tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82056122024-03-28T05:14:50.088-07:00What's the Rumpus?I'll show you the life of the mind!Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.comBlogger2986125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-45850288217566798872012-09-04T14:24:00.001-07:002012-09-04T14:24:32.225-07:00Are we better off? Hey! -- We killed Bin Laden! (Cheesy grin...)Democrats, scrambling to find an answer to the question, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57505234-503544/biden-we-are-better-off-bin-laden-is-dead-and-general-motors-is-alive/">"Are we better off now than 4 years ago?", have apparently decided to go with a bumper sticker and a grin and a George W. Bush military strategy accomplishment.</a> <br />
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Do you think we deserve a second term? We killed Bin Laden! <br />
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<br />Wonderdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550553149171981621noreply@blogger.com365tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-6992072956152650342012-09-01T12:22:00.001-07:002012-09-01T12:38:32.038-07:00Republican Code -- Matthews and Co. have cracked it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chris Matthews, that fearless leader of MSNBC intelligence gathering and underground resistance, staunch protector against pasty white people, and <a href="http://thehill.com/conventions-2012/gop-convention-tampa/247011-chris-matthews-gets-into-confrontation-with-gop-delegates">wielder of epithets against Republican conventioneers</a>, has managed to crack the racist code. <br />
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Yes, no longer can Republicans slyly and knowingly exchange glances when they use words like...(cue Vader music)...."Chicago"...."Golf"..."Welfare"...Alas, our evil has been undone. <br />
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Please read <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315661/dog-whistling-past-graveyard-mark-steyn">Mark Steyn's great piece</a> for further explanation. <br />
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Since Republican Racist Code (RRC) has been outed, it's time to come clean and reveal our full list of code. Curse you Chris Matthews! Here is your list of code and their hidden meanings:<br />
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1. "Obama" -- Barack Obama is black. Therefore when we say, "Obama", one thinks of a black man and therein lies the sinister use of the word. <br />
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2. "Biden" -- This code makes one think of blacks in chains and conjures words like, "y'all". Curse you, again, Chris Matthews! <br />
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3. "Pelosi" -- This word simply means, "keep the black man down." How its meaning is derived would require ten pages of detail! Arrrrrgh...Curse you, Chris Matthews! <br />
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4. "Yahoo" -- When we utter this word, we wink and smile and picture <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/29/yahoo-news-reporter-fired-over-black-people-drowning-comment/">black people drowning</a>. And we particularly love how it also describes our great pleasure at that sight of it! Yahoo!!<br />
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5. "Romney" -- Romney means white guy who hates black guys. Thus, we all say it and nod in agreement. <br />
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6. "Election" -- Election makes people think that we are going to the polls soon to elect our president. When people think of our president, they think of a black man. Hence, "election" means black man. Curse you, again, Chris Matthews! <br />
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7. "Economy" -- our economy is bad. Black people are bad. So...there ya go. <br />
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8. "Ryan" -- Paul Ryan is white. He is conservative. This code gives us inner-peace and strength.<br />
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9. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgIFV7jXBFQ"> "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy"</a> -- This makes us think of what Biden said about Obama and we can then incorporate three of our codes into one turn of phrase -- oh it was brilliant.<br />
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10. "Chris Mathews" -- Pasty and white. Two things we love so dearly. <br />
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As a post-script, if you check out the link here which refers to Matthews shouting match with Republican conventioneers at the top of the page, you'll find that the word he chose to hurl at those in his path was not a very nice word at all -- it begins with "d" and ends with "bag". We don't need a code to crack that insult to women do we? Where are the women's groups?? <br />
