– Though snowbilly moose milker Sarah Palin would disagree.
Philadelphia Daily News’ Will Bunch:
Yes, they’re voicing outrage today inside the sacred sanctuary of the Temple of Objective Journalism, where the celebrants nervously fingered their rosaries rather than confront the Constitutional bonfire that was building outside.But for eight years now, there’s been an out-of-control fire raging outside of that temple – a fire that was built upon the USA Patriot Act and Guantanamo and rendition and torture and signing statements and 16 words in a State of the Union Address. Ultimately, saving the last fabric of democracy is more important than worrying about what contrived commandments of journalism were stepped on while the blaze was finally extinguished.
I myself would call it truth-telling, and honest journalism, but now we have some who want to call it “media bias.” That’s fine with me, but understand this.
“Media bias” may have just saved America.
Objectivity suppressed in the name of the Greater Good.
Call that attitude fascist, and you’re a crazed wingnut. Because in the world of the progressives, the highest form of patriotism is a willingness to cast off bourgeois conventions (when to do so is convenient, of course — just call it “pragmatism”) if in the final analysis the Greater Good is the result.
Never mind that presuming the Greater Good is yours to define against the will of an informed electorate is anti-American (and so de facto unpatriotic). The solution to that is simply to redefine patriotism in a way that matches your agenda.
The ends justify the means. And if a democratic republic consistently proves itself incapable of doing the right thing, the right thing to do is to make sure that they no longer trip over their own persistent idiocy.
As defined by progressives.
Welcome to Hotel Orwell. Free cable — but no Fox News.
(h/t Newsbusters)
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/6 @ 12:56 pm #
I, for one, welcome our new dumbfuck masters.
Comment by mojo on 11/6 @ 12:56 pm #
Somewhere, Frankie Rizzo chuckles nastily.
Comment by Carin on 11/6 @ 12:58 pm #
Praise the Lord the media is there to save us from ourselves.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 1:02 pm #
Fox News? Fuck News. They’re running with the Palin geography test and Bathrobegate. They’re calling for Palin to address these charges personally or they will destroy her.
Meanwhile, back in Truthville, President-elect Drugs Delaney need not personally address the charges that he appears in a video, laughing like Sammy Davis Jr. and yelling “Dy-No-Mite!” to the bawdy jokes of Israel’s destruction. “Stop with the jokes Rashid! I’m laughing so hard I’m gonna have a heart attack! It could be the big one! I’m comin’ home Weezy!”
Fuck.Fox.News.
Comment by Rich Cox on 11/6 @ 1:02 pm #
And yet it took NPR 2 days to begin the lowering of expectations. Actually, even closer to a “What the hell is he thinking” kind of thing.
And so the cycle continues. Prop one up to tare them down in the name of advertising.
Comment by hoss on 11/6 @ 1:10 pm #
These journalists are braver than those guys in that 300 movie.
When you’re on the frontline against fascism rules are irrelevant.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/6 @ 1:15 pm #
um, these words, has he read them? BECAUSE OF THE TRVTH TELLING!!!!
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 11/6 @ 1:18 pm #
I thought the news media was fairly evenhanded. They went after conservatives for not being liberal, and they went after liberals for not being liberal enough.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/6 @ 1:18 pm #
“The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb. The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
-President Bush in the State of the Union address January 28, 2003
Comment by Gnasty on 11/6 @ 1:21 pm #
Self-annointed saviors, who have taken it upon themselves to determine just when and how the country needs to be “saved.” But only saved from conservatives, cuz, you know, the progs can do no wrong. Moral relativism comes in handy at times, don’t it?
To open admit, even condone, that what you did violated journalistic ethics, and may very well have been illegal, but the “ends justify the means” seems to expiate any number of sins. Amazing, disturbing, and appaling. Even Fox news has gone yellow journalism. Sad.
Why does this sound wayyyy too much like, “We had to burn the village to save it?”
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/6 @ 1:21 pm #
On the one hand, at least now they’re admitting they were lying.
On the other hand, they’re lying about why they were lying. Or, rather, the very reasons they cite are, themselves, lies.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/6 @ 1:24 pm #
Baracky Chavez says we all has to sacrifice. I’d start with tv and print and go from there.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 1:26 pm #
This little bit of misdirection ignores the basis for those of us who clearly saw the bias in favor of Obama. In their headlong rush to “save America” (a more pompous and arrogant statement one would be hard pressed to find in journalism) “honest journalists” chose to operate by the concept of advocacy journalism by omission. Said omission was selective to Obama and thus we were never engaged with great inside reports about CAS or Rezko or Obama’s college career or what, exactly, he did as a community organizer or his many and various connections with the corruptocrats of Chicago politics. At least, not in any great way by those “honest journalists” of the MSM. That dangerous exercise was left to “fringe partisan” reporters like Kurtz and others on the blogosphere empowered by their overarching need to maintain the BushHitler status quo.
Absurdity reigned when Sarah Palin was peeled like a Brazilian avocado over tanning beds, book bannings, a state employee firing, the price of her wardrobe and the DNA records of her last child. Substantive questions about a candidate for president with virtually no executive experience went largely uninvestigated because, after all, “honest journalists” needed to save America.
If only Fellini were still alive. What a movie he could have made!
Comment by FreakyBoy on 11/6 @ 1:29 pm #
I wonder if Palin walked off with the hotel’s robe. Now THERE’S a story.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/6 @ 1:32 pm #
I really don’t get the point of the “she answered the door in a robe” story. A scandal would have been had she answered the door WITHOUT the robe.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 1:34 pm #
Well, Freaky, if there had been just the barest nub of a story the MSM would have fallen all over themselves writing it. Let’s not forget the ludicrous NYT front page smear of McCain and a female lobbyist, a story so devoid of foundation that one of the paper higher ups denounced it publicly.
But, hey! The NYT was just fulfilling it’s journalistic charge to “save America!”
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 1:38 pm #
Go fuck yourself with a swordfish, Will Bunch.
Comment by Puck on 11/6 @ 1:45 pm #
Every time I think my jaw cannot drop any lower…
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 1:47 pm #
Since this assclown admits to being an advocate for Baracky, shouldn’t he and his employer have to declare some kind of in-kind campaign contribution to the Baracky campaign?
