Comments on: Sunday reading

By: USMaleSF

USMaleSF — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:09:09 +0000

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

By: Quisp

Quisp — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:19:00 +0000

Dorothy Rabinowitz agrees with Book and Neo.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:11:10 +0000

Ymarsaker:

Keep it going … while I am on a long overdue vacation this week.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:49:26 +0000

Well, we did it again

And may you two keep on doing it.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:14:56 +0000

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).

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:45:08 +0000

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.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:32:04 +0000

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.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:49:15 +0000

I wrote about "Defiance" and the CNN review here.

By: Gail

Gail — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:42:37 +0000

Thanks for linking and spreading the contents of that beautifully written letter to a wider readership, Bookworm.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:40:51 +0000

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.