As television dies a slow, painful death — strangled by the very cable it thought had saved it — I witness that TV commercials now are all DEI with three-word slogans that sound vaguely AI created. Lizzo has replaced Kate Upton, perhaps eating her. Lizzo’s after picture
I saw that CNN thing with John King and the CNN folks were truly amazed that many Iowans don’t trust or believe the spew they utter on their network. Well, many of us in Florida don’t believe what they spew either.
Good post today, Don.
Oh…and you are soooo right about the phony “compassionate conservative “. What a loser he turned out to be
Look at Clinton in 1992. Even Rush Limbaugh said "Clinton had to pass himself off as a conservative to get elected." Imagine. In 1992 we had two world socialists running against each other and George HW Bush sat there and cried on national TV after he lost.
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I have often wondered what genius came up with that absurd label "compassionate conservative". He clearly did not think it through. He realized that they needed to appeal to real conservatives, but, like all limp-wristed Republicans, they thought that victory lay in winning the "moderate" voters, whoever they are, and they believed that identifying as a real, garden-variety conservative would turn them off. What it did was turn off real, garden-variety conservatives who realized that he was calling them uncompassionate.
“Compassionate conservative” is the mating call of the RINOs. They over-play the first term and completely forget about the second term. They cry “Kitzinger tears” and give away our Constitutional rights.
Whoever came up with the label "compassionate conservative" clearly meant to say that it was an oxymoron and an impossibility. I fell for it, also. My eyes were opened after 9/11 and I haven't done much deep believing since then.
I would bet money that the term "Compassionate Conservative" came out a focus group exercise. It sounds kind of warm and fuzzy on the front end and practical and sober on the back end. Think of it as a reverse mullet bathed in political psychobabble.
Not over the song. Because of the selection of verse, I didn't know all of them until I looked it up. Kinda like the Star Spangled Banner or Battle Hymn. They always skip the fun ones.
The left is expert in the business of using fear porn for control and destruction of all things good. The irony is they get to make up the silly rules (masks work, CO2 is boiling the oceans) - and they end up BELIEVING their own lies. I guess that is why liberalism is a mental disorder.
Good morning, Don, et al. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post one of my all time favorite quotes from the late great brilliant PJ O’Rourke…
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
You are dead on Poca man! We know how it ends. Our King is coming. We will be with Him forever! He lives in us now and we live in Him! We get to love and cherish Him! And we will for all eternity! Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Conservatives are happier because they have Faith and they know how the story ends. Yet there is a dangerous palpable anger. One I have never felt before. Conservatives also believe in fairness, in elections, in Justice, in economics. When they see the inherent unfairness on display they get angry, not J6 angry. I’m happy inheriting, but growing more and more concerned that at some point the conservative anger wave will wash over this great land like a tsunami. And while many may wish for one, waves rarely go were they should go.
A commenter, "Berserker" of the "Dragonsheads Division" posted, "Hate has no home here, but Vengeance has the Master Suite, Resentment is in the Guest Room, and Entitlement sleeps every night on the couch." which is the daily situation in just about every Liberal/Leftist's home in America. Oh, and Smug Arrogance is in front of his laptop in the basement, eating a "Hot Pocket".
"We had been told, on leaving our native soil, that we were going to defend the sacred rights conferred on us by so many of our citizens settled overseas, so many years of our presence, so many benefits brought by us to populations in need of our assistance and civilization. We could verify that all this was true, and, because true, we did not hesitate to shed our share of blood, to sacrifice our youth and hopes.
"We regretted nothing, but whereas we over here are inspired by this frame of mind, I am told that in Rome factions and conspiracies are rife, that treachery flourishes, and that many in their uncertainty and confusion lend ready ear to the dire temptations of relinquishment and vilify our actions.
"Make haste to reassure me, I beg you, and tell me that our fellow citizens understand us, support us, and protect us, as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire.
"If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware the fury of the Legions."
Aug 16, 2023·edited Aug 16, 2023Liked by Don Surber
PDJT didn’t know what a Blizzard was, so he asked.
Smart people admit what they don’t know and ask.
John Fraud Kerry would have said “Blizzards will be a thing of the past due to global warming. Where can I get me a huntin’ license”.
Soetoro whole have said “I got caught in one in Chicago”.
Xiden would have groped the girl behind the counter and said “Cmon man, you know, the thing”.
The Ho VP would have said “Blizzards are blizzardy. They bliz and zard all day. I think about blizzards all the time and how their effect on their effects”.
Chris Christie and Lizzo would say “I’ll take one of everything, whatever the hell they are. Xtra cheese please. And super -size them”.
