Andrew Coyne always looks like needs a laxative.

Now we know why:

At least one esteemed member of the media sat on this story, feeling it somehow not newsworthy that a man running for Prime Minister was a found in at a house of prostitution.

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Hey, Coyne: a journalist bragging about his own lousy news judgement in public?

Genius!

Nick DiPaolo on Tough Crowd

Nick DiPaolo | Myspace Video

PS: more HERE

Mark Steyn writes:

You can do that – up to a point. It depends on whether your foundation is solid and your framing is structurally sound. But, even if they are, you take it too high, and the roof falls in. We’re structurally about as screwed up as you can get, and the foundation is badly cracked. But hey, let’s just jack the roof up a little higher one more time. What could go wrong?

All you need to know about England, 2011:

There are trees in the cathedral, the Archbishop’s a Druid, and nobody knows the words to “Jerusalem.”

I seem to recall writing something about a similar graph when it came out.

But don’t mind me. I’m just the dumb schmuck who knows that the show isn’t about sexual wife swapping. Cuz I’m not one of those “I don’t watch TV” guys who tend to work at, you know, the frickin’ Atlantic…

Kate, you magnificent bastard, I read your tweet.

Who knew my “premature Jack Layton” gag from this morning would be so Nostradamus-y?

2011: Black guy admits he “voted for Obama because he was black”; it was “the biggest mistake of his life.”

ThinkProgress writer:

The congressional delegations of these states — Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky — overwhelmingly voted to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous. They are deliberately ignoring the warnings from scientists.

Also? He’s crazier than the birther he thinks is crazy — and he doesn’t realize it, cuz he’s just that crazy (video).

However, remember that by the rubric followed by the Canadian Establishment (left AND right), I am the “white supremacist”…

Ah, that NDP surge. So nice while it lasted, huh? A sad case of… “Premature Jack Layton.”

So, anyway:

My husband has a screenshot of the endorsement, which appeared in Mohammed Elmasry’s Canadian Charger “magazine.” (Thanks to “Sassywire” for finding this.)

(Yes, this is the same Mohammed Elmasry who charged Mark Steyn with “Islamophobia.”)

The author writes:

For all the hate they harbour against Arabs and Muslims, we have done nothing to earn it, nor, can we do anything to lessen it, because their hate is Bible based. Even Jesus (peace be upon him), wouldn’t be able to do anything, as it is not his Bible they follow. The Christian Zionist Movement is based on the Scofield Bible. The Scofield Bible was financed by the House of Rothchild with the sole purpose of promoting the Zionist Agenda.

This information is not widely known, and you owe it to yourself to know more about it. Please read;

The Zionist-Created Scofield ‘Bible’ – The Source of the Problem in the Mideast – Part 2. Why Judeo-Christians Support War by C. E. Carlson

(The Rense.com is widely respected and credible.

Mr. Carlson is a respected Christian Theologian).

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Rense.com is a notorious Holocaust denial/conspiracy theory site (although/therefore, some lefties seem to like it...) which sometimes ventures out into the pressing topic of Mexican UFOs.  

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“There’s something very awry when Michael Savage is the voice of reason.”

That was Vanity Fair scribe James Wolcott’s backhanded compliment – part of a bitter bleat against the “birthers” and “Tea Party coots” he’d been forced to interact with while running a recent errand to the drug store.

Wolcott continues:

True story:

Yesterday there was a Tea Party coot standing in line at Duane Reade [a chain of NY pharmacies] with his portable radio blaring. (His radio was stickered with Tea Party slogans, lest you think I’m engaging in assumptive political profiling.)

His speaker was piping out that day’s installment of the Michael Savage show.

Now if he had been a young black man playing full-blare rap in a checkout line and James Lileks happened to be standing behind him, Lileks would have gotten 2,000 words out of it — what it says about our coarsening society — Gerard Van der Leun would have cited it as the greatest piece of eloquence since some psalm or another, and Instapundit would have given it an ‘instalanche.

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Let’s (try to) overlook Walcott’s thinly veiled suggestion that James Lileks is a racist. I know I’m asking a lot, because, well… Lileks?!?

So let’s move along.

First off: the he feels obliged to put in “true story” doesn’t inspire my confidence.

Plus: we all know conservative talk radio fans are loyal, but does anyone in 2011 still carry around a “blaring” “portable radio” these days?  

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When you discover that our civilization has fallen so far that a magazine called Shecky is the articulate voice of logic, sanity and reason — putting many self-appointed “great thinkers” and elite, heavily-feted cultural watchdogs/village idiots like Bernie Farber and Co. to shame — you may either be depressed or elated.

If you picked “depressed”, that’s because your entire worldview is flawed, and likely has been for some time.

Perhaps this development will help correct that. Rather painfully, I expect, like braces on your teeth.

You’ll live.

Brian McKim & Traci Skene (please read the whole thing) take other comics to task for refusing to defend Guy Earle — that is, for being court jesters who are willingly and voluntarily siding with the court:

And in his offstage comments, Rhymer sought to make a distinction– that is, he sought to distinguish himself from Earle by inferring that Earle was not a real comedian and that therefore his speech was not worthy of protection.

(And for good measure, he sided with the BCHRC and classified Earle’s speech as “hate speech,” a worthless concept if there ever was one.)

Furthermore, the larger trouble with all this is that the BCHRC, like we said, made no such distinction. They went after Earle without regard for the artistic merit of his act. And we have no reason to believe that future decisions by the BCHRC (and similar bodies) to prosecute or not prosecute will be based on any kind of unquantifiable measurement of the aesthetic worth of a comedian’s act. And therein lies the danger of such a body as the BCHRC.  

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I want to be Belle with a really pretty yellow dress. But I don’t need a Beast because he gets mean and yells. Just the castle and all the talking stuff!

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Women want lots of stuff, but don’t want to work for it.

Via American Conservative:

Yes, Witness could make a marvelous film—could, if handled well artistically. We have received many offers over the years for a film based on Witness. We have reached no agreements, though several filmmakers have conversations going. Of course, the Whittaker Chambers family would demand total control over storyline—we’ve already seen plenty of distortions over the years. Also, no one wants to get caught up in a fight like A Perfect Storm.