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The NY Mets held their fifth Polish-American night on August 18, 2009. The Ablemen performed for pre-game ceremonies prior to the game. The event took place in the Mets' new ballpark, Citi Field. As part of the performance, the band supplied the music for the Polonaise Folk Dancers. Performers were not permitted on the field. The Ablemen entertained from the TV tower in centerfield and the dancers performed on a concourse beyond the centerfield seats. The performance was broadcast on the outfield video screens and all the TV's around the stadium concourses and concession stands. Click on the link below to view pictures from the evening.
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Has anyone on SodaHead been rude or cursed at you?
2012/08/09 00:41:30
This seems to be a common occurrence, and even more common the offender is the one who blocks the other person.
As for me, the answer is yes, but what do you expect on a public site that anyone can join?
As for me, the answer is yes, but what do you expect on a public site that anyone can join?
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BehindTheseEyes 2012/08/09 00:43:36Yes; but I deal with it.+7Yes. The reason why still unknown to me. Disagreement can be expressed without disrespect.
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Yes; but I deal with it.+1Twice by Christians constantly cussing over simple disagreements. The filth came out right away,. yet it's supposedly Atheists who are abusive and extreme. I could fill a whole page with videos and links proving the opposite.
I don't understand why people who are against cyber bullying are not for blocking instead of against it. - +1It is annoying how some people immediately resort to using profane slurs if you disagree with them.. I'm not saying this is limited to one group, I just think that's extremely rude and intolerant to do something like that. It sucks that normal people have to deal with others who refuse to hear a different point of view.. It's not like they have to agree with it.
In the last part I am saying that a lot of people here on Sodahead are against blocking people from commenting on your questions and comments,. no matter how rude a person gets. And some of those people who are against blocking must be against cyber bullying which can get nasty and in some super extremes even dangerous. But usually people who are against cyber bullying are not for using Sodaheads blocking option no matter what.
Yes; but I deal with it.Blocking or not taking correspondence receiving messages is rude. You don't know they have blocked you writing a long letter. Push send, and it is gone - erased. That should not be tolerated. All blocking should be eliminated.
- +1I think blocking is a bit.. Unhelpful. It is useful if you don't want to hear from them again, BUT it seems like people shouldn't use it if they just disagree.. That's being immature. On top of that, the other person should be willing to hear another's opinion without immediately shutting them up like that. -Intolerant much?
Besides, they might block you, and continue to say bad things about you, except now you can't defend yourself.. Some people are okay with that, but I just find it irritating. -
Your soul, and mine are one.
Communication is essential to learn. I have much to teach. It is when hatred thinks they will no longer have a hard hearts is when panic sets in blocking me so they can continue to be railing accusers, and scoffers without anyone teaching them to save their soul to not be that way. Others misjudge me because I have verses from the KJV bible. It brings back memories in them of how religion hurt them. I know loving truth. Religion for the most part is godless constantly against Jesus. They freak out blocking before they can find out I am their best friend. That hurts me. - +1:o aha the first part sounds funny
True; some people just won't listen.. :-/ Yet before that they use freedom of speech as an excuse to swear, and now they're stopping you from using your freedom of speech to even speak at all.. Hypocrites.. Oh well, they can be intolerant if they want to, so long as you know they're the one at fault. -
Yes indeed, hypocrites.The KJV says the Hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor. That's what they want to do. They don't know they are destroying their soul.
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A judge has rejected a plea agreement from the former head of a sports memorabilia auction house who admitted to using shill bidders to drive up prices and to altering the most valuable baseball card ever sold.
William Mastro of Mastro Auctions admitted to doctoring the 1909 Honus Wagner cigarette card that was once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky. The card sold for $2.8 million in 2007.
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50 experts and 171 advocates oppose the HHS/IOM Contract to re-define ME/CFS.
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The Murphy Group continue to keep the heart of a country beating with power and energy engineering expertise. Established in 1951, our experience in electricity services is supplemented by the latest technology advances, enabling our highly-qualified engineers to provide a cost-effective, one-stop shop in the management, design, installation and maintenance of electrical HV/LV solutions in transmission and distribution.
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Looks like her days with the Biebs are over. In a recent radio interview, Selena was asked if she's, quote, "Completely available in every way." And she said yes. Twice.
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If all goes as planned for local poet and Alberta College of Art and Design writing instructor Derek Beaulieu, fledgling scribes across Calgary will soon be seen loudly tapping away at portable typewriters in public places. They will be on the CTrain. In coffee shops. In the class room. Just about anywhere you would see fledgling writers tapping silently away on laptops.
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Microsoft is undergoing massive change. The software giant announced last year that it is a 'devices and services company,' it purchased Nokia's cellular business, and is currently seeking a new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer.
How will the new gaming consoles fare in an increasingly mobile-centred world?
Undeterred by the failure of the previous Surface tablet, Microsoft has brought it back with the Surface 2, a device that improves in a number of key areas and looks to take aim as a viable alternative to the iPad. Whether or not it actually achieves that will almost entirely depend on what you, the user, actually want to achieve with it.
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It seems to me sometimes that soldiers fallen,
Whom bloody battlefields have rendered dead,
Were buried not in soil to be forgotten,
But turned into white cranes in flight instead.
From that time, since their fate became a coffin
They've soared, and issued us a strident cry.
Is that not why we sadly, and so often,
Lift up our silent gaze when cranes go by?
Today, as evening yields to nightfall's border,
I see the cranes in flight, their wings unfurled,
As over fields they fly in perfect order
Just as they marched, when people in the world
They fly—their line extending to forever—
And call out names of someone to the cold.
Is that not why the song of cranes has never
Been far from Avar speech since times of old?
The weary wedge of birds on expedition—
It flies and flies through fog, towards the dawn,
And in the ranks I notice a position--
An empty space for me, for when I'm gone!
Some day in that formation I'll be flying;
I'll sail into the skies on my rebirth,
And from the heav'ns with crane trump I'll be crying
To those of you I left upon the earth
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Dear Parents, Guardians, Friends, Teachers, and Partners,
Denial is never a good thing, but have no fear. The truth will soon set us free to open the doors of eNG. We have to collect 1,000 or more just right signatures in just the right way so there can be no further delays. Together we can reach this next step and begin the change that this process has shown is needed in the systems that govern education.
1. Join the 100 signature challenge and get 100 signatures from your friends, family, neighbors, work, places of worship, parks where your kids play, etc.
2. Help us collect signatures at the following sites:
a. Lansdale Memorial Parade this Monday, May 27 at 8:00am.
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Can anyone tell me the dimensions of the "MCA 30th Anniversary Flag" and the "MCA Logo Flag"? Looking to purchase some new goodies for the garage and just want to make sure everything has a place.
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The Witty worm: A new chapter in malware
Computerworld - If press coverage is any guide, then the Witty worm wasn't all that successful. Blaster, SQL Slammer, Nimda, even Sasser made bigger headlines. Witty infected only about 12,000 machines, almost none of them home users. It didn't seem like a big deal.
