Awhile back I ran a post jumping off of David Brinkley’s book of reminiscences, Brinkley’s Beat. As I explained then, and I’ll explain now, David Brinkley was once one of the most famous men on television, co-anchor of the “Huntley-Brinkley Report,” the highest ranked news show on TV during the glory days of network television….
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Barack Obama, the Neocons’ Choice?
Horror show! Horror show! Wash Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, aka Fred Hewitt’s wooden-headed dummy, has a serious anxiety attack over the Republican condendahs’ Thrilla in Tampa on Monday. “I share my colleague Marc Thiessen’s horror at the dreadful display of foreign policy foolishness at the Republican debate last night,” exclaims Jennifer, who clearly needs to…
George Will: Eating words if not mincing them
Over at the American Conservative, which is not entirely All Pat Buchanan, All the Time—and Pat, as the only living American Falangist, deserves more respect than he gets—Daniel Larison has a chuckle over George Will’s discomfiture over the “circus” known as the Ames straw poll. Last March, George announced, in the sort of neo-Burkean harumph…
Scapegoats, Please
The Republican Party. Well, that was easy. I could blame poor Tim Geithner, whom I’m starting to feel sorry for. Tim was last seen furiously denouncing Standard & Poors for venturing the opinion that things don’t seem to be working too smoothly down in Washington. Felix Salmon posted a very nice column yesterday morning explaining…
Antonin Scalia: ~peyote = foreskins forever?
Over at the Daily Beast, Adam Winkler has a nice column slicing and dicing, as it were, the prospects of the prospective San Francisco ban of involuntary circumcisions, should the city pass the ban and should the constitutionality of the ban end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Strikingly, the proposed ban contains no exceptions…
Good Newt, Bad Newt? Don’t you mean Fat Newt, Dumb Newt?
Over at the Wash Post’s “FastFIX” (and, baby, it is fast!), fast-talking (of course) Chris Cillizza gives the upside and the downside of the Newtman, something we need to know now that Newt could be our next president (it’s video 80 if you really want to see it). Well, except that, over at Politico, we…
The New York Times, still not getting a handle on the “objective reporting” thing
Today’s NYT carries a story on a special deal cooked up by Goldman Sachs to toss some serious walking-around money to Mark Zuckerberg’s already legendary Facebook—about $500 million. According to the article by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Evelyn M. Rusli, “The new money will give Facebook more firepower to steal away valuable employees, develop new…
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation: Kicking Ass, And You Don’t Even Know They Exist!
Admit it, you don’t, but, according to Jeff Stein’s “Spy Talk” in the Wash Post “Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a scenario in which local marijuana growers set off bombs and took over the Shasta Dam, the nation’s second largest, to free an imprisoned…
Why it pays to read the obits
Way, way back in the day, in 1967, in fact, I heard Pauline Kael speak at Oberlin College. Discoursing on pop culture versus “high” culture, she opined that pop culture offered delights unavailable on Mt. Helicon. Dating herself just a bit, she gave as an example Frank Sinatra singing “Bim Bam Baby.” Flash forward 43…
At Least It Wasn’t A Jew Joke
Marine Commandant James T. Conway gets a little carried away at the thought of some down and dirty all-male action in the Corps: “Our men need to know they can count on each other in battle, and we can’t have them getting distracted by illicit romantic dalliances. Especially if one’s a little blond Adonis farm…