Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Me, making my predictions for 2010 (#4):
Speaking of Palin, she will stump for five GOP candidates, four of them will win, everyone will talk about the one who didn’t.
Now, there’s this writer-of-editorials who goes by the name of David Wiegel. We recall him as the guy who put together a special column just to announce he would not talk about Palin’s Facebook updates — no matter what! What followed was very little more than a manifesto that demonstrates David Wiegel does not like Sarah Palin.
Naturally, he got the gig of informing us about her speech when she appeared at a commemoration of Ronald Reagan’s 99th birthday.
“I am a supporter of this movement. I believe in this movement,” said Palin. “America is ready for another revolution.”
Palin adroitly rewrote the history of the past three months of elections, giving the Tea Party movement credit for Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts and calling the White House “0 for 3″ in recent elections — leaving out the New York special election where her candidate, the Conservative Party’s Doug Hoffman, lost in a last-minute upset. [emphasis mine]
Wow, can I call it or can I call it?
I had earlier given Wiegel some props for managing to form some criticism of Palin that made some sense. It’s become a pretty rare thing. Well, maybe I should pull back on that. His hatchet piece ends up being rather incoherent and rambling, suffering from the “mass murder and overtime parking” problem. Every single paragraph drips with resentment and criticism, and it isn’t always clear what exactly the criticism is supposed to be.
I’m wondering how he got the assignment, frankly. Wiegel seems to owe Palin much for whatever definition currently exists with regard to his career: Resident Palin Hater. I don’t think it would be very good policy to assign a Palin fan to cover a speech like this. But it doesn’t make too much more sense than that to assign the guy who comes right out and admits he can’t stand her.
Maybe it’s Wiegel’s move to make. If so, it was a bad one. He comes off looking rather petty and jealous. Like a scorned wife writing an editorial about her husband’s much-younger mistress.
I got a feeling David Wiegel is much, much angrier at Palin than he would be if there was some doubt about what she was saying. But the Obama/Biden “Hope and Change” ploy has been put to a more-than-fair test, and it’s an enormous bust. History in the making. And perhaps this is the kind of thing that is burying print journalism in a tar pit while we watch: Lately they are a perfect reverse barometer of what to take seriously, and what not to. Ideas that deserve serious attention, they treat with derision and ridicule; to the ideas that deserve derision and ridicule, they offer the most solemn and studious worship, and expect the rest of us to do the same.
Update: Althouse (hat tip to Gerard) shares her thoughts on the ordinary citizen “quitting” her job last year…and being “toast”…
What I love about all this is the extreme contrast to the way Palin was mocked when she resigned as Governor of Alaska. I, myself, did not think it was stupid, because I pictured her doing something like what she is actually doing, but I certainly remember the derision. Her political career was over. She was “toast.”
A big difference between what I pictured and what she’s doing is that she’s staying in Alaska. I thought she needed to get out of Alaska (in order to run for President). It’s innovative the way she’s staying in Alaska. As a blogger, operating from my remote outpost in Madison, Wisconsin, I love that she’s working through Facebook and staying rooted in Wasila, Alaska. Fox News is building a TV studio in her house in Wasila. That’s so not toast.
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