I was never a Bob Schieffer guy—I mean, I didn’t hate him—but, since I never watch TV news, I never saw him. But it seems that Bob has saved the worst for last, pausing before he shuffles off to oblivion by remarking “Maybe we [the media] were not skeptical enough” about President Obama back in…
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The British are not coming!
Conservative “analysts” are worried, as well they should be, that the British lion is no longer willing to play up, and play the game. A week before the election, the Washington Post could already read the handwriting on the wall: “the overarching result is already clear: A stalwart U.S. ally is growing weaker, more inwardly…
From the politeness of experts, Lord, deliver us
Rosa Brooks is a senior fellow at New America and a law professor at Georgetown University. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a senior adviser to the undersecretary of defense for policy. She is also the author of a book review in the April 16 Washington Post of Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger’s…
The Judith Miller Show: Weaving new false narratives to replace the old
After the French Revolution, it was said that of the old aristocracy that they had forgotten nothing and learned nothing. After the disastrous second Iraqi war, it may be said of the Wall Street Journal that it had learned nothing and forgotten everything. The latest entropy effusion from the WSJ Memory Hole is Judith Miller’s…
How much is that senator in the window? Now we know
Ark. Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, well he don’t plant cotton, but he sure can harvest the long green. Over at the New York Times, Eric Lipton reports the following: The Emergency Committee for Israel, led by William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, spent $960,000 to support Mr. Cotton. In that same race, Paul…
Ask not for whom the probationary flags fly. They fly for thee.
A week or so ago I had a good laugh at the expense of National Review roving correspondent Kevin D. Williamson, who worked himself into a tizzy over the State of the Union circa 2015, bouncing off of Rowdy Rudy Giuliani’s celebrated banalities regarding President Obama’s supposed lack of patriotic fervor. Kevin concluded his rant by citing, and expanding…
Obama failed to predict future, experts say
Graeme Wood has an article in the Atlantic that’s getting lots of play, explaining that “we” have been getting those ISIS guys all wrong, that what they really want is a big battle in Dabiq, a place in Syria, to fought by the Muslim faithful against the armies of “Rome,” a battle that will ultimately…
Oberlin’s Gridiron Glory
A week or so back I was delighting in George Will’s annual disparagement of the Super Bowl and suggested that perhaps, when young George was at Princeton, he’d been humiliated by some football hearties, leaving him forever embittered, and suggested that if he had only gone to Oberlin, like me, where there are none such,…
Kevin D. Williamson, kind of an asshole
I’m sometimes tempted to consider National Review “roving correspondent” Kevin D. Williamson a “thoughtful conservative,” but then sometimes Kev, as in his Jan. 1 “2015 Non-predictions”, thinks like this: “The Iranians will almost certainly continue pursuing nuclear weapons, and the United States will almost certainly continue doing nothing very credible to dissuade them. It won’t…
Charlie Hill, looking for work
Charles Hill, billed at Politico as “a diplomat in residence and lecturer in International Studies at Yale University,” is not a dude I’ve ever heard of before, but I’m guessing he thinks he deserves a better job, because he’s written shabby, underhanded political diatribe thoughtful piece for Politico Magazine titled “Why Political Islam Is Winning,”…