Comments on: Mark Steyn is the new Bing Crosby

By: high river jobs

high river jobs — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:23:52 +0000

Love Steyn!! Very eloquent…..needs his own t.v commentator show, prime time!

By: David H Dennis

David H Dennis — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:47:37 +0000

I bought the album, and love it!

You gotta love Mark Steyn who's defying the world by singing cheerful songs in a world that has long since lost its cheer.

Defiance is no longer gloom, which is too standard and therefore boring. Cheerfulness is the new rebellion!

By: kivi

kivi — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:56:54 +0000

It’s obvious the pinch-faced purse lipped PC police who show up here with their patronizing and illusory moral superiority based on ignorance of Islam (Libs are too lazy to do any research and think their uninformed opinion is a good substitute) would be terrible dinner company unlike Mark Steyn and his readers who are always up for a free-ranging discussion and haven’t had their sense of humor surgically removed.

The automatic fevered embrace of all things foreign simply because they’re foreign (xenophilia) mean that for Libs, it’s a gooey marshmellow brain rather than world.

By: Colonel Robert Neville

Colonel Robert Neville — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:54:15 +0000

“You’ve got to accentuate the positive…don’t mess around with Mr D[?]!”

Great stuff:

I’m currently reading Steyn’s Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, on the history of the musical et al. It’s outstanding, nuanced, insightful and hell, fun. I like the critic[?] M. Barrassing! It’s a Left Lib fraud to paint Mark as some kind of biogoted dullard, especially by rather ironically, the dull bigots of the Left. There is zero evidence shown for these absurd Logical Fallacy ad hominems. Steyn is a witty, hard working, very effective, talented, original and entertaining writer. He’s damn smart too. [Send briefcase of money to this address.]

It’s funny, but quite often you can ask his critics to name an article or two that they’ve actually read in the last year and they harumphh. And to focus where he’s wrong and why? They just babble, ad hominem more, attack you or change the subject. Wacky, but much how Dr Sanity blogspot describes ‘em.

A happier side is try and get ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’, with hip 50′s? 60′s? cool jazz sans vocal of Christmas tunes. It’s swingin’ and warm. Just the thing for a non-ironic, non-cynical and free happy Christmas! Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com.

By: Alfred J. Lemire

Alfred J. Lemire — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:26:13 +0000

Jaime Weinman’s comment shines with intelligence and sensitivity. This writer, who’s two generations removed from Canada, appreciates the awareness of the cultural change that made the warming bounce of American Christmas music a thing of the past, pre-the late 1960s. While songs were written and sung mostly for the adults who would buy the records or see the films and shows, they also were written so that children could hear them and feel the goodness in the songs and in the season. C’est un temps perdu et je suis désolé.

Mark Steyn is a treasure of the English-speaking world. Go to his Web site to read his tributes headlined, “Singin’ in It,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. And buy his book, which has to have similar thoughtful, gracefully written treasures about great songs, written by people one wishes one knew as friends, like the late Adolph Green.

By: Art H

Art H — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:13:34 +0000

Steyn is remarkable in his knowledge and depth of interest in music. If only people like Jennifer could focus on the topic rather than insert their incredibly warped biases into such a discussion. But then she’d have to be conservative. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Jennifer. Perhaps you’ll receive one of Mark’s books if you’re lucky.

By: CarolynM

CarolynM — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:35:13 +0000

Ahh Jennifer, you know not what you speak. (and your last paragraph really proves it – is there a cohesive thought hidden somewhere?). Mark’s ride has just begun. We have an Obama presidency. We have 5000 Paki butchers being imported to the UK while Sharia law is being embraced. We have Mumbai. I’m looking forward to more of Mark’s insight, humor and devastating sarcasm while I listen to his new CD.

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Ping Crosby wows the troops in Vietpong « MACLEAN’S for DUMMIES — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:04:50 +0000

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By: Jeffrey John

Jeffrey John — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:20:17 +0000

Well Clarance, Thanks you for your comment and the tips on spelling and authorship..
At least I got a rise out of someone.. You are obviously a very intelligent person

By: Clarence Seunarine

Clarence Seunarine — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:32:05 +0000

Jeffrey John, thanks for your “on topic” comment and just so you know it’s Steyn, not Stein and this article by written by Jaime Weinman about something Mark Steyn did on his website and not by Mr. Steyn himself.

By: Jack Mitchell

Jack Mitchell — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:25:08 +0000

Does he do a version of “Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris”? Seems like a natural fit.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:41:27 +0000

“a pre-murder-trial Phil Spector’s all-star Christmas album in 1963?”

Yeah, “pre-” by more than 40 years — not to mention the Righteous Bros, “River Deep mountain High,” etc.

Weinman’s really reaching here.

By: Clarence Seunarine

Clarence Seunarine — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:16:39 +0000

I thought Mark Steyn would do a new version of “Baby it’s Cold Outside” as a way of thumbing his nose at Sayyid Qutb.

By: Lord Bob

Lord Bob — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:34:40 +0000

And here I thought you meant Mark Steyn was going to be doing a buddy movie with the 21st-centurye ex-pat-Canadian version of Bob Hope…

By: ReBuildingYou

ReBuildingYou — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:06:05 +0000

I have a vague warm and cozy memory of my parents watching Bing Crosby when I was a kid – safe, happy days. I think the beauty of the past and bygone days is that we can take what we choose from them and keep it… And why on earth would we not keep something good? Especially when it has such great new packaging…

I am English. And one of things I like best about living here in North America is that life is a real blend – not all bleak or all bubblegum. To me, life is about feeling good – happy, warm, content, pleasant, comfortable, smiling…

Thank God this is not 1850 in England with the level of cold, harsh, cruel life that existed then.

Julie