This and That.

A few quick links before I go to work.

First from the WSJ, [not sure if the link will work] Bret Stephens on the ‘Palin and the ‘Experience’ Canard’.

ABC’s Charlie Gibson is only the latest to offer himself upon the altar of self-parody with his pop-quizzing of the Alaska governor during their interview last week.

Gibson: “Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?”

Palin: “In what respect, Charlie?”

Which was a sensible answer, given that no higher authority than Jacob Weisberg of Slate has counted six versions of the thing (including “absence of any functioning doctrine at all”). Further pressed on the subject, Gov. Palin explained that “what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism,” which better sums up the gist of Bush policy than Mr. Gibson’s cramped definition of the doctrine as “anticipatory self-defense.”

And so the candidate, without so much as the benefit of a junior year abroad, managed (maybe luckily, though luck is often a function of wit) to get the better of the anchorman, Princeton ’65.

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The one and only Joanna Lumley turned up at Britain’s High Court to support Ghurka vets who, in spite of serving in the British Army and fighting valiantly against her enemies, are now denied permission to live there or even to travel there for medical treatment.
Meanwhile they allow terrorists and Imams to preach Jihad while receiving welfare.

Coming from a country with a Socialist gov I’m not in the least surprised.

H/T Bookworm.

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OK, Had my coffee, out of time, have to go get a skylight installed while the weather is good.

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