Posted on 06/11/2009 9:11:25 AM PDT by STARWISE
"Video: Some things need to be defended..."
Krauthammer: "....I've long thought that the Bush/Cheney administration will be treated by history like the Truman administration. But the one aspect of that I got wrong is the timing; whereas it took 50 years for Truman's work and genius to be acknowledged, we are only 5 months into the new era, and with every day and every action by this administration of adopting the wise policies that Bush/Cheney administration had adopted, even as it denounces them at the same time, the vindication of the last administration is strongly under way, and that in and of itself is one of the few happy events to have occurred in what is otherwise a rather troubling time ...."
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After a short break in the above video, yesterday's Special Report After The Show Show discussion continues for about 30 minutes online with Bret, Jeff Birbaum, and Mara Liaison and Major Garrett about the Miranda rights issue for terrorists, etc..
Also, another video -- Charles Krauthammer Honored - comments from Rupert Murdoch, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Roger Ailes about Charles and his accomplishments.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
~~Great Krauthammer ... PING!
Thank you Charles
Love that man!
Wonder if he has a fan club looking for a member? ;~)
You go Charlie....One strong voice for the people...not politics!!
BTTT
Actually, yes. He has a new page on Facebook.
--a lovely sound and visual!
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The way I see it, dogs had this big meeting, oh, maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meeting — an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest.
Cats had an even more negative reaction. When they heard the news, they called their own meeting — in Paris, of course — to denounce canine subservience to the human hyperpower. (Their manifesto — La Condition Feline — can still be found in provincial bookstores.)
Cats, it must be said, have not done badly. Using guile and seduction, they managed to get humans to feed them, thus preserving their superciliousness without going hungry. A neat trick. Dogs, being guileless, signed and delivered. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I must admit that I've been slow to warm to dogs. I grew up in a non-pet-friendly home. Dogs do not figure prominently in Jewish-immigrant households. My father was not very high on pets. He wasn't hostile. He just saw them as superfluous, an encumbrance.
When the Cossacks are chasing you around Europe, you need to travel light. (This, by the way, is why Europe produced far more Jewish violinists than pianists. Try packing a piano.)
My parents did allow a hint of zoological indulgence. I had a pet turtle. My brother had a parakeet. Both came to unfortunate ends. My turtle fell behind a radiator and was not discovered until too late. And the parakeet, God bless him, flew out a window once, never to be seen again. After such displays of stewardship, we dared not ask for a dog.
My introduction to the wonder of dogs came from my wife Robyn. She's Australian. And Australia, as lovingly recounted in Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country, has the craziest, wildest, deadliest, meanest animals on the planet.
In a place where every spider and squid can take you down faster than a sucker-punched boxer, you cherish niceness in the animal kingdom. And they don't come nicer than dogs.
Robyn started us off slowly. She got us a border collie, Hugo, when our son was about 6. She knew that would appeal to me because the border collie is the smartest species on the planet. Hugo could 1) play outfield in our backyard baseball games, 2) do flawless front-door sentry duty, and 3) play psychic weatherman, announcing with a wail every coming thunderstorm.
When our son Daniel turned 10, he wanted a dog of his own. I was against it, using arguments borrowed from seminars on nuclear nonproliferation. It was hopeless. One giant "Please, Dad," and I caved completely. Robyn went out to Winchester, Va., found a litter of black Labs and brought home Chester.
Chester is what psychiatrists mean when they talk about unconditional love. Unbridled is more like it. Come into our house, and he was so happy to see you, he would knock you over. (Deliverymen learned to leave things at the front door.)
In some respects — Ph.D. potential, for example — I don't make any great claims for Chester. When I would arrive home, I fully expected to find Hugo reading the newspaper.
Not Chester. Chester would try to make his way through a narrow sliding door, find himself stuck halfway and then look at me with total and quite genuine puzzlement. I don't think he ever got to understand that the rear part of him was actually attached to the front.
But it was Chester, who dispensed affection as unreflectively as he breathed, who got me thinking about this long-ago pact between humans and dogs. Cat lovers and the pet averse will just roll their eyes at such dogophilia. I can't help it.
Chester was always at your foot or your hand, waiting to be petted and stroked, played with and talked to. His beautiful blocky head, his wonderful overgrown puppy's body, his baritone bark filled every corner of house and heart.
Then last month, at the tender age of 8, he died quite suddenly. The long, slobbering, slothful decline we had been looking forward to was not to be. When told the news, a young friend who was a regular victim of Chester's lunging love-bombs said mournfully, "He was the sweetest creature I ever saw. He's the only dog I ever saw kiss a cat."
Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal, indeed, deeply human to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision — a creature — of the purest sweetness?
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Charles Krauthammer sets the standard for excellence in journalism and others ought to follow his lead by becoming as well versed in the myriad of topics he addresses in any given year.
While other journalists believe that “flapping their gums” gives them credibility, Krauthammer always offers opinions that come across as thoughts that are the result of much research.
A truly excellent choice to receive the Breindel award.