Comment by FreakyBoy on 11/6 @ 1:48 pm #
I guess one could easily correlate that “bombing the Pentagon” may have just saved America.
Comment by Eric J on 11/6 @ 1:53 pm #
“the will of an informed electorate” – When you make sure that the electorate isn’t informed, it’s that much more important to make their decisions for them.
Comment by doubled on 11/6 @ 1:55 pm #
Let’s not forget another of their methods to ’save’ America. The intrusion into Joe the plumbers PRIVATE life within 24 hours from 4 different state agency databases. Can’t have hoi polloi questioning their betters. Of course this was one of the left’s main complaints about the patriot act, that it trampled the rights and privacy of citizens.
Hypocrisy as a virtue, marvelous.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 1:59 pm #
Puck – I like your blog.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/6 @ 2:02 pm #
Yep. We knew JtP was formerly a member of the Natural Law Party before we knew that Obama was a former member of the New Party.
Comment by keninnorcal on 11/6 @ 2:07 pm #
“But for eight years now, there’s been an out-of-control fire raging outside of that temple – a fire that was built upon the USA Patriot Act and Guantanamo and rendition and torture and signing statements and 16 words in a State of the Union Address.”
Yes, and let’s see how much of that is overturned, shut down, etc. in the next 6 months.
Comment by Puck on 11/6 @ 2:09 pm #
JD – thanks, but the credit goes way more to Benedick than to me. (Surely you’ve seen him around these parts?) It’s his party; I just show up and hog the wings and beer.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 2:09 pm #
Maronne! Here’s the sentence before the beginning of Jeff’s quote:
Holy crap on a cracker! If this bozo were any more puffed up with his own importance he’d be conveying aerial shots over some PGA event.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/6 @ 2:12 pm #
“Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/6 @ 1:32 pm #
I really don’t get the point of the “she answered the door in a robe†story. A scandal would have been had she answered the door WITHOUT the robe.”
I’ll be in my bunk.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 2:15 pm #
Holy crap on a crackkker is right. This pissant of an excuse for a human believes that preserving democracy and the freedom of the press is more important than actual truth, and somehow neglects to show how democracy or the freedom of the press was actually under assault, which was his justification for lying in the first place.
This, I am comfortable in saying, is without a doubt, not a good man. A mendoucheous asshat of the highest order, to be sure.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/6 @ 2:18 pm #
And doesn’t seem to consider whether we’ll long have democracy or freedom (well, a Republic and liberty, but that’s a quibble) without the truth.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/6 @ 2:19 pm #
I also like the blog of the Puck and the Benedick.
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/6 @ 2:28 pm #
The business of media is self-preservation. Which is why the newspapers are doing so well.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 11/6 @ 2:34 pm #
I don’t think “freedom of the press” means what he thinks it means.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/6 @ 2:36 pm #
Will Bunch has just proved that “journalists” may, in fact, be less informed than the average Joe. And self-righteous bloviating montebanks to boot.
Good grief, what a knob.
Comment by Benedick on 11/6 @ 2:38 pm #
We are humbled by the compliments, amigos. I’m in Chicago today, which is essentially Ground Zero of Hopey-Change. My cabbie this morning was listening to “Chicago Public Radio” whereon the commentator was discussing how to implement change in a society where people are afraid of change. Small, incremental doses, he said. Gradually people who “get it” need to put pressure on people who don’t “get it” that sacrifice is necessary for the greater good. Eventually people will be shamed into change. I guess that’s what the “Civilian Defense Agency” will be for. Knocking on/down doors and pressuring people/skulls into accepting the need for sacrifice.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/6 @ 2:39 pm #
*mountebanks*
Gawd… a typo. So much for any possible career in “journalism” for me. Moonbat trolls will have me banished to outer Darkness for certain.
Or is that racist?
I must denounce myself, just to be sure…
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/6 @ 2:43 pm #
Benedick,
Barry’s “Civilian Security Force” will doubtless be necessary to enforce the Union Card Check law.
Sacrifice, it’s the new “Highest form of Patriotism”. We must all now embrace our Inner Bolshevik.
Comment by Puck on 11/6 @ 2:44 pm #
Chicago: where even the cabbies know their Saul Alinsky.
The mind boggles.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/6 @ 2:47 pm #
Puck,
I wonder when they’ll change the name of the place to “Obamagrad”?
Comment by Benedick on 11/6 @ 2:47 pm #
Spiny, it’s creepy because it’s happened before. I read Jonah’s book. Lots of stuff about Wilson they failed to teach me in public school.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 2:48 pm #
Dare we introduce these “change advocates” to Virginia Postrel’s “The Future and It’s Enemies?”. Perhaps, on second thought, best not to. Might scare them into cardiac arrest.
Comment by Old Dad on 11/6 @ 2:50 pm #
True Confession–I used to teach English at a major university. I’ve taught hundreds of (mostly freshmen) students the basics of composition. I have no idea how old this kid (Will Bunch) is, but I’ve seen lots like him before. Glib, mostly grammatical, coddled, and too smart by half. My bad news to them was never well received: “You can’t write with your brain turned off.” Yes, the cliches and hyperbole are puke worthy, but if I were the Philly News, I’d be more worried about the editorial talent. Who let this dreck go to print?
It would we too tedious to fisk this sophmoric crap,so I won’t, but it does represent pretty well the lazy, postmodern, progressive ethos. No need to make sense. Dress your garbage up with half assed rhetoric. Say it often. Say it loud. Let the bleating of sycophants drown out the opposition.
It’s an old story. Will Bunch thinks and writes like a pampered 16 year old. He and his cronies haven’t saved shit, let alone America. That honor might more rigthly go to men and women in uniform who are laying down their lives for this crapweasel’s right to be a punk and spew nonsense.
I fart in his general direction.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 11/6 @ 2:51 pm #
SDferr,
Postrel’s looking more and more like a true prophet.
Yikes.
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Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 2:56 pm #
Old Dad: Bravo!
