Friday night hangout
I did my regular Friday week in review spot on O’Reilly. You can watch here if you’re interested. Not much time to get in-depth on any one topic–but that’s why I blog. 
Random links and food for thought:
*Lots of folks are talking about audio of Ted Kennedy singing in Spanish on illegal alien activist Eddie Sotero’s L.A. Spanish radio show. Apparently, KFI’s John and Ken played the tape. If anyone captured it, let me know. *Update: Audio here.*
*The latest cloture vote count is here.
*Ace has a great example of open-borders media bias. You have to see the pictures.
*I received an e-mail from the brother of MTV correspondent Gideon Yago. He’s mad about my column today poking fun at Yago over the journalist political donor story. Here’s his e-mail:
Michelle,
Just read the article where you rip on my brother. Thankfully for you, as an a OpEd author you have no need to masquerade as an impartial journalist and have free reign to execute your orders as Bill O’Reilly’s attack dog.
Thankfully for the rest of us, no one takes your work and your fact checking seriously anyway.
Noah
Noah, I commend you for sticking up for your brother.
*A reader sends a link to this story of a two-year-old girl who is a Mensa member:
Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French. But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed.
Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152. This puts her in the same intellectual league, proportionate to her age, as physicist Stephen Hawking.
According to an expert in gifted children, Georgia is the brightest two-year-old she has ever met. Parents Martin and Lucy Brown have always regarded their youngest child as a remarkably quick learner. She was crawling at five months and walking at nine months. By 14 months, she was getting herself dressed.
“She spoke really early - by 18 months she was having proper conversations,” Mrs Brown said. “She would say, ‘Hello I’m Georgia, I’m one’. She was also putting her shoes on and putting them on the right feet.” Georgia, who is at nursery school, was also able to tell the difference between pink and purple - a skill which most children learn at primary school age.
Professor Freeman said: “I said to her, ‘What a pretty pink skirt, and you have tights and shoes to match’.
“She said, ‘They’re not pink, they’re purple’.
Hmm. Have they lowered the Mensa standards or is it just me?
*One last story for the night. Rev. Marino in Bayonne, NJ e-mails: “Last Wednesday I attended the graduation of one of our church parishioners who also is the valedictorian of the Class 2007 of Bayonne High School here in NJ. My excitement quickly turned into a big disappointment when I found out during the graduation ceremonies, that he was not allowed by the school principal and school superintendent to give his speech because he wants to include his prayer in his speech.” Here’s the local news story:
Bayonne High School valedictorian Jeremy Jerschina had wanted to give a heartfelt speech at his graduation ceremony on Wednesday.
A religious young man bound for the Christian school Calvin College in Michigan this fall, 18-year-old Jerschina said that to speak from the heart as he addressed his graduating class, he had to speak to God as well. But Principal Richard Baccarella and the Bayonne Board of Education would not let him speak if he included a prayer - so he didn’t speak at all.
With his mother Bozena looking on as the pair sat in the living room of their West 25th Street home yesterday, Jerschina described his exchanges with Baccarella and Superintendent of Schools Patricia McGeehan, in which they asked him to remove the prayer from his speech.
He said the day before the ceremony they even asked one of his former teachers to help him rewrite the speech in a way that would satisfy the school board, although they could not reach a compromise.
On graduation day, Jerschina said, Baccarella told him that if he decided to give the speech without the prayer, he could signal the principal as he sat on stage to be recognized as valedictorian and that Baccarella would give him time to speak. But, Jerschina said, that put him in a position where he had to “either rip out my beliefs or stay silent.”
“God and Christ are the reason I did how I did in high school, and are what I stand for most,” Jerschina said. “The principal and superintendent said I could do the speech if I left the prayer out, and I told them that I’d rather do the whole thing or not at all.”
In a statement released yesterday, McGeehan said the school district would have been breaking the law had it allowed Jerschina to speak.
What would have happened if he had asked to pray to Allah?
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Ace’s post is great, as most of his are, he always brings teh funneh. There’s a reason AoS is one of my first four visits (HA, MM and my own small moronblog being the others).
That was another first class job on O’Reilly tonight. Preparation is everything.
As for MTV, well, they still have no credibility. We all remember the highbrow questions they ask gov’t officials when they get the chance… like boxers or briefs? I would suggest that Noah and his brother finish school and find a real job…
If I recall my IQ measurements correctly, there is a difference between children’s IQ measurements and adults’ IQ measurements.
