Señor Jehuda, aka "El Blogo de Conservo", is an attorney and media professional with a background in TV marketing and production, copywriting, independent filmmaking, and spontaneously speaking perfect Spanish. A proud Texan who recently escaped from Los Angeles to Albuquerque, he spends far too much time thinking about movies - especially since his job requires it. Jehuda is also a contributor at YesButHowever.com and PJ Lifestyle.
Moe Lane on the “coarsening of our political dialogue” (with bonus zombie reference!).
You can bet Obama sees himself and his side as the coarsenees, and everyone who opposes him as a coarsener. Really, I’ve seen this show long enough, and it’s jumped the shark.
And he delivers! AP: Election trouble for House Dems in 2010.
Kevin Pollak will be hosting Rich Sommer and Michael Gladis of the Mad Men cast on his online radio show tonight at 5PM PT.
Kevin Pollak made the 80′s funnier for me than they would otherwise have been. And his awesome Shatner and Walken impressions are enough to earn anyone’s admiration. But you know he is the man because Marty cast him in Casino.
The irony! The Hope administration, the most transparent – and the first one led by an African-American man – is being investigated by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. But the White House is making things difficult.
Why this Oscar-nominated screenwriter will not read your f*#@%ng script.
Well said, sir. Well said.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, father of the “Green Revolution”, savior of millions of human lives, worldwide.
No, it’s not Al Gore. It’s someone who really is all of the above: Dr. Norman Borlaug, who has passed away.
I learned about him for the first time in the WSJ years ago. And his accomplishments just blew me away. In fact, he may have saved my parents’ lives, since one of his first achievements was realized in Mexico. Fittingly, he received our nation’s largest civilian honor not long ago.
Dr. Norman Borlaug, rest in peace.
American Thinker: Obama jumps the shark. (H/T: POWIP)
Related: Althouse: Obama’s in trouble! What can we do to help him?
The NYT agrees: Hot Air: Public Option All But Dead.
Even Frank Rich is unhappy with Obama(!!!):
As a style of governing, however, this repeated cycle of extended above-the-fray passivity followed by last-minute oratorical heroics has now been stretched to the very limit.
Featuring the one and only Bill Whittle of PJTV!
Great photos of the protest yesterday in West L.A., at American Power.
Scientists report adulthood body size associated with cancer risk.
Getting hundreds of thousands of kids, the professionally unemployed and government workers to show up isn’t that hard (especially if someone buys the bus tickets). Getting two million middle-class, middle-aged people with jobs, careers, children and businesses is way, way more impressive.
Another awesome photo essay at LookingattheLeft.
Cool: “I Thought You Would Want to Hear a Black Man Speak to You Without a Teleprompter”.
Drool: Accusations of Tea Parties being hateful and racist.
Several cool videos at the link.
Nikki Finke: Venice jurors shrug off Michael Moore’s latest.
I guess fiction-mentaries just don’t have legs the way they used to. Michael Moore’s Sicko – which he hoped would do for health care reform what Farenheit 911 did for the anti-war crowd – didn’t exactly make a splash at Cannes in 2007, either. Then again, neither did the film I took to Cannes that year. :/
I linked to the list of Venice award winners earlier, here. And don’t forget my latest post about Toronto, here.
Big Government: Former Leftist Activist Turned FBI Informant Speaks.
Tough week for ACORN…
Screenrant: TIFF Two Days In.
Top prize goes to Israel war film Lebanon. More here.
Fausta: Venezuela to get Russian Missiles.
JFK was a conservative, no matter what Dems like to believe; so don’t expect Obama to do anything about this, New Camelot myth notwithstanding.
I dunno if that’s 2 million. But really, who the hell cares? Put any number you want on them. The video speaks for itself. And this is what it says: It’s not just a Mob. It’s a popular movement.
(It’s been brought to my attention that the YouTube video I originally linked to and posted here has been removed from YouTube. I have posted instead a different version of the same video. This one is not full screen, but you can still see the crowd. — Jehuda, Sept. 22, 2009)
UPDATE: Insta-lanche! Thanks for the link, Professor Reynolds!
MORE: Related: Awesome coverage and pics at The Corner. Also, check out the pics from Capitalist Coffee and the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, which I linked to earlier, here.
