Benjamin Schwarz: What’s wrong – and right – with the hit show.
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Dan Balz: “Three forces threaten Democrats in the 2010 elections: populist anger on the right, disaffection in the middle and potential disillusionment on the left.”
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Newsbusters: Slate editor Jacob Weisberg calls Fox News “un-American”.
Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to stick. Are we to conclude that CNN and MSNBC are hyper-American, perhaps? Don’t make me laugh. Certainly not after the way they treated Rush.
Mr. Weisberg’s asinine pronouncements have earned him an all-American pantsing, just like this guy right here:
Related: NYT: The Battle Between the White House and Fox News.
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Instapundit: “Republican” Justice of the Peace who refused to marry an interracial couple was a Democrat until this year.
Well, considering the history of the Democratic Party, this is no surprise…
posted to WP.com: A Democrat by Another Name
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How did I miss this? The NFL is not just ok with felons as players. It’s ok with Olbermann’s divisiveness! Good point, Juan Williams!
UPDATE: Bonus Olbermann divisiveness (with video) at OlbermannWatch.
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Reason: Kyoto Protocol is dead, says NPR.
Via Insty.
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Politico: Dem study shows that Obama foes aren’t race-driven.
(H/T: Hot Air)
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To a New York law firm? Not clear, but some interesting connections have arisen…
It will be brutally ironic if a big law attorney ends up sued for defamation by Rush Limbaugh, but since terrorist-sponsoring states are now the targets of terrorism, and the Left is tearing itself apart even though it’s at its most powerful in Washington, I don’t think it can be ruled out. Let’s see how the story develops in the days ahead…
Via FireAndreaMitchell.
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Dr. Fiancee turned me on to this clip – which she actually saw on Red Eye. The Rhetorican-ine is a beagle (although in his golden years) so I enjoyed it:
What’s with the show’s producers and cute animals? I watched that broadcast of the Red Eye later on; and they played three more clips of cutesie baby animals.
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The terrifying success of Paranormal Activity.
And some more background on the film – from the LAT – here, when people at Paramount were still wondering whether it could get this big.
I actually read that LAT piece on dead tree last month. First time I grabbed an actual newspaper with my own hands in a while! (I was traveling)
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Ed Driscoll on a suicide bomber attack in…Iran?
A sponsor of terrorism gets hit by terrorism. Maybe life is fair, after all…
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Wherein Professor Douglas spends some time with ANSWER during an anti-war event.
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Berman Post: ‘Plasma Knife’ can stop bleeding.
Strangely, I was watching plasma cutters at work pretty much all week long, since they are at the center of the reality show I’m working on for NatGeo. Plasma cutters are used for cutting metal, though. And in that respect they can also be used to save lives, since some firefighters use them to extricate accident victims from cars, for example.
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Legal Insurrection: They Don’t Link, They Don’t Call.
UPDATE: Bluegrass Pundit: Independents are abandoning Obama.
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BigHollywood is premiering the environmentalist expose documentary Not Evil Just Wrong tonight at 5PM PT. Don’t miss it!
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LAT: California poised to ban “energy-guzzling” big screen TV’s.
But no plans yet to ban resource-guzzling, inefficient government…
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Rush Limbaugh has raised his voice in defense of freedom countless times over the years. I’m happy to exercise my freedom to raise my voice in defense of him. I invite you to do the same. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t “need” it. He deserves it. All of us do. There is little we can do to reverse the injustice of the St. Louis Rams affair, but we can make it up to Rush by giving him the chance to deliver a hell of a show on the day after Election Day, next year.
I’m down with that.
UPDATE: Related content from Professor Althouse (via Insty): Is Rush setting a trap for Sharpton? It sure sounds like Sharpton could run into – ahem – circumstances similar to those ACORN will encounter if it actually sues Breitbart and Co. for their exposes. Incidentally, don’t forget their legal defense funds, links to which are here (under the heading of “ACORN Story Resources”).
Plus this: “This whole NFL controversy is a gift to Rush.”
I think so too, but I still feel bad that he didn’t get to go ahead with his NFL franchise investment.
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Season 4 of Adult Swim’s The Venture Bros. debuts tonight at 9pm Pacific.
If you need a Venture fix right now, check out this list of clips of the the 10 Best Venture Bros. One-Shot Characters.
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TLC sues Jon Gosselin for breach of morals clause and exclusivity agreement.
They still have morals clauses in Hollywood? Who knew? And of all the shows that could have them, Jon & Kate Plus 8 had to be one of them. This guy just can’t catch a break.
