1. The Obama Permanent Campaign, as part of a slide show on the President’s efforts to enact ARRA (pronounced “error”), shows a picture of him chatting with Republican Congressmen, with the caption:
Jan. 27, 2009: House Republicans surround the President after the meeting. Many of them were seeking his autograph. Every House Republican eventually voted against the bill.
I’ve heard of celebrities charging for autographs, but $800 billion?
2.Leftist journalist Tom Ricks:
Apparently Robert Mugabe, who is third on my list for jerk of the year, after Rupert Murdoch and Bill O’Reilly, has bought an expensive house in Hong Kong.
Hmm. Rupert Murdoch is one of the few guys in the world who can make money publishing newspapers. Bill O’Reilly is a blowhard who amuses TV audiences. Robert Mugabe is a mass murderer who has destroyed what was once Africa’s healthiest economy. Interesting sense of values, Mr. Ricks.
3. Michael Goldfarb plucks this nugget from a tedious American Prospect screed on “true patriotism”:
In 2000 I met a little girl in South Africa who asked me in utter amazement, “So in America, people of different races all live right next door to one another?” I took a look around and had to tell her that, in the U.S., the segregation was not much different from Langa Township in barely post-apartheid South Africa.
What a benign view of “barely post-apartheid South Africa”! Segregation there was no worse than in the United States.
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