NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

He was always very victim blame-y, it has been awhile since I listened to it but that was pretty much par for the course with him.

Carolla is hilarious on certain topics(70s/80s pop culture), believes completely horrible things otherwise, film at 11

Former co-host of "The Man Show" in being misogynist jerk shocker

Carolla was really date rapey! I really can't stand his "I'm just a normal guy" shtick. You and everyone else, buddy, so can it and actually gain some self-consciousness.

loooove this guy...

By Jay Nordlinger
January 27, 2012 2:27 P.M. Comments0

Mona, I get some of the same mail you do, from people who think that Newt is the Last Word in Conservatism. I’m learning, more and more, that political perceptions have a great deal to do with style. If you slash and shout, many people think of you as “conservative” or “right-wing.” If you say right-wing things in a calm, polite way, you may be seen as a moderate.

“Attitude” is another word that comes to mind — attitude and style. They have so much to do with political perceptions.

Think about two governors, Perry and Romney. (Well, one’s a former governor.) Perry is considered the more conservative by far. But there are some areas in which Romney is to the “right” of Perry. Thing is, Perry could quote The Communist Manifesto and he’d still come off as conservative. It’s the swagger, the chest, the twang — all that.

I used to say that Richard Armitage seemed right-wing, looked right-wing. He was built like a brick you-know-what. I think William Safire once referred to him as “a State Department source, with no neck.” But Armitage was at one, philosophically, with Colin Powell.

Newt Gingrich will always seem more conservative than Romney, if only for style and attitude alone, I think.

P.S. The enemies a guy makes makes a huge difference too. In some ways, Nixon out-LBJ’d LBJ, as he occasionally liked to brag. But the Left hated Nixon so much, righties rallied to him.

More:

I have a memory from the 1988 Republican primaries: Jack Kemp promised to “fire” George Shultz. Big applause line, in front of righties. The promise was kind of absurd, because secretaries of state naturally leave office with their presidents. They don’t hang around to be “fired.” But Kemp was serving up red meat.

Shultz may be a Cold War hero now, but, oh, did the Right hate Shultz! They sometimes treated him like he was Paul Warnke or something. A lot of the Right had harsh things to say about Reagan, too. He’s Saint Ronald and all that now, but it wasn’t necessarily so during his presidency. I remember Howard Phillips, the chairman of the Conservative Caucus, calling Reagan “a useful idiot for Soviet propaganda.” Another conservative gave Reagan a Darth Vader doll, to remind him that the Soviet Union was, after all, an evil empire.

And do you recall this joke, a hot item among conservatives during Reagan’s second term? “None of this would be happening if Ronald Reagan were alive.”

I don’t know what got me started down Memory Lane, but I’ll return to 2012 now . . .

on the eligibility of John Bolton, of course.

Is this kind of judge President Chris Christie would nominate?

Well let's hope so

unless the GOP is a very different beast come 2016 i don't see Christie making it through he primaries

but then there's Romney so wtf do i know

Lady Godiva was a freedom rider,
she didn't care of the whole world looked.

Joan of Arc, with the lord to guide her,
she was a sister who really cooked.

Isadora was a first bra burner
Aint' ya glad she showed up?

And when the country was falling apart
Betsy Ross got it all sewed up

But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt

But then there's that old compromisin',

enterprisin',

anything but traqulizin'

Right on Mitt!!!

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That's a question I often ask myself.

Look, the beauty of free speech is that, if you’re inclined to do so, you can write a check to PP in an act of solidarity, or write a check to Komen as an expression of moral approval. That’s all fine. But there’s something quite a bit different, something creepy and not a little despicable, about the Planned Parenthood set’s besmirching Komen’s good name across a thousand platforms for having the audacity to stop giving them free money.

money is the only acceptable form of speech

the beauty of free speech is that you can give money to whomever you want but there's something creepy and not a little despicable about TALKING

"free money" means to me "this money has no stipulations" when in fact it came with specific stipulations

note that if you support PP that is "solidarity" like unionists have but certainly not "moral approval" which is what moral people have.

corner must be churning some epic butthurt right about now

Klo in particular seems rabid in her butthurt and misogyny this afternoon.