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/6 @ 3:05 pm #
“But for eight years now, there’s been an out-of-control fire raging outside of that temple …”
Well, for starters, right here Mr. Munchie Bunch betrays his BDS. By decrying legislation that happened post 9/11, and implying that they were always part of an eeeeevil Boooooosh! fascist agenda, he has outed himself as a hyper-partisan Bush-hater at worst and another deranged trooooooooofer! at best…
“I myself would call it truth-telling, and honest journalism…”
You mean like you guys did regarding O!s mysterious and chequered past as well as his nefarious allies…? Like a commentor noted above, we knew all about Jtp and Todd Palin’s flirtations with various third parties long before we ever heard a peep about the Democratic nominee’s membership in an overtly socialist party. And, how is truth telling when every inconvenient episode revealed about O!s past was assailed as having some secret racist intent…?
“ ‘Media bias’ may have just saved America…”
Saved us all from what you popinjay? From exercising an informed choice? This is a staggeringly elitist and prejusiced point of view. This asshat needs to be fired, and then non-lethally beaten vigorously about the head and shoulders-for good measure…
Just another modern day Murrow wannabee…
Comment by happyfeet on 11/6 @ 3:06 pm #
I don’t want to be on a team what has this Ramesh Ponnuru dullard on it. He’s stupid and everyone’s entitled to their opinion except him cause he’s stupid.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/6 @ 3:07 pm #
oh. Here is a link so you can admire how stupid Ramesh is.
Comment by Benedick on 11/6 @ 3:09 pm #
“Ramesh Ponnuru!” sounds like something you’d say to invoke a demon or a wraith or somesuch. Try it out loud. IF YOU DARE.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 3:10 pm #
Agreed Hf, he’s an up and coming D. Brooks or the sort.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:11 pm #
Baracky Chavez says we all has to sacrifice. I’d start with tv and print and go from there.
Don’t forget all things Bay Area.
Comment by mcgruder on 11/6 @ 3:11 pm #
I hate these guys.
I really do.
I work with them.
I wish I didn’t really love this job and wasn’t pretty damn good at it.
The worst is that a real lot of them see me as their own.
Im pretty “out,” so the look on their faces is often a sight of beauty to behold when I tell them that the problem with Gitmo is that there isnt 8 more of them.
Heres the stunner: the one’s harping about this stuff? Always the shittiest editors and reporters.
Invariably.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/6 @ 3:13 pm #
Ai! Ai! Cthulhu F’taghn!! Ramesh Ponnuru!
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:15 pm #
The Frontier Party is going to ask all businesses who the CEO voted for and keep a list. Any of the companies that voted for Drugs Delaney will sell nothing to Frontier Party members. (members who crack and go to Starbucks during pumpkin spice latte season will not be ostracized JD)
Comment by steph on 11/6 @ 3:16 pm #
Do you know that Will Bunch is writing a book about Reagan? I kid you not. He has mentioned it several times on his blog in the past year. I really won’t be at all surprised if it’s titled “Ray-Gun” or something equally fresh and original. Dude’s an Ivy League grad too.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 3:17 pm #
Geez, feets, this whole intellectual whining about Palin is starting to make my teeth hurt. Right now I’d like to take this dweeb and Chris Buckley and Noonan and Parker and David Brooks and strand them on an island with no water and a ton of saltine crackers.
The ability to talk in patrician Yalie speak or a gentrified soft Southern drawl is not a prerequisite to being president.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 11/6 @ 3:18 pm #
The best of it is not in the article itself but in the comments:
“The stupidest thing about all the whining about “the liberal media” is that the media exists to be liberal. A free media doesn’t (or at least shouldn’t) exist to talk about how great our government is, or how wonderful life is for people in power, or how things should stay just the way they are. A free media is supposed to be the voice of the voiceless, a function which is uniquely liberal. If people think that the media is in Obama’s pocket, find a new term (Demo-Media?) that makes sense. Liberal media? That’s like whining about a “tyrannical oligarchy”.”
See? The media is supposed to be liberal. All the Smart People know that.
Wonder which of these competing memes (“We’re totally objective!” “We’re supposed to be progressive!”) will ultimately triumph.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:19 pm #
oh ane The Frontier Party will have a Civil Security Defense team that when alerted to the Civil Security Force’s presence, will come running with last years tomatoes. Throwing rotten fruit will still be legal under D. Delaney’s regime, right?
Comment by Paul Atreides on 11/6 @ 3:19 pm #
I hereby request that, from this point forward, refer to the “media” as the Public Relations Department of the Obama Administration.
Comment by Benedick on 11/6 @ 3:23 pm #
I think I want in on this Frontier Party you speak of. I assume our old-fruit arsenal will be supplemented with heavier, semi-automatic kinds of things?
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 3:23 pm #
I think I liked the media better when they wore beat up old hats and just worried about getting a story on the beat about the city councilman porking some hausfrau.
All of this advocacy journalism and higher purpose is confusing me.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 3:24 pm #
al: I’ll join but I want a bearskin. Oh, oh and moccasins!
Comment by drjohn on 11/6 @ 3:25 pm #
“The Greater Good.”
Right out of “Hot Fuzz.”
One of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time.
And golly can you just see the news douches all dressed up in those black robes.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/6 @ 3:25 pm #
Ted Baxters with delusions of being Kolchak.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:26 pm #
mcgruder is a good dude. He and I had a rocky start, but he is a stand-up guy.
I hate these guys.
I really do.
I work with them.
I wish I didn’t really love this job and wasn’t pretty damn good at it.
I wish there were more people like you in the profession.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:29 pm #
The Frontier Party welcomes all weapons and animal skin clothing.
Gird your loins Frontiersman. We welcome well-girded loins. And tramp stamps.
Comment by lee on 11/6 @ 3:29 pm #
I really don’t get the point of the “she answered the door in a robe†story. A scandal would have been had she answered the door WITHOUT the robe.
You poor, backward hick. OF COURSE her chambermaid or butler should have received the esteemed guests.
Really! The woman is just so, soooo, gauche!
Comment by Terry Gain on 11/6 @ 3:30 pm #
The essential difference between those of us who find abortion repugnant and those that don’t is that the latter have much greater ability to rationalize.
