I listened to this yesterday. This clip misses some of Carvey's observations (and his impression of Barack Obama at the beginning), but it has a lot of it.

I've had this idea that Dana Carvey was fairly conservative for a while. It's no that he says conservative things; it's that when given an opportunity to say the easy, obvious liberal thing, he usually doesn't. I doubt he's any kind of solid conservative, and probably voted for Obama last time (as many people did), but I do get this vibe off him.

There are two things in this appearance that suggested further that he's conservative leaning. The first is that he makes reference to the idea (only briefly alluded to in the clip; earlier he was more detailed) that it is a standard method of shutting down conversation and discussion to label a statement as "hate speech" and, therefore, unworthy of any further consideration.

Conservatives don't own that idea, certainly, but it does seem like we're more keenly aware of it, as it's so often directed at us.

The other thing is that after this clip (again, not part of it), Lovitz states that he doesn't think that either Romney or Obama has actually explained how they'd fix the economy. This is one of those times where if Carvey were a liberal, I'd expect him to just agree, or tell Lovitz that Obama does indeed have a plan.

Instead he did the opposite, saying something like "well, actually, Romney says he wants to get the government out of the way and he thinks that will get business productive again."

It's not conclusive or anything. But I find it interesting that it was just so easy for him to sit there and just say "Yup, neither one of these guys has a plan." And yet maybe it wasn't easy for him.

The clip itself is about how comedians still won't make jokes about Obama, although both agree that there are "sensitivities" and "emotions" about it, and Carvey agrees it was hard to "find an angle" on Obama earlier. However, Carvey specifically goofed on comedians who are "still" making Sarah Palin jokes but apparently won't attempt to poke fun of the actual guy currently in power. "Question Authority," he notes, seems to be out the window.

I might be over-reading things here, because Carvey's main motivation seems to be balance, that is, not angering his fan base, keeping above it, keeping his eye on the fact that his job is "entertaining people" and not "preaching politics at them." That said, that's kind of a conservative stance too.

I'll see if I can dig up a longer clip of his appearance. Incidentally, this was yesterday, on the Dennis Miller show, Lovitz guest hosting, Carvey phoning in as a guest.

Link here, at Breitbart TV, if the embed below doesn't work.

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Placed 6,567,938,229th in Genetic Lottery.
Won $0.25 towards the purchase of his next scratch-off.

It just feels malicious to even make fun of this unfortunate man. So, let's get right into it.

He suspected his live-in girlfriend of planning to have an affair. His suspicions were all but confirmed when he saw a man whose face he did not recognize on her FaceBook page.

That man? An internet lothario going by the screennames MagicUnderwear69 and TheRealChristianGrey.

Her Mystery Lover Vowed: "I will transport you to a world
of sexual ecstasy and sustainable fiscal policy"

When the woman informed her understandably enraged boyfriend/abuser that this was just presidential candidate Mitt Romney, he was unmollified, and smashed her computer and, she says, hit him.

"I will make you my Pleasure Whore,
and add you to my Erotic Stable of Passion,
as I did to these rentboys you see behind me."

The man is charged with one count of living in Tennessee, even though he is clearly a Florida resident.

Posted by: Ace at 09:36 AM | Comments (299)
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I really think the questions in Poland are so hysterically pathetic and whiny it would be a helpful thing, or at least a satisfying one, to get them out there.

So here's what I thought: A rhythm-and-drums techno sort of track, with the questions by the reporter looped in the mix. Like make the found dialogue part of the rhythm. Or the melody. Or whatnot. I don't do music.

Maybe finish and end with a brief snippet of Romney' speech, because he, presumably, sounds like an adult, and the contrast would be humorous.

I hardly need to inform you that press coverage will be about the Romney aide's "gaffe" and not about this obnoxious caterwauling by our intersex press corps. An entertaining little dance track could change that.

Posted by: Ace at 08:59 AM | Comments (92)
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Oh, f*** me, this is wonderful. Not just the instruction by the aide, Gorka, to "show some respect" at a holy site (wrong word-- not holy, but certainly sanctified).

The wonderful thing is the obnoxious hysterical whining -- "What about the Palestinnnnians" -- by the press.

The media's trying to push this as another gaffe.

I liked @iowahawkblog's deadpan: "If there's anything the American public won't abide, it's someone who insults screaming reporters and Palestinians."

The press is claiming they were forced to whine out their inadequacies at the Tomb due to Romney having no press availabilities; in fact, he's been available for a hundred questions on the tour.

