Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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On Like Donkey Kong and MIA
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
5:23 PM
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Sorry I've been away so long. I was on Fox News' Live Desk with Martha MacCallum today, which was a ton of fun, and I've been hanging around New York City for the day, and wishing for both my wireless and my blog to work at the same time. In the absence of written political commentary, here's me and the gang on the show, talking about McCain's age, his avoidance of conservatives, Code Pink on Pelosi's lawn, and the Dems on Iraq. I'll be back later.
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Never compromise on the girl. Good luck with that.
On the other, we agree. It's not about being sheep. It's about dealing with the reality of the situation and not approaching it like a three-year-old in a candy store. "If I can't get exactly what I want, then I don't want anything!" Politics just doesn't work like that. Doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't have ideals, but falling short on some shouldn't mean selling the farm. W, as much as I respect him, falls short on a couple of the ideals I value - namely border security and spending. Doesn't mean I would just as soon have Kerry or Gore up there running things. Terrifies me to think how the WOT would be prosecuted if either of those two were up there.
(Not sure what is going on with Townhall today, but I tried to post this earlier and it double posted on someone else's blog site. Thought I'd try to reply one last time on here.) |
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McCain may have his problems, but the age issue is bogus. |
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Does anybody at least agree with D'Souza on this? In the most insular parts of the Third World--particularly the Muslim Third World--very often the only contact people ever have with "American culture" is the Hollywood movie, the rap music video, or other various bootlegged entertainment--TV, magazines, etc. D'Souza doesn't say that it's only the CULTURAL LEFT (who produces salacious entertainment) that is lighting the matches for jihad, but Hollywood does produce lots of the gasoline that leaders like bin Laden can throw on the fire. What surprises many non-Western foreigners, who finally come to visit America is, we have so many churches. Wow! And we actually GO to them. Who'd of thought? They'd never learn that fact from Hollywood. D'Souza has the advantage/disadvantage of knowing how people (who only have their very traditional culture, not much else) see the Western invasion of "culture." They (religious traditional people) see Western popular culture coming to their kids attention about like Texans see illegal immigrants streaming across the border towards their jobs. It makes them angry. Do we want to know that, or not?
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