But Witty was a big deal (see story). It represented some scary malware firsts and is likely a harbinger of worms to come. IT professionals need to understand Witty and what it did.
Witty was the first worm to target a particular set of security products -- in this case Internet Security System's BlackICE and RealSecure. It infected and destroyed only computers that had particular versions of this software running.
A few things we learned from this worm:
Witty was wildly successful. Twelve thousand machines was the entire vulnerable and exposed population, and Witty infected them all -- worldwide -- in 45 minutes. It's the first worm that quickly corrupted a small population. Previous worms targeting small populations such as Scalper and Slapper were glacially slow.
Witty was speedily written. Security company eEye Digital Security discovered the vulnerability in ISS's BlackICE/RealSecure products on March 8, and ISS released a patched version on March 9. EEye published a high-level description of the vulnerability on March 18. On the evening of March 19, about 36 hours after eEye's public disclosure, the Witty worm was released into the wild.
Witty was very well written. It was less than 700 bytes long. It used a random-number generator to spread itself, avoiding many of the problems that plagued previous worms. It spread by sending itself to random IP addresses with random destination ports, a trick that made it easier to sneak through firewalls. It was -- and this is a very big deal -- bug-free. This strongly implies that the worm was tested before release.
Witty was released cleverly, through a bot network of about 100 infected machines. This technique has been talked about before, but Witty marks the first time we've seen a worm do it in the wild. This, along with the clever way it spread, helped Witty infect every available host in 45 minutes.
Witty was exceptionally nasty. It was the first widespread worm that destroyed the hosts it infected. And it did so cleverly. Its malicious payload, erasing data on random accessible drives in random 64KB chunks, caused immediate damage without significantly slowing the worm's spread.
What do we make of all this? Clearly the worm writer is an intelligent and experienced programmer; Witty is the first worm to combine this level of skill with this level of
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Wilson v. State
249 P.3d 28 (Mont. 2010)
In Wilson v. State,[1] the Montana Supreme Court held that the Montana State Prison ("MSP") did not violate a defendant's constitutional rights when it denied him prescribed psychiatric medication.[2] The Court upheld the district court's denial of post-conviction relief, finding that the defendant failed to prove MSP "consciously disregarded a substantial risk of serious harm" or acted in a manner that "greatly exacerbate[d] [his] mental illness."[3] Therefore, the Court held that MSP did not violate the defendant's Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment or his right to individual dignity under the Montana Constitution.[4] Continue reading
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249 P.3d 913 (Mont. 2011)
In Walters v. Flathead Concrete Products, Inc.,[1] the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the Workers' Compensation Act ("WCA")—specifically, the constitutionality of the WCA's exclusive remedy provision and the provision providing a $3,000 lump sum payment to non-dependent parents of a deceased worker.[2] Carol Walters ("Walters"), the mother of a deceased employee, asserted wrongful death and survivorship claims against her son's employer, Flathead Concrete Products, Inc. ("FCP").[3] The Court affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment for FCP, finding that the WCA's exclusive remedy provision barred Walters' claims.[4] Continue reading
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250 P.3d 300 (Mont. 2011)
In State v. Stiffarm,[1] the Montana Supreme Court held that a district court cannot revoke a suspended sentence prior to the commencement of that sentence.[2] The Court relied upon a strict interpretation of Montana Code Annotated § 46–18–203(2), which required that a petition for revocation of a suspended sentence "be filed with the sentencing court during the period of suspension or deferral."[3] In doing so, the Court overruled a line of cases that allowed a district court to file a revocation petition before the period of suspension.[4] In addition to redefining the permissible period for a district court to revoke a suspended sentence,[5] Stiffarm demonstrates that stare decisis will not sustain a statutory interpretation that contradicts the plain language of a statute.[6] Continue reading
State v. Pearson
251 P.3d 152 (Mont. 2011)
In State v. Pearson,[1] the Montana Supreme Court held that methamphetamine discovered during an unlawful search of a defendant's fanny pack was admissible under the inevitable discovery doctrine.[2] The Court determined that the officers initiated lawful investigatory proceedings and intended to arrest the defendant prior to the unlawful search.[3] Therefore, a routine inventory search at the police station would have inevitably revealed the methamphetamine.[4] Continue reading
State v. Norquay
248 P.3d 817 (Mont. 2011)
In State v. Norquay,[1] the Montana Supreme Court reached two noteworthy holdings, each matters of first impression in Montana.[2] First, the Court held that admitting a videotaped deposition of the State's expert DNA witness did not violate the defendant's right to confront the witness because pregnancy prevented the witness from attending trial.[3] The Court reasoned that since the State made a good faith effort to procure the witness, the district court properly allowed the videotaped testimony.[4] Second, the Court held that the district court's Allen instruction (a pattern instruction given to encourage deadlocked juries to come to a resolution) did not unduly pressure the jury to reach a unanimous verdict.[5] Nonetheless, the Court adopted significant changes to the Allen instruction.[6] Continue reading
State v. Maine
255 P.3d 64 (Mont. 2011)
In State v. Maine,[1] the Montana Supreme Court modified the requirements that a defendant must meet to render a prior conviction unusable for sentence enhancement.[2] The Court declined to adopt the rigid standard used by the United States Supreme Court, which bars defendants from challenging prior convictions unless they were denied their right to counsel.[3] The Montana Supreme Court acknowledged that the State has an interest in the finality of decisions and modified the existing standard to place a higher burden on defendants to offer affirmative evidence to demonstrate the invalidity of a prior conviction.[4] To render a prior conviction constitutionally infirm—and therefore unusable for purposes of an enhanced punishment on a pending charge—a defendant must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that a previous conviction violated the Constitution.[5] Continue reading
Montana v. Wyoming
131 S. Ct. 1765 (2011)
In Montana v. Wyoming,[1] the United States Supreme Court held that under Article V(A) of the Yellowstone River Compact ("Compact") neither the doctrine of prior appropriation nor the doctrine of recapture prohibit upstream water-rights users from increasing the efficiency of their irrigation systems, even if the increased use is detrimental to downstream water-rights holders of otherwise equal seniority.[2] In doing so, the Court affirmed the findings of the Special Master and held that Montana's complaint regarding the increased efficiency of irrigation systems in Wyoming failed to state a claim under Article V(A) of the Compact.[3] Continue reading
Keller v. Liberty Northwest, Inc.
246 P.3d 434 (Mont. 2010)
The risk of misdiagnosis presents a special difficulty to the settlement of Workers' Compensation claims. Claimants commonly request rescission of settlement contracts based upon mutual mistake regarding their injuries.[2] In Keller v. Liberty Northwest, Inc.,[1] the Montana Supreme Court clarified the burden of proof required to assert mutual mistake in such cases. The Court established that a settlement may be rescinded due to mutual mistake, even if the parties knew about the theory of injury, as long as that theory existed when the parties settled and was "disregarded, forgotten, or not considered."[3] Continue reading
In re Estate of William F. Big Spring, Jr.