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana would say “ma’am, I’d like a large order of onion rings and a Bacon Two Cheese Deluxe double Signature Stackburger to go with my Reeces and Oreo Blizzard”.
08/16/23: How I love it when strong declarative sentences commence the narrative:
"As television dies a slow, painful death — hanged by the very cable it thought was its gold mine..."
I'll never understand why most writers don't understand why they should (if capable) do the same. I can't recall the book title, but years ago, I was reading a good one and suddenly realized that the author had perfected the art of creating a concise lead sentence that, each time, stated the point of his paragraph. Took my breath away, that it did.
I've stopped watching TV years ago. I can't even watch the old reruns on UHF anymore. Got rid of my TV some time ago. I'm reading more - I've read books by William Gibson, Martin Cruz Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, P.J. O'Rourke, and Elmore Leonard. Right now I'm reading the works of Louis L'Amour.
I'm with you with PJ O'Rourke in his prime (it pained me to see him tail off into all sorts of "forced" humor the way he did towards the end). The Russians I generally avoid because of the heavy weather generated affecting the reader (me) adversely. I'm currently reading In Tearing Haste, the letters of Patrick Fermor and Debo Devonshire (whose formal name starts in Rhode Island and ends in Texas; avoid!). The annotations by the editor Charlotte Mosley, like those of Mark Potter (Lantern Slides, also highly reco'd), are brilliantly assembled and put most other editors to shame (not that they would ever realize it, the cocktail-swilling cretins that they are and always will be). As for TV, I wised up around the year 2000 and haven't seen any of it save sports events with the sound OFF. Be well!
I especially appreciate this one because I was with NBC 1980-84, back when the powers that were mocked cable (which was just getting cranked up and HBO was only one of a dozen, not thousands of options if you wanted cable and were willing to pay for it).
"It will never replace network tv." OK. Now, they're watching it strangle them.
I recommend John Nolte on Breitbart, whose analysis of the business meltdown of networks and other media has been consistently outstanding:
Don, you brought up my favorite punching bag --Micheal Dukakis. After being destroyed by world socialist George Bush in the 1988 election, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr had this to say about Dukakis;
"Michael Dukakis now has a 79 percent unfavorable rating here in Massachusetts. It's almost enough to wonder what's wrong with other 21%. Joe Biden should be hitting that any day now.
I have no actual grounds for knowing this, but feel pretty sure Biden’s “favorable” ratings are in reality NOWHERE NEAR the 39% they keep saying. Just another aspect of the information system that is being manipulated for propaganda purposes.
I haven't believed a poll since long before 2016 and I am 68 now. Although I am up and about almost every single day, I have never been asked my opinion on anything.
“It appears — and stop me if any of this sounds familiar — that happiness is at least partially about how connected a person is to other humans, particularly through the mechanisms of family, faith and community. Self-proclaimed liberals are less likely than conservatives, on average, to be tied to those three institutions.”
Sadly I take your point. That doesn’t negate the goodness, but it does factor into the cost benefit analysis. Have you ever looked into the “real” cost of implants? Painful!
I saw that CNN thing with John King and the CNN folks were truly amazed that many Iowans don’t trust or believe the spew they utter on their network. Well, many of us in Florida don’t believe what they spew either.
Good post today, Don.
Oh…and you are soooo right about the phony “compassionate conservative “. What a loser he turned out to be
Look at Clinton in 1992. Even Rush Limbaugh said "Clinton had to pass himself off as a conservative to get elected." Imagine. In 1992 we had two world socialists running against each other and George HW Bush sat there and cried on national TV after he lost.
Bush ought to cry. This guy's got more skeletons in his closet than most.
Clinton has been the only president to actually cut a government program in my lifetime. History has shown him to be a criminal, but...
That wasn't Clinton - that was Congress doing it through Bubba.
Yes sir, he was 'smart' enough to realize Newt had him by the cojones...
Just because he's criminal doesn't mean he's stupid which backhandedly means the rest are........
Waiting for the next blog to drop. I will be the first to comment and promote, not that I'm competitive. I've been up since 3:30 and I've already had my coffee. I am plotting to take over the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ, not that I'm ambitious. Mad Dog
I have often wondered what genius came up with that absurd label "compassionate conservative". He clearly did not think it through. He realized that they needed to appeal to real conservatives, but, like all limp-wristed Republicans, they thought that victory lay in winning the "moderate" voters, whoever they are, and they believed that identifying as a real, garden-variety conservative would turn them off. What it did was turn off real, garden-variety conservatives who realized that he was calling them uncompassionate.
