The Top 10 Rightblogger Stories of 2008
#8: The Hoover Boom. "This election year does look quite a bit like Hoover vs. Roosevelt (and given that choice, I'll take Hoover)," said National Review's Jonah Goldberg, setting off a little avalanche of rightblogger warnings that "electing Obama and the congressional Democrats will be like electing FDR in 1932." Amazingly, U.S. voters failed to take the bait. Maybe rightbloggers should have promoted Hoovervilles as holiday camps for families on a budget.
#7: And Robin is Tony Blair. "A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds... Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a 'W.'" In the Wall Street Journal Andrew Klavan explained why The Dark Knight is "a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war... Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency." Maybe that explains why the Joker was more popular. (The Journal unfortunately didn't run Klavan's other essay about the Hollywood film that celebrated an earlier phase of Bush's career, Pineapple Express.)
