Mark Levin, guest posting, has a takedown of Frum posted at Dan Riehl’s site. If you missed him stomping on Dreher, it’s here.
I’m just going to note for the record that the infighting between RINOs and conservatives has reached absurd proportions, considering it’s over the Republican Party. There’s so much fraud and governmental overreach and corruption and outright lying that it’s really impossible to do it all justice on any particular blog, which is why some right bloggers are saying that it’s not worth kicking up a fuss about Sotomayor. The likelihood is that this is part of the calculation, of course. It seems to me that the best course is simply to go after Congress, where there are 12 Dems under investigation, and 4 Republicans. This observation says nothing, of course, about foreign policy, where so far the Obama record looks epic.
On the plus side, I suppose, I’ve noticed (since it’s what the kids want on the car radio) that hippity-hop music has gotten more positive, more danceable, more escapist . . . kind of like Top 40 during the Carter years. Give it a little time, and we’ll get stuff like this.
Meanwhile, Cowboy makes an offer to parents of college-bound kids.
The went after Mark Levin for speaking rudely to some caller. Now Mark Levin can be a rude SOB, but he is our rude SOB. Get past his his New York graciousness and focus on what he is saying. He happens to speak truth about where this country is going (and it is not good).
No one needs to compromise on their principals. There is not one conservative or Republican model to follow. There is plenty of excesses with the party currently in power that it need to be called on.
So is the upbeat music a result of Teh Uno’s ascendancy, or something more sinister?
I mean we know which way the movie producers lean. Was the grinding, miserable music – the unholy nativity of the emo from the cavernous vag of Hot Topic – an unintentional byproduct of the evil Boosh years, or was it in fact a calculated effort at convincing those exposed to it that they were completely fucking miserable?
I mean, if I’d spent the last few years of the Bush era having My Chemical Romance drilled into my head, I’d be ready for some hope and change too.
Not sure what your point (if any) is with this statement, Dan. You seem to be saying that the nation’s dead, and we should just get on with the business of carving it up.
Well, given that so many “artists” are liberal, it’s hard to be full of angst when you’ve become “the system.” Serj Tankian is now one with “the man.” Zack de la Rocha is now the “power” so who does he Rage against?
I understand I’ve switched genres, but it’s what I know.
No, my point is that it’s important to oppose them on every front. That’s what OTHER so-called conservative bloggers are saying.
Feigning concern, a conservative pastime
Makes you feel doubtful right from the start
The expression she pulls is exactly like last time
You’ve got to conclude she just hasn’t a heart I think
They’re not conservatives. They’re leeches. They’re as much a part of the problem as the traitors to the left.
Sotomeyer is bad. Real bad. But Woods (who was runner up) is even worse (because she is whip smart and equally activist/twisted as Sotomeyer). Hell, Obama right now could probably get Bill Ayers on the Supreme Court. The chances of Borking Sotomeyer are slim and remember that blocking Bork by the Dems gave us Scalia (who has been more effective than Bork ever would have been). The strategy now is to get Sotomeyer to admit where she stands on judicial philosophy for the future. That is about the best the GOP can do right now.
I too, would like to offer my services to your young co-eds. Pack them up, and make sure they have fresh razors and shaving cream – for “educational purposes,” of course. I’m sure we’ll read books and shit at some point.
I think there’s plenty of low hanging fruit in just conventional wisdoming the troof that she was a purely political pick by our dirty socialist president person, not someone chosen by virtue of any judicial merit. The brighter kids in the audience will know this is as tantamount to wiping your ass with the constitution as anything the left was ever heard mewling about.
Hippity-hop is upbeat because 70% of blacks (Rasmussen , maybe last week) think everything is hunky-dory.
Gee,
Cowboy’s course decription is enough to make this engineering geek wanna go back to school…
Wouldn’t be as much fun as Rodney had in the 80’s movie, but it sounds like I might enjoy the directed study of some of those great works…
Unless the right can get its radio hosts to be more cuddly, it is doomed. Or something.
Seriously, you see how Franken doomed the Dems, right? SERENITY NOW, LEVIN! PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART, RUSH! Or you might wind up in Congress. Ewwww.
Randi Rhodes and Rachel MadCow were such sweet cuddly little radio creatures, never wished a bad thing on their ideological opponents, ever. Problem is, nobody listened to them.
Levin’s gift is his ability to clearly articulate important principles, and his natural New York sarcasm is entertaining…
The left hates him primarily because he calls them on their blatant lies…
We all need to adopt his strategy…and get used to the criticism…
As we all know, when a progressive liberal is confrontational, it characterized as “speaking Troof! to power”…
When a conservative/classical liberal is confrontational though, it mean spirited, argumentative, and contentious…
Funny that, eh?
Just like when Booooosh! nominated judges, they need a thorough scrutinization and complete! investigation, no matter how longer it took (even if they had to wait ’til the twelfth of never)…
But if it’s the O!ne?…WE DEMAND A SPEEDY CONFIRMATION! DON”T SWEAT THE DETAILS! ONE STATEMENT DOESN”T REVEAL ANY PARTICULAR MINDSET! blather blather blah blah…
Same old hypocrisy…The Pharisees would have been astonished by the behavior of the modern Democratic party…
remember that blocking Bork by the Dems gave us Scalia (who has been more effective than Bork ever would have been)
Scalia was already on the Court when Bork was nominated. In fact, it’s been argued that Reagan would have been wiser to nominate Bork first, because it would have been much more difficult for the Dems to later shoot down the first Italian-American SCOTUS nominee. Hey, we can play identity politics too, sometimes.
Anyway, instead of Bork we got Kennedy. Reagan got desperate when his backup choice, Ginsburg, also got pulled back because of his pot use. And of course the rest of history.
