tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53864274823822327892024-03-14T02:57:07.633-04:00Red S.E. CuppRed S.E. Cupp is the home of S.E. Cupp, co-author of "Why You're Wrong About the Right."SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-9265329894154059372009-09-01T11:00:00.002-04:002009-09-01T11:04:13.972-04:00New Website LaunchNEW WEBSITE: <a href="http://www.redsecupp.com/">www.RedSECupp.com</a><br /><br />Welcome to the official launch of <a href="http://www.redsecupp.com/" target="_blank">www.RedSECupp.com</a>, the new online home of S.E. Cupp.<br /><br />Visit now and visit often. Some highlights:<br /><br />Read SE's "Fanmail": SE posts the worst of the worst -- so if you've ever written her a nasty email, chances are it's up there....along with your name and email address. Aunt Ida, that means you.<br /><br />Column Archive: Everything SE's ever written is logged here, so if you've been trying to find that hard-hitting piece she wrote months ago on Plaxico Burress and the folly of elastic-waist sweat pants as a gun holster, search no further.<br /><br />Video Archive: What was that thing SE said that time on that show that made me want to throw my loafer at the TV? Can't remember? Pour yourself a glass of Scotch, light up that Montecristo and re-watch the segment from the comfy confines of SE's video library. Mmm...mahogany.<br /><br />General Hilarity: Thanks to Tucker Carlson, Congressman Thad McCotter, Nick Hornby and SE's Dad for providing hilarious quotes for the new homepage. They are easily the best part of the site.<br /><br />And much much more. On <a href="http://www.redsecupp.com/" target="_blank">www.RedSECupp.com</a> at this very moment: SE breaks a story in Townhall Magazine about the most serious terrorist threat you've never heard of. What's happening in Western Sahara?SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-83696830637108179842009-08-07T09:47:00.002-04:002009-08-07T09:53:24.551-04:00Gay America, Get Your Priorities Straight<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Snwxu5EOPVI/AAAAAAAAAbk/DilTdh3YPHQ/s1600-h/advocate.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367219537581063506" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 232px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Snwxu5EOPVI/AAAAAAAAAbk/DilTdh3YPHQ/s320/advocate.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new column in the New York Daily News:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"Gay America, Get Your Priorities Straight"</div><br /><div><br /><em>"The Advocate gives Obama an 'F' for his work on repealing DOMA, and a 'C-' for what it calls slow action on repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It also questions whether or not Obama's been lobbying hard enough for Employment Non-Discrimination legislation. The indictments against the President are well-founded - he has done little to expand gay rights. But that doesn't make this a smart strategy for gay activists. In fact, it's pretty dumb."</em></div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/07/2009-08-07_gay_america_get_your_priorities_straight.html">http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/07/2009-08-07_gay_america_get_your_priorities_straight.html</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-66244569412669475752009-08-05T16:52:00.002-04:002009-08-05T16:54:39.444-04:00Oddest Insult Yet<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Snnxgt_441I/AAAAAAAAAbc/6GC-FSwpjko/s1600-h/health+care.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Snnxgt_441I/AAAAAAAAAbc/6GC-FSwpjko/s320/health+care.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366585975394329426" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';">Today Politico's Arena contributors weighed in on the health care town halls that are greeting many lawmakers back home:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.politico.com/arena">www.politico.com/arena</a><br /><br />What's the lesson learned from these town halls?<br /><br />S.E. Cupp, Author and Columnist: Do even the elite liberal media believe their own spin? It's hard to imagine. Any opposition to President Obama's bizarro-world policies (truly, some of this is right out of a creepy sideshow fun house) is dismissed as either crazy or stupid. Andrea Mitchell says we don't know what's good for us. Bill Maher calls us a dumb country. Huffington Post says we're all "Anne-Coulter-Ugly lookalikes." Real original -- and classy! But the newest attack isn't to call us crazy or stupid. It's to call us -- get this -- organized. That's right, we conservatives can throw away our dunce hats and psychiatric bracelets, because now we're actually a little TOO cunning.<br /><br />Maybe the liberal press finally realized what Madison Avenue's known for decades -- you don't win new consumers by insulting them. But this newest approach -- to say we're "manufactured," as Robert Gibbs suggested -- is the most perplexing yet. You remember, the tea parties that brought hundreds of thousands of regular ol' Americans out on tax day were Astro turf -- fake grass roots, and according to Paul Krugman, proof that Middle America is embarrassing. And now all these concerned citizens popping up to plead with their local representatives in opposition to a scary Mary health care proposal are planted, props of some highly-organized kabal of conservative puppet masters.