ANOTHER ONE: On that note, Professor Reynolds asks “Why is the British press more honest in its reporting on this stuff than the American press?”
I think that Obama’s failure would prove the American press wrong on so many levels that it would further accelerate the collapse of Old Media in the U.S. Also, from a more human standpoint, it must suck to see yourself as part of a cultural elite and to be reminded of how little influence you have on most Americans.
AND ANOTHER ONE: The Corner’s Mark Hemingway links with related content. Thanks! Also, check out this aggregation of videos at Shout First (Who also linked here. Thanks!)
At Instapundit: Dems trying to game expectations for the 9/12 Tea Party?
Be careful what you wish for, Ms. Pelosi: Dan Riehl: ABC News Reporting 2 million at DC Protest.
At this time, the ABC News website still reports only thousands, so I’m not sure as to the figures. Not that anyone can count so many people accurately, but a picture is worth a 1000 words. Two pictures are worth many more (H/T: Insty):
Also, keep your eyes on The Other McCain who is somewhere among that crowd. He’ll probably file a report later today.
UPDATE: Related: Dana Loesch: How we got here.
MORE: Some great pics at Capitalist Coffee (via Ed Driscoll).
Plus, our national MSM may not be showing pictures of the huge crowd, but the British Daily Mail is (at the link below):
Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
My favorite pic is the one of the Obama cardboard cutout with its very own TelePrompter (near the bottom).
ANOTHER ONE: Check out this video (via Insty):
Awesome montage!
Volunteer pilots help dogs on “death row”.
(From a Dr. Fiancee tip. She blogs on crime and terrorism here and on whatever she wants here.)
It’s called “motive”. Blogprof: Shooter was offended by victim’s pro-life views.
What a tragedy. This deadly shooting didn’t have to happen. It must be that unhinged, hateful, Left-wing rhetoric from so many liberal blogs, angry Garofalo-types; and the biased light in which the MSM presents Christian Americans.
Just sayin’…
Michelle Malkin: Census Bureau severs ties with ACORN.
AP has more, although nary a mention of Breitbart’s BigGovernment site or Glenn Beck.
UPDATE: The Other McCain: Interview with Doug Giles, whose daughter Hannah helped take down ACORN. Plus, possible criminal charges for recording the ACORN employees without their permission. Bummer.
Thompson: Toronto Day One, with some quick reviews of Soderbergh’s new flick The Informant and Jennifer’s Body.
THR: A Serious Man: “a seriously funny film about a Jewish professor seeking the answers to life’s questions and getting a metaphysical pie in the face”.
I earlier posted the trailer here.
UPDATE: Anne Thompson likes.
Sci-Fi author John Scalzi ranks all the Star Trek film directors. He puts Nicholas Meyer at #1. I posted a link to an interview with Meyer here some time ago. (H/T: Insty)
And for CNN, coming by an audience must be even harder: they just caused a panic in DC on 9/11/09, reporting a routine Coast Guard exercise as something very different. The Coast Guard denied all reports of actual combat.
Reuters also rallied its layers of editors and fact-checkers to report this.
UPDATE: Video of CNN’s “report”:
Rasmussen: Post-speech health care reform support gets modest bump to 46%, mostly from Dems.
UPDATED: Related: Doctors rally against Obamacare in DC. Lots of pics!
Watch the MSM and Lefties become pro-gun and pro-self-defense…or maybe they’ll just pretend the whole thing never happened: Blogprof: Anti-Abortion Activist Shot and Killed.
Lots of pics! A fitting tribute.
Anyone actually counting Obama’s lies? Since August 1st, 2009 this British blogger has been counting Obama’s lies every time the President stages one of his stop-the-presses addresses. Literally counting them. Brutal!
Strictly speaking, the blogger uses the term “lie” somewhat loosely, I think. This isn’t fact-checking a la AP or Factcheck.org; but it sure deconstructs Obama’s rhetoric nicely, cutting through it like a machete in the rainforest. Think of it as a text-based, one-man, angry MST3K
The work of logging Wednesday night’s speech remains in progress. And since POTUS has another one scheduled for Monday, I’m not sure this fellow will ever catch up.
At any rate, hats off to you, Chris Blizzard! I’m putting your page on my blog roll.
Hate to sound like Nikki Finke, but “Told ya!” (Sort of, anyway. I exaggerate).
