Peggy Noonan Channels Jordan Peterson: ‘If Adults Won’t Grow Up, Nobody Will’
Posted: April 6, 2018 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, History, Mediasphere, Think Tank | Tags: Adulthood, Facebook, Harvey Weinstein, Jordan Peters, Laura Ingraham, Mark Zuckerberg, PEGGY NOONAN, WSJ Leave a comment
From Facebook to Harvey Weinstein, America’s scandals amount to a giant crisis of maturity.
“The signal fact of Mr. Zuckerberg is that he is supremely gifted in one area—monetizing technical expertise by marrying it to a canny sense of human weakness. Beyond that, what a shallow and banal figure.”
It has to do with not being able to fully reckon with your size, not because it is small but because it is big. I see more people trembling under the weight of who they are.
Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has been on this message for years. Are voices like his finally being being heard?
Laura Ingraham got in trouble for publicly mocking one of the student gun-control activists of Parkland, Fla. She’s been unjustly targeted for boycotts, but it’s fair to say she was wrong in what she said, and said it because she didn’t remember 
who she is. She is a successful and veteran media figure, host of a cable show that bears her name. As such she is a setter of the sound of our culture as it discusses politics. When you’re that person, you don’t smack around a 17-year-old, even if—maybe especially if—he is obnoxious in his presentation of his public self. He’s a kid. They’re not infrequently obnoxious, because they are not fully mature. He’s small, you’re big. There’s a power imbalance.
As of this week, it is six months since the reckoning that began with the New York Times exposé of Harvey Weinstein. One by one they fell, men in media, often journalism, and their stories bear at least in part a general theme.
They were mostly great successes, middle-aged, and so natural leaders of the young. But they treated the young as prey. They didn’t respect them, in part because they didn’t respect themselves. They didn’t see their true size, their role, or they ignored it. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] THE PANTSUIT REPORT: Hillary Two Hours Late to Rally, Audience Groans
Posted: December 11, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Audience, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Gateway Pundit, Hillary Clinton, Laura Ingraham, The Pantsuit Report, The Weekly Standard, White House Leave a comment
Members of an audience waiting to hear from Hillary Clinton in Oklahoma Friday audibly groaned when it was revealed the Democratic presidential candidate would be late for the event…(read more)
Source: The Weekly Standard
The Democratic Party’s Uber Panic
Posted: July 21, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Donald Trump, Laura Ingraham, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Republican Party (United States), San Francisco, Sanctuary city, Ted Cruz, U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Leave a comment
The latest target is Uber, the app-based ride-sharing service that since its launch in San Francisco just five years ago has expanded to more than 300 cities across the globe.
The latest target is Uber, the app-based ride-sharing service that since its launch in San Francisco just five years ago has expanded to more than 300 cities across the globe. Here in New York, Uber is now locked in combat with the city’s progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio. In a Sunday op-ed for the Daily News, Mr. de Blasio said he aims to freeze Uber’s expansion until his regulators can figure out how best to block any attempts to “skirt vital protections and oversight.”
[Also see – Bill de Blasio Bonds With Mayor of Paris Over Uber Crackdown]
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo meets with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall in New York, May 30, 2014. Anne Hidlago is on a two-day visit to New York. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
“It is not surprising there is growing opposition to the Mayor’s bill because try as they might, Mayor de Blasio can’t pretend protecting taxi owners is progressive.”
— Uber spokesperson
Ross Barkan writes:
…A spokesperson for Uber pointed to Democrats, including Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Comptroller Scott Stringer, who support Uber’s growth.
“It is not surprising there is growing opposition to the Mayor’s bill because try as they might, Mayor de Blasio can’t pretend protecting taxi owners is progressive,” said the spokesperson. “The odds have been stacked against us by rushing the bill through the council, but it’s getting harder and harder for the Mayor to explain why he’s against creating 10,000 jobs and protecting reliable rides in communities outside Manhattan.” …(more)
The mayor’s call to arms comes only days after Hillary Clinton used her big speech on economics to sound a similarly dismal note. Though she didn’t mention Uber by name, the Democratic Party’s leading contender for the 2016 presidential nomination fretted that while the “gig economy” may be “exciting” and “unleashing innovation,” “it is also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future.”
Hard questions that Mrs. Clinton no doubt intends the government to answer, even if those answers end up making Uber and others like it less exciting and less innovative.
[Read the full text here, at WSJ]
Republican presidential candidates are having fun with all this. Marco Rubio, who last year sided with Uber over regulators in Miami, accused Mrs. Clinton of trying to “regulate 21st-century industries with 20th-century ideas.” Jeb Bush pointedly traveled by Uber for his visit to Thumbtack, a Silicon Valley startup. Meanwhile, Rand Paul says he would like our government to adopt the Uber model—more information and customer ratings—while Ted Cruz says his campaign will be as disruptive of politics-as-usual as Uber is of old business models. Read the rest of this entry »
Cantormageddon: The Real Reason Cantor Lost
Posted: June 14, 2014 Filed under: Food & Drink, Humor, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Cantor, David Brat, Eric Cantor, JONATHAN WEISMAN, Laura Ingraham, Red Meat, Republican Party (United States), Rib Eye, Steakhouse, T-Bone, Van's Steakhouse 1 Comment
“One measure of the extraordinary defeat could be seen in the candidate’s finances. Since the beginning of last year, Mr. Cantor’s campaign had spent about $168,637 at steakhouses compared with the $200,000 his challenger, David Brat, had spent on his entire campaign.”
— New York Times – JUNE 10, 2014
‘Government Can Follow Our Every Keystroke, Of Course They Know Enrollment Numbers’
Posted: March 23, 2014 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Barack Obama, Between Two Ferns, Ellen DeGeneres, Fox News Sunday, Laura Ingraham, RUSSIA, Ukraine 5 Comments“They can follow every keystroke on our computers. We don’t think they know the facts on this?”
Laura Ingraham said on Fox News Sunday.
“Of course they do.”
Ingraham mocked President Obama’s trivial media appearances—in them midst of international crisis with Russia and Ukraine—on the Ellen DeGeneres show, and Between Two Ferns.
“The fact that you can throw in some pop culture references and go on these cool comedy shows isn’t going to change the fact that most young people want choice, they want freedom, and they don’t want to be told what to do on health care.”
