So studios are releasing movies on VOD sooner than ever because DVD sales are so awful.
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Sony has put the entire Scorsese masterpiece online.
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LAT: “Over 26 years, disabilities or deaths caused by head or spine trauma are almost double for female high school cheerleaders than for female players of all sports combined: 73 “catastrophic injuries” — including two deaths — from fall 1982 to spring 2008. Gymnasts were second, with nine injuries.”
Cheerleading, the most dangerous sport?
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The Nation: Whiner-in-Chief:
The Obama administration really needs to get over itself.
First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant.
Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant.
These are not disconnected developments.
Give it a read. The Nation is not exactly a right-of-center publication, but I can empathize. You expect strength and confidence from your guy after he wins, not crybaby bitching about unsympathetic press.
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[T]he award to Obama was neither more or less odd than some of the previous awards made by five Norwegian politicians no one outside of Norway had ever heard of. But his win does give us an opportunity to consider an important question, namely, why Europeans generally think so highly of Obama.
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I’m on a shoot all day today. And will be for much of the week. So all the posts were scheduled in advance. I sure hope it’s not a busy news day, because I can’t react to any news until later tonight…hopefully, if I’m not too tired.
Reality-based TV is not like winning a Nobel Peace Prize, after all. It takes effort (yuk, yuk).
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The Other McCain agrees with Andrew Sullivan!
And I agree with them. Which reminds me of this old Python sketch, although my agreement is sincere:
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Wendy Williams: A Health Care Warning From Massachusetts.
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Ace: “Tom Friedman writes a column I agree with: Obama Should Accept Nobel On Behalf Of US Military”.
Good call…
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NYT: Comics Whack Obama: “There has been a proliferation of jokes that feed on — or are fed by — a resuscitated old narrative against the president that goes back to last year’s campaign when both John McCain and Hillary Clinton tried to portray Mr. Obama as an All Talk/No Walk showboat.”
Every president ends up the butt of jokes on late night. Not sure why this is news, but odds are the author didn’t watch SNL this past weekend.
Note the article doesn’t even refer to the above as a perception about our in fact inexperienced, over-hyped president. It’s a resuscitated old narrative against him – i.e., an insidious, mean-spirited tale that should have died long ago.
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Couples Retreat was #1. But the real story is how that itsy bitsy horror movie Paranormal Activity has been raking in the cash.
Nikki Finke has the figures and analysis.
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Advertising Age: The FTC’s new blog rules are a legal non-starter.
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Make sure you’re wearing your irony safety-belt, because the following is an instance of censorship and point-of-view discrimination at a big gathering of…journalists.
Phelim McAleer, the Irish director of the documentary Not Evil Just Wrong dared to question Al Gore at a recent Society of Environmental Journalists event.
Watch what happens:
Not unconstitutional, just wrong.
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Watch out, everybody! The White House is “taking the gloves off” in its never-ending battle with…a cable news network?
The administration’s champion in this epic fight is White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who unimaginatively communicated the conclusion below on this weekend’s broadcast of Reliable Sources:
“What I think is fair to say about Fox…is that it really is more of a wing of the Republican party…let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is…I’m talking about the overall programming.”
I suppose she says the above intending to discredit Fox, what with the decline of the GOP and all (a decline Obama is working hard to reverse); but mostly out of frustration with the Constitution’s Free Speech Clause, and the fact that Fox News is the most watched cable news network in America (even at 3AM, when Fox isn’t airing any news whatsoever, but their competition is).
That aside, what I think is safe to say about Dunn is that she is really more of an enabler of ACORN, and thus shouldn’t even be working in the White House or relied on by the American People to communicate anything. Why? Because the SEIU – which we could say is one and the same with ACORN – is a client of Squier Knapp Dunn Communications’, the PR firm Dunn co-owns:
And then there’s the question of what is Squier’s and – by extension – Dunn’s connection to Rod Blagojevich? But that’s for another post.
Dunn is right about one thing (even a broken clock…): Fox News is nothing like CNN. But that’s a feature, not a bug.
UPDATE: Hot Air has video.
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ReelzChannel has the list.
My favorites are Leonard Smalls and Johnny Caspar, in that order…
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The Economist: A new culture war is brewing…
…and DefeatTheDebt.com is on the front lines, but they need your help to get more commercials like this one out there:
And don’t forget this Facebook group.
It’s time to go Breitbart on out-of-control federal spending!
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I did so much writing for the show yesterday, that I could use several hours of no typing whatsoever. So I think blogging will remain light for much of the weekend, tapering to almost no blogging next week, as we start taping on Monday. Long days on the set ahead.
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Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize seems to be confusing a lot of people. It is confusing. It makes you shake your head and ask a big “Why?”. And I think one could feel that way regardless of one’s political inclinations. But others are confused at why some of us are confused. It’s complicated.
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Merit had nothing to do with it. Obama didn’t do anything for international relations between the day of his inauguration and the deadline for Peace Prize nomination submissions (which amounts to 12 days). Further, Obama admitted in public that he didn’t deserve the award. And I gotta hand it to POTUS for doing so.
But those of us who find the award outrageous are not hating Obama for getting it; and it’s not hyperbole to say it’s awful that he’s gotten it. Fraudster Rigoberta Menchu, terrorist Yasser Arafat, and History’s Greatest Monster are all recent Peace Prize recipients (and yet, Bill Clinton – who’s been working for years with Bill Gates to fight AIDS, is not).