Should Would be interesting to watch (not to mention fun) as the issue at the heart of the case is would be a novel one (no lawsuit has been filed yet and it’s not certain one will): can a mere domain name be defamatory?
You can call it satire all you want, but that’s not how it works. There’s a fine line. Causes of action are often on the other side of a fine line, if not always. People should think about that more frequently…
Ed Driscoll links. Thanks (and sorry for the correction)!
Ace links (in Top Headlines column). Thanks (and sorry for the correction)!
Big Hollywood: Promoting the arts with our tax money…or promoting pro-administration propaganda? Communications Director to resign reassigned (UPDATE via @AndyLevy).
Back to work then…
From Anne Thompson. New Coens flick (A Serious Man) screening tomorrow! Here’s the trailer:
Live Feed: TV industry leaders reveal new ratings system.
Is Nielsen’s virtual monopoly at an end? Stay tuned.
The Hill: Not a likely game changer for Obama (via Instapundit, where there’s more). The stock market seems to agree. And Karl Rove sees Dems taking a big gamble if they try to ram Obamacare down our collective throat. I’d say.
Also, what’s with Obama eliminating 17 million people or so from the ranks of the uninsured? Trying to make the whole effort seem less expensive, perhaps? Like Rep. Joe Wilson said…
Journalism is hard: NYT sees speech as a momentum-giving turning point. That’s pretty generous for a speech that amounted to a big “Screw you. We’re doing it. And we’re doing it my way.” Especially since more people watched So You Think You Can Dance instead (only on Fox).
As I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter what Obama says. What matters is what’s in the bill. That’s been the focus of the Mobs and their “bickering” all this time. And it’s worked.
We should keep doing what we’re doing, so that all those Dems sitting on the fence – the ones Karl Rove wrote about today – get it through their heads that this is a bet they don’t want to make.
Last night’s reax links are here, including the CNN post-speech poll of speech-watchers that sure is generating a lot of buzz on Memeorandum (this blog is also featured in some threads, btw). Much ado about nothing. 5% margin of error. Less than 500 people polled; and most of them were Democrats. Even TPM didn’t drink the Kool Aid.
UPDATE: That Obama could not beat Fox’s Dance is more embarassing than you might think, since Dance‘s ratings last night were down 21% from its summer debut.
MORE: The WaPo is not very satisfied with Obama’s speech. And here’s a nice summary of editorial reaction, from Politics Daily.
ANOTHER ONE: POWIP: All wee wee’d up and no place to go. Lots of links. Thanks also for linking to me here, Dan.
Prof. Reynolds has a round-up here.
Really, after 8 years of the way Dems and their allies treated Bush, did they not expect an erosion of civility to carry over into Obama’s term? A little silly to be pointing fingers now, whether you are on Joe Wilson’s side or not.
I sympathize with Mr. Wilson. He merely had the temerity to say in front of a national audience what many in that national audience were thinking anyway. And whether he intended or not, he’ll end up forcing discussion of Obamacare and illegal aliens, thus keeping the White House on the defensive on that issue.
UPDATE: Incidentally, I don’t think he should have apologized. Ordinarily, I’m all for apologies when someone crosses a line. But if you’re going to go all out like this, you need to go all out, all the way. It’s politics, not polite society.
Mediaite: Vampires are so 2009. Zombies are what’s next!
Not too long ago, my friends in the business were urging me not to write a zombie movie because they said the market was saturated with zombie movies (I think 28 Days Later
Big Government debuts with lots of ACORN news.
Gateway Pundit has a round-up, featuring – believe it or not – a fact check from the AP.
The Sundries Shack has another one.
And here’s Mickey Kaus’s very insightful take on the whole thing (via The Corner).
My own? I didn’t watch. I had work to do and, besides, I can’t stand it when people lie to my face.
UPDATE: American Power picks up on a CNN Post-Speech poll indicating a terrifically optimistic jump in Obamacare’s popularity among speech-watchers. Too optimistic when you get into the nitty-gritty of the poll’s methodology, as TPM does in part here.
I think now more than ever people know that it doesn’t matter what Obama says. What matters is what’s in the bill. And after TARP, its failures, and its officially-sanctioned AIG bonuses, Americans are not as easily swayed by fancy talk. That, and the fact that the Obama-gic is gone.
But we’ll see what tomorrow brings…
