All in Faber

Kinda says it all

johnfaber — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:36:00 +0000

The Left in a nutshell: scene from an anti-Palin rally in Washington State.

At MSNBC, it’s criticize Olbermann, and lose your job

johnfaber — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:08:00 +0000

I have often wondered how Keith Olbermann, who typifies everything negative the Left says about Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, et al- stays on the air, given the sheer, foaming-at-the-mouth hate, invective, smear tactics, and slander which characterize his very tired act. In terms of his rhetoric and tactics, if Joe McCarthy has a modern-day equivalent, it isn’t the clowns on the Right the Democrat’s love to complain about. It’s Olbermann, who epitomizes everything about Limbaugh, Beck and the others they claim to find reprehensible.

But they watch him. Well, I guess somebody has to. His ratings pale before those his opposite numbers at Fox News run up. Still, if the Leftist criticism of the Limbaughs and the Becks were anything but sheer hypocrisy, wouldn’t you think the Left would be embarassed by Olbermann?

But in fact, the opposite is the case. In fact, if you’re at the liberal equivalent of Fox News (well, yes; I realize that NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN are also the liberal equivalent of Fox News, but it’s MSNBC I specifically have in mind) and presume to include Olbermann among those who have turned up the thermostat on our national political discourse farther than civility or rationality can bear, you get fired for it.

Ah, the hypocrisy of the American Left!

HT: Real Clear Politics

Thank you, Mr. President

johnfaber — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:44:00 +0000

We can all join Victor Davis Hanson in thanking President Obama for teaching us the lesson that the rhetoric which was routine for Democrats when George W. Bush was president has suddenly become rude, childish, nasty, extreme, and generally naughty now that he is.

It will doubtless remain so until the next Republican president is inaugurated.

HT: Real Clear Politics

The Boston Globe is unclear on the concept

johnfaber — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:27:00 +0000

This editorial from one of America’s farthest Left papers might better be titled, “Learning to Live with Tel Aviv as a Radioactive Crater.”

There is a reason why the American people are reluctant to trust the Left with our national security. This editorial illustrates it perfectly. I hope the electorate remembers that reason in November of 2012- if the Iranians haven’t nuked Washington yet, that is.

Thank God for the Israelis, who will pull the world’s bacon out of the fire even if the Obama administration won’t.

Here is a more sensible take on the matter.

HT: Real Clear Politics

"The most transparent White House in history"

johnfaber — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:54:00 +0000

This was the Obama administration’s response to media coverage of the gay rights demonstration at the White House.

Notice the question one reporter asks another at one point: “Have you ever seen them do this before?”

Daley may not run again. Will Mayor Emanuel replace him?

johnfaber — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:35:00 +0000

Richard J. Daley was only mayor I knew when growing up in Chicago. I was in my twenties when he died. His son, Richard M. Daley, has established his own stranglehold on the office. But with the 68 year-old mayor’s wife suffering from cancer, speculation is rampant in my home town that he may not seek a record seventh term.

One of those who may seek to replace him: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Ah, the soap opera that is power politics in the City of Big Shoulders! Becoming Da Mare might be the only job other than his boss’s that would actually make Emanuel more powerful than he is now.

GASP! Even TIME sees that Gates is right about Obama’s lack of a viable Iran strategy

johnfaber — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:26:00 +0000

You know an administration is dropping the ball when a Secretary of Defense who has served in administrations of both parties and even TIME magazine point it out.

And TIME has joined with Sec. Bill Gates in pointing out that the Obama administration has no effective strategy for dealing with the threat of a nuclear Iran.

HT: Real Clear Politics

Why I’m for Trey Grayson

johnfaber — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:40:00 +0000

…and you should be, too:

Neither the Republican Party nor America needs another Paul in the public arena. Not with crackpot, isolationist ideas like father and son alike.

HT: Right-O-Sphere

But of course the NYT has a special dispensation from…. the NYT!

johnfaber — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:29:00 +0000

Mark Hemingway points out that the Tea Party movement is, in fact, quite a bit more diverse than the Board of Directors of The New York Times.

Will 2012 be as good a year for the GOP as 2010 figures to be?

johnfaber — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:19:00 +0000

Here, and here, and here, and then again back here, Ed Kilgore and Jay Cost carry on a lively debate as to whether the Republican party looks to be in anywhere near as good shape (or, to put it another way, whether the Democrats look to be in anywhere near as bad shape)in 2012 as in 2010.

While I think Democrat Kilgore is whistling in the dark, the discussion is instructive. I see Barack Obama as quite beatable. But I also think that beating him will be anything but easy.

Meanwhile, according to Gallup, more voters continue to say that President Obama does not deserve a second term than say that he does.

HT: Real Clear Politics