You know what will piss me off? If that jerk with the kid and the balloon ends up getting his own reality show, which I suspect is what he’s wanted all along. After all, if Octo-Mom can get one, why can’t he and his family?
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David Rothkop: Time for the President to Be Decisive:
Right now, even his strongest supporters — and I count myself among them — are worried that much as Abe Lincoln was the great rail splitter, Barack Obama may become known as the great difference splitter. A former senior official, active on the president’s campaign sat in my office just yesterday worrying aloud about whether this is just learning curve behavior or whether we are drifting toward Jimmy II.
I just hope “Jimmy II” doesn’t mean twice as bad as History’s Greatest Monster…
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Not at all. I wish I could react to events, like I usually do. But the show I hired on is actually shooting today, so I can’t blog at all.
It’s the last day of production, though. There are several days of editing ahead, so I won’t be completely free, but at least things will be a little slower…
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NYT: Commuter railroads build a secret minute into train departures.
My alarm clock is 30 minutes fast on purpose. It’s sorta the same concept, but implemented in a different way.
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Shepard Fairey: Artistliarthief.
Nothing pisses off a judge like spoliation of evidence, Shepard. Bad, bad artist…
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Nobel committee member objected to Obama receiving the prize because “she questioned his ability to keep his promises”.
You don’t say…
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PBS’s Frontline focuses on the Afghan conflict in Obama’s War, now watchable online. But I think it may re-air on TV soon. Check your local listings.
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Dr. Fiancee gave me a wireless modem she had mothballed recently; and my laptop is working once again. Whew! Back on line!
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My laptop gave me the blue screen of death this morning. And now my modem isn’t working either.
Too bad, because I actually got back home earlier than expected.
Running a chkdsk on DOS on my laptop right now, as I post this from my phone.
Lame…
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The Powers That Be: Rush has no place in the NFL, but look who does: Felons!
But of course! In Obama’s America, disfavored points-of-view carry more stigma than crime itself.
You can’t say you weren’t warned: Gleichschaltung!
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I’m simply to short of time to even schedule posts for Thursday. Maybe even for the rest of the week. Our location is a two hour drive from L.A. – and we start at the crack of dawn. And we’re taping Saturday, as well. Sorry!
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Danny Gallagher likes the Dexter books and the show.
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Following a Hollywood franchise? Watch out for number 6.
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John Stossel: What’s Michael Moore Talking About?
Some fiction is far too fancy for its own good.
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We’ll take Lieberman…
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The Other McCain wonders, given Michelle Obama’s newly announced phobia…
Actually, calling it a phobia is unfair to phobias. Phobias are irrational fears. Michelle Obama’s fear in this instance is transparent bull.
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Newbusters: CNN’s John Roberts omits Leftie background of pro-Obamacare insurance industry insider.
Via @exposeliberals.
We have no choice but to conclude that Anita Dunn holds Fox News’ journalistic standards in the highest regard…
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We’re shooting on two locations today. Both are outside L.A. and about 80 miles from each other. So I doubt I’ll blog “in real time” today at all.
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Does Tim Blair of the Daily Telegraph read The Rhetorican? I doubt it. He’s just asking the obvious question – the question any serious journalist would ask – about the timing of this manufactured Rush “scandal”; a question which I posed last night myself.
What can I say? Journalism is hard. It’s up to us bloggers to ask the questions a real professional journalist would ask. Also, we generally don’t have well-staffed legal departments to advise us on defamation risks, so we have to do our own homework. Maybe that explains it…
(Via Insty)
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Cinematical: Seven Directorial Double Whammies.
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The HuffPo goes after Rush Limbaugh using iconography from the Democratic Party’s golden whites-only past.
Related: And in the MSM, Limbaugh hate burns even hotter, which is understandable. Think about it: you bust your ass for years to become a national TV personality, you are a good liberal, finally you get your shot before the cameras…and somehow, this conservative with an AM syndicated talk show becomes so successful that if he wanted he could walk up to you and tell you with a straight face: “My name is worth more than your car.”
That’s gotta hurt. Poor Chris Matthews…(yuk, yuk)
But seriously now, Rush owning part of an NFL team is probably perceived by the Sorosphere as potentially mainstreaming him. They can’t have that, obviously. It would be disastrous. So they’re pulling all the stops. The big meme is rolled out; and they accuse him of being a racist, which is ridiculous and false.
What’s so silly about these fabricated quotes attributed to Rush is that he supposedly said them over 10 years ago, and yet with an audience of 20 million+ – and the whole time in the cross-hairs of the MSM – no one’s ever discussed them until now. So much for suspension of disbelief…
