Letters to the Editor
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Tom Wolfe is a moron.
Love it or loathe it, "Liberal Fascism" is a book of intellectual history you won't be able to put down—-in either sense of the term.”
—Tom Wolfe, author of Bonfire of the Vanities and I Am Charlotte Simmons
I hope that's snark, for his sake, Otherwise his career is over. It kind of was after his last book. He still loves Bush.
In 1989 Wolfe wrote a controversial essay in Harper's Magazine entitled Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast, which criticized modern American novelists for failing to fully engage with their subjects, and suggested modern literature could be saved by a greater reliance on journalistic technique. This essay was seen as an attack on the mainstream literary establishment, and a boast that Wolfe's work was superior to more highly-regarded authors.[11]
Wolfe is a fan of George W. Bush and voted for him for President in 2004, due to what he calls Bush's "great decisiveness and willingness to fight." (Bush, in turn, reciprocates the admiration, having read all of Wolfe's books.[12]) After this fact emerged in a New York Times interview, Wolfe said that the reaction in the literary world was as if he had said "I forgot to tell you - I'm a child molester". Because of this incident he sometimes wears an American flag pin on his suit, which he compared to "holding up a cross to werewolves [sic]". [13]
Wolfe's views and choice of subject material, such as mocking left-wing intellectuals in Radical Chic and glorifying astronauts in The Right Stuff, have sometimes led to him being labelled conservative or reactionary, labels that he rejects. He has said that his "idol" in writing about society and culture is Emile Zola, who, in Wolfe's words, was "a man of the left" but "went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie."[14]
Asked to comment by the Wall Street Journal on blogs in 2007, to mark the tenth anniversary of their advent, Wolfe wrote that "the universe of blogs is a universe of rumors," and that "blogs are an advance guard to the rear." He also criticized Wikipedia, which he said "only a primitive would believe a word of", noting a story about him that was in his Wikipedia entry at the time, which he said never happened.[15]
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Boy That Candy Crowley Sure Is Fat!
And everyone knows the jocks hate fat chicks. In fact, everyone hates fat chicks! Fat, fat, fat. That girl is so fat, her fat is fat.
And why do they call her "Candy" anyway? I'm guessing its that case of Snickers bars she puts away every other day. Snickers satisfies your hunger -- unless you're Candy Crowley, in which case your hunger can never be satisfied and all you do is eat, eat, eat and get fat, fat, fat.
Man, that is one fat bitch.
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The knives are out....
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200801/POL20080104b.html
Huckabee Described As 'Christian Socialist'
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
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Inane Headline Writers
The Yahoo news headline reads as follows:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080104/ap_po/caucus_rdp
Obama, Huckabee sweep to Iowa victories
I don't think the word "Sweep" defines in any way the caucus victories in Iowa. In baseball, for example, a 'sweep' is when one team beats another team in all the games of a given series. That consists of as little as two games to as many as four. Never is there such a thing as a 'sweep' of one game.
In my experience of reading headline writers in newspapers, television and so on, headline writers are a sorry sack. They are so frequently inane just as the example given in the Yahoo piece. It's like they don't think, they react. They toss out a couple of bitchen-kool (to them) sounding lines or cliches around a table, and then go to PRINT! Cut! It's a wrap!
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I'm so glad . . .
. . . to see Glen address this depressing and infuriating subject. The sad truth is that to win the election you need to control the framing of the debate and to control the framing of the debate you need the press on your side and to have the press on your side you need the mean kids on the bus to like you.
I personally think Obama's talk about changing politics, etc. is so much hot air, but I've come around to hoping he wins the nomination for the sole reason that the mean kids on the bus obviously like him. If he goes up against anyone but McCain - who the mean kids also like - he'll be in great shape. That's assuming the mean kids don't change thier minds, of course, which they might.
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Update. Glenn wonders, "Are the primaries over yet?"
When did primaries begin?
Maybe I missed something?
It's been more fun today teaching a 3-and-one-half-year-old Granddaughter named Annabella, how to make slurp-sounds through a plastic Straw-at-McDonald.
The poor girl had a Happy meal today.
She had to spend the morn with her Poll-Paw.
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Generally, but not every one of them...but primarily, are not very Merry. Politicians and the tag-along "journalist" crew...are the type of creeps who ride their big fancy gas-hog bus past the Amish horse-buggy and Moon.
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Aeschylus
It's all good.
You're shoes are good too.
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LWM...
I agree with you about Obama. He only claims to be a change agent. He's just one more Leo who wants to run everything.
Interestingly, last night the guy from the Rothenberg (sp?) Report was on PBS w/ Lehrer, and noted that the data on the Democrats showed a much closer race between Obama and Clinton. It was really that adding in the independents and the Republicans who chose to caucus as Democrats that gave him the larger lead.
I really had hoped that Edwards would do better, though... [sigh] Or, even more... Dodd.
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Kitt...
Re: "Sweep"
It is so far from over for either party...
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Che Pasa
Che. Keep asking us each day to click your Pasa web-name.
It's something to chew and moo about.
The photo of Hillary makes me wonder if she joined the Mormon Tabernacle alter-girl chorus? It's hard to figure out the days we are experiencing.
Hillary may be a acolyte who snuffs out the beeswax candles?
Maybe all the politico's have been stealing the bread and the Preacher 'socialist Huckleberry's' [s]wine crystal cruets? It's not yet clear to me what's happening to America yet?
I'll light-up a winter cold seasonal ear-wax candle candalabra.
Che? You got a Bic? I'll flick a Bic...