The election of someone like Obama was inevitable. Prepare for the rationalizations as to why it was right that the usual rules be waived.
Conservatives should demand that his Birth Certificate be verified by independent experts and that the credit card AVS-disabled election campaign finance laws evasion be investigated?
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:31 pm #
Oh, and our rocky start is because I was a complete dickhead to him.
alppuccino – I am in. I ordered enough concertina wire for an extra compound.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:31 pm #
I like mcgruder too. So I just glaze my eyes over the Bush bashing. It’s necessary when you’re getting down to the last 300.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 3:35 pm #
I’ll run the kitchen because when it comes to actual combat I’m an abject coward.
Peas or lima beans?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:35 pm #
I ordered enough concertina wire for an extra compound.
JD,
If you surround your mansion with the c. wire, we’ll have to practice form-tackling Civil Security Servants in your basement. And that marble floor looked hard.
I don’t have your palace, but I’ve got the rolling acreage for shooting. We’ll do press conferences at your house.
Comment by Benedick on 11/6 @ 3:35 pm #
I am going to count on Puck and her husband to raise the flag and set up the Western Pennsylvania party fortress. Because I have a condo and my neighbors can’t be trusted.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:38 pm #
al – Better Half was kind of peeved with me when she saw the $14,000 bill for razor wire. But when I explained that you and BJ were involved, she just rolled her eyes, shrugged, and kicked me out of bed. I took that as a green light and that she approved. Therefore, compound JD is open for Frontier Party activities.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:40 pm #
Beef BJ. Blood rare.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:42 pm #
This feels historic.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:42 pm #
Raw dead animals served on PETA posters.
Comment by apotheosis on 11/6 @ 3:43 pm #
Thus the most important corollary to the freedom of the press is our freedom to ignore them into oblivion.
We just need the will to exercise it.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 3:43 pm #
I join with you at 70 alppuccino, save for the glazing part. I get itchy.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:43 pm #
No trolls. And no fucking Bolsheviks. They can play in the c.wire.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:43 pm #
Sorry, that last comment I wrote while in the loo.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 3:45 pm #
Thus the most important corollary to the freedom of the press is our freedom to ignore them into oblivion.
We just need the will to exercise it.
That’s Frontier Party material right there.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/6 @ 3:45 pm #
Lima beans???!?!?!!!!
I KEEL YOU!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/6 @ 3:46 pm #
“Comment by Benedick on 11/6 @ 3:35 pm #
I am going to count on Puck and her husband to raise the flag and set up the Western Pennsylvania party fortress. Because I have a condo and my neighbors can’t be trusted.”
My sister has a house op north-central Penna.
Maybe I could tell her everyone is showing up for the Flaming Foliage Festival.
In the Spring.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 3:53 pm #
Three words: Davy Crockett Hats! Oh, and bowie knives!
“Oh, you are from the New York Times? Well, well, welcome to Frontier Party Headquarters at Bunker JD! Come, step into the basement. No, no, ignore those men with baseball bats, it’s just a scrimmage…”
Comment by mcgruder on 11/6 @ 3:53 pm #
Will Bunch and those like him own 50% of what happened to my good and honorable profession.
The thing is is that we need agressive investigative reporting that hits all comers; we need to call BS when the man with the money or the lever fucks up. left or right, makes no difference. nor should it.
and instead, we are a de-facto consultancy for the Democratic party.
I didnt sign up for that.
Obviously, I have republican sympathies but that ends where my job starts.
why dont many of my colleagues get that part?
I am so very, very sorry. You–we–deserve more.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:55 pm #
I bet that over the course of one weekend, a keg of Stella Artois, a freshly carved side of beef,some good cigars, and a raging fire, we could make a serious platform that would embareass the “professionals” that managed this most recent campaign.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/6 @ 3:56 pm #
No, no, no lima beans! I promise! It’s just that JD rejected the mix field greens and arugula salads and called me a “leaf munching PETA pussy.”
I cried…
String beans? MANLY!!!
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:59 pm #
Veggies are for commies. Dammit, how many times do I have to tell you?!
Comment by Dave on 11/6 @ 4:00 pm #
Okay. The election is over. The press is biased. That’s not news. How are we going to beat them next time? How about we start by closing the primaries to Republicans only so the left doesn’t get to choose our candidates. Then how about a concerted effort to put the MSM out of business? Don’t buy advertising from them. Use craigslist. Don’t read their rags. don’t buy Newsweek, Time, NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe etc. Encourage your friends and employers to do the same. Don’t buy from the sponsors of the evening news and let the sponsors know why your doing it. It’s pretty easy to do by email. Cut off their source of $$ and they go away. Then maybe we’ll have a chance.
Comment by lee on 11/6 @ 4:03 pm #
Wow mcgruder, that sounded like a big admission, but it seems you aren’t the one that should apologize, so I send no acknowledgment of same.
The bastards that should apologize think they are owed thanks.
Comment by lee on 11/6 @ 4:05 pm #
Dave, I like the way you think.
Comment by Puck on 11/6 @ 4:07 pm #
“Comment by Benedick on 11/6 @ 3:35 pm #
I am going to count on Puck and her husband to raise the flag and set up the Western Pennsylvania party fortress. Because I have a condo and my neighbors can’t be trusted.”
You’re always welcome in our house, Benedick. I plant home grown tomatoes we can throw at the undesirables, and Mr. Goodfellow is currently acquiring weapons of a more pack-punching persuasion.
Also, Mr. G says the basement is almost — almost! — done. Two weeks. So it’ll be all yours.
Comment by Puck on 11/6 @ 4:09 pm #
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 3:55 pm #
I bet that over the course of one weekend, a keg of Stella Artois, a freshly carved side of beef,some good cigars, and a raging fire, we could make a serious platform that would embareass the “professionals†that managed this most recent campaign.
You know, this is not a half-bad idea.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/6 @ 4:09 pm #
Dude, potatoes are veggies.
Comment by rrpjr on 11/6 @ 4:16 pm #
Doing Orwell proud. Does the madness have any other direction to go?