<br /><br />It's so impossible for the Obama administration and his surrogates in the media to believe that average Americans care about anything as much as they care about American Idol, that the whole thing must be rigged. Liberals used to just be out of touch. I don't know what you call this.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.politico.com/arena">www.politico.com/arena</a></span>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-19063014841468706042009-08-03T13:49:00.002-04:002009-08-03T13:51:26.209-04:00Organic Emperor Has No Clothes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SncjkIq-j1I/AAAAAAAAAa0/5lOJTL6AJ0w/s1600-h/kate-gosselin-books.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SncjkIq-j1I/AAAAAAAAAa0/5lOJTL6AJ0w/s320/kate-gosselin-books.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365796584745242450" border="0" /></a><br />I have a new column up in Newsmax:<br /><br />"The Organic Emperor Has No Eco-Friendly Clothes"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"I have to believe that Kate Gosselin and mothers like her genuinely believe they're raising healthier and happier kids by shoving organic lollipops in their mouths, shelling out twice as much of the hard-earned family income at Whole Foods for organic peas, and sending their husbands out to build picnic tables from reclaimed wood. Why else would they do such ludicrous things in the middle of a recession?"</span><br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/se_cupp_organic_jon_kate/2009/08/02/243000.html"><br />http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/se_cupp_organic_jon_kate/2009/08/02/243000.html</a>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-38051814965389780842009-07-30T10:49:00.007-04:002009-07-30T10:57:07.368-04:00Perez Hilton Jumps the Shark<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SnG0teISjyI/AAAAAAAAAas/RSRc_3Fqpdk/s1600-h/perez.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364267324449918754" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SnG0teISjyI/AAAAAAAAAas/RSRc_3Fqpdk/s320/perez.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SnG0IdINJZI/AAAAAAAAAak/xp_1YwDl3WQ/s1600-h/townhall+2.jpg"></a>I have a piece in Townhall's August magazine. Pick up a copy!<br /><div><div><br /> </div><div>Full text:</div></div><br /><div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#000000;">Perez Hilton Jumps the Shark<br /></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#000000;">By S.E. Cupp</span></div><div><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">When a popular television series runs out of compelling story lines, and resorts to the kinds of exhausted and utterly preposterous narrative tactics that suddenly find “The Brady Bunch” with a new cousin, or “Roseanne” with a new “Becky,” we say it “jumped the shark.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr., better known as Perez Hilton, has done just this. Thanks to a slew of miscalculations and some public betrayals, he may soon become another victim of his own success and subsequent unraveling. And if he never recovers, he can blame the cult of liberalism and its ironic perfidies on which he so heavily relied.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Lavandeira used to merely post gossip, the kind that was often unsubstantiated. But blogging about Britney Spears or Whitney Houston didn’t require veracity to get page hits. Readers just wanted content, and quick. He would post throughout the day on celebrity sightings, Hollywood rumors, industry news and hot hookups. Eventually PerezHilton.com became a receptacle of trashy innuendo, breathless speculation, and overtly dirty denigration, which was often accompanied by crude digital drawings of body parts and bodily functions.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">This was all fine and good for the celeb-obsessed tabloid readers who constituted his audience. And even those celebrities who were the subject of his ridicule secretly seemed to love the attention he brought them.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">But as he started to turn the site into a platform for his liberal pet causes – gay rights (he is openly gay), gun control, the environment – he began to collect enemies, and not just on the Right. By slamming celebrities that he perceived as affronts to his causes, he became an uneasy arbiter of the worst kind of liberalism: the empty and morally relative kind. It wasn’t just about who’s lunching at The Ivy anymore – now he was political.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The hypocrisies abounded. One day he was criticizing an actor for driving an environmentally-unfriendly car, and the next he was calling a 9-year-old child actress “ugly.” He applauded celebrities who don’t wear fur but unabashedly glorified their lavish spending sprees and irresponsible (and even criminal) behavior.