255 P.3d 121 (Mont. 2011)
In the Montana Supreme Court decision, In re Estate of William F. Big Spring, Jr.,[1] the Court revised its subject-matter jurisdiction analysis for regulatory and adjudicatory actions that arise within the exterior boundaries of an Indian reservation.[2] The Court reversed the Ninth Judicial District Court's denial of the appellants' motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction over the probate of the estate of William F. Big Spring, Jr., an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe.[3] The estate was located within the exterior boundaries of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.[4] In an attempt to reconcile clouded Montana caselaw, the Court overruled its precedent and articulated a fresh interpretation of controlling law for Montana courts to determine jurisdiction.[5] The Court held that the proper jurisdictional analysis asks whether the State's exercise of jurisdiction is preempted by federal law and, if the State's jurisdiction is not preempted, whether the State's assumption of jurisdiction would infringe on tribal self-government.[6] Continue reading
Gordon v. Kuzara
245 P.3d 37 (Mont. 2010)
In Gordon v. Kuzara,[1] the Montana Supreme Court held that an operating agreement's ("OA") arbitration clause does not apply to judicial dissolution of a limited liability company ("LLC") when the OA contains no provision addressing judicial dissolution.[2] Policy arguments favoring arbitration were not persuasive to the Court because the OA did not implicate interstate commerce or the Federal Arbitration Act.[3] As a matter of first impression in Montana, the Court determined that because the parties never agreed to arbitrate in the event of a judicial dissolution, the general rule that arbitration agreements between two parties are valid and enforceable did not apply. [4] Continue reading


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Its not because of the quality. Cheap alcohol means people can get drunk for a tenner in some parts of the UK. I decided to write an article after reading a report about young people in Newcastle about young people getting so drunk that some of them ended up being taken to hospital.
One of the reasons they were drinking so much is because drinks were so cheap. Here is a couple of examples: A bar was offering two cocktail jugs for just £10, and one club was offering a triple shot of vodka and vimto for just £2.50.
I'm not saying the price of alcohol is completely to blame but it certainly doesn't help the problem when for £20 you could get completely wrecked.
I asked people if the prices of alcohol would help the problem and this is what they said:
" Sensible drinkers shouldn't be penalized by having to pay more for alcohol just because some idiots choose to drink far more than is necessary or safe. Leave alcohol prices as they are."
" They raised the price of cigarettes to a very high price but people still smoke. If the price of alcohol is raised people will still do it. Maybe the better way would be to raise the price of certain alcoholic drinks that people use to binge drink, like all those nasty cheap white ciders that you see for sale in corner shops that are 5 litres for £3.00 etc. that is just ridiculous."
" The grand experiment in the USA in the 1930's showed what happens when alcohol becomes scarce. Organized crime made millions and gang warfare broke out over supplying cheap alcohol to the consumer.
Raise the price and you make it unavailable to people of a certain income. Some entrapenuer will step in and start selling it on the black market at prices affordable to all. Soon gangs form and fight over distribution of the alcohol.
The second problem is people start making their own alcohol, and if not done right, can cause blindness and central nervous system problems.
It is better to have a clean product available without the gang warfare."


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That's because the coach was preaching forgetfullness to her Wolves after Wednesday's five-set loss to Woodland Christian.
"Just trying to have them focus on the moment instead of (Wednesday)," Newsom said told her players. "Don't think about last night, don't think about the mistake that may have just happened, just focus on the particular job they have in that moment."
Did that work, Coach?
"I could tell just mentally, they weren't going to give up like we did (Wednesday)," she said. "I felt really good going into the fourth set that they mentally had it under control."
Woodland avoided another collapse, beating Inderkum 25-19, 26-24, 21-25, 25-11 on Thursday.
"We needed to come back tonight and win," Newsom said. "It certainly wasn't give to us, so we had to work for it."
Tori Maichel topped the Wolves (5-5, 2-0 Tri-County Conference) with 12 kills, nine of them on tips to the middle of the Tigers' defense.
"(Maichel) kept going to that spot and it just worked every singe time," Newsom said. "She was playing very smart."
As did other Woodland hitters, the coach said -- to the benefit of Kelly Campos, who notched 35 assists.
"The hitters did a really good job tonight, going for open spots and doing the smart thing," Newsom said.
Monique Gomez had 11 kills and Katie Baker added six.
Maichel tallied three blocks and Gomez two.
Baker's 18 digs were second only to Natalie Butterfield's 25.
The Wolves host Yuba City on Thursday.
Woodland JV 2, Inderkum 0 -- The JV Wolves continued their unbeaten season with a 25-10, 25-14 victory.
"We just decided to limit our errors and dominate," coach Karly Marin said.
Marin noted Julia Jamison's flawless service, along with nine assists and three kills.
Liz Lucchesi had six kills and five aces for Woodland (9-0, 2-0 TCC).
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Why Vacations Make you More Creative
I recently found the article "Concentrate Then Stop Thinking" on Lifehacker and thought it was worth a share since many of us are on vacation this week.
The gist: Forcing creativity will only stifle it. The best ideas start to flow when you essentially "let go".. which explains why so many of us have our best ideas while on vacation.
Any new ideas or motivations you've discovered over your holiday break? Anyone writing career goals for the new year? Any new lessons you are excited to start in January?
PS. A week left to sign up for the January online class "Creativity in Crisis" – starting on January 3rd! Can't wait!


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Adult e-learners have certain characteristics that are not always addressed in the design of on-line instruction and training.This paper examines many of the characterisitcs of adult e-learners and the factors that influence their learning. It discusses how these factors can be addressed when designing and developing an adult e-learning environmentand overcoming the barriers to participation.
Williams, V. (2003). Supporting the Adult E-Learner: Principles and Principals. In A. Rossett (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (pp. 1256-1259). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. Retrieved December 11, 2013 from http://www.editlib.org/p/12119.
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Silverback Mapuwa.
At the end of April, my fellow rangers and I went to check on the Mapuwa mountain gorilla family near Jomba. Don't let the photos fool you, it was one of the wetter days that I can remember. Mapuwa has been the leader of this group for many years, but over the last year, silverback Nvuyekure has been provoking one fight after another with him and now appears to be in control. Before I tell you about our visit, I would like to give you a little history about Mapuwa and eastern Congo back when he first set out to create a family of his own.
Mapuwa is the son of Rugendo and the brother of Humba. He left the Rugendo family back in 1998. Being a solitary mountain gorilla is hard enough, but Mapuwa became one at the height of the ADLF war or Second Congo War. Heavy combat between the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-ZaĂŻre (ADLF) and the forces of Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) destabilized the region, including Virunga National Park. Despite all the bloodshed and refugee crisis created by the conflict, Mapuwa not only remained alive, he succeeded in forming a small family with two females.