In 2012, after four years of Armani marxists debauching democracy, a “bathrobe president” is going to look mighty good (not that she doesn’t already).
Comment by JBean on 11/6 @ 4:33 pm #
oh. Here is a link so you can admire how stupid Ramesh is.
if it is true that Gov. Palin did not know that South Africa was a country on the continent of Africa, it is the type of information that voters should know before her career progresses. And I don’t think, by the way, that most people on the Left fear her.
What f’n planet do people like Ramesh live on? Voters should know this before her career progresses — why? Are we at war with SA? Is this the final round of Jeopardy? Does Barack Obama — Summa Cum Laude, HLS — know how many states there are? Who liberated Auschwitz? What date the manned Apollo missions began*? When the Watergate hearings were held*? What f’n planet he’s on?
*These are obscure references from the O’s “memoir” — committed to paper, in thousands of copies, rather than vague rumors to which such as Ponnaru fervently adhere as proof positive of ….something stupid.
Comment by JBean on 11/6 @ 4:51 pm #
oh. Here is a link so you can admire how stupid Ramesh is.
if it is true that Gov. Palin did not know that South Africa was a country on the continent of Africa, it is the type of information that voters should know before her career progresses. And I don’t think, by the way, that most people on the Left fear her.
What f’n planet do people like Ramesh live on? Voters should know this before her career progresses — why? Are we at war with SA? Is this the final round of Jeopardy? Does Barack Obama — Summa Cum Laude, HLS — know how many states there are? Who liberated Auschwitz? What date the manned Apollo missions began*? When the Watergate hearings were held* What f’n planet he’s on?
*Obscure references from the O’s “memoir” — committed to paper, in hundreds of thousands of copies, as opposed to unsourced rumors to which such as Ponnaru fervently adhere as proof positive of ….something stupid.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 5:00 pm #
Doubled down on the smack JBean. That’s Frontier Party Material.
I’ve got some huge watermelons out in the garden. Who’s got the catapult?
Comment by alppuccino on 11/6 @ 5:01 pm #
The Frontier Party welcomes all huge melons btw.
Comment by geoffb on 11/6 @ 5:05 pm #
It is in terms of that definition that they alone are both “intelligent” and “wise” enough to be able to see that Barack Obama is a “good” man. His “goodness” is a reflection of and dependent on that definition.
Our own “badness” is also. Definitions and who claims the right to them is at the heart of this struggle and you, Jeff G., are attacking the fulcrum that the Left gets it’s leverage from.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 5:08 pm #
Puck @ 94 – I have a standing offer to host everyone for a get-together. Frontier Party UNITE !
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 5:11 pm #
alppuccino – I prefer the term trebuchet to catapult.
Rob C – Potatoes are in their own class.
Comment by James on 11/6 @ 5:20 pm #
Morons like Will Bunch remind me of what a good thing it is that the mainstream media is in the process of flushing itself into the sewer where it belongs.
“Journalists” like him would be the first ones in line for a job with the state propaganda news agency should a communist revolution ever occur. He’d be covering up the deaths of millions “for the greater good.”
I don’t go anywhere near the mainstream media any more and I’m sure millions are coming to the same decision any year. With any luck scum like Bunch will lose their jobs within a couple of years and we’ll see them face down in the gutter.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 5:22 pm #
Rightchyar JD, they’s reuts.
Comment by Kirk on 11/6 @ 5:25 pm #
That isn’t the journalism class I remember.
Comment by Carin on 11/6 @ 5:30 pm #
Puck @ 94 – I have a standing offer to host everyone for a get-together. Frontier Party UNITE !
Yea, he SAYS that, but what’s he been doing since last Spring? Playing with that new baby of his.
I see how we rank, JD.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 5:41 pm #
Carin – the invitation still stands. Alppuccino dropped by for a visit. It would be really fun to get everyone together.
Comment by JD on 11/6 @ 5:42 pm #
Especially some of the trolls. Then, instead of having to respond to their inanity, we could just bitchslap them.
Troll – But Bu$Hit … WHACK
Comment by qwfwq on 11/6 @ 5:45 pm #
No, al; it should be:
“I’ve got some huge watermelons out in the garden. Who’s got the sweater?”
Comment by BuddyPC on 11/6 @ 6:28 pm #
….. the USA Patriot Act and Guantanamo and rendition and torture and signing statements …
Nobody tell Bunch that Obama (and Biden, twice) voted for the Patriot Act, ’til after the Inauguration. Better for those last few strands of democracy. The Junta might still declare a national emergency before year’s end.
98. Comment by JBean on 11/6 @ 4:51 pm #
What f’n planet do people like Ramesh live on? Voters should know this before her career progresses  why? Are we at war with SA? Is this the final round of Jeopardy? Does Barack Obama  Summa Cum Laude, HLS  know how many states there are?
Obama was merely Magna Cum Laude. At Harvard, so slide your bell curve downward a bit and allow for some historical and geographical shortcoming.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/6 @ 6:39 pm #
what’s with all the commune talk?
can’t we just stab somebody already
[three fingered salute]
Comment by B Moe on 11/6 @ 6:47 pm #
Since this assclown admits to being an advocate for Baracky, shouldn’t he and his employer have to declare some kind of in-kind campaign contribution to the Baracky campaign?
Who would notice if they did or didn’t? It ain’t like anyone is paying attention to Obama’s campaign finances.
Comment by Mossberg500 on 11/6 @ 6:50 pm #
College Seniors Failed a Basic Test on America’s History and Institutions.
Comment by B Moe on 11/6 @ 6:50 pm #
We still have no idea the status of Obama’s citizenship, there is ample evidence over a quarter of his record war chest was illegally obtained, and all anyone is concerned about it Palin’s bathrobe.
There is no opposition party.
We are well and truly fucked.
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 11/6 @ 6:51 pm #
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/civil/
Resistance to Civil Government, by Henry David Thoreau. 1849
 ”I heartily accept the motto,-”That government is best which governs least” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe-”That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.” Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes,
inexpedient.”
see also:
“Unrestricted Warfare” by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
(Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)
Comment by B Moe on 11/6 @ 6:54 pm #
The only people complaining about voting irregularities are Frankens bunch. No Republicans saw anything out of sorts anywhere, apparently. Except for Palin’s bathrobe, I mean.
