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William F. Gavin at National Review on Mad Men:

…the show has degenerated into absurdity, loss of focus, and meandering plot lines. The main character has become eccentric, distant, increasingly mean-spirited, and disoriented. 

Gee, come to think of it, this sounds just like the Obama administration, doesn’t it?

At dinner tonight, Gavin told friends, “This soup is thin and bitter — like Obama!” Leaving the restaurant, he buttoned his jacket and remarked, “The night’s gotten cold, like Obama’s relationship with the press. Or maybe like the corpses of the babies slaughtered by Planned Parenthood.” But no one was left to hear him.

Elsewhere in the same venue, Greg Pollowitz:

Somebody Should Get Fired Over SNL’s Benghazi Skit

It’s gotten to the point where I’m amazed when SNL is actually funny or relevant as political satire, but Saturday’s cold open wasn’t just a dud as a joke, but completely offensive to the four Americans who lost their lives in Benghazi.

I imagine Pollowitz drunk at some bar, yelling “This jukebox is full of lies!” Like I often say: Do they even know any normal people?

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OK, remember when The West Wing was on TV and everyone thought this was liberals’ way of having a fake president to console and tide themselves over until Bush was out of office? Well, at least The West Wing had snappy dialogue and good acting. Bill Whittle’s Mr. Virtual President has — well, go look. If you can’t bear the video, which rather reminds me of Rupert Pupkin’s basement broadcasts, you can read the transcript of Whittle’s Inaugural Address, in which he alludes to Louis C.K.’s “Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy” bit and then proceeds to give us the upshot  that LCK was too busy being funny and interesting to reveal:

We’re not happy, because everyone knows that the giant mushroom cloud of debt that hangs over this country will eventually destroy our economy and the world’s economy… And we’re not happy because we’re told time and time again by the people here in Washington, that we are not entitled to individual happiness. We’re not happy, because more and more, every day, this magnificent experiment in the power of the individual is being remade into yet another giant collectivist, faceless, mindless, soulless state…

Later he tells us “we’re not allowed to be prosperous anymore,” and compares citizens in our welfare state to captive animals. I tell ya, Mr. Virtual President needs some new virtual speechwriters.

Whittle has now been responsible for alt-wingnut movie studio Declaration Entertainment, alt-wingnut fantasy community Ejectia, and this. He should enlist the guys working on that gun nut planned community The Citadel, PopModal (“the conservative alternative to YouTube”), PJ Lifestyle and other such simulacra, pick up Rod “Benedict Option” Dreher while he’s at it, and they can all fuck off to some remote land where they can recreate a new paradise far, far, far from us. They can start here.

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THICK AS THIEVES. So Michelle Malkin and Juan Williams were on Sean Hannity’s Fox show, and Williams was, as usual, playing the good liberal, patiently reciting facts while Hannity bellowed bullshit at him and Michelle Malkin made faces.

It’s a living, folks — and a very good one; as you may recall, back in 2010 Williams was fired by NPR for remarks he made on Fox about being ascared of Muslims, whereupon he was immediately given a two million dollar contract with Fox. Not bad pay for a ten-minute bellow every so often.

After Williams told Hannity, who yelled counterpoint, that Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of the Valerie Plame case did indeed show that Plame was a covert operative,  Malkin got to recite a set piece in a funny voice: “All you can do, Juan, is say ‘Plame, Plame, Plame,’ and ‘Blame, Blame, Blame, Bush Bush Bush.” No, honestly. Go see, it’s on around 5:30 in.

This seems to have roused Williams, who told Malkin, “I’m a real reporter, I’m not a blogger out in the blogosphere somewhere, I’m gonna tell you something…” And on he went about how reporters “in a free society, in a free press, reporters go and talk to officials…” which I’m sure is what he thinks journalism is.

Hannity yelled at Williams some more, then graciously gave Malkin “the last word.” And what a last word it was. “The American people are sick,” said this tribune of the people, “of the kind of snotty condescension from liberal elitist journalists like Juan Williams who tell us that the rest of us are not doing our jobs.” Then she demonstrated what job was, telling us that when Eric Holder was “shamefully approved and nominated to be Attorney General, he had already had a long record of bastardizing national security and the rule of law…” whereupon her skull split open and jets of blood and bile shot out of it, more or less.

We who have free souls, it touches us not. Rightbloggers, on the other hand, immediately declared victory over the hated Lame Stream Media. “OUCH: Epic,” hehindeeded Ole Perfesser Instapundit. “Michelle Malkin Smacks Down Juan Williams,” asserts The Rightnewz. (No, I never heard of them either, but then I never heard of All American Blogger before he was crowned the Breitbart Laureate of Blogs.) “Whoa!” declares Jim Hoft, “Michelle Malkin ABSOLUTELY Destroys Juan Williams…” etc.

But my favorite response is that of Jammie Wearing Fool: First, because he actually says, “Yet another nail in the MSM coffin.” Boy, does that bring me back. How long’s the internet been on the verge of killing the MSM now? Ten, twelve years? And yet Williams, as much as Citizen Journamalist Malkin, is still yapping away on the TV — and making, I am sure, quite a bit more doing it than she is. The MSM is still kicking; journalism, well, that’s something else.

But better still, Fool says this:

Considering it was bloggers who came to this boob’s defense after he was canned by NPR, condescendingly referring to Michelle Malkin as “just a blogger” tonight on Hannity wasn’t exactly showing his thanks.

Thanks? Oh, Fool, don’t you know? In the immortal words of Bill Fields, never give a sucker an even break.

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