Comments on: Meet The Horrible New Obama-Era Elite, or “All The President’s Middlebrows”

By: George Mann

George Mann — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:26:00 +0000

Very interesting reading. Especially in light of today’s announcement that Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power are working together to advise Obama on the American involvement in the current Lybian crisis.

By: -

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:21:14 +0000

that was longgggg. don’t quit the day job.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:09:41 +0000

I must say I will no longer be able to watch any of the administration’s prancing on CNN without thinking of Updike. The whole piece cracked me up. J. L. Seagull as done by Friedman! I love it.

By: cts

cts — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:20:58 +0000

“Every moral tradition on the planet views sins of commission as much worse than sins of omission,”

Just for point of fact, this is not true.

By: Radovan

Radovan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:05:13 +0000

Ratko, ne filozofiraj nego dodji na stoni tenis.

By: Chapulin Descolorado

Chapulin Descolorado — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:39:48 +0000

Every moral tradition on the planet views sins of commission as much worse than sins of omission, & yet SP just somehow doesn’t have time in her 500p genocide book to mention Guatemala, Indonesia’s anti-Communist bloodbath, or East Timor. (OK, a single sentence on East Timor.) And this book is courageous? What a crock! Now she’s mongering the Af-pak crusade. I wish she’d go back to Kosovo, & stay.
Cass Sunstein’s recent work of the death penalty–he’s now in favor of it, having discovered statistical “proof” that it’s a deterrent–is similarly revolting. Woe to us that this amoral power couple is high up in our government.

By: capt

capt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:02:34 +0000

You had me until “the Boob.” Now I have to dismiss you. Bye bye!

By: m.a.s. ak

m.a.s. ak — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:35:00 +0000

Maybe America need a Revised version of the 80s movie
Theylive starting these people…

By: Stasi Slut

Stasi Slut — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:51:41 +0000

a. I very much like that I can now add the term beigism to my vocabulary.

b. This awful, mediocre neoliberal ‘elite’ is so horrible you more want to put them up against a wall to put THEM out of their misery rather than your own satisfactory sense of revenge.

By: Curious One

Curious One — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:43:59 +0000

Once saw Samatha Power on C-Span booktv talking about genocide and do not remember the ‘content’ of her presentation because I was so amazed at ‘how’ she was delivering it. She seemed to be enjoying her subject and there was a ‘I know this and you don’t’ aspect to her performance. Didn’t, couldn’t, or wouldn’t engage the listerners/watchers of the program -acted like genocide was her own, she owned it and she was the one and only important person to know about it so all of you better shut up and listen. Too bad she missed that opportunity – seemed like she got in the way of her own message.

By: JimBob

JimBob — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:34 +0000

Good stuff. Glad I found this blog, as depressing as the piece on CS is…

By: aleke

aleke — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:51:44 +0000

hahah take your incoherent braying elsewhere, apologist scumbag

By: SKutt

SKutt — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:00:42 +0000

surely one who prefers to be living in a totalitarian state, mr. 29.aleke, would be inured to any value system other than the bullet or the cudgeol. you’re welcome to open up a just a tiny bit here. you write that you hate the new regualtors. are you nostalgic for dzhugashvili and bush? yes? you hate relatavism, despise the academy, feel free to judge who is and is not an intellectual?

not me. i’ll take my chances with the new “meritocracy”. at least my in “fantasy” the rulers have jobs. and apparently values, too

By: aleke

aleke — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:40:31 +0000

@28.

What kind of meritocratic fantasy are you living in?

By: SKutt

SKutt — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:37:41 +0000

Public sexual conquest, power, tenure, pensions – how elegant the intellignesia! You are TOO jealous dude. Hostility is unhealthy. These people are fun! You must have missed out on the 70′s. Wierdness and adaptablity are all the evolutionary rage.

Catholics get stuck in traditional roles like the Supreme COurt – which soon shall have six (6).

The WASP elite knows that a bunch of profound and meaningful (i.e. profitable) policy is made in the regulatory arena. You are soo green with envy Ames.

Let the proles squabble over the abortion and affirmative action sideshow, we know who is allocating bandwidth and defining just what “renewable” means.

The good news is that they do accept a universe of moral relativism, so chill. Marginally better is pretty sweet!

By: Spin

Spin — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:20:04 +0000

You really live in Spanish Harlem? Didn’t know you were in the Rotten Apple. I’ll buy ya a drink sometime, Ames.

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:04:27 +0000

Orwell already wrote this piece.

By: cobblers

cobblers — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:28:27 +0000

Ames, just saw “Going Postal” on BBC 2. Easily the most intelligent and insightful doccie on the phenomenon thus far.

Saw you, heard you, celebrated every single word you said. No documentary would have been complete without you.

Problem is, you’re in danger, to judge by the doccie, of being drowned out by bullshit about mental illness. Ooh, if only it were that simple. People killing people: it’s all down to fabled mental illness. Couldn’t possibly be another reason.

Your message about Reaganomics came through clear as a bell. I’m impressed that the filmers ran with that. You’re one smart guy. I hope to fuck there are a few in the cheap seats who get it, otherwise, it’s just pearls before swine.

By: Realist

Realist — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:35:17 +0000

Quite right.

European universities spew out this garbage for quite a while now. A gutless caste of funcionaries and ideologues who celebrate their own isolation from reality with ever growing “Plans” for regulation, administration and improvement of human society.

By: aleke

aleke — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:42:24 +0000

@21

Well I was invoking the Soviet Union with the state capitalism thing, I’d call this some sort of worse strand of state capitalism. But I would never call these people intellectuals. I’ve grown up with these type of people in my classes and they’re no intellectuals.