That said, we have no shot of blocking this nomination, and based on what we know of her, we may not want to. But that doesn’t mean we let he fly through without a fight.
Just for the record and the preservation of a tiny bit of Philadelphia’s claim on him, Levin isn’t from NY at all.
All it takes to be “confrontational” is to quote a Democrat accurately and in context. That is considered to be an attack on their very being and thus personal in the extreme, hateful so hateful. The rules for themselves are a bit more lax.
Axelrod said this lady is the most qualified nominee in over 100 years.
I can only hope that Clarence Thomas laughs in SoSo’s face at every opportunity.
sdferr, Philly! That explains a lot.
So I’m with the technique Joe has in #8. Republicans should read, in the open hearings, complete quotes from her into the record and ask her to explain what she meant by them. Transparency about who Obama wants on the court and why.
MSM will not do this so use the hearing to go around them to people directly. Be polite but firm. Let the goofyness and anger come from the nominee and her lefty Senator enablers.
geoffb–let her hang herself with her own words and impressions.
geoffb – The Republicans do not have the stones. As I said yesterday, they should read that quote about the wise Latina woman making a better jurist than a white male quote, but switch the identifiers around, and watch heads assplode.
Yes but you have to get the words (quotes) out so that her impressions on them are seen. Otherwise it will be like an Obama press conference. All kissy-face, licky-boot, smartest woman evuh*.
*So sorry Hillary, You are on your way to unpersonhood under Obama.
If we had a Republican version of Joe Biden, I think the first question would be:
“Hi Sonia. Great to see you. You look great. Wow. First Hispanic Latino to be nominated to the big show! Latino is such a beautiful language. Can you say something in Mexican? Wow. Courto Supremo. Just Awesome. At my club you can’t hit out of a bunker without first chasing a Mexican out of there. They rake them so smooth. They’re hard workers. From the maintenance shed to the supreme court. Wow. What a story. How long did your Mom walk the streets? That’s all I have. I yeildo my time-o.”
All hail alppuccino.
I lurvs it when the Leftist get so wound up in their identity politics pick that they forget about Benjamin Cardozo.
Biden writes himself JD.
Can you say something in Mexican? Wow. Courto Supremo. I yeildo my time-o.
Pure genius, Joe.
Most of you seem to be presuming what sort of rulings Sotomayor will make. That, my friends, is a crapshoot — the Justice whose rulings bear little if any resemblance to those of the one appointing him or her is a cliché.
What I think Republicans and Conservatives (the intersection of those sets is smaller than originally estimated) should do has been outlined above: be sure that her confirmation hearings result in the fullest possible exposure of her views and ideology, compared and contrasted with those of the Founders and of intentionalists and constructionists.
I simply don’t expect that to be done. I expect that the spineless weasels will go along with little or no confrontationalism, however genteel, so that they can continue to be stroked by the Right People (i.e., the Left People).
The brightest light in the situation (it’s pretty dim) is that the woman is clearly an intellectual lightweight, with ideology and feeeeeeelings overriding any reasoned considerations. A judge whose rulings are regularly reversed and generally held in contempt as incoherent and badly reasoned is not going to be a major force for anything whatever.
Who knows. She may end up listening to Roberts, who is an intellectual force, and being convinced to change her views. Or we may end up with a long series of 4-4-1 rulings, with Sotomayor the odd one out, producing blather without force. The important thing here is that the “living Constitution” / “justice, not law” attitude be exposed clearly, and I simply think that, whatever we recommend, it will.not.happen.
Regards,
Ric
How do I get Levin to guest post?
I wish I had the popcorn concession in Liberaland.
They must be smiling uncontrollably from sunrise to sunset.
I wish, for one day, that poon, sammy, and meya would not be dishonest.
Is it? “Don’t embarrass me in front of my date, Dad!” doesn’t often signify an electoral dispute. To the degree that it does, this one is incredibly perverse.
Those singled out for RINO tut-tutting are conservative critics of the Party who are more identified with the GOP in Democrats’ rhetoric than in their own, or in fact (unless you concede Democrats’ rhetoric as fact, for, say, dating purposes, like “Of course you don’t look fat in that big tent, Meghan”).
The exception, Cheney, is reacting at least in part to his being rhetorically erased from the Party by the D.C./RNC/”reform”/RINO wing of it — the one that runs it.
The Party wants to lose in the style to which it’s become (rapidly re-) accustomed. How to win is known — by Cheney, Rush, etc. They’re saying (and/or exemplifying) how to do it.
Is that the “frame” we’re given work in? No.
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“#Comment by JD on 5/27 @ 9:32 am #
I lurvs it when the Leftist get so wound up in their identity politics pick that they forget about Benjamin Cardozo.”
If Cordoza was a jooooo, that offsets the hispanicness.
I’m serious. How do I get Levin to guest post?
I wish I had the popcorn concession in Liberaland.
Wouldn’t be nearly as profitable as the “Stomach pump designed especially for Obama-jiz” concession.
N.O’Brain – I can never keep the identity group point system straight in my head. It would help if the Leftist would publish a Grievance Group Point System, so we could make accurately assess the authenticity of any given individual.
I’m serious. How do I get Levin to guest post?
He posted your essay didn’t he. He owes you. Don’t tell him I’m here.
At a guess JeffG, maybe do a post riffing on his book? Seems to me as though Levin took note of your F’ Bomb essay at hotair back when too, so that’s mebbe a tie-in.
His Vorpal blade went snicker-snack… Caloo! Callay!
I agree with psycho.
As long as Republicans fear losing their “A-list” party privileges, with it’s special spousal disapproval, more than the ire of the conservative base, Democrats will run roughshod over their prostrate willing bodies.
