Just awesome.
For the Giants
The song that the evil pinko commies at Sadly, No! and the Poorman will not be playing this year:
Watching the whiny ass cheating Patriots lose, and knowing I get to watch Belichick’s whiny ass press conference is ALMOST as good as the Steeler win a few years back. I especially like having to drag all the Patriots back out on to the field for one final second to really grind the loss into their collective faces.
Congratulations, Giants!
*** Update ***
Can we now stop talking about the Patriots like the Steelers of the 70’s? And btw, a former Steeler is who killed the Pats.
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Looks like McCain picked up another vote:
I am so confident of both a Patriots win today and a Romney win in Massachusetts on Tuesday that I made this pledge on the air Friday: “If the NY Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, I will vote cast my Super Duper Tuesday primary vote for (shudder) John McCain.”
So when I say “Go, Pats!” I really, REALLY mean it.
I also think they are even more of a lead-pipe cinch to win the Super Bowl than McCain is to win the GOP nomination. Either way, I’m putting my money..er vote where my mouth is.
Michael Graham at the NRO.
Super Bowl Open Thread II: Gay Perspective
Elisha Nelson “Eli” Manning is hot. Other than that, I got nuthin’. Commercials disappointing so far.
Update: Napoleon sucks. Clydesdales suck. Badgers were ok. Very disappointing. So, how’s the game going?
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Superbowl Open Thread
Who cares, really?
Why The Fratricide
Interesting piece by James Joyner about the Republican battle between McCain and Romney:
The Conservative Movement has morphed from a handful of intellectual true believers trying to shape the debate into something approaching a civil religion with loyalty tests and a clericy that has the power to excommunicate.
We have a winner. Add to that the fact that the folks imposing the loyalty tests simply are not conservatives (something James notes later on in the post). Let’s face it- the same folks pushing Romney on us and telling everyone who will listen that they are the real conservatives and that Romney is the true conservative are the EXACT same folks, who, to this day, struggle to come up with any shortcomings in the Bush administration. Earlier in his piece, James quotes Jon Hinderaker, who states “as the primary season draws to a close, most conservatives are coalescing around Mitt Romney.”
Yes. That is the same Jon Hinderaker who recently won a Golden Wingnut for the following quote:
It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.
Gee- I can’t imagine why folks aren’t rushing to embrace Mitt, Hinderaker’s pick this year.
Great Moments in the “New Professionalism”
Via Crooks and Liars, more appalling police abuses for the law and order tase at will crowd to excuse:
It will be fun reading all of the excuses- “But she gave them her sister’s ID!” and “They have to keep people naked in jail so they cant hurt themselves!” and “They were just following procedures- you don’t know how tough it is to be a cop!”
Things are out of control when people can do things like this and think they are doing “the right thing.” Check their faces- an odd sort of professionalism, going through the motions pinning this defenseless woman to the ground and essentially raping her, and no one stops to think it is inappropriate for men to be in the room (not to mention against clear procedures). No one asks “why are we doing this?” No one asks “Why is this woman here” (she was the one who called for help- I bet she will not make that mistake again). No one asks why she needed to sit for hours naked, humiliated, hysterical, and alone in a cell for anyone to walk by and gawk at her in a completely vulnerable state. No one thought to give her a blanket or talk to her as she was covering herself in toilet paper to keep warm.
What is wrong with our system? What is wrong with the police that it is not a radical belief for me to think “I should probably cross the street, there is a cop walking down this side.”
Things have got to change. The police have a bad rep, and every day, they go out and earn that bad rep.
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Who Knew You Could Make An Internet Out Of Straw?
I have experience in enough fields (evolution, genetics, climate) to know that when a reporter writes about more or less anything other than reporting he will inevitably get some important things wrong. Learning the business of journalism is hard enough without also having to memorize economics, statistics, genetics, evolutionary biology and the fine details of the Thai textile business. Beat reporters eventually pick up fundamentals through experience and long contact with people who do know things, but more often reporting is a business of passing information from non-specialist writers to readers who know even less.
When blogging comes up the problem usually usually goes from bad to weird. Reporters and bloggers, especially leftwing bloggers, have a certain cat-and-dog relationship (the deal with rightwing bloggers often seems like something more like codependence) so it can be hard to distinguish lack of knowledge and personal agenda. Joe Lieberman, for example, brought out the worst in them. Via Thers, here’s your example of the day:
But notwithstanding this stunning success, this week’s withdrawal by John Edwards, coming a week after the departure of Dennis Kucinich, means that both of the preferred presidential candidates of the liberal blogosphere are now out of the race.
Which liberal blogospere supported Kucinich? Kos and most of the Kossacks despised him. The rest of us mostly dismissed him as a quirky nonentity. If the nomination race was a movie Kucinich would be Steve Buscemi.
It gets easier to connect dots into a handy trendline when you get to make some of them up.
As to the larger point, arguing against the influence of the liberal blogosphere by now is so much pissing in the wind. The liberal blogosphere has been crucial to everything from killing Social Security privatization and kicking Joe Lieberman out of the Democratic party to ’06 netroots candidates like Jon Tester and Jim Webb. We haven’t won yet on telcom immunity but the issue wouldn’t even be an issue anymore if the liberal netroots hadn’t given Chris Dodd the support he needed. There is no question that blogosphere left has dragged the Democratic leadership in all kinds of directions that it clearly didn’t want to go.
It isn’t out of weakness. As a party we’re winning, and unless bin Laden knocks both coasts into the sea along with most of the mountain west the massacre in November will be almost painful to watch*. The Democratic leadership is listening to us because they have to. They hate it, especially Harry Reid, but they don’t have much choice.
For a fun time consider how the article would read if you swapped in ‘left’ for ‘right.’ How did the rightroots candidates do this cycle? Depending on the rightwing blog you have Rudy Giuliani, at $50 million for one delegate the most embarrassing failure in presidential politics history. Mitt Romney, still hanging on by the skin of his vast fortune. Fred Thompson, saviour, slept through the race and pulled out by email. Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul all had significant backing from different constituencies on the right. Lumped together they had traction like a Yugo on ice.
The rightroots obviously didn’t just fail to influence the presidential election. They have collectively failed to make any meaningful impact on Republican politics at all. I can’t think of a single major issue where they forced the GOP to move its agenda towards something that the leadership didn’t want to do anyway. But hell, don’t listen me. Let’s hear what TownHall has to say.
Even some conservative bloggers object to the new blog activism.
“If you look at the top tier of right-wing bloggers, they’re almost unfailingly civil,” wrote Dean Barnett for the opinion Web site Townhall.com.
He charged that Erickson was trying to turn right-wing Web sites into “the kingmakers that the left-wing blogs are.”
That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Anyhow, kudos to Ron Klain for writing an insightful article with only a few words misplaced.
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(*) No it won’t. It will be fucking hilarious, and I hereby promise to get roaring drunk and liveblog it.
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