Reminder that Bill Kristol and the Neocons are Always Wrong About Everything. The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite.
Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and bureaucrats from paying no price for deceiving the American public. “Truth will out” is a phrase that is routinely recited to keep Americans paying and obeying. Politicians and editorial writers toss this phrase out to simmer down any fears that the government might be conspiring against the people. Actually, “truth will out” is the biggest fairy tale in Washington. John Edwards’ Life in Exile: Ex-Senator Seen as ‘Snake’ and ‘Scumbag’ in Hometown Chapel Hill. John Edwards: A self-deceiving psycho-diagnostician. Professional psychologists think their cause is advanced when politicians like Henry Waxman protect the NIMH budget from cuts.
Humphf. I say we got a real incremental boost in our status when John Edwards became only one of a handful of politicians to self-diagnose the cause of his professional self-destruction in public. Any time a former candidate for Vice President uses the term “narcissism” with reporters taking notes, our stock goes up. John Edwards is a creep, not a criminal. Charles Krauthammer: Did the state make you great? Roanoke, Va., July 13 And who might that somebody else be? Government, says Obama. It built the roads you drive on.
It provided the teacher who inspired you. It “created the Internet.” An appalling magic. Say "American conservative commentator" and what do you picture?
A middle-aged guy in shirt and necktie, right? Speak of a "hardline Republican pundit" and what else comes to mind? Perhaps a big-mouth butterball like Rush Limbaugh? Libs Say the Darndest Things. S George Shultz on energy: It's personal. By Mark Golden and Mark Shwartz Mark Shwartz With a car that's powered by electricity generated from solar panels on his Stanford home, former Secretary of State George Shultz says he's 'driving on sunshine.' George Shultz was an economist in the Eisenhower administration, as well as secretary of the Treasury and Labor, and director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Nixon administration.
Under President Ronald Reagan, he was secretary of state for almost seven years. Newspaper Industry Is Running Out of Time to Adapt to Digital Future. Rushfield Babylon - The Death of Buzz: Politicians and Show Runners Beware! Observing a political paradox this election year a fascinating phenomenon seems to be unfolding - that we may have reached a phase in our cultural evolution where there is no such thing as good attention.
(Side note: I am observing politics here as a petri dish through which to study a particular cultural phenomenon. I am not looking to debate the election and if anyone grabs on to my mention of certain political figures to argue with me about politics, I swear by all that is unholy I will block you forever from my every social network and blogging platform til the end of my days.) Nir Rosen, U.S. journalist slams CBS' Lara Logan on Twitter after sexual assault in Egypt, resigns. Twitter; CBS News Journalist Nir Rosen, left, posted a series of insensitive comments to his Twitter account Tuesday ridiculing CBS' Lara Logan, right, who was sexually assaulted hile covering riots in Egypt.
While the world reels in shock over CBS reporter Lara Logan's sexual assault in Egypt, another American journalist is causing a different kind of outrage, calling Logan a "warmonger" who was simply trying to outdo Anderson Cooper. Nir Rosen, an NYU fellow who has extensively covered the Iraq War, made the insensitive remarks during a Twitter rant on Tuesday. He has since resigned from the university's Center on Law and Security. The Hugh Hewitt Show. HH: It’s Thursday, and on Thursday when we are lucky, we are joined by Mark Steyn, Columnist To the World.
You can read everything Mark writes at www.steynonline.com. Mark, what a week. Today, we get news that Mitt Romney, Team Romney out-raised Team Obama by $17 million dollars in May, including three hundred, just under three hundred thousand donations of under $250 dollars, and a poll that shows Romney is ahead in Michigan, and this comes two days after the blowout win of Scott Walker. They can’t be too happy in the White House. Occupy Twitter: Top Ten Dirty Tricks Leftists Play Online. It’s a campaign that has been obvious to many of those who’ve been experiencing this first-hand.
And Sunday night, more sunlight was shone on the issue as thousands witnessed an attack on a higher profile target when Chris Loesch, the husband of Big Journalism editor and CNN contributor Dana Loesch, had his Twitter account suspended suddenly and unexpectedly--for “sending multiple unsolicited mentions to other users.” The action sparked an outpouring of support, sending the hashtag #FreeChrisLoesch to the top of the trending tags, and once more with #FreeChrisLoeschAGAIN when his account was suspended yet again (and again) after less than a minute or so of having been restored.