‘Bandershite.’ That’s pure genius.
geoffb – I really hope they leave my prostrate alone.
Or, they could leave my prostate alone too …
http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/what-happens-during-prostate-exam.html
What I wanna know? Is Frum frum? That’s what. No big whoop. Just, if a guy’s name is Frum, I’m curious if he’s actually frum, that’s all.
Did I misspell? No not this time. Had me worried there.
Of course once lying prostrate they could if they wish give those willing moderates a through prostate exam. Congressman Frank in the lead.
I dunno. Ask him?
You just had to go there, didn’t you, geoffb. I just hurled a little bit in the back of my mouth.
Jeff G.
Levin is one who respects the no surrender message that you have often espoused here. Especially the part about calling folks on twisting the meaning of an authors words…
I’m pretty sure that since you guys are on the same page with respect to that principle, as well as adherence to the constitution-period-that it wouldn’t be too hard to get him to post an essay here at PW…
Maybe suggest an interesting topic, or let him choose his own. Or offer to do a series of pieces yourself for his site. Either on the subjects of his choice, or on the topic of honoring the intent of the author. That’s one I know you have a ton of material on already, and wit would be germaine to the topics of the day what with the kool kidz being in control and intent on coopting the intent of our founders where possible to suit their own nefarious purposes…
It can’t hurt to propose it to him anyway. I think both your styles would mesh nicely…
I think both your styles would mesh nicely …
That is quite the understatement. That is like saying grilled dead animals taste alright, or that meya and sammy take liberties with honest discourse, or that Ric Caric is a fat greasy pompous fat douchenozzle.
Oooo, here’s a good one (via Cold Fury):
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/05/25/vichy-republicans/
?During World War II, the Vichy Regime arguable ran France as an independent nation, but were puppets of the Axis powers. In Norway, a similar situation occurred under the illegitimate regime of Vidkun Quisling. Today we use the word “quislings†to refer to those who collaborate with and help the enemy.
Call Powell, Ridge, etc. quislings, Vichy Republicans or whatever you like, but one thing is clear — these respected men have chosen to use their positions and media adoration to take on not Rush and Dick Cheney, but conservatives. Like Obama using various bank executives as a proxy to fight the free market, these men and others are using Limbaugh, Cheney, and others as proxies to fight conservatism in general.
Why? Because Cheney, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Coulter, and others are burning down their potemkim village — their facade of being both reasonable and on the right.When Tom Ridge was in Congress, Arlen Specter had a higher conservative rating. ”
SWEET!
Talk Radio is a solitary pursuit. Politics is a social endeavor.
Here we have a clear example of why these radio guys with zero social graces shouldn’t have anything to do with the Republican Party..
If you’re goal is to win elections, that is.
I gather that Dan R. has a previous acquaintance with Levin. That said, there’s enough of a convergence of interest that you could probably find a good fit. Ask him. But first, I’d suggest reviewing his book.
“Comment by poon on 5/27 @ 10:25 am #
Talk Radio is a solitary pursuit.”
Tell that to Franklin Roosevelt.
If any of us knew already how to get Levin — or anyone else — to guest post here, you think we’d just sit on it and not tell you?
Or get him to guest post on our own ignoble blogs?
poon is a dedicated Olby watcher, of course. Because of the social graces.
Franken, Rhodes, Garafolo, Schultz, Maddow, Bouley. Fuck off, poon. You’re concern trolling isn’t working.
Yes, poon. Talk radio ruined the careers of Randi Rhodes, Rachel MadCow, and Alfranken.
It’s been one of Limbaugh’s hobby horses lately, too. He’s been running audio of Lynn Cheney disposing of idiot journalists (I repeat myself) by refusing to accept the premise of their talking point questions, and using the clips to drive home the point that conservatives should not allow the left to define our message.
Here we have a clear example of why these radio guys with zero social graces shouldn’t have anything to do with the Republican Par
Poon, you’re talking out of your ass. Zero social graces? Care to back that up with … anything? And, do you care to explain to me the social grace of Rahm dead-fish Emmanual?
You know who had tons of social grace? John McCain.
Also, they totally killed the Democrat brand.
While fellating Obama.
Why are you people still reading what poon shits into the comment box?
poon is a lying Moby pussy.
Liz, that is. Run, Liz, run!
You know who else has social grace? Biden. Stand up, Chuck, so everyone can see you …
Heh.
You have to win a majority of the votes to win elections.
A simple fact “conservatives” have forgotten.
Having uncouth clods like Levin repulsing the 80% of Americans that don’t have anger management issues daily may be fun in a fart joke kind of way, but it means the Republicans will be out of power for a long time.
Yeah, 2004 was a million years ago. A simple fact ‘progressives” have forgotten. Because history just started in January…
Hey, who’s the junior Senator from Wisconsin? Anyone know?
I just love the Moby trolls. Has it trotted out the lifelong concerned conservative Christian Republican voter yet?
Having statists, socialists and terrorist sympathizers run rough should all over our quivering bodies is sort of sexy actually…
80% of the population couldn’t correctly identify Levin, let alone be repulsed by him. So you can STFU.
I doubt 80% of the population could correctly identify Pelosi.
Talk Radio is a solitary pursuit. Politics is a social endeavor.
First off, radio is a ‘solitary pursuit’? That makes no sense. Radio is, last I checked, a mass media, as in many people…the opposite of ‘solitary.’
It might be difficult to pursue that ‘social endeavor’ without using media. Difficult in that without reviewing principles and reflecting on the current issues, the average apolitical voter will continue on their way carrying the ‘Republicans bad, Democrats good’ narrative with them. Talk radio is the only mass media where this discussion is allowed, and much to other outlets’ dismay, it prospers. You may not like a particular host or his methods but hosts like Rush, Prager, Medved and a few others are a greater educational force than you could ever hope to be whatever social graces you might have.
