NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

remainder of tweet to be pried from her cold dead hands

jHow 'bout this piece of addled scholarship?

aaaaand Chait's excellent response.

yeah that is infuriating

Jonathan Bernstein's response is also good, and differs from Chait's

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/05/in-which-conservatives-get-their-own.html

more antirevisionism

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_05/civil_rights_revisionism037520.php

is it me or has the corner been totally silent about this?

btw the comments on the Bernstein article are closer to footnotes: good stuff.

ha i read those a couple days ago but didn't put together who commenter "kdwmson". man he really does come off like a dumb asshole.

who "kdwmson" was, i mean

"the klan were all democrats" is nearing "hitler was a vegetarian" memetic (ha, i couldn't help but write "emetic" there) territory

From the Chait piece:

Buckley sneered at the double standard of liberal Democrats — in 1965, he complained, Vice-President Hubert Humphrey attended the funeral of a white woman shot by the Klan for riding in a car with a black man, but did not attend the funeral of a white cop shot by a black man.

Is this the genesis of the "Why are Al and Jesse protesting about (high profile crime with a minority victim) and not saying anything about (obscure, pulled from local paper case with a white victim)?" thing?

Why I Am Challenging Jonah Goldberg to a Fight for Charity. (via the always delightful Roy Edroso.)

Mark Steyn feeds the homophobe trolls

omg the comments

Part of the problem is defining who is gay. When I was younger I used to get a fair number of propositions from acquaintances of mine who were gay or bi. If I were to have accepted offers of oral sex would that have made me gay or just opportunistic? There was a short lived bit of pop culture not too long ago about LUGs, lesbian until graduation. So were these girls to be counted as gay? (Then there is the old joke that no woman is more than 3 drinks from a lesbian encounter.)
Also, a large part of our cultural news is based on certain specific large urban areas. These are the places where the concentration of homosexuals is significantly higher than the norm. I'm in Georgia and as far as I know there aren't that many gay venues in my immediate vicinity. However I do know that if for some reason I needed to find someone who is gay it would be simple enough to go to Atlanta and visit Little Five Points. When you come right down to it, your average midwestern gay teenager is probably just waiting to be old enough to move somewhere where he's not one of the few gay teens in town.

"if for some reason"

The campaign to lie about the number of homosexuals has been underway for quite some time. I've read about instances where expressing belief of anything less than 10% is judged a nigh hate crime.
"Everybody is gay." Your favorite athlete. Any given construction worker (not just the one in the Village people). Hitler. Anybody who finds homosexuality disgusting and/or morally objectionable.
Pffft. I'll take the under on 2%. 1% if you're talking the authentic kind and don't include the ones just trying to upset their parents, hang with with the "hip" crowd, or run some sort of scam.
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Helloitsme 06/04/12 07:32
Why do you care how many gay people there are? Are you afraid you will catch it? Never ceases to amaze me how the supposed individualist crowd feels so threatened by the simple idea of letting people be who they are. I've really come to believe that some people feel threatened because of their own secret attractions. Otherwise, whats it to you?

that article is more about popular innumeracy than anything to do with homsexuality.

if you asked americans what % of us are black, the mean answer would be about 40%

you ask americans how much of the budget is spent on any miniscule program (foreign aid is a perennial example) and the answer is never less than a quarter.

i've had lots of fun in life asking ppl what % of americans they think are jewish

at least one of the commenters on that thread would answer "too many"

"Counting Hollywood and the banks or not?"

I almost posted this column a few hours ago but more for the comments.

When you come right down to it, your average midwestern gay teenager is probably just waiting to be old enough to move somewhere where he's not one of the few gay teens in town.

this is likely true tbf, at least anecdotally

only-gay-in-the-village.youtubes

we got in an approval copy of the new goldberg book at my library and the bibliographers rejected it. libs.

Can you email Jonah and let him know? Maybe you'll get your email published!

Ooo, do this! Only start loading up on extra-fun completely false details, and see how many get passed along as gospel without anybody bothering to check a single fact, like that you work at the Geir A. Hongro Memorial Library or something.

Oh man.

madisonian 06/11/12 09:49
"Bryson was then 'found alone and unconscious behind the wheel of his vehicle,' after allegedly causing another accident in the neighboring city of Rosemead about five minutes later."