Charles Krauthammer: Prize Writer
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http://www.mitchellbard.com/articles/kraut.html
Excerpt:
It’s Monday morning and Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer doesn’t have the slightest idea what he’s going to write about. His weekly column is due Wednesday, but he has complete confidence that between now and then the Lord will provide. “Someone, somewhere will do something very stupid or very outrageous or very noteworthy,” he says.
“When you first start writing a column, you’re afraid you won’t have anything to write about, but the world turns out to be too interesting. The Lord does provide.”
And the Lord has provided Krauthammer with a job he loves, one he never planned to pursue growing up in Canada.
Charles Krauthammer was born in New York in 1950. His family moved to Montreal when he was five.
“My father naturalized was a naturalized French citizen. He lived in France most of his life and moved to the United States after the war and got involved in real estate. A friend of his took him on a business trip to Montreal and he was enchanted by idea of living in a place where French was spoken. He started to do business there and was finally commuting so much he decided to move.”
HOW FOX NEWS OPENED AMERICA
By Charles Krauthammer
Last updated: 8:27 am
June 10, 2009
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The following is excerpted from Charles Krauthammer’s remarks upon receiving the 2009 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, named for The Post’s late edit orial-page editor, yesterday in Washing ton.
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AT a time when awards in the humanities are a near-monopoly of the left — Nobel peace prizes awarded to those, from Yasir Arafat to Jimmy Carter, who give the most succor to the forces of terror and tyranny; Pulitzers given to whichever newspaper can expose the more damaging national-security secrets — it is important for there to be an award to recognize and encourage journalism and, more generally, political thinking of a different kind.
In that respect, there should be a special award for Fox News. Fox has done a great service to the American polity — single-handedly breaking up the intellectual and ideological monopoly that for decades exerted hegemony (to use a favorite lefty cliché) over the broadcast media.
I said some years ago that the genius of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes was to have discovered a niche market in American broadcasting — half the American people.
The reason Fox News has thrived and grown is because it offers a vibrant and honest alternative to those who could not abide yet another day of the news delivered to them beneath layer after layer of often undisguised liberalism.
What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality.
A few years ago, I was on a radio show with a well-known political reporter who lamented the loss of a pristine past in which the whole country could agree on what the facts were, even if they disagreed on how to interpret and act upon them. All that was gone now.
The country had become so fractured we couldn’t even agree on what reality was. What she meant was that the day in which the front page of The New York Times was given scriptural authority everywhere was gone, shattered by the rise of Fox News.
What left me slack-jawed was the fact that she, like the cohort of mainstream journalists she represented so perfectly, was so ideologically blinkered that she could not fathom the plain fact that the liberal media were presenting the news and the world through a particular lens.
The idea that it was particular, and that there might be competing ones, perhaps even superior ones, was beyond her ken.
That’s why Fox News is so resented. It altered the intellectual and ideological landscape of America. It gave not only voice but also legitimacy to a worldview that had been utterly excluded from the mainstream media.
I’m proud to be part of this televised apostasy. And particularly proud to be part of the single best news program on American television, the six-o’clock news — first with Brit Hume, now with Bret Baier.
How good is “Special Report”? So good that even if I weren’t on it, my mother would watch it — and she spent 50 years as a Democrat.
Now, there is something in my past I think I should clear up right now: I was once a speechwriter for Walter Mondale.
How do I explain that? Easy. Being born one generation too late, working for Mondale was the closest I could get to being a Trotskyite — which, as you all know, is the royal road to neoconservatism.
On a slightly more serious autobiographical note: When I left psychiatry to start writing, I did so not out of any regret for the seven years I had spent in medicine — years that I treasure for deepening and broadening my sensibilities — but because I felt history happening outside the examining-room door.
That history was being shaped by a war of ideas and I wanted to be in the arena. Not for its own sake. I enjoy intellectual combat, but I don’t live for it. I wanted to be in the arena because some things matter, some things need to be said, some things need to be defended.
That is the why I’m here. But it does not tell you the how. The how is very simple.
My award, my achievements, my entire career as a journalist are owed to one person. I share this prize with the one who not just encouraged and launched me in this endeavor, but who has sustained me all these many years — my dear wife, Robyn. Thank you.
Charles Krauthammer is a syndicated columnist and Fox News analyst.
Thank you for posting this!
You’re welcome .. ;)
Alright! Charles is saying the same thing as I've been saying. I knew that George W. Bush would be vindicated in time, but I had no idea how fast it would occur.
Amen to your "God bless you, Charles Krauthammer!" STARWISE!
The truth feels GOOD! :)
There's a reason dog is God spelled backwards...they are the very symbol of love and devotion--the type of love the Lord wishes we had for each other and the devotion He has for us.
My little James is 17 and 5 months...that is very old--even for a Dachshund. I don't know what I'll do when his time comes. He is my best friend.
THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY I WANTED SADDAM GONE...REMEMBER THE VIDEOTAPE OF THE BEAGLE PUPPIES BEING INJECTED WITH NERVE AGENT AND THEIR SLOW DEATH THAT SADDAM PUT ON CAMERA??? I WANTED TO FLY OVER THAT NIGHT AND HANG HIM MYSELF!!!!!!!
HIIIIIII!!!!!!! miss you!
I'm not around much, but I do pop in now and again to defend our President against indefensible attacks.
Feels good now and again. :)
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