No one saw Barack in the balloon?

McCleans.ca ^ | 5 November 2009 | Mark Steyn

[JLS]

Wafting ever upwards on gaseous clouds of hope, only to have his numbers crash . . .

On the day America went Balloon Boy crazy, I chanced to be on the radio, appearing live coast to coast on The Hugh Hewitt Show. And, as the Balloon Boy was the hot breaking news, Hugh asked me about it. “I don’t know what to say,” I said, “except it’s one of those peculiar and potentially tragic and instantly horrifying combination of circumstances.” If I sound a bit vague, well, that’s the idea. I’d gotten the gist of what was happening a couple of minutes before I went on air, but these days I’m wary: almost any “human interest” story turns out to be interesting for an entirely different set of reasons from the initial ones—the shocking “hate crime” the victim turns out to have perpetrated on himself, etc. So simply out of a sense of self-preservation, when I’m told that a six-year-old boy is sailing through the skies in a balloon, I try to suppress the urge to demand mandatory pilot’s licences for kindergartners or making helium a prohibited substance.

[JLS]

Steyn is guest hosting for Limbaugh tommorrow.

[Billthedrill]

Why begrudge Richard Heene wanting wall-to-wall TV coverage without doing anything to earn it when he’d just sat through a week of media fawning over Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize?

That one's gonna leave a mark. BTT.

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t Barack have a 102% approval rating at one point last year?!!!

[StAntKnee]

Steyn is brilliant.

Learn to write like Steyn. But first, I suppose, you must be able to think as clearly.

Wow!

[zeugma]

Learn to write like Steyn.

It's on my to-do list.

But first, I suppose, you must be able to think as clearly.

Sadly, there is that.

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Steyn ping opportunity.

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Ping for the one and only Mark Steyn.



On or off please FReepmail me.

Previous Steyn article since my last ping;

Degrees of Separation [Mark Steyn on Ft. Hood killer]

Cheers,

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[hattend]

BTTT

[Tax-chick]

Incredible article!

[metesky]

Thanks for the ping, k_h.

Great Steyn as usual with some good comments at the link, one in paricular I hope to use often:

Steynomite!

[MaggieCarta]

Bump for the one & only Mark Steyn.

Thanks for the "heads up" re: Steyn subbing for Rush. Work will not eat as much into my day tomorrow, and I can listen after 2pm! Life is good, even in Michigan....

[MaggieCarta]

...Steynomite!

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[irv]

t’s no wonder the New York Times is junk stock and laying off journalists faster than at any time in its history.

Even beating last week ...

[SC Swamp Fox]

The fact that the New York media sophisticates are so lacking in self-awareness they can’t even see the connection makes the point as drolly as anything possibly could.

Oh, that's gonna' leave a mark.