<br />Wonderdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550553149171981621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-47256009997057512462012-08-30T16:07:00.001-07:002012-08-30T16:19:04.371-07:00Madd "Ow!" Disease -- Extreme Bias at MSNBC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The unbiased, "just the facts, ma'am" journalism at MSNBC continues to impress as Rachel Maddow's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/rachel-maddow-scott-walker-auto-bailout_n_1841765.html?utm_hp_ref=media">interview with Scott Walker</a> immediately following Paul Ryan's great speech shows in all its pristine neutrality.<br />
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Do Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz call out Walker on Ryan's auto bailout claims because they had marching orders to do so? Nah...they're just stating the facts, ma'am. Never mind that their facts are actually wrong and that <a href="http://www.rrstar.com/news/x1060484339/Ohio-Janesville-GM-closings-leave-nearly-2-300-unemployed">Walker's are correct</a>;<br />
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what's most important is that they are not biased and not walking in lock-step with a directive from their network to slam this guy!<br />
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Uh...errr...um...please ignore the tweet from MSNBC shown below...Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!<br />
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<br />Wonderdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550553149171981621noreply@blogger.com61tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-25979190770656675602009-04-25T07:38:00.000-07:002009-04-25T07:40:08.169-07:00The Dog Is AliveStewdog is still alive and off leash. For some reason, and I can't seem to put my finger on it, I just have not been motivated to write anything about politics. I shall continue to bury my head, act locally to try to improve my neighborhood, and follow the Cardinals!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-60241793050405420212009-03-09T22:00:00.000-07:002009-03-09T22:02:00.675-07:00"Cousin Bill's Game of Chicken"<a href="http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2009/03/cousin-bills-game-of-chicken.html">Here.</a> Enjoy.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-86235026293948002102009-03-09T10:09:00.000-07:002009-03-09T10:14:16.372-07:00Getting medieval on their hindquarters<a href="http://wormtalk.blogspot.com/2009/03/laying-down-markers-this-semester-i-am.html">Professor Michael Drout begins a crusade</a> to defend the proposition that the study of the medieval history and literature is -- gasp! -- at least as important as the study of more modern or "contemporary" history.<br /><br /><a href="http://unlocked-wordhoard.blogspot.com/2009/03/drout-kicks-butt-takes-names.html">The posse is forming.</a> Hee Haw!Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-29200840932104734992009-02-28T10:28:00.000-08:002009-02-28T23:07:26.829-08:00Marilynne Robinson interview<a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5863">Here's</a> a fascinating interview with Marilynne Robinson in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Paris Review</span>.<br /><br />Robinson comments on religion as a way of orienting oneself toward the world and describes culture as the "skeleton" of meaning:<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />INTERVIEWER<br />Ames [the narrator of Gilead] believes that one of the benefits of religion is “it helps you concentrate. It gives you a good basic sense of what is being asked of you and also what you might as well ignore.” Is this something that your faith and religious practice has done for you?<br /><br />ROBINSON<br />Religion is a framing mechanism. It is a language of orientation that presents itself as a series of questions. It talks about the arc of life and the quality of experience in ways that I’ve found fruitful to think about. Religion has been profoundly effective in enlarging human imagination and expression. It’s only very recently that you couldn’t see how the high arts are intimately connected to religion.<br /><br />INTERVIEWER<br />Is this frame of religion something we’ve lost?<br /><br />ROBINSON<br />There was a time when people felt as if structure in most forms were a constraint and they attacked it, which in a culture is like an autoimmune problem: the organism is not allowing itself the conditions of its own existence. We’re cultural creatures and meaning doesn’t simply generate itself out of thin air; it’s sustained by a cultural framework. It’s like deciding how much more interesting it would be if you had no skeleton: you could just slide under the door.</span><br /><br />And when was the last time you heard a critically-acclaimed contemporary author speaking favorably about John Calvin?<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Robinson is a Christian whose faith is not easily reduced to generalities. Calvin’s thought has had a strong influence on her, and she depicts him in her essays as a misunderstood humanist, likening his “secularizing tendencies” to the “celebrations of the human one finds in Emerson and Whitman.”