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This week on the podcast, we recap last night’s Democratic debate with the help of guests Byron York from the Washington Examiner and Hoover’s (and Ricochet’s) Bill Whalen. Who won, who lost, who will never be heard from again, and who we wish would just go away.
Also, Lileks reviews The Martian, and Long reviews Hamilton, the hot new Broadway musical. Spoiler alert: both are raves.
Music from this week’s episode:
Wannabe by The Spice Girls
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SPICE GIRLS!? There are no words for this treason. Shame, shame, shame.
To add to Whalens’ solid point: “Imagine her having to do this 5 more times…” Imagine her having to do this 3x against a strong Republican (CARLY) instead of her weak Democratic opponents?
Her ‘opponents’ may have made her the media ‘winner’, but didn’t do her any favors. Anderson Cooper was stronger against Hillary than the rest of the dais.
Oh, that was such a worry. Rob raves rap musical Hamilton, and then almost immediately the show ends with a rappish-song which I assumed must be from Hamilton. Except that the saccharine sickening lyrics and arrangement and tune would alone have led to 0.5 star reviews for the musical.
It’s not from Hamilton, it’s the Spice Girls commenting on the presumptive Democratic nominee for President.
Was I really the only active person in the chatroom? Or was I having some sort of software glitch?
We recorded the entire podcast just for you. Promise.
Re: Berniementum and Denmark. Dudes. Please. The headline isn’t that Bernie wants to turn America into Denmark, but that he doesn’t have a clue how to do it (see Kevin Williamson at NRO and Tim Worstall at Forbes today). Possibly because he doesn’t understand what makes Denmark tick and would be appalled by it if he did. Granted the magical possession of half a wit he’d say “Free trade? Free markets? Little regulation? Regressive tax scheme? Low corporate taxation? People are corporations [as Danish politician Mittjar Romneysen undoubtedly says]? No thank you, not for this old National Socialist [please note, International Socialism died in 1914], not for all the paid maternity leave in the world!
I’m guessing he thought about Denmark for 5 minutes in 1977 and wrote these words on a yellow legal pad and hasn’t considered the matter since:
Denmark. Heard it’s socialist. Democratic socialist. (Socialist democratic?) Double plus good either way. Like Sweden. Both once owned Norway. Not at same time. (Significance???). Languages similar. Actors interchangeable. I really like Legos. Ham and (other?) dairy products good, too. Consider visiting.
The danger is you start driving to Denmark with Bernie and wind up in Zimbabwe in about 25 seconds. (OK now I just had a Mr. Magoo flashback of Bernie petting a lion and saying “AHAHAH, nice doggie.” Done.)
Never minded the Spice Girls much, back in the day. But I have to say I was startled to have ‘Wannabe’ suddenly playing in my earphones as I sat on the subway.
This seems like a new revenue stream: If you subscribe at the Thatcher level (or whatever) then there’s a weekly chatroom with Ricochet luminaries like Peter et al popping in to answer questions. I can already see that subscriber base going north of 10,000 with this addition.
College kids born in 1994? That’s about the last year that I listened to any new music.
So now even (Ricochet’s) Bill Whalen chuckles condescendingly about ‘poor Mr. Carson’s re-writing the history of the holocaust’.
Too many supposed conservatives are all too ready to adopt the left’s lines – which is dis-spiriting.
My first comment on THE podcast; my fingertips are trembling.
On the speakers race — what if this election is nothing more than Boehner consolidating his position? If no candidate can marshal the support needed to become the next speaker, Boehner’s position will be stronger than ever.
Hillary is the democrat party’s Nixon.
Hillary won the democrat debate because the other candidates did not challenge her. Why? Many reasons have been proposed and I will offer one more — no man wants to be seen attacking a woman in public. To bolster this analysis just look at the way Trump treated Carly in the second republican debate. The only republican candidate who can beat Hillary is Carly because she is the only one who WILL even try to challenge Hillary and her record.
I am going to lose some of my Metal cred, but I like the Spice Girls. They’re a pop music guilty pleasure.
I was soooooo hoping that James was going to segue out of that Playboy segment with a Harry’s Shave ad addressing Playmate’s nethers.
Welcome The Sponz!
Y’all need to have Brandon Finnegan from the AoSHQDD to come on and talk you into the reality that Virginia is really the new white elephant and Pennsylvania is there for the taking.
http://dd.aoshq.com/
Wait, I thought Peter Robinson got rid of his iPhone a couple of years ago. I remember him saying something to the effect that it was too much for him, and he traded it in for a “dumb phone.” When did he make the leap back to a smart phone?
About six months ago, his kids made him get an iPhone 6.
His kids are very different than mine. I think mine would rather I not have a smartphone, so that I couldn’t send them dumb “dad jokes” on the fly.