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…did David Frum rate a Newsweek cover article.
And the Sunday and Monday shows will jump all over it. This week already did featuring David “Obama is a moderate” Brooks. Where the panel of course agreed that conservatism needs to change.
We will see a lot of this for a while, as the Obama program makes things worse we of course will not see the reverse suggesting that Rush was right.
As long as you are willing to attack leading conservatives voices the media will always love you.
You know oppression, thuggishness, injustice and confiscation of property is one thing but some things are just beyond what can be allowed in civilized society:
Robert Mugabe is reported to own long-lost episodes of Doctor Who.
The President of Zimbabwe apparently possesses tapes of some early episodes of the science fiction series that could be thirty or forty years old, according to The Sun.
Some Doctor Who programmes were deleted by the BBC in the late sixties and seventies to make room in the Beeb’s film library for new shows and Zimbabwe is thought to have bought the first season of the time-travel series when it was still the British colony Rhodesia.
Mugabe intends to keep it that way:
President Robert Mugabe has banned BBC personnel from entering the country, which has reportedly led the corporation to fear that they might never retrieve the missing serials.
Oh the humanity!
Matt Welsh via Glenn when dealing with the Freeman nomination notes the sudden spin of the left from the Saudi’s being the root of all evil to it being no trouble at all:
Remember when Saudi-bashing was a lefty thing? When Michael Moore was devoting a big chunk of Farenheit 9/11 to the over-warm relationship between U.S. leaders and the clannish House of Saud, stewards of the dictatorship that produced 15 of 19 hijackers on that sunny September morning, and Craig Unger was peddling House of Bush, House of Saud? Well now that Barack Obama is in the Oval Office, the proper lefty response has morphed into a full-throated defense of one of Saudi Arabia’s most influential apologists: Former U.S. ambassador Chas Freeman, who has been nominated to head up the National Intelligence Council. Why? Because neocons don’t like him.
What I want to know is why anyone is surprised at this? You might recall our leftist friends were dead set against fighting world war II until June 22, 1941. Until the Soviet Union was under threat the war was not worth fighting. Once the invasion took place then the worm turned very quickly.
As for Andrew Sullivan who has less credentials on the left recall he proclaims himself a Catholic but when Catholic belief conflicts with his personal desires he simply modifies Catholic belief and proclaims his modified belief superior. Why should his beliefs on Iraq or the China or the Saudi’s be any different?
One of the sure signs of dictatorship is an attempt to re-write history. It loves like the soviets Russia is again moving in that direction:
Mr Shoigu also issued a veiled threat to leaders in eastern and central Europe. Most of them regard the advance of Soviet forces into German- occupied Europe as a second occupation, and Estonia sparked outrage in Russia a few years ago when it relocated a statue of a Soviet soldier from the centre of the capital, Tallinn, an event not lost on Mr Shoigu.
“Our parliament should pass a law that would envisage liability for the denial of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War (the Second World War],” the minister said.
“The presidents of several countries who deny this would not be able to come to our country and remain unpunished, and the mayors of several towns would think twice before they dismantle monuments to Soviet warriors.”
Some clarification is necessary here. There is no question that the Soviets did defeat the Nazi’s and pushed them back to Berlin etc, the problem here is the inconvenient fact that the advancing army replaced one conquering dictatorship with another that oppressed them for decades.
Mr Shoigu’s suggestion, which has popular support in the Russian parliament, has added to concerns that Russia is promoting a version of history that has changed little since it emerged from the Stalinist propaganda machine as a means of bolstering support for Mr Putin and his government.
Russia inferiority complex is centuries old and it looks like it hasn’t gotten over it yet. The Obama retreat in foreign policy is nasty sign to eastern Europe that we aren’t going to be helping. It’s still early and this can change just like Iraq but when you retreat someone else advances. If we make a power vacuum someone else is going to step into it.
