Category Archives: Media

Updated: Diversity À La Democrats

Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Democrats, Law, Media, Race, The Courts

Doesn’t Pat Buchanan know that diversity is code for displacing da white man? Bush tried hard to appoint a woman simpleton to the SCOTUS, but the Party kicked him so hard for Harriet Miers, whose mind was even more pedestrian than SotoSoAndSo, that he withdrew her nomination and gave us the non-diverse Alito and Roberts.

Still, some interesting points from Pat:

“What kind of diversity is this – either in geography or life experience?

While Sotomayor went to Yale Law School, the other three liberals went to Harvard, though Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated from Columbia. Seems a fairly narrow range for a party that once claimed to be America’s party.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg tied for first in her class at Columbia, but neither Obama nominee is academically distinguished. Sotomayor called herself an ‘affirmative action baby’ who, at Princeton, was urged to read children’s books in the summer to improve her reading and writing skills. Kagan never served as a judge, never litigated a case before being named solicitor general, never wrote a book or anything else anyone has turned up that manifests real legal scholarship.

From her Princeton thesis on the sad demise of 20th-century socialism, to her tears at the defeat of the radical liberal Senate candidate Elizabeth Holtzman in 1980, to her hostility to the U.S. military on the Harvard campus while dean of the law school, Kagan has revealed herself to be one more Ivy League leftist anxious to use a lifetime seat on the court, winning the plaudits of her peers by imposing her ideology on a nation that has never voted for it.

Conservatives will not soon get another opportunity like this to take down Ivy League pretensions to represent and rule America.”

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Back at the farm, liberals really do worship their magic mulatto. The mind boggles at this utterance from MSNBC’s LAWRENCE O‘DONNELL, sitting in for odious Ed of “THE ED SHOW”:

“… we don‘t know a lot about Kagan, but we do know a lot about the man who appointed her. Barack Obama is the wisest and most learned legal scholar ever to occupy the White House. That‘s who Kagan would have had to fool if she really were some sort of stealth conservative.”

Update (May 15): Remember: BHO, author of bestsellers, and not one law journal article (no that that means a thing) is being hailed as greater than Thomas Jefferson, lawyer (as far as I know), legal and political philosopher, author of the Declaration of Independence and generally a genius.

This is sick stuff (but then so is it sick to credit Palin with doing battle for Jeffersonian liberties).

Updated: Sleeping With Your Sources

Ethics, Journalism, Media, Morality, Sex

The sycophantic media sleeps with its sources. Here is Ben Shapiro on some of the more unethical, incestuous relations between media and politics, starting with the latest coupling:

“Psychologists are not supposed to sleep with their clients. Neither are lawyers. Bosses aren’t supposed to sleep with their secretaries. Professors are generally not allowed to sleep with their students. Yet reporters are somehow supposed to be immune from the implicit biases associated with having sex with the people they’re covering.”

ABC correspondent Bianna Golodryga is sleeping with the nerdiest elephant in the circus [“Obama budget boss Peter Orszag”] And she happens to be one of the lead reporters on the circus. Which makes her a clown rather than a reporter. Golodryga never should have gotten involved with Orszag. Now that she is, ABC News should move her to another division of their news bureau.

“The media is treating this whole story as a seedy morality play starring an incredibly nerdy Director of OMB. But even though it now appears that Orszag was spreading his seed just as profligately as taxpayer money, that isn’t the real story.”

Update: The beauty and the beast share one thing: a beastly philosophy of statism and interventionism. Somewhere Mr. Ugly said he likes the girl because she’s Jewish and gets up earlier than he. Golodryg has been twittering about how handsome he is. Stupid.

Hasselbeck’s Hassles

Celebrity, Conservatism, Feminism, Gender, Media, Republicans

To Socratic debate, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, I wrote, “has contributed the sob, the wide-eyed stare, and extravagant gesticulation. When words and wild gestures fail, she weeps.”

And weep she did once again, after being forced to apologize for one of the few witty observations she’s ever made concerning a female sports announcer (also known as a woman who spoils the sporting experience for men).

Watch Hasselbeck’s mea culpa. Watch George Stephanopoulos, now anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He takes the Fifth. (Stephanopoulos is one of the better lefties in the media.)

The rest of my description of this member of the Republican blond brigade:

Hasselbeck is the Republican’s brain trust on a show called ‘The View.’ Her conservative credentials include support for breast cancer prevention and research, the Amber Alert Initiative, the war, Our Leader, and, more generally, being blond and bubbly.

And don’t go accusing me of neglecting her contribution to liberty:

“Hasselbeck was a prime mover behind the persecution of Imus, for politically unpalatable speech, alongside race hustlers Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, neocon sister Amy Holmes, and other sundry sorts of the left (Whoopi Goldberg, Maya Angelou, Naomi Wolf).”

Sycophant’s Supper

Barack Obama, Celebrity, Hollywood, Journalism, Media

It’s a sickening specter: some of the most pretentious, worthless people in the country—in politics, journalism and entertainment—get together to revel in their ability to petition and curry favor with one another, usually to the detriment of the rest of us.

Those gathered at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner are not the country’s natural aristocracy; but a group of people who make their living pretending to be something they are not. Poseurs and parasites all.

Granted, actors do not coerce the citizenry to patronize their (mostly) lousy flicks. However, when they use their celebrity to push unconstitutional, naturally unlawful policies—then they are acting as enemies of the people.

Mostly, I find Hollywood disgusting. Every time I turn around a “celebrity” is preaching and propagandizing for the leftist cause du jour. Some of these tarts were using their tushes and other assets to tell their betters (YOU) to be good and do your “duty.” (Most of them are agitating against Arizona.)

Like nothing else, the annual White House correspondents’ dinner is a mark of corrupt politics. The un-watchful dogs of the media have no business frolicking with the president and his minions. This is co-optation. And when did the phonies of Hollywood become a fixture in this event?

The toxic “tradition” began in 1920, and, as far as I know, is sponsored by THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION. “The White House Correspondents’ Association was formed in 1914 as a liaison between the press and the president.” The event and the invited tell a great deal about the Association and its ethics and code of conduct. ”

MSNBC presenters swore by the president’s routine and said he bested Jay Leno. I happen to think Obama can be a very funny guy; but better than Leno? I laughed at this Obama dig a lot:

“I happen to know that my approval ratings are still very high in the country of my birth.”

You have to love BHO a hell of a lot to think that anything he said could approximate JL’s “Cash for Flunkers” skit. Still Leno is getting bad reviews.