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">And of course, he protested intolerance, championed equality and spoke out against homophobia. But it wasn’t that simple. He earned criticism from GLAAD and other gay groups for trying to “out” various celebrities, which most gay rights factions deem to be inappropriate, mean-spirited and a total abuse of power. When he wasn’t attacking Mormons for voting Yes on Proposition 8, or Christians for rigging “American Idol,” he was calling Sarah Palin a pig, Carrie Prejean a “c-word” and the Black Eyed Peas front man a faggot.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The latter indiscretion may mark the exact moment at which Perez Hilton lost his credibility (if he truly had any), and his support.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">In a rare display of introspection, Lavandeira posted not one but two public apologies for calling the entertainer a gay slur during an altercation they had outside a Toronto nightclub in June. After previously slamming actor Isaiah Washington for using the very same word – and sanctimoniously calling for a ban of the N-word – Lavandeira solemnly wrote, “Apologizing for me is not easy.” And he insisted, “I am not nor have I ever claimed to be a spokesperson for the gay community.” Well, not any more he wasn’t.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">And he issued an uncomfortable mea culpa for appearing unsympathetic to celebrities, referencing another fight between two entertainers. “I did not condone the violence, but I did make light of that situation. I regret that.” But he doesn’t regret what he said about Prejean, Palin, Rumer Willis (whom he has constantly berated for her looks), or 15-year-old Miley Cyrus (whom he routinely calls a slut.)<br />His sudden contrition is telling. His persona was always the petulant enfant terrible whose conscience only applied to anonymous liberal pieties and not to people It seems he may be aware that his star is falling, because in a final gasp at the kind of shock value that used to win him readers, he called the death of Michael Jackson a publicity stunt.</span></div><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Very few of successes go out on top. They desperately cling to the kinds of reassuring adages that make gamblers believe one more roll of the dice could turn their luck around. Mario Lavandeira assumed he could bring America to the far-left with him as he shifted interests from gossip to politics. Thanks to a few fatal missteps, he might not have a forum for either.</span></div></div></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-46944284548148163542009-07-27T09:08:00.004-04:002009-07-27T09:20:36.207-04:00Iraq War Reckless? Not Next to Obamacare<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sm2piuqYXxI/AAAAAAAAAaM/i54kZy6in3M/s1600-h/bush+standing+o.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363129145374564114" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sm2piuqYXxI/AAAAAAAAAaM/i54kZy6in3M/s320/bush+standing+o.jpg" border="0" /></a> I have a new piece up on Newsmax today: <div><br /><br /><div><br />"Obama's Rush of Healthcare Plan Reckless"</div><br /><br /><div><br /><em>"Unlike our men and women in uniform, who are volunteers, we have all been effectively drafted in the war that is universal healthcare. And make no mistake — this will cost lives. With all that’s at stake, it would seem reasonable to approach such a major overhaul of what many consider the best healthcare system in the world, with a modicum of patience, with responsibility, and with the kind of equanimity that can reassure an anxious public in times of upheaval. Strange though it may seem, a careful look back at the Iraq war might prove beneficial to Obama as he eyes an arbitrary finish line in his reckless race toward universal healthcare."</em></div><br /><br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/healthcare_se_cupp_obama/2009/07/26/240237.html">http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/healthcare_se_cupp_obama/2009/07/26/240237.html</a></div></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-67403529369209575532009-07-23T08:56:00.002-04:002009-07-23T08:58:17.573-04:00On the Couch with Governor Sanford<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SmheW3wW1jI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/n93UyBOUkaM/s1600-h/sanford.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361639103401481778" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 297px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 223px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SmheW3wW1jI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/n93UyBOUkaM/s320/sanford.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new piece in Politico this morning:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"An Apology and a Pledge? No thanks."</div><br /><div><br /><em>"Instead of retreating from public life to work on his marriage privately, Gov. Sanford writes of the personal victories he’s had through the process. 'I’ve been humbled and broken as never before in my life, and as a consequence, have given up areas of control in a way that I never have before. And it is my belief that this will make me a better father, husband, friend and advocate.' Well, that’s super, Gov. Sanford. But shouldn’t that sentence start, 'Dear Diary'?"