Culture War Dispatches

from a Progressive People's Republic

Friday, April 09, 2010

Nancy and Harry want you to choose the best candy bar

Soon we will be able to make an informed choice between Snickers, M&Ms and Doritos. Truly history-making.

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Sarah Palin, Boston Common, April 14

Here's a fun party trick. Surround yourself with liberals-not hard to find in Boston-and invite them to hear Sarah Palin at the Boston Tea Party rally on April 14th, the day before Tax Day. I tried it out last night. People looked at me as if my dog had dragged in some roadkill.

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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Six scary words: 'And not a moment too soon'

The stagecoach is out of control on a mountain road and some of the passengers are yelling at the driver to whip the horses.

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Tend to Your Seeds, Mr. President

The spectacle of a sarcastic President is not a pretty sight. Unsubstantiated sarcasm is downright repugnant, transforming the leader of the free world into a mean-spirited twerp.

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Does Anybody Really Understand ObamaCare?

Since the passage of the Health Care Reform Bill, the Democrat leadership has embarked on a strategy of demonizing its opponents as angry, potentially violent racists. Charles M. Blow developed a new line of attack in his New York Times column last weekend, with an argument based on a recent Pew Research Council poll: Republicans don't understand ObamaCare, so they have no right to criticize it.

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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Bonnie and Clyde's propaganda coup

On American Thinker:

The New York Times published a seductive photo (here) on its front page of the 17-year old baby-faced girl who blew herself up on a crowded Moscow subway, taking 39 other commuters with her to paradise, and her 30-year old killer husband, both wielding pistols. The Times notes that the photo:

is deeply repugnant to most people but also likely to be embraced by other extremists as a propaganda coup, a kind of Bonnie and Clyde of the insurgency.


What greater propaganda coup than appearing on the front page of the New York Times?