NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

it's ok- basically gulag prisoner i think

which is disappointing, i'll admit

check out this sick insight guys

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314270/klein-white-house-woos-hillary-robert-costa#more

KLEIN: Number one, she felt that if she were on the ticket with Obama and he lost, she would be tarred as a loser when she tried to run in 2016. On the other hand, if she was on the ticket and he won, and he continued his far, left-wing socialistic policies, she would have to defend those policies when she ran in 2016.

how self-aware are these ppl? i mean there's obviously something to be said for trying to manipulate the media narrative in your direction by saying your opponent is reeling, etc. when cornerites do this is it gamesmanship or belief?

I think if you start going down that rabbit hole in order to answer that question you may not know what is up or down before long.

I think I said it on an earlier version of this thread but so much of modern conservatism in its contemporary media guise seems to call that whole distinction between belief and riling up liberals into question. It's almost an ideology that's implicitly or unconsciously knows how bankrupt it is.

tbf, i don't think k-lo is faking anything

Haha yes but she projects a weird anxiousness about it all rather than simple belief. It's all like the end of "Absalom, Absalom" for christ's sake.

Her earnestness is downright painful.

how self-aware are these ppl?

classic example is when k-lo wrote "we should be on our knees" she meant praying of course but still

Pareene wrote about it yesterday:

One major institutional difference between the left-wing and the right-wing media is the right-wing media’s undisguised contempt for its audience. Right-wing blog readers, Rush listeners and Fox viewers of America, take note: They think you’re stupid. All of them.

There’s no other explanation for the conservative media tendency to highlight and publicize stories that any person who’s been following politics for six months would immediately recognize as complete bullshit. This is why the Weekly Standard has created a clock that is counting down to the moment when Barack Obama will drop Joe Biden from the ticket and replace him with Hillary Clinton — an event that everyone knows will not happen. Bill Kristol and his lackeys cannot possibly be dumb enough to actually believe that Obama will blow up his own campaign and pull an entirely pointless V.P. switch. But they obviously think Weekly Standard readers are dumb enough to buy it. Matt Drudge, who knows his audience is stupid (Condi for Veep!), has been pushing the dump Biden story hard all week, just because. Everyone knows it won’t happen.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/16/hot_trend_weird_dumb_lies_about_joe_biden/

Re that skinnydipping incident in the Sea of Galilee, let's pause to remember Ross Douthat and WFB Jr.'s drunken splashing in the nude.

comments on the corner have gotten wild and woolly lately, a new era

I think there comes a time in a man’s life when he has a chance to say to his grandchildren, I once went skinny-dipping with William F. Buckley, Jr.

omg

there comes no time ever in a grandchild's life when they want to hear that

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0905/abuckley_0518.jpg

there was a dude a floor below me in college whose family used to sail with the Buckleys; I wonder if he ever was invited on the skinnydipstravaganzas

last time I went drunk skinnydipping I was singing with the BSO chorus

Birthday Suit Only?

after a few bottles of wine, yes

Ball Sac Only

I think there comes a time in a man’s life when he has a chance to say to his grandchildren, I once went skinny-dipping with William F. Buckley, Jr.

only acceptable response: so did you see William F. Buckley, III, if you know what I mean?

douthat's original essay on is a slick and perfectly repellent example of mentor porn between the "boat boy" and skinny-dipping the aura of (barely) repressed homosexuality hangs rather heavily in the air

“He didn’t know quite as much about sailing as I’d like,” Buckley confided to us a moment later, as his first mate scrambled to fix a rope near the bow. “But he does as he’s told well enough, and he has other duties....

i kinda wonder if WFB was the 'prominent conservative thinker' named by greil marcus in this anecdote: http://nickminichino.tumblr.com/post/23298676039/gm-for-the-paperback-edition-of-double-trouble-i

a golden moment:

There was an hour or so that we spent sprawled on the lawn near the ocean, while bees droned in the gardens nearby, and then we ate lunch on the wraparound porch, with a portly priest whom Buckley called Padre, while Pat smoked beneath a vast black sun hat and talked about seeing The Producers, and about dinner with the Kissingers and the Limbaughs at Le Cirque.

'the kissingers and the limbaughs' sounds like the best tv movie ever.

henry kissinger + rush limbaugh odd couple style sitcom

the severely flawed couple

"It's schnaztelpfeffer, Rush."

"NOW IT'S COMMUNIST GARBAGE."

Exeunt.

Jonah is mad..

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?

he also drives his daughter to school!

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

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."

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

cant even deal with this

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.

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.

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

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

wtf

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

this is just horrible horrible shit

btw the commenters are treating it as satire

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.

[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?

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

http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/tmp/cover_120827_toc.jpg

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

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