</em> </div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25278.html">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25278.html</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-7476098027732215262009-07-22T13:43:00.002-04:002009-07-22T13:44:11.654-04:00Obama's Sketchy Health Care Numbers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SmdP38ipXhI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/HGAVhyC-3qI/s1600-h/barack-obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SmdP38ipXhI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/HGAVhyC-3qI/s320/barack-obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361341703970709010" border="0" /></a><br />I have a new piece up in the Fox Forum:<br /><br />"Don't Be Fooled By Obama's Health Care Numbers"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"When the numbers are crunched, it turns out that only 11 million legal American citizens who would like health insurance don't have it, not the 45 million often quoted. That's less than 4% of the country. Now, it's important that we get health care to those 4%, of course. But is it really necessary to rip apart the health care system we currently have to do it?"</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/21/se-cupp-obama-healthcare/">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/21/se-cupp-obama-healthcare/</a>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-49184162921696204912009-07-13T08:18:00.004-04:002009-07-13T08:37:08.810-04:00Biden as Kramer in a Show About Nothing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SlsqXlj5GOI/AAAAAAAAAZs/ExHIvxuZoZs/s1600-h/seinfeld_tkramer6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SlsqXlj5GOI/AAAAAAAAAZs/ExHIvxuZoZs/s320/seinfeld_tkramer6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357922766395349218" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SlsqL21stzI/AAAAAAAAAZk/OOCOfLHacm4/s1600-h/biden.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SlsqL21stzI/AAAAAAAAAZk/OOCOfLHacm4/s320/biden.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357922564875007794" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I have a new piece up today in Newsmax:<br /><br />"The Obama Administration is a 'Seinfeld' Episode"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Kramer, like Biden, says the things you're just not supposed to say. When Biden told a wheelchair-bound Missouri state senator to 'stand up,' it was no different than Kramer telling George's girlfriend she needs a nose job. When Biden said that FDR went on television in 1929 to talk about the stock market crash, it was the same as Kramer telling some tourists that Central Park was designed in 1850 by Joe Pepitone. When Biden said 'J-O-B-S' is a three-letter word, it was like Kramer saying, 'It's like a sauna in here.' As he's entering a sauna."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/biden_kramer_seinfeld/2009/07/12/234649.html">http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/biden_kramer_seinfeld/2009/07/12/234649.html</a>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-78176436734940486192009-07-07T15:39:00.002-04:002009-07-07T15:42:25.169-04:00The Real Problem With Palin's Press Conference<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SlOlC5PGDYI/AAAAAAAAAZc/5Xci_J0dXJw/s1600-h/Palin.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355805851016105346" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 190px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 191px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SlOlC5PGDYI/AAAAAAAAAZc/5Xci_J0dXJw/s320/Palin.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><div>I have a new piece up on Fox Forum:</div><br /><div><br />"The Real Problem With Palin's Press Conference"</div><br /><div><br /><em>"On HuffPo, that Foucaultian vessel of scholarly badinage, Francesca Biller-Safran has decided Palin is resigning to marry a moose. (Yes, really. 'You’re invited to the wedding.') On CNN, Jack Cafferty found a pointed way to combat the so-called 'lame duck' excuse. 'She was already lame,' he cackled, like an ornery old man who suspects his nurses are secretly trying to poison him."</em></div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/07/real-problem-palins-press-conference/" target="l">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/07/real-problem-palins-press-conference/</a></div></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-58918876988165960462009-07-02T07:34:00.004-04:002009-07-02T07:41:28.469-04:00Blaming the Burqa, And...<div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkycTwL8ajI/AAAAAAAAAZE/r0MXVxKk-9M/s1600-h/burqa.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353825920203123250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 207px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkycTwL8ajI/AAAAAAAAAZE/r0MXVxKk-9M/s320/burqa.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>I have a new piece up in Townhall today:<br /><br /></div><div>"Blaming the Burqa"<br /></div><br /><br /><div><em>"Sarkozy’s maudlin plea for 'women’s dignity' is transparent, and obscures the real agenda: promoting a Western, secular, (and, in particular, French) sensibility. It has little to do with women’s rights, and even less to do with religious freedom. And in case there was any doubt, it has absolutely nothing to do with national security."