If there is no discussion of principles, you have no ‘social endeavor.’ With regularity, there are callers to Rush’s show that describe how they only knew of conservatism through the characterized form presented by the MSM. These callers go on to describe how they tuned into Rush and had their whole viewpoint flipped. You might be able to do this with individuals you meet on occasion, but can you do it to 10,000’s of people year in and year out?
And hey, why don’t you tell me what Levin has said that is “repulsive.” Come one, tell me.
“Liz, that is. Run, Liz, run!”
I really like her. Tajes shit from no one.
“Comment by poon on 5/27 @ 10:41 am #
You have to win a majority of the votes to win elections.”
So you dropped the “radio is a solitary pursuit” meme?
Already?
Mark Levin is a Philly guy. My Grandfather grew up in Philly and Mark Levin reminds me of him. He’s arrogant, he’s brilliant and he’s correct on the issues, specifically the Constitution.
Feingold. I live in ‘Sconsin. Partial Birth Russ Feingold is your answer.
“Having uncouth clods like Levin”
That “clod” worked in the Reagan White House.
What have you ever done?
Ok, couldn’t resist, went to wiki. P.
“Mark Reed Levin (born September 21, 1957) is an American political commentator, radio host, lawyer and bestselling author. Levin earned his B.A. and J.D. at Temple University.[1][2] His nationally syndicated talk show, The Mark Levin Show, airs throughout the United States on ABC Radio Networks. His book Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list (hardcover nonfiction) the week of April 3, 2009.[3]”
Some clod.
REALLY REALLY REALLY A CLOD!!!!
“Career and honors
Beginning in 1982, Levin served as advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet, eventually becoming associate director of presidential personnel and ultimately Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese; Levin also served as deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, and deputy solicitor of the U.S. Department of Interior. He has practiced law in the private sector, and is president of the Landmark Legal Foundation in Leesburg, Virginia. He holds a B.A. from Temple University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.”
Anyone know where in Philly?
Feingold is your senior Senator, gus. My condolences on that.
Mah bad. Working from memory, and at the moment I’m enjoying one of those wonderful moments in the life of a professional programmer:
“What do you mean it won’t compile? It compiled yesterday.”
(Actually, that “moment” started Friday morning.)
“And hey, why don’t you tell me what Levin has said that is “repulsive.†Come one, tell me.”
Carin:
CALLER: I just wanna say, Obama is a lot smarter than you folks give him credit for. You guys were on a roll, I have to admit, with all those tea parties. Everything was rolling along, the Republicans were gaining momentum. And he managed to change your entire conversational focus. And you let those three hundred thousand people —
LEVIN: My God. He’s so smart. His own party voted against him on Guantanamo Bay. How stupid was that, Cindy? His own party refused to fund the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
CALLER. Yeah but you know he can just move those people over here anyway. He’s already doing it with the one guy.
LEVIN: Yeah, sure, he can do whatever he wants. Let me ask you a question. Why do you hate this country?
CALLER: No, I love this country.
LEVIN: (angrily shouting) I SAID WHY DO YOU HATE MY COUNTRY? WHY DO YOU HATE MY CONSTITUTION? WHY DO YOU HATE MY DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE? You just said it. He can blow off Congress. He can do whatever he wants, right?
CALLER: Well, he seems to, he just moved (inaudible).
LEVIN: Answer me this, are you a married woman? Yes or no?
CALLER: Yes.
LEVIN: Well I don’t know why your husband doesn’t put a gun to his temple. Get the hell out of here.
http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=3d1a2756-d130-4202-bc70-34b3bccb1a31
See? A clod. Didn’t graduate from one of the Ivies, so why should anyone listen to him?
N.O’Brain–I will channel a inner Ivy League elitist: “What! Magma smagma. No Princeton? No Yale? No Harvard? Not even a second tier school like Stanford or Berkley or even Cornell, alma matter of Master Olbermann. Or a quirky but prestiguous school like RSDI or Bennington that have hands on bi curious programs. It is not what you know, but where you learned it. Levin is not of the elect. Temple is for low people.”
“…where in Philly?”
I assume you mean where Levin is from N O’Brain? My memory says Elkins Park/Cheltenhamish area.
“Temple is for low people.â€
Right, that’s why MY daughter graduated from Penn State.
Comment by sdferr on 5/27 @ 11:11 am #
Ah the Great Northeast.
I’m originally from the other end of the city, sout-wet Philly.
Where we eat cheese wit.
poon. Grow a hide. Levin flamed a caller. It happens. Was it rude? Yeah, a bit. It would probably not something you would say in polite conversation, but when is radio or any media discussing politics (talk or otherwise) polite? Well except for NPR, they are always polite in dishing out the snark. I have heard a lot more ruder and offensive comments from Maher, Sullivan, Garafalo, Rall, Moore and a host of other self proclaimed pundits on the left. I do not hear calls from the Democrats on having them rein that crap in.
So blow me.
Hey poon, at least Levin doesn’t make fun of special needs children.
N.O’Brain: The Ivy League elitists have heard of the University of Pennsylvania, but do not recognize Penn State. Is that a community college or trade school?
N.O’Brain–I have to get these Ivy League Elitists out of my head. They are affecting my ability to reason. Sotomeyer is starting to look sexy in pictures like this. Ahhhhh, I feel like the guy at the end of Scanners. Ahhhhhh!
I’m still not seeing repulsive. Well, except for poon in general.
Actually, I do believe it started out as an agricultural school.
Like the one Keith Olbermann attended.