“Compassionate conservative” is the mating call of the RINOs. They over-play the first term and completely forget about the second term. They cry “Kitzinger tears” and give away our Constitutional rights.
It IS the mating call of RINO's/Neocons!
Never, ever trust a Republican.
"Compassionate conservative" - sort of like "Kosher Pork".
LOL
Ja ja ja, it is to laugh. Thanks.
Whoever came up with the label "compassionate conservative" clearly meant to say that it was an oxymoron and an impossibility. I fell for it, also. My eyes were opened after 9/11 and I haven't done much deep believing since then.
I would bet money that the term "Compassionate Conservative" came out a focus group exercise. It sounds kind of warm and fuzzy on the front end and practical and sober on the back end. Think of it as a reverse mullet bathed in political psychobabble.
Yeah, as a Texan, we were so embarrassed.
Not over the song. Because of the selection of verse, I didn't know all of them until I looked it up. Kinda like the Star Spangled Banner or Battle Hymn. They always skip the fun ones.
I lived in Tampa and went to the stadium to see and hear him. So much hope. So little performance. So much disappointment.
The left is expert in the business of using fear porn for control and destruction of all things good. The irony is they get to make up the silly rules (masks work, CO2 is boiling the oceans) - and they end up BELIEVING their own lies. I guess that is why liberalism is a mental disorder.
Now I wish I had copyrighted the phrase ''fear porn'' when I had the chance. Let's just enjoy freedom of speech while we still can. :)
Good morning, Don, et al. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post one of my all time favorite quotes from the late great brilliant PJ O’Rourke…
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
Thank you PWN! That’s a great quote to keep.
You are dead on Poca man! We know how it ends. Our King is coming. We will be with Him forever! He lives in us now and we live in Him! We get to love and cherish Him! And we will for all eternity! Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Amen and amen.
“They won but they were wrong — every time.” Another great column Don.
BTW, I still want my votes for the Bushes back.
I also want my vote for Romney back!
Agreed, along with McCain.
Unfortunately, Romney isn't going anywhere.
I worked his campaign. I’m humiliated! Project ORCA was a total disaster, total implosion.
I agree. Is it too late to vote for Perot, Paul and Buchanan?
Re-watch the 45 minute debate between Gore and Perot; Perot was perfectly right about 'free trade'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fi8OOAKuGQ
Sadly, yes.
Last I heard, all three are dead.
Does that mean we can’t vote for them? They’re probably still voting...Democrat of course.
Don't we all?
“ And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
-John 8:32
In the midst of all the devastation and wreckage occurring all around us, we can stand fast and find light in the midst of all the darkness.
God, have mercy on us all.
Conservatives are happier because they have Faith and they know how the story ends. Yet there is a dangerous palpable anger. One I have never felt before. Conservatives also believe in fairness, in elections, in Justice, in economics. When they see the inherent unfairness on display they get angry, not J6 angry. I’m happy inheriting, but growing more and more concerned that at some point the conservative anger wave will wash over this great land like a tsunami. And while many may wish for one, waves rarely go were they should go.
A commenter, "Berserker" of the "Dragonsheads Division" posted, "Hate has no home here, but Vengeance has the Master Suite, Resentment is in the Guest Room, and Entitlement sleeps every night on the couch." which is the daily situation in just about every Liberal/Leftist's home in America. Oh, and Smug Arrogance is in front of his laptop in the basement, eating a "Hot Pocket".
"We had been told, on leaving our native soil, that we were going to defend the sacred rights conferred on us by so many of our citizens settled overseas, so many years of our presence, so many benefits brought by us to populations in need of our assistance and civilization. We could verify that all this was true, and, because true, we did not hesitate to shed our share of blood, to sacrifice our youth and hopes.
"We regretted nothing, but whereas we over here are inspired by this frame of mind, I am told that in Rome factions and conspiracies are rife, that treachery flourishes, and that many in their uncertainty and confusion lend ready ear to the dire temptations of relinquishment and vilify our actions.
"Make haste to reassure me, I beg you, and tell me that our fellow citizens understand us, support us, and protect us, as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire.
"If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware the fury of the Legions."
I have read Jean Larteguy’s The Centurions many times. Thank you!
I may have to give it a read.
Read your Bible. Biblical Revelations addresses that very issue. "The Lord will appoint someone to rule with an iron rod."
"That they are unhappy shows that power not only corrupts but it never is satisfying."
Astute observation. I wish I had made it.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
PDJT didn’t know what a Blizzard was, so he asked.
Smart people admit what they don’t know and ask.
John Fraud Kerry would have said “Blizzards will be a thing of the past due to global warming. Where can I get me a huntin’ license”.
Soetoro whole have said “I got caught in one in Chicago”.