</span> <br /><br />Her book of essays is called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Adam-Essays-Modern-Thought/dp/0312425325/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235891049&sr=8-1"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought</span></a>.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-81300866778154925372009-02-28T10:08:00.000-08:002009-04-13T11:07:35.446-07:00Withywindle on Booker T. Washington and a counter-canon of great Black Americans<a href="http://athens-and-jerusalem.blogspot.com/2009/02/luker-lurking-booker-t-washington.html">Withywindle's recent post</a> responding to Eric Holder's canon of great Black Americans is a must-read:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">And then Booker T. Washington. What to say? I object more to ignoring him, and his work for Black Americans; I’m not actually inclined to say Yay, Booker; Boo, DuBois. He shouldn’t be forgotten, but neither do I say that his is the one true path. Surely Washington and DuBois were the great complements, both necessary for the liberation of Black Americans?<br /><br />But more than that: how can one look at Washington’s accommodations and not perceive the strength of character it took to make them? How can you look at the soft voice and think “Uncle Tom”, rather than recognize the iron will that made that voice soft? I am reminded of Gottfried Lessing’s Nathan the Wise - Nathan the Jew, an endlessly patient plaster saint of a man, whose endurance of Christian prejudice eventually redeems the Christian characters. Oh, joy, being effeminately virtuous for other people’s benefit – I’m told various Black Americans have tired of that role too. But there is a bit in the play worth focusing on:<br /><br />"You found me at Darun – the child and you.<br />You did not know that Christians just before<br />Had murdered all the Jews that were in Gath –<br />Men, women, children; knew not that my wife<br />And sons, seven hopeful sons, were there among them,<br />And in my brother’s house, where they had fled<br />For safety, had to perish in the flames. ....<br />Three days and nights I’d lain<br />In dust and ashes before God, and wept<br />When you arrived. Wept? I had wrestled hard<br />At times with God; had stormed and raved; had cursed<br />Myself and all the world; had sworn a hate<br />Against the Christians, unappeasable. ....<br />Gradually my reason<br />Returned to me. She spoke with gentle voice:<br />'And yet God is: e’en this was God’s decree!<br />Up, then! and practise what you’ve long believed<br />To practise cannot be more difficult<br />Than to believe, if you but will. Rise up!'<br />I stood erect and cried to God: 'I will!'"<br /><br />Nathan is not just a plaster saint, but a man who has known unappeasable hate, wrestled hard with God. Who can look at Washington’s life and think he was different? That his soft words were any less hard won than Nathan’s? My God, the man lived in a furnace all his life and burnt himself out for his people; and he is to be without honor in his own country? Not if I can help it.</span><br /><br />Read the whole thing.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-34303078844522535702009-02-26T23:59:00.000-08:002009-02-27T00:02:44.051-08:00Sadly, this doesn't surprise me . . .When "liberals" make "outsourcing" jokes about Bobby Jindal, or impersonate Indian customer service representatives, or make <span style="font-style:italic;">Slumdog Millionaire</span> cracks about Bobby Jindal, it's not ugly racism, it's . . . it's . . . um, <a href="http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2009/02/libtalker-laughs-as-wife-slurs-bobby.html">help me out here</a>.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-16515489004191931512009-02-25T21:50:00.000-08:002009-02-27T07:23:14.927-08:00Okay, now I'm angry!<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/25/obama-family-chooses-dog/">What the heck is wrong with the name Frank, Mrs. Obama?</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">The first lady said her daughters will have to wait until the end of April to get the dog, since her family is planning on going away for Spring Break.<br /><br />The only thing left to pick is the name, and Mrs. Obama said she is not a fan of her daughters’ choices.<br /><br />“There are names floating around and they're bad," Mrs. Obama said in the interview. "You listen and you go – like, I think, Frank was one of them. Frank! Moose was another one of them. Moose. I said, well, what if the dog isn't a moose? Moose. I'm like, no, come on, let's work with the names a little bit."</span><br /><br />UPDATE: <a href="http://arethusasfountain.blogspot.com/2009/02/dogs-named-frank-and-moose.html">Thank you, Arethusa</a>.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-24412557816042394232009-02-24T10:23:00.000-08:002009-02-24T17:01:00.723-08:00Looking backwards<a href="http://athens-and-jerusalem.blogspot.com/2009/02/backwards-to-future.html">Alpheus explains</a> why those "backward-looking" conservatives may have the right idea.