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I’m kinda shocked myself
Cold Fury — Hold onto your hats, folks, because Kathleen “oogedy boogedy” Parker just said something I actually agree with: If Jim and Tammy Faye put you in mind of oogedy-boogedy, you’re getting warm. Otherwise, the term may best be illuminated by two connoisseurs of the linguistic arts: Fats Waller and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. The latter, unable to define pornography, famously said, “I know it when I see it.” Waller, responding to a request to explain “swing,” said, “If you got to ask, you ain’t got it.” The list of commentators who ain’t got oogedy-boogedy is long, ...

Them Oogedy-Boogedy Blues and C.S. Lewis
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, December 05, 2008 [image] Them Oogedy-Boogedy Blues and C.S. Lewis [Peter Kirsanow] Kathleen Parker makes some entertaining and interesting observations in her column today (actually, the most interesting observations are in ...

Parker Retreats
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, December 05, 2008 [image] Parker Retreats [Ramesh Ponnuru] Her latest column seems to me to make two major points. First, she says that social conservatives should advance their arguments in non-theological terms. That's a significant climb-down from the original oogedy-boogedy column so much so that I don't even disagree with it. She writes that religious conservatives "might take a cue from Nat Hentoff, a self-described Jewish-atheist, who has written as eloquently as anyone about the 'indivisibility of life' and the slippery slope down which abortion leads. He uses ...

Oogedy-Boogedy
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, December 05, 2008 [image] Oogedy-Boogedy [John Derbyshire] Concerning Kathleen's oogedy-boogedy column today : I've been on a Mencken kick just recently (see the next issue of National Review ). I offer the following recommendation to anyone unsure about what "oogedy-boogedy" refers to: Read Mencken's article "The Hills of Zion," about a trip he took into the backwoods (literally) while covering ...

On Kathleen Parker, Social Conservatives & the GOP
GayPatriot — ... Kathleen Parker has a very good essay today in National Review where she frequently echoes my views on social conservatives and the GOP.  Interestingly, she’s a little harsher on social conservatives than I am.  I disagree with her suggestion that social conservatives try to “make their arguments without bringing God into it.“ ...

Coffin: Enough with the Oogedy-Boogedy
Articles on National Review Online — K athleen Parker s war on religion in the Re-public-an square entered a new phase today. In her syndicated column , she nobly attempted to explain her use of the term oogedy-boogedy to describe religious conservatives. It s not that she is anti-God. It s just that God really shouldn t be mentioned in polite company. Religion can inform our values (gee, thanks). But reason, not religion, should inform our public debates. I hadn t realized religion and reason were mutually exclusive. It seems Pope Benedict hasn t gotten the memo, either. As he said in his widely ...

Kathleen Parker Tries to Spin "Oogedy-Boogedy"
Ace of Spades HQ — Kathleen Parker Tries to Spin "Oogedy-Boogedy" A bullshitty excuse for deliberately offending all religious Americans. RS McCain isn't buying it. She continues attempting to be Maureen Dowd, minus the talent*: In the several days since I first used the term in a column describing the Republican party’s “religious” problem, oogedy-boogedy seems to have entered the bloxicon. (New word invented right here, meaning: the blogosphere’s lexicon.) Oh, God. What are you, thirteen? You really think ever stupid-cutesy notion that enters your head is pure gold, don't you? ...

CNN 2012 poll: Huckabee 34, Palin 32 among Republicans and independents
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... is also concentrated among older Republicans, but Huckabee may have a slight edge among conservative Republicans.” Among voters who consider themselves born again or evangelical, Huckabee draws more support than Palin, with a 9 point edge . Meanwhile, Palin holds a 7-point advantage among non-born again or evangelical voters. Mitt pulls 28, Gingrich 27, Giuliani(!) 23, and Jindal 19. The good news? If this is the race we end up with, come 2011 there’ll be a new Kathleen Parker “oogedy boogedy” column every week. Exit question: To the extent there’s anything newsworthy about ...

Links for 2008-12-05 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... column, she nobly attempted to explain her use of the term “oogedy-boogedy” to describe religious conservatives. It’s not that she is “anti-God.” It’s just that God really shouldn’t be mentioned in polite company. Religion can inform our values (gee, thanks). But reason, not religion, should inform our public debates. I hadn’t realized religion and reason were mutually exclusive. It seems Pope Benedict hasn’t gotten the memo, either. ++++++ Enough of Kathleen Parker already Them Oogedy-Boogedy Blues by Kathleen Parker When it comes to irresistible words, ...

links for 2008-12-06
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: ussupremecourt) Them Oogedy-Boogedy Blues by Kathleen Parker When it comes to irresistible words, “oogedy-boogedy” has few peers. In the several days since I first used the term in a column describing the Republican party’s ...

Kathleen Parker is Determined to be Dense
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Kathleen Parker has a major case of secular reason sickness and it needs to be cured.  I’ll keep this short and simple.  Here is an offensive line from one of Kat’s latest columns: ...

Kathleen Parker and “Secular” Reason
Southern Appeal — Kathleen Parker has a major case of secular reason sickness and it needs to be cured.  I’ll keep this short and simple.  Here is an offensive line from one of Kat’s latest columns : How about social conservatives make their arguments without bringing God into it? By all means, let faith inform one’s values, but let reason inform one’s public arguments. Problem #1:  Social conservatives very rarely argue for their public policy positions on the basis of straight-up revelation.  It is much more common to hear them talk about scientific evidence that life begins from conception ...

The Wrong Ads and the Wright One
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... For better or for worse, there aren't a lot of politicians who would have made that decision. But that, in a way, is precisely my premise: McCain was pretty well differentiated from a generic politician, and particularly a generic, circa 2008, oogedy-boogedy Republican. If McCain wasn't willing to air an ad on Jeremiah Wright -- well, then, the McCain campaign should have been shouting from the rooftops that this was the case. And they should have been working backward from that decision by also not airing ads like "Education", which had half the impact for twice ...

WaPo Writer Parker: "Flirty" Palin Invited Letterman Slut Attacks
Gateway Pundit — Oogedy-Boogedy The state run media's favorite conservative Kathleen Parker (Where's Meghan McCain been lately?) thinks Sarah Palin invited the Letterman slut attacks: Click to Enlarge Nice. Says Parker: "So, maybe when you play the flirt and invite males to see starbursts bouncing off the walls (Lowry again), then maybe you invite the sexual punchline." Sick. So, in Parker's world, 14 year-old Willow Palin was probably asking for it, too? ...Right? Via FOX ...