Sunday reading
Bookworm on Feb 01 2009 at 1:13 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s just turned Sunday, and I won’t be getting much blogging done during the daylight hours, so I thought I’d tip you off to some things I found fascinating, and that I hope you enjoy too. In no particular order (with all deserving top billing) here are my suggestions:
The Conservative Liberal writes a scathing review of CNN’s scathing review about the movie Defiance. If only this secondary review had the same expansive platform as the first.
At Crossing the Rubicon, you can read a stunning letter from an Israeli soldier to the homeowner in the house he occupied during the recent Gaza incursion. If only we really could get through to the Gazans with this type of humane reasoning.
Obama has shown himself to be ignorant about so many things lately. At ex cathedra, you can read about his profound ignorance regarding events in his own lifetime.
We know Obama will break promises. Gay Patriot also reminds us that Obama probably made stealth promises that he’s planning on keeping now — to the detriment of all of us.
I don’t think these gals are real — I think it’s a set-up — but Phibian assures us that unbearably self-involved, selfish, weak, I’m running out of words, women still exist and they’re p*ssed about the way the current economy is affecting their lives.
For those of you who came of age in the seventies, a musical trip down memory lane.
I’d missed this, but Marooned in Marin didn’t: Michael Steele’s new role as RNC chair once again brought out the foul-mouthed and minded racists on the left.
Many in the blogosphere were taken in by a “news” report — phony — that claimed that the military would take its new loyalty oath to the office of the president, not to the Constitution. The sad things is that this remarkably similar story about school children being forced to salute Obama sounds like the truth.
Ymarsakar often comments that neoneocon and I seem to operate on the same blogging track. Well, we did it again, because her latest post is about Obama’s relentless negativity, something I blogged about here.
Happy reading!
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Bookworm,
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately CNN does not have a place for comments. If it did, I would have written it there.
Eric.
What a cigarette will tell you about a man…
Are you getting the feeling that Obama, contrary to the hope hype, is a very grim, depressed man? Since the precise moment of his inauguration, his every pronouncement has been redolent of hopelessness and anger. My feeling is that, if……
eric-odessit:
Par for the course for CNN, no place for comments nor should they have had a place to comment on the film.
Speaking of film, CNN continues to view and in this case ‘review’ with cataracts.
Thanks for linking and spreading the contents of that beautifully written letter to a wider readership, Bookworm.
I wrote about “Defiance” and the CNN review here.
There’s no way the anti-humanists and those who wanted to bring down Iraq in fire and ruin would allow any positive images of Jews to be floating around.
You cannot conduct an ethnic cleansing if people on your side actually sympathized with the members of that ethnicity. This is what dehumanization is all about.
Regarding the negativity: it’s pretty classical that a person, in taking a new job, will attempt to position himself with his boss by emphasizing how many problems he faces and why the boss should be pleased by any progress at all in overcoming these problems. (New sales manager negotiating quota, for example)
But what Obama doesn’t seem to understand, probably because he has no executive experience, is that excessive negativity can’t be applied to *the people who actually have to deliver the results*. Our new sales manager may tell his boss how hard everything is, but, if he is any good, he will position things with the sales reps along the lines of “Listen, I know you’re facing a tough market out there, but I know something about our competitors, and they have a lot of issues, and the new version of our Gerbilator product line is just going to be incredible, and since I’ve met you guys I think you have the potential to be the finest industrial sales force on the planet and…”
Harder for a politician, because the *boss* and *the people who have to deliver the results* are one and the same, but Obama does seem to have a real problem in striking the right tone.
David Foster:
So, films are now supposed to be assessed based on the “Hollywood liberal credentials” of their directors? And the past heroism of Jews fighting their would-be murderers must only be portrayed and celebrated when Jews are not currently fighting other would be murderers?
Would CNN and their movie critics have it any other way.
Obama, following in the footsteps of Jimmah and the ‘life isn’t always fair’ speech may make him another one term president. As for striking the right tone, this will take awhile since his followers are ‘tone deaf ‘and he has been selling his magic potion to liberal lepers, who are enthralled with the idea the his potion will get the world right and cure them of DBS (Deranged Bush Syndrome).
Well, we did it again
And may you two keep on doing it.
Ymarsaker:
Keep it going … while I am on a long overdue vacation this week.
Dorothy Rabinowitz agrees with Book and Neo.
Thanks for the link to Ex Cathedra.
Krauthammer does a more thoughtful
and more extended and more devastating
job of parsing Obama’s Al-Arabiya interview:
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2009/01/30/obama_just_flatters_himself