<br /><br />UPDATE: The always-thoughtful Withywindle continues the discussion <a href="http://athens-and-jerusalem.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-thing-all-things-devours.html">here</a>.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-61453170470863717892009-02-24T07:16:00.001-08:002009-02-24T07:16:50.839-08:00Of new languages and second souls . . .<a href="http://www.quidplura.com/?p=291">Here's Jeff Sypeck</a> being brilliant, as usual.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-89337670541983716762009-02-24T07:03:00.000-08:002009-02-24T09:24:24.083-08:00Comedy GoldStudent "protesters" at NYU occupy the student food court, and then proudly videotape <a href="http://gawker.com/5159003/the-painfully-ridiculous-end-to-the-nyu-revolution">the hilarious failure of their "revolution"</a>. I think my favorite part comes toward the end when they're videotaping the contents of their backpacks -- presumably to protect themselves against having their adolescent status symbols confiscated by The Man. As they sift through yards of Macbooks and headphones and cords and gadgetry, their whiny spokeskid suggests that the authorities probably won't want their bottles of water, because "they" only drink "corporate water."<br /><br />UPDATE: From <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stuff-White-People-Like-Definitive/dp/0812979915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235496206&sr=1-1">Stuff White People Like</a></span>: <br /><br /><blockquote>On the surface, you would ask yourself how white people could love a multibillion-dollar company with manufacturing plants in China and mass production, and that contributes to global pollution through the manufacture of consumer electronic devices. The simple answer: Apple products tell the world you are creative and unique. They are an exclusive product line only used by every white college student, designer, writer, English teacher, and hipster on the planet.</blockquote>Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-12375980196304092742009-02-23T16:33:00.001-08:002009-02-23T16:34:24.173-08:00How's that change thing working out for you?<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/washington/22bagram.html?_r=1&hp">Obama administration upholds Bush policy on detainees in Afghanistan.</a>Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-420530596629040592009-02-17T14:38:00.001-08:002009-02-17T14:39:06.609-08:00Yeah, that's the ticket<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/roland-burris-i.html">Aim high, Senator Burris.</a>Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-74194002807353880512009-02-17T12:26:00.000-08:002009-02-17T12:28:14.749-08:00Read Rod Dreher's post . . .on <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/02/god-the-sex-vote-and-human-dig.html#more">"God, the Sex Vote, and Human Dignity."</a><br /><br />Go on. Right now.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-32885997958835225632009-02-12T06:49:00.001-08:002009-02-12T06:51:45.945-08:00An Open Letter to the Government of the U.K.<a href="http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/02/an-open-letter-to-the-government-of-the-uk/">From the International Free Press Society</a>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">On Tuesday, February 10, 2009, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, leader of the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom), received a letter written on behalf of British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. It informed Mr. Wilders that on traveling to the UK at the invitation of UK Independence Party peer Lord Pearson to screen the film Fitna and hold a Q&A in the Parliament on Thursday, February 12, 2009, Mr. Wilders should expect to be barred from entry into the UK for the following stated reason:<br /><br />“The Secretary of State is of the view that your presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society. The Secretary of State is satisfied that your statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in your film Fitna and elsewhere, would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK.”<br /><br />With this edict, the government of the UK has broken faith with its own glorious tradition of enshrining freedom of speech, and embarked on an authoritarian course of setting the boundaries of political debate. With this action, the government of the UK has also broken faith with its neighbors in the European Union by taking the unprecedented measure of barring entry to a democratically elected representative, and, in Mr. Wilders’ case, party leader from another EU member state. In so doing, the government of the UK has additionally given lie to the organizing EU principle of “open borders” among member states, demonstrating a capricious will to close its borders against ideas of which it disapproves.