Blackback Gourba was found in the company of Mapuwa during our visit
Mapuwa built his family quickly. By December 2000, his group had grown to seven and a year later it was up to nine. The Mapuwa family of today consists of 18 members: two silverbacks (Mapuwa and Nvuyekure), one blackback (Mambo), five adult females (Kanepo, Kagofero, Jicho, Bitangi and Bikenge), four sub-adults (Gourba, Sebagabo, Dunia and Sebutimbiri), one juvenile (Buzara), and five babies (Wathaut, Udongo, Vilavu, Semiteja, and Palumate).
Getting back to our visit, we had a long and muddy hike in to see the group. I am used to these conditions, but the weather that day was worse than "normal". At times like these, we rangers are especially grateful for those of you who have donated money for equipment, such us rubber boots and rain coats. We found the Mapuwa family divided into two groups. One group consisted of silverback Mapuwa, blackbacks Gourba and Mambo, and all the sub-adults.
Silverback Nvuyekure
The other group was centered around silverback Nvuyekure, who had all five females and their babies with him. So far, Mapuwa is content to remain with the group and Nvuyekure is tolerating his presence. Most likely, though, the group will eventually split like the Kabirizi group did recently.
Adult female Bikenge and her baby Palumate
Adult female Bitangi and her baby Semiteja
Adult female Jicho's baby, Vilavu
Although we didn't get photos of Kanepo, Kagofero, Dunia, Sebutimbiri, Wairongo and Udongo, we did find them. Given the rain that day, I am surprised we managed to get as many photos as we did.
Sasha Says: 4 May 2013
What does it take for a silverback to become the leader of a group? Why, for instance in this case, is the "reproductive leader" not always considered the true leader of a gorilla group?
gorilla.cd Says: 4 May 2013
Good question, Sasha. Nvuyekure has become the true leader of the group. He fought with Mapuwa for a year to gain control of the females and has fathered children in the group. Mapuwa is aging and no longer has the ability or desire to fight for dominance. Most importantly, Nvuyekure will not tolerate Mapuwa approaching the adult females.


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NPR's Double Standard
Juan Williams bad, Daniel Schorr good.
. I'm not surprised Juan Williams got fired by NPR. I've been expecting it. I know Mara Liasson was
some months ago because of her Fox connection. And Juan has been courting a smackdown for months now with his frequent appearances on
and the
O'Reilly Factor
, where he seems less doctrinaire than he is on
Special Report
. I imagine Fox will take care of him, perhaps with a show of his own. I'd have let it go at that except for an emerging meme best exemplified by Bernie Goldberg's column on the matter, "
Juan Williams, NPR and the Death of Liberalism
Here's a bulletin, NPR: Lots and lots and lots of Americans feel the same way as Juan Williams. And that includes lots and lots of liberals. And probably a lot of liberals who work at NPR. Juan's "crime" wasn't that he said something bigoted. His crime is that he said something that liberals find politically incorrect. And that he said it out loud. And worst of all, that he said it on the Fox News Channel.
In liberal circles this is nothing less than a crime against humanity!
What makes this so crazy -- and so sad -- is that liberals are the open-minded ones, the ones who cherish the free exchange of ideas, the smart ones. And if you don't believe me, just ask any liberal, who will be glad to tell you how smart and open-minded he or she is. But these are the kind of people who believe in "free speech" only as long as they agree with you.
My problem? Goldberg acts as if this is some startling new milestone in the long decline of American liberalism. It isn't. I understand that he wants to perpetuate the myth that there was some kind of Golden Age of news reporting in which liberal journalists were objective and fair-minded despite their political views. But he's wrong about that.�What's new is the Internet and the bright glare of attention liberal corruption now attracts. The biases, hidden agendas, and distorting reportage have always been there. Liberals have
been tolerant, open-minded, or fair. To this day, the
New York Times
has never returned or repudiated the Pulitzer Prize awarded to
William Duranty
for covering up the worst of Stalin's crimes in a deliberate attempt to promote Soviet communism in his homeland.
NPR's hands aren't clean either. Confounding many of my friends, I listened to NPR at intervals for years, just to remain aware of what story the liberals were telling themselves and their constituencies. The absolute hardest thing to stomach was the daily monologue of Daniel Schorr, introduced reverentially by NPR hosts. He was from the era Goldberg would like us to believe was professional, principled, and competent. He died this summer, and here's one of the final paragraphs of his official bio:
In 1996, Schorr received the Columbia University Golden Baton for "Exceptional Contributions to Radio and Television Reporting and Commentary." An award that is considered the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Schorr has also been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Society of Professional Journalists and in 2002, Schorr was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Golden Baton! Wow. If I'd known that, maybe I wouldn't have had to grit my teeth whenever I heard that old-time CBS voice -- that smug, condescending, know-it-all world weariness of the lone intelligent man in the room, now that Eric Severaid was pushing up daisies. Or maybe not. Here's an
from his resume NPR's 'editorial standards' might have taken more note of than they did. It dates to 1964, when the liberal media and intelligentisia did everything they could think of to destroy Barry Goldwater:
In response to a questionnaire from a magazine, 1,189 psychiatrists, none of whom had ever met Goldwater, declared him unfit for office � �emotionally unstable,� �immature,� �cowardly,� �grossly psychotic,� �paranoid,� �chronic schizophrenic� and �dangerous lunatic� were some judgments from the psychiatrists who believed that extremism in pursuit of Goldwater was no vice. Shortly before the election, Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter published in Harper's an essay (later expanded into a book with the same title), �The Paranoid Style in American Politics,� that encouraged the idea that Goldwater's kind of conservatism was a mental disorder.
On the eve of the convention that nominated Goldwater, Daniel Schorr of CBS, �reporting� from Germany, said: �It looks as though Senator Goldwater, if nominated, will be starting his campaign here in Bavaria, center of Germany's right wing� and �Hitler's one-time stomping ground.� Goldwater, said Schorr, would be vacationing near Hitler's villa at Berchtesgaden. Schorr further noted that Goldwater had given an interview to Der Spiegel �appealing to right-wing elements in Germany� and had agreed to speak to a gathering of �right-wing Germans.� So, �there are signs that the American and German right wings are joining up.�
But as Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard has reported, although Goldwater had spoken vaguely about a European vacation (he did not take one), he had not mentioned Germany, and there were no plans to address any German group.
Goldberg's Tiffany news network would never have put up with that, would they? From the same bio that lists all of Schorr's awards:
In 1964 Schorr was nearly sacked after reporting that Barry Goldwater was linked with a group of German right-wing military men.
sacked. Awww. But it didn't stop him from receiving the Golden Baton. Or a sinecure as resident god of journalism on NPR for years and years and years.
This is an old old game that has just selected Juan Williams as victim. It looks like African-American contributors at NPR have just been cut in half. Liberals are what they've always been. Totalitarians who continue to envy the Soviet model of press freedom: Infinite freedom to spout the party line, and no freedom to disagree with what is clearly correct.