Since Obama and his admin believe they don't owe anyone an explanation for anything, and that they are not capable of taking responsibility for anything, we are all free to speculate on what caused this man to be in 2 accidents five minutes apart.

MY best guess is he was abusing prescription medication. If the WH has a better explanation, then they'll render it. Until then, he's a pill-popping junkie. I guess it's better than being a commie like Van Jones.

dream on, weirdo!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/302323/insult-injury-victor-davis-hanson

Given the other overt and implicit EU member insults to Germany, the greatest German backlash in the last 80 years is not a matter of if, but when. And the longer it is repressed, the more explosively it will erupt.

He sounds so creepily hopeful about this.

Wilheim II and Hitler were just angry John Galt types?

He sounds so creepily hopeful about this

right wing motif since Goldwater

kaiser angela

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/302484/obama-s-race-net-negative-polls-robert-verbruggen#

here we go guys

Poe's Law rears its head:

Having a serious journalist use the phrase the "N-word" is beginning to take its toll. Doesn't this seem like an abdication of journalistic responsibilities to use the euphemism when discussing the subject? For example, did the researcher mentioned here actually type "N-word" into the google search box?

Admittedly, I'm avoiding the use of the word here, mostly to dodge censorship of my peers, and perhaps even a comment filter. But it just seems like a step backwards toward kindergarten to see responsible, rational adults discussing a serious subject, yet fearing to even speak its name. If the purpose is to avoid offense, it would seem more appropriate to take another step back and use a term such as "racial slur". This at least leaves some question in the reader's mind. When you say "N-word", it leaves no question in anyone's mind what has been mentioned, and it really doesn't even cushion the blow. Who doesn't read the code phrase and instantly voice the actual word in his head (I say 'his' head because, obviously, I can't guess as to a feminine reaction...)?

When can we shuck these PC affectations and someday start to call an S-word an S-word? If it's objectionable, then perhaps talking about it less, rather than in code will actually lead to its demise...

Who doesn't read the code phrase and instantly voice the actual word in his head (I say 'his' head because, obviously, I can't guess as to a feminine reaction

http://global.nationalreview.com/images/nro_webathon_061212_blurb.png

smh/the mind reels @ what NRO might be like in gloomy/pessimistic mood

You weren't reading it Oct-Nov '08?

oops i forgot the end of the world as they knew it

NRO has been gloating lately like the election is in the bag for romney now. still the total lack of self-awareness in these people is always shocking. VDH is a doom-sayer even in the best times, i.e. predicting germany's imminent conquest of europe the other day...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VnjyfCUXqUA/S6xdOh5iiJI/AAAAAAAAASg/08wpB7nVgmo/s1600/maeva+(81).jpg

Jay Nordlinger, May 14: Black Panthers were Super Bad Murderers and why do liberals love them so much?

Jay Nordlinger, June 12: Chiang Kai-Shek...a complicated man. But perhaps...a necessary one

Many lovely people in Taipei bow to me, and I bow back — in kind of a sloppy, awkward, half-assed way. Remember how Clinton would give a salute, ridiculously?

i don't, as it happens, you bizarre little slave

Who doesn't read the code phrase and instantly voice the actual word in his head

that is pulled straight from a Louis ck bit fwiw.

well this is p sickening

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/302629/diego-garcia-going-native-patrick-brennan

pretty fertile: The War on Nixon

the word "enjoyed" here -- those blackguards!:

In sum, Bradlee-Woodstein bloodlessly assassinated the president, routinized the criminalization of policy and partisan differences, grievously wounded the institution of the presidency, and enjoyed and profited from doing so.

also lol this comment:

The only difference between Stalins [show trials] and Watergate's was the the body count.

but probably my subtle favorite:

And perhaps the all-time nadir in American presidential-election ethics was achieved in 1968, when Lyndon Johnson tried to salvage the election for his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, with a completely imaginary claim of a peace breakthrough in the Vietnam talks a few days before the election.

since being jailed lord black has taken up the cause of all white-collar convicts

routinized the criminalization!

yet Black's FDR bio is one of the best!

Executive Overreach
By John Yoo