Bookworm on Feb 07 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Leftist morality
I commented earlier that Focus on the Family handled the whole Tebow ad brilliantly, by letting the Left get hysterical in advance, only to be confronted by a completely innocuous ad in which Pam Tebow talks about times when she worried about Tim’s life. With its preemptive frothing, the Left managed to show anyone who [...]
Bookworm on Jan 17 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama
The Dems have launched a new attack against Brown, in order to cause voters to react in Pavlovian revulsion when they hear his name: They’re now contending that (a) Brown thinks Sarah Palin is a decent human being and (b) Brown indicated skepticism about the fact that Barack Obama’s mother was married to his father, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 13 2009 | Filed under: Media matters, Sarah Palin
Last week, I recommended that you read Carl Cannon’s Sarah “Barracuda” Palin and the Piranhas of the Press. Cannon, who holds no brief for Palin, nevertheless thinks that the press’s behavior once she was on the national scene demonstrates that the American media is in freefall.
Cannon begins by pointing out that, after offering their opinions [...]
Bookworm on Jul 03 2009 | Filed under: Sarah Palin
You all know by now that Palin is abruptly quitting her job as Alaska’s governor. Speculation is rife as to her motives. Many see her as planning for her next political office. I don’t believe that. Nobody’s going to want a quitter in the White House. There’s got to be something more going on here.
I [...]
Bookworm on May 14 2009 | Filed under: Feminism
If you’re over thirty, you remember the shampoo commercials that had the tag line “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.” If you’ve forgotten, let me refresh your memory:
That slogan started repeating itself in my head with the attacks on Sarah Palin. I won’t repeat here (or link to) the startling savagery of the hatred heaped [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2009 | Filed under: Presidential elections
An email friend of mine advanced the notion of General Petraeus running in 2012. The man has shown himself to be incredibly competent, but I don’t know much more about him. He certainly has executive experience. My friend, who knows (or knows of him) quite well says that he has many of the virtues that [...]
Bookworm on Jan 19 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Yesterday, Mr. Bookworm and I found ourselves in a car heading south. As we passed the Marriott at which Sarah Palin spoke (a speech I got to hear in person), this dialog ensued:
Me: That’s where Sarah Palin spoke.
Mr. Bookworm: Really? Are you still going to tell me that she wouldn’t have been a disaster as [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2008 | Filed under: Media matters
This is about the most depressing video I’ve seen in a long time:
It’s obvious that the media effectively got its message across — and it’s impressive how unperturbed these voters are by their abysmal ignorance. The last woman, who is also the most charming, openly professes surprise at her ignorance, but discounts any possibility that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2008 | Filed under: Sarah Palin
I was sitting near two women and overheard part of their conversation. After a lengthy back and forth praising Oprah, this gem came out: “Sarah Palin is stupid but she communicates really well to Americans because most Americans are stupid.”
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Bookworm on Oct 21 2008 | Filed under: Abortion, Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin
At HotAir, you can read this long, detailed and thoughtful post examining Obama’s positions on myriad issues. As you read the post, think about what I was trying to say yesterday: figure out what beliefs you hold, and then match them to the candidate. We’ve been so personality driven this election, that it’s been all [...]
Bookworm on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Sarah Palin
The other day, I asked you to respond to the poll because we individualists (my new, Century-appropriate name for conservatives) didn’t want it to be one-sided (as in limited only to liberal, or statist, PBS viewers). It turns out that the PBS viewers are also worried about the outcome. That’s why I got this in [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Sarah Palin
From James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today:
The McCain campaign has released Todd and Sarah Palin’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns, the Associated Press notes in a brief dispatch, which ends as follows:
The McCain-Palin campaign had said the tax returns would be released Monday, but it suddenly put them out Friday afternoon–a time long used [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2008 | Filed under: John McCain, Sarah Palin
I did something kind of special today: I went to a big fundraiser and heard Sarah Palin speak before a relatively small audience (1,200 of her closest friends in Northern California). There are definitely perks to being a political volunteer.
I had a wonderful time, too. I got to check people in, and everybody was so [...]
Bookworm on Oct 02 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, John McCain, Sarah Palin
I’ve watched almost all of the debate, but it’s bedtime now, and I’ll have to save the rest for later. Three comments:
1. The first, the most obvious, and the most pressing question: How many botoxes did they kill to create that abnormally smooth, completely motionless forehead Biden was sporting? That was creepy.
2. Was I the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 02 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Sarah Palin
I haven’t watched the debate yet. I’ve been doing volunteer work (yes, we selfish conservatives sometimes give generously of our time), getting food, preparing dinner, and wrapping up a brief that needs to be filed tomorrow. What I thought I’d do, therefore, is reprint here a prediction I made about the debate in an email [...]
Bookworm on Sep 30 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Sarah Palin
Since the moment Palin burst onto the scene, the media has engaged in the most sustained attack I’ve ever seen on a single political candidate. Outright lies, partial lies, rumors, half-truths, full truths — it doesn’t matter. There’s just a giant information dump onto the public radar, with the hope that most people will never [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2008 | Filed under: Sarah Palin
In 1992, I watched the three way Vice-Presidential debate, pitting Al Gore, Dan Quayle and last-minute Perot pick Admiral James B. Stockdale. I saw 90 minutes during which Admiral Stockdale opened with two philosophical questions (”Who am I? Why am I here?”) that made him look befuddled, not thoughtful, and then I watched him vanish [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Sarah Palin
Would you be surprised to learn that both ABC and CBS coincidentally managed to edit out of their interviews with Palin those moments when she expressed moderate, hands-across-the-water foreign policy views? No. I wouldn’t be surprised either.
Hat tip: The Anchoress
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Bookworm on Sep 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters, Sarah Palin
I haven’t gotten up to speed yet this morning for blogging, but my fellow bloggers have, and they’ve already posted some good stuff.
The Anchoress has noticed that, as the debates draw near, the MSM is working diligently to prepare the American audience . . . by lowering expectations. Obama, once hailed as the greatest American [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
Dr. Rusty Shackleford has been investigating the myriad smears that sprang into life instantly the moment Palin arrived on the political scene. The smears appeared to be the result of grass roots efforts from concerned citizens. Shackleford’s research shows that the opposite is true — that a PR firm has been orchestrating this effort to [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin
It’s Saturday and I’m posting at McCain-Palin 2008. As always, since I think it’s a wonderful cooperative blog, I’d like to get more traffic headed its way and, therefore, I’m publishing the beginning of my post here in the hope that you finish reading the rest of it there:
Biden is a never-ending source of delight [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood, Sarah Palin
Many years ago, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies (my favorite TV station), I watched The Farmer’s Daughter, a 1947 film starring Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten. Over the years, I’ve carried a strong memory of liking the movie a great deal, and no memory at all of the plot. So, when I saw that The [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters, Sarah Palin
The media is struggling with difficult decisions. On the one hand, media members have to ask themselves if they should report about Sarah Palin’s tanning bed, the fact that she was interested in seeing her ex-brother-in-law lose his job after issuing death threats to her father and tasering her nephew, or her question about controversial [...]
Bookworm on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Presidential elections
Almost three years ago, Thomas Lifson wrote what I think is one of the most important political analyses I’ve ever read — and one that goes a long way to explaining the way in which American voters are slowly abandoning Obama and coalescing around the McCain ticket. Thomas believes that their are two political seasons: [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
For many years, I’ve thought that people confuse fairly neutral conduct with bad motives, resulting in false syllogisms. I first came to this conclusion after reading John McWhorter’s wonderful Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Although my memories are a bit hazy about the details of the book, I seem to recall reading [...]
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