I wish Juan Williams well. I hope this is a learning experience for him. His most upstanding defenders at this moment are conservatives who disagree with almost everything he says and believes about politics. What does that tell you? Or him?
More stuff that's not about the election:
The Event
. Forget the Big Hollywood paranoia about anti-Bush themes. Not true. I like this show. This president is also a fighter, like (gasp) GWB. Yeah, it's going to be cancelled (and probably very soon), but until it is, it's a great thrill ride. Catch it on-demand, from episode
two. Yes, it's flawed, but it's more
than not. This time, Jack Bauer is strictly an amateur, but
he will not stop
. And Blair Underwood as president is no Obama. A few episodes in, you'll begin to like him. Promise.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
More stuff that's not about the election:
Staying on our toes:
How do we do it?
. People keep asking me, "IP, how do you manage to be so on top of things?" I have a secret weapon. The missus. Here are three emails I've received just in the last
Christie Really is a Big Man
Seen this?
Christie Offers Education Job to Rhee
Colts News
I'm guessing drinking is the only leisure activity in Indianapolis:
Colts Punter Arrested.for Swimming in Canal
The Scots
They are crazy.� They want no part of war, but don�t want their defense spending cut.� So they can cruise the world on warships?
Scotland Battered in Defense Review
How do I manage to stay on top of things? I don't. I'm just trying to keep up with my wife. A losing battle, I fear.
More stuff that's not about the election:
What's Up with Planet Green?
Yeah, it's Discovery Channel. But Planet Green is running it...?!
Who says I'm not open-minded? I've been watching the new Planet Green Channel, which features an inordinate number of documentaries about touchy-feely types interacting with bears. Okay. But there's less about Global Warming than I expected, and I have to say they've surprised me. They're running the reality show "Fight Quest," about two martial arts fanatics who travel the world looking for, well, fights. Gaia doesn't seem to be on the menu. Odd.
AND. They also have what may be the best reality show I've ever seen:
Last One Standin
g. Six athletes -- three Americans and three Brits --� travelling the world to participate in tribal sports that are frequently downright dangerous. I do mean "travel the world." They've done stick-fighting in Zulu territory, wrestling in Mongolia, kick-fighting in India, a marathon-plus race in sandals in Brazil, and crazed contact cricket in the South Pacific.
Green? Gaia? Well, maybe. I like the changes they've made to the standard reality format. They're not constantly tossing someone aside every week. There's no politicking or backbiting. The six contestants like one another, root for one another, and seem well aware that they're being given an opportunity to measure up to the manhood standards in cultures so diverse that you wonder how a bunch of jocks can handle the cognitive dissonance. But they do. I confess that watching it from week to week makes me proud of western civilization. Wherever they go, they want to measure up. Whatever the new sport, they have a local trainer and they quickly become committed to not disappointing him. They all seem to have a talent for immersion. Whatever the challenge, by the time they enter the ring, they are emotionally invested in the outcome -- honoring the local culture even as they insist on upholding their own. In the terms of the show, they are competing with one another, But there's a competitive ideal they embody with no emanations of fraud. They're antagonists
Did I mention that they're diverse? A BMX racer from Oklahoma. A rugby and cricket star from Oxford, who's pursuing a degree in theology. A cockney kickboxer. An American strong man competitor with spectacles and nipple rings (presently tied for the lead). An endurance athlete from Alaska. A Brit fitness guru who entered the Mongolian wrestling competition with two broken ribs. The best episode to date was the Zulu stick fighting. People die in these matches. Drawn blood is one of only three ways a match can end. All of them were afraid, on camera, and all of them competed. Some of them won. Best of all, you can see them all growing. They're not just dumb jocks. They're men. Why the whole thing seems kind of retro and, well, lovely.
Next stop, Indonesia. I'll be watching. Eventually, there will be a winner. But it seems very much as if they're all winners. As are we for watching.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
A Peek Inside
Skull & Bones!
. There's this new movie,
The Social Network
. I hear it was also a book. One or the other or both names the
Phoenix SK Club
at Harvard as an actor in the drama.
So now I guess we can expect a new wave of Discovery Channel documentaries about the Phoenix SK Club to add to the sinister revelations about Yale's Skull & Bones.
Has it occurred to anyone that the definition of a secret society is that it succeeds in remaining secret? Skull & Bones isn't a secret. You're all panting and upset about it. The Phoenix Club isn't a secret. Here it is:
Want to know a
secret? The Porcellian Club. Harvard's oldest final club. Founded in 1791. They have their own gate into Harvard Yard. All anybody knows about them -- even among the other Harvard final clubs -- is rumor and speculation. They're an eminence so gray as to be nearly invisible.
The Porcellian Gate. See the boar's head? No? Why it's so secret.
Other clubs take in ten to twelve members a year. The Porcellian accepts two or three. One of the few things we know about them is who they
take: Teddy Kennedy (The Owl), Jack and Bobby Kennedy (The Spee), Franklin Roosevelt (The Fly), J.P. Morgan (The Delphic -- in fact, he founded it to get in), and the Facebook boys (The Phoenix). uh, a point of explanation. At Harvard, the Porcellian is like Harvard; if you get in, that's where you go.
All of which begins to make Skull & Bones look like pretty small potatoes. First of all, the Bushes and Kerrys obviously didn't get into Harvard, or why would they go to Yale? And even if they had, there's
chance they would have gotten into the, uh, Porcellian.
If you have mystique even in a world of secrets, you must be special. The scuttlebutt at Harvard is that admission to the Porcellian is a free ticket to the rest of your life. If you need connections, the Porcellian will provide. If you need money, the Porcellian will provide. If you need, well, anything, the Porcellian will provide.
Wikipedia has a standard
disinformation piece
that lists some of the members. Of course, they don't list
the members. No mention of Count Dracula ('96), Darth Vader ('03), or Bonaparte Louis-Napoleon ('88), for example. Or the Archangels Michael ('91), Gabriel ('91), and Lucifer ('91).
I'm just saying. Nobody nowhere knows what goes on in this building.
Shouldn't the MSM start getting to the bottom of the real secret society that runs everything? Or are they just too afeared to do so?
Reliable Nonsense
Sorry, my dear. He always was a smacked ass.
. This guy. Sorry. A teaspoon of brains with a tablespoon of TV Q-attractiveness. Do I sound bitter? The missus continues to defend him. "I used to like him," she lamely explains.
Stop it. He's an idiot. Here's his latest, at his new home, the
Daily Beast
. Oh, Yes. It's fisked throughout.
How the Media Blew the Midterm
The media narrative by now is set in concrete: The voters are teed off, rising up, mad as hell and ready to wreak havoc.
There is a whiff, if you read between the lines, that the expected outcome is somehow unjust.
The Democrats are going to get their backsides handed to them, in this telling, because the Obama administration has clumsily failed to explain what it�s done for the folks, and because of slightly scary passions unleashed by the Tea Party crazies.
