There is a right to privacy, but not a right to hypocrisy. It is very important that the people who make the law be subject to the law.”
JOHN ARAVOSIS: “Apparently, General Jones would have us believe that President Obama wasn’t aware that we were fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he promised to lift the gay ban during the campaign in exchange for our votes.”
UPDATE: Bill Quick comments.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Is “conservative” the new gay?
IT’S A FALL FUNDRAISER over at Reclusive Leftist.
YOU DON’T tug on Superman’s cape.
MANCESSION CONTINUES: “According to Table A-1 of today’s Employment Situation report, male unemployment increased in September from 10.9% to 11%.”
ANTI-GUN STATE SENATOR shoots intruder in his home. We haven’t seen anti-gun hypocrisy this rich since Carl Rowan.
UPDATE: These folks say he’s not that anti-gun. Well, obviously. . . .
MORE: Yeah, I was suckered. Sorry. I don’t promise never to be wrong, only to correct things when it becomes apparent. . . .
ANN ALTHOUSE ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT: “But perhaps an exception should be made for a great late night talk show host. The funnyman’s mood and ego need boosting. Just as he must have an office full of people who can write jokes and comic routines — who must share a lot of not-that-businesslike comraderie — he needs pretty ladies to keep his senses well-honed. It’s part of the structure of a business that revolves around a performer. The funnyman needs his supply of sex, and the paying career positions on the staff can be used to create a pool of potential sexual partners who will keep the old man bolstered up.”
There sure seem to be a lot of sexual exceptions. . . .
As reader John Tuttle writes: “It’s ‘office romance’ when Democrats do it. It’s ‘sexual harassment’ when Republicans do it. Time to repeal sex harassment laws.”
There does seem to be a double standard here. . . .
IN PORTLAND, it’s Baconfest!
IN the annals of American excess, there often arrives a moment when those with too much money, too much clout and too much hubris just can’t stop themselves from tempting the fates. They throw an over-the-top party in public, or parade their wealth and power before the press, and the next thing you know their world, and sometimes ours, has crashed. . . .
It’s in this context that you have to wonder what some of the Obama era’s most moneyed and White House-connected lobbyists were thinking as they preened before a Washington Post reporter recently for two lengthy articles. We’re not even nine months into the new administration, yet these swaggering, utterly un-self-aware influence peddlers seem determined to prove that nothing except the party affiliations has changed in the Beltway’s pay-for-play culture since Tom DeLay. If these lobbyists were stocks, I’d short them.
When you’ve lost Frank Rich, you’ve lost conventional-wisdom punditAmerica.
BIGGEST OLYMPICS LOSER: Mayor Richard Daley. “Democratic Chicago Mayor Daley sent his president to Copenhagen on this wild-goose chase, only to have the president humiliated on an international stage. Worse, Daley is responsible for Michelle Obama being humiliated. There is no way on God’s green earth that Barack Obama is going to forget that.”