Question; was she grabbing items out of the cabinet and matching them up with the print-only ads? If she isn’t, I feel robbed (and it will take a few drinks to get the rest of that story out).
Who watches MTV anymore anyway? I’m young, but isn’t it now targeted to young teens? I haven’t watched in ages.
I agree about AOS, teh blog is irreverant, frequently off-color but always informative and entertaining. I laugh out loud there many times while reading that irreverance!
The Mensababy? I have a (measured 4 times!) 156 IQ and have NEVER been able to pass the Mensa tests..go figure. But a 2 year old can..things that make you want to go hmmmmmmmmmmmm
The email from the Rev in Bayonne was annoying but not suprising..MM’s take is absolutely correct:”What if he had wanted to pray to Allah” Unfortunately we ALL know the answer to that!
You have a lot more patience with Noah Yago than he deserves.
True enough — that’s why the op-ed page is distinct from the news page. So what?
Another “Michelle fronts for da man” snark. Yawn. Hey Noah — check out the HotAir video archive. Michelle’s more than capable of going on attack all by her very own self.
Hmm…. Check the blog traffic. Or check the “Shamnesty” Vent over at HotAir. Most of us take Michelle seriously, particularly when she provides citations and direct quotes.
Eh. Just a little fed up with BS tonight.
for children, the formula for IQ includes division of points by age.
This is obviously a very bright little girl though acceptance in the 140 IQ Mensa club at the tender age of two is kind of out of the ordinary.
Wasn’t Kennedy the character that got caught cheating on his Spanish exam in college?
The left’s debating techniques are so easily dismantled:
“Just read the article where you rip on my brother. Thankfully for you, as an a OpEd author you have no need to masquerade as an impartial journalist”
Since when are the facts of an Op Ed piece automatically suspect? The mainstream has been crediting factoids off the NY Times front page for years, and there is nothing more Op Ed than the front page of the NY Times.
“and have free reign to execute your orders as Bill O’Reilly’s attack dog.”
Praise indeed, if but only for the personal attack indicating the facts of the arguement have already fallen apart from the poster himself.
“Thankfully for the rest of us, no one takes your work and your fact checking seriously anyway.”
Nice of him to speak for the masses. I take Michelle and O’Rielly’s fact checking very seriously indeed. Indeed, all of the Fox News teams and contributors are to be applauded for doing their fact checking so well - another reason (yes, I’ll say it again, excuse me) that the Democratic Presidential hopefulls are scared to death to go on a debate moderated by Fox News.
The left would be funny, if it were not for the fact that they are both empowered and often essentially crazy. That part *isn’t* funny. Indeed, in cases like shamnesty, that part has rather seriously dire consequences for the country.
Michelle, how about a link to the Gideon Yago column? I can’t find it anywhere… or maybe I’m not looking in the right place. Thanx.
I haven’t kept up with the rules lately, but the last I knew you couldn’t be a Mensan until age 14. Everyone else is lowering standards, so AML must be following suit.
Hmmmm. . . .
I don’t recall what, if any, minimum age there is for acceptance into Mensa, but I think 2 is a bit low. I didn’t actually submit my own qualifications until I was 35. I quit the organization a few years later because it seemed like it was mostly comprised of liberal cry-babies (at least from what I saw out of the local chapter.)
I also know that my IQ declined from a peak of about 180 when I was in grade school to 165 between by the time I got out of college. Hmmm… Did the public school system and a “liberal” arts college cause me to lose 15 points of IQ? ;^)
Too bad the high schooler didn’t want to wash his feet and pray to Allah–the ACLU would have defended him.
We like Michelles appearances on O’Reilly.I look forward to the Sunday talk circuit tomorrow.This Week with George S. finally will have a real critic of the immigration bill Senator Jeff Sessions of course Kennedy will also be appearing to do his spinning.For the past few weeks on this program I’ve heard the White House point of view,John McCaine,and I believe Lindsey Grahm and the only critic featured was Senator Robert Menendez which I consider not much of a critic.
Meet The Press will feature a immigration debate as well,not sure about FOX News Sunday but I’ll watch them all since I have become very invested in this deabate because I believe we who are opposed to this bill are right.
Just for the record we heard Lou Dobbs use the word shamnesty this week.