Letters to the Editor
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Glen, time to use the N word
These people you describe, from the unknown HIllary-Ann to that unlikely pundit Johan Goldberg, and all under, in-between, and over them on the Right, are NAZIS.
Does anyone here have any doubt that Hillary-Ann or Ann Coulter or Dick Cheney would have been on Hitler's side had they been Germans in the 1920's? (Jonah and his fellow Jewish neocons are problematic, but substitute "Muslims" for "Jews" and there you go) This is their mentality. They are brown shirts. They are fascists. They are authoritarian goose steppers.
It's the American way to put up even with Nazis in our midst, but we must always be ready to squash them. Today Iraq, tomorrow, if the Hillary-Anns have their way, America.
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it's interesting to contemplate...
...how this happened. The nut-ball right in this country finally figured out what to do. Use the big lie until they'd confused enough people to get their vote. Then cheat, just a bit, in Florida.
Then spend the next three years essentially subverting and ruining the credibility of our Mass Media. Because MSM was the only obstacle to the Big Lie.
Then, in 2004, the Big Lie really came into its own. We who oppose these fascisti better figure out how to counter the Big Lie, or things are going to get a lot worse. You think Bush and Cheney and their enablers at NR are bad? They're just a prelude, if we don't get a handle on these tactics. There are people far worse who would like to run things.
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National Review's totalitarian mind-set
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWI0ODU5MDQ5ZjEwZTAyYWVlNTJlYjVjNjJiY2M3MzY=&w=MA==
Yeah, if you're a fan of a magazine with articles arguing that the United States of America should become the first country in the world to create a global concentration camp that uses torture I don't find it too surprising that some of the readers might have got bitten by the authoritarian bug.
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"Beat down the bad gays"?
Kudlow's not that kind of conservative.
Freudian typo?
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but the real problem is
that these people represent 20% of the population that owns 80% of the wealth and is directly proportional to political power. They aren't going anywhere for a very long time.
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The Right Wing
Needs to decide who the bigger threat is, the queers or the Muslims.
That's the problem. They need to focus their efforts in one direction at a time.
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Apparently liberal cruises are worse
Emily and I found ourselves on the Zuiderdam along with a whole bunch of The Nation's subscribers. We didn't plan this-- we were just taking our long-delayed honeymoon and catching up with some friends we hadn't seen it quite some time. Still, we thought, this might be nice, to spend a week surrounded by sensible left-wing types.
Boy, were we wrong.
As it turns out, anyone willing to pay many thousand of dollars to go on a luxury vacation with others who agree with his or her political ideology is an asshole, regadless of what that political ideology may be.
http://incertus.blogspot.com/2007/07/cruisin-johann-hari-has-written.html
Tsk.
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also, we've been taken over by the psuedoconservatives
Richard Hofstadter appears to be the most acute analyst of American politics in the 20th century.
Hofstadter on the pseudo-conservative (i.e. what is today's movement conservative)
"It can most accurately be called pseudo-conservative -- I borrow the term from the study of The Authoritarian Personality published five years ago by Theodore W. Adorno and his associates -- because its exponents, although they believe themselves to be conservatives and usually employ the rhetoric of conservatism, show signs of a serious and restless dissatisfaction with American life, traditions and institutions"
"Their political reactions express rather a profound and largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways -- a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence”
“Their political reactions express rather a profound and largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways -- a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence ... The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows 'conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness' in his conscious thinking and 'violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere… The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.'"
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Apparently Scooter 0-for-2 is worse
Yeah, those liberal cruises are terrible. You know, the ones that most of America takes.
Nutjob.
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Glenn, you should check out the threads in conblogs on the NR cruise
The people leaving the comments are just as whacked out as the people on the cruise. Seriously.
Meanwhile, because conservatives love nothing better to compare apples to oranges, our resident troll shows up to post a total non-sequitur whose only connection to your piece is that the word "cruise" is in it.
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Ah, Shooter
It is amusing to me that your credibility is so low that when I see you post something like that, my first response is to assume that you've written it yourself on your own little blog, making it up of whole cloth. Whether you did or not is of little importance, I just ignore it in the end anyway. I did want to mention my amusement at your pig-headed insistance at displaying your ignorance here.
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Dear Mr. Greenwald:
I am wondering; is there a Salon-specific search engine that I can employ to count the number of Salon letter-writers who have openly advocated or mused about the assasination of President Bush, or Vice President Cheney, or who have categorized all Republicans (or should I say, all Republikans/Repukes/Repugs) as racist, facist, genocidal maniacs?
Clearly, we'll need a spreadsheet to compile all of the vile, hateful, political pronouncements that your own readership is responsible for.
Your adoring fan,
Elephantman
PS - Isn't it a shame that "the National Review mind" story wasn't about debating the ideas of its founder, William F. Buckley, but instead focused on what some unnamed person said on a cruise ship?
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Their kids do it too...
Oh man it's only going to get worse:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=2008
The article is about a social networking group for rich, white kids in the DC area. Well worth a read.
I was livid when I read this because a) these are going to be the elites (read: the public face) of MY generation and c) they're going to be the ones in power in 20-30 years. It's not going to get better unless something happens.
It's funny to note though, that the writer of the CityPaper article was SLAMMED by the very kids she writes about...sounds a lot like the mainstream media slamming anyone who exposes their "slavish" tendencies.
Great work Glenn, keep it up.