“I mean. . .here I am on Fox News. . .” A magenta-faced, sputtering Bill Clinton threw those words at interviewer Chris Wallace and didn’t bother to finish the sentence. He didn’t feel he needed to. And if he had still been inside the insular echo chamber of left-liberal cocktail parties in Manhattan, he wouldn’t have. It’s understood. Fox News is a byword. [...]
Archive for the ‘Kulturkampf’ Category
A New Inalienable Right for Dem Candidates: Softball Questions
Posted in Kulturkampf, Media, Politics on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Duty, Honor and Spoon Bending
Posted in Kulturkampf on May 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Is it any mystery that huge swaths of our culture seem confused about who the bad guys are in the world today? I mention it because, I caught the last half of a report on NPR about cadets at West Point and the Army’s intensified efforts to teach them ethics—particularly battlefield ethics. Sadly, today’s combat [...]
Voyage of the Damned
Posted in Kulturkampf, Media, Politics on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just saw a banner ad for a Crystal Cruises sailing. . .one of those “distinguished speakers” cruises. Your hosts for this particular spin around the Mediterranean? James Carville and Mary Matalin. One question. . . Just who, precisely, is the target market for this cruise? Trial lawyers perhaps? I just can’t imagine. Political junkies who are conservative [...]
Chris Sligh, Glenn Greenwald, Mouth Bees and Me
Posted in Kulturkampf, Media on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry, it’s taken two weeks to get this post finished and published. (Nothing like the immediacy of the blog medium!) I declared for Chris Sligh pretty early in this year’s American Idol competition. Like a lot of Americans, I really liked his wise-acre vibe and, of course, his singing style. I really became a fan when I [...]
