The Instapundit posted about that Hollywood block party that got out of hand. What one correspondent of mine found interesting was the way that the L.A. Times focused on the behavior of the police , giving us images like this: And especially this : Which certainly seems reminiscent of the famous Tiananmen Square image of the solitary man peacefully facing down the aggressive militarized response of the government: What would have been a more appropriate image to present and highlight? How about the way that the Daily Mail focused (quite properly) on the behavior of the rioters , with images like this: Not quite Tiananmen, is it?
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L.A. Times Portrayal of “Block Party”: Focus on Police, Not Rioters
We have witnessed the bursting of the Housing Bubble. We are in the throws of the Education Bubble. (Check Instapundit he covers it in spades.) And now we are preparing the Reverse Bubble. What is the reverse bubble? Corporate bond rates so low that corporations are issuing them up just because they can. Google, cash
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A Reverse Bubble
According to the AP , after bravely running away from the impending Government shut-down Crisis ™, President Obama attended a townhall meeting in Pennsylvania. During the course of the rally townhall meeting, he had this to say in response to a father of ten children relaying that he could not afford to fill his gas tank: Obama says little short-term help for gas prices “Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices, now averaging close to $3.70 a gallon nationwide, and suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle.” “”If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in .” Guys, stop bitterly clinging to your cars – and your hard-earned money! So you’d have to go into debt to trade-in your car and get a fancy pants Elitist-approved car. It’s hilarious and no big whoop anyway. It’s not like you have to buy arugula. Have you seen those prices? Surprising that the AP actually reported that, isn’t it? But wait ! They of course swiftly realized the error of their ways; it does not suit to report, you know, the truth. It might make The One look bad. So, they changed the headline of the article and removed the offending section above. Forgetting, as always, that nothing actually disappears once on the internet. Instapundit grabbed a screen shot . It’s funny that people who constantly claim to be oh-s0-smart and worldly are actually such simpletons. Haley Barbour issued a statement immediately, which I received by email (as did Instapundit ), saying “Instead of changing his policies, President Obama is trying to blame the American people for skyrocketing gas prices by saying they should trade-in their cars. ” Exactly right. That is exactly what he was doing – it is his entire plan anyway. He doesn’t want lower gas prices. He wants people to have to buy pitiful little hybrid cars and such. He does not live in the real world, nor has he ever (he thinks cars get 8 miles to the gallon, for cripes sake.) He thinks “Y’all want freedom and ability to make you own decisions, including what you drive? Freedom Shmeedom! I know best! People have to buy said cars? With money that they do not have? Whatever, that’s neither here nor there. The seas must recede! Also, high speed rail!” The woeful incompetence and delusional utopianism is staggering. Steve Maley at RedState sums up Obama’s “solutions” in a nut-shell: Unicorn Flatus ——- crossposted from That’s What She Said
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Can’t Afford Gas For Your Car? Trade It in, Rubes Says Obama
Good evening RedStaters. I spent all weekend battling a monster cold, so I’m still a bit thrown off, and so didn’t even try to get tonight’s installment of Tech at Night in before midnight Eastern. In fact it’ll be a reach to get this done before midnight Pacific, but such is life. RedState diarist ladyimpactohio (follow her on Twitter at @ladyimpactohio ) already scored one big win by peeling the Gun Owners of America from the Free Press radical Net Neutrality coalition, but the right is already at work on the next target: the Christian Coalition . Dick Armey and FreedomWorks are leading this fight, and I’m glad of it. Way back when I started covering this issue, I said there were three names on the Save the Internet (Free Press front group) list that bugged me: Gun Owners of America, Christian Coalition, and Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds. If we can peel off at least two of three, I’ll be happy. Meanwhile, Verizon is trying to sell the White House on the joint Google-Verizon Net Neutrality proposal, saying that their compromise would fulfill the letter of Obama’s campaign promise. I like that tactic, and it has to make some people tense over at Free Press. The radicals already lost allies in most Democrats in Congress, Google, and Gun owners of America. If they lose the White House, then the pressure on the FCC to back down might be unbearable. And if we didn’t have enough reason to watch Free Press’s Net Neutrality push closely: ACORN’s relationship with Free Press is now being questioned widely , again thanks in part to RedState community members. Of course with Google switching sides, we needed a new villain, and it looks like we’ve got one: the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wants to piggyback on Net Neutrality to get new subsidies. They’re going to shroud themselves in the mantle of property rights and copyright, and paint their opponents as child molesters (literally), but they’re going to ask for government regulations and requirements that benefit them at everyone else’s expense, and that’s just wrong. That’s just socialist central planning of the economy. Let them figure out how to sell more CDs or iTunes tracks on their own dime. Besides, last I checked, they don’t need us to worry for them ’cause they’re all right (yeah, I used one of their own songs against them in open parodic fair use, take that). Go ahead with your own business, RIAA, leave us alone. And one more point for tonight, that isn’t even Net Neutrality related. Bayshore Networks has an analysis of Intel’s acquisition of McAfee . This is, as Bayshore points out, an odd thing because McAfee is purely a software company, selling end point security, while Intel primarily sells hardware. But it is clearly a “vote of confidence” in the industry as they say, and could lead to more acquisitions. What I think Bayshore is missing though is one big reason to make such acquisitions: this all comes in the context of a drumbeat from the Democrats on the need for new laws to deal with “cybersecurity” nationally. Given the rewards that have fallen on GM and Tesla as members of a favored industry, I think it makes sense to pick up a cybersecurity company in the hopes that massive government subsidies will be pushed out to them before Republicans can clamp down on spending next year. I’m told many in business prefer to ignore politics, but this is one case where the political environment has to matter, I believe.
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, FreedomWorks, Christian Coalition, RIAA, Copyright, Cybersecurity, Intel, McAfee
[Guest post by DRJ] Via the Instapundit, can media hypocrisy get any better than this? “MORE FROM JOURNOLIST: Obama wins! And Journolisters rejoice. They seem to be planning for “epistemic closure.” *** And Eric Alterman adds his own incisive analysis: “Fucking Nascar retards…” Didn’t the “best and the brightest” used to be, I dunno, better and brighter? UPDATE: Reader Elliott Davis emails: “The best part about Eric Alterman’s participation in Journolist is his authorship of What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News .” Heh. Indeed. You gotta love this. Thanks again, Ezra!” And it’s only Day 2 of the Journolist story. – DRJ
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The Truth About Bias and the News, Revised Edition
