Ask Joe Biden about his allegiance to credit cards and failing banks. On Nov 22, 5:39 pm, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My fowl lady [Mark Steyn] > > The rondeau a la turkey goes on. A British reader writes to chide me of my > enthusiasm for Governor Palin's blood-soaked photo op: > > I'm afraid you and everyone who sees things the same way as you do are > completely missing the point about this story. You may be doing so > deliberately, because you're a very bright guy. But you surely have a > responsibility to your more doltish readers. > > The point isn't that turkeys shouldn't be slaughtered, or that it's somehow > news that they are, or that Palin ought to have been more delicate for the > sake of the frigging turkeys. > > The point is that it's unbelievably ill-judged to stand in front of something > that is more interesting than you are when giving a TV interview. That, my > friend, is the joke. It would have been funny whichever pol stood there. That > and the sheer, apolitical comedy of those images. Get it? Course you do. > > That first principle is particularly important when you have nothing, nothing > whatsoever, of any interest to say. Although maybe the opposite applies - at > least we had something to look at whilst SP dispensed the usual stream of > incoherent platitudes which presumably you hear as folksy wisdom of the > hills. I mean, do you really? God help us. Or you. > > Well, you're right that it might be "unbelievably ill-judged" to stand in > front of something distracting when you're announcing, say, a strike on > Iran's nuclear facilities. But in this case Sarah Palin was merely indulging > in the wearily obligatory annual leaden cutesiness of issuing a gubernatorial > pardon to some designated Thanksgiving bird in order to provide the local > news shows with their traditional unfunny "funny story" for the "And > finally..." closing item. Viewers owe her a debt of gratitude for choosing to > perform this dreary ritual in front of a backdrop that entirely undermined it. > > And, while you're right that "it would have been funny whichever pol stood > there", ask yourself whether the media would even have noticed had Joe Biden > done such a thing. That's what upgraded it from mildly infelicitous to > side-splitting hilarious - not the footage, but the po-faced huffing of the > shrieking nancies at MSNBC and the portentous plonkers at The New York Times: > > You don't have to be a huge animal lover to question why Governor Palin chose > to be interviewed — while issuing a traditional seasonal pardon of a turkey — > while turkeys were being executed in the background. > > And that's Sarah Palin's real stroke of genius in these difficult times for > the global economy. For, in an age when the government picks which banks to > nationalize and which banks to fail, and guarantees mortgages that should > never have been issued, and prepares to demand that those taxpayers with > responsible and affordable pension plans prop up the lavish and unsustainable > pension programs of Detroit, Governor Palin has given us a great teaching > moment and a perfect snapshot of what my Brit reader would recognize as > pre-Thatcher "industrial policy": > > When the government decides it can "pick winners" and spare them from the > realities of the market, everyone else gets bled to death. > > Thank you, Sarah. It's the first election ad of Campaign '12. > > http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjVhYmJiMDdmNDk3M2JlOGI2YzA1... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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