[VIDEO] Krauthammer: Putin Keeps Succeeding Because the Obama Administration ‘Does Nothing’
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Russia, White House | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Fox News, media, news, NRO, video, Vladimir Putin Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Andrea Mitchell Describes ‘Radio Silence’ at Clinton Victory Party
Posted: November 8, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, CNN, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, media, news, NRO, Presidential Campaign 2016, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Charles C.W. Cooke on Brexit, #NeverTrump, and the Future of National Review
Posted: August 10, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Charles C. W. Cooke, Conservatarian Manifesto, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, National Review, Nick Gillespie, NRO Leave a comment
[VIDEO] David French on CNN Regarding Decision to Not Run for President
Posted: June 6, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Bill Kristol, Bronze Medal, CNN, Conservative, David French, GOP, Jake Tapper, media, Nancy French, National Review, news, NRO, POTUS, President of the United States, Presidential Election 2016, Third Party, video Leave a comment
Should a #GOP governor run as an independent? https://t.co/Pbuf1r6jLv – @DavidAFrench on #TheLead
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 6, 2016
[VIDEO] John Fund: Donald Trump Knows Nothing about National Review
Posted: January 23, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: CNN, Donald Trump, John Fund, journalism, media, National Review, news, NRO, video, William F. Buckley Jr Leave a comment[VIDEO] Rich Lowry on ‘The Kelly File’
Posted: January 21, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Bernie Sanders, Conservative, Donald Trump, Fox News, GOP, media, Megyn Kelly, National Review, news, NRO, Rock Lowry, Ted Cruz, The Kelly File, video, William F. Buckley Jr Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Jonah Goldberg, Prophet
Posted: August 13, 2015 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jonah Goldberg, media, National Review, news, NRO, United States Leave a comment“It seems we are days away from my prediction being truly fulfilled by the Clinton campaign.”
Source: National Review Online
National Review Cover: Kevin D. Williamson on ‘The Colorado Pot Experiment’
Posted: June 6, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Cannabis, Colorado, design, Ian Tuttle, Illustration, Kevin D. Williamson, Legalized Marijuana, Magazines, Mark Helprin, National Review, NRO, pot, Twitter Leave a comment[Read it here at National Review Online]
Andrew C. McCarthy: Why National-Security Republicans Lost the Patriot Act Debate
Posted: May 23, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Andrew C. McCarthy, Data Collection, GOP, media, National Review, National security, news, NRO, NSA, Patriot Act, Twitter Leave a commentRead it here, at National Review Online
Stephanopoulos: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!
Posted: May 19, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Humor, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Clark Kent, Clinton Foundation, George Stephanopoulos, Media bias, NRO, satire, Superhero, Superman, The Pantsuit Report Leave a comment
Accurate. http://t.co/IDm9EjyPjr pic.twitter.com/qsNxKLYhJ2
— National Review (@NRO) May 19, 2015
[VIDEO] Katherine Timpf: Micro-Aggressions are on the Rise
Posted: May 17, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Berklee College of Music, Boston, censorship, college, comedy, Katherine Timpf, National Review, NRO, PC, Political Correctness, Thought Police, Universities, video, White people Leave a commentWhat if the World’s Most Expensive Fighter Planes Can’t Defeat Our Enemies?
Posted: May 15, 2015 Filed under: Space & Aviation, Think Tank, War Room | Tags: Air Force, Aircraft, Defense, media, military, National Review, news, NRO, Twitter, USAF Leave a comment
What if the World’s Most Expensive Fighter Planes Can’t Defeat Our Enemies? http://t.co/VRxX9q4MKs pic.twitter.com/epzSzuBIyJ
— National Review (@NRO) May 15, 2015
[VIDEO] Everytown: We’ll Only Debate If Our Sparring Partners Agree With Us
Posted: April 29, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: 2nd amendment, American Enterprise Institute, Anti-Americanism, Charles C. W. Cooke, Christina Hoff Sommers, Civil Rights, Everytown, Feminism, Georgetown University, Gun control, Gun rights, National Review, NRO, Oberlin College, OCRL, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Trauma trigger, Washington DC Leave a commentAt The Corner, Charles C.W. Cooke has this item:
Watch this representative from gun-control group “Everytown for Gun Safety” explain on C-SPAN why he won’t debate anybody who disagrees with him:
[Read the full text of Charles C.W. Cooke‘s post here, at National Review Online]
Here’s transcript of the relevant part of his answer:
Everytown is committed to an evidence-based approach. We speak with criminologists, legislators across the country and we welcome debate. In fact, we’re thrilled that there is an increased amount of research in this area, and an increased amount of conversation about what laws are effective to keeping guns out of the hands of felons and domestic abusers. So, when there’s a credible scientist — somebody who wants to have a real constructive conversation about this — we’re going to be there. But folks who seek to minimize the grave issue of gun violence in this country – or to draw attention away from the real issues to themselves – that’s not a conversation I think it’s productive to be a part of.
