2012 Feb 6 |
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http://www.theatlanticright.com/2009/03/07/jindals-kenneth-problem/
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O great, leftwing outlets like Politico have found a new way to humiliate Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal without having to actually talk about his record:

Jindal’s Kenneth Problem

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Bobby Jindal has a wunderkind resume: a Rhodes Scholar appointed assistant secretary of Health and Human Services at age 29, elected to the U.S. House at 33 and governor of Louisiana at 36.

Increasingly, though, he’s being likened to Kenneth, the dweeby page on “30 Rock.”

The politically devastating comparisons started popping right up after Jindal delivered the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s address a joint session of Congress. And they’ve spread like wildfire on the Internet.

“Close your eyes and think of Kenneth from ‘30 Rock.’ I can barely count the number of e-mails making that observation,” Andrew Sullivan wrote on his blog minutes after Jindal’s speech. The comparison was also made that night by Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post and Gawker.

Now the wunderkind governor, who’s often mentioned as a GOP presidential prospect, is struggling to overcome his association with this generation’s version of Gomer Pyle. And his predicament is organic, as opposed to the biting parodies of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live.”

This so incredibly pathetic – may God bless Andrew Sullivan for his ability to write stupid, silly, irrelevant posts on such a regular basis by the way – I had to read the article twice in order to be sure that, yes, Politico actually meant this article as a serious piece of journalism.

How deep we have fallen.

  1. Posted by Cernig
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    Cernig Michael, Politico isn't left wing. It's owned and funded by a rightwing tycoon (Frederick J. Ryan Jnr, former Reagan official, Board Chairman for the Reagan Library and GW Bush campaign contributor) and staffed by reporters who all began with conservative newspapers (Ben Smith, for instance, got his start at the NYSun). Regards, Steve
  2. Michael van der Galien Cernig: isn't it a bastion of former WaPo people? And - they made themselves left wing last year when they came out in support of Barack Obama, doing - let me put this mildly - everything in their power to get him elected and destroy John McCain's chances of winning. I pointed their bias out many times last year, in the end resulting in readers and myself nicknaming it "the house website of the democrats." They may have been center-right once, but they behaved like true blue progressives last year. Anyway - thanks for the headsup but... to me what matters isn't whether some of them were once conservative or not, what matters is that the reporting of Politico was incredibly favorable to Dems.
  3. Posted by Cernig
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    Cernig Funny, it only takes a moment websearch to see lefties complaining about Politico boosting McCain, talking about a landslide. Regards, Steve
  4. Posted by Jason, Managing Editor
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    Jason, Managing Editor Cernig, just because lefty blogs claim something doesn't mean it is true. In fact, one lefty blog that you in particular should be VERY familiar with predicted in 2007 that George W. Bush would cancel the 2008 elections and rule as a dictator afterward. Unfortunately, the writers from that blog do not accept responsibility to correct their errors, though they continue to roam freely throughout the blogosphere self-righteously lecturing others on their supposed failings and errors. Anyway, Politico has connections and writers leaning towards both ends of the political spectrum.
  5. Posted by C Stanley
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    C Stanley Oh brother, Lingga. I suppose there are some idiots on the right who would think that, but surely you are aware that Jindal was born and raised as a Hindu, not a Muslim. And while some people are just bigoted against anyone who is different, a lot of the anti-Muslim sentiment centers around the historical enmity between Christians and Muslims and the fact that a subgroup of Muslims has had the stated goal of destroying the US and Israel during the past several decades. Jindal has been a very active and vocal Christian and if anything, his religion will hurt his chances with secular Americans who have zero tolerance for a candidate who holds strong Christian beliefs unless those beliefs match up with liberal political philosophy. Even for me- I'm a conservative who feels that there is a place for social conservatism- I find a few things problematic with Jindal's religious views as they influence his political ones. Most notably, he took a position in support of teaching 'Intelligent Design' in classrooms, and although I personally believe there's room for that kind of discussion in a philosophy class (and that this would actually be a good thing to add to curricula,) I don't believe it belongs in a science classroom. Since I'm pretty certain there wasn't that kind of distinction made, I would disagree with the position that Jindal took. Of course the importance of that is miniscule compared to everything else so far in his record which I admire. He is a sensible fiscal conservative and a very capable manager, with great credentials on ethics in a state that no one has been able to clean up in the past.
  6. Michael Merritt Leave it to a news org to completely leave out the context of a quote. Here's Sullivan's post. Not exactly a "He's the next Prezident!!!1" praise of Jindal, but the quote they give only shows a small part of it. A lot of it conservatives won't like, but some of it even they were saying about the speech.
    secular Americans
    I'm willing to give him a fair hearing should the time come. I am not in favor of many of his religious views, but to me it depends on how he presents them. I'm mostly in favor of the "keep it private" approach. Which, liberals take note, doesn't include saying "God Bless America" at the end of your speeches. Anyway, the reason I quoted that phrase is that I object to being lumped in with the militant/activist/liberal/whatever atheists. And though I consider myself moderate, there are some conservatives out there who would object as well.