Daniel Halper of Weekly Standard Is Eight Years Old

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He seems to have been around for longer than that, I know, but being eight years old is the only excuse for this observation. It’s the sort of thing only a child would notice and comment upon.

18 thoughts on “Daniel Halper of Weekly Standard Is Eight Years Old”

  1. I looked at it and thought “really sloppy work by the cover designer”. And childish comments/tweets by other people. Also, too, from the angle of Hillary’s head, she’d have a horn in the front and horn in the back of her head.

    They never seemed to mind when the Shrub got a halo…

  2. I looked at it and thought “really sloppy work by the cover designer”.

    Same here!

    I was disappointed that the link to Halper didn’t have anything to do with Spiderman. “Everybody hates Hillary” isn’t news.

  3. PurpleGirl is right – sloppy work.

    But, then, who knows, with all of the lay-off and buy-outs at newspapers and magazines?
    Maybe the writer of the piece on Hillary had to snap her photo, make it into a shadow, and then cut and paste it onto the cover?

    Reich-Wingers really need to find more productive ways of spending their free time.

  4. Why waste time, money and effort in providing reasonable argument or penetrating questions when in the end, childish mockery or tantrums are so much easier and more effective?

    Any old excuse for a good “two minutes of hate” will do. The more often they can call the brethren together and celebrate their solidarity, by focusing on a common fear or object of loathing, the stronger they become. Of course, one has to realize that for some people, strength and anger are nearly synonymous, which can be confusing, because anger also seems synonymous with some many other virtues.

  5. Why waste time, money and effort in providing reasonable argument or penetrating questions when in the end, childish mockery or tantrums are so much easier and more effective?

    We’re going through all of this on the west coast, with the flag flap at UC Irvine. Wingnuts and their beloved symbols trump everything. They’re so easily fooled by appearances.

    • Well, I am not willing to concede the flag to wingnuts. It’s my freaking flag, too, and anyone who says otherwise can bite me.

  6. I dunno. On a major newsweekly, I’m willing to believe “nothing is an accident”. Cover design and layout are *extremely* carefully done. I’d be more inclined to go with Halper being at least 9 and (scornfully? gleefully?) pointing out the behavior of the 8 year old.

  7. Well, maybe Trey Howdy can use the TIme magazine cover as supporting evidence against Hillary in his Benghazi investigation.

  8. Trey Howdy, Swami, needs to find a better outlet for his talent’s than being in the US HoR.

    He should be giving banjo lessons!

  9. Mrs. Clinton has “baggage”. FAR less baggage, though, than whomever emerges from the Clown Parade to be known as the GOP primary. You want someone who’s private about her emails or some dumb f*ck who turned away federal money to build a new tunnel into New York? Or a union buster????? Or a dude closely related to Ron “grand wizard” Paul — who wants to go back to the gold standard? I’d be worried if the wing nuts had a credible candidate, but right now, the best they can do is beat around the Bush.

  10. Well, Moonbat, at least you’re closer to Chez Panisse than we are, not that I could afford to eat there more than once a year.

    But you are right. It’s easy to confuse the symbol with what it refers to, or to reduce it to an emblem. The flag seems to have been treated to both of these embarrassments. I suppose that is what irks me so much about flag lapel pins. At the most they’ve reduced the flag to a mere ornament or more likely some meaningless trifle worn to put on the proper image.

    You can drive down the streets of the nearest town on July 5th and you will see numerous flags, so proudly displayed the day before, lying on the ground and washing into the gutters. Something about that just disturbs me, I can’t help it. I was a Boy Scout before I was a hippie, so maybe there you have it.

  11. “I was a boy scout before I was a hippie ” omg, I was the troop leader. Not only that, I was drill Sargent material in the BSA. Then I started reading t. Lobsang rampa books. Funny how
    we evolve. I still have webbed feet, thank goodness.

  12. “Funny how we evolve.”

    I don’t know, last night I had a dream that I was learning Morse code. Wasn’t there a merit badge for that?

    I was more the slacker of the troop, so I had a head start, being a science nerd was the only thing that saved me.

    Happy Pi day, everyone!

  14. No, we killed our TV back in 2001. But, I’ve heard that is an entertaining show. I don’t know where the Morse code thing came from. Maybe it was just like one of those disturbing dreams where you have to return to high school. Like a lot of kids in the 1950s, I had the Morse code kit. I don’t think our gang of friends ever quite mastered it. So maybe, I had the usual dream about unfinished business.

    Also, I’ve been trying to learn French, so maybe in the world of dreams there was a connection.

    To go back to the “horns” issue. I don’t know why I thought of this, but, during a certain era, Moses was rendered in paintings, with horns due to a mistranslation of some verses in the Bible. We’ve seen something similar in that Mary Magdalene is confused, that is to say joined, with a woman described in a subsequent verse. The mistake “had legs” because it exalted Jesus at the expense of a woman, who in actuality, might have been a spiritual leader with a considerable following. I think we may see increased interest in her and her teachings because Christianity needs an injection of Yin.

    This could be good news for Hillary!

    By the way, Erinyes, I hope things are going well.

  16. Goatherd, the Moses bit also threw around a notion that Jewish people had horns. It is very strange how that kind of thing goes around.

    And yes, there’s no evidence that Mary Magdelene was the woman who Jesus saved from being stoned for adultery (I *think* that’s the standard trope) – she is as likely to be a woman who started following the guy for reasons of her own.

    All this thinking about mythology probably has you confused, though. I’m betting the real problem is you were getting a message from Odin or Thor, and couldn’t understand it, because it was encoded, and made the obvious mistake. In fact, it was in *Norse* code.

  17. Yes, LHW, possibly some of the clergy got behind the confusion because it provided a handy way to dismiss Mary Magdalene. She’s a problematic figure, who wrote one of the gnostic gospels, q.v. Elaine Pagel’s book, “The Gnostic Gospels”. There is also the recent excitement over the “tomb of Jesus,” which, despite how one might judge the archeological evidence, presents a way for Christianity to incorporate more of the feminine side of spirituality, which it sorely needs.

    By golly, I think you are right. I was wondering why I kept seeing the young Kirk Douglas and Earnest Borgnine and all that talk about Valhalla. I have to admit I am fairly easily confused, and my runic is terrible. On top of that, I’ve always wanted an eight legged horse. But, we can’t have everything.

    Wow, I know it’s the weekend, but, somehow this all started with Hillary. Is it time to return to our sheep?

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