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"It's schnaztelpfeffer, Rush."

"NOW IT'S COMMUNIST GARBAGE."

Exeunt.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link

Jonah is mad..

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link

Every now and then I watch the actual broadcast-news shows, just to see what they’re up to.

How does he fit it into his busy schedule of doing nothing?

Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:33 (eleven years ago) link

he also drives his daughter to school!

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link

I believe this is the car in which he drives her to school, and also the laptop on which he watched broadcast news. MULTI-TASKING! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg

a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link

This, by the way, is a complaint about using "Berlin Wall" as a metaphor from a guy who wrote, unironically, "the white male is the Jew of liberal fascism."

Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/313504/boss

max, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link

cant even deal with this

max, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link

What do women want? The conventional biological wisdom is that men select mates for fertility, while women select for status — thus the commonness of younger women’s pairing with well-established older men but the rarity of the converse. The Demi Moore–Ashton Kutcher model is an exception — the only 40-year-old woman Jack Nicholson has ever seen naked is Kathy Bates in that horrific hot-tub scene. Age is cruel to women, and subordination is cruel to men. Ellen Kullman is a very pretty woman, but at 56 years of age she probably would not turn a lot of heads in a college bar, and the fact that she is the chairman and CEO of Dupont isn’t going to change that.

It’s a good thing Mitt Romney doesn’t hang out in college bars.

max, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link

When they go to church at their summer-vacation home, the Romney clan makes up a third of the congregation. He is basically a tribal chieftain.

Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.

From an evolutionary point of view, Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote. All of it. He should get Michelle Obama’s vote. You can insert your own Mormon polygamy joke here, but the ladies do tend to flock to successful executives and entrepreneurs. Saleh al-Rajhi, billionaire banker, left behind 61 children when he cashed out last year. We don’t do harems here, of course, but Romney is exactly the kind of guy who in another time and place would have the option of maintaining one. He’s a boss.

max, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link

oh god I got to the second paragraph and basically went "nooooooooooooooooo"

Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link

Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.

wtf

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link

This is one of the worst things I've ever read on NRO, and I'm including everything written by the Derb.

NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link

this is just horrible horrible shit

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link

btw the commenters are treating it as satire

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link

Kevin Williamson is the tool who wrote the article in May arguing that for the last hundred years the GOP has done more for blacks than the Dems and was given a good frisking by Jonathan Bernstein.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link

[Approved commenter] MikeB
08/22/12 08:20

After reading this tone-deaf piece, I can only speculate about the car Mr. Williamson drives -- particularly, the length of its hood.

[Approved commenter] Kevin D. Williamson
08/22/12 10:57

I don't own a car.

...burn?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link

Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.

Like I know the point he's trying to make is, Obama hasn't had enough kids to be a tribal chief, but WTF WTF WTF? Why didn't he just say two kids? Does the writer know YOU CANT CHOOSE THE SEX OF YOUR BABY

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link

This NRO Section Is Currently Offline

We should be back shortly. Thank you for your patience.

Mordy, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link

writing a thinkpiece on the results of all pre-suffrage elections using some loose psychology on homoerotic desire

very sexual album (schlump), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link

lol this asshole

it's interesting to read NR for which writers have given themselves the beat of popularizing for acceptable conservatism certain kinds of way-out right-wing ideas. for wmson it appears to be all the evo-psych/PUA/scentific misogyny stuff.

odd in a way that he hasn't gone full-on derb in terms of white nationalism, since the two go together, but gone to its bizarro-world opposite.

goole, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link

wow @ cover story

very sexual album (schlump), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link

pretty sure KDW is black, which might explain why he hasnt gone full derb

max, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link

He can just focus all of his hatred on women that way.

NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link

From an evolutionary point of view, Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote

From an evolutionary point of view, shouldn't Mitt Romney have died at least ten years ago?