The Committee’s standards evidently are in the toilet. That should be even more apparent since 2007, when the world’s most alarming science-fiction movie star, Albert Gore Jr., was honored with their award. But this time the Committee has outdone itself. It has given the Prize to an American president to honor him for accomplishing nothing of substance. That makes a mockery of the award and it indeed makes a joke of Obama.
Come to think of it, it might even be raaaaacist (much like that A- from Time magazine). The Committee might have been wrongly convinced – in their racial prejudice – that Obama would never accomplish anything worthy of an international award, so they just went ahead and gave him one to make him feel better about himself.
In fact, it’s wrong to think that conservatives are angry for Obama getting the award. Yes, we laughed at his Olympic Fail, but we’re also laughing at the Nobel Win. Why? I can only speak for myself, but in two words: Accelerated Carterization.
UPDATE: Does Obama supporter Peggy Noonan read The Rhetorican? I doubt it, but we seem to be in agreement on at least one important point: “In one mindless stroke, the committee has rendered the Nobel Peace Prize a laughingstock”.
MORE: Moe Lane on party re-identification based on Nobel reaction. Hope you like the Republican party – uh – guys…
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Mediaite: New York, I Love You (And Always Have).
The list is a little heavy on romance, I think. Don’t expect any moments like this one. Or these
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American Power: Taliban Escalate Siege of Pakistan.
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Ed Driscoll: 90 percent of success is just showing up.
Time should have just gone with a Pass/Fail scheme, like Yale. That A- carries some stigma with it, after all: it will always be inferior to an A+…and you know what that implies: raaaaacism!
More at Hot Air.
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Smile, Hollywood elite! You’re in unique company: BBC News: Major Polanski defender in French government caught in “boy sex row”.
Via Fausta.
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So I got me a job story-producing an episode of a reality show to air on NatGeo.
Well, it’s reality-based, but not your traditional follow-a-celeb or bunch-of-strangers-in-a-house kind of show. It’s National Geographic, after all. Should be fun and interesting; with cool scientific tidbits and lots of hard working men and women making amazing stuff happen on screen.
Anyway, as a result, less blogging than usual will be accomplished in the next four weeks. Next week The days ahead may be especially blog-less for me, as we start shooting on Monday and won’t wrap till Saturday tomorrow. I’ll see if I get Dr. Fiancee to guest-blog, but she’s got stuff of her own to do.
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The national debt per American is now over $39,000. Show your support for fiscal responsibility by joining YesButHowever‘s new Deficit-themed Facebook page.
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STRATFOR: Two Leaks and the Deepening Iran Crisis:
The message was twofold. First, previous assumptions on time frames on Iran are no longer valid, and worst-case assumptions must now be assumed. The Iranians are in fact moving rapidly toward a weapon; have been extremely effective at deceiving U.S. intelligence…; and therefore, we are moving toward a decisive moment with Iran.
Related: the White House eliminates another word from the foreign policy lexicon; and it concerns Iran.
UPDATE: Indeed: The authors of the 2007 Iran NIE have some explaining to do.
The authors of the 2007 Iran NIE have some explaining to do.
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American Power: Code Pink’s Jodie Evans says there was no ‘Rethink’ on Afghanistan.
I’m most surprised to learn that any thinking was in fact going on…
Related: Ed Morrisey on the WaPo’s latest revelation about Obama’s Afghanistan strategy…or lack of.
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AP: Obama turning to Hollywood for health reform help.
Really? After the parade of Polanski defenders and Letterman’s sex scandal? After Will Ferrell’s video and others like it were neutered by Allahpundit?
This is worse than Bush 41 not knowing the price of a carton of milk. POTUS needs to go on world tour less and stick around the home turf a little more. That is, if he wants to appear like he knows what he’s doing.
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The Anchoress: “Yes, it takes nerves and balls to be a Human Rights and Liberty sort of president. To appease, soft-pedal and hang with Anti-Semites? Not so much”.
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Karl Rove: ObamaCare punishes cardiology and oncology to finance GPs.
ObamaCare punishes cardiology and oncology to finance GPs.
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L.A. Times: “[Code Pink] is rethinking its call for a deadline to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan…[T]he group now understands…that a resurgent Taliban would probably target women and girls who have made tremendous progress since U.S. troops routed the fundamentalist militant group in 2002.”
You think? Go ahead and change the name of your organization to Code Sharp. Ya’ll deserve it.
Makes you wonder how it is that the Left hasn’t imploded worldwide yet. Much of it is rife with such a weak grasp on reality.
I wonder if this pro-woman approach to the war will expand across the Left? If it does, Obama will be feeling pressure from more than one side on Afghanistan. It’ll be interesting to watch.
UPDATE: Related: Chaos at the Daily Kos over Afghanistan.
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A Pam Geller exclusive: ACORN threw out Republican voter registrations.
As told by a Jacksonville lady who used to work for ACORN. It will be a little hard for Bertha Lewis to accuse her of racism, though.
Via @exposeliberals.
UPDATE: Insta-lanche! Thanks for the link, Prof. Reynolds!
MORE: Pam has more at BigGovernment.
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The Other McCain turns 50 today. You can leave him a happy birthday comment, here.
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And misses.
Take-down notice abuse is so irritating. It only makes attorneys look like stupid bullies. I realize it’s not easy to just say “no, let it go” to the client, but this sort of conduct makes the profession look bad, I think.
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And Declan McCullough at CBS News falls short.
Lest we forget, CBS News gave us the Mapes/Rather team – famous for developing the “Fake but Accurate” brand of news reporting – and an alleged extortionist.
