I didn’t record the panels as a rule because they were filmed but there was no way to resist this one:
Talk about some A list bloggers Whittle Green and Ott now that’s three aces to draw to.
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The Pajamas Media Panel
Posted: September 12, 2010 by datechguy in blogs, media, special eventsTags: bill whittle, blogcon, blogs, have fedora will travel, pajamas media, pjtv, scott ott, scrappleface, stephen green, vodka pundit
Fidel Castro and Pappy McDaniel
Posted: September 7, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/newsTags: Ahmadinejad, antisemitism, books, cuba, elections, evil, fidel castro, history, iran, jeffrey goldberg, lyndon johnson, texas, the atlantic
In 1941 Governor Lee “Pappy” McDaniel ran in a special election for an open Senate seat created by the death of Senator John Sheppard (an interesting fact is that a son of Sam Houston the 1st president of Texas born in 1793 was appointed as a “placeholder” senator during the time between the death and the election). His primary opponent was Lyndon Johnson then a congressman from the 10th district. The two primary candidates fought it out and both were involved in some underhanded tactics however at the end of the day it looked like Johnson had the game won until (According to Robert Caro in his book The Years of Lyndon Johnson the Path to Power) O’Daniel’s enemies contrived to steal the election FOR him to get him out of the governors office.
It turned out that Pappy although corrupt had one “virtue” and that was dislike for alcohol. Convinced it was the devil’s brew he was prepared to keep “dry” zones around military bases and his foes in the liquor industry wanted him out.
I thought of Pappy O’Daniel when I read this surprising quote from Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with Fidel Castro:
Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism. He criticized Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and explained why the Iranian government would better serve the cause of peace by acknowledging the “unique” history of anti-Semitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence.
It was quite a shock to hear one of the monsters of the 20th century excoriating a modern monster for antisemitism and going on about the long history of Jewish suffering, that’s when I remembered Pappy.
Pappy was an opponent of the dangers of drinking, but it didn’t make him any less a corrupt pol.
Castro if this interview is to be believed believes that antisemitism is a centuries long disgrace and that Israel has a right to exist, that doesn’t make him any less of a murderous thug. I’m not going to fall for his pap any more that the Babliu blog guys will.
As the Doctor once told Margaret the Slitheen it doesn’t matter, you can oppress millions because every now and again you can speak up against an injustice that has nothing to do with you.
memeorandum thread here
And there is a lot of competition out there
Posted: September 7, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/newsTags: antisemitism, time magazine, victor davis hanson
Victor Davis Hanson is a bit of a scholar so how bad does an article have to be for him to say this:
I know it’s commonplace to read in the latest issue of Time or Newsweek that Obama is a god, that Islamophobic Americans are collectively prejudiced against Muslims, that the response after 9/11 was overblown and unnecessary (over 30 subsequent terrorist plots have been foiled, and, for some reason, renditions, tribunals, Guantanamo, Predators, intercepts, etc., have all been embraced by the Obama administration), but the recent Time piece on Israel by a Karl Vick is probably the most anti-Semitic essay I have ever read in a mainstream publication.
And it’s not like there is no competition out there. I’m presuming he is referring to the full article but would like to know if that’s the case.
All that’s missing is “I’ll have my bond“.
Hey Victor I sent a Resume to Time maybe they’ll hire a conservative blogger or two and then change their ways….sometime before the next century.
Newsweek is a gift to Mattie Fein
Posted: September 5, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/newsTags: 2010 elections, ca36, don't be drinking when you read this, election 2010, mattie fein, newsweek, War on Terror
You know it’s pretty sad that Jane Harman wanted to buy this magazine when it puts out stuff like this:
September 11 was a shock to the American psyche and the American system. As a result, we overreacted.
I get a feeling they might have overpaid for the rag. As you might guess it’s Christmas in September on the right side of the ‘sphere on this stuff:
Powerline…agrees on the overplaying line and says:
Zakaria tries to dispose of this point in a subordinate clause conceding the efficacy of “serious countermeasures.” Zakaria decries a number of countermeasures that are supposedly excessive, but he nowhere bothers to make the case that they have not contributed to the prevention of another successful attack. He simply assumes the conclusion.
Patterico… has a long memory:
Remember when the New York Times expressed its puzzlement that the prison population was increasing “despite” the drop in crime?
I do. As I observed at the time:
This is like saying “Joe Blow has been continuing to exercise despite the fact that he has been getting in much better shape.”
Fareed Zakaria today has the terrorism equivalent of this idiocy: decrying our proactive anti-terrorist measures — which we have taken despite the fact that Al Qaeda hasn’t hit us with another 9/11.
You know if I’m Mattie Fein I point to this article and declare: “This is the magazine that the Harman’s bought to preserve this editorial slant.”
memeorandum thread here
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