Mr. Hume is a man who has his priorities straight.

An apt description of what Megyn Kelly does to Obama spokesman Bill Burton in this video clip:

(h/t Newsbusters.org)

In case y’all missed it, here are some recent media appearances/interviews of mine that SA readers may find of interest:

Catholic International Radio’s “Heart of the Matter”

Catholic Radio 2.0

“GOP delegates eye Nov. 4 high court effect” (MSNBC)

“Palin Baby Shocker: Does it Matter?” (AOL’s Political Machine)

“Young Republicans and Foreign Policy” (CFR Blog)

Upcoming:

Bill Edwards NewsRadio 1290 WTKS (tomorrow morning-taped)

“One News Now” (American Family Association) (interview is being taped tomorrow)

“The Martha Zoller Show” (Wednesday @ 10:20 a.m.)

Novelist Andrew Klavan is being interviewed on Uncommon Knowledge this week.  He also has a cool website/blog.

Harry Stein has some thoughts on “The Future of Conservative Books” in the summer 2008 City Journal.

An American Carol opens nationwide on October 3.

The Goode Family, Mike Judge’s new project, is scheduled to debut on ABC in November or next spring, depending on which website you read.

Check out this ad seeking a “stringer/researcher” for the NYT’s “Southern Bureau in Atlanta”:

The New York Times Southern Bureau in Atlanta is looking for a researcher/stringer to work full time in a contract capacity . . . .

Requirements for the position include daily reporting experience, strong news judgment and firm grasp of the ethics and practice of journalism, familiarity with the Times from a reader’s perspective, and surefooted research skills. Applicant must be self-motivated, able to juggle multiple projects and manage time wisely. Performance on deadline is a must . . . .

Story ideas should be crafted as actual pitches and should go beyond topics or angles that the Times has already addressed. Please do not submit ideas concerning dog fights, cock fights, or the Confederate flag.

(Hat Tip to SA Reader MM)

Good for him.

Update: And here’s a fascinating article on El Rushbo that will appear in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine.

I am with Jonah: Chuck Todd is the best choice.

A great American has passed away. Tim Russert will be dearly missed.

I did not have the pleasure of knowing Mr. Russert, but I was fortunate enough to meet once here in Macon. He spoke at Mercer University, and I was able to chat with him briefly at that event. He was very kind and humble, and spent the bulk of our conversation asking about my family and job. After I told him that I practiced law, he called me “counselor,” which I enjoyed. A friend of mine, who was also part of this conversation, asked Mr. Russert, “Who is the most difficult person you’ve ever interviewed?” Without blinking, Russert said: “Al Gore. He never gives a straight answer to any of my questions.” Needless to say, I enjoyed that answer quite a bit.

Requiescat in pace.

Dig this.  (Hat tip to K-Lo.)

Thank you, Terry. This is the first time I ever did a double take while looking at a computer screen.

Michael Hirsh wants you to understand that “the South — or what has become the South-Southwest” is the vessel of “a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores” traceable to Scotch-Irish migration patterns and Andrew Jackson.  “The coarsened sensibility that this now-dominant Southernism and frontierism has brought to our national dialogue is unmistakable.”  And Hirsh doesn’t care for it — the “intolerant nation” he says we’ve become — not one bit.  The essay is subtitled “Southernism is taking over our national dialogue. Maybe it’s time for the North to secede from the Union.”

Yawn.

Such media fear and loathing of the South in Presidential election politics is at least as old as its reaction to Nixon’s “Southern strategy.”   Give it a rest, guys.

How many times have you heard some toad-licking agrarian socialist of the modern day refer to FOX News as “propaganda” or “biased” and then pirouette and insist that CNN or CBS News is a bastion of objectivity?

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Mark Shea highlights the latest misrepresentation of Church teaching by the secular press.

Well, I must say, I wasn’t at all prepared for this honor.

In today’s WSJ, Christopher Hitchens takes an appropriately sharp look at O.J. Simpson’s new “book.”

I’ve never been an O’Reilly fan, but I happened to see the segment where he went after Dr. Tiller, and it was one of the strongest stands for life I’ve ever witnessed from a television personality.

O’Reilly may have his faults, but at least he is willing to call evil by name and go after the radical proaborts with a vengence. For that reason alone, he has my admiration and respect. 

And kudos to Attorney General Kline as well for his willingness to stand up and defend the most innocent amongst us.

Teens Call Hyper-Sexualized Media Images ‘Normal’

Yikes. Raising a daughter in this culture would send me to an early grave.

Can be viewed here and here.

The New York Magazine has an interesting (and lengthy) profile of my favorite funny man, Stephen Colbert.

