Steyn's Latest: My Nominee For Column of The Year

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Though NewsBusters is normally in the business of critiquing the liberal media, not praising the conservative, I want to ensure that as many of our readers as possible have the pleasure and benefit of reading Mark Steyn's recent column: We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan.

With its mordant, don't-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry take on our current fix, it's my nominee for best column of the year.

I urge you to read it all, and marvel at its insight and wit. Let me tempt you with a few morsels.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Mark marvels at Steyn’s superlative punditry ping to Today show list.

[an amused spectator]

"Friends Say [Camelot Barbie] Kennedy Has Long Wanted Public Role," Anne Kornblut assured readers in an in-depth Washington Post tongue-bath.

I'm dyin', here! :-) :-) :-)

[xcamel]

Read the good stuff here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151876/posts

[Monsieur Poirot]

He is FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wish I could write like that.

[TheWasteLand]

Mark marks Mark's column remarkable.

I agree, Steyn is at his best here. Funny and incisive.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Wish I could write like that.<<<

I wish I could act like Poirot!!

...and was half as smart!!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

And TWL wins the Alliteration Award of the Day ;-)

[Arizona Carolyn]

I L-O-V-E this man!!!!!!!!!

[ProfoundMan]

I read this piece earlier today and I must admit that it IS exceptional, even for Steyn. Yet ultimately I sensed in him an ineffable sadness quite clearly - as though Steyn had suddenly seen the haggard face of the dying republic he had always looked to as the "shining city on the hill". It was peculiarly depressing really.

I imagine he, and others, will write much more in a similar vein before 2012.

Just damn...

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping, Mark. Steyn-O-Mite! (and thanks for the link to Shakespeare...gonna have to read it a couple of times).

GRRRREAT choice!

[NYpeanut]

"Friends Say Kennedy Has Long Wanted Public Role," Anne Kornblut assured readers in an in-depth Washington Post tongue-bath. She hasn't "long wanted" it to the extent of, you know, running for dog catcher in Lackawanna and getting – what's the word? – "elected," but, if you have a spare Senate seat, she's graciously indicated that she'd be prepared to consider accepting it. As lady-in-waiting Anne Kornblut pointed out, Caroline is highly qualified, being "the author of several books." It's true! She's an experienced poetry editor. She edited "The Best-Loved Poems Of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis." Jackie Kennedy wrote poems? Of course! She wrote so many poems that some are better loved than others.

Priceless!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks, PG: glad you approve the choice. I was literally left in awe—and envy— in reading it.

[Malesherbes]

I’m so glad Mark Steyn is on our side - but, of course, it couldn’t be otherwise.

It is sad that we have become Bailoutistan. We have become a third world nation, bereft of a once great industrial base, importing our most complicated electronic devices, in debt beyond reckoning, fractured along every social and demographic category.

That we now have Barack Hussein Obama, man of mystery and of unknown origins, as King fits like a fist in the eye.

[PGalt]

Your welcome, Mark. On another note...Mark (Steyn that is) WON the...

American Anti-Dhimmi of the Year 2008: U. S. resident Mark Steyn

from...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023988.php#comments

Thanks to Mark Finkelstein, Mark Steyn and Robert Spencer for their OUTSTANDING work!

[TChad]

GM has a market capitalization of about $2.4 billion. For purposes of comparison, Toyota's market cap is $100 billion and change (the change being bigger than the whole of GM). General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. The UAW is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as "workers" (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

Try to find the information above presented so succinctly in any MSM coverage of the auto bailout. The facts that Steyn manages to locate are as important to his success as his wonderful writing style and his humor.

Steyn is the best.

[zeugma]

I saw it last night. Steyn has the best command of the english language of any living writer.