Matt Eaton: Ghostbusters 3 looks a lot like The Force AwakensHe points out how the new trailer features the Ecto-1 in place of the Millennial Falcon and the family memento ghost-trap instead of the family memento lightsaber. He doesn't mention another huge one: That the younglings in this movie
have completely forgotten about major events from just more than 30 years ago. Same as The Force Awakens declared that most people now considered the Rebellion and The Force and Luke Skywalkers to be "myths."
National Review, an alleged "respectable," "professional" Conservatism, Inc. outlet, half-corrects Jonah Goldberg's ignorant, unresearched, just-riffing-straight-from-twitter errorsOh well, close enough, Julie Kelly says
[Simpsons reference]
[Couch]
[Puppy picture]
[Star Trek reference]
["Boy I'm really pissing off KJL with my Star Trek references, aren't I just a big fat stinker?"]
Why didn't they fact-check this to start with, especially knowing this big fat duffer's lack of any scholarly discipline combined with over-the-top emotional histrionics about Orange Man Bad?
Fat, corrupt toad Bill Kristol is back out defending his best friend best funder Paul Singer, but once again avoiding mentioning the name "Paul Singer," instead referring to the company Singer owns"The Conservative Media" is actually cash-for-commentary. It's unacknowledged, undisclosed, unadmitted paid political advertising, laundered through AEI sometimes, other times direct cash payments for promotion/defenses, and yes, there ought to be a law -- if you're holding yourself out as an independent commentator, you should be required to disclose who's paying you for this "independent commentary."
It would be amusing watching the Washington Examiner and National Review react to such a law.
The C***shed Axis is all in for Mayor PeteYou watch the Usual Suspect's twitter streams and every day it's a new agitation for Mayor Pete Bootieguage. I guess they've decided that Sundown Joe isn't going to make it physically or mentally, so they're recharacterizing another dyed-in-the-wool archprogressive as "The Thinking Man's Conservative" or whatever.
Bleg: Does anyone have a link to Tucker Carlson's show from last night, specifically the segment about AEI being paid to flack for Purdue Pharma?