NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

"correctly"

i have yet to dig into this poll myself, but yes, the secret thread running through it is how clearly the wrong-answerers may be seeing the two parties

inability to identify party more associated with reducing defense spending just means you are smarter then the poll

As a college graduate I would answer the Pew survey in this way:

The Republican party's rhetoric is more consistently framed in terms of reducing the size of the federal government, but the actions of the Republicans at times when they have the power to control the size of the federal government are not consistent with that rhetoric. It would be far more accurate to characterize the Republicans as the party that wants to reduce the size of federal revenues.

the customers of Popeyes, White Castle, Dunkin’ Donuts and Chuck E Cheese were mostly Democratic, while the customers at Cracker Barrel, Chik-fil-A, Panera and Bob Evans were mostly Republican.

^^^My favorite part of this article. I'm surprised there was no talk around regions. What kind of lazy political analysis is this? I mean Dunkin' Donuts is basically the Northeast and Chick-fil-A is the South. Panera is mostly a suburban thing & White Castle is urban.

Further political analysis: Chick-fil-A rules. Cracker Barrel has good biscuits & gravy (for a chain). I wish I could move to a place that has both Dunkin' Donuts & Chick-fill-A (DC?). White Castle dominates this list. WTF Chuck E Cheese?

The same restaurants study showed that the customers at Cracker Barrel, Panera and Bob Evans were the most likely to vote in elections.

This is a very funny way of delivering old news.

my formatting is all goofy there

just got an email

Friends, readers, countrymen: You may have heard already (maybe too much) about my new book: “Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World.”

The subject is a juicy one: It gives you an overview of the 20th century (and about a decade of the 21st). It introduces you to a vast cast of characters, all of them interesting, not a dullard in the bunch. I’m speaking of the laureates, mainly. They’re a diverse bunch, too: What do Mother Teresa and Yasser Arafat have in common? (Someone said, “Is it the unusual headwear?”)

Finally, when you explore the peace prize, you have to confront some of the biggest questions: concerning war and peace, freedom and tyranny, and all that jazz.

As I said, the subject is juicy, and I hope you would find the book so too. To order it from National Review, go here. Ask for a signature and an inscription, if you want. Or, order the book more traditionally (!) – from Amazon, here.

And lemme know what you think, by e-mailing me via my column.

Thanks much, and all best,
Jay (Nordlinger)

his prose is so creepy: that mix of slang ("lemme know") and coy locutions ("As I said, the subject is juicy, and I hope you would find the book so too").

and all that jazz!

gah juicy (x2!)

Jay (Nordlinger)

(Austerity (Ponies))

it's kinda like when you were in fifth grade and a classmate called you for the homework who you didn't really know very well and they said, "hey, it's Jay. [long pause] you know, Nordlinger, from school." "i know who u are, Jay."

or he made torturous parenthesis signs with his fingers

I got that Nordlinger spam, too -- I noticed that the book hasn't really been reviewed too much outside the usually spots (Examiner, some promotion on NRO, hard-hitting KLO q&a).

Mordy, have you emailed him before? I've called him out on some stuff but never got a response until he/NRO spammed me about that dumb book.

i don't think so. i tend to save my vitriolic emails for jonah. maybe if you email one of them they just add you to the collective PR email listings. it did come from no-reply @ nationalreview.com

anybody listening
NRO reply at all

oh no

Or, order the book more traditionally (!) – from Amazon, here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw

this is really fucked up

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/297159/all-means-lets-worry-about-richard-grenell-kevin-d-williamson

in the course of mounting a defense of a gay foreign policy aide to mitt romney, mr wmson goes through the motions of some truly arch arch archreacitonary shit about sex, marriage, culture etc.

we need a term for that kind of mode of writing, not exactly throat-clearing, but "i am in a dispute with another conservative, and i'm taking was looks like the not-most-right-wing line, so i have to sound like a really angry asshole about something kind of related to what i'm talking about"

I'm sure there's a term for that type of rhetoric. It's p common.

assholery

What perfect timing!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/homophobic-maybe-youre-gay.html

Our paper describes six studies conducted in the United States and Germany involving 784 university students. Participants rated their sexual orientation on a 10-point scale, ranging from gay to straight. Then they took a computer-administered test designed to measure their implicit sexual orientation. In the test, the participants were shown images and words indicative of hetero- and homosexuality (pictures of same-sex and straight couples, words like “homosexual” and “gay”) and were asked to sort them into the appropriate category, gay or straight, as quickly as possible. The computer measured their reaction times.

http://thumbs2.modthesims.info/img/3/1/4/6/7/2/2/MTS2_dramamine213_1167042_murray-ghostbusters.jpg

straight men were asked to blow the researcher, toothiness reported on a 10-point scale

So many examples they could have included, too

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorsey/the-7-best-gifs-piers-morgan-pulled-out-of-jonah-g

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/5/1/11/anigif_enhanced-buzz-24994-1335885007-7.gif

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/5/1/11/anigif_enhanced-buzz-15613-1335884995-3.gif

"i could barely fit it into my mouth"

omg lol

What is he on? Is it a combination of 5 hour energy and beef jerky?

Probably how he wrote his books.

paul masson champagne surely

a combination of 5 hour energy and beef jerky

if this appeared under him when he was on tv I might cry at the beauty.

So, I was on Piers Morgan’s show on CNN tonight. It was a shameful spectacle. He pretended to be a serious interviewer and I spent far too long pretending he was one too. My apologies to everyone who tuned in. I will have a more comprehensive response tomorrow on the Tyranny of Cliches blog.

Hahah I wonder if he went in thinking "Well he can't be as mean as Jon Stewart..."

comedy gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijrpp_8NMws

sorry dude this what the kids call epic fail

i'm sure that's entertaining but i really just hate both these guys

I like the .gifs but I'm not actually going to, you know, watch any of this.

i'm sure that's entertaining but i really just hate both these guys

Agreed, I can't even bring myself to watch this because I hate Morgan as least as much as I do Goldberg.

Mr. Goldberg's thoughts are now up.

apparently he fawned and gushed over his next guest, some liberal actress. So much for going after both “sides” equally

(This was Rosario Dawson, BTW.)

I really don't like talking about gushing in such proximity to Morgan or Goldberg but I'm sure Morgan fawned over Rosario Dawson because she's hot -- I doubt he even knows about her political affiliation.

Conservative analysts and commentators admit their biases up front, and so journalists dismiss them as biased. “Objective” analysts and commentators lie about not having biases and their statements are taken at face value. I remember when I used to be on CNN how frustrating it was to have liberal contributors be asked “What did you think of the speech?” But when it came time to ask me or another conservative it was “So, Jonah, what’s the conservative take on this?

I hate to write it but this is true btw

All of which would be much better expressed by someone other than the goateed marshmellow.

I prefer The Hairy Yam

gross

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