March Thiessen: Romney’s Pawlenty moment.
UPDATE: Related: Polls show Gingrich bounce heading into Florida.
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TALKING POINT ALERT: Newt is racist because he dared talk to Juan Williams about the value of work.
Wow. I guess it’s been a slow news cycle. Where were all these defenders of racial sensitivity when Reverend Wright was spouting his venom? Ok, we know where Ezra Klein was: doctoring the news cycle with Journo-list. But what about the rest of them?
The fact is Newt could be the GOP nominee – and he could win the presidential election – because he’s not a toothless (i.e. ‘moderate’), McCainian establishment Republican. That’s why the Media-cracy now feels it must target him, especially after his devastatingly effective debate performance in South Carolina.
Newt’s demonstrated he’s not merely capable of attacking Obama and the Left (heck, even I can do that); but he can also draw a contrast between himself and Obama; between fair and unfair press coverage; between the Leftie narrative du jour and reality; and – further – between the lies Latte America (and the Ruling Class) tell themselves – which they expect us all to believe and live by – and the way life actually is for most Americans. In other words, Newt must be destroyed because he not only knows there’s a man behind the curtain, but he can also pull the curtain down at the drop of a hat. What’s more: he fights!
Never thought I’d say this, but Ezra Klein has actually influenced my thinking: Despite that Moore -esque, anti-Romney ad, I really like Newt. Maybe a little early for me to say this, but I think he is The One Who Can Beat ‘The One’.
By the way: Newt just won the South Carolina primary.
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Booze Tech: The perfect tool for beer-drinking in cold weather.
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Law Nerds Only: When is a defendant liable for an insane robot?
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STOP MAKING SENSE: New school can’t be Cougars because middle-aged women might be offended.
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World’s Smallest Violin: MPAA Chief Chris Dodd ‘Hurt,’ Defends His Piracy Strategy.
MPAA chief or Hollywood lobbyist. Same difference.
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Swinging Newt? WSJ: Gingrich’s ex-wife says he wanted an open marriage.
Will Bill Clinton endorse Newt now? Maybe Anthony Weiner, too?
How weird that we are hearing this now and that it never came up back in the 90′s, when Bill Clinton was president and Newt was Speaker…
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Old Media vs. New Media: Consumer Movie Disc Rentals -11% In 2011 As Paid VOD Grows.
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Rick Perry is out: Will endorse Gingrich.
And other news from the campaign trail. R.S. McCain reporting…
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So far, so good: PIPA support collapses, with
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How much does legislation go for these days? Hollywood Moguls Stopping Obama Donations Because Of President’s Piracy Stand: “Not Give A Dime Anymore”.
Sounds expensive!
UPDATE: Moguls deny.
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The Escathon In Microcosm: Occupy Wall Street Sapped for Cash: “After raising more than $700,000 last fall, protesters who keep track of money for Occupy Wall Street reported this week that the group has about $170,000 in its bank account. Very few donations are coming in, they said.” So everything was working just fine until they ran out of other people’s money? Sounds familiar.
Plus this:
“If we keep spending at the rate at which we have been doing, we will probably go broke in a month,” said Haywood Carey, 28 years old, a member of the movement’s accounting group.
Really, this bunch needs to tone it down a bit. There is no place for terroristic pronouncements of this sort at a peaceful protest.
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Your Moment of Geek: Great Movie Posters Reimagine Modern Films With Vintage Casts.
Very clever…
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No, I’m not boycotting my own blog to protest SOPA. Just been too busy at work. I do plan to add some new posts today, though…
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Nihilistic Question of the
DayMonthYear: ‘What is the point of having kids if your life ends when theirs begins?’Hmm. I dunno…Could it be that not everything revolves around you?
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Stop the Revisionist Insanity: The Real Legacy of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Iron Lady.
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Hollywood Commands It: U.K. Judge Orders Accused Copyright Pirate Extradited to U.S.: “In a first-of-its-kind case, a judge in the U.K. has ordered that a British student who ran a website that linked to free films and TV shows can be extradited to the United States.” (emphasis mine)
Think about it: mere linking has led to an arrest and extradition. Webmasters who link to unlicensed media content are now in the same league as drug lords and other notorious criminals.
If merely inserting a URL in your webpage code can make you an outlaw of this stature, what will happen if SOPA and PIPA become law? Extreme renditions?
UPDATE: Six senators urge Harry Reid to Slow Down PIPA vote plans.
MORE: Anonymous protests the bills like only they can.
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That piece I posted at PJ Lifestyle yesterday about George Lucas and his African American World War II actioner Red Tails (The George Lucas Project Hollywood Wouldn’t Touch) has generated many interesting comments in the areas of race, history, Lucas’ career, and the Hollywood industry.