Dana Loesch compares the media's hair-on-fire reaction to Neil Munro's shouted question at Obama in the Rose Garden -- remember, he asked a question about Obama's new illegal immigration policy (double meaning intended) -- with its current claim that of course the media can whine and scream at a tomb for an unknown soldier.

Sometimes I appreciate the actual, by-the-letter definition of common words, and enjoy how fitting they are.

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It's from a group called the Republican Jewish Coalition, which notes that during the campaign, Obama stated that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel, but then "evolved" in office.

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Without ObamaCare, the survivors wouldn't have received any treatment, it turns out.

PERLMUTTER: Affordable Care Act is in place. The Supreme Court approved its terms a couple, three weeks ago. And it will do some things that, in my opinion needed to be done. It will stop the discrimination against people with prior illnesses or injuries, or say some of the folks who were shot in the theater, they would be uninsurable now that theyÂ’ve had that wound, but under the affordable care act they canÂ’t be discriminated against starting in 2014.

Apparently you can't ever get insurance if you've literally ever been sick or ever had a wound.

The headline joke ("Damn...") is a go-to joke from Hot Air. I figure it's Allah's, but I don't know.

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Yes, you read that correctly. Not even a hint of acknowledgement in this AP report that the question of Saddam Hussein's chemical warfare stocks is something of a contentious point in US and world politics.

So, these chemical weapons will be destroyed, without anyone much bothering to note that they exist.

Britain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what's left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons, still stored in two bunkers in north of Baghdad, the British embassy in Baghdad announced Monday.

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Saddam stored the chemical weapons near population centers so that he could access them quickly, despite the danger to his civilian population.

It's possible that these weapons were stored under UN seal, as some of Iraq's uranium was; that is to say, it's possible these stores were already acknowledged and hence already "counted." Bear in mind I'm just speculating about that possibility. The article doesn't point anything like that out.

Via @gabrielmalor

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If they're in the black, why all the pink slips?

tÂ’s not that people are leaving GM. ItÂ’s how they leave. Two weeks ago, Opel chief Karl-Friedrich Stracke presented numbers to Dan Akerson. Akerson fires him. Opel gets two interim chiefs in a week. Last Thursday, OpelÂ’s new design chief Dave Lyon doesnÂ’t even start his job. Today, media in the U.S. and Germany report that Lyon had been escorted from the building and to a waiting car by GMÂ’s head of personnel. A day later, global marketing chief Joel Ewanick suddenly leaves....

It all looks like Dan Akerson is panicking. The GM stock is at an all-time low. GM is losing market share. When July numbers will be announced this week, GM won’t look so good, industry oracles say. Mass executions always are great to deflect criticism – for a while.

GM's sales, meanwhile, increasingly rely on subprime lending -- lending, that is, to credit risks, who use that loan to buy GM stock. This is a problem, because these loans are issued by GM Financial, which is owned by GM, and, therefore, the American public.

Thanks to @johnekdahl.

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There are several good pieces at NRO on the 100th anniversary of Milton Friedman's birth. Here's an excerpt from that of one of Friedman's former students, Thomas Sowell.

Like many, if not most, people who became prominent as opponents of the Left, Professor Friedman began on the Left. Decades later, looking back at a statement of his own from his early years, he said: “The most striking feature of this statement is how thoroughly Keynesian it is.”

No one converted Milton Friedman, either in economics or in his views on social policy. His own research, analysis, and experience converted him.

As a professor, he did not attempt to convert students to his political views. I made no secret of the fact that I was a Marxist when I was a student in Professor FriedmanÂ’s course, but he made no effort to change my views. He once said that anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.

Below the fold is a segment from a great appearance by Friedman on Phil Donahue's show in 1979. It's striking how much the questions from Donahue and his audience sound like the Obama/Fauxcahontas/Occupy Wall Street Democrat rhetoric today. more...

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Happy Tuesday.

The pace of new voter registrations is off its 2008 high in Virginia, leading the Washington Times to conclude that low Democratic enthusiasm is sapping Obama's opportunities.

“Kiss my ass, this is a holy site for the Polish people,” said Romney aide Rick Gorka in response to shouted questions from the U.S. press as Romney was visiting the Polish Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. “Show some respect.”

In the land that lacks a First Amendment: UK police arrest teen over rude tweets at Olympic diver.

"Women and children first" is a shipwreck myth. Usually the captain and crew survive; the women and children don't.

WSJ has a nice page tracking which countries' athletes are winning medals at the Olympics.

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