Newstalgia Reference Room – Dean Clarence Manion: Grandfather of Modern Conservatism – 1951
February 7, 2011 No Comment
( Clarence Manion – an eye for interesting “tableware” ) Click here to view this media I had always wondered just when it was the conservative movement took a dramatic, screeching shift to the right. What was that moment, who was the spark. I have on a number of occasions heard that the catalyst was a fellow named Dean Clarence Manion (the Dean comes from his tenure as Notre Dame Law Professor) and it was Manion who gave us Barry Goldwater and was quoted as saying Ronald Reagan was the perfect example of the Modern Conservative Movement. But I had never heard him speak – as I am sure most readers haven’t either. So needless to say, when I discovered this disc (sadly not complete and partially deteriorated) I was pretty excited to hear just who this guy was. I wasn’t disappointed. Clarence Manion: “Now we have heard a lot about American equality. We have been twitted with it by our subversive enemies. Taunted with the alleged hypocrisy of what we profess to be equality and which is, in their jargon ‘not equality at all’. We hear a lot about the rich and the poor and the exploiters and the exploited,, and the malefactors of great wealth and the underprivileged and the this and the that. Let’s see what the doctrine of America is as it is stated and set forth in the blueprint. All men are created equal, they are equal in God’s sight. And for that reason and for no other reason that I can ever find in any law book, they are equal before the law of the land. Equality before God and the equality before the laws of this country. That is the sum and the substance, the beginning and the end of American equality. ” I have heard some strange interpretations of the Bill of Rights, but this interpretation nails it on the head why there is so much misguided righteousness floating around. It all came from someplace. Unfortunately, there is only part one and two and the address goes on, I suspect for at least another half hour, but the rest of it is missing and I don’t think recorded. So we don’t get to hear the summation of this argument and I’m not going to venture to guess where it goes. Important to at least hear part of where so much of our confusion comes from . And just how ingrained it is. Remember, this address was made on December 17, 1951, almost sixty years ago. That is a very long time to misrepresent something.
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Continue reading …Bill O’Reilly wants to assure us that Fox News isn’t ‘out to get’ President Obama. Uh-huh.
February 7, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media Bill O’Reilly phoned in to Fox News’ Happening Now program this morning to talk over his interview with President Obama with Martha MacCallum retrospectively. O’Reilly’s real impressions sound like classic cases of projection: He thinks, among other things, that the president is “thin-skinned” and probably “self-centered.” Indeed. Our impression of O’Reilly exactly. And then he tried to pull a fast one: MACCALLUM: I also want to get your thoughts — at the very beginning of the interview, I appreciated that you took a moment to thank him, and to thank the administration, for some help that they gave us at Fox News in helping two of our colleagues, Greg Palkot and Olaf Wiig, and the whole thing kind of reminded me too of that moment, way back, when they talked about the fact that Fox News wasn’t a news organization. And clearly we were treated in a very respectful way in this whole thing. I just wanted to get your thoughts on all that. O’REILLY: Well, look, you have to understand that interview that we did yesterday was the most widely viewed interview of all time, because of the Internet — you know, the moment it was done it was all over the world, everybody was looking at it. And I wanted people who don’t know Fox News, and all they hear about is the liberal media defining us, to know that we don’t have any personal animus against the president of the United States — and he did, and Robert Gibbs and the State Department did really, really good work in helping Palkot and Wiig. That’s the truth. So why not say that? And why not say that to him? And I wanted him to get the message that, look, we’re not out to hurt you. We the network. There might be guys like Hannity and Beck who really feel that you’re not a good president and your policies are destructive. But we have other people on the staff who feel the opposite. So, yes, Fox News is skeptical of President Obama, more so than the liberal networks, of course. We’re not personally invested in hurting him and I think that that statement up top was true. It needed to be said. It was in the context of the event, and I’m glad I said it. Of course they don’t hate President Obama at Fox News. They just call publicly wish for him to fail and announce their intention to make him fail . They just call him a racist , a socialist , a fascist , a radical Marxist revolutionary , and an America-hater . But hey, it’s nothing personal. Really. And those “staff” members who “feel the opposite”? OK, my guess is that they’re all members of the janitorial staff. Because you’ll sure as hell never see them on the air at Fox News.
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Ok, don’t laugh at me but – my twelve-year-old just taught me how to do a screen grab. Which means – I now have this tool to help with a project I’ve been dying to try!! I’d like to start sharing what I consider defining sartorial moments from great films. I have always loved this scene from the Fred Astaire movie, The Gay Divorcee . That buckled leather strap in his lapel is fascinating. I’ve never seen a modern version of this…have you? I’m guessing it’s attached to a chained pocketwatch. Can someone please make a modern version of this??!! To me, this moment is one of the all-time greats of men’s fashion on film.
Continue reading …Sprint’s Kyocera Echo dual-screen Android phone announced, we go hands-on
February 7, 2011 No Comment
Sprint promised us an “industry first” at its event today, and it certainly delivered: check out the Kyocera Echo, the first dual-screen Android phone. That’s right, dual-screen — that’s two 3.5-inch 480 x 800 displays which can be unfolded and used as a single 4.7-inch 960 x 800 surface. The screens are connected by a slick sliding liquid-metal hinge that Kyocera’s filed several patents on — the phone can be closed and used like a regular single-screen phone, unfolded all the way, or propped up into the faux-laptop configuration shown above. Under the hood there’s a 1GHz second-gen Snapdragon running Android 2.2 — we’ll forgive the older software because Kyocera had to do extensive customization to add dual-screen support to seven core apps like the browser, email, and messaging. The seven optimized apps can be run on each screen individually so you can have the browser up top and email below, and several of them include useful full-dual-screen views as well. There’s also a new dual-screen app manager, which is brought up by tapping the two screens simultaneously. Unfortunately, third party apps can’t be run in any of the new modes and just fill the entire display for now — Kyocera and Sprint say an SDK is coming shortly. Interestingly, the Echo doesn’t really run the optimized apps simultaneously when you have two of them open — it quickly switches them in and out of hibernation, even though they’re both displayed on screen. That means you can’t do things like watch a video while writing an email, for example — it’s an odd limitation, but it seems like it’ll only be an issue in limited circumstances. As for battery life, Kyocera and Sprint aren’t giving definite numbers, but we were told things would last about a day with heavy use of both screens — and the Echo is being sold in a bundle with a second battery in an external charging case, so you should have plenty of juice on the go. Downsides? Well, it’s not the most attractive phone we’ve ever seen, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that there’s just a lone rear-facing 5 megapixel camera with 720p video capture and that the Echo is 3G-only — there’s no WiMAX, which is a bit odd for a Sprint halo device. Still, it’s definitely one of the most intriguing Android handsets we’ve ever seen, and at $189 when it launches sometime in the coming months, it’s bound to pique some serious interest. Check a short hands-on video after the break. Gallery: Kyocera Echo hands-on Continue reading Sprint’s Kyocera Echo dual-screen Android phone announced, we go hands-on Sprint’s Kyocera Echo dual-screen Android phone announced, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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