LOL

(For the uninitiated, Gawker’s imperative role on the Internet is that of the mother bird, partially digesting the work of others with the enzymes of bored irony and the gastric juices of sarcasm, and regurgitating stub articles fit for the consumption of the shrieking, featherless hatchlings that comprise my doomed generation.)

this is a bit longer than "all the news that's fit to print" but it's a pretty good line for the masthead all the same

MAX WINS EVERYTHING

lmbo

its like when the monkeys at the zoo turn and notice you

[Approved commenter] carlosincal
02/03/12 16:59

Slander?

The Happiest Wives in America?
By Maggie Gallagher
February 3, 2012 9:44 P.M. Comments3
In my syndicated column this week, I take a break from politics to ask: Just who are the happiest wives in America?

(Hint: Ann Romney, Rick Santorum, and Carol Paul are all examples).

And here I thought she was against gay marriage.

oh man that place was hysterical yesterday after the Planned Parenthood victory.

More fun from Pareene: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/13/no_newt_dont_quit_to_make_room_for_santorum/singleton/?mobile.html

Finally, there is the fact that Rick Santorum is an unambiguously awful candidate. He is not just a “social conservative,” he is a paleolithic anachronism of reactionary thought. The American people, despite the fervid wishes of a couple bishops and Kathryn Jean Lopez, are not actually remotely anti-contraception. Most voters — especially since the ratification of the 19th Amendment — think women should be allowed to have jobs outside the home. The last time the Republicans won a presidential election, they had 48% of the female vote, and I imagine they’d like to tie or beat that number this year, maybe? Rick Santorum is decidedly not the man for that job, unless scientists invent some sort of mind control ray that falls into the hands of Phyllis Schlafly.

Samantha Gilman profiles super-tweeter Jonah Goldberg:

“My dad once gave me the advice about writing, ‘every sentence you write needs to be either important or good.’ And I sort of have the same attitude about Twitter.”

His top advice for young people?

“Don’t just read the stuff you agree with, read the stuff you disagree with, too. Don’t just interest yourself in what is going on at the moment. It is crucially important, especially for conservatives. Conservatives believe that the past matters, and we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

supertwit more like

His advice is not half bad, but he doesn't appear to follow it at all.

I omitted the best part: how he and his fellow Crusaders will snatch the Cup of Christ from lib infidels.

The athletic cup?

“Don’t just read the stuff you agree with, read the stuff you disagree with, too. Don’t just interest yourself in what is going on at the moment. It is crucially important, especially for conservatives. Conservatives believe that the past matters, and we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

“Be happy warriors. This is a good fight to be in. We are on the side of freedom and prosperity and of all the things that have made western civilization successful and America in particular great, and defending those things shouldn’t feel like a chore. It should feel like a duty but also like a vocation.”

Twirling his mustache!

Liberal Dream to Liberal Nightmare?
By Deroy Murdock
February 15, 2012 2:19 P.M. Comments0

Jonah Goldberg is right. He makes an excellent point in his piece this morning on President Obama’s abortion-pill mandate. Conservatives, libertarians, and others who believe in medical freedom should make this argument much more often when engaging liberals: What happens if “the bad guys,” namely we right-wingers, win the next election, and now we get to run Obamacare? (Be sure to twirl your handlebar mustache as you pose this question.)

Imagine, as Jonah does, that Rick Santorum is elected president and becomes the reincarnation of Cotton Mather, just as Nancy Pelosi probably fears as she lays her coiffed head on her high-thread-count pillows every night. Imagine further that, instead of repealing ObamaCare, the former GOP senator from Pennsylvania decided to keep this law in place and modify it along much more traditionalist, even puritanical, lines.

Santorumcare could involve, say, a federally mandated, five-day waiting period before women could have abortions. This parallels the original five-day interlude that potential firearms buyers faced under the Brady Law. How could the Left object to that?

