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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Kevin Taylor = Captain Panic Pants, John Key’s chief PR flack.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
As someone said up-thread, I think a lot of this is flailing at uncertainty. The USA is about to become a very big country that used to be the sole superpower. The base is in decline and the country is still working out why it's not as the mythology tells them it should be anymore.
League of Empire Loyalists, anybody?
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
The likes of Beck, Malkin and Limbaugh - hateful vicious people - are very close to the political centre-right. There was no such national equivalent in the 1960s.
The only thing they're missing now is a good supply of large telescreens. They've got everything else in place - unfortunately.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don't despise Sarah Palin because she's a woman.
I despise her because she's incompetent.
Unqualified.
Can't give a straight answer to a straight question.
Lies. A lot.
Does that remind you of a certain big-earringed ex-public servant closer to home? She claimed persecution on the basis of her dress sense, gender and what-have-you, to draw attention away from the fact she's a nouveau riche hypocrite.
If people thought Dubya was in(s)ane, Bullet Barbie cranks that up to 11.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Sacha,
Pacifier. Grrr
Just one of many cases of political in-correctness gone mad in the wake of 9/11. Not to mention the Dixe chicks told to Shut Up And Sing, and the stonewalling of Fahrenheit 9/11, among others.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Marcus Turner,
And the 'Asian school ethic' doesn't always get it right. From my own experience, pressure to succeed often leads to two outcomes - insurrection or angst. And it didn't help that I had to put up with dozens of Paul Henrys-in-training at a fscking decile-11 high school.
In Japan, what Chua seems to favour has been previously cranked up to 11, and unfortunately the camel's back does get broken.I'm sure Tze Ming Mok will have a 2nd opinion on the whole issue.
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To me, Loughner increasingly seems to come across as the Alex Jones tinfoil-hatter type.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Sacha,
But more worrying is the simplistic wittering he brings to the public platforms we still for some reason grace him with. Like this gem:
The Ministry of Truth would be proud.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Rich Lock,
While it doesn't help, blaming the rhetoric of the last 2-3 years seems a little...short-sighted? Short-memoried?
I think what sets the most recent rhetoric from previous periods is that this time round there seems to be a real sense of 'Pax Americana' being genuinely under a cloud, and the Tea Party cabal can't bear to see America being reduced to just another nation. Even pulling out of Vietnam didn't come close to threatening it.
It draws parallels with the British League of Empire Loyalists a couple of generations ago, when they fought tooth & nail to prevent the Empire breaking up, even though it had become an expensive luxury beyond all doubt. When they realised they were fighting a losing battle, the Loyalists eventually up-played their 'Keep Britain White' dimension and mutated into the likes of the National Front.
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And what of Paul Holmes' nocturnal emission for Bullet Barbie?
Sarah Palin is a greater phenomenon than ever. You cannot take your eyes off her. She is, if you'll excuse me, sex on a stick. She is so sassy. She is frightened of no one. She was out there working hard endorsing 34 candidates. Only 15 won, but some of them were giant killers. She is incredibly fast on her feet, as I saw in an interview with her this week.
She coins great phrases. The hockey-mom line at the last Republican convention remains a great moment, despite the terrible gougings of her that came later. Now she is Momma Grizzly. She is the spearhead of a movement of Commonsense Conservatives. Again, her phrase I think.
And, by the way, now that I think about it, so what if she doesn't know her Supreme Court cases? Just kill Osama Bin Laden and that'll do me, thanks. A lot of powerful Republicans owe her now. Will she run? Of course she will.