Why is Jonah Fricking Goldberg appearing on the All Star Panel that runs at the end of Special Report with Bret Baier? I cannot tell; will polemics be our salvation or our doom?
I once got a nice nod, anonymously by request, from Goldberg on The Corner. After some hurricane hyperbole back in 2005 (I believe) to the effect that "This was the worst hurricane season ever!", Goldberg stated that something along the line that "'Ever' was a really long time, and I'm sure there must have been a worse hurricane season sometime during the Jurassic."
I emailed in and explained that hurricanes are the name of Atlantic cyclones, and that for all intents and purposes, the Atlantic ocean didn't really exist during the Jurassic." He published my comment with a "Now that's a correction!" blurb attached. His larger point, though, was of course correct.
All of which is to say, I've got a soft spot in my heart for Jonah, as he's one of the few blowhards in the national media that I know will accept a correction cheerfully.
TC, I only fairly recently began watching news again, and I was surprised to see Jonah, once before tonight, and then tonight. I don't hate him...as IP says, he's nice, but I do think of him as a NRO. I guess it helps to be Lucianne's son.
I have signed up for NRO email, and they are directly sending me ads for their sponsors now.
My question up top was serious. Is polarity the answer? Is it absolutely necessary to reach consensus? Or am I a dum-dum for watching :)
If you want to have any kind of power or influence these days it helps to be connected. Hell, if you want any nice gig these days, it helps to be connected. You think Chris Wallace got that gig JUST because he was so damned good? Or that Farrow kid on MSNBC? Or Gwenyth Paltrow? If you want to be ahead, best to be born ahead.
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As for consensus: There is a very broad and deep consensus among the elites in the country. The only real questions are exactly how the spoils will be divided, and exactly how dirty will the pool be allowed to get while they scrum for the pickings. All the bickering is for us rubes. Seriously, who thought the Zimmerman/Martin case, or the Duck Dynasty scrum, or ... or ... or ... deserved any national scrutiny whatsoever?
My favorite topic being pushed by the national news media is the Justin Bieber egg-gate vandalism case. Actual headling on CNN's front page under "More Top Stories":
Great points, Ice. If you follow me here at all, I think it's all about Neoliberalism. Streamlining society, so the cream and/or connected rise to the top. And I can hear Rev asking: 'you got a better idea?' lol
My son managed to get a job thought a relative, which he found upsetting. But I kept telling him what my grandmother said a lot: 'it's not what you know, it's who you know.'
My question up top was serious. Is polarity the answer? Is it absolutely necessary to reach consensus? Or am I a dum-dum for watching :)
I think consensus is overrated. Even the podunk little town my parents grew up in had a "democrat" newspaper and a "republican" newspaper. It was was always like that. Only the boomer generation grew up thinking that the news was or should be somehow impartial (because it never was).
Streamlining society, so the cream and/or connected rise to the top. And I can hear Rev asking: 'you got a better idea?' lol
I view the fact that the *connected* rise to the top as an unfortunate but inevitable effect of our government's runaway growth.
Every time a person opens his mouth to say "the government should do something about X", he should mentally remind himself that this means "X should be handled by people with government connections".
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I once got a nice nod, anonymously by request, from Goldberg on The Corner. After some hurricane hyperbole back in 2005 (I believe) to the effect that "This was the worst hurricane season ever!", Goldberg stated that something along the line that "'Ever' was a really long time, and I'm sure there must have been a worse hurricane season sometime during the Jurassic."
I emailed in and explained that hurricanes are the name of Atlantic cyclones, and that for all intents and purposes, the Atlantic ocean didn't really exist during the Jurassic." He published my comment with a "Now that's a correction!" blurb attached. His larger point, though, was of course correct.
All of which is to say, I've got a soft spot in my heart for Jonah, as he's one of the few blowhards in the national media that I know will accept a correction cheerfully.
Jonah appears on the All Star Panel quite often, at least once every week or so.
TC, I only fairly recently began watching news again, and I was surprised to see Jonah, once before tonight, and then tonight. I don't hate him...as IP says, he's nice, but I do think of him as a NRO. I guess it helps to be Lucianne's son.
I have signed up for NRO email, and they are directly sending me ads for their sponsors now.
My question up top was serious. Is polarity the answer? Is it absolutely necessary to reach consensus? Or am I a dum-dum for watching :)
I guess it helps to be Lucianne's son.
If you want to have any kind of power or influence these days it helps to be connected. Hell, if you want any nice gig these days, it helps to be connected. You think Chris Wallace got that gig JUST because he was so damned good? Or that Farrow kid on MSNBC? Or Gwenyth Paltrow? If you want to be ahead, best to be born ahead.
...
As for consensus: There is a very broad and deep consensus among the elites in the country. The only real questions are exactly how the spoils will be divided, and exactly how dirty will the pool be allowed to get while they scrum for the pickings. All the bickering is for us rubes. Seriously, who thought the Zimmerman/Martin case, or the Duck Dynasty scrum, or ... or ... or ... deserved any national scrutiny whatsoever?
My favorite topic being pushed by the national news media is the Justin Bieber egg-gate vandalism case. Actual headling on CNN's front page under "More Top Stories":
9 insane Bieber egg-gate tweets HLN
Truly, this is what it has come to.
Great points, Ice. If you follow me here at all, I think it's all about Neoliberalism. Streamlining society, so the cream and/or connected rise to the top. And I can hear Rev asking: 'you got a better idea?' lol
My son managed to get a job thought a relative, which he found upsetting. But I kept telling him what my grandmother said a lot: 'it's not what you know, it's who you know.'
Yes, O'Reilly's going to talk about Bieber (I'm on delayed viewing right now).
Yes, O'Reilly's going to talk about Bieber (I'm on delayed viewing right now).
Good Lord. I recommend delaying that viewing until the Trump and the Shout moot it.
And I can hear Rev asking: 'you got a better idea?' lol
The funny thing is that it wasn't always this way. In the relatively recent past, in fact, things were different.
Don't forget the new Sherlock this Sunday.
My question up top was serious. Is polarity the answer? Is it absolutely necessary to reach consensus? Or am I a dum-dum for watching :)
I think consensus is overrated. Even the podunk little town my parents grew up in had a "democrat" newspaper and a "republican" newspaper. It was was always like that. Only the boomer generation grew up thinking that the news was or should be somehow impartial (because it never was).
I'm a huge Jonah G fan. So - I'm glad he's anywhere with a microphone.
Icepick said...
Don't forget the new Sherlock this Sunday.
Thanks for the reminder.
"Liberal Fascism" is an excellent and (despite its title) non-polemical book. Goldberg himself is friendly and not egotistical.
The association with his mom is a bit unfair, since he's a much smarter pundit than she ever was.
Streamlining society, so the cream and/or connected rise to the top. And I can hear Rev asking: 'you got a better idea?' lol
I view the fact that the *connected* rise to the top as an unfortunate but inevitable effect of our government's runaway growth.
Every time a person opens his mouth to say "the government should do something about X", he should mentally remind himself that this means "X should be handled by people with government connections".
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