Xiden would have groped the girl behind the counter and said “Cmon man, you know, the thing”.
The Ho VP would have said “Blizzards are blizzardy. They bliz and zard all day. I think about blizzards all the time and how their effect on their effects”.
Chris Christie and Lizzo would say “I’ll take one of everything, whatever the hell they are. Xtra cheese please. And super -size them”.
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana would say “ma’am, I’d like a large order of onion rings and a Bacon Two Cheese Deluxe double Signature Stackburger to go with my Reeces and Oreo Blizzard”.
You outdid yourself on this one, Lardmaster!!! Exquisite—especially the Ho VP one.
Thank you
Perfection my man!!!!
Thank you
08/16/23: How I love it when strong declarative sentences commence the narrative:
"As television dies a slow, painful death — hanged by the very cable it thought was its gold mine..."
I'll never understand why most writers don't understand why they should (if capable) do the same. I can't recall the book title, but years ago, I was reading a good one and suddenly realized that the author had perfected the art of creating a concise lead sentence that, each time, stated the point of his paragraph. Took my breath away, that it did.
I've stopped watching TV years ago. I can't even watch the old reruns on UHF anymore. Got rid of my TV some time ago. I'm reading more - I've read books by William Gibson, Martin Cruz Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, P.J. O'Rourke, and Elmore Leonard. Right now I'm reading the works of Louis L'Amour.
I'm with you with PJ O'Rourke in his prime (it pained me to see him tail off into all sorts of "forced" humor the way he did towards the end). The Russians I generally avoid because of the heavy weather generated affecting the reader (me) adversely. I'm currently reading In Tearing Haste, the letters of Patrick Fermor and Debo Devonshire (whose formal name starts in Rhode Island and ends in Texas; avoid!). The annotations by the editor Charlotte Mosley, like those of Mark Potter (Lantern Slides, also highly reco'd), are brilliantly assembled and put most other editors to shame (not that they would ever realize it, the cocktail-swilling cretins that they are and always will be). As for TV, I wised up around the year 2000 and haven't seen any of it save sports events with the sound OFF. Be well!
I’m a sucker for strong declarative sentences, too. Can’t write them myself. So grateful Mr Surber and others can and employ vivid imagery.
I especially appreciate this one because I was with NBC 1980-84, back when the powers that were mocked cable (which was just getting cranked up and HBO was only one of a dozen, not thousands of options if you wanted cable and were willing to pay for it).
"It will never replace network tv." OK. Now, they're watching it strangle them.
I recommend John Nolte on Breitbart, whose analysis of the business meltdown of networks and other media has been consistently outstanding:
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/08/15/nolte-bad-news-for-left-wing-hollywood-cable-viewership-hit-record-low/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/07/29/nolte-6-reasons-hollywoods-in-real-trouble-this-time/
Good reads. Thank you.
I think we kicked the “beautiful people” of Hollyweird to the curb years ago but today they remain too stupid to notice.
Don, you brought up my favorite punching bag --Micheal Dukakis. After being destroyed by world socialist George Bush in the 1988 election, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr had this to say about Dukakis;
"Michael Dukakis now has a 79 percent unfavorable rating here in Massachusetts. It's almost enough to wonder what's wrong with other 21%. Joe Biden should be hitting that any day now.
I’ll never forget the photo op failure of Dukakis on the Army tank.
You might say "He tanked."
I have no actual grounds for knowing this, but feel pretty sure Biden’s “favorable” ratings are in reality NOWHERE NEAR the 39% they keep saying. Just another aspect of the information system that is being manipulated for propaganda purposes.
I haven't believed a poll since long before 2016 and I am 68 now. Although I am up and about almost every single day, I have never been asked my opinion on anything.
Best lines:
“It appears — and stop me if any of this sounds familiar — that happiness is at least partially about how connected a person is to other humans, particularly through the mechanisms of family, faith and community. Self-proclaimed liberals are less likely than conservatives, on average, to be tied to those three institutions.”
Yep, follow your heart….it’ll never steer you wrong…..who knew it can be a curse….
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. Romans 1:24
DQ had a “full meal deal” back in the 80s, which came with a sundae. It was definitely a full meal deal.
Who could forget that decade's dodgy fast food meals? I'm still digesting them.
Heath Bar Blizzard! No contest!!
I like the Snickers one best. Can't seem to get the straw to pass the peanuts however.
...can't - I'll break another molar.
Sadly I take your point. That doesn’t negate the goodness, but it does factor into the cost benefit analysis. Have you ever looked into the “real” cost of implants? Painful!
Quite an enjoyable Wednesday morning read.