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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Podcasting the World’s Miscreants
Not all of them, of course. But it did seem that in Saturday’s radio show we were able to tee off on some pretty disreputable characters. Osama bin Laden, first of all: dead or alive? Next, Bill Clinton, whose Fox News appearance hadn’t yet aired, with the exception of a few clips on YouTube, by the time we were on the radio. So we had some lively conversation about Clinton’s »
Paper tiger?
For quite some time, I’ve been arguing that there are only two alternatives when it comes to Iran — sit back and watch the Mullahs develop a nuclear weapons capacity within a fairly short period of time or set back Iran’s nuclear program through military strikes and continue to strike thereafter, as necessary. Both options carry huge potential disadvantages, and it has never been entirely clear to me which one »
Sometimes, Driving Is Better
Glenn Reynolds and I both set out for Washington, D.C. today; I, early this morning, Glenn, early in the afternoon. I made it fine, attended some meetings and am now back home. Glenn’s airpane had trouble, or something, and he realized that if he had gotten into his car and driven, he’d have done better: I left home for the airport at 2. If I had left for Washington then, »
A hit piece takes more hits
Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s hit piece on the Bush administration’s Iraq reaconsturction program — “Ties To GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq” — was unpersuasive on its face. Before long, moreover, we learned that Chandrasekaran failed to get simple facts (those pertaining to Simone Ledeen) at the core of his story straight because he didn’t bother to check them with Ms. Ledeen. Now Pat Cleary gives us “the rest »
The macaca offensive
Yesterday Salon Washington correspondent Michael Scherer emailed us his hit piece on Senator Allen: “Teammates: Allen used ‘N’ word in college.” I read the story last night when Scherer emailed it and was struck by the fact that it was based on one named source and two anonymous sources, one of whom “spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign” and the other of »
John McCain seizes the moral high ground on behalf of his country
A day or two ago, I explained why I consider it fair to say that Senators McCain, Graham, and Warner comprise the terrorist rights wing of the Republican party. In essence, the reference is fair because all three want to expand the rights that terrorists and terrorist suspects have. Yesterday, Senator McCain listed some of the rights that terrorists now have thanks to his work. According to McCain, they have »
Rumsfeld on the record
National Review managing editor Jay Nordlinger is one of Donald Rumsfeld’s most astute and sympathetic chroniclers. Two weeks ago Jay interviewed Secretary Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. They talked about many subjects, mainly Iraq. A short version of the interview appears in the current National Review. NRO has posted a fuller version this morning: “Rumsfeld on the record.” »
My bent pages
The New York Times notes that Hugo Chavez has launched the Chomsky book Chavez was hawking in his stemwinder at the UN to the top of the pops at Amazon. Slipped into the Times’s story on the Chavismo magic is this nugget: Mr. Chomsky, 77, is hardly an obscure writer. Many people have heard of the outspoken professor, who is a darling of the left, even if they have not »
Frist fence flakeout?
Mickey Kaus poses the question whether Senator Frist was signalling an imminent flakeout on the border fence legislation on This Week yesterday. There is a cynicism in Kaus’s instincts that I hope is not warranted, especially given the high regard in which we hold Senator Frist, but it is a cynicism that has been amply warranted in Kaus’s past analysis of the politics of immigration reform. UPDATE: Stephen Smith, Senator »
Descent of the AP
In an outstanding Boston Herald column, Jules Crittenden charts the descent of the AP: “Does AP stand for Al-Qaeda propaganda?” Michelle Malkin’s two related columns are also must reading. First Michelle lays out the case that the AP is collaborating with the enemy: “The Associated (with terrorists) Press.” Then the AP responds to Michelle’s column, sort of, and Michelle has another go at it: “AP stands for Advocacy Press.” »
Play it as it lies
The most striking feature of Bill Clinton’s bloviations on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday was the incredibly low ratio of facts to whoppers. If Chris Wallace could prompt that red-faced response with such an innocuous question, I wonder if a few minutes with Richard Miniter (author of Losing bin Laden, interviewed by NRO here), might not send him to intensive care. I would love to hear Miniter ask »
A perfect audience
Much was made this week of the bizarre anti-American speeches given by President “Twelfth Imam” Ahmadinejad and Hugo “Bush Stinks” Chavez at the U.N. this week. Even some members of the Democratic left were offended. Little has been made, however, of the reception these two crackpots received from U.N. delegates. Both were big hits, particularly Chavez who was able to meld the talking points of the secular left into a »
Why Didn’t Wallace Ask the Bush Administration? He Did
In his interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Bill Clinton came across as embarrassingly low-class, as in this exchange: So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you[r] nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know.. WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir… CLINTON:.. WALLACE: I asked a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question? CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question »
Pigs Won’t Fly, and Hillary Won’t Be President
I don’t go out on a limb with a lot of predictions, but one that I have offered in strong terms is that Hillary Clinton will never be President. She is too widely disliked to be elected, and too well known for that to change. Plus, when voters focus on the weirdness of putting Bill Clinton back in the White House, she would lose more ground still. Today’s Des Moines »
“Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Hurting U.S. Terror Fight”
That’s the headline story on the front page of the Washington Post this morning. I have no idea whether the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) upon which the story relies actually says this, but Karen DeYoung’s report gives one little confidence (a) that she is reporting fully and accurately on the NIE and (b) that our “spy agencies” have any sound basis for such a conclusion. De Young’s story conflates a »
Get me re-write
Dan Balz of the Washington Post begins his story on this year’s House races as follows: After months of unrelenting bad news, President Bush and his Republican allies have begun to change the mood, if not the overall trajectory, of a midterm election campaign that has tilted against them for a year. This is a near-perfect reflection of the liberal world-view — objective reality in America is bleak, but the »
Cheap thrills in a devalued sport
Six weeks ago, I did a post on the Detroit Tigers, who then had the best record in baseball. Since then, the Tigers have slumped badly. Meanwhile, the Minnesota Twins, who at one time trailed the Tigers by double digit games, have moved within a game-and-a-half of their AL Central Division rival. The Twins assault on the Tigers would be an enormously compelling story if it were not for the »