(LvMilbarge)

Gee, I never saw that coming.

Question: Could David Gregory be any more of a prima donna?

My guess is that Gregory lost his lunch money on a regular basis during his elementary-school days, and is now trying to make up for it.

It’s o.k., David. They can’t hurt you anymore.

In July, San Francisco Police Officer Nick Birco was killed in the line of duty.  You can read about his sacrifice here.  Apparently, in typical liberal fashion, the SF media heaped criticism on the department over its pursuit policy rather than condemning the behavior of a fleeing felon. 

In this press conference, SF Police Association President Gary Delagnes gives the media the business and points out the judicial failings that led to this tragedy.  Simply outstanding.

And personally, I think CBS is making a mistake in replacing him with Katie Couric.

Nicholas Lemann of the New Yorker turns up his nose at the blogosphere.

While I am certainly no fan of Bill O’Reilly, I agree that Olbermann’s characterization of him as a Nazi is outrageous.

A pompous windbag? Yes. A Nazi? Not even close. 

S.T. Karnick is one of the journeyman writers of the conservative-libertarian (or as he would say, classical liberal) movement.  His work has appeared just about everywhere.  Some of you may remember him from his editorship and co-creation of American Outlook, which was a very good policy and culture magazine put out by the Hudson Institute for several years.  He and Wlady gave me my first opportunities in freelance writing a few years ago.  (Thanks to both for helping through a couple of lean years in Waco.)

Although Karnick has written about just about everything between his freelance work and his regular editorial pieces for the Hudson magazine, he really shines when opining about popular culture.  After years of encouraging him to focus on that area, I am happy to report that Karnick on Culture is now in business.  After only a few short days, Karnick has written posts covering Mickey Spillane, Monk, Psych, the Beach Boys, Touching Evil, Nero Wolfe, The Closer, and Superman Returns.  Spend a little time with S.T. Karnick before you make another CD, DVD, or fiction purchase.  You’ll be glad you did. 

Salvo Magazine is the latest effort by the publishers of Touchstone.  Salvo has an intellectual edge, like Touchstone, but is not devotional or necessarily religious at all.  It is, however, a wickedly funny indictment of culture with some insightful articles along the way. 

I’m telling everyone I can about the magazine because it has exceeded all my expectations.  I wrote an article for it and promptly forgot about the project thinking it would be just another throwaway magazine, but Salvo is gorgeously rendered and makes the articles pop right out of the page. 

You have to buy the mag or subscribe for four quarterly issues to see it, but I can assure you that the fake ads are worth the price of admission alone.  Bobby Maddex has really accomplished something as editor of this magazine and I encourage everyone who wants to see more of these efforts to support it by subscribing for the first year.

Wow.

Lee at A Bama Blog has written the definitive response to Dana Milbank’s shabby attack on Senator Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.)  It ends with this:

Back in 2004, Dana Milbank co-authored a column with David Broder entitled “Hopes for Civility in Washington are Dashed.” To quote the Instapundit…”Indeed.” Perhaps Mr. Milbank should re-read his own material from time to time.

Read the whole thing.

Dana Milbank’s column today is a remarkably nasty personal attack on Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.), apparently triggered by Sessions’s positions on immigration policy and border control.  “Forget Politics. This Battle Is Personal” begins with this:

Alabama’s Jeff Sessions sure knows how to nurse a grudge. Talking about his family earlier this year, the Republican senator recalled that “Lincoln killed one of them at Antietam.”

Now he is turning his prodigious anger on legislation the Senate is expected to approve on Thursday that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to become citizens. In the process, Sessions is taking on the White House, his leaders in the Senate, the Congressional Budget Office and business interests at home.

Nowhere in the column does Milbank explain how Sessions’s position is “personal,” nor does he plumb the source of Sessions’s “prodigious anger” or explain how Sessions’s positions are a function of some “grudge” of his.  Instead, the reader is treated to a textbook example of ad hominem argument, including this passage:  

A short, wiry man with protruding ears, Sessions has become the Lou Dobbs of the Senate. He argues his points not with the courtly Southern tones of the late senator Howell Heflin (D), his predecessor, but with the harsh twang of a country tough — which, in a sense, he is.

So, the reader is left to speculate that, maybe, Sessions opposes an open-border approach simply because he’s a mean-spirited, vicious redneck.

That’s the Washington Post I know and love.

More on Sessions and immigration from A Bama Blog, including a link to this John O’Sullivan column, calling Sessions “a hero of commensense in this debate.”

Update:  Steve Sailer is all over this.

Further update:  Lee at A Bama Blog has a very thorough response to Milbank here.