<br /><br />The British Home Office has further stated that in barring Geert Wilders from the UK it is stopping “extremism, hatred and violent messages” from coming to its country. The British Home Office is wrong. These things are already there. With this crude rebuff of Mr. Wilders, the Netherlands, and freedom of speech, the British government has all but ensured that such extremism, hatred and violent messages will continue to flourish in British soil, taking root and taking over.</span><br /><br />Read the whole thing.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-62104393047467183702009-02-10T10:22:00.000-08:002009-02-10T10:25:16.332-08:00This is making me homesick . . .. . . A <span style="font-style:italic;">YouTube</span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk">commercial for <span style="font-style:italic;">Trader Joe's</span></a>.<br /><br />(Via <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/">Ann Althouse</a>)Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-67540842826917025732009-02-08T18:31:00.000-08:002009-02-08T18:33:44.056-08:00On managing expectations<a href="http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2009/02/07/managing-expectations-better/">Will Wilkinson</a> on the stimulus package and managing expectations:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Expectations matter. A lot. Stable institutions in a context of trust are necessary for liberal prosperity. In this sense, the work of government is to manage expectations–to maintain a stable strategic framework within which plans can be formed and cooperative action successfully coordinated over the long term. That is why, for instance, I think quickly restoring a legal and administrative framework for functioning financial markets ought to be among the government’s chief priorities.<br /><br />Yet I’m extremely suspicious of what strike me as intellectually contentious, ad hoc interventions into the economy aimed at expectation management. Countercyclical economic mood-control initiatives seem to me inconsistent with the maintenance of a general framework of stable rules — that is, they don’t take the importance of expectations seriously enough — while also smacking of illiberal state propaganda. It’s hard to draw a principled distinction between framework and ad hoc rules, but I think it’s intuitive enough. Steady, predictable expansion of the money supply seems like the good kind of expectation management, while fool-in-the-shower money supply management seems like the bad kind. Likewise, automatic stabilizers, such as the predictable increases in welfare and unemployment transfers during recessions, strike me as greatly preferable to freestyle panic-mode stimulus legislation.</span><br /><br />Read the whole thing.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-49426678456077200402009-02-05T07:32:00.000-08:002009-02-05T07:40:24.959-08:00"The Meaning of Sarah Palin"Yuval Levin has written a <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-meaning-of-sarah-palin-14674?page=all">great piece</a> for <span style="font-style:italic;">Commentary</span> about Sarah Palin's candidacy.<br /><br />I particularly like his take on the over-the-top disgust with which "cultural elites" reacted to Palin:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Palin’s social conservatism had never been the core of her political identity in Alaska. She always expressed general support for traditionalist views in interviews and debates, and it was widely known that she had also chosen to proceed with her fifth pregnancy after discovering the child had Down syndrome—a discovery that in about nine of ten cases leads parents to opt for abortion. But Palin never went out of her way to raise abortion or other social or cultural issues, and in her first two years as governor had not sought to change state policies in these areas. She was a good-government reformer with social conservative leanings, not the other way around.<br /><br />But this was not how Palin was received on the national scene. Instead, her views on matters of cultural and social controversy very quickly became the chief focus of media attention, liberal criticism, and pundit analysis. Palin was assigned every view and position the Left considered unenlightened, and the response to her brought into the light all manner of implicit liberal assumptions about cultural conservatives. We were told that Palin was opposed to contraception, advocated teaching creationism in schools, and was inclined to ban books she disagreed with. She was described as a religious zealot, an anti-abortion extremist, a blind champion of abstinence-only sex education. She was said to have sought to make rape victims pay for their own medical exams, to have Alaska secede from the Union, and to get Pat Buchanan elected President. She was reported to believe that the Iraq war was mandated by God, that the end-times prophesied in the Book of Revelation were nearing and only Alaska would survive, and that global warming was purely a myth. None of this was true.