[Check out Charles C. W. Cooke‘s new book: “The Conservatarian Manifesto: Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right’s Future” at Amazon.com]
Obviously, the speaker is doing little more than begging the question. “Sure we’ll talk to people who disagree” he appears to be saying, “but only if they agree. Because to disagree with the claims that we are making is to take attention away from the claims that we are making, which are true by virtue of their having been made.”
Oddly enough, this is also exactly how critics of, say, Christina Hoff Sommerstend to explain away their unwillingness to engage. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Patrick Brennan: Baltimore’s Mayor Says She Intend to to Give Protesters ‘Space’ to ‘Destroy. But What Happened Anyway?
Posted: April 27, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Baltimore, Bill de Blasio, Ferguson, Freedom of the press, Jean Quan, Louis Farrakhan, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Missouri, National Review, News conference, NRO, Patrick Brennan, Protest, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 2 CommentsAt The Corner, Patrick Brennan writes: Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says that she didn’t mean, in some comments she delivered Sunday, that the protesters/rioters in Baltimore had been intentionally given “space” to “destroy” property. “The mayor is not saying that she asked police to give space to people who sought to create violence,” a spokesman says, a day after she made the comments. (A raft of outlets reported them this morning in the way she says she didn’t mean them.)
Whatever exactly she meant, it certainly seems that the Baltimore police took a hands-off approach to the unrest over the weekend, allowing the crowds to grow violent and unruly while doing little in response.
This is your mayor on Xanax.
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 27, 2015
[Read the full text here, at The Corner, National Review Online]
Presumably this is motivated in part by the sense that the protesters had some legitimate grievance and in part because it’s supposed to work, to help defuse the situation. Well, does it? Read the rest of this entry »
Charles C.W. Cooke: ‘Sad to See the Right-Wing New York Times Editorial Board Hyping this Clinton Story for the Koch Brothers’
Posted: April 23, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: 2008, Bill Clinton, Brian Fallon, Charles C. W. Cooke, Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, Koch family, National Review, NRO, Peter Schweizer, Republican Party (United States), The New York Times, United States Department of State Leave a commentSad to see the right-wing New York Times editorial board hyping this Clinton story for the Koch Brothers. http://t.co/xaMYcWKktI
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 24, 2015
When people tell you the Clinton money machine stories are a right-wing smear campaign, refer them to this: http://t.co/uDQSDsIedo
— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 24, 2015
Bold Redesign at National Review Sparks Media Chaos, Escalates Global Panic of 2015
Posted: February 19, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Humor, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook, U.S. News | Tags: design, Global Panic, graphics, Illustration, Magazines, media, National Review, news, NRO, Photography 1 CommentCongrats to National Review on the rollout of the fresh new design.
[VIDEO] NBC Ad: Brian Williams Has Seen Things ‘You Can Never Forget’
Posted: February 5, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Brian Williams, media, National Review Online, NBC News, news, NRO, Television News 1 CommentFrom The Corner. As NRO‘s Ian Tuttle says, ‘Well. This is Awkward.”
[VIDEO] How Bourbon is Made
Posted: December 8, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Food & Drink | Tags: America, American Whiskey Trail, Bourbon, Distillation, Distillery, Distillery District, Jim Beam, Kentucky, Maker's Mark, NRO, VA Viper, Whiskey 2 Comments
We toured 12 distilleries in a five-day blitz, asking everyone we met to walk us through the bourbon-making process. Here, you’ll find all of the steps that go into making America’s unique take on whiskey. Watch and learn.