[Let's repeat that: "Slightly scary passions unleashed by Tea Party crazies." It's scary to object to multi-trillion dollar deficits. It's crazy to want a smaller federal government. Got it. Thanks, HOWARD.]
The journalistic tone was somewhat different in 2006, when exasperated voters handed the House and Senate to the Dems, and 2008, when Barack Obama sold himself as a post-partisan savior.
[Different? Really? Ya think?]
I�m not saying this is intentional
[of course not]
, or that the MSM are mangling the midterms.
[No, no, no, no, no, I'd never say that...]
Many voters are angry, especially about the anemic economy, and it�s their right to toss out whoever they deem to be the bums. But on some level, many journalists believe the White House has accomplished a heckuva lot
[uh, yeah, we know many journalists believe that; and you left the Post for the Beast, why?]�
and they see the Tea Partiers as inchoate and maddeningly inconsistent�denouncing big bad government while clinging to their Medicare and Social Security benefits.
[Tired of this liberal touchstone. You force us into a system and then denounce us when we object because we take the crumbs we're allowed. Doesn't mean we ever liked what we were forced to accept.]
It�s as if the pundits are collectively engaged in a group grope, feeling their way around this strange and sharp-toothed political animal that resembles nothing they�ve encountered before.
["Nothing we've ever encountered before." Yawn. Nothing rhey've ever bothered to cover as journalists before. How could that be? WE DON'T LIKE YOU, DON'T TRUST YOU, DON'T TALK TO YOU. And fortunately for us, you rarely ask. News Flash: We think you journalists are lefty assholes. Whatcha gonna do about THAT, Howie?]
Few have gone as far as the late (and usually great) Peter Jennings, explaining the 1994 Gingrich takeover by declaring that �the voters had a temper tantrum.�
[Unlike the tantrum Jennings had on 9/11, questioning the courage of his president while the Secret Service was fighting a losing battle to keep him away from the White House. What a man, er, clothes horse.]
But news organizations were late to the Tea Party phenomenon, and are still grappling to explain it�in part because of its amorphous and unofficial nature.
[Always upsetting when voters are "unofficial."]
They were blindsided by Scott Brown�s win and Lisa Murkowski�s loss.
[Something about pros versus amateurs? Maybe
will help.]
�The media profile is of an angry, racist rabble, and that doesn�t match the people I�ve seen in focus groups,� says Republican pollster Whit Ayres, describing the Tea Party movement. �There�s a predisposition in the more liberal elements of the media to paint Republicans as unsophisticated rubes who don�t appreciate all the wonderful things the Obama administration and the Democratic Party have done for the country. It�s just out of touch with the reality.�
For Jano Cabrera, a Democratic strategist, the subject strikes a nerve. �My wife and I were having this very conversation,� he says. �When we were trying to seize power, we had justified anger, and now we talk about uninformed voters.� Obama inherited unprecedented challenges, Cabrera says, but in politics �you can�t go back and say it�s the other guy�s fault.�
[Awwwww. Except that your guy keeps doing it, and doing and doing it, and...]
[This] is a year in which facts�the preferred currency of the reality-based media
[Huh? Reality-based? Did I miss the memo?]
�often don�t seem to matter. Journalists report that Sharron Angle had favored privatizing Social Security, spoke of people considering �Second Amendment remedies� and counseled rape victims to turn �a lemon situation into lemonade� by giving birth�and she�s still competitive with Harry Reid.
[Hey. Let's lynch her. A corrupt liar would be ever so much better.]
� Media outlets report that Christine O�Donnell, the onetime witchcraft dabbler
[Fuck you, Howie]
, opposes masturbation
[at one time, or is everything present tense with you, Howie?. Which must mean Obama is a cokehead, right?
] and considers evolution �a myth,�
[as do many serious scientists]
and she laughs it off (while trailing in the race).
[If we asked you why you bailed on the Post, dying from its own liberal poison, would you answer or laugh it off? Just so.]
New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino calls gay pride parades �disgusting,�
[they are, as even you know after a beer or two]
� hurls baseless charges about Andrew Cuomo�s sex life (after fathering a child out of wedlock himself) and tells a New York Post columnist �I�ll take you out��and still hasn�t been laughed out of the race.
[Let's see. After Spitzer and Bubba, would you stake your life, Howie, on Andrew Cuomo's marital fidelity? Your life?]
The biggest media blunder, in my view, was the walk-on-water coverage that Obama drew in 2007 and 2008.
[When did this insight come to you, Howard? Yesterday? Last week? Last month? At any rate, really fucking brilliant insight.]
Who, after all, has absorbed more abuse from the �lamestream media� than Sarah Palin, who can hit back with a Facebook post that bypasses the old gatekeepers?
[Excuse me? How does this point follow from the previous point? Oh. Thank you. It doesn't. It's just a standard liberal brain fart.]
In such a topsy-turvy season, one simple solution is� blaming the voters! They are so caught up in faulting Obama for everything but bad weather, so mesmerized by the right-wing noise machine that they can�t see straight.
[Okay. Finally getting it. Your deal with the Post required you to leave your brain behind with your keyboard. People who have no jobs and object to trillions of dollars of debt shoveled onto the shoulders of their kids and grandkids are simply dupes of the "the rightwing noise machine." Did you even go to college, Howie?]
Yes, the refrain goes, high unemployment is heartbreaking, but do people really think they�re going to do better under Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McConnell?
[uh, yeah.]
Small problem: These are the same voters who broke with more than two centuries of Oval Office white men by electing Obama. Weren�t many of us praising their judgment and tolerance then? (Yes, I know they�re not the exact same voters, in that turnout is smaller in off-years and many disaffected Democrats are likely to stay home. And Obama, like Ronald Reagan, swept in many party colleagues who could not survive in marginal districts once the wave receded.)
[Excuse me. What the fuck does the term 'white men' have to do with anything you've mentioned thus far?]
On the merits, journalists are right that Obama�s accomplishments have been minimized.
[Journalists are right? On the merits?
On the merits?
Since when? Are these the same journalists who sold the American public on an absentee state legislator as president of the United States? Those journalists? Really?]
� Health care reform, however it pans out, was a huge achievement
[Achievement how? As in curing cancer? Or dissolving the Reichstag? They're both achievements, but maybe not equally desirable]
; the overall package remains unpopular
[fancy that...]
, the individual parts (such as not excluding kids for preexisting conditions) not so much [
Kids. The only thing we're supposed to care about? Guess what. People care about other things, "such as" their own lives, HOWARD.
God, you make me sick.
Tightening financial regulation was a heavy lift against the forces of Wall Street.
[Give me a fucking break. Goldman Sachs wrote that law.]
Even the much-derided stimulus law saved plenty of jobs
.[Did it, Howard? Did it, really? You're a fucking lunatic, you are. The only jobs saved were government jobs, which is nice for the government employees, but that is NOT stimulus. It's just government spending. I'm making a note right now to myself to look if and where you ever went to college. Before I do that I already know that when it comes to economics you're every bit as dumb as you look on TV.]