Joe,
Did you hear the woman’s tone? She was gleeful that Obama might just go around Congress and bring the Gitmo prisoners to the US. She deserved to get clowned.
ghod I love wiki-P:
“The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related,[2][3] land-grant, space grant public research university located in State College, Pennsylvania, United States. The University has 24 campuses throughout the state of Pennsylvania, including a virtual World Campus, with University Park being its largest campus. Penn State University Park (commonly referred to as the “Main Campus”) is ranked in the top 15 nationally for public universities and is regarded as a Public Ivy[4][5]. The enrollment at the Penn State University Park campus is 43,252 with a total enrollment of over 84,000 across its 24 campuses, placing it among the ten largest public universities in the United States. Penn State offers more than 160 majors and administers a $1.6 billion (USD) endowment.[1]”
ANd I was right:
“Early years
Penn State was founded as a degree-granting institution on February 22, 1855 by act P.L. 46, No. 50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania. Centre County became the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte donated 200 acres (0.8 km2) of land—the first of 10,101 acres (41 km2) the University would eventually acquire. In 1862, the school’s name was changed to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania,…”
And poon, Levin loves dogs. I bet you did not cry at Old Yeller or Puppies for Sale.
Juliette – But we should be nicer to the mentally impaired. Just like Teh Uno was.
baldilocks–I did not hear the audio. That just justifies what Levin said more. I am not defending her or criticizing Levin. No apology is necessary or appropriate from Levin. The comment written down is a bit rude but hardly over the top for talk radio. If you are going to go on and essentially heckel the guy doing the show, be prepared for a slap down. It is part of the debate. Don’t cry about it.
And N.O’Brain, I have nothing but respect for Temple and Penn State, and congratulations to your daughter for graduating from the later. I was just parodying the elisist attitude that is out there regarding certain schools.
Poon can cut and paste. Wonderful. I’m not repulsed. And I doubt that 80% of the population was/is repulsed by him.
Poon can cut and paste. Wonderful. I’m not repulsed. And I doubt that 80% of the population was/is repulsed by him.
I don’t know what the deal is with my comments today. I’m not double sending them.
Oh, look. Friedersdorf has attracted a parasite. Good for him.
Wilkinson takes on David Brooks and Glenn Beck, both on individualist grounds.
Wilkinson seems to be making the argument that you can’t champion individual liberties and still support a functioning government. He appears to miss the idea of “limited government”.
I thought it a pretty weakly reasoned article.
Carin,
Ronald Reagan was always charming and polite.
Levin is the opposite of Reagan.
He and his brethren are leading the Republicans into the sewer.
And making a fortune doing it.
I have no doubt some of you “conservatives” enjoy it in there.
Cuddly Reagan
So now it is you “conservatives” ? It was we, us, and the like before. Are you with us or against us poon?
JD — why are you paying any attention to “poon”. Stop giving him what he wants. Just ignore the fucking concern troll already!
Poon, back in the day Reagan was as vilified and demonized by the press as W. Bush, the intensity level only lower due to there being no 24 hour news cycle or internet then.
I guess you don’t remember the horror expressed by the MSM at Reagans “empire of evil” comment.
Levin acted like a talk-radio jerk on that bit, more Howard Stern [or Randi Rhodes] than Rush.
I think the guy is making a cogent case for what I beleive in, histrionics (more like theatrics) aside, and at a moment when those ideas are sorely needed.
Frum….Frum is….not well. You dont have your 15-year old kid call in and begin a talk-radio dialogue with your political opponent.
David Frum seems off. I am not talking about the quality of his arguments, needless to say. I suspect Danielle Crittenden needs to get involved.
On the plus side, I suppose, I’ve noticed (since it’s what the kids want on the car radio) that hippity-hop music has gotten more positive, more danceable, more escapist…
“Hip-hop” still sucks, and it still isn’t music. At least not past the sampled parts.
What’s your definition of “conservatives†JD?
And does an obnoxious boor like Mark Levin meet it?
Talk Radio is a solitary pursuit.
I think you meant Air America.
I should say that on the bit with Conor Friesdorf, Levin comes off like a dick.
He said something stupid, acted like a total jackass, and didnt man up and own it.
That doesnt make Frum mentally well–at best he has bad judgement–nor does it give Rod Dreher and Conor Friesdorf intellectual coherence.
I suspect Ill always question Dreher since he left NYC very publicly after 9-11 in a teary huff and moved to Louisiana, where he dreamed up his Crunchy Conservatives meme.
That Colin Powell RINO guy strikes me as a self-hating person. I think he’s been angry a long time for “selling out” to the Republicans just so he could move up. He wanted it so bad.
I bet some of those clueless Reagan-era James Watt types told “black” jokes to him when he was just NSA, and he smiled, and hated them, and hated himself. Then he voted for The One and now he’s unleashing that self-hating rage on the GOP. That’s what I think. Nothing else makes any sense.
Hey, it’s a big tent, poontang! Plenty of room for obnoxious boors, simpering ninnies, reluctant RINOs and feculent four-flushers, right along with the more traditional “conservatives”.
Or, alternatively, doesn’t see any problem with what he said.
I hope Levin’s campaign manager tells him to knock that shit off. He’s never gonna get elected if he keeps that up. Unless he declares as a Dem.
Isn’t Ed Debevic’s the restaurant that’s so crowded because the waiters insult you?
OT: Moody’s reaaffirms US AAA rating.
Good news for America. For Now.
I can’t see how, absent a major pay-down and/or spending cuts, in three years it wont be chopped a notch or two.
Frankly, If it was me, I would have cut us to a weak AA, and taken the UK to BBB. The Brits are screwed, completely.
Reagan was vilified on a regular basis. Fuck poon. Fuck critics of Levin. Levin was mean? Boo hoo. Don’t call in to a talk radio show if you do not like it. David Frum needs not to have his 15 year old son call in for him, take Levin on direct or shut up.
