URLs du Jour

2009-09-18

  • In today's "This Is How Those People Think" Department, Patterico quotes LA Times writer Noam N. Levey:
    Imagine the debate over healthcare legislation on Capitol Hill as a tussle among three friends out for dinner.

    All three have been struggling to pay their bills lately. When the check arrives, they try to figure out how to divide it. The problem is no one can really afford the meal. And if one manages to pay less, the other two will go home even deeper in the hole.

    […]

    Think of our three friends as consumers, businesses and government, the three major groups that pay for healthcare in America.

    Uh huh. I'm sure readers will note the problem there, so I won't beat you over the head with it; if you'd like to see Patterico's analysis, click over.

    Mr. Levey probably thought he was making a clever analogy, and (even worse), the LA Times editors agreed, and (even worser) the LA Times probably paid him for it.

  • Jonah Goldberg has a great column today, noting the race cards that so many Obama supporters have been playing in an effort to discredit and muzzle critics of the Administration. His final point, inspired by a recent Maureen Dowd column containing this gem about Congressman Wilson's "You lie!" shout during Obama's recent speech:
    But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!
    Jonah's response:
    It's the "fair or not" that gives Dowd away. She admits to hearing racism whether or not it's warranted. That's called prejudice. And unlike Wilson's foolish outburst, Dowd's was carefully considered. Dowd, Carter and Sharpton can't grasp that conservatives are less hung up on race than they are and that we can get past Obama's skin color. "Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it," writes Dowd. She's right. She's one of them.

  • Iowahawk foregoes his usual laff riot and pays tribute to Norman Borlaug, the greatest Iowa farmer who ever lived. That boy can write.