All that has been overshadowed because many voters believe the president bobbled the economy while setting his sights on social engineering.
[Aww. Stupid, stupid voters.]
But here, too, the short attention span of today�s journalism played a role. The health care and banking battles were covered ad nauseum, but once they passed, the press lost interest
[maybe because somebody finally read the goddam bill and realized all the Obama-killing particulars within it
] and moved on to mosque mess and the Koran-burning preacher and whatever other diversions were available
. [You're an arrogant little prick, Howard. Your beloved MSM distracted ITSELF with all those stories. The rest of us kept our eyes on throwing the bums out. Which is why you're whining so incoherently right now.]
The biggest media blunder, in my view
was the walk-on-water coverage that Obama drew in 2007 and 2008. The only real debate was whether he was more like FDR (Time) or Lincoln (Newsweek).
[Not true, asshole. Plenty of us were asking the right questions. You and your ass-kissing brethren simply refused to do your jobs.]
� The candidate obviously played a role in creating his own myth, but it was the breathless media that sent expectations soaring into the stratosphere. Once Obama had to grapple with two wars, a crippled economy and reflexive Republican opposition
he had no place to go but down. The press has long since fallen out of love with the president, but the overheated hyperbole did him no favors.
Who�s to blame for the coming electoral tsunami? We ought to be careful about dumping on the most convenient scapegoat, those moronic voters. In politics, it�s not that complicated: you either deliver or you pay the price.
Bottom line? Howie should have stayed with the Washington Post. Unshackled and unedited as an inquiring mind, he exposes himself as a shallow clown.
Yup. Looked it up. As we surmised. Howie went to the Columbia School of Journalism. No wonder fisking him is like shooting fish in a barrel. If there's any one thing that particular school doesn't teach, it's journalism.
Monday, October 18, 2010
A Fan Story You
Won't See on ESPN
The clip is edited. It took a
longer for Jackson to show signs of life.
I'm not going to labor this point, but it still has to be made. A couple weeks ago, ESPN made a huge story out of the response
Donovan McNabb
would receive from Philadelphia Eagles fans, whom they condemned in advance for boorish behavior that didn't subsequently occur. Eagles fans gave McNabb a prolonged standing ovation, just like Flyers fans gave former Flyer Simon Gagne the other night when he made
first return to Philly in an opposing uniform.
Now here's something ESPN
make a huge story of, or even a story at all. The New York Giants game yesterday was being played at the New Meadowlands Stadium at the same time the Eagles-Falcons game was being played in Philly. About 24 hours before, Rutgers played Army on the same field the Giants were playing on. A Rutgers player was injured making a tackle. He lay motionless on the field for five minutes before being carried away on a stretcher, and it's a national story that he is presently (hopefully only temporarily) paralyzed from the neck down. As he lay on the field, both the Rutgers team and the Army team formed a circle around him, every player on one knee with head bowed. Most of the fans at the Giants game probably didn't know this, but it hardly matters. What does matter is that the Giants Jumbotron played some portion of the clip above (the hit and its immediate aftermath) almost immediately after it happened. DeSean Jackson lay motionless on the field. What did the Giants fans do? Gasp and fall into murmuring near silence? No. They erupted in loud cheers and applause. Eagle superstar down. Joy reigns supreme.
But Eagles fans once threw snowballs at Santa Claus. In fact, they do it every time ESPN runs yet another story about the thuggishness of Philadelphia Eagles fans. They can rerun that footage a thousand times, and it won't make up for what the self-anointed 'superior' New Yorkers did yesterday afternoon.
btw, Eagles fans applauded
players as they were helped off the field, including the one who initiated the hit, because he had been injured too, and who knew how seriously? Multiple NFL pundits have said it was one of the deadliest, scariest collisions they'd ever seen. DeSean Jackson has a 'serious' concussion and there's no certain date for his return. I've yet to hear news about Donte Robinson, the injured Falcon, but we wish him a full recovery as well. The fanatical haters of Philly SportsTalk Radio have been busy all morning affirming their belief that Robinson's hit was not a deliberate intent to injure but an inevitable by-product of a fiercely contested NFL game.
I know you don't want to hear about it, but somebody had to point it out.
Sorry if I'm being a bore. Don't get disgusted. I have it on good authority InstaPunk has something to say today about the mid-term elections. I expect he won't even mention Philadelphia.
The Silly Season Is Also
Mean, Dumb & Delusional
A Simple Rule: Don't shake hands with people who hate you.
. Although polls try to suggest there is, there's no grand perspective that conveys what's going on in politics, the media, and the electorate at large.
All we have are fragments. all of them sharp and deadly in an overall environment that is hostile to the point of murder. I've got a handful of fragments to reference, but here's my context: an underground world documented by the
National Geographic Channel.
The Cave of Swords, Naica, Mexico
We're talking thickets of killing blades in every direction. Covered in one of the most riveting Nat Geo documentaries I've ever seen:
Into the Lost Crystal Caves
. For once, the story is as much about the courage of the explorers as it is about the importance of their objective:
It takes genuine bravery to enter such dangerous territory. (I urge one and all to explore the host of photos, videos, and other content associated with the documentary. It's eye-opening and mind-blowing. Pedantic, pedestrian-seeming geologists really
care enough about minerals to put their lives on the line for them. What we can only call passion. The Chilean miners aren't the only courageous ones of the underground. And
the song I linked earlier
isn't only for them.)
Metaphor established. We're seeing something unprecedented this year. An incursion by private citizens into a realm that is reflexively hostile and generally fatal to all but the purest Narcissists. I've resisted commenting on particulars of late because it all gets so ugly and mean and irrelevant to the larger issues as it rolls like a tumbril toward the Guillotine of personal assassination we call the democratic process.
But it
time to take note of the environment private citizen politicians are daring to enter -- the Cave of Swords -- and to acknowledge the bravery of the unlikely victors and even of those who are likely to be done in via ridicule and life-destroying slander en route.
Something I should save for the end but can't. (I try to sequence things in logical builds, but I also obey my intuition...) I'm referring to the appalling interview Chris Wallace conducted with Carly Fiorina on
Fox News Sunday
yesterday. I've heard the man describe his interviewing technique on multiple occasions, particularly in response to the question, "What do you do when a politician won't answer the question?" He replied that his practice is to follow up one, maybe two times, just enough to establish that the question isn't being answered, then move on. On Sunday, though, with Fiorina, he followed up not one, not two, not four, but
times on the same absolutely phony question: How was she going to make up for the
4 trillion dollar
federal revenue shortfall created by her proposed tax cuts?
