IN THE COMMENTS: d said:
I love how Ann doesn't get exercised over politics, but does over literature!Thanks for getting me.
November 19, 2009
Finally! The Bloggingheads with me and Michelle Goldberg, talking about Sarah Palin's book...
... and assorted other things....
IN THE COMMENTS: d said:
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 220 of 220Rialby,
A deleted comment? So does blogger no longer leave a tombstone when that happens, as I can't see anything with your name on it that's been deleted.
Not when the blog owner deletes it. It was comment #1.
Oops, hit Publish just as I noticed what the WV was.
wv - chiesse: what French surrender monkeys eat.
For this post, it's pretty good, too:
Coideter™ - a new form of birth control.
Rialby,
No, it used to leave a tombstone saying "This post has been deleted by an administrator". Or are you saying it still does, but not if comment #1 is deleted before there are any others?
rialby, fess up. You did it so you could be one of the infamous few who qualify for the tee shirt.
jaltcoh--
I don't think I've ever seen a blogginghead's post on Althouse with Wright and/or Kaus that didn't refer to their looks.
blake,
People are trying to discredit Sarah Palin by labeling her a populist.
You say that O'Reilly and Huckabee are populists. Are you then suggesting that Sarah Palin is like O'Reilly and Huckabee?
I don't watch O'Reilly; if he has a philosophy I don't know what it is. Huckabee is a big-government "social conservative".
One of the reasons conservatives like Palin is that she believes in small government and low taxes without pushing right-wing social policy.
Although the fevered left is desperately trying to paint Sarah as a Christian theocrat there is absolutely nothing in her speeches, her writing, or her record in office to suggest that she really is one.
jaltcoh:
I'm clueless about what you're referring to in that comment. Please explain.
If you couldn't understand what I wrote you wouldn't understand my explanation of it either.
jaltcoh:
I'm clueless about what you're referring to in that comment. Please explain.
If you couldn't understand what I wrote you wouldn't understand my explanation of it either.
Go ahead and see. Why won't you be specific? This is very strange.
jaltcoh,
OK, explain Maggie then.
Who's Maggie?
Althouse's hair looks really great. That's all I have to say.
I'm such a girl~
Although, I have to agree with Michelle Goldberg--shocker--in that I am officially bored. I can't take any more Palin for a while. That's no reflection on Palin, I've just had my fill.
"Do you think that Dreams of My Father is an excellent work of literature?"
"I do, I really do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
puke.
Can we all agree that Althouse must seek better and quicker prey than Ms. Goldberg for her next Blogginghead encounter?
One of the critical problems that ideologues, such as Ms. Goldberg, have is that their debating opponent knows their doctrinaire lines sometimes better than they do. A more intellectually open minded person, say this blog's hostess, is not similarly encumbered in debate. Thus, Ms. Goldberg use of the word "nuance" in defense of the Obama's agonizingly slow approach to Afghanistan was as if raw red meat was handed to an expert chef for a thorough grilling. Goldberg had obviously forgotten that the word "nuance" had become a source of derision towards John Kerry in 2004 for the very same indecision that is now being exhibited by our very own Hamlet-in-Chief. Ann hadn't forgotten and it was not a pretty sight to see Ms. Goldberg being eviscerated as she nervously fluffed her hair.
Superb stuff.
People are trying to discredit Sarah Palin by labeling her a populist.
Also: newsreader, woman, conservative, not conservative, liar, pregnancy-faker, etc.
You say that O'Reilly and Huckabee are populists.
Yeah. They seem to direct their arguments toward this idea that they're champions of the little people.
Are you then suggesting that Sarah Palin is like O'Reilly and Huckabee?
I'm saying I don't know. I think the word I used was "whiff".
I don't watch O'Reilly; if he has a philosophy I don't know what it is.
Mostly, it's "what can O'Reilly do for O'Reilly". Heh. I haven't watched him in years but he's always talking about helpin' out "the folks".
Huckabee is a big-government "social conservative".
Totally. He's Bush/McCain, but possibly worse.
One of the reasons conservatives like Palin is that she believes in small government and low taxes without pushing right-wing social policy.
Well, that's why fiscal conservatives like her, sure. She gives that impression, anyway.
Although the fevered left is desperately trying to paint Sarah as a Christian theocrat there is absolutely nothing in her speeches, her writing, or her record in office to suggest that she really is one.
Which is why I didn't bring it up.
Populism is very often in the same cast as Communism. It creates a duality of "people" vs. "elite" which is much like "labor" vs. "management".
It may just be rhetoric. But Alaska is a rich state, and it's fair to point out that she might be different when dealing with deficits and debts.
jaltcoh,
"Who's Maggie?"
The aforementioned Margaret Thatcher, of course.
Oh, and you'd better not respond:
"Who's Margaret Thatcher?"
As for the deletion, the standards for the first post (or first few posts) are sometimes higher because they can set the tone or keep things from developing properly. I thought that was too mean to be in the top slot. Don't take the deletion hard, please.
I'm not. It was probably in bad taste.
The thing to understand about Michelle Goldberg is that she has a whole lot more committed to her position to her position that Barak Obama is Mr.Wonderful and that Sarah Palin is teh stupid.
Ms.Goldberg has built a career out of stroking her fellow bubble dwellers. When consumers opt for the Goldberg product, they know what they want and they will be unforgiving if they don't get it.
Of course it is more than just product identification. If fans of the "Twilight" series were to buy the next installment only to find that it consisted of the characters debating the relative merits of Keynsian economics and Hayak's criticism of state intervention in the marketplace with occasional discussions of primate evolution and whether man is saved by faith alone or by faith and good works, they would not be nearly as outraged as Michelle Goldberg's customers would be by any deviation from received modern leftist orthodoxy. If Michelle Goldberg were to vary in any way from the conventional leftist wisdom, it would cost her not only her career but most of her friends and possibly her marriage. She would be shunned out of her community just as thoroughly and relentlessly as an Amish woman who took up pole dancing at a strip club by the airport.
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