My piece is merely one of many reacting to Lucas’ new movie and his insinuations of racism at the big studios – though my post didn’t focus that much on the racism part. But Ed Driscoll sheds more light on the topic here: The R-Word: Hollywood Throws It Around So Effortlessly.
I agree with Ed’s points. That aside, I still believe Lucas wasn’t really accusing anyone at the studios of racism – although I also think he wanted to sound like he was (same difference?). Any resulting controversy would help spread the word about Red Tails – and that’s a bonus for the movie. But I think he believes his problem getting Hollywood studio backing for the movie is a prejudice of a different sort (as I alluded in my PJ Lifestyle post), like he explained to Reelz reporter Patrick Stinson during a red carpet interview: “Will Smith’s not in it and it’s not a sequel. If we had that, we wouldn’t have had the problem.”
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Your Moment of Geek: Steampunk GPS App Evokes Jules Verne Era.
Very cool. iPhone only.
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Mitt Romney, Mexican-American?
Kinda, sorta. Interesting…
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Science! Why 3D movies don’t work and never will.
Via Aaron Miller.
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At PJ Lifestyle, I blog about the George Lucas project that Hollywood wouldn’t touch.
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“It’s as if Newt hired Michael Moore.”
Newt can’t afford Michael Moore, but that’s about right. Too bad. Newt had been quite gracious to his competitors until now. I guess he didn’t really believe GOP candidates should focus on Obama instead of attacking each other. And maybe there’s nothing wrong in and of itself with attacking each other, but this sort of class warfare B.S. is just wrong.
UPDATE: Related content from Roger Simon. I, like Roger, also liked Rick Perry; but I gave up on him back in November, I think…
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Socialism. It’s about fairness: Children ‘dumped in streets by Greek parents who can’t afford them’.
There’s equality in misery. Just focus on the equality part…
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Tom Friedman Was Not Available For Comment: Chinese Workers Making Xboxes Threaten To Commit Suicide Over Compensation Dispute.
Related content here.
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TOLERANCE: What? You’re a Global Warming Denier? Deal’s off!
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Top 5 ‘let them eat cake’ moments of the Obama White House.
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Obama Hack-onistes: First, he triggers party identification problems among progressives. Now it looks like he’s also losing the critical, extreme-left seal of approval.
But calling president Obama “too conservative” is unfair (especially to conservatives – oh, and remember when Reagan was not a conservative? Revisionism levels getting critical!).
The problem is not that Obama is too conservative. He just doesn’t have what it takes to be president of the U.S. of A., ideology notwithstanding. Banana republic? Sure. Mayor of Chicago. Probably. But POTUS? Not at all. How else can you explain that Obama keeps failing to make his base happy despite having had an overwhelming Democrat majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Democrat majority in the Senate for two full years?
Obama’s weaknesses should have been evident to all Lefties in 2008, but his marketeers ably diverted most people’s attention from his shortcomings with the aid of many a Leftie voice (JournoList anyone?). And now they are all mopey and disappointed because – guess what? – reading pretty from a TelePrompter, writing books, and graduating from Harvard do not qualify you for the Oval Office. Who knew?
UPDATE: Insta-lanche! Thanks, Ed!
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Burning Question of the Day: Is your personality making you fatter?
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Gross Out: The Dirty Secret Behind Hotel Drinking Glasses.
Outrageous!
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Class Warfare, Gingrich Style: Attack Film Depicts Romney as ‘Ruthless’ Rich.
Related: Jon Stewart: GOP Against Class Warfare Unless It’s Against Mitt Romney.
Yup. That’s pretty much what it looks like…
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Media Law: How Mister Rogers Saved the VCR.
What? No credit to the lawyers?
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PJ Lifestyle: ‘Long Story Short:’ Colin Quinn’s 75-Minute History of the World.
Always enjoy watching Colin Quinn, even as the sidekick on MTV’s old Remote Control game show.
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Party Identification in 2012: David Sirota plays ‘Spot the Progressive‘. And Jon Huntsman seems to be playing his own version of the same game.
UPDATE: Related: Ron Paul and the “Not Romneys”.
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Don’t go changin’: Obama still flush with cash from financial sector despite frosty relations. The Wall Street candidate in 2008. The Wall Street candidate now.
Just imagine if they had friendly relations…
Plus this: “Obama has outdone Romney on his own turf, collecting $76,600 from Bain Capital employees through September — and he needed only three donors to do it.”
Obama has outdone all Republican candidates in the same fashion, too…
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DOG BITES MAN: E-mail reveals anti-Semitism at Leftie think tank.
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Auto News: Some New Cars Now Cheaper Than Used Cars.
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JournalismLying Is Hard: CNN‘s Soledad O’Brien’s pro-White House spin refuted by her own network’s reports.I guess she doesn’t watch CNN, which means she’s like most people…
UPDATE: Related: Lawrence O’Donnell rubs it in.