Colin Powell is pissed off that the Bushies used him on the Iraq weapons in the UN. I do not think they did. Personally I do believe they thought those weapons were there. Hell, everyone else believed they were there too.
Or sooner.
Talking about college kids, he looks like one of the Jonas brothers who happens to smoke.
Nope Rob. If he’s cool with that, then he’s a really, really big dick.
Im an R-rated guy and entertainment is entertainment, but Levin was wrong. I Like his work, but thats wrong.
Wish we had more like him when he’s on though, or maybe a few more pre-crazy Glenn Becks.
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Comment by poon on 5/27 @ 12:26 pm #
What’s your definition of “conservatives†JD?
And does an obnoxious boor like Mark Levin meet it?:
Oops, he did it again.
Well, by that logic, you must think about everyone here is a really, really big dick, because about everyone here has apologetically made comments way more offensive than that at one time or another.
Including you, I’m sure…
Obama administration is floating the VAT. Hope! Chang!
“Hey, it’s a big tent, poontang!”
Yes, AP.
But why do we need a pathetic clown like Mark Levin when we already have Newt Gingrich stinking up the tent?
Ace makes more a lot more sense than Allah recently has with this comment:
The creep of “moderation” into the Republican Party is what sets off Levin (and me). It is a doubled-edged sword for sure. We have so much to counter and fight back as it is, and when these moderates advance, …what to do? Levin see it as a legitimate threat as much as the left is. And I agree. What has happened to the Democrats over time? The hard left took over. As the moderates gain ground, the erosion of our tenents and foundation grows exponential. So Levin, in his fashion, attacks since he sees it as the threat that it is. This current SCOTUS pick of the “O” and the press’s fawning is a perfect example. The GOP has been flatly and openly warned not to fight it and whatever they do….don’t mention her race. And they have in this reaction, exposed the fact that this fight we are in is not about color or race. It is about political ideology and power , plain and simple. Gonzales is a Hispanic. Rice an African American. The left dictates open season on race when the candiates for any particular high office is a Republican and screams rascism if anyone dare fight the nomination of a minority Democrat. We are in a fight for ideology and the future direction of this Country. Levin will fight on and so will I and millions of folks who think the same.
Hummm, poon is back to “we” again.
Having an identity crisis are “we”?
Tents are for people who can’t take a little weather. The Frontier Party does not have a tent.
*shrug*
Some people deserve to be treated like shit.
Yeah Lee, I dont even want to get into when I have lost my temper.
But, there’s a pretty big difference between people here having it out—I think im on record as positing that most every regular here seems solid to me, FWIW–at a website and a well-known radio guy, who’s not a shock-jock, making that joke.
You have to win a majority of the votes to win elections.
Nah. You just have to keep recounting until the democrat has enough votes, then stop.
You’ve never listened to him, have you, mcgruder.
People who call Levin’s show — particularly the seminar callers, concern trolls, and out-and-out lefties — know what they’re getting into.
And I guess expressing OUTRAGE@!!!! at his tone is easier than, I dunno, doing some goddamned research.
What’s fascinating to me is how many people are so eager to dance to the Media Matters tune.
Easier than thought, I guess.
OT: If you don’t luv this LOL, then you’re not my friend anymore.
Assuming you ever were.
poon – We? Us? You with the scare quoted conservatives? Which is it you lying douchebag?
How so?
We’re all private citizens on a public forum. You don’t have to read comments or listen to his show. Levin has no power to affect your life like an elected official does, any more than any of us do.
Personally, I enjoy listening to Levin taking some deserving twat down almost as much as when Jeff does.
YMMV.
“Personally, I enjoy listening to Levin taking some deserving twat down almost as much as when Jeff does.”
And that one who called Levin was most deserving.
Mine varies. Lord he’s hard on the eardrums.
Mine varies. Lord he’s hard on the eardrums.
I can get through and appreciate his written work just fine. Just hand him a balloon full of xenon gas if you want me to listen to him.
Did Levin actually yell in ALL CAPS or was that guy taking a bit of literary license with those quotes?
I wonder which “conservatives” poon thinks are not stinky …
Ha, I agree Sarah. He definitely has a voice made for writing.
poon seems to be struggling with his political identity. And his nom-de-net suggests a sexual struggle as well.
Rob, I have listed to him about five, maybe six times on XM, for a decent stretch each time. I like his work and think his postings on NRO have been unusually solid and thought out for a talk-radio sort. I agree that beat-downs of trolls and moonbat sorts are stock in trade for him and for those who like talk radio, its likely the pie at the end of a meal.
I just think he is wrong telling someone that their husband should kill himself. Dont see it as funny, dont see it as helping our cause.
You do. ok.
Goddamm research? hmmm.
I went and read the transcript and drew my own conclusions. levin, for a minute or two, lost his crap. bad radio.
Media Matters? nice. I used to get dozens of reader emails from people like you. They’d be furious that I mentioned that the company i wrote about, that they owned stock in, was criticized by the likes of me, a stupid, know-nothing reporter. I’d show them the screwed up transaction, The CEO or CFOs crappy history, the condemning footnote buried in the financials, the long term gap between cash flow and earnings…and they’d move the goalpost, call me a stooge for hedge funds or whatever.
Id just tell them I called it as I saw it and thank them for writing.
So now Im Oliver Willis’ stooge?
thanks for writing Rob.
Lee, when Jeff sharpens the blade, he vivisects.
Levin could learn something from JG.
Nozick was heard to chortle from beyond the grave.
Even before he took office. For poor little poon who wasn’t around in the 1980s it seems. From Dec 1980, I’ve linked it before. The Ronnie Horror Picture Show. Feel the love.
