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Posted at 12:47am on Dec. 12, 2006 The worst piece of (television) I've ever seen

By izaraurora

And that's saying a lot.

But words really fail me when I try to describe how mind-numbingly awful the live-action "remake" of the Rankin-Bass Christmas classic "Year Without a Santa Claus" was. If you missed it on NBC tonight, consider yourself doubly blessed this holiday season.

Read on...

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Posted at 4:21pm on Nov. 15, 2006 Take back the Senate in just a few months!

By izaraurora

OK, how's this for a scenario:

The "culture of corruption" comes back to bite Harry Reid, and he is forced to resign from the Senate.

Newly-elected Governor Gibbons appoints a GOP replacement, who holds the seat in a special election, and returns control to the Republicans.

Stranger things have happened. And the GOP could point to Rep.

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Posted at 10:40am on Aug. 30, 2006 Bush Policies Credited with Diverting Hurricane Ernesto

By izaraurora

There's not been enough in the MSM this year about the (so-far) timid hurricane season. The ocean water is cooler than most scientists thought it would be - and the lefty proposition that Bush's skeptical view of global warming makes for bigger hurricanes has, I submit, been at least modestly discredited.

But what's good for the goose should be good for the gander. I therefore propose that th

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Posted at 1:23pm on Apr. 14, 2006 Republicans 13% less racist than Democrats

By izaraurora

That's what the headline on this WaPo article ought to be.  But oddly, the front page of the Post's website instead says:  "Study shows increase in white Republican crossover vote when party's candidate is black and the Democratic candidate is not."  And the lead, of couse, is "Bad news for Michael S. Steele..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR200604130
1776.html

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Posted at 1:39pm on Mar. 6, 2006 In praise of Jon Stewart

By izaraurora

For those RSers who actually watched the Oscars (I did, despite having skipped a lot of the lefty-themed films nominated this year), I'd be interested in your reactions to the host Jon Stewart.  I thought he did a shockingly good job - a good mix of witty banter, poking gentle fun at the gasbags in the audience, and prepared pieces such as the "negative ads" supposedly run to influece voters on Best Sound Editing.

Let me get my cards on the table.  I'm a conservative who likes the movies, but really didn't like a lot of what I'd read about propaganda like MUNICH, SYRIANA, and the like.  I have no interest in seeing BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, or, God help me, TRANSAMERICA (although Felicity Huffman is my favorite Desperate Housewife).

I don't really like the DAILY SHOW, and I've found Jon Stewart smarmy, smug, and all too willing to swallow the conventional wisdom in his political chatterings.  I felt actual physical pain when I watched his tedious CROSSFIRE appearance, when he begged the hosts to just encourage substantive discussion of issues, and Tucker Carlson (who I really don't like either) scored a body blow by saying, "can you be funny, please?"

Having said that, I agree with Roger Ebert who said Stewart could be the new Johnny Carson in terms of Oscar hosting.  He was funny, self-deprecating, prepared, disciplined, and not afraid to let his audience have it.  Two highlights:

1. He went on an extended description of Hollywood as a self-obsessed Sodom and Gomorrah where innocence goes to die ... and then after a pause said something like "I don't have a joke here, I just want you to know that that's what some people are saying."  Dead-on ironic delivery, and very funny.
   
2. With the camera on uber-mensch Steven Spielberg, he mentioned SCHINDLER'S LIST and MUNICH, and then said "as a Jew, I've got to know, what have you got for us next?  Is this a trilogy, because I can't wait!"  I'm paraphrasing - if someone can find a transcript, that'd be great.

Anyway, I actually enjoyed the Oscar telecast - and I think Stewart deserves a lot of credit for that.  Best of all, that loathsome gasbag Tom Shales hated him.

So, kudos from an unlikely corner, Jon.  

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Posted at 12:21pm on Jan. 17, 2006 MA Senate - anyone, anyone?

By izaraurora

This is a simple question.  Despite the heightened level of national embarassment over Teddy Kennedy (Alito hearings, now this delicious Harvard club), I have heard and seen next to nothing about a Senate challenger for him this year:

http://www.nrsc.org/senator/default.aspx?ST=ma

It's a crying shame that Gov. Romney has apparently decided to run for president instead of mount a real challenge to this clown.

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Posted at 4:49pm on Oct. 25, 2005 More MSM attacks on Condi Rice

By izaraurora

In a sad but telling coincidence, on the day of the death of Rosa Parks, the reactionary leftists of the MSM have filed another set of talking points against the woman best positioned to be the first black female president.

Eugene Robinson's insulting broadside against Condoleezza Rice is simply dazzling in the scope of its condescension.  Apparently because Dr. Rice was raised by two loving parents, and she has conducted her professional affairs with skill and loyalty, she's incapable of relating to black America.

And this is all traceable back to the simplistic "bubble" that she lived inside as a child.  While the world was going to hell around her ...,

Inside the bubble, Rice was sitting at the piano in pretty dresses to play Bach fugues. It sounds like a wonderful childhood, but one that left her able to see the impact that race has in America -- able to examine it and analyze it -- but not to feel it.

Could it be any clearer that there's no one the Entrenched Left fears more than Condoleeza Rice?  They can't attack her competence, and there's no personal scandal to take her down with.  So the meme to try and keep her out of electoral politics is that she's a soulless, heartless robot, too far removed from her own blackness to be of use to anybody but her white masters.

I would have thought I'd lost my capacity to be disgusted by this kind of thing, given the persistent pounding people like Clarence Thomas have taken over the years, or the more overt racism seen in Tom Oliphant's big-lipped magpie cartoons of Dr. Rice.  But Robinson's column is among the first of what I fear will be a procession of more subtle attacks on this impressive woman.  I hope that once again, the blogosphere and other alternative media can resist this would-be meme-a-forming, and call out the Gene Robinsons of the world who are carrying Bull Connors' water even today.

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