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kevin_D._Williamson

He is the theater critic for The New Criterion

goole, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link

theater critic for the new criterion and aspiring magician by the look of things, kevin d. williamson

half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link

In 2010, Romney and his wife were flying back from the Vancouver winter Olympics when a guy flipped out on the plane and took a swing at him. Romney had reminded the guy to return his seat to the full upright and locked position before take-off — that’s our Mitt, no?

oh shit is this the LMFAO dude????

goole, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link

Roger Kimball on Gore Vidal

photos or it didn't happen

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link

groan!

goole, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link

hey did they flip back off of disqus comments?

goole, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link

I've read the fallopian tube sentence six times and still understand what he's trying to say.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link

ha still DON'T understand

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link

the president is a pussy

goole, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link

because he doesn't want enough pussy.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link

PS I have always generally liked Romney, now I will follow him to the gates of hell!

a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link

I am all good with that.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link

Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.

http://winnetka-heights.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2004-bush-family.jpg

hail dayton (brownie), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link

put it in all caps: R-MONEY. Jay-Z can keep his puny little lowercase letters and the Maybach: R-MONEY doesn’t own a flashy car with rims, R-MONEY does billion-dollar deals with Keystone Automotive and Delphi. You want to make it rain? R-MONEY is going to make it storm, like biblical. Rappers boast about their fat stacks: R-MONEY’s fat stacks live in a beachfront house of their own in the Hamptons, and the bricks in that house are made from tightly bound hundred-dollar bills.

things start to get a little zany with this paragraph. Kevin D. Williamson was obviously sipping the Cristal (like a rapper!) while putting together this piece

Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link

and the last!

It's difficult to tell exactly how to read Williamson's article. It seems like there is a tongue in cheek element to the whole thing, and (probably by design) it is not always clear whether he wants to be read entirely literally or not. Undoubtedly he will call his detractors humorless when the inevitable angry reactions come in, and of course those angry reactions are part of the point, the article is obviously supposed to offend the "right" people as a means of attracting attention (clearly the editors have taken a page from the Tina Brown playbook with this one). So having acknowledged all of that, and recognizing that to some degree I am reacting exactly the way that Williamson and NR intends for a certain portion of the audience to react, I'll just say that taken at face value, Williamson's argument is troubling, as it is implicitly premised on the idea that women (and specifically daughters) are objectively worth less than men and sons.

But hey! Why be so up tight?! I should stop being such a stick in the mud feminazi! Am I right? It's all just a big joke! Or maybe it isn't ( unless you take it seriously and don't like it, in which case go jump in a lake). So... fine. In that same spirit in which Williamson may or may not be joking, and adopting the primitive tribal outlook that he advocates (or maybe he doesn't!), I look forward to the day when National Review starts running articles in support of going back to the way things are supposed to be and stripping women of their voting rights and treating them as property. Just kidding! Or maybe not, who can say really.

P.S. I know that the lead time on cover stories is pretty long, but of all the weeks that National Review might have chosen to publish an intentionally provocative article calculated to offend, they chose a spectacularly bad one in this, the week of the Akin affair in which Democrats are making the argument to undecided women voters that Republicans don't like them.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 August 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link

versus:

bsjy 3 hours ago

Kevin's article was swagtastic, and Katrina's response is over-careful hedging and framing. The root of "virtue" is "man," and Kevin was clearly calling Mr. Romney to be open about his manliness. The feminism regnant today denies the fundamental complementarity of the sexes, but women want manly men as much as they want faithful me. Keep it going, Kevin. Cut loose, Katrina.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 August 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link

The feminism regnant today denies the fundamental complementarity of the sexes

lol, there was a time, thankfully pre-internet, when I wrote like this.

Bobby-fil-A (WmC), Thursday, 23 August 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link

Regnant? What the fuck kinda declension is that?

Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Thursday, 23 August 2012 06:38 (eleven years ago) link

it is an adjective being turned into a verb by an idiot

j., Thursday, 23 August 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link

great post alfred

very sexual album (schlump), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:11 (eleven years ago) link


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