</em><br /></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/07/02/blaming_the_burqa?page=full&comments=true" target="1">http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/07/02/blaming_the_burqa?page=full&comments=true</a></div><div> </div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Skyca_PdskI/AAAAAAAAAZM/aayqyz6ANQs/s1600-h/flag.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353826044503503426" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Skyca_PdskI/AAAAAAAAAZM/aayqyz6ANQs/s320/flag.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>And, in honor of the 4th of July, I'd like to direct your attention to a truly blood-curdling NYTimes op-ed, which declares that American flags are, like, totally "in" again...now that Obama's in office. Patriotism, for the left, is apparently partisan:<br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/capture-the-flag/">http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/capture-the-flag/</a><br /></div><br /><br /><div>Happy 4th of July, everyone...let's think about our troops this weekend.</div></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-10730533656420018602009-07-01T13:50:00.006-04:002009-07-01T14:04:37.850-04:00Reader Help<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkukpcIj8MI/AAAAAAAAAY8/15iQO6bV0x8/s1600-h/todd-palin.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353553613893660866" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 315px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 275px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkukpcIj8MI/AAAAAAAAAY8/15iQO6bV0x8/s320/todd-palin.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What is it About Palin?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I'm writing a new column, and want your help. I want to know what it is about Sarah Palin that you think her supporters find appealing. (Feel free to weigh in if you are not a supporter yourself, but if your response is nasty it will be totally disregarded.) Here are your choices:<br /><br /><br />1. She's authentic, believable, and sincere. She is who she purports to be.<br /><br /><br />2. She's a woman, and we need more of those in politics.<br /><br /><br />3. She's a pro-life, pro-marriage Christian.<br /><br /><br />4. She's a good conservative -- she cuts taxes, favors limited government and advocates fiscal responsibility.<br /><br /><br />5. She's new, young, and a breath of fresh air. Out with the old guard, in with the new.<br /><br /><br />6. Other: __________________________________________<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I won't be using any of your names, but I do want to know how old you are. So please respond with your choice and your age in the comment section. Thank you!<br /><br /><br /><br />SESE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-91736772654003404952009-06-29T11:41:00.003-04:002009-06-29T11:45:19.101-04:00It's Way Too Early to Pick 2012 Contenders<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkjhTIULEiI/AAAAAAAAAY0/kNMcqYC2zdc/s1600-h/mark-sanford-with-bush-010609-lg.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkjhTIULEiI/AAAAAAAAAY0/kNMcqYC2zdc/s320/mark-sanford-with-bush-010609-lg.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352775875895693858" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family:'PrimaSans BT';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have a new piece up in Newsmax today:</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'PrimaSans BT'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family:'PrimaSans BT';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> "It's Way Too Early To Pick 2012 Contenders"</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'PrimaSans BT'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family:'PrimaSans BT';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"But the alacrity of the GOP to pinpoint and announce its leaders is making the job of actually coming up with credible ones that much more difficult. Whether it’s real weaknesses in Mark Sanford or John Ensign, or imagined ones in Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin, every time the right decrees someone 'the future of the party' it slaps a bull’s-eye on their back for the left."</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family:'PrimaSans BT';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/sanford_2012_gop/2009/06/28/229495.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/sanford_2012_gop/2009/06/28/229495.html</span></a></span></div></div></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-60294960714165145072009-06-23T14:56:00.004-04:002009-06-23T15:00:22.579-04:00What is Obama Thinking?<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkEl4GZuW4I/AAAAAAAAAYs/eFj5m3nQXHU/s1600-h/obama3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350599478014270338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SkEl4GZuW4I/AAAAAAAAAYs/eFj5m3nQXHU/s320/obama3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new post up on the Fox Forum:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"What Is Obama Thinking?"