World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
---Quote (Originally by JAD_333)--- I wonder if I posted this already. This is the site that started all the Messiah nonsense. These folks are over the top. Is Barack Obama the Messiah? (http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/) ---End Quote--- I'm currently collecting Obama media. It truly is the most sensational art campaign in the heroic mold since Leni Riefenstahl, though I am prepared to nod to some...
Foreign Dispatches (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
First we had some idiot on National Review suggesting that Barack Obama was a Jewish communist, and now it's Ben Stein making a ridiculous comparison to Hitler which any German ought to find deeply insulting. Will the right-wing lunatics please...
Red State (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In Israel, Barack Obama was twice given the chance to answer the question, "Can you ensure that there will be no second Holocaust?" Both times Obama declined to answer. The American media did nothing to engage Obama on the issue. Obama has likewise stripped the American flag from the back of his new 757 in favor of his campaign logo. The American media has done nothing. Obama, speaking at Israel's...
Confessions of a Political Junkie (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In Israel, Barack Obama was twice given the chance to answer the question, “Can you ensure that there will be no second Holocaust'” Both times Obama declined to answer. The American media did nothing to engage Obama on the issue. Obama has likewise stripped the American flag from the back of his [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Brilliant performances in "Leni" bring forth the rich ambiguity of Sarah Greenman's remarkable work.
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I'm with Patrick Goldstein of the L.A. Times: it's fine by me that Roger Ebert is leaving TV, and going back to print journalism full time. He's such an enjoyable film critic to read, even when you don't agree with...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
When detained and interrogated after World War II, Leni Riefenstahl did not claim she was "just following orders" in making films that were...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The best way to enjoy David Maraniss' “Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World” is to ignore its hyperbolic subtitle and plunge like a 10-meter platform diver into the games themselves.
The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Like Dennis Dale and Patrick J. Ford, I enjoyed WALL-E. I’m also astonished by its bashing by conservatives as “propaganda”, which reminds me of other subversive animated films, like the pro-spinanch Popeye or the crude anti-puppetry message of Pinocchio, not to mention the way vertically-challenged people were portrayed in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Shame on Hollywood! I recall...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
This part of a NYT interview with Ingrid Betancourt jumped out at me: But she also is trying to avoid describing the details of her ordeal, years of captivity in the jungle in which she was often chained, physically tortured...
The Garlic (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Boy, what a week it has been. So much for the lazy, hazy days of summer ... Things have been jumping, with both campaigns ... Obama turned into "Obushama" , with his FISA Flip-Flop , and, going all Leni Riefenstahl for his nomination acceptance speech . And McCain ... Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain .... I think, for safety, with all the stumblin' and bumblin' he did this week (take your pick - Killing...
Free Frank Warner (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Barack Obama now plans to deliver his Aug. 28 acceptance speech, not at the Democratic National Convention hall at Denver’s Pepsi Center, but at the nearly 76,000-seat Invesco Field. What to name this glorious event? Clarice Feldman advises Obama, in...
Babalu Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
A superb piece in The American Thinker that asks some very controversial (for some, not all) questions about the Obama messiah media strategy at the Democrat National Convention and Worship Center in Denver: "Memo from Leni Riefenstahl" by Clarice Feldman....
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Dear Mr. Obama: I've been reading of your plans for the Invesco Field mass rally in Denver. I've had some experience documenting such things and am delighted to offer my suggestions. You are the one I've been waiting for. 1. You need a name for this rally. Surely this will be the hallmark of your governance -- large, well-staged events in which you make very impassioned, high-minded speeches which...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Lee Cary and Clarice Feldman preview Barack Obama's speech August 29 speech now scheduled to take place at Denver's Invesco Field at Mile High. Cary predicts that the event will be at least slightly reminiscent of Leni Riefenstahl's stagecraft in "Triumph of the Will." Feldman channels the ghost of Leni Riefenstahl and suggests as the name for the event " Democratischeparteitag der Einheit und Starke...