It is okay to disagree with Levin on his style. That is fine. Rational people can do that. If you dislike Levin’s style, do not listen to him. What is not okay is if you are a conservative buying in to the bullshit argument that Levin is not worth listening to at all because he acted rudely to a caller. That is a specious argument. Judge the man on the merits of what he is arguing for, not some minor point of style or personal rudeness.
Was my Media Matters comment directed at you, mcgruder? Or did your conscience lead you to assume it was? It was actually directed at Frum and Dreher and the other “Concerned Cons” who twitch like Galvin’s frogs whenever MM puts an “offensive” quote in front of them.
Yeah. If you’d done some goddamned research you’d know it’s his shtick. Anyone calling him has to expect it. It’s like going on a Jerry Springer-like show and being surprised you were ambushed with something unpleasant.
Or like being a “journalist” and not expecting the shit slung by the rest of your profession to stick to you, come to think of it.
Porbably go to his website, look up Levin’s e-mail address and e-mail him asking him to guest post.
May not be that simple. Never know until you try.
I don’t like Levin’s style either, so I don’t listen to it. And he has a voice for writing. Grating.
Even so, I don’t care if some people can’t stomach his shtick. I’m not worried about what My Betters think of me, unlike the denizens of The Beltway, who are creatures of flattery.
This place doesn’t look so good in IE 6. I blame the low budget at the office.
If someone is worried about what Media Matters says, then they have some serious issues. That is one of the Soros places that pays Oliver Willis to be the world’s mostest biggerest blogger EVAH.
Mark Levin: a grating voice telling the truth.
I’ll take the grate.
So how ’bout that Judge Sodermeyer? She got a chance?
Drinking so early, cynn?
No, kelly, but thanks for the nosy concern.
Feel the love indeed. Actually kind of stupidly funny. It is good to see old Alec Baldwin footage playing Ronald Reagan as a transexual. Of course, Alec did not have to stretch for that role. That is even better work than Baldwin’s Thomas the Tank Engine phase.
IE 6 is a dinosaur of a browser. Plus, IE has a lot of non-compliance built into it with respect to the html standard.
Nosy? Hardly. I find your comments infintesimally more comprehensible when I assume you’ve been tippling.
missed an ‘i’ in there, I did.
IE 6? I’d recommend a move to 7 or 8, but, well, you know.
Firefox is my browser. YMMV. But at least you can switch off the annoying security features manually. IE screams bloody murder if you accept a certificate that isn’t signed by a third party. (I’m in a LAB ya doofus app! The device isn’t even BETA!)
Gingrich calls Sotomayor “racist.” Suggests withdrawal.
That’s not Alec Baldwin. The two most recognizable people are Michael Richards playing the young college guy and Larry David who plays the biker version of Nixon.
Jonah Goldberg shows the more damning thing Sotomayor said with regard to her bona fides:
All right, wingers, the jig is up. Puerto Rican DNA is different from yours. It makes you a better judge, because you’ll be more fair, more compassionate, and a better person all around.
Gaze in the mirror at your pasty Anglo faces and despair.
hahaha. Gingrich tweeted that shit. Oh, the gravitas.
From the link at 174:
“White House spokesman Robert Gibbs responded to Gingrich’s criticism at Wednesday’s briefing.
“I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” Gibbs said.”
“Dis is a very nice store. It’s be a shane if anything happened to it.”
“Comment by cynn on 5/27 @ 3:52 pm #
hahaha. Gingrich tweeted that shit. Oh, the gravitas.”
So what’s funnier, cynn, Gingrich using twitter or fascist thugs occupying the White House?
I am greatly heartened that a prominent Republican is stepping up to the racist challenge.
I think fascist thugs occupying the White House would be a laff party! Let me know when it happens, Nknob.
He did.
If you choose to stick your fingers in your ears and sing “Nah Nah Nah, Nah Nah Nah”, that’s your problem.
cynn rubbed P’brain’s dirty nose in his twittering nasty hole, “Nah Nah, Nah Nah.”
“Comment by cynn on 5/27 @ 4:06 pm #
I think fascist thugs occupying the White House would be a laff party! Let me know when it happens, Nknob.”
Check out the last election, Box O’Wine.
Comment by thor on 5/27 @ 4:29 pm #
Please ignore the human Ipecac.
Thank you.
HEY! Tune in to Hewitt right now! He’s nailing Larry O’Donnell to the wall on the claim that we’ve prosecuted people in the past for waterboarding.
Or listen later to the broadcast after they post it here.
I’m still not seeing repulsive. Well, except for poon in general.
I see no poon here.
Gingrich tweeted that shit. Oh, the gravitas.
The medium BEING the message, of course.
What, if Newt has it engraved on fine parchment, THEN you will take it seriously?
Can you BE more shallow?
and smiled while pointing to pictures behind him of mobs with pitchforks and steaming vats of tar.
Gringrich, Rush, — if one or two more conservatives with huevos will call Sotomayor a “racist,” then Senate Republicans can raise the issue without taking as much heat. I think our side may have a game plan.
Ann Coulter also did it, Salt Lick.
It would be great if Fuckstain McCain would do the same, but we all know how likely that is.
Orrin Hatch is intimating that if she sees fit to substitute her “personal predilections” for the law, then even Democrats should vote her down.
Why yes, dicentra. I’m so shallow I’m going to accuse Newt of being a racist on the American Idol fan site. Then maybe I’ll text everyone I know. Actually, I hope the right does pursue this rascist angle. Sotomayor may very well be a rascist; she’s certainly arrogant.
Fuckstain McCain; that has a delightful poetic meter to it SBP, I like it.
