A Glimpse of the Source

Occasionally, Dear Gentle Reader(s), you have been invited to refer to Townhall.com for a peek at some oddities in political rationale.  Today, in a gesture of reconciliation, here is the total line up of Townhall's email newsletter for November 8, 2008, for your contemplation.  In a couple of places, commentary has been added for your consideration.

Enjoy.

 

Bill O'Reilly: The Culture War and Barack Obama
The fascinating thing about Barack Obama's election is that few Americans seem to know exactly how the man is going to govern.

• Anything by Bill-O, as Olberman calls him, is suspect, one suspects.  Take the logic of this teaser for instance.  Of course there are few Americans who "know exactly" how President-elect Obama is going to govern.  Mr. Obama himself can only have hopes and tactics and strategies at this point.  Even he cannot "know," he can only hope to know.  Whither rational thought, Bill-O?

Michael Barone: Triumph of Temperament, Not Policy
The Democrats' victory -- and Barack Obama's -- was overdetermined and underdelivered.
• Ah..overdetermined and underdelivered.  Underdelivered is especially delicious.  Mr. Obama won.  Yet he underdelivered!

Donald Lambro: Word of Warning to the Dems: Do Not Overreach
Within hours of Barack Obama's historic election last week, a chorus of media analysts were predicting that the Democrats had at last built a permanent majority that would keep them in power for many elections to come.
• They're baaaaaack.  And they are warning the Dems not to overreach.  In other words, be cautious, be circumspect, and be sitting ducks for not delivering in 2010.  Clever Lambro.

Robert D. Novak: Newt in 'One-Two'?
In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years?
• Newt in 2012?  Whatever happened to Sarah?  On the other hand...Newt or Sarah...Sarah or Newt...tough decision, eh wot?

Brent Bozell III: Media Defeats McCain?
The election of Barack Obama was certainly historic, and the great attraction of that historic moment led to more history: an Obama-smitten news media that completely avoided their responsibility to test the nominee with hard questions.
• This one touches on a theme for the day, media bias.  Yep.  The media did it.

Janice Shaw Crouse: Marriage Unites as Politics Divides the Nation
In the midst of a far-left Senator's sweeping victory to become the first black president of the United States, voters in three states stood on moral principle to solidly support the institution of marriage as an exclusive union between a man and a woman.

        Here we have the obligatory "moral principle" and "exclusive union between a man and a woman" argument on the social issue du jour.  You've heard it.

Kathryn Jean Lopez: How to Survive Media Bias

Candidates cannot live by the Internet alone, but there was something clever about former Tennessee Republican senator Fred Thompson's media approach to running for president.

• Media Bias #2


Amanda Carpenter: Conservative Bloggers Feel Spurned

An important discussion is emerging in the online conservative community about how to integrate with the old guard Republicans and grow the GOP movement.

• Let's see.  Conservative bloggers really helped, didn't they?  Spurned.  Of course, there's a legitimate question about whether or not "old guard" Republicans even want to integrate with conservative bloggers.  Can you see Wall Street breaking bread with Gay Patriot personae?


Rich Tucker: Conservatives: Right in More Ways Than One

As comedian Yakov Smirnov used to say, ?What a country!? Americans witnessed history Tuesday night. Too bad nobody noticed.

• OK, you'll have to go there to believe it.  The history witnessed?  "America won the Iraq war."  What are they smoking?  There's another tid-bit about racism being in America's past.  Toke two.


Jonah Goldberg: Election Questions No One Asks

No doubt everyone is relieved to have the election behind us, even if some of us are less than ecstatic about its result.

• Poor Jonah.  It was his mother (If you're looking for a reason he has the pull to have a national column...she of the blue dress conspiracy fame.)


John McCaslin: Lovelace, You Say?

While not a household name, Gail Lovelace arguably is the person responsible for the orderly transfer of power from President Bush to President-elect Barack Obama.

• Here's an example of some of the rare interesting, somewhat non-partisan columns (well, moderately non-partisan) which appear in Townhall on occasion.  Several articles about various incidents around the Washington beltway.  Clever of him to set the memories of Linda Lovelace free, if even for a brief time.  (If you don't know, ask your grandfather.)


Mike Gallagher: Mourning In America

Just how strange has this week been?

• Don't bother.

S. E. Cupp: Election Lessons From Michael Crichton

Celebrated author and veritable Renaissance man Michael Crichton died this week, and upon reflection his passing brings up some interesting thoughts on Barack Obama?s historical election.

• A re-hash of RNC talking points.  They just can't let go, but it is only 4 days after Armageddon.

Rich Galen: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for McCain

I generally watch CNBC every morning while I'm getting ready because I don't know much about their subject matter so it is more interesting to me than watching Fox & Friends or CNN' American Morning.

     Um...Yawn...more RNC, but personalized...a little bit.

Now, DGR(s), there you have it.  Sometimes the Muckroom, as one is sometimes wont to call it, is informative, sometimes merely infuriating.  It is, though, a resource widely available to scout out the competition. 

Know your enemy.

Trust, but verify.

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