</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>"While it's true the president's job is not to mediate childish playground disputes, he is supposed to show some calculated leadership on all kinds of issues, small and large, especially when they become so publicly divisive. Americans are desperate to know what he thinks, and his lack of leadership on these issues has been conspicuous and chilling."</em></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/06/23/obamas-silence-speaks-volumes/">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/06/23/obamas-silence-speaks-volumes/</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-54274077399003198562009-06-22T10:29:00.002-04:002009-06-22T10:31:13.378-04:00Feminism Is Dead (Good Riddance)<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sj-Vmsx-4JI/AAAAAAAAAYk/9X8kZ_jHKLw/s1600-h/judd.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350159374427807890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 253px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sj-Vmsx-4JI/AAAAAAAAAYk/9X8kZ_jHKLw/s320/judd.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new piece up in Newsmax today:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"Feminism is Dead (Good Riddance)"</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>"When Barbara Boxer had the audacity – and some would argue, questionable mental clarity – to publicly scold a US Army general for calling her 'ma’am' instead of 'senator,' it telegraphed to the rest of the world the sheer inanity of today’s modern feminism, a rusting relic of the 60’s that’s been pushed so far to the extreme borders of relevance that it actually has Boxer hearing things. Yes, in today’s feminism, calling a woman 'ma’am' is a mark of disrespect."</em></div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/se_cupp_feminism_dead/2009/06/21/227583.html" target="1">http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/se_cupp_feminism_dead/2009/06/21/227583.html</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-68003668157939367372009-06-15T05:37:00.002-04:002009-06-15T05:39:47.240-04:00Holding Detainees Accountable Isn't Enough<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SjYW0avPecI/AAAAAAAAAYc/8oMMHKB3408/s1600-h/pd_prison_070627_ms.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SjYW0avPecI/AAAAAAAAAYc/8oMMHKB3408/s320/pd_prison_070627_ms.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347486697335519682" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';">I have a new piece up in Newsmax today:<br /><br />"Holding Detainees Accountable Isn't Enough"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Putting someone like Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, or any other al-Qaida loyalist for that matter, in a United States prison is like handing them a cell phone with Osama bin Laden’s telephone number pre-programmed in it."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/terrorists_trials_se_cupp/2009/06/14/225059.html" target="l">http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/terrorists_trials_se_cupp/2009/06/14/225059.html</a></span>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-5377170402079801972009-06-12T09:14:00.005-04:002009-06-12T10:42:07.834-04:00"I Blame Barack Obama"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFGrzWedyA"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346431171210248290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 260px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 190px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/SjJW0tgQAGI/AAAAAAAAAYU/m7dGG5lrJHg/s320/Letterman.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In case you missed it, we discussed Letterman's non-apology for calling Sarah Palin a "slutty flight attendant" and suggesting Alex Rodriguez rape her daughter on "Hannity" last night. I put the blame squarely on the president, for allowing that kind of rhetoric to happen around him during the campaign.<br /><br />By allowing his surrogates in the media and Hollywood to use vile and indefensible language about Sarah Palin (and Cindy McCain, and Hillary Clinton...) he told the country, "Go right ahead." He should have said, "Stop, enough is enough. I have two daughters and and I don't want them to look back on this election and have to hear this kind of rhetoric about a capable, accomplished, smart mother of five." He didn't do it then, but he could do it now. He should issue a statement, condemning this kind of language about an American governor and public servant. His approval ratings would go through the roof, instead of the floor.<br /><br />Addendum: A number of people have rightly pointed out that Barack Obama said during the campaign that kids should be off limits:<br /><br />"Let me be as clear as possible, I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president."<br /><br />Defending Sarah Palin's kids, while admirable, is not defending Sarah Palin. When she was called a woman-hater, a slut, mentally disabled, a devil-worshipper, Caribou Barbie, and "the worst thing to happen to America since 9/11," Barack Obama said nothing. When Sandra Bernhard said Palin would be "gang raped" if she came to New York City, Obama said nothing. Barack Obama, if he truly cares about the world in which his daughters are growing up, should take two minutes out of his day to issue a public statement condemning this kind of language...about a US governor or any woman.