Click for Main Weblog

   
The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thursday, December 02, 2004
   
   

Noonan on Rather

Peggy Nooon writes about Dan Rather, her boss for a few years in the 1980s, at OpinionJournal, today:

Life is complicated, people are complicated, and most of us are a jumble of virtues, flaws and contradictions. I like to try to understand the past, try to put it together in a way that makes sense to me. This can involve judging not only your own actions and decisions but those of others, which can be hard. I have a friend who once said in the middle of a conversation, "Don't understand me too quickly." Don't categorize me; don't decide you broke the code. Sit back and watch; it's more interesting than you may know.
Which gets me to Dan Rather, who was once my boss, and who of course has announced his retirement from the anchor chair at CBS News. Everyone I know is asking me what I think of it. I think a lot of things....
People are complicated, careers are complicated, motives are complicated. Dan Rather did some great work on stories that demanded physical courage. He loved the news, and often made it look like the most noble of enterprises. He had guts and fortitude. Those stories he covered that touched on politics were unfortunately and consistently marred by liberal political bias, and in this he was like too many in his profession. But this is changing. The old hegemony has given way. The old dominance is over. Good thing. Great thing. Onward.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 07:19:19 PM
Categorized as Media.


   
   

Chris Muir Is Back!

He had had to suspend his cartoon series Day by Day for a while. But he's back now — and he hasn't lost his form.

Day by Day, by Chris Muir, 12/2/2004

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 06:48:44 PM
Categorized as Media.


   
   

Malkin's Crusade

I like it.

At Michelle Malkin's weblog, today.

+ + + + +

MY CHRISTMAS CRUSADE

By Michelle Malkin   ·   December 02, 2004 02:36 AM

The persecution never ends. Denver has launched war against a church group that wanted to march in the city's Christmas parade "Parade of Lights." (I hate, hate, hate that p.c. euphemism.)

From the Denver Post: Parade Organizers Say Christmas Carols May Be Offensive To Others.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recently announced that next year the phrase "Merry Christmas" will be removed from the city building and replaced with "Happy Holidays."
And now a church group who wants to march in the Parade of Lights and sing Christmas carols will not be allowed to participate in the parade. Organizers say the parade is about the holidays, not Christmas, but leaders of the Faith Bible Chapel say that's ridiculous.
"We can't pretend that Christ didn't exist and Christmas wasn't about his birthday, so we felt we could sing it and apparently that is not in social vogue anymore," said Pastor Gary Beasley, with the Faith Bible Chapel.
"This event is not one that has ever intended to have a religious message or a political message," said Susan Rogers, with the Downtown Denver Partnership.
She said no overtly religious symbols is allowed in the parade and that means participants can't carry "Merry Christmas" signs and can't sing traditional Christmas hymns.

I am hereby launching the Lump of Coal campaign. Later today, I will box up a lump of charcoal, mark the package "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" and send it to the Denver Mayor in protest of his idiotic policy. Please join me in doing the same (and if you take a photo of your creatively designed package, I will link/post).

Send to:

Mayor John W. Hickenlooper
Denver City and County Building
1437 Bannock Street, Suite 350
Denver, CO 80202

+ + + + +

H.I.C.K.E.N.L.O.O.P.E.R?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 06:16:45 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.


   
   

On Federalism at The Corner

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 05:43:38 PM
Categorized as Political.


   
   

Beef Always Wins

A young milblog.

Vide.

(Thanks, Big Trunk.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 05:31:23 PM
Categorized as Blogosphere Stuff.


   
   

The New "C-Word"

A press release, yesterday, from the Catholic League:

.... This is only the beginning of the Christmas season and already the anti-Christmas crusade is in high gear. In the name of "separation of church and state," they distort it. In the name of diversity, they crush it. In the name of tolerance, they obliterate it. Which is why we need to call them for what they are — cultural fascists.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 07:51:44 AM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.


   
   

Late Autumn Northward Migration of Barking Moonbats

Documented in photographs here and here.

On the other hand, Pete Vere has some photos from Canadians Rally 4 Bush.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 07:42:17 AM
Categorized as International & Photos & Political.


   
   

Into the Wardrobe

A C. S. Lewis web site.

Vide.

(Thanks, Mark.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/02/04 07:14:17 AM
Categorized as Literary.


   

The Blog from the Core © 2002-2008 E. L. Core. All rights reserved.