You should totally support him: he does good work (you might notice that I routinely use AoSHQ as one of my news sources) and he does it all on his own hook. I can also vouch for him as a fellow of good character and thoughtful mien, if that helps.
Crossposted to RedState.
Ace, on news that the President plans to give a speech to the nation’s schoolchildren on September 8th. He’d like to see a copy of said speech prior to its being made:
Speaking as a taxpayer*… I’d like to see the speech too, please; and no, I don’t trust you, either.
Moe Lane
*I’m also a parent, of course; but my kids aren’t in school yet.
Crossposted to RedState.
Ace over at AoSHQ wrote a reasonably comprehensive, well-worth-reading post about why he agreed with Andrew McCarthy disagreeing with the NRO editorial board over ex-Gov. Palin’s successful use of ‘death panel‘ rhetoric in shaping the debate. I’m not going to try to reinvent the wheel; as I said, Ace’s post is well worth reading. I’m just going to note that I’ve spent the last day or so trying to figure out a way to get Palin to favorably mention tort reform in her next Facebook note… and that it never even occurred to me to try to get the NRO editorial board on-message.
Not that it wouldn’t be great if they did, of course. It’s just… well…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
[UPDATE]: Language is a bit rough, but you’ll probably like the sentiments.
I link to him all the time, parasitical so-and-so that I am. So throw some cash his way.
Moe Lane
PS: You are perfectly free to throw some cash my way, as well: I gotta pay for that airline ticket and hotel room for the RedState gathering in August somehow. I unaccountably keep failing to receive my checks from the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy…
The rest of it is worth reading, too – but this part is really important:
Furthermore, it seems that many Republicans have become blood simple. A phrase, I’m told, which refers to the stupid robotic state that people sometimes fall into when they’ve seen blood shed or have shed blood themselves.
Some Republicans are so shell-shocked the jump at any moderately-loud noise. They’re spooked. Their nerves are shot. They are no longer capable of distinguishing between outgoing fire and incoming fire. They hear fire of any kind, and they jump to the ground and extend their hands over their heads in prone surrender.
These people need to realize their nerves are shot and that they are no longer suitable for political combat and shut the hell up.
By the way, there is no shame in having had this happen to you. It is not a sign of personal weakness. Sometimes people just get overwhelmed, that’s all.
Crossposted to RedState.
…Ace of Spades gets good traffic; the kind of traffic that justifies a little ad placement. People should throw some his way. Of course, they should also throw some advertising my way, too, but Ace has a brand loyalty that can spawn real-time meetups.
Just saying, that’s all.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers. The video that the quote’s from is at the bottom, and via Hot Air. And it’s why we love ‘Zo so.
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While the GE shareholders meltdown is interesting – see here for the basic story (H/T the Rhetorician), Ace of Spades for an observation on how the market is voting, and Hot Air for what was either a prescient or instigating Bill O’Reilly segment – we’re going to segue over to Little Miss Attila instead. Mostly because she has what was really the proper take on the Garofalo interview that might have spawned this mess for GE:
Janeane Garofalo is absolutely right: the tea parties are racism straight up. Because if it had been racism on the rocks, PJM would have gotten someone else to do interviews that day, instead of asking Zo to do two jobs. And if it had been racism-and-water, the organizers of the event wouldn’t have imposed upon Alfonzo by asking him to the podium. If it were racism-and-soda, they wouldn’t have recruited Zo to work for PJTV at all, but would have allowed him to continue commenting on events from his living room in the SoCal desert.
I was looking for quotes from this highly enjoyable Vanity Fair article (via AoSHQ & And Still I Persist) that would illustrate the haplessness of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. (“He is a lifelong New Yorker, but there is no trace whatsoever of region or ethnicity in his speech” was a good example*) – or at least complement the vicious, yet accurate analysis that the picture above represents – but these two paragraphs blew me away completely. Particularly the second one:
Some at the Times anticipated this tectonic shift years ago, but Arthur wasn’t listening. Despite lip service about change, he presides over a slow-moving beast. Diane Baker, who was regarded as an energetic and forceful outsider, ran up against this in her years as C.F.O. When she took the job, in 1995, she was shocked to discover that the company was still doing all its accounting by hand. “They literally did not have the ability to produce spreadsheets,” she says. “They had not invested in the software you need to analyze data. It is a company run by journalists. The Sulzbergers are journalists at their core, not businessmen.”
Her biggest disappointment came when she crafted a potentially lucrative partnership with Amazon.com
**, already the biggest bookseller on the Internet. The Times would link all the titles reviewed in the paper’s prestigious Sunday Book Review section, ordinarily a money drain, to the online bookseller and receive a percentage on every book sold. “We could have made the Book Review into a big source of revenue,” she recalls. Baker knew that Amazon.com
If you felt any sorrow for the New York Times‘ travails, stop right now. Never mind that it’s a liberal-leaning paper that doesn’t want to admit it (the first part of that is no big deal, the second part of it is); never mind that it’s being run as essentially a vanity press (on an epic scale not seen elsewhere, to be sure); never even mind that the publisher’s so self-evidently a schlub that not even Vanity Fair could hide it. All of these things are survivable. Continue reading The New York Times: Doomed, and deservedly so?
(H/T Ace) You almost had me believing that Lucas was going to do a Star Wars
Picture via Encyclopedia Dramatica, a site that I will never, ever admit to having read in any other context. Just like the rest of the Internet.
(Via AoSHQ) He’s worried that we’re going to be too exclusive:
Make no mistake: Angry right-wing populism lurks just below the surface of the terrible American economy, ready to be launched not only at Obama but also at liberals, intellectuals, gays, blacks, Jews, the mainstream media, coastal elites, crypto socialists, and any other potential target of paranoid opportunity.
This is, of course, absurd. God forbid that this should happen, of course, but if it did we’d take anybody willing to carry a torch and shake a pitchfork while muttering “rutabaga.” Doesn’t anybody on the Left understand the primary definition of “populist” anymore?
Crossposted to RedState.
