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P.J. O'Rourke lays an egg in San Francisco (Freeper Report)
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco speech/booksigning ^
| 2/13/2014
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Posted on 02/13/2014 12:24:04 PM PST by SFmom
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To: PowderMonkey
Generational turns occur, and the Baby Boomer era writers and those a little older, like Tyrrell, Bennett, and Buchanan, are fading in importance. Limbaugh, Levin, and Savage are in the 55-70 age bracket. There is a good conservative farm team of thirty- and forty-somethings in the state governments and Congress. The question arises: who will rally the troops? Talk radio may be a dying medium anyway in the world of tweets and iphones. The negative side is that there may be no one. In the last decade, the Christian Right suffered a major blow as its spokesman either passed away, like Falwell and Kennedy, or effectively retired, like Dobson and Robertson. The Christian conservatives have never recovered their clout.
To: karnage
To: cdcdawg
Republican Party Reptile has the hilarious piece about the Volga cruise with all of the Old Left types. I actually got the chance to question him about whether those characters were real. His response was frighteningly.Like the part about how they keep asking the tour guide the same questions over and over again? "What is the cost of housing as a percentage of worker wages?" X 10
To: SFmom
Sorry to learn that. Thanks for informing the rest of us.
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posted on
02/13/2014 2:26:07 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Ps 8)
To: Wallace T.; FReepers; Louis Foxwell
The question arises: who will rally the troops? Anyone not already familiar with Daniel Greenfield (aka Sultan Knish) are missing out on the absolute best of the bunch, imho.
(LF, heads up for possible incoming d:^)
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posted on
02/13/2014 2:28:46 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: SFmom
PJ quit being a conservative many years ago, if he ever was one. I once heard him bashing Limbaugh, and that was it for me. He was funny back in the NatLamp days, but that was 30 years ago. He’s just another smartass Rachel Maddow now.
To: Dalberg-Acton
I have a big box of old National Lampoons in the basement. Every few years I dig them out and read them in order again. “Mrs. Agnew’s Diary” still cracks me up. Jeff Goldbloom, another media leftie, is also a NatLamp alum, but he was never very funny.
To: SFmom
P.J. has evidently jumped the shark. In the 90’s his books were cutting edge. I caught him on public TV a few years back on some round-table panel and the guy looked completely out of it and maybe fighting alcoholism. Very sad. Clean yourself up P.J.
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posted on
02/13/2014 2:45:35 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
He sounded sober. However, he did have cancer a while back. Wouldn’t want anyone to have a cancer recurrence.
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posted on
02/13/2014 3:00:15 PM PST
by
SFmom
To: ozzymandus
Do you have the “negligent mother” issue? That’s some crazy stuff right there.
To: tomkat
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posted on
02/13/2014 3:17:28 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
To: Fightin Whitey
Yes! Let’s go whole hog and throw in Dave Barry.
To: pacobell
I am also heading to my bookshelves to clear out P.J. O’Rourke. I’ve had them for decades, before I even understood about conservatism. (Living one way, voting another.) I need to make way for Lee’s and Cuz’s future books.
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posted on
02/13/2014 3:37:09 PM PST
by
lulu16
(May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
To: Dalberg-Acton
"Negligent Mother" starts on page 80 of the PDF from the Internet Archive of National Lampoon Jan. 1975. Link
HERE.
Warning, tasteless 30 meg download.
To: SFmom
Wow, what a letdown. Another one goes to the dark side.
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posted on
02/13/2014 4:24:25 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: SFmom
PJ O'Rourke demonstrates the Dark Side of the Force is strong within him, Obie-Wan.
To: miss marmelstein
Word!
The only two I can think of with fondness are the late Erma Bombeck and the great Mark Steyn.
(I’m sure that as a New Yorker you would have understood the Trillins and Russell Bakers better than I, an obtuse North Dakota boy...in college I did clip out and save a Baker column entitled “In Praise of Ignorant Contumely”...Chris Buckley wouldn’t know good ignorant contumely if someone slapped him with a stick dipped in it....)
To: gaijin
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posted on
02/13/2014 5:20:40 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: SFmom
"Gay groups are like a big tree and unfortunately big trees attract a lot of squirrels."
If a conservative said the above the MSM would label them a 'hater'...
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posted on
02/13/2014 5:25:50 PM PST
by
GOPJ
( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
To: ozzymandus
The first five years of Nat Lamp were tremendous. Then it went downhill fast. O’Rourke had a few funny items, but for the most part it had run out of steam.
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