I am with Peter Jackson, fuck the Republicans, they have rolled over like fucking whipped dogs. It would be easier to start from scratch than to try to kick all the worthless motherfuckers out of the Republican Party.
Comment by peter cumerford on 11/6 @ 6:56 pm #
I’m just chewin’ on some rocket, not the ballistic kind so ipso facto must be a commie. Orwell wrote a beaut book about colonial Burma (Burmese Days) that says more about politics and human nature than some of his better known works. Funny how most of the rest of the world thinks the US is a neo-colonial power. By the way I do sorta think that not realising Africa is a continent sure beats opening the door in your robe – the latter is rather naively fetching. Just by the way in Oz (Australia) bush bashing is considered to be going fast thru’ the scrub in your 4WD. It’s just that most clinicians I consult believe your somewhat attenuated Pres. has either shot himself in the head or has Korsakoff’s psychosis from too much partying in his youth. Thus we have the (perhaps delusory belief) that someone else has been running your country for the last 8 years.
And it’s not that we don’t believe youall shouldn’t pursue your national interests – most of the time they coincide with our own – it’s just your methods that sometimes appals us.
Is it just me, or are you bloggers becoming even more bitter and twisted since the scoundrel new party Obama won. And as for the liberal press – I thought the power of the press was waning, blogging is king – celebrate the freedom the net provides and leave those poor journos alone. They have to earn a living. Don’t buy any old media shares; in fact don’t buy any shares. Lotsa luck, Mindlesley for Peter Cumerford alias BeatnikCass. PS. Eat your veggies before you get diabetes.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/6 @ 6:57 pm #
We are well and truly fucked cause there’s no truth anymore is why. It’s very existential to where you can read poetry from a long time ago and be all like I so get that. It doesn’t really matter or anything though but it’s a nice way to kill a glass of wine. Retro in general seems poised to make a big comeback in our tribe. Eliding the mid to late 60s I mean.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/6 @ 6:58 pm #
another dirty socialist day another dirty socialist dollar
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Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/6 @ 7:00 pm #
peter: go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar, m’kay?
Your guy is in now. Get busy with building utopia.
I want my free gas, bitch. And you’d best deliver.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 7:01 pm #
So why is it you consult imbecilic clinicians again, P.C? For the hearty laughs you get out of their idiotic opinions, yes?
Comment by Eric on 11/6 @ 7:19 pm #
There’s no real reason to have a free press if they’re willing to act like this.
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 11/6 @ 7:22 pm #
http://ahp.gatech.edu/amer_crisis_1780.html
The American Crisis.
by Thomas Paine, 1780
“And what is a Tory? Good God! what is he? I should not be afraid to go with a hundred Whigs against a thousand Tories, were they to attempt to get into arms. Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.”
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/6 @ 7:40 pm #
Shouldn’t pete be eating a vegemite sandwich and clubbing Aborigines with a boomerang or some such?
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/6 @ 7:41 pm #
you forgot drinking, Jeff.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/6 @ 7:42 pm #
and humping a platypus.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 7:44 pm #
That would be most unpleasant maggie, as those little critters have poisonous spurs on their hind feet.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/6 @ 7:44 pm #
And watching for the Chinese Navy to show up.
They need Lebensraum and natural resources, you know.
Comment by Jack Klompus on 11/6 @ 8:01 pm #
Will Bunch is possibly the biggest douchebag moron in all of Philadelphia media, and that says a LOT. Well maybe except for Fatimah Ali who predicted a “race war” if Obama lost.
Comment by B Moe on 11/6 @ 8:03 pm #
That would be most unpleasant maggie, as those little critters have poisonous spurs on their hind feet.
And just how did we find that out?
Comment by qwfwq on 11/6 @ 8:03 pm #
Comment by qwfwq on 11/6 @ 8:03 pm #
Tie ‘em to the bed.
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Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 8:05 pm #
The header “Attytood” does place him squarely in a known Philly caste. [Or is moron-o-city a word?]
Comment by Sdferr on 11/6 @ 8:07 pm #
oh, platypi were stuffed, plaqued and exhibited in some natural history museum somewhere, philly or dc, can’t remember.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/6 @ 8:08 pm #
Tie me platypus down, sport.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/6 @ 8:09 pm #
heh
Comment by guinsPen on 11/6 @ 8:18 pm #
So, no truth to power, then.
Comment by West on 11/6 @ 8:47 pm #
OK, I get it now. I almost thought this guy was serious until that last line. It’s satire, right?
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 11/6 @ 9:10 pm #
Actually, West, the author is quite serious. Most people in America actually think that way. It’s called, “Dialectic Sophistry.” it is systemic and is seen not only in the media, but has been at the foundation of educational phislopshy for quite a few decades, now.
Using dialectic sophistry, you never have to examine your premises. Critical thought and factual evidence are ignored, dismised or otherwise discredited, merely by dent of the rhetorical tricks of sophistry and dialectics.
Many – if not most – conservatives, while decrying the state of education and of the media and of the nation, itself, also use such trickery and self-deception in justifying their own positions and beliefs systems. People are seldom, if ever, required to examine themselves or their epistimology. The conservative decrys the interference of big government in his own life, but when he sees something in another’s personal life that he disagrees with, he says, “There oughta be law!” …while never seeing the irony or the hypocrisy in his own statements and positions. They perpetrate evil upon others while decrying all but themselves as evil men. The Democrat thinks of himself in the mold of T. Jefferson or a Madison or even an Adams, while doing and saying exactly opposite of what those Founding Fathers ever stated or said. They perpetrate evil upon others while decrying all but themselves as evil men. They justify themselves through the use of the rhetorical self-trickery they learned in, and from, the very institutions they claim to hate and to despise.
Comment by Matt, Esq. on 11/6 @ 9:30 pm #
Lets waive the presses absolute 1st amendment rights and parse them for truth. I like it, really, considering I give the MSM 50% of the credit for getting an empty (black) suit elected.
