Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2725
July 22, 2010
Everyone Loves Mustafa, Ctd
The tremendous popularity of the Old Spice Guy actually corresponded with a 7% drop in sales of his body wash. Lindsay Robertson tries to understand why.
Old Spice - Shower gel - Old Spice Guy - Shopping - Food
Why Israel Serves America's Interests, Ctd
A reader writes:
I find it impossible not to comment that everything Frum says about Israel applied to US support for, and dependence on, the Apartheid-era South African regime. Giving the US influence in the region? Check. Using South Africa's power as a proxy? Check. Intelligence-gathering partner? Check. Source of information on weapons and tactics? Check. Confirmation of the superiority of a market economy? Check. You only have to ignore that, in both countries, the benefits of that...
Why We'll Miss Newspapers
A blog pays homage to the wonderful inaccuracies, typos and pleonasms that somehow gain more heft by being printed on paper. This one seems ripped from a Palin family out-take:
Then this ad (which seems too good to be true), but you never know:
United States - Republican - Politics - Parties - People
The Palin Model, Ctd
A must-see local news report on Sharron Angle walking away from her own press conference:
As for why this is a news story; it's highly unusual for a candidate for major office to regularly avoid the media as Angle has done and not even take one or two questions.
Unless you are running for vice president.
Sharron Angle - Mass media - Republican - United States - Politics
How To Argue With Andrew Breitbart
Shopping - Health - Mark Levin - Los Angeles - Andrew Breitbart
The British Example
Douthat believes that American conservatives could learn a thing or two from David Cameron:
Cameron's critics missed the forest for the trees: They took note ofevery centrist lunge, every compassionate-conservative gesture andevery touchy-feely gimmick, while failing to recognize that the Toryleader and his brain trust were putting together a more sweeping andserious blueprint for cutting and decentralizing government than we'veseen from any Republican politician since Newt Gingrich, and...
"The Line On Palin"
Ezra Klein's attempt to pass off JournoList as just a water-cooler confab seems pretty much exploded by this latest Daily Caller piece. I mean: what is the point of putting out an email with the subject line "The Line On Palin" if there isn't an actual line? And what is this if not organizing a media narrative:
"Okay, let's get deadly serious, folks. Grating voice or not, 'inexperienced' or not, Sarah Palin's just been introduced to the country as a brave, above-party, oil-company-bashing...
Missing The Point On Trig
This reader email makes a point I have made before but makes it in such a compelling way that it really does bring me up short. I stand by my insistence that politicians should provide any data that supports a campaign narrative, especially when the narrative is truly strange. But increasingly, I suspect that this is what actually went on, and that in many ways, it is more damning of Palin as a political leader and as a responsible parent than any outright deception:
I think you have to make...
Why Israel Serves America's Interests
Frum makes the necessary case:
First, as the patron of the region's pre-eminent military power, theUnited States gains leverage and status. Arab states that cooperatewith the United States (e.g. Egypt) get what they want from Israel.Arab states that do not cooperate (e.g. Syria) do not get. The US candeploy Israel's power to rescue other US clients from enemies (as theIsraelis rescued King Hussein of Jordan from the PLO in 1970) or toaccomplish strategic missions that the US would rather not...
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