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February 08, 2005

COTV 125 and bits and pieces

Carnival of the Vanities is always a good read. I've been a bit remiss in writing this week, so I know some enjoyable and provocative reading will jump start the muse.

What also gets me thinking is getting some tips from my readers via email. Morgan Painter points me to this post about one Navy officer's rant of frustration at having the USS Lincoln infested with international dilettantes getting in the way of the Lincoln's efforts to help tsunami victims. Geez, never let hurt and suffering people get in the way of sucking the cream for oneself then badgering and berating the [American] cow.

On the other hand, Mieke (who runs a very interesting blog herself, even if it is from the left side of the field) writes to point me to this charming bit of excrement wrapped in gilded paper.

But Rockwell (and Roberts and Raimondo) is correct in drawing attention to a mood among some conservatives that is at least latently fascist.
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When USA Today founder Al Neuharth wrote a column suggesting that American troops be brought home sooner rather than later, he was blown away by letters comparing him to Tokyo Rose and demanding that he be tried as a traitor. That mood, Rockwell notes, dwarfs anything that existed during the Cold War. “It celebrates the shedding of blood, and exhibits a maniacal love of the state. The new ideology of the red-state bourgeoisie seems to actually believe that the US is God marching on earth—not just godlike, but really serving as a proxy for God himself.”
It may behoove you, gentle reader, to remember at the so-called American Conservative Magazine was founded by Pat Buchannan. And as I wrote back to Mieke upon first read of the article
would call the person writing it possibly a "paleocon" of the Buchannite stripe...an isolationist that believes "those people over there"...especially the brown ones ... are incapable of freedom and democracy, so not only should we not bother, it really is just wrong to even try.

The only "fascist" tendencies which I have seen manifested in American culture as of late (and I put the word in quotes deliberately because I think it is way overused..and in this instance is an echo of the Bush=Hitler perfidy) has come almost exclusively from the far Left, which is also anti-Israel and apologizes for Islamist terrorists.
I dashed off that before I went back to see, indeed, the writer was Scott McDonnell, Editor and co-founder along with Buchannan.

'nuff said.

Posted by Darleen at February 8, 2005 10:11 PM

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