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Flames of Hate
Sydney’s columns remind me of stories about Area 51, the Loch Ness Monster, and those ridiculous 911 conspiracies.
In his columns he invents the motive, the reasoning, which drives the subject. He doesn’t prove it, doesn’t support it, he simply claims it.
This sleazy technique can work, because it appeals to the base emotions of a like minded audience. It doesn’t offer solutions, provides no enlightenment. It’s a raw emotional appeal. His crude reference of Shaha Riza is one of many examples. Apparently we are supposed to believe that those are Paul Wolfowitz’s thoughts. Sydney didn’t say it, Paul did.
Sydney fans the flames of hate, . . . and gets paid for it.
Read Hitchen’s column on Wolfowitz and Riza for an alternate take.