The Selective Hearing of the Huffington Post

 

wiseGEEK defines Selective Hearing as "the tendency of some people to ignore things that they don’t want to hear. It is not a physiological condition, as they are physically hearing the words, but their minds choose not to acknowledge the words."

 

The last time the Huffington Post paid attention to George Will was three years ago, when he said that Sarah Palin was "obviously not qualified to be President." In the meantime, he's published more than three hundred columns.

Jewish World Review has the archives:

10/29/11 Romney could damage chances for the GOP 

10/27/11 Inundated by a river of words 
10/23/11 The unlikely target of conservatives 
10/20/11 A Republic, guaranteed 
10/15/11 The NBA standoff pits the elite vs. the elite 
10/13/11 Calling for a Mulligan 
10/08/11 Protect the states 
10/06/11 Collectivists' Goal Is To Dilute Our Concept Of Individualism 
10/02/11 Educational overreach: A federal takeover 
09/29/11 A Frank 'cure' for the Fed 
09/25/11 Nibbling away at free enterprise 
09/22/11 Obstructing the right to recall 
09/17/11 At the Pentagon, the specter of a sequester 
09/15/11 Our floundering 'federal family' 
09/10/11 Sept. 11's self-inflicted wounds 
09/08/11 Why libs fear the 'Lochner' decision 
09/03/11 Question time for Republicans 
09/01/11 Fresh brew 
08/28/11 And now, a school choice fight 
08/25/11 Libs' Waterloo 
08/20/11 Chris Christie, America's Caesar 
08/18/11 America's lost ally 
08/14/11 JFK's Berlin blunder 
08/11/11 Britain tackles the welfare state 
08/07/11 Making hay at the Ames straw poll 
08/02/11 The debt deal and Obama's 2012 problem 
07/31/11 Declaration of independents 
07/25/11 Congress stands its ground 
07/21/11 Tea Party would defeat Obama by supporting McConnell plan on debt 
07/07/11 Warming Up In GOP Pen For Alibi Ike 
07/02/11 Burning down the house 
06/29/11 A Supreme Court win for political speech and political money 
06/26/11 Rick Perry: A Texan's 'exceptionalism' 
06/23/11 John McCain's never-ending war 
06/19/11 Libya and the Potemkin alliance 
06/16/11 For conservatives, it can't get any better 
06/11/11 Government by the 'experts' 
06/09/11 Obama and free trade: Appease big labor 
06/04/11 The NFL's labor pains 
06/02/11 Jon Huntsman's thorny path to the GOP nomination 
05/28/11 Is Obama above the law? 
05/26/11 A moment to seize 
05/22/11 Golden State blues, in the red
05/19/11 Hugs and taxes 
05/15/11 The Dreamliner nightmare 
05/12/11 History lessons for Obama and other liberals 
05/08/11 The wonders of being 70 
05/02/11 The small footprint that eliminated bin Laden 
05/01/11 The 'Amazon Tax' effect 
04/27/11 This is reform? 
04/24/11 Tackling education's status quo 
04/21/11 The GOP sends in a Marine for education reform 
04/17/11 A conservative populist leaves the Fed 
04/14/11 The curse of free money 
04/07/11 An Arizona city's sports mania encounters a hard check 
04/07/11 The haze of humanitarian imperialism 
04/02/11 Citizens shouldn't have to justify their speech. 
03/31/11 Step up to the plate for a baseball quiz 
03/27/11 College daze: The insanity of the application process 
03/24/11 Is it America's duty to intervene wherever regime change is needed? 
03/20/11 The 'blue national soil' of China's navy 
03/17/11 America's Navy and the rise of China 
03/13/11 The Supreme Court and the health-care mandate muddle 
03/09/11 On Libya, too many questions 
03/06/11 Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012 
03/03/11 Lamar Smith: Immigration's taskmaster 
2/27/11 Teach for America: Letting the cream rise 
2/21/11 Out of Wisconsin, a lesson in leadership for Obama 
2/20/11 Jim Jordan: House Republicans' eager budget cutter 
2/17/11 Mitch Daniels's case for a less strident conservatism 
2/13/11 The GOP's defense budget mystery 
2/09/11 Egypt's revolution to win or lose 
2/06/11 John Kasich: Spoiling for a fight in Ohio 
2/03/11 Rick Santorum's appeal to the GOP base 
1/30/11 Uncle Sam in the driver's seat 
1/27/11 Getting American students to find the goal posts of success 
1/23/11 America's political disharmony 
1/20/11 Hubris heading for a fall 
1/16/11 A Congress that reasserts its power 
1/11/11 The charlatans' response to the Tucson tragedy 
01/09/11 Fred Upton, Rust Belt revolutionary 
01/06/11 Given up your New Year's resolutions? It's the American way 
01/01/11 Rev the scientific engine 

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Comments

[Rick Richman]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-27-2011/indecision-2012---scared-mittless Maybe there should be a brokered convention, which can consider drafting Mike Pence, Mitch Daniels, or Paul Ryan. Wasn't the purpose of conventions once to decide things like this?

[Yael]

The Dems will eat Romney alive. See David Plouffe today (headline at HuffPo) for example; he's not nearly as kind as Stewart. We will have to choose our poison. The Dems will bash Romney for being a flip-flopper a la John Kerry, Cain as a doofus for his lack of experience in government and confused mis-statements, Perry for being yet another Republican TX governor who is almost -though not quite- as inarticulate as Dubya, and Newt Gingrich for being short and portly, an egghead and mean-spirited -- not to mention, backward-looking. Were we to nominate Pence, Daniels or Ryan, they would hardly be immune to such Palinization efforts. Whatever their shortcomings were found to be, the Left would harp on them viciously and incessantly, with the mainstream media chiming in on the chorus after every verse. Don't forget, they've already "shown" Paul Rayn throwing Granny over a cliff. It's the only real option the Dems have; if they want to retain the White House, they will have to absolutely DEMOLISH their opponent. That way Obama will look okay enough, by comparison, to squeak by. In other words, we have no messiah, so we'll just have to choose from among these fallible humans.

[Mannie Sherberg]

Truer words, Yael, were never spoken (or written). Rick's idea of a convention draft is fine with me, but it ain't gonna happen -- any more than we will see a GOP messiah drop from the skies. We're stuck with a flawed line-up. But before we become too disspirited about this, let's remember two things: (1) Flawed line-ups can and do produce winning results. Witness my beloved St. Louis Cardinals -- who went into the World Series with a line-up flawed at every position (even Albert Pujols -- who's as close to a baseball messiah as Cardinal fans are ever likely to see -- displayed a few chinks in his armor during the seven games) but nevertheless emerged from the series victorious. (2) If our GOP line-up consists of fallible humans, what are we to say about Obama -- who may be the most fallible and the most flawed president in history? Granted, the Dims will do everything in their power to demolish whomever the GOP nominates, but the GOP candidate should find it fairly easy to do likewise with Obama. Even Romney, for all his faults, should be able to go tit-for-tat when it comes to comparing flip-flops. This is going to be one ugly election -- but I see no reason (certainly not this early in the game) to assume Obama will win. He is a socialist who, in every way, stands far, far outside the mainstream of American political history and American tradition. He is -- and will ineluctably remain -- beatable.