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It hit me looking at Stacy’s old rules for getting 1 million hits that his exchange manages to invoke all 5 rules.
Meanwhile Attila instructs James Wolcott on the subject rule 1.
It’s always interesting to watch this kind of exchange between two of my favorite people on the web.
In my comment exchange at Wonkette the latest comment that went up was this from glamourdammerung :
Want to see someone make a parody of themselves?
Apparently the left’s degree of hate is so large and their sense of honor so non-existent that the death of a 8-year-old girl and a federal judge is just another club to hit republicans in general and Sarah Palin in particular. https://datechguy.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/my-thou…
When you are gushing about being pals with folks like noted white supremacist Robert Stacy McCain, one would think you would have better sense than making such remarks like the one I quoted.
Forgetting the fact for a moment that the left DID use the shootings in Arizona as a political football and their denial of it proves my point, when you insult a friend of mine, that’s a line.
Robert Stacy McCain has stayed in my house, I’ve stayed in his. I know him well, I know his family, I’ve driven with him, covered stories with him, attended conventions with him and learned how an actual reporter covers facts with him. He is no white supremacist. If you have half the tolerance that he does you would be a better person.
Stacy is my friend, I’m proud to have him as my friend and he’s proven his friendship more times in a year than I can count. He’s a bit of a wild child and I’ve never seen a person go through coffee and cigarettes like him in my life and he’s been known to raise the wrist a bit more than I do, (of course that’s not hard to do). There are very few people outside of my family that I’d rather have at my side in a time of trouble.
He’s a big boy and doesn’t need defense from me, but any success I’ve had in this field can be traced directly to his door. Succeed or fail, It’s a debt I can’t repay. I have no patience for people who attack my personal friends.
So let me say it one more time Glamourdammerung: Stacy McCain is worth 20 of you (except in the eyes of God).
My favorite CPAC moment was a totally unnewsworthy conversation with a friend, however my favorite CPAC story is totally newsworthy and Robert Stacy McCain being a proper reporter reports it:
Lyndsey Fifield is a twenty-something from Alabama who has worked on a handful of Republican political campaigns. Maureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times. The odds of these two women ever crossing paths were probably astronomical and so, when they did in fact cross paths Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the results were unpredictable.
Unpredictable is an understatement…
Being able to set up your laptop in the Bloggers Lounge is therefore a sought-after privilege, and organizers made it clear before CPAC that advanced registration would be required. So when the New York Times columnist nicknamed “MoDo” showed up Thursday, the unregistered arrival was denied access to the lounge by Fifield. According to one reported account, the Pulitzer-winner asked the young Alabamian, “Do you have any idea who I am?” Via Twitter, Fifield denied that version of the story and indeed she did know who Dowd was, but she also knew her name wasn’t on the registration list and so it was a no-go for MoDo.
What really made that moment fun for me is on the same day Marty Lamb who ran in the 3rd Massachusetts district was also having some trouble getting into the Bloggers Lounge for some interviews, knowing I was inside he asked for me, I came out and vouched for him he was able to come in with me and mix and meet with bloggers who were happy to talk to the former and (future) candidate.
Alas Maureen it is true, it is who you know, Marty Lamb knew me and you didn’t.
A person my age or older would be familiar with the term “Shotgun Wedding”. The idea being that a man who got a girl pregnant would be forced by the father of the girl, Shotgun in hand to the altar for the wedding. That line of thinking is in keeping with the idea Stacy McCain advanced about the the economics of love. Roxeanne DeLuca in comments also advanced this very Judeao-Christian idea:
These days, men think there’s just women you sleep with, that’s it. And pardon me if I think that, as a WOMAN, I should have the grounds to say, “If this isn’t emotional for you, if you could do this with any woman, or any woman with the right equipment and the right attitude, then I don’t want it from you.”
As it is, though, we’re expected to act like prostitutes, without the benefits and without the emotional reserve. When sexually loose women are “nice girls”, or tell you that they are, men WILL expect ALL nice women to be sexually loose.
The 60’s revolution ended this bigtime and some are still paying the price but there is one thing about this way of thinking that needs to be pointed out.
The entire idea of the shotgun wedding or the threat of the shotgun wedding is to protect the women and restrain the man. The idea being the man might think twice before trying to be a player if he know that it means he will have to follow through.
In this age of contraception and abortion those restraints are gone and the feminists of the left cheer this abandonment of the traditional Judeao-Christian meme as a triumph for women no matter the result.
There is however another side of the coin that the feminist left isn’t too loud in condemning.
Afshan Azad, 21, who played Padma Patil, a classmate of the teenage wizard, in the blockbuster Hollywood films based on JK Rowling’s children’s books, feared for her life during the three-hour ordeal, Manchester Crown Court heard.
She was punched, dragged around by her hair and strangled by her brother Ashraf Azad, 28, who threatened to kill her after he caught her talking on the phone to her Hindu boyfriend on May 21 last year, the court was told.
During the row at the family home in Longsight, Manchester, which also involved her mother and father, she was branded a ”slag” and a ”prostitute” and told: ”Marry a Muslim or you die!”
Note the cultural difference here. The threats are not against the man, they are against the woman. The threat of violence is not against the man for the advances, it is against the woman. Either way the Judge hearing the case decided to make a statement about violence against women:
Judge Thomas added: ”This is a sentence that is designed to punish you for what you did and also to send out a clear message to others that domestic violence involving circumstances such as have arisen here cannot be tolerated.”
And so he sentenced the guy to….for six months after he pleaded guilty to the assault.
This is attempted murder, and he’s only getting six months? Azad’s case is well known throughout the world due to her celebrity status, however, this is occurring to young Muslim girls throughout the world who are deemed too “Westernized” or a betrayer to Islam.
Some on the right have highlighted this kind of thing, the left…not so much. Why the difference in reaction to the Judeao-Christian cultural norm and not the Islamic one? Why is one a sign of repressive patriarchy and the other just a cultural difference and any objection Islamaphobia?
It’s a good question and I’d love to hear the answer.
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