How about a requirement that every American who receives free condoms from any federally subsidized health center first must receive 30 minutes of mandatory abstinence counseling?

And why not a rule that those who visit Gay Men’s Health Crisis cannot accept any services until after completing a two-day course on gay conversion, so that they can be “cured” of their homosexuality? (“Look out, ladies at T.G.I. Friday’s happy hour, here we come!”)

I seriously doubt that President Santorum (or President Brownback or President Palin) would do such things, but then I never envisioned President Obama ordering free birth control for any and every adult female who wanted it — regardless of income — and paid for under federal orders by health insurers, over the objections of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

"as she lays her coiffed head on her high-thread-count pillows"

I love these feints at populism, as if any one of these assholes pays less than $50 for a haircut. (Maybe Derbyshire.)

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I seriously don't understand any of these people

I never envisioned President Obama ordering free birth control for any and every adult female who [/b]wanted[/b] it

dude's word choice is straining JUSSSST a bit too hard. Look out! Tyrannical government to shove this optional choice down your throat should you, like, want it or something.

also, "adult female?" Really?

adult female is what dudes who live in their mother's baement call the ladies

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Santorumcare could involve, say, a federally mandated, five-day waiting period before women could have abortions. This parallels the original five-day interlude that potential firearms buyers faced under the Brady Law. How could the Left object to that?

how, indeed?

Santorumcare

I like the casual use of "Santorumcare," as if demonizing legislation that got ripped up and re-pieced together by congress as "Obamacare" is a thing and you can just tack some other dude's name on to "care" and it's fine

Also, hilarious because now it's assumed the government has a role worth addressing in healthcare, even among republicans. It's not "repeal the entire Obamacare bill," it is "we need Santorumcare"

eh, not really; the argument is "this tool shouldn't exist and we are going to use it to punish you to underscore what a terrible idea it was"

Man, these guys are thinking of nothing else but this.

This is indeed something new, although it resembles something very old. The radical Left, in every country in which it has gained power or influence, ever since the French Revolution, has wanted to dismantle, destroy, marginalize, or make impotent the Roman Catholic Church, which, at its best, has always stood athwart Progress (not “progress”) shouting “Stop!” Unlike many of my friends, I have never believed Obama is a Socialist or a radical or even a left-winger. He is, instead, a classic political adventurer, a true believer only in the Imperial Self, unhindered by doctrine or dogma, willing to channel the myths of whatever ideological fantasy allows him to gain power and then hold it. He chose the statist myths that appeal to the Left because they are now, as they have always been, no matter what rhetoric is chosen to disguise the fact, about the will to political power through control of or influence over the coercive power of the state. All in a good cause, all for progress and, er, progress, y’know, but still, one can’t do good unless one has, er, state power.

But Obama has been until now careful to disguise his contempt for those who disagree with him. His frequent calls for “civility” have always smacked of the disdain the Left feels for the great unwashed: One is polite, one tries to be civil, but, really, who are these people?

But now, in a moment of breathtaking, brazen over-reach, he finds himself in a fight he never believed would take place. Who, after all, would have believed the Catholic bishops, old, celibate men, their authority weakened by the manner in which they dealt with the homosexual sex scandal, scorned by the major media, not listened to by the vast majority of Catholics concerning the church teaching on contraception — who could imagine that these . . . these . . . people . . . would say “No!,” not once, but twice, to the Imperial Self? The White House, the New York Times, the entertainment industry, the mainstream media, radical feminists, and esteemed Catholic lay theologians like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Mikulski all said “Yes!,” as did the liberal Wall Street fat cats whose big bucks made New York state safe for same-sex marriage. This was a slam dunk for Obama. Obama shoots . . . he scores. Game over. As it is written, so it shall be done.

One is polite, one tries to be civil, but, really, who are these people?

Ha ha, to be honest this is my attitude towards all Corner writers.

And then the mask comes off: it's LIBERAL WALL STREET FAT CATS, see, responsible for gays getting married.

the homosexual sex scandal

fucking die