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFGrzWedyA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFGrzWedyA</a>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-85547656576702875412009-06-10T11:09:00.002-04:002009-06-10T11:14:47.315-04:00White Men Can't Jump...Or Judge<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Si_N2oI-nDI/AAAAAAAAAYM/UVjhXVJaQu8/s1600-h/white+men.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345717621083774002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Si_N2oI-nDI/AAAAAAAAAYM/UVjhXVJaQu8/s320/white+men.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new piece in Newsmax today:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"White Men Can't Jump or Judge Well"</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>"The white male experience is a rich and storied one. Begun anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, thanks largely to a skin-lightening gene mutation, white men have a fascinating and unique history, an inviting and warm culture, and the kinds of quirky customs that make anthropologists giddy."</em></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/white_men_sonia_sotomayor/2009/05/31/219930.html">http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/white_men_sonia_sotomayor/2009/05/31/219930.html</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-57752974569458633352009-06-10T09:47:00.002-04:002009-06-10T09:49:02.851-04:00Can Morocco Save the Middle East?<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Si-5wDlq-KI/AAAAAAAAAYE/cPgJH6qcuDQ/s1600-h/king.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345695517960239266" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 209px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Si-5wDlq-KI/AAAAAAAAAYE/cPgJH6qcuDQ/s320/king.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new piece up on Townhall, fresh on the heels of my trip to Morocco:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"Can Morocco Save the Middle East?"</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><em>"When Barack Obama took office, King Mohammed VI wrote him a letter. As of yet, there's been no response. After chiding the US on its poor listening skills, to the dismay of many thoughtful leaders before him, it seems the perfect opportunity to seek the advice of someone better qualified than he is to navigate through the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."</em></div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/06/10/can_morocco_save_the_middle_east?page=full&comments=true" target="1">http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/06/10/can_morocco_save_the_middle_east?page=full&comments=true</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-9892855224631869522009-05-26T12:59:00.002-04:002009-05-26T13:01:24.179-04:00Racism + Sexism = Empathy?<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/ShwgUKTfP8I/AAAAAAAAAX8/h9XrNG9ERgc/s1600-h/sotomayor.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340178788890132418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/ShwgUKTfP8I/AAAAAAAAAX8/h9XrNG9ERgc/s320/sotomayor.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new piece up on the Fox Forum on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court:</div><br /><div><br />"Sotomayor -- Obama's Nominee Spouts Biased Views on Race and Gender"</div><br /><div><br /><em>"Sorry, white guys. Ms. Sotomayor is, quite simply, not your gal. But to all the forgotten, pasty, sun-deprived, uterus-less men of America, there’s good news yet. It’s not white guys that a worldview such as hers hurts most –- it’s women and minorities."</em></div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/26/cupp_sotomayor_obama/">http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/26/cupp_sotomayor_obama/</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-91795573731024861382009-05-25T10:12:00.002-04:002009-05-25T10:15:36.394-04:00RNC is Living in the Past<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Shqn8YrCVVI/AAAAAAAAAX0/7ZAzxPCRhW0/s1600-h/steele.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339764964058092882" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 274px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Shqn8YrCVVI/AAAAAAAAAX0/7ZAzxPCRhW0/s320/steele.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a piece up in Newsmax today, about the RNC, including my own version of a "extraordinary special session resolution" the RNC might want to consider.<br /></div><br /><div><em>"Self-important 'extraordinary special sessions' are why Republicans are spoofed as out-of-touch geriatrics from the Cretaceous period. Official-sounding resolutions that begin 'Whereas' are why many people think of Republicans as the monocled mascot from Monopoly. And cheap gimmicks like renaming the Democratic Party are why liberals think we’ve run out of good ideas."</em><br /></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/gop_resolution_fever/2009/05/24/217769.html">http://www.newsmax.com/s.e._cupp/gop_resolution_fever/2009/05/24/217769.html</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-33909481962429891032009-05-22T09:23:00.003-04:002009-05-22T09:26:51.306-04:00Liberals Blame Christians for Adam Lambert LossI have a new piece up in Townhall:<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/ShanymlXDhI/AAAAAAAAAXs/qi1qkS1UgMk/s1600-h/lambert.