Per the blurb on the official group page, each week the members of the Watchers’ Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for the week’s best post. Not so per that blurb, I am perennially, hopelessly behind on posting Council submissions. Here’s last week’s full roundup, and I’ll post the winners tomorrow. That should allow me to beat this week’s submissions by at least a few hours. As always you should go to the full nomination page to get the non-council submissions, some of which are strikingly good.
Joshuapundit has a breakdown of just how stupid you’d have to be to believe that the Geneva talks with Iran are anything but a foot dragging exercise for Iran. Following the Colossus Of Rhodey, though, the answer apparently is exactly as stupid as a journalist. It seems that some of our sophisticated betters have taken to unblinkingly asking “if Israel can have nukes why can’t Iran?”
The Colossus Of Rhodey has a pushback of course, but I kind of think it’s a pearls before willfully myopic treif kind of situation. When people are making arguments that Israelis should prefer being credibly demonized to being wildly demonized – see my post on Goldstone’s daughter – I don’t think what they’re doing is arguing as much as emoting. The Glittering Eye’s staged back and forth on global warming is also to the point here, although Soccer Dad’s unpacking of Israel coverage implies that there’s a lot more than just stupidity underneath the media’s errors.
Some day when people talk when The One’s celebrity jumped the shark, the Nobel announcement should figure prominently. But before that happened there was that risible CNN fact check of the SNL skit that caused so many eyerolls. Turns out that spectacle wasn’t limited to CNN. Bookworm Room caught it as a media-wide phenomenon. The Liberal Moment distilled to its pathetic Great Leader essence: silly debates and revelatory overreactions about whether Hope and Change is merely great or the greatest. That and, per The Provocateur, corruption big and small.
When we finally get through this Moment, by the by, Rhymes With Right has a reminder that we’ll have to deal with the left’s disenfranchisment of our troops. See Right Truth on what they and our intelligence services have been doing on counter terrorism.
Finally, freedom of speech in an age of Muslim sensitivity: The Razor’s take on Kurt Westergaard’s appearance at Yale is not a particularly flattering account of our hallowed academic halls. Westergaard isn’t the only old school small-l liberal who’s recently come in for ugly harassment on the Yale campus, incidentally. If someone lives in New Haven and wants to collect a couple fliers for me, please hit me up by email. There’s a black and white faucet logo I’d like to talk to you about.
References and previously after the jump…
References:
* Now Arne Duncan Wants to Have a Conversation With Daley on School Violence? [Watcher Of Weasels]
* Our ‘Negotiations’ With Iran [Joshuapundit]
* Dopey WNJ Letter of the Week [Colossus Of Rhodey]
* Goldstone’s Daughter: Israel Should Thank My Dad For Legitimizing The UN’s Vicious Anti-Israel Smear Campaign [MR]
* Rulers of the Waves and the Limits of Power [Glittering Eye]
* Why did israel jail the pregnant woman? [Soccer Dad]
* Yahoo fact checks SNL? *UPDATED* [Bookworm Room]
* A Half Hour With Two Chicago Whistleblowers [The Provocateur]
* Virginia Suppresses Military Vote [Rhymes With Right]
* Terrorists Among Us [Right Truth]
* Yale Muslim Students Uncomfortable, Unnurtured [The Razor]
Previously:
* Watchers Council Nominations – Now Can We Be Post-Racial?
* Watchers Council Nominations – Money For CIA Witch Hunts, Federal Boondoggles, and ACORN But Not For Locking Up Terrorists
* Watchers Council Nominations – At Least Kennedy Was A Competent Extreme Radical