Via VA Viper, via The Corner
‘We Featured Him For His Hair, Not Terrorism’
Posted: November 6, 2014 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: 9/11, Hair Removal, Hairy, Hemen Dene, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Meme, NRO, Terrorism, Turkish 1 Comment
9/11 Mastermind Featured in Turkish Hair Removal Ad
“We didn’t know that he was a terrorist. This image is in popular use in Turkish memes on the Internet. The guy is quite hairy, so we thought his body was a good fit for our ad.”
— Turkish cosmetics company
Read more – National Review Online
[VIDEO] MSNBC Can’t Think of Any Possible Good News for Progressives Tonight
Posted: November 4, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Chris Matthews, Democrats, Election 2014, GOP, MSNBC, NRO, Progressives 1 Comment[VIDEO] North Carolina: Non-Citizen and Want to Vote? Greg Amick is Here to Help
Posted: October 30, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: corruption, Democrats, fraud, Greg Amick, James O'Keefe, John Fund, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, NRO, Project Veritas, Voter Fraud 2 CommentsJames O’Keefe documents the problem in North Carolina, where the Senate race is close
This item from John Fund, via The Corner:
…O’Keefe had a Brazilian-born immigrant investigator pose as someone who wanted to vote but was not a citizen. Greg Amick, the campaign manager for the Democrat running for sheriff in Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), was only too happy to help.
[Follow Pundit Planet’s ongoing coverage of Voter Fraud]
Greg Amick: Here’s a couple of things you can do. You do not have to have your driver’s license, but do you have any sort of identification?
Project Veritas investigator: But I do have my driver’s license.
Amick: Oh, you do. Show ’em that and you’re good.
PV: But the only problem, you know, I don’t want to vote if I’m not legal. I think that’s going to be a problem. I’m not sure.
Amick: It won’t be, it shouldn’t be an issue at all.
PV: No?
Amick: As long as you are registered to vote, you’ll be fine…(more)
[Order John Fund’s book “Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk“ from Amazon.com]
Bonus Feature
[VIDEO] Former US Ambassador To Iraq: Obama Administration ‘Warned By Everybody’ About ISIS but ‘Did Almost Nothing’
Posted: October 29, 2014 Filed under: Diplomacy, War Room, White House | Tags: ISIS, Islamic state, James Jeffrey, Mosul, NRO, PBS, The Corner, U.S. ambassador to Iraq Leave a comment“Not only was warned by everybody back in January, it actually announced it was going to intensify its support against ISIS with the Iraqi armed forces. And it did almost nothing.”
— U.S. ambassador to Iraq 2010 to 2012, James Jeffrey
At The Corner, Brendan Bordelon writes:
James Jeffrey, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2010 to 2012, pushed back against President Obama’s claim that the intelligence community was caught off guard by the rise of the Islamic State, claiming the White House knew all about the jihadist group’s destructive potential.
In a PBS Frontline documentary to air this week, the ambassador explained that the administration “not only was warned by everybody back in January, it actually announced it was going to intensify its support against ISIS with the Iraqi armed forces. And it did almost nothing.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Jonah Goldberg: GOP Letting ‘Demeaning and Sexist’ Democrats Paint Women as ‘Homogenous’ Voter Group
Posted: October 20, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Demagogue, Fox News, Jonah Goldberg, NRO, Politico, Senate Democrats, The Corner, War on Women Leave a comment[VIDEO] Lowry: Biden’s Right about Arab Allies’ Support for ISIS, But Don’t Say It Out Loud
Posted: October 7, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: Arabia, ISIS, Joe Biden, National Review, NRO, Rich Lowry, Vice president Leave a commentProtesters in Ferguson Are Registering Voters
Posted: August 19, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Ferguson, Michael Brown, National Review, NRO, protests, St. Louis 1 CommentRyan Lovelace, The Corner, August 19, 2014 7:14 PM
Sacré Bleu! French Blogger Fined for Bitching Online About Restaurant Food & Service
Posted: July 16, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Food & Drink, Global, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Bordeaux, Cap-Ferret, France, French Food, Google, Google Translate, Ian Tuttle, Maître Eolas, National Review Online, NRO, Restaurant, Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bordeaux 1 CommentCritique de Restaurant: Blogueuse Condamnée

What is perverse, is that we look for bloggers who are influential, but only if they are nice about people.”