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338638896086846994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/ShanymlXDhI/AAAAAAAAAXs/qi1qkS1UgMk/s320/lambert.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"Really Talented Performer Wins American Idol; Liberals Blame Christians"<br /><br /><p><em>"Liberals are once again falling back on the only explanation they can ever muster when an anointed protégé or pet cause du jour loses: blame the backwards, hickish, intolerant Christian masses. Yes, the same folks who – inexplicably – put George W. Bush in the White House (twice), fell for Sarah Palin, and voted for Proposition 8 all to the shock and awe of the apoplectic left."</em></p><br /><p><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/05/22/really_talented_performer_wins_american_idol;_liberals_blame_christians?page=full&comments=true" target="1">http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/05/22/really_talented_performer_wins_american_idol;_liberals_blame_christians?page=full&comments=true</a></p><br /><div><u><span style="color:#800080;"></span></u></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-89158723413143070252009-05-20T14:35:00.004-04:002009-05-20T16:23:49.657-04:00Liberals Are VERY Confused About Gun Provision<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/ShROHgTIZ6I/AAAAAAAAAXk/PWAt0Ci39Vg/s1600-h/no+hunting.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337977349177108386" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/ShROHgTIZ6I/AAAAAAAAAXk/PWAt0Ci39Vg/s320/no+hunting.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have a new piece up in the Fox Forum, about the gun provision President Obama is expected to sign into law:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>"The suggestions that legalizing concealed weapons in national parks will mean increased park violence, death to Smokey the Bear or a rush on machine guns is just sloppy research and a lazy interpretation of what, exactly, this bill will mean for gun owners. Of course it’s also an attempt to caricature gun owners as crazy-eyed nutjobs who’d take aim at a box of puppies if it crossed their field of vision, but that’s become standard operating procedure."</em><br /><p><a href="http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/20/cupp_national_parks_guns/">http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/20/cupp_national_parks_guns/</a></p><p> </p><br /><br /><em></em>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-89089059106629654132009-05-15T10:06:00.002-04:002009-05-15T10:08:09.042-04:00We Already Know Who's Coming to Dinner<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sg13OvQgzoI/AAAAAAAAAXc/Frw2_eGY9Rc/s1600-h/gues+who.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336052228591505026" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sg13OvQgzoI/AAAAAAAAAXc/Frw2_eGY9Rc/s320/gues+who.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new piece on Townhall today:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>"We Already Know Who's Coming To Dinner"</div><br /><div><br /><em>"In fact, Obama talked less – far less – about lifting up black America than Hillary Clinton or John McCain. Or Bill Cosby, for that matter. Indeed Bill Clinton was both a candidate and president who actively tried to tackle race politics in America . Barack Obama is not."</em> </div><br /><div><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/05/15/we_already_know_whos_coming_to_dinner"></a><br /><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/05/15/we_already_know_whos_coming_to_dinner?page=full&comments=true">http://townhall.com/columnists/SECupp/2009/05/15/we_already_know_whos_coming_to_dinner?page=full&comments=true</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386427482382232789.post-72052288979584482832009-05-13T16:58:00.002-04:002009-05-13T17:02:26.215-04:00Courage or Subterfuge?<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sgs1UGBKVyI/AAAAAAAAAXU/Rxggf1tQ5fY/s1600-h/holder.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335416802879624994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thXDUYVLWDY/Sgs1UGBKVyI/AAAAAAAAAXU/Rxggf1tQ5fY/s320/holder.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I have a new piece up in the Fox Forum:</div><br /><div><br />"Obama Blinks on Prison Photos: Courage or Subterfuge?"</div><br /><div><br /><em>"The way I see it, there are three likely circumstances that could explain this 147th flip-flop on the interrogation issue and whether or not prosecuting the Bush administration is something Obama wants to do. (It would seem an easy enough question – either he’s for it or he’s against it. But then again, as has become typical, no one seems to know what Barack Obama’s for and against.)"</em></div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/13/cupp_obama_photos/" target="1">http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/13/cupp_obama_photos/</a></div>SE Cupphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06896877751263454610noreply@blogger.com2