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Monday, June 8
Newsweek editor Evan Thomas: "Obama is sort of God."
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 08 Jun 2009 01:15 PM EDT
Yes, it's a bow.
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 08 Jun 2009 06:41 AM EDT
We may be watching the development of a new custom between American pashas. The bow was banished by the founding cranks. John Adams refused to bow to King George. Washington disdained the royal ceremony though I have no memory of Washington ever banning the bow in his presence. Did Davy Crockett bow to General Jackson? Did Andrew Jackson bow to anyone? Douglas MacArthur refused to visit Hirohito after the war. Mao refused to bow to the Dali Lama. Richard Nixon bowed to Mao. Putin bows to potentates. African antique warlords like Mugabe and Musevni bow all the time. POTUS Obama bowed to Saudi King Abdullah in London. But for an American citizen to bow to an American POTUS? At the White House and the Congress, they stand up when the POTUS comes in the room. But they do not bow. And what is a bow? It is lowering your hand to an inferior position. It is exposing your neck to the blade. It is the promise of obedience. Not a suitable ceremony before a man who holds a powerful office that is venerated but is not himself the potency. More>>>
STEYN: The hollow superpower
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 08 Jun 2009 04:30 AM EDT
As recently as last summer, General Motors Corp.'s filing for bankruptcy would have been the biggest news story of the week. But it's not such a very great step from the unthinkable to the inevitable, and by the time it actually happened, the market barely noticed and the media were focused on the president's "address to the Muslim world."...But who cares? Overseas, the coolest president in history was giving a speech. Or, as the official press release headlined it on the State Department Web site, "President Obama Speaks To The Muslim World From Cairo." Let's pause right there: It's interesting how easily the words "the Muslim world" roll off the tongues of liberal secular progressives who would choke on any equivalent reference to "the Christian world." When such hyperalert policemen of the perimeter between church and state endorse the former but not the latter, they're implicitly acknowledging that Islam is not merely a faith, but a political project, too. More>>>
Goldman channels Spengler: Wrong venue for Obama's Muslim speech
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 08 Jun 2009 04:26 AM EDT
For his trouble, Obama will get more bloodshed in Pakistan, more megalomania from Iran, more triumphalism from the Palestinians, and less control over Iraq and Afghanistan. Of all the available bad choices, Obama has taken the worst. It is hard to imagine any consequence except a steep diminution of American influence. (I have family that served in World War II and Korea. I served. We 'd appreciate it if you'd stop apologizing to our enemies for us, Mr. Obama. We have nothing for which we would like to apologize. Kthx. - Roland) More>>>
VDH: The Diversity Mess
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 08 Jun 2009 03:39 AM EDT
Judge Sotomayor was clear enough. In a broad discussion about sex/race discrimination cases and their history, she said judges' ethnicity and gender make them better or worse at what they do. Judge Sotomayor also once complained, "We [Latinos] have only 10 out of 147 active circuit court judges and 30 out of 587 active district court judges. Those numbers are grossly below our proportion of the population." Aside from Judge Sotomayor's notion that federal jobs should be parceled out on the basis of race, what exactly does she mean in an America that is intermarrying, integrating and assimilating as never before? And why were the same people who are holding up Judge Sotomayor's background as a qualification for the Supreme Court so quick, when George W. Bush was president, to rally to deny Miguel Estrada a court-of-appeals judgeship? More>>>
Finke: GE/NBC head Immelt orders "freeze out" of Hollywood Reporter when its coverage of April's shareholder meeting winds up on conservative sites
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 08 Jun 2009 03:15 AM EDT
According to my sources inside and outside Nielsen Business Media, The Hollywood Reporter trade publication ran a story dated April 22nd and updated on April 24th covering the "drama" at the most recent GE shareholders meeting in Orlando. THR's West Coast Business Editor Paul Bond wasn't sent to the meeting, but he interviewed about half a dozen people who'd been inside the shareholders meeting and told him what transpired (see below). Bond's THR story focused on the attempts by stockholders and Fox News Channel and other media to find out whether or not GE Chairman/CEO Jeffrey Immelt ordered his news operations to be less critical of President Obama and his policies. Bond's story was immediately picked up by The Drudge Report under the headline "GE shareholders outraged over MSNBC bias; Microphone cut off." It became a widely posted news story on conservative and liberal and media websites everywhere. That's when, sources inside and outside Nielsen Business Media tell me, GE Chairman Jeff Immelt ordered a GE company-wide ban on all of THR's parent company: advertising, editorial, the works. After a few days, the ban was reduced to GE's NBC Universal which chief Jeff Zucker carried out against Nielsen Business Media's The Hollywood Reporter and lasted six weeks. My NBC Universal sources believe the ban was lifted yesterday. (H/t: Semra) More>>> |
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