— Caroline Doudet, Blogger
For arretsurimages.net, Vincent Coquaz reports:
— Translated from French via Google Translate —
“New: restaurants continue their customers who dare to criticize I must say they are the judges to prove them right.”. The lawyer-blogger Maître Eolas was surprised last night of the decision of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bordeaux on June 30, which condemned referred blogger “The Irregular” € 1500 as a provision on damages 1000 € of costs of proceedings (Article 700 of the Code of Civil Procedure) for a review of a restaurant in Cap Ferret (33).
[A better analysis of this at The Corner by National Review‘s Ian Tuttle – “French Court Criminalizes Food Critic’s Google Success”]
This restaurant had just enjoyed a post “The Irregular” titled “The place to be avoided at Cap-Ferret” followed by the name of the institution (the article has since been removed but is still available in the cache here) published in August 2013, and appeared on the first page of Google when you typed the name of the restaurant.
[Also see – “French blogger fined over review’s Google search placing” – BBC News]
‘The Place to be Avoided at Cap-Ferret’
The paper lamented including disruption of service in the institution and the attitude of the owner of the premises, described as a “diva”. “All that for two appetizers … take what wars” concluded the post with reference to a dark history of appetizers arrived at the same time as the main course (the blogger had therefore returned). Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Rich Lowry: Fiorina Cut Trump’s ‘Balls Off With the Precision of a Surgeon’
Posted: September 23, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Balls, Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), breitbart, Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Channel, Megyn Kelly, National Review, NRO, Republican Party (United States), Rich Lowry, Testicles, Twitter, United States, William F. Buckley Jr | Leave a commentIan Hatchet reports: National Review Editor and Fox News Contributor Rich Lowry stated that GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina cut other GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “balls off with the precision of a surgeon” on Wednesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel.
“…look, Trump obviously attacks everyone, but she’s become a much bigger target. And I think part of what’s going on here, is that last debate…”
Lowry was asked if, as Trump had claimed, people said it was “sexist” to say Fiorina’s business career was a “disaster.”
[Read the full story here, at Breitbart]
He answered, “No, no one disputes that. And, look, Trump obviously attacks everyone, but she’s become a much bigger target. And I think part of what’s going on here, is that last debate. Let’s be honest. Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon, and he knows it, he knows it. He’s insulted and bullied his way to the top of the polls. No one was able to best him ever, except for this tough lady on that stage, and it must kill him. He must be simmering about it to this night.”
“…let’s be honest. Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon, and he knows it, he knows it. He’s insulted and bullied his way to the top of the polls. No one was able to best him ever, except for this tough lady on that stage, and it must kill him. He must be simmering about it to this night.”
— Rich Lowry
Host Megyn Kelly reacted by saying, “What did you just say?” And “You can’t say that.” Although, she laughed when her guest, Chris Salcedo, joked that Lowry needs to come out of his shell.
“What did you just say?” …You can’t say that.”
— Megyn Kelly
Lowry added that “all Trump does, more or less, is attack the other [Republican] candidates, and it’s been interpreted as strength and toughness. I think it’s becoming more and more clear that he’s just really thin-skinned, is part of this. And if I were Carly, the advice I would give her, laugh it off, shrug it off, take it very lightly, and stick to your business getting your message out there.”
“I think it’s becoming more and more clear that he’s just really thin-skinned, is part of this. And if I were Carly, the advice I would give her, laugh it off, shrug it off, take it very lightly, and stick to your business getting your message out there.”
— Rich Lowry
He concluded that the dispute between Trump and Fiorina shows that Fiorina is a real contender,continuing, “She is gaining on him, and she’s gaining on him in that outsider lane that we’ve talked about, and she’s gotten under his skin, clearly. Read the rest of this entry »
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