The mild-mannered, baby-faced Fox star seemed to be channelling his raving leftist father. He kept repeating, almost viciously at times, "4 trillion dollars" as if the figure had some absolute value. For anyone who knows anything about economics, it doesn't. It's just an annoyingly brainless exercise in the kind of static analysis that makes a joke of all liberal economics. Raise tax rates, revenues increase. Reduce tax rates, revenues decline. The analysis is static because it fails to recognize that changing tax rates alters behavior in the economy. Everything doesn't stand still in perpetuity the way the CBO is required to pretend it does. Which is why tax revenues
when JFK cut taxes, when Reagan cut taxes, and when GWB cut taxes. And why tax revenues
when FDR (and Hoover before him) increased taxes on the rich people who might otherwise have reinvested in the private economy.
Channelling Mad Man Mike Wallace
I concede I was almost equally pissed at Fiorina for not raising the static analysis argument, but conservative politicians across the board seem unwilling to risk confounding the comprehension of voters on such a seemingly counter-intuitive point. She probably, private citizen that she is, has too many professional advisers at this point to remember that voters
possess common sense. And she's walking a tightrope with the wiftiest voters in the country, the airheads of California. Which is another reason why Chris Wallace's blatantly hostile interview raised my eyebrows.
knows she's running against the stupidest, most unqualified senator in the nation, in the weirdest electorate there is. Ask your gotcha question twice. But why
What's his beef with Fiorina? (Aha! Why I began rather than ended with this.) He resents her as an amateur. Politics is for professionals. He'd rather spar pointlessly with a corrupt pro like Barney Frank than deal with an
like the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
She doesn't belong
. Regardless of his own probably centrist-right-leaning political views. Her very appearance in the arena compels him to demonstrate the difference between an amateur clubfighter and a professional prizefighter. "I must break you."
This is the thing beyond ideology that animates the anti-Tea Party bias of the mass media and professional politicians and pundits in both parties. Professionals -- people who have made a lifelong living at some discipline, regardless of their actual competence -- don't like being challenged let alone taken down by amateurs. They dislike it so much it causes them to behave like amateurs themselves.
Thanks to Hotair for the following exemplary "fragments":
Harry Reid thinks he can get away with a
flat-out lie
because his opponent is a housewife. Never mind that the lie is easily exposed and readily available all across the Internet.
Meghan McCain
(and her liberal colleagues on TV) sees no irony in slamming Christine O'Donnell because she hasn't accomplished anything and feels somehow "entitled." (See Mary Katherine Hamm's perfect
Maureen Dowd
thinks female Tea Party types invented the politics of mean.
Dana Perino
begs to differ.
Channelling Bill Bradley lecturing Clarence Thomas on what it means to be black,
Charlie Crist
lectures Marco Rubio on what it means to be Hispanic.
Rand Paul's opponent, Jack Conway, decided to
Paul's Christian religious faith and family values, because all's fair in love, etc, and politics.
Except, it
. (See video above.)
Which brings us full circle. The founders didn't really mean for politics to be the province of professionals. What, after all, were the aristocrats of the British Empire and the courtiers of the European thrones? They didn't want Talleyrands. They wanted Washingtons, Jeffersons, and, yes, even low-born Franklins, who took time away from their real passions -- home, architecture, music, science, business, etc -- to participate in sustaining the republic.
For an absolute certainty, they never meant to create the government of the United States as an environment so hostile that mere contact with the intent to participate or influence it would call down the scathing fury of the elites like antibodies against disease.
This country does not belong to Maureen Dowd, Chris Wallace, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown (son of Pat Brown), and all the political whores (sorry Gretchen Carlson, Tom Brokaw, and all the neo-prigs of the left and right -- 'whore' is a word everybody knows and uses and you are its media definition, or does the rightwing cast of Fox & Friends have something exculpatory to share with the rest of us about their unbridled on-air enthusiasm for lefty 20th Century Fox movies like Avatar and Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2). The country does not belong to the media stars or the professional politicians. It belongs to us.
I was always uncomfortable with senate collegiality: "my good friend from Montana, my
good friend from West Virginia, with whom I disagree at times...) Yecch. It led to the moral contradiction of political debates in which candidates levelled the most horrific charges against one another, only to conclude with the honorable handshake at the end. But honor is not accomplished by a handshake. It can be betrayed by one, however. The handshake conveys acceptance of what has transpired previously.
If you're a narcissistic sociopath like most professional politicians, it may be acceptable to nod and smile at the vicious personal attacks of your opponent in the aspiration for high office. But that carries politics itself into the realm of the crystal caves. Not a place for ordinary, decent human beings. Only the Schumers, McCains (and progeny), Cuomos, Clintons, Kennedys, Pelosis, Wallaces, Dowds, and the legion of unscrupulous nouveau courtiers (Kerrys and Reids) can breathe that air.
Everyone else is gasping, at a loss. But for the few. I doff my hat to Rand Paul. You're right. Don't shake hands with a cobra. I bow low before Sarah Palin.
can spit in the eye of a spitting cobra, but you have the sense to wear glasses while doing so.
Sorry this has taken so long. My point is infinitesimal (not really). No matter how much you're tempted to join in the laughter at the Christine O'Donnells and Sharon Angles, give them credit for their almost unbelievable courage. Carly Fiorina is almost certainly twice as shrewd and competent as Chris Wallace. He's a talker and a critic. She's a doer and a maker. If he can make
look bad out of spite, snobbery, irrational hostility, and ruthless exploitation of his media platform advantage, what chance have the Angles, O'Donnells, and Palins?
Oh. That's right. A
chance. Sarah Palin isn't afraid of them. God, how terrifying that must be... to them.
Now. When will smart conservatives start recognizing that Sarah Palin has the most important credential of all? Bravery. We've asked for volunteers to invade the crystal caves of Washington politics. Would you? Would I? No. But there they are, advancing into the heat and peril of an environment that is unanimously determined to kill them. Could we at least vote for them, flawed and human and inexperienced as they may be? I think so.
. I forgot the "delusional" part. Democrats are now beginning to pretend that they'll have a 2012 presidential electoral advantage if the Congress goes Republican. Why? Because Clinton got reelected after the bloodbath of 1994. Cool strategy eh? Except for one slight fatal contradiction. Dems today think a Republican congress would allow Obama to paint Republicans as obstructionist, the reason for no improvement in things like the economy. Problem is, that's not how Clinton got reelected. He
took credit for
Republican accomplishments like welfare reform, the balanced budget, and other improvements legislated by that Republican Congress. What will Obama do with a Republican Congress that seeks to overturn his policies on taxation, healthcare, and business regulation? Veto, veto, veto. Who will be the obstructionist then? In the fourth year of recession, he will suffer a repudiation worse even than Carter's.
Repudiation? I meant Re
diation. What happens when an entrenched authority encounters an, uh,
"I guess maybe you'll have to kill me."
"It'll hurt if I do."
Purely metaphorical. Like the crystal cave thing. Only cooler.
Only Sarah has hair. You heard it here first.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Friday Interlude
"I won't rot, I won't rot. Not this mind and not this heart."
. A pause here to pay tribute to the courageous endurance of the Chilean miners and their triumph over the darkness that could have swallowed them.
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