<br /><br />Her personal life came under withering assault as well. Palin’s capacity to function as a senior elected official while raising five children was repeatedly questioned by liberal pundits who would never dare to express such views about a female candidate whose opinions were more congenial to them. Her teenage daughter’s pregnancy was splattered all over the front pages (garnering three New York Times stories in a single day on September 2). Some bloggers even suggested her youngest child had not issued from her, but from her daughter instead, and that she had participated in a bizarre cover-up. I attended a gathering in Washington at which a prominent columnist wondered aloud how Palin could pursue her career when her religious beliefs denied women the right to work outside the home.<br /><br />Palin became the embodiment of every dark fantasy the Left had ever held about the views of evangelical Christians and women who do not associate themselves with contemporary feminism, and all concern for clarity and truthfulness was left at the door.<br /><br />To be sure, some criticisms of Palin were entirely appropriate. She had no experience in foreign or defense policy and very little expertise in or command of either. In a time of war, with a seventy-two-year-old presidential candidate who had already survived one bout with cancer, this was a cause for very real concern. And Palin did perform dreadfully in some early interviews. Some of her more level-headed critics did make their case on these grounds. But the more common visceral hostility toward her seemed to have little to do with these objections. Rather, the entire episode had the feel of a kind of manic outburst; it was triggered by a false understanding of who Palin was, and once it began, there was no stopping or controlling it.<br /><br />The reaction to Palin revealed a deep and intense cultural paranoia on the Left: an inclination to see retrograde reaction around every corner, and to respond to it with vile anger. A confident, happy, and politically effective woman who was also a social conservative was evidently too much to bear. The response of liberal feminists was in this respect particularly telling, and especially unpleasant.</span><br /><br />Read the whole thing, I beg you.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-67884859476170402082009-01-30T01:48:00.000-08:002009-01-30T01:51:56.104-08:00Everything's up to date in Kansas City ...<a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2009/01/tt_chicago_at_home_and_away.html">Terry Teachout says so.</a> Teachout says something about <span style="font-style:italic;">The Glass Menagerie</span> that I've always believed, as well -- that it is the greatest of all American plays.<br /><br />Tickets for next weekend, Sadeeq?Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-39280211498118146612009-01-29T06:48:00.000-08:002009-01-29T06:49:24.072-08:00On anti-Americanism<a href="http://athens-and-jerusalem.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-anti-americanism.html">Withywindle explains it all for you.</a>Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-77356456953300488472009-01-29T06:43:00.000-08:002009-01-29T06:45:09.311-08:00On the stimulus billJohn Hood at <span style="font-style:italic;">The Corne</span>r has a round-up of <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWNmYWM3NDNlODNhYTJiZmU5OTQwNzU3NDhiYmVkYmY=">negative reactions to the stimulus bill</a>.Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-65337449317632604952009-01-26T14:56:00.001-08:002009-01-26T15:12:19.720-08:00Comment Problems, or Conservative in Virginia Saves the DayFaithful reader <span style="font-style:italic;">Conservative in Virgini</span>a has had some difficulty recently in trying to post comments to this blog, but in typical self-reliant fashion, C. I. V. has managed to solve the problem. C. I. V. has given me permission to pass along the following solution for the benefit of our legions of readers:<br /><br />"I searched and found why I couldn't leave comments on your blog. Or rather, how to fix the problem, not what caused it.<br /><br />The word verification would pop up but not show an image. I added www.blogger.com to 'allow cookies' (actually, I think it's 'allow session cookies') and then was able to see the image, enter the word verification, and leave a comment.<br /><br />If you get other complaints, you might point them to <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/759a354e3af7b53a/38c4fa0e504a3f5f?lnk=raot">this</a> discussion."<br /><br />CIVKate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205612.post-72689440097716385112009-01-25T17:04:00.001-08:002009-01-25T17:06:48.418-08:00I pledge . . .. . . to vomit up the entire contents of my stomach if I ever have to watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0&eurl=http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/">this video</a> again. [Cue inspiring Copland-esque chords.]Kate Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340271913937155230noreply@blogger.com2