Comment by Matt, Esq. on 11/6 @ 9:34 pm #
and as dissent is the highest form of patriotism, I plan to be plenty @#!ing patriotic in the next four years.
Comment by irongrampa on 11/6 @ 9:41 pm #
Fronyier Party? Sounds good, but I’ll just be right here where I’ve always been, 20 rounds upo the driveway.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/6 @ 10:02 pm #
how would the fairness doctrine work?
if i see something[most things]
on cnnmnsbcpbs-etc
would i be able to call up/demand
another view?
cuz that would be awesome
trooly
my sister looks like amy goodman
Comment by peter cumerford on 11/6 @ 11:56 pm #
Happyfeet retro rules OK? In the 60’s I read Huxley’s “Doors of Perception and the Gates of Heaven and Hell” and pinko-homo allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”, Never was the same after. Its a wonder I made it thru.
By the way the Platypus is an endangered animal in Oz, so even if you wanted to copulate with one it would be hard to find one. The monster of overdevelopment has stuffed their habitat.
W. Bonesteel I think there is a lot to your comment. We should all be wary of the reaction managers and spin Dr.s on both/all sides of politics. Especially the memes that induce self censorship. Paralysis of thinking is induced by overstimulation and gratification from the cradle to the grave. Things and consumption are being substituted for values and creativity (not just art). As to clubbing Aborigines I should leave the last word to Oz’s Rolf Harris who, in his inimitable song “Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport” said:
“Let me abos go loose, Bruce,
Let me abos go loose.
They’re of no further use, Bruce,
So let me abos go loose …”
So on that sardonic note, lotsa luck Mindlesley for Peter Cumerford alias Beatnik Cass from Utube.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/7 @ 12:03 am #
oh~!-abori-gin and tonics make such good indy-films!
i don’t want a happy aussie movie
unless it has a clever line like
“shrimp on the barbie”
and a foxy thong!
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/7 @ 12:08 am #
dish
the castle
breaker morant
danny deck chair
u don’t want to have a pee-off in da snow
d’ya
aussie movies rule!
mate
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/7 @ 12:10 am #
howsabout “That’s not a knife…”
Comment by happyfeet on 11/7 @ 12:11 am #
Amy Goodman sometimes works down the street at the radio station I go by on the way to work. She’s not a nice person I don’t think. I bet she’s feeling redundant and sad now that Baracky is in charge.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/7 @ 12:13 am #
Muriel’s Wedding was really really dark I thought.
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Comment by maggie katzen on 11/7 @ 12:41 am #
but there was all that ABBA.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/7 @ 12:48 am #
amy goodman/media benjimin
a scowl off!
let’s frown
our inner clownour humor be [black[ brown
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/7 @ 12:52 am #
oh snap
our inner clown…
c-u sm?arty types make me thinks faster than my typy digits!
my iq
questionable
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/7 @ 12:54 am #
AC/DC
end of discussion
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/7 @ 12:58 am #
4 for 4
snow peas
or pee in the snow?
’tis better from the helicopter
Comment by me. on 11/7 @ 3:17 am #
Obama has been paining Congress for two years and we now have five year foreign aid cash free money and loans. The US is broke. Obama’s banking pals at Merrill, etc. had the US bail them out just as they sold to the foreigners and we went into another election, like the vote for the foreign aid cash is just before the Presidential elections and the US government budget vote.
The last two years has been to keep Obama and his pals happy or we’re pained or used.
Jesus is the wafer, not me.
Comment by Rusty on 11/7 @ 6:20 am #
#96
Judging by the performance of the laast election there just might not be an election in 1012. More than likely? A coronation.
Comment by dantealiegri on 11/7 @ 8:48 am #
#160,
don’t worry. He won’t keep all of the people happy enough for 4 years, much less 1 to get that.
Best to make it your job to make sure they remember that.
Comment by ginsocal on 11/7 @ 11:22 am #
Hopefully, when the young wannbe stormtroopers sign up for the “Hope & Change Corps,” they will be advised that some of us are more resistant to their brand of “change,” and the only “change” they’ll see (for a nanosecond), will be their heads “changing” into a fine, red mist.
WOLVERINES!!!
Comment by alppuccino on 11/7 @ 2:13 pm #
Barack’s record is answering 8 questions all at once back in 07. And some fucked up reporter wastes a question on what kind of do he’s gonna get. I guess the economy isn’t on the minds of everyone. What.a.fucking.tool.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/7 @ 2:14 pm #
dog. not hair do. sorry.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/7 @ 2:14 pm #
That would be a good question.
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Comment by peter cumerford on 11/7 @ 6:12 pm #
Happyfeet, Muriel’s Wedding is definitely dark – despair in the burbs – tho’ it’s a long time since I saw it. Have you and PD Buttons seen Wolf Creek and some of our other outback genre flicks – death in the desert by malign forces is something of a theme here. On that note, the malign financial chaos will present the new pres. with much challenge in implementing his policies re health care and tax cuts.
You guys don’t need tax cuts as I’ve heard some of you libertarian cats manage not to pay any! Drivin’ your gas guzzlers for free and refusing to spend the small amount of energy to tear up your cardboard boxes – wat a lotta wankers. Youall need to stop your narcissistic navel gazing and get out more. See how the rest of the world lives. God help Obama (if she exists – that is god, not Obama, I know he exists – I think!). This should be my last comment on this site from my dear ex-husband’s computer so I intend to appear in my own right on my newly fixed machine. Lotsaluck, Mindlesley
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/7 @ 6:13 pm #
“peter”: go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar, mate.
Thanks.
Comment by Rusty on 11/7 @ 6:56 pm #
#168
Peter believes everything he sees on TV.
Comment by B Moe on 11/7 @ 7:00 pm #
On that note, the malign financial chaos will present the new pres. with much challenge in implementing his policies re health care and tax cuts.
Geez, you think? Especially since most of his tax cuts are going to people that don’t pay taxes, I expect it to be challenging indeed. Maybe Sec. of State Lurch can get a loan from you blokes, what?
Comment by McGehee on 11/7 @ 8:01 pm #
“Peter” misspelled her sign-off. It should have read, “mindlessly.”
