BARRY RUBIN: ROMNEY GETS THE ISRAELI SITUATION RIGHT…….
Source: tundratabloids.com - Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Romney Tells the Key Truth Needed to Comprehend the Israel-Palestinian Conflict September 18, 2012 – 9:10 pm - by Barry Rubin So much has the debate been shifted “that what thirty years ago was a common-sense given is now considered a landmark breakthrough,” — Victor Davis Hanson. You see, here’s what you have to do. You’ve got to take the most basic logical statements — the ones absolutely necessary to understand reality — and rule them out of bounds. For example, there’s nothing wrong with the economy. To say so is, well, racist. And there’s nothing wrong with a government policy that refuses to control the country’s borders. To say so is, well, racist. In fact, you can’t criticize this U.S. government at all because to do so is, well, racist. And you can’t point out that America’s problem in the Middle East is not due to an obscure video on YouTube but to a massive revolutionary Islamist movement determined to destroy American influence in the region, take over every country there, smash the Christians, subordinate the women, impose a dictatorship, and commit genocide against Israel. Yep, you got it! Racist again!
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Sports: Newswire: R.I.P. Steve Sabol, driving creative force behind NFL Films
Source: www.avclub.com - Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Steve Sabol, who helped change the perception of the National Football League, and revolutionized the sports highlight package along the way, died today of brain cancer at the age of 69. Sabol’s father Ed founded NFL films in 1962, and hired his son—a film school student at the time—to be his cinematographer, shooting games around the league. Steve Sabol eventually became NFL Film’s president and chief creative force, crafting short documentaries that had a look and a tone more like popular art than mere sports reporting. In the ‘60s and ‘70s heyday of NFL Films, when the deep-voiced John Facenda was providing the narration and the Sabols were experimenting with how best to tell a story, the company defined fans’ memories of a game even more than the original broadcasts did. With the Super Bowl films in particular, Steve Sabol combined beautiful slow-motion photography, atmospheric editing ... Read more
