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Posted at 9:52pm on May 18, 2008 Kimball

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Read. Someone had to take the Times editorial staff to the rhetorical woodshed--good on Roger Kimball for assuming the responsibility.

Incidentally, I am still wondering by what extra sensory perception everyone in the bien pensant community has decided that the now-infamous passage in the President's Knesset speech referred to Barack Obama. I suppose it would initially seem strange that the "reality-based community" was making up reality here. But then, this is par for the course for them, now isn't it?

(Thanks to InstaPundit for the link.)

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Posted at 6:38pm on May 17, 2008 Look Who Owns The Noise-Machine Now

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

We should be appalled by now that the contretemps involving President Bush and Senators Obama and McCain has lasted as long as it has. By now, cooler heads should have prevailed and forcefully responded to Senator Obama that a plain reading of the language of President Bush's speech before the Knesset makes clear that Senator Obama was in no way implicated in the President's comments concerning the appeasement of dictators and terrorists. Indeed, White House officials have said on background that if anything, the comments were directed at Jimmy Carter in the aftermath of his recent meeting with Hamas and the only politician who was directly criticized in the oft-repeated quote from the President's speech was Republican Senator William Borah, who was apparently never disabused from the notion that if only he could have met with Hitler, Borah's powers of eloquence alone would have been sufficient to stop World War II from ever having broken out.

But of course, we are still in the midst of the contretemps and still dealing with the blasts of outrage and fury from Team Obama and its allies in the aftermath of the President's speech. It is one thing to campaign with a chip on one's shoulder, but after a while, this gets rather tiresome, does it not?

It should. But shockingly enough, the controversy appears to have kicked into second gear now, with Team Obama and its allies now claiming that if President Bush wants to slam appeasers, he should start with his own Defense Secretary and Senator McCain, who allegedly have adopted Senator Obama's negotiating strategy in toto.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 5:13pm on May 12, 2008 Another Reply To Newsweak

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Regarding this story discussed here, we have this reply, which lists the salient objections in short and sweet fashion. In addition, the McCain campaign has taken action against the smear and you can find a reply to Newsweek's Jon Meacham from Mark Salter of the McCain camp underneath the fold.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 8:35pm on May 11, 2008 The Same Old Song And Dance

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

By now, we should be used to stories like this one, in which mainstream media journalists warn us with ever so much tut-tutting that Republicans win Presidential elections by planning "onslaughts" against Democrats and "scaring" voters--thus fostering and furthering a narrative that states that Democratic victories are triumphs of Light and Truth while Republican victories are illegitimate and only come about because the sheeple are too terrified to vote the other way. Added to this narrative is an epic poem to the wonderfulness of Senator Obama. I am sure that Senator Obama is a very nice and charming guy, but good grief, no one is perfect and there are plenty of things that could be pointed about about Senator Obama's personality and character that would conflict with the hagiography that has been drawn up concerning him.

All of this is fatuous nonsense and I would call it various other things as well if this was not a family blog. Don't tell me that Democrats don't run fear campaigns; on a regular basis, the desperate need to reform entitlements like Social Security and Medicare is sidetracked because of Democratic fear-mongering that Republicans are out to take away the pensions of seniors or the health care of old people. Free trade in general and pacts like NAFTA in particular have been dazzlingly successful in bringing about greater prosperity, but you wouldn't know if from listening to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others in the Democratic Party link the implementation of free trade policies to widespread job losses and economic downturns (with no evidence or substantiation whatsoever, mind you). The economy has thus far avoided contracting, unemployment is at a very low 5% with the employment picture actually picking up and 95% of homeowners are still able to pay their mortgages, but the facts are ignored you would think that we are in the throes of yet another Great Depression. The surge and the implementation of the counterinsurgency strategy have stabilized the situation in Iraq but we are regularly told that we are "losing" or have "lost" there. And on and on and on.

So you can understand the frustration of people like me who watch demagoguery get raised to an art form on the other side of the partisan divide while at the same time, the mainstream media piously tries to convince us that Democrats are fighting by Marquis of Queensbury rules while Republicans are punching below the belt. The facts don't support this at all and while I have come to recognize that this lack of evidence is never an obstacle for the "reality-based community" and its natural allies in the mainstream media, I nevertheless don't have to like being lied to. And neither do the rest of you.

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