Comment by Merovign on 11/8 @ 11:33 am #
Journalism if fucking dead.
And the internet trolls have taken over and reanimated its corpse.
So-called “journalists” have gone all John Wayne Gacy on the ideals they claim to uphold.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/8 @ 11:37 am #
Woah, for a second there I thought you said, “Journalism is fucking the dead” and figured, yeah, that’s what happens when your not alive to defend your corpus.
Comment by mindlesley on 11/8 @ 6:29 pm #
Geez, I’m shawenuff dig that rusty crowbar – S,B & P. am I mistaken but is America populated (or rather this site) with a lot of 2bit punk, would be humourists, adolescent, homicidal maniacs all; dyslexic, misogynistic bloggers who don’t know their arse from their elbow. “Peter” has been, for the purposes of this blog, always been a girl and an old crone at that. This is what we call in Oz a “spray” or generalised critique. Lotsa luck, Mindlesley (on her uncrashed computer)
Comment by mindlesley on 11/8 @ 6:36 pm #
Oh, n I jus saw your dubious remarks re my venerable name. Dont’cha think we bludger, socialist Aussies can interpret the inherent ironies within our chosen blog identities, Mindlessly’s the point, McGehee-hee, she who is of mind which is no mind … Lotsaluck, Mindlesley
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 11/8 @ 8:08 pm #
Holy shit. This is why I stayed away from the internet for a week.
The Daily News is going to save me. Thank Fucking God.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/8 @ 8:20 pm #
am I mistaken but is America populated (or rather this site) with a lot of 2bit punk, would be humourists, adolescent, homicidal maniacs all
We’ll see who’s laughing when the Chinese Navy comes steaming into Sydney Harbour, won’t we?
Are you trying to outdo the Canadians in terms of being obsessed with the politics of a completely different country?
What skin is it off your nose? We don’t go on your sites and give you advice on kangaroo fucking, do we?
Crowbar, mate. Look into it.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/8 @ 8:25 pm #
Let me make it clear, here:
I have nothing against Australia or Australians (if they’re not complete wankers like Mindless).
Unfortunately for Mindless, Australia can’t defend itself against the Chinese. Australians are unusually fine soldiers, but there aren’t nearly enough of them.
If the Chinese get itchy, who’s going to stop them? Obama?
Australia is even more fucked than we are.
Sorry, Mindless.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/8 @ 8:28 pm #
Now that I think about it, it’s probably 50-50 on whether the Chinese or the Indonesians absorb Australia first.
Just to be on the safe side, Mindless, you might want to have both a Koran and a copy of Chairman Mao’s book on hand.
Not that it’ll do you much good.
Comment by mindlesley on 11/9 @ 9:54 pm #
Just quietly, SB&P, As I’ve been sayin’, maybe youse guys could broaden your horizons somewhat. When America shits itself, we all have to change our underwear. I’m suggesting only that you obviously edyacated blokes could maybe learn something from other people’s histories. I’m sure I know a lot more about yours than you do of ours, or anyone else’s for that matter. And as for the Chinese sailing in, we have a large Chinese population coming and going, and have been more worried by the recent – last 8 yrs of U.S. weirding. That’s not to saY that there’s not heaps wrong with China’s government or their interference in small states all over the world, like New Guinea or the Congo. By the way when the japs were on our doorstep in New Guinea, we drove them out virtually singlehandedly – Kokoda Trail etc. Over here we feel relatively secure with a good record as a global citizen, a Prime Minister who speaks fluent Mandarin and a fairly sophisticated view of the strengths and limitations of diplomacy. It’s all well and good to be aggro with a lot of H bombs tucked away but you have to have a more subtle approach with a population of 20 odd million, lots of juicy mineral resources and a certain scepticism about the readiness of the USA to honour its obligations in the ANZUS treaty. So we’re all busy with our Korans, Arabic, Chinese & Bahasa Indonesia lessons and cultivating lot of cultural knowledge which might have saved you lots of ammo and blood in Iraq. There’s more than one way to skin a cat or a kangaroo. By the way the little red book is almost proscribed in China these days. The population is busier either blogging or reading the Wall Street Journal. Totalitarian Capitalism, a seemingly impossible but very Chinese system prevails. Unlike Islam, China’s long and distinguished history, I’m sure you’d at least know they invented gunpowder, has seen them launch very few incursions into others territory – barring Tibet which lay between them and the nuclear armed Indians and Pakistanis.(not justifyin’ it , just putting it in context.) As I see it the US is in grave danger of being expunged economically by the Chinese as you have less and less that they need to buy – that is unless the Saudis get you first. Happily in speculative Paranoia, your lovin’ chatmate Mindless.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/9 @ 9:57 pm #
Hint: Paragraphs. Look into them.
Hint #2: This post is three days old. We’ve moved on.
Comment by lee on 11/9 @ 10:06 pm #
I’m suggesting only that you obviously edyacated blokes could maybe learn something from other people’s histories. I’m sure I know a lot more about yours than you do of ours, or anyone else’s for that matter.
Hint #3: Your breath smells bad when you talk out your ass like that.
Comment by Eagle50 on 11/10 @ 1:41 pm #
I read similar comments over the weekend… I despise the media attempts manipulate citizens, it’s condescending and unethical, and un-American. I decided to stop complaining and try to do something about it.
On Saturday I created a website called http://www.50millionamericans.org – and propose that those of us who are fed up with yellow journalism and liberal media bias organize our resources and efforts, discover and partner with like minded organizations, and try to affect real change.
United we could become a powerful force for change. We were out-flanked during this last election by people who did a better job of organizing this kind of grass roots effort.
The website is simple, a blank-slate for us to create together. If interested or curious, visit and vote on the opinion poll, maybe leave a comment.
If you like this idea, talk about it with everyone you know. Spread the URL around.
Comment by Debra Brywnt on 5/17 @ 4:39 pm #
Lets suppose for a moment that you didnt save America and actually brought her to her final days where her people will be slaughtered and the nation exist no more. Then what? Can you change it? For ours and your sake I hope you are 100% correct!