Hi cynn. If she were a wise old white hoochie she wouldn’t have had a chance in hell of being nominated. You get that, right?
You know who had “a good story” behind him? Clarence Thomas.
Coming from Hatch that’s like Caspar Milquetoast growling, “Go ahead, make my day” while aiming a squirtgun filled with warm milk.
For a time I hoped the Judge was — in referring to some un-named “inherent physiological” something — aiming at intestinal microflora symbionts, the “good bugs” (the better to digest the mucho platos de arroz, gandoles y penir), rather than, say, midichlorians or some such eidetic concoction.
levin lived in elkins park
judge thomas’s story doesn’t count cause he left the plantation
#181
Then you should be in hysterics over the Chrysler deal. Do you give his image the Nazi salute, or is it more of a Roman chest thump and then the arm outstretched?
Hope you’ve got a government job,hon.
It just came to me, lee, but I’d be surprised if someone hasn’t thought of that one before.
No offense, dicentra, but how the heck does that guy keep getting elected in Utah?
He’s right on this one, of course.
Well, given that so many “artists†are liberal, it’s hard to be full of angst when you’ve become “the system.†Serj Tankian is now one with “the man.†Zack de la Rocha is now the “power†so who does he Rage against?
I enjoy listening to them and imagining their message is, in fact, aimed at the people who are making a mess of this country. Linkin Park’s “No More Sorrow” is particularly good if you put the MSM/blithering, screaming BUSH LIED hyperventilators as the targets of the song.
System of a Down is GREAT workout music. I just don’t get deep into the lyrics.
Yes, HF, I get it. I would prefer that Supreme Court Justices not have a baked-in agenda. They are, in fact, the final answer. Social progressive? Fine, but keep it away from the Constitution and the rule of law. Keep it clean.
Tell your Presentdent that, cynn, not us.
Hint: next time don’t vote for the Communist.
If there is a next time.
Oh, shut up with your communist crap. Unitary Executive? Reap what you sow.
No offense, dicentra, but how the heck does that guy keep getting elected in Utah?
Because the Senate reelection committee thinger always backs Hatch, preventing a good GOP challenger from ever winning the primary. Then Hatch wins the general because he’s a Republican.
Same with all of the other career senators, I expect.
Coming from Hatch that’s like Caspar Milquetoast growling, “Go ahead, make my day†while aiming a squirtgun filled with warm milk.
Hey hey hey hey hey. The milk’s not warm. That would be gay.
I learned it by watching you!
Oh, shut up with your communist crap.
Bite me, cynn.
Or better yet, point out anything that Obama has done that would differ from the policy of a communist.
Oh, my #210 was directed at the reap what you sow.
It’s just a mess. All of it.
Unitary Executive? Reap what you sow.
Because Bush spent half his time drinking the blood of innocents in Iraq and the other half feeding copies of the Constitution into a shredder. With his left toes he bankrupted California and with his right he bankrupted New York.
It was Cheney’s job, though, to bully congress into backing bad mortgages through Fannie and Freddie, making it four times in the last century that congress had lowered lending standards two clicks past the crazy bad level, thus causing first a bubble, then a bust. Congress begged Cheney not to make them do it, but he sliced off their right hands, but unlike Luke, they had no tunnel to fall into and no telepathic sister to call and rescue them off the TV antenna.
If only we had known…
Dicentra: Great parody and shorter: We’re not only fucked, but we died before the orgasm.
Reap what you sow.
I don’t think you quite understand who’s doing the reaping and who’s doing the sowing here, cynn.
What happens when it becomes quite clear that the rule of law no longer applies?
Take your time.
I don’t need much time, boob, it was your Unitary and his precedent. Or don’t you get that. Probably not.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that Bush canceled the elections, cynn.
How did I ever forget about that?
The only way to solve this is with a vicious game of no holds barred uno. Winner gets to blame the losers “side” for all of the evils of the world, past and present.
The Alec Baldwin reference was a joke, Frankenreagan just looked like a young Alec Baldwin (before he decided on his sexuality being a quasi-heterosexual jerk off when he temporarily bonded with Kim Bassinger). But I will go back to see if Richards and David are in there. That would be funny.
Good news from NRO:
The difference between Newt Gingrich and Ted Kennedy is that Gingrich isn’t lying.
Yeah, remember when Bush took over bankruptcy courts?
O! wait… Wrong Presentdent.
I still have fond memories of Bush firing CEOs, interfering in wage contracts, and telling Governors whom they could fire.
Ahhh, good times.
That moved me.
Joe, they are, I saw it on the original broadcast and still have the tape. That particular sketch was only shown once because the rights owners of the movie “Rocky Horror Picture Show” objected to the network over the use. I was amazed to find it on youtube a while back. I didn’t get the Baldwin reference, sorry.
“Comment by cynn on 5/27 @ 7:10 pm #
Oh, shut up with your communist crap”
Oh. Ok.
Next time don’t vote for the fascist.
Good God, they’re still deliberately misunderstanding “unitary executive”?!
Article II, Section 1, first goddamned sentence: “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
That’s what it means, asshats. “The Constitution placed the executive power in the hands of a single person.” It means Congress cannot take control over operations. It means the courts cannot take control of operations. It means the one person responsible for the day-to-day execution of government affairs is the president.
Note that the Constitutionally granted executive powers do not include nationalizing industries, but does include supreme command over US armed forces.
Indeed, I would really like to be presented with a concise and coherent — and preferably not constitutionally illiterate — explanation of what’s wrong with the notion of a unitary executive.
I might even un’Hammer cynn, if she cares to take a swing at it. After the hangover.
Not gonna happen, McGehee. Those shrieking over